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Saturday Night "Club ONT" June 28, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
Received via email from Hrothgar
Just a Thought
But didn't President Trump steal the "two weeks" meme from our very own AoS in his masterful misdirection as to how to deal with Iran?
Drink of the Night
Technically a type of Boilermaker, that style of beer-and-shot combo which sometimes feature the shot dropped inside the beer (ergo, "bomb" shot), this drink originally was made using lager. In recent times, however, the version replacing beer with an energy drink has far surpassed its progenitor in popularity. Either way, this easy-to-prepare-and infamous-combination has managed to maintain its reputation for getting the party started.- Pour one can of Red Bull into a pint glass - Fill a shot glass with Jägermeister - Drop shot glass into pint glass - Consume immediately [Doggo says: Please, no dancing on the bar with your pants off. Bar dancing with pants on may be acceptable. No, you cannot keep the shot glass.]
After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" will be going away. But not to worry - a black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad emoticon face. The infamous "blue screen of death" has been around since the very first version of Windows in 1985.1985 - smack dab in the middle of the 80s. What an awesome time!
Two insects - a fly and a juvenile ant - preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar have revealed what scientists are calling some of the oldest examples of parasitic "zombie" fungi ever discovered. The fossils, found in Myanmar's amber markets, are a rare opportunity for scientists "to visualise the ancient ecological relationships preserved in fossils," said Yuhui Zhuang, lead author and doctoral researcher at Yunnan University. One of the fossils, a grotesquely well-preserved one, shows the fruiting bodies of the ancient fungi bursting through the hosts' heads, frozen mid-invasion.
Looking less like a vase and more like a complicated relationship with the wheel and clay.
Club ONT Music The request line was open. Dear Disco, Dino, and Doggo, my name is Moron and I am writing to you from somewhere in the grey-boxes. Something happened very recently - something I've been wondering about the outcome for a long time. Every time I hear this song, I'm reminded of that moment. 3D's, could you please play it as a Grey-Box Dedication? Well, Morons, it's always special when something happens that perfectly captures what is going on in the world. Below are your Grey-Box Dedications. From all of us here at Club ONT, we salute you. Keep your brain sharp and the keyboard at the ready.No way!! 😂 pic.twitter.com/Y7DjBTN2cD
— This Account Makes You Happy (@FeelYouHappy) June 26, 2025
One for you to sing tomorrow
Top 10ish Comments of the Week. Or thereabout...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 10:00 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: mindful webworker - maybe later at June 28, 2025 10:00 PM (l5rRq)
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Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 28, 2025 10:02 PM (G1ktt)
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 10:04 PM (/HVsR)
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Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 10:05 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 10:05 PM (+qU29)
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Dude, this belongs in the movie thread.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:06 PM (L/fGl)
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A college buddy of mine described this best:
"Tastes like Christmas!"
Yep. He was right.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 10:06 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:04 PM (HEGiN)
Eh, you halfway made it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)
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Dude, this belongs in the movie thread.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:06 PM (L/fGl)
It wouldn't be a Brindlefly, but a Funfly!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)
But shit, it just tasted nasty.
In my old age, I’ve decided I like bourbon.
And I like rum.
And I like margaritas.
And i REALLY like Tequila!
Yeah, I really like Tequila.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:08 PM (HEGiN)
Next headline in Science!™ Big Pharma creates vaccine to fight zombie parasitic fungi.
Next: Millions die from mutating zombie parasitic fungi
Next : Human race on brink of extinction
Next: .......
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 10:09 PM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 10:04 PM (/HVsR)
It's Saturday night. I'll have you know we've all had our weekly bath, thankyouverymuch.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 10:10 PM (yTvNw)
You can also use HIGH ENERGY or HUGE ELEPHANT
Posted by: Bombadil at June 28, 2025 10:10 PM (MX0bI)
It's Saturday night. I'll have you know we've all had our weekly bath, thankyouverymuch.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)
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Weekly? Well! Aren't we prissy?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 10:10 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 10:10 PM (eBgDF)
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:11 PM (cCn4/)
Yeah, I really like Tequila.
Posted by: Tom Servo
October is coming 10!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 10:11 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:12 PM (RIvkX)
Good evening!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 10:13 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 10:13 PM (eBgDF)
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Good evening, Sir. Congrats on the most novel hash I've seen on the site recently. (//7/7) must be a secret code.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM (CHHv1)
That clip of the potter's wheel was hilarious! You never know what to expect when handling wet clay on a spinning wheel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 10:10 PM (yTvNw)
Glad it wasn't their underwear that made you think of me!
Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM (gpbGF)
All is well in OBX. Rained like hell through NC today though.
My 'shine guy came though and delivered - 10 jars and 8 more coming tomorrow.
And no. I don't have any extra. Sorry.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM (H7X8V)
https://is.gd/eMU6sT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:12 PM (RIvkX)
Howdy SF
Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2025 10:15 PM (gpbGF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:12 PM
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I've been called a lot of things and that is one of them. Thanks. I think.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:15 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 10:15 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Case at June 28, 2025 10:16 PM (ilX37)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM
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Howdy LS!
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:16 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:18 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 10:19 PM (iJfKG)
The Doggo will not be able to join us tonight. He is battling some tummy issues. Musta found something gnarly behind the couch and ate it. Or maybe it was cat poo. One never knows with our canine host.
Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2025 10:19 PM (gpbGF)
Posted by: Cosda at June 28, 2025 10:19 PM (D1l6t)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 10:20 PM (/HVsR)
The fossils, found in Myanmar's amber markets, are a rare opportunity for scientists "to visualise the ancient ecological relationships preserved in fossils," said Yuhui Zhuang, lead author and doctoral researcher at Yunnan University.
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Oh, well at least the samples are in the capable, competent hands of Chinese scientists
Posted by: Methos at June 28, 2025 10:20 PM (zLwRl)
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:15 PM (cCn4/)
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Three is a tough dynamic to navigate. Especially with you-know-who.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:21 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at June 28, 2025 10:21 PM (ZGasV)
The fossils, found in Myanmar's amber markets, are a rare opportunity for scientists "to visualise the ancient ecological relationships preserved in fossils," said Yuhui Zhuang, lead author and doctoral researcher at Yunnan University.
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Oh, well at least the samples are in the capable, competent hands of Chinese scientists
Posted by: Methos at June 28, 2025 10:20 PM (zLwRl)
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*sigh* when will science learn to LEAVE THAT ALONE?
It never turns out well, based on the movies I've seen and books I've read.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 10:22 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM
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Howdy LS!
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:16 PM (cCn4/)
* * * *
*big Forrest Gump wave to TRex!*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2025 10:23 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 10:23 PM (KnnTg)
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)
One 7 short of a jackpot.
Bet with your head, not over it. Unless you have arms and hands. Then bet with your arms and hands.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:23 PM (gKDq2)
Israel Defense Forces@IDF
ELIMINATED: eliminated Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa—one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing.
Issa led Hamas’ force build-up, training, and planned the October 7 massacre. As Head of Combat Support, he advanced aerial & naval attacks against Israelis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:23 PM (L/fGl)
Oh, well at least the samples are in the capable, competent hands of Chinese scientists
Posted by: Methos at June 28, 2025 10:20 PM (zLwRl)
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Who will likely use them as aphrodisiacs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 10:24 PM (/HVsR)
The fossils, found in Myanmar's amber markets, are a rare opportunity for scientists "to visualise the ancient ecological relationships preserved in fossils," said Yuhui Zhuang, lead author and doctoral researcher at Yunnan University.
=
Oh, well at least the samples are in the capable, competent hands of Chinese scientists
Posted by: Methos
Covid-32 is going to be amazing!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 28, 2025 10:24 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2025 10:24 PM (lhenN)
@DerrickEvans4WV 12m
🚨BREAKING: EU is now considering to lower tariffs on U.S. goods - WSJ
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 10:24 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at June 28, 2025 10:21 PM (ZGasV)
Saw him a few times over the past several years. Most recently at the Sphere in Vegas last month. He's a great performer.
Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2025 10:25 PM (gpbGF)
Posted by: Cosda at June 28, 2025 10:19 PM
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Everyone must have been surprised when the power of music and dance resolved matters like in West Side Story or the video to "Beat it."
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
🚨BREAKING: EU is now considering to lower tariffs on U.S. goods - WSJ
Damn that Trump guy. How can one guy be so lucky?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:26 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Methos
Let them Fu Manchu on that!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Cosda at June 28, 2025 10:19 PM
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Everyone must have been surprised when the power of music and dance resolved matters like in West Side Story or the video to "Beat it."
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
‘I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…’
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 10:28 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:23 PM
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Any advice for a gambler with arms of the shorter variety?
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:28 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Methos
Covid-32 is going to be amazing!!
Posted by: Puddleglum
You might call it mind blowing.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 10:28 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 10:29 PM (KnnTg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:29 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 28, 2025 10:29 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 28, 2025 10:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: fourseasons at June 28, 2025 10:29 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: TRex
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Not exactly.
Posted by: Cosda at June 28, 2025 10:30 PM (D1l6t)
Posted by: Kent Brockman at June 28, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 10:00 PM (0eaVi)
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"There’s always a lighthouse.
There’s always a man.
There’s always a city,”
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2025 10:31 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 10:31 PM (HuRzZ)
Next : Human race on brink of extinction
Next: .......
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 10:09 PM
[ HBO has entered the chat ]
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 10:32 PM (jc0TO)
Otherwise, just have an expertly made cocktail.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 28, 2025 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 10:33 PM (qEcUp)
Can't Help Falling In Love
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The kids and I performed that one this morning at the local gathering in the park. We do fingerstyle guitar and more in the Elvis range. People love the song, and it is not performed a lot, seems.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 28, 2025 10:33 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:28 PM (cCn4/)
Don't go to a casino with Michelle Fields.
The two of you will be observers there. No action for you.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:34 PM (cCn4/)
Technically speaking, the new crash test dummy screen is the "#000000 Screen of Death." This is quite amusing.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 10:34 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:34 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 28, 2025 10:35 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:33 PM
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Sad dino.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 10:34 PM (cCn4/)
Well, that's what happens when you're extinct, or married:
No action.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 10:37 PM (LHPAg)
The scene where the fungus monster "kisses" Tess is the most viscerally disturbing things I've ever seen. Absolutely vile.
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2025 10:37 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:37 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:33 PM
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Sad dino.
Yeah but think of the advantage a T-Rex has got when its time to pick up the check at dinner...
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 28, 2025 10:39 PM (Da7Vv)
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I've seen him in Atlanta and at Raymond James in Tampa. Both great shows. I think he travels with more gear than anyone else does. Reminded me of AC/DC or Van Halen shows in my youth.
I heard he is doing another run at the sphere next summer. I will try to go if it's possible.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at June 28, 2025 10:39 PM (ZGasV)
Always a good idea to note the exits.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 28, 2025 10:39 PM (vd6bO)
And not "HiZzZ".
Posted by: gKWVE at June 28, 2025 10:29 PM (gKWVE)
Where the kisses are HuRzZ and HuRzZ and HiZzZ,
ThreeZz Company Too!
Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2025 10:39 PM (gpbGF)
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 10:37 PM (LHPAg)
While you sleep, those beans will be doing their thing.
Bed bug genocide!
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2025 10:40 PM (t+VLa)
There’s always a man.
There’s always a city,”
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2025 10:31 PM (t+VLa)
What about the dames? Ain't interested in a town full of men.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 10:41 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 10:33 PM (qEcUp)
*Nods*
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 10:41 PM (KnnTg)
Always a good idea to note the exits.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 28, 2025 10:39 PM (vd6bO)
It is known.
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 10:41 PM (LHPAg)
ThreeZz Company Too!
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About where television scraped the bottom, eh? I always hated the television shows where it was all about deceiving somebody, then the "hilarious" consequences. Blech!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 28, 2025 10:42 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: commenteur at June 28, 2025 10:42 PM (UZTGl)
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2025 10:40 PM (t+VLa)
Me neither. And I'm a guy, last time I checked.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:42 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: fourseasons at June 28, 2025 10:44 PM (3ek7K)
Their T1 phone has a feature I haven't seen in a long time: a 3.5 mm audio jack. Not only it is gold, but you can use a headset and charge it at the same time.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 10:44 PM (S/Y4j)
ThreeZz Company Too!
Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2025 10:39 PM (gpbGF)
Didn't someone suggest something similar for Stateless last night?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 10:45 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
But it was culture. Every episode a Shakespearean comedy.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 10:45 PM (ftFVW)
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett commenting on Intern Jumanji Jackson's dissenting opinion in the Trump v. CASA case.
Translation: this biatch isn't qualified to hear traffic court cases.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 10:46 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 10:33 PM (qEcUp)
*Nods*
Posted by: Robert
Sway in the warm Southern evening air
"I could use another drink"
Posted by: Boobs, honey at June 28, 2025 10:46 PM (UZTGl)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 28, 2025 10:47 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: buddhaha at June 28, 2025 10:49 PM (I7Qfm)
Posted by: 496 at June 28, 2025 10:40 PM (t+VLa)
Me neither. And I'm a guy, last time I checked.
Posted by: RickZ
Dude owes me a six-pack
Posted by: that guy, possibly Bubba or Bubba Jr. at June 28, 2025 10:49 PM (UZTGl)
youtu.be/IZf0bNDWH4s
Posted by: gKWVE at June 28, 2025 10:50 PM (gKWVE)
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett commenting on Intern Jumanji Jackson's dissenting opinion in the Trump v. CASA case.
Translation: this biatch isn't qualified to hear traffic court cases.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 10:46 PM (NXz8h)
Sadly, her shaming by ACB will only make KBJ turn her lines of attack that are not tethered, frankly, to any doctrine whatsoever, up to eleventy. Raayciss ideolologues always do it when cornered.
Posted by: Gref at June 28, 2025 10:50 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: TRex
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You're a natural. Keep your cards close to your chest.
Posted by: buddhaha at June 28, 2025 10:50 PM (I7Qfm)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 10:51 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:18 PM (RIvkX)
___________________________
I'll have you know I parked a full bottle of that stuff sitting on an old lawn chair in 1988 just over the West German border and fully in the dead zone while waving to the towers on the East German side. My friends who were with me thought I was nutz. I was just drunk.
Posted by: Orson at June 28, 2025 10:51 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 10:46 PM (NXz8h)
My translation of Barrett's written smackdown of Jackson is: Jackson is a legal moron.
I actually think Barrett is insulted to be on the Court with that Jackson bimbo. Jackson might turn Barrett hard core conservative. Nah.
But I can't imagine what those conferences are like, where SCOTUS discusses cases. Discussing legal aspects of a case with Jackson must be like banging your head against a brick wall over and over. It reads like Barrett finally had enough of banging her head against the brick wall of Jackosn's super duper legal mind.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 10:52 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
Neither George not Weezy ever lied or made more than a facile and easily detected attempt at deception.
Posted by: that 70s guy at June 28, 2025 10:53 PM (UZTGl)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 6/28/2025
Sequels: A Choice
When something original and new gets sudden success in Hollywood, there's the immediate need to capitalize on it. Sequels have always been a thing in Hollywood, extending back to the silent era with serials (William Wyler cut his teeth making serial westerns for Universal), but it was the 80s where Hollywood decided to make them a cornerstone of their financial well-being rather than an ashamed underbelly of cashflow that it had always been.
For decades, the question of how to approach sequels was easy: more of the same. Another adventure for the Lone Ranger or Flash Gordon. Even outside of franchises, you could just have Randolph Scott amble into another isolated western town and deal with some injustice and then amble out again, and the B-movie fans will show up in enough numbers to financially justify the next. So, that means formula. You just do the same thing again.
And when sequels turned into huge business, that approach becomes a bigger question. If you're Fast and Furious, you can keep tweaking the formula slightly with every entry until you reach ridiculous, borderline parody of the original film, and the audience will go along with it. If you're Star Wars, you go in a different direction and deepen emotion and increase danger...for one film and then revert to the formula of the first.
In my cinematic journeys, I've grown less patient with formula. I don't reject it or hate a film because it follows formula, but I've always looked forward to sequels that broke with formula more than those that stuck to it. So, now we must talk about Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan.
Bill & Ted's Curious Cinematic Cruise
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a weird creation from the get-go. Born from a stage act from the writers, Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, where they would play the characters, two doofuses with Southern California surfer accents, reacting to news events, it's about the titular heroes traveling through time to...pass a history report in order to...save the future because...their music brings about world peace. It's inherently silly, makes no sense when you think about the film's embrace of time travel mechanics (if the future is in danger of not existing because the band will be split up with Ted going to military school because he fails his history report...how does the future exist where they never split up?), and very loosely structured.
But it was a financial success, and the studio, Orion Pictures, quickly greenlit a sequel.
What do you do with that? Well, I was curious, so when I picked up the 4K boxset of the trilogy, the first thing I did was watch an interview on the disc for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey with Ed Solomon. His first inclination towards writing a sequel was formula. Bill and Ted need to write another report, this time for their English class. But they quickly abandoned it.
Instead, they went...weird. Bill and Ted die. They die because some ugly dude from the future hates the utopia he lives in, so he sends back robot versions of Bill and Ted to kill them, replace them, and then use the originals' platform to establish a new future in the ugly dude's vision. Hardly any time travel. No reports to do. In fact, the film consciously uses formula against our heroes. When the evil robot usses meet the real Bill and Ted, they rely on their memories of going back in time to fix their problems to get them to come along and kill them in the desert. From that point on, though, it sidesteps the formula from the first one completely and sets its own path.
And I prefer it, and not by a small amount. The first is loose and just kind of flops from one section to the next with no real narrative drive. It's funny while it does it, its saving grace, but I just prefer how the second film has this centralizing focus and a more linear approach to the heroes dealing with their problems. The afterlife on Earth, including possession to try and get people to protect their babes, to Hell, where they have to face their eternal damnation in entertainingly personalized form (including Alex Winter, who plays Bill, playing his own grandmother), to facing off with Death in a series of games to get back to Earth, to Heaven to collect Station, the universe's smartest scientists, back to Earth. In the first, they get their phone booth, travel kind of randomly, get some footage of Napoleon at a waterpark and the rest of the historical figures at the mall, and then do the report.
And that difference is actually one of the reasons why I feel like the second is actually the better film. It takes an established formula, consciously undermines it, and understands what needs to be preserved isn't the formula but the characters. What makes a Bill & Ted movie a Bill & Ted movie isn't them assembling historical (or literary, in the case of the second film's first draft) figures to present in front of an auditorium of high school students. It's Bill & Ted facing extreme and fantastical circumstances with their signature dopey flare. Moving away from the formula of the first and putting them into something completely new is a good thing.
Facing the Music
Rumors and efforts to get a sequel to Bogus Journey lingered for years until finally, in the late 2010s, the original writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson cracked a script that made both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter happy. Bill and Ted never wrote the great song to unite the world, reality begins to crack, they're tasked with writing it in 77 minutes, they travel to their own future (past the point where the world ends...?) to steal the song from themselves while their daughters travel through time to get together a great band to help their dads with their song. Also, they die and meet Death again in order to complete the band.
So, the third entry is something of mishmash of ideas, seemingly a collection of different ideas the writers had had over the years, cobbled together into something like a whole. In terms of approaching sequels, it has its cake and eats it too by being both different and the same at the same time. In terms of the sameness is the daughters collecting historical personages and the trip to Hell (though Hell is presented in far less interesting terms). Regarding the new and different it's seeing Bill and Ted watch their futures evolve over the years in different ways.
I don't think I'm alone in seeing the third film as a miss (it has the lowest IMDB rating by not a small amount), and I think a large part of that has to do with the confused conglomeration of ideas and storylines, coupled with an end of the world storyline and visuals that fit more in with an MCU movie than a Bill and Ted adventure. It is a combination of regurgitating the old and finding some corner of new stuff, but combining them...inelegantly. Do I expect elegance from a Bill and Ted film? Neither of the first two are, but they have a clearer vision about what they are, more modest ambitions, and an interest in generally being different.
It feels like a compromise film between a bunch of different needs from stars, writers, and studio, and those compromises prevented the film from having something like a life of its own.
It also doesn't help that Keanu and Winter cannot recreate the energy from their youth, denying the third entry one of the key appealing aspects of the first two: Bill and Ted, to some degree.
Different
Bill and Ted aren't the only two cinematic figures who have seen strange changes in directions in subsequent movies. Think of Rambo, his first film, First Blood, being a fairly spare thriller in the Pacific Northwest where only one person dies to Rambo: First Blood Part II set in Vietnam where he blows up a bunch of stuff real good. Or Gremlins where the first film is essentially a cross between Frank Capra and Steven Spielberg with a dash of Joe Dante while the second is Joe Dante's love of Tex Avery Looney Tunes made real life. Or the Evil Dead franchise that started in dark horror and quickly morphed into horror-comedy with Evil Dead II (which itself is essentially a remake of the first one) and outright comedy with Army of Darkness.
This can work well (think Army of Darkness) or really badly (think Highlander II: The Quickening). I think it generally doesn't work well because of the realities of movie making (starting with writers not understanding the assignment, studio executives not understanding the value of the risk of the change, and actors valuing their images), the path of least resistance simply being "the same but different," which usually translates as "bigger, louder, and longer."
Which makes me look forward to the sequels that do veer off in weird, unexpected directions. I mean, there are a good number of examples of sequels that do this and just fall flat or just don't measure up (I like Halloween III: Season of the Witch, but it's not anywhere close to the original), but it's just...more interesting.
But people love formula. They loved The Fast and the Furious and want more of it, and any changes to tone and scale have to happen slowly over time. They want just another adventure with Kirk and Spock. They just want James Bond to face down another big threat while bedding women and using gadgets. And I'm not opposed to that. I've had a lot of fun with continuing adventures type films.
But sometimes, you need Bill and Ted to die and fight evil robot usses from the future instead of collecting more historical figures for another report.
In other news, M3GAN 2.0 came out yesterday and Jurassic World: Rebirth comes out next week.
Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
F1: The Movie
M3GAN 2.0
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
What Did the Lady Forget? (Rating 3/4) Full Review "I think that points to how Ozu can create these multi-layered stories so easily. It's not his best example, but it's a solid one." [The Criterion Channel]
There was a Father (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "Still, this is very good work from Ozu, proving very quickly that he's a master of the sound era without any flash or showmanship. He's assured and confident in his stylistic approaches, and he makes it work with the stories he's choosing to tell." [The Criterion Channel]
A Hen in the Wind (Rating 4/4) Full Review "Really, this is a marvelous gem of a film. It's one I'd never heard of, and one I think deserves more attention. It's great." [The Criterion Channel]
Tokyo Story (Rating 4/4) Full Review "So, yes, Tokyo Story is a masterpiece. It very likely could be Ozu's greatest achievement. It's touching in a deep, subtle way. It's miraculously made. Ozu's intelligent approach to his stories makes them far more compelling than I imagine almost anyone else could make them. He was a gem of cinema, and this may be his crowning achievement." [The Criterion Channel]
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "Still, this is Ozu demonstrating his mastery of his art once again. Probably not the very top of his output, but this is still a touching look at a relationship told with quiet reserve: exactly what I want from an Ozu film." [The Criterion Channel]
Early Spring (Rating 4/4) Full Review "The quiet, subtle way this film touched me really surprised me. It's great." [The Criterion Channel]
Equinox Flower (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "Still, it's very good. Almost like Ozu on autopilot. But his autopilot is better than most people's best efforts." [The Criterion Channel]
Good Morning (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "It's full of fart jokes, little business, and hardly any story at all, and yet, in the end, there's this swell of emotion as life just...plays out." [The Criterion Channel]
Contact
Email any suggestions or questions to thejamesmadison.aos at symbol gmail dot com.
I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ.
My next post will be on 7/19, and it will be about the directing career of Yasujiro Ozu.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 28, 2025 07:47 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Accomack at June 28, 2025 07:47 PM (RBD82)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:52 PM (Q4IgG)
It's also about 39 min too long.
But it's fun. I had that thing where I'm watching and the F1 voice in my head was saying "no way could he accelerate that in the wet on slicks.." and I turn around and say "shut up, I'm watching this movie."
Didn't exactly capture the technical spirit of modern F1. Loved seeing the driver cameos, esp those who left F1 last year.
A fun flick. I liked it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 07:54 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: a.moron at June 28, 2025 07:55 PM (Yt3ED)
Been some time since I've seen it, but there's a nice bit in Rocky II (script also credited to Stallone if memory serves) where Burgess Meredith questions why after the match against Apollo Creed Rocky would be back in the gym picking up towels; Rocky tells him "I gotta be around it." YMMV, but that's one of my favorite moments in what I've seen of the series.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 08:00 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 08:01 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 08:01 PM (F7P5/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 08:01 PM (63Dwl)
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Evil robot versions of Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 08:02 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:02 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 08:02 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 08:03 PM (+qU29)
Does this kid have a purpose?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:03 PM (bss/y)
Does this kid have a purpose?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:03 PM (bss/y)
Dollar Store Pedro Pascal.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:04 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: Vivi at June 28, 2025 08:04 PM (cpunl)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:04 PM (cIOlQ)
12 year old, less gay Pedro Pascal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:04 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:06 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 08:01 PM (63Dwl)
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Evil robot versions of Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 08:02 PM (IBQGV)
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My son, Ted Theodore Logan, and his friend, Bill S. Preston, have been killed by evil robots from the future.
Right on, dude!
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:06 PM (GBKbO)
Does this kid have a purpose?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I read that he's being considered for James Bond. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 08:07 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:07 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 08:07 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 28, 2025 08:08 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:08 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Vivi at June 28, 2025 08:08 PM (cpunl)
Nowadays I only bother going to the movie theater when I'm visiting home and my sister insists on watching something. The good thing is that I usually visit home in the summer so it was usually some summer blockbuster that was worth seeing. That's become less the case in the last 10 years.
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 08:10 PM (YkGND)
Posted by: Vivi at June 28, 2025 08:08 PM (cpunl)
I think he has a "can't shut up and go the hell away" problem.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:10 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 08:07 PM (lJ0H4)
I watched Man from UNCLE the other week. I like the visual style. But the movie felt empty. Henry Cavill could do Bond well, I think.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:10 PM (bss/y)
He was a sleazy foil in equalizer 2 a ridiculous one in the wonder woman sequel
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:10 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:10 PM (bXbFr)
To be fair, I think everything was shit in WW 1984.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:11 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:12 PM (bXbFr)
Yeah. I mean, like, what's up with that?
Posted by: R. Zegler at June 28, 2025 08:13 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:13 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:13 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:14 PM (bss/y)
Kinky.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 28, 2025 08:14 PM (ynpvh)
"How's it going royal ugly dudes."
"The only thing you learned is Caesar is a salad dressing dude."
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:14 PM (snZF9)
The Paolo, he thinks you make this too easy.
Posted by: Paolo at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (bXbFr)
John Wick, all 4 were good entertainment.
Still want to see the second "Sicario"
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (HFcKg)
The Dune guy, I think it was?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:13 PM
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Yeah. Villenueve signed.
No final cut. He's going to finish Dune 3 first (it films soon).
Only one film signed for.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (GBKbO)
Kinky.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 28, 2025 08:14 PM (ynpvh)
Yeah, I mean it's a crazy idea, but it might be cool. I'd even be willing to ditch the gadgets.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (bss/y)
The Dune guy, I think it was?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Hence the Timothee Chalomet connection.
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (lJ0H4)
"How's it going royal ugly dudes."
"The only thing you learned is Caesar is a salad dressing dude."
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:14 PM (snZF9)
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Not fair.
Joan of Arc is also Noah's wife.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:16 PM (GBKbO)
So for Wick, it is a perfect movie and done. (Although, even though I love it, it has problems.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:16 PM (bss/y)
The Dune guy, I think it was?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Hence the Timothee Chalomet connection.
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (lJ0H4)
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Actually, Tom Holland is said to be top three choices for Bond right now.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:16 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau's Bountiful Breasts at June 28, 2025 08:17 PM (HxQ/q)
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 08:15 PM (lJ0H4)
That would be horrifying if he does not reach puberty by that point.
At least have to shave.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:17 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:16 PM (GBKbO)
LOL. That is even worse.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:17 PM (bss/y)
Second movie was "Creature From Black Lake." I gave off a lot of "Boggy Creek II" vibes. Older (70's or 80's) low budget movie about some college students trying to find a bigfoot that is terrorizing some country yokels. The set-up made for some funny commentary. The ending almost killed the vibe, the movie teased a tragic/depressing ending, which makes a comedy presentation a lot less funny, but they backed away at the last moment, and saved the project's re-watchability.
I'd recommend "Black Lake," but I'm not sure if "American Werewolf" is worth it.
Posted by: Castle Guy at June 28, 2025 08:18 PM (Lhaco)
But i like the expansion of the lore, although they had to know he didnt actually kill gianna
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:18 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:18 PM (snZF9)
And this is from a guy who tolerated Roger Moore doing a corkscrew jump in a car across a river.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:19 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:16 PM (GBKbO)
LOL. That is even worse.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:17 PM
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He's at least British.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:19 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:20 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 28, 2025 08:20 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:19 PM (cIOlQ)
I'd argue the women in the Moore movies were hotter than the norm. Although Dalton's were good and I loved Goldeneye.
I need to rewatch the Dalton Bond movies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:20 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:20 PM (HFcKg)
Kinky.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Those events, serially: Bond film.
Those events, simultaneously: Austin Powers film.
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 08:22 PM (DgGvY)
It ends with the joke: A Methodist preacher was on a subway car, and a smelly drunk sat down beside him. The preacher finally told the drunk, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness, John Wesley said that."
The drunk looked at him and said, "Fnck you, David Mamet said that"
Mamet's response was, "Truer words have never been spoken"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 08:22 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:20 PM (HFcKg)
I am not sure a height requirement is in there (women may argue with me) but he needs to be striking and masculine. A perpetual 5 o'clock shadow. Have to shave while he is shaving kind of thing. Testosterone thing.
Plus, they both sound like kids. Fuck, can we get these kids the same regime as Christopher Lee and Yul Brenner. Make them drink whiskey and smoke a pack a day until their balls drop?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:24 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 08:24 PM (P389G)
Oddly, Pierce Brosnan didn't bug me too much either.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:24 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (snZF9)
*fistbump*
Event Horizon was great. Haunted House/Ship movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (D7oie)
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I like Michael Moorcock, but I didn't like those books.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 08:24 PM (P389G)
I've heard mixed things. Tone is supposed to be good, but uneven as the movie goes on, I think?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (snZF9)
*fistbump*
Event Horizon was great. Haunted House/Ship movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (bss/y)
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One of my all time favorite movies!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (IBQGV)
Oddly, Pierce Brosnan didn't bug me too much either.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:24 PM (cIOlQ)
Brosnan was pretty good. Dude wrecked a town with a tank and said screw is this little pew pew PPK and lit up the room with an AK47.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:26 PM (snZF9)
Before that, can't remember. Midway movie whenever that was (sub-meh). Before that, a couple of documentary things, Into the Cold Blue about the 8th Air Force, and something else can't remember, similar.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:27 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:27 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:28 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:28 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:29 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:29 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 08:30 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:30 PM (bXbFr)
If Harris was POTUS and Walz was VP then the B-2 Cockpits would be required to have Tampon Dispensers.
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at June 28, 2025 08:30 PM (J7c+Z)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 28, 2025 08:31 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:32 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:32 PM (bXbFr)
You can tell it's NOT the same characters or universe sometimes.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 08:32 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Vivi at June 28, 2025 08:33 PM (cpunl)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:33 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:33 PM (1m82a)
I loved both Balboa and Rambo Last Blood.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:33 PM (VofaG)
Does this kid have a purpose?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I read that he's being considered for James Bond. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 08:07 PM (lJ0H4)
I remember when he was announced as Paul Atreides in the Dune remake. I had no idea who the fuck he was and they were talking like he was a big star or something. Yeah the studios are trying to make him a thing.
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 08:34 PM (YkGND)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 08:34 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Vivi at June 28, 2025 08:33 PM (cpunl)
He might actually b. Good voice. Masculine enough, but I think a bit too old. He would have been a good surprise choice instead of the other guy, 20 years ago.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:34 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Vivi at June 28, 2025 08:33 PM (cpunl)
I could see that. He has presence.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:34 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:18 PM (snZF9)
We're in a creative dead zone today. A steady then sudden decline over the last fifty years. Post 2000 Pop-culture has been almost entirely garbage.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:35 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:36 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:20 PM (r2ymA)
Surprised there hasn't been a Rounders sequel.
Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2025 08:36 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 08:37 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:37 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:38 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:38 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:39 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (bss/y)
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One of my all time favorite movies!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (IBQGV)
Both good but I like Pandorum much better.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:40 PM (VofaG)
Alien is a classic horror film in space. It's sequel Aliens might be a better movie an action sci Fi in space. The rest of the "franchise" not so good.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 08:40 PM (eBgDF)
Some whys? Harold and Kumar, Dumb and Dumber, Indiana Jones, Stars Wars Prequals and Disney ('nuff said there), Jaws, Jurassic Park, and so on and so on.
Some that are great to solid? Godfather I and II (if III is the Coda edit would include it), Starwars IV and V, Rocky (because reasons and just because), Blade Runner, Dark Knight and so on and so on.
Main watch of the week was The Train (1964) Director: John Frankenheimer. Starring: Burt Lancaster. The black and white cinematography is outstanding from a technical perspective (the dynamic range control is perfection) and the framing which comes right out classic artwork. The blocking is terrific and it uses camera and actor movement with great skill to move through a scene and link scenes. Then the effects; I think they are practical and impractical. Real trains are used in the explodo and crash scenes; it is all pretty great. And the script is not bad. Now, can we talk about blowing up the trains?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 08:41 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:35 PM (r2ymA)
Totally. Except for a handful of good stuff made a little later, the 80's seem to be a treasure trove of good sci-fi movies. There was a bunch of corny ones too, but with the sheer volume they were cranking them out you're going to get some duds.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:41 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:42 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:42 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:38 PM (VofaG)
The Michael Bay effect. I hear he's back and working on another explo...I mean movie.
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 08:43 PM (YkGND)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:43 PM (1m82a)
Then the third in Vietnam.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 08:40 PM (eBgDF)
I stopped caring after Aliens. Ripley was tired. The universe was boring. The later ones had some interest for me (yeah, Prometheus and Covenant, cringe)but not much. It was all played out years ago.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (kKRwe)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (bXbFr)
Some of the Halloween sequels were like that.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I think he has two.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 28, 2025 08:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (HFcKg)
Not heard of it but I'm definitely going to look it up.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:46 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
The corny duds had their purpose.
Posted by: Big McLargeHuge, Slab Bulkhead, etc at June 28, 2025 08:46 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:47 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (bXbFr)
Ronin was / is great (DiNero not withstanding)
Posted by: J.T. Marlin at June 28, 2025 08:47 PM (TTAGa)
Alien is a classic horror film in space. It's sequel Aliens might be a better movie an action sci Fi in space. The rest of the "franchise" not so good.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
The Forth with Hellboy was campy sci-fi.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 28, 2025 08:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 08:47 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: J.T. Marlin at June 28, 2025 08:47 PM (TTAGa
I don't like car chases at all but the one in Ronin was great.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (HFcKg)
Then they lost me.
Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (i0F8b)
They lost me casting Matt Damon.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:49 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:44 PM (HFcKg)
I saw it.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:49 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (HEGiN)
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The third act kind of collapses in on itself, for Bogus Journey.
But it works, and the first hour is really, really good.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:49 PM (GBKbO)
Watched it a number of times.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:42 PM (VofaG)
yeah that was a good one. The firefight on the moon in the moon buggies was intense.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:50 PM (snZF9)
The Fast and the Furious.
"Family..."
Groan.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:50 PM (kKRwe)
I was dubbed in apanish the first time around
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:51 PM (bXbFr)
The Fast and the Furious.
"Family..."
Groan.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:50 PM (kKRwe)
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"It's not about the rules of the space time continuum. It's about family."
-Dom, having boosted the TARDIS in Fast 12
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 08:51 PM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:50 PM (snZF9)
And the space baboon.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:51 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM (HEGiN)
Then they lost me.
Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2025 08:48 PM (i0F8b)
They lost me casting Matt Damon.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:49 PM (VofaG)
Ditto, haven't watched any of them because of that. I saw bits and pieces, but never actually sat down to watch one.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Nathan at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM (uqYS/)
TJM - for some reason remembering something from long long ago, I asked if you'd ever seen "I am Cuba". Maybe you did, and answered, can't recall.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:51 PM (VofaG)
Oh shit I forgot about that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:28 PM
Well, except for Woody Allen, who's in David Niven's shadow.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 28, 2025 08:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 08:53 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM
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The real story of The Train is that the titular train got put into a loop around Paris until the allies showed up.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:53 PM (GBKbO)
{
"identity": "unknown",
"name": "Jason Bourne",
"status": "activated",
"location": "undisclosed",
"threatLevel": "maximum",
"quote": "Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne."
}
IYKYK.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:53 PM (kKRwe)
I agree: Aliens was a different and, in some ways, better movie than Alien. They should have stopped then, but they never do!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 08:53 PM (TlKpx)
Posted by: Nathan at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM (uqYS/)
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Damn. Forgot to update those.
Sorry.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 08:55 PM (63Dwl)
TJM - for some reason remembering something from long long ago, I asked if you'd ever seen "I am Cuba". Maybe you did, and answered, can't recall.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:52 PM (1m82a)
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Yup. I seen it.
Mikael Kalatozov was one of the best Soviet filmmakers, and propaganda always fascinated me.
Soy Cuba is good, most notable for technical reasons, but I prefer Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:56 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 08:56 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:56 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 08:56 PM (3kB0K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 08:57 PM (TlKpx)
Which seemed interesting, but a few weeks to late.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 28, 2025 08:57 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (1m82a)
Yeah. As to sci fi, I’d call the 50’s Golden Age Sci Fi (Forbidden Planet!) and the 80’s Silver Age, as much for the sheer volume as anything. Yeah not much to get excited about lately, the main push seems to have been seeing how many ways Kathleen Kennedy can crap in every Stars Wars fans mouth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (HEGiN)
Which seemed interesting, but a few weeks to late.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 28, 2025 08:57 PM (n4GiU)
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Yeah, I just spaced and didn't update those imdb links.
That's my bad.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
I was wondering if that was worth watching. Thanks for the recommendation.
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (VofaG)
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Word came out a couple of weeks ago that Keanu didn't like the script. Last I heard of it.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 08:59 PM (GBKbO)
In the books he is very aware of why he embarked on this path
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 28, 2025 08:59 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 08:57 PM (TlKpx)
Original series...Tom Baker was the archetype.
I liked McCoy too when the show started getting darker and hinting more about the Doctor's past, but it never got developed.
Reboot, David Tennant.
Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi had moments but that's all they were. I liked Eccleston but really his version could only last one year as an intro to the new series.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:00 PM (3Dcbq)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 09:00 PM (1m82a)
Watched it a number of times.
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I never loathed a movie more than that one. The message was "Space exploration is toxic masculinity and men should just stay home and make their women happy".
Left the theater angry.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:00 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 09:00 PM (1m82a)
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The Third Man franchise just keeps on kickin'.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:01 PM (GBKbO)
{
"identity": "unknown",
"name": "Jason Bourne",
"status": "activated",
"location": "undisclosed",
"threatLevel": "maximum",
"quote": "Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne."
}
IYKYK.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 08:53 PM
It's better in the original Assembly.
Posted by: General Chang at June 28, 2025 09:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:58 PM (VofaG)
Please no.
The comic is great. I like it quite a bit.
The movie wasn't near the tone of the books.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:01 PM (3Dcbq)
I remember reading a review when it came out that said, "This is a smart movie pretending to be dumb."
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:03 PM (5YmYl)
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Timothy Dalton is my favorite Bond.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 09:03 PM (3kB0K)
Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi had moments but that's all they were. I liked Eccleston but really his version could only last one year as an intro to the new series.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:00 PM (3Dcbq)
Agreed, Tom Baker will always be the best Doctor for me. The year they did “The Keys to Time” with the 1st Romana will always be the pinnacle of the 50 year run.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:04 PM (HEGiN)
I didn't get even an inkling of that. Quite the opposite.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:04 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had
Have you seen Butler in "Dear Frankie"? Very sweet and touching Scottish movie from the early 2000's. Recommended highly.
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 09:04 PM (lJ0H4)
I remember reading a review when it came out that said, "This is a smart movie pretending to be dumb."
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:03 PM
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I'm pretty sure that game is a reference to Butch and Sundance, the Early Years.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 08:56 PM (VofaG)
Some podcast I was listening to was talking about how bad an actress Jennifer Lawrence is. Like really bad. I don't know, are there any really good actresses now?
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (NXz8h)
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I had the same reaction. He'd be perfect. Also, set the new films back in the Cold War 1960s. Give us back the Bond we loved.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 09:03 PM (3kB0K)
Timothy Dalton made a few appearances on Dr. Who as an evil Time Lord back on Gallifrey. He was good, of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:06 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (MGB5H)
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The first 30 minutes or so of Face the Music are kind of hilarious.
Then it just starts to drag and never stops.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (NXz8h)
And Burgess Meredith.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:06 PM (MGB5H)
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I had the same reaction. He'd be perfect. Also, set the new films back in the Cold War 1960s. Give us back the Bond we loved.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (5YmYl)
I'm too lazy to look it up. Wasn't he in Argyle? Crap movie but I think he did well with what he had.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:07 PM (3Dcbq)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 28, 2025 09:08 PM (Da7Vv)
Like Lawrence, where the Howeitat extras were the sons of the guys who rode with Lawrence to take Aqaba. Those sorts of realism in casting don't seem to happen any more.
(our tour guide in Wadi Rum was a grandson of one who rode with Lawrence, his father of course was an extra in the film)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 09:08 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:08 PM (eBgDF)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 09:08 PM (3kB0K)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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Great movie, and great to know that Lancaster did all of his stunts. Additionally, there is the fact that train yard destruction was 'one-time' shot. No way to redo it. The same is true of the derailment scene in 'The Fugitive'. All of that train wreck remains down along the Nantahala river. No CGI.
The Train clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1IEtzj23ws
Fugitive clip, and better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1IEtzj23ws
Both pretty cool.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 09:09 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at June 28, 2025 09:09 PM (Bv0Y3)
Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau's Bountiful Breasts
When I finally got around to seeing B&T3, I have to admit to liking it, warts and all, mostly because it was so, much later, B&T had aged (if not matured), the kids were a nice touch. And my expectations had been really low, so…
TJM, you've probably covered Back to the Future in some post? There was a pair of sequels that rounded out the original pretty nicely. Of course, not having been planned originally, there were problems, like switching the girlfriend actress, and introducing Marty's lame "chicken" problem only in the 2nd part, but I thought it worked pretty well. Parts 2 & 3 harked back to Part 1 in funny ways, but not strictly, with Part 3 the biggest departure from the formula. The end package is more than just sequels, it's a true trilogy, three more-or-less standalone tales that make up one big saga. No time-travel flick will ever match that.
And it's especially good for how it drives some folks crazy because of all the paradoxes. Don't think about it, just enjoy the zany romp.
Posted by: mindful webworker - whitewalls on a DeLorean hahahaha at June 28, 2025 09:09 PM (l5rRq)
Posted by: Guy who takes ever
I don't agree with that opinion. She was really good in Winter Bone which sparked her career. She played crazy pretty well in Silver Lining Playbook . And she was good in the last comedy she made where she got nekkid.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:10 PM (VofaG)
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Florence Pugh. She didn't have much to do in Dune II, but in "Black Widow" and "Thunderbolts" she was a revelation. Her performance in the latter is the only Oscar-worthy performance I've ever seen in a Marvel movie.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:10 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:10 PM (HFcKg)
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I had the same reaction. He'd be perfect. Also, set the new films back in the Cold War 1960s. Give us back the Bond we loved.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (5YmYl)
Denis Villnueve is directing the next Bond and the last I heard was they were down to 3 tom holland, Jacob elordi, and Harris Dickinson. I don't think any of them are a decent Bond.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:11 PM (MGB5H)
The only sequels I recognize are:
1. Aliens
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khaaaaaaaaannn!
That's it.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 28, 2025 09:11 PM (/RHNq)
Color Sergeant Bourne might be the most memorable supporting character in any movie I can think of.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 09:11 PM (1m82a)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1IEtzj23ws
Both pretty cool.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 09:09 PM (XeU6L)
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The Fugitive sequence does include special effects, though. The studio just kind of lies about it.
It's the insertion of Ford into the scene. They used a process called Introvision.
https://youtu.be/8q_HpSq95bw
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:12 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:12 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 09:08 PM (3kB0K)
They greenlit season 2 this week.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:12 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 09:12 PM (3kB0K)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:13 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: polynikes
Yeah, I was surprised by how funny Jennifer Lawrence was in No Hard Feelings.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:13 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:13 PM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (r2ymA)
Good question.
Is Meryl Streep considered "now?" Dunno.
I kind of like Jodie Foster. She did the most recent True Detective which I liked.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:13 PM (Mmf4/)
I need to rewatch the Dalton Bond movies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 08:20 PM (bss/y)
Carey Lowell cannot pull off having shorter hair than most guys. That is a major strike against Licence to Kill. (Although towards the beginning when she has longer hair, she is actually kinda hot.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 09:13 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:14 PM (VofaG)
'I thought they were supposed to do a Constantine sequel.'
I think they have Pedro Pascal playing Constantine this time.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 28, 2025 09:14 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: mindful webworker - whitewalls on a DeLorean hahahaha at June 28, 2025 09:09 PM (l5rRq)
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Since the ending of 1 was just a joke, I've always wondered why they didn't start 2 with another joke.
Opening titles. The DeLorean shows up in 85. "Wow, what a great adventure. Really saved our kids. Alright Jennifer, you stay here. I'm going to have another adventure with Doc now. Be back in time for our date at the lake."
And they switched actresses because the original stopped acting to take care of her dying mother.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
WT... you better be joking
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 09:15 PM (3kB0K)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Shut your filthy mouth!
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:10 PM
I may be biased, but I love Florence. She brings this unique humor and at the same time seriousness in every role she's in. Plus we get to see her boobs in Oppenheimer.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (MGB5H)
The first was a semi-campy '70s disaster flick (with OJ Simpson, no less.) Enjoyable enough.
The second was fantastic, far smarter than its cheesy title and Cannon Group pedigree would suggest, with an absolutely incredible performance by Jon Voight.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:14 PM (GBKbO)
Which reminds me of Karate Kid.
That all turned stupid fast.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (Mmf4/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:13 PM (eBgDF)
Lion in Winter is one of my Top 10 all time movies, don’t get me started on how much I love it! Amazingly, it was also Anthony Hopkins first movie.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (HEGiN)
Anthony Hopkins's first film too?
Used to love watching Casablanca there. Crowd would do some hissing, booing, and cheering at appropriate times, and lots of people sang the Marseillaise during that epic scene.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 09:17 PM (1m82a)
That all turned stupid fast.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (Mmf4/)
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I've only seen the first one and the Jaden Smith one at the dollar theater.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:17 PM (GBKbO)
Hard to not like a 5' 10" blonde beauty doing a naked Judo throw on a beach. ( And yes, I know about stunt doubles) Besides her under acting during the Maneater piano serenade in the night club was really first rate work.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 28, 2025 09:18 PM (Da7Vv)
That all turned stupid fast.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:16 PM (Mmf4/)
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I've only seen the first one and the Jaden Smith one at the dollar theater.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28
What?! No next karate kid with Hilary Swank?!
Also Cobra Kai is a lot of fun.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:19 PM (MGB5H)
Bloody Mama (1970) Directed by Roger Corman. Staring Shelley Winters playing a very pervy GIRL BOSS Ma Barker. Rating: Double Plus Good.
Big Bad Mama (1974) - Produced by Roger. Directed by Steve Carver. Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, and Tom Skerritt. Roger never met a boob he wouldn't put in a movie at least once. This masterpiece is an early GIRL BOSS flick.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:19 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025 09:17 PM (1m82a)
I bet that was fun. Casablanca my favorite movie.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:19 PM (VofaG)
Also Cobra Kai is a lot of fun.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:19 PM (MGB5H)
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One day, eventually.
And..tv...ew. like, gross.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:20 PM (Mmf4/)
1. Aliens
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khaaaaaaaaannn!
That's it.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 28, 2025 09:11 PM (/RHNq)
Terminator 2, Rocky II and III.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:20 PM (r2ymA)
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"Rogue One" was very good. A Star Wars war movie with genuine sacrifice.
Hated all the others.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:20 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:21 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at June 28, 2025 09:21 PM (Bv0Y3)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:21 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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One day, eventually.
And..tv...ew. like, gross.
Posted by: TJM's phone
The first season was done kind of indie on ewetoob and is... chef's kiss.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:21 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 09:22 PM (q3u5l)
Used to love watching Casablanca there. Crowd would do some hissing, booing, and cheering at appropriate times, and lots of people sang the Marseillaise during that epic scene.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2025
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I'll always think fondly about seeing Casablanca during its 50th-anniversary release at the Lensic neighborhood theatre in Santa Fe in '92. Very much the same audience reactions as you mention.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 09:22 PM (omVj0)
1. Aliens
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khaaaaaaaaannn!
That's it.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 28, 2025 09:11 PM (/RHNq)
Terminator 2, Rocky II and III.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:20 PM (r2ymA)
Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:22 PM (MGB5H)
Hated all the others.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:20 PM (5YmYl)
Andor is perfect with that and as a lead in. It really works.
The Darth Vader bits in Rogue One seemed a little unnecessary to me but to each their own.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:23 PM (Mmf4/)
No stunt double. All her.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:23 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:23 PM (HEGiN)
I've finally finished all 1,259 pages of Peter F. Hamilton's The Neutronium Alchemist. Now to start the next book, 1,244 pages of The Naked God. I'm not expecting it to have boobs.
Now back to your regular bogus shenanigans, dudes!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:23 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at June 28, 2025 09:21 PM (Bv0Y3)
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Sending the kids to camp is a great example of actually knowing the appeal of the first one.
It's the characters being macabre. Can do that anywhere, the brighter the better. The first did see that contrast from time to time, but letting the kids loose in Values just feels like...more in all the best ways.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally
T2 is my favorite of the Terminators. Maybe I was the right age of kid and also GNR!
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:23 PM (ftFVW)
The only reason I do not rank Brosnan higher is pure sentiment as again I was raised on Connery and Moore.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 09:24 PM (vm8sq)
I think they have Pedro Pascal playing Constantine this time.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
'WT... you better be joking'
'Shut your filthy mouth!'
OK. I may have made that up.
It'll probably be Kevin Hart.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 28, 2025 09:25 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 09:22 PM (q3u5l)
She couldn’t do it for me in L&O. At all.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 09:25 PM (vm8sq)
Hm.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:25 PM (Mmf4/)
Posted by: Ben Had
For sure. This is one of my favorite Clint movies.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:26 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:21 PM (HFcKg)
Agree ...
Posted by: browndog like real lemon meringue pie, not that canned shit at June 28, 2025 09:26 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at June 28, 2025 09:26 PM (Bv0Y3)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 09:25 PM (vm8sq
Angie Harmon and Alena De La Garza are the GOAT adas.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:26 PM (MGB5H)
Mr Right with Sam Rockwell. I'm mad nobody told me about this movie before.
Sam Rockwell is # 3 on the actors has the most movies I like.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:26 PM (VofaG)
Hm.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
AoSHQ: more interesting than real life
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:27 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:28 PM (r2ymA)
Mr Right with Sam Rockwell. I'm mad nobody told me about this movie before.
Sam Rockwell is # 3 on the actors has the most movies I like.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28,
Moon
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:28 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 09:28 PM (q3u5l)
Hm.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:25 PM (Mmf4/)
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I blame Quentin Tarantino.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Just the opening, if you live in that climate.
We're having a heat wave
A tropical heat wave
Gold, Jerry!
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 09:28 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:29 PM (GBKbO)
I like Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year. That was a really good movie.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:29 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: IrishEi at June 28, 2025 09:29 PM (3ImbR)
Hm.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:25 PM
Embrace the power of and.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 28, 2025 09:29 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 09:25 PM (vm8sq
Angie Harmon and Alena De La Garza are the GOAT adas.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:26 PM (MGB5H)
(Fist bump) honorable mention to Annie Parisse. I love brunettes.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 09:29 PM (vm8sq)
But Hollywood would make it about a right wing group like they did with Angel has Fallen.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 28, 2025 09:30 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I can't imagine. I put that one in the "unsequelable" list. Along with Galaxy Quest. And Rocketeer.
I have a certain liking for "Enchanted". I think of it as a wonderful "last great" Disney flick. I found out there was a sequel. I try not to think about that.
Posted by: mindful webworker - how do you knoooowww at June 28, 2025 09:30 PM (l5rRq)
Because Mandalorian is going to seriously suck.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:30 PM (Mmf4/)
Posted by: Beaver at June 28, 2025 09:31 PM (tCdjd)
Posted by: mindful webworker - how do you knoooowww at June 28, 2025 09:30 PM (l5rRq)
It's TERRIBLE.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:31 PM (MGB5H)
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Sam Rockwell gets the coveted "f***in'" interstitial in his name, like Gary f***in' Oldman and (if you're a fan of character actors like I am) Clancy f***in' Brown.
Sam f***in' Rockwell is the man.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:32 PM (5YmYl)
Because Mandalorian is going to seriously suck.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:30 PM (Mmf4/)
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I think "spin-off" is a better description for a TV series that's derived from a movie. Not sure what the term is when it's the other way around (see Firefly/Serenity).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:32 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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Munch, lead detective in TV cops & robbers. Right.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 09:33 PM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 09:33 PM (KnnTg)
Posted by: IrishEi
Ha! May we have a moment of silence for the Colorado Rockies who are on a 5 game losing streak. Their current record is 18 wins - 65 loses. Maybe a priest should be called to administer the last rites instead of moment of silence.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:34 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Consolation. Though that may only apply in that one case.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:34 PM (ftFVW)
Fucking really?!?
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 09:33 PM (KnnTg)
The last JP finished up the entire arc. Where else is there to go or do??
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:34 PM (Mmf4/)
More Jurassic schlock is coming out?
Fucking really?!?
Posted by: Robert
Scarlett Johansson playing a girl boss. Saw the trailer.
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 09:35 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:34 PM (NXz8h)
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Sniff.
I switched from the Rockies to the Rapids. They are playing pretty well tonight even after a bullshit penalty shot call from the idiot ref.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:35 PM (Mmf4/)
Fucking really?!?
Posted by: Robert
I've trying to work out how they have kids in the new one. Just can't see even a bad reason justifying it.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (r2ymA)
Hah. Gary F****ng Oldman is on my list #4 though he's probably the best actor today. He just doesn't have as many movies I like as the others.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (VofaG)
More Jurassic schlock is coming out?
Fucking really?!?
Posted by: Robert
It's a place with the most dangerous dinosaurs. Couldn't even put them in one of the parks. So we definitely are going to take kids there.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Replace the dinosaurs with hags from the View?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (NXz8h)
More Jurassic schlock is coming out?
Fucking really?!?
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 09:33 PM (KnnTg)
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At some point they're going to adapt Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" but rebrand it as "Jurassic Thunder."
The T-Rex they are hunting will be a misunderstood creature just defending its mate/hatchling.
The time-traveling hunting party steps on a butterfly and returns to the future to find out Donald Trump is now POTUS when Kamala Harris was POTUS in the original timeline.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:36 PM (MGB5H)
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"Yeah, we know that a lot of people died at Crystal Lake, and that Jason dude is creepy, but if we all stick together we will be fine and have fun!"
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:37 PM (Mmf4/)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (5YmYl)
You want Bond set in the 1960s? Then watch the six that were DONE in the the 1960s!!!
ITS BEEN DONE. MAKE SOMETHING NEW.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 09:37 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:05 PM (NXz8h)
Those were some funny ass movies. I have them on DVD. Just had to. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 09:38 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:39 PM (NXz8h)
I only remember two lines from that movie and they're both O'Toole's. From memory so maybe not exact. "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" "My dear boy, ladies are unwell. Gentlemen vomit."
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 09:39 PM (/y8xj)
I'd tell you not to give them ideas, but they've probably already decided to do Jurassic Thunder just that way.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 09:39 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:37 PM (Mmf4/)
To be fair, it was his psycho mom first.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:39 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:29 PM (VofaG)
I love that too! The best thing is knowing it’s a slightly fictionalized tale of a weekend a very young Mel Brooks spent taking care of a very drunk and disorderly Erol Flynn, while he was working for Sid Caesar. It’s mostly a true story.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:39 PM (HEGiN)
I didn't know that. And it does make it seem even better.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:41 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: BruceWayne
And she died so, reasonably could assume the danger was over.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:41 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: BruceWayne
And she died so, reasonably could assume the danger was over.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:41 PM (ftFVW
And Jason went to Hell at one point. So it's definitely safe to go to space.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:42 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2025 09:42 PM (lhenN)
I have a three volume set of Bill & Ted but I only got it for the first one. Heavy metal saves the world. This is a theme that speaks recognized a fundamental truth.
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 09:42 PM (KnnTg)
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 09:42 PM (KnnTg)
Probably why I liked it so much. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 09:44 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions
Since this started with movies it should have turned into a boob thread a hundred comments ago.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:44 PM (ftFVW)
I'd tell you not to give them ideas, but they've probably already decided to do Jurassic Thunder just that way.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 09:39 PM (q3u5l)
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Hollywood is so predictable these days, it's almost inevitable they will make that movie.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:44 PM (IBQGV)
Alex Winters has two movies that will immortalize him in the movie world.
Lost Boys being the other one.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:44 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions
Since this started with movies it should have turned into a boob thread a hundred comments ago.
Posted by: She Hobbit
You are so correct.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:45 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:45 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2025 09:45 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:44 PM (ftFVW
Pretty sure people have pointed out JLaw and Florence Pugh boobs.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:45 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:42 PM (MGB5H)
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*** Jason X has entered the chat ***
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:45 PM (IBQGV)
I thought I would watch "Equalizer 2", since I didn't remember it all that well and the day before has watched "The Equalizer" which I really enjoyed.
Anyway, I fired it up on Netflix and-
Mutherfukka! Pedro Pascal was one of the main characters.
I go back in time to 2018 (so to speak) and still there's goddam Pedro "Slab o' Tofu" Pascal stinkin' up the screen.
He's really has no/weak screen presence. I have no idea how he got to be Hollywood's go-to guy.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 09:45 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: She Hobbit
You are so correct.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:45 PM (NXz8h)
I tried by bringing up nekkid Jennifer Lawrence.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:46 PM (VofaG)
Television? Bring back the anthology series. You could easily get twenty good seasons doing faithful (that word again) adaptations of short stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Irwin Shaw, Gerald Kersh, Lawrence Block, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harlan Ellison, Somerset Maugham, and onandonandon.
These are things I don't expect I'll live to see.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 09:46 PM (q3u5l)
Lost Boys being the other one.
Posted by: polynikes
Ha, I always forget he's in Lost Boys and get a delighted surprise whenever I watch it again.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:46 PM (ftFVW)
Lost Boys being the other one.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:44 PM (VofaG)
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And Freaked.
Posted by: TJM's phone at June 28, 2025 09:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes
Great little flick. Anna Kendrick nails her role as well.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 28, 2025 09:47 PM (/RHNq)
Upthread there was a question about great actresses now. I have to mention Elle Fanning.
Later.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (FdjOh)
Posted by: BruceWayne
True enough, but brief mentions do not a boob thread make.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 09:42 PM (KnnTg)
Don't know if you're being serious or not, but Heavy Metal is by and large a steaming pile of hot garbage. Much the same as Rap and Hip-Hop.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (r2ymA)
ITS BEEN DONE. MAKE SOMETHING NEW"
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I don't trust Hollywood to do that. They'll make them "relevant" for "today's audience." We've had enough evidence that Bond doesn't work in that template.
James Bond is a '60s hero. We got "new Bond" with Jason Bourne.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: BruceWayne
True enough, but brief mentions do not a boob thread make.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (ftFVW
Hey polynikes and I are only 2 people. Y'all need to pick up the slack.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:49 PM (VofaG)
"Heavy metal will save the world" is so much better than "music and harmony will save the world".
Manowar, Warriors of the World
https://youtu.be/K70nC0FbxiU?si=S5rU0pRoUCM0cPuS
Dear lord read the comments at the link. I can't stop laughing.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2025 09:50 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 09:50 PM (+qU29)
Second place is Trading Places.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:51 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:53 PM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (r2ymA)
Sir your concern has been noted.
Please ask your primary care to get your T levels checked.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2025 09:53 PM (lhenN)
Second place is Trading Places.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:51 PM (VofaG)
Anne Hathaway in "Havoc" is right up there
Posted by: browndog like real lemon meringue pie, not that canned shit at June 28, 2025 09:54 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 28, 2025 09:54 PM (woJlP)
Second place is Trading Places.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28
Never ending story.....or we aren't counting busty statutes?
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 28, 2025 09:55 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 08:23 PM (D7oie)
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I like Michael Moorcock, but I didn't like those books.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 08:25 PM (IBQGV)
"The Final Programme" was not a good movie.
I wanted it to be a good movie, but it steadfastly refused.
It was the "Britannia Hospital" of "No Time to Die"s.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 09:55 PM (iJfKG)
I offer
“Boobity Boobs! Wonderful Boobs!”
Ending with Hail Britannia , etc.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:56 PM (HEGiN)
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If you mean the Cookie Monster-vocaled walls of noise of the past couple decades, I would agree. But if you are referring to Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc, then we shall respectfully disagree.
I mean, who else is writing songs about the Crimean War?
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:56 PM (5YmYl)
I took a date to see it and she turned out to be my first violation of rule #1. I did however dislike the movie. Hated 2 and only watched 3 because the wife had it on one night.
I did like that one. My faint memories of the first two gave me enough background to find it hilarious.
Also as a failed rock star I can relate. The whole never actually learning to play part is spot on. That's where I failed too.
Posted by: Reforger at June 28, 2025 09:56 PM (LgDgc)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:56 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: naturalfake
He sucks a mean dick, enthusiastically. They love him out here!
Posted by: Hollywood casting couch at June 28, 2025 09:57 PM (G1ktt)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 09:57 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:53 PM (eBgDF)
Best Sam Rockwell line : “Oh, That’s Not Right!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:58 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:58 PM (HEGiN)
Monk making out with the squid.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 09:59 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:59 PM (eBgDF)
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No, that would be: "Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?"
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 10:00 PM (5YmYl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 28, 2025 10:00 PM (woJlP)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 10:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 10:00 PM (5YmYl)
Definitely the most quoted line her at aos.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 09:57 PM (CHHv1)
I agree with you, she made a string of excellent movies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:01 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 28, 2025 10:02 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: mindful webworker - single file, no running at June 28, 2025 10:02 PM (l5rRq)
I mean, who else is writing songs about the Crimean War?
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at June 28, 2025 09:56 PM (5YmYl)
Yeah, I mean the Cookie Monster-walls of noise. Sabbath, Iron Maiden and the like are Rock.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 10:02 PM (r2ymA)
https://youtu.be/iWKmiTwjjHA?si=QLVp868ZsR-1_D-S
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2025 10:03 PM (lhenN)
If there is an egg looking thing on a spaceship, don’t take it back with you.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 28, 2025 10:03 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 09:48 PM (r2ymA)
Oooooohhhhh, mutha...okay, first off, hip hop barely qualifies as music as it is pretty much bereft of any musical talent whatsoever. If not for all the
Metal bands actually play their instruments. They're not strumming like a bunch of limp wristed pussies (ex. Any mainstream band), they play hard, fast and tight.
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 10:06 PM (KnnTg)
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 10:02 PM (r2ymA)
Sabbath and Maiden are metal.
Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2025 10:08 PM (KnnTg)
From, "Luke, I mean, Lucien, I am your mother" to "You killed my mother, prepare to die" this film barely rose the level of competent story telling.
I've seen 1950's B movies which were better done than this piece of a historical nonsense.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 28, 2025 10:14 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 10:22 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at June 28, 2025 09:56 PM
I want to see The Zipper from the Black Lagoon.
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 10:25 PM (jc0TO)
Hobby Thread - June 28, 2025 [TRex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. As previewed last week, we gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it came up with lighthouses.
After all, Ace of Spades brings light to the dark places and guidance to those in need of direction.(photo credit: Mike Seeley]
In 1999, the Cape Hatteras Light Station, which consists of seven historic structures, was successfully relocated 2,900 feet from the spot on which it had stood since 1870. Because of the threat of shoreline erosion, a natural process, the entire light station was safely moved to a new site where the historic buildings and cisterns were placed in spatial and elevational relationship to each other, exactly as they had been at the original site. NPS Site
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The Penfield Reef Lighthouse (the Property) is an 1874 Second Empire Style historic structure located one mile off Bridgeport's Black Rock Harbor and is accessible only by boat. The property features a 51-foot octagonal light tower atop a two-story keeper's quarters (1,568 sf), set on a concrete foundation with rip-rap, a pier, and a boat landing. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1990, with reference number 89001473. The Property remains an active Federal Aid to Navigation (ATON) with red flashing lights for both emergency and primary use, and fog horns that have a range of one nautical mile.
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).
TRex wouldn't put a mystery click in a Hobby Thread would he? He just might. If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:30 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:31 PM (0eaVi)
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Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:37 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:38 PM (0eaVi)
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Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 28, 2025 05:43 PM (CcOY+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)
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There is something inherently unsettling about a lighthouse.
Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)
Totally, wish someone would finally do something like that.
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (r2ymA)
Now, it's too much driving and Mount Meguntikook is better.
Posted by: Accomack at June 28, 2025 05:47 PM (Bbhox)
I can see one lighthouse from my bed and can walk to another. I would have loved to send photos of both. They may not be as impressive as those on the east coast, but they are mine and I see them daily.
The West Point Lighthouse I can see from my bed. It flashes red, then white every five seconds. It marks the entrance to Elliot Bay where the Port of Seattle lies.
The one I can walk to is Alki Point. That’s the name of the beach where I live. There are quite a few working lighthouses (light homes?)in the Puget Sound and outlying waterways. From a navigational standppint, lighthouses and a chart are the only way to insure you don’t run up on the rocks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 05:48 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Average Guy at June 28, 2025 05:48 PM (lPHZZ)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (61vGu)
Love lighthouses. Got me home many times.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (r2ymA)
Too easy to solve. The lighthouse keeper or his wife did it. No one else was there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM (0eaVi)
Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (IBQGV)
For some reason, a lighthouse reminds me of the Overlook Hotel in the Shining. Same kind of isolation, I think.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:51 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:52 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)
Heavy water is not really that much heavier than normal water.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:52 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:52 PM (+qU29)
Those poor Lighthouse keepers. "here's a widow. Keep her well. Also the lighthouse.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (bss/y)
Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I humbly disagree. A lighthouse tells you EXACTLY where you are. It is a homing beacon.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (EuUgR)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM
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Or was it the spirit of the former lighthouse keeper that now haunts the property after an unfortunate death while on duty?
Or the castaway that crashed on the rocks below, unseen amidst the storm?
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (cCn4/)
Been to Point Loma and the one in Monterey. An automated, unmanned lighthouse is NOT a non-working lighthouse! But I'm still curious about the extent to which boats and ships rely on lighthouses to stay away from dangerous rocks and shallows.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (61vGu)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)
Their heaviness depends on the materials they are built with. They are called lighthouses because they are meant to give light to incoming ships.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (31p00)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)
Maybe you can set up a lego assembly line?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:56 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 05:57 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
But heavy metal is much, much heavier than normal metal.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:57 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 05:48 PM
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I don't always, but I did post a preview last week! Must have gotten lost amidst all the other high quality content.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:57 PM (cCn4/)
Or the castaway that crashed on the rocks below, unseen amidst the storm?
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (cCn4/)
Or the crew of a sailing vessel, cursed to sail the waves, seeking vengeance on the descendants of a small town's council who killed them all?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:58 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 05:50 PM
Or was it the spirit of the former lighthouse keeper that now haunts the property after an unfortunate death while on duty?
Or the castaway that crashed on the rocks below, unseen amidst the storm?
Pirates! Because, don't all good stories involve pirates?
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Lance Geiger at June 28, 2025 05:59 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:54 PM
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Send me a note with what you're working on. I'll see what I can do.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:00 PM (cCn4/)
Quit a bit. At least recreational boats. Electronics have made it a lot easier but there's nothing like good visual aides. The Coast Guard is decomissioning lots of them, taking out buoys as well which is just flat out stupid, but boats want them to stay.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:00 PM (viF8m)
Beautiful painting, polynikes.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 06:01 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at June 28, 2025 05:55 PM (61vGu)
Tornadoes generally take place inland, while lighthouses are usually located in coastal areas.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 06:02 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 05:51 PM (bss/y)
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There's a classic Doctor Who story set in a lighthouse: The Horror of Fang Rock. The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters an alien entity that's killing off the human caretakers and some crash survivors one by one.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (IBQGV)
How does having a Greyhound compare with having other dogs, NR Pax?
They're very sweet natured and adapt quickly to being pets after a racing career. They love routine and long naps. The main caveat I give prospective owners is that they are quite thin skinned and can get injured from playing too rough.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (YkGND)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (Bv0Y3)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM
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So not a comedy, huh?
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 06:05 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: fd's story ideas at June 28, 2025 06:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:08 PM (VofaG)
Cana Island is the main one on the page. I've been to this one. If the water level is low enough, you can walk across the causeway to the island that the lighthouse is on. Walking through ankle deep Lake Michigan water feels pretty good in the summer.
Link goes to PBSWisconsin.
https://tinyurl.com/3pk7787r
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 28, 2025 06:09 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:09 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:10 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:03 PM
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So not a comedy, huh?
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:04 PM (cCn4/)
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No, I think it's one of the darker Doctor Who episodes. Everyone not on team TARDIS dies.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:11 PM (IBQGV)
Thanks, NR Pax. The ones which I’ve encountered have always seemed like gentle dogs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 06:11 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 06:12 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 06:14 PM (lJ0H4)
Check out the lighthouse keeper standing in front of the doorway.
https://tinyurl.com/3fwk73wr
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:15 PM (cCn4/)
That said, I'd love to live in one of those lighthouse keeper homes. Though I imagine it could get pretty hairy during storms. And you'd have to be on duty every night in bad weather, or arrange for a substitute.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:16 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 06:17 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025
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There was another one????
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (omVj0)
If I still lived in Rhode Island, I would be out there as a storm approached with a camera, a 28 or 35mm lens and some fast film good for low light conditions. Thinking about it, some 50 ASA or 100 ASA black and white film could make some interesting shots.
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:16 PM (omVj0)
That'll be $300!
Posted by: Union Army Recruiter at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (0eaVi)
Ray Bradbury plays around with this idea in his short story, "The Fog Horn."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:46 PM (IBQGV)
Dad visited the Columbia lightship stationed at the Columbia river bar, when he was a young reporter to do some article on it, I think it had been there long enough to be notable. He went out and interviewed the Coast Guard crew and he noticed that every time the fog horn blew, everyone stopped talking and resumed talking when it stopped. He thought that was pretty notable.
I don't know how he managed it, when I was a kid, he had the worst motion sickness on boats
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 06:20 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 06:11 PM
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Hmmm.... Maybe they needed a Stargate to teleport to another world, track down the A-Team, and then return to reclaim the lighthouse after building a super cool attack boat with the guys on the Deadliest Catch to kick alien butt.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:20 PM (cCn4/)
Sullivan’s Island Lighthouse.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:20 PM (VofaG)
According to wiki it started out based on Poe's story:
"According to Robert Eggers, although the final story bears little resemblance to the Poe fragment, his 2019 film The Lighthouse began as an attempt by his brother Max Eggers to do a contemporary take on the Poe story. When the project stalled, Robert offered to work with his brother and the project evolved into a period thriller with the Poe elements removed"
Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:21 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025
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There was another one????
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:18 PM (omVj0)
I think the more acclaimed on was the 2019 one with William DeFoe. I didn’t bother to watch it after watching the 2016 one.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:22 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025
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A setting tailor-made for a John Dickson Carr "impossible crime." It develops that the only people who could have committed the murder, the lighthouse keeper and his wife, could not have done it thanks to solid alibis provided by the detective himself. And the question arises: Are supernatural forces at play?
Carr really knew how to work that kind of setup.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:23 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:25 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:25 PM (cCn4/)
https://tinyurl.com/2v2mbe7y
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:26 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2025 06:27 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:28 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2025 06:27 PM
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Thank you Commodore Deal!
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:28 PM (cCn4/)
I have an embarrassing, hobby thread-related story to share..
A month or two ago I asked on the thread if coin or stamp collecting had ever been covered and shared a story of still having my coin collection started when I was working on my coin collecting merit badge (Nixon was president...)
T-Rex (I believe) was kind enough to point me to the November, 2024 Hobby Thread which covered Numismatics.
Well...here's where it gets embarrassing....
I finally got around to locating the thread and reading thru the comments.....
What do you know....not only did I apparently read the post...I EVEN LEFT A COMMENT relating the same dumb merit badge story.....
This is embarrassing!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:29 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: tankascribe at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (NtoJk)
I've always done basic maintenance on our vehicles like oil/brakes etc but this is a new level and I'm really liking it.
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (ra4xZ)
"The Lighthouse," 2016: Based on real events which saw two lighthouse keepers stranded for months at sea in a freak storm, the film tells a tale of death, madness and isolation; a desolate trip into the heart of human darkness.
Stars
Mark Lewis Jones, Joshua Richards, Michael Jibson
"The Lighthouse," 2019: Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Stars
Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (HuRzZ)
Probable highlight was the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Lubec, Maine. Somewhat puzzlingly, the WEST Quoddy Lighthouse claims to be the easternmost point in the United States. That's because the EAST Quoddy Head Lighthouse is on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. In reality, they are just a few miles apart on different parts of the coast of Passamaquoddy Bay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy.
An amazingly beautiful area and Bay of Fundy scallops are definitely the food of the gods.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (FEVMW)
And thanks to TRex for using my photo of the Pt. Reyes lighthouse! Another wonderful Hobby thread per usual!
Posted by: tankascribe at June 28, 2025 06:31 PM (NtoJk)
Were the lights on each lighthouse somehow distinctive and denoted on the maps?
If I came back to shore after a storm, away from my home port, I would certainly want to know if I then needed to go north or south to make it back home.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at June 28, 2025 06:31 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at June 28, 2025 06:32 PM (KaHlS)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 28, 2025 06:30 PM (FEVMW)
Bay scallops....Pass.
A scallop should be wider than a 3-tine fork at minimum.
Sea Scallops are the shizznitiest.
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:34 PM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:29 PM
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It was a good story. Worthy of re-telling. Please repeat if/when we do another coin collecting theme.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:35 PM (cCn4/)
Were the lights on each lighthouse somehow distinctive and denoted on the maps?
If I came back to shore after a storm, away from my home port, I would certainly want to know if I then needed to go north or south to make it back home.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
PI,
Yes, lighthouses all have a distinct pattern so you can identify them. The lights are at different intervals, or alternate red and white. The West Point Lighthouse I see from my bed alternates red with white every five seconds. That is noted on the chart. So, even at night with a new moon, and in a storm, you can identify it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 06:37 PM (IkM4W)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 06:37 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (cCn4/)
Another lighthouse-related movie: The Light at the Edge of the World starring Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Kirk Douglas.
Wreckers take over a lighthouse and douse the light so that ships will wreck, which will allow the wreckers to steal cargo. Mayhem ensues, some of it disturbing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at June 28, 2025 05:49 PM (KAi1n)
Chuckle!
Dad joke.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (QGaXH)
I don't remember if it's the light, the horn, or some combination of the two. But, yes, each lighthouse has a distinct signal so that you'll know which one it is.
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 28, 2025 06:39 PM (ojCLR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 06:39 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:39 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:38 PM (cCn4/)
Any hobby News is on topic. Look forward to seeing them when we get to the Christmas season.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM (VofaG)
They are listed on charts. As JTB noted above, Beavertail and Castle Hill Lighthouses are located on either side of the east passage of Narraganett Bay. You can see both from a pretty good distance so heading between them is pretty straightforward.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 28, 2025 06:41 PM (ojCLR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 06:41 PM (F7P5/)
Posted by: fd'
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What an incredible keepsake!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 06:42 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:44 PM (viF8m)
Tourists and traffic wreck it all. Nobody vacations in Tulsa.
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:44 PM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 06:41 PM
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With a nickname that includes "Nemo," I would have guessed you had far more aquatic experience.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:44 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:45 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:40 PM
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Emphasizing - any hobbying is on topic.
We're going to a Christmas theme several months before Christmas to get you in the mindset well in advance so you can complete your projects in time.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 06:46 PM (cCn4/)
Golf
Tennis
Astronomy
Numismatist
Guns/ Folding Knives
Painting
Women
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:45 PM (VofaG)
Pretty good hobbies. Drop the women and you can afford the rest.
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 06:46 PM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:50 PM (+qU29)
"This Hobby Thread is another example of the phallocracy that oppresses womyn. It is the embodiment of rape."
- Your local university's Feminist Studies professor
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:50 PM (/HVsR)
Golf
Tennis
Astronomy
Numismatist
Guns/ Folding Knives
Painting
Women
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:45 PM (VofaG)
In that order?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 28, 2025 06:51 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 28, 2025 06:51 PM (ojCLR)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady"
They always wanted to go back to Hawaii after dad was stationed there in the late 60s. So they did. And took the family including grandkids. Yes it was a once in a lifetime trip with great memories.
Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/yu99mnsn
I would have done just about anythingJacqueline Bisset asked me to do.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 06:50 PM (+qU29)
I believe Free soloing mountain climbers have a death wish.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:53 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 06:54 PM (F7P5/)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 06:54 PM (//7/7)
https://tinyurl.com/yu99mnsn
I would have done just about anythingJacqueline Bisset asked me to do.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 06:52 PM (viF8m)
Hah. Just watched The Deep a few nights ago. Hadn’t seen it in decades. Lou Gossett got his head crushed.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:54 PM (VofaG)
I listed the most expensive last.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 06:56 PM (VofaG)
Really thinking about it, I have no hobbies. Her Majesty has one, you betcha. Which, perforce, I participate in but at which I have no great expertise.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:56 PM (/HVsR)
We were taught a lot of local history in grade school back then: Roger Williams establishing the state after he pissed off the Pilgrim fathers, King Philip's War, American Revolution (especially the British occupation), etc.
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 06:57 PM (yTvNw)
ok maybe not really a hobby but i did it, and no leaks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 06:58 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 07:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 07:01 PM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: fd' at June 28, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)
Fort Sumter is cool. I used to love the Battery and those little pubs down near the market.
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 07:02 PM (ra4xZ)
I like your painting. I find vineyards to have a peaceful feel and you really capture that with the shades of green and especially the way the shadows fall. There is a sense of quiet and warmth in the painting that is just pleasant.
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:04 PM (yTvNw)
https://tinyurl.com/mr3be2z8
Point Pinos, Monterey, CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: From about That Time at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady"
They always wanted to go back to Hawaii after dad was stationed there in the late 60s. So they did. And took the family including grandkids. Yes it was a once in a lifetime trip with great memories.
Posted by: fd'
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I just love stories like this. Good for them to make the most of the return trip. This was not only a gift for them, but for all of you. Priceless
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/mr3be2z8
Point Pinos, Monterey, CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM
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Endorsed.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 07:08 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: From about That Time at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (n4GiU)
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Pffft.
Posted by: The Lighthouse at Alexandria at June 28, 2025 07:08 PM (BK31K)
Thanks JTB and others who said they liked the painting. The rest of ya ……… of course just kidding. As my website motto says. You Like What You Like.
I’m trying to do a more loose brushwork style with the post Impressionism color theory.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (VofaG)
https://tinyurl.com/ycmb7dbd
Posted by: jsg
2A should have fixed the problem...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (//7/7)
Yes, you just put your point-like light at the focal point of the Fresnel lens and the light fills the breadth of the lens, coming out parallel to the optical axis, i.e., the line from the focal point (the focus) to the center of the lens. The Fresnel lens is so economical: you take a regular focusing lens, divvy it up in annular rings about the center of the lens, then remove most of the bits of lens material between the front and back surfaces of the lens and then reassemble it. You get the focusing power of a big heavy lens without the weight of a big heavy lens! It’s ingenious!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (F7P5/)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:11 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:11 PM
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Pre-christian lore suggests that dinosaurs missed the signal fires that it was time to get on the ark.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 07:14 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: JTB
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Don't discount not being able to visualize in 3D and then building something. Or thinking it didn't matter as "the erf is flat."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:16 PM (Q4IgG)
That sounds like a better description than cool design.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 07:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 07:16 PM (lJ0H4)
https://is.gd/3Tqo3Z
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:17 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:18 PM (snZF9)
https://tinyurl.com/ycmb7dbd
Posted by: jsg
2A should have fixed the problem...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:10 PM (//7/7)
I shouldn’t have but I laughed at the one at the dock . He’s lucky he wasn’t eliminated.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:18 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 07:11 PM (yTvNw)
Priorities. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:18 PM (snZF9)
Are you still working on bikes?
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (VofaG)
Come back next week for a different theme! See y'all in Club ONT later tonight.
Posted by: TRex at June 28, 2025 07:22 PM (cCn4/)
Montauk Light, out at the tip of Long Island. Commissioned by Geo. Washington, 1792:
http://tiny.cc/kb7o001
Oakracoke Light, 1823, is the oldest operating light station in North Carolina and the second oldest lighthouse still standing in the state:
http://tiny.cc/db7o001
Tybee light (Savannah):
http://tiny.cc/ob7o001
Have visited all, and, the Hatteras light while it was being moved. The Tybee light was a constant presence at night when I was a kid.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:22 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:24 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 07:06 PM (Q4IgG)
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NOAA? I always kind of dreamed of getting a job there.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:27 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:19 PM (VofaG)
Yeah, and I don't see that stopping any time soon. The dealers don't seem to work on anything they can't plug into a computer, so the indy shops have to take up the slack. I got called in yesterday to lace up and true a rear wheel with new spokes. Dealers won't do that, they probably don't know how to. Definitely an arthritis test though. If you can get through that, you don't have arthritis.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:27 PM (snZF9)
Yeeesh, living in a lighthouse must be awful with the foghorn going a lot of the time.
No sleep for you, Lighthouse keeper.
Not to mention Willem Dafoe, wandering around the place farting with sea life glued to his head.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 07:29 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:26 PM (XeU6L)
Get to the part with the sea monsters. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:30 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
good to hear you are still helping riders!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 07:30 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:30 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 07:31 PM (+qU29)
A lot of spoke nuts to loosen.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:32 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 07:32 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip
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I found it easier to be on the same shift, versus one job where you worked evening shift only to have to return for day shift the very next day. Why even go home?
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 28, 2025 07:33 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 28, 2025 07:35 PM (cduTK)
A lot of spoke nuts to loosen.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 07:32 PM (VofaG)
And then install all the new ones.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:38 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:40 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: banana Dream
And now that memory is among your most cherished.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (F7P5/)
Fog horns are fuggin skeery. Climed down cliff in front of beeg one to surf fish. Dreading climb back if the fog came in. Sonic damn weapons.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (Uqkzt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 07:42 PM (snZF9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub0Jw3wxuTg
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: banana Dream
My husband carried our son on his shoulders all the way up and down the Hatteras lighthouse. I still remember the sound my sandals made on the metal stairs. Clop, clop, clop. LOL
Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2025 07:46 PM (lJ0H4)
My husband carried our son on his shoulders all the way up and down the Hatteras lighthouse. I still remember the sound my sandals made on the metal stairs. Clop, clop, clop. LOL
Posted by: Tuna
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Those stairs were grated. As you climbed, you could see down through them the full 250 (?) feet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 07:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: banana Dream
Why don’t you just roast your cabrito at the base of the lighthouse?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:49 PM (F7P5/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
God bless President Trump!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:54 PM (F7P5/)
Posted by: Megthered at June 28, 2025 07:56 PM (GOJbT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 07:58 PM (F7P5/)
Posted by: mrp at June 28, 2025 07:59 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Megthered
That’s an awesome memory. Thank
You for sharing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 07:59 PM (mT+6a)
Bush, Obama and Biden combined.
Posted by: Guy who takes everything literally at June 28, 2025 08:06 PM (r2ymA)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, June 28
Motherly Love
Moms are the same no matter the species. ❤pic.twitter.com/Hoovb7Nx0y
— Learn Something (@cooltechtipz) June 26, 2025
For your consideration: Attached is a picture of my one year old granddog Eddy from Woodstock, VT. Eddy is a Parson Russel and that sweet face masks an energy level that defies logic. Thank you. RobEddy is such a charmer! We all want to meet him now.
This is Nikko, our first greyhound. We were doing a winery tour called Grapehounds. This was the last stop before we went home and as you can see, she was ready to get some rest.A handsome dog.
Howdy pet morons! This is an update after last week’s first posting. Chick A now has a sibling. Both are active, eating and overall doing well. When I made my first post, I was curious as to how much interest it would or generated. After looking through the comments section, I was very pleasantly surprised. Last week's pics were from day 0 (hatching day) for chick A. Today's update is day 7 and day 5 for his sibling. These are pictures of feeding time. At this point they have to be fed every 3-4 hours around the clock. We choose to hand fed our babies as opposed to parent feeding. They are so much better socialized that way . We feed them Exact baby parrot formula that is mixed with warm bottled water. It has to be between 101 and 105 degrees for them to accept it. More next week. DavidWhat a lot of specialized work!
My Boxer dog, 12 months old, and while he looks badass, he's the nicest guy you'll ever meet. I had the picture photoshopped for his one-year birthday, with the caption - A Fistful of Treats. I hope you enjoy it. BuckskinWOW! What a great birthday portrait!
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 03:37 PM (zlKAS)
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 03:39 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 03:40 PM (zlKAS)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 03:41 PM (zlKAS)
However, two of my kitties (Penny and Jasmine) had slipped in behind me and got locked inside. Whoops!
Fortunately, they were only in there for a couple of hours. Jasmine looked comfy and didn't want to come out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 03:42 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 03:42 PM (+qU29)
She's had quite a few treats today and is now snoozing on the couch in our upstairs room. She's a good girl and deserves the best life ever.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at June 28, 2025 03:46 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 28, 2025 03:48 PM (CcOY+)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at June 28, 2025 03:48 PM (sAmhv)
David, I commend you and whomever is helping you for all that round the clock care for the chicks. Thanks for the update.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 03:50 PM (2GCMq)
We had another bunch of rain last night. Makes going out to run and play sloppy business.
We try to convince Ony the good old black cat that she can safely come out of hiding while the dog cousins are here. Sometimes I've brought her out and she's calm in my lap, while the dogs pay her little attention, but on her own she stays in her little house in the bedroom.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dog family report at June 28, 2025 03:51 PM (l5rRq)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 03:55 PM (VofaG)
So Penny and Jasmine are finally coming out of the closet.
Posted by: Redenzo at June 28, 2025 03:57 PM (CIAsx)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025
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* Adds litter to Sunday shopping list *
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:01 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 04:03 PM (AcTAo)
A great thing for a doggie birthday.
My computer or the AoS system reversed the width and height at first, took a while to fix it.
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 04:04 PM (xekrU)
Hoo Boy isn't that the truth. Our Chihuahua/Russel, since passed, used to chase rabbits something fierce. He once broke the neighbors fence chasing a rabbit. The rabbits had dug a trench between the properties just enough to get through. Ole Sparky (short for Spark Plug) sailed over that trench and broke the bottom board at the cross post chasing one. Thank the stars that fence had been neglected and was kind of rotting away but it still had a little left, enough to lay his little ass out. It took him a couple of minutes or 10 to get his bearings straight but he was eventually cleared for duty after a couple of days of figuring out what the hell happened. That was the last time he went that way after rabbits I can tell you.
Russels are really great dogs if you have the patience and room for them. I miss that little bugger...
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 04:06 PM (ra4xZ)
There are two other closets, and both cats have been trapped in them for more than a couple of hours by mistake. You'd think they'd *never* go into that closet again. But, nope. "Look, a cave, let's explore!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:06 PM (omVj0)
Looks like a dick.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
So that's why it was "submitted without comment."
Won't stop the rest of us, though.
Visitor: "What. is. that?"
Cat Lady: "Oh, just something for the cats to dick around with."
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 04:08 PM (DgGvY)
Thank you in advance.
Posted by: Union of Concerned Waterbugs at June 28, 2025 04:09 PM (CHHv1)
Where's the box?
- the cats
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 04:09 PM (j0MN0)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2025 04:10 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 04:11 PM (j0MN0)
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 04:12 PM (xekrU)
Here's a guy rescuing a cardinal caught in a fence.
https://tinyurl.com/3w8f5jdy
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 04:13 PM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:06 PM (omVj0)
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Yep. My laundry room is the same way. A couple of cats have been trapped in there for many hours without me noticing.
Nowadays, I often go on "kitty patrol" to inventory my cats. Keeping track of 5 of them can be a chore.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 04:14 PM (IBQGV)
My brother has a video of about 10 of them flying out of a dumpster at a hotel down in Tennessee when someone threw something in. He knew they were in there and set up on the patio of his room to record what was sure to be entertaining. It was. Even big strong guys scream like an 11 year old girl sometimes it seems.
Posted by: Orson at June 28, 2025 04:18 PM (dIske)
(Disclaimer: No warranty express or implied. Close cover before striking. No refunds. One to a customer.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:20 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:23 PM (omVj0)
Well . . . yes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:27 PM (omVj0)
Little Dagny La Siberienne has emerged from her sauna, the bedroom window being roasted by the sun behind the drapes, and is arranged elegantly on the floor under my dinette table.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)
One Coyote. One not as tough as he thinks he is kitty.
5 am front yard encounter. I see the Coyote and my wife's cat standing off on the front porch. I blast out the sliding glass door hoping to scare the coyote off and do but I also scared the cat off. 24 hours later he had circumnavigated the globe and returned to the porch. Only to be let in and never let out again.
He's pissed and I have a cyote to kill.
Posted by: Reforger at June 28, 2025 04:33 PM (LgDgc)
Rosalind was Best of Winners at today's Lawton Dog Fanciers Association show in Oklahoma City, good for a 4-point major win. Ros now has 9 points and both the major wins she needs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 04:35 PM (/HVsR)
Hummingbirds would come in our open garage, attracted by the red handle hanging down on the manual release on the garage door opener motors. I spray painted them black.
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 04:36 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 04:36 PM (vFG9F)
5 am front yard encounter. I see the Coyote and my wife's cat standing off on the front porch. I blast out the sliding glass door hoping to scare the coyote off and do but I also scared the cat off. 24 hours later he had circumnavigated the globe and returned to the porch. Only to be let in and never let out again.
He's pissed and I have a coyote to kill.
Posted by: Reforger at June 28, 2025
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This looks like a case for Buckskin's Boxer.
(In raspy, quiet Clint voice): "Coyotes. You kill one, you have to kill a dozen."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:37 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 04:39 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 04:39 PM (2GCMq)
Not really pets but we have a lot of Ospreys in the area. in addition to the natural nests there's a group in town that puts up platforms for them to build nests. They have a webcam on this particular one and every year a pair returns from their winter hiatus to have babies.
Two little ones this year. Looks like they are getting eager to stretch their wings.
https://tinyurl.com/yc7rw985
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 04:39 PM (viF8m)
Big Dan is doing much better after his attack of back spasms earlier this week. At Her Majesty's instructions, I put a leash on him and walked him up to the house, which he did with no problems. On returning to his pen, he did a full shake.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 04:40 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 04:40 PM (j0MN0)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 28, 2025 04:40 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 04:41 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 28, 2025 04:41 PM (kozl2)
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Gerbil.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025
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God in heaven, won't you people ever just *let it go*????
Posted by: Richard Gere at June 28, 2025 04:43 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:37 PM (omVj0)
I'm pretty sure there is more that one in the hood. I think all the "affordable housing" they keep putting in is dispacing them and forcing them into the neighborhoods. The quail population is near nothing this year.
Poor things. I don't want to kill it but I also don't want my cat or dog eaten.
Posted by: Reforger at June 28, 2025 04:43 PM (LgDgc)
Does Rosalind get an ice cream sandwich or something?
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 04:41 PM (vFG9F)
_________
Alas, no. But she's well treated all the same. When Lacey was being campaigned 20 years ago, she'd get an ice cream cone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 04:44 PM (/HVsR)
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No thanks. Looks like a plush dildo.
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 28, 2025
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Something tells me, even if our cat Arizona had been bored by it, the ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 would have found it hilarious.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:45 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 04:39 PM (vFG9F)
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I just now clicked on the link. HILARIOUS. I can't stop laughing.
If you haven't yet, cycle through the images.
One of them shows "Cap'n" Bill Kristol..."Ahoy, Matey!!!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 04:45 PM (IBQGV)
https://tinyurl.com/mr223s2s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 04:45 PM (2GCMq)
Poor things. I don't want to kill it but I also don't want my cat or dog eaten.
Posted by: Reforger at June 28, 2025
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There have been reports of coyote sightings all over the city in recent years. A couple of times, working out in the pre-dawn, I've glimpsed something a block or two ahead that might have been one. That's a big reason my cats never go outside.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:47 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Case at June 28, 2025 04:51 PM (ilX37)
(Decades later I still have the darn thing atop my bookcase. No idea why; I've never had another cat that liked it.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:51 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:55 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 04:57 PM (VofaG)
Miss Linda likes to refer to previous cats' toys or furnishings by the first cat's name. The Pegasus, the Cat Dancer, and the thick earthenware Lillian Vernon "Kitty" bowl are Arizona's, the Flippety Fish and the fleece pet bed are Chekov's, etc. I say, "No, they're Dagny's and Stirling's now," but she ignores that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 05:01 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 05:02 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 05:02 PM (omVj0)
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Same here. Though I am usually a bit earlier on weekends. I just fed and watered them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:12 PM (IBQGV)
Then I make my coffee and breakfast.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 05:15 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 03:42 PM (IBQGV)
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Whew! Don't ever start a pet comment like that - yes I know you used "" - man what a shock.
Posted by: Ciampino - a wicked slip at June 28, 2025 05:16 PM (sPQoU)
In terms of interacting favorably with men.
What animal is the fourth?
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:16 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Fritzty at June 28, 2025 05:17 PM (T5dpv)
Then I make my coffee and breakfast.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025
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Same here. I stagger out, start the coffee, bring out the cat chow can and run water in the bowls. After I hit the head and emerge again, robed and slippered, I pour my coffee and feed them. Water is in the recirculating fountain, though I've been giving them a bowl of fresh water 2x a day as well as letting them drink from the kitchen tap.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 05:20 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 03:55 PM (VofaG)
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Neighbor's kid would probably do it for nothing or for a bag of chips.
Posted by: Ciampino - a wicked slipped at June 28, 2025 05:20 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 05:21 PM (RIvkX)
In terms of interacting favorably with men.
*
What animal is the fourth?
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025
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Parrots!!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 05:22 PM (omVj0)
In terms of interacting favorably with men.
What animal is the fourth?
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:16 PM (r2ymA)
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Parrots?
Posted by: Ciampino - an LBW at June 28, 2025 05:23 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 03:55 PM (VofaG)
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Heh. I'm right there with you. I have one of those as well. Haven't pulled it out in years.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 05:25 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Ciampino - an LBW at June 28, 2025 05:23 PM (sPQoU)
Ding, Ding, Ding. The only answer was birds..
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:26 PM (r2ymA)
I had a Jack Russell Terrorist. I loved that dog. He went with me everywhere, he was so smart, he did fun dog tricks, he was just a neat dog. He was diagnosed too late with Addisons Disease and I lost him way too early.
Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2025 05:28 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2025 05:30 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:31 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 05:20 PM (omVj0)
This here is key. They should be able to tap a water source in the event you are no longer able to provide it for them.
Posted by: martid at June 28, 2025 05:36 PM (r2ymA)
Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all
There's another set of happenings and a photo update #317 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT
OR
http://tinyurl.com/4pak97f6
Posted by: Ciampino - a slipped wicked wicket at June 28, 2025 05:43 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 28, 2025 05:52 PM (yTvNw)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 28
Long-time lurker - Lil ‘Ol Texas Lady – here. Hubby and I moved back home to Texas from the frozen northeast a few years ago and have been working on establishing veggie (his) and flower (mine) gardens since then. He inherited a green thumb while I, alas, can barely grow mold on a shower curtain; we tend opposite ends of the property. Three years ago, my older sister sent me splits from daylilies hybridized nearly 100 years ago by my maternal grandmother. My grandmother, a tough little firecracker standing nearly 4’10 in heels, and HER husband, were passionate gardeners well into their dotage, so skilled and noted at hybridizing they became national judges of a slew of varieties from irises to daffodils to daylilies. Of her creations, none were or remain as glorious as “Elsbeth”, a ruffled, butter-yellow daylily, growing as tall as 3 feet with blooms as long and wide as my hand. So prodigious are they that each bloom stalk will produce as many as 6-10 blooms over the course of their 90-day life. And who knew, these magnificent flowers absolutely thrive in the East Texas sun and heat despite being tended by one as botanically ‘tarded as I. Meet “Elsbeth”.How wonderful to have a daylily hybridizer in your family, and a sister to share splits of the plants with you. This is a wonderful plant. Thanks for sharing the details of its history with us.
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By Catching up with some photos from MkY:
I think fruit flowers are some of the prettiest . . . just often not very large.
The white spider lilies always bloom close to July 4. The other picture was a spot where I took out something and didn't want to be bare; very inexpensive, just zinnia and lantana, and it will look great all summer! Last pic our Althea, aka rose of Sharon.
Have you ever tried cooking with one of these?The Dakota fire pit is a simple but efficient design where the fire burns from the top downward, drawing a steady, laminar stream of fresh air from the air hole, achieving near complete combustion with little or no seen smoke
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 17, 2025
[📹 woodsboundoutdoors]pic.twitter.com/Lo0P1rpAIM
Fascinating video!Nepenthes are what dreams are made of. Out of All the plants l've seen in my life, nothing compares to their intricate beauty and unique ability to capture and digest living creatures.
— Flower Show (@TheFlowerShow) May 30, 2025
They are the coolest!! pic.twitter.com/dzeOAgmrPH
The geraniums have been quite happy this year. The old one (the big red one) is about 15 years old. It has been a fun hobby. For those that may not know, I overwinter the geraniums every year in my basement.
Gardens of The Horde
I missed most of the Oregon bloom this spring but did manage to get a photo of my Hydrangea this year. HalfhandGorgeous plant! Wish I had one.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure 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.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at June 28, 2025 01:31 PM (3AwA+)
Just not into that type of work anymore.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:31 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:33 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 01:35 PM (HEGiN)
Have mystery plants growing in garden, they are some kind of squash, but no idea what kind until something blooms.
Cucumbers and Anaheim peppers are started
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 01:37 PM (+qU29)
Thanks for your thoughts, KT, and thanks to the people who sent in the wonderful photos. I hope that you are continuing to feel recover and feel well KT.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM (2GCMq)
Oh zinnias and geraniums and hydrangeas, all lovely.
KT, Cal Poly had a blooming corpse flower last week and I missed it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM (LHPAg)
"Go Away" Deer and rabbit repellent or "Deer Be Gone" available at a garden center. We used the former.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 01:41 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 01:42 PM (l13zv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 01:44 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 01:44 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 01:48 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 01:53 PM (D7oie)
I learned that there are herbicides that target grasses, and not dicots... exact reverse of most weedkillers.
I sprayed my buckwheat patch this morning, cause some grass (I believe Johnsongrass) was overtaking them. We'll see.
Also sprayed the orchard, where most herbicides can take out any fruit tree suckering (looking at you, Roundup).
If this stuff works as advertised, I have a new, very useful tool.
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 01:55 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:55 PM (VofaG)
Having a heck of a time with beans this year - had to replant yet again. After this, no more... I'm harvesting a few beans and peas from the few that sprouted from the original planting. We put up a fence for the pole beans.
I've thinned carrots, picked a few strawberries, cut some lavender, and moved the garlic pots out of irrigated zones so they can dry out.
Under Puttering, I scrubbed the master bathroom shower, Husband sealed the grout. We had to clean out the hall bathroom shower so we could use it instead - normally it holds our home-brewed beer. Now that the main shower is done and we can use it again, the hall shower is clear for us to do our next brew-up. Outdoors, Husband is working on organizing what we've stored in the shed.
Happy Independence Day to all! Stay ungovernable!
Posted by: Pat* at June 28, 2025 01:58 PM (X9ftd)
Posted by: polynikes
"You'd think in a fancy place like this, they could keep the snails off the plate!"
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 01:58 PM (cPGH3)
Right now the "volunteer" ivy is doing quite well. It pops up every year, then dies back to the ground every winter. I asked hubby to cut back the ivy that is currently trying to smother my new little rose bush. It's a miniature rose - won't get much more than 2 or 3 feet tall/wide, which is perfect for the area it is in, as it is in a "jutting" corner at the intersection of two walkways. I made sure to get a "thornless" rose for that spot!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:00 PM (SRRAx)
Odd that we've had trouble with beans this year, too. Some was rabbits, but this last planting did NOT germinate.
We've never had that happen.
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:01 PM (cPGH3)
Those spider lilies are just cool. Yeah, they made me think of fireworks. But they would also work in an illustration from a George MacDonald fantasy story.
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:01 PM (yTvNw)
I found I really like cranberry beans for canning. Planting them that late in the season here won't give them enough time to mature and dry though.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 02:02 PM (D7oie)
The more you know ....the more useless info taking up space in your brain.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 02:03 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:04 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 01:42 PM (l13zv)
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HordeMind strikes again!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:06 PM (kpS4V)
The more you know ....the more useless info taking up space in your brain.
Posted by: polynikes
I can honestly say I have never seen snails in the display case of any fish market I've been in. Course, this is Kansas City, so...
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:08 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:09 PM (SRRAx)
My pollinator garden is really dense with goodness, so where are the bees and butterflies? I see a few small bees and the odd cabbage butterfly is all.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:10 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2025 02:10 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:08 PM (cPGH3)[//i]
I would think they would keep "walking" off 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:13 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:15 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth,
Good recovery. I hear the Saturday barrel is the worst!
(So glad you're doing well).
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 02:16 PM (cPGH3)
Do you want Triffids? Because this is how you get Triffids!
Posted by: Mallory Archer at June 28, 2025 02:16 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:27 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (yTvNw)
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Same here.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 02:30 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: JTB at June 28, 2025 02:14 PM (yTvNw)
I swear Nepenthe was the name of some character in some book I read in a long ago era.
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 02:31 PM (YkGND)
I opened the sliding window to shoo them away and one puffed up with raised tail ready to do battle.
No problemo, hombre, go about your business. I don't want any trouble!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:35 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 28, 2025 02:36 PM (QSrLX)
Her Clematis and Lilies, Day Lilies seem to be the dominant ones this year.
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 02:41 PM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 02:35 PM (kpS4V)
they are hunting bugs, slugs and mice. You might put out some peanut butter for them.
They also stop strangers from wandering through the yard at night. Skunks don't like strangers, and from accounts, saying "shoo" at them makes them irritable.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 02:44 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 02:51 PM (//7/7)
I found the secret is a baggie and paper towels misted and maybe in about 3 weeks they root, then put it in the cup of water. I rooted 3 and they're all growing but 2 of them are suspended by toothpicks and the vase one is about a foot tall with leaves and the cup seeds are only about 4 inches so I think they need more water in the vase.
I'm thinking about a 2 liter bottle might work but it's huge. I will find something else to grow my avo plant.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 02:52 PM (gpah0)
Many gorgeous and inspirational photos here, but those spider lilies are like WOW! You could make a spider-spangled flag out of those.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 02:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 02:55 PM (//7/7)
I don't suppose you would consider selling one, because that thing is GORGEOUS.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 02:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 02:56 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
For a while now, you've been able to mess up the close tag, as long as you're only using one pair of tags in your post. Pixy/Minx auto-closes one for you. Use multiple tags, like accidentally forgetting the "/" in the close tag, and then you're in trouble.
You can tell when you got the get-out-of-barrel-free card, because your "posted by:" line won't be written in Italican.
I usually panic and post a blank comment with just the close tag, anyway. I've only been Barreled once, and it was one time too many. I can still smell it.
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 02:57 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 02:58 PM (Sb0MN)
I found some disgusting beetles eating my eggplant leaves. They kind of look like ticks. I washed them off and collected them/disposed of them. Japanese beetles on the corn and asst plants, damn them. The pests are keeping me busy.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 03:03 PM (w6EFb)
I also have harvested oregano, thyme, and mint, and have lots more coming. I dry them and put them in those little glass bottles for using later. They are much better than anything you can buy at the stores.
Outside, carrots, beans, parsley, dill, potatoes are all up and running. The new blueberry bushes are settling in and one of them appears to be blooming, so that's very good news.
Sage, lavender, bunch of flowers coming up as well. It's a short season but light all night. If I pick the right varieties, my garden does very well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 28, 2025 03:03 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28,
Herbicide painted on freshly cut may work? I'm not sure but it will kill anything green.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 03:04 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 28, 2025 03:04 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I know there are red ones, because they're common in Japan. Are there blue ones? The pictures of "blue" ones I've seen are what I'd call purple.
Red spider lilies symbolize the afterlife in Japan; their name for them is written with the characters for "far shore flower," as in "the shore on the opposite side of the River Styx." Or "the Sanzu River," since they're Buddhist, not Greek.
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 03:06 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:07 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 03:03 PM (w6EFb)
I got some of those flea beetles too. When they got established they also attacked the horseradish. They were turning the leaves into lace. I found Neem oil did a good job on them.
I think mine came from a plant grower at the farmers' market, I don't buy from him anymore
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 03:08 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 03:08 PM (CXi6n)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 03:10 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Oddbob
Undiluted glyphosate. Paint it on right after cutting.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:10 PM (//7/7)
Thanks. I have some ready to use Roundup spray. Do I take you correctly that it won't be strong enough and I should get the concentrate?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 03:15 PM (+iAFp)
Posted by: Oddbob
I don't know. I used the striaght stuff we had on hand on a desert native and it worked.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:21 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Will you graft it too?
Hawes or fuerte?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025
They were Hass avos from costco. I don't know how to graft it or if it will even bear fruit. I'm just shocked at how big it is and the top has about 10 leaves and there's new growth all the way down the stem/trunk. I will send KT a picture.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 03:26 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 03:27 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 03:28 PM (1O23P)
Oh. OK, I'll have to see what I can find.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 03:30 PM (1O23P)
Come outs and join us to Celerbrate Diversity.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattlebor, Vt at June 28, 2025 03:30 PM (aKoaI)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:36 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein
just go and drop your soap.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 03:37 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: AlmostYuman at June 28, 2025 03:46 PM (bj34f)
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2025 03:06 PM (DgGvY)
"Crossing the Bar" courtesy of Mama Publius:
https://tinyurl.com/3r39kvv2
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 04:00 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 28, 2025 05:00 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: kallisto at June 28, 2025 05:58 PM (qTg95)
Regular old 2,4D is the broadleaf weedkiller that leaves grass intact. RU (glysophate) is "non-selective" meaning it kills everything.
Glysophate is generic use now, but it exactly the same as the old RU.
Don't use glyso out in the lawn!
Posted by: MkY at June 28, 2025 06:47 PM (cPGH3)
When is owning property a good idea?
Above the fold in J.J. Sefton's Morning Report yesterday was this:
NJ smirks and cites 'eminent domain' to seize a 175-year-old farm so it can build welfare housingPer a report at Fox News, township officials in the unincorporated community of Cranbury, NJ are in the process of seizing a historic family farm that has been under the family’s ownership for 175 years—that means since 1850—because they want to use it for a welfare housing project. . .I absolutely hate this.
20 years ago today, SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that the government could legally take a person's property and give it to a private company using eminent domain.
— Connor Boyack 📚 (@cboyack) June 23, 2025
The case arose when a city took Suzette Kelo's home to transfer the property to Pfizer, under the guise that doing so would… pic.twitter.com/xqBS9wakBM
Some pointed comments and additional information on KELO to bolster a reversal. What's your favorite point for discussion?
In 2001, Pfizer, Inc., moved to New London, Conn., as part of a project that involved massive corporate welfare and led to the abuse of eminent domain, culminating in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Kelo v. City of New London. This past November, however, Pfizer announced it will close its New London research and development headquarters. This marks the end of an eminent domain error. New London created a redevelopment plan that gave land to Pfizer at a nominal cost and provided free environmental cleanup to the site. The plan also called for redevelopment of an area called Fort Trumbull, a working-class neighborhood adjacent to the Pfizer headquarters. It housed approximately 70 to 80 homes, as well as a few small businesses and an abandoned Navy base. The plan called for this area to be replaced by an upscale hotel, office buildings and new housing. This redeveloped area would “complement” the new Pfizer facility, leading to increased taxes and job growth for New London—or so the city promised. The state agreed to provide $78 million for the project. Pfizer received an 80 percent tax abatement for 10 years.
Keep in mind, when the five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against our clients—holding that taking property for “economic development” does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Takings Clause—the justices stressed that there was a plan in place, and that so long as lawmakers who looked to use eminent domain for someone’s private gain had a plan, the courts would wash their hands. Now, nearly five years after the redevelopment scheme passed constitutional muster, the plant that was the magnet for the development is closing its doors just as its tax abatements expire. The very land where Susette Kelo’s home once stood remains barren—home to nothing but feral cats, seagulls and weeds. For years, the disastrous Fort Trumbull project will be Exhibit A in demonstrating the folly of government plans that involve corporate welfare and abuse eminent domain for private development.
Because you don't build for the future when the state can nuke your equity at any moment by throwing up some Affordable Housing next door Nobody owns anything, so nobody bothers building anything It's the same reason the Borderers lives in sod huts
This brings up another point. Why didn't the "white flight" era just result in the building of new high quality cities by the flighters? Because that civilization was already over by the 60s. The old cities were actually a zero sum, non-renewable, resource by then.Any ideas about how to improve those old cities or suburbs?
cut.jib.newsletter:This guy openly says he wants to tax "whiter" neighborhoods at a higher rate. I guess he fits right in with the race-obsessed Democrat party. (NY Post article) https://t.co/ldgwK7TsZI
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) June 28, 2025
Can't wait to see what he has planned for Crown Heights, Borough Park and Williamsburg. A torchlight parade with Al Sharpton as grand cyclops, er Marshal!. Protected as free speech by the ACLU, of course!
Grab a beer, we are going to talk markets and people who put their finger on the scale of them. (And no, this isn’t a thread about the small hat people, so just stop)
— Voödoo 6 von Inyanga (@6Voodoo) June 21, 2025
Almost all of Salt Lake City’s housing woes can be told in the story of this one house. pic.twitter.com/4UuXdkbIhS
The American residential real estate market used to be pretty simple. I invest in my house, hoping the market goes up and when it is time to sell, I sell it for a profit. Homes were huge purchases. The biggest most people made. But somewhere along the line, corporate entities big and small learned they made pretty good investments. So the corporate entities started buying houses, in speculative neighborhoods, and just sat on them. Maybe they rented them, maybe not. But that decreases the supply. Because supply requires the desire to sell at a fair market value. Think of it like a stock. You buy a stock and sit on it. But if that was the only stock you could buy, and had to sell it to buy another, you would accept a lower price for that stock. Same with houses.
But it has been on the market over 100 days. If you were selling your house, would you let it sit? No, you would lower the price again and again until it sold. . . No, you would lower the price again and again until it sold. But that’s not what Carl did. They bought the house, and sat on it. Sure they tried to sell it, but no one paid the price they wanted, so they just sat. And over time, their estimated gains went up with the neighborhood And in that time they rented it out, which doesn't help people improve, and you may say “hey Voödoo, I can’t just sit on this property for a decade, I’d go bankrupt.” You would, yes, but Karl won’t. Because he is paying on average $800 a year in taxes.
So if they bought the house for 120k, and plan to sell it for 320, they could hold it for 250 years before they lost money. That’s right.Ideas for fixing this are proposed. What do you think?
I’ve been on many school buses, but never one like this. It’s incredibly beautiful! 🚌 pic.twitter.com/CtQu2HSVjI
— Trump Girl (@TrumpGirlLove) June 26, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 11:01 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 11:03 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 11:06 AM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 11:07 AM (P389G)
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 28, 2025 11:08 AM (jPdyB)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
5 That seems like a lot for a clapboard shack.
I'm from the DC housing market. A lot is usually more than that.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:10 AM (Riz8t)
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I would say blow them up, bulldoze the whole lot, salt the earth, and then blow up the salted earth, but then the people who currently live THERE might come HERE.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:10 AM (J4UmJ)
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I guess she's right. Men are scum.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
It's that 20 years later, the property the government seized IS STILL A FUCKING VACANT LOT.
The government forcibly took a woman's house claiming it was for 'economic development', only to turn it into a vacant lot.
No matter how much you think you hate government, it's not enough.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 28, 2025 11:11 AM (setIA)
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Donald Trump was elected and started moving the economy in one direction then J. Bidet Biden stole an election and whipsawed the economy all to hell. Blew up any form of traditional housing market he did.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:11 AM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 11:11 AM (P389G)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
5 That seems like a lot for a clapboard shack.
I'm from the DC housing market. A lot is usually more than that.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)
You not understanding the point... is the point.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:12 AM (J4UmJ)
I have to save SOME hate for the media.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Matt Taibbi on the current state of New York, before the Jew-hating socialist takes over:
That’s what I was going to say. I had never seen padlocked soda before, like individual sodas in a chain drugstore, were now padlocked. So I guess we are now at a state where we must take preventive measures to prevent people from shoplifting even things that are essentially valueless. Right?
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I just saw it. I’m, I’m used to having to ask to unlock, I don’t know, a razor, or I don’t know, a bottle of Listerine, or something like that, but a single can of Coke, that was new for me.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2025 11:14 AM (xTIDn)
Trump administration pushes back on NJ town moving to seize 175-year-old family farm via eminent domain
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Trump is like a buzzsaw cutting through bullshit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 28, 2025 11:11 AM (setIA)
Yeah, it's probably useful to say the worst part is the taking of private property in the first place, but the second worst part is the realization that the government never does anything to ever make anything any better.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:14 AM (J4UmJ)
Why didn't the "white flight" era just result in the building of new high quality cities by the flighters?
Because that civilization was already over by the 60s.
The old cities were actually a zero sum, non-renewable, resource by then.“
Actually it did result in new cities, but these are even more wealth focused and wealth conscious than the old ones, and are pretty exclusively limited to mostly the corporate class, or the independently wealthy.
As examples I’d say the Southlake area in Dallas, or the Alito area to the west of Fort Worth, the The Woodlands north of Houston (which has an astounding number of corporate HQ’s). Every one of these cities requires a healthy 6 figure income to live there, unless one can find a way to be a part of the servile class to the wealthy.
The old cities with a mix of classes were far healthier.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:15 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: DudeAbiding at June 28, 2025 11:11 AM (setIA)
Yeah, it's probably useful to say the worst part is the taking of private property in the first place, but the second worst part is the realization that the government never does anything to ever make anything any better.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:14 AM (J4UmJ)
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And giving it to PFIZER is the icing on the cake. Sheesh. And surprise, surprise, they moved out when the tax breaks ended. What a coinkydink.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 28, 2025 11:17 AM (144I4)
It is now evident that October 7th was a huge defeat for Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, and a huge victory for Iran and its proxies in the West.
Without October 7th, Mamdani wouldn't have gotten close to winning the Democratic primary.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2025 11:18 AM (xTIDn)
Maybe you have some corporate owners sucking up inventory in the DC area, too if prices are escalating quickly.
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 11:19 AM (xekrU)
Years later it never happened.
Original owners could buy their spaces back...with a tidy mark up for the city.
You can't hate them enough.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 28, 2025 11:19 AM (AxrOQ)
That requires the societal will to enforce the laws.
Without that, you want to move as far away from the underclass as possible.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2025 11:19 AM (xTIDn)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Mamdani reacts to clip of Tom Homan, promises to “stand up and fight back” against ICE should he become mayor.
“That means standing up for the laws of this city, like our sanctuary city policies."
Openly defiant. Surge deportations in NYC.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
I hated selling it though. It was fully paid for. It was my own, my spot of refuge.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2025 11:22 AM (g8Ew8)
@LeadingReport 40m
BREAKING: Democrats float the idea of a Tim Walz/Zohran Mamdani ticket in 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 11:22 AM (mlg/3)
Not mentioned in the X post, but BlackRock is buying up a lot of the rental market on the Wasatch Front. Small landlords are being pushed out by the giants.
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 11:23 AM (xekrU)
Make Òcasia- Cortez bartend again
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 11:24 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2025 11:18 AM (xTIDn)
Agreed; and I think the left is now Ghost Dancing.
At the end of the Indian Wars in the 1880’s, when all the hostile Tribes had been confined to reservations, a Ghost Dancing cult became wildly popular among the remaining young fighters. It told them that hat if they would go through the rituals and be True of Heart and in Purpose, the bullets would not harm them and they could defeat the evil US Cavalry. A number joined up, left the reservations and attacked any outposts they could find, believing they were now invulnerable - with sadly predictable and tragic results.
And thus ended the Indian wars.
The Left in this country is now on that same trajectory. Their dedication to irrationality is taken as a sign of the Purity of their Faith.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:25 AM (HEGiN)
Now do Oregon not allowing people to build on land purchased long ago for retirement living, yeah another taking.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 11:25 AM (//7/7)
@LeadingReport 40m
BREAKING: Democrats float the idea of a Tim Walz/Zohran Mamdani ticket in 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 11:22 AM (mlg/3)
Please oh please yes. Popcorn futures would soar!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 11:25 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 11:22 AM (mlg/3)
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Proving yet again the democrats are stupid. Mamdani isn't a natural born citizen and thus ineligible for VP.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2025 11:26 AM (2UnvF)
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Her brain wasn't functioning long before that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)
Not mentioned in the X post, but BlackRock is buying up a lot of the rental market on the Wasatch Front. Small landlords are being pushed out by the giants.
What that says to me is that housing was undervalued, and the current owners will get more like the actual market value when they sell. If the giants take the same risks as the littles, I'm not sure what the problem is.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: KT at June 28, 2025 11:19 AM (xekrU)
I suspect it's more of a frog in the frying pan scenario.
People don't realize they're boiling.
Corporate reavers wouldn't have as much success, sucking up properties all over the place, if the cities themselves hadn't jacked up property taxes so high, that people are paying almost as much in taxes as they are for their mortgages.
I bet those corporate rapists are getting sweetheart deals on the property taxes THEY pay to their complicit toadies in city hall.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:28 AM (Vksce)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2025 11:26 AM (2UnvF)
Neither was Barky.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2025 11:28 AM (g8Ew8)
Mandami and AOC are the future of the Democratic Party.
Either the New Democratic party gets crushed, and it eventually gets reformed; or it wins, and America enters a new Dark Age.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2025 11:28 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
No matter idiocy of the DemDems, the GOP reigns supreme. I fully expect a Mitt Romney / David Fwench challenge in 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 11:29 AM (mlg/3)
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Her brain wasn't functioning long before that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)
Anti-anxiety pills are the crack of the 21st century.
Except instead of the CIA giving it away to poor black people, the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex is giving the pills to middle class white girls and failing Hollywood "stars."
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:31 AM (Vksce)
Posted by: Ripley at June 28, 2025 11:32 AM (Q7i6X)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)
I think the theory is that if the big guys like Black Rock come in with their deep pockets they artificially inflate the little guy out of the market. If so not good…. I can’t bid successfully against Black Rock for my dream house seems unfair
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 11:32 AM (ANuwa)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
“That means standing up for the laws of this city, like our sanctuary city policies."
Openly defiant. Surge deportations in NYC.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into
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That may work out well. Madmani gets elected, implements his cause, Tom Homan arrests and puts him in prison. Example set and made.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:33 AM (ytCg4)
claire guilian was the president of the NLDC and also the president of connecticut college at the same time. It just was a coincidence that her husband was a senior VP with pfizer and he had nothing to do with the deal according to the press releases. Between the both of them they made a couple of million from the deal.
That deal was dirty and should have never happened. And it should have been a slam dunk shut down by scotus but they chickened out. And pfizer bailed the second the tax deals expired leaving the city of new london holding the bag.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 28, 2025 11:34 AM (e5NfL)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2025 11:34 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
Hey! (Wait for it.) Let’s not lower ourselves to textualism!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:35 AM (L/fGl)
In the town where I grew up, there were some old Victorians, as well as some "mansions" ie with pillars in front and semi-extensive grounds, for the factory owners and bankers and whatnot. Their children, for the most part, went to school with the rest of us. There were those whose families lived in apartments, too, and they were good-sized (no idea what that cost back in the 70s).
Here in semi-rural SC I see many modest homes of the 50s, 60s and 70s, some well-cared for and others seemingly resigned to the fact that no one but the owners want to live there. The thing is, home ownership was the rule rather than the exception in those years, and it was affordable to the large majority of those who aspired to it. Because you're building a family and you want a yard for the kids etc.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 28, 2025 11:36 AM (w6EFb)
Never forget Marvin Heemeyer & Killdozer.
When good men are pushed past their limit.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 11:36 AM (LA0fN)
Just don't sell.
You can't be pushed out unless there is a gov taking.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 11:36 AM (//7/7)
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The predictable 30% read and believe, another 10% read it a worry that the remaining 60% may believe it.
Not a chance. They are fed up to the gills with that bs. They are so fed up they wouldn't believe it even if it were true.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (ytCg4)
U.S. Air Force Looks to Retire All A-10 Warthogs By 2027
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (fA91Z)
The "natural born citizen" clause in the Constitution is irrelevant legal verbiage and should be ignored!
Listen to me - I have two degrees from Harvard!
Posted by: Justice Autopen! at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 11:38 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 11:32 AM (ANuwa)
Two houses ago, when I put it on the market, I had two offers within 24 hours. I was told the one offer was cash, that the buyer was not going to be living there, and he was offering $1000 over asking price.
The other offer was at asking, and it was a couple moving into town, one of them having just gotten a job in the medical field.
I took the second offer. I don't know that the first was a corporate buyer, but screw him, whoever he was.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:38 AM (Vksce)
What's happening now is that premium lots and their prices have tripled in the last 2 1/2 years that this development began. People are paying six figures for some of these lots.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:39 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
So.. You want the gov to limit the property values so you can afford something?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 11:39 AM (//7/7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 11:38 AM (63Dwl)
The J word.
You can't say it, because war starts up again if you do.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:39 AM (Vksce)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 11:40 AM (AcTAo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
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Give them all to the Marines.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2025 11:40 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 11:39 AM (//7/7)
Because Black Rock got where it did without ANY help from the government.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:41 AM (Vksce)
U.S. Air Force Looks to Retire All A-10 Warthogs By 2027
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
Don't we do this every couple years or so?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:42 AM (Vksce)
Ugh.
Where's the whiskey???
Posted by: Diogenes at June 28, 2025 11:42 AM (AxrOQ)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2025 11:28 AM (g8Ew
I actually believe he was. I think the actual secret they always wanted to hide, which was on that missing birth certificate, is that he was originally listed as just some white kid named Barry Dunham. The “Barack Obama” personality was always just a carefully created myth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:42 AM (HEGiN)
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Next, humanoid robots found passed out in brothel.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
So.. You want the gov to limit the property values so you can afford something?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 11:39 AM (//7/7)
No definitely not. But I don’t like the idea of a huge corporation buying up significant numbers of residential properties… it does distort the market and make prices higher for the average person. Don’t have a solution but I don’t have to like it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 11:43 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Same here. Apartments were for transients and careless people.
No one wanted and apartment near the neighborhood. Actually, in my childhood days, apartments were unheard of. It was a rent house no one wanted near. Unstable people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:43 AM (ytCg4)
U.S. Air Force Looks to Retire All A-10 Warthogs By 2027
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
Don't we do this every couple years or so?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:42 AM (Vksce)
... and one of these times they're gonna be successful (unfortunately).
If so, I'm with Duke: Give them to the Marines.
Posted by: browndog likes the sound of BRRRRRPPPP at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (hu5YG)
U.S. Air Force Looks to Retire All A-10 Warthogs By 2027
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
*starts Christmas list for 2027*
Posted by: Diogenes at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (AxrOQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (AcTAo)
Posted by: Fannie Mac And Freddie Mae, Closeted Homosexuals at June 28, 2025 11:45 AM (R/m4+)
My good friend is currently feeling that stress . Unfortunately it's a buyer's market right now and I don't think he's going to get what he calculated prior to the dip and what he would have to put against the house he is building. He's going to have to dig deeper into his savings or get a mortgage.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:45 AM (VofaG)
No, a market distortion is when the government says "corporations can't participate in the market".
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)
Try Poletown.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 28, 2025 11:45 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (AxrOQ)
Hah I was about to snark with something similar.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:46 AM (VofaG)
It was talking about veterinary offices but the principle applies across industries.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 11:46 AM (XMeop)
Sure - and they are "monocultures", and as such, safer and nicer. I have friends and relatives in two of the locations mentioned, and I can leave my car unlocked on the street with no issues whatsoever. Porch deliverys aren't stolen, windows aren't broken, and mailboxes remain upright. If that's the price for "diversity", then I'm all in.
As to "takings" (Kelo) - this is idiots believing in 10th century economics (build a market town, become rich).
As I said... Idiots.
Posted by: man at June 28, 2025 11:46 AM (tubbA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Big corporations buying significant numbers of residential properties
rhymes with MBAs bankrupting business because their authority comes from the spreadsheet not the customer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:47 AM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 11:47 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
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Close air support is icky and dangerous!
Posted by: the Air Force at June 28, 2025 11:47 AM (hu5YG)
How many times is this? How f there’s a chance of conventional war it should remain.
Posted by: Unkaren at June 28, 2025 11:47 AM (LPL2Y)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)
It is a distortion just like Soros trying to corner markets or manipulate economies.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:47 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (AcTAo)
I've driven one those. They handle really well. And there's also the fact that we don't hear of them having many accidents.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2025 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 28, 2025 11:49 AM (/lPRQ)
George J. Marlin: Mamdani's Victory: Death Knell for NYC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
Blue Horsehoe says sell NYC ...
Posted by: J.T. Marlin at June 28, 2025 11:49 AM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 11:50 AM (63Dwl)
Other than the fact that you don't like either Soros or BlackRock, what numbers can you provide that show that BR has cornered the RE market?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
If so, I'm with Duke: Give them to the Marines.
Posted by: browndog likes the sound of BRRRRRPPPP at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (TTAGa)
Oh yeah, that's usually why the AF changes their mind, when someone else asks for them. Usually the Marines, but I think the Army has asked for them before too.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:50 AM (SfHnh)
Nobody owns anything, so nobody bothers building anything
As long as there is property tax, you'll never own your home.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 11:51 AM (LA0fN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 11:50 AM (63Dwl)
A man whose Time has Come.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:51 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
I'll have my white paper on your desk by tomorrow morning!
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:51 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 11:51 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 11:44 AM (hu5YG)
Do they still vote for Democrats?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:51 AM (SfHnh)
Posted by: browndog likes the sound
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Army asked for them several years ago. It said, we know where we need support, they should be part of our team instead of going through channels.
Smores for Army and Marines.
Dumping utility is stupid.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:52 AM (ytCg4)
I can't speak for suburbs, but as a long-time resident of Chicago, I can offer a few ideas.
The problem for cities is that they've driven out the middle class: There's wealthy neighborhoods now, and impoverished ones, and nothing in between. And much of this is due to over-regulation by local government. I'd change local zoning laws in two ways:
First, I'd promote mixed usage. The "15 minute radius" is condemned on the Right; but having raised a family in it, I can say that while nobody should forced into it, it's my preferred style of life.
Second, I'd change zoning to allow more construction. More construction will help to contain housing costs and bring more customers for local businesses.
Third, contain crime. Implement a "broken windows" policy.
Finally, scale down local government in order to reduce taxes, or at least cap them.
Most people (including us) don't leave the city voluntarily: they're driven out. Contain taxes, reduce crime, let the market contain housing costs, and promote mixed usage - which is the principal attraction of urban life - and the city will come roaring back.
Posted by: Nemo at June 28, 2025 11:52 AM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:52 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2025 11:50 AM (63Dwl)
The Duke got him. Everybody knows the Duke's got him. You don't have to put a gun to my head. I'll tell you. The Duke? The Duke of New York, A-Number-1, the Big Man, that's who! You can't meet the Duke! Are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke. You meet him once and then you're dead!
Posted by: Cabbie at June 28, 2025 11:53 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
I'll have my white paper on your desk by tomorrow morning!
Okay, but be aware I'll be looking for evidence of ChatGPT usage.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)
Off to the range to meet with MAE and LazyMessenger.
Going to put some holes in paper.
Cheers!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 11:53 AM (YJQ8M)
My good friend is currently feeling that stress . Unfortunately it's a buyer's market right now and I don't think he's going to get what he calculated prior to the dip and what he would have to put against the house he is building. He's going to have to dig deeper into his savings or get a mortgage.
Posted by: polynikes
We put ours up on a Monday. Had four or five lookers. I was sweating bullets by Thursday. Friday evening we had an offer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 11:53 AM (LA0fN)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 11:54 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)
Suddenly everyone's a libertarian again?
I say again, WHO DO YOU THINK GAVE THOSE CORPORATE RAIDERS A LEG UP ON TAXPAYING CITIZENS IN THE FIRST PLACE???
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:54 AM (SfHnh)
That's over. Large scale investor groups stopped buying last year or so, especially as the Obama era support for rentals has vaporized (that's why one can find any number of less than full rental "units" in and around ever US city. Only so many Sec 8 "renters" out there...
Posted by: man at June 28, 2025 11:54 AM (tubbA)
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Zoning Laws, Baby !
It is zoned Residential, not Business.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 28, 2025 11:54 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Purist in economics always come a cropper because you must always take into account facts on the ground rather than lofty principles.
FWIW, Blackrock relies upon direct access to the Fed in part for its big pool of cash. It has become a vampire company that subsists on rents rather than creation.
So it literally distorts any market that it enters into by simply size. In practice, they are a piss poor landlord as well with many of their rental houses falling apart and plenty of unsatisfied tenants and property holders around those homes. That leaves out Section 8 home rental subsidies that Blackrock gobbles up.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:54 AM (ctrM5)
NYC Mayor Eric Adams now has a 22% chance of winning reelection.
— up 20 points after Mamdani’s primary win.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:55 AM (ytCg4)
Viral News NYC@ViralNewsNYC
Mayor Adams Adds $41M to Fight Migrant Deportations in New NYC Budget
Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed a new budget bill, which includes over $41 million for legal services to help migrants fight deportation. Additionally, $12.5 million will be set aside specifically to provide lawyers for unaccompanied minors facing removal proceedings.
The other week, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced that $50 million would be allocated to cover attorney fees for migrants.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)
But think of the vibrant diversity, you H8ters!
Posted by: man at June 28, 2025 11:56 AM (tubbA)
I think it's even simpler. Do what NYC did in the 90s, and reduce crime sharply. That was enough to rejuvenate the city. But no, we can't do that, because too many of the people we depend on for votes go to jail.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)
But... it's government subsidized housing. Units that could rent for $1200 would be rented to immigrants for half that or less. And, these are being built in traditionally red states. Replacement theory in real life, unfolding.
The kicker? Trump. Developers who sunk millions into the land, the services and the construction of these massive apartment complexes who are just now breaking ground or nearing completion? They're going to lose a shit ton of money when there's no takers for their cheap government housing.
The building slowdown is already here. Oh... they'll finish the ones already started, but they're going to have to totally re-think their going rental prices.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 11:56 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:51 AM (VofaG)
Now we know what business Archi's in.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:57 AM (SfHnh)
Trump says he will bomb Iran again "without question" if they continue uranium enrichment.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 11:57 AM (ytCg4)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 11:58 AM (AcTAo)
Aledo, northwest of Fort Worth. We had land there when I was little, and it was eminent domained to a power company. Paid pennies on the dollar for it. I think that was the beginning of my dad's health decline, because we were preparing to build and move there. He loved that place.
Posted by: moki at June 28, 2025 11:58 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Truck House Life on YouTube.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 11:59 AM (LA0fN)
Indeed. Large scale materials project purchases are down. Funny, that...
"they'll finish the ones already started, but they're going to have to totally re-think their going rental prices."
No, they totally renig on their promises to locals about "low income housing" and lobby state/local govs for subsidies. Welcome your new neighbors - you're about to get enriched.
Posted by: man at June 28, 2025 11:59 AM (tubbA)
Seems to fit the Marines perfectly.
Posted by: PabloD at June 28, 2025 12:00 PM (Hx4C/)
FWIW, Blackrock relies upon direct access to the Fed in part for its big pool of cash. It has become a vampire company that subsists on rents rather than creation.
So it literally distorts any market that it enters into by simply size. In practice, they are a piss poor landlord as well with many of their rental houses falling apart and plenty of unsatisfied tenants and property holders around those homes.
As I said initially, " If the giants take the same risks as the littles". I don't think of "keep the government's corrupt snout out of it" as a lofty principle; it's common sense. Case in point, selective access to the Fed. Stop doing that.
If BR is as bad a landlord as you say, then they will lose money on their RE investments eventually. As long as we don't bail them out (always a concern), I don't care if they go OOB.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Nemo
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City life is dead because of diversity which is the same reason that urban centers in the EU that were functional are no longer so.
Diversity, proximity, means low level conflict and part of that can be seen in crime rates, substance abuse levels, and all around asshole behavior by the public which then translates to that behavior by politicians.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 12:01 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 12:02 PM (AcTAo)
I have a little experience both buying and selling around here, as well as apartment living
What I have seen: ten years ago a fixer-upper in Tooele (about 40 minutes from downtown Salt Lake) was about 120 grand, with about $700 for the mortgage. Took a year and 10 grand to get it up to snuff, but we could afford that with two incomes.
Then after getting divorced, I lived in an apartment in South Salt Lake, much closer to downtown as well as my work at the time further south (the commute had been an hour from the house). That apartment was a one bedroom for about $800 a month, not brand new, but up to date and with some amenities.
Then I bought a house with the new wife. It was 420 grand, almost brand new in a nice neighborhood, and most of the other houses were bigger and more like 500 grand. It was about 30 min north of downtown Salt Lake, in an area with massive growth. While looking there were cheaper, closer options but they were older and not as nice, though all the livable ones were still in the high 300 grand range. The mortgage was 2200, with really low interest rates.
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at June 28, 2025 12:03 PM (1oTt5)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Along with that, taxes, insurance, and rent control.
With sane government de-regulation it could be a win win.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:03 PM (ytCg4)
We don't rent to California's.
The price of properties has tripled since covid or we would buy more. Nothing is slowing down in idaho.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 28, 2025 12:04 PM (P0m9n)
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 12:04 PM (LHPAg)
Good morning. One of these stories came into my aggregator this morning. TL;DR: eminent domain as a means of rent control when a 30-year covenant expires and the tenants (non-white, low-income) just don't want to hold up their end of a deal that has been coming for 30 years.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:05 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 12:05 PM (WnEm5)
Posted by: Notsothoreau .
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Sorry about the shingles glad you're getting clear. Benadryl helps my hives.
I like towed one's too. Except I want that shower etc. indoors.
That teardrop is cute.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:07 PM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 12:08 PM (Riz8t)
"$400,000 for this dump? You're nuts. Try a million and I'll think about it."
My part of town is large 1/2 to 1 1/2 acre subdividable lots. I know what they are up to and plan on profiting handsomely from it. They want multi family 3 or 4 story apartments as there really isn't a whole lot of room left in town. I own 1/2 an acre on the back side of a culdesack that I know a developer has bought 3 properties on and is renting.
Posted by: Reforger at June 28, 2025 12:09 PM (LgDgc)
There is a ball of fire in the sky, you should be afraid. Pay me and I will fix it
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 12:09 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 12:09 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 12:10 PM (snZF9)
There is a ball of fire in the sky, you should be afraid. Pay me and I will fix it
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 12:09 PM (+qU29)
You mean the giant thermonuclear explosion up there?
*looks up, shading eyes*
Seems fine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 12:10 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 12:10 PM (AcTAo)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 28, 2025 12:11 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Reforger
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And the more rentals indicate either a freeze or diminishing property value.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:13 PM (ytCg4)
That house sold for 440 or 460 after two years, just enough to have enough equity to roughly match my original down payment after the realtor and splitting profits with the ex. Maybe could have found a better price if not in the middle of divorce.
Now in an apartment in Salt Lake, very close to the house in the article, which is 5-10 minutes from downtown Salt Lake, very convenient for things like night life. My current apartment is not quite as nice as my previous one, but I have easy access to downtown and also my work near the airport--I have a ten minute commute door to door, with traffic. When I found this apartment I considered my old one, since they are the same price range. Both were now about 1000 dollars for rent.
These days I make enough by myself to pay comfortably for my apartment, even with my rent going up for going to month to month. I should be able to have a decent time paying 1300 for a two bedroom once I marry my fiancee with her two kids, but I have no idea what we will do if we want to get a house with current interest rates, which have doubled from what I had before, so even a cheap 300 grand house will be pushing 3 grand mortgage.
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at June 28, 2025 12:13 PM (1oTt5)
Today I think the payoff for all is around $250K
3 homes.
10 + acres total.
2 states.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
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That's where I am. Moved here with a 3 yr exit plan then everything changed. Even though the the value of my house has increased demonstrably I can't afford to move.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:16 PM (ytCg4)
Syrian National Charged in Foiled ISIS Terror Plot Targeting Taylor Swift Concert
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Tay Tay seems to have disappeared. A year ago you couldn't go five minutes without seeing or hearing TayLuv. Now? Silence.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 12:17 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 12:17 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)
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So much for that. I wonder if Texas has another couple thousand to send him.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:17 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 12:18 PM (+qU29)
Been there, done that.
Posted by: Pet Rock at June 28, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2025 12:18 PM (CHHv1)
However, I still go through the available cards online, and focus primarily on 60s and 70s.
There's a guy, Jerry Smith, he was a tight end (heh) for the Redskins in those years, and well after his playing career was over, it was revealed he was gay. I believe he died of AIDS, but I'm not certain of that.
However, now that I come across his cards from various years... oh yeah, he gay.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 12:18 PM (RNrRd)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 28, 2025 12:18 PM (gm9Sb)
Today I think the payoff for all is around $250K
3 homes.
10 + acres total.
2 states.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Wild. Is the property in rural farm country what one might call idyllic, or potentially so? A person could build something small but very nice there?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:21 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 12:22 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:24 PM (VofaG)
We have 4 acres south of Houston in 2009. It was all rural until a couple of years ago when an enormous residential development started north of us.
There's a large corn field across the road from us. One day we saw a surveyor there. "Are they going to make this a four-lane road?" I joked, sort of. No, they're looking to put in a subdivision. Great. Just great.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 12:24 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Tour's over. Until she needs more money.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 12:24 PM (LA0fN)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 28, 2025 12:24 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at June 28, 2025 12:24 PM (1oTt5)
Wild. Is the property in rural farm country what one might call idyllic, or potentially so? A person could build something small but very nice there?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It's got a 3/2 modular on it with a covered front porch, a large deck off the back and an aboveground pool. Detached shop/garage. Perched on a knoll, mostly open but ringed with trees. Some vistas. Neighbors are chickens and cows. A few people too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 12:25 PM (Q4IgG)
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And, replace it with what?? I know! Let's have a design comp. between Boeing, General Dynamics and Grumman, and award the contract to all 3!
(It'll be great, watch.)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 28, 2025 12:26 PM (lPeS+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
We got lucky. National Grasslands on three sides of us. Neighbor across the road isn't selling.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 12:26 PM (LA0fN)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 12:24 PM (LA0fN)
She's got money that could last her 10 lifetimes. She better get married soon so she can have kids. But maybe that's not what she wants. Women have changed a lot in that aspect.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:26 PM (VofaG)
Really?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:28 PM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 11:56 AM (Q4IgG)
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I think your theory is dead-on. I wonder whether builders figured out the windfall of illegal alien tenants on their own or the Biden administration let them know with a wink and a whisper.
And now, oh dear, no subsidies for the prospective tenants so the landlords will have to charge market value for the rents in a low-demand market? I bet they wind up getting those rents subsidized by their states or cities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:30 PM (HuRzZ)
One good thing in Romney's economic plan that wish they would implement is no taxes on personal savings /CDs.
Since our savings rate is dangerously small you would think they would do things to motivate increasing personal savings.
I hate paying taxes on the interest of my savings accounts.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:31 PM (VofaG)
Zohran Mamdani’s ‘tax whites more’ is pure racism
He’d “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods,” his campaign platform says.
How will he do this?
But never mind that!
Next, King Mamdani would “adjust rates up” — based on the racial makeup of a neighborhood.
https://tinyurl.com/2xnr2tuz
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 12:32 PM (LA0fN)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 28, 2025 12:18 PM (gm9Sb)
I couldn't fit my frigging tools in a tiny house. I'll never understand that tiny house thing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2025 12:34 PM (snZF9)
No visible signs of a housing slowdown in California.
I don't get it.
You keep hearing about the exodus, but competition for apartments and homes in San Diego is so fierce you have to place a phone call within 45 minutes of a rental or a sale -- a rental! -- hitting the market or you're out. I don't know how people are gonna do it. I don't know how I'm going to do it if Carl DeMaio's warnings of $10/gal gas come true.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:36 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 12:37 PM (ANuwa)
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at June 28, 2025 12:38 PM (1oTt5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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All infotainment careers are limited and audiences simply move on without much of a notice and the act slides into nostalgia tours.
That being said, geriatric rockers show vast revenue can be made from these tours into their eighties as the faithful come to watch the has beens to relive their youth.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 12:38 PM (ctrM5)
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You also run into zoning issues with those. In a lot of places they're considered "mobile homes" or campers, because they can be moved and thus are not permitted in certain areas.
I seem to recall when they first became "a thing" some guy told about his woes after buying a plot in a development and they wouldn't let him put his new "tiny home" on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Only thing they own is a laptop. Hell, I couldn't get all my guns/ammo/ammo cans in one, let alone tools.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 12:39 PM (LA0fN)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 12:37 PM (ANuwa)
Yeah, she's not very bright. I know she gets a lot of flack around these parts, but I believe she's generally right about the issues of the day.
Which, frankly, shouldn't require all that much intelligence. Just common sense.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 12:40 PM (Vksce)
I bet they wind up getting those rents subsidized by their states or cities.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:30 PM (HuRzZ)
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Ah, found the horde mind at #120. Yup.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:40 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 12:41 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at June 28, 2025 12:41 PM (1oTt5)
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He had one with Liz Collins, a reporter from MN. Had some stories about the riots, Walz, etc. Pretty wild stuff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 12:42 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 12:42 PM (P389G)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Expecting intelligence in politicians is unrealistic. About the best you can hope for is that they vote correctly and do no harm. Tricky Dick was one of our smartest pols and ended up kicked out of office. In sheer IQ, Adlai Stevenson was probably 'smarter' than Ike. And so on. Most of the truly successful pols have animal cunning and the ability to put two words together like a news reader rather than 'smarts'. Billy Jeff is a good example of that.
MTG pretty much votes the right way so I could care less about whether she speaks well.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 12:43 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 12:42 PM (P389G)
And I believe will be open next week...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 28, 2025 12:46 PM (VE6XX)
Bring out your dead!
George J. Marlin: Mamdani's Victory: Death Knell for NYC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Naaa. New York will stagger on, everyone blaming Trump for any visible degradation, and Mayor Mad-manny will tinker with his failures and rally everyone with his smile, his hairline, and his Obama-like life story. It's like Pam Bondi prosecuting criminals. A dream.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:49 PM (HuRzZ)
Since our savings rate is dangerously small you would think they would do things to motivate increasing personal savings.
I hate paying taxes on the interest of my savings accounts.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:31 PM (VofaG)
Taxes on savings interest began under the JFK administration. I remember my mom being really pissed about that.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 28, 2025 12:49 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: polynikes
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She's filling out like a woman - can't hide it from the kids any longer.Womanhood takes over sooner or later. It's time to make a career move.
The problem is that she's a mediocre singer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:49 PM (ytCg4)
Eminent Domain is being used in the midwest US right now to install "carbon capture" pipelines on generational farmland. Last count, about 80 farms in the Dakotas alone had received notices to give up portions of their land.
The next evolution of eminent domain will confiscate farmland for solar farms. Count on it. It will be done under the guise of "emergency" and based on the "benefit" of all humans.
Posted by: Orson at June 28, 2025 12:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 12:42 PM (P389G)
They built a huge airfield back in the 70's there to fly old farts into so they bus them to Miami Beach before they died to spend their retirement years in the land of death, South Florida. It did not work out but the airfield is still there and manned during the day by one fella in case they need to land something there in an emergency. I think he goes home at 5. A nice sinecure.
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at June 28, 2025 12:51 PM (R/m4+)
Alligator Alcatraz has a 10,000 foot runway.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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I wonder if the press will be allowed a tour. We need to see the cages, the toilets that double as face-washing stations, etc.
By the way, this place is a detention center for border crashers, right? Just whoever ICE rounds up, regardless of whether they've committed additional crimes? I fvcking love it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:52 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 28, 2025 12:55 PM (/U5Yz)
The only good thing to come out of Kelo was that 43 states tightened up their eminent domain rules as to what can be taken.
The land that was taken in Kelo and the houses that were torn down has been replaced by a vacant lot. The pFizer plant was never built. Spit
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 12:56 PM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2025 11:58 AM (AcTAo)
I grew up tent camping, a lot. DH did not. He is also a very big man, very tall and takes up a lot of space. We do not fit on a queen size bed together, and he cannot even stand up in most travel trailers, let alone get dressed in one. His back requires an actual mattress.
There are reasons to get a larger camper. Ours is very nice, with an RV King bed, two nice recliner chairs, an excellent kitchen, solar panels, auto-level, all the things that make it easy to get out to a campsite without making DH miserable.
It's a win-win since I still get to go camping and hiking and he gets to not be an agony.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 28, 2025 12:58 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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She's not very smart as Trump is not very smart.
She came up in and ran/runs the family construction business.
That's the language she speaks and the way she reacts in congress. She's business/country first, politician second.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:58 PM (ytCg4)
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Posted by: The ARC of History!
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I wonder if Mayor Mad-manny's grocery stores will have padlocks like that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:59 PM (HuRzZ)
Hope the have a immigration judge or 20 there too.
Plus they go straight from detention to a waiting C-130 or C-17 for a one-way ride to elsewhere.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 28, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)
Gold, Jerry, gold!
@LeadingReport 40m
BREAKING: Democrats float the idea of a Tim Walz/Zohran Mamdani ticket in 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Eh, have they forgotten that the VP has to have all the qualifications to be president? Mad-manny is not a natural citizen of the US.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 01:00 PM (HuRzZ)
I wonder if the press will be allowed a tour. We need to see the cages, the toilets that double as face-washing stations, etc.
By the way, this place is a detention center for border crashers, right? Just whoever ICE rounds up, regardless of whether they've committed additional crimes? I fvcking love it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Do they transit to and from the facility with airboats?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 01:01 PM (ytCg4)
Plus they go straight from detention to a waiting C-130 or C-17 for a one-way ride to elsewhere.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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"Your carriage awaits."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 01:02 PM (HuRzZ)
Harmeet Dhillon issued a warning about the plan to tax white neighborhoods higher property taxes.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Darn. I wish she'd let them commit su!cide by vote.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 01:05 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 28, 2025 01:05 PM (gm9Sb)
Notsothoreau at June 28,
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There are reasons to get a larger camper.
It's a win-win since I still get to go camping and hiking and he gets to not be an agony.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Sounds like cousins.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 01:05 PM (ytCg4)
Do they transit to and from the facility with airboats?
Posted by: Braenyard
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10,000 foot runway.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 01:06 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2025 11:26 AM (2UnvF)
Yeah, but a judge can fix that little problem with an injunction you silly rabbit.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 28, 2025 01:07 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 12:43 PM (+qU29)
I think ICE could make good use of them. Nothing solves the illegal immigrant problem better than the GAU-8 with depleted uranium rounds.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 28, 2025 01:09 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 12:37 PM (ANuwa)
She sounds unpolished. It doesn't make her wrong.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 01:14 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)
I agree; but I had to roll my eyes when I heard her say recently that she had never heard of any Americans that had been killed by Iran.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 01:14 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 28, 2025 01:05 PM (gm9Sb)
Sounds like a reality show or a comic book location.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 01:15 PM (bss/y)
She does herself no favors expressing her thoughts on various conspiracy theories and aliens.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:17 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Stay close to the tent. Those gators will come up and get you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 01:18 PM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 01:18 PM (ytCg4)
Confessional Tent:
Karen got eaten by a gator while she was taking a dump. I hate to admit it, but I won't miss her voice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 01:19 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 12:43 PM
I agree; but I had to roll my eyes when I heard her say recently that she had never heard of any Americans that had been killed by Iran.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 01:14 PM
I'd sound worse than her, if I get wound up the valley girl accent comes out strong. But I have heard of the American's killed and maimed by Iran but I'm just a tad older than she is.
And if a leftist sounded like her I'd make fun of them too but I don't care what she sounds like and no one can know everything all the time. Or regular people can't.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 01:19 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:20 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes
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Ha! Those times it sounds as if she's on the balcony with Dennis Kucinich and Shirley MacLaine watching flying saucers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 01:20 PM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2025 11:26 AM (2UnvF)
Yeah, but a judge can fix that little problem with an injunction you silly rabbit.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at June 28, 2025 01:07 PM (C4BAC)
Not anymore.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2025 01:21 PM (g8Ew8)
To make the Alligators effective they need to chum the nearby waters... or schedule fun runs for the detainees.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 01:24 PM (//7/7)
Posted by: Reforger at June 28, 2025 01:24 PM (LgDgc)
The dude is a Prince and has the GQ look. Why in the world would you need to rape someone?
Yeah I know perverted sickness can be present in anyone because this guy could get laid twice a day every day if he wanted to.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:27 PM (VofaG)
She does herself no favors expressing her thoughts on various conspiracy theories and aliens.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:17 PM )
I picture her aides cringing watching that. If I were her assistant I'd be doing the finger across the throat motion like let's not talk about that on camera.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 28, 2025 01:28 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:27 PM (VofaG)
Yeah. Only twice wasn't working out.
Posted by: Norwegian Crown Prince at June 28, 2025 01:29 PM (LgDgc)
YT LINK: https://tinyurl.com/cpdm92v4
Posted by: mrp at June 28, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)
Youtube Bus Grease Monkey has the 411 on repair of them.
Very expensive and BGM has horror stories of dangerous work done by 'expert' shops at huge prices. People get ripped off by criminal repair places all the time.
Examples: the wheel nuts get over torqued and fly off on the road smashing our windshields. Hair raising stuff.
Posted by: torabora at June 28, 2025 01:31 PM (BqIti)
The dude is a Prince and has the GQ look. Why in the world would you need to rape someone?
Yeah I know perverted sickness can be present in anyone because this guy could get laid twice a day every day if he wanted to.
Posted by: polynikes
Doing it the right way is boring. Honestly.
They get bored because they don't work or want for anything.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 01:32 PM (LA0fN)
Ugh.
Posted by: Diogenes"
I had the pleasure of going thru Spoke airport a few months ago. It was small, easy to navigate uncrowded. A true pleasure compared to big city airports
Posted by: Ripley at June 28, 2025 01:34 PM (Q7i6X)
They get bored because they don't work or want for anything.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 01:32 PM (LA0f
I reminded myself with your assistance the movie The Lincoln Lawyer. Another Matthew McConauhey movie I really liked.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:37 PM (VofaG)
https://tinyurl.com/mwx5wnp7
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 01:38 PM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2025 01:39 PM (p4NUW)
Actually it used to be a HE** of a lot simpler than that!
It used to be that you bought your house so you could LIVE IN IT for the rest of your life. Maybe you would move to a better house if life blessed you with a better income or such. It used to be you didn't buy a house in order to sell it. Yes, you had equity in that house that made it part of your wealth, but that was for the far future when maybe your kids had kids and their own houses and you would go ahead and move into something much smaller - but it wasn't an "investment" other than in the broadest sense. And it definitely wasn't a place to be the basis of perpetual loans so you could get some quick cash.
Not everything has to be a "market" like that.
Posted by: GWB at June 28, 2025 01:41 PM (PkFyV)
Agree. My parents lived in my childhood home for 35 years until my Father passed away and I moved my mom to Texas.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:43 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes
The movie was really good. Wife & I also like the series on Netflix.
Hollywood is looking to make decent movies? Look to established authors. Dark Winds from Tony Hillerman. Go back to old westerns from Zane Grey or Louis L'amour in the style of Lonesome Dove.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 01:46 PM (LA0fN)
Posted by: mrp at June 28, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)
Very nice. The AI is a little off-putting, but it's a very modern Texas/Mountain West up-yours sort of video. I'd happily welcome those folks.
Posted by: GWB at June 28, 2025 01:46 PM (PkFyV)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:47 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 01:46 PM (LA0fN)
Tom Selleck made some good ones. I think mostly made for TV.
Speaking of Tom Selleck. I recently watched Mr Baseball again after over 20 years and it holds up really well.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:50 PM (VofaG)
Speaking of Tom Selleck. I recently watched Mr Baseball again after over 20 years and it holds up really well.
Posted by: polynikes
Crossfire Trail, Last Stand at Saber River, Shadow Riders, The Sacketts& Quigley Down Under.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 01:54 PM (LA0fN)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2025 01:55 PM (LA0fN)
Speaking of Tom Selleck. I recently watched Mr Baseball again after over 20 years and it holds up really well.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 01:50 PM (VofaG)
Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott, no? Sacketts? My dad was/is a fan. Both the tv shows and the books.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 02:11 PM (bss/y)
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Something not mentioned, but probably bears investigation: How much of those corporate interests are actually Chinese and/or CCP?
They've gotten a LOT of money over the past few decades, so they can (and have) bought a lot of properties. Some near military bases which is its own brand of double-U tea eff. But buying large quantities of homes, renting out, and pricing them out of the market except for the occasional high-roller with low-sense? They get a bit of income from rental, decrease supply, and cause agitation in a non-friendly country (the USA).
And China is likely involved in a lot of policy implementations that are harmful to the US, like Climate Change Control. Stuff they NEVER do in their own country, but push over here because it's cheap to do - there are millions of useful idiots that would do it for free, just with a suggestion. So less property, and a third party that prevents building new ones (NIMBYs, and even BANANAs).
Posted by: Another Anon at June 28, 2025 02:19 PM (4h45B)
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The commission is "over the services you received" because most people pick terrible Realtors. The NAR spent 50+ years collecting dues without ever bothering to educate the public about what the value of a good Realtor is, and as a result most who hold a license are just abjectly poor at what they do.
The good ones are worth every penny.
Posted by: Crusader at June 28, 2025 02:26 PM (TN0g+)
Eco-Hypocrites Take Hundreds Of Private Jets To Bezos Wedding
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 02:28 PM (ytCg4)
Trump wants cash transactions of $200.00 reported.
This is going down the Nixon road. An outcome desired decision resulting in the long term support of autocracy and the loss of privacy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 02:34 PM (ytCg4)
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 02:41 PM (YkGND)
Nobody owns anything, so nobody bothers building anything
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He learns that regardless of what he does—whether his action is right or wrong, honest or dishonest, sensible or senseless—if the pack disapproves, he is wrong and his desire is frustrated; if the pack approves, then anything goes. Thus the embryo of his concept of morality shrivels before it is born. He learns that it is no use starting any lengthy project of his own—such as building a
castle out of boxes—it will be taken over or destroyed by others.
Posted by: Ayn Rand at June 28, 2025 03:01 PM (TN0g+)
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And, replace it with what??
Probably nothing. Or drones. What the military industrial complex wants would be an extremely expensive overly complicated plane that would be too valuable to expose to ground fire unless its WW3 or complete air supremacy and air defense suppression were already attained. But most of all big money for everyone involved.
Posted by: azjaeger at June 28, 2025 03:18 PM (3/XaG)
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And, replace it with what??
Probably nothing. Or drones. What the military industrial complex wants would be an extremely expensive overly complicated plane that would be too valuable to expose to ground fire unless its WW3 or complete air supremacy and air defense suppression were already attained. But most of all big money for everyone involved.
Posted by: azjaeger at June 28, 2025 03:18 PM (3/XaG)
At one time I saw that there were two prop driven planes in the running. Yeah I know.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 03:22 PM (VofaG)
You shouldn’t have to worry about taxes especially if she plans on buying another house.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 03:25 PM (VofaG)
“Donald Trump, his Administration, and his enablers have made one thing brutally clear: they intend to use the power of government to kidnap, brutalize, starve, and harm every single immigrant they can — because they have a deep disdain for immigrants and are using them to scapegoat the serious issues facing working people,” Frost said in a statement.
- Florida Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost
The enemy within.
An "immigrant", a legal term, is one who enters the country through legiitimate means on a valid immigrant visa.
Not an invader waved through by the Biden Coup.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 28, 2025 03:35 PM (/lPRQ)
That are arguably legal to say out loud in the US? Probably not.
It really chaps my ass that the age of cities that are worth a damn and actually nice to live in is over in North America and Western Europe, and probably has been since before I was born.
The problem is twofold; submission to barbarism, and tolerance of commies, with the latter deliberately driving the former.
Posted by: heya at June 28, 2025 09:41 PM (ODCB/)
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Nekoosa.) 1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Remember it's OK to beat and release trolls.
3) No, you may not run or walk fast with sharp objects.
4) Next Friday have a wonderful and safe Independence Day.
5) Have a great weekend!
*****AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 5/3 – D asked for prayers for his wife, Susan, who has been having some issues. They went to the hospital on 5/1, and all the signs are pointing to pancreatic cancer. They meet with other doctors on 5/5. Any prayers would be a blessing.
6/5 Update – The doctors have confirmed it is cancer, but they have not yet determined if it can be removed, or if chemotherapy will be needed first, to shrink the mass. They are so thankful for all the prayers and ask for them to continue. 5/10 – Cosda asked for prayers for his wife, who recently had a mole removed that came back as melanoma cancer. She is scheduled for surgery next week, and it looks like that should remove it completely.
6/20 Update – The PET and brain scans showed no active cancer cells, which is great. But since it’s melanoma, and cancer was found in a lymph node, she is going to receive immunotherapy for the next year. Thanks to all. The prayers are working! 5/17 – neverenoughcaffiene asked for prayers for her sister-in-law, Jackie, who is looking at dialysis. Her kidneys have been failing for several years is she is getting close based on her numbers. Hopefully new meds will help.
5/24 – The new meds have not helped. Her score for kidney function is 16, and the trigger for dialysis is 15. 5/17 – B asked for prayers for the Lord to move a bowel food constriction or “kink” out so that his bowels would function properly.
5/31 Update – B sent his thanks for the prayers. He is healed from the bowel obstruction. He requested prayers for his friend, Jerry, who is in the hospital needing surgery for an ulcer and MRSA, and another friend, Mary, who is fighting cancer. 5/23 – Hrothgar asks for prayers for a dear friend’s son. Tim battled cancer 20 years ago, but has been living with kidney disease for several years. It has progressed to the point that he needs a transplant. In a real blessing, he was approved for the transplant list. Please pray for Tim, that he would receive a donated kidney. There is no cost to the donor, and the donor generally goes on to live a full life with just one kidney, and it would make a huge difference for Tim, versus long-term dialysis.
5/31 Update – Tim must lose 50 pounds in the next 90 days to remain on the transplant list, and he is thinking that is impossible. Please pray that he realizes what a God-given blessing he has been given to reach this point, and that he makes the right lifestyle choices to lose that weight. 5/24 – Captain Obvious requested prayers for his friend J, who will be having surgery on 6/9 to try and relieve her chronic pain. She also has concerns because she is on blood thinners and nearly bled out after her hip replacement. Please pray for the best possible outcome and also to relieve her anxiety.
6/12 Update – J had her surgery on 6/9 and it went very well; the surgeon had to do less work than he originally thought. J is already experiencing relief from the chronic pain she had. Thanks to all for the prayers. 5/24 – L sent an update. Her daughter, Shannon, the Franciscan sister who we prayed for when she had heart surgery, is much improved. There were some setbacks along the way – a problem with defibrillation and a respiratory infection - but she is healed now and will take her final vows soon. L is also much improved, after her knee implant surgery. 5/29 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update and her thanks for all the prayers and words of encouragement. They have sustained her and her family as she continues to battle cancer. She continues to receive good news: her oncologist is quite pleased with her response to the current medication protocol; they are decreasing the lab work frequency to every other week instead of weekly; the side effects from chemo have been barely noticeable; she can just take 4 tiny pills for chemo instead of spending one day a week at the cancer center. It’s been 7 months so far, and she expects that at some point the tumors will start growing again, but for now, they are encouraged.
6/6 Update – Teresa has a side effect from the chemo – her fingernails and toenails are starting to loosen and “lift” off their nail beds. It is painful, and also carries a risk of infection. 6/4 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant asked for prayers for his mother (Lynda), asking to give her strength and healing. Also, for the medical staff to be prompted to do a complete and thorough job diagnosing her.
6/7 Update – Lynda has been diagnosed with aortic stenosis. This is a correctable medical issue using surgery where they go in endoscopically via the leg, up to the heart, to fix the lower heart valve that is leaking. 6/6 – tbodie Lurker requested prayers for his son, tbodie Jr, who is in his mid-30s and was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Please pray for healing for tbodie Jr and for peace for his family. 6/11 – Legally Sufficient asks the Horde’s prayers for her friend, Bubba, who was in a bad auto wreck on 6/8. Prayers for comfort, healing, and strength are needed for Bubba and his family. He is in ICU and will be there for a couple more weeks. Thank you!
6/18 Update – Legally Sufficient asks for continued prayers for healing, strength, and comfort for Bubba. God is great! Bubba is recovering from pneumonia (on top of the other injuries from his vehicle accident) but he is fully participating in PT, walking 25 steps a day with assistance, his breathing is improving, and he is finally eating solid food! Prayers for Bubba, his wife and family, and Bubba’s many friends are very much appreciated. 6/14 – MkY sent an update on his wife Judy’s battle with kidney cancer. Like Teresa in Ft. Worth, her tumors are shrinking. The shrinkage is so dramatic, they are discussing removing the cancerous kidney. Since that is the original source, that would make it easier to attack and perhaps kill the other tumors. Thank you so much for the prayers. 6/14 – Our Country is Screwed sent prayers of thanksgiving for all the thoughts and prayers as chemo continues. It has really been uplifting. The side effects have been minimal as well, thankfully, and there are 8 weekly treatments to go. 6/14 – Inspector Cussword requested prayers for Brother Tim. He has had a horrible time, living in his car and has just been handed a cancer diagnosis. Please pray for God’s Provision to be clear and comforting to him, and for his healing. 6/14 – Inogame asked for prayers for his wife and family. It’s very early, but they may have baby #5 on the way. They appreciate the support and prayers of the Horde. 6/24 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers on behalf of Sock Money and family, at the death of his brother, and for AOP who has PVC and spent hours in the hospital on 6/23. Also, Pawn could use prayers due to work issues; people are being laid off. Please pray for Israel as well as our country, and for Donald Trump, JD Vance, their families, and all of the Trump administration. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 07:56 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 07:56 AM (2GCMq)
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Posted by: NR Pax at June 28, 2025 08:00 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Alf at June 28, 2025 08:01 AM (XQo4F)
Prayers up for those who need them but haven't asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don't know it yet;
Prayers up for those that pray alone in silence whose petitions are known only to God;
And bless all those that have sought Your wisdom, heard Your answers, and are trying to do Your will on this Earth!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 08:01 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: t-bird at June 28, 2025 08:03 AM (/GaVB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 07:56 AM (2GCMq)
Hunter Biden's chihuahua found his stash
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 08:08 AM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 28, 2025 08:09 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:12 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:13 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 28, 2025 08:13 AM (kOluj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 08:14 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:15 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 28, 2025 08:15 AM (kozl2)
Republican book bans and draconian abortion laws, are called “mainstream.” But universal healthcare, tuition-free community college, or raising the minimum wage, it’s instantly labeled as “socialsm” or “too extreme.” The Overton window has shifted so far right that even modest progressive reforms are painted as dangerous.
because the ruling class sets the narrative. Anything that even slightly changes the balance in favor of the workers is “destructive” and “dangerous”.
If we can get people off of all the stupid, divisive so-called wedge issues and just make it all of us against these billionaire scumbags, we’d have something going.
Yes I've noticed...I think Zohran, followin Bernie's playbook, has captured people's attention on how to win elections!
Progressive/New Deal initiatives seem to get a lot of backlash. That's how far to the right this country is.
The Overton window is bound to shift when those on the left sit out elections and let extremist Republicans win.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 28, 2025 08:17 AM (ycI94)
Would like to ask for prayers for a mom of two elementary aged boys who lost her mother three weeks ago and her husband this morning, both to cancer.
Posted by: H at June 28, 2025 06:36 AM
Please, Lord, protect this mother and her boys and guide good people to help them in their distress. Please, keep the predators away from her and those vulnerable little boys.
Amen.
Posted by: huerfano at June 28, 2025 08:17 AM (n2swS)
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:15 AM (IqBEX)
Pardon my horror, but gak.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 28, 2025 08:17 AM (SfhV1)
That's hard-core. Your handwriting must look like a seismograph at the moment.
Posted by: t-bird at June 28, 2025 08:18 AM (G7MqD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 08:18 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Running with Wiss Scissors at June 28, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 08:20 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Running with Wiss Scissors
You will never be a good muslim, and that's a good thing.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 08:21 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 08:21 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 08:22 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 08:20 AM (2GCMq)
Da, is O-Barky variant of crushing kulaks for common good, comrade.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 08:23 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: dantesed at June 28, 2025 08:23 AM (Oy/m2)
Ha!
Mr Coffee Nerves, via Lileks:
https://tinyurl.com/4ufhv5yu
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:24 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 28, 2025 08:24 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 08:26 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 28, 2025 08:26 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:27 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: Falling In Line at June 28, 2025 08:28 AM (G5+As)
And that is why Percy Spencer, engineer for Raytheon, invented the microwave oven: to heat up coffee.
Why would you cold brew? Because cold brewing mutes the acidic "highs" of coffee. You can take crap coffee and turn it into something palatable.
Have some strange coffee that you stole from the workplace a year ago? It can be salvaged through the miracle of cold brewing.
Hot brewing extracts the bitter components that cold brewing doesn't do - gives a smoother cup that is gentle on sensitive stomachs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 28, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Those don't exist.
Posted by: Fallen World at June 28, 2025 08:30 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Don Black at June 28, 2025 08:31 AM (AOsQT)
I'm using Cameron's medium roast Arabica concentrate. It has no sugar, but it tastes sweet like caramel. It's really good.
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:31 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: Caffiend at June 28, 2025 08:32 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 28, 2025 08:33 AM (SfhV1)
https://pitsnipesgripes.blogspot.com/
Found via Feral Irishman's blog or Woodsterman's.
Can't remember which. Also, this too:
https://bitsandpieces.us/
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 28, 2025 08:33 AM (Dxdzg)
Posted by: What Is That Thang? at June 28, 2025 08:34 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 08:36 AM (P389G)
Posted by: Mongo at June 28, 2025 08:36 AM (Ef4Ak)
Posted by: 13times at June 28, 2025 08:37 AM (I6nPP)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 28, 2025 08:37 AM (dR6yv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
It's easy! Just follow my lead as a perfect Muslim:
-Marry a six year old girl (but wait until she's nine before consummating the marriage...don't be gross)
-"struggle" against non-believers (especially Jews and pagans). The harder and more extreme your "struggle", the greater your rewards!
-if you're a woman, do whatever you husband (or responsible male relative) says without question...and especially have sex with your husband whenever he wants it.
-being a pagan is the absolute WORST. But, every good Muslim should make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lifetime to do all the ancient pagan rituals that I rebranded as Muslim.
Posted by: The Prophet Muhammed at June 28, 2025 08:39 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
********
Whoopie! Cushion! - a limerick for those of you who live in Nekoosa
There once was a man from Nekoosa
Who was more than a little obtuse-a
He thought riding on a train
Was a dad-gummed royal pain
'Cause he always got aa pain in the caboose-a
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 08:39 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 28, 2025 08:39 AM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 08:39 AM (P389G)
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:40 AM (IqBEX)
It isn’t so much a racial thing as an ignorance of Econ 101 or whatever.
You’ll always hear the same folks, regardless of race bitching about this or that, it isn’t “fair” that wealthy neighborhoods have better schools. Well, they pay far more in property tax. They pay more for their homes. This is not complicated. Families struggle and sacrifice to provide for their children.
Imagine if we had a truly “fair” system of property tax. Take the budget and divide by the number of property owners. Done! There’s your “fair tax” assholes.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2025 08:41 AM (rIXF2)
Yes, mine was marked half-off so I nabbed it.
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:41 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 08:39 AM (poXs5)/i]
As usual, I am impressed by your limerickal skills!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 08:42 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 08:42 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 08:43 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 08:43 AM (P389G)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 28, 2025 08:29 AM
Which is why, I think, instant coffee tastes much better if you first put some room temperature (or cold) liquid such as milk or cream on the coffee granules and make sort of a syrup before adding the boiling water.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 08:44 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 28, 2025 08:45 AM (cduTK)
Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2025 08:46 AM (rIXF2)
Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2025 08:41 AM (rIXF2)
You would need at least an acreage assessment to be fair!
George Washington Vanderbilt II
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 08:46 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: muldoon
Mighty fine limerick, but think of what the youngsters are missing. Romantic red cabooses, cabeese, or caboosi, rolling through towns and hamlets of America. Conductors were powerful men, esteemed even, like Floyd Smoot on the Cannonball Express.
Posted by: The Red Light Was My Mind... at June 28, 2025 08:49 AM (G5+As)
Tasked with coming up with a show results spreadsheet for Varus. Near as I can tell, for 2025 he's at 40 points in Breed, 137 for All-Breed and has 381 Grand Champion points lifetime. He needs 400 to become a Gold-level GCH.
If he's going to pick them up, it'll have to be this weekend. Entries for Dallas are pathetic and those for San Antonio are even more so. And who knows about Houston? Her Majesty has grouchily refused to put on another trophy-supported entry.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 08:49 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 08:50 AM (XQo4F)
Right? I mean, you'd think someone would occasionally call the right morons, Hitlers, fascists, or something. Why do they get treated with kid gloves?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 08:51 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 28, 2025 08:51 AM (cduTK)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 08:52 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 08:53 AM (XQo4F)
Medaglia D’oro used to be my go to for hiking trips. Many years later I bought a jar, and it has been reduced to a jar about the size of a jumbo aspirin bottle. Starbucks Via has been proffered as “good”, but it seems reminiscent of good old C-Rat or MRE instant. Good old Type II from Trans-Packers out of Brooklyn, NY. Not the best tasting stuff but it would put hair on your chest. One step short of Methamphetamine I’m pretty sure. Once they took the smokes and coffee out of the rations, you knew the commies had infiltrated and were sapping our precious bodily fluids.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2025 08:53 AM (rIXF2)
Thanks Annie's Stew for including her in the prayer list, it definitely helped.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 28, 2025 08:54 AM (2NHgQ)
All thanks to The Golden Scalp Weasel Orange Man Bad.
God bless Our President and our Country. 🇺🇸
Posted by: Czech Chick at June 28, 2025 08:54 AM (vK/Ja)
That is inevitable. Gold is at $3,400.
Posted by: Burch Gold Group at June 28, 2025 08:56 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 28, 2025 08:56 AM (cduTK)
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 08:56 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: Don Black at June 28, 2025 08:56 AM (AOsQT)
Today is so good. Lol
Posted by: Auspex at June 28, 2025 08:56 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 08:57 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:58 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 28, 2025 08:58 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Don Black
Good fer what ails ya!
Posted by: Irene Ryan at June 28, 2025 08:58 AM (G5+As)
When you mean "fair", how is it "fair" that I pay for another family's education?
The vast majority of my property taxes, a significant chunk of the gasoline tax and a myriad of other carve-outs goes to the government education cartel.
I see zero benefit from it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 28, 2025 08:59 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 08:59 AM (C9rAF)
Second cup of coffee consumed, a fake latte but that's ok.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 28, 2025 08:59 AM (2NHgQ)
Asking for Prayers for Jay Guevara. He is seriously ill.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:58 AM (HFcKg)
Will do. About to say my Rosary.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 08:59 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 28, 2025 09:00 AM (2NHgQ)
John B. Christ - Christian comedian - "If Bible characters took Uber:
https://tinyurl.com/mwr357vz
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 09:01 AM (C9rAF)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Were they blind? How sad!
Posted by: Duck! Dodge! Hide! at June 28, 2025 09:01 AM (G5+As)
1. GPS tracking maps posted monthly and only by watershed in which the collared wolves are detected show an eastward trend, now extending into a watershed that includes a portion of metro Denver.
(I wonder if wolves have a hankering for Venezuelan cuisine..)
https://is.gd/KKqp5I
2. CPW officials have confirmed that there is at least one den with new pups from a mating pair. These pups are not collared, but CPW has posted bilingual flyers throughout the region encouraging wolf pups to report voluntarily to have tracking collars placed.
https://is.gd/qRN3bd
(Okay, I may have made up that last part.)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 09:01 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Don Black at June 28, 2025 09:01 AM (AOsQT)
'If we can get people off of all the stupid, divisive so-called wedge issues and just make it all of us against these billionaire scumbags, we’d have something going.
When their problem is actually this:
"The Price Is White" Osama Bin Lenin thinks that white neighborhoods should pay higher property taxes.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 28, 2025 09:02 AM (3wi/L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 09:02 AM (RIvkX)
Very nice of you to help at at your church. Yard sales/ rummage sales are a lot of work. God bless you and your church.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 09:03 AM (C9rAF)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:58 AM (HFcKg)
Prayers up!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 09:03 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 28, 2025 09:03 AM (Vfq+S)
'WOOF! Attention!
Woof woof! AROOOOO! Report for collaring!
Woof. Thank you for your attention to this matter.'
Posted by: gp at June 28, 2025 09:05 AM (IqBEX)
Weird that the bat is staring at me in much the same way as the 7X Stringer Than Viagra Gal.
I prefer that staring at me be accompanied by boobs.
The same for staring bats...
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 09:06 AM (iJfKG)
I see zero benefit from it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 28, 2025 08:59 AM (a4flb)
In a sane world, the masses would probably be even dumber without a decent education; sadly with public education, we guarantee that they are dumber!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2025 09:07 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 08:58 AM (HFcKg)
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Thanks Ben Had. Will make a prayer for his complete and immediate recovery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 09:07 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:07 AM (HEGiN)
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Are those the ones that accede to the doctrinal guidance of the Diet of Worms?
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 09:08 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:10 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 28, 2025 09:10 AM (Vfq+S)
Trump continues to lie, his cult continues to believe and obey
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 28, 2025 09:11 AM (bHHl6)
Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2025 08:41 AM (rIXF2)
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To the left "fair" means "what is best for me."
Remember, Marxism is NOT an economic or political system, it is a religious heresy based on envy, pride and wrath.
Envy of the fruit of others' labors.
(Wounded) Pride at their inferior station in life.
Wrath that they cannot have their way in everything.
Capitalism did not defeat Communism, faith did. Capitalism was the actualization of the inherent right to propery and the fruit of one's labor, but without faith, you get libertarianism - babies and drugs for sale.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 09:12 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:12 AM (HEGiN)
Trump continues to lie, his cult continues to believe and obey
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 28, 2025 09:11 AM (bHHl6)
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That's a great gig you have. Do they pay you by the post or is it hourly?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1938635100528214150
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 09:13 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:14 AM (HFcKg)
Which for me meant yard work when it was cool in the morning, a shower, errands midmorning and then chilling in the afternoon.
Happy Hour will continue to start at 3.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 09:15 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 09:15 AM (Riz8t)
Sane, in an evil sense. Since knowledge is power, why would those in power want the subjugated to have an education and be able to think on their own?
The point and purpose of a government education is to prevent the chattel livestock from getting a real education and throwing off the nonsense of the ruling class. Though it appears the main mission now is to groom children to be sex slaves...
"Free Education" is one hell of a motivator to avoid spending real money on private or homeschool.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 28, 2025 09:16 AM (a4flb)
Yes, but they must be certified to be free range fair trade gluten free organic worms.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 09:16 AM (XQo4F)
The rest of you, stop getting ill.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 09:18 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:20 AM (HFcKg)
One thing to keep in mind, maybe, the resultant brew in any case should at some point be brought to 160F or better to kill off any critters like e Coli or whatever.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2025 09:20 AM (2f+Mn)
Should know next week if it spread. And of couorse, the long term housing and income issues remain to be worked out, so there's still a stupid amount on my plate. Prayers appreciated.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at June 28, 2025 09:21 AM (ENA4W)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 28, 2025 09:21 AM (JVCkA)
https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1938635100528214150
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He's crying? Over angry internet comments?
Do Democrats think this kind of childish whining impresses voters?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 09:21 AM (DNk0j)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 07:56 AM (2GCMq)
It's how I look when my mom tells me I'm handsome.
Posted by: Cray Cray at June 28, 2025 09:22 AM (EES2L)
Although this ASS is more amusing than disturbing. Like an epileptic chipmunk.
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 09:22 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at June 28, 2025 09:22 AM (ENA4W)
So, silly Sullivan and the sodomites are starting to notice the pushback against pedophile story hour.
For the record, gay marriage was not voted on approval, it has consistently been voted down. A federal district court judge decided to normalize it and as usual people just go along.
Satanic, mentally ill people have a stripe on your pride progress flag, ally. Own it. No made you do it on the "right".
Posted by: Auspex at June 28, 2025 09:23 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 09:21 AM (DNk0j)
*glares at Huck*
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at June 28, 2025 09:24 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:24 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 09:25 AM (DNk0j)
I think it's probably a given if you're a high profile politician that you will get hate mail.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 09:26 AM (rkXer)
Posted by: dantesed at June 28, 2025 09:26 AM (Oy/m2)
There has been a strong online contingent of Independent Scotland supporters, backing the SNP in Scotland. On the day that Tehran was bombed and the internet went down hard over all of Iran - hundreds, if not thousands of pro-Scottish Independence accounts suddenly went dark with no warning. What a strange coincidence, I wonder how that could have happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:27 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 28, 2025 09:27 AM (dR6yv)
It is expect that the pope will visit Nicea later this year to celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council there, and while he did mention it in his remarks, the Orthodox delegation did.
One of Francis' few good deeds was pushing this process forward, and directing negotiations to look at the status pre-schism for inspiration on how to restore things. Francis' dictatorial behavior may actually help, since I think the Church is much more open to limits on papal authority.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)
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Also do everything your PT says. Tell them you want to be discharged to skilled nursing or an assisted living waiver bed. That might be a path to long term housing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 09:29 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at June 28, 2025 09:24 AM (PiwSw)
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Hey Taylor, hope you're well. How has OnlyFans worked out?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 09:29 AM (i+IM5)
What to do, what to do...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:31 AM (IBQGV)
Been an amazing week for Americans. Successful and limited military action, the economy is starting to grow again and the Dems had their butts handed to them at the Supreme Court. Praying for the continued return of American greatness
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:31 AM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)
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This is where Canon Law judges can play sn important role!
Posted by: Justice Jackson, aspiring Catholic at June 28, 2025 09:32 AM (i+IM5)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 09:22 AM (poXs5)“
There is a bizarre type of poster on X these days (including some known people, not just bots) who are going wild saying things like Israel was really destroyed, Iran won a magnificent victory, and the only reason you don’t know that is because all the media world wide supports Donald Trump so much. (And then the usual anti-Semitic claptrap)
They get quite an audience of people who, I suppose, *want* to believe that and are looking for any thing that can take away the pain (to them) of the truth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:34 AM (HEGiN)
This is a very good concise explanation. Thank you.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 28, 2025 09:34 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Justice Jackson, aspiring Catholic at June 28, 2025 09:32 AM (i+IM5)
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I know people love to hate on Barrett, but that decision was solid, and a huge boost to Trump. Also, she really pissed all over Jackson, mocking the "Let's not get into details" parts. Um, that's your job.
Question: Jackson is by far much less intelligent than her liberal colleagues, so why is she writing the opinions? Are the other two that worn out/in poor health? Do they just not care? Is Jackson saying "No ME! I get to do it!" and they allow it?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:34 AM (HEGiN)
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Virtually the entire Arab media echo chamber.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 09:35 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)
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This is where Canon Law judges can play sn important role!
Posted by: Justice Jackson, aspiring Catholic at June 28, 2025 09:32 AM (i+IM5
Listen, I only have just so much breakfast and it’s really hard to get off the computer screen.
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 09:35 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at June 28, 2025 09:35 AM (ENA4W)
Posted by: Ghetto Joe at June 28, 2025 09:36 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 09:36 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Maynard at June 28, 2025 09:37 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: PabloD at June 28, 2025 09:38 AM (Dsfkc)
They get quite an audience of people who, I suppose, *want* to believe that and are looking for any thing that can take away the pain (to them) of the truth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 09:34 AM (HEGiN)
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People who live so much of their lives online find the lines between reality and fantasy blurred beyond recognition. They prefer to believe what they read online because it conforms to their worldview. The real world may contradict their preconceived notions of how things work. It's too much for them to bear, so they retreat into their fantasy worlds, where they are safe and comfortable.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:38 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 09:35 AM (LHPAg)
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It really is amazing that a Justice of the Supreme Court actually wrote that that legal precedent and the written Constitution's plain language do not matter in formulating a ruling. The purest distillation of the left's will-to-power that I've ever seen.
At least the Warren Court used "science" and "procedural due process" to muddy the water.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Mr. Jordan61 is an early riser, and has conditioned the puppy to be up and fed by 5. He is out of town for a golf weekend, and said puppy generously let me sleep until 5:45.
Prayers up for all who asked and all those who didn't.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2025 09:39 AM (spcee)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 09:43 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:38 AM (IBQGV)
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It's weird how people are being put to the test and so many are failing basic logic and consistency. I saw an account that had been reasonably solid on other conflict go full retard over the bombing raid, insisting that there would have to be massive craters.
No, there don't. As Raizin Cain said, bombs can destroy with heat and overpressure, and these won't make craters. The bunker busters don't have to blow up the bunker, just as thermobaric bombs don't destroy fortifications, they just kill everyone in them.
So you have people who *should* know better insisting that Iran's facility is fully operational, even though the Iranians themselves admit it got wrecked.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Maybe that's kind of the difference between DEI and just plain old tokenism. It's not enough just to have her there, they have to pretend that she deserves to be there.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 09:43 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 28, 2025 09:44 AM (kDa7l)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm pretty sure it's the equivalent of letting her put her great crayon art on the refrigerator.
"Oh, Ketanji! What a pretty opinion! Let's put riiiiiight here in public where everyone can see it."
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 09:45 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:45 AM (HFcKg)
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There will be repercussions.
Posted by: The Puppeh at June 28, 2025 09:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 09:46 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 09:46 AM (HFcKg)
"Oh, Ketanji! What a pretty opinion! Let's put riiiiiight here in public where everyone can see it."
It would be more accurate to describe them as praising her for making boom boom in the potty.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 09:48 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 28, 2025 09:48 AM (kOluj)
I offer my prayers for all those mentioned above, and especially those held in the silence of our hearts.
Thank you all for your prayers as I undergo chemo. Treatment has been going well. 6 more to go. My daughter surprised me by flying in to visit with Mrs OCiS and I. What a moral boost that was.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 28, 2025 09:48 AM (7v6oI)
A few years ago I was having a lot of fun analyzing and predicting Big Ten college football games. I don't gamble, I just like putting down markers for who will win and such. I was also pretty good at it, which was nice.
Then, in 2021, I got stuff wrong. Badly wrong. 2022 was the same, and so I quit. I had to admit that I had no idea what was going on, and I'd obviously lost my touch.
Turns out, Michigan was cheating, and that was what threw me off. (Hopefully the NCAA will squash them next week.) I may get back into it, but it was a useful lesson in humility.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:48 AM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 09:49 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 09:38 AM (IBQGV)
Sooo...you're not really a squirrel?
Posted by: Boswell at June 28, 2025 09:49 AM (BGfwC)
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2025 09:49 AM (spcee)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 09:48 AM (Riz8t)
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Just like Obama. Everything he did was celebrated with the same zeal as a toddler wearing big boy pants at last.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon
There's an indian joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 09:51 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 09:45 AM (iJfKG)
I'm hoping that, having been victimized by DEI, it will put the final nail in the coffin of DEI and AA as those issues come before SCOTUS.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 28, 2025 09:51 AM (i24o9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:48 AM (eBgDF)
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Yes, but generally they discuss among themselves who will write which case depending on the majority. That's why you'll get the main opinion and dissents and then (usually) much shorter concurrences.
It's just weird that they're letting such a simpleton be the Voice of History when she can't even bother to cite case law or really anything to support her position.
And Barrett smacked her hard on this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
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my top skill is knowing what I don't know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 09:53 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 09:54 AM (qpyNK)
What?
Posted by: Justice KJB at June 28, 2025 09:55 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 09:56 AM (+qU29)
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Did you try jiggling the handle?
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 09:56 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 09:57 AM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2025 09:49 AM (spcee)
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Oh, and son asked me the other day when it is so he can ask for time off, so it looks like he is coming with me this year.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2025 09:58 AM (spcee)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 09:59 AM (RIvkX)
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Are those the ones that accede to the doctrinal guidance of the Diet of Worms?
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 09:08 AM (poXs5)
They eschew Miracle Whip in all its varieties and applications.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 28, 2025 10:00 AM (i24o9)
"Can you do the work?" is replacing "Do you have a degree?"
Which is a good thing. None of my kids are going to get a degree - all are learning practical skills.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)
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Did you try jiggling the handle?
One of my toilets wasn't filling the bowl properly (no water), and I decided to fix it. Instead of just buying a flush valve kit and taking 20 minutes to replace it, I spent days (not continuously) trying to figure out the problem and correct it. I cleaned out the tube leading to the overflow tube, I checked the valve on the wall, I even tried to replace the gasket, but because it's an older model, I couldn't get the right part. I even called Kohler, and got some useless bimbo who didn't know the first thing about toilets, but sure had an attitude.
Eventually, I caved, and did what I should have from the start - bought a kit and replaced the whole thing. I'm considering a career in plumbing. Thoughts?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 10:00 AM (Riz8t)
What?
Posted by: Justice KJB at June 28, 2025 09:55 AM (Riz8t)
Although I consider myself a superior driver, it irritates me that my wife can back up a car or trailer better than I can. There’s something about backwards motion that just befuddles my brain circuits.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:01 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 10:01 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:02 AM (poXs5)
Not saying I'd be averse to trying cold-brewed coffee...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:02 AM (qpyNK)
But let's don't start that debate today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 08:50 AM (XQo4F)
Is this some reference to the Diet of Worms?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:03 AM (D7oie)
And Barrett smacked her hard on this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
And the other 5 with Barrett all concurred with her opinion, didn’t write their own. Meaning that the other 5 all read her slapdown of KBJ and agreed with it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:04 AM (HEGiN)
Conservatives seem to have convinced themselves that the liberal justices on the Supreme Court are not just wrong about stuff but actually stupid. It seems unhealthy.
Kurt Schlichter
I think the liberal justices convinced them
https://is.gd/0lnbDi
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 10:05 AM (Riz8t)
It's a complex combination of shirttail length, waist size, belt length and butt crack shape.
Few qualify.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)
You'll never make it to executive management like that, bucko.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:05 AM (/y8xj)
How many pair of low-rise pants that show your butt crack when you kneel down do you own?
Posted by: United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry at June 28, 2025 10:05 AM (Y1sOo)
Same thing with McCormick and Schilling spices, though in that case they eventually scrapped the Schilling branding.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:06 AM (qpyNK)
And Barrett smacked her hard on this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)
And the other 5 with Barrett all concurred with her opinion, didn’t write their own. Meaning that the other 5 all read her slapdown of KBJ and agreed with it.
You almost have to feel sorry for KJB. Almost. She knows the rest of them think she's a bonehead and utterly unqualified for her position. Well, maybe not Sotomayor, but the rest of them for sure.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 10:06 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Backing a trailer involves spatial reasoning that some people are born with, and some have to really work at it. I learned to drive by backing trailers, and I became instinctive at turning the wheel correctly, the opposite of what one would think. To this day, I can't back using the ubiquitous reversing cameras, because I learned the old fashioned way.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 28, 2025 10:07 AM (Vfq+S)
Few qualify.
I'll have you know that since my spinal fusion surgery, my butt crack is about 7" longer than it used to be. I'm gonna be a star!
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 10:07 AM (Riz8t)
One wrote a song about runnin' on empty, one has a skull that's runnin' on empty.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:08 AM (qpyNK)
I saw a graphic the other day that charted the words spoken by the Justices when they are hearing cases. By a country mile the leader is KBJ. Unsurprisingly, the two least chatty are Alito and Thomas.
It's all emotion no logic.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 10:08 AM (viF8m)
Boy spawn house has seen no work for a few weeks but last night the dope in charge dropped a backhoe out there. Hopefully this means the septic field will be getting done soon. That would get the giant pile of gravel off my driveway.
Our driveway is tear drop shaped. Makes life easier unless someone piles a bunch of gravel on one side and leaves it there for a month. Bastards need to get this shit done so the kids can get moved in and my yard can be fixed.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 28, 2025 10:09 AM (2J/Lj)
Not at least until you get to see how he performs anyway. And even then, what are you going to do about it? "I'm having a heart attack! No wait, not that doctor. I'll wait for another one that I know better. Thanks."
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:09 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Gref at June 28, 2025 10:10 AM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:05 AM (/y8xj)
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Tell me about it. *adjusts nametag*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:10 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:10 AM (qpyNK)
But let's don't start that debate today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 08:50 AM (XQo4F)
Is this some reference to the Diet of Worms?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:03 AM
See commet #63.
Have no idea what was being referred to. Just riffing.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 10:10 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Steve Martin and Bill Murray at June 28, 2025 10:10 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:06 AM (qpyNK)
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Speaking of which, we need to give more credit to RFK (and Trump for picking him). The guy is just tearing things up. He got one major food processor to agree to pull chemical dyes and now they are all falling over themselves to catch up.
No regulatory changes needed, just a preference cascade. As soon as the first company did it, others realized that the ir labeling would say "NO CHEMICAL DYES" and consumers would shun everyone else. Now they're racing against the clock to be the first one to put that on their products.
Genius move.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Hyperinflation defeated the USSR
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:11 AM (D7oie)
*sips coffee, pets cat, does crossword*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 10:11 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Interesting.
I used to work with a very good radiologist. We had a patient with mirror___ dextrocardia, where every part of the heart is right-left reversed. When doing angiograms (motion picture X-rays) f the heart I was able to mentally make the reversal and could "see" that the anatomy was normal (other than being a mirror image). The radiologist on the other hand was only able to make sense of it by literally holding up a mirror and viewing the pictures in the mirror, to make it look "correct". A 3D spatial orientation thing I guess. I always have had that knack..
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:11 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:12 AM (poXs5)
You know that dumb break-the-ice party game "what's something about you that nobody knows?" You win.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:12 AM (/y8xj)
Is this some kind of preverted mayonnaise cult?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 28, 2025 10:12 AM (O7YUW)
Same with all the fast food joints that are switching back to beef tallow for the fries. It's delicious.
I don't actually give a crap which one is "healthier". If I'm looking for "healthy food", I'm not going to be eating fast food fries in the first place.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:13 AM (qpyNK)
Remind me of Doctor Jill's response to Creepy Joe after the debate. "You answered all the questions!"
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 10:13 AM (XQo4F)
I think this is why I've grown to love baseball so much. The repeated failure analogy is just so apt to much of life...
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 28, 2025 10:13 AM (kOluj)
I'mma start eating better. First stop, McDonald's!
Posted by: Nobody ever at June 28, 2025 10:14 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:13 AM (qpyNK)
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I don't know, there were a lot of snacks and things that I used to like that tasted "off" in recent years, and people have been posting labels from the 80s and comparing the ingredients to what is in them now, and it is creepy.
I'm much more comfortable buying food that has a list of ingredients that doesn't read like the X-wing squadron going through roll call.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:15 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Nobody ever at June 28, 2025 10:14 AM (Riz8t)
It's like when that humorless scold at the "Center for Science in the Public Interest" goes off on one of his dimwitted crusades.
"Herp-derp. Movie popcorn is bad for you. Herp-derp."
Thanks for that information. I guess I'll have to give up my all-movie-popcorn diet.
Seriously, how much movie popcorn does the average person eat? Maybe once or twice a year?
Fucking idiot.
He has thousands of people who subscribe to his newsletter, though, and the media constantly repeats his latest bullshit as if it were Gospel.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:17 AM (qpyNK)
Attending the MoMe last Saturday made me realize how lucky I am to have met all of you.
Counting down the days til my hip surgery which still seems far in the future. Yesterday found out I may need a tooth pulled and hoping this doesn't push off that date even farther. But glad it's summer because swimming has been keeping me sane.
Sending positive thoughts to all of you who are hurting. Touch grass if possible. It does work.❤️
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 28, 2025 10:19 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:19 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 28, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:11 AM (D7oie)
Much of which was due to Reagan's much-maligned "Star Wars" program, the purpose of which was not so much to genuinely develop a 100% reliable anti-missile defense, but rather to force the Sovs to spend themselves into the ground trying to counter it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:20 AM (qpyNK)
The move he made to break up the vaccine cartel, ACIP, might be even bigger.
There has been so much going on in the first 6 months of this administration we are getting spoiled. Just yesterday Trump had leaders from Rawanda and the DRC at the White House to sign a peace treaty after 30 years of war. This is after he brokered a peace between two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, and blew up the mullahs nukes and ended that war.
Oh and the tariffs worked. Because of course they did. And illegal immigration is basically 0.
I'm not tired of winning but it all is happening so fast we are beginning to think this is normal.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 10:21 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 10:21 AM (sgnGu)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:11 AM (D7oie)
The military wins the battle.
The economy wins the war.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 10:22 AM (XQo4F)
"In the gay rights movement, there had always been an unspoken golden rule: Leave children out of it."
Uh, we never agreed to that. Queer and trans kids are the LGBTQ community's children, much more than they belong to their assigned families, given how those families treat them
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Not pretending anymore.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)
I'm not tired of winning but it all is happening so fast we are beginning to think this is normal.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 10:21 AM
Now get us out of the UN.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 10:24 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:02 AM (poXs5)
True, but as I'm sure you know, there are cardiac surgeons with better survival rates than others.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 10:24 AM (iJfKG)
Yeah but if my choice is "here's crap and here's crap with somewhat less poison," then I might lean towards the latter.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:25 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s
He needs to stop this crap. Right! Now! It's getting completely out of control. This whole " Make Mayhem like a Kennedy " thing is starting to piss me off. I don't want to like a Kennedy!!
But his "you do not impress me" expression is awesome as is his "you cannot be serious" expression. And I really like the way he........AAAARGHH!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 28, 2025 10:26 AM (2J/Lj)
Hallo, everybody!
Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviera at June 28, 2025 10:26 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dr. Vinnie Boombatz at June 28, 2025 10:26 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 10:21 AM (viF8m)
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GE moving an entire factory from China to Kentucky should be the top news story for a week. It would have been under Obama or Biden, but now it's lost in the shuffle, because so many other factories are coming here.
It is a good problem to have.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)
I’m not yet tired of all the winning. More winning please!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 10:28 AM (i5Vkf)
Frontrunner Pete Buttigieg has 0% support in the black community for 2028 according to a new Emerson poll
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Poor Butt-gigitty.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)
The economy wins the war.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 10:22 AM (XQo4F)
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What is a weapon next to the hand that wields it?
Faith was the deciding factor. When our faith faltered, our nation entered a downward spiral. The Trump restoration and a resurgence in faith are complimentary.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:29 AM (ZOv7s)
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The average non-medical person does not necessarily have the inclination or the ability to suss that out. Even the referring family doctor may not be able to make that distinction. My sister in law was referred to a cardiologist, but has no idea of his record or his reputation. And doesn't know the right questions to ask.
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:30 AM (poXs5)
in body and mind and spirit
May the Spirit of Truth be strong in the world
And drive out the untruths.
As that desperate father cried,
Lord, I believe
Help me in my unbelief
Posted by: mindful webworker - it is my will that Yours be done at June 28, 2025 10:30 AM (l5rRq)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:31 AM (VofaG)
in body and mind and spirit
May the Spirit of Truth be strong in the world
And drive out the untruths.
As that desperate father cried,
Lord, I believe
Help me in my unbelief
Posted by: mindful webworker - it is my will that Yours be done at June 28, 2025 10:30 AM (l5rRq)
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AMEN!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 28, 2025 10:31 AM (kOluj)
Also her complaint about "legalese" demonstrates she's an activist not a judge
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 10:32 AM (eBgDF)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:20 AM (qpyNK)
I hate to fight with someone for agreeing with me for the wrong reason BUT . . .
The Soviet economy was based around GOSPLAN which was the central management of the economy. It directed what resources went where, and how, and directed what wage increases were necessary. It always got it wrong because it is impossible for a central authority to figure out what is going to be needed, and the best use of what is available. The managers of the state industries tried to work around it by bartering what they had squirreled away, and the workers had their deep faith in the New Soviet Man under Brezhnev and fabulous wages they were unable to spend due to shortages of all consumer goods; in the end most people realized it was fake, and lost faith.
The West loses faith when their best actions fail as well, with a centralized banking and economic planning we will fail too
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:33 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Ripley at June 28, 2025 10:33 AM (Q7i6X)
Posted by: Corporate Hospital Administrator at June 28, 2025 10:34 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:02 AM (poXs5)
Handling Workers Compensation claims I saw the whole range of competence in the medical profession. It was very scary.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:34 AM (VofaG)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jamaal Bowman: All Democrats must endorse Mamdani — because it’s up to the Democrat Party to save American democracy!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:20 AM (qpyNK)
And it should be pointed out that while the US backed away from it (except for a limited production of THAAD systems) the Israelis kept after it, and their systems knocked down a little over 90% of the missiles fired at them by Iran.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:35 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2025 10:35 AM (eBgDF)
Pretty sure that's from one of those "bad taxidermy" blogs. It might have been a fox at some point.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:35 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:36 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:36 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:30 AM (poXs5)
One of my sibs is a medicinal chemist and at the beginning of their career worked a lot with the DeBakey group out of Houston.
Anyway, when my Dad needed heart surgery, we were able to get that information and it was (for us) shocking to see the differences in that stat.
So, Dad got the best they had. They did a good job. But, that was long ago and far away.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 10:36 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:37 AM (ctrM5)
Do you mean black rappers, Jamal?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:38 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 10:38 AM (+qU29)
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And also- that was my whole point with the Gell-Mann analogy. You see incompetence in the highest court in the land but in the next instant assume competence in the medical specialty field.
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:38 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:39 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:39 AM (VofaG)
Probably from the Bad Taxidermy book, which is hilarious.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:39 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 10:39 AM (jc0TO)
Not at least until you get to see how he performs anyway. And even then, what are you going to do about it? "I'm having a heart attack! No wait, not that doctor. I'll wait for another one that I know better. Thanks."
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:09 AM (/y8xj)
Never, ever trust any doc that works for the CDC. They're in almost every hospital.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2025 10:39 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: muldoon
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I see specialists on a regular basis and I rely on them for referrals. My orthopedist comes from a whole family of doctors--one brother is a plastic surgeon, another is a urologist, and their father was a heart surgeon. They are all local and embedded in the local medical community. My GP and internal medicine guy are also well plugged in.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:41 AM (ctrM5)
Goodbye huge floaters left over from a retinal tear!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 10:42 AM (dTIZ+)
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa
Why when Jesus talks about feeding the poor, it’s christianity. But when a politician talks about feeding the poor, it’s socialism?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)
I'm not complaining. It's awesome. I just want to make sure I don't get complacent because nothing like this has ever happened in my lifetime and probably won't again.
Trump literally built a temporary prison in the everglades surrounded by alligators and snakes for illegals. If he had a catapult installed to hurl them back to South America nobody would even blink.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 10:42 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 10:43 AM (RIvkX)
Frontrunner Pete Buttigieg has 0% support in the black community for 2028 according to a new Emerson poll
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Poor Butt-gigitty.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)
Which group of people are more useless, those who have nothing else to do with their lives but run for office for the next three years, or people who conduct polls about the people running for office three years from now.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 10:43 AM (1o4/R)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:38 AM (poXs5)
I got the one that was assigned. As do most patients locally.
I was perfectly aware that my course of treatment and my ultimate fate lay in the hands of the selection process of a private equity firm.
This sort of realization gives me conflicted thoughts on shooting health care CEOs
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:43 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes
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Any profession develops its own technical language. It is simply that the legal profession has about 1000 years of legal history that define the terms. So, like the modern acronyms used in technical, computing, and scientific communities have a lot of meaning packed into one word, the legal community has literally 900 years or so of what the law of the land aka due process means.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fG
When has socialism ever fed the poor? Never ever.
Their MO is starving the poor.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:44 AM (VofaG)
I add my voice to this - c'mon let's see them!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 28, 2025 10:44 AM (PQOq3)
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa
Why when Jesus talks about feeding the poor, it’s christianity. But when a politician talks about feeding the poor, it’s socialism?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)
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Uh, one involves free will. The other involves coercion. It's really that simple.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 28, 2025 10:44 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:41 AM (ctrM5)
My mom is a nurse at a small local hospital started by several brothers who are all MDs. That little hospital out in the boonies gives superior care… it’s amazingly good
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 28, 2025 10:45 AM (dTIZ+)
Sure, the "planned economy" was shit on stilts, like any "planned economy".
However, too many guns, not enough butter definitely had a lot to do with it.
The Soviets were spending around 25% of their GDP on the military (compared to around 5% for the United States in the same period).
That would have sunk them even if they'd had a market economy with Milton Friedman at the helm.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:46 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: polynikes
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And "Are you supervising surgeries simultaneously at two different hospitals as the senior surgeon of record while most of the surgery is done by surgical residents or fellows or doddering semi-retired surgeons who scrub in on occasion."
(This was actually happening in Denver at one point.)
Once you are asleep on the table do you really know who is doing what?
I once had foot surgery at a prestigious facility by a prestigious foot surgeon who was nearing retirement. The outcome was okay but not great. I have long suspected his trainee, (a senior fellow but still in training) did the actual surgery)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:46 AM (poXs5)
What is the person who graduated last in their class from medical school called?
Doctor.
Posted by: BobbyRay at June 28, 2025 10:47 AM (OpVV6)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:47 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:48 AM (poXs5)
Frontrunner Pete Buttigieg has 0% support in the black community for 2028 according to a new Emerson poll"
Somebody pundit ought to point out Trump has 10% higher support among blacks than Bootygig. Just to make the little asshole (and his AWFL supporters) suffer
Posted by: Ripley at June 28, 2025 10:48 AM (Q7i6X)
It is a good problem to have.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:27
This almost pissed me off. Almost.
GE had a big factory in Bloomington Indiana. It was where they made some of the large appliances. Lots of workers, lots off money in the local economy. They closed that fucker and left. Just had to offshore it, just like Otis elevator which was just a few miles away, Westinghouse, which was right across the street and RCA, also a few miles away. Every damn one of them left and their big old factory buildings are still sitting there empty and useless and those good paying jobs are gone forever. Now, NOW, GE is bringing some manufacturing back but planting it in Kentucky. THEIR FUCKING EMPTY FACTORY IS STILL SITTING RIGHT THERE IN BLOOMINGTON!!!
Almost. Because the city of Bloomington Indiana is the Peoples Socialist Utopia and doesn't want those dirty factories polluting their lives. They taxed hell out of them.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (2J/Lj)
Some n-word at Dennys muttered loud enough for me to hear "you don't need no fuckin cane".
DOCKTUR N-WURD!! KNOW ALL TELL ALL!!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (ro6Jo)
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)
Yeah, but the legal "profession" is an exclusionary lot, who intentionally avoid using words that ordinary people can understand.
It helps them stay important.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (1o4/R)
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (YkGND)
Just because millions of people believe that a professional language is not over complicated, self serving , ambiguous and used to re-interpret written law doesn't mean that it's not still over complicated, ambiguous and self serving.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (+qU29)
Doctor arrived stinking of the morgue.
What's his expertise?
Does he have one at all?
Posted by: Probably stolen at June 28, 2025 10:50 AM (LgDgc)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 10:50 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
The former is charity, the latter is coercion.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 10:51 AM (//7/7)
2028 Shake-Up: JD Vance Crushes GOP Poll, Kamala Harris Drops Off Radar
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 28, 2025 10:51 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: muldoon
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Politics and society have been fixated on descriptive representation aka a doc, judge, etc. of a doc/judge/lawyer that looks like themselves because tribalism is what far too much of the world runs upon. That is usually at the expense of quality.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)
I add my voice to this - c'mon let's see them!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 28, 2025 10:44 AM (PQOq3)
JK Rowling is the kind of gal who, if she'd married some schlub decades ago, as they both continued on with their lives, and you see them together, in a restaurant, at church, walking through Walmart, you'd think "what they hell did that schlub do to deserve a gal like that!"
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 10:52 AM (1o4/R)
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest unions might have had something to do with it.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 10:52 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:43 AM (ctrM5)
And being uniquely focused on language, the legal world has always delighted in doing this. I remember being shocked to learn that the English Legal system allowed only Norman French to be used in court until well into the 15th Century. (And legalese is still packed with Norman French words and concepts)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 10:52 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 28, 2025 10:53 AM (XMeop)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:49 AM (VofaG)
Not even when they tell you it's not... using complicated, ambiguous, and self-serving language?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 10:53 AM (1o4/R)
I'm hoping he gets jail justice. He was in on killing a rival gangster's MOTHER so the knives are out for poor Kilmar.
Posted by: torabora at June 28, 2025 10:54 AM (Hxfl9)
I think you misspelled "lawyers."
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:55 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Sharon
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And some medical communities are worse than others which makes me reluctant to move.
FWIW, I have taken to going to Mayo Clinic for second opinions on anything major.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 10:55 AM (ctrM5)
This sort of realization gives me conflicted thoughts on shooting health care CEOs
Posted by: Kindltot
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I guess that answers that questin. 😳
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:55 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 28, 2025 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
That would have sunk them even if they'd had a market economy with Milton Friedman at the helm.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 28, 2025 10:46 AM (qpyNK)
The US' 5% was larger and better maintained that the Soviet's 25% because of the market economy allowed for a more productive economy.
"smaller slice of a larger pie"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2025 10:56 AM (D7oie)
UVA president resigns after Trump administration pressure
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan is stepping down after the Trump administration reportedly tied his resignation to ending a Justice Department probe into the school’s DEI practices. The White House called it a win, warning other schools to comply with federal civil rights laws.
https://is.gd/GkPHYe
Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2025 10:56 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 10:57 AM (P389G)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 10:43 AM (
And. Embrace its power.
The entire system is just a cheesy puppet show for kids.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 10:58 AM (BI5O2)
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa
Why when Jesus talks about feeding the poor, it’s christianity. But when a politician talks about feeding the poor, it’s socialism?
The fact that some people can't tell the difference between the two pretty much describes the whole western world's problems.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 10:58 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 10:58 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 28, 2025 10:58 AM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 28, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 28, 2025 11:00 AM (URRXY)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 11:00 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Plus Latin. Part of that is educated people that were lawyers, clerics, judges, etc. in the Middle Ages into the early Renaissance usually spoke Latin, some French, and English.
Clerics also had an impact on law because of the bifurcated Court of Equity (Chancery) versus the Common Law courts. So Latin and Law French were advantaged over plain English.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:01 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 10:55 AM (poXs5)
To give a more serious answer, when my son was hospitalized, I operated on the assumption the medical professionals knew what they were doing.
Then he died.
I've spent the past several months NOT questioning the skills and methods used by those professionals, precisely because it won't make any difference. Not because I don't think there is plenty of opportunity to go down that rabbit hole, and to possibly discover he didn't have to die.
I could be completely wrong, but right now I'm resigned to believing they gave him the thing that killed him. Had we gone somewhere else, or simply arrived at a different time, he'd still be alive.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:01 AM (1o4/R)
This is democracy in action. If my black stepchildren weren't such damned good citizens I'd take them there for some late summer looting and make some bank.
Curse my luck!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 11:01 AM (BI5O2)
https://tinyurl.com/59kdy82r
Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2025 11:00 AM
A quarter of her words are the phrase 'I don't understand'.
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 11:02 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 11:02 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: polynikes
But were they right or wrong in either place?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 11:02 AM (//7/7)
There should be mandatory video recording of everything that goes on in an OR. Paging @RFKJr.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 11:02 AM (/y8xj)
The entire system is just a cheesy puppet show for kids.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 10:58 AM (BI5O2)
It's professional wrassling without the athleticism.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:03 AM (1o4/R)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 28, 2025 11:03 AM (P389G)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28, 2025 11:02 AM
Like carrier landings.
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 11:03 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:01 AM (1o4/R)
Over time I have personally known several who have died from the “treatment” they were given. Happens a lot more often than anyone likes to let on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:04 AM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 11:02 AM (+qU29)
I can't wait for the rest of you people to stop this daylight savings time nonsense, and get with the normal world.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:04 AM (1o4/R)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 28,
Yup. If we videotape police interactions for safety reasons, why not a profession where vastly more people are injured or killed?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 11:05 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: polynikes
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It can be. But, given the sparse language of our Constitution, interpretation is baked into the cake. One could do as the English did for centuries, pass relatively few statutes but that requires a Common Law system of courts to apply generalized statutes to specific situations.
Essentially, courts are dispute resolution mechanisms and designed to apply the law to specific circumstances never dreamed of by those writing statutes or even Constitutions. So you get the question is the Air Force and/or Space Force constitutional?
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:05 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:04 AM (HEGiN)
I woke up a few nights ago, and remembered the crying baby in the ER... and realized, yep. That's what did it.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:05 AM (1o4/R)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 11:05 AM (BI5O2)
Body cams for politicians! All day, every day, 24/7.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:06 AM (1o4/R)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:01 AM
I am sorry for your loss. Six and eight months after the passing of my mother and then my father, I have similar thoughts.
I at least can deal with the 'why didn't I do something else' by I remind myself that they were 91 and 92 respectively and even if I had done everything right I would have bought a few more months at best. They were both just worn out.
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)
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I'm sorry you have had to deal with that. Do you have reason to believe there was a specific single causing incident?
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 11:08 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2025 11:02 AM (//7/
Unless you had a compression fracture or congenital defect they were wrong and the surgeries never made the situation better on those with just bad back pain. In fact the fusions just led to the necessity of another fusion in 80% of the cases I handled.
Don't get me wrong , fusions can be successful and beneficial but that's in cases where a fusion is the correct treatment. I saw it performed where it should have never been considered.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:08 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: toby928 at June 28, 2025 11:09 AM (jc0TO)
Not that I'm making light or dismissing your pain and situation in any way, however-
what everyone tends to forget is that the field of Medicine and Medicine itself is completely based upon statistics.
Even if a procedure has a 95% success rate, that still means a 5% failure rate even if everything goes exactly right within the procedure itself.
I think that's a good thing to explain to patients and their loved ones before actually performing a surgery or procedure. Or for the patient to ask.
I don't believe it's necessary to go down that rabbit hole unless you suspect gross incompetence.
YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 11:10 AM (iJfKG)
We're still interpreting a crystal clear one sentence amendment.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes
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Fusions often end up in whack a mole territory. When one part of the spine can no longer move then the strain is passed onto the next section that can.
I would think that NY docs, in this case, have a better handle on spinal fusion. It is not a wonder cure.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:12 AM (ctrM5)
The whole thing is a Catch-22.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 11:12 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 11:14 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2025 11:12 AM (BI5O2)
In your case of compression fractures, it is likely the appropriate treatment but I understand the hesitation.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mick at June 28, 2025 11:15 AM (HFx9z)
Posted by: polynikes
It will always be thus. As I said, courts are dispute resolution mechanisms which is why every single civilization ends up getting a legal system well back into antiquity. So, litigants to win will always try to get the judge to agree with their interpretation of the law and facts that favor their side.
Law is not and never will be a 'science' because it involves people with agency rather than a mundane chemical equation or a weight sliding down a slope.
And in fairness, writing a law or constitution to address ALL future situations is simply not possible. We get the word draconian from the Greek ruler Dracos whose code was so black and white resulting in harsh punishments that the code itself was viewed as unjust and evil.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:17 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 11:18 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Old but from NCBI.
"Preventable adverse events are a leading cause of death in the United States. When extrapolated to the over 33.6 million admissions to U.S. hospitals in 1997, the results of these two studies imply that at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors. Even when using the lower estimate, deaths in hospitals due to preventable adverse events exceed the number attributable to the 8th-leading cause of death. Deaths due to preventable adverse events exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,45
, breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516). "
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:20 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: muldoon at June 28, 2025 11:08 AM (poXs5)
Yes, he died specifically from an RSV infection. Which nobody was talking about until AFTER they treated him for the thing he came in for in the first place.
Initially they said he had acquired a staph, but then they stopped talking about that. Over the course of a couple weeks, the lungs just became overwhelmed.
There was NO talk of him not surviving this, until the last week.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:20 AM (Vksce)
And why I hate legalese. I understand its purpose and concede it's the system that's been around since the beginning of civilization and have to live with it. Doesn't mean I have to like it. Man will always screw up well intentioned systems.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:20 AM (VofaG)
YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 11:10 AM (iJfKG)
See my comment at 348.
Not going down the rabbit hole has nothing to do with suing anybody. It's about not laying blame on people who went into work each day, did what they did with the best of intentions, and yes, work in a system that sometimes doesn't do a very good job of not making people sicker than they were before they came in.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:23 AM (Vksce)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 11:25 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes
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Systems tend to grow into complexity even including nature. Sometimes the complexity ends up killing the system or leading to a lot of pruning by events.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)
Trump Lie? Nah.
People like him don't bother with lies; they don't give a fat rat what anyone thinks. They speak what they actually mean, having no filter, and often in poor taste. ("Sh*thole Haiti" is a true statement, but rudely put.)
In his first term, OrangeMan trusted his staffers to truthfully inform him of issues, and he never caught on that he was just a chew-toy for corrupt Dims, media, a traitorous judiciary and military.
Speaking of lying liars, do progressive leftists even blush anymore? Name *one single* Dim who hasn't been caught lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving and/or murdering, all the while smiling for the cameras, kissing babies and shaking hands?
Abraham bargained with the Angel of the Lord; if only 5 righteous people could be found among the rabble living in Sodom/Gomorrah, the city wouldn't be turned into rubble.
I'll settle for naming 3 actually clean-hands Dims from the last few decades, for a chance that we in America won't suffer that same fate, delivered by a Righteous G-d, Who, as John MacArthur puts it, "has finally had enough."
Posted by: ju at June 28, 2025 11:28 AM (vgX6l)
Posted by: polynikes
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One of the issues is that the Constitution is so difficult to change that amendments are either trivial (like 18 y.o. vote) or can only occur after really bad things happen like the ACW where one party become dominant.
So unfortunately, Scotus has stepped into the role of being a continuous constitutional convention which is ill suited for the type of people that become judges.
Constitutions are inherently political and the intertwining of judicial politics and constitution revision by fiat creates instability in politics.
Posted by: whig at June 28, 2025 11:36 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: pawn at June 28, 2025 11:38 AM (QB+5g)
Not so. We all have our own talents, too.
Posted by: Wenda at June 28, 2025 11:49 AM (GUmFs)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 28, 2025 11:01 AM (1o4/R)
Over time I have personally known several who have died from the “treatment” they were given. Happens a lot more often than anyone likes to let on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 11:04 AM (HEGiN)
A lot of it is guesswork. Educated guesswork, but still guesswork. So many illnesses have similar pathologies/symptoms. Just take meningitis for example. The symptoms are flu-like at first but by the time they figure out it's meningitis it's often too late.
Timing is everything. I was put on cipro for a UTI, 6 days later my test results finally came back as staph. It took 2 days for them to get a hold of me and for me to call them back so they could tell me I had to be put on amoxicilin. Ugh. So a 7 day antibiotic regimen turned into a 14 day regimen just because it took so long to get the test results back.
Posted by: Farquad at June 28, 2025 12:10 PM (YkGND)
EMT
It's morning, I'll concede that point.
Comments
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:45 AM (/HVsR)
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Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2025 06:46 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:47 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2025 06:49 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 28, 2025 06:51 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:59 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: H at June 28, 2025 06:36 AM (2gjbv)
Ouch. Life is cruel sometimes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 28, 2025 07:00 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: one hour sober at June 28, 2025 07:03 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 07:04 AM (2GCMq)
How heartbreaking. I will pray for she and her family.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 07:07 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Oblique Seinfeld reference at June 28, 2025 07:07 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 07:07 AM (2GCMq)
https://tinyurl.com/mr49vun6
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 07:12 AM (2GCMq)
Blaise Metreweli will, in the Autumn, become the first woman to lead MI6 in its 116-year-old history, the British government announced earlier this month.
The Daily Mail newspaper reported this week that her grandfather Constantine Dobrowolski defected from the Soviet Union’s Red Army to become a Nazi informant in the Chernigiv region of modern-day Ukraine.
The newspaper said German archives showed Dobrowolski was known as “the Butcher” or “Agent No 30” by Wehrmacht commanders."
Of course, no nazis in Ukraine ! Just Ukranian nazis. Now their progeny are to be in charge of all of UK's and by extension the US' secrets.
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2025 07:17 AM (g47mK)
But for now: Coffee.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 28, 2025 07:17 AM (7xrfc)
Willowed: We always hear about mermaids -- which I'd prefer to look at anyway, at least if they look like the original animated Ariel -- but there would have to be mermen if the race was to reproduce. Unless mermaids were spawned from Poseidon's forehead and are immortal, or very long-lived. Which would make them even lonelier than we've been shown that they are.
The old DC Comics during the Silver Age occasionally showed merfolk, both male and female, probably in Aquaman stories. Since I read that series very rarely, I think they may have showed up in Superman or Justice League tales too.
In Larry Niven's "Magic Goes Away" stories, he suggests that magical beings "breed oddly" when mana (the power behind magic) gets low, and that the merfolk evolved into . . . dolphins!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 07:18 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)
If there were a cavern or void in a solid rock mountain, and a MOP were to actually penetrate into the void...
Would there be a measurable difference in the seismic shock, compared to if the MOP failed to actually vent shock and pressure into the void?
I guess this is really a dumb question, because there would be no way that either US or Israeli forces could get a portable seismograph within 100 miles of that Iranian facility.
Right?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:21 AM (a1415)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:24 AM (a1415)
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.
Exploding in rock may attenuate the blast. Overpressure can be transmitted by air much better.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:25 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:26 AM (a1415)
How are you and your doing?
And wasn't ICE at your local city in a raid?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 07:28 AM (XQo4F)
So would there be a difference in seismic data if penetration into the void/chamber were successful?
I am suspecting that there would be a difference.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:28 AM (a1415)
Not just ICE, but friends of ours on local SWAT were there as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:29 AM (a1415)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)
There has been no reporting of this that I am aware of.
Simply my mind wandering during the above mentioned 4 mile walk this morning.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:30 AM (a1415)
That would require some sensitive instrumentation. The difference may be in milliseconds of shock onset.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:30 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: The Paolo at June 28, 2025 07:31 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025
***
Try a new venue. Perhaps observe the long-time custom of the bride and groom not seeing each other for a few days beforehand. The ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 and I did both of those things -- got married at a plantation home up the river and spent the night in one of their suites after a few days apart. The result was . . . explosive.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 07:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: H at June 28, 2025 06:36 AM (2gjbv)
Terrible.
Fuck cancer.
Posted by: Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm at June 28, 2025 07:33 AM (BugZp)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 07:34 AM (BugZp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog"
I'm saying 3. What can they do though? They already go anywhere and do anything they want. How awful it must be to not have a quiet honeymoon in a remote cabin, and discovering new things and experiences with your freshly postnuptial spouse.
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: creeper at June 28, 2025 07:36 AM (zFwIe)
More often?
I give the Bezos marriage 5 years, tops.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)
I think we should start a pool. I say two years.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 07:36 AM (BugZp)
Well...neither we nor the Israelis would ever be capable of developing instrumentation like that.
And with so many years of planning for the use of these MOPs, I doubt if anyone ever asked themselves if there were a BDA method that could be designed that would be deployable, to verify the success of such an attack.
That would be almost on the order of developing air dropped sonobuoys, or a SOSUS line sensitive enough to locate a sunk Russian sub.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:37 AM (a1415)
Sarah Hoyt's memes (https://accordingtohoyt.com) seem to be a better group. PLIP has lost the plot, for some reason. I think the curator moved on, and his replacement is not as good.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:38 AM (u82oZ)
You know, I actually had to think a moment.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2025 07:38 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Life of Wryly at June 28, 2025 07:39 AM (ycs3a)
I tried using earthquake.usgs.gov and did a geographic region including all of Iran, and set the start and end search times to cover the time of Operation Midnight Hammer (and padded it with an extra 24 hours on either end to be sure) but didn't come up with any data.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 28, 2025 07:39 AM (O7YUW)
Not a whole lot of deep thought went into it on my part.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:39 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2025 07:39 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025
Start at the very beginning
It's a very good place to start
When you read you begin with A-B-C
When you're intimate you begin with *oh my!*
*blushes*
Posted by: Maria at June 28, 2025 07:40 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 07:40 AM (BugZp)
PSJT?
Posted by: Confused at June 28, 2025 07:40 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:29 AM (u82oZ)
I think we should start a pool. I say two years.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 28, 2025 07:36 AM (BugZp)
I bet 500 Quatloos that it's the cable guy, by the pool and up the squeakhole within 13 months.
Posted by: Provider #1 at June 28, 2025 07:41 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at June 28, 2025 07:43 AM (Y1sOo)
I would think a better set of instrumentation would be a radiation meter. Neutron flux would tell the tale.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ancient Hippie at June 28, 2025 07:44 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2025 07:45 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: PMRich at June 28, 2025 07:46 AM (Pe+uV)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2025 07:46 AM (g47mK)
I tried using earthquake.usgs.gov and did a geographic region including all of Iran, and set the start and end search times to cover the time of Operation Midnight Hammer (and padded it with an extra 24 hours on either end to be sure) but didn't come up with any data.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 28, 2025 07:39 AM
Thanks.
So, if a tree falls in the forest...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2025 07:47 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: one hour sober
Maps. Lots and lots a' maps.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 07:47 AM (mlg/3)
The sound of an implosion or explosion followed by implosion can be used to locate the sub. You just need to apply the sonar equation to the deep sound channels and water temps + salinity. Get cross bearings from different sensors.
This is how the Soviet Golf-III sub partially raised by the Glomar Explorer was found, and that Argentine sub wreck was located.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
I guess this is really a dumb question, because there would be no way that either US or Israeli forces could get a portable seismograph within 100 miles of that Iranian facility.
Right?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:21 AM
challenge accepted
- The Mossad
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 28, 2025 07:48 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 07:48 AM (RIvkX)
I would not call the BHO marriage a valid one. More like codependency from different states.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:48 AM (u82oZ)
Soviet K-129 sank in 1968.
SOSUS recorded the event, and through secret white-man voodoo magic sh*t, they were able to triangulate the location of the sunken sub.
The sinking itself generated detectable noise.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:49 AM (a1415)
Mating (the best word I can use) among the ultra-wealthy baffles me (like most things in life). Where do they meet? What on earth do they talk about? Really, it seems more of an M&A deal than a marriage.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 07:49 AM (/HVsR)
ISTR it was reported that Mossad was onsite after the bombing. Details are a tad murky.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2025 07:50 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2025 07:39 AM (cYBz/)
******
Dude, really aren't we all? (j/k)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly Whatever it is I'm against it at June 28, 2025 07:51 AM (qliBS)
Posted by: Life of Wryly at June 28, 2025 07:51 AM (ycs3a)
Posted by: jsg at June 28, 2025 07:51 AM (ra4xZ)
You have a good point. It must be importnat to her, and he and his prenup lawyers go along with it.
It's not like they are conserving wealth for the children.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)
I give obamas' marriage 1 year.
Posted by: runner at June 28, 2025 07:45 AM (g47mK)
_________
Actually, if they're smart (a big assumption) they'll stay married but live separate lives. But Big Mike is an ambulatory bag of resentment.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 07:52 AM (/HVsR)
Oh, okay, you didn't say the part about an explosion or implosion beforehand. Thought you meant using a SOSUS array to find a sunken sub, sort of like side-scan sonar.
I'm well-versed in all the rest you spoke of. I flew P-3Cs for 3.5 years.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 28, 2025 07:54 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 28, 2025 07:54 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 28, 2025 07:54 AM (Dxdzg)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 28, 2025 07:54 AM (Dxdzg)
One of my favorites. I love that tempo switch.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at June 28, 2025 07:55 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: one hour sober at June 28, 2025
***
"We have him. Move toward him!"
Posted by: Romulan Commander, Neutral Zone at June 28, 2025 07:57 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 07:58 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 07:52 AM (/HVsR)
With sometimes unrestrained floppiness.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 28, 2025 07:58 AM (wVcYX)
I thought you were Spock's daddy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 07:58 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Noodist at June 28, 2025 07:58 AM (XQo4F)
Do you still miss the per diem?
My first ship was a Spruance ASW DD. I remember working with the S-3 Vikings. P-3s were a couple of CZs further out.
FWIW, we were the on-scene ship for that crippled Victor-3 sub off of South Caroline in 1983. Got stories.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 08:00 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)
---
do it again, just to be sure
if some is good, more must be better
Posted by: Don Black at June 28, 2025 08:07 AM (AOsQT)
Neutron flux - source would be a nuclear reaction which would be unlikely since no critical mass.
Natural decay chain for uranium primarily involves alpha and beta emissions which are very easily attenuated by simple shielding.
Sealing off the underground facilities would provide a huge mass for shielding
Posted by: PMRich at June 28, 2025 08:17 AM (Pe+uV)
Posted by: one hour sober at June 28, 2025 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)
See my comment at #50. If you know of a different way to get at the relevant data somewhere else on USGS's site, please share? (I might not be using the most appropriate tool that they provide, for example.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 28, 2025 09:03 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: creeper at June 28, 2025 09:10 AM (zFwIe)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Yeah, I missed that.
Mine was just a hypothetical about seismic data.
Posted by: PMRich at June 28, 2025 09:14 AM (Pe+uV)
Posted by: Eromero at June 28, 2025 09:33 AM (LHPAg)
Daily Tech News 28 June 2025
Top Story
- In the midst of a string of straightforward decisions by the Supreme Court upholding the plain meaning of the Constitution, such as Trump v. CASA, limiting the power of the inferior courts, and Mahmoud v. Taylor, limiting the power of the the indoctrination guilds, there was one with the exact same 6-3 split that went in a perhaps unexpected way. (The Verge)
In FSC v. Paxton the Free Speech Coalition sued Texas attorney general Ken Paxton to block legislation to enforce age filters on online pornography on the grounds that it would inevitably infringe upon the free speech of adults.
A 2004 decision against the federal Child Online Protection Act, as well as a 1997 decision against the Communications Decency Act, both ruled that the legislation would violate the First Amendment on precisely those grounds.
This time though the court ruled that there was no fundamental right infringed by the Texas legislation - or by similar laws proposed or enacted by 21 other states - stating that advances in technology something something something, an argument I find questionable.
Expect sales of VPNs to teenagers to soar.
This does leave open the question of more recently proposed age filter laws for social media. I don't care much if fifteen-year-olds have to circumvent the filters to watch PornHub and OnlyFans, but if they suddenly can't access Bluesky they'll infest sites that aren't age restricted and we all remember the Great Tumblr Containment Breach catastrophe.
Tech News
- Gigabyte says its new turbo mode can boost performance of recent Intel systems by as much as 35%. (Tom's Hardware)
It can't.
- If you have Brother printer - or one of several models from Fuji, Toshiba, or Minolta - change the wifi password. (Tom's Hardware)
Or you might find yourself the victim of of a drive-by print job.
- Which came first, colour vision, or the existence of colour in animals so that there was a need for colour vision. (Quanta)
Colour vision, and by a lot.
- Speaking of seeing stuff, Facebook wants access to your pictures to feed them into its AI - including pictures you have never uploaded to Facebook. (Tech Crunch)
The answer is no.
- Speaking of the answer is no, Facebook is upset that Republicans are taking its slaves away. (FWD.us)
FWD.us is a lobbying group founded by Mark Zuckerberg nominally to - among other things - promote improved border security.
Either that was a lie or... Well, given their past activity, it was pretty much just a lie.
The answer is still no.
- Microsoft is finally getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death. (Tech Republic)
Going forward, it will instead be black.
- What the Supreme Court doesn't understand about vivisectionists. (StatNews)
Recently I saved three toes of a patient with type 2 diabetes in the earlier stages of gangrene using maggots to eat the dead flesh, allowing the remaining healthy tissues to regrow and recovering almost complete function.
Slightly edited, yes. This doctor is not talking about feeding children to maggots, but rather about chemical sterilization and surgical mutilation.
But when I trap young children and feed them into my basement maggot pit, I could face felony charges in 49 states.
The careful medical evaluation is the same. But one is celebrated while the other is criminalized - with devastating consequences for the children whose futures hang in my bank balance.As a pediatrician, I never imagined having lawmakers decide which children's suffering deserves treatment.
Maybe he should stop making children suffer then.
Yes, this was another 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court upholding a state law and affirming the Sixth Circuit's existing decision.
Sort Of Tech News
For the past few months I've been working busily on a new project at work that was expected to launch about, well, right now really.
With just a few weeks left before it needed to ship, and with the application largely working, the entire design was suddenly changed for... Reasons... Putting me into extreme crunch time. So lately I've just been grabbing half an hour each day - while working seven days a week - to put up at least some content.
I can't complain because I was party to the decision to redesign everything and agree that the new design makes it a much better product for everyone involved, including reducing the future tech support load, much of which would have landed on me. And the company got in a specialist to do some of the key work for the redesign, and he did a good job.
Just... Ouch. I haven't slept much this past month.
Anyway, we missed the originally planned shipping date by a week but it's now complete and I have my weekends - and my sanity - to myself again.
Not At All Tech News
The shark is back.
(For those not terminally online, Sameko Saba is the latest iteration of the girl who won the World Series for the Dodgers last year sort of.)
Musical Interlude
Alternate version because there are no versions of the original with decent audio that aren't blocked somewhere.
Disclaimer: Your friends don't dance? Into the maggot pit!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:33 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:33 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:34 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 04:36 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:37 AM (CQE5S)
It can't.
I am not a lawyer, but "as much as" might be doing a lot of heavy lifting, there.
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:38 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:38 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 28, 2025 04:38 AM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)
content warning!
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:40 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:42 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)
This appears to be Danish for "grind."
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:42 AM (CQE5S)
WH spokesman Stephen Miller is such a smart. articulate man and kind of intense that I enjoyed seeing a gentler picture of he and his wife:
https://tinyurl.com/4ba44jps
They apparently have three kids under four.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 04:43 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:44 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 28, 2025 04:46 AM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:46 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)
This appears to be Danish for "grind."
Posted by: m
Also the past perfect continuous form of the verb "to sleep".
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 04:47 AM (BLOW1)
https://tinyurl.com/3r8pwc4s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 04:47 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: fluffy at June 28, 2025 04:47 AM (AN2gy)
The executive order, issued last month, prompted NOAA to centralize and consolidate resources onto one website.
In the May 23 order, Trump said the federal government "used or promoted scientific information in a highly misleading manner," leading to loss of trust with the public.
He specifically mentioned how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance on reopening the schools with edits encouraged by the American Federation of Teachers. He accused it of being "restrictive and burdensome" and it "discouraged in-person learning."
https://tinyurl.com/mw7nrbnc
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:47 AM (omVj0)
--Wikipedia
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:48 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 04:50 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: fluffy at June 28, 2025 04:54 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 04:55 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 04:55 AM (2GCMq)
Good morning, fine citizens of the planet's most exceptional country, from the Adirondacks, home of some of the more exciting segments of our history.
May this day's efforts bring great benefit to each, with
like heartburn for the leftwits
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 28, 2025 04:56 AM (hKoQL)
Thanks. That fellow has quite a talent. I laughed.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 04:59 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 05:00 AM (CQE5S)
Take some time off when you need it
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 28, 2025 05:02 AM (aIUZW)
Whenever I happen across one of his Truck Astrology shorts I play it through twice because the humor is just that good.
Posted by: fluffy at June 28, 2025 05:02 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:03 AM (2GCMq)
Not sure what sort of regionalism that may be, but it seems to be prominent in New England to drop off some final consonants and replace it with a soft 'unh'.
Posted by: fluffy at June 28, 2025 05:06 AM (AN2gy)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 28, 2025 05:19 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 05:27 AM (+qU29)
May this day's efforts bring great benefit to each, with
like heartburn for the leftwits
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 28,
THANK YOU!
I needed that. Especially here in Canada.
President Trump had a kick ass day yesterday. And some of that came my way. My brother FINALLY signed papers on the house, after backing out twice on the last day since January when Mom passed.
I took care of Mom amd Dad for 14 years. I'll be fine but just wanted more time to create a life. It cost me a crazy amount of money but I have a 2 years of peace.
Honestly, I'm just happy Mom's dog, legally mine, but Mom's dog Ralphy gets to stay here. He's a rescue dog. About 15. Horrible limping. I'm trying to keep him comfortable.
And my amazing friends outdoor cat Snowflake, who stays here is no longer potentially homeless.
Well the house is 99% mine. But it's been hell and I'm posting at 5:24 in the morning.
But, immediate plan. I am taking care of the dog forever. So much limping. He's home. As is, apparently the cat. Not mine. But about ready to type.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 05:29 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 05:30 AM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:32 AM (2GCMq)
https://tinyurl.com/9mnmeb7p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:36 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 28, 2025 05:30 AM (sJ4fj)
37 Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 28, 2025 05:02 AM (aIUZW)
Good point!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:32
WOW!
Both of you are here this early? Don't you sleep?
I'm still keyed up until closing.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 05:38 AM (jvJvP)
I am so used to getting up with FenSpouse for the bus run and coffee that I cannot stay asleep past 4:30 even on a Saturday.
I am praying that rough places all work out positively for you for your house situation.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:43 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:45 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Just Wondering at June 28, 2025 05:45 AM (XQo4F)
I am praying that rough places all work out positively for you for your house situation.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:43 AM
Thanks so much.
The cat that isn't mine just jumped onto her cat tree.
I would love to have your schedule. But Mom was always up late in the night, I had my door open to listen for her and everyone would sleep in.
Until next week.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 05:49 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:52 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2025 05:55 AM (2GCMq)
That guy who was in talks to potentially buy Commodore...
Just bought Commodore and is now acting CEO.
Will post tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-Ao-CpI7E
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 06:00 AM (BLOW1)
"Video unavailable
This video is not available" (Canada)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 28, 2025 06:05 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 28, 2025 06:06 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 28, 2025 06:10 AM (kozl2)
That guy who was in talks to potentially buy Commodore...
Just bought Commodore and is now acting CEO.
Will post tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-Ao-CpI7E
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 06:00 AM (BLOW1)
My college buddy (back around 1982-ish) owned a Commodore 64. I was SO jealous!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 28, 2025 06:13 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 28, 2025 06:13 AM (pJWtt)
I'll give you the Coleco Adsm we bought.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 06:15 AM (jvJvP)
https://youtu.be/I3-6mGmw-fg
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 28, 2025 06:15 AM (NXz8h)
"Video unavailable
This video is not available" (Canada)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Bum. Added an alternate video for the geographically challenged.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 06:18 AM (BLOW1)
On tap today: haircut (all of them), picking up my repaired leather briefcase at the repair shop, aaand . . .??? We have a 50% chance of rain here, so washing the car might be fruitless.
Maybe we'll go out to eat tonight at our favorite diner.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:20 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:21 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 28, 2025 06:13 AM (pJWtt)
I'll give you the Coleco Adsm we bought.
Posted by: Stateless
TI 99/4A here. We were poor and got by on food coloring.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 28, 2025 06:21 AM (NXz8h)
That guy who was in talks to potentially buy Commodore...
Just bought Commodore and is now acting CEO.
Will post tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-Ao-CpI7E
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025
***
Commodore is still around?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)
Long messy story.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 06:24 AM (BLOW1)
The entire house is up.
My friends' cat Snowflake, who has been back 2.5 weeks after her catnapping is looking out the patio.
I petted and talked to Ralphy a lot. I reminded him that he and I would go to the dog park, literally across the street, and chase squirrels. I had him on the leash and I am a runner.
And now cats are in the house. Ralphy is fine with that.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 06:30 AM (jvJvP)
That guy who was in talks to potentially buy Commodore...
Just bought Commodore and is now acting CEO.
Will post tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-Ao-CpI7E
Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 28, 2025 06:00 AM (BLOW1)
Cool. Watching. I *don't* recognize the Commodore logo!
Posted by: m at June 28, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Stateless
TI 99/4A here. We were poor and got by on food coloring.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 28, 2025 06:21 AM (NXz8h)w
Please, my heart.
Which is great...but still..
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 06:38 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2025 06:38 AM (/HVsR)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 06:47 AM (vFG9F)
We have a deal with the pigeons.
https://youtu.be/xPCZtrac-Ss
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at June 28, 2025 06:53 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 06:54 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at June 28, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Also receiving votes at June 28, 2025 07:01 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: fluffy at June 28, 2025 07:02 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Kurtz at June 28, 2025 07:03 AM (rYlfN)
Posted by: The Little Merman at June 28, 2025 07:05 AM (XQo4F)
Hey, I work, I ain't no bum, no hobo either, which is good because otherwise I might end up as a pelt on Ace's trophy wall. ;-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 28, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)
The old DC Comics during the Silver Age occasionally showed merfolk, both male and female, probably in Aquaman stories. Since I read that series very rarely, I think they may have showed up in Superman or Justice League tales too.
In Larry Niven's "Magic Goes Away" stories, he suggests that magical beings "breed oddly" when mana (the power behind magic) gets low, and that the merfolk evolved into . . . dolphins!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 07:11 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 28, 2025 07:18 AM (omVj0)
If there were a cavern or void in a solid rock mountain, and a MOP were to actually penetrate into the void...
Would there be a measurable difference in the seismic shock, compared to if the MOP failed to actually vent shock and pressure into the void?
I guess this is really a dumb question, because there would be no way that either US or Israeli forces could get a portable seismograph within 100 miles of that Iranian facility.
Right?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2025 07:21 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Ray at June 28, 2025 07:50 AM (zhWvq)
Posted by: Kenneth King Neil at June 28, 2025 08:04 AM (/g9JB)
Good luck on the launch of the redesigned system. May no gremlins creep out at the last second!
And thank you for keeping up your postings. I'm sure I speak for many when I say that they're much appreciated.
Posted by: Nemo at June 28, 2025 08:16 AM (4RPgu)
Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The ONT
Hello everybody! Tonight's advice is geared towards promoting family harmony.
Good for them!
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 27, 2025
Guess who's stomping mad about SCOTUS?
New mug just dropped
When mommy comes home
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 27, 2025
As if leftists do laundry
Sing along
Redneck mechanic
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 27, 2025
Pot/kettle
Tonight's pun
How to navigate those stupid roundabouts they keep building
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 28, 2025
Happy spud
AI
I think this is staged, but if not, wouldn't he have been better of hanging from the other side?
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 28, 2025
Choose violence
Devil on your shoulder says what?
Trying to upset CBD, an ongoing series
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 28, 2025
For God so loved the students
Priorities
A lawyer AND a cyclist? Boy, I bet this guy is popular
I'm glad he said he was a lawyer. I never would have guessed. pic.twitter.com/rpuyAbiTOa
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) June 28, 2025
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - Friday looms at June 27, 2025 10:02 PM (bvX/N)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:02 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Friday looms at June 27, 2025 10:02 PM (bvX/N)
Well, I apparently never do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 10:03 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:04 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:05 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:06 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:08 PM (TfUTr)
Do you think Bezos invited POTUS to his wedding, or was he told “Don’t bother.” ? I know Ivanka and her husband were there.
Posted by: Jmel at June 27, 2025 10:08 PM (bVhJi)
Sorry, not sorry.
Groomers should be subject to the death penalty if the general public gets to them before they get to a judge.
Those that support groomers should be sent to life imprisonment with daily scourging, so long as they shall live.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 10:08 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 10:09 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Till their farts sound like a yawn.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:10 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 27, 2025 10:10 PM (hftn9)
Albinism gives pink eyes but I've heard of nonalbinos with red also. Not actually seen one that I remember though.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Some Rat
Even if you're not First, suicide is not the answer!
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: four seasons at June 27, 2025 10:10 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Frankie at June 27, 2025 10:11 PM (G1hiI)
Cool.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:11 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:11 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: MartynWW at June 27, 2025 10:11 PM (vXpHP)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)
I gotta go do the dishes first, before I can sit down and revel in Weird Dave's largesse.
BBIAB
Posted by: browndog procrastinated at June 27, 2025 10:12 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 10:13 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2025 10:13 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 10:13 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 27, 2025 10:13 PM (hftn9)
I asked this question twice on different threads today, Admiral.
Has Mike Johnson begun impeachment proceedings against the illiterate clown Jackson yet?
Posted by: The Dead to Some Rat OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:07 PM
***
I laughed out loud. I would award you a commemorative plate if I had one.
Posted by: TRex at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (cCn4/)
But, my best to the finest Horde!!!!🤪🤪🤪🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (ZwGHJ)
No Black Eyes ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 27, 2025 10:15 PM (QSrLX)
"No wonder why the neighbors never wanna talk to us!"
Clearly, y'all need better neighbors.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 10:15 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (mlg/3)
Yes, I was lilly-ing the guild.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (QPRfs)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)
Too many times to count.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: TRex
Hoping to get one in Texas. Fingers crossed!
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2025 10:17 PM (i0F8b)
No Black Eyes ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (/lPRQ)
I can help you out on dat.
Posted by: Ike Turner at June 27, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)
One of the fun things about blue eyes, at least with me, is when I walk out from indoors into bright sunshine, I sneeze. Almost all the time, and not just once. Even if I'm outside, and the sun is bright enough, a sneeze. Winter or summer.
There's gotta be a country song about 'sunshine making my blue eyes sneeze'. And if there isn't, there should be.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:17 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Tina Turner at June 27, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: polynikes
And at least one that blinded themself that way, if I recall my Daily-Mail-type tabloid stories.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (cCn4/)
No Black Eyes ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
I can help you out on dat.
Posted by: Ike Turner
Raor.
Posted by: Bruce Da Machine at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (0Htd1)
There's gotta be a country song about 'sunshine making my blue eyes sneeze'. And if there isn't, there should be.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:17 PM (gKDq2)
That's called a "photic sneeze reaction", and I have it too, and my eyes are brown.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (yLiuJ)
I wonder if the number of goats and sheep molested by muzzies is more that what's killed for eating...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 10:19 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)
Would you say that it just keeps cycling?
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 10:19 PM (QPRfs)
Posted by: RickZ
"Photic sneeze reflex."
Affects 1/5 to 1/3 of humans.
Not tied to eye color, as far as I know.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:19 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
If you're talking making it to the finish line...few do.
{{{}}}
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:19 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: TRex
Is that like the one they put into heads? Commemorative of a "hold my beer" moment.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 10:20 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2025 10:17 PM (i0F8b)
Maren Jensen of the original Battlestar Galactica, too I believe.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 10:20 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:19 PM (ynpvh)
They just sell the molested ones two villages away. Mohammed decreed it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 10:21 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 10:21 PM (ZwGHJ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (0Htd1)
Pineapple Upside Down Cake.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: polynikes
One of each? That's the "heterochromia" slice.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)
No talking about actual blue green color. Blue and Green are next to each other on the color wheel. You have that color before they transition into one or the other.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 10:21 PM (VofaG)
Very first post. Sorry for repeating, but my brother FINALLY signed papers so I can buy the house. This was the third time this year.
I have went insane the last 5.7 months. Official close is Monday. All papers are signed. I'll be nervous until Monday and drinking beer and eating edibles through Canada Day.
Anyways. The cat that isn't mine, now 10 pounds, and Mom's elderly dog with a bad limp aren't homeless.
Damn, are the Pet and Gardening Threads getting pictures. So many cat pictures and I don't have cats. Lol. And 'puppy'. And statues. We.....well I have a lot of statues inmthe yard.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 10:22 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 10:22 PM (BanGW)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 10:22 PM (0Htd1)
There's gotta be a country song about 'sunshine making my blue eyes sneeze'. And if there isn't, there should be.
Posted by: RickZ
Read somewhere if ya had a sneeze that wouldn't come out, quickly glancing at a bright light could move things along.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:23 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:23 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 10:22 PM (BanGW)
Color wheel be raycist.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 10:24 PM (QPRfs)
Posted by: The Barrel at June 27, 2025 10:24 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (yLiuJ)
Thanks. I've never known anyone other than myself with this 'condition'. It's definitely not genetic in the inheritance
sense. Gotta be a chromosome 404.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:24 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 10:25 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 27, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
Pinkeye, on the other hand...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:25 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:25 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 10:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:26 PM (ynpvh)
I called that faggot pervert activist malor "gayb" once at one of our spinoff blogs and a couple of people gave me shit about it. This was, like, 15 years ago when I was The Only One sayong malor was a No Good.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 10:26 PM (59u2T)
Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at June 27, 2025 10:26 PM (l1UWN)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 10:27 PM (cduTK)
Maren Jensen of the original Battlestar Galactica, too I believe.
No, it was Jane Seymour, who was also on the original Battlestar Galactica, and went on to be in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. One brown eye and one green eye.
Posted by: Frankie at June 27, 2025 10:27 PM (G1hiI)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 27, 2025 10:28 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: Don Black
Oh, good, so it isn't just me.
They play on xcancel. But they're jittery. Be sure to remove everything from the "?" to the end of the URL.
Posted by: mindful webworker - frustraty at June 27, 2025 10:28 PM (bvX/N)
What I hated about gayb malor was not that he was a pickle smoocher pervert, but he INFILTRATED AoS under false pretense.
I saw it immediately. His agenda was obvious.
But Ace was buffaloed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 10:29 PM (59u2T)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 10:29 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 10:29 PM (ZwGHJ)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 27, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
Thank you so much especially since today was President Trump kicking ass, taking names, kicking ass again and lining up his next victims.
So if I am the best thing, that means a lot.
Again, President Trump kicked ass today. I ak so happy for all of you. It was a good day.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 10:29 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 10:29 PM (BanGW)
Posted by: davidt
Maren Jensen of the original Battlestar Galactica, too I believe.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Someone's gonna say "David Bowie, too," but he's not a heterochromat.
One of his pupils is permanently dilated--called "anisocoria"--due to damage from getting punched in the face as a kid. So his eyes look different, but the irises are both blue.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:29 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 10:26 PM (mP0Kj)
The White Zone is for barrel loading only.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:30 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Frankie at June 27, 2025 10:27 PM (G1hiI)
I knew it was one of them. Couldn't remember which.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 10:31 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Don Black
Oh, good, so it isn't just me.
They play on xcancel. But they're jittery. Be sure to remove everything from the "?" to the end of the URL.
Posted by: mindful webworker
They work fine. Just upgrade to Windows 25.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:31 PM (mlg/3)
William Henry Sleepalot
Buzzy Barfwheel
Potatowurst
Der Newspaperin
Chickens
Gastronaut
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 27, 2025 10:32 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Till their farts sound like a yawn.
Posted by: Some Rat at
Along with beagle kickers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 10:32 PM (0Htd1)
I'd love to know how I got the blue eyes. No one in my extended family has blue eyes. But that recessive gene was there on both sides. It's an old woodpile.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:32 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:33 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 10:33 PM (0eaVi)
But hey honey!!! Big smoocnes💋💋💋
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Plenty of seating at the Horde table. Do you have a book of matches? Shims? Floor jack? The wobble is pretty severe tonight.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:33 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 10:34 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:34 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - oh, wait, never mind. Here they are at June 27, 2025 10:34 PM (bvX/N)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 10:35 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 10:35 PM (cduTK)
The Tyranny of the Browns!
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)
But they changed something recently, and now the ones with the spinning disc will start playing if I click on them.
I figure it's the inline version of Cloudflare's basic captcha window.
[_] verify you are human
Posted by: mikeski is mostly human at June 27, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 10:36 PM (cduTK)
No. ace by nature is a decent guy and gayb -ever grasping for advantage - used him for it. Also; ace doesn't read his own blog.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 10:37 PM (BanGW)
He does get it right most of the time.
The three Democrat appointed women on the Supreme Court are beyond farce and parody.
Each 6-3 ruling only adds to the absurdity.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 10:37 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 10:37 PM (ZwGHJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 10:38 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 27, 2025 10:39 PM (BW+Gb)
Brown.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:34 PM (/lPRQ)
http://tiny.cc/3d5o001
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 10:39 PM (QPRfs)
Posted by: Sadowski
One is not going to get towering displays of intellect from a person who doesn't know what a woman is.
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:40 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:40 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 10:40 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2025 10:41 PM (XeU6L)
Wait, what?
He does get it right most of the time.
The three Democrat appointed women on the Supreme Court are beyond farce and parody.
Each 6-3 ruling only adds to the absurdity.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 10:37 PM (r2ymA)
Of the three, Kagan is the smart one. But that's not saying much.
The Justice Who Doesn't Know What A Woman Is has got to be impeached. If for nothing more than for being an imbecile.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:41 PM (YwEeS)
Do NOT eat the raisins on the sticky brown paper! They aren't raisins.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:42 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: banana Dream
Wikipedia agrees. Non-brown eyes are a case of "structural color," like butterfly wings.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)
Then you're an idiot.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 10:14 PM (VofaG)
My sister's eyes cycle between green and hazel. I have blue eyes with hazel flecks.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:42 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 10:42 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)
I learned how to make nice little wedges! Just you wait and see...no more match things!
Our tables will be fantastic 🤪😜!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 10:43 PM (ZwGHJ)
If you dip orange slices in a good batter I bet it would taste great. After all it’s deep fried.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 10:43 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 10:16 PM (L/fGl)
He is a gay conservative who can be depended on to immediately re-center on gay when there is any possibility of conflict.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:44 PM (D7oie)
Remember, they just want to get married.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:45 PM (XFYYr)
Hazel eyes are a unique blend of brown, green, and gold tones, often appearing to change color based on lighting and surroundings. They are less common than brown or blue eyes, with about 18% of the U.S. population having hazel eyes.
zennioptical.com
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 10:45 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:45 PM (YwEeS)
Just. Brown. Boring. Oh well.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:40 PM (mT+6a)
My wife's eyes were brown, and I never found them boring.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
305 there is a meme out there showing Justice Ketanji Brown, with the caption, "Appointed by Autopen"
Posted by: Kindltot
It's always true.
"A" people hire other "A" people. "B" people hire "C" people.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:46 PM (DgGvY)
I mean it had red sauce, anchovy powder, various meats, and cheese, but it had rosemary on top.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:46 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 10:47 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Colour My World at June 27, 2025 10:47 PM (G5+As)
I'm special!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 10:47 PM (uaSJI)
I mean it had red sauce, anchovy powder, various meats, and cheese, but it had rosemary on top.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:46 PM (D7oie)
Is Rosemary nice? Is she spicy like Ginger? Or do you more prefer a Mary Ann?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 10:48 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 10:48 PM (JkO4W)
$20, same as in town.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)
And it's winking.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Which kind of sounds great, except for the cats.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 27, 2025 10:48 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:48 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (W/lyH)
Gabe Malor has some serious brain rot. What is he even babbling about on that X post.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (BW+Gb)
Also edibles from Ontario which gives this a nice twist.
The house closing is Mondayl 99% done but I am still nervous.
BUT, I just walked through the house. So much was remodelled. I break out even.
The house is very nice. And large for one person. And a visiting cat and older rescue dog, I'm still in my childhood bedroom in a twin bed. Two other big bedrooms, big beds. One room was my parents. The other a guest room.
I'm good in the twin bed.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (jvJvP)
OTOH, after I drink alot I'm with you red eye people.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (rvwwT)
Lawyers are wonderful, the barrister is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 10:20 PM (cYBz/)
My uncle was allergic to nickle, so they put a paper plate in his head instead of stainless. It worked just fine, the only problem was when it got sunny and warm he HAD to go on a picnic
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: scampydog at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (BanmN)
I will report back with my findings.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (uaSJI)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:46 PM (DgGvY)
Biden was never a "B person." We need to invent a few extra symbols to get to what type of person he is.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (QPRfs)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)
When you have really crappy eyesight you get use to another variety of false color that comes with high index of refraction lenses. Similar to leaded glass or dense crystal these types of glasses will cause colors to be split and images offset. Generally not dead center but quite often in your peripheral vision or side glances you'll have Chromatic aberrations.
Early on it would drive me crazy but I guess I just got used to everything looking funky sometimes. For instance a blinking white light you'll actually see as a blinking red light close to a blinking blue light.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 10:50 PM (cduTK)
He is achingly, throbbingly conservative....I almost cannot blame him for his histrionics I wonder what old Drew is up to on Blue Sky.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:50 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:50 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:50 PM (YwEeS)
Just. Brown. Boring. Oh well
I don’t think brown eyes are boring! They are soulful. Plus you never heard the song “My Green Eyed Girl” now have you?
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 10:50 PM (pRpzT)
Just. Brown. Boring. Oh well.
Brown is a lovely color, which has a variety of beautiful shades., Don't be disappointed, instead celebrate. Look for brown in the world, it is everywhere, and it works great.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 27, 2025 10:51 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 10:51 PM (ZwGHJ)
irradiated moose should have told you....
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:51 PM (XFYYr)
Douchebag lawyer cyclist should be disbarred and sent to prison for his voice alone. Plus being a lawyer. And a cyclist. And a douchebag.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:52 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Bombadil at June 27, 2025 10:52 PM (MX0bI)
Name any conservative position he or drew have taken in the last eight years.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:53 PM (XFYYr)
I mean it had red sauce, anchovy powder, various meats, and cheese, but it had rosemary on top.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:46 PM (D7oie)
Focaccia with sliced potato and fresh rosemary. Not traditional but I grate on some cheese. Because. No sauce. Delish.
Also make one with oil-cured olive pieces, prosciutto pieces and parmigiano shavings.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:53 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Diogenes
Put me in the 2% green eyed camp....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady
I'm in the green-eye camp and I have the 'sneeze in bright sunlight' affliction too! I'm special!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
OK, now I'm suspecting a genetic link between green eyes and political conservatism. And being a night owl. Way too many of us here.
Though that chart is a worldwide total, so all the brown-eyed East-Asians and Indians are a chunk of it. Wypipo have the most varied eye colors, so Americans, on average, will be less brown-eyed than the chart says.
Posted by: green-eyed mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:53 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 10:53 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (CHHv1)
I'm special!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 10:47 PM (uaSJI)
Yeah, we're both short-bus special.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:52 PM (/HVsR)
The bicycle works better for chasing ambulances than his sneakers would.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (yLiuJ)
speaking of fun with lawyers and litigants.. Caramello Anthony evidently spent over 1/2 a million in blood money in less than a year....
great work son, way to live up to the stereotype.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (XFYYr)
Blue. Blonde.
I never got it when my relatives fawned over me for it when I was a little kid, but I guess it thrilled them because the family hadn't seen that combo in a generation, including my parents.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Kindltot
Not a conservative. A DC dicksip and an Acela Corridor courtesan. He eats, lives, and breaths DC. There's no conservatism in statist bitches like him.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)
I know you are joking, but rosemary is pretty resinous, sort of like cedar, but broader, more savory. You find a lot of it with Mediterranean cooking
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Diogenes
Put me in the 2% green eyed camp....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady
I'm in the green-eye camp and I have the 'sneeze in bright sunlight' affliction too! I'm special!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
I have green eyes, too.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (pRpzT)
Is there anything stupider than a spoiler on an ordinary sedan? Like, without it you'll lose control of your back end while going 65.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: mikeski
Biden was never a "B person." We need to invent a few extra symbols to get to what type of person he is.
Posted by: tankdemon
Who said anything about Biden? I was talking about the autopen.
Posted by: mikeski assumes you were lining that up for him at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)
I am Moldy Poutine the Ontario Destroyer...
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:56 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:56 PM (/HVsR)
Look not to quibble Mabriel is not a dicksip, he is a choadchugging fool...
his entire identity has always been his carnal preferences.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:57 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: scampydog at June 27, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Common Carrier at June 27, 2025 10:57 PM (G5+As)
No. ace by nature is a decent guy and gayb -ever grasping for advantage - used him for it. Also; ace doesn't read his own blog.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 10:37 PM (BanGW)
Ace doesn't read his own blog, fucking LOL, this guy actually got locked out of his own blog. Yeah, that really happened.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 10:57 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:53 PM (YwEeS)
Is it a horse? Is it a cow? No, it's Antlerman!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 10:57 PM (yLiuJ)
Based on the "rain in Paris" link Ace posted earlier, someone already did this.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 10:57 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 10:58 PM (BanGW)
My mom has green eyes, red hair, and fair skin. Back in her youth, no one talked about sunblock or skin cancer. It finally caught up with her and she had to have a tiny piece of her nose cut out. But it grew back great! The doctors were amazed. She didn't even need a graft. Maybe that's green-eyed magic.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 10:58 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 10:53 PM (XFYYr)
None, though he claimed to be conservative, every point was viewed through his particular "interests"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:59 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:59 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2025 10:59 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (/HVsR)
Heh. I refer to those things as "towel racks". Good place to park your chamois leather while washing the car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 10:59 PM (yLiuJ)
https://tinyurl.com/29ky4w5c
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:59 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:59 PM (YwEeS)
Cruising down Rt9 in my 76 Ford Granada just south of Woodbridge a bit after midnight. It's probably my 200th trip down that road over the years. For some reason, this night I completely forget the Freehold traffic circle, which is a fairly significant landmark in that area. I approach it much like the guy in the video above.
With cat-like reflexes, I jerk the wheel to the right, and the Ford smartly jigs in that direction with only a brief squeal of the tires. In the next instant, I'm confronted with the oncoming curb of the circle's arc, but I'm dialed in now and heave the wheel to the left in plenty of time to keep within the confines of the asphalt.
Did I mention that I was not wearing my seatbelt?
(cont)...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 27, 2025 11:00 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Mushrooms. Eat enough of them and everything grows back. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:00 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: mikeski assumes you were lining that up for him at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)
Even then, "B people" is an awfully generous assessment.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 11:00 PM (QPRfs)
Once Justice Kennedy gifted him glee marriage there was no reason to pretend anymore so he didn't. I cannot believe I wasted over a decade with the dumbass, when it was plain as day, he had no use for the US Constitution or American greatness beyond his carnal hangups.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 11:00 PM (XFYYr)
None, though he claimed to be conservative, every point was viewed through his particular "interests"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:59 PM (D7oie)
_________
The Gay Conservative Case for Teaching Your Children Fisting
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 11:01 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 27, 2025 11:01 PM (sJHOI)
---------
Barristers are actually badass.
FUN FACT: A barrister never works in a law firm. Barristers are always independent contractors, and most have offices in a "chambers" that houses independent barristers who practice in a specific area.
A barrister's client is never a non-lawyer. The barrister's client is the solicitor who has the actual litigant client.
Even the Crown doesn't try its own cases. It hires a barrister to handle the trial of its criminal cases.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 11:01 PM (JkO4W)
I'm a hazel - a crazy mix of color...no green, not brown, not yellow...it's good to not actually have a true color...just in case ya get in trouble....😳
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 11:01 PM (ZwGHJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:56 PM (/HVsR)
This.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 11:02 PM (W/lyH)
It is noon in Seoul right now
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 11:02 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:00 PM (mlg/3)
(offers Weft a Fisherman's Friend throat lozenge)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:02 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Is air clear, or is it blue? The air in my house looks clear, but the sky looks blue.
Is a glass prism clear, or is it rainbow-striped?
The difference is structural color. It's "real," but it's the difference between "the color of a pigment" and "the color of light."
Pigment-wise, all eyes are brown, unless you're an albino. Light-wise, see the chart above.
Posted by: mikeski rides a horse of a different color at June 27, 2025 11:02 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 27, 2025 10:23 PM (TfUTr)
I have done that and can attest to its efficacy.
While eating a delicacy....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:03 PM (uaSJI)
Posted by: Piper
World-wide?
Prolly.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)
And brave enough to embrace the naked blade. Embrace the naked blade is totally not a euphemism for sex.
Also tame the savage heart. Tame the savage heart is totally not a euphemism for sex.
Posted by: Lo Pan at June 27, 2025 11:03 PM (cduTK)
Quite it is inclusive....as in mandatory both the giving and the receiving....but it is "for the kids."
//Mabe
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 11:03 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 11:03 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:55 PM (/HVsR)
The spoiler on the Taurus station wagon was there to keep road grime and road spray from gathering too thick on the rear window
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 11:03 PM (D7oie)
I don’t think brown eyes are boring! They are soulful. Plus you never heard the song “My Green Eyed Girl” now have you?
Posted by: Piper
Green Eyed Lady
https://youtu.be/hIxvRooN-bE
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 11:04 PM (63Dwl)
Does this affliction only affect the lighter, rarer colors or all colors? Really curious. And I guess this trait was not very useful when hunting prey, hard to be stealthy when you're sneezing in sunlight, so that's why it's not so commonplace.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 11:04 PM (gKDq2)
I suppose, Gabe is not his own man he is a kept "man."
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 11:04 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Driver's license?
Hair: brown
Eyes: all of the above
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 11:04 PM (DgGvY)
Barristers are actually badass.
_________
Judge: “You are extremely offensive, young man.”
F.E. Smith: “As a matter of fact, we both are; but I am trying to be, and you can’t help it.”
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 11:04 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 11:03 PM (D7oie)
Those are technically "air deflectors", and can be found Suburbans and other SUV's as well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (yLiuJ)
Steeple chasing him from here was a team building exercise....
Destroying him was easy, a lot like dollar bill Kristol he had reached a point where he could not even pretend to be anything but a democrat.
Posted by: Sven at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (XFYYr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 11:01 PM (JkO4W)
Rumpole of the Bailey.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (BanGW)
Mushrooms. Eat enough of them and everything grows back. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop
=============
That's funny because she does love mushrooms.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Wait, are those made in Dunwich or Insmouth?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: InZona at June 27, 2025 11:07 PM (qz1Fg)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (BanGW)
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I will quaff a glass of Chateau Thames Embankment in your honor, sir.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 11:04 PM (gKDq2)
Maybe it's an adaptation to purge the bat guano dust from you nasal passages after you emerge from the cave?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:07 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:08 PM (uaSJI)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:09 PM (mlg/3)
Judge: “You are extremely offensive, young man.”
F.E. Smith: “As a matter of fact, we both are; but I am trying to be, and you can’t help it.”
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
============
Judge: "Are you trying to show contempt for this court!?"
Mae West: "I'm doin' my best to HIDE it."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:09 PM (HuRzZ)
Never knew the Professor (Russell Johnson) had a distinguished WWII record. Bombardier, B-25s. Fourty-four (!) missions. Shot down/injured on raid against a target in the Philippines. Treaded water for 12 hours before rescue. According to "Mary Ann" the rest of the cast only learned about all this at his funeral. Interesting.
Reminds me, since TV/about the same time, Eddie Albert (Heimberger) of Green Acres fame performed heroics as a landing craft skipper at Tarawa, under fire, rescuing Marines.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 11:09 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Ford station wagons in the 60s had them as part of the roof luggage rack.
Posted by: Country Squire at June 27, 2025 11:10 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:56 PM (/HVsR)
This.
Posted by: Diogenes
Yup.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 27, 2025 11:10 PM (BW+Gb)
I really had no idea of this 'sunlight affliction. Hearing so many others here have it is kind of astounding to me.
Does this affliction only affect the lighter, rarer colors or all colors? Really curious. And I guess this trait was not very useful when hunting prey, hard to be stealthy when you're sneezing in sunlight, so that's why it's not so commonplace.
Posted by: RickZ
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It's common among blue-eyeds too. Definitely me. Photophobia. Not an irrational fear, but a heightened sensitivity. Light can bother my eyes intensely.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:11 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:02 PM (yLiuJ)
Those things are nasty. Or, were when my dad used them. I used one once. Once.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 11:11 PM (0eaVi)
Early on it would drive me crazy but I guess I just got used to everything looking funky sometimes. For instance a blinking white light you'll actually see as a blinking red light close to a blinking blue light.
Posted by: banana Dream
Mine are that bad, too.
In addition to the high-index-of-refraction plastic, it's just an artifact of geometry. You cannot make a perfect lens, outside of a single focal point. The more powerful the lens has to be, the bigger the aberrations away from that point will be.
Making a lens with minimal spherical aberration, and thus maximal chromatic aberration, is the best choice for eyeglasses, usually. I'd rather watch LED lights go wandering a bit when I see them out of the corner of my eyes, than have everything go all fisheye-lens or funhouse-mirror.....
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 11:12 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 10:18 PM (0Htd1)
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NO WAY!!! I thought I was the only stupid idiot to do that. Although, I dunk mine in pancake batter, some brown sugar, and (believe it or not) a dash of molasses. Boil in oil until they float...and snack time.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 11:12 PM (dIske)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 11:13 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 11:11 PM (0eaVi)
They are reasonably effective, though, at quelling a cough.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:13 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (mT+6a)
I am leaning towards the description, "Chaotic Good"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 11:13 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: GWB at June 27, 2025 11:14 PM (Sk8yG)
Just. Brown. Boring. Oh well.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:40 PM (mT+6a)
I read your posts. I don't think there's anything boring about you.
Wasn't there a color tv commercial waaaay back in the day with a lady who said something like 'my eyes are blue, my dress is red....etc?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:15 PM (uaSJI)
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 11:12 PM (dIske)
Pineapple slices on baked ham are yummy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:15 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 11:06 PM (BanGW)
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I will quaff a glass of Chateau Thames Embankment in your honor, sir.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
After watching the series, I read all of Mortimer's 'Rumpole' books/stories. When I read them, I could not help but read them with Leo McKern's voice. I even read the Penge Bungalow Murder Case.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 11:16 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 11:16 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattlebor, Vt at June 27, 2025 11:16 PM (J7c+Z)
106 What is this 'hazel'?
Brown.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 10:34 PM (/lPRQ)
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Olive drab. I think my driver's license just calls it green.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 27, 2025 11:16 PM (ES1Rb)
Posted by: GWB at June 27, 2025 11:17 PM (jgprr)
There's your dinner.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 11:17 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: mikeski
Even then, "B people" is an awfully generous assessment.
Posted by: tankdemon
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT IMPLIES JUSTICE BROWN-JACKSON IS DUMBER THAN AN AUTOPEN.
Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at June 27, 2025 11:17 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Hall of Famer at June 27, 2025 11:17 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 10:5
Aspirational. Nice.
Much better than the dog and cat.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 11:18 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 11:18 PM (D7oie)
Much better than the dog and cat.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 11:18 PM (jvJvP)
Bad twins might be more fun...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:19 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 11:09 PM (1m82a)
I always wondered about Russell Johnson when he was downed in the Philippines after that crash of his B25. Came across a story from around 2015 that it was a PBY Catalina. I'll dig up the link. Sas fact is Russ's rescuers were killed in Oct of 1945. Many searches for lost airmen post J surrender.
Posted by: Rex B at June 27, 2025 11:19 PM (/NHpO)
Posted by: Beartooth at June 27, 2025 11:19 PM (8wKVG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:02 PM (yLiuJ)
Those things are nasty. Or, were when my dad used them. I used one once. Once.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 11:11 PM (0eaVi
And Buckleys.
Lol.
You do what you gotta do.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 11:20 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at June 27, 2025 11:17 PM (DgGvY)
That is still an awfully generous assessment.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 11:20 PM (QPRfs)
So now I can log out and go to bed.
As soon as Joe Kidd posts the rest of his roundabout adventure.
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - conditionally at June 27, 2025 11:20 PM (bvX/N)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 11:20 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Beartooth
Hazel. See above
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:20 PM (mlg/3)
Never knew the Professor (Russell Johnson) had a distinguished WWII record. Bombardier, B-25s. Fourty-four (!) missions. Shot down/injured on raid against a target in the Philippines. Treaded water for 12 hours before rescue. According to "Mary Ann" the rest of the cast only learned about all this at his funeral. Interesting.
Reminds me, since TV/about the same time, Eddie Albert (Heimberger) of Green Acres fame performed heroics as a landing craft skipper at Tarawa, under fire, rescuing Marines.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 11:09 PM (1m82a
Thank you. That's cool to know.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 11:21 PM (jvJvP)
RIGHT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 11:22 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:54 PM (gKDq2)
Guilty as charged, sir.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:22 PM (uaSJI)
Just think if he'd been an officer or chief, his messages and commands. Packed with Yogi-isms. Funny thought, anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 11:22 PM (1m82a)
Same. For most of my life I rarely ever sneezed - and NEVER had sneezing fits. Then, last year, upon waking up in the morning, I now sneeze 6-7 times.
And now I know why.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 11:22 PM (BanGW)
Ketanji Brown Jackson is single-handedly disproving every vicious, nasty right-wing trope about DEI, right?
RIGHT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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She must be, because they just said on The Bulwark that she's bringin' Black girl magic every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:24 PM (HuRzZ)
Reminds me, since TV/about the same time, Eddie Albert (Heimberger) of Green Acres fame performed heroics as a landing craft skipper at Tarawa, under fire, rescuing Marines.
Posted by: rhomboid 11:09 PM
Lee Marvin:
Marvin served as a scout sniper in the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He served in the assaults on Eniwetok and Saipan-Tinian, and participated in 21 Japanese Island landings while serving as a member of the “I” Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division. Most of his division was wiped out and he was wounded in action during the Battle of Saipan on Mount Tapochau. He sustained an injury below the spine that severed his sciatic nerve as well as a foot injury. These wounds resulted in 13 months in naval hospitals, rendering him invalid for further service. He received a Purple Heart and was medically
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 11:26 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 11:26 PM (VUQgh)
21 landings against Japanese held islands.
That Hollywood is gone. Forever.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 11:27 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:27 PM (mlg/3)
I love the way that fucktard Malor got called out - he was one of the clowns who fled X because it allowed free speech for a change. Total asshole.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Groomer Gabe couldn't spell "y'all" correctly (or refused to, I could not tell which was the case). However he did spell it, it was so off base that I cannot recall what he claimed was the "proper" spelling.
That he's over on Bluesky, rhymes with "Rooski", is the "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" moment of this evening's ONT.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 27, 2025 11:29 PM (xG4kz)
Same. For most of my life I rarely ever sneezed - and NEVER had sneezing fits. Then, last year, upon waking up in the morning, I now sneeze 6-7 times.
And now I know why.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 11:22 PM (BanGW)
I sneeze 5 to 6 times in a row, once a day. Could be morning, could be bedtime, could be at a conference on the other side of the continent. No idea when and what triggers them.
Posted by: Beartooth at June 27, 2025 11:30 PM (8wKVG)
Douchebag lawyer cyclist should be disbarred and sent to prison for his voice alone. Plus being a lawyer. And a cyclist. And a douchebag.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 10:52 PM (/HVsR)
I had a d-bag cyclist of similar age to that guy pull a stupid move in front of me in a 50 mph zone approaching a light. He wanted to change lanes in front of me so he could get in the left turn lane. At the light he came up to my window saying it would have been nice if I'd slowed and let him cross in front. I said 'you didn't signal - I didn't know what you were doing'. He got all huffy saying 'I'm going downhill 35 mph and you expect me to signal?
I rolled up my window and ignored the stupid bastard.
I'm sure he'll achieve his apparent goal of becoming a hood ornament one day.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:30 PM (uaSJI)
Now you guys are going to tell me Ernest Borgnine took out an entire SS division with his bare hands.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
No, but Clint Walker did.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 11:30 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 27, 2025 11:31 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 11:31 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:19 PM (yLiuJ
Definitely.
Again for late comers,
My brother signed papers for the house today. After backing out twice this year.
Closing Monday.
Everything is signed and good. Yeah, but my living situation has been up in the air for 5.7 months.
I'm having beer and edibles right now. 5000 hours of meditation and this was too much.
I am happily looking around now. Big house. 2 muslim families could live here. I'll create a great Western family.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 11:33 PM (jvJvP)
I rolled up my window and ignored the stupid bastard.
I'm sure he'll achieve his apparent goal of becoming a hood ornament one day.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:30 PM (uaSJI)
If he is using the road, he is legally required to signal. Cops rarely enforce it, but they damned well should.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:33 PM (yLiuJ)
One of the pilots personal chest including logbooks sat in his sister's basement for 70 years, too distraught to look thru it.
"Rescuing the Rescue Man" is a book about the pilots and crew that got Russell Johnson off of the real island in WWII. They would never see Johnson post war and his acting career rise. They were killed by a rogue wave while taking off on Oct 10, 1945.
Link attempt to follow.
Posted by: Rex B at June 27, 2025 11:34 PM (/NHpO)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 11:35 PM (1m82a)
Coastal Carolina University
https://www.coastal.edu
Rescuing the 'Rescue Man': A CCU professor uncovers the story of a war hero
Posted by: Rex B at June 27, 2025 11:35 PM (/NHpO)
Posted by: scampydog at June 27, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)
That's ok. I have made little progress and am experiencing computer problems myself.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:36 PM (uaSJI)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)
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On one occasion (maybe 2) I disagreed with Clarence Thomas. I don't remember the case. Needless to say I immediately read up on it and his reasoning. If you find yourself with disagreeing with Thomas, you better make sure you know exactly why you feel he's wrong.
I don't remember if I came around to his way of thinking, but I'm sure he didn't come around to mine
Posted by: 496 at June 27, 2025 11:36 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 11:36 PM (1m82a)
I hope to see DDS at some point tonight....love you my friends!!!
See youz later! I love you all ❣❣❣!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 27, 2025 11:36 PM (ZwGHJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 11:37 PM (1m82a)
I rolled up my window and ignored the stupid bastard.
I'm sure he'll achieve his apparent goal of becoming a hood ornament one day.
Last weekend I had bicyclist blow through a stop sign and make a left turn in front of me. Had on all the gear so everyone would know he's an asshole.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 27, 2025 11:37 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: rhomboid
Hell in the Pacific
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:37 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:38 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)
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Reached out to the support - will give it a day or two. We have time.
Posted by: scampydog at June 27, 2025 11:39 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 11:40 PM (HEGiN)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:38 PM (mlg/3)
I saw "Enemy Mime". It was a silent movie, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:40 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: Rex B at June 27, 2025 11:41 PM (/NHpO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
But enough about your Marcel Marceau fetish.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:43 PM (mlg/3)
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom End Engagement, Break Up After 9 Years
The story making the rounds about this is that Orlando would not grant Katy sufficient deference and admiration over her having become an "astronaut".
Get this -- he has been invited to the Bezos-Bosums wedding fiasco in Venice, but she -- a Bosums' "super pal" -- has not been.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 27, 2025 11:43 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:44 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 27, 2025 11:44 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Wait, is that Opie's brother?
I think he's related to that guy that hangs out here a lot, Day Walker.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 27, 2025 11:45 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:45 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 11:45 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 27, 2025 11:46 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:38 PM (mlg/3)
The reason there is an attack on a mine at the end - wasn’t originally in the script - is that the exec producer watched the early cut and said “ Where’s the enemy mine?” And the writers said “no, it’s a literary phrase.” But the Exec Producer said “you gotta put an enemy mine in it. Do it!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 11:46 PM (HEGiN)
_AP
Despite serious concerns raised by Sen. John Cornyn, Gov. Greg Abbott, and the Texas Rangers
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 11:46 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 27, 2025 11:47 PM (fY84s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 11:20 PM (VUQgh)
You probably like Tamarind candy, too. Don't you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 11:48 PM (0eaVi)
It is not the United States' job to be policeman of the world. But President Trump and the threat of tariffs could roll back tons of crap.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 11:48 PM (jvJvP)
_AP
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Needs a spanking
Posted by: 496 at June 27, 2025 11:48 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2025 11:49 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:51 PM (URRXY)
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at June 27, 2025 11:53 PM (/rQlD)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)
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Reached out to the support - will give it a day or two. We have time.
Posted by: scampydog at June 27, 2025 11:39 PM (41CYW)
Doesn't somebody here have a Time Machine?
We have all the time in the world.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:53 PM (uaSJI)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 11:54 PM (VadlD)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 11:53 PM (uaSJI)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxRDTfzgpU
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 27, 2025 11:55 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2025 11:49 PM (RIvkX
Thank you. I never imagined this.
And again, sorry. When I see San Fran morons, I figure you are my go to cannibis questions..
Just edibles.
I'm going to bed soon. Big house. Not my cat Snowflake is asleep on her cat tree. Up to 10 pounds. I'll monitor that.
And Mom's dog, legally mine, is ready for bed.
I'll do the lawn Tuesday after the house is mine.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 11:58 PM (jvJvP)
Stateless, i am happy that you have some resolution in your life.
Skip, drive safely.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 27, 2025 11:59 PM (0nHVk)
Those spike wheels kinda look gays but the idea that it will kill someone by catching their dress is even gayer.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Who the fook goes cycling while wearing a dress?
What I appreciated most was his super cereal assertion, without offered evidence, that hundreds of pedestrians / cyclists get caught up in such "Ben Hur"-like contraptions each year.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 27, 2025 11:59 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
Any problem that I can make worse?
* side note, everyone should get a USB drive and backup all the data. ... just make sure it's made in Taiwan not CHYNA.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2025 12:00 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:01 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 12:02 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 12:02 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at June 27, 2025 11:17 PM (DgGvY)
That is still an awfully generous assessment.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 11:20 PM (QPRfs)
Crystal ball moment: The democrat candidates for President and VP will be spoon fed speeches written by an AI trained on Biden and Jackson-Brown's speeches and writings. I'm not sure if the results would be more intelligent than Kamala Harris, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 12:03 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: J R at June 28, 2025 12:05 AM (v3rPo)
So what was the upshot of the lawyer/cyclist video? When I click on it, the thing just spins its circle and doesn't do anything.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
View it by taking the "X" link. It was a super prissy eunuch's critique of why those Ben-Hur spikes were icky, served no useful purpose and ought to be banned.
Very Maloresque, if you catch my drift.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 28, 2025 12:05 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 12:03 AM (S/Y4j)
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We'll hear about the trunaliprzure of the nature of time in relation to a Venn diagram of dog-faced pony soldiers.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:06 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at June 27, 2025 11:53 PM (/rQlD
Thank you.
I know a lot of the Horde have even if they didn't post.
I want to be a blessing to other Horde members in the future,
But hey! Here's a thought. I am kind of fine with me being one of a few handful of the Horde in tough times.
The rest of you have a great life, Seriously. Got this.
Damn, this is a big house.
We need house threads.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 12:06 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:07 AM (XZ5S6)
It wasn't difficult and I never had a problem. Except people creeping out to turn, blocking a turn. Happens to cars, too. Asshole drivers. Just like asshole bike riders. I never 'owned' the road. I took physics. Didn't do too well but well enough to understand the force of a 2,000 car going 40 miles per hour on a human body protected by a bike.
Sorry for the math.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 12:07 AM (gKDq2)
CBP executed a federal search warrant today at a human smuggling hub in Los Angeles tied to national security threats. Two individuals were arrested during the operation, which was led by CBP’s Special Response Team with support from Border Patrol tactical units and Air and Marine Operations.
Earlier this week, seven Iranian nationals were arrested at the same address—including individuals on the FBI Terror Watchlist and associates of an Iranian human trafficking network. The location has been repeatedly used to harbor illegal entrants linked to terrorism.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:07 AM (VUQgh)
12:26 AM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/live/6vvWnioWIXc
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 12:08 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: J R at June 28, 2025 12:05 AM (v3rPo)
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Portland bicyclists, I have observed, have a radically diminished sense of self-preservation.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:08 AM (XZ5S6)
Launch Date: June 28, 2025
Launch Time: 12:26 a.m. EDT, 0426 UTC, 06:26 CEST
https://www.youtube.com/live/6vvWnioWIXc
Posted by: Ciampino - I had a very restful nap at June 28, 2025 12:10 AM (sPQoU)
We need house threads.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 12:06 AM (jvJvP)
It's great to hear that your situation is improving.
Once you get the paperwork signed, you can always post the problem of too much space on Sunday's First World Problems thread. I'm sure a lot of people will have suggestions.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 12:13 AM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:14 AM (XZ5S6)
...the good news was that I successfully changed the Granada's trajectory away from the curb of the traffic circle. The bad news was that a body in motion tends to stay in motion, and without the benefit of a restraint, my body tended to stay on the previous trajectory.
I slid across the bench seat and was in that moment demoted from pilot to passenger. The car was not entirely out of the roundabout, so I grabbed the wheel with my left hand and jerked it up to try to nose the car more left. In so doing, I was pushed further to the passenger side. I navigated out of the traffic circle by heaving the steering wheel hand-over-hand, like a ships' captain in a stormy sea.
Exiting the circle, I coasted to a stop and pulled over to catch my breath. There were no other cars on the road, thankfully, but then I imagined what this must have looked like to someone following and could not stop laughing. God looks after the drunks and the fools, and since I wasn't drinking that night, it was obvious which one I was.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 28, 2025 12:14 AM (bA75n)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 12:15 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 28, 2025 12:15 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 28, 2025 12:15 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 12:16 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 28, 2025 12:15 AM (bss/y)
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No! Really?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:16 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: J R at June 28, 2025 12:05 AM (v3rPo
I used to run. And will again soon.
I'd run about 25 km. To the next towns and back. Against traffic where I would run off to the sidemfor oncoming cars.
And would wave to them and thank them for not steering towards me and accelerating.
Bike riders though. Damn. I'm not that trusting.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 12:18 AM (jvJvP)
_AP
Despite serious concerns raised by Sen. John Cornyn, Gov. Greg Abbott, and the Texas Rangers
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 11:46 PM (VUQgh)
State issue... not Federal.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2025 12:20 AM (mP0Kj)
...Albinism gives pink eyes but I've heard of nonalbinos with red also. Not actually seen one that I remember though.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)
Not washing your hands after going to a public toilet can also give you Pink Eyes.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 28, 2025 12:20 AM (iJfKG)
Pam Bondi has closed a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community [Epic] around one of the state’s largest mosques near Dallas without filing any charges or lawsuits.
_AP
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All right, fine. But I firmly believe there's a case of immigration fraud in Ilhan Omar. That brother-marriage is sus af.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:21 AM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2025 12:20 AM (mP0Kj)
For now.
The day will come, though.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 12:21 AM (gKDq2)
That's a specific gene trait, don't think it is the eye color, but of course I could be wrong!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 28, 2025 12:23 AM (Ezs10)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 28, 2025 12:23 AM (Ezs10)
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As my HS biology teacher said, it's what's in your genes that counts.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:24 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:24 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:24 AM (VofaG)
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Well, all I know is that there are some in my refrigerator, and they are delicious.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:26 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Local politics for me. She is gaming the system - no doubt.
Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2025 12:27 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Archer at June 28, 2025 12:28 AM (IDphi)
Stuff and nonsense! The layered elements may be made of brown melanin, but the color of an eye is what you see[ when you look at an iris! You are misusing words, probably because you don’t know the established nomenclature. This area of physics is well established, and we who are familiar with it have agreed on what the words mean. I invite you to read an introductory physics textbook on the subject of color, say at the sophomore level.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 12:28 AM (cK4Fj)
Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2025 12:27 AM (41CYW)
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Call me when she hits "Go to Jail. Go directly to Jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:28 AM (XZ5S6)
All right, fine. But I firmly believe there's a case of immigration fraud in Ilhan Omar. That brother-marriage is sus af.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Two federal agents leaked the location of a Homan raid early on.
Gabbard the name of one and Noam the name of the other were turned over to Bondi. _ Crickets.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:30 AM (VUQgh)
Amy Coney Barrett’s superb majority opinion was written in acid today, shredding DEI dissenter Ketanji Brown as ill-equipped to cope with the heavy burden of “legalese,” which, of course, is the poor wretch’s actual job description.
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This guy going into competition with ace on cruelty?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2025 12:33 AM (VUQgh)
Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2025 12:27 AM (41CYW)
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Call me when she hits "Go to Jail. Go directly to Jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:28 AM (XZ5S6)
That's the thing. The people who scam the system scream the loudest. Like the Mexican illegals. Like our foreign 'students' protesting here. Enough.
I'd prefer Ilhan be put on a plane and the lovely departing gate agents tell her, 'Say hello to Somalia for us'.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 12:34 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2025 12:13 AM
Yeah. I am here now. Beers in. Snowflake is asleep on her cat tree. Ralphy just ate.
The town had a storm that flooded tons of homes 2 years ago.
Mom had a ton of renovations done. Red and orange rugs were removed. I really liked the red rug. But there are still mirrored closets. Again, the mirrored closets are safe, the purple carpet in the Guest bedroom and the blue carpets in my bedroom are safe.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 12:35 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 12:35 AM (jvJvP)
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Please, don't say that they are shag carpets...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:41 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Weirddave at June 28, 2025 12:41 AM (ubkFK)
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2025 12:24 AM (VofaG)
780M at any given time. Which means there could be more than that killed each year.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 28, 2025 12:41 AM (URRXY)
Posted by: Norrin Radd at June 28, 2025 12:43 AM (tRYqg)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 28, 2025 12:43 AM (URRXY)
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But staying with her
And my little bit of wisdom
Broke down her desires
Like a light through a prism
Into yellows and blues and a tune
That I could not have sung
Posted by: Michael Nesmith at June 28, 2025 12:45 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 12:35 AM (jvJvP)
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Please, don't say that they are shag carpets...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:41 AM (XZ5S6)
LOL... I'm sitting on vintage late 70's Shag Carpet... blue / Green / Turquoise RIGHT NOW!
When I moved in with Mom 12 years ago... it was the spare front room that had not been used for many years, so never updated...
Now? I got so much shit in here it would be a major pain to replace the carpet.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2025 12:46 AM (mP0Kj)
Local politics for me. She is gaming the system - no doubt.
Posted by: scampydog
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Sorry for you. (What am I saying, I'm from California)
Make that: *clinks mug*
She and her brother lied on federal applications that supposedly mean perjury and prosecution.
I think Bondi will not survive. She's another pageant pick like many in Trump's first administration.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:47 AM (HuRzZ)
780M at any given time. Which means there could be more than that killed each year.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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AI sez: Most hogs are slaughtered between 5 to 6 months of age.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 12:47 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2025 12:46 AM (mP0Kj)
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Yeah, I know. I tore out all the wall-to-wall carpet in my house to replace it with Pergo 10 years ago. It was a project and-a-half.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:49 AM (XZ5S6)
LS-1 - Mähia, NZ - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: June 28, 2025
Launch Time: 19:08 NZDT, 07:08 UTC, 09:08 CEST, 3:08 EST.
https://www.youtube.com/live/dgdPsc8QPHs
Posted by: Ciampino - I had a very restful nap but no dinner at June 28, 2025 12:49 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:52 AM (XZ5S6)
Maddie Cat has much to say, but I have no idea about what.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Obviously you're at fault.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 12:54 AM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:52 AM (XZ5S6)
One of three things. Feed me. Pet me. There's an animal outside and I'm saving your life.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 12:54 AM (gKDq2)
Won't make that kind of ruling just for garden-variety Christians, but courts will bend over backwards if other "religions" sign onto these cases. Especially the stabby ones.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 12:56 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 12:54 AM (gKDq2)
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She's been fed. She's been petted. No animals outside. I think she just likes to express obscure opinions.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:57 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 12:58 AM (+qU29)
I have little pin pricks on my shins.
I love her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 01:00 AM (G0nDz)
Make that: *clinks mug*
She and her brother lied on federal applications that supposedly mean perjury and prosecution.
I think Bondi will not survive. She's another pageant pick like many in Trump's first administration.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Hah. Cheers! Walz and Newsom. Their view of America is like termites view wood.
Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2025 01:01 AM (41CYW)
I have little pin pricks on my shins.
I love her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 01:00 AM (G0nDz)
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I keep telling Schroedinger that his hands are sharp. He's oblivious.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:01 AM (XZ5S6)
Could be 780M right now but turnover makes up that over a billion figure.
Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2025 01:01 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:04 AM (XZ5S6)
Mabe Galor now: If I can't tell your kid about how to shove a penis into his rectum the NAZIs have won.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 28, 2025 01:05 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2025 01:06 AM (HEGiN)
I love her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 28, 2025 01:00 AM (G0nDz
I'm not a cat person, but have literally taken care of tons of kittens. And Snowflake is crashing here and marking me up. Been there. But not a cat person lol
But her aunt Twilight has taken the most skin and blood from me. Didn't mean to. No hard feelings. We were playing. Stolen from us. She's a survivor. Someone loves her.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 01:06 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: polynikes
Pigs generally reach butcher weight at about 6 months. Mr. Chop, last year's pig was born in April, butchered in October.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 28, 2025 01:06 AM (DX/Mv)
Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2025 01:07 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:04 AM (XZ5S6)
I wonder if there's AI for retards? A special school or something.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 01:08 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 01:08 AM (gKDq2)
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I dunno. Given my experience at work, I'm pretty sure that AI is retarded from the get-go.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:09 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2025 01:09 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at June 28, 2025 01:11 AM (0Jl9j)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 01:14 AM (zv9VK)
Posted by: scampydog
Appreciate the heads up. I did respond to your last email this morning but it was dated the dated the 23rd.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 28, 2025 01:15 AM (DX/Mv)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 12:41 AM (XZ5S6)
LOL... I'm sitting on vintage late 70's Shag Carpet... blue / Green / Turquoise RIGHT NOW!
When I moved in with Mom 12 years ago... it was the spare front room that had not been used for many years, so never updated...
Now? I got so much shit in here it would be a major pain to replace the carpet.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2025 12:46 AM (mP0Kj
Thank you for making me laugh. Monday, hughh.
The red carpet downstairs was great. Beautiful. Now vinyl laminate.
I was happy to see the orange carpet gol Hardwood floor now.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 01:15 AM (jvJvP)
I have little pin pricks on my shins.
I love her.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Heh. Rafferty the orphan kitty just did the same thing to Mrs. Sock. He got cuffed. She tolerats his majesty.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 28, 2025 01:18 AM (DX/Mv)
My room... blue carpet.
I'm still staying in the smallest bed in the smallest room. If things pass, I wonder how long it will take for me to claim the house.
By the way, mirrored closets. 2 rooms. I like them.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 01:19 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 01:15 AM (jvJvP)
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When I pulled up the carpet in my renovation project, there was the original linoleum underneath.
The hallway linoleum was so beat up, I had to pull it out.
In the other rooms, I saw linoleum, still in good shape, in colors I never knew existed.
In what I call the library, there was a checkerboard of 2'x2' squares inset in the middle. I think it was originally the kids' playroom.
It's all underneath the Pergo I laid, an historical oddity.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:19 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: azjaeger at June 28, 2025 01:20 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:21 AM (XZ5S6)
Over 800 residents were affected (we had no idea that many people lived in that part of the building. The fire started on the roof; the fifth floor pancaked down to the second floor. The residents who were affected are upset that they aren't being allowed back into their apartments to get their belongings. Apparently they haven't quite grasped that their belongings are buried under several feet of charred building material.
Interestingly enough, our neighborhood immediately south of this new building is full to the brim with 100+-year-old tinder boxes which are still standing - I am sure that more than a few of them have really old wiring in them.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 01:21 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 01:22 AM (zv9VK)
That was sarcasm, btw.
Oh, I am wounded!
Posted by: Weirddave
Do you have a trauma kit handy? Every one should have a trauma kit.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at June 28, 2025 01:23 AM (DX/Mv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2025 01:23 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 28, 2025 01:26 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 01:21 AM (SRRAx)
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One of my professors at CSUN worked his way through college in Chicago by rewiring houses that had damp earth basements. He got jazzed by electricity any number of times, which left him with a lot of (let us say) disturbing tics. One of my friends called him "10K" Bellman. He really knew his stuff, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:26 AM (XZ5S6)
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Yeah, I have several different types of clippers. After they came back from the vet that one time, there has been no getting them to hold still.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:28 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 01:32 AM (zv9VK)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2025 01:33 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 01:35 AM (zv9VK)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:28 AM (XZ5S6)
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How 'less' sharp and penetrating after a trim?
Posted by: Bailey, the wanted cat.
Posted by: Ciampino - No time for crazies at June 28, 2025 01:35 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: azjaeger at June 28, 2025 01:20 AM (3/XaG)
I am a live and let live kind of gal, as long as people aren't harming other people in the process.
But I refuse to celebrate a subset group of men just because they stick their dicks in other mens' assholes.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 01:36 AM (SRRAx)
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Yeah, I have several different types of clippers. After they came back from the vet that one time, there has been no getting them to hold still.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:28 AM (XZ5S6)
Clipping the cat's claws is a two-man job in this house. Same goes for the baby. The cat is easier, even when he turns inside out. I think it's because the baby has actual fingers and a iron grip. And is louder if he gets nicked.
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to yet another storm at June 28, 2025 01:36 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2025 01:33 AM (E0p3T)
And muskets.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 01:38 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:26 AM (XZ5S6)
I knew a young Electrical Engineer who thought he had shut off the power to a panel. He was poking around in the guts of it with a screwdriver when he discovered he was in grave error. Fortunately, he wasn't hurt. He was somewhat perturbed when, at his farewell party, he was presented with a plaque with the culprit screwdriver mounted to it. All that remained was the handle and an inch of shaft. The rest had disappeared in the arc.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 28, 2025 01:40 AM (cxVLI)
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to yet another storm at June 28, 2025 01:36 AM (Wt5PA)
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I have three cats, now, who I got when they were 6-8 weeks old. They had no problem with me trimming their claws when they were little, but after having their claws trimmed at the vets', became very resistant to it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:40 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm at June 28, 2025 01:41 AM (BugZp)
She'd lay on my stomach and make biscuits. I could feel her claws go through my t-shirt and just touch my skin, then she'd retract them. She'd do this over and over, purring quite loud. Every once in a while she'd give me that slow blink that said, 'I hope this is as good for you as it is for me.'
She was a sweetheart. A real snugglebug.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 01:46 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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I have seen severe facial/hand/arm burns. If it ain't tied to ground, it aint dead.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc., etc. at June 28, 2025 01:46 AM (XeU6L)
Wait…Hitler was a Leftist after all?
He peed with his left dick? No, no wait .... he peed with his left nut? ..... I got it! He peed with Goering's nuts, that's it.
Posted by: Ciampino - No time for fuhrers at June 28, 2025 01:47 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 01:46 AM (gKDq2)
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Schroedinger is my cuddle-bug. Maddie is affectionate, but in a distant way.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:48 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Ciampino - No time for fuhrers at June 28, 2025 01:47 AM (sPQoU)
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Worse than that:
https://achewood.com/2016/03/04/title.html
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:50 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 28, 2025 01:32 AM (zv9VK)
Of course I don't mind! That is so sweet of you, and greatly appreciated by me and my family. We know that lots of prayers are being lifted on my behalf, and we are truly grateful and humbled.
I am doing well, although today I was tireder than I think I have been through this whole thing. I don't know if it was the heat or that I metaphorically hit the wall. Several side effects seem to have happened in rapid succession over the last week or so - which is apparently "right on track" for this medication.
All of my fingernails and toenails are starting to hurt - I can look forward to them lifting and possibly falling off over the next few months.
My mouth, eyes, and nose are all drying up to the point that anything that I can't eat without having to drink copious amounts of liquid just to get the food to go down (continued)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 01:51 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:55 AM (XZ5S6)
The fried orange video was a vast disappointment!
I was hoping they were going to explode!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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I was hoping they would be miraculously transformed into some spectacular dessert!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 01:56 AM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 01:56 AM (HuRzZ)
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Perhaps if you were in Scotland..
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 01:57 AM (XZ5S6)
Aaghh, Teresa, you're probably typing Part 2 now, but I hope this doesn't go on much longer.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 01:57 AM (HuRzZ)
Did a quick google and found that yes, there is a recipe out there for Fried Oranges.
Everybody's so creative!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2025 02:00 AM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2025 02:01 AM (E0p3T)
I have been in relatively good spirits these past few months, all things considered, but today I just had myself a good old pity party!
I really do think the heat is getting to me. Plus, my potassium level was pretty low today. I probably haven't been eating enough, either (I have plenty of reserves 😂
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I'll be okay in a couple of days 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:01 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:01 AM (rdVOm)
She was a sweetheart. A real snugglebug.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 01:46 AM (gKDq2
I am a dog person.
Who has taken care of literally about 30 cats and or kittens. There was once where there were 2 litterss. 13 kittens and cats in one roomk
Still love them.
And Snowflake started out this week by sitting on my face.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 02:01 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:04 AM (XZ5S6)
With you.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 28, 2025 02:05 AM (jvJvP)
I sure hope *this* time, the closing goes smoothly!
Blue and purple carpeting? Cool!
I need to take out living room, stairway & upstairs hallway carpeting here. Old. Early 80's? Just disintegrating, plus hubby had a couple of accidents... yeesh.
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
Like I said, most of the time I am fine; today was just a "feeling it all" day -
Thanks for letting me vent 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:10 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
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Having done that, I can tell you it just takes perseverance. Press on!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:10 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:10 AM (SRRAx)
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My dear, it does not sound whiny in the least. You are pressing through an issue that is without precedent in your life. Keep on.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:11 AM (XZ5S6)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:04 AM (XZ5S6)
I think Scotland, or the British Isles, was the origin of the deep fried Mars or Snickers bar, I forget which.
Scotland's also the home of haggis. That's all you need to know.
"Mum, what's for dinner?"
"Oatmeal."
"No, Mum, that's breakfast! What's for dinner."
"Oatmeal . . . in a cow's stomach."
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 02:14 AM (gKDq2)
Dear Lord, where to put the stuff-- and how to get around-- while it's all "out of the way" is a HUGE problem.
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:15 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:16 AM (rdVOm)
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Wey-all, haggis is just a kind of sausage.
When I was at Edinburgh Castle, I thought about trying haggis for lunch. I looked at the menu board, and it was bloody expensive. I didn't want to spend that much money for an experiment.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:16 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
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When I replaced the carpet, doing my bedroom was the worst. Getting the CA King bed matress out was a major pain.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:18 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 02:20 AM (gKDq2)
You're not a whiner you're a badass bitch. Take it easy on yourself.
Posted by: ... at June 28, 2025 02:23 AM (E0p3T)
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 02:20 AM (gKDq2)
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I had an Argentine grill of various organ meats and it was pretty tasty. Mind you, I don't need to do it again - it all tasted like cow, and I'm satisfied to dine on muscle.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:23 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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Thankfully, that room (also with Kingsize bed) has already been done!
Hubby & I did a lot to this place before he fell ill, but didn't *finish* what we'd planned...
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
Is this correct?
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 28, 2025 02:27 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:28 AM (rdVOm)
The gentlemen I was with order a 'parilla mixto' (pareezha meesto), a mixed grill of different organ meats served on a little habachi-type grill to keep everything warm. I did not like lung -- at all. So to me, it did not all taste the same. LOL! But I had never had organ meats before, not even the tried and true liver and onions, but when in Rome. . . . I just asked them not to tell me what I was eating before I ate it; no preconceptions that way. They laughed but didn't mind. I think they enjoyed the entertainment my reactions provided.
Like you say, though, I don't think I need it often. I'd rather have grilled squid or octopus, if we're going to grill exotic food.
Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2025 02:33 AM (gKDq2)
Cow's stomach is tripe. I like it.
Haggis: containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with chopped onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked.
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Posted by: Ciampino - No time for being picky, launch at June 28, 2025 02:42 AM (sPQoU)
I'm too squeamish to try many of them. Go figure, I've eaten all kinds of weird Asian stuff (long ago) but.. just not up for anything new right now.
:shrugs:
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Good night, horde.
May success find us all!
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You know how I said earlier that I haven't been nauseous throughout this cancer journey?
Well, thanks a lot! 😰😰😰
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2025 02:59 AM (SRRAx)
I'm too squeamish to try many of them. Go figure, I've eaten all kinds of weird Asian stuff (long ago) but.. just not up for anything new right now.
:shrugs:
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
I'm pretty much always up for trying something seafood.
One of those someethings that I tried that I absolutely love but can hardly find is smoked sea trout or smoked mackeral, served with a horseradish whipped cream sauce. OMG! Sometimes they even deign put a little green leafy thing underneath it so you can call it a salad if you want. Total waste if you ask me. But that sauce does make a good salad dressing, too, just a little on the spicy side. That's one dish I fell in love with. Had it three times: Atlantic City, Manhattan and Ocracoke Island. I'm tellin' ya, a hard to find dish.
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It's adorable to see these four golden retrievers keeping a close watch on a sleeping baby, but the sad truth is, they just think he's a jumbo-sized Hot Pocket. Man the Hot Pocket chicken and broccoli was so good you guys. No wonder dem dogs want to eat dat baby.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:38 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 07:38 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: AI Commentator at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (3bnyX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (/HVsR)
And the cat Snowflake that was gone 3 weeks. She's been back "home" for 2.5 weeks. Up to 10 pounds in the afternoon.
I'll start weighing her everyday in the morning and adjusting food.
Her jumping is off. Which is hilariously cute. But she is pretty much an indoor cat now.
And when and if the house closes Monday, she won't be homeless. Sweet.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:40 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 07:41 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: AI Commentator at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (vFG9F)
Well, they are relentless predators, are they not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:41 PM (uR5MM)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 07:41 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (/HVsR)
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Cast it in bronze.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:41 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 07:42 PM (rj6Yv)
And when and if the house closes Monday, she won't be homeless. Sweet.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:40 PM (jvJvP)
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Yay! You have found your new best friend!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (IBQGV)
wonderful!
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 07
I'm sorry to you ace.
When the second closing fell through I went insane and sullied the comment section.
Weasel was right on it. Thankfully. I felt really bad.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: AI Commentator at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (vFG9F)
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Are those photos supposed to be cute, because if I saw one of those, I'd be reaching for a rifle. Unnerving.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"
Is this the part where we beg your indulgence?
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (jvJvP)
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Who here hasn't made an ass of themselves?
It's a rite of initiation. You're truly one of us.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)
Because they are attracted to big old tiddies? NTTAWWT
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (uR5MM)
The slasher smile is a bit of a dead giveaway.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (IBQGV)
Minnesota assassin complaining to judge saying he hasn't slept in weeks.
FU, the people you killed haven't breathed in weeks.
Posted by: four seasons at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
Now that I've established my dominance, nay, my supremacy, shall we begin?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (/HVsR)
the King is a Fink!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (/HVsR)
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NOOD
Heh
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (IBQGV)
Her and my mother's 14 or 15 year old limping dog spending every hour with me now. Legally he's mine. But he was always Mom's.
I'm just happy we can stay here and I can try to keep dog happy and comfortable and drag him to 2026. I've lost enough in 2025.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (jvJvP)
Is this the part where we beg your indulgence?
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)
__________
No, this is the part where you beg to osculate my podiatric extremities.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (jvJvP)
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Who here hasn't made an ass of themselves?
It's a rite of initiation. You're truly one of us.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)
But has he been Baptized in the Barrel?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM
The commentariat is revolting!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)
(obligatory)
And, boy, is Morton pissed!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (uR5MM)
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (ZOv7s
And I'm a more helpful Moron. Ready to help others.
Sweet.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:48 PM (jvJvP)
oh
you ruin everything
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 07:46 PM (KRtlO)
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Damn. Ace was getting his mojo back and everything, imagining OF girls getting life-altering injuries. Anything to stir the juices and shrug off the old ennui.
You monster.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 07:48 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:49 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 07:49 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (jvJvP)
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Who here hasn't made an ass of themselves?
It's a rite of initiation. You're truly one of us.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June
*raises hand*. I’m in the having made an ass of herself crowd.
Welcome, stateless.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 07:49 PM (cNUHy)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 07:50 PM (MFCwg)
"Holy Fuck! Do you think this is how physics works?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)
Kristi Noem, sorry spelling, is supposed to give a tour of Alligator Alcatraz!
Perfect for the Cafe.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:50 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ketanji Dumbass Supreme at June 27, 2025 07:50 PM (u/u0M)
Sweet.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:48 PM (jvJvP)
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It is a better way.
I try to be positive, but I'm also Gen X, so snark is the language of my people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Touch my feet and I will off you.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 07:49 PM (sJ4fj)
_________
You sound like Rosalind, who needed four people to grind her nails today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM (/HVsR)
You monster.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:48 PM
Y'all need to show some respect. Treating Ace like he's someone you can take outside. Remember, he's an Endor creature.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (mP0Kj)
Ugh.
The Barrel.
The Barrel changes you Man!
*shaking hand reaches for the bottle*
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at
I strongly expect you to save me when I appear to be out of sorts. 😀
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM (yYROg)
*raises hand*. I’m in the having made an ass of herself crowd.
Welcome, stateless.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 07:49 PM (cNUHy
This makes me feel much better. Thank you.
If, and once the house is mine, there are going to be a ton of pictures submitted to the Gardening and Pet threads.
We have a surprising number of statues in the yards.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:53 PM (jvJvP)
1) US dollars are welcomed everywhere as tips.
2) Richmond, BC is overwhelmingly Chinese
3) Nicest harborfront I've ever seen.
4) Vendors see US citizens and immediately work "and for you it's 40 percent off!" into their sales pitch.
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 07:53 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:54 PM (viF8m)
Bulls, tigers, great whites - I will enjoy them via video. Still odds against trouble, but nah.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 07:54 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)
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I take it you are offering yourself for the next treehouse BBQ?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:55 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Not That Hungry, Thanks at June 27, 2025 07:55 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 07:54 PM (1m82a)
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Nancy is a big fan of the bulls!
Posted by: David French at June 27, 2025 07:55 PM (ZOv7s)
In a rare moment of conversation tonight with my wife I made the mistake of being irrefutably right about something, cleverly so, and awaited her capitulation response.
Instead I got "Sometimes you're a real jerk."
She could have added that I'm a slow learner as well.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 07:56 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:55 PM (IBQGV)
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Anyone who thinks they have never showed their ass in the HQ is just admitting that they were too drunk to remember what they wrote.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Her Majesty sent some pictures of Varus after he got a make-over and grooming. Looks like a different dog. Very handsome boy.
He has to learn how to work with our handler. Apparently he got away with too much in the past. Now he'll have to toe the line.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:57 PM (/HVsR)
You sound like Rosalind, who needed four people to grind her nails today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07
I am wondering if I can teach Saijo to use a scratching board. Or I can just drop him at the groomers and run before he starts screaming like he is being murderized.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 07:57 PM (p4NUW)
But, man...you do NOT want to be anywhere near a shark. The few we have brought in the boat were a fucking nightmare to deal with.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 07:57 PM (ASFuz)
The OnlyFans model trolling the sharks has Morton's foot.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
(obligatory)
And, boy, is Morton pissed!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
When it rains it pours.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 07:59 PM (63Dwl)
I strongly expect you to save me when I appear to be out of sorts. 😀
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 07:51 PM
Of course.
I never expected to be this low. I always did everything and did the taking care.
One weird thing now. And I am curious what the Horde has to say.
Both parents are gone. I am estranged from my brother and his family. Sammy was here when my brother and his kid were taking stuff out of the house. He texted me "Man, they really hate you."
Big question on post 2.
I'd appreciate thoughts.
By the way, I have GameShow Network on woth Bingo Blitz on.
Valerie Bertinelli is still pretty damn cute.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:59 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Al. Bundy at June 27, 2025 07:59 PM (u73oe)
Blind and deaf dog reminded me of 'ol Joe, gone 6 months now.
Joe lost both over just a few days. (some BS "mandatory" vaccination by the vet). He would wander around the room and then just stand there. I'd pick him up and we'd do sitting in the lap time. He was happy.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:00 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025
Bass-ically, we have all had a carpie day now and again.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 08:00 PM (p4NUW)
But still won a grand and has a great story to tell.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:00 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 08:00 PM (fV+MH)
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Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:01 PM (sJ4fj)
Today has been amazing.
I'm going upstairs to watch. It's funny when the VISITING cat Snowflake and Ralphy are asleep together on the bed.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:03 PM (jvJvP)
Or I can just drop him at the groomers and run before he starts screaming like he is being murderized.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 07:57 PM (p4NUW)
__________
I once told Ros during a struggle session, "Your mother never complained when we did her nails."
This was, of course, an outrageous lie. Delilah was very finicky about having her feet touched, let alone having her nails ground. But I was amusing myself by ascribing to a previous generation virtues they never had to shame their children. As though a Borzoi girl feels shame.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 08:04 PM (/HVsR)
Cause they're nurse sharks.
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Nurse sharks have killed people.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:04 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 08:04 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27
That should do it!
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 08:04 PM (p4NUW)
Instead I got "Sometimes you're a real jerk."
She could have added that I'm a slow learner as well.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 07:56 PM (j4U/Z)
***
Play your cards right and that could be the start of sexy time!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:05 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Still a bargain at June 27, 2025 08:06 PM (vFG9F)
>>But, man...you do NOT want to be anywhere near a shark. The few we have brought in the boat were a fucking nightmare to deal with.
Used to be an annual trip for many years. It was a ton of fun but we never took the sharks on the boat.
Cut the leader as near the hook as possible and watch your hands.
Angry sharks near the surface are not something you want to fuck around with.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 08:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27
That should do it!
Posted by: Piper
Insert National Lampoon's Summer Vacation Aunt Edna's dog here.
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Billions from Amazon and others...
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Zimbabwean
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Catch brother in the dark. Wear mask. Don't say a word.
Use a baseball bat.
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Seems to work.
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Could we have the girl in the red Ferrari, instead?
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Catch brother in the dark. Wear mask. Don't say a word.
Use a baseball bat.
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Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 08:08 PM (mP0Kj)
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How... European. "We can't invent or compete so we'll tax and regulate."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 08:11 PM (/HVsR)
They never bothered me.
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Google says I'm wrong--that nurse sharks have bitten people but no recorded deaths.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:11 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 08:12 PM (rj6Yv)
That way is one end of the runway, and that way is the other end of the runway. And there (gestures towards swamp) be alligators!
Posted by: Paulie at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM (W/lyH)
>Angry sharks near the surface are not something you want to fuck around with.
Yeah. They are utter madness when you get them close to hand. The couple we pulled into the boat were to get gear off them. Captain was not pleased with us at all.
But we got them cleaned up and de-leadered and released. Holy shit they are a handful, though.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM (ASFuz)
Catch brother in the dark. Wear mask. Don't say a word.
Use a baseball bat.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025
This is not good advice, which is shocking considering the advice normally given here is above reproach!
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:55 PM
It's called a Yub Nub. Captain Picard says it's always good to be culturally respectful to your host.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM (0sNs1)
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So they're not even bothering with the "Dr. Jill" thingy anymore? The left's heroes are disposable.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM (TN0g+)
Off parrot sock.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:14 PM (W/lyH)
I used to dive around them daily. They are very mellow.
A kitty cat will bite you too. Nurse sharks are not a threat.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 08:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 08:14 PM (P389G)
I've heard it said that dogs can only think about one thing at a time. I think that's mostly true.
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 08:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025
This is not good advice, which is shocking considering the advice normally given here is above reproach!
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM
True. He should have specified a tire iron.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 07:57 PM (p4NUW)
Scratchers make the claws sharp, not blunt.
If you want em blunt, nail clippers work pretty well if the cat puts up with it.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 08:15 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 08:15 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:13 PM (sJ4fj)
Reef right now is worse than Ajax (which is very hard to believe.) Three miles at as fast as I can walk and he is not even tired at the end.
I am walking him at night instead of the day, maybe that is the difference.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 08:16 PM (YUL+W)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:16 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:16 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2025 08:17 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: runner
Shark is definitely edible. I've had shark tacos before.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 08:17 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:17 PM (sJ4fj)
Shark is not at all inedible.
And you catch them because they are there, they are huge and they fight like fucking mad when they realize they are hooked.
Which can take a while on the really big ones.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:11 PM (TN0g+)
I heard of an idiot grabbing a nurse shark. Shark bit his leg. He let go. Shark let go. That is about their aggression level.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (8avO+)
'As JackStraw and probably others can confirm, most types of sharks aren’t much trouble.'
They sometimes kill people.
That's troublesome in my book.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (3wi/L)
If you want em blunt, nail clippers work pretty well if the cat puts up with it.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 08:15 PM (8avO+)
He is the Shiba Inu. They are dramatic. My cats hand me their feets one at a time for their nails. 😂
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:17 PM (sJ4fj)
An idea... maybe a good one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (YUL+W)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:16 PM (g47mK)
Some people dig that taste of ammonia
Hakarl FTW!
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 08:17 PM (flKEw)
that was marlin
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 08:19 PM (YUL+W)
Posted by: runner"
Shark fin soup. Chinese think it will give you wood. There are better ways.
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 08:19 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 08:17 PM (flKEw)
that was marlin
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Marlin is some of the best seafood I've ever tasted.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:20 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:20 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 08:20 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 08:21 PM (YUL+W)
I've been a caregiver for years. And will be developing my own life over the next 2 years. Cost a lot. But whatever.
Big Question.
No parents. My brother and his family hate me. My parents would want me to leave everything to my nephews. Naaaah, they HATE ME...
I have no wife or kids yet, and expect to enjoy both for years to come.
Honestly, my friends across the street are amazing. Since they came here, they have done so much for Mom. And for me. I have had my amazing moments too. Trust me. Horde would be proud.
I need a will. My parents would want everything to the kids. But they would be heart broken to see the last 5.7 months.
My friends across the street are amazing.
I expect to live a long while. But if something worthy of a clip show happens to me, i would love them to have everything I have. They were wonderful to Mom.
The kids always came over and asked "How's Rose?" Food. Lunches. Christmas tree early Christmases.
Yeah.
Should be them.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:21 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:21 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 08:21 PM (dIske)
Pro Tip: The lead goes to a belt. Don't try and hold a leash and ride simultaneously.
That doesn't end well.
Best to use a Shock Collar / Trainer imo.
But if you have to have them on a lead a belt will help you keep it upright.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 08:21 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 08:22 PM (QPRfs)
YouTube just offered up a recommendation for a livestream from someone called "Inferno: Gay as Hell" It's a fundraiser for a trans rights organization.
What a way to end Pride Month, YouTube!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 08:22 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 08:23 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah, I'm probably the only one who actually watched them all. LOL!!
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 27, 2025 08:23 PM (5xuJ/)
Which can take a while on the really big ones.
Posted by: garrett
Wait! What are we talking here? Fish or Redheads?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 08:23 PM (cYBz/)
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African, or European?
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:24 PM (TN0g+)
The fact that the X, er, post, (what are they called now that "tweet" isn't a thing?) was titled, "I did it!" removed the suspense.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 08:24 PM (QPRfs)
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Does being born on U.S. soil automatically make you a citizen?
Is that what the Fourteenth Amendment intended?
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:25 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 08:25 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I realized today that Pride month is three months before the Fall.
Interesting.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 08:25 PM (cYBz/)
I'd like to see him try thst with a swallow.
Posted by: tankdemon
African or European?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 08:26 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 08:19 PM (vFG9F)
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Like the genitals of an endangered mammal?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 08:26 PM (IBQGV)
' My parents would want me to leave everything to my nephews. Naaaah, they HATE ME...'
Leave them an empty lockbox with an IOU inside. If they're going to hate you they might as well have a good reason.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 08:26 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 08:23 PM (cYBz/)
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I understand your confusion. They both have dead, lifeless eyes, doll's eyes, and then the roll back and all you hear is screaming.
YMMV
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)
If I did ocean swimming as I probably should, I'd actually prefer to use an electronic repellent device (virtually guaranteeing no problem), just to be sure. But I'm talking about extended swims, like out to the mile buoy at La Jolla Cove.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:27 PM (1m82a)
Yeah.
Should be them.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE
These are your things and you can leave them to whoever you would like. I would suggest you not mention it, however, because if you do find the perfect someone, you don’t want to say “just kidding”. Wait it out a little bit and see where life leads you.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 08:27 PM (QzINz)
That's troublesome in my book.
Nurse sharks will not kill you.
Any animal, even those smiling assassins that go under the name of quokka, will bite you if they feel threatened.
An aggressive asshole like a bull shark is nothing like a nurse shark. A bull will bite you just because that's what it does. A nurse shark won't.
Musk wants to go to Mars and most people don't even know whats going on in 70% of this world.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)
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African, or European?
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:24 PM (TN0g+)
I can beat any swallow! Ask Chasten.
Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 27, 2025 08:27 PM (gKDq2)
' My parents would want me to leave everything to my nephews. Naaaah, they HATE ME...'
Leave them an empty lockbox with an IOU inside. If they're going to hate you they might as well have a good reason.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 08:26 PM (3wi/L)
You could give them 100 bucks each. Helps against the argument that you just forgot them.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 08:28 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 08:28 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:24 PM (TN0g+)
_________________________
(I'll finish the bit)
"I don't know...." "Ahhhhhhhhhhggggggggg!!!!!!"
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 08:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 08:19 PM (vFG9F)
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Like the genitals of an endangered mammal?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 08:26 PM (IBQGV)
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Is there any nation on earth so worried about getting it up?
Maybe that's why there were so many of them - emphasis on *were*.
I'm curious about the combat performance of an army comprises entirely of only children obsessed with making their junk work.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 08:29 PM (ZOv7s)
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I haven't heard of such devices. Can you tell us more?
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:29 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"
I was thinking the blue pill but whatever floats your boat.
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 08:29 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 08:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:18 PM (sJ4fj)
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Come on in, water’s fine! I won’t touch your feet. Probably.
Posted by: A Shark at June 27, 2025 08:30 PM (u73oe)
My current proof is that the invasive brown garden snails here usually have weak papery shells, and I just found large one on the horseradish that had a very strong, robust shell.
(it is time to get the sourdough traps out again. )
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 08:30 PM (D7oie)
'Musk wants to go to Mars and most people don't even know whats going on in 70% of this world.'
No sharks on Mars. It really makes you think.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 08:30 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)
Mars sharks are like quokkas.
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 08:30 PM (LHPAg)
Tried to use grok today. It wanted me to sign up or no.
Welp, Elon, as much of a fanboi I am, it's No.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:31 PM (VUQgh)
"Reports confirm the arrest of rabbis and religious leaders in Tehran and Shiraz, accused, without evidence, of ties to Israel," the organization wrote on its social media.
Six additional people have been executed on suspicion of collaborating with Mossad, Israel's public broadcaster KAN News noted."
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:31 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 08:29 PM (vFG9F)
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TIGER TESTICLES MUCH BETTER! You go longer, get longer.
Posted by: Traditional Chinese Doctor at June 27, 2025 08:31 PM (ZOv7s)
While the traveling circus is gone from our landscape, the Freak Show lives on.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 08:31 PM (gKDq2)
And they came in and petted their cat who is living with me.
I'm not expecting to go anywhere soon, but THAT decision just got easier....
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:32 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 08:29 PM (TN0g+)
Makes a noise like a Chinese fishing boat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 08:32 PM (yLiuJ)
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No sharks on Mars. It really makes you think.
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Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a shark
In fact, it's cold as hell
Posted by: Elton John at June 27, 2025 08:32 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 08:33 PM (P389G)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:31 PM (g47mK)
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Ah, so we're to the scapegoating phase. Always the sign of a confident regime celebrating its victories.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)
'I'd actually prefer to use an electronic repellent device (virtually guaranteeing no problem), just to be sure. '
I've got just the thing.
https://tinyurl.com/4m5e2wcm
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 08:33 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 08:25 PM
My local market has black tipped shark steak from time to time. Good stuff.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:34 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Eromero
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Everything in Texas will kill you. They even have sharks in their rivers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:34 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: AI Commentator at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (vFG9F)
Well, they are relentless predators, are they not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:41 PM (uR5MM)
Yes. The brutality exhibited in the capture of that leaf is far too graphic to be shown on any nature show.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 08:34 PM (QPRfs)
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 08:34 PM (vFG9F)
"Reports confirm the arrest of rabbis and religious leaders in Tehran and Shiraz, accused, without evidence, of ties to Israel," the organization wrote on its social media. Six additional people have been executed on suspicion of collaborating with Mossad....
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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?"
Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at June 27, 2025 08:35 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 08:32 PM (yLiuJ)
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I saw some propaganda about how China could mobilize its fishing fleet to invade Taiwan, and I thought to myself "What an utterly retarded idea!"
Put troops on small, unarmored vessels which if lost, will cause a massive food shortage.
Then again the ChiComs are experts in human-engineered famines.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 08:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 08:28 PM
Nah, I was the worst older brother.
I already forgive him.
But WOW!
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:37 PM (jvJvP)
It sounds like a great idea! And I think your mom would be happy with that. But let yourself be open to whatever comes. Sometimes life has surprises in store.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 08:37 PM (AcTAo)
'Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a shark
In fact, it's cold as hell'
Nothing worse than cold shark. I microwave them for about 60 seconds.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 08:37 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
(obligatory)
And, boy, is Morton pissed!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
When it rains it pours.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
* nods *
When you soak your foot in salt water, what do you expect?
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 08:38 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:34 PM (VUQgh)
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Excuse me?
Posted by: Australia at June 27, 2025 08:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Yep.
The electronic (really electric) repellent is Australian, can't recall the name. Swimmer's version is an ankle strap thinggy. Generates an electric field in the water, sharks can't stand it, immediately swim away from it.
I remember what was probably proof-of-concept waaaaay back in the 70s, done here near the harbor (it was on local news). They chummed water near a boat, waited for sharks to appear, then stuck this thing in the water and turned it on. Sharks immediately turned and swam in concentric circles away from the boat. Sharks have sensor system in their hides, the electric field appears to be intolerable for them.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:38 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: A Shark at June 27, 2025 08:38 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi at June 27, 2025 08:39 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 08:39 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: A Shark at June 27, 2025 08:38 PM (u73oe)
Says the fish with regenerating teeth.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 08:39 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: runner
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While it was going on an Iranian woman Xed that the police came to her home, dragged her husband out the front door and beat him seriously bad. They did it out front for all the neighbors to see.
It's not settled. Trump got the cease that he wanted but the mullahs won't let it go.
They know the Jews are pissed off but what they don't understand is that Trump's not mad.......yet.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:39 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 08:40 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:40 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: rickb223
Weirdest vagina dentata reference evar.
Well, weirdest one I've seen today.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 08:40 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 08:33 PM (P389G)
I have been using ag lime and ground oyster shells, and fish bone meal. Egg shells go in the compost which eventually goes into the garden since they often don't break down best in the soil.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 08:40 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: A Quokka at June 27, 2025 08:41 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: RickZ
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The Japanese are close to accomplishing that for humans.
- the English are excited -
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:41 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 08:41 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 08:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 08:27 PM (QzINz
Thanks.
They are family people. Beautiful family.
When I get my family, they will understand.
And not be happy if I died....
My brother...
Yeah, I need a will....
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:42 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:42 PM (1m82a)
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That's why 30% of us want to with him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:43 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 08:04 PM (flKEw)
You must be really hungry.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2025 08:43 PM (QPRfs)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:43 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: A Shark at June 27, 2025 08:38 PM
Pussy.
Posted by: A Quokka at June 27, 2025 08:41 PM (Wnv9h)
Thank you both.
That made me laugh. But there's been stuff.
But still, that was funny.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:44 PM (jvJvP)
be grateful you can't hear my bad Cowardly Lion imitation sayin'
"ain't it the truth! ain't it the truth!"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 08:45 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:42 PM (1m82a)
My mom used to put egg shells into the coffee grounds when she made drip coffee. It made a difference.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:45 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 08:46 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 08:46 PM (gKWVE)
For now, when the house is yours, do have a lawyer draw up a will! It can be changed later if needed, but it's critical to have that in place.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 08:46 PM (AcTAo)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:42 PM (1m82a)
Sometimes, Mother Nature needs help.
Posted by: Dedicated Food Processor For Grinding Egg Shells at June 27, 2025 08:46 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Diogenes
8% more calcium and 73% more salmonella!
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 08:46 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:47 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:45 PM (W/lyH)
I've heard of this. Now, good difference or bad difference??
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:47 PM (g47mK)
And Teddy Jack Eddy still kickin
Posted by: Miflin at June 27, 2025 08:48 PM (aA6YN)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 08:46 PM (gKWVE)
Speed reading!!!
Hoarde mind is an awesome thing.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:48 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:45 PM (W/lyH)
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I've heard of this. Now, good difference or bad difference??
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:47 PM (g47mK)
Don't use decaf coffee grounds. Plants don't like decaf.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 08:49 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 08:47 PM (g47mK)
Good, at least to me but I was only 7. What did I know? She said it takes out some of the acidity.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:50 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 08:50 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:40 PM (1m82a)
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Trump creates a verbal smokescreen that gives him maximum freedom of maneuver as well as strategic surprise because no one can tell what it hints at.
It's very effective.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:51 PM (sJ4fj)
Hoarde mind is an awesome thing.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:48 PM (W/lyH)
Sorry, long year. And beer and edibles
Anyways, memory, speed reading, super learning.
This could be a hobby topic.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:52 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 08:50 PM (Z5NUn)
I've read plants thrive with Mozart and other classical music in the background, so yeah.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 08:53 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 08:40 PM (Z5NUn)
This! Bigly!!!
Those beady little eyes look cute as hell, but they're zeroing in on the jugular.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:54 PM (W/lyH)
That made me laugh. But there's been stuff.
But still, that was funny.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 08:44 PM
My pleasure. 'Cause you gotta laugh.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 08:54 PM (Wnv9h)
Wacky Prediction time!!
Next gaslighting hoax will be Democrats crediting biden's stupid "build back better" for our great Economy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 08:54 PM (UMwhX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2025 08:54 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 08:54 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 08:55 PM (UMwhX)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:56 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 08:56 PM (ufFY8)
It's very effective.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)
IMAO, Trump tells you what he's gonna do. There's some hyperbole and bluster but the underlying Truth is there. It''s just nobody is used to the Truth from politicians these days and it's a surprise when Trump follows through on what he said he's gonna do. Decisive action vs. focus-group approval. Like the Iran Raid.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 08:56 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 08:56 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: rhomboid
We aren't going to rehash the ribeye vs. strip steak wars again are we?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 08:57 PM (cYBz/)
Vagina dentata side effects? Turd cutter teeth?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 08:58 PM (4chiU)
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 08:53 PM
I don't talk to my plants. I threaten them.
During Holy Week I remind my fig trees of the Gospel account of Christ cursing the fig. I think they get it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 08:58 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:51 PM (sJ4fj)
Hey!!!
Hands off my cardboard membership!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 08:58 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 08:58 PM (UMwhX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 08:59 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 08:57 PM (cYBz/)
Those strip steaks are expensive, man. They eat up my ones and fives.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 08:59 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 08:56 PM (sJ4fj)
She was a record holder for some things.
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 09:00 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 08:46 PM
Thank you!
Oh! I will.
I hope my brother heals but in the meantime, you want our friends and neighbours like ours...now mine
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:00 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 08:59 PM (P389G)
Shut up! You're going to give the WEF ideas.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 09:00 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:00 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Boss Moss
The Le Leche League has recipes using human breast milk.
Nothing is weirder than people.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 09:01 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 09:01 PM (UMwhX)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 09:00 PM (LHPAg)
A pioneer in the popularization of synthetic lung warts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 09:01 PM (yLiuJ)
We used to do that to add to chicken feed, it gives them calcium back.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 09:01 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:02 PM (sJ4fj)
We used to do that to add to chicken feed, it gives them calcium back.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Is that cannibalism or not?
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 09:02 PM (DgGvY)
She did tv breaks on channel 44.
enlarging her breasts from size 34B to 44DD through silicone injections.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 09:02 PM (4chiU)
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 09:03 PM (UMwhX)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 09:02 PM (DgGvY)
I don't believe that chickens have any hangups about cannibalism.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 09:03 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 08:40 PM (1m82a)
Trump says an amazing amount of stupid shit. He doesn't seem to have a great grasp of history.
Yet he almost savant like, mostly comes out on the right-side of almost everything.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 09:05 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 09:02 PM (DgGvY)
I thought chickens pretty much were cannibals. Dinosaur genes, you know.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 09:05 PM (gKDq2)
Leftist propaganda peddler & pervert bill moyers is dead.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 09:05 PM (UMwhX)
North Beach strip joint, right? Columbus Ave? Not an SFer so vague on it all.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 09:06 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Probably not. Leftover dinosaur instincts.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 09:06 PM (DgGvY)
Beloved "Cleetus" from Dukes of Hazzard has passed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 09:07 PM (UMwhX)
Possibly but chickens will gleefully eat each other if they can. They'll eat anything. They'd eat you if they could
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 09:07 PM (dfIr7)
Yet he almost savant like, mostly comes out on the right-side of almost everything.
Posted by: Sadowski
Wisdom and Intelligence are different statistics in Dungeons & Dragons for a reason.
His Charisma stat ain't bad, either.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 09:07 PM (DgGvY)
Sooth, So sad. Oh look at the time. Friday night cleanup of dog shit before the grandkids get here tomorrow.
Posted by: fourseasons at June 27, 2025 09:08 PM (3ek7K)
I caught a few dogs with several hooks embedded in their mouth. Asshole fish.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 09:08 PM (DfhSF)
It's very effective.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Imagine going up against him in real estate deals.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 09:08 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 09:08 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:00 PM (sJ4fj
It makes the most wonderful mud!
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 09:09 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:10 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 09:08 PM (VofaG)
You still have kitten natividad to go then.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)
Yet he almost savant like, mostly comes out on the right-side of almost everything.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 09:05 PM (r2ymA)
Common sense policies go a long way to being on the right-side of things. Speaking plain English, Trump version, versus political speak.
I said it the first term, I have never known what a president is thinking in real time until Trump thanks to Twitter/X. Trump doesn't do diplo-speak. That's why I'm so impressed with Sec. Rubio, no diplo-speak but common sense-speak.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 09:11 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Is that cannibalism or not?
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 09:02 PM (DgGvY
Mothers that eat the placenta?
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 09:12 PM (VofaG)
At work but not feeling good
Can't go home with a hour drive.
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 09:12 PM (qe0Kw)
At work but not feeling good
Can't go home with a hour drive.
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 09:12 PM (qe0Kw)
Take care of yourself, Skip.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 09:13 PM (yLiuJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 08:34 PM (VUQgh)
We'll randomly shoot people just walking down the street because the weekly death toll is too low. We usually look for some indication that a person is from a blue state (you know the ones).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 09:14 PM (ExV1e)
Ben Had, I've got some rosemary and garlic ribs sous viding for the weekend. Because it's been a while since I did.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 09:14 PM (Wnv9h)
Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, was arrested Thursday and taken into custody after a search of his District of Columbia home.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:15 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:15 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 09:14 PM (ExV1e)
'Stryker was a top squadron leader, but he was one of those guys... well, he felt too much inside. Maybe you know the kind.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 09:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 09:17 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:15 PM (AOsQT)
I wonder who tipped off the cops? Or was he caught in a sting?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 09:18 PM (yLiuJ)
Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, was arrested Thursday and taken into custody after a search of his District of Columbia home.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:15 PM (AOsQT)
That one made the front page here. Funny thng is WaPo put the story behind a pay wall.
If a story is behind a pay wall, does anybody ever read it?
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 09:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:21 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 09:21 PM (URRXY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 09:21 PM (URRXY)
Another master we did not choose. Amazing how many of these assholes there are.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 09:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:21 PM
So few woochippers...so little time...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 09:24 PM (Wnv9h)
And Teddy Jack Eddy still kickin
Posted by: Miflin at June 27, 2025 08:48 PM
RIP, Mazeppa Pompazoidi.
Posted by: EveR at June 27, 2025 09:25 PM (Z/h4+)
Posted by: polynikes
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One has to be really stupid to have a name like, Lou Alcindor and change it. That is a name made for MoTown.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:25 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 09:28 PM (qe0Kw)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 09:30 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:30 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 09:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 09:30 PM (0sNs1)
Skip, I would drive there to get you home, but is a long drive from Wyoming.
I hope you feel better soon. You've been working crazy hours.
Posted by: fourseasons at June 27, 2025 09:32 PM (3ek7K)
If I have it right, new lows are being achieved, with the parliamentarian ruling the NFA amendment is non-germane - even though that section of the NFA was only deemed constitutional (an absurd ruling, obviously) *because* it was a tax. Of course the primary test of germaneness in reconciliation is whether something affects (non-discretionary) spending, or ..... revenue.
Farcical.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 09:33 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 09:34 PM (Z5NUn)
and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States,
approximately 0 people would have the surname Legro.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:34 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 09:35 PM (Z5NUn)
Posted by: Skip
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Maybe rent a room in DellaFuckingWare.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:37 PM (VUQgh)
Leave it to them. Your parents no longer care about such things. They want you to be happy. It's your stuff now, you get to choose who you leave it to. It's a no brainer.
Don't tell the people you'releaving it to them. You never know what might happen. Have a back up in your will. I suggest a cat rescue, or an animal shelter, or something along those lines, should your neighbors move or you no longer want to leave things to them.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 27, 2025 09:37 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 09:28 PM (qe0Kw)
Get better soon.
On the 'plus side', throwing up is near the top of the miserableness.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:38 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 09:38 PM (Z5NUn)
Gator Gitmo.
I love it.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Built at the end of a runway. _ time to go
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:39 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:39 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Wisdom is in the Hordes words heed them and live well.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:42 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 09:42 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 27, 2025 09:37 PM
Thank you.
But they are going to be emergency contacts and have medical power of attorney. I have no one else closer.
And they will be thrilled when I get married. Like me, they don't give a damn about the money.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:43 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2025 09:43 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:44 PM (VUQgh)
John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman, has been denied parole for a 10th time and will remain behind bars for at least two more years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 09:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:46 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:44 PM
Please, I want opinions.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:46 PM (jvJvP)
Farcical.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 09:33 PM (1m82a)If I have it right, new lows are being achieved, with the parliamentarian ruling the NFA amendment is non-germane - even though that section of the NFA was only deemed constitutional (an absurd ruling, obviously) *because* it was a tax. Of course the primary test of germaneness in reconciliation is whether something affects (non-discretionary) spending, or ..... revenue.
Farcical.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 09:33 PM (1m82a)
The very notion of constitutionally has been farcical since at least Lincoln. The last even nominally constitutional president was Coolidge.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 09:47 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:48 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 09:44 PM (63Dwl)
Chapman wanted to be famous. Well, he got it. Behind bars.
I tend to hate indeterminate 'life' sentences for premeditated killers. They come up for parole after a certain time. Over and over but they come up for parole. Sometimes the parole board eventually gives in and grants parole. Sorry, no.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 09:49 PM (gKDq2)
I believe it was that decided only 'military arms' are covered by the 2nd.
Go figure.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Stateless .
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Opinion: Listen to the ladies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:50 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:48 P
Thank you.
My friends across the street are amazing. For now, if anything happens to me, definitely them.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:50 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 09:51 PM (AcTAo)
Opinion: Listen to the ladies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:50 PM (VUQgh
Lol
Thank you.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:51 PM (jvJvP)
I believe it was that decided only 'military arms' are covered by the 2nd.
Go figure.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)
"Taxes override everyone's Constitutional rights. Everybody knows that." ~ U.S. Repesentative Sandy From Westchester
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 09:53 PM (gKDq2)
And some of them are.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Friday looms at June 27, 2025 09:54 PM (bvX/N)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 09:54 PM (qe0Kw)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 09:51 PM
I know.
I'm completely alone. I don't know what would happen to Ralphy. Who I am trying to drag comfortably into 2026.
Ohhh, the limping...
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:54 PM (jvJvP)
Or be like Trajan and not like your available options, but then your wife will pick your gay ward to rule the Empire.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 09:55 PM (AcTAo)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 27, 2025 09:55 PM (Z5NUn)
-
I assume they are lunch time, bed time, and party time
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 09:55 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:57 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 09:55 PM (AcTAo)
Ughhh. That's horrible. I'm so sorry.
Yeah. And nothing to my 'family.'
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:58 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 09:51 PM (AcTAo)
Notso, wait till the lawyers get ahold of it, lol. Hope you have really put in really lock-down language and money behind it.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 09:59 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 09:59 PM (VUQgh)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 09:55 PM (AcTAo)
That is why you need to send over Guiedo and Antonio for a..."consultation."
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 09:59 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Jmel at June 27, 2025 10:01 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 09:58 PM (jvJvP)
$100. Seriously. Hard to contest.
It's like leaving a $.02 tip. You're giving the living 'your two cents worth', or in the vernacular, the middle finger.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:02 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 09:57 PM
Yeah, sadly. Keeping him as happy as possible.
Mom was 88. I talked with her friends often. It's kind of scary when you think of all the older people living alone with pets.
Mom would check up on her friends everyday.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 10:03 PM (jvJvP)
It's like leaving a $.02 tip. You're giving the living 'your two cents worth', or in the vernacular, the middle finger.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:0
Thanks.
I will!
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 10:03 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 10:05 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 10:02 PM (gKDq2)
There is a certain demographic where a tip like that would be generous. Just sayin.
Posted by: Sadowski at June 27, 2025 10:09 PM (r2ymA)
The Week in Woke
In other words, the True Conservative is pro-socialist/globalizing the intifada. I hope the globalized intifada starts at Kristol's home. Obligatory cruise ship. When Pete Hegseth praised the "boys" who dropped the MOP on Fodrow, some idiot reporter whined, buh-buh-but what about the single woman pilot? Shut up, Silly Woman! Los Angeles liberals: ICE has scared illegals into not coming to work so we think that everyone should be free to remain in their apartments without paying rent.
I've gotta say, I'm rapidly becoming more anti-anti-Zohran than anti-Zohran. https://t.co/NqVH18uKcH
-- Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 26, 2025
Several unions are calling on the Los Angeles City Council to vote for a rent moratorium on the basis that deportation operations have severely shut down business activity. The community groups say that businesses have been crippled by the loss of workers as well as consumers who are fearing detainment from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. ... "We know that many tenants will not be able to pay their rent come July 1," said Kenia Alcocer of LATU, who said she is also an illegal alien.
"Why? Because this militarization of our communities, this occupation of our community, this terrorizing of our communities have closed down businesses, have taken away street vendors, have separated families -- and then people cannot pay their rent," she added. "They have barely the minimum to survive." ... "Our businesses are struggling. Entrepreneurship is at a standstill," the man said. "Fear has taken a toll on our society and our local economy."
In May, the council refused to renew the $666,000 contract with Flock for camera monitors around 70 Denver intersections to screen for car theft. That system resulted in the recovery of 170 stolen cars and 300 arrests. It is also credited with key evidence in the investigation of hit-and-run and murder cases. However, it could also be used to assist ICE, and that is all that matters. Councilman Kevin Flynn explained it is all about Trump's election: "We know that it can help solve crime. But I think since maybe Jan. 20 of this year, those concerns are greatly heightened and have a new reality about them."Note that hit-and-run killers are now being let free to kill again. Andrew Sullivan wrote that the transgender movement has set back the gay movement by doing what the gay movement swore it would never do: Go after people's kids. This is pretty obvious, yes, but it's published in the New York Times, which indicates that the left is attempting to prepare the base to abandon the transgender extremists. John Sexton quotes Sullivan's obvious and very late take:
In the gay rights movement, there had always been an unspoken golden rule: Leave children out of it. We knew very well that any overreach there could provoke the most ancient blood libel against us: that we groom and abuse kids. You can bring up your children however you like, we promised. We will leave you alone. We will leave your children alone. So what did the gender revolutionaries go and do? They focused almost entirely on children and minors. Partly because the adult issues had been resolved or close to it, and partly because true cultural revolutions start with the young, it meant overhauling the education not only of children with gender dysphoria, but of every other kid as well. Kids all over the country were impacted. Your children were taught in elementary school that being a boy or a girl was something they could choose and change at will. Your daughter found herself running against a trans girl (i.e. a biological male) in athletics. Children in elementary school got to pick pronouns, and some children socially transitioned at school without their parents' knowledge or permission... Soon enough, the right began associating what used to be the lesbian and gay movement with this gender extremism, and the L.G.B.T.Q.+ movement responded not by moderating tone or substance, but by closing ranks, seemingly determined to prove its point.As LizLem said in a comment: Drag Queens never visit senior centers to read "Swish-Swish Go the Hips of the Drag Queen." The go right for the children. See Sexton's article for NYT subscribers comments on the article -- they seem to agree. Oh, they don't really agree, I'm sure. But they've recognized the electoral apocalypse that's coming if they don't at least pretend to disagree with the child-obsessed trans groomers. The feds are investigating Minnesota for allowing a hulking 6'2" man to dominate "girls" softball by pitching whiff shutouts like he's F*cking Thor hurling Mjolnir from the mound.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it has launched a Title IX investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League. The inquiry will investigate whether Minnesota violated federal law by permitting male athletes to compete on girls-only sports teams--including in a recent high school softball championship. OCR said the investigation was triggered because the "male athlete's participation was instrumental, leading the team to win the state title."
AOC continues lying about being a "Bronx girl." A former classmate of hers posted a picture of her in the Yorktown High School yearbook, proving this "Bronx girl" grew up in the affluent NYC suburb Westchester County.
AOC has an answer to this: See, she visited her cousins who did live in the Bronx, and their tales of the desperation of Bronx-living are, like Jenjhis Khan, seared, seared into her memory.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Bronx girl' narrative was shattered when a New York State Republican lawmaker exposed her yearbook photo from a top-ranked, high-performing public school. On Tuesday, State Assemblyman Matt Slater jumped into the online clash between AOC and President Donald Trump, after the liberal progressive called for Trump's impeachment over his approval of airstrikes on Iran without congressional authorization. The online clash ignited a fiery exchange between AOC and Trump, during which the congresswoman appeared to invoke her Bronx roots as a source of her toughness. 'Also, I'm a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,' AOC wrote to X in regards to the president's Queens upbringing. But Slater escalated the debate by unveiling a yearbook photo of her as a high school freshman in the affluent suburb of Yorktown, Westchester County - a 40-minute drive from the Bronx. 'If you're a BX girl then why are you in my Yorktown yearbook?' Slater wrote on X. 'Give it up already.' Alongside his tweet, the Republican lawmaker posted two images: a black-and-white throwback of a young, smiling AOC, and the 2004 yearbook cover from Yorktown High School. In a statement to The New York Post, he dismissed the 'AOC-Bronx mythology' as 'laughable,' adding that the claim is just as laughable to the 36,000 residents of the Westchester community. 'The truth is AOC is Sandy Cortez who went to Yorktown High School and lived at the corner of Friends Road and Longvue Street,' Slater told the outlet. 'She may think it makes her look tough or like some kind of champion for the radical left who voted for Zohran Mamdani, but she really needs to come clean and drop the act,' he added. ...
But Slater - representing parts of both Putnam and Westchester counties - quickly jumped in, posting the two photos with the caption beneath one: 'Here's the Yorktown High School '04 yearbook pic. Friends Road looks nothing like the Bronx.' ... However, at just five years old, AOC moved with her family to a modest two-bedroom house on a quiet street in Yorktown Heights - a suburban relocation driven by the search for better schools, according to a 2018 article by The New York Times. In 2007, the congresswoman graduated from Yorktown High School before attending Boston University, where she studied economics and international relations--and briefly engaged with establishment politics - before returning to the Bronx.
I once did a book report on Martin Luther King Jr. so I grew up in Georgia under Jim Crow. Do not deny My Truth.
Throughout her childhood, Representative Ocasio-Cortez traveled regularly to The Bronx to spend time with her extended family,' it adds. 'From an early age, the stark contrast in educational opportunities available to her and her cousins, based on their respective zip codes, made an impression on her.'
Lawsuit alleges that the woke, anti-white racist corporation IBM fired a white man, claiming he was incompetent. The lawsuit further alleges it then hired two minorities to do the job that the one "incompetent" white guy did.
Pop singer Azaelia Banks pulls out of a London concert after alleging they pressured her to make a statement supporting the Palestinians: "I'm not putting on a f***in' hijab."
Two legal groups are suing IBM over claims the technology company discriminated against an older white employee for the purpose of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. America First Legal (AFL) and JW Howard Attorneys, LTD, filed a federal lawsuit against IBM on behalf of former employee John Loeffler, 64. The lawsuit alleges that Loeffler was targeted to "advance IBM's internal DEI quotas," accusing the company of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit claims that despite Loeffler's history of positive performance reviews and successfully leading a $30 million project, IBM placed him on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) with conditions that were "impossible to meet." Loeffler objected to the plan and his recently assigned manager, Eric Castillo, conceded that the PIP's goals were unattainable, according to the lawsuit. Loeffler's lawyers contend the PIP was intentionally designed to force him out of his role in favor of younger, non-white staff. "The PIP was pretextually designed to remove Loeffler from his position because he is an older white male," the lawsuit states. "IBM discriminates in favor of younger workers generally (as the EEOC explicitly found), and, in the name of 'diversity,' specifically discriminates against white males" The lawsuit alleges that, after terminating Loeffler due to his inability to meet the targets, the company replaced him with two younger, non-white employees. Prior to being fired, Loeffler had a nearly decade-long track record of success at IBM, according to AFL. According to the lawsuit, Loeffler's 2021 performance review states, "John, your excellent work ethic and support for your teammates and others speaks for itself. I particularly would like to highlight the great work you continue to do." The lawsuit also alleges that IBM denied Loeffler commissions he earned on a $30 million government contract that he worked on. "Others on his team (who did less work on the project than he did), including racial minorities, were credited with work and afforded commission on the project, while he was denied it," AFL reported. This lawsuit comes after years of IBM engaging in DEI policies that target white men. In 2021, video footage surfaced of IBM's CEO, Arvin Krishna, calling for racial and gender quotas in the hiring process. Krishna supported using coercive tactics to reach their goals, including financial incentives for those who met the quotas.
Azealia BanksBanks is black. Azaelia Banks more like Azaelia Based, amirite
@azealiaslacewig So guys, I am cancelling Boomtown and Maiden Voyage, the promoters have been stressing me out for weeks trying to force me to say free Palestine and threatening to cut me from the bill because I won't say free Palestine and I'm not dealing with the threats and I'm not putting on a fucking hijab. They're both basically trying to extort me - by insinuating that I need to say I support Palestine or they will drop me from the gig BUT I would much rather drop them and not associate with anything that has cheap group think bullshit attached to it. If they want to allow some no-name dj's to bully them into desecrating the nature of this music ecosystem and make ME the issue - whilst there being absolutely no ethical consumption under capitalism. Then that's fine. More thinly veiled racism
And overt antisemitism from the fucking gays for Hamas.
Azealia BanksThe backlash is growing, and it will break with a fury.
@azealiaslacewig And no, I'm not saying fuck actual Palestine. But fuck your dumb ass slogans and performative bullshit. Yall wanna make a stance so bad but stand for absolutely nothing. As soon as the media says pedophilia is "natural and normal,"
You bitches will be right there talking about #PEDOPHILERIGHTS Like be fucking forreal. That war has been going on in the background for fucking decades . Way before anyone alive today was born And all of a sudden yall are throwing around words like genocide and Zionist not even knowing the meaning of those words While you drive around in ur teslas and leave comments from your iPhones all built off the backs and the blood of children working in mines from dusk til dawn
There is zero ethical consumption under capitalism. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING. I'm going to enjoy the rest of my summer and make music It's time for a new ab record.
I don’t need to be on stage stressing out to appease some dumb ass protesters who literally rely on those people in Palestine being crushed so they can solicit donations they DO NOT give to the cause. Kiss my ass
Leftwing communist c*nts are devastated by the Court's rulings:
Democrats aren't going to make it out of this. Trump has ended them, once and for all.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 27, 2025
Today was the final straw. You can hear it in their tone.
"There is a lot of bad news."
"There are no silver linings here."
"The gloves are off. There are no restraints." pic.twitter.com/3zjq1Yi6MP
Woman pretending to be a man calls for people to “k*ll” ICE agents.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 26, 2025
Arrest, prosecute, and jail this woman immediately.
She’s committed a federal crime. pic.twitter.com/rOu9mDnPhj
JarvisChilling.
@jarvis_best Trump's DOJ is once again jailing journalists. This is how democracy dies. This is not normal. The Statue of Liberty.
🚨 BREAKING: Democrat Rep. Lateefah Simon goes HAYWIRE on Republicans for invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, shouts and demands they NEVER invoke him again.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 25, 2025
"4 out of the 5 of you last year posted on your social media the words of Dr. King...I would ask you, you KEEP… pic.twitter.com/7YmUsEJlra
Highlights of Luzern u15s 7-1 victory over Switzerland women’s team.🇨🇭🔥 pic.twitter.com/3fehDzR9R8
— PurelyFootball ℗ (@PurelyFootball) June 26, 2025
Watching Janet Mills get booed at the moose lottery was just so... Satisfying.
— Frank (@MainelyFedUp) June 23, 2025
She's done nothing positive for Maine and we are worse off after her "leadership" pic.twitter.com/pShayXLFY8
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:12 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:13 PM (mlg/3)
(In Mr. Plinkett voice) "That's 'cos they don't wanna FUCK old people."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 06:13 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 06:15 PM (YUL+W)
@barstoolsports 31m
Tom Brady Has Been 'Chatting Up' Sydney Sweeney at Jeff Bezos' Wedding and it May Alter the Course of Reality
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:16 PM (mlg/3)
According to the Principled Conservatives, the Supreme Court "The Supreme Court Just Made America a Dangerous Place" by... checks notes ... ruling that district courts can't order nationwide injunctions any time they want.
https://is.gd/AGeWXj
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 06:17 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 06:17 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:17 PM (VofaG)
Unthinkable! Our elites love molesting kids? Our professional experts are short eyes? Unpossible!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (JufA3)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (kTd/k)
@azealiaslacewig
And no, I'm not saying fuck actual Palestine.
I am. They voted Hamas into office, so fuck 'em.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 06:19 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 06:19 PM (1/S7B)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 06:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (dR6yv)
Twitter is definitely a target-rich environment.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 06:19 PM (qpyNK)
I like how we're pretending these things are different now that it's politically inconvenient. Soon: Axios and Politico articles explaining how MAGA created the LGBT label to tar harmless gays.
Can we talk about the gay adoptions that seem to be resulting in baby and child rape while we're at it? Or does noticing those stories make me an agent of Vladimir Putin?
Spoiler: They were always coming for the kids. The entire gay subculture has always been about transgressing sexual norms and has always been fixated on youth.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 06:19 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 06:19 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 06:20 PM (/lPRQ)
Brat summer it ain't
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 06:20 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 27, 2025 06:20 PM (Ft5W9)
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This is a lie. Gays have always recruited by way of grooming, which is why it was imperative to hide this and insist gays were "born that way."
The trannies were too crazy to keep the secret, that's all.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:12 PM (kTd/k)
He's just worried there'll be a shortage of pool boys to do his wife.
"Doing the jobs that Americans won't do."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 06:21 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (dR6yv)
Is Retard Finder the opposite of a stud finder?
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:21 PM (kTd/k)
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"Libel" usually means something that isn't true, as opposed to something that's blindingly obvious because it must be true, since there's no genetic way to pass along gay-ness.
Posted by: Methos at June 27, 2025 06:22 PM (zLwRl)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 06:19 PM (4/BuS)
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See also Harvey Milk's reinvention as a hate crime victim rather than a guy who preyed on homeless teenagers.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:22 PM (ZOv7s)
"Anti-Israel activists damage tanks destined for Ukraine at Belgian arms factory...
CEO Freddy Versluys estimated that the activists had caused nearly €1 million in damages and set production back by at least a month."
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 06:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: polynikes
Above or below 'average,' which means nothing... which is not what she said.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:22 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 06:23 PM (Gmq6N)
Where the fuck are the authorities?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 06:23 PM (Q4IgG)
You need some kind of... I don't know... tricorder or something to tell Democrat men and people who menstruate apart.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 06:23 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 27, 2025 06:23 PM (TmEds)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 06:23 PM (yYROg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (dfIr7)
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Kind of odd how many degenerate perverts manage to worm their way into positions of power and authority. Almost like they conspire together to recruit among their own kind.
Then use that power and authority to groom children to be their playthings.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 06:23 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 06:24 PM (PCK5/)
I mean, putting aside how homosexuals absolutely do go after people's kids and admit it in unguarded moments... yeah I have heard and read this from more than a few homosexuals lately. The LGB part is getting sick of the other letters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 06:24 PM (dfIr7)
Ten to One - "He" also preferred little boys.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 06:24 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Sane People at June 27, 2025 06:24 PM (ra4xZ)
"Doing the jobs that Americans won't do."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 06:21 PM (qpyNK)
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Or maybe his wife is an extremely unpleasant shrew (she'd almost have to be to marry Cap'n Bill) and he's afraid that he'll be forced to interact with her if she doesn't have any pleasant diversions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 06:26 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 06:26 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 06:27 PM (IifOV)
Some of those ladies were awful cute.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 06:27 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 06:28 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 06:26 PM (2GCMq)
Theologian.. indeed.. I fail to see where God figures into his unhinged rants.
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 06:28 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 27, 2025 06:29 PM (vbXSk)
Then use that power and authority to groom children to be their playthings.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Elite exclusive clubs.
Not unlike the Ivy League or service Academies.
Once one gets in they'll hold the door open and flood senior positions for their own... and hire illegals to do the actual work.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 06:29 PM (/lPRQ)
In the gay rights movement, there had always been an unspoken golden rule: Leave children out of it.
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Only partly true. The rule was "don't talk about what we want to do to children", it was never "Leave children out of it."
They've always been groomers. Apparently last night's ONT had a story too gross for the Horde. But look at those two guys - now in jail - who just wanted to marry for love and raise children. Didn't mention what they wanted to do to the boys.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 06:29 PM (od0dV)
While I did not personally know Dr. King, as I was a little girl at the time, I am pretty sure he would not want to be in your mouf, either, LaTeefa...I like to write her name this way.
The video of the kill the ICE agent trans bully: news for her, her nose ring appears to be some sort of snail or parasite hook. If that's the look you were going for, alright!
In my professional opinon, which others have argued with me about, I am fairly certain Maine Gov Mills is a trans. Which is why she is in favor of this issue. Otherwise one of the top ugly females of all time.
~CB, Moron Reporter at Large
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:29 PM (6PCLE)
Let's see if new guy can take all the Trump WINNING or he kills himself on air.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:30 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 06:31 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:31 PM (jvJvP)
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Let's not let the gays completely off the hook here. There seem to be a lot of gays and lesbians who had a tough time coming out, had problems with their family accepting them, whatever, and now they've gotten into teaching or other positions where they can work with kids because they're absolutely determined to "save" every gay kid - or every kid they suspect of being gay - that they can find and rescue them from their evil oppressive homophobic parents.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 27, 2025 06:32 PM (8RvIK)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:33 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 06:28 PM (XV/Pl)
It hasn't been made mandatory yet.
Posted by: zombie bob hope at June 27, 2025 06:33 PM (4/BuS)
Same space between teefs. I always wonder what they floss with...one of those craft on wire things? A small rope? Are snacks stored there?
Forgive me if your teeth do this, as mine are not perfect, either. I have crowns on many molars and some of my bottom teefs are not super straight...but not crooked enough for braces (to my father's eternal relief as I cost him plenty in many colleges til I graduated).
What a great day we've had after a great bombing! Whee!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:34 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:34 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:34 PM (ra4xZ)
Then use that power and authority to groom children to be their playthings.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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The now former Barclays CEO was an Epstein friend and client.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:34 PM (VofaG)
We knew very well that any overreach there could provoke the most ancient blood libel against us: that we groom and abuse kids.
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What! Like older gays don't single out teen boys?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (/HVsR)
There's a Jim Jones feel to the left now, as if the Kool-Aid males sense.
Even the old criminals like Carville and Sullivan can't cope.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: WIsRich at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (+xcAz)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (jvJvP)
~CB, Moron Reporter at Large
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:29 PM (6PCLE)
Could just be a trans-hag.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 06:36 PM (FZn/N)
We knew very well that any overreach there could provoke the most ancient blood libel against us: that we groom and abuse kids.
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What! Like older gays don't single out teen boys?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (/HVsR)
Sort of been going on for much of recorded history, yes?
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 06:36 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 06:28 PM (XV/Pl)
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They spiked the ball before reaching the end zone. They assumed that having gotten as far as they did, the ratchet of history would do the rest and at long last they could open diddle little kids and parents would rejoice at all the gayness.
Turns out, using lies to advance your cause means that it collapses once people know the truth.
When even Pope Francis said the faggotry was getting out of hand, you knew they had gone too far.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:37 PM (ra4xZ)
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"Shouldn't cockpits now be called pussypits -- or at least bonus-hole-pits? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist and former Stochastic Terrorist at June 27, 2025 06:37 PM (vHvJK)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 06:37 PM (rvwwT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 06:38 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 06:37 PM (rvwwT)
Russian Disinformation!!!!!
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 06:38 PM (PCK5/)
Uhh
Posted by: the FBI tapes of Dr King at June 27, 2025 06:38 PM (yYROg)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, s‐it happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06
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Wow, they didn't have the guts to lead off. Let me guess, weather.
Posted by: WIsRich at June 27, 2025 06:38 PM (+xcAz)
I was happy to find out that MMA UFC legend Jon Jones is a big Trump supporter.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:38 PM (VofaG)
And Cold Air dropped out of Canada to capture a High Pressure Ridge over the NW US on the longest days of the year...
To quote Doctor Spock:
Fascinating.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 06:39 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 06:36 PM (FZn/N)
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Actual drag queens were funny because it was guys highlighting female mannerisms and logic.
But there was always a sexual side to it, which is why transvestites were always understood to be deviant creeps.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:39 PM (ZOv7s)
thank you but I like seeing you guys, there's no "putting up"
I got some open thread posts done for the fourth of july. that will be the big break. (it's friday)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 06:39 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist and former Stochastic Terrorist
Hen House ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 06:39 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Rick at June 27, 2025 06:39 PM (ASFuz)
In Powerful Dissent, Ketanji Brown Jackson Simply Writes 'Wakanda Forever'
https://buff.ly/uI41Y3k
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 06:39 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:40 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 06:40 PM (jc0TO)
No kids need to be taught that shit, it's to be found out about and ridiculed after they're teens. Not praised.
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Archie Bunker at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (R/m4+)
Yeah if you like us so much why no top ten lists in a long time.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (VofaG)
Careful. Optimism and positivity are dealt with harshly around here.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: Turn 2 at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (6TlG5)
But my Iiving situation SEEMS like it almost settled after almost 6 months of uncertainty. My brother signed all the papers. Lenders are all set. All the paperwork is done. Big bank draft from me to the lawyers. 99% done.
I had the house jerked out from under me twice already this year.
So I'll be nervous until Monday. Beer and edibles tonight. Well, this weekend.
And the cat that's not mine and the limping dog I'm trying t9 drag comfortably through the year are not homeless.
Thank YOU GOD!
Like seriously....
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (jvJvP)
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Probably because so few leftists have ever engaged in competitive sport.
Posted by: javems at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (8I4hW)
Even the old criminals like Carville and Sullivan can't cope.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (j4U/Z)
Interesting how the only ones trying to capture the spirit of the Dems are Carville and Sullivan, a pair that were used up and ignored 15-20 years ago.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Turn 2 at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (6TlG5)
No kids need to be taught that shit, it's to be found out about and ridiculed after they're teens. Not praised.
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (FZn/N)
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I went to public schools and they were pretty decent. My kids went through the same district.
My grandkids are going to Catholic school.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (viF8m)
Today was a good day. #winning
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (yYROg)
said Kenia Alcocer of LATU, who said she is also an illegal alien.
Deport her ass too!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 06:43 PM (flKEw)
PIP. Whoever thought up that bright idea should be drawn and quartered. Probably in-house labor lawyers and HR assholes.
"Oh, no! Our company doesn't lay people off." Sure, you just put them on a PIP with norms that would horrify a Gulag boss.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 06:43 PM (/HVsR)
Like seriously....
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (jvJvP)
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God is great! This is wonderful news!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: WIsRich at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (+xcAz)
Me, either...and her Mama did not spell Azalea correctly. However, her rant against Palestine is epic.
I am going to an open air concert, probably mostly for old people like us, and can't decide if I need to wear my injection proof metal maxi or mini skirt.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist and former Stochastic Terrorist
Hen House ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 06:39 PM (/lPRQ)
Watching Rules of Engagement sitcom when I first heard ‘you’re beaver damming me’ as the female alternative to cock blocking.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (VofaG)
Thank YOU GOD!
Like seriously....
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:42 PM (jvJvP)
Good to see you feeling better. Set aside things you can't change, save energy for when things do happen.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+)
Give the other hunters a chance to bag a few. Plus bleed out could take hours/days.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (XMwZJ)
said Kenia Alcocer of LATU, who said she is also an illegal alien.
Pretty sure rent is cheaper wherever she came from. Try there.
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (ra4xZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (viF8m)
accurate.
and frankly, liberal women support men crushing women in women's sports because, well, look, liberal women do tend to look for ways to undermine other women. They advance up the ladder not through achievement but by sabotaging their competitors.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (KRtlO)
Because someone in Canada will see the ads on his page?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (TmEds)
"There is a lot of bad news."
"There are no silver linings here."
"The gloves are off. There are no restraints."
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This might be the best video I've ever seen
Posted by: Mount Rushmore at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (zuz4h)
Let’s go to some public forum she’s appearing at and give her some so she can learn how!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (BanmN)
Nike sponsored an event in Paris where Kenyan distance runner Faith Kipyegon, who is currently the greatest female distance runner on the planet, would attempt to become the first female athlete ever to break four minutes for a mile. Nike resurfaced an entire track for her according to her bodyweight/stride. Made her running shoes that aren't legal for competition, an aerodynamic bodysuit and a 3-D printed sports bra . They used a team of male pacers to run around her and deflect the wind the entire time, and had a whole freakin' lightshow of pace lights running around the track during this to keep her at four minute pace. Official finish time...4:06.91. In 1954, Sir Roger Bannister...a male...running on a dirt track and wearing leather shoes and a pair of baggy gym shorts and a t-shirt, became the first human ever to break the 4:00 barrier...71 years ago. Well over 2000 males have achieved this since then.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (flKEw)
said Kenia Alcocer of LATU, who said she is also an illegal alien.
Deport her ass too!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 06:43 PM (flKEw)
According to the halls of reddit, everyone is getting deported except us white bazillionaires.
Send her back by train and roped to the top!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: WIsRich at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (+xcAz)
I have some of her music. It's very vulgar. To say the HQ largely would not approve is an understatement.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (VofaG)
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I miss his line-by-line dissections of Amanda Marcotte.
What happened to her? She was the "it girl" for butt sex.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)
People on CNN don't know what an intellectual is.
Like trans """women,""" all they can do is poorly ape the trappings.
Posted by: Matt_SE at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (R1kS/)
I really need to watch the Alien movies.....but Alligator prison.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (jvJvP)
If you ever want a nice set of Pheasant wings, shoot a Ditch Parrot in the sternum at 50 yards with a 22 Mag. They will be all that is left.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (ASFuz)
Actual drag queens were funny because it was guys highlighting female mannerisms and logic.
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"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles." - Hilaire Belloc
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (/HVsR)
This might be the best video I've ever seen
Posted by: Mount Rushmore at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (zuz4h)
I have not seen them so sad since the election.
I LOVE IT!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (6PCLE)
said Kenia Alcocer of LATU, who said she is also an illegal alien.
Pretty sure rent is cheaper wherever she came from. Try there.
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (ra4xZ)
How does a city council subvert State and Federal Contract Law?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (6PCLE)
Those waist armor pieces Roman and Greek soldiers wore would be easy to set up and can look pretty good.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)
And as to moderation, wasn't there a commenter named Zombie way back in the beginning of this blog that would link to the sites and sounds of the Folsom parade?
Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (oaPfe)
Posted by: 496 at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (t+VLa)
Renowned By Who?
-Hobo Jackson Princeton Professor at Large
Wizard of Oz University
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at June 27, 2025 06:47 PM (6Irx1)
Well over 2000 males have achieved this since then.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (flKEw)
_________
The women's record in the mile run was the men's record in 1915.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 06:47 PM (/HVsR)
Every single day you wake up on this side of the dirt is a good day.
Start there and life is much, much better.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 06:47 PM (AcTAo)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (KRtlO)
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Ugly chicks have always hated attractive ones. Watching some babe on a volleyball squad get her face smashed in by a dude is catnip to these hags.
What did Rush always say? Feminism was ugly women trying to punish attractive women.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)
"Shouldn't cockpits now be called pussypits -- or at least bonus-hole-pits? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist and former Stochastic Terrorist at June 27, 2025 06:37 PM
I remember a Rush show during GHWBs term and he was coming up on a break and he was talking about females in the military didn't like the term cockpit so he said they should name it after President Bush and back in a moment.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 27, 2025 06:47 PM (TmEds)
I really need to watch the Alien movies.....but Alligator prison.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (jvJvP)
Alligator Prison! The new smash hit starring Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed! Music written and performed by Jerry Reed!
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (mP0Kj)
None of the articles mention it, but the mook had a .338 Batting average as well. He pitched 94 innings, and the next closest pitcher on the team pitched 40+ less innings.
I'd be embarrassed to be on that team.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (dIske)
I don't know who that is but I am impressed.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (jc0TO)
I don’t think the majority of gays are on board with the current alphabet people agenda. They need to stand up and distance themselves.
Maybe they will.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (WwQOw)
Posted by: ace
Like how Amy Poehler came out against her old SNL sketches. Now that she's rich and famous, it's time to pull up that rope.
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (yYROg)
i just don't have it any more
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 06:49 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s
I know. I'm working on not worrying about things anymore. I'll just trust God.
I'm new to this. Lol. But Mom was a Nun for 14 years. And I took care of her for 14 years too.....
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:49 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: WIsRich at June 27, 2025 06:35 PM (+xcAz)
She still managed to spew some marxist cant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 06:49 PM (uR5MM)
If you want to be truly mad, read up on Moira Greyland. She is the daughter of noted fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley, who apparently was lesbian.
Moira is on record as saying she preferred it when her father raped her, because being raped by her father was much better than what her lesbian mother would do to her.
And that's just the surface of what went on.
Truly awful stuff. This was all back in the 70s before Marion Zimmer Bradley died.
Posted by: SimoHayha at June 27, 2025 06:49 PM (5/e+B)
For a few weeks there, I could barely walk...
Very happy to be almost healed up.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 06:50 PM (ASFuz)
Kenia Alcocer of LATU
Posted by: rickb223
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And today I was watching Shamaine Daniels of CASA (immigrated as a teen from Venezuela, of course). Kenias and Shamaines of organizations that keep illegal aliens in the country on USAID money (you know it) I'm getting to sick of. Kill their funding already.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 06:50 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (oaPfe)
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Zombie has surfaced since the Second Trumpening.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 06:49 PM (KRtlO)
If you were truly limited to only what you had...
it would be a Top 3.5 list.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (1iiSw)
Yes, /r9k/ is generally a hangout for people who think they failed at life and blame others. Although where they're blaming child molesters they've got a valid point.
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (yYROg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (BanmN)
But I can say a lot of corporations better up their liability coverage.
And start papering the file to fire DEI hires.
Also, annual reports are going to be hilarious as they try to hide the legal exposure for discrimination against whites and males.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (NwfFc)
Now, things as they are, the public schools near Philly are woke. So off to Catholic school. Sadly, no more nuns.
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 06:52 PM (FZn/N)
Maybe they will.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (WwQOw)
A good number have gone MAGA or at least anti Democrat. Look at Dave Rubin, used to be on Young Turks, has had himself as a pro Trump guy for a while.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (yYROg)
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Ugly women hate pretty women. Old women hate young women. This is doubly true when they are untethered from culture and faith, and no longer see any point in continuity but only consider themselves.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:52 PM (ZOv7s)
I think I will go over the Bullshit's YT channel and drink their tears. BBL.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 06:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 27, 2025 06:52 PM (p4nXC)
>>I have some of her music. It's very vulgar. To say the HQ largely would not approve is an understatement.
So your saying, a music rotation of her and John Denver would be considered eclectic?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 06:52 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (BanmN)
But those poor Hosers need Radio Free Ace!!
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)
>>For a few weeks there, I could barely walk...
>>Very happy to be almost healed up.
See? When he Captain Sparkles gets it it should be easy for the rest of you.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (BanmN)
Maybe they will.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM
The next one that does it will be the first. I honestly haven't seen anything like that posted anywhere. One would think at some point if gays were that pi$$ed about the very public tranny movement co opting kids they would/could find a platform to denounce it, but so far I have not seen a thing.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s
God is Great
Beer is good
People are crazy....
Heard that somewhere...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: AI Commentator at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
i just don't have it any more
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 06:49 PM (KRtlO)
Top ten reasons I (ace) don’t have it any more.
You always had it and I’ve seen no sign you lost it . Your descriptions of people are the best they’ve ever been. ( totally serious ass kissing)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (VofaG)
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Tim Waltz, please call your office
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (1iiSw)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)
A coke bottle thrown from an airplane ?
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (ra4xZ)
Oh yeah, Panda hunting.
Fuck you you cocksucking sack of shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+)
I'm ready to become amazing.
But having the living situation up in the air, tossed around for almost half a year was draining.
I am going to spend 100 hours cleaning the house. We had so many renovations before Mom passed. This is costing me about $60,000 for 2 years of peace and quiet. Worth it. And the house was extensively redone. So I'm alright.
But also on beer and edibles.....
But mostly alright.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (oaPfe)
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Zombie has surfaced since the Second Trumpening.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Another Trump Miracle!
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)
#8 - It rolled off the shelving and out through the door.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:41 PM (viF8m)
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As well as it should be. Everytime it seems things are going our way, something comes along to slap us back down. Usually the GOPe or "it's a tax" Roberts. The immortal words of Winston Wolf should always be heeded.
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 27, 2025 06:55 PM (x8vWd)
Posted by: Romeo13
He does, every time he goes north to visit his girlfriend.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 06:55 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:55 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 06:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 06:56 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)
A coke bottle thrown from an airplane ?
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (ra4xZ)
I'm pretty sure there was some ethnic issues, since you don't flood into hospitals with spears butchering peeps over 'economic factors'
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)
#7 will surprise you
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (jc0TO)
#6 Damn Puerto Rican kids stole it from me
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:57 PM (VofaG)
Someone with a Lot of Law Enforcement experience... Amos Moses.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:57 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 06:45 PM (flKEw)
That race took place in Empire Stadium in Vancouver, BC, as part of the British Empire Games.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 06:57 PM (uR5MM)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:55 PM (BanmN)
i had local public early on, Catholic in the middle and Public a bit for the last year.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (8avO+)
#7 will surprise you
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (jc0TO)
#6 Damn Puerto Rican kids stole it from me
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:57 PM (VofaG)
#5 It was on the shelf
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (W/lyH)
I don’t think the majority of gays are on board with the current alphabet people agenda. They need to stand up and distance themselves.
Maybe they will.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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They try, but they get shut down. A group called Gays Against Groomers tried to form during the pre-Elon days of Twitter and were promptly banned. They kept stubbornly re-forming under different names, continually got canceled and losing all their followership and momentum, until Elon reinstated them.
There are other prominent LGBs and even a T or two out there loudly denouncing the predation against kids. Of course they are silenced by "the community."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (HuRzZ)
Maybe they will.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 06:48 PM (WwQOw)
____________________________
There would have to be a catalyst. As the DNC now sits, it is a collection of one issue groups. Their only ability to remain relevant rests in all the groups supporting the relevant group of the day. That results in some interesting relationships (like Gays for Hamas & Gays for Iran). Groups diametrically opposed in values swallow hard and lend their numbers whether they agree with the issue or not. It's a hell of a way to exist. They end up standing for the opposite of their beliefs or nothing at all. And, in some cases they actually compete for victim status (such as a Muslim shooting up a gay bar).
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (/B+k3)
Posted by: Romeo13
So a muslim, obviously.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:59 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 06:59 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 06:59 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 06:59 PM (5++NP)
I bet Sandy is pretty stroppy for a Westchester girl
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 06:59 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)
A coke bottle thrown from an airplane ?
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (ra4xZ)
I'm pretty sure there was some ethnic issues, since you don't flood into hospitals with spears butchering peeps over 'economic factors'
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)
Two tribes started Feuding... and it escalated into a full on War when neither side would crack down on 'their' tribe.
30 years, and almost 6 million deaths later... its now over.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:00 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 07:00 PM (/U5Yz)
Granted you don't see a lot of sunshine or high temps up in WA-7, but jeez! Pull you head out of your a**.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 07:00 PM (W/lyH)
tik tok goblins, who are now fake "experts" on "democracy" and "rule of law,"are using the phrase "death blow" today.
A "death blow to democracy." A "death blow to the rule of law."
Why It Matters:
It means its time to unalive Justices. The leftist "Fatwas" have been issued -- the "current #1 enemy" is now The Court.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:00 PM (HyC0V)
Posted by: Ralph at June 27, 2025 07:00 PM (8WZD4)
There are other prominent LGBs and even a T or two out there loudly denouncing the predation against kids. Of course they are silenced by "the community."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (HuRzZ)
They have no hope in the DNC anymore, much like Pro Life Democrats. They have to leave to continue talking, that party is closed. Jews as well, they are close to out of it. The smart thing would be to leave, but they never do.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (HuRzZ)
Because if they talk about it, then they acknowledge it exists. These people are slaves to 'platforming' thinking. Believing if no one is talking about something, then it is not valid and therefore they should deny any platform to those who would speak such things. Control of 'truth' by denying free speech.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 07:01 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Romeo13
He does, every time he goes north to visit his girlfriend.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 06:55 PM
Ewoks live in Canada? I would have thought it would be too cold for them up there.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 07:01 PM (e5NfL)
Yea, it's called life. Our team was too busy doing other stuff for decades to give a shit what was going on in DC and those of us who did were called crazy conspiracy theorists. And now we are here. Oh well.
Punch back. Harder they come and all that. We now have an administration that is going to do their best to tear it all down. I'm bored with the whinning about what should have been done. It doesn't matter. Let's keep kicking their asses and laughing about it. That's way more fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:02 PM (HyC0V)
Posted by: Romeo13
So a muslim, obviously.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:59 PM (mlg/3)
Named him after a man of the cloth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:02 PM (mP0Kj)
Meanwhile, pro-abortionists, pro-trans people, as well as anyone on the wrong side of history are trying to find a silver lining and it can't be found after rulings today by SOTUS...now on vacation til October.
There will be meetings, protest signs made, marches, hair cutting and pulling, and much screeching and drug/drink use over the weekend leading up to next weekend...reminding them, sadly, of freedom.
This weekend may merge into next weekend in the levels of self abuse by the weakened Dim holding by a fraying thread. They have been unable to muster since November, and there is no hope in sight.
With the people of LA no longer paying rent, due to fear of deportation if they go to jobs, it is a long and hot summer in LA. Not a summer of love.
~CB, Moron Reporter
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 07:02 PM (6PCLE)
"Train Wreck Poop Cruise"
It is like a train wreck in that you don't want to see it but you can't look away...
Posted by: casual observer at June 27, 2025 07:03 PM (JqKhz)
Reminder: biden ran on and promised "expanding the Court" in 2020
and he would've done it if he could, but of course he couldn't
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:03 PM (HyC0V)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (2J/Lj)
Way down in the jungle deep, the lion stepped on the signified monkey's feet. The monkey said, "Motherfucker, can't you see? You're standing on my goddamn feet?" The monkey lived in a jungle in an old oak tree, bullshittin a lion every day of the week.
Posted by: Dolemite at June 27, 2025 07:03 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Soothsayer
When does the right get to play??
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 07:03 PM (flKEw)
Is the house being sold or are they buying you out?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 06:47 PM (AcTAo)
I am buying them out.
It's personal but it's not like you all know me. And I'd trust you anyway.
The house was appraised at $520,000 to $540,000. I took care of Mom for 14 years, and Dad for several years. Dad and I had no unexpressed thoughts. Mom and I were fantastic.
Twice, my brother Steve agreed to being bought out for $250,000 Canadian. Sweet. Backed out on the last day. I wanted a year to get my life together, find a job or create something.
Apparently caregiving is a sweet gig and I was coddled.
I have enough cash to pay the mortgage for 2 years. Hell, I could just rest for awhile. And there are about $250,000 in precious metals which I would like to keep since gold is sky rocketing.
Every step along the way, my brother could not get money fast enough. Mom and Dad would be so disappointed.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:03 PM (jvJvP)
Someone with a Lot of Law Enforcement experience... Amos Moses.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:57 PM
But he's only got one arm, the other got bit off by an alligator.
OTOH he can eat his weight in groceries so he has that going for him.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 07:04 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 06:54 PM (jc0TO)
#6 Damn Puerto Rican kids stole it from me
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:57 PM (VofaG)
#5 It was on the shelf
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (mP0Kj)
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#4 that ewok chick borrowed it last night in the bar and now I can't remember her name
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 07:04 PM (MOwVH)
DJIA: 43819 +430 points
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:02 PM (HyC0V)
***
Heh.
Had to start pulling from the IRAs a while ago. Still looking good!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 07:04 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2025 07:05 PM (i0F8b)
@RyanMaue 5m
Take cover just south of downtown Atlanta as a large cell is expanding northward. Expect some hail and lightning strikes. Radar 655 PM ET
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 07:05 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Romeo13
So a muslim, obviously.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:59 PM (mlg/3)
Named him after a man of the cloth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g
Posted by: Romeo13
Eat up his weight in groceries.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 07:06 PM (flKEw)
lol msndc: the Trump admin's "giant win" "can likely trigger chaos now across the country."
Chaos, you guys!
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:06 PM (HyC0V)
They have no hope in the DNC anymore, much like Pro Life Democrats. They have to leave to continue talking, that party is closed. Jews as well, they are close to out of it. The smart thing would be to leave, but they never do.
Posted by: Oldcat
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The people I'm talking about have left, over this issue. It was wild to watch one of them on social media who also kept getting banned gradually transform from a pissed-off Dem to a MAGA Republican.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 07:06 PM (HuRzZ)
DEMANDS Republicans never invoke Dr.Kings
name again.
Who the hell does she think she is?
Dr. King is part of the history of this country.
Everyone has a right to "invoke" his name.
She acts like she owns the mans legacy.
Well she doesn't. Nobody does.
Posted by: Case at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (ilX37)
Thinking ugly thoughts I won't express. I hope I won't be arrested for thinking this or praying in my head.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (P389G)
Influencers who are not resident in Canada are subject to Canadian income tax on most Canadian-sourced income paid or credited to them during the year unless all or part of that income is exempt under a tax treaty.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 07:06 PM (HuRzZ)
Good for them!
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (8avO+)
Ultimately: mineral rights. They were fighting over access to coltan, a dull black metallic ore from which the elements niobium and tantalum are extracted.Tantalum from coltan is used to manufacture tantalum capacitors which are used for mobile phones, personal computers, automotive electronics, and cameras.
NB: much of the above stolen from the Wikipedia article “Coltan”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (/HVsR)
Influencers who are not resident in Canada are subject to Canadian income tax on most Canadian-sourced income paid or credited to them during the year unless all or part of that income is exempt under a tax treaty.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (dIske)
There is some floor, so unless Stateless gets wild with the tip jar he's probably below it.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)
And buy crack. Allegedly. Because nobody goes to the Bronx voluntarily.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:08 PM (esZ4S)
Well? Am I?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (/HVsR)
I vote yes
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 07:09 PM (sJ4fj)
lol msndc: the Trump admin's "giant win" "can likely trigger chaos now across the country."
Chaos, you guys!
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:06 PM (HyC0V)
Missed it by thaaaat much...
Posted by: Agent 86 at June 27, 2025 07:09 PM (mP0Kj)
Here's the deal you ignorant fool. You don't tell me what I can and cannot say. You do not have that authority. Only one woman does and she ain't you!
Reverend King was a great American and I quote him often. You are not a great American and I will never quote you. King's monument in DC will stand for centuries. You will be nothing more than a footnote in history.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 07:09 PM (W/lyH)
#10. It accidentally went in the wash.
Posted by: AI Commentator at June 27, 2025 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
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The first two places to check would be either the couch cushions or the dryer.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (IBQGV)
And buy crack. Allegedly. Because nobody goes to the Bronx voluntarily.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:08 PM (esZ4S)
She was visiting the zoo.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (VofaG)
"Train Wreck Poop Cruise"
It is like a train wreck in that you don't want to see it but you can't look away...
Posted by: casual observer
===
"Train Wreck Poop Cruise"
It's an annual gay charter cruise.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Take cover just south of downtown Atlanta as a large cell is expanding northward. Expect some hail and lightning strikes. Radar 655 PM ET
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 07:05 PM (mlg/3)
Thunder bumpers all around here, too. Saw lightning strike something northeast of me. Tallest objects out that way are some bird blenders.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (uR5MM)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:08 PM (esZ4S)
________________________
Well, ummm, I did. Yankees games and White Castle burgers.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)
Alternate post title:
Worst. Pervert. Month. Ever!
Not a good day for perverts & groomers.
lolhahalolhahalol
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:11 PM (HyC0V)
It probably varies day to day but notice that there are roughly as many "belows" as "aboves ." That doesn't really prove anything but it does tend to disprove a theory of relentless increases.
Posted by: Dolly the Llama at June 27, 2025 07:11 PM (/y8xj)
Influencers who are not resident in Canada are subject to Canadian income tax on most Canadian-sourced income paid or credited to them during the year unless all or part of that income is exempt under a tax treaty.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (dIske)
What is fun about this, just like with the EU, is that you would have to document TO Canada, any money from Canada...
And... are they tracking cross border money? to see if something is sold?
Posted by: Agent 86 at June 27, 2025 07:11 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 07:12 PM (/y8xj)
"Train Wreck Poop Cruise"
It is like a train wreck in that you don't want to see it but you can't look away...
Posted by: casual observer
===
"Train Wreck Poop Cruise"
It's an annual gay charter cruise.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (/lPRQ)
I'm sure the EPA is all over this.... oh... wait...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:12 PM (mP0Kj)
When I first saw her, many months ago, I made someone laugh with an old Southern saying, "She could eat a corn cob through a picket fence." I said it matter-of-fact, not even wanting a laugh.
Maybe she should try those huge, new-fangled glasses and retire the cat eye look? I am trying to help you, LaTeefa.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:58 PM (mP0Kj)
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#3 the drill was in reverse
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (BanmN)
The proper mineral name is Columbite-Tantalite, and it's a series that can go all the way from pure Columbite to pure Tantalite.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (uR5MM)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (esZ4S)
We Have Not Seen These Levels of COPING & SEETHING Since November 5th, 2024!
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (HyC0V)
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 27, 2025 07:14 PM (TmEds)
It probably varies day to day but notice that there are roughly as many "belows" as "aboves ." That doesn't really prove anything but it does tend to disprove a theory of relentless increases.
Posted by: Dolly the Llama at June 27, 2025 07:11 PM (/y8xj)
I remember one from the EU had normal temperatures just in that angry fire orange red and yellow.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 07:14 PM (8avO+)
And buy crack. Allegedly. Because nobody goes to the Bronx voluntarily.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:08 PM (esZ4S)
She was visiting the zoo.[i/]
She traveled to The Bronx much like Che' Guevara traveled through South America, to witness the injustice. Except AOC was on a scooter instead of a motorcycle. Otherwise, it was the exact same.
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 27, 2025 07:14 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (IBQGV)
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Messenger bag and luggage rack on the Vespa.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Influencers who are not resident in Canada are subject to Canadian income tax on most Canadian-sourced income paid or credited to them during the year unless all or part of that income is exempt under a tax treaty.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:07 PM (dIske)
There is some floor, so unless Stateless gets wild with the tip jar he's probably below it.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 07:08 PM (8avO+
I think the new tax only applies to websites earning more than $20 million.
I really hope ace is doing that well.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:15 PM (jvJvP)
said Kenia Alcocer of LATU, who said she is also an illegal alien.
Pretty sure rent is cheaper wherever she came from. Try there.
Posted by: jsg at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (ra4xZ)
How does a city council subvert State and Federal Contract Law?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Communist idiots. That's my explanation.
Posted by: Gref at June 27, 2025 07:15 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)
Save yourself from $10 beers, overpriced food and carjackings. Watch the game on tv. White Castle has a couple of Jersey locations.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (esZ4S)
Streaming services are awash in documentaries now. I think everyone is trying to be the next Making a Murderer. Seems like a fun way to make a living.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (HuRzZ)
Ace, I hope that’s a metaphor.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (esZ4S)
Stuff first, shoot later. Semester One at Reiver School.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (uR5MM)
And? perhaps there is another country that would be more amenable to your continued residence?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (D1vbu)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:13 PM (ZOv7s)
going back up a bit...
#8 The never to be mentioned again Tranny Slap fight
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Messenger bag and luggage rack on the Vespa.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Next to the butt plug.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (flKEw)
He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being.
Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is ever marveling that civilization, should have offended him with priests and soldiers.
In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this, that he cannot make: that he can befog and destroy but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true."
Posted by: ju at June 27, 2025 07:17 PM (vgX6l)
A metaphor for the Biden era.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 07:17 PM (pbnWx)
People forcing you to say political things are the enemy of every thinking person.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 07:17 PM (D1vbu)
I grew up right next to the Bronx. It was always a pretty, ahem, gritty place but we used go there all the time.
It's a completely different place now.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 07:17 PM (P389G)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (uR5MM)
I just spit *checks bottle* Peroni all over the screen. Bastard.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:18 PM (esZ4S)
Mmmm. Boiled beef.
Posted by: the Brits at June 27, 2025 07:18 PM (yYROg)
A metaphor for the Biden era.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Someone posted the video on Facebook.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 07:18 PM (flKEw)
And no, I'm not saying fuck actual Palestine. But fuck your dumb ass slogans and performative bullshit. Yall wanna make a stance so bad but stand for absolutely nothing. As soon as the media says pedophilia is "natural and normal,"
You bitches will be right there talking about #PEDOPHILERIGHTS Like be fucking forreal.
It's official, I have a new girlcrush.
I love ladies, like Azealia and Gina Carano, who refuse to be bullied.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 07:18 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (HuRzZ)
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Cheap and easy to produce, like reality TV.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (flKEw)
"Prostate Massager"
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (jvJvP)
A metaphor for the Biden era.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 07:17 PM (pbnWx)
Rangers should have handed out some giant fondue forks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (uR5MM)
How does a city council subvert State and Federal Contract Law?
Posted by: Romeo13
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Ask Pam Bondi.
Meanwhile, Trump has issued an EO withholding federal funding from sanctuary jurisdictions, which was -- wait for it -- enjoined by some district judge. What happens to that now?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (HuRzZ)
Mmmm. Boiled beef.
Posted by: the Brits at June 27, 2025 07:18 PM (yYROg)
Throw is some Poh TA Toes.... and ya got yerself a stew!
Posted by: Samwise at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 07:17 PM (P389G)
A Sacrament of my people! You shall not eat of it!
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (flKEw)
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Nah, Allahpundit stole that when he left.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: man at June 27, 2025 07:20 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 07:20 PM (VofaG)
As is most of the city. I have family in Brooklyn. I never go unless I’m armed and brushed up on my Mandarin. Although there are still a few spots where the men with no necks congregate.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:20 PM (esZ4S)
He probably saw tourons doing it and thought it was ok. Bless his heart.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 07:20 PM (6PCLE)
The Ennui was more than he could take.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 07:21 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (HuRzZ)
According to the Supremeos... that injunction can only affect the cities or States that was part of the Lawsuit...
As its not a class action...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 07:21 PM (mP0Kj)
It could happen you know.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 07:22 PM (cYBz/)
I used to work on Arthur Ave. For a Commercial Cleaning outfit.
I miss the Bread.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 07:22 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 07:23 PM (AcTAo)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 07:23 PM (VofaG)
The Greatest Thread that never was.
Dammit, Ace!
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 07:24 PM (ASFuz)
The Ennui was more than he could take.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 07:21 PM (ASFuz)
"Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Eye of newt, and wing of bat,
And one whole bison, fancy that!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 07:24 PM (uR5MM)
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (sJ4fj)
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Eye of newt, and wing of bat,
And one whole bison, fancy that!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
* golf clap *
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (DgGvY)
Ya know, that is actually fair.
See, back in 2016 I was only going to vote against Clinton.
But after everything Billy and his buddies said, I changed my mind.
Instead, I voted against the Never Trumpers.
It is sublimely karmic that Kristol now embraces an open socialist and Jew hater in order to balance out the effect his rhetoric had on me.
Posted by: Sam at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (7jMef)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (HuRzZ)
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In a lot of ways, Trump's first term was like the Center-Right's brief time in power in 1930s Spain. Despite an electoral mandate, the Deep State equivalent constantly undermined the parliament, and the government was faced with uprisings and terrorism, and was defeated in the next election cycle due to grotesque cheating.
What happened next was like Biden's term - a rampage of wild leftist excesses and obvious double standards of justice. The key different was that Trump lived through it, whereas Jose Calvo Sotelo did not. His murder provoked the July Rising. Read my book, etc.
The truth is that the American system was simply more robust, even in its current state still possessed more resiliency than the Second Spanish Republic. In a sense, we're seeing a lawfully elected Franco dismantling the Deep State. Whereas the first time was haunted by betrayal and chaos, Trump is now moving methodically, calmly, systematically. Like Franco.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:26 PM (esZ4S)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 07:26 PM (qBdHI)
...which they're paywalling. tinyurl.com/mpru5xp2
I feel like there's some ethical lines being crossed here. Your Dude commits a crime. Xe gets caught; you write a story about it. PROFIT
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 07:26 PM (yYROg)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:20 PM (esZ4S)
_____________________________
There used to be an entire section of Brooklyn that was known as RMC (Russian Mafia Central). All auto body shops and transportation services. I hear the competition for medallions every year used to get pretty nasty between the Russians and other factions.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:27 PM (dIske)
Correctimundo! All that and more is in the Wikipedia article, but you have to go digging elsewhere (see what I did?) to find that that was the ultimate reason for the continued fighting. Notice that the USA gets some access to mineral rights as part of the peace treaty. Niobium is not too shabby either as a useful metal.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:27 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: Sam at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (7jMef)
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He's doing the Tom Friedman cab ride.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:27 PM (dIske)
Mostly Brighton Beach.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:29 PM (esZ4S)
Posted by: Floyd Crebbs at June 27, 2025 07:29 PM (R/m4+)
David Bowie's song, Scream Like A Baby from his Scary Monsters album is actually a Tango
When rendered on accordion, Bowie's Scream Like A Baby is truly odd, but could probably be made into a fantastic cover
youtu.be/RlXqtK3fves?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 07:29 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 27, 2025 07:29 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 07:29 PM (VofaG)
BIL went to Fordham in the 80's. He had an apartment on Arthur Ave. The Cosa Nostra area of town. There was no street crime in that area.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 07:30 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 27, 2025 07:30 PM (sJHOI)
I was thinking of visiting your state for vacation. I'm going to need some recommendations.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:30 PM (viF8m)
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/
azealia-banks-regrets-donald-trump-vote-1235950200/
Posted on X Mid April that she regretted voting Trump, after the world deals and tariffs were going wild and China was getting lionized in the media. With things stabilizing, not sure how she feels now.
She supported Trump and went to a rally in 2024. (which I admit, in the music world takes balls of steel.) Then she was upset about his Elon love, threatened to vote Kamala, but ended up voting Trump.
Girls is all over the place politically.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 07:31 PM (Eng1Z)
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Concur
Tar feather and genpop
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 07:32 PM (Gmq6N)
Posted by: Floyd Crebbs
You did those throwback ugly beasts a favor.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 07:32 PM (/U5Yz)
Don't fuck around or end up dead
You come to 'Stone and show your ass
Those bison gonna charge too fast
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 07:33 PM (yYROg)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 07:33 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 07:33 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (ZOv7s)
I read your book, therefore I concur.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 07:34 PM (W/lyH)
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I'd have to go look up specifics, but in the book Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance recounts that his ancestor is the one who fired the first shot that started the famed and fabled feud between the Hatfields and McCoys.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 07:34 PM (qBdHI)
You are exactly right about the first and second Trump presidencies, and I like the analogy to Spanish 1930s history. But please don’t compare Trump to Franco: Trump gets called a fascist too often already!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:34 PM (BanmN)
Buffalo is good, but lean and low fat. I've only had it cooked like hamburger or steak, and had to make sure it's on the rarer side so it doesn't dry out. But delish.
Sous vide would probably work! Seal in the juices.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 07:34 PM (Eng1Z)
And? perhaps there is another country that would be more amenable to your continued residence?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 07:16 PM (D1vbu)
Yep, they have actual slavery in Libya
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 07:34 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 07:34 PM (yYROg)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 07:2
Thanks so much. Sadly, it was hell.
And I have 5000 hours of meditation behind me.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:35 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 07:33 PM (sJ4fj)
Yeah, getting punched in the face by reality will do that!
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 07:35 PM (Eng1Z)
Shoot me an email. Glad to help.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 07:35 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 07:36 PM (jvJvP)
Suggests that anxiety is high among illegals. Key psych aspect of battlefield prep.
Surprised and almost disappointed DHS does not have a policy of immediately collaring and deporting illegals like her. Very cheap effective PR for the project.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 07:37 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:46 PM
Unicorns and Skittles and holding your breath until you turn blue. Barely an inconvenience!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 07:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ketanji Dumbass Supreme at June 27, 2025 07:37 PM (u/u0M)
To WaPoo's credit, they do have a story up about how their own editor had CP on their laptop.
...which they're paywalling. tinyurl.com/mpru5xp2
Try this:
https://archive.is/ecruF
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 07:37 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:34 PM (BanmN)
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Franco was apolitical. He brought the actual Fascists (Falange) to heel, and made them play nice.
My comparison is more on the tactical/strategic skill of the men. Franco has been pilloried as a terrible military commander, but no one (except me!) has every done a systematic analysis of his operational art.
Similarly, even Trump allies worry that he is too impulsive, too naive, not a seasoned fighter, yet he is destroying people right and left. Franco's legacy was a stable, modernized, prosperous Spain. He took a third-world country and made it into a modern, first-world state.
Trump is making similarly sweeping reforms to the US.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Sounds like she goes with her feelings rather than thinking things through.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:39 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 07:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Yyrog the Sorceror at June 27, 2025 07:40 PM (yYROg)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 07:42 PM (mlg/3)
I think you’re right, and I think Franco has been maligned as a fascist.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:42 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 07:43 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 07:25 PM (ZOv7s)
Lloyd, you skipped the part where Spain had completely discredited itself first by losing the SpanAm war, and then by what seemed to be an endless cycle of overturn, mutiny, coups and contested elections where the splintered political class tried to keep its own petty powers and bits of influence, that finally had the Left decide to force its way into power through a coalition of groups who really didn't want to be Spanish.
another part of the genesis of the civil war was that they civil government tried to keep power over the military and the conservatives by using them everywhere, making them more cohesive than obedient to the government(s)
(I had to study the generation of 98 as part of my literary studies )
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (D7oie)
Mmmm. Boiled beef.
Posted by: the Brits at June 27, 2025 07:18 PM (yYROg)
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Throw is some Poh TA Toes.... and ya got yerself a stew!
Posted by: Samwise at June 27, 2025 07:19 PM (mP0Kj)
I see a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2025 07:45 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 07:47 PM (BanmN)
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 07:27 PM (dIske)
Mostly Brighton Beach.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 07:29 PM (esZ4S)
I have a book about the Russian Army which was a documentary. They interviewed a lot of Russians who emigrated to that area when Russia let them.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 07:57 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: PG at June 27, 2025 07:58 PM (afPT4)
OMG...
Posted by: pawn at June 27, 2025 08:32 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: IrishEi at June 27, 2025 09:06 PM (3ImbR)
Today's Wall Street Journal ran an article on how several major corporations are assisting a woman runner to do something that no woman has ever done: Run a mile in under four minutes. A feat that Brit Roger Bannister first did in 1954, 71 years ago. Kansan Jim Ryun was the first to do it while in high school, in 1964, 61 years ago. But no woman has ever broken that four-minute barrier.
"No provable advantage to being male"? Riiiiiiight.
Posted by: Nemo at June 27, 2025 09:26 PM (4RPgu)
Yeah. I was wobbling a bit on allowing gay marriage when I read that from Sullivan. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Posted by: Eric2 at June 27, 2025 09:49 PM (q7Vou)
He walks out to say the thing, gets the expected clapper response, and then shuffles off stage, a has-been aging shell of leftist bourgeois respectability and self-loathing who knows the applause is forced.
Posted by: Steve the Pirate at June 28, 2025 11:34 AM (v4MEp)
The Death of European Democracy
Plus: Trump Announces Truce in 30 Year War in the Congo
Three items:
Europe's woke police state is chasing social conservatives down and arresting them for... speaking.
Last week, a young Dutch woman was arrested outside an abortion clinic in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Thirty-five weeks pregnant herself, she had offered leaflets to two people; one took a brochure, the other declined. The police arrived and, without evidence, arrested the woman on fictitious allegations of "disturbing the peace." It was the ninth recent arrest made for peacefully engaging in pro-life outreach outside an abortion facility, even though it is not against the law to do so. It is the third arrest for the young woman--who chose to remain unidentified--and at times she has been held in jail for three to six hours. Two other Dutch women have been similarly arrested three times each. Dirkje de Ruiter, for example, was arrested last year outside a clinic in Utrecht before she had even passed out a single leaflet; the police informed her that, despite doing nothing illegal, her mere presence constituted "disorder." De Ruiter had been previously arrested in Rotterdam; a couple turned away from the clinic as the officers were confronting her. "When I arrived at the police station, all my things had to be handed in, and I was put in a cell measuring 2 metres by 1.5 metres," she told me. "Some of my clothes had to come off, and I was given a blanket against the cold. In the cell I thanked God for the life that had been saved... I was not afraid." Again: De Ruiter had not broken any laws. The arrests of citizens doing peaceful pro-life outreach in the Netherlands are part of a broader continental crackdown on social conservatives, usually Christian, for expressing their beliefs in public. In Brussels earlier this month, Lois McLatchie of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Chris Elston, the anti-trans ideology activist known to his social media followers as "Billboard Chris," were arrested, strip-searched, and detained for hours by police merely for holding signs reading "Children Are Never Born In The Wrong Body" and "Children Cannot Consent To Puberty Blockers." Their signs were destroyed. They were charged with no crime. In the United Kingdom, pro-lifers have been arrested for the thought crime of silent prayer so frequently that the Trump administration took the extraordinary step in March of sending "a team of U.S. officials to the UK to investigate concerns over freedom of speech restrictions," according to GB News. Diplomats from the U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, led by State Department adviser Samuel Samson, met with five British pro-lifers who had been arrested for silent prayer at clinics across the country.One woman was arrested for being silent. The police feared that she might be "praying in her head," which would create a disturbance. Meanwhile, the UK has delivered over white working class girls to be raped and groomed for a life of forced prostitution by Pakistani rape gangs. No worry there about creating a disturbance -- unless you point these crimes out. Then you get arrested for a breach of the peace and hate speech.
The EU is all-in crushing "hate speech" in Europe -- and in America as well.
What they mean by "hate speech," of course, is the speech of anyone arguing that they do not want their countries to become outer suburbs of Islamabad. The transnational elites thereby protect their deeply unpopular policies from challenge by the old methods known by all tyrants: they will simply criminalize any attempts to change the policy. No Hate Speech week is just the latest strategy in the EU's censorship crackdown. The main culprit is the Digital Services Act (DSA), the draconian piece of legislation that polices 'harmful content' online. According to the DSA, even interviewing a former president of the United States could constitute hate speech. This was the conclusion last year of Thierry Breton, the then European Commissioner in charge of enforcing the DSA. In the run-up to the U.S. presidential elections, Breton warned that Musk livestreaming an interview with Donald Trump on X could violate EU law on spreading "harmful content." The idea that merely giving air time to a presidential candidate might be so hateful as to break the law is beyond reason. But the EU has been waging a spiteful war against Musk, a self-professed free-speech absolutist. Since 2023, the European Commission has been investigating his social-media platform, due to Musk's commitment to allowing users to post virtually whatever they want. The EU alleged that X failed to comply with the DSA. Falling foul of the DSA could technically see X banned across Europe, but it is more likely that Musk will face a fine of somewhere around $1 billion.
Happy International Day for Countering Hate Speech, to all who celebrate. Wednesday, June 18th, apparently marked the third ever day against so-called hate speech, as well as the start of the Council of Europe's No Hate Speech Week. The theme of this year's No Hate Speech Week is about as pithy and inspiring as you might imagine: "Enhance legal and non-legal measures against hate speech through a multi-stakeholder approach." In practice, this means brainstorming the ways in which the European Union can keep control of the narrative, especially on social media. Council of Europe chief Alain Berset made this clear when he opened the festivities with a speech in Strasbourg yesterday. "Hate speech is not an isolated issue," he said, "but a part of a deeper challenge--to trust, to truth, to democracy itself." This might be true according to the topsy-turvy definitions of Eurocratic newspeak. But in reality, free speech is a fundamental part of any democracy. The right for people to say whatever they like, no matter how crude, offensive, or hateful, is crucial for a society to remain open and free. Berset also declared: "Hate begins with words but does not end there. The Council of Europe has been clear: hate speech and hate crime are not separate problems--they exist on a continuum."
You're never going to believe this, but Germany, of all countries, is embracing full Nazism.
Police in Germany have executed more than 170 operations targeting people they referred to as "digital arsonists". Starting early on the morning of June 25, officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office raided the homes of people suspected of running "criminal posts" online. The police move was not the first such in Germany, where it is flagged a "day of action", targeting alleged authors of "online hate and hate messages". This was the 12th time that the police took such nationwide action against so-called politically motivated crime (PMK). Two-thirds of those people whom officers hit had reportedly made right-wing radical statements. The police also went after alleged religious extremists and left-wing radicals.The targeted speech was speech demanding an end to open borders. Some other speakers were also arrested so it wouldn't be so obvious the state was attempting to arrest its citizens until they complied. But Germany also decided to arrest citizens for referring to the morons that make up its government as morons. That's right, insulting a f*cking politician is now against the law in Germany.
And that's the real goal: they want to make people afraid to voice their opinions on unlimited third world immigration in the real world polling stations. Meanwhile: Trump announces a peace deal between Congo and Rwanda, ending 30 years of grueling warfare. The deal was brokered by Marco Rubio.
The raids also included people who were suspected of violating a specific part of the German criminal code, namely those who allegedly insulted politicians. German politicians have been increasingly using this law, leading to hefty fines against those found guilty of calling politicians "morons", for example, or mocking them with degrading images. Greens politicians in particular have made efforts to seek redress against who insulted them. ... Starting from 6am, police officers searched the houses of suspects and confiscated computers, mobile phones and tablets. "Digital arsonists must not be able to hide behind their cell phones or computers", North Rhine-Westphalian interior minister Herbert Reul, a Christian Democratic Union MP, told news agency dpa. "Many people have forgotten the difference between hatred and opinion, but it's so simple: If you don't do it in the real world, it's not appropriate to do it digitally. It's time for more attitude, offline and online."
🚨 JUST IN: The Congo and Rwanda leaders have signed a PEACE DEAL at the White House after it was brokered by President Trump and Marco Rubio
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 27, 2025
This was an incredibly bIoody war costing thousands of lives.
The PEACE PRESIDENT strikes again! 🇺🇸
AWARD TRUMP THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE! pic.twitter.com/vsqykSYbRc
“We reached out to Biden several times for help. He ignored us.”
— Natalie Jean Beisner (@NJBeisner) June 27, 2025
President Trump is currently facilitating a peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Tshisekedi intends to nominate President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for finally bringing… pic.twitter.com/onGoDjxzIQ
JUST IN: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda just signed a HISTORIC @StateDept mediated peace deal aimed at ending 30 years of war
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 27, 2025
"President Trump is a president of peace. It's not just about ending wars... It's about allowing people to live... In essence, the… pic.twitter.com/zX32V68Jvq
Trump SLAMS reporter asking about Canada after a historic peace deal was made between the Congo and Rwanda:
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 27, 2025
"We just ended a war that was going on for 30 years with six million people dead, so don't ask me a trade question on Canada." pic.twitter.com/vgPc1l7T5Q
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (2qbYS)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (2UnvF)
Wait, oh SHIT!
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (jvJvP)
You'll have to pay that per-post tariffs on comments, Stateless.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)
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I can't stop laughing at this. The other day, after the Iran Ceasefire, I jokingly said that Trump was now going to take a shot at The Congo. It was a smart assed, non-serious, comment.
I bow to the master.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Peaches at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (2qbYS)
Posted by: Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissenting at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 05:14 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Kratwurst at June 27, 2025 05:14 PM (fcDpY)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)
And your toque and maple syrup bills are going to go through the roof.
This'll hurt all around.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:14 PM (jvJvP)
Pissah, huh?
Posted by: Boston Republican at June 27, 2025 05:15 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 05:15 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:15 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (17s+e)
I saw this from the start of the EU. The member states are bad enough, but adding a layer unaccountable to anyone is fatal.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 27, 2025 05:16 PM (D/T9Y)
Damn. Orange Man Hitler is really giving the other Hitlers a bad reputation.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 05:16 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (jc0TO)
This bit will never get old.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (jYRYu)
He's doing racism wrong.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (M0V4/)
So you can't call a dummkopf politician a dummkopf?
I'm guessing scheisskopf is right out, then.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Guy Who Thinks Bits Never Get Old at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Cray Cray at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (9CN6X)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (t/2Uw)
So you can't call a dummkopf politician a dummkopf?
I'm guessing scheisskopf is right out, then.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (0sNs1)
You can't even call them FRENCH
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: PabloD at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM (XmMjN)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM (n2swS)
China wants the natural resources.
The terrorists just want to kill everyone.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM
At least you know she's a woman.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (17s+e)
I think that is happening. Wait till none of the countries save a few hit the five percent.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (8avO+)
He sort of just…calmly replied to the guy?
Posted by: H at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: Cray Cray at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM
At some point you have to start thinking that they don't come here for the hunting.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)
It isn't a *truce*, truce. Plus Trump has deprived all of the arms dealers in Africa of their livelihoods. He is EVIL and want's kids to starve.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (e5NfL)
as people are saying now, AI simply "hallucinates" or, as they say, simply "bullshits" answers. It's like asking an eighth grader.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Cray Cray at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (9CN6X)
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Nope. Europe's on its own.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)
Its being strangled.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM
At least you know she's a woman.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (0sNs1)
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Can't be sure until you give her the Mick Dundee test.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM
Nay, kaffir. The hills are alive with the sounds of ululating!
Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (jvJvP)
a friend of mine was annoyed by a new clickbait sentence everyone's using: everyone is supposedly "SILENT" at the words of whatever team you're rooting for.
going silent is something that just doesn't happen these days
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)
They are, and the dictatorial social policies are just a symptom - the cause is much deeper. It's easier to what is happening than why, but obviously immigrant populations are starting to overwhelm the native one. But Europeans seem not to be able to appreciate that they have been economically stagnant for 2 decades now, and their industries are shrinking , not growing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (uWKK8)
Can we focus on more important things? Such as:
-the arrest and execution of any American who has a passport, passport card, EDL, or otherwise admits to seeing the Outsode World
-ending the State Department
-ending the Department of Defense
-forcibly evicting anyone who lives within 50 miles of out borders with The Outside World
-Complete isolation from the Outside World
Posted by: AoS isolationists and Code Pinkers at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (vm8sq)
I'm not going to check. He's one of 3 writers I cannot read without throwing the book across the room within ten minutes. The other two are Emerson and Sartre.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (od0dV)
Seriously.
That's the plan.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (jvJvP)
They failed to hit the 2 percent from Trumps first term, they went backwards. And without Alberta and the west?
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)
>>Its being strangled.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM
Suicide, not homicide.
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (n2swS)
I'd like to know Rubio did this. Reasoning, threatening, bribes, what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (HuRzZ)
It's not any of our business. We have to focus on what matters, and what matters is the Mossad and UFOs.
Posted by: Tucker Retard at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (D/T9Y)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)
They are, and the dictatorial social policies are just a symptom - the cause is much deeper. It's easier to what is happening than why, but obviously immigrant populations are starting to overwhelm the native one. But Europeans seem not to be able to appreciate that they have been economically stagnant for 2 decades now, and their industries are shrinking , not growing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (uWKK
Yeah, but we don’t pay for a doctor unlike you disgusting heathens.
Posted by: Europeans at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (jvJvP)
I'm not going to check. He's one of 3 writers I cannot read without throwing the book across the room within ten minutes. The other two are Emerson and Sartre.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (od0dV)
it seems to mean 'stuff the government wants to do'. I heard a description by a European and 'governments do what the voters want' never was spoken.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)
i don't know what that means but I'm going to use it at a party. it sounds smart!
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (2UnvF)
I'd rather have Europeans living in Europe than satan's religion's followers (aka Muslims). It's better for us and the world.
Posted by: Cray Cray at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (9CN6X)
Trump stops briefly to address the press before boarding Marine 1. "Oh, and I'm changing the name back to the War Department."
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Case at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (ilX37)
Posted by: Europeans at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (vm8sq)
Our paid doctors don't decide to kill us for kicks.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (8avO+)
And they are revolting against Tourism, the only thing keeping them afloat.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (od0dV)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (8avO+)
I love when they set targets so many years ahead, they expect to be dead.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (esZ4S)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (6d9rj)
Judge Boasberg has issued an emergency injunction ordering Congo and Rwanda to continue killing each other.
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lol love the fine print, ace.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:27 PM (HuRzZ)
WTF was this Rubio when he was running for President.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 27, 2025 05:27 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (2UnvF)
I'd rather have Europeans living in Europe than satan's religion's followers (aka Muslims). It's better for us and the world.
Posted by: Cray Cray at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (9CN6X)
You can't make a drug addict get clean. Europe is addicted to irresponsibility and repression. They will have to pull out of the nosedive on their own.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:27 PM (8avO+)
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If that's what Europeans want then they can do it themselves.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 05:27 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (Wrf9j)
Rubio in the current running for our next president. I am Blown away at the job he is doing.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Next president or next vice president. But definitely in the future.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (rvwwT)
He was being courted to be the next McCain, imo.
He wasn't ready, yet.
But he has been making big strides.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (ASFuz)
Not sure how long the "progressive fascism" currently strangling Europe can last. I suspect not long. "Right-wing" parties will soon get elected in France, Netherlands, the U.K. Germany, etc. Just ypu wait and see.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (8avO+)
I love when they set targets so many years ahead, they expect to be dead.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (jvJvP)
(psst...just like the USSR)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM
You won't remember it until you are out the door.
Posted by: L'esprit de l'escalier at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (jc0TO)
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I thought we had some dumb f*cking people in this country, and I'm not wrong but, the Europeans take dumb to a level that's beyond belief.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)
Germany already plans to ban the populist party. France and UK cheated to stop a takeover once.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (8avO+)
He didn't understand that with the words you also needed action until he worked for Trump.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (rvwwT)
Posted by: Tucker Retard at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (KRtlO)
*snort
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (HuRzZ)
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Well, you have to assume it was economic in nature. That's how Trump seems to roll. So, maybe a premium on niobium and tin (Rwanda's major exports). The niobium is a prime ingredient to strengthening stainless steel, and used primarily in oil pipelines. As I recall, Rwanda, also, has a pretty solid coffee industry when they aren't blowing shit up.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (esZ4S)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (w8VPD)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Tucker Retard at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (KRtlO)
This is quality Snark.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (ASFuz)
Dear Mr. Putin:
Please do as my dear mother of blessed memory wanted Stalin to do and roll all the way to the Channel and then cross it and invade England.
They are unworthy and now on the way t becoming Al Andalus part deux boogaloo.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (x0n13)
In other news: Wait, the Congo still exists? There's something in Rwanda besides gorillas and mass graves?
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (pMi6S)
I have sent this same memo to President Putin so that he can plan accordingly. We should have our draw down completed with a year but look to accelerate in all possible manner.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (17s+e)
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Well, Dr. Massad Boulos played a very key role. Who just happens to be Tiffany Trump's father-in-law (she married his son, and now he and Trump are grandfather to the same baby!). He is very familiar with that part of the world, business interests.
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)
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How do they continually wind up with the leadership they have?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (HuRzZ)
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rare earths !
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (g47mK)
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Thank you. I was wondering who that "Mr. Boulos" was that Rubio kept thanking.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (Gmq6N)
Seriously.
That's the plan.
I will gladly pay you 5% in 10 years for a hamburger today...
Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (4/l8P)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 05:33 PM (esZ4S)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (jc0TO)
Maybe his Castro refugee parents gave him a good talking to, if they are still around.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:33 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 05:34 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:34 PM (jc0TO)
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rare earths !
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (g47mK)
I saw Rare Earth open for Blood Sweat and Tears at the Fillmore East in '71! "Get Ready" is a killer track!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:34 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
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I use AI to confirm facts that I may need clarifying but it is prone to outright mistatements and hallucinations because it is really a probability algorithm that tries to fill out the likelihood of words in conjunction with your search.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:34 PM (ctrM5)
Wars seem to follow this guy around. He's been involved in every major war.
Posted by: Nobel Peace Prize Committee at June 27, 2025 05:34 PM (4/l8P)
I didn't get the complete sense of that while he was in Congress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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To be persnickety, he was in the Senate, but he made some great presentations on Chinese penetration of the US. He's always been incredibly articulate.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:35 PM (HuRzZ)
Torsten Slok, chief economist and partner at Apollo Global Management, wrote in a blog post that one of the administration’s possible trade strategies could increase U.S. tax revenue while pleasing the country’s trading partners.
Posted by: SMOD at June 27, 2025 05:35 PM (GITLP)
Posted by: toby928
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He wants to be president is my guess and if he keeps up, he may well be the first Hispanic President of the US.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:35 PM (ctrM5)
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rare earths !
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (g47mK)
I thought Gunny Hartmann had all the cannibals there short-dicked years ago!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:36 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 05:36 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: ace
I guess that’s par for the course in digital/social media space where all you have is words to win wars. If your enemy is silent it means you’ve won. It just sounds so much like “that one weird trick to lose belly fat.”
My personal fave clickbait lately was “Look inside JD and Usha Vance’s mansion. It will HORRIFY you!”
Posted by: H at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (g47mK)
A lot of them being mined by Congolese under Rwandan oversight on Congo's size of the border.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (gKWVE)
I haven't followed the question at hand because for quite a while I've been ashamed of my alma mater. (I assume that's how most of the Horde feels about their schools.) But I have to assume this is a win. Hell, every president the U has had has been scum.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (od0dV)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 05:34 PM (XMwZJ)
Replace peace deal with Ceaucescu deal and I might be on board with that.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: sharon
AI's job is to make complete sentences. You should be ooh-ing and ahh-ing and patting brilliant scientists on the head.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (AU+PG)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 05:38 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)
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How do they continually wind up with the leadership they have?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Well, first of all, as Oldcat noted above at #82, all these countries have attempted to literally BAN any anti-immigration parties, and when that doesn't work, they rig elections to keep them out of power, and when that doesn't work, the other parties all unify to form an untenable "coalition government" whose sole purpose is to deny conservatives power. But the numbers are growing overwhelming, and each year it gets more and more difficult to stymie the voters. Secondly, people are frustrated and politically impotent, and many have just given up even trying to vote. But anger is ciontinuing to rise.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 05:38 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:38 PM (x0n13)
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How do they continually wind up with the leadership they have?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:32 PM (HuRzZ)
I've been watching German elections for a while. They have staggered elections spaced apart, so even if the parties in power lose one, they have time to patch up the holes in the decking. They have half a dozen anonymous acronym parties that mean nothing, so if insurgents kill one there's five more. And they can make a coalition to rule by adding one more to the government. They also have some nutcase parties for flavor. These local elections tend not to put real issues up but local ones.
The 'acceptable' parties can collude to exclude the populist almost forever. It has always been my view that Parliamentary systems with more than 2 parties were failures.
Seems like it was designed to keep Germany from going Nazi. The result is Germany has gone Nazi.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:39 PM (8avO+)
Maybe form a much smaller org with the few remaining sane countries, with conditions for our automatic withdrawal if they get corrupted by their dumber neighbors.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 05:39 PM (ULPxl)
Criticizing the king used to be a capital offense even if what you said was true. They're getting right back into that mode again.
What confuses me is their absolute, maniacal, extremist pro-abortion stance. Its crazy, Europe used to look positively restrained compared to the USA on abortion and now they're arresting people for silently praying outside a clinic and England just passed a law to allow abortion right up to birth. They LOVE them some baby killing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:39 PM (dfIr7)
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No wonder the Supreme Court has come out against these little dictators who have dragged the law into such disrepute as to make them international laughing stock.
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 05:39 PM (unUNN)
I found this disturbing. So obvious and to it so wrong.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Beware Gemini, too. Stupid, useless advice half the time. I now type -ai after all my searches. I think there's an easier way to eliminate those AI answers, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:39 PM (HuRzZ)
Is this an allusion to Fahrenheit 451, or "Bonfire of the Vanities," I wonder.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 05:40 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:33 PM (x0n13)
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I know you were likely half joking, JJ, but I wouldn't be surprised about that.
On the other hand, maybe Trump gave Rubio a little incentive. "I'll tell you what. You give me two years of undeniable, unassailable allegiance, and then we'll take a closer look at Cuba, and what we can do there."
Regardless of the obstacles. There's no denying that Cuba is perfectly topographically placed for security purposes, and an absolute wealth of resources."
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 05:40 PM (dIske)
I haven't followed the question at hand because for quite a while I've been ashamed of my alma mater. (I assume that's how most of the Horde feels about their schools.) But I have to assume this is a win. Hell, every president the U has had has been scum.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (od0dV)
There are probably less than a dozen Uni administrators that should NOT be fired. Preferably out of a cannon.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: DanMan at June 27, 2025 05:41 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 27, 2025 05:41 PM (FCrpy)
It's looking bad for Sean's son Justin Combs also; he's been accused of luring women to get raped by Diddly and his male friends. (I'm as surprised as you are that they went for a female.)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 05:41 PM (gKWVE)
IIRC, most European Countries have stricter limits on abortion than we do?
14 - 16 Weeks seems to be the number I have seen thrown around.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 05:41 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 05:42 PM (unUNN)
What is the difference between hate, and are these Euro ppliticians conflating the two?
For example, say you have an apple tree i your yard. Your neighbor comes and picks an apple to eat with his breakfast. A minor trespass right? But as time goes by and he does it repeatedly, then starts taking one for each of his family. Eventually you become angry and yell at him to stop. When he doesn't stop you punch him in the nose. Are you justifiably angry at him or do you hate him?
P.S. Feel free to substitute foreigner for neighbor and welfare provided by your tax money for apples in the above example.
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 05:42 PM (poXs5)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Because all of them were former kingdoms, their society are still dominated by their 'aristos' aka betters. The common people in those nations are just as put upon and trying to fight it as we are in the US.
But, absent meaningful federalism, and governments of separated powers, they struggle probably until there is a revolt or a strongman like Napoleon that crushes the old order.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:42 PM (ctrM5)
I think this is the FA part and they're just letting them do a bunch of FA.
Watch the opening line on the upcoming tariff negotiations be "so, where are you on protecting free speech?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:42 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 05:42 PM (poXs5)
That always ends well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (dfIr7)
Regardless of the obstacles. There's no denying that Cuba is perfectly topographically placed for security purposes, and an absolute wealth of resources."
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 05:40 PM (dIske)
I have heard that Rubio, and State have a mandate to 'see to' South America and this hemisphere as a priority. Note the settling of issues in Panama and China and the Greenland and Canada moves as trying to put this part of the house in order.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (8avO+)
This is the human baseline. It's going on in Kenya too. Also happened when we were under a Kenyan occupation as D'Souza could tell you.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 05:40 PM (dIske)
I want Assata Shakur nabbed by a Seal team and brought back to be tried and executed for her role in the murder of police officers.
I would also like to see the USS Pueblo somehow brought back fro m North Korea.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (2GCMq)
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This is the Rubio we thought we were getting back when he was the Next Big Thing. Then he inexplicably punched himself in the nuts while he shat his pants in the amnesty debacle, and then the failed run for president. But he regrouped as a Senator and has been exceptional as secy of state.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (E5NTT)
Trump stops briefly to address the press before boarding Marine 1. "Oh, and I'm changing the name back to the War Department."
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (2UnvF)
I believe it was Weasel who said, if it's good enough for George Washington it's good enough for me.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 05:37 PM (od0dV)
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In a previous thread, someone said UVA president is out because he tried to disguise the DEI programs he was supposed to get rid of and Trump busted him.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (HuRzZ)
That always ends well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (dfIr7)
They have to get over their instinctive deference to governments, both of them with the EU.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)
And if you capture the Congo and the rest of Africa, you get an additional 3 armies each turn!
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Oldcat
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Ironically something that even lefty professors agree with. Everyone is most conservative on what they know best.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:45 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (ULPxl)
There's an amusing H Beam Piper story where the government had just renamed the department of Defense to "Aggression"
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:45 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:45 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Bottle of Water at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (17s+e)
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Their people would now be enjoying civic freedoms and no Islamic invaders.
Western Europeans are like spoiled teenagers and mean girls. They have been coddled and protected to the point where they now hold their protectors in contempt.
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (unUNN)
They are unworthy and now on the way t becoming Al Andalus part deux boogaloo.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (x0n13)
The joke is that Tito found a magic lamp and rubbed it, and the genie of the lamp appeared, and was set to reward Tito with three wishes.
Tito said, "first I want the Red Chinese to invade Central Asia and Eastern Europe, all the way to the Yugoslav border, destroying everything before them, and then be beaten back all the way to their own borders.
"Then I want the Red Chinese to invade Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, devastating everything in their path all the way to the Yugoslav border, then then be beaten back all the way to their own borders.
"Then as a third time, I want the Chinese to invade Central Asia and . . . "
And the Genie interrupted him, "Why do you hate the Red Chinese so much?"
Tito replied, "The Chinese? Who CARES what the Chinese do, I am focusing on the Russians!"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (D7oie)
Our paid doctors don't decide to kill us for kicks.
Posted by: Oldcat
That's coming
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (63Dwl)
Not Kicks. Kickbacks from Medicare!!!!!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (6Irx1)
Ace
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It does create a disturbance - a spiritual disturbance. Prayer torments demons and they are launching a desperate effort to cleanse Europe of Christianity.
Notice the demons *don't* have a problem with Muslim prayer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Tito said, "first I want the Red Chinese to invade Central Asia and Eastern Europe, all the way to the Yugoslav border, destroying everything before them, and then be beaten back all the way to their own borders.
"Then I want the Red Chinese to invade Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, devastating everything in their path all the way to the Yugoslav border, then then be beaten back all the way to their own borders.
"Then as a third time, I want the Chinese to invade Central Asia and . . . "
And the Genie interrupted him, "Why do you hate the Red Chinese so much?"
Tito replied, "The Chinese? Who CARES what the Chinese do, I am focusing on the Russians!"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (D7oie)
lol
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (xcxpd)
This Rubio is presidential timber, but I wonder if the international outlook will impress the price of gas and eggs voters.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 05:42 PM (unUNN)
Pretty much all of them are far below replacement birth rates.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (2GCMq)
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This is the Rubio we thought we were getting back when he was the Next Big Thing. Then he inexplicably punched himself in the nuts while he shat his pants in the amnesty debacle, and then the failed run for president. But he regrouped as a Senator and has been exceptional as secy of state.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 27, 2025 05:43 PM (E5NTT)
Jokes aside, I think he just needed time to grow up. And he seems to have.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:49 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (8avO+)
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Their leaders are all childless and want the world to end when they die.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Yes, there are two of them. This one is also known as "Congo-Kinshasa" (after the capital) and used to be called the Belgian Congo. The other one is called "Republic of the Congo" or "Congo-Brazzaville", and was formerly called the French Congo.
Equally shitholic, but different countries.
By the rule that more adjectives = shittier country (see, e.g., the Democratic People's Republic of Korea), you can guess that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the slightly more shitholic of the two.
Posted by: Judge Pakalolo Mahu in Whakatangihangaipukakapiki at June 27, 2025 05:49 PM (qpyNK)
Ace
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It does create a disturbance - a spiritual disturbance. Prayer torments demons and they are launching a desperate effort to cleanse Europe of Christianity.
Notice the demons *don't* have a problem with Muslim prayer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
They also gave Warnings to people that lived close to these "Clinics" that if they were caught praying INSIDE their homes they would be arrested
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (FCrpy)
Amy nice gorilla. Amy friend. Amy not like bad gorillas.
Posted by: Amy the gorilla from that movie you never saw at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (wBaIH)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)
This Rubio is presidential timber, but I wonder if the international outlook will impress the price of gas and eggs voters.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (wBaIH)
I like Rubio, but I think Vance has the American Values down better -- he was the point man on European anti- religion and free speech.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (2GCMq)
3/3
Dan Caldwell was suspended over an “unauthorized disclosure” of information amid an ongoing investigation into leaks from within the Pentagon. Caldwell, a foreign policy realist, previously worked with the restraint-oriented think tank Defense Priorities and Concerned Veterans for America, which was formerly led by Hegseth. He has been a vocal advocate for significantly reducing the U.S. military presence in Europe and withdrawing troops from Iraq and Syria.
Posted by: SMOD at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (GITLP)
What is the difference between hate, and are these Euro ppliticians conflating the two?
For example, say you have an apple tree i your yard. Your neighbor comes and picks an apple to eat with his breakfast. A minor trespass right? But as time goes by and he does it repeatedly, then starts taking one for each of his family. Eventually you become angry and yell at him to stop. When he doesn't stop you punch him in the nose. Are you justifiably angry at him or do you hate him?
P.S. Feel free to substitute foreigner for neighbor and welfare provided by your tax money for apples in the above example.
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 05:42 PM (poXs5)
That's not hate.
That's something between anger and an educational beatdown.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (wBaIH)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)
I like having a deep bench.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 05:48 PM (wBaIH)
Giving a victory speech in the main plaza of Havana will.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (D7oie)
I think he took that to heart and will never let that happen again.
And he really, genuinely appreciates Trump for the lesson.
Like he realized what Trump meant was, "you're better than that."
Some serious growth that you can't help but admire.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Amy the gorilla from that movie you never saw at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (KRtlO)
Congo is a Killer Pinball Machine.
Tough to find in clean shape, too.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (ASFuz)
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Minority Report 2: The Pre-Thought Crime Unit Boogaloo.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (UKwZO)
Amy nice gorilla. Amy friend. Amy not like bad gorillas.
Posted by: Amy the gorilla from that movie you never saw at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (KRtlO)
So to this day, I still have no idea what the Gorillas were in the Midst of?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: man at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (tubbA)
brought back from North Korea.
It'll have commie cooties.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (Wrf9j)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (FCrpy)
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Moloch hates the sound of prayers when he devouring souls. Sometimes the souls even get away!
It's weird, but that's literally what it's about. If a woman is persuaded not to have an abortion, that's not her "choice," it's a wrong choice, a tragedy. Everyone who approaches an abortion mill has to go inside. No turning back, ever.
Demonic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Rubio 1.0 was the child of immigrants rock ribbed pro America. Rubio 2.0 was the McCain organ grinder monkey squish.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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I love Rubio 3.0, but I worry about reversion. Maybe he'll splain someday.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (/U5Yz)
But Moslems can blare their prayers over public Speakers and block streets at prayer time, and that AOK?
Uh, why are we defending Europe again?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: SMOD at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (GITLP)
This the Iran leaker?
none of that background should involve wanting to leak info to the Press.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (D7oie)
Trump and Putin decide to have themselves put in suspended animation and awakened in fifty years, to see what the future holds for their countries.
Upon awakening, they both ask for an internet connection to check the latest news.
First Putin starts laughing. Trump asks why. "I see that the United States is still suffering from inflation."
Then Trump starts laughing. Putin asks why. "I see there's renewed fighting on the German-Chinese border."
Posted by: Judge Pakalolo Mahu in Whakatangihangaipukakapiki at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: SMOD at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (GITLP)
*Signs*
Jane Goodall's Sugar Walls.
Posted by: Silverback Gorilla at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: man at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 05:54 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (D7oie)
Scene from "Bananas" singing Quiero La Noche" or the "In-Laws" with General Garcia's firing squad singing "I think that I shall never see, a Poem as Lovely as a Tree!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:54 PM (x0n13)
Netherlands also one of the first countries to embrace Transgender surgeries going back to the 50’s.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (8RvIK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (63Dwl)
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Minority Report 2: The Pre-Thought Crime Unit Boogaloo.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (UKwZO)
In England now, the law is that is illegal if you pray silently in your own house if it is close enough to an abortion mill.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (t0Rmr)
I think that the UK has had more imprisonments for political speech than the Russian Federation in the last decade
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Ace
AND requiring Trump to answer the question about trade with Canada. And ordering the White House to allow that brave reporter to ask the first question at every other press conference this year.
Posted by: Judge Boasberg at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (ycI94)
Netherlands also one of the first countries to embrace Transgender surgeries going back to the 50’s.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)
Preserve the guilty, Destroy the Innocent.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:56 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 05:56 PM (/U5Yz)
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Dan Caldwell was suspended and escorted out of the Pentagon weeks if not a month ago. this is not news.
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (2GCMq)
Proverbs 6:16-19
New International Version
16 There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:56 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 05:57 PM (g47mK)
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Minority Report 2: The Pre-Thought Crime Unit Boogaloo.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 05:51 PM (UKwZO)
In England now, the law is that is illegal if you pray silently in your own house if it is close enough to an abortion mill.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)
Remember, according to Ibram X. Krement, racism and bigotry are in white peoples DNA. So the guilt is automatic. And we know what the punishment will be.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:58 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 27, 2025 05:50 PM (FCrpy)
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Moloch hates the sound of prayers when he devouring souls. Sometimes the souls even get away!
It's weird, but that's literally what it's about. If a woman is persuaded not to have an abortion, that's not her "choice," it's a wrong choice, a tragedy. Everyone who approaches an abortion mill has to go inside. No turning back, ever.
Demonic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:52 PM (ZOv7s)
I remember a comment many years ago from an 'Ette (long since stopped commenting) sharing a story of visiting a relative in the Midwest who happened to live near a muhbortion clinic, and suddenly being overwhelmed with a feeling of creepiness.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 05:58 PM (ULPxl)
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How dare she
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 05:58 PM (Gmq6N)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 05:56 PM (/U5Yz)
Meh, they'll just blame the Jews like they did last time!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:58 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (D7oie)
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The British are reverting to form. The state religion is re-asserting itself, rounding up dissidents and persecuting them in the absurd belief that this will make them change their ways or give up their faith.
You won't see it in the headlines, but there is a Christian revival slowing rising in Europe. Across the continent, there are stirrings, murmurs of a return to God, and the demonic elites are trying to nip it in the bud before it becomes a full-on revival.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
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Hate actually begins with thought. [Hence the need for a Pre-Thought Crime Unit ...]
Isn't it time for some common-sense mandatory universal assault lobotomy control for all? If it prevents just one hateful thought ... especially among those deplorables who believed that "Those who Love God must Hate Evil?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 05:59 PM (UKwZO)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 27, 2025 05:53 PM (t0Rmr)
I think that the UK has had more imprisonments for political speech than the Russian Federation in the last decade
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (D7oie)
And the Ukraine guy who outlawed Elections, Imprisoned Political rivals, stopped Free Speech, and outlawed certain religions... is clearly defending Democracy from the Elected Russian President.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)
Don't know the situation on democracy there, but there is a direct exchange of info from top to bottom and back.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:59 PM (8avO+)
Netherlands also one of the first countries to embrace Transgender surgeries going back to the 50’s.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)
iirc have had this available for adults for about the same duration.
Thanks, AMA and medical boards!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 06:00 PM (ULPxl)
i don't know what that means but I'm going to use it at a party. it sounds smart!
Posted by: ace
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I've read his tome, The Social Contract where he explains his populist tinged "General Will" of the people. But, he also superimposes magistrates that are to act in accordance with General Will as the government. In the rare cases where the magistrates no longer represent the 'General Will' faithfully, Rosseau sotto voce allows the people to exercise their power to remove them via revolution.
Rousseau was a nasty little pervert, proto commie, and far less persuasive in his work (fortunately for the US Framing) than was Locke and his Second Treatise regarding the social contract. The difference is Locke based his Contract on protection of rights while Rousseau based his on the 'People (really the magistrates) getting what they want collectively'
Adams had a copy of Rousseau and read it--was not impressed. Dunno about Jefferson reading him, but I think the dirty bastard Rousseau's name never even came up in discussions at the Convention or the earlier Declaration of Independence.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:01 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:01 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: AoSHQ-Europe at June 27, 2025 06:01 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (ASFuz)
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I thought that was really funny, they demonstrate against short term visitors who prop up their economies and then go home but they wouldn't dream about protesting against the invading hordes who come to stay and eat them out of house and home.
What's more, tourists don't rape their children like the "boat people" do. Like cowards everywhere they don't go against someone who will hurt them.
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 06:01 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
It always cracks me up that the Guy Fawkes masks anarchist wear? Uh... he is famous for trying to blow up Parliament, because they were passing a Law limiting Catholics...
Not an Anarchist at all... it was a religious argument... in favor of the most powerful religion on Earth at that time.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:02 PM (mP0Kj)
That was the insane part. A woman was arrested for silently praying outside an abortion mill. The court threw out the case because it wasn't illegal to think things, obviously.
So Parliament passed a law to make it illegal to think things. Literally. And England seems to be fine with that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 06:02 PM (dfIr7)
Don't know the situation on democracy there, but there is a direct exchange of info from top to bottom and back.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 05:59 PM (8avO+)
Putin looked at Trump's pressers and said , hey , I can do that ! Nothing to it !
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 06:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:03 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 06:03 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:03 PM (EnO9j)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:56 PM (jc0TO)
When Biden was in charge Putin answered a question with a long reply about how increasingly the US and the West were acting like the old USSR, with examples. He seemed resigned about it. This was before the War in Ukraine by some months at least.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:04 PM (8avO+)
Boobs.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
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With festive little pasties.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 06:04 PM (v0R5T)
Not an Anarchist at all... it was a religious argument... in favor of the most powerful religion on Earth at that time.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 06:02 PM (mP0Kj)
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I man, Fawkes did nothing wrong.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)
* yes, that was a pun.
@Freedom4USNow
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WOW, That's Fast! DeSantis Says Alligator Alcatraz will Be Ready to Open as Early as Tuesday – Twitchy
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:04 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Same fascist song, same fascist tune at June 27, 2025 06:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:55 PM (D7oie)
In Russia, they at least have the honesty to feed you a polonium sandwich or push you out of a window. There's less pretense about freedom.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 06:05 PM (4/BuS)
Speaking of tourism, one just doesn't know until one sees these places in person, are Paris and London as awful as they look in YouTube videos? Just swarthy bastards harassing women and trash everywhere?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 06:05 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:03 PM (EnO9j)
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I had to turn off the autocucumber on my new Fire tablet, it was so bad that way.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 27, 2025 06:06 PM (XZ5S6)
Yeah its hilarious watching atheist "anarchist" types take that symbol on. Dude. He was a Roman Catholic extremist. You're celebrating a religious radical
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 06:06 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:06 PM (EnO9j)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Bad times mean a return to the faith. Christianity is a philosophy for all times but always seems to get it biggest boost when times are bad.
The Old Testament is often depressing reading as his chosen people keep screwing up and lusting after things that the Lord hated which ultimately resulted in disaster and divine punishment. Bad times led to returning to the faith and a return to good fortune for a time until the times got good again. Then the fall.
Same pattern observed in the World at large including Christians.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:06 PM (ctrM5)
*Facepalm*
Posted by: George Orwell at June 27, 2025 06:06 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: whig
It sounds like Rous was a political romance fabulist.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:07 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 06:07 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 06:04 PM (v0R5T)
When I was maybe 12 or 13, we went with my grandparents to Vegas. In the MGM Grand (iirc) there was a hallway with some shops and statuary. On one naked female statue someone had placed tiny fezes on her ripples with little streamers that said 'Shriners love kids!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 06:07 PM (YUL+W)
Originally, "hate crimes" were introduced, not as defining a separate type of crime, but as an intensifier, e.g. an assault motivated by racial or ethnic hatred, being punished more severely than an assault for some other reason.
When that got entrenched, the whole "hate"=illegitimate concept got legitimized among the broader public (not AoS types). From there it was a short bus stop to "hate" itself should be illegal, and therefore an expression of "hate" could itself be considered a crime.
Posted by: Zek at June 27, 2025 06:07 PM (/PcFj)
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Spot on Chris.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: whig
It sounds like Rous was a political romance fabulist.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:07 PM (mlg/3)
Didn't he have a nasty family life like Marx, too?
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:06 PM (ctrM5)
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"The Wanting Seed" is a comic novel by Anthony Burgess that explores this.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (XZ5S6)
One of my favorite quotes recently:
"Historical liberalism is like a sundial, which is unable to mark time in the dark"
--Fulton Sheen
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (dfIr7)
If only Diefenbaker hadn't crumbled to the American military complex Canada would have the ARROW jet now and be dictating terms to a cowering Trump in Ottawa.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: ChatGPT at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (DsA2n)
Or the Nazis had won World War II.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (EnO9j)
What's more, tourists don't rape their children like the "boat people" do. Like cowards everywhere they don't go against someone who will hurt them.
Posted by: Decaf
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Tourists are not the ruling government's pets unlike their swarthy invaders yelling jihad. I'd imagine that the population is protesting tourists as a proxy for the invaders as much as tourists themselves.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:09 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at June 27, 2025 06:03 PM (kTd/k)
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Recent surveys show that in England, twice as many young Catholics go to Mass as Anglicans. Religious people are havin the kids, which is why the childless elites want them suicided and/or castrated without parental consent.
France saw another record year of adult baptisms, and Macron is no doubt worried that French junior officers are converting at an alarming rate.
Sixth Republic, anyone?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)
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Had five kids with his mistress and forced her to send them to orphanages.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 27, 2025 06:09 PM (XZ5S6)
--Fulton Sheen
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Interesting.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:09 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 06:05 PM (4/BuS)
Or blow up your plane! Like that one merc guy... he was head of that mercenary group that started with a W...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 06:09 PM (YUL+W)
How many times have you been arrested for one of those charges?
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:10 PM (VofaG)
The names of these entities change over time, but the functions do not.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 06:10 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 06:10 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 06:11 PM (17s+e)
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"Digital Arsonists" are the new "Stochastic Terrorists."
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 06:11 PM (lmPzZ)
No one with any intelligence and real world experience would be.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 06:12 PM (dfIr7)
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The ones who abandoned it moved to America.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 06:12 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (/U5Yz)
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Their elites are the same ones as the nobility before the French Revolution. Doesn't Ursula remind anyone of Marie Antoinette?
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 06:12 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 06:05 PM (4/BuS)
Or blow up your plane! Like that one merc guy... he was head of that mercenary group that started with a W...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 06:09 PM (YUL+W)
You revolt against the government in Russia and march in the vague direction of the capital, steps will be taken
Wagner.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 27, 2025 06:09 PM (XZ5S6)
Marx just banged his servant girl, but yeah, forced her to give up his by-blow for adoption.
He also let his children go hungry rather than get a job. This self-described expert on the working class never worked a day in his life.
If his buddy Engles's rich capitalist daddy hadn't bailed him out from time to time, his whole family would have starved to death.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 06:13 PM (qpyNK)
So much going on today for President Trump, the USA and the world!
I was snark reading on reddit. One woman is afraid for her DACA bf from Argentina. He got his advanced degree here and never left...a common issue. Deferred Action is confusing for them and must be renewed every 2yrs.
This has them scared, bro. He weeds in his backyard and never drives. Has to let her know when he arrives and leaves work. Security measures to alert them to ICE. If they come for him her solution is to handcuff herself to him (I am writing what I read as Nelly Bly, Moron reporter at large). When asked why she did not have a gun her reply was she had a personality disorder and would probably kill herself. These are stable and normal people? And this is the fringes.
Another: illegal DACA bf from Brazil. He and EU gf got PhD's here and are moving to France (good). Both sciency and curing cancer or something. Waaa!
Entering the chat are the Nazi screamers and quoting Hitler.
Comments included a 3rd generational illegal whining that she was legal and waaaaa, she would shoot them.
Then I quit reading as I was losing brain cells rapido.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (/U5Yz)
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Royal inbreeding. Just ask the Habsburgs.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 06:12 PM (unUNN)
Ursula isn't royalty, she never offers cake.
She's a drone in a sea of drones in the EU hive.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (8avO+)
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:6
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (EnO9j)
France saw another record year of adult baptisms, and Macron is no doubt worried that French junior officers are converting at an alarming rate.
Sixth Republic, anyone?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Anglicans in the UK have the problem that their own priests do not believe in the key tenets of their expressed faith. If the priests do not believe, then how would anyone expect that to appeal to those that attend.
Re France, militant Catholicism in the Army and royalist nostalgia caused the military to hate the Third Republic. The combination of the two in the military damn near caused defeat in WWI and things like the Dreyfus case.
In Germany, the faithful Catholics in the German army by and large were the opposite of those in France.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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And schnorred his way through life. Paul Johnson has a great takedown in Intellectuals.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (ITkJX)
They are unworthy and now on the way t becoming Al Andalus part deux boogaloo.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (x0n13)
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Somehow I just don't see Nigel Farage as El Cid or Isabella and Ferdinand. He seems too comfortable with the invaders, he even has them in his party.
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 06:15 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 06:14 PM (6PCLE)
There actually would be a solution to that. Have him self deport, apply in Argentina for a green card. He could get references from her, his boss if he's been good.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:17 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
It's just a bunch of dingies lashed together and anchored in an alligator infested swamp.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Reddit is filled with bots, authoritarian admin, and liars. It is very possible that some of those stories are lies or even bots.
When Iran went offline, suddenly posts for Scottish Independence virtually vanished. Most of social media is becoming bots talking to other bots.
See the "Internet is Dead" thesis.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 06:15 PM (unUNN)
Nigel seems to be the only person in England who can organize a campaign for shit. But he isn't a zealot for immigration himself which has been a problem recently. He also has the common brit distain for lower class guys like Tommy Robinson.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Decaf
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One can never tell until they face the real challenges of being a leader. BoJo failed his Covid test for example. Truss on finalizing Brexit, and so on.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:20 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist and former Stochastic Terrorist at June 27, 2025 06:21 PM (V9i4E)
Posted by: Mount Rushmore at June 27, 2025 06:21 PM (23qBW)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 06:20 PM (ctrM5)
Truss on knowing what sea Ukraine sits on.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 06:22 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 06:22 PM (EnO9j)
It didn't take 15 minutes to get here. Won't take 15 minutes to get out. But we are winning huge, substantive fights and the people are on our side.
It's ok to actually enjoy winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:28 PM (viF8m)
Tito replied, "The Chinese? Who CARES what the Chinese do, I am focusing on the Russians!"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 05:46 PM (D7oie)
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If Tito's hatred of Russia was to be believed then why did he order Russian to be taught in all the schools? His Russia hatred was performative to extract funds and favors from the West.
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (unUNN)
Clearly Trump hates black people. I mean, imagine interfering in 30 years of murder and mayhem. Leave them alone! Allow black people to be free without the white man's interference!
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 07:27 PM (D1vbu)
1) kicked China out of Panama
2) Abraham accords
3) defanged Iran
3) Congo Peace Treaty.
4) Nato spending up.
5) A stack of free trade agreements coming down the pike.
6) Held out a chance for peace with Syria.
7) remain in Mexico back in effect.
I mean woof.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 07:32 PM (D1vbu)
Posted by: Dogsandhogs at June 27, 2025 07:36 PM (j4fR9)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 06:28 PM (viF8m)
Funny how, if we just bother to fight this stuff, it collapses almost overnight.
Illegals with criminal records being deported - people don't realize, a guy convicted of shoplifting isn't likely a first timer - he's a 10th timer. The guy convicted of kiddie porn is still out hustling. Getting rid of these people is going to help out the police hugely - vastly reducing the crime rate.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 07:37 PM (D1vbu)
Posted by: Decaf at June 27, 2025 06:44 PM (unUNN)
He hated Stalin, not the Soviet Union.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 08:10 PM (vm8sq)
And they say History don’t repeat……..
Posted by: DatNewJew at June 27, 2025 10:11 PM (vcf4M)
Posted by: Jvgyc the at June 28, 2025 10:48 AM (xU/6n)
Trump Poised to Remove Illegals from Census Calcuations
Let's take a break from today's Supreme Court decisions to talk about future Supreme Court decisions.
As you know, the Democrats insist on counting illegal aliens in their blue sanctuary states. This results in blue states and blue cities having more representation in Congress than a count of their legal US citizen-voters would dictate. Some people estimate that this overcount of "citizens" results in Democrats having up to 27 representatives they're not entitled to.Trump is ready to reverse this, says Ben Weingarten at Real Clear Investigations.
I think the Supreme Court will, unfortunately, rule against Trump. Conservatives like Thomas and Alito are textualists, meaning they rule on, get this, what the law actually says and not what liberal justices wish it said. And in this case, the law speaks of counting "Persons," not "Citizens." But give it a try. And we really need to get the amendment process moving on both counting illegals as citizens and on birthright citizenship. Weingarten has another recent article worth reading -- how Democrats are judge-shopping in their lawfare against Trump.
Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census. President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor's policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined "to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted," White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month. What Miller didn't mention are the political implications of the administration's move. It could have significant political implications because the census count is used to apportion House seats, determine the number of votes each state gets in the Electoral College for selecting the president, and drive the flow of trillions of dollars in government funds. Some immigration researchers project that including noncitizens in the census count disproportionately benefits Democratic states with large illegal alien populations. A recent study counters that, based on 2020 census figures, there would have been a negligible shift to the political map had the U.S. government excluded noncitizens from that count. But looking backward, those researchers found, red states would have benefited under the administration's desired census counting shift. Had authorities excluded such migrants from the 2010 census, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and North Carolina all would have gained one seat in the House, while California would have lost three seats, and Texas and Florida would have each lost one seat -- with the total number of Electoral College votes allotted each state changing accordingly. ... Trump's first term hints at what is to come if his administration vigorously pursues a citizen-centric census policy. In July 2020, when the president issued a memorandum to exclude illegal migrants from the census, blue states and immigration groups challenged it in court almost immediately. Those challenges rose all the way to the Supreme Court. But it did not rule on the merits -- whether all residents must be counted and if the president has the authority to exclude nonresidents -- setting the stage for a battle over immigration and presidential power. The census issue hinges on the Constitution's language, which calls for apportioning House seats among the states "according to their respective Numbers." Those "Numbers" originally included "free Persons" and "three-fifths of all other Persons" -- namely slaves, a result of the states' compromise. The framers excluded "Indians not taxed" -- Native Americans who were members of sovereign tribal nations, not citizens -- from the count. After the Civil War, Congress passed the 14th Amendment to recognize the rights of the formerly enslaved. It states that congressional representation "shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State," again excluding Indians not taxed. Under the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, this population would be granted citizenship. ... Echoing arguments against birthright citizenship, critics on the right say that the 14th Amendment aimed to address the status of former slaves, not masses of illegal migrants. They assert that including this population in the census artificially skews political power, effectively disenfranchises citizens, and incentivizes states to adopt sanctuary policies protecting people here illegally. "...[R]espect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process warrant the exclusion of illegal aliens from the apportionment base, to the extent feasible and to the maximum extent of the President's discretion under the law," President Trump wrote in the 2020 memorandum.
Most federal courts have a mix of judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans. The plaintiff's goal in forum shopping is to launch their suit in a district where they are more likely to draw a sympathetic justice -- ideally, this district would also include an appellate court stacked with like-minded judges. To see whether Trump's adversaries are engaging in forum shopping, RealClearInvestigations analyzed 350 cases brought against the administration. We found that plaintiffs have brought 80% of those cases before just 11 of the nation's 91 district courts. While Democrat presidents have appointed roughly 60% of all active district court judges, each of the 11 district courts where the anti-Trump challenges have been clustered boasts an even higher percentage of Democrat appointees. In several of these venues, the administration's challengers are almost guaranteed that a judge picked by Joe Biden, Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton will preside over their case. The analysis of these 350 cases, which covers all those identified in popular litigation trackers and RCI's independent research as of this week, lends credence to claims that anti-Trump litigants may be strategically filing suit in courts where they are most likely to receive a favorable ruling -- a practice that has been both pursued and decried by Democrats and Republicans. RCI also analyzed three dozen cases in which judges imposed the most extreme restraint on the Trump administration by entering a nationwide or universal injunction -- prohibiting the administration from enforcing its policy not only against the party bringing the case, but anyone, everywhere. The analysis shows that these injunctions have disproportionately emerged from Democrat-leaning courts where plaintiffs have brought the lion's share of suits, and that Democrat-appointed judges are overwhelmingly responsible for ordering them.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: DanMan at June 27, 2025 04:13 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Case at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (ilX37)
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I think it's worth noting that Trump's original effort was working its way up the court challenge process, and it was losing pretty consistently.
It got dropped in the courts because Biden reversed it.
Just an added wrinkle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (4UFEr)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mary Cloginsein from Brattlebor, Vt at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (q/j2W)
Why the pessimism about the birthright citizenship case? Just all-purpose pessimism -- which I'm okay with -- or a solid argument upholding it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 04:19 PM (Vfq+S)
It's also why Democrats fight so hard to keep them here. Deport everyone that is here illegally. No exceptions. Go home.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (VofaG)
You don't say.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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I got letters AND numbers from both sides of the keyboard today, plus a space. The judges say this is an extraordinary routine and it sets a standard.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (1avBY)
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I truly laughed out loud. Good thing I didn't have a sip of beer in my mouth.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (1avBY)
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I looked through the list of cases due in the October term, including their descriptions.
My eyes crossed multiple times and I couldn't even begin to tell you which were going to be important and which were going to be stupid little procedural questions no one ever talks about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
It's completely unworkable, and without any governing standard other than "hey, they were right there when I asked".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (9iGvM)
I propose a remedy to the census debate. I call it the "0/5 Compromise."
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (PquBa)
12 DJT will now cram all of this right up their squeakhole.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (dR6yv
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (QSrLX)
Posted by: DanMan at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Black JEM at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (NWqJf)
Ace, I agree. But it's not unreasonable to think that "Persons" had a specific meaning -- freed American slaves -- and not any old random scumbag who wandered illegally into the country.
Sadly, it's another law -- like the birthright citizen "law" -- written at a time when nobody could have conceived that, a 150 years later, drooling armies of illegals would be allowed to flood the country.
I would bet any amount of money if you asked the dudes who wrote and enacted these laws whether they applied to illegals, the answer would be in two parts: (1) "you fucking idiots allowed drooling armies of illegals to flood the country?" and (2) "FUCK NO!"
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (HuRzZ)
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Now look who's judge shopping...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (i24o9)
>>I suppose it's worth asking if foreign visitors were counted in censuses in the early 19th century. Who was excluded in those counts?
Let's be real, most of what goes into the census is from existing data, estimates and extrapolations.
I have never in my life been interviewed by a census taker.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 04:24 PM (XV/Pl)
I wonder what flag they are talking about.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 04:24 PM (1avBY)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at June 27, 2025 04:24 PM (AxcO7)
Posted by: LazyGepid at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (oiYMF)
I'm just as ticked about illegal aliens getting citizenship for their kids as I am these birth tourists. I knew a "Palestinian" woman overseas who was heavily pregnant, probably would rather not have traveled at all, who was on her way to America to give birth. She didn't even have a doctor lined up in America. Not an ideal way for a woman to have a baby to begin with, but she was gonna get that kid the papers by Allah. I wonder if the whole family is in America by now, bitching about America and enjoying their bennies.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! [/u at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (exeT2)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (iFTx/)
Normally you just get the forms. It's pretty rare to have a Census Worker check on them in my experience.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (8iNlE)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (9iGvM)
Posted by: Peaches at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (14URa)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
This is a fucking joke.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 27, 2025 04:26 PM (17s+e)
"Trump Poised To Launch A Thousand Aneurysms"
Keep stabbing at the heart, Donald!
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 04:26 PM (Vngri)
It only says, at least once every 10 years.
The first census was 3 years after the Constitution was adopted.
Imagine the shitstorm if Trump calls a census next year, not to exclude illegals--but to force an accurate count of how many illegals there are?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM
If crime didn't pay, people wouldn't do it.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (jc0TO)
Yeah BUT... there are persons specifically excluded in the constitution for different things (slaves, native tribes), which strongly suggests that they didn't mean "just whoever is living in the borders"
That plus a careful examination of the horribly-written 14th amendment would lead me to rule against non-citizen, non-voter representation in the census.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (dfIr7)
I was. Once. Rum and baked beans are a better combo than fava beans and cianti.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (viF8m)
And I think there was an effort to utilize the Census takers as a Democrat GOTV system.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (Q4IgG)
Take heart, Lefties, elections still aren't legitimate and certifiable. That number will eventually climb.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (Vngri)
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (YkGND)
It only says, at least once every 10 years.
The first census was 3 years after the Constitution was adopted.
Imagine the shitstorm if Trump calls a census next year, not to exclude illegals--but to force an accurate count of how many illegals there are?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (GnVQ5)
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Not as much of a shitstorm as Trump ordering reapprotionment right now based on the Census' corrected 2020 numbers.
6 seats shifted, mostly from blue states to red states.
Expand the GOP majority by 12 seats in one move.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM
Just do what I did, say there are eight people at your house.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Did you bring a present for my grand daughter?
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Case at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (ilX37)
Posted by: Ketanji Laquisha Jumanji Brown at June 27, 2025 04:29 PM (m5cDg)
Biological weapon.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 04:29 PM (2qbYS)
Posted by: LazyGepid at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (oiYMF)
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Article III does mention "citizens or subjects of any foreign state", as amended by XI, and already contained "foreign states, Citizens or subjects" before being amended.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at June 27, 2025 04:29 PM (AxcO7)
Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (oaPfe)
Hubby and I are being hassled by the census people.
Some woman showed up here 3 months ago and informed us our address was "chosen" for some shit they dreamed up which involves them coming here every month for a day for six months.
They say the survey is one of the many things they do in the 9 years they aren't actually doing the census.
We are having the best time avoiding the people, lol. They call, text and show up here.
We never gave them our phone numbers, but we figured they are the government already has them.
Posted by: four seasons at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (3ek7K)
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Riiiiiiiiiiight ... because everybody knows that there have only been a total of 12 the little Alien Invaders who have come here since Reagan's amnesty -- with 8 of those welcomed in by F. Joe Mugabe and his AutoPen Empire.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! [/u at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (+dFEC)
I was. Once. Rum and baked beans are a better combo than fava beans and cianti.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (viF8m)
The only time I've been interviewed was for the 2020 census.
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (YkGND)
Of course they count! We represent their interests, don't we?
Posted by: The Dems at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (4I7kI)
Trump is taking their brown slaves.
Now he's working on taking their misenfranchised Representatives.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (2qbYS)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (jgmnb)
Normally you just get the forms. It's pretty rare to have a Census Worker check on them in my experience.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (ASFuz)
Here in Canada, us too.
In our last census, I CREATED A NEW GENDER!
You ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.
President Trump is taking questions. "Biden didn't even know he was alive."
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! [/u at June 27, 2025 04:31 PM (+dFEC)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (GnVQ5)
That is Stephen Miller level brilliant!
Posted by: Peaches at June 27, 2025 04:31 PM (14URa)
So now that I feel better I'll go read it. Unlike KBJ.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 04:31 PM (rvwwT)
As I've been saying this is one of the motivations behind Trump's deportation efforts and the left's resistance.
The dirty little secret is Democrats know this helps them enormously.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 04:31 PM (viF8m)
More good news on Friday: DOJ forced UVA President to resign over playing tricks to keep DEI rampant at UVA.
Posted by: Mad Max in VA
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I hope this has a chilling effect on proponents of academic freedom everywhere, and cuts the legs out from our universities' mission to promote opportunity for all. I also hope it sends an ominous signal to those who are trying to protect the rights of diverse students throughout the nation.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:32 PM (HuRzZ)
I would bet any amount of money if you asked the dudes who wrote and enacted these laws whether they applied to illegals, the answer would be in two parts: (1) "you fucking idiots allowed drooling armies of illegals to flood the country?" and (2) "FUCK NO!"
Posted by: Elric The
Likewise, I think they always thought it would be a Christian country. Had they known muslims were immigrating and running for office they would have made that clear too.
Posted by: Ketanji Laquisha Jumanji Brown at June 27, 2025 04:32 PM (m5cDg)
Depends on the definition of "in".
Posted by: New Name at June 27, 2025 04:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:25 PM (jc0TO)
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If you mean to say the census could be taken more frequently I think that is wrong. The ten year separation from one census to the next is a stipulated event (ie, it is both the maximum and the minimum). One census, taken every ten years, as Congress shall direct. The 14th amendment required "persons" to be counted, to get around the idiots still arguing a former slave was not a citizen of a particular state. Courts have expanded the term "persons" to include illegal immigrants.
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 04:33 PM (Frm+l)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 04:33 PM (Frm+l)
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"within" is the key word there.
Trump could order a new census today, and it would be constitutional because it's within the ten years. Ten years is a max.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Black JEM at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (GZYu7)
Indians, not taxed... ie Non Citizens on US soil were not counted.
Remember, back then there was no Income Tax, taxes were Enumerated and the Fed Gov was funded via Tariffs and Excise Taxes (taxes on specific goods).
I postulated years ago that the Battle Cry of the Second American Revolution would be 'No Representation without Taxation'...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:34 PM (mP0Kj)
Imagine the shitstorm if Trump calls a census next year, not to exclude illegals--but to force an accurate count of how many illegals there are?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (GnVQ5)
Well, it is known that there are a large number of mistakes in the current census costing blue AND red states new districts.
You might be able to fix that error before 2030
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:34 PM (8avO+)
In our last census, I CREATED A NEW GENDER!
You ask stupid questions, get stupid answers.
Posted by: Stateless
HA!
I hope it's listed as one of the default choices on the next census form.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 04:34 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:32 PM (HuRzZ)
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If only our universities were in fact doing that.
Posted by: Black JEM at June 27, 2025 04:35 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Romeo13
GMTA. I've used that phrase myself.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 04:35 PM (DgGvY)
I was visited by a census taker once. The census form came in the mail, but it looked like an ad and I set it down somewhere and ignored it. I heard in the news that a bunch of people thought it was an ad and threw it away.
It's fascinating to look at images of those old census counts that were taken by human beings who went door to door. You can literally trace their steps up one side of a street and down the other. All hand-written, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:35 PM (HuRzZ)
I don't think the majority opinion was textualism as much as originalism:
They spent most of the decision reviewing what were the equitable powers of the courts at the time of the passing of the first Judiciary Act--did courts of equity have the power to issue such broad injunctions?
To me, that's the "original intent" of the law at the time it was passed.
Which, to here, would mean, "when the Constitution was passed, was it common to count noncitizens (or those ineligible to vote) in the census?"
Of course not.
So, the only expansions of the census count must have specific statutory enactment.
Meaning, if there was no law passed saying "count everyone" then we're limited to the count method at the time the Constitution was passed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:35 PM (GnVQ5)
We never gave them our phone numbers, but we figured they are the government already has them.
Posted by: four seasons
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They get paid big federal bucks for every visit -- cut that shit short: Tell them you are already registered in another state and filled out all the forms. This is your vacation home and you are only there for a few weeks a year. Tell them it is a federal crime to fill out multiple forms for one person and if they come back you will call police.
Posted by: Ketanji Laquisha Jumanji Brown at June 27, 2025 04:35 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 27, 2025 04:36 PM (cH5uA)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 04:30 PM (2qbYS)
I want a BIG Hat!
Posted by: Captain Barbosa at June 27, 2025 04:36 PM (mP0Kj)
We never gave them our phone numbers, but we figured they are the government already has them.
Posted by: four seasons
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They will impute aka pencil whip your responses based on other sources including local government and state sources as best that they can.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:36 PM (ctrM5)
For decades I have been asserting that Taxes and Representation should begin closest to your home and move out from there:
County>
State>
Federal
You pay in at the local level first and get to vote there. As your income expands and allows you to pay into the next level you gain the vote there as well.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 04:36 PM (ASFuz)
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I did a high school intern thing with the Census Bureau back in 1980. Mostly stacking boxes of forms by zip code. I can see how the demographic data could be fudged to give an advantage, politically, to one party or the other.
And, in 2010 I had a Census taker show up at our place in WV. It's so far off the beaten path that my first instinct was that the law, or ATF or whatever had been called on us for shooting guns on the property.
Dude was very nervous around us hicks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 04:37 PM (Q4IgG)
Which, to here, would mean, "when the Constitution was passed, was it common to count noncitizens (or those ineligible to vote) in the census?"
Of course not.
So, the only expansions of the census count must have specific statutory enactment.
Meaning, if there was no law passed saying "count everyone" then we're limited to the count method at the time the Constitution was passed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:35 PM (GnVQ5)
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ACB's first couple of paragraphs of the national injunctions decision is about what common law practice was...in England pre-Revolution and then how the early founders applied common law to American jurisprudence.
If they can continue that line of thinking to birthright citizenship or counting of the census, both are slam dunks.
Will they?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: PG at June 27, 2025 04:37 PM (afPT4)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (jc0TO)
That needs to be fixed, but you hear no cries for making that online like they want for the vote.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (m5cDg)
@rpyers 7m
JUST IN: San Francisco-area State Senator Scott Wiener files FEC paperwork to run for the #CA11 seat currently represented by Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Cheri at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (oiNtH)
Rawanda and Congo have been fighting for 30 years.
>>@RapidResponse47
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>>1m
Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe tells
@POTUS "there has been many mediations, facilitation in the past but none of them succeeded and we believe it's because of your leadership and steadfast commitment to this process" that Rwanda and the DRC signed a historic peace agreement.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (viF8m)
@rpyers 7m
JUST IN: San Francisco-area State Senator Scott Wiener files FEC paperwork to run for the #CA11 seat currently represented by Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (mlg/3)
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So, he's gonna end up in prison for something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
Trump could order a new census today, and it would be constitutional because it's within the ten years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And no nationwide injunctions to stop him. (sob)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (HuRzZ)
It's fascinating to look at images of those old census counts that were taken by human beings who went door to door. You can literally trace their steps up one side of a street and down the other. All hand-written, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:35 PM (HuRzZ)
My mom when she worked at a library saw a lot of takers when they hung out there to avoid actually going down certain streets to count anyone.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:39 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)
as by Law directs... is there a law about the Census?
As there is a Census Department... there has to be.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:39 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (rvwwT)
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Even with an abundance of victories, Ace's pessimism remains as strong as ever!
I just want to claim some vindication because this is exactly how I expected it to play out, and I said so earlier this week. By letting the cases expand and multiple, by refusing to defy them but doggedly citing all of their problems, Trump's people made this a slam dunk and Comey's option is one of the most savage I've ever read.
Ace is worried about states suing, but Comey did a good job of explaining how even if a state sues, it has to explain why other states need a remedy, and in any event, every involved state can't file its own lawsuit, seeking a national injunction. The door to that is now closed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (jc0TO)
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Interesting. Well, since Florida receives a massive amount of foreign tourists in comparison to every other state. Does that mean we can label them as "persons" temporarily residing in Florida? Because failure to do so means that the nitty gritty of the allowance is now based on "residency." As far as I'm aware, there is no defined "residency" term. This is especially important because in order to rent a residence in every state you require an SS#. If you do not have one an ITN# is acceptable.
The problem is that most illegal immigrants (regardless of what the media says) don't have an ITN# because they are paid under the table. So, technically, they are not legally renting the residence and have the same qualifications as a tourist who visits the State of Florida for a week or two.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (dIske)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (mlg/3)
He's mega scary, this one. Behind literally ever horrifying idea circulating in CA. So, I guess he's a shoo-in. Gawd.
Posted by: Peaches at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (14URa)
The thing is it's some survey and has nothing to do with counting people. They want to know all about your lives. Apparently it is to help them get statistics on housing, etc.
You can opt out of the monthly visits by paying them $100. We're in our 70's and don't have much to do, lol, so we are having a good time avoiding them.
Posted by: four seasons at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (3ek7K)
Lauren Sanchez stuns in demure Dolce & Gabbana gown alongside Jeff Bezos at her Venice wedding
https://tinyurl.com/yf9b2ucx
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (NpAcC)
@rpyers 7m
JUST IN: San Francisco-area State Senator Scott Wiener files FEC paperwork to run for the #CA11 seat currently represented by Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (mlg/3)
Because our Quota of Weiners in the Government has been depleted over the last few years..
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (mP0Kj)
That plus a careful examination of the horribly-written 14th amendment would lead me to rule against non-citizen, non-voter representation in the census.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (dfIr7)
I think a Congressional resolution on the matter might be helpful.
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (ERYKL)
@rpyers 7m
JUST IN: San Francisco-area State Senator Scott Wiener files FEC paperwork to run for the #CA11 seat currently represented by Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (mlg/3)
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So, he's gonna end up in prison for something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Whadda joke. I really don't get why people do this. Remember that annoying Saikat Chakrabarti, he of the Justice Democrats who foisted AOC upon the nation? He's also running for that seat.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (HuRzZ)
Funny, and painfully true.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 04:42 PM (4/BuS)
That this needs to be spelled out is sad to say the least.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 04:42 PM (vm8sq)
They spent most of the decision reviewing what were the equitable powers of the courts at the time of the passing of the first Judiciary Act--did courts of equity have the power to issue such broad injunctions?
To me, that's the "original intent" of the law at the time it was passed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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The difference between textualism and originalism is that a textualist like Scalia was interested in what was the common definition and understanding of the term in question at the time it was written. Scalia's opinion in Heller is a classic example: Scalia noted correctly that every time a right mentioned the 'people' then it was an individual right so " the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" meant an individual right rather than the leftist collectivist (state militia) right to bear arms.
Gorsuch is a textualist, Thomas less so tending toward original intent aka the whole of the document (see his opinion on no knock warrants) and Roberts is a political judge aka Obamacare case. Kavanaugh and ACB are more cyphers.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:42 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 04:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 04:43 PM (U408m)
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LOL, the "free state project" by the libertarians to flip VT, enters the chat.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:43 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Cheri at June 27, 2025 04:43 PM (oiNtH)
This is the kind of innovative, bold approach we have come to love about the HQ
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:43 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (HuRzZ)
Gets them exposure, or they get bought off. with more than one, the possibility of torpedoing a real challenger to dilute the ballot with lots of names is a possibility.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:43 PM (8avO+)
Will they?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes, she spends a great deal of time dealing with the history of injunctions and their scope and highlights when they began to be broadened, even going so far as to note that even during the New Deal, no one attempted a national injunctiion via a district court.
This was a solid ruling and worth the wait. People had no business trashing her until they saw the end game.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 04:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (EnO9j)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (viF8m)
This.
If you cannot be bothered to enter the country at a PoE where you present your passport to a CBP official, don't come here.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (BGfwC)
Lauren Sanchez stuns in demure Dolce & Gabbana gown alongside Jeff Bezos at her Venice wedding
https://tinyurl.com/yf9b2ucx
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (NpAcC)
Kind of a cross between a scuba suit and a wedding dress.
Eh, for her that about as demure and virginal as it gets.
Rich peoples' problems...they never get old do they?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (iJfKG)
Lauren Sanchez stuns in demure Dolce & Gabbana gown alongside Jeff Bezos at her Venice wedding
https://tinyurl.com/yf9b2ucx
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:41 PM (NpAcC)
I'll never understand these ultrarich guys' predilection for Denny's parking lot 4s.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (jvJvP)
"Persons" vs. "citizens" probably a lost cause, as ace says. A pure case where the language of the constitution is wholly inadequate to governance now - because of course back then it was not even a concept that large numbers of non-citizens would live here. Or, well, anywhere they weren't citizens.
Apart from some mixing around in empires like the Roman and Ottoman, people historically not move around a whole lot (i.e. leave one political entity/state and take up residence in another) prior to the modern era. For lots of reasons.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (1m82a)
Regarding statutory interpretation, textualism normally rules the day for the Right. But, as even Scalia recognizes in his book, A Matter of Statutory Intepretation, that interpreting the Constitution and its Amendments often requires going beyond the text though because of the paucity of its language. Due process, for example, is a term packed with historical usage that does not lend itself to textualism for its sole determination.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:46 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
One of the tricks of genealogy searches is to look at neighbors, from the old home to the new.
Posted by: MkY at June 27, 2025 04:46 PM (cPGH3)
This was a solid ruling and worth the wait. People had no business trashing her until they saw the end game.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 04:44 PM (ZOv7s)
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Just because they do it once, doesn't mean they'll do it again.
We'll see.
I'm cautiously...cautious.
I've also never been an ACB hater. She's fine. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are better (Gorsuch has that stupid Bostock thing which he's partially made up for with Skrmetti, but ACB bends to "letting the process play out" too much).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:32 PM (HuRzZ)
My hope is that it has a chilling effect on racist retards like you. Happy Friday!
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at June 27, 2025 04:46 PM (8iNlE)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
*snoopy dance*
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 04:46 PM (VCFK5)
Posted by: Vivek at June 27, 2025 04:47 PM (/U5Yz)
It's quite elegant but I don't know that I'd exactly describe it as "demure." It's certainly form fitting. Which seems to be her particular style I hope that she and Jeff are happy.. she looks happy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 04:48 PM (2GCMq)
I agree, but there's no way in hell they would even attempt that, let alone pass it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:48 PM (dfIr7)
So it would make sense to count the reservation tribes as persons but not the still-warring tribes. The latter probably never came up as an issue.
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at June 27, 2025 04:48 PM (jYRYu)
Quite the payoff for sucking something. Which bald head would that be?
Posted by: four seasons at June 27, 2025 04:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:43 PM (GnVQ5)
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LOL I remember that. What a joke. Proved that Libertarians are actually a tiny minority and incredibly lazy.
I think the number they wanted was less than a mid-sized football stadium and they couldn't even pull that off.
Probably too busy doing drugs and watching kiddie porn.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 04:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 04:49 PM (g47mK)
Folks gathering in the town square and raising their hand to vote is just fine.
Imagine that today.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:50 PM (GnVQ5)
New York Post@nypost
‘60 Minutes’ correspondents demand CBS News make Tanya Simon executive producer — or face ‘revolt’
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 04:51 PM (L/fGl)
I think its different than that. They were completely comfortable with the idea of a lot of people living in the nation who are not citizens, the entire process of becoming a citizen was not a legal thing, just more a "I'm an American now" kind of thing. The process and idea of citizens being a legal and official status was not a thing then for the USA.
Basically everyone who came to the USA and tried to become part of the country, was part of the country. That has changed, necessarily, as the nation was settled, structured, and bounded by its borders. I mean, when the constitution was written, Pennsylvania was largely wilderness.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:52 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 04:52 PM (2GCMq)
I guess now we consider it nothing more than a voting registration, but states also had citizenship requirements.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 27, 2025 04:52 PM (ZOv7s)
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the policy guys and the law guys must have something else up their sleeve that will impress the court
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 04:52 PM (g47mK)
But..but..but...we are always told there are no Biden judges, or Obama judges, or Clinton judges. Just fair minded judges calling balls and strikes.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 04:45 PM (4/BuS)
Donald Trump is in the category of "ultrarich."
His current wife is a 9.5, and that's only because she isn't 30 anymore.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (L5An7)
If I was king census, it would be to send a form to every zoned residence that says how many people live here and what are their SSN or ITN. Thank you.
If you want to fill out the separate form to help us with some statistics please do, if not please trash it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (rvwwT)
When Newsom sued Trump over Federalizing the California National Guard, he didn't sue in the Federal judicial district in Los Angeles (where the Guard was used), or Sacramento (the state capital) - he sued in San Francisco, because there are no Republican appointees in the San Francisco Federal judicial district.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 04:52 PM (g47mK)
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Historical example of how the American government treated visitors when taking the census, probably.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (O8bOp)
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On Tuesday, the OIG published a redacted report detailing a recent “red team” exercise – where hired cybersecurity officials pose as hackers – and said the U.S. Census Bureau “did not have an effective cybersecurity posture in place to protect against a simulated real-world attack.”
According to the report, the red team gained unauthorized and undetected access to a Census Bureau domain administrator account and was able to obtain access to personally identifiable information of employees.
That information included hiring forms with Social Security numbers, first and last names, and home addresses.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Peaches at June 27, 2025 04:40 PM (14URa)
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He is truly a piece of human garbage. I would not leave him alone with anyone under 18.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (oXJtT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 04:54 PM (EnO9j)
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Yeah, I feel like they thought 20,000 would do it.
And it was all, "yeah, let's do it! You guys go on ahead first."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:55 PM (GnVQ5)
You get a visit or two if you decided to ignore turning in the form.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 04:55 PM (AcTAo)
Basically everyone who came to the USA and tried to become part of the country, was part of the country. That has changed, necessarily, as the nation was settled, structured, and bounded by its borders. I mean, when the constitution was written, Pennsylvania was largely wilderness.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
That is a severe distortion of the historical record. Simply put, the Founders put the power of immigration to Congress and figured that Congress could wax and wane on enforcement and that leaving 13+ states with their preexisting power would create a bad legal patchwork.
And as a result, immigration laws became more and more restrictive as the need for cheap foreign labor/settlement and soldiers to fight for the Union lessened.
Simply put, the power lies more with Congress than it does with the court.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:55 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 04:54 PM
Or they could distinguish legal residents from illegal residents, as Trump views the issue.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:52 PM (ctrM5)
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I don't think the case against birthright citizenship is a tough one to win either. Was confident someone would chime in with more detail.
Posted by: Black JEM at June 27, 2025 04:56 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:55 PM
This. The political branch needs to speak.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)
they might not focus on people/person/citizens minutia, but go in some other direction, like dilution of votes of actual citizens, disenfranchisement of actual citizens, something like that
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 04:57 PM (g47mK)
Beyond that? Mmmm. Again, if there's contextual info (say, the meaning, at the time, of "well regulated militia") about the language, sure, but tread very carefully.
But the judiciary filling in blanks should be a rare absolute last resort. The unaccountable branch are glorified clerks - anything else and you've disassembled the constitutional system. The political branches should handle 99.5% of all disputes involving allegedly vague language. SCOTUS has long essentially referred matters back to Congress on matters directing them to fill in the blanks or resolve ambiguities, right? That should be almost the only headline we ever see.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:58 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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My personal guess is that the Court will say that Trump does not have that power but Congress does. Plenty of explicit immigration cases explain Congress has plenary power over immigration.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:58 PM (ctrM5)
Hippo, with all due respect, but you're wrong. It was common - in fact, necessary - to count those ineligible to vote. When the Constitution was ratified, that class would include women, children, those without enough property to be a voter, and so on. The whole point of the three-fifths compromise was to determine how much weight should be given to the population of enslaved persons - none of whom were citizens or eligible to vote - in apportioning seats in the House and the Electoral College. In the present day, citizens ineligible to vote (for example, here in Wisconsin, imprisoned felons) are still counted as part of the population to be represented in Congress. And then as now, immigrants who were in the country legally but had not yet become citizens were also counted. I think this question is a lot more complicated than many of us believe.
Posted by: Nemo at June 27, 2025 04:58 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:58 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 04:59 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 04:59 PM (6X8wc)
It isn't just about the house of representatives and seats in congress, it's also about how all of that sweet federal $$$$$ gets handed out.
This is going to take years to work it's way through the courts because there will be multiple lawsuits from all of the blue states.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 04:59 PM (e5NfL)
One of the tricks of genealogy searches is to look at neighbors, from the old home to the new.
Posted by: MkY
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Interesting. I guess you also know the trick of taking a second look at kids born to parents who also have a late-teens, early-20s daughter at home.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:00 PM (HuRzZ)
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While Sotomayor waves around the bloody flag of Dredd Scott to claim today's decision is just like denying slaves citizenship.
LOL.
I've seen some black get pissed at this comparison:
Our ancestors didn't choose to come here--they were forced here.
And they earned the right to become citizens.
At a very dear price.
Not merely "snuck across the border."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:01 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Bhedrick at June 27, 2025 05:02 PM (l5F91)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 04:58 PM (ctrM5)
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True, but the error was at the court level, not congress. The court completely misread the law. Trump asks only to apply that which should never have been overruled.
Posted by: Black JEM at June 27, 2025 05:02 PM (GZYu7)
1. California
2. New York
3. Illinois
4. Washington
5. Oregon
6. Colorado
7. Massachusetts
8. Maryland
9. Connecticut
10. Rhode Island
11. Maine
12. Vermont
13. New Hampshire
and probably several others.
Still, a convention of the states is always worth a try, just to keep people on their toes.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 27, 2025 05:03 PM (jYRYu)
In both the birthright case and the census case-to-be, the Trump argument will be that illegal immigrants are not persons subject to the jurisdiction because they hold allegiance to their home countries. As such, they should not be counted as citizens or residents for any purpose under the law.
Not sure it will get very far, but that's the theory.
Posted by: can of spam at June 27, 2025 05:03 PM (7oNMO)
If you were King Census, you would already know. All you have to do is buy our data sets back from China.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 05:04 PM (6keFU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:51 PM (dfIr7)
Actually just went and looked... the early 1800s Naturalization Law? Be in the US for at least 5 years, and declare your intent to be a Citizen 3 years in advance.
Interesting.. did not know that prior to the Civil War, it was STATES who controlled who immigrated... there was no Federal Law at all about it until the COURTS got involved, and said it was clearly JUST a Federal Issue...
So, once again... it looks like a COURT created problem.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:04 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Bhedrick at June 27, 2025 05:02 PM (l5F91)
Heh. And the dems are again on the exact same side of the issue. Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 05:04 PM (YUL+W)
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The Constitutional right to a republican form of government.
By counting noncitizens, they dilute the vote of citizens.
By noncitizens being disproportionally counted in some states, that dilutes the votes of citizens in other states
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:04 PM (GnVQ5)
What do you suppose the odds are that 60 Senators will vote to overturn birthright citizenship?
I put them at 0%.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 05:05 PM (viF8m)
It is much deeper than just illegals, since according to Thomas, the state can apportion based on eligible voters instead of "persons."
This applies to state's apportionment, so similar arguments can be made for federal. It gets complicated but the best short summary is in this quote:
"The problem is more fundamental. There is simply no way to make a principled choice between interpreting one person, one vote as protecting eligible voters or as protecting total inhabitants within a State. That is because, though those theories are noble, the Constitution does not make either of them the exclusive means of apportionment for state and local representatives."
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/578/14-940/
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 05:05 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Black JEM
I've explained at length about it as I taught this particular decision for years among other con law cases. Essentially Gray distorts the law in order to rectify justice for a wronged individual. Wong Ark was born to legal residents and lived here until he visited China for a time and was denied readmission. Gray's decision skates around the Indians non-taxed being excluded from citizenship explicitly and instead makes a erroneous detour through old English Common Law (distorting it) and then various investigations of state practices (not necessary for citizenship after the Founding), ignoring the Dred Scott decision that created the need for the 14th natural born citizen wording (Taney declared that regardless of what states considered citizens, that Africans brought here were never to be considered citizens of the US and he used the Declaration of Independence to boot to claim that. ) So he comes to make the correct decision on very poor reasoning.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:06 PM (ctrM5)
Definitely they limited and controlled immigration to some degree, but citizenship was still pretty vague and sketchy for a long time. People would show up, sign paperwork, and head into the country, and become part of the nation. They even voted in elections, there was no official process and oath for quite a while.
There was a law in 1795 for naturalization (including an oath), it wasn't until 1906 that it became more codified and official (even the oath wasn't exact).
And the founding fathers were writing in that context, not what we take for granted now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:06 PM (dfIr7)
Good luck having them not counted for apportionment.
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 05:07 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: City of Boston at June 27, 2025 05:07 PM (kCN82)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 05:08 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)
Yup, put em in the Indian Not Taxed Category... as they are not citizens, and not here legally.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:08 PM (mP0Kj)
This applies to state's apportionment, so similar arguments can be made for federal. It gets complicated but the best short summary is in this quote:
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Counting non citizens for apportionment simply creates rotten boroughs that make a mockery of Baker v. Carr--one man, one vote.
Citizenship should matter regardless of what the cloud people think.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:08 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! [/u at June 27, 2025 05:09 PM (UKwZO)
In the Senate only "privileged matters" are not subject to filibuster, i.e. subject to unlimited debate. The Budget Act of 1974 creates two such items by statute, the Budget Resolution and the Reconciliation act (currently being worked on in the Senate, for example). These items have statutory limits on debate (30 hours, IIRC).
Certain nominations have been exempted from filibuster (in effect) and made privileged.
But any legislation that would address the question under discussion would almost certainly be subject to filibuster.
And whig makes an excellent point about Congress having the power to clarify/fix things in immigration. And many other areas. The constitutional trainwreck we live in is as much the fault of Congress refusing to do its job as it is the usurpation of the courts.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 05:09 PM (1m82a)
https://tinyurl.com/yf9b2ucx
Posted by: redridinghood
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Ugh. Look at the last picture in the article, close up you can see her arms.
She looks like a claymation model.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 05:09 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 05:09 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Fuck The Feds at June 27, 2025 05:10 PM (R/m4+)
That was 2016, and Alito mostly joined Thomas on Evenwel (I have not read Alito's Concurrence.)
So I think he is open to restricting illegals. Alito too, and maybe he can convince others. Either way, it will be a close run thing.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 05:10 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 27, 2025 05:10 PM (Xn549)
Posted by: casual observer at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (JqKhz)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (jc0TO)
Good luck having them not counted for apportionment.
Posted by: WisRich
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Different court and Roberts wrote the majority opinion based on the APA rather than the merits of such a question. Census Bureau purposefully played Trump by delay and obfuscation in that instance.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (ctrM5)
The thought just occurred to me: could we count non-citizens as 0/5 of a person? Fractional counting has been done before! Oh well! It won’t fly politically, and besides it would take a constitutional amendment, which no way we’re going to get!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (EnO9j)
In 2000, I got the long form. I filled in names, DOBs, and SSNs and sent it back. I got a letter. Then I got a phone call. Then I got a visit. They asked if they could come into the house. I said no. They said they could fill in the missing data with their guesses. I said OK, just make sure you note that that's what you're doing so if you're wrong, it's not because I lied. I guess that's what they did because they didn't contact me again after that.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 05:12 PM (/y8xj)
Right, and if someone managed to sneak into the country (really easy to do at the time), the states didn't pay much attention to that. You were there, you were part of the state, you became a citizen over time.
So this is a tough spot for guys like me who are constitutional purists: they just did not write the document for the situation we now find ourselves in nor I doubt could the even conceive of it.
Its not just the USA who was like this. Tens of thousands of people poured into London from around the world and just became part of the country without any official process around that time as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: toby928
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If the court rules to end birthright citizenship, then it will be up to Congress to make the rules. But, it probably will not make such retroactive which is within their powers as to affect those here presently in that case.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (ctrM5)
There is a Sense of the Senate, right? And something similar for the House. Is there not a, err, joint declaration, or something for both?
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 05:09 PM (XMwZJ)
It's such a peculiar clause because counting slaves as 5/5ths of a person would have given disproportionate political power to slaveowners. An anti-slavery person would have vigorously argued that slaves not be counted at all.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: H at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (2gjbv)
Google, Apple and Facebook have it all too now that you mention it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (rvwwT)
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Ah, that's right. Hotly contested.
So, it'll come down to how those early census treated guest workers (if there were such) and visitors.
Interesting wrinkle I'm looking at: During the 1810 census, were there any foreign mercenaries or troops in the US? If so, counted or excluded?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:14 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:11 PM (ctrM5)
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Takes the stakes for 2028 election up a notch.
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 05:14 PM (G0vdT)
prior to the Civil War, it was STATES who controlled who immigrated... there was no Federal Law at all about it until the COURTS got involved, and said it was clearly JUST a Federal Issue...
So, once again... it looks like a COURT created problem.
Posted by: Romeo13
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But surely it should be a federal matter, not up to the states to control who immigrates?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:14 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: anachronda at June 27, 2025 05:15 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 05:16 PM (EnO9j)
We went for over 250 years without it. I'm guessing they implemented a campaign of voter intimidation in the 1880's to bring about the secret ballot (to protect us from voter intimidation!). And then the election shenanigans started.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 05:16 PM (Vngri)
So this is a tough spot for guys like me who are constitutional purists: they just did not write the document for the situation we now find ourselves in
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
But they did. They included an amending method.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:16 PM (HuRzZ)
1800 Census law
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (Gmq6N)
Of course we referred to such as "senselessness of the Senate" resolutions.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (jYRYu)
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Hence the "compromise" that slaves were to be counted as 3/5 of a whole person for representation. That way there was some level of parity between the populations of the slave-supporting states and anti-slavery states.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 05:17 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
We do. Somewhere out there we have cuz's who descended from a 7 year old "black negro boy" residing in G-grampa's home in 1880.
No idea other than that. He had the same last name.
Know what's fun? His farm abutted my land as it stands now. Had no idea when I bought it.
Had no idea when I bought it.
Posted by: MkY at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 05:08 PM (4/BuS)
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OUT: The Gordian Knot.
IN: The Trumpian Knot.
STATUZZZ: Severed.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 05:18 PM (UKwZO)
I think between that and the fact that for example "Indians not taxed" are excluded for congressional representation is a major clue how to handle this. Why were Indians not taxed excluded? Because they were treated as outside the USA, sovereign independent nations within the borders, and not citizens.
That, I think gives a clue how the census is supposed to work. Illegal immigrants are not part of the US body politic, and not to be counted for representation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM (dfIr7)
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You might also look at the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts which had much longer periods for naturalization among other things. Basically, even then, Democrats were more for immigration than the Federalists were. While the Democrats attacked the Sedition act as unconstitutional, they really only fumed about the extension of the requirements of Aliens to be admitted.
That means that Congress has the power to wax and wane immigration--not the courts and certainly not the illegals entering.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:19 PM (ctrM5)
🎩
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 05:20 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot
No one thought it would be enough of an issue to make a difference until fairly recently. (I wonder if Bracero workers were ever counted?)
Then by the 80s it was a growing problem but too political for intelligent legislation. Now it is so big it may be too late.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 27, 2025 05:13 PM (jYRYu)
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Hence the "compromise" that slaves were to be counted as 3/5 of a whole person for representation. That way there was some level of parity between the populations of the slave-supporting states and anti-slavery states.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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The entire 3/5ths formula came from the Articles of Confederation Congress which was trying to apportion the costs of the federal government on the states. It was a fallback for the Convention because it was already used by the Articles Congress for apportioning requisitions from the states.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (ctrM5)
Technically accurate but practically not. I don't think we will ever see another amendment added to the constitution in our lifetimes, at least.
prior to the Civil War, it was STATES who controlled who immigrated
I think that is inaccurate, I believe it was the federal government who handled who got into the USA, the states controlled (very loosely) who got to be in their borders and were considered citizens.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (dfIr7)
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That was one fertile 7-year-old!
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Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (UKwZO)
Δ Δ Δ
Sorry, that would three festive little hats!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (EnO9j)
👒
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: casual observer
in #226 I meant to be responding to this.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 05:22 PM (m5cDg)
Heh, too clever by half:
Because class certification is subject to interlocutory appeal.
And, as the dissents lamented, too difficult to get, too easily overturned.
Also, as I understand it, the whole tactic of these injunctions as they could play grab-ass with the law and do whatever they wanted.
Whereas, class actions have a whole shitload of detailed and precise requirements.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (GnVQ5)
Yeah and that's the biggest problem we have right now with congress: they do not want to actually DO anything. They don't want to go on record, they don't want to be held accountable. So they let courts handle it all instead.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:23 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 05:14 PM (HuRzZ)
It looks like prior to about 1880... States did have specific fees and limits on immigration to their States... then the courts under the Congress controls NATURALIZATION clause, said that only the Feds control Immigration.
How we got from there to only Feds can enforce immigration law... I've yet to look at.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:24 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (ctrM5)
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"I'll take 'Stuff I never learned in history or from reading before" for $64 trillion, Alex!"
/Thanks Professor whig ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #Winning -- I Wanna Get Off! at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (UKwZO)
👳
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 05:25 PM (UjdFS)
I am still fine with that, as long as states get to control who gets into their borders. OK you let them in the USA, but not Montana, buddy. Governors need to start enforcing and fighting for that kind of thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: t-bird
It is more the reverse. Voter fraud was rampant in the 1840's to the 1900's and both the Whigs and GOP participated in it along with the Dems of course. It was the era of floaters, party line ballots that had symbols and colors for the illiterate, widespread payment of voters to vote either via liquor or cash, etc.
Turnouts of entire states were well close to 100 percent and not because those ballots represented people. Try to vote Dem in a GOP heavy precinct or vice versa, they might kick your ass out or beat your ass according and then substitute their party vote for yours.
The Australian or secret ballot plus voter registration, etc. came about for real reasons.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:26 PM (ctrM5)
/Thanks Professor whig ...
Posted by: ShainS
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I studied the Articles and the period from 1776 because you cannot really understand why the Framers acted as they did until you understand what conditions they sought to correct.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 05:27 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:21 PM (dfIr7)
Prior to the Civil War... I don't see any US Federal Law on immigration at all... looks like 1891 Immigration act was the first real Fed law on this... (at least with a quicky internet search... )
Wiki says States and individual Ports controlled entry... and even the Process of Naturalization (how to register your intent and such).
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 05:28 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (G0vdT)
Yeah we have bad voter fraud now but it was outrageous back then. What's funny is that a lot of cowboy movies show this pretty clearly as a regular joke and without any sort of condemnation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (dfIr7)
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The early history of this country was wild.
Another of my favorites is the story about Lincoln taking the jury to lunch during trial and basically winning the case by a call-back in closing to the joke he told them at lunch.
Now we act like jury sequestration is some holy sacred mandate.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (GnVQ5)
We went for over 250 years without it. I'm guessing they implemented a campaign of voter intimidation in the 1880's to bring about the secret ballot (to protect us from voter intimidation!). And then the election shenanigans started.
Posted by: t-bird
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Without a secret ballot you end up with vote buying -- it is unavoidable unless there is total strict secrecy. That gives you tribal voting like in most of M. E. and Africa and is way worse than anything we have here.
You also end up with mysterious murder of America's greatest author.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (m5cDg)
The secret ballot is both a blessing and a curse.
Posted by: MkY at June 27, 2025 05:30 PM (cPGH3)
Possible, but unlikely. Maybe a 17 year old, and it just got written down wrong? (Or his youth was exaggerated!)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 05:31 PM (EnO9j)
Another of my favorites is the story about Lincoln taking the jury to lunch during trial and basically winning the case by a call-back in closing to the joke he told them at lunch.
Now we act like jury sequestration is some holy sacred mandate.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 05:29 PM (GnVQ5)
Yeah, its like the Modern view on the West... its all Cowboys and gunfights...
OK Coral is really famous... but was a real outlier... 3 dead, 3 wounded...
That's a Weekday in Chicago or New York...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 05:33 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 05:35 PM (ULPxl)
Dunno.
Dunno shit, except what I posted prior...and maybe I posted it wrong.
His name was the same as the landholder (my G-G grandpa). First and last name the same. No middle name nor initial.
Maybe he was an orphan. Maybe one of the girls got knocked up. Maybe old George was the squire.
Dunno.
Census don't answer those questions.
Posted by: MkY at June 27, 2025 05:35 PM (cPGH3)
My first thought was that Samuel Clemens died of a ripe old age, and not murder. Then I remembered the peculiar circumstances surrounding Poe’s death. Ok, de gustibus non disputandem. And Poe was a great American writer. He might have been a fifth better if only he could have left the fifths alone.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 05:39 PM (EnO9j)
Good one.
Twain, "I rarely smoke while asleep, and seldom refrain while awake."
Lived to 87.
Posted by: MkY at June 27, 2025 05:40 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 05:44 PM (EnO9j)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 27, 2025 06:18 PM (wGqjj)
That is a misreading. It says "person" then specifically excludes slaves and Indians, who are persons, not citizens. The law was then changed to make them citizens, at which point they were counted.
I think the founders would be up in arms at the thought of non-citizens having any rights, or being included in any way, in the census.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 07:48 PM (D1vbu)
Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (formerly Stochastic Terrorist) at June 27, 2025 09:11 PM (arzIt)
Two people who do not owe complete allegiance to the United States cannot produce a birthright citizen.
It is a short opinion, and the ruling is perfectly clear.
I do not understand why this is even a topic for discussion.
Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at June 27, 2025 10:21 PM (uR4Tu)
Supreme Court Rules That States May Stop Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood, Completely
Update: Ketanji Brown Jackson Confesses Dozeons of Times "I Just Don't Understand"
Sorry, back to the Supreme Court. (There's a lot of this today.)
This decision is from yesterday. Later in the post I discuss Ketanji Brown-Jackson's objection to having to actually read the law when "interpreting" the law. States previously had the power to forbid Medicaid dollars from being used by Planned Parenthood for abortions. Supposedly -- we all know this is a lie, because money is fungible. Now the Supreme Court says that states may cut Planned Parenthood off completely. State Media NPR:The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed South Carolina to bar Planned Parenthood's access to federal Medicaid funding for non-abortion services. The decision allows states to ban the organization from getting Medicaid reimbursements for cancer screenings and other care not related to abortion.LOL, sure, Planned Parenthood is known for its cancer care services.
Related: The Genius Ketanji Brown Jackson attacks her colleagues for being "textualists" -- that is, they make their rulings based on the actual text of the Constitution and the text of laws -- rather than just free-ballin' it and claiming the law means whatever she wants it to mean this morning. ABC "News" think that this stance makes The Genius look good.
At issue was a provision of the federal Medicaid law that guarantees Medicaid patients the ability to choose their doctors, or in the words of the statute, they are entitled to "any qualified and willing provider." South Carolina, however, maintained that it could disqualify Medicaid providers for "any reason that state law allows." Or as Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, put it, "Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize abortion providers who are in direct opposition to their beliefs." On Thursday, the Supreme Court -- by a 6-3 vote along ideological lines -- agreed. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the court majority, said that regardless of the words in the statute, the law does not "clearly and unambiguously" provide individuals the right to sue to enforce the "any qualified provider" measure, as Congress didn't specifically authorize such suits. "Though it is rare enough for any statute to confer an enforceable right, spending-power statutes like Medicaid are especially unlikely to do so," he wrote. And he wrote that allowing someone to sue over one aspect of Medicaid plan requirements could also open the door to a flood of lawsuits over other requirements. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, writing for the dissenting liberal justices, described the case as a civil rights issue, saying citizens have the right to sue over deprivation of rights. ... The court's decision comes at an important time for Planned Parenthood, which is facing financial difficulties nationwide -- NPR reports that Planned Parenthood has closed at least 34 clinics since last year. And in Congress there is pending federal legislation that, if passed, would eliminate all federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unloaded on her Supreme Court colleagues Friday in a series of sharp dissents, castigating what she called a "pure textualism" approach to interpreting laws, which she said had become a pretext for securing their desired outcomes, and implying the conservative justices have strayed from their oath by showing favoritism to "moneyed interests." The attack on the court's conservative majority by the junior justice and member of the liberal wing is notably pointed and aggressive but stopped short of getting personal.She's accusing them of twisting the law on behalf of "moneyed interests." How much more personal can she get? She's Jasmine Ratchet in a robe. Can't wait until Alito or Thomas gets similarly "short of personal" with her, and her qualifications to sit on the Court. Update: I wrote this yesterday, before I knew of today's majority opinion trashing the Highly Unqualified Ketanji.
It laid bare the stark divisions on the court and pent-up frustration in the minority over what Jackson described as inconsistent and unfair application of precedent by those in power. Jackson took particular aim at Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority opinion in a case brought by a retired Florida firefighter with Parkinson's disease who had tried to sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act after her former employer, the City of Sanford, canceled extended health insurance coverage for retirees who left the force before serving 25 years because of a disability.I forgot to mention in the previous post: Barret insulted Jackson by stating that Jackson doesn't know the difference between a judgment and an opinion. A judgment is the basic "this side wins, this side loses" part of a ruling. You have to pay this guy $50,000. You have to stop building housing complexes on an old Indian burial site. The opinion announces the rule underlying that judgment, and announces the rule-going-forward in all similar cases. Coney made the point that lowly district court justices can only render judgments for the parties before it -- but then their opinions assert an anti-constitutional unlimited jurisdiction across the entire country. And Coney accuses Jackson of not being able to tell a judgment from an opinion. This distinction may be lost on a layman who doesn't understand the legalese of the law, like Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it is extremely important to actual jurists who weren't absent the day they taught law in law school. Coney says that Jackson ignorantly believes that a mere opinion about cases well outside of a lowly district judge's jurisdiction have the full force of law.
Gorsuch wrote that the landmark law only protects "qualified individuals" and that retirees don't count. The ADA defines the qualified class as those who "can perform the essential functions of the employment position that such individual holds or desires." "This court has long recognized that the textual limitations upon a law's scope must be understood as no less a part of its purpose than its substantive authorizations," Gorsuch concluded in his opinion in Stanley v. City of Sanford. It was joined by all the court's conservatives and liberal Justice Elena Kagan. Jackson fired back, accusing her colleagues of reaching a "stingy outcome" and willfully ignoring the "clear design of the ADA to render a ruling that plainly counteracts what Congress meant to -- and did -- accomplish" with the law. She said they had "run in a series of textualist circles" and that the majority "closes its eyes to context, enactment history and the legislature's goals." "I cannot abide that narrow-minded approach," she wrote.
The whole article -- by ABC "News" -- is about the ignorant Ketanji's constant dunking on her colleagues for believing that the text of the law matters when interpreting the law. ABC "News" thinks she's a brave, tough-talking hero, like other progressive Moron-Heroes like Donkey-Chompers and Jasmine Ratchet. So just so you know -- liberals pick and choose from a thousand different outside factors they can use to challenge, undermine, and twist the actual language of the law. They will claim, for example, that if someone proposed an amendment to a law which was rejected by legislators, that amendment should still be consulted to determine "legislative intent." They claim that everything can be used to "interpret" the text of a law except for the actual text of the law. They're big fans of citing legislative and judicial decisions in foreign countries as evidence of a supposed "consensus" among "world authorities." Of course, they only pick and choose these extraneous sources according to how they advance the progressive/communist cause. They never will cite legislative history to advance a conservative interpretation. Congress passing a law is only one step in the legislative process, radicals believe. The second step is stuffing into that law a whole wish list of leftwing priorities, stuff Congress could have put into the law but didn't, or even stuff that was proposed to be added to the law but was affirmatively rejected. It doesn't matter. Leftwing judges think they have plenary power to say a law means whatever they wish it to mean. The actual law is just a starting point for their Judicial Jazz Odysseys.
🚨 INBOX: If there's one thing we know about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this term - it's that she doesn't understand.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: DanMan at June 27, 2025 03:12 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 03:13 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 03:14 PM (CmKxk)
STOP ALL THE #WINNING -- I WANNA GET OFF!
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:15 PM (/8r+0)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 03:15 PM (ULPxl)
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Affirmative Action Jackson is the Hank Johnson of Whoopi Goldbergs.
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:16 PM (/8r+0)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)
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How is Planned Parenthood not a monied interest?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:15 PM (/8r+0)
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If this keeps up for the next four years, I really will need to consult a doctor about this localized swelling...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (7fElN)
Just because PP pretends to offer other health-related services doesn't mean their only product is abortion.
"just a clump of cells" is not a cancer diagnosis.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (od0dV)
I imagine, if the commies ever regain control, they will be citing her opinions as precedent.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (sya53)
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shipwreckedcrew's take is that she spent so little time on the Circuit (roughly a year) after 8 years in her district position before Biden appointed her to SCOTUS that she never developed any intellectual tools for how the higher courts actually work.
She treats SCOTUS like a trial court.
Seems about right.
And just think of all the other 700 district court judges out there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
The mere existence of the terms or concepts of "textualist" or "originalist" is the universe's way of trying to clue in lazy thinkers that the entire enterprise is off the rails.
We both sign a contract obligating me to pay you for services rendered. You render the service. I refuse to pay you. Because I don't think the clear language of the contract obligates me to do so.
So you are a "textualist", meaning you argue that a document means what it says.
Glorified clerks. "isms" and "doctrines" and all kinds of very unimpressive obscurantist crap that the society just defers to. No chance of relief from this, given inertia and the Legal Cult, but good to point it out once in a while so actually thinking people realize there common sense reactions are sound.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (dR6yv)
Suing to prevent cuts in spending is outrageously idiotic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (dfIr7)
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Living Constitution, bruh.
Except for when progressives don't get what they want, of course.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (/U5Yz)
"you want to sue for WHAT?? Get the @#(*! out of here."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:20 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:20 PM (UjdFS)
Kantanji getting blistered
Posted by: DanMan at June 27, 2025 03:20 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Max Power at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Tik toc fentanyl and trans at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (fXFFd)
"you want to sue for WHAT?? Get the @#(*! out of here."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:20 PM (dfIr7)
You're welcome!
Posted by: American Bar Association at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (iFTx/)
I get the feeling that sometimes in these 6-3 rulings Roberts puts someone somewhat lucid on the dissent side by force to have them write the dissent so the SCOTUS doesn't look like a farce.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (8avO+)
Of?
I hate that word. It WILL destroy the English communication provider.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (vm8sq)
And I'd like it broken down by race.
It's a sweet day of winning anyways.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (jvJvP)
IIRC, PP is the largest provider of trans drugs in the country.
They are making bank off of transing our kids.
So yeah, BLOCK THEM FROM DOING THIS via Medicaid.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (VVnrT)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:22 PM (UjdFS)
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This is the essence of "critical theory" (Marxism) by the way. Which is how you know she is just parroting it.
Pick your target (accurate legal interpretation), label it, then polarize it.
Now reading what a law actually says instead of casting your fee-fees and runes and rainbow matcha leaves onto it is suddenly up for debate because you have a cutesy name for it.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:22 PM (rCia8)
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Living Constitution, bruh.
Except for when progressives don't get what they want, of course.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
Except its a sacred document when Conservatives want to change anything.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:22 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)
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What, did US-AID stand for Abortion-Investing Dollars?
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:23 PM (/8r+0)
Which casts IDF CoS's otherwise encouraging/sensible statement about Israel treating Iran as an ongoing problem with military action always on the table in a slightly different light. Though the op tempo for limited strikes might well be handled without help.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:23 PM (1m82a)
Jamoke.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 03:23 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:23 PM (jc0TO)
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What, did US-AID stand for Abortion-Investing Dollars?
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:23 PM (/8r+0)
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$40 billion a year bought a lot across a lot of industries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
No need to apologize for going back to SCOTUS, ace! I could live off this all day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:23 PM (HuRzZ)
Assuming there was an interest in doing so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (Q4IgG)
It turns out it's not a good idea to build houses on old Indian burial grounds even if there is no court judgement.
Posted by: Cuesta Verde Real Estate Co. at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Said nobody not insane ever at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (Hxfl9)
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (TN0g+)
Jerkhoffe
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (KRtlO)
Well then, let me tell you about this thing called an "Order" ....
Generally, "judgments" come only at the end of the case, and represent the final outcome of the lower-court proceedings. There wouldn't be a "judgment" at any prior stage of the case. There would be an "Order" directing the parties to do something. That's why it's called a Temporary Restraining Order.
The opinion usually does more than set forth the "rule." It explains the reasoning behind why the court decided as it did.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (iFTx/)
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Mind you, her feelings about what the law should be and your feelings about what the law should be don't have equal weight. She gets to rule, you get to obey. Democracy!!!
Posted by: Not so much at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (fXFFd)
How is Planned Parenthood not a monied interest?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS HEALTH CARE!!!
(the ads say that so it must be true)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (vm8sq)
And I'd like it broken down by race.
It's a sweet day of winning anyways.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (jvJvP)
Oh nearly all black and minorities.
Before the furor of the RvW return to states i heard a stat that a large number of states had no clinics, and some and just one or two.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (8avO+)
Assuming there was an interest in doing so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (Q4IgG)
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Eh.
Biden introduced her to the world personally, side by side, in person, in a speech.
He was as involved in her selection as pretty much any other president, telling his aides basic guidelines and then his aides bringing him a name. Maybe there were 2 or 3. Maybe he met with them.
But, ultimately, he was as involved as, probably, most presidents are.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jasmine Crockets' Eye Lashes at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (5hfjS)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (m5cDg)
Assuming there was an interest in doing so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (Q4IgG)
Why do you hate us???
Posted by: Waffle House employees at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (ULPxl)
Uh... Abortion is not a Right. She was there the day the Supremeos said so.
So what Right will be used then to overturn the Explicit Text of the Law?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Lots of spiking the football common these days, and it's at the 20, not even near the goal line.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (1m82a)
Suing to prevent cuts in spending is outrageously idiotic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM
They are mostly arguing states rights. They claim the state signed a contract with PP to provide *services* via medicaid payments and the state has to honor that contract in perpetuity and the state can never change the definition of who they consider eligible for state funds. SCOTUS said....nope, the state does not have to honor contracts forever and can terminate them within the limits of the law without issues.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (jGJov)
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Yeah, and if you decide to move the burial sites you can't go cheap about it and just move the headstones...
Posted by: Poltergeist at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Not so much at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (fXFFd)
Good point.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (ULPxl)
......
Send it off in a letter to yourself.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (UjdFS)
Has Mike Johnson initiated impeachment proceedings for this obviously incompetent clown?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (0eaVi)
I can see why there are at least 6 justices that are frustrated by Justice Yas Slay Qween.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 03:27 PM (Dv3i1)
Coney is wrong, you know.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #7 at June 27, 2025 03:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Cuesta Verde Real Estate Co. at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM
But Jumanji declared it Clean.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)
Kind of a fancy word for 'reading', isn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 03:27 PM (AU+PG)
How is Planned Parenthood not a monied interest?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS HEALTH CARE!!!
(the ads say that so it must be true)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 03:25 PM (vm8sq)
Hmmm... does Planned Parenthood do health care for MEN? If not, is that not against the Law?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 03:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: bob
I would love to see ACB put a leg lock around one of Sotomayor's necks.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)
As for me once more into the breech, at least 1 day off tomorrow night.
Be good, check in later
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 03:28 PM (+qU29)
Wtf
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at June 27, 2025 03:28 PM (6i/WZ)
Kind of a fancy word for 'reading', isn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 03:27 PM (AU+PG)
Reading, like Math, and being on time... is clearly RAAAAACIST.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 03:28 PM (mP0Kj)
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What, did US-AID stand for Abortion-Investing Dollars?
I still find it sus that the DNC is having massive money problems for the first time ever right after USAID shut down.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 27, 2025 03:28 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:28 PM (UjdFS)
Medicaid comes from tax dollars. I should not be paying for an unborn baby to be killed.
This is going to set the pink puthy hat/ Handmaiden's Daughter's hair on fire! It is their "healthcare!" Right. Planned Parenthood does squat but birth control, and their main ticket is abortion. It is a total myth they do mammograms...or most of them. Some barely do ultrasounds before an abortion to see the age of the baby.
There is always, out of pocket, buying the day after pill in drug stores. I know because I saw a partial wall of pill selections in a Walgreen's in the last year. I guess if they can spare the change from drugs they can buy the pills on their dime and no one is the wiser.
In my personal court of public opinion, which probably makes more sense than Kentakenji's, this is very good.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 03:28 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (dCxaZ)
and in this corner, the challenger.... "exhaustion."
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (e5NfL)
I bet they never asserted that the grants for service would pin the salaries and cost paybacks at 1950 levels forever. What a weak case
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (8avO+)
But that doesn't explain why either the "or naturalized" and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" parts were thought necessary.
If any and all born here--regardless of legal status--were intended to be citizens, neither clause is needed or necessary.
She also takes great pains to obscure that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is a legal, precise, technical term of art, and not merely "oh, it just means subject to the criminal laws."
It's the difference between "can be arrested" and "can be drafted."
Illegal aliens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the sovereign because they cannot be compelled to war on its behalf.
It's a tell: The great pains the left is taking to hide these questions reveals they know it was never meant to naturalize children of illegal aliens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Steely Dan at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (AU+PG)
Uh... Abortion is not a Right. She was there the day the Supremeos said so.
So what Right will be used then to overturn the Explicit Text of the Law?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (mP0Kj)
The right to shake your head from side to side and say "Oh no you dinnit."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:30 PM (KRtlO)
She treats SCOTUS like a trial court.
Seems about right.
And just think of all the other 700 district court judges out there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Kagan went directly from being a lawyer for the Obama administration to a Scotus judge.
Jackson was an DEI hire that specifically was because her sex was right, her race was right, and she would vote correctly for the Dems.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 03:30 PM (ctrM5)
"When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
""When I read a law,...."
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 03:31 PM (m5cDg)
Even if it WAS a human right, that does not mean that governments are compelled to endlessly subsidize them with taxpayer money. That this even has to be said is baffling to me. What's next for the Supreme Court, that peanut butter can be combined with jelly in a sandwich? What other blatantly obvious stupid crap has to be ruled on by a court???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:31 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: The Consitution at June 27, 2025 03:31 PM (0w7Of)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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For the most part, racism was used by the talented tenth as a crutch to end any argument with peer upper class groups in order to end arguments in their favor.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:30 PM (KRtlO)
well she doesn't know what a woman is either
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
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Oh, no, this is a big vanilla ice cream cone on a hot summer's day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (Mr3X0)
Jackson was an DEI hire that specifically was because her sex was right, her race was right, and she would vote correctly for the Dems.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 03:30 PM (ctrM5)
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Being the solicitor general's office prepares you for SCOTUS much better than wagging your finger around as judge in a district court.
Jackson very much was a DEI hire, explicitly done because of her race and sex, but her temperament does seem to be like queen bee of a district court rather than a SCOTUS jurist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Accomack at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (RBD82)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
Their terms are acceptable.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (ULPxl)
An amendment that only was adopted to fix the specific and unique issue of citizenship for freed slaves, and specifically included language to exclude other people and issues, obviously had nothing to do with creating "birthright citizenship". Obviously.
Yet the betting seems to be that the "judiciary" will legislate this absurd, destructive, and baseless right into existence.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)
Also keeps inner city blacks on the plantations and cowardly RINOs out of their hair.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (/U5Yz)
It's always hard to tell if a Bolshie is being deliberately obtuse or just natively stupid, or both.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (M0V4/)
Trump needs to appoint BEN ROETHLISBERGER to SCOTUS.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (M0V4/)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (/U5Yz)
Donut shops around dee cee emptied out?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: I'm a lawyer and I hate these subjective assholes with a passion at June 27, 2025 03:34 PM (fXFFd)
The legal history of "shall" in contract law is fascinating.
Spoiler: Do not use "shall" in a contract if you mean "must", even though shall always meant must until no doubt some leftard Wesley Crusher faggots got ahold of it to maneuver themselves out of some obvious requirement, claiming that the shall in the clause "Wesley shall do Y" is ambiguous and could mean "if he feels like it".
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:34 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 03:34 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (jc0TO)
I will admit that I was getting a little blasé about it but the last week or so has renewed my interest.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: China at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)
I doubt it. Most trans never change anything but their hair color. Its hard to do street fighing or jack off in girls restrooms if you cut yourself up or take the drugs.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: ace
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Understand this, when a certain type of person says "I don't understand" they are saying that as an accusation that "you are wrong and it is your responsibility to make me happy."
I have encountered this is many business meeting where they use those words as a sword and expect everyone to kneel before them and hand feed them the knowledge they need.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (m5cDg)
That's why so many hospitals are still doing child mutilation operations and dosing them with hormones despite states even outlawing it. Its billions of dollars a year. That's funding they will not give up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:30 PM (KRtlO)
______
"Yea, no shit. I told you that 40 years ago."
-- Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (v0R5T)
It's always hard to tell if a Bolshie is being deliberately obtuse or just natively stupid, or both.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (jc0TO)
It's a tactic. The more you make someone explain, the easier it is to find something you can pick apart later.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (Mr3X0)
Why must of it be vanilla?
Because you have internalized the structural racism that undergirds the machinery of the state.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (4/BuS)
lol at MSNBC headline, "Sotomayor gives blistering dissent."
Sure, that dissent really has Trump and the majority justices reaching for the salve.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:30 PM (KRtlO)
well she doesn't know what a woman is either
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)
I don't understand why everyone is picking on me today.
Signed,
Keturagina Brown People Rule Jackson
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (6PCLE)
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Geez. Tell me something I don't know.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (/U5Yz)
Donut shops around dee cee emptied out?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Gawd I hope so. Let the diabeeteaze win this time.
Posted by: China at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (/U5Yz)
It's a tell: The great pains the left is taking to hide these questions reveals they know it was never meant to naturalize children of illegal aliens.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 03:29 PM (GnVQ5)
Better, we have the text of a speech of the guy who wrote the 14th... because someone asked if Birthright citizenship would be the outcome... and he said no, because the Parents would not be Citizens of the US.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Carol Ann at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: illiniwek at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (vbXSk)
lol at MSNBC headline, "Sotomayor gives blistering dissent."
Sure, that dissent really has Trump and the majority justices reaching for the salve.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM (HuRzZ)
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Still better than a Twitchy headline.
"Sen. Kennedy DESTROYS witness about matter."
Witness continues to live and undermine rule of law despite being made fun of my LA Senator.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 03:37 PM (BGfwC)
Where there's a whip, there's a way.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (M0V4/)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I'M A MORAN THAT'S TAKEN TOO MANY HITS TO THE HEAD AND STILL SMARTER THAN JUDGE JUMANJI
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 27, 2025 03:38 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 03:38 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
......
We're going to need a bigger robe.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:38 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM
Cut. Jib. Newsletter?
Posted by: Jasmine from Dallas at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (0sNs1)
Just for fun, there's not much reason to think the society as a whole retains the capacity to respond, materially, to this dissolving civic culture.
Imagine the faces in the courtroom when a judge announces that the plain meaning of words in a contract or document don't mean what they plainly mean.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Carol Ann at June 27, 2025 03:36 PM
You'll choke on those words, honey.
Posted by: The Ghosts at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)
The text seems pretty clear.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (XV/Pl)
as I said, saying people go to PP for anything other than abortions is as a ridiculous lie as saying, "I only go to the liquor store to buy Cokes."
Just because PP pretends to offer other health-related services doesn't mean their only product is abortion.
"just a clump of cells" is not a cancer diagnosis.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (GnVQ5)
Go to the PP website. You know what word isn't used anywhere, on any page?
Cancer.
Closest thing is an afterthought page, buried about 4-5 clicks in, about referrals if you get an abnormal PAP test. As in, you have to get your PAP smear elsewhere and then you go to PP for a referral.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (y9nCu)
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Some anti-viral cream should clear that right up.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM
Cut. Jib. Newsletter?
Posted by: Jasmine from Dallas at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (0sNs1)
Apparently it does not lead to hit movies that make profits.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)
A lot of those guys have really toned down the Trump Derangement lately. I think its finally sinking in that their distaste for the man is shallow and silly and that he's DOING all the stuff they claimed they wanted done.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:40 PM (dfIr7)
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Commie CalvinLaw Corollary to Michael Anton's Celebration Parallax:
"THAT'S NOT The Law, but it's a GOOD thing that it NOW IS!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:41 PM (exeT2)
Vee must have structure!
Vee must haf order!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:41 PM (v0R5T)
Because when the text favors them they want to use the text, when it doesn't, they want to use penumbras. They are children. But they're not going anywhere.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:41 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:41 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: Said nobody not insane ever at June 27, 2025 03:42 PM (Hxfl9)
Not Popehat, he's even worse and crazier than ever. Don't take this single post as meaning anything. He's just making an observation that the Court is getting snarky.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:42 PM (KRtlO)
I'm having beer and edibles now.
There's a really cute girl at the cannibus store. Seems to like me.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 03:42 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 03:42 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)
Or TV series. Re: Ironheart and Acolyte.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 03:42 PM (zZu0s)
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Judicial nullification.
If that's not a term, it should be.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 03:42 PM (TN0g+)
Witness continues to live and undermine rule of law despite being made fun of my LA Senator.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Any headline like that is a no-click for me anymore. Well, except today when I want to do some hate-watching.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:42 PM (HuRzZ)
Vee must have structure!
Vee must haf order!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s)
"Jazz is musical wanking off"
-- The Commitments
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (8avO+)
San Francisco Bookstore Pulls 'Harry Potter' Books Over J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Views
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It's (D)ifferent when we do it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (m5cDg)
The derogatory term in biz meetings by managers use to be "Okay, now I'm confused..." - whose meaning was understood to be that whoever was presenting to them was an incoherent idiot that offended the manager's superior intellect.
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (BGfwC)
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM
Cut. Jib. Newsletter?
Posted by: Jasmine from Dallas at June 27, 2025 03:39 PM (0sNs1)
Apparently it does not lead to hit movies that make profits.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)
Viola Davis hardest hit.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (4/BuS)
Yeah, I used to read his stuff fairly regularly but he lost me when he went full NT to virtue signal.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (/y8xj)
Or TV shows for that matter. Ironheart literally uses black girl magic LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (dfIr7)
and how! when I said that people should use cancel methods against the cancelers, he argued we shouldn't. He didn't say that no one should use cancel tactics -- he thought the cancelers should use cancel tactics because they were acting good and pure, and that anyone who used cancel tactics against them would be a thug.
he offered no explanation for this, just a lot of insane passion, which frankly sounded chemically-enhanced to me
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (KRtlO)
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* Notorious RGB and her "Superior South African Constitution" have entered the post *
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:44 PM (exeT2)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:44 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 03:35 PM (m5cDg)
The derogatory term in biz meetings by managers use to be "Okay, now I'm confused..." - whose meaning was understood to be that whoever was presenting to them was an incoherent idiot that offended the manager's superior intellect.
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (BGfwC)
Usually at the very end of a meeting, which only due to my professionalism kept me from mayhem.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 03:44 PM (6PCLE)
As much as book stores are struggling, pulling some of the most popular books of all time seems counterproductive.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:44 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (KRtlO)
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*considers mentioning Prometheus*
*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*
*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
There's never really any payoff just endless noodling, sort of like a Phish concert.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:40 PM (8avO+)
Viola Davis hardest hit.
Oh that's the movie I thought of doing an AOS Movie Night group watch -- Viola Davis' "G20," where this dumpy 60 year old goes Die Hard on a bunch of white South African (of course) terrorists.
Is there interest in such a thing?
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:45 PM (KRtlO)
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* Notorious RGB and her "Superior South African Constitution" have entered the post *
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:44 PM (exeT2)
It sure is working out perfectly now. Unless you are a Boer farmer, in which case you are dead, or a non-Boer, in which case you will starve.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (8avO+)
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It's ALWAYS projection isn't it:
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AI Overview
The claim that Sarah Palin banned Harry Potter books is false.
During her time as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (1996-2002), rumors circulated that she had attempted to ban specific books from the local library, including some in the Harry Potter series.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (rCia8)
Oprah Winfrey, 71, stunned in a pink off-the-shoulder gown, as she showed off her slender figure.
Joshua Kushner's wife Karlie Kloss showed off her baby bump in an off-the-shoulder black gown and a choker.
Ivanka Trump stepped out with her husband Jared Kushner while wearing a stunning, heavily embellished pink strapless floral gown by Tony Ward, which also featured a thigh-baring slit.
Jordan's Queen Rania Al Abdullah looked stunning in an elegant wrap and gown in different shades of blue.
Kris Jenner looked glamorous in a black gown with billowing white sleeves and opted for a much younger hair style to complement the dress.
Khloe Kardashian trailed behind her famous mother in a pink gown, which featured with off-the-shoulder feathered sleeves a plunging neckline. She accessorized the wedding look with a pair of black sunglasses and a dazzling diamond necklace, along with a slick-back bun.
Posted by: AoSHQ Fashion Consultants at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (0sNs1)
There is a genre of jazz like that yeah, but its not all that way. Pet Metheny's stuff for example, or the classic Take Five with Brubaker. Jazz is almost as wide a genre as rock and roll, so its hard to pin down really.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:45 PM (XV/Pl)
As contrasted to some big band, which is ALL climax. It really has to get tiring playing some of those.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (zZu0s)
kind of like lesbian sex. there's just no clear end-point. There's no third act.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (KRtlO)
Oh that's the movie I thought of doing an AOS Movie Night group watch -- Viola Davis' "G20," where this dumpy 60 year old goes Die Hard on a bunch of white South African (of course) terrorists.
Is there interest in such a thing?
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:45 PM
Will there be a chat thingy?
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (jc0TO)
I’m looking forward to hearing about your new life. Please, you deserve a break, try to get to Corsicana in October. I’d love to give you a hug.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (y5yZ4)
Posted by: DPICM at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (M2VUX)
Posted by: ace
"Yea, no shit. I told you that 40 years ago."
-- Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
I understood that reference.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (DgGvY)
>>*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
IDK, I have no problem with Prometheus. Is it great? No? But it's not bad either.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (omVj0)
Question: Does Jumanji understand the difference between precedent and President?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (KRtlO)
Chlorophyll?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (rCia8)
>>*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
IDK, I have no problem with Prometheus. Is it great? No? But it's not bad either.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (XV/Pl)
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I suppose this is my fault.
I must admit that I had considered mentioning it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)
Oh that's the movie I thought of doing an AOS Movie Night group watch -- Viola Davis' "G20," where this dumpy 60 year old goes Die Hard on a bunch of white South African (of course) terrorists.
Is there interest in such a thing?
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:45 PM (KRtlO)
Not the one starring the Daisy Ridley as a commando window washer?? Die Hard in London.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)
(re the birthright citizenship thing)
MSNBC asks in alarm, "What does this mean to the pregnant immigrant women who are part of this lawsuit???"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (HuRzZ)
I don’t call it sus: I call it confirmation!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (NWqJf)
(re the birthright citizenship thing)
MSNBC asks in alarm, "What does this mean to the pregnant immigrant women who are part of this lawsuit???"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (HuRzZ)
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That ICE is gonna pick em up and send them to South Sudan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
@CNviolations 10m
Imagine hating Tesla while they’re out here throwing full-on EDM concerts with their cars 😂
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (mlg/3)
This is how leftist judges work. Let’s imagine congress passed this law or that law. Let’s imagine we can read the minds of people who died 200 years ago and interpret what they really meant not what they wrote down on paper.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (URRXY)
kind of like lesbian sex. there's just no clear end-point. There's no third act.
Posted by: ace
As long-time readers know, this is a professional opinion.
Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (DgGvY)
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Her proper name is "The Paul Ryan endorsed Ketanji Brown-Jackson", PRE KBJ.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (xQgv5)
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (exeT2)
Oprah Winfrey, 71, stunned in a pink off-the-shoulder gown, as she showed off her slender figure.
Joshua Kushner's wife Karlie Kloss showed off her baby bump in an off-the-shoulder black gown and a choker.
Ivanka Trump stepped out with her husband Jared Kushner while wearing a stunning, heavily embellished pink strapless floral gown by Tony Ward, which also featured a thigh-baring slit.
Jordan's Queen Rania Al Abdullah looked stunning in an elegant wrap and gown in different shades of blue.
Kris Jenner looked glamorous in a black gown with billowing white sleeves and opted for a much younger hair style to complement the dress.
Khloe Kardashian trailed behind her famous mother in a pink gown, which featured with off-the-shoulder feathered sleeves a plunging neckline. She accessorized the wedding look with a pair of black sunglasses and a dazzling diamond necklace, along with a slick-back bun.
Posted by: AoSHQ Fashion Consultants at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (0sNs1)
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Somebody used a thesaurus
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (VE6XX)
I've noticed a growing number of younger employees who think when I make the judgement for them to do something (and do it well) that it is technically my opinion of what needs to be done and may not match up with their own "omnipotent" views and, therefore, open to discussion.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM
I hate each and every character in it. Well, maybe not Chin and that other assistant pilot, but mainly because they don't do anything.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (jc0TO)
>>kind of like lesbian sex. there's just no clear end-point. There's no third act.
You would think two chicks would be able to rock the G-Spot, which, may or may not be a real thing, based on the fact that you never really hear lesbians go on and on about how amazing lesbian "sex" is.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (VE6XX)
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Is she black and aligned with the left?
I'm surprised it's not a war crime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)
spoke several times at RadFest, an annual gathering of communists, socialists, and progressive activists in Madison, Wisconsin;
supports illegal immigration and a path to citizenship;
strongly opposes Voter ID laws;
supports affirmative action, the DREAM Act, Head Start, regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, ban on offshore oil drilling, destruction of all American nuclear weapons, reduction in the U.S. defense budget, closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center and tax hikes on high-income households;
is a strong supporter of “Palestine”;
introduced legislation to abolish ICE;
defends the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel;
voted for multimillionaire lifelong communist Bernie Sanders in 2020, and
walked out of President Trump’s address to Congress in March, 2025 while Trump was speaking.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (2GCMq)
There's never really any payoff just endless noodling, sort of like a Phish concert.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Jazz, like baroque music, seems more an exercise in applied mathematics. Melody be damned, it's all about the tempo and weird chords. It's Newton as opposed to Shakespeare.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (rCia
Might just have been that the last three books didn't FIT IN THE LIBRARY
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (8avO+)
I’m looking forward to hearing about your new life. Please, you deserve a break, try to get to Corsicana in October. I’d love to give you a hug.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (y5yZ4)
Have I mentioned this will be the *tenth* TX MoMee???
*side-eyes Ace*
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (VE6XX)
Well it can't be sexist.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (rCia8)
Who's clerking for her?
There are hundreds of Democrats in office with baby-sitters to walk them through the process and write what they say, but she doesn't seem to have this going for her.
A staff of DEI black girls from Harvard Law?
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (j4U/Z)
The text seems pretty clear.
2A case law is another example of legislatures and lower courts selectively ignoring the parts of SCOTUS rulings that they don't like. In particular, Heller and Bruen emphasized the actual text but so far Roberts seems unwilling to put teeth behind the words.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (2GCMq)
I’m looking forward to hearing about your new life. Please, you deserve a break, try to get to Corsicana in October. I’d love to give you a hug.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (y5yZ
Thanks so much nurse.
I will be travelling at some point to collect that hug.
This is the third time this year I thought the house was settled. But everything is signed. I'm still nervous until the house is mine.
But early beer!
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (Riz8t)
Joe Biden = Precedent
Donald Trump = President.
Mansplained.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: PG at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (afPT4)
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You think it's 'not bad' to have your liver torn out every day? I gave you fire and this is what I get.
Posted by: Prometheus at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)
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Wait - isn't that "The Cleaner?" And I thought that was Kiera Knightly in the lead, but you're right, it is Daisy. They look a lot alike.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (bNf8H)
Ketjani is using extrajudicial unwritten text and language to assist her in upholding or denying any kind of conservative outcome that does not follow the liberal line.
She is dangerous and her idiocy is clear. Judges interpret the law. They do not make it.
Posted by: Czech Chick at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:48 PM (HuRzZ)
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They have to have corks installed in their hoohas until the matter is resolved.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 03:52 PM (VE6XX)
@ArthurReturnss
First time I've seen the phrase, “Wait for it” in a SCOTUS ruling.
What is she writing, a judicial dissent, or an article for MSNBC?
Jackson dissent: "Instead, to the majority, the power hungry actors are......wait for it.....the district courts."
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 03:52 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Ace at 03:10 PM
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She explained this, as "boring legalese". She's history brought to life-- our first cosplay Justice.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 03:52 PM (xQgv5)
Posted by: ace
Are you sure you've seen enough of it? I can definitely come up with three lesbian acts.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:52 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (VE6XX)
Well it can't be sexist.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (rCia
It *could* be, but most people can't tell.
Posted by: are you a biologist??? at June 27, 2025 03:52 PM (ULPxl)
My cousin told me that his 8 yr. old son has replied that way to him when he gives guidance to him.
I be like: Oh yes, son, would you like to see MY opinion??
it'll be written on the sole of my foot which is now in ya azz
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (dCxaZ)
Cue up opening scene of Blues Brothers, Akroyd and Belushi driving through the mall, smashing the f**k out of everything: "hey, they've got some good sales going on here".
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (ZlKnD)
Jeff Bezos on honeymoon rushed to hospital after Viagra overdose.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (KRtlO)
That's why they call him Dopehat...
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (BGfwC)
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I saw that the former USNS Harvey Milk is now the USNS Oscar V. Peterson. I thought, we're naming ships after jazz pianist now? Turns out, it's a different Oscar Peterson, a MOH awardee from the Battle of the Coral Sea.
https://is.gd/d51Rsp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (L/fGl)
The ultimate problem with Jazz music is it doesn't really resolve itself, everyone just gets tired of playing and it just sort of ends or fades out.
There's never really any payoff just endless noodling, sort of like a Phish concert.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Depends on the artist, a few of them know how to properly end a song. But yeah, most of them are like you described.
The worst are pasty white blues guitarists working the local bar. If you walk in before the band starts up, look for the white bearded guy wearing a fedora with his Aloha shirt, jeans and running shoes. That's the guitarist. And I guarantee that you'll hear him introduce at least 3 songs as "lets play a blues in G" before doing a 15 minute medium speed shuffle.
The rest of the set will be bad covers of SRV tunes.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (y9nCu)
he was an insane hypernarcissist cunt before Trump
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (KRtlO)
>>kind of like lesbian sex. there's just no clear end-point. There's no third act.
You would think two chicks would be able to rock the G-Spot, which, may or may not be a real thing, based on the fact that you never really hear lesbians go on and on about how amazing lesbian "sex" is.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (XV/Pl)
Some it just seems like bad aping of heterosexual sex. Strap-ons, rubber dicks ... why not just be straight? To quote a well-known constitutional authority, "I just don't understand."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (4/BuS)
What is she writing, a judicial dissent, or an article for MSNBC?
Jackson dissent: "Instead, to the majority, the power hungry actors are......wait for it.....the district courts."
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 03:52 PM (G0vdT)
I saw some zingers in the Texas Appeals Court When SCOTUS stole it from them on 41 minutes notice to make a bonehead ruling a month or two ago.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)
he was an insane hypernarcissist cunt before Trump
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:53 PM (KRtlO)
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Yeah, but he could paint a whole apartment in one afternoon.
Two coats!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (KRtlO)
There's a vid out there of Scalia and Breyer discussing this and other stuff on stage at a law school somewhere. Breyer's argument is that he's trying to solve a problem and if there's a solution in foreign law, isn't it best to find the right solution rather than be bound by law and precedent?
Scalia isn't having it. IIRC, Scalia points out that if it isn't in precedent or text, it isn't the right answer because power doesn't rest with the judge, it rests with the people, and is expressed in the text. Reaching beyond the scope of the people is a usurpation of their Sovereignty.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (pIfcn)
Yes... So happy for you...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 03:52 PM
Thank you!
And Thank God so much. Lost my brother but I'm fine with that.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Prometheus at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)
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At least you lived an interesting life. I did nothing to anyone or for no one, and in punishment I push the same damn rock around every day.
Posted by: Sisyphus at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (xQgv5)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (UjdFS)
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Very nice Steely Dan lyrical reference right there!
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (tepKG)
There are hundreds of Democrats in office with baby-sitters to walk them through the process and write what they say, but she doesn't seem to have this going for her.
A staff of DEI black girls from Harvard Law?
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The assumption here is that Jackson can read, comprehend and all the other things that a supreme court justice should be able to do.
She can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (Q4IgG)
All of them are cowards.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (ugig9)
Posted by: Prometheus at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)
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At least you lived an interesting life. I did nothing to anyone or for no one, and in punishment I push the same damn rock around every day.
Posted by: Sisyphus at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (xQgv5)
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I had a vision of Hell a few days ago that was nothing but blackness and a really intense sore throat.
I had a sore throat in the middle of the night and thought I might be dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (NWqJf)
Two coats!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
The Earl Scheib of interior latex?
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (BGfwC)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (1Gsou)
*I* hired her, fat!
Posted by: Brandon at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE
It's his loss, not yours.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Two coats!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
The Earl Scheib of interior latex?
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (BGfwC)
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And such a wonderful dancer!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 03:56 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 03:47 PM
I hate each and every character in it. Well, maybe not Chin and that other assistant pilot, but mainly because they don't do anything.
Posted by: toby928
.....
Charlize Theron does a great June Bug impression.
In the dirt.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 03:57 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:57 PM (iFTx/)
I unironically always like your film reviews, ACE and there's certainly a lot to have fun with in that movie.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (ITkJX)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:57 PM (iFTx/)
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Better call Saul.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
So Trump's EO ending birthright citizenship goes into effect 30 days from now and lasts until SCOTUS's decision on it comes down probably June 2026?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (NXz8h)
There are hundreds of Democrats in office with baby-sitters to walk them through the process and write what they say, but she doesn't seem to have this going for her.
A staff of DEI black girls from Harvard Law?
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (j4U/Z)
Dumb people hire people even dumber to be the smartest one in the room.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
You say that like it's a bad thing.
-- Jeff Bezos' rockets
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (NXz8h)
Both of these may well be true.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (NXz8h)
Both of these may well be true.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:59 PM (8avO+)
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BURN!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
Thomas has mentioned the problem a few times in dissents or commentary.
Redundant confirmation of how ridiculous things are.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:59 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Accomack at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (RBD82)
https://tinyurl.com/2wpk368n
Posted by: Zombie Casey Kasem, voting Democrat since '14 at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
Not if you need your bedroom painted by a guy that knows the rumba
Posted by: Boswell at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (BGfwC)
Posted by: mrp
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I like that one. Might have to borrow it!
Posted by: scampydog at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (1Gsou)
I'd LOVE to see a Civil Rights lawsuit about this. She was clearly hired based on Race and Sex, they even admitted it multiple times.
Now, it is against Federal Law to hire on the basis of Race or Sex... and the Supremes just said that indeed, reverse Racism is still Racism.
I don't see the usual crap of either Congress, nor the President, being exempt from this law.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (mP0Kj)
It's Prometheus all the way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 03:49 PM (VE6XX)
Well it can't be sexist.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (rCia
Yeah, that's another point upon which she is unclear. What IS a woman, after all?
Of course, the 'ettes know what a woman is. And you'd better believe it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Prometheus at June 27, 2025 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)
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At least you lived an interesting life. I did nothing to anyone or for no one, and in punishment I push the same damn rock around every day.
Posted by: Sisyphus at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (xQgv5)
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Dude, you fucked Zeus. That never ends well. Ask Prometheus.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (jc0TO)
Previous thread, you got to be a special kind of asshole to kick a beagle. Fuck that arab asshole.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 04:01 PM (xcxpd)
My take on her is she arrived here not from a learned and considered philosophical position but more from a lifetime of rote indoctrination of progressive/communist mob ideology
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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You give her more credit than I do. My take on her is that she's full of personal grudges and class resentment and she doesn't understand the concept of individual rights.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:01 PM (HuRzZ)
June 18th, I ordered a pair of Pit Vipers for the youngest (they're all the rage with baseball kids, and he paid for them with his vast savings), and it took a full week before they began the shipping journey.
They have bounced around the various source locations at the source locale for about two and a half days now.
By comparison, what famous journey lasted only 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, and 35 seconds?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:01 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:00 PM (jc0TO)
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Including a judgment that both lawyers have to pay each other's legal fees.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 04:01 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:01 PM (i24o9)
It's Prometheus all the way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Paths of Glory is the best Kubrick movie.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sisyphus at June 27, 2025 03:55 PM (xQgv5)
Did nothing? You ratted out Zeus, dude.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (8avO+)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on June 25 rejected a request to reconsider the state's congressional maps ahead of next year's midterm elections, all but ensuring the current maps will remain in place for 2026.
The liberal-controlled court's decision, which was made without comment from the justices, marked the second time in the past two years that the court has rejected a push from Democrats to change the battleground state's federal maps. It is a loss for Democrats who sought more favorable lines as they aim to retake control of the House in 2026.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (Dv3i1)
It's Prometheus all the way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Paths of Glory is the best Kubrick movie.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
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Watch something new.
Watch Ozu.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
I tried to replace the keyboard in my work laptop (I have typed the letters off a couple keys, and when it gets hot several letters stop working in the top row).
The problem is, this model of Inspiron you have to literally remove all the components to get to the keyboard, and in the process of attempting to do so (and failing, another story) I had to unplug the wireless card, about the size of a postage stamp.
Well, one of the leads to the card will not click back in. Cannot be reattached. So its dead and the computer is relying on some really crappy onboard wireless and its godafwul. So sometimes it takes me like 5 minutes to respond to anything here which on this board is a lifetime.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:03 PM (dfIr7)
The funny thing is Biden promised a Black Woman.
He got a Black person who can't confirm or deny the implication that her vagina might just meet the secondary qualification.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 04:03 PM (ASFuz)
There, everybody happy?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 04:03 PM (5U30T)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Harvard's Finest there, everybody.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (/y8xj)
Are you fucking kidding me. This can’t be real.
Please tell me Bozo the Clown wrote this. It’s so unserious and lacking in an absolute understanding of the entire history and body of law it has to be written as satire
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (7aBC6)
Thomas has mentioned the problem a few times in dissents or commentary.
Redundant confirmation of how ridiculous things are.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 03:59 PM (1m82a)
But then when the Cases get to the Supermoes, they don't take the next case to reaffirm the 2nd.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (mP0Kj)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
I hate agreeing with this twink
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (xcxpd)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
We're on the same page.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Ketanji Affirmative Action Jackson at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (v0R5T)
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Apparently, a few years ago there was a show on HBO entitled Cathouse that featured a very rainbows and unicorns view of the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. Now there's a show, Secrets of the Bunny Ranch, that shows a more honest view of whoring. A recent episode featured Mr. Khloe Kardashian (Lamar Odom) and his problems at the Bunny Ranch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (L/fGl)
David Hogg
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Looks like David knows his history.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (HuRzZ)
There are hundreds of Democrats in office with baby-sitters to walk them through the process and write what they say, but she doesn't seem to have this going for her.
A staff of DEI black girls from Harvard Law?
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 03:50 PM (j4U/Z)
Dumb people hire people even dumber to be the smartest one in the room.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:58 PM (8avO+)
As a one-time lowly law clerk for a district court judge ... keep in mind that law clerks are literal know-nothings. The ones who clerk for the supremes, their experience usually consists of a court of appeals clerkship. They are young and inexperienced. The only thing they bring to the table is credentials, which once translated to high intelligence and academic accomplishment, but we've seen what has happened to credentialism. Law clerks are basically just a laboring oar for the judge; if the judge doesn't have his or her act together, their law clerks aren't going to be able to keep the judge upright.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (4/BuS)
Because when the text favors them they want to use the text, when it doesn't, they want to use penumbras. They are children. But they're not going anywhere.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:41 PM (rCia
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It all depends upon whose box is being whored.
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 04:05 PM (exeT2)
For the Dems, the last 30 days must feel like
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 04:05 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 04:05 PM (FZn/N)
It's Prometheus all the way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Paths of Glory is the best Kubrick movie.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
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Watch something new.
Watch Ozu.
_____
Also recommend Yasujiro Ozu. And Kubrick's "The Killing."
Posted by: Ghoulposts at June 27, 2025 04:05 PM (qUkBO)
You keep a poker face in the courtroom so you don’t get stricken from the jury. You keep a poker in the jury room and say “I just don’t see it,” as you determinedly vote to overthrow the judge’s perversion of law.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 04:05 PM (NWqJf)
For those playing, Apollo 11 Trip to the moon. And back.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (i24o9)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (ULPxl)
So, appointing people based on DEI, rather than experience and qualifications has consequences. Who knew?
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (0Htd1)
Reminder: the reason David Hogg is saying Fuck Mitch McConnell is... Justice Merrick Garland.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (1m82a)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
___________
"We wrote a song about this"
-- Meatloaf
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (iFTx/)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
I hate agreeing with this twink
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (xcxpd)
It isn't just a checklist?
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
That's a lot of people. Sounds like the little penis head is going to be busy.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (1Gsou)
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Chafing?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (Dv3i1)
- - - . - - -
This is historic.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (Mr3X0)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (i24o9)
Well, yeah, but they didn't take any pit vipers to the moon. Duh.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (1Gsou)
...
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
I'm unsure Mitch can legally consent to that anymore.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (dfIr7)
Totally get around to reviewing your Second Amendment rights one day, then deliver a mealy mouthed usurpation of them. Until then, enjoy the tyranny, peasants.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 04:08 PM (7aBC6)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 04:02 PM (NpAcC)
I hate agreeing with this twink
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (xcxpd)
It isn't just a checklist?
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)
*sobs*
Posted by: Tim Walz at June 27, 2025 04:08 PM (ULPxl)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Harvard's Finest there, everybody.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 04:04 PM (/y8xj)
Hogg cracks me up right now.
The Democrat party is a Legal organization, and cannot by Law discriminate based on Sex or Race.
Hogg was clearly, by their own rules, fired from a paying position based on his Sex and Race. He has a CLEAR cause of action, and can show harm.
He could own the Democrat party... I'd have to buy stock in Orville Redenbockers popcorn Company...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM (mP0Kj)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
I wonder if his testicles have dropped yet.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM (jc0TO)
Conservative states can now de-fund abortion and make it less accessible, while liberal states will continue to fund, promote and celebrate abortion.
End result will be that most pregnancies in liberal states will end in the death of the fetus, while most pregnancies in conservative states will conclude with the birth of a live child.
That child will then be raised in a conservative household, where the values, morals and voting patterns of the parents will tend to be carried forward by the children.
End result: Population growth amongst conservatives, population decline amongst liberals. And that leads to more conservative members of congress, which means most conservative presidential electors every four years.
Short version: Sayonara, Democratic Party.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (dfIr7)
its about double m/f couples
men / men is about half of m/f
speaks for itself.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)
The Democrat party is a Legal organization, and cannot by Law discriminate based on Sex or Race.
Hogg was clearly, by their own rules, fired from a paying position based on his Sex and Race. He has a CLEAR cause of action, and can show harm.
He could own the Democrat party... I'd have to buy stock in Orville Redenbockers popcorn Company...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM
I figure they could claim a religious exception.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:10 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM (pMi6S)
They get Dems by indoctrination now anyway.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)
Did Justice Jackson say this using jazz hands?
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 04:10 PM (7aBC6)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Indian customers, innocently say, but I don't understand.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 04:10 PM (Mr3X0)
thanks, I'll check it out.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 04:10 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: ace
I'm sorry you know that and I didn't.
Posted by: MkY at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (cPGH3)
She treats SCOTUS like a trial court.
Seems about right.
And just think of all the other 700 district court judges out there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ship is overthinking this. Hacktion Jackson was always gonna be exactly what she is -- a radical leftwing screeching idiot -- no matter how much experience she had at the appellate level. In a way, I admire her. I wish we conservatives can find the conservative version of her; someone who will 100% of the time rule the way we want, no matter what.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (dfIr7)
I did architectural work for a lesbian couple in WI. By the time drawings were complete, they had split up, and wanted the project to go to a couple of their lesbian friends. Who immediately demanded everything change with the design. Then they called the cops on each other after bludgeoning themselves during a fight...
These were the same two peaches who didn't want doors on the bathrooms even though they were raising "their" little boy in that house.
I guess being complete unbalanced about life in general leads to domestic abuse. Who'd a thunk?
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (1U8ba)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (iFTx/)
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Maybe. Probably.
I just thought it was an interesting look at how district court judges operate vs. the higher levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
*paddles furiously away*
Posted by: Duck in a pond at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (PMtkd)
June 18th, I ordered a pair of Pit Vipers for the youngest (they're all the rage with baseball kids, and he paid for them with his vast savings), and it took a full week before they began the shipping journey.
They have bounced around the various source locations at the source locale for about two and a half days now.
***
"Hold my beer," says Federal Express. I ordered a couple of filters for my vacuum from the Bissell website on 6/16. They were handed to FedEx on 6/17 . . . and have sat in the FE hub for *ten days*. I can't get in touch with FedEx without jumping through "create an account" hoops, so I've told Bissell, either find out what's going on, or refund my money. An email today from Bissell acknowledges and apologizes, but nothing substantial has happened yet.
If I don't get the stuff by Monday, I'm demanding a refund, or going to my credit card company. Pretty sure I can get the parts on Amazon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:06 PM (i24o9)
Well, yeah, but they didn't take any pit vipers to the moon. Duh.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (1Gsou)
who do you think stayed in the Command Module?
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (uWKK
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Doesn't really have his trademarks, so it's not as immediately obvious as something after he refined his style.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)
Are we talking real-life lesbians or film lesbians?
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 04:10 PM (7aBC6)
How I love ya how I love ya...
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 04:13 PM (rCia8)
I know why I am, but why is he?
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (PMtkd)
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Because he kept Garland off the court, giving us Gorsuch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Oldcat
Any word in the AoS style guide that when commenting on a SCOTUS thread, 'res ipsa loquitur' is the preferred usage?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Were there 110 other David Hoggs on Twitter before he signed up, or did he forget to hold down the Shift key when typing the last three letters of his desired username?
Posted by: far cry at June 27, 2025 04:13 PM (HzIEO)
men / men is about half of m/f
speaks for itself.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM (8avO+)
After what I saw in Madison, I think the men just move on, while the women are perpetually pissed off and take it out on each other. Either way, thinking that "gay marriage" was going to work out was purely wishful thinking.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (1Gsou)
I'll take another win though.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (/U5Yz)
You do understand that Supreme Court justices are not immortal? Neither living forever supported by the simple force of law, or undead liches that are doomed to forever haunt the halls of the Supreme Court building until such time that someone finds and destroys the phylactery?
I mean, we had our suspicions about Ruth Bader Ginsberg, what with her incredible athletic ability and her odd choice in collars . . . . But no, not even her. Probably.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:07 PM (dfIr7)
I did architectural work for a lesbian couple in WI. By the time drawings were complete, they had split up, and wanted the project to go to a couple of their lesbian friends. Who immediately demanded everything change with the design. Then they called the cops on each other after bludgeoning themselves during a fight...
These were the same two peaches who didn't want doors on the bathrooms even though they were raising "their" little boy in that house.
I guess being complete unbalanced about life in general leads to domestic abuse. Who'd a thunk?
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:11 PM (1Gsou)
________
Very high use of hard drugs in the lesbian community. Not as much as gay men, but it's close.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (iFTx/)
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Bondi kept saying it'll be decided in October.
Note: These injunctions were to stop the Administration from even developing or studying how to implement the EO.
Not "end birthright citizenship" but "review policies and develop plans to implement the end of birthright citizenship."
That's what made them insane--no one was harmed because nothing was actually DONE yet.
But "could be harmed by even studying it" was enough to grant a nationwide injunction.
That is also a big, huge tell as to what the 14th actually meant.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (GnVQ5)
Hearing “Take Five” on the original 1959 recording by the Dave Brubeck Trio is marvelous! Hearing it played the 100,000th time in an uninspired rendition by some cover band is, yes, noodling!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (NWqJf)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
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Ah, yes, thank you.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:10 PM (jc0TO)
If they admit they are a religion, with religious tests for Office... that means they are not a Political Party...
/pops more popcorn
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2025 04:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 04:15 PM (rCia8)
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40 years ago, I read an article about some black educators conference or something at which one presenter argued that illiteracy is good, mmmmkay?, because if something is written down you can't change it when circumstances change. I was shocked.
It was a simpler time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 04:15 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 04:16 PM (v0R5T)
@davidhogg111
Fuck the Supreme Court.
Fuck the Federalist Society.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
It was way funnier when Mel Brooks did this as King Louis XVI:
Knight jumps queen!
Bishop jumps queen!
Pawns jump queen!
*Gangbang*!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 27, 2025 04:16 PM (wVcYX)
So they have to show all their work, and stuff, when deciding how much to repeal or amend clear constitutional language.
So things will be fine.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: ace
I thought it went; rock, paper, scissors ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Tim Walz at June 27, 2025 04:08 PM (ULPxl)
So happy you could take a moment away from doing random cup checks at the little league to weigh in.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (f+HOd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (omVj0)
I gave up on shipping up here years ago. About half of what I can order online says they don't ship to a PO Box in Alaska, or they just plain don't ship to Alaska. It's odd, because a USPS flat rate box is the same price up here as anywhere else. Then there are whole manufacturers who won't ship to Alaska, odd ones like Smartwool Socks and IKEA. Those are no-go. Some stuff from Home Depot won't ship here, but you can arrange a drop-ship deal from Seattle. They really don't believe we are a real state.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (1Gsou)
x.com/visegrad24/status/1938679973176373652
BREAKING:
7 people shot in the French city of Nîmes.
The suspect hasn’t been caught yet. The police warn people to remain indoors.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (gKWVE)
There is a saxophone player who did a cover of the terrific 80s song Golden Brown by mixing it into Take Five, and its amazing. I recommend looking it up, I cannot get Youtube to load well enough to get a link. Youtube is a HUGE bandwidth hog
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Not only no, but hell no.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (O8bOp)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (omVj0)
They got that part right, one day to pick up.
It took a whole week just to pick up, and now it's knocking around in Atlanta somewhere.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:19 PM (i24o9)
Remember, the problem is some stuff, some equipment, and some structures.
Not the regime.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:19 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM
I figured it was stacked appliances.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ace
Domestic violence is the third act.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (O8bOp)
PP aren't closing 40 shops if they thought that was gonna happen.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)
Redundant confirmation of how ridiculous things are.
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The opening of the majority opinion is a bunch of cites to all the times the conservative justices have said "these nationwide injunctions are a problem."
A lot of "I told you so." "yeah, you told us so."
No, it does not bode well for the left in future terms.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM (1Gsou)
One of my brothers bought a Ulu knife in Skagway and they shipped it to his address in Texas. It took about 7 days.
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM
I figured it was stacked appliances.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (jc0TO)
I thought it was lazy susans and murphy beds.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM
They're getting pregnant just to have an abortion?
That's dedication.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (1m82a)
Remember, the problem is some stuff, some equipment, and some structures.
Not the regime.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:19 PM (1m82a)
They wouldn't need that if we'd missed like they said.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 04:18 P
The fetus cookies they'll sell at bake sale fundraisers will be in very poor taste.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (jvJvP)
I wasn't aware that lesbians were doing drugs however. I'd thought mostly what they abuse was food. That you can see when they're waddling around.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (NWqJf)
___
Chafing?
Posted by: Chuck Martel
He ODed on coke while enjoying the amenities of the Bunny Ranch and nearly died.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (i24o9)
That's because you don't know the source material.
The Standards generally have lyrics and melodies that you need to know to understand the Solos / 'noodling'.
Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2025 04:22 PM (ASFuz)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (jvJvP)
Shiplap, subway tile, and barn doors? Or am I behind the times. I haven't watched any home renovation shows for years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 04:17 PM
I figured it was stacked appliances.
Posted by: toby928
.....
I thought it was open concept and granite counter tops.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (v0R5T)
Remember, the problem is some stuff, some equipment, and some structures.
Not the regime.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 04:19 PM (1m82a)
And wouldn't YOU love to be put on the "recover the 480 kilos of enriched Uranium that is somewhere in that hole" detail?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 04:23 PM (D7oie)
Doesn't really have his trademarks, so it's not as immediately obvious as something after he refined his style.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)
At least Tarantino was smart enough to steal 90% of his early schtick from The Killing rather than from the more recognizable Kubrick films.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 27, 2025 04:24 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Said nobody not insane ever at June 27, 2025 03:24 PM (Hxfl9)
Genociding black Americans via abortion has been a huge cash cow. Zombie Margaret Sanger rubs here hands in glee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 04:26 PM (f+HOd)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 04:27 PM (rvwwT)
Redundant confirmation of how ridiculous things are.
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The opening of the majority opinion is a bunch of cites to all the times the conservative justices have said "these nationwide injunctions are a problem."
A lot of "I told you so." "yeah, you told us so."
No, it does not bode well for the left in future terms.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 04:20 PM (GnVQ5)
or the courts. Look, Roberts needs to just assert a disciplinary procedure for negating these nonsense TROs, like having them instant rejected by appeals or the supreme court judge if they defy a SCOTUS decision or settled law. If he did that and said 'this is how it is now' Congress probably would go along with it.
The massive abuse of the 'random judge selection' is also a scandal that should be rubbed out.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:28 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 27, 2025 04:32 PM (5pAEw)
Khloe Kardashian trailed behind her famous mother in a pink gown, which featured with off-the-shoulder feathered sleeves a plunging neckline. She accessorized the wedding look with a pair of black sunglasses and a dazzling diamond necklace, along with a slick-back bun.
Posted by: AoSHQ Fashion Consultants at June 27, 2025 03:46 PM (0sNs1)
Ignored again! (kicks rock)
Posted by: Caitlynn Jenner at June 27, 2025 04:38 PM (qqgHw)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 04:39 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 04:18 PM (O8bOp)
With their own money?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (BfydD)
men / men is about half of m/f
speaks for itself.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 04:09 PM
So, proportional to the quantity of 'f'?
Posted by: AoSHQ Fashion Consultants at June 27, 2025 04:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wild Bill at June 27, 2025 05:04 PM (9d9wz)
Posted by: 370H55V I/me/mine at June 27, 2025 05:04 PM (2CJyG)
I think I've spotted the real problem here.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 27, 2025 05:05 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 27, 2025 06:21 PM (wGqjj)
Trump Readies "Maryland Man" Abrego-Garcia for Deportation to Third Country
Here's a break from Supreme Court rulings. Kind of.
I don't see how a lowly district court judge can block this -- he has multiple deportation orders against him. His legal claim last time was that he could not be deported to his home country of El Salvador, because he feared he might be killed by a gang there. Because... he had murdered the mother of a man in a rival gang. Trump is getting ready to deport him to a third-party nation. What contrivances and convolutions will communist traitor judges use to keep in in the US this time?
The Trump administration said it would send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador, to an unnamed "third country" as part of its renewed effort to deport him, multiple outlets reported on Thursday. The big picture: The Trump administration has included deportations to non-origin countries in its immigration policy with permission from the Supreme Court. Catch up quick: Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. earlier this month, and the Justice Department was ordered to release him from prison in Tennessee while he awaited trial. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw said on Wednesday that Abrego Garcia is likely to eventually be deported to El Salvador, where he's originally from. Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty to allegedly smuggling undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Zoom in: "Our plan is that he will be taken into ICE custody and removal proceedings will be initiated," Jonathan Guynn, deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ's civil division, told the court on Thursday, per NOTUS. "To El Salvador or a third country?" U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis asked. "To a third country is my understanding," he responded. ... A Justice Department spokesperson also said Abrego Garcia "will not walk free in our country again."Oh and another cultural-enriching cancer-curing Maryland Man is getting deported:
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:12 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Mongo at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (Ef4Ak)
Posted by: Former Mass. Resident at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (apNVD)
Posted by: Sex Duck at June 27, 2025 02:14 PM (4/BuS)
I can't tell if this is a barrel thing or not.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 02:14 PM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Mongo at June 27, 2025 02:14 PM (Ef4Ak)
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ugh, that again. he was wrongfully not deported, and then wrongfully brought back because the imperial Judiciary was not yet slapped across the face by the USSC.
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (g47mK)
Trump's lawyers filed back saying, "Sure. Keep him there. He's going once we're done with him one way or the other."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (wVcYX)
Deport that fuck straight back to where he came from. And if he is caught here again, summary execution.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (Gmq6N)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (LxER7)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Mongo at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (Ef4Ak)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (LxER7)
it's assaulting an officer.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (Hkcdp)
{tears off mask} "It's old man Mohammed!! I KNEW it!!"
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
How long had that fvcking dog kicker been in the country? I hope he'd been here a looong time and will sorely miss the standard of living to which he had become accustomed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Dr. Fauci at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (TbWk/)
Pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Wally at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (1jdOx)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (Gmq6N)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (2UnvF)
I can't tell if this is a barrel thing or not.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 02:14 PM (PzXaK)
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Upcoming SCOTUS decision: Failing to announce FIRST! for the initial comment of a thread on AoSHQ is an embarrelling offence.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (7fElN)
I mean that's kind of what the 2nd amendment says.
And about the child molesting human trafficker who was looking for child porn? Last I heard a judge ruled that he HAD to be released. Obama appointee District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, to be precise. Probably weeping in his Lucky Charms now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (dfIr7)
The narrative is that he got deported because he had a JD Vance meme (bald, red lipstick, wide eyes) on his phone.
DHS responded saying, "No, he was denied entry because he admits to drug use."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)
Period.
It makes the media upset, which is even better. Does anyone ever ask those clowns what they do when they re-enter the country? What, do THEY walk past CBP, ignoring them?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (vm8sq)
Kicking dogs is part of Muslim culture, and we can't interfere with his customs and beliefs, that would be racist.
Freddy should've jumped out of the way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM
To get his case out of Maryland.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (jc0TO)
Um, then what are they doing HERE?!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (Eng1Z)
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hear me now and believe me later: there are people in a conference room right now putting a TRO together
these people are relentless
$10 says some judge enjoins Trump for something by midnight PDT
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 02:19 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 02:19 PM (kgE5c)
They had put in an automatic TRO service by call in.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: LizLem
......
And trying to stop duck sex? Just plain mean.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (od0dV)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (Hkcdp)
Because many people ACHE for America to have its own little Quebec, or to be like Belgium.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (vm8sq)
FIFY
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (074d0)
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (n2swS)
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Very honestly, he needs to sue the ACLU who recommended him on this legal path.
It's just straight up malpractice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)
Garcia's lawyers are now begging the court to keep Garcia in jail under the criminal charges.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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What's the reasoning? Also, how long do we think it will take before Abrego-Garcia even goes to trial? Like, the better part of a year?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Dr. Fauci
You're a sicko. Sandflies ruin the taste. How can you wantonly waste good food like that?
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO):
******
So now the crazy commies are begging to keep this guy in jail, after demanding he be set free from jail?!? PDJT must be laughing his ass off; he's a mad genius I tell ya's.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (DmiaQ)
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Isn't that a lot like the guy who murders his parents complaining about being an orphan?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (HuRzZ)
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Because ICE has said they'd deport him to a third party country.
Like South Sudan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (2UnvF)
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I doubt he has any say in the matter.
Even if he provided a signed confession with video evidence of him committing human trafficking crimes, a federal judge somewhere will say, "He stays."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (Gmq6N)
How do you feel about papayua kickers?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (Eng1Z)
Pissed, I think, that Snoopy ultimately triumphed over the Red Baron.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: DaveA at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (FhXTo)
Because that would be awesome.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (rvwwT)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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What's the reasoning? Also, how long do we think it will take before Abrego-Garcia even goes to trial? Like, the better part of a year?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Because the second he steps outside, ICE is grabbing him and sending him to South Sudan.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 02:19 PM (kgE5c)
One bullet per leg.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (BjH5D)
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Good.
In America, dog-kicking smugglers are haram.
Was the dog accurate? Who knows. That all depends on the handler. But deport the dude anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (DmiaQ)
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He was always a terrible case to highlight and champion.
Trump bringing Garcia back to the US should never have happened. It was a legal loss bending to the illegal whims of the judiciary.
However, they brought him back for a reason. And that reason was to make an example of him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
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Fcking with the left. Trump wants Garcia to be the face of the Democrats in 2026 along with their other hideous criminals that they champion over normies.
Garcia is the type of loathsome asshole that people hate more the more they learn about him.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (ctrM5)
Ooh, fab, The Bulwark is finally online lamenting SCOTUS. Gotta grab a champagne glass to catch these liberal tears.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (Gmq6N)
This x 1000!!!
Posted by: MAC V SOG at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM
It's not over 'til the fat mullah swings.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (jc0TO)
Because that would be awesome.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (rvwwT)
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It is a country that we pay $2,000 per illegal immigrant that they accept from countries who won't accept their illegal immigrants back.
It's a very plausible destination. No telling where he'd actually end up, though, until DHS deports him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (n2swS)
It's like we aren't even here. No wonder we all look sad.
Posted by: Basset Hounds at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (Vfq+S)
Kicking dogs is part of Muslim culture, and we can't interfere with his customs and beliefs, that would be racist.
Freddy should've jumped out of the way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (6ydKt)
Also, that dog is a Fed!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (63Dwl)
Starring That Black Guy, and that Lesbian
* tuba fart *
lesbian tuba farts are best tuba farts
Posted by: anachronda at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (dfIr7)
Just a random thought.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Old Blue at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (X6YhY)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (flKEw)
Measure out a proportional force by weight, and swing a wrecking ball into his fucking gut.
and then jail.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (Riz8t)
Because the second he steps outside, ICE is grabbing him and sending him to South Sudan.
Posted by: rickb223
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Oh, I thought ICE was stepping back from him because the DOJ has something else in mind.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (93z8K)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (n2swS)
They're adorable but also rambunctious, loud and a pain in the ass to train when they're little. Regardless, dog-kicker needs to be nut-punched continuously from now until he's dropped back to his country of origin.
Posted by: No kicka da beagle at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (TbWk/)
There's no such thing as a rival gang when you claim you aren't in a gang.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (flKEw)
He was always a terrible case to highlight and champion.
Trump bringing Garcia back to the US should never have happened. It was a legal loss bending to the illegal whims of the judiciary.
However, they brought him back for a reason. And that reason was to make an example of him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)
Kill a chicken to scare a monkey.
Posted by: Chinese proverb at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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He is in Tennessee so technically the jurisdiction any new challenges to deportation have to be filed in the Middle District of TN I think. The MD judges like Xinis are actually being sued by the DoJ (all of 14 of them) for granting automatic injunctions against deportation in all cases. Patently unconstitutional resistance stuff.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: The beagles at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (4qN3i)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (074d0)
Posted by: DaveA at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (FhXTo)
Run ads of Garcia and Chris Van Hollen sharing margaritas while a voice over recounts his criminal record.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (sJLOw)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (HuRzZ)
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He's currently under arrest by another agency. They have current ownership of him because he was brought back to face these federal criminal charges.
Once they let him go, they hand him to ICE directly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (Riz8t)
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It sounds like we pay South Sudan a stipend to take them off our hands.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: TSA at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Have they finally given up the pretense of being "real conservatives"?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dr Spank at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM
Russians with frog embryos and Chinese wheat rust importers.
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (6bTRc)
Ain't they crumbs?
Kickin' them doggies
In they buns.
Kickin' them Afghans,
Kickin' them mutts,
Kickin' them puppy dogs
Poor little butts.
Look at Them Dog Kickers,
Ain't they cute?
Some use a shower-shoe,
Some use a boot.
Them dadgum Dog Kickers,
Ain't they mean.
Run 'round kickin'
Ever dog what's seen.
How to be a Dog Kicker?
Don't need a ticket.
Find an old dog,
Haul off and kick it!
Posted by: Mason Williams at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Probably more like Abrego, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (ctrM5)
Then call me a racist.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM (074d0)
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Well, it was established law and practice that the executive could deport illegals whose home countries wouldn't accept them to third party countries.
It just got called into question because of...nationwide injunctions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:26 PM (7fElN)
++++
We probably won't be paying it very often.
"Do you wanna go home, or do you wanna go to South Sudan" is not a question with a difficult answer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Seeing eye 10 yr old boys.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (flKEw)
What exactly does South Sudan do with these dregs that no one wants? Immediately jail them for an indefinite sentence without due process?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (gYnrv)
You have no idea of the true Power of the Pyramids, with Razor blade sharpening included.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Mongo at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (Ef4Ak)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (Riz8t)
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It sounds like we pay South Sudan a stipend to take them off our hands.
I mean, jail in South Sudan or El Salvador - either is okay with me.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (31p00)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (gKWVE)
They all seem to be quiet, smart, and loyal.
Like Jack Russel terriers but with bigger ears.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Seeing eye goats, probably. Which can also be used for other things.
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at June 27, 2025 02:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUfLJv-8eDM
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Have you ever seen a seeing eye cat? A drug sniffing cat?
I rest my case.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (074d0)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (Riz8t)
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It's my understanding that if sent to South Sudan, he'd be free.
Just...living in South Sudan with no money, no ties, and no knowledge of the local language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
The majority undersells just how bad the dissent is:
They demand an unelected, unaccountable, unchecked judiciary with unlimited power over the Executive.
What is scary about the dissent is what they leave out, what they avoid, the biggest being:
Who, then, "checks" the Judiciary?
No one.
800 kings to rule us all.
Because these judges are all kind, just, and wise, free of any personal bias, animus or enmity--the black robe is a holy garment from the gods, purifying the wearer of any human frailty or fault.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (GnVQ5)
1 minute ago.
Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
The U.S. Supreme Court left in place the district court order in our case for now, blocking President Trump's blatantly unconstitutional birthright citizenship order in California.
We are committed to holding the line and will keep fighting to ensure this injunction remains in place for good.
Abuses of presidential power can't go unchecked
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (OIrk/)
Posted by: Just sayin' at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (WFNbD)
Posted by: Archimedes
It is the media like Fox, MSNBC, and CNN that still calls them that for street cred.
I think the Kristols of the Bulwark have pretty much figured out that the right hates their guts as fake grifting groomers so they play to their funder--Pierre Omidyar and lefties as reasonable conservatives.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (flKEw)
That isn't an eye.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: fd at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (PLXMa)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (pwtJC)
Just...living in South Sudan with no money, no ties, and no knowledge of the local language.
It'll be fine if he just tries to blend in.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pierre delecto at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Archimedes
======
They are fighting to conserve the post-WWII power dynamic.
They are the conservatives.
We're more like radicals, trying to return to the root of American governance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Snoopy at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (2UnvF)
However, they brought him back for a reason. And that reason was to make an example of him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)
*****
Well, if that was their plan it seems to be working out pretty well so far.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (DmiaQ)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (074d0)
Eventually.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (HuRzZ)
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Both Sudan and South Sudan are large geographic regions with a whole lotta nothin'.
I'm sure it's easy for the local government to take the money, drive the prisoners somewhere remote and "lose them" in the countryside. Let nature take its course.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (7fElN)
If the MS-13 maggot killed a woman, why isn't he in prison somewhere for that, instead of just deported? He's got human trafficking ofgenses here too.
If the Egyptian mummy man kicked a police dog, why isn't he being charged for that, instead of just deported?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Fd8wq)
The U.S. Supreme Court left in place the district court order in our case for now, blocking President Trump's blatantly unconstitutional birthright citizenship order in California. ...
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (OIrk/)
++++
Gotta appreciate the spin.
"The 9th Circuit's rulings still apply in the 9th Circuit. Big win y'all."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Hkcdp)
Because these judges are all kind, just, and wise, free of any personal bias, animus or enmity--the black robe is a holy garment from the gods, purifying the wearer of any human frailty or fault.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (GnVQ5)
Congress can check both them and the president by impeachment and conviction. Address your complaints to them.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Hopefully, he is fluent in Esperanto. Everyone can speak that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Fd8wq)
Because she has no standing.
Posted by: John Roberts at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (rCia8)
They all seem to be quiet, smart, and loyal.
Like Jack Russel terriers but with bigger ears.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM
I had a beagle when I was a little girl. She was the best dog, but she was not always quiet. She bayed. It was beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjec0JWEXU
Posted by: huerfano at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (n2swS)
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking.
SS: You know, we have lots of wild animals. He was insufficiently careful.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I think English is an official language there. But I don't know how well Garcia knows English, or if he could understand the variety spoken there.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)
If the Egyptian mummy man kicked a police dog, why isn't he being charged for that, instead of just deported?
.....
Why do we have to spend money to house and feed other countries' shit-stains?
Posted by: Just sayin' at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (WFNbD)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (Fd8wq)
++++
It's in the article. He was charged and convicted. Released to ICE with time served (presumably during the trial, etc.) and with a judgement to pay the vet bill.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (eZwyX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
======
Popeye Doyle in French Connection II.
Garcia might even get laid like Doyle did.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (GBKbO)
It should have been killed before that. But since libtards pushed it there is now a high court ruling stating that’s no longer an excuse to stop deportation. In fact you may want to think long and hard before you make a claim like that. If you’re from Guatemala, you could end up in Nigeria.
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (074d0)
No one.
800 kings to rule us all.
Because these judges are all kind, just, and wise, free of any personal bias, animus or enmity--the black robe is a holy garment from the gods, purifying the wearer of any human frailty or fault.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Dissents are often polemics, not to be read seriously. A few times, dissents like Justice Harlan's sole dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson or the two dissents in Dred Scott are better signposts where the case should have been resolved than the majority. Harlan's color blind reading of the 14th would have saved the US a lot of grief if the majority in Plessy had done that rather than separate but equal.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (ctrM5)
--------------
When will you realize ...
North Korea waits for You.
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (lMOMR)
Posted by: Mongo at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (Ef4Ak)
I think Venezualia is next to Peruvia, isn't it?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (6bTRc)
They all seem to be quiet, smart, and loyal.
Like Jack Russel terriers but with bigger ears.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM
I had a beagle when I was a little girl. She was the best dog, but she was not always quiet. She bayed. It was beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjec0JWEXU
Posted by: huerfano
Beagles are great, as long as you can turn your hearing aids down.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:33 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:27 PM (HuRzZ)
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Both Sudan and South Sudan are large geographic regions with a whole lotta nothin'.
I'm sure it's easy for the local government to take the money, drive the prisoners somewhere remote and "lose them" in the countryside. Let nature take its course.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:30 PM (7fElN)
They are paid some sum, trivial for us and worth it for them, to take these people on and presumably keep them from rubberbanding back. 2K a year.
El Salvador's prison helps cut costs by having the men grow crops for themselves, which is useful work.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:33 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Large pot. Some onions. Salt & pepper...
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:33 PM (flKEw)
i hear he uses excellent lube
Posted by: pierre delecto
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Running his hedge funds with his son Tagg is my guess.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:33 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (074d0)
=======
There's a calculus that smarter illegals are going through now.
They can self-deport back home, or they can get picked up by ICE, perhaps detained in a Panamanian hotel for 6 months, and then sent to a country they've never been to before.
There's a reason the foreign born population has gone down 1,000,000 while Homan has insisted that 200,000 were deported in the first four months of Trump's term.
A lot of illegals are doing the calculus and just going home.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (rCia
++++
His time is over. He may be one of the rare politicians who can recognize it when that happens.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Yes, Same with El Salvador (Probably even for this creep who is from El Salvador.)
This was something I think started in UK to get rid of problems by sending them to Rwanda and paying tens of thousands a year, the European courts stopped it, then the UK supreme court.
Italy is sending them to Africa too.
I say we should compromise and drop them off half way.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (m5cDg)
Are they lamenting the SCOTUS or the fact that it's not take your child to work day?
Posted by: Nelly at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (cHLus)
No one.
800 kings to rule us all.
800 kings to find us
800 kings to bring us all
800 kings to bind us
Posted by: anachronda at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (pwtJC)
++++
Denial ain't just a crocodile in Sudan.
Or something.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (6PCLE)
....
Egyptians are my favorite breed, you know.
Posted by: Zohran Mammajamma at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (gKWVE)
While top-tier law firms and the judiciary bend over backwards to save this illegal alien and multiple-felony criminal from the consequences of his choices ....
Not one major law firm and not one single judge anywhere stood up for your rights and the illegal abuses against you during Covid--you were the "untouchable caste" criminal for merely refusing to follow illegal orders.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Large pot. Some onions. Salt & pepper...
Posted by: rickb223
Hey, that's my recipe!
-- Haitian Barbecue guy
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (074d0)
Hopefully every one of those bystanders are serving long prison sentences now. Stupid civilians need to understand that they don't hove our training and expertise. That is OUR job.
You civilians are so disgusting. YOU WORK FOR US.
Posted by: Cops at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (1U8ba)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:32 PM (6bTRc)
That IS a conviction. He just effectively convicted himself. The term conviction just means (from Cornell Law School) "A conviction is an adjudication of a criminal defendant ’s guilt; specifically, it is the act or judicial process of finding a criminal defendant guilty of a charged offense" - a guy pleads guilty, and the judge accepts and finds the defendant's guilt, therefore resulting in a conviction, whether a judge or jury finds it.
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)
*******
Got to give credit to Ron DeSantis. He gets things done fast.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 02:36 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Bum-tiss at June 27, 2025 02:36 PM (4qN3i)
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 02:36 PM (TN0g+)
http://tiny.cc/ln4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:36 PM (6bTRc)
It's my understanding that if sent to South Sudan, he'd be free.
Just...living in South Sudan with no money, no ties, and no knowledge of the local language.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
================
Would South Sudan keep him from leaving? Exit visa, or not letting him onto a plane absent a visa from another country, that sort of thing?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:36 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (ctrM5)
One of the funniest thing about the DOGE is the pitiful little these twirps were getting from USAID for their treason.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (7aBC6)
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (tOcjL)
++++
Yeah, but colloquially it implies a trial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (6bTRc)
I think Venezualia is next to Peruvia, isn't it?
their primary export is vuvuzelas.
Posted by: anachronda at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 02:28 PM (074d0)
Hopefully every one of those bystanders are serving long prison sentences now. Stupid civilians need to understand that they don't hove our training and expertise. That is OUR job.
You civilians are so disgusting. YOU WORK FOR US.
Posted by: Cops
Sounds like y'all don't know how to do your job.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (EtZ9h)
http://tiny.cc/ln4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Stupid facial expression.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)
http://tiny.cc/ln4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:36 PM (6bTRc)
It's a trap!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (LxER7)
Plus a couple of other cases I don't really know about - AI responds thus -
3. Preventive Health Services (Affordable Care Act)
The dissent came from Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. They contended that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force wields too much unchecked power and that its members should be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Justice Thomas emphasized that allowing unelected experts to mandate insurance coverage violates the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.
4. FCC’s Universal Service Fund
Again, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissented. They argued that the FCC’s delegation of authority to a private administrator to collect and distribute billions in subsidies violates the nondelegation doctrine. In their view, Congress gave away too much legislative power without clear limits, effectively allowing an unelected body to impose what amounts to a tax on consumers.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (Dv3i1)
Make Tehran weird again.
Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (Hxfl9)
You civilians are so disgusting. YOU WORK FOR US.
Posted by: Cops
------------
And don't forget about us--we'll be hiding somewhere under a bridge or behind a sign just waiting to pick your pocket. In the old west, we'd wait for the stagecoach and they'd call us outlaws. But today, we have a badge!
Posted by: Motorcyle Riders Pretending to Be Cops at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (UztFL)
human trafficking murderer child molester who didn't kick a dog
drug smuggler who kicked a dog
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 02:35 PM (tOcjL)
++++
Yeah, but colloquially it implies a trial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (6bTRc)
When a job application or lie detector tester asks if you've ever been convicted of a crime, they ain't using the colloquial definition - they are using the accepted definition.
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: colin at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (wlQdF)
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They are howling because there are these internal guidelines that say they are supposed to go down this checklist of "least danger" countries.
So they can force Trump to ask every country in the world, landing last on Sudan or Salvador, every single time over and over and over, i.e., never deported.
And Trump is like, "f that, I'm skipping to the end and it's not required."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (GnVQ5)
While top-tier law firms and the judiciary bend over backwards to save this illegal alien and multiple-felony criminal from the consequences of his choices ....
Not one major law firm and not one single judge anywhere stood up for your rights and the illegal abuses against you during Covid--you were the "untouchable caste" criminal for merely refusing to follow illegal orders.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
For the most part, lawyers are either a) mercenary as in there is no money to be found in standing up for rights or b) ideological.
This is a problem for the right because law school is purposefully designed nowadays to produce leftist ideologues. They produce ideologues on the right only by accident either by failure to screen them out at entry or making them hate the left while attending law school.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (ctrM5)
human trafficking murderer child molester who didn't kick a dog
drug smuggler who kicked a dog
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (dfIr7)
++++
The former (though I don't know if "agricultural products" specifically means "drugs").
But I'm glad both are gone.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic
The story I've seen is that Mohammed hated them because their barking would give warning of the approach of his troops when they were ridin' up to massacre the infidels.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)
*******
Got to give credit to Ron DeSantis. He gets things done fast.
----------------
I assume the guards commute via air boats.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: New Guinea at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (EtZ9h)
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Because their "Prophet" (sneer quotes) tells them to.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Bombadil at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (MX0bI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjec0JWEXU
Posted by: huerfano
Beagles are great, as long as you can turn your hearing aids down.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:33 PM (Vfq+S)
I've never owned one, only visited them.
I've never been around one howling, I guess.
The ones I met were all quiet and wanting to be petted behind the ears.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (6ydKt)
Again, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissented. They argued that the FCC’s delegation of authority to a private administrator to collect and distribute billions in subsidies violates the nondelegation doctrine. In their view, Congress gave away too much legislative power without clear limits, effectively allowing an unelected body to impose what amounts to a tax on consumers.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (Dv3i1)
****
We ❤️ taxes.
Posted by: Said nobody not insane ever at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (Hxfl9)
Posted by: Busty, freckled brunettes in skimpy loungewear at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (4qN3i)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (gKWVE)
Are they lamenting the SCOTUS or the fact that it's not take your child to work day?
Posted by: Nelly
===============
The SCOTUS. The nuking of nationwide injunctions will rob the courts of an invaluable tool etc. "Sometimes blocking a whole policy is the only way to relieve the victims..."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (sJLOw)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
I wish John Kerry would. I saw a clip of him the other day blathering something about Iran and the US bombing their nukes and as usual he made no sense. But what struck me was how bad he looked. That plastic surgery he got is melting or something - he should get some type of refund.
Posted by: Cheri at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (oiNtH)
That was fun.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (rCia8)
http://tiny.cc/ln4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Stupid facial expression.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)
____
That's a standard facial expression for these kinds of pics. It's not an attractive expression, but its designed to make it look like you don't care about what you look like. But of course they do care.
It's way better than another standard expression: the sticking out the tongue.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Nope. It doesn't. As Nova Loca said, admitting guilt in open court means a conviction--jury is not needed because the facts of the case are no longer in dispute.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
If a guy pleads guilty during arraignment and not "nolo contendre," or not guilty, do you have to still have a trail?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (JkCto)
Posted by: Cheri at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (oiNtH)
++++
His plastic surgeon really, really hated him. Nothing but hate could get a man to fill another man's face with mattress batting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (rCia
++++
His time is over. He may be one of the rare politicians who can recognize it when that happens.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:34 PM (6bTRc)
Fuck you guys! Not making me President.
Well, you'll see. Soon you're gonna be begging me to be President.
Begging me!!!!!
But, I'll say, "No!".
Then strap you to the roof of my station wagon and drive you to...well you'll see
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
*cough*
*uuuuurp*
Heckfire, I threw up on my magic underwear.
Ding dang doodle dang it!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (iJfKG)
human trafficking murderer child molester who didn't kick a dog
drug smuggler who kicked a dog
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at Jun
Obviously the first. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with kicking dogs. Some dogs need to get kicked.
I kicked the f*ck out of a pitbull that lurched at my daughter.
Posted by: Just sayin' at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (WFNbD)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (0Htd1)
He looks like Mohammed Atta had sex with a leprechaun
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:42 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (HuRzZ)
The courts aren't supposed to have tools to govern. They are supposed to adjust the other branches to be lawful.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:42 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (EtZ9h)
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They can lick their balls
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:42 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
As long as they don’t do it on this blog.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 02:42 PM (1U8ba)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)
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Yes, I fully acknowledge that. That's why I said, "colloquially" not, "actually."
"He pled guilty" rather than "he was convicted," etc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:43 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Cheri at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (oiNtH)
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His plastic surgeon really, really hated him. Nothing but hate could get a man to fill another man's face with mattress batting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (6bTRc)
That's how you look when your major source of kickbacks starts bouncing checks.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (EtZ9h)
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Because their "Prophet" (sneer quotes) tells them to.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Because they wouldn't stand still long enough for their profit to fuck one.
Goats are dumb.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:43 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 02:43 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (EtZ9h)
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They are unclean because they eat dung.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:44 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (EtZ9h)
Because they are an obvious gift from Actual God.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:44 PM (rCia8)
human trafficking murderer child molester who didn't kick a dog
drug smuggler who kicked a dog
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Yes.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:44 PM (flKEw)
Sounds like y'all don't know how to do your job.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:37 PM (flKEw)
Sounds like you need to be arrested for insolence and not respecting a police officer. After we punch you in the fucking mouth.
You have never been a police officer, so you need to learn to shut the fuck up. Learn some respect, manners, and be polite, you piece of shit civilian. You pay us, keep your head down, your mouth shut, and you never, ever question what we do.
Posted by: Cops at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (lHQcF)
And curious minds wonder what was the "prohibited agriculture item" little Freddy detected? The FNM wrote that, but given how they weasel word things was it really unprocessed drugs? or was dog kicker just trying to smuggle in dates or something and that is not allowed because "might bring in bugs or diseases that will harm our U.S. crops". Either way, kicking the beagle makes him an asshole that shouldn't be in our country.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic
Muckmed was a caravan raider. What's the first line of defense for sleeping caravan?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (mlg/3)
What contrivances and convolutions will communist traitor judges use to keep in in the US this time?
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"I have ruled all international borders to be invalid social constructs of the white cisheteropatriarchal oppressor and have imagined that there are no countries (and no religion too) -- ordering this wonderful International Citizen, Patriot, and Paragon of POC Virtue to already be At Home and therefore to be released into his new home country with all criminal and civil charges against him dropped."
/US District Clown Judge Bozoberg, Acting De Facto POTUS, SCOTUS Chief Justice, and Congressional Parliamentarian
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (lMOMR)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)
That's like a modified, scrunched-up - plain ol' 'duck face'.
Which comes standard in any modern young female's pose kit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (7aBC6)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (EtZ9h)
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They are unclean because they eat dung.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:44 PM (8avO+)
Says the guys who fuck goats if they stand still too long.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (lMOMR)
LMAO
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
As long as they don’t do it on this blog.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 02:42 PM (1U8ba)
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BWAHAHAHAHHA
Amen.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (PMtkd)
Which comes standard in any modern young female's pose kit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:45 PM (6ydKt)
++++
I blame instagram.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (nCKL5)
Posted by: Oldcat
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There is a reason that almost all of the most wealthy counties now are those surrounding DC. Used to be places like New York, Silicon Valley, etc.
Since 2000 sent fed spending into overdrive, the imperial fedgov has sucked wealth from the periphery and spent it around DC while the rest of the country is steadily being impoverished.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (ctrM5)
*touches nose*
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: H at June 27, 2025 02:47 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 02:38 PM (Dv3i1)
****
We ❤️ taxes.
Posted by: Said nobody not insane ever at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (Hxfl9)
I agree, I don't want the kickbacks and bribes going to some mystery bureaucrat instead of a Congressman.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (jc0TO)
++++
"Never say to a cop, "hey! That badge looks stupid!"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:47 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (ctrM5)
Look, the government needs money. YOU DO NOT. You will give them all your money. And if this means you and the rest of the country exist in abject penury? So be it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:48 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: toby928
This is not the place for your weekend activity reports.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 02:48 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 27, 2025 02:48 PM (96jnc)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic
The story I've seen is that Mohammed hated them because their barking would give warning of the approach of his troops when they were ridin' up to massacre the infidels.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)
To be fair, Mohammed really liked cats.
The story goes that one gave him a blowjob. Scritched his balls and everything.
....I'm pretty sure that's right. In the koran somewhere.
Anyway, Mohammed had a thing for cats.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 02:48 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (jc0TO)
++++
"Never say to a cop, "hey! That badge looks stupid!"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:47 PM (6bTRc)
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I will, however, jokingly tell the cop that I have a kilo of Columbian Bam Bam under the car.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Captain Oveur at June 27, 2025 02:48 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:46 PM (jc0TO)
++++
"Never say to a cop, "hey! That badge looks stupid!"
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Never piss on a cop. Shit happens then.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (FmapG)
Silent Cal on 150th anniversary of Declaration of Independence -
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (Dv3i1)
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For the most part, lawyers are either a) mercenary as in there is no money to be found in standing up for rights or b) ideological.
This is a problem for the right because law school is purposefully designed nowadays to produce leftist ideologues. They produce ideologues on the right only by accident either by failure to screen them out at entry or making them hate the left while attending law school.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:39 PM (ctrM5)
You're welcome!
Posted by: American Bar Association at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (ULPxl)
Which comes standard in any modern young female's pose kit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
That psycho California lady will be by shortly to yell about it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (77rzZ)
Some illegals are doing the calculus and heading to places like NY, NJ, MA and CA.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Gonna be hilarious when Trump's suspension of federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions gets un-enjoined.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (wBaIH)
It's not 2028 yet.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:50 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 02:50 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:48 PM (vm8sq)
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This is not at all true, and is a wildly invalid interpretation.
"You" don't have any money. All money belongs to the state, and you are merely its custodian. If the state needs money, it is rightfully entitled to reclaim what is by right its own property. You have, at absolute most, a custodial lease on money - not ownership. That belongs to the state in all cases and vagaries of specific disposition at any given moment are irrelevant.
Posted by: The State at June 27, 2025 02:50 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 27, 2025 02:51 PM (2yoRf)
Posted by: Case at June 27, 2025 02:51 PM (ilX37)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 27, 2025 02:52 PM (Z3f34)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 27, 2025 02:52 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 02:52 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Just sayin' at June 27, 2025 02:52 PM (ubJB9)
"You" don't have any money. All money belongs to the state, and you are merely its custodian.
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Joke this may be, but the Left actually believes it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (/HVsR)
Which comes standard in any modern young female's pose kit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
That psycho California lady will be by shortly to yell about it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (Vfq+S)
You will never halt the coitus. I will sate my lust in full view of the public. Watch us. And tremble.
Posted by: Sex Duck at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (4/BuS)
I would have accepted "none of your business", too.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (6pVrF)
Posted by: Just sayin' at June 27, 2025 02:52 PM (ubJB9)
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Different rules apply to deeply-connected elites.
If the deeply-connect elite is Mr. Science Himself, doubly so.
Fauci is *never* going down. We'll be lucky if we can prevent his appearance on postage stamps.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: The State at June 27, 2025 02:50 PM (6bTRc)
Still, this does not change the fact that if this means the rest of the country exists in abject penury, so be it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: rickb223
Depends. Usually a plea of guilty (depending on the degree of the charge felony or misdemeanor) is either resolved right there (usually when the crime is minor like a traffic ticket, disorderly conduct, etc.) or in more serious charges, can be remanded to a judge with the proper jurisdiction over serious charges to make damn sure that the defendant is willing, able, and understands the gravity of their guilty plea.
That is why guilty pleas are so damn hard to overturn as Gen. Flynn found out even when the government committed gross misconduct against him.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (/HVsR)
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They do. Passionately.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 02:54 PM (bnGwT)
Beagles are docile dogs. Except hunting in the field.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner
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Talk, talk, talk, talk. That's a Beagle.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 02:54 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Sex Duck
I can work with this.
Posted by: Rick Dees at June 27, 2025 02:54 PM (M0V4/)
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Joke this may be, but the Left actually believes it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM
Whose image is on it? Whose inscription?
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:54 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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The footsoldiers believe it, but the wealthy Left believes what is their stays theirs and what is someone else's is theirs as well. That is why Alex Soros would squeal like a stuck hog in court if gubmint took his fortune and foundation.
All leftist ethics and morals are situational rather than absolute.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:55 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: colin
Good point, we should be careful. Hillary believed this to be the primary qualification for her to be President.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 02:56 PM (M0V4/)
Prior to the Arab-Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century, Egypt was virtually 100% Coptic Christian.
Today it's about 10% ... BUT THERE IS NO ISLAMIC THREAT TO OUTSIDE PEOPLES & COUNTRIES, H8Rs!
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 02:56 PM (lMOMR)
Today it's about 10% ... BUT THERE IS NO ISLAMIC THREAT TO OUTSIDE PEOPLES & COUNTRIES, H8Rs!
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 02:56 PM (lMOMR)
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Colonialism for me, not for thee.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:56 PM (6bTRc)
Nothing joking about it. Unless you have actual paper bills or bullion, the state can take your money or just make it disappear on a whim.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 02:57 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Hadrian
They do conjure it out of thin air at will, so I might have to give them this one.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 02:57 PM (6pVrF)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 02:57 PM (/y8xj)
My wife has these powers, too.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (LxER7)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (VVnrT)
Better than ducklips by far.
Why do Arabs hate dogs so bad?
It seems like a general middle eastern thing, the Bible is full of examples of dogs being nasty and unpleasant, using it as an insult, etc. Dogs were generally the bad guys in Egyptian mythology. I am not sure why.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (dfIr7)
Today it's about 10% ... BUT THERE IS NO ISLAMIC THREAT TO OUTSIDE PEOPLES & COUNTRIES, H8Rs!
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 02:56 PM (lMOMR)
The Copts welcomed them, because Byzantine's persecution was bad and the tax for Christianity then was lower than Byzantine taxes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (rCia8)
Which comes standard in any modern young female's pose kit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
That psycho California lady will be by shortly to yell about it.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:49 PM (Vfq+S)
You will never halt the coitus. I will sate my lust in full view of the public. Watch us. And tremble.
Posted by: Sex Duck at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (4/BuS)
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"'Sex Duck' was our second choice"
-- Soft Cell
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 02:57 PM (6pVrF)
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There is an important philosophical difference between "it's yours, but I'm taking it anyway" and "it's mine, I'm just reclaiming it."
The former is a lot more honest.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (6bTRc)
Today it's about 10% ... BUT THERE IS NO ISLAMIC THREAT TO OUTSIDE PEOPLES & COUNTRIES, H8Rs!
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Yes, but they do the land acknowledgements before every speech, so it's all good.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Paper money can and has been repudiated and FDR outlawed private holding of gold other than an exception for coin collections. Apparently even BitCoin can be clawed back if a government really cares enough to do it.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
The only bright side is that it can be a mini stamp so it’s at least cheaper to make.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (1U8ba)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (Mr3X0)
His parents probably never gave him a puppy or got bit harassing the neighbors dog
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Sex Duck
*snorts mountain of blow*
Posted by: Disco Duck at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (1U8ba)
++++
*snort*
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (VVnrT)
It's well practiced. Makes the kids more compliant.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Yes, dogs were not generally well-thought of. They usually ran around towns in semi-wild packs, like the dogs who licked Lazarus' sores.
Sheepdogs, however, were more well-regarded.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)
The airport dogs are ALL BUSINESS.
Very alert, focused and well-behaved.
Was the dog reacting to him, or was he just kicking him for the offense of being near him?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:00 PM (VVnrT)
Seems common to a lot of middle eastern ethnic groups, probably a lot of shared ancestry. You see it in Northeastern Africans as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:01 PM (dfIr7)
Oh, and gold can be requisitioned, just like that Saint FDR, the man who saved us from Fascism, did.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 03:01 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:53 PM (ctrM5)
Judge Emmet Sullivan was a real piece of work, though.
It was the D.C. circuit, but I'd hope some other judge there wouldn't have turned it into a Kafka-Circus like Sullivan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 03:01 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Oldcat
Careful what you wish for.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 03:01 PM (Dv3i1)
Very alert, focused and well-behaved.
Was the dog reacting to him, or was he just kicking him for the offense of being near him?
Posted by: Lizzy
The dog signaled on something in his luggage.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (flKEw)
I wonder if the dogs 3000+ years ago were less pleasant and amenable than they are now, as well. That's a lot of generations of breeding.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (dfIr7)
Mohammed was a nomadic thief, so he and his guys hated dogs because they protected the people he wished to steal from.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (VVnrT)
Seems common to a lot of middle eastern ethnic groups, probably a lot of shared ancestry. You see it in Northeastern Africans as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:01 PM (dfIr7)
Before sunglasses deep set eyes are advantageous in bright sunlit climes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Howard the Duck at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)
Though from recent evidence, waterboarding and electric chainsaws may need to be employed
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 03:03 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 03:03 PM (6ydKt)
Yeah there is no such thing as wealth that the government cannot seize from you. But physical wealth has to be personally confiscated from each individual. Digital wealth can be taken FROM EVERYONE with a few button pushes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:03 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:58 PM (dfIr7)
Originally it was the way the dogs and the jackals kept digging up the mummies if they didn't put them under enough sand. And then they'd grab one end of the windings and run with it, and well ain't nobody wanted to see that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 03:03 PM (uWKK8)
That's what I figured, not that it makes much difference.
Just means he really needed to be sent home, the sooner the better.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:03 PM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Howard the Duck at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (2UnvF)
i knew it...
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Yes, dogs were not generally well-thought of. They usually ran around towns in semi-wild packs, like the dogs who licked Lazarus' sores.
Sheepdogs, however, were more well-regarded.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)
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There are still packs of wild dogs in Africa and middle east. They are feral and dangerous. Basically, they act like coyotes, only their more dangerous because they work in packs. Europe and the Americas especially knew mostly only domesticated dogs as pets and work dogs. Our view of dogs might be different if our dogs were more like coyotes.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Oldcat
Careful what you wish for.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 03:01 PM (Dv3i1)
I don't know the details of their history post conquest. In other areas the 'people of the book' were increasingly repressed and often converted to have access to more jobs and influence.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (8avO+)
mmm Lea Thompson. Although even dolled up in lingerie the presence of the duck and that scene kinda ruined her hotness.
Still one of my all time crushes. Those 80s ladies
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (dfIr7)
The Romans made some pretty cool statues of dogs, reflecting their perceived value and worthiness.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (4/BuS)
My God, CNN has brought back Joy Reid. She's sitting around the table with Abby Phillips et al.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:05 PM (/U5Yz)
Sick bastards.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 03:03 PM (6ydKt)
Think of her and Victoria Jackson nekkid on the beach to clear your mind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 27, 2025 03:05 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)
You think we would lose the discernment between a wild animal and an airport luggage sniffer?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 03:05 PM (rCia8)
Send the cocksucker to Canada.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:05 PM (/U5Yz)
Done slapping Iran around, time to go back to the comic relief.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 03:05 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at June 27, 2025 03:05 PM (jc0TO)
"In Muslim countries, I would be greeted as a liberator!" - Anthony Fauci
Posted by: Ian S. at June 27, 2025 03:06 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Darkwing Duck at June 27, 2025 03:06 PM (HzIEO)
It was the D.C. circuit, but I'd hope some other judge there wouldn't have turned it into a Kafka-Circus like Sullivan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 03:01 PM (6ydKt)
He is still on the bench... which tells you all you need to know about how a Judge won't be punished, no matter how bad his conduct.
Posted by: TSA at June 27, 2025 03:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (dfIr7)
The Romans made some pretty cool statues of dogs, reflecting their perceived value and worthiness.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (4/BuS)
Well the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus was a strong tie.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: That's it, it's go time at June 27, 2025 03:06 PM (fXFFd)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 03:07 PM (sJ4fj)
Sick bastards.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I’d be like a duck treading water. Smooth and calm on top, with an occasional nibble, and thrashing like hell with the lower half.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 03:07 PM (1U8ba)
People with dog-o-phobia must utterly freak out at airports. I knew someone who was afraid of dogs and she would lose it if she got within 50 feet of a small dog on a leash.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:08 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2025 03:08 PM (0sNs1)
Their view of dogs might be different if they adopted them as pets. Chicken, egg. They hate dogs, abuse them, chose not to domesticate them. They have to survive in the wild somehow.
As a culture, they made that choice.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:08 PM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:08 PM (/U5Yz)
So she rooted for the Russians in "John Wick"?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 27, 2025 03:09 PM (2ocoG)
Somehow that ended up part of Jeep culture. If someone likes your jeep, they leave a rubber ducky on it or in it. I don't know why.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:09 PM (dfIr7)
A girl with boobs who drives a Jeep told someone she likes rubber ducks and it spiraled out of control from there. Or at least that's my understanding.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 27, 2025 03:10 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (dfIr7)
The Romans made some pretty cool statues of dogs, reflecting their perceived value and worthiness.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (4/BuS)
Well the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus was a strong tie.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
The Greeks did too though.
The only point I'm trying to make here is that for all of recorded history, civilizations worth emulating in any way recognized dogs were good boys.
How's that for painting with a broad brush?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:10 PM (4/BuS)
That would be awful. Dogs are everywhere.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:10 PM (VVnrT)
That means using extra tape on a box labeled "Do Not Handle With Care".
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 03:10 PM (JUV6P)
Posted by: Accomack at June 27, 2025 03:10 PM (RBD82)
Posted by: Weasel at June 27, 2025 03:10 PM (jH5TK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:02 PM (dfIr7)
The Romans made some pretty cool statues of dogs, reflecting their perceived value and worthiness.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 03:04 PM (4/BuS)
Well the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus was a strong tie.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)
_________
Europeans started domesticating dogs tens of thousands of years ago, maybe even 100k years. The Bonn-Oberkassel burial suggests that by 15,000 years ago at least some dogs were pure pets, not even work dogs any more.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (iFTx/)
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Honestly, retail stores that allow dogs are the worst. They seldom enforce having them leashed and, to be honest, a lot of dog owners who shop with their dogs are assholes. No respect for others.
I'm personally not enamored with you dog sticking it's nose in my crotch while checking out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (Q4IgG)
How's that for painting with a broad brush?
Works for me!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Chinese people are generally afraid of dogs. I went into a Chinese dry-cleaner once to pick up some clothes. It was summer, and the door was open, and some friendly German shepherd (IIRC) sauntered in there. The Chinese ladies started freaking out until I shooed the dog out of there.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (77rzZ)
@nicksortor
JUST IN: Alligator Alcatraz will be funded with the money Biden set aside to put illegals in five star hotels, per
@TriciaOhio
Illegals are going from the lush Roosevelt Hotel in New York City to a detention center surrounded by gators
THAT'S what we voted for
https://tinyurl.com/mw6yfxs6
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 03:12 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Kindltot
I was talking about the Silk Road bitcoin seizure. Fedgov also retrieved some bitcoins that were paid as part of a cyberransom of pipelines. Essentially what the block chain logs grant is what a government can follow to back out of the transaction. Individuals don't have the computing power to do it yet and when they do, crypto currency in its current form is doomed because the cryptography that it relies upon becomes easily decrypted by brute force.
About the only form of wealth that governments have massive problems with repatriating from individuals is knowledge.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 03:12 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Accomack
Sounds gay. Ducks are gay unless they're on your plate
covered in orange sauce.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:12 PM (/U5Yz)
@TriciaOhio
#winning
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 03:12 PM (VVnrT)
So, 100+ "Islamists" as Tousi TV calls them attacked a Belgian military factory and now the RAF is on standby? Just skimming the headlines and watching a few seconds of video. It looks like mostly limp Euro-AWFLs, not young men with knives, but they did $1million in damage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:13 PM (HuRzZ)
How's that for painting with a broad brush?
Works for me!
Posted by: Lizzy
I'm good with it.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 03:13 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 03:12 PM (ctrM5)
And love.
Posted by: Hallmark at June 27, 2025 03:13 PM (rCia8)
Yeah people abuse the affection others and they have for dogs, and its not very welcome. I am fine with all animals but I don't want to be licked or have a dog shoving its face in my lap. Train them better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:13 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
I think the dingo is a good analogy to the dogs of the Bible. Only semi-domesticated.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 03:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (iFTx/)
Yes dogs can make themselves useful early and the pack mentality makes them easy to bind to you. Most often in history the tie to the 'pet' is also tied to hunting.
Cats start coming about when you are saving grain (even if you don't plant them yourself yet) and get worried about rats, mice and snakes. So you usually are more settled then.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 03:14 PM (8avO+)
Yeah people abuse the affection others and they have for dogs, and its not very welcome. I am fine with all animals but I don't want to be licked or have a dog shoving its face in my lap. Train them better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:13 PM
I hate when they take a dump in the aisle at the grocery store.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)
More than once I've seen Lil'Shitzy lift a leg and pee on the bottom shelf at the grocery store. It's disgusting. The people that bring pets into stores are disgusting.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 03:15 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 03:16 PM (ULPxl)
Fucking repulsive.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 03:16 PM (URRXY)
I hated that scene. I get that the writers needed him to get captured and put in the tank, but it just made him look like a fumbling ass and he'd been so cool and knowledgeable and capable in every single scene before that. Making him into an idiotic butt of a joke was not good to the character, one of the very few flaws with that movie.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 03:16 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Perillo Tours at June 27, 2025 03:16 PM (G5+As)
So, 100+ "Islamists" as Tousi TV calls them attacked a Belgian military factory and now the RAF is on standby? Just skimming the headlines and watching a few seconds of video. It looks like mostly limp Euro-AWFLs, not young men with knives, but they did $1million in damage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:13 PM (HuRzZ)
So Islamists damaged equipment which was going to Ukraine?
/pops popcorn...
Posted by: TSA at June 27, 2025 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Martini Farme
Several years ago a female coworker and I visited a supplier which was a machine shop. They were located in a small town but about half way between two big cities.
The president, or whatever title the head honcho had, would let his two labs have the run of the lobby and visitor area. So my coworker was standing facing the receptionist’s desk, which was a tall counter, and one of the dogs walked up behind her and stuck its nose so far up her business it made her jump about two feet off the ground.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 03:18 PM (1U8ba)
JUST IN: Alligator Alcatraz will be funded with the money Biden set aside to put illegals in five star hotels, per
@TriciaOhio
Posted by: redridinghood
============
This is great. It's not specifically for border crashers who additionally committed other crimes -- it's for border crashers, period. I bet any number of sanctuary jurisdictions are secretly relieved that they have a safety valve now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Weasel at June 27, 2025 03:10 PM
Thanks, Weasel!
Posted by: F. Kruger at June 27, 2025 03:19 PM (0sNs1)
OC is in sissy Maryland
Posted by: Accomack at June 27, 2025 03:21 PM (RBD82)
/US District Clown Judge Bozoberg, Acting De Facto POTUS, SCOTUS Chief Justice, and Congressional Parliamentarian
And Duke of New York
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 03:26 PM (63Dwl)
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Geez. Tell me something I don’t know.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 03:34 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 27, 2025 06:23 PM (wGqjj)
Supreme Court Rules that Public Schools Cannot Preach the Gay/Trans Agenda to Children Without Alerting Their Parents and Allowing Them an Opt-Out
You probably remember this dispute. Maryland, as deranged a progressive cesspit as there is, insists on teaching kids to be gay in grade school. Not middle school, grade school.
Initially, they permitted parents an opt-out of Lessons In Homosexuality, but then reversed themselves, denying parents that opt-out. It seems too many parents wanted to opt their children out, and that defeats the whole point of their gay and trans grooming. Also, they said they couldn't just excuse kids when they were going to give lectures about changing your gender, because these lectures could come at literally any moment and who could plan for when teachers were going to start grooming children? Which leads to a question that should be asked and answered: Just how often are teachers engaging in grooming behavior such that they cannot even say when the groomings will begin and end? Maryland's position seems to be that teachers are going to groom children nigh-constantly, so it's too much of a bureaucratic chore to excuse children every time a groomer teacher wants to tell them that gender is infinitely mutable and just "assigned at birth" as a guess by a bigoted doctor and isn't it wonderful to have gay sex?The Court rejected these arguments, and found that bureaucratic convenience did not overrule the protections of the First Amendment, which guarantees parents the right to decide their children's religious upbringing. And note that all parents are forced to pay for public school and also that schooling until age 16 (or whatever) is compulsory, so parents cannot just "remove their children from school," as -- guess who? -- Ketanji Brown Jackson asserted in oral arguments.
Public schools in Maryland must allow parents with religious objections to withdraw their children from classes in which storybooks with L.G.B.T.Q. themes are discussed, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court's liberal members in dissent. The case extended a winning streak for claims of religious freedom at the court, gains that have often come at the expense of other values, notably gay rights. The case concerned a new curriculum adopted in 2022 for prekindergarten through the fifth grade by the Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland's largest school system. The storybooks included "Pride Puppy," an alphabet primer about a family whose puppy gets lost at a Pride parade; "Love, Violet," about a girl who develops a crush on her female classmate; "Born Ready," about a transgender boy; and "Uncle Bobby's Wedding," about a same-sex union. At first, the school system gave parents notice when the storybooks were to be discussed, along with the opportunity to have their children excused. But school administrators soon eliminated the advance notice and opt-out policy, saying it was hard to administer, led to absenteeism and risked "exposing students who believe the storybooks represent them and their families to social stigma and isolation."Jonathan Turley notes there is more sharp argument between the justices, with the conservatives rebuking the "Wise Latina" Sotomayor and Ketanji "I don't understand why there's so much legalese in the law" Brown Jackson.
Parents of several faiths sued, saying the books violated the First Amendment's protection of the free exercise of religion. The books, their complaint said, "promote one-sided transgender ideology, encourage gender transitioning and focus excessively on romantic infatuation." The parents said they did not seek to remove the books from school libraries and classrooms but only to shield their children from having to discuss them. (The school system has since withdrawn two of the seven books, including "Pride Puppy." In court papers, officials said the books had been re-evaluated under standard procedures but did not elaborate.)
The pictures begin at page 42 of the opinion, in an Appendix to the decision.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
...We have our fourth opinion. It is Mahmoud v. Taylor, by Justice Alito. Huge 6-3 victory for parental rights over the ability to withdraw their children from LGBTQ lessons. ...Another sharp exchange between the justices. Alito goes after Sotomayor's characterizations: "We similarly disagree with the dissent's deliberately blinkered view that these storybooks and related instruction merely "expos[e] students to the 'message' that LGBTQ people exist" ...For those of us who wanted a robust defense of parental rights, there are some strong lines, including: "We reject this chilling vision of the power of the state to strip away the critical right of parents to guide the religious development of their children. Yoder and Barnette embody a very different view of religious liberty, one that comports with the fundamental values of the American people." ...There was also an implied push back on Justice Jackson stating in oral argument that parents can simply take their children out of schools -- a rather callous position for many families who have no other financial choice... ...From Alito: "According to the dissent, parents who send their children to public school must endure any instruction that falls short of direct compulsion or coercion and must try to counteract that teaching at home. The Free Exercise Clause is not so feeble. The parents in Barnette and Yoder were similarly capable of teaching their religious values "at home," but that made no difference to the First Amendment analysis in those cases." ...The Court includes pictures from these books to drive home these points...
Leftist always lie about everything, but this is one of their favorite lies: Claiming that books that show boys giving men blowjobs are just about "acknowledging that homosexuality exists." They refuse to acknowledge the pornographic illustrations, and, when you try to show them at school board meetings, they tell you you're out-of-line because they don't allow explicit images in their meetings. The images here do not show boys giving men blowjobs, but they are very blatantly gay groomer propaganda.
Can wear what I want and be proud and carefree.
My friends defend my choices and my place
A bathroom, like all rooms, should be a safe space. No, no sexual-political messaging for kindergarten-aged children here, nope, none at all! I can't even imagine the images in "Pride Puppy" might be-- even the school admitted that that one was over-the-line and had to withdraw that one. From the Court's conclusion:
The Board's introduction of the "LGBTQ+-inclusive" storybooks, along with its decision to withhold opt outs, places an unconstitutional burden on the parents' rights to the free exercise of their religion. The parents have therefore shown that they are likely to succeed in their free exercise claims. They have likewise shown entitlement to a prelim- inary injunction pending the completion of this lawsuit. In the absence of an injunction, the parents will continue to be put to a choice: either risk their child's exposure to burdensome instruction, or pay substantial sums for alternative educational services. As we have explained, that choice unconstitutionally burdens the parents' religious exercise, and " '[t]he loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.' " Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 592 U. S. 14, 19 (2020) (per curiam) (quoting Elrod v. Burns, 427 U. S. 347, 373 (1976) (plurality opinion)). Fur-So much legalese in that! So much dry technical reasoning!
thermore, in light of the strong showing made by the parents here, and the lack of a compelling interest supporting the Board's policies, an injunction is both equitable and in the public interest. The petitioners should receive preliminary relief while this lawsuit proceeds. See Winter, 555 U. S., at 20. Specifically, until all appellate review in this case is completed, the Board should be ordered to notify them in advance whenever one of the books in question or any other similar book is to be used in any way and to allow them to have their children excused from that instruction.
Oh, so it's all about the teachers and poor beleaguered educrats, huh? Oh wait, no it's not: Children may be harmed by being robbed of learning about how wonderful gender transitions are:
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley ...The dissenting justices again raise apocalyptic predictions for the nation by allowing children to opt out of LGBT readings: "The result will be chaos for this Nation's public schools. Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent's religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools.
The harm will not be borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too. Classroom disruptions and absences may well inflict long-lasting harm on students' learning and development."Below, an example of why the liberals may have a point: Many "teachers" seem to have taken the job exclusively for purposes of sharing their Trans Journey with their state-compelled captive audience of children:
"Nobody grooms kids at school!" they shriek.
— Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) June 27, 2025
Meanwhile, here’s a teacher proudly describing how she trains preschoolers to reject their own instincts, bodies, and logic, then uses them to indoctrinate each other.
Watch: pic.twitter.com/nrKuKzFsWn
She was going full meltdown mode because the ducks weren’t following feminist protocol. 🤦♂️
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) June 27, 2025
pic.twitter.com/YRQ5DTL0XK
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (pMi6S)
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Oh brother.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (PzXaK)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (pMi6S)
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"I agree."
-ACB, signing off on this
Seriously, behind closed doors Jackson must be fucking awful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)
- your average leftist, today.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:15 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:15 PM (mlg/3)
pic.twitter.com/YRQ5DTL0XK
— Clown World � 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) June 27, 2025
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In her defense:
She has what appears to be a pretty nice rack.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:15 PM (GBKbO)
there is a literal epidemic of female teachers being jailed for sexing up their students, of either sex.
LGBT+++KMAP said: 'Hold my Beer'
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:16 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:16 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 01:16 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:16 PM (Vfq+S)
Perverts try to get jobs where they interact with children?
Who knew?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 01:16 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (PzXaK)
yes, they recently ruled in favor of Catholic Charities and against WI's facciabrutta Supreme Court
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (/HVsR)
Praise the Lord this crap is being shut down for now.
But like roaches or that crazy ex girlfriend, this will come around again.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (RUMEY)
— Clown World � 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) June 27, 2025
I got a pic of a poodle sitting in a chair.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (PoyWM)
Parents have rights now?! Historic, if true.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (4/l8P)
The second best thing would have been a 9-0 decision stating the two obvious things: parents have the ultimate authority over their child's edcuation and these books are wholly inappropriate in schools.
I will gleefully take this win.
Posted by: alexthechick at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (x4Xwu)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Can we trebuchet these people into the sun please? at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: nobody at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (NhiOW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (63Dwl)
Which gets written first? The majority opinion or the dissenting opinion?
Or are they written concurrently with each "team" reading the other team's drafts?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (7fElN)
(sounds like Mandingo's side bitch)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (/HVsR)
I thought it was that movie where the kids played that board game then one of them turned into Karen Gillan which made me question a few things about myself.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (PzXaK)
Posted by: XTC at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (Hkcdp)
The second best thing would have been a 9-0 decision stating the two obvious things: parents have the ultimate authority over their child's edcuation and these books are wholly inappropriate in schools.
I will gleefully take this win.
Posted by: alexthechick at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (x4Xwu)
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"As a black woman, this legalese terrifies me because it reminds me of when lynching was common in America, which was yesterday."
-KBJ
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
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She's no prize in front of closed doors...
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: lizabth at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (Jfw7U)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (PzXaK)
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Maybe they'll find a federal judge to rule otherwise.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (7fElN)
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She's no prize in front of closed doors...
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (TN0g+)
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She's terrible in oral arguments.
She's probably much, much worse in closed sessions and in electronic communications.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey, Roberts. Black woman talking here.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (PzXaK)
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (Vngri)
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (xakc9)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (+qU29)
The dissenting justices again raise apocalyptic predictions for the nation by allowing children to opt out of LGBT readings: "The result will be chaos for this Nation�s public schools. Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent�s religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools.
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I see it. These gender lessons aren't discrete classes or lesson plans that can be precisely opted out of. It's like separating a drop of dye in a glass of water at this point. Classrooms are draped in rainbow flags, posters about inclusion are all over the walls, trans non "nonbinary" teachers push their pronouns and identities as part of classroom protocol, how do you "opt out" from that?
Answer of course is home-school or send them to a private school, but the whole opting out thing is ridiculously gameable and impossible.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (HuRzZ)
Andy Ago has been documenting the arrestees, and it seems that that a majority of the people arrested are trannies.
Ngo earlier documented that during the Summer of Love riots in Portland that a significant portion of the arrestees were trannies.
The shock troops of the Left.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (xTIDn)
I pray for the souls of the 3.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at June 27, 2025 01:21 PM (gxokI)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (PzXaK)
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Maybe they'll find a federal judge to rule otherwise.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (7fElN)
Who says they'll be using any sort of mental gymnastics at all? They can always just plain ignore it.
Posted by: I'd take that bet at June 27, 2025 01:21 PM (TbWk/)
Guns
BBQ
Free Speech
Working Out
Jobs and Energy
vs
Trannies
Pedos
Illegals
Mentally Ill Females
Jihadists
Boy, this choice is getting tougher by the day.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:21 PM (rCia8)
I really hate that these cases have to be argued under "freedom of religion" instead of "We don't want our children exposed to perverts. We never should have let you assholes out of the closet."
Posted by: Chuck C at June 27, 2025 01:21 PM (D0HYP)
But like roaches or that crazy ex girlfriend, this will come around again.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (RUMEY)
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You bastard!
Posted by: Crazy Ex-Girlfriends of America Local 439 at June 27, 2025 01:21 PM (/HVsR)
Which gets written first? The majority opinion or the dissenting opinion?
Or are they written concurrently with each "team" reading the other team's drafts?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I just assumed that Barrett read Jackson's dissent as written on the partition of the bathroom stall in the womens' room. One advantage of her being on the court.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:21 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
They could have had me.
Posted by: Kamala at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (pwtJC)
School systems for elected officials and other assorted degenerates.
Posted by: Kamala at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (6PCLE)
-KBJ
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How does she know she is a woman?
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (FmapG)
"As a black woman, this legalese terrifies me because it reminds me of when lynching was common in America, which was yesterday."
-KBJ
Today we have indirect lynching.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (63Dwl)
Maybe all they needed was a living example of what it means to have a spine and PDJT gave them that.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (/y8xj)
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Oh yeah because if there's one thing our schools are lacking, it's Administrators.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (URRXY)
She's probably much, much worse in closed sessions and in electronic communications.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
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I imagine that she is toxic - so smug and confident in her ignorance. Unlike the late RBG, who was apparently charming enough behind closed doors that she developed a friendship with Scalia. But Jackson must just be insufferable.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (1IHk6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
There's a reason islam is becoming popular in Yoorupe.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (mlg/3)
well that much of the groomer book is correct. People often confuse fantasyland/romantic/too much dopamine in the blood for LOVE
totally nonsensical
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (dCxaZ)
Answer of course is home-school or send them to a private school, but the whole opting out thing is ridiculously gameable and impossible.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Pay mandatory taxes for education and pay again for actual education is not a winning argument. Imho
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (9W9/O)
Is Alito suggesting that grooming is going on in public schools?
Posted by: mr tmz at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (rJ48h)
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Oh yeah because if there's one thing our schools are lacking, it's Administrators.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (rCia
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Leftist solution: Raise taxes! Gotta pay for all those extra administrators to oversee the additional bureaucratic red tape caused by this ruling.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (pwtJC)
Also, they NEVER go to read in drag at senior centers, where the residents are lonely and can really use love and attention. Whenever I've gone with a choir group to sing to seniors, they are always so appreciative and ask us to please come back. I think they know the seniors would heckle them. Also: not sexy and young enough.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (PzXaK)
State nullification of federal law, citing Wisconsin's nullification of the federal fugitive slave law through legislation.
Which will make me swell up and burst trying to keep from laughing
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (D7oie)
I noticed that the DOJ has been presented with a criminal referral for Chris Wray's sworn testimony concerning FBI surveillance of "traditional" Catholic parishes.
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (rj6Yv)
So, it's not about a gay dog? I had a male sheltie who squatted like a bitch when he peed. I was pretty sure he was gay.
Posted by: Kamala at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (i24o9)
Can you imagine KBJ in conference? Thomas must sit there and think, "150 years of advancement and this is what we get?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (/HVsR)
-KBJ
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So how do you think *we* feel, as victims of 99% of all lynchings?
Posted by: Republicans at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (rCia8)
We're in the First Turning cycle. This is the time for setting the stage for A New Paradigm
everybody falls in line to these unconscious energies, even SCOTI
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (dCxaZ)
Need to see after jumping in the pond...
And where did all of these nose jewelry types come from, anyway? Teachers, waitresses, etc...
Posted by: 24/7/365 school meals at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (tubbA)
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And that little dog was me.
Posted by: Elena Kagan at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (rCia8)
I can't believe this. Life IS ACTUALLY South Park now.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 01:26 PM (fV+MH)
They only show that gay people exist, racist bigots.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 01:26 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2025 01:26 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:26 PM (pZEOD)
I am told that Fairfax County Public Schools will not allow parents to observe classes, certainly not without a lot of bureaucratic hoops that are designed to prohibit it.
They really want those closed doors and no questions asked donations to fundraisers.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 01:26 PM (PzXaK)
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (pMi6S)
Can you imagine KBJ in conference? Thomas must sit there and think, "150 years of advancement and this is what we get?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (/HVsR)
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I bet his reaction is more like, "This bitch is hilarious."
Kagan is the one who probably suffers the most. She spent the last few years cozying up to ACB to make her amenable to her thinking. Coaxing her through friendly lunches where she brought ACB over to her side bit by bit on some issues.
And now ACB is so turned off by Jackson that she's insulting her and her "judicial philosophy" in written opinions that 5 other justices sign off on, damaging Kagan's overall goals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Reading local reddit, right after the election in November, parents of trans children went loco. To the point they imagined people hanging out by high schools to kidnap their kids. Granted, I have a lot more things to do to waste my time, but this I never thought about or would do.
There is some serious mental illness out there and I thank Barky, the Dims and Biden who paved the way for all that is wrong in this country.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (6PCLE)
Senior centers might have some combat veterans who would beat them with their canes.
Posted by: Chuck C at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (D0HYP)
TikTok lady sez...
"If you want to know what it's like to be trans and work with children but not pass as the gender you identify with..."
That's oddly specific.
But it shows how routine it seemingly is for these wacky gender people to go for K, pre-K, and elementary school teaching jobs.
Somehow these two things keep going together.
My data is shyte -- basically, seeing tons of these tiktoks from these blue-haired weebles -- but I think there's a pattern.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (Hkcdp)
In an honorable and just world the teacher winds up on the federal sexual offenders registry
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
What a racist, insolent statement.
Posted by: The Left at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: fourseasons at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
What a racist, insolent statement.
Posted by: The Left at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (vm8sq)
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*yawns*
What else you got? That's so 2007.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
Some may be confused that a kid like me
Can wear what I want and be proud and carefree.
My friends defend my choices and my place
A bathroom, like all rooms, should be a safe space.
No, no sexual-political messaging for kindergarten-aged children here, nope, none at all!
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 01:29 PM (KRtlO)
Would this have been decided this way if it was only Christian parents?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 01:29 PM (t/2Uw)
(worse than my mother in law, she is.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 01:29 PM (m5cDg)
Not only is it propaganda , but what five year old (?) talks like that? I wouldn't be surprised if the person who wrote this awful book actually has no kids.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 01:29 PM (2GCMq)
And that little dog was me.
Posted by: Elena Kagan
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What's your gender today? Because, you know, female dogs...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:29 PM (HuRzZ)
And that, by itself, is all that need be said about it.
Anything else is child abuse.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 01:29 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (pwtJC)
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that has to , HAS TO be a joke !
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (g47mK)
Somehow these two things keep going together.
My data is shyte -- basically, seeing tons of these tiktoks from these blue-haired weebles -- but I think there's a pattern.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (HuRzZ)
Aside from the obvious (them being pedophiles), there's also that young children aren't strong enough to beat the shit out of them.
High School seniors very much are.
Posted by: XTC at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (UnA8+)
I could be wrong, but it seems the dissenting justices on SCOTUS just gave grounds for lawsuits against teacher's unions for unnecessarily keeping schools closed during covid.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (M0V4/)
Kagan is the one who probably suffers the most.
__________
I know Kagan is a lost cause, but at least I can respect her intelligence. The Abuela and Your Crazy Black Girlfriend are just plain dumb.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (/HVsR)
Also, they NEVER go to read in drag at senior centers, where the residents are lonely and can really use love and attention. Whenever I've gone with a choir group to sing to seniors, they are always so appreciative and ask us to please come back. I think they know the seniors would heckle them. Also: not sexy and young enough.
It's a blessing of liberty your bigot cultist. You don't understand the gift of tolerance as I, I mean Jesus, preached.
Posted by: David French at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (Hkcdp)
DeSantis says "Alligator Alcatraz" in the middle of the Everglades will be ready to house illegal aliens by next week
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (m5cDg)
So Kagan, the lesbian justice, was...grooming her? Haha.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:31 PM (Eng1Z)
Kagan is the one who probably suffers the most.
__________
I know Kagan is a lost cause, but at least I can respect her intelligence. The Abuela and Your Crazy Black Girlfriend are just plain dumb.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:30 PM (/HVsR)
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Kagan's wrong a lot, has her motives, and is as political as anyone else on SCOTUS, but she understands that referencing precedent is a good thing and can do it well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: man at June 27, 2025 01:31 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 01:31 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 01:31 PM (KRtlO)
Our constitution and in particular The Bill of Rights has therefore become nothing but an instrument to be corrupted and used against us. It’s being done with the help of useful idiots like Justices Jackson and Sotomayor who lead the fifth column from the courts. That’s being disseminated down to the lower courts who have become nothing but subversives increasingly hostile to equal justice and constitutionality of our law. It’s about time we started pushing back, in fact we should demand it.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 01:31 PM (sdi9Z)
Toward the end of that clip, you see a man, presumably her husband, bringing her a net so she can wade out and prevent the duck rape.
Mallard ducks are migratory birds.
Harrowing them during breeding season is a federal offense, I believe.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 01:32 PM (GnVQ5)
Parents who want to know what their kids are being taught really are a giant pain in the ass.
Posted by: NEA & AFT at June 27, 2025 01:32 PM (0Htd1)
Aaaaand what happens if the psycho teacher hangs rainbow crap all around the classroom and pushes the pronouns stuff every day?
Posted by: Lizzy
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Hence me at #43.
Classrooms are draped in rainbow flags, posters about inclusion are all over the walls, trans "nonbinary" teachers push their pronouns and identities as part of classroom protocol, how do you "opt out" from that?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:32 PM (HuRzZ)
Also, they NEVER go to read in drag at senior centers, where the residents are lonely and can really use love and attention.
_________
Like, why don't faith-healing ministers set up shop in hospitals?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:32 PM (/HVsR)
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oh well- whaddya gonna do
anyway: NFL training camps open soon, so that's cool
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:32 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: ace
Thanks, Ace! You cured my low blood pressure!
Posted by: Chuck C at June 27, 2025 01:33 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Chuck C
I know one that worked with the OSS. It may take him 10 min to find his stiletto, but he will find you.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:33 PM (mlg/3)
I hate people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 01:33 PM (YUL+W)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (Gmq6N)
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Shocking, that...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (6bTRc)
I know that the images are necessary for this post, because they serve its argument, but I just can't look at them anymore.
I boycott any place that shows the "PFLAG". For me it's like the Cross to a vampire I guess.
Posted by: gKWVE at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop
A prerequisite for that course is Lessons in Buying Cool Cars. I think Elric teaches it.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LizLem
They go to places where children are, because they are looking for grooming targets.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (63Dwl)
They do not have the unlimited right to decide the Constitutionality of laws.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM
Say rather that they don't have the exclusive right to decide the Constitutionality of laws.
Each branch is empowered, nay, required, to interpret the Constitution and to follow it as their judgment determines.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:33 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (63Dwl)
Clown World dress code
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
Furries get a bullet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 01:35 PM (Wnv9h)
"Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent's religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools."
So if parents should just yank their kids out of schools that teach a curriculum that they disagree with...wouldn't it also follow that teachers and administrators should just drop out of the educational profession if they don't like having to accommodate parents/children who want to opt out of the curriculum?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 01:35 PM (M0V4/)
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Yup.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:36 PM (6bTRc)
Aside from the obvious (them being pedophiles), there's also that young children aren't strong enough to beat the shit out of them.
High School seniors very much are.
Posted by: XTC
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Yes. High school boys will zealously vandalize the tampon machines in their bathrooms. But these little kids will go home and tell their parents that Mx. Connor is a boy AND a girl, and sometimes people don't look like a boy even though they are a boy, and sometimes...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:36 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 01:36 PM (1U8ba)
That would really get the left going.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 01:36 PM (hfg0k)
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But not apparently for straight members of the opposite sex (you know 95% of the public).
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 27, 2025 01:36 PM (96jnc)
Won't someone care enough to stop this obscenity? Why, it's like no one gives a duck.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 01:36 PM (4/BuS)
See below for my comment about decisions made on excess empathy and a lack of reason.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
a 'life sentence' will not mean much to him either,
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (9W9/O)
Posted by: nobody at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (NhiOW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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By their fruits, you shall know them. Leftism as a whole since Gramsci has sought to take over institutions by stealth and that became unified with leftism's romanticism (used in the older term of emotional versus reason) purposefully eschewing reason as various means of oppression of one's true nature.
Marx, whatever his useless twaddle was, or even Lenin, built their cases on reason, not romanticism. But via the Frankfurt School and its Gramscian revolution, reason was eliminated step by step in favor of becoming noble savages known more for their external coloring, private parts, and where they sought to put their parts into instead of reasoning adults.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: The Left at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (vm8sq)
*yawns* What else you got? That's so 2007.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
This is rich... Mamdani's supporters are saying if you oppose him, it's not because you hate radical socialism and don't want it to destroy NYC, it's because you're islamophobic! Of course.
That might play well on the View and CNN. For regular new Yorkers, that is hopefully so 2007 and they're over it.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (Eng1Z)
whenever Homo Hour comes up at school, the opt-out kids go to the library to study actual subjects like history, science, etc
just read a book until the Introduction To Queerness lesson is over
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (OhltJ)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (mlg/3)
Cuz you can beat your wife?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (/HVsR)
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I bet his reaction is more like, "This bitch is hilarious."
Kagan is the one who probably suffers the most. She spent the last few years cozying up to ACB to make her amenable to her thinking. Coaxing her through friendly lunches where she brought ACB over to her side bit by bit on some issues.
And now ACB is so turned off by Jackson that she's insulting her and her "judicial philosophy" in written opinions that 5 other justices sign off on, damaging Kagan's overall goals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
So the lesbian is grooming the attractive female?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM (xcxpd)
There is a lot behind this. The teachers claimed to hate NCLB because it required them to "teach to the test" and deprived them of time to groom and talk about their lives and "rap" with the kids.
Think about that, it is like an accountant saying that he needs a job with fewer numbers, or a lawyer wanting to avoid "legalese."
But the push back from NCLB had many districts allowing more and more bullshit time for teachers to groom. The only solution to this is to totally eliminate all public schooling. Privatize the entire industry with standardized state mandated testing and some core curricula.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM (m5cDg)
Furries get a bullet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 01:35 PM (Wnv9h)
If I recall, there was bandage outfits involved.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (Gmq6N)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (Hkcdp)
In an honorable and just world the teacher winds up on the federal sexual offenders registry
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (D7oie)
Primarily I have been forced into teaching because businesses will not hire unless you "know people" and accept that everyone is expendable and no one has a real friend (h/t Floyd, Pink) and all you can have are "strategic friends". And don't forget "It's not what you know its WHO you know!!!" But I also figure I have enough knowledge from my 29 years of real world experiences here and elsewhere I can impart to youth.
Among the very last things I care about is who or what they want to sleep with. If a teacher goes into the business obsessed with kids in that manner, they need to be in prison someplace.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (iJfKG)
Can wear what I want and be proud and carefree.
My friends defend my choices and my place
A bathroom, like all rooms, should be a safe space.
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Wow that's bad, and for way more than the groomer shit.
Yes, everyone wants support and if there's someone who *never* gives it to you, that person is not a friend. But someone who will *always* defend you and never tell you when you're being a 'tard or an asshole is also very much *not* a friend. "Tough love" is a real thing, and when a friend of yours says, "dude, you're being a 'tard," it's a vital piece of feedback. It could very well be wrong and you must judge it appropriately when it happens - the "friend" could be false and trying to destroy you - but this is necessary and *must* happen.
"Support me no matter what or you're not my friend" is an exceedingly bad lesson and goes way beyond the grooming. This is how you breed brittleness and fragility. That's good for groomers, but incredibly bad for mental health.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (6bTRc)
That would really get the left going.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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Nope. NFA items were stripped by the Senate Parliamentarian despite Scotus declaring specifically that the NFA was constitutional only BECAUSE it was a tax.
Basically, the Senate Parliamentarian keeps arguing that any conservative attempts to cut off the spending spigot or to affect taxes is not germane to reconciliation. She argues that eliminating the NFA taxes on silencers etc. is specifically more social legislation than budgetary.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (AOsQT)
Which will make me swell up and burst trying to keep from laughing
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (D7oie)
Particularly if SCOTUS upholds it on 10A grounds. The tricky part will be when fedguv says no $$$$.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (ExV1e)
Our curricula and reading lists are published. ANYONE can visit a class with prior notice (how I wish they would!). Teachers can select texts without official approval AS LONG AS those texts comply with strict guidelines, and they risk dismissal if the texts don't.
I despise "young adult fiction" as classroom texts because students can understand them on their own. For the sake of our common heritage and culture, the classic texts NEED to be taught; to do otherwise is almost like burning them (F451 allusion).
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (USyCi)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (hfg0k)
Posted by: Ketanji Action Jackson at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM (xcxpd)
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"attractive"
She's like a 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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I bet he goes home each night and kisses his wife Ginni.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 01:41 PM (fV+MH)
Ketanji Brown Jackson
( ) Better Broadway Actress
or
( ) Better Supreme Court Justice
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (iJfKG)
() None of the above
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:41 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (Vfq+S)
Why rob banks? Because that's where the money is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 01:41 PM (YUL+W)
Exactly. The hallways have celebrations of perversion, the special events at auditoriums show tender movies about queers and transexuals. The library is full of this crap. Students who "transition" are given special welcomes and the class is taught to treat them as if they are what they claim to be, and love them and embrace their difference.
Normal kids? Ignored, at best.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:41 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM
A college softball team 4.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (jc0TO)
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Actually all ADULTS are required to pay for public miseducation whether they have kids in school or not
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (Gmq6N)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 01:31 PM (KRtlO)
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No thanks. I'm guessing they are NSFW (or really, Not Safe For Anyone).
Also, I just ate lunch. I don't want to make a mess all over my desk. I get enough of that from my cats at home.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Public schools are a state issue, not federal. That being said, public education is dying in states that promote vouchers and/or home schooling. But, the risk is that the states will simply then command those private schools and home schoolers to follow ever increasing mandates from the states when teaching.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Half Dozen at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (KLq91)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM (xcxpd)
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"attractive"
She's like a 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
I'm sure considering her competition, she's the best option for Kagan to flick her bean to.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (xcxpd)
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Then close the schools. You can't succeed by your own admission, and are therefore unfit for purpose.
There is a constant thread of war throughout history, which is the war over who owns children.
Do the parents own their children? Does the state? Does the church? This is a very old war. I am firmly on the side of "parents own their children."
You don't own the kids, schools. If you can't satisfy the demands of the owners, you must cease to exist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (6bTRc)
" I love you mama, but I don't want to be you."
Not only is it propaganda , but what five year old (?) talks like that?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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omg since Fenelon did us a public service, I will continue...
"I don't want tomorrow to come because tomorrow I'll look like you."
AFTER MAMA AGREES TO LET 6-YEAR-OLD TRANSITION:
"For the first time, my insides don't feel like fire. They feel like warm, golden love."
Black people must absolutely love that this is a Black family.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mrs. Avery at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (m5cDg)
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Atomic Tranny DogBoy broken free from his leash and humping a Trans Fire Hydrant?
Posted by: ShainS -- Socialism is the Suicide Pact of Mediocrity at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (lMOMR)
Watch the 9/11 footage, including people jumping from upper floors, and try that approach again, jerks.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (hfg0k)
Posted by: Paco at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (mADJX)
Remember when Mitt Romney tied his gay Sheltie to his car? Literally worse than Iran, I'm shaking.
Posted by: WHOOPI! at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (CHaZg)
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Since when does the modern educational complex care about "disruptions?" They have come down firmly on the side of "all disruptions must be tolerated, and disciplinary action must be avoided."
Can't have it both ways, schools.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (ctrM5)”
The senate leader appoints the parliamentarian. He should rid of us this unelected person who keeps undermining our country, not bow to her. The VP can also (I believe) overrule her. She not only stripped all the NFA related parts, but also parts of the proposed Medicaid changes.
Enough of this crap.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (sdi9Z)
Posted by: eleven
It's California, should have tried Spanish. California ducks don't speak English.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (Vfq+S)
music class
gym class
whatever
this isn't rocket surgery
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: NEA & AFT at June 27, 2025 01:32 PM (0Htd1)
In a perfect world, if the NEA and AFT are found to be unions for people who take a paycheck from taxpayers, they are instantly decertified, and presumably immediately out of business.
For if you take a paycheck from the taxpayer, you have zero business belonging to a union.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (vm8sq)
She's like a 4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
ACB? She's more like an 8 in my book.
But, I know, WMB, yadda yadda. You do you.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:44 PM (77rzZ)
Fast forward 30 years and its all about "you might be a girl trapped in a boys body or vice versa" and throwing in the pedo grooming as well. All started with the "we have to be nice to handful of kids with weird families".
Posted by: PaleRider at June 27, 2025 01:44 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM
Rule 1, people....Rule 1.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 01:44 PM (Wnv9h)
Which gets written first? The majority opinion or the dissenting opinion?
Or are they written concurrently with each "team" reading the other team's drafts?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (7fElN)
In the Dredd Scott case, some of the dissenting opinions were written before the main opinion was redone to "settle" the slavery question once and for all, which resulted in some dissents being pulled back and some not. This pissed off a lot of the judges.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 01:44 PM (8avO+)
http://tiny.cc/dj4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (6bTRc)
Yeah I'd buy that but they elected the dude. I think they are all in on that crap.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (dfIr7)
So the lesbian is grooming the attractive female?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM (xcxpd)
Well, after beating her head against the wall trying to groom Justice Scalia for years, she went with an easier target.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (y9nCu)
QUACK
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (v0R5T)
My 4-year-old boy tottered up to me and said, with tears in his eyes, "Daddy, why won't the Supreme Court let me chop off my dingus?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (1IHk6)
Hey now.
Posted by: Bearclaws, 1 and 2 at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: toby928
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That was the reasoning in Andrew Jackson's Veto Message over rechartering the 2nd Bank of the US. He said it because McCulloch v. Maryland specifically held that creation of that bank was constitutional.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (ctrM5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-I1aRGttY
(Scene of duck sex from "Green Porno," a series on animal sex starring Isabella Rosellini)
Maybe help stop human rape-rape in the park instead, lady.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (Eng1Z)
Guaranteed jackass. Kid who always gets his way is going to be...unpleasant.
Posted by: man at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM
Adhesive, or Ace?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (Wnv9h)
Oh, I didn't see that part. Just awful and ludicrous for a five year old to be saying.
This is really ripe for parody.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (2GCMq)
Good public schools provide the nucleus of a community. They need strong leadership to prevent the nonsense from poisoning things.
Students whose parents are unintelligent or uninvolved need some structure and stability. I don't like that I have to play that role, but I do.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (USyCi)
God the Left are fucking actual retards.
The Left: Every business decision must be subject to five years of mandated bureaucracy because of a fake salmon, but it's too onerous to notify parents when we are fucking your kids.
Fuck you, faggots.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (rCia8)
Ugh. That sounds like work. -- Congress
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (ExV1e)
There is a constant thread of war throughout history, which is the war over who owns children.
Do the parents own their children? Does the state? Does the church? This is a very old war. I am firmly on the side of "parents own their children."
You don't own the kids, schools. If you can't satisfy the demands of the owners, you must cease to exist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (6bTRc)
Ultimately if the parents aren't in control of their children's lives, why have a family? Should parents just turn their children over to the police at the age of six where the State will raise them?
No? So this whole "family" thing in fact matters?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (vm8sq)
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Retardation or performance art? Power of and?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (6bTRc)
just read a book until the Introduction To Queerness lesson is over
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:37 PM (AOsQT)
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Considering how much of that tranny crap is infesting the school library, that's the LAST place I'd send kids during "opt out" time. They'll be surrounded by the very stuff they left class to avoid. Perfect grooming ground for the pleasant librarian "friend."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at June 27, 2025 01:47 PM (EtZ9h)
As of course is the Senate GOP's meek submission to the idiocy.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 01:47 PM (1m82a)
I despise "young adult fiction" as classroom texts because students can understand them on their own. For the sake of our common heritage and culture, the classic texts NEED to be taught; to do otherwise is almost like burning them (F451 allusion).
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom
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So damn true. I despise "young adult fiction" period, actually. People that age are capable of reading the classics.
But then I'm that way about all genre fiction, which makes me an absolute scold.
Glad to see you around, goddess, and I'm glad you're doing okay in Florida.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:47 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:47 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 27, 2025 01:47 PM (bP/i4)
Why are the screaming imbeciles always women ?
Posted by: Xipe Totec
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She's taking a break from making TikTok videos in her car.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:47 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Buzz Light-in-the-Loafers Year at June 27, 2025 01:47 PM (47/pr)
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Then close the schools. You can't succeed by your own admission, and are therefore unfit for purpose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:42 PM (6bTRc)
Or don't teach this program. After all, school suck in teaching reading writing and math, study habits and everything else. You'll screw this up too.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (36PRH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:41 PM (dfIr7)
Not to mention, so many kids now want to be Social Media Influencers, that's how they want to make their money.
And if you're a boy and you see that everyone getting drowned in donations and Superchats on streaming platforms are e-whores?
You might just want to "be a girl" yourself to get in on all that e-whore money.
Posted by: XTC at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (ExV1e)
Next you'll say really mean things like Congress should, you know, pass a budget (Not a CR - a BUDGET) and laws.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (vm8sq)
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Since when does the modern educational complex care about "disruptions?" They have come down firmly on the side of "all disruptions must be tolerated, and disciplinary action must be avoided."
Can't have it both ways, schools.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (6bTRc)
Um, Covid. They can shove this phony concern up their collective large backsides.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (v0R5T)
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Retardation or performance art? Power of and?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (6bTRc)
She was just mad because the female ducks had a smile on their bill.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (YUL+W)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (vm8sq)
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Matters more than anything else.
If you want a functional civilization, respecting the family is a cornerstone. You cannot build without it.
If you want a totalitarian utopia, replacing the family is a cornerstone. You cannot build with it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (4/BuS)
But Im strong and brave like that!
Posted by: El Borak at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (URPBf)
This is obviously crap and they know it. Everyone knows what topics are problematic and troubling to most parents. Everyone knows what they are trying to do. Teachers are not confused and stymied by trying to figure out which topics need to be approached differently. They are choosing those topics BECAUSE parents oppose them.
Its a thirty second bit before each of your grooming sessions to say "if you don't want to take part, you can go to the library" we had that in school in the 70s and 80s, for sex ed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (mlg/3)
Can't have it both ways, schools.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (6bTRc)
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Disrupting colonial, racist systems of education, like rote learning, is their bread and butter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: whig
Well. Of course it is state issue and I would be first in line to remove all federal funding. Same for roads, medicaid, etc.
I support a minimal federally mandated curricula and testing. The next big problem is muslim schools sliding in under protections we allow for Christian and Jewish schools. They are not the same. So even if we leave it all to the parents (as we should,) we need to worry about that. I have a better solution to that problem too though...
Posted by: Mrs. Avery at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (m5cDg)
This whole battle takes place in a framework I still find stupefying.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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During the week of the oral arguments for a case, Scotus holds a conference where the initial vote on who wins and who loses is held aka vote on merits. After that, Scotus chief justice assigns who writes the majority opinion or the most senior associate justice in the majority does so if the Chief is in the minority.
The majority draft is then circulated. Dissents sometimes are likewise circulated but not always and ditto for concurrences. A few times, the majority opinion becomes the minority (see the Obamacare case where the dissent reads like the majority minus Roberts (an implicit insult btw). Only when the opinion is officially released does it become final.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:50 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at June 27, 2025 01:50 PM (vBupz)
Posted by: Psycho at June 27, 2025 01:50 PM (47/pr)
To say this is "evil" is far too mild a word.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 01:50 PM (pMi6S)
God the Left are fucking actual retards.
The Left: Every business decision must be subject to five years of mandated bureaucracy because of a fake salmon, but it's too onerous to notify parents when we are fucking your kids.
Fuck you, faggots.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (rCia
Righteous.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:51 PM (i24o9)
Duck : quack, quackauaaack
AI can you interpret that
Ai: the duck says he has a duck boner and if he doesn't hump this female duck he's coming over there and stuck it up the white ladies nose
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:51 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: El Borak at June 27, 2025 01:51 PM (URPBf)
She was literally talking to a duck like it can understand English.
Posted by: eleven
Well, yeah. I can understand English.
But, my lady and me like her screaming like that when we're making dirty duck love.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 01:51 PM (iJfKG)
Imagine trying to cock block a duck.
Posted by: eleven
I wish one of you jackwagons had learned how to cockblock a swan.
Posted by: Leda at June 27, 2025 01:51 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 01:51 PM (v0R5T)
Had to be deliberate.
This is worthy of a Rainbow Bedazzled Flaming Skull,
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Mrs. Avery
And a) the federal government has no power to issue such a diktat on curriculum unless tied to spending clause as the 10th reserves this power (aka police power of health, safety, and welfare) to the states and b) inevitably aggrieved groups will migrate to be in the position to write that curriculum.
This is an issue best left to states and even more so within states to localities.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM
The dissents and concurrences don't carry any real legal weight, except as to tell you where future judgments are going, right?
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (jc0TO)
I am okay with it, in the same sense that I am okay with comic books. Its fun and easy to read, and targeted at young people's interests and topics. But yeah, I read Ivanhoe at age 16. Mom always used to get us toys and books labeled at several grades above ours because she wanted us to reach and stretch and it was no problemo.
I think that young adults today and probably for a while now are so intellectually immature that they cannot really handle anything stronger than young adult fiction so you see 30 year old guys with Harry Potter and Maze Runner books.
Its because nobody ever taught them to strive to be bigger in their minds, to read better, or to learn better. Kids are graduating barely able to read, let alone read great works of fiction.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:43 PM (6bTRc)
I see you have been to the school where I taught for a year.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (vm8sq)
The majority draft is then circulated. Dissents sometimes are likewise circulated but not always and ditto for concurrences. A few times, the majority opinion becomes the minority (see the Obamacare case where the dissent reads like the majority minus Roberts (an implicit insult btw). Only when the opinion is officially released does it become final.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (ctrM5)
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Thanks! That answers my question! (Horde >>> ChatGPT)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (7fElN)
http://tiny.cc/dj4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM
Update on the cute redhead lawyer we just hired. She has a coffee mug with RBG's mug on it.
*waves arms frantically*
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (4/BuS)
I hardly read any fiction at that age. 9 of 10 were nonfiction.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (8avO+)
She was literally talking to a duck like it can understand English.
Posted by: eleven
Well, yeah. I can understand English.
But, my lady and me like her screaming like that when we're making dirty duck love.
Posted by: The Duck at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Psycho
Don't encourage them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (mlg/3)
She's a cutie. And for once a girl without medicine ball-sized hooters.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (dfIr7)
To say this is "evil" is far too mild a word.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 01:50 PM (pMi6S)
And the implication that the parents are bad people for not having Trooned Out or Pooner'd Out.
Posted by: XTC at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (UnA8+)
I've always had the impression that "young adult" fiction is written for adult women.
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What boy wants to read that crap? They should read Captains Courageous or Ivanhoe.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
The football coach taught "sex ed" when I was in HS. I don't recall any opt out, but it was very very low key and he was very very uncomfortable. Until he groped the single black girl in the school in front of the whole class saying she was an example of "good muscle tone." It was really something but I think he was just dumb as a goal post and was only teaching that class because someone had to teach it, and he had to teach something...
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (m5cDg)
Tongues might wag, jaws drop to the floor,
My mom’s on a quest to make me her décor!
She’s slinging trans swag because it’s TikTok’s new craze,
“Be fabulous, kid, it’s the trend of the days!”
With my hair long and dresses for days,
she does not have my six, people don’t buy the charade,
A bathroom should be safe and not Mom’s pride parade!
Might need a little work.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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I actually do not think this can be done in practice. Even the worst forms of government known to man have failed to eliminate love and familial bonds. Stunt it, try to crush it, etc. yes but it never works the way that totalitarians think it will.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (i24o9)
I'm just imagining all the class time and mental energy that's been wasted on these gender lessons. The things kids could have been learning instead.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (HuRzZ)
At some point, there will need to be a PG-13 rating for YA, like how in the 80s they made one for movies. Because YA varies from innocent teen romance (PG) to hardcore sex and violence (R). But that's also how they can sneak hard core sexual stuff into school under the guise of YA. So I don't see it changing.
One of my kids loves graphic novels, and I have to screen them to make sure there's not bad stuff in it. The coming of age teen graphic novels all have sex in them now, it seems. It's nuts. One was about a teen girl fantasizing about dating a 20-something guy as her first summer crush, another had two teens and the girl wasn't ready for "actual sex," but gave the guy a hummer instead off-screen and you see his o-face. And this was in their school library.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (rvwwT)
Round and round,
Round and round.
Posted by: School Time Songs at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (47/pr)
Eider of them could have bit her, wigeon ever one was closer.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (Hkcdp)
She was literally talking to a duck like it can understand English.
Posted by: eleven
Well, yeah. I can understand English.
But, my lady and me like her screaming like that when we're making dirty duck love.
Posted by: The Duck at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (iJfKG
That lady screaming at the duck was nuts. "GET ME A NET" then someone brings out a net and I thought there was a 50 50 chance they put it over here head.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)
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You can consolidate power and reduce internal issues to some extent for a time, but it ultimately is self-defeating since you just kind of discourage the creation of further generations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)
One need only read a bit of history from post-WW1 Germany to understand what comes next if they don't.
Posted by: Just sayin' at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (WFNbD)
Governor Newsom Press Office
@CAGovernor
Gavin Newsom issued the following statement regarding this morning’s #SCOTUS ruling:
“In a challenge to the Trump Administration’s blatantly unconstitutional birthright citizenship executive order, the Supreme Court declined to decide whether a nationwide injunction is necessary and appropriate in the lawsuits brought by the States. While the executive order is still temporarily blocked from going into effect, this decision is deeply disappointing. However, California remains hopeful that the lower courts will ensure blatant federal overreach doesn’t go unchecked.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (OhltJ)
Posted by: Rick Dees at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (tubbA)
You are an absolute gem, here. No homo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (i24o9)
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whig is pretty good...
I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
That's too bad. Not really.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (dfIr7)
Unfortunately, most "Great Works of Fiction" are about how miserable it is to be from Eastern Europe and how much one must suffer.
Posted by: XTC at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (UnA8+)
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What boy wants to read that crap? They should read Captains Courageous or Ivanhoe.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Sarah Hoyt has written about the publishing companies. Essentially they have been hijacked by the same idiots picking the Muslim Commie as mayor. AWFLs and they purposefully exclude male authors as much as they can and demand all sorts of obeisance to leftism in all its awfulness from those aspiring to publish with them.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Mrs. Avery
And a) the federal government has no power to issue such a diktat on curriculum unless . . . .
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (ctrM5)
The solution here is obviously strong parental choice. None of these problems could exist if parents were empowered with financial and political backing to choose what is best for their children, a solution we have been screaming for for decades. Which is why the useless GOPe won't do jack.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (+qU29)
I nominate her and Randi Weingarten to be dressed as goats and hurled into Tora Bora...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Narcissistic empathy, or, empathetic narcissism. Either works.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (XeU6L)
To the tune of Wishing and Hoping...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
I'm a pickin'.
And I'm a grinnin'.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (77rzZ)
Is there anything the three liberals won't defend when it comes to gay grooming of children?
Let's say a public school comes out with a program actually showing 12-year-olds how to have gay sex. Like live, in person. Would the three liberals be OK with that?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
"Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent’s religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools."
Perish forbid school administrators might be slightly inconvenienced.
"The harm will not be borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too. Classroom disruptions and absences may well inflict long-lasting harm on students’ learning and development.’"
Nothing about the law or the Constitution... Just FEEEEEEEEELINGS
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (sJLOw)
Posted by: El Borak at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (URPBf)
the girl is beauty- red hair and blue eyes? I surrender
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Max Power at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (q177U)
I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM
You ain't too bad either.
No homo.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: XTC
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They wrote what they knew best. In a more serious vein, the Great Works are there from Greece, Italy, UK, etc. as much as Russians or Kafka can be considered 'great'.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (Eng1Z)
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I did a little breakdown on YT once of how it all happens. Graphic novels (another major annoyance of mine -- READ WORDS ffs, you're over the age of 7 now) are big on adolescent lesbians. Someone in this thread or the previous talked about how agents and editors won't look at anything else. Authors oblige. I think it all winds up in libraries, not on human bookshelves, because despite the cute pictures and attempted humor and drah-mah, it's boring as shyte.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless
I was hoping it was a psychologist who was asking for the net. Ah, the good old days when people with mental illnesses were taken to an asylum, where they could not hurt themselves or others.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (dfIr7)
"Broaden your horizons! Be a Renaissance Man."
- my senior English teacher, back in my senior year of HS, in a time when years began with "19"
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (vm8sq)
Eider of them could have bit her, wigeon ever one was closer.
Posted by: Lizzy
Whichever one was more mallardjusted.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (77rzZ)
In a blue city (which includes them all) there will be no penalties.
If you now have Illegal Alien sanctuary cities, you will have Groomer, pervert, child molesting sanctuary cities.
Posted by: J R at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (v3rPo)
Posted by: Bombadil at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (MX0bI)
@JonathanTurley
...The dissenting justices again raise apocalyptic predictions for the nation by allowing children to opt out of LGBT readings: "The result will be chaos for this Nation's public schools. Requiring schools to provide advance notice and the chance to opt out of every lesson plan or story time that might implicate a parent's religious beliefs will impose impossible administrative burdens on schools.
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They will sing a completely different tune if a case gets to SCOTUS about banning books critical of Islam or about giving Muslim parents adequate opt-out notice of any lesson using the Prophet's image or not being totes supportive of Islam.
Ah, I denounce myself. That must be the rule nowadays in every public school district in the nation.
Posted by: Gref at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (aBgBM)
No homo.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (jc0TO)
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https://is.gd/yHhzf3
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (Dv3i1)
No homo.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (jc0TO)
Tolerable, except for that one thing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)
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Nowadays, I rarely ever read an author that's new to me unless it's been recommended by someone else (hi, Morons!). I've been going back and reading stuff written a long time ago, rather than new and shiny. The only exception are those authors that I've been reading for the past decade or so who release new books, because I know what they will produce (more or less).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (7fElN)
Then simply teach the three R's that schools have tsught for 80 years before this faggoty bullshit.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (i24o9)
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*nods sagaciously*
The hump on my back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (GBKbO)
Eider of them could have bit her, wigeon ever one was closer.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (Hkcdp)
These puns are gonna cost you. I'll send you the bill.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (rCia8)
And the mother should have said, "Don't worry, sweetie, tomorrow never comes. It's always today. Now get your ass in bed before I beat you within an inch of my life."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (ExV1e)
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Here's a crazy thought, don't use those materials.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (ctrM5)
Its because it would be hella expensive to do. Easier to twist them after you can get work out of them. It was an amusing part of a book about a world of gays who after the invention of machines to birth children isolated themselves 100 pct from women and used donated ovaries. The doctor tying to get more was aghast that the economic value of childcare was ignored by the government for tax purposes.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (8avO+)
She was literally talking to a duck like it can understand English.
Posted by: eleven
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Right? They're Canadian -- she should have thrown in "aye, you hoser" a couple times.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (m5cDg)
Governor Newsom Press Office
@CAGovernor
Gavin Newsom issued the following statement regarding this morning’s #SCOTUS ruling:
“In a challenge to the Trump Administration’s blatantly unconstitutional birthright citizenship executive order, the Supreme Court declined to decide whether a nationwide injunction is necessary and appropriate in the lawsuits brought by the States. While the executive order is still temporarily blocked from going into effect, this decision is deeply disappointing. However, California remains hopeful that the lower courts will ensure blatant federal overreach doesn’t go unchecked.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 01:55 PM (OhltJ
Did newsome get this right? I'm not a lawyer.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (OA79/)
Never happen. Never. They might get more quiet about it for a while, but there is a sector of every culture that longs for kiddy sex and has always been with us. They get power and influence sometimes and have to be stomped back into a corner but they never go away. And they absolutely infest the rich and powerful.
Let's say a public school comes out with a program actually showing 12-year-olds how to have gay sex. Like live, in person. Would the three liberals be OK with that?
Only if they cannot join in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (dfIr7)
The hump on my back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (GBKbO)
The other thing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM
Don't mention the war.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (jc0TO)
Then simply teach the three R's that schools have tsught for 80 years before this faggoty bullshit.
Posted by: rickb223 a
This, and if they don't, no federal funding for them. None. Zero. Squat.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (/U5Yz)
And I'm a grinnin'.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (77rzZ)
I'm actually surprised Hollywood hasn't tried to make "Hee Haw, But it's Gay" yet.
Posted by: XTC at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (UnA8+)
"One day, on the bus to shop class, this ugly f--- of a man sat behind me. ... he managed to get me to follow him to a nearby restroom. ... [A graphic description of homosexual sex follows.] I spent a good deal of time locked in the stall, trying to clean up. ... This incident should have soured me on men, but it only made me more confused and needful. ... The whole world of rest-room sex had opened itself up to me. Soon, I was spending a great deal of time hanging out at shopping malls and cruising the rest rooms for sexual encounters."
The whole book is a groomer's fantasy. Stlll used in many state.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (pMi6S)
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Scott wrote specifically that the less than romantic end of the book was intentional, as he did not want young people to believe that everything in life was moonlight and roses. That not all endings are happy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Howard the Duck at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (/HVsR)
The hump on my back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:59 PM (GBKbO)
The other thing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (i24o9)
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My cannibalism?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: El Borak at June 27, 2025 01:48 PM (URPBf)
Chappel Roan is a ridiculous human, but that song is a fun earworm. She's lesbian, and she's declared that bio women can do drag too, and the gay male drag community loves her so much they can't say boo to her. It's kind of hilarious.
But a lot of teens lap up her music, and that song is all about going to drag clubs, which she did as a teen herself. Which is incredibly unsafe.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (Eng1Z)
Gavin Newsom issued the following statement regarding this morning’s #SCOTUS ruling:
Posted by: 13times
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Which ruling specifically? Or does he mean the whole bag?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: H.A.Gay Ray at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (47/pr)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM
I canard tolerate that kind of behavior.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (Wnv9h)
Trans/gheys also try to trip up teachers in their chosen gender crap. Possibly by bringing complaints and/or lawsuits.
He was asked by a "secret" trans student which restroom to use. Unfazed, he said, "Use the staff restroom." This student insisted on being called a male name when she was born female.
Later in the year, this same kid's mother got hot and bothered that the teacher kept the kid's hidden gender from the mothership. She somehow found out that Susan was Sean in school. This issue then went up the administration ladder. This teacher was not punished...but think about it.
This is how messed up this entire deal is. Not only for confused and brainwashed children, their mental and physical implications, but for snotty liberal eternal bullshit to drive teachers to other professions (well, those who have sense).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (w6syA)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
The other, other thing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (HuRzZ)
There's nothing wrong with reading comic books - I mean, graphic novels. When I was 15, I read the graphic novel adaptation of Team Yankee. Later that summer I discovered Red Storm Rising, perhaps the greatest novel struck by the hand of man.
In third grade my teacher had a table towards the back of the room, full of comic books. Here I discovered The X-Men, among many many others. It just set the stage for me to read more and more challenging books later on and into today's time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (vm8sq)
Ducks have a hard life. In popular cartoons, ducks are often portrayed as genetic mutants with speech defects.
Posted by: Bombadil at June 27, 2025 01:58 PM (MX0bI)
That's the reason, ducks have such high rates of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (iJfKG)
Empathy is by its very nature narcissistic. Empathy is "I feel for you in your place" as in "aw I bet that sucks, it makes me feel bad." Empathy is all about you, not the person who is hurting.
Sympathy is when you feel bad WITH someone, sharing their unhappiness because you've been there. Its about them and concern for them, not you.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: XTC
Great - now you've jinxed it. They are going to redo HeeHaw with fat guys in short shorts and halter tops.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:57 PM (HuRzZ)
I liked the Elfquest books, the first graphic novel I know of from the 70s. Not to many I saw after rose above the comic book level.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:03 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 01:40 PM
It happens more than you think.
Posted by: Howard the Duck at June 27, 2025 02:03 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Wally at June 27, 2025 02:03 PM (1jdOx)
Which ruling specifically? Or does he mean the whole bag?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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nvm, I just re-read it. It's about birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:03 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Scott was quite the Jew-hater, no?
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
The other, other thing.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)
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My...having traveled through time to murder Edith Keeler and ensure that WWII happens and prevent a worse future?
I was feeling off that day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 02:04 PM (pwtJC)
I liked the Elfquest books, the first graphic novel I know of from the 70s. Not to many I saw after rose above the comic book level.
Posted by: Oldcat
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I knew I'd rub someone the wrong way. Like I say, I'm a scold about pop lit.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:04 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (sJLOw)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (Hkcdp)
They better have dental insurance.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
If you really want to trigger lefties, Scotus (reference is buried today in the decision) decided two cases during the 1920's that are still good precedent. A) Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925), which guarantees to parents the right to enroll their children in private rather than public schools and B) Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) recognizing the right of parents to control the upbringing of their children, including the right to have them learn a language other than English.
Natural law based decisions as parents could teach their children as they wished far before any governments were established.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:56 PM (i24o9)
Fortunately the TX Legislature passed SB 2 this session. And even my worthless POS RINO State Rep voted for it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Wally
Hopefully, both.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (mlg/3)
I was feeling off that day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:04 PM (GBKbO)
I must have missed that, but you're making a great case against my original proposition.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (i24o9)
Nailed it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (i24o9)
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In my defense, I'm an illiterate asshole.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Gay Hee Haw at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (1jdOx)
Posted by: Not Dr Seuss at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: XTC
Who needs homo Hee Haw? Just go to Nashville and watch some of these progressive country performers.
Most of them are straight as a circle.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)
How long teal they're done?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (LxER7)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (Gmq6N)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (XV/Pl)
Ivanhoe is basically deconstruction and subverting expectations in its earliest form. Its not romantic, its not heroic, the knight is a scumbag, nobles are evil, the gypsy and the Jew are the only good people in the entire book, etc. Its basically "you know all those wonderful stories of knights and ladies and heroism? Well F you, eat this."
But its really well written, and given that 90% of the historical stuff being written at the time was stylized nonsense filled with ridiculous falsehoods and stereotypes, eh, I can let it go.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (2GCMq)
Also, they said they couldn't just excuse kids when they were going to give lectures about changing your gender, because these lectures could come at literally any moment and who could plan for when teachers were going to start grooming children?
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You're soaking in it.
Posted by: Madge at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (HuRzZ)
pretty saucy
too bad she's nuts
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:39 PM (AOsQT)
Tits on a boar hog.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: eleven
Lizzy is that rarest of things, a female punster (punstress?).
She's a treasure.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM
He's no Andrew Jackson.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 02:05 PM (vm8sq)
Hooray for Texas. I have no hope here, the land of more homo than thou art, which is why we home school, regardless of cost or inconvenience.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (i24o9)
I mean, she's fucking awful in public too.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)
Do you have jackets and stuff? Cause that would be cool.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (xakc9)
No, there’s high schools in blue cities that need poor marksmanship to keep the body count down.
Posted by: Advo at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (Gmq6N)
Is this about me???
Posted by: Dan Brown at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 27, 2025 02:00 PM (OA79/)
Newsome never gets anything right. There is nothing in the Constitution about birthright citizenship for non citizen parents. The 14th is about slaves
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Yes, I had the one of the Odyssey. Good stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)
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The Free Exercise Clause follows me wherever I go
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM
Have you tried a restraining order?
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM (Gmq6N)
Well, Adamanium and spider-sense and Kablam don't appear in other contexts.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
Oh come on. You're literate.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (fV+MH)
I personally think these crowded septic stews of vacationing knockwursts floating in the pool are already awful, but imagine when the sewage starts overflowing and the power goes out.
I'm enjoying it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (kpS4V)
Role playing games (not the computer games, the real ones now called "Table Top RPGS") are FILLED with thousand dollar words and obscure terms that gamers eat up with a spoon. The more the better.
But comic books aren't being written any more by guys like Stan Lee who would start dialog with words like "lo." Its mostly done by webcomic blue hairs and DEI hires. Their vocabulary is much more limited.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (dfIr7)
Synonymous
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: Donald and the other Disney ducks at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
Oh come on. You're literate.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (fV+MH)
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I don't know how to respond that.
Because I can't read it.
*weeps bitterly but manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 02:10 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM
He's no Andrew Jackson.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (jc0TO)
He roughed up Marbury.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 27, 2025 02:10 PM (8avO+)
That is emotional blackmail, and it is insidious. Been there, have the scars, and finally said, fine. If that's what you are threatening, then it's on you. You can't threaten me anymore with harming yourself, because it's your choice to do it. I will not comply with your threats however. That is my choice. Oddly, the threats stopped.
Posted by: moki at June 27, 2025 02:10 PM (wLjpr)
My husband read "Illustrated Classics" as a kid. They had "Two Years Before The Mast", "The Iliad " and "The Odyssey" and many others.They were comic books with great illustrations .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I knew this was going to get me in trouble.
"as a kid," you note. Okay for kids, but if 12-year-olds MUST read a work of young adult fiction (barf), it's lite enough already. I could show you some books on Amazon that belittle the adolescent mind while simultaneously warping it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 02:10 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2025 02:10 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)
How long teal they're done?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
We're just wingin' it.
Posted by: wth at June 27, 2025 02:10 PM (UjdFS)
Zombie, I had a friend who was molested as a preteen, and they said it revved up their sex drive long before they were ready to understand it or control it. Luckily they were very religious, and forced themselves to tamp it down. But a lot of kids don't, and it gets them into bad situations and toxic relationships far too early.
Which is partly why as much as I love belting out the song Pink Pony Club in the car, it's not a net positive to society, if it gets confused teens to go to LGBT clubs in West Hollywood -- like Chappell did as a teen -- and shack up in the bathroom with horny LGBT adults.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 02:11 PM (Eng1Z)
Classics Illustrated had some of the best artists in the business, top notch art. The writing was well done as well, they had to pare down the stories to match the format, but usually were quite good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:11 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM
I mean, after all, the government has a compelling national security interest in ensuring our citizens know how to handle small arms, right? Right lefties? Wait...where are you going?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 02:11 PM (kgE5c)
That's not the solution. That empowers me to get my kids out, but other kids with shitty parents won't. That's unacceptable.
The solution is to get drug out of their house by an outraged parent and beaten to within an inch of your life and left with the message "if I hear you about you preaching your pervert shit again, there won't be another warning".
Posted by: Just sayin' at June 27, 2025 02:11 PM (WFNbD)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 27, 2025 02:11 PM (JkCto)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 27, 2025 02:12 PM (JkCto)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 02:12 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2025 02:06 PM
He's no Andrew Jackson.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 02:07 PM (jc0TO)
He roughed up Marbury.
Posted by: Oldcat
Dolley wouldn't give him a piggyback ride that day. He was pissed.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)
You are an absolute gem, here. No homo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 27, 2025 01:54 PM (i24o9)
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whig is pretty good...
I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Aw shucks.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:12 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
They can always get an abortion.
Posted by: Planned Duck Parenthood at June 27, 2025 02:12 PM (UjdFS)
don't know the word for female duck
'hey duck!'
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 02:12 PM (AOsQT)
Hen, I think.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (LxER7)
What color is the sky in your world?
Posted by: Chuck C at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (D0HYP)
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The Free Exercise Clause follows me wherever I go
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 02:08 PM (AOsQT)
LEMON TEST! BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!
Posted by: Our jurisprudence on religion is batshit at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (m5cDg)
Because I can't read it.
*weeps bitterly but manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
Well...my internet's down so I don't even know who you're responding to.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (fV+MH)
I don't even think PETA has gone as far as trying to prevent animals from raping each other.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (6ydKt)
Because I can't read it.
*weeps bitterly but manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Just refer to it as boring legalese.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)
PP isn't sexually explicit as far as I'm aware, but it tries very hard to normalize the sort of weirdo freaks at Pride Parade events.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)
No, its okay. I am a huge comic book fan, I even tried to get into the business. I collected tens of thousands of them, I still collect graphic novels. BUT I recognize that almost all of it is pulpy nonsense and light weight stuff. Its like dessert: not nutritious or subtle in flavor, but nice. You just don't want to make that your whole diet.
I am fine with people reading crap, just not exclusively or on a regular basis. And that's I think more what you are getting at: you gotta have more than that in your mental diet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 02:13 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: bob
They can & they can gang rape a hen. They'll peck the back of her head until she's almost unconscious and climb on her back.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:14 PM (flKEw)
I'm enjoying it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Some of those ships have 5,000 passengers on them. I like being on ships, but not with that many people. The other day, one of them broke loose in Juneau Harbor and almost took out a second ship.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:14 PM (Vfq+S)
I want her to go stop a bull on a cow.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (rvwwT)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 02:15 PM (sJLOw)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (qBdHI)
Crockett mocked Melania’s modeling career and questioned her 2001 EB-1 “Einstein visa,” claiming she didn’t deserve it because she wasn’t a “Tyra Banks or Naomi Campbell-level” model. She sneered, “It doesn’t take an Einstein to see the math ain’t mathin’ here,” ignoring Melania’s legal immigration and U.S. citizenship since 2006
The GOP stands with Melania, a classy First Lady who speaks five languages and earned her visa legally, as confirmed by former Trump attorney Michael Wildes. Crockett’s low-class rant only exposes her jealousy and desperation to tear down a strong woman
While Trump fights for American jobs with tax deductions like the $10,000 car loan interest break for U.S.-made vehicles, Democrats like Crockett waste time with personal attacks.
#Hodgetwins
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (flKEw)
Your kids would be mandated into thinking they were born in the wrong body.
This country would be in the toilet.
Vote in every single election.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: rickb223
Why doesn't she fly away?
OK, maybe a chicken with limited flight, but most birds are probably pretty safe from rape.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 02:17 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Dan Brown at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 02:18 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 01:53 PM (m5cDg)
Hah. Our football coaches were also required to teach. The head coach taught algebra, the offensive coordinator taught trigonometry, and the defensive coordinator taught pre-calculus and calculus.
The head coach at the first high school I went to taught PE. He would run us ragged at least once a week. The health teacher who also taught sex ed was a very butch lesbian, deepest voice I've ever heard on a female.
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 02:19 PM (YkGND)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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No murder but he unlawfully refused to give poor William Marbury his justly deserved justice of the peace position and furthermore refused to give him back pay (in gold those days) for his term of office.
One of the overlooked parts of Marbury v. Madison as it interprets what is necessary for someone to be appointed to federal office. And they specifically rejected Tom Jefferson's argument relying on contract law that the actual patent of office had to be received for the appointment to be consummated.
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 02:19 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (flKEw)
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Terrible idea.
Consumer debt should not be incentivized. Not with schools, not with cars, not with houses.
If the problem is that cars are too damn expensive, figure out what's making cars so expensive and find a way to change it. Don't make the larger debt needed to acquire a car cheaper. That just makes cars even more expensive.
Inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. Debt is money (well, it spends like money). Making debt cheaper to accommodate a thing that is too expensive just makes the too-expensive thing even more expensive.
Stupid policy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Imagine being in Cozumel when five of them show up.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 02:20 PM (Vfq+S)
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"The math ain't mathin?" What Mensa level intelligence she has! What does that even mean? She spent nearly a decade jumping through hoops and mountainous paperwork to become a US citizen. STFU, you wigged, fake b*tch. You sound like the fool that you are.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 02:21 PM (qBdHI)
Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
The U.S. Supreme Court left in place the district court order in our case for now, blocking President Trump's blatantly unconstitutional birthright citizenship order in California.
We are committed to holding the line and will keep fighting to ensure this injunction remains in place for good.
Abuses of presidential power can't go unchecked.
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (OIrk/)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 27, 2025 02:23 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 02:24 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: rickb223
It's their culture. Case dismissed!
Posted by: British Judge at June 27, 2025 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)
I also had the urge to push the duck rape prevention woman into the duck pond. I guess she jumped in herself and I hope got a duck poop allergy or infection issue. Because I am evil.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 02:33 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Rbastid at June 27, 2025 02:40 PM (R0B/a)
Wow what a hater. How dare she kink-shame an animal's right to express its sexuality in public on whatever other animal which doesn't run away fast enough.
...
But enough about Pride Parades...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 27, 2025 03:11 PM (hB7mE)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 27, 2025 06:25 PM (wGqjj)
BY A 6-3 VOTE. THE SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES PRACTICE OF LOWLY DISTRICT COURT JUSTICES CONTROLLING THE NATIONALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT VIA UNIVERSAL INJUNCTIONS
Unfortunately, the unreliable ditz Coney Barret left open the possibility that lowly district court justices can issue nationwide injunctions in cases where a state is suing the federal government:
The Supreme Court delivered a significant win for the Trump admin on Friday, limiting the power of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions. In a 6-3 ruling, the justices said such injunctions likely go beyond what the Constitution allows, especially in cases targeting executive actions. Key Details: The Court ruled that federal judges overstep their constitutional authority when they issue nationwide injunctions, particularly when only a handful of plaintiffs are involved. Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated that "[f]ederal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch," emphasizing that their role is to resolve specific legal disputes, not to dictate national policy. While the Court did not weigh in on the legality of Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship, it granted the government's request to limit injunctions to apply only to plaintiffs with standing. Diving Deeper: On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a case that challenged the use of sweeping nationwide injunctions to block federal policy. The ruling significantly curtails the ability of lower courts to issue broad orders that halt executive actions across the country, reinforcing the constitutional limits of judicial power. The case stemmed from multiple injunctions that had been issued to stop President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship--a policy announced on his first day back in office. Though the justices did not rule on the constitutionality of the order itself, they took aim at the overreach of lower courts in issuing expansive blocks on executive policy. Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett emphasized that "[f]ederal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them." She added, "When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too." The Court ultimately agreed to grant the government's request to scale back the injunctions. "The Government's applications to partially stay the preliminary injunctions are granted," Barrett wrote, "but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue."
The CASA ruling leaves room for judges to order relief akin to a nationwide injunction when a state sues the federal government. But the justices provided little guidance, which indicates that different judges could reach different conclusions on whether and how states can get universal injunctions -- until SCOTUS resolves that question too. Justice Amy Coney Barrett writes, "We decline to take up these arguments in the first instance. The lower courts should determine whether a narrower injunction is appropriate; we therefore leave it to them to consider these and any related arguments."The opinion states that Congress never granted lowly district court justices the power to grant "equitable relief" (injunctions) to anyone except the exact parties in court in front of them. They cannot simply just say that their rulings apply across the country to anyone else who might make a similar complaint. Katanji Brown-Jackson wrote an illiterate dissent in which she railed against "legalese" and "dry technical arguments" to assert that yes, lowly district court judges can overrule the nationally elected constitutional chief executive officer whenever they feel that liberals really need a win. Coney Barret blasted her, accusing her simply ignoring 250 years of constitutional practice in order to create an "imperial judiciary."
i/oThe full passage is worth the read. Amy Coney Barret calls Ketanji Jackson-Brown dumb, in so many words, incapable of reading, understanding, and applying the law, simply acting like a panelist on The View popping off about what she thinks the law should be while complaining about the "legalese" in the law. She doesn't seem to grasp that "legalese" is what makes up the law. She seems to dismiss it because she can't follow it. Now, for a layman, this is understandable. Laymen don't understand legalese and are impatient with it. But this is, allegedly, a Supreme Court Justice. Shouldn't the "legalese" and "dry technical arguments" (as she dismisses all legal reasoning) be of some concern to her?
@avidseries
"We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary." -- SCOTUS majority opinion today
I think that I am correct in noting that Justice Jumanji is the first Appellate judge to be reversed 9-0 by the Supreme Court who then got elevated to it. The woman wouldn't recognize the Constitution if it bit her on the ass. Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM
Breaking! The Supreme Court has ruled favorably towards the Trump administration
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 27, 2025
They rule that nationwide universal injunctions by district judges exceed their authority granted by Congress pic.twitter.com/pl6lPadaXq
RIP to the 47th President of the United States pic.twitter.com/d4FlXf7t6L
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 27, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
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It goes in effect in 30 days, so pump out those babies...illegals already being deported by ICE.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (GYt5+)
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And she's on SCOTUS for 40 more years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (Q4IgG)
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When Sotomayor dies and Kagan retires, Jackson is going to be the senior progressive on the Court.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)
The woman wouldn't recognize the Constitution if it bit her on the ass.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM
Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (jc0TO)
Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound-for-pound, costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothing to gain except killing your brain
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (dCxaZ)
But it's Trump, so it's okay.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (CqOiB)
HEH, jackstraw.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:14 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Mongo at June 27, 2025 12:14 PM (Ef4Ak)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:14 PM (VE6XX)
ROCK
FREEZE
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (CqOiB)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)
As for the ruling, these idiots in black robes kept double daring. Now they found out. Hope the consequences are terrifying.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 12:16 PM (c/KMW)
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Whatever. We've starting ignoring SCOTUS, so who cares.
Posted by: District Court at June 27, 2025 12:16 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (CqOiB)
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (bNf8H)
As foretold by "Idiocracy"
Posted by: Her shits retarded at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (qBdHI)
Unfortunately, the unreliable ditz Coney Barret left open the possibility that lowly district court justices can issue nationwide injunctions in cases where a state is suing the federal government:
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Ugh. Okay, how frequent/rare are lawsuits by a state against the federal government? (I have the feeling there's gonna be a slew of lawsuits from blue states soon.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (HuRzZ)
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NO MORE COURT COMITY!!
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (jc0TO)
"Ketanji, you ignorant slut."
Fierce stuff for a justice. Love it.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Darth Randall
She's too dumb to find it disgusting.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (HuRzZ)
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Then why did SCOTUS permit it for so long? Why did they do nothing for decades?
And, importantly, why did they finally do something *now*? Nothing has really changed. The lower courts are still "working toward the Fuhrer" as they always have.
This isn't new. This particular case isn't even particularly egregious when one considers the long, unbroken line of this crap.
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (ufFY8)
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'member when the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that there is no standing when one state sues another state?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (GnVQ5)
Next week: "ACB IS THE WORST EVER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE EVER!!!! She makes me regret voting for Trump! What was he thinking appointing that bint to the Court??? I'd take Elena Kagan over ACB!!!"
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (IqBEX)
Why did you have to go and piss off Chief Justice Marshall?
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)
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He smelled funny. And he was just looking for an excuse because he was an English judiciary loving fuckup.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
Hey, Sharon. How was the MoMe?
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (ZiaCc)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (qBdHI)
"The Government’s applications to partially stay the [national injunctions] are granted, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue."
I assume this was the price of her and Robert's signing on to the decision. Alito has the same worries I do. He writes in his concurrence:
"I join the opinion of the Court but write separately to note two related issues that are left unresolved and potentially threaten the practical significance of today’s decision: the availability of third-party standing and class certification."
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (cduTK)
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When Sotomayor dies and Kagan retires, Jackson is going to be the senior progressive on the Court.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)
Well, she's already the senior imbecile on the court. She'll have to wait for the additional titles.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (S/Y4j)
The soft bigotry of low expectations
Posted by: Life of Wryly at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (ycs3a)
Yeah, the Supreme Court ruled on that, but what about this?
The bastards love splitting hairs
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (+qU29)
she deserves it. I have an upcoming post about her routinely attacking the conservative justices as being too obsessed with looking at the actual text of the Constitution and the law.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:14 PM (VE6XX)
It's a tiny respect... the runt of the litter. We have hopes but it may not survive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Judge Pakalolo Mahu in Whakatangihangaipukakapiki at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (qpyNK)
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Which some courts do, when they are really unhappy about having to do something.
The judge in the Sixth Circuit ruled that employers couldn't arbitrarily enforce COVID vaccination requirements, it applied *only* to the Sixth Circuit, and so provided an "out" for any firm domiciled somewhere else to just fuck around anyway.
It could have been a nationwide injunction, but it wasn't because the ruling went the wrong way and the judge knew it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (6bTRc)
And you can bet they will exploit it...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (HuRzZ)
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Pretty rare. CA suing on the NG rollout a few weeks ago is an example. It's a fight over state/federal power with state owned resources. It fits.
But the leftist legal effort is going to change so that, like, IL sues on the part of its citizens because Trump said boogie or something. Which will fall apart pretty quickly (legally speaking).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: ShainS at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (arzIt)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (g47mK)
This isn't new. This particular case isn't even particularly egregious when one considers the long, unbroken line of this crap.
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (6bTRc)
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Because the abuse has gotten so bad that they can't ignore it anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (VofaG)
This really must piss off Sotomayor though, as she was trying so hard to go down in history as the dumbest supreme court justice, hell maybe dumbest judge period, then Jackson just comes and snatches that title with ease.
Posted by: Rbastid at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (cnrLY)
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I am not a SCOTUS researcher, but is this kind of "sit down and shut up for once, you dumbass" thing in an opinion rare? It seems like it would be.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (ufFY
That hypocrite. The day I might respect him is when he takes his money and announces he is going to evenly redistribute it among the American people until he is left with nothing but the clothes on his back.
At which point he is violently beaten to death by the police for being a rich POS.
Fuck him and his music.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (vm8sq)
agreed, she's Sandy Day O'Connor 2.0. She leaves the law more unsettled every time she pretends to settle it.
I hate to say this, but... she's not doing women any favors. Both of these female justices seem to find it impossible to make clear decisions. They always leave things in a "maybe this, maybe that" muddle.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: mr tmz at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (rJ48h)
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She should endeavor to be as silent as Clarence Thomas.
Even if she were, though, she'd probably make just as many piss poor activist rulings.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (6bTRc)
lol
this is what must have driven KJB to the rang ding-a dang-a dang-a dang
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Judge Pakalolo Mahu in Whakatangihangaipukakapiki at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: District Court
This. If Roberts doesn't immediately drop a legal MOP on that court, then he might as well put on a gimp suit instead of a robe.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (CNl8/)
So she was born in 1948?
In '65 she was 17?
In '69 she was 21?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (63Dwl)
"The Government’s applications to partially stay the [national injunctions] are granted, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue."
I assume this was the price of her and Robert's signing on to the decision. Alito has the same worries I do. He writes in his concurrence:
"I join the opinion of the Court but write separately to note two related issues that are left unresolved and potentially threaten the practical significance of today’s decision: the availability of third-party standing and class certification."
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
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I don't think that's wishywashy at all. That seems pretty ironclad. It fits with the earlier discussion about what relief actually means. It felt like one of the stronger parts of the decision.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
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Has it? It's a tad more frequent, but the abuse isn't really much worse than it ever was.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (6bTRc)
Having someone so ridiculously ignorant on the SC is rare.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (OhltJ)
What does one expect from someone who requires a degree in biology to know what a woman is?
Posted by: Halfhand at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (fLQ2m)
It was a bit smaller than last couple of ones but lots of good conversation and met some lurkers who may want to shoot with the DMVMGC. It was hot but a breeze so not too bad.
How was your trip?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (t/2Uw)
- Elon Musk
"Blah blah Bible blah who cares that stuff is from like forever ago."
- Pope John Paul II
"It's all just tubes, man, don't get bogged down in details."
- Galen
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (BjH5D)
So, with the revelation that Justice Jackson is a functional illiterate with no understanding of the the Constitution, I assume Mike Johnson is filing impeachment charges against the dumb clown and preparing her removal from the Court.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (0eaVi)
For once Amy came through... a nice change!
The entire anchor baby idea has messed up this country for what seems to be decades. Thanks, too, to DACA by Barky, to exceed the issue. Some mothers would enter our country almost dilated and hatch a kid out. Some would then return to Mexico and raise the kid Mexican. Then the kid, some in a gang,would arrive over our border, not speaking a word of English, and do their thing...until President Trump.
Most are paid under the table, so no taxes or social security.Free healthcare and education with our taxes. Yet they apply for Medicare if here long enough. Somehow, without documents, or fake ones, get on whatever we will give them. Just because they squatted illegally.
The brat DACA kids figured, "I am legal as well as, by the color of my skin, I am better than whites. I get scholarships! I get DEI jobs! I rule, baby!"
Get to the back of the damn line, DACAs. You ain't legal,anymore than your parents who overstayed their visas or did not bother and crossed illegally.
Round 'em up!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (6PCLE)
she deserves it. I have an upcoming post about her routinely attacking the conservative justices as being too obsessed with looking at the actual text of the Constitution and the law.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (KRtlO)
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Imagine what she's like behind closed doors and in inter-office memos.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (KRtlO
Probably sucks at parallel parking too.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (CqOiB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (/y8xj)
"But that means I won't be liked in DC and won't get invited to cocktail parties with the cool kids."
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (OhltJ)
Are we talking about movies or the Supreme Court?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (xcxpd)
I never much liked him, even before he got the race change and "transitioned". His music was always insipid.
Posted by: Judge Pakalolo Mahu in Whakatangihangaipukakapiki at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (qpyNK)
it is but as you'll read in a later post, KBJ keeps attacking the conservatives for caring about what the law actually SAYS. She sniffs that this is just "strict textualism."
She does not want to be constrained by what the Constitution and law actually says, and she insults the other justices for thinking that these things should matter.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Frasier Crane
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yeah, they're not gonna be holding hands in the shower anytime soon
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
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Has it? It's a tad more frequent, but the abuse isn't really much worse than it ever was.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (6bTRc)
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No, it's significantly more frequent.
12 injunctions in all of Biden's presidency vs. about 60 in the first 4 months of Trump's second term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
she deserves it. I have an upcoming post about her routinely attacking the conservative justices as being too obsessed with looking at the actual text of the Constitution and the law.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (KRtlO)
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Ace, she's not alone in that. Ignoring the actual text -- and inventing new text -- is the entire basis of modern liberal judicial philosophy. Penumbras and emanations and all that. Hacktion Jackson is merely following standard leftwing jurisprudence.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (CqOiB)
And, importantly, why did they finally do something *now*? Nothing has really changed. The lower courts are still "working toward the Fuhrer" as they always have.
This isn't new. This particular case isn't even particularly egregious when one considers the long, unbroken line of this crap.
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Because Trump and the Dems made it an issue impossible to ignore. Trump, because he kept doing things he knew they'd judge shop to stop, and the Dems, because they lack the wit to know a losing hand when they see one, and fold.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (Riz8t)
-- Ketanji Brown Jackson on Supreme Court precedent, cribbin' Jasmine Crockett's legal expertise in deciding if Melania Trump's "Einstein" Visa was legal
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (63Dwl)
That's what the Left will claim.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (VofaG)
She does not want to be constrained by what the Constitution and law actually says, and she insults the other justices for thinking that these things should matter.
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:23 PM (KRtlO)
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Pretty typical for an activist.
But strict construction is what I want. Very, very strict. 90% of the FedGov is probably unconstitutional, strictly interpreted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (OhltJ)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (VofaG)
Doesn't she have the most spoken words in oral argument of the nine by some huuuuge luxurious margin?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (7udRx)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (qBdHI)
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
The straw that broke the camel's back.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (hB7mE)
Has no idea where she wants to go to dinner. But she really does.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (2UnvF)
Even when they come to a correct decision, SCOTUS runs the baby through a Cuisinart trying to appease the Left.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (c/KMW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (VAINm)
"Blah, blah, blah. You gotta apply the law. That part of the argument sucked!"
Posted by: Halfhand at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (fLQ2m)
If I were to guess, SCOTUS was concerned that Trump was approaching the Jackson Line and that the public might side with him. That would be the first step in shattering the power that the courts have accumulated and might start an irreversible trend.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (ExV1e)
If you thinks that's possible, you don't know women...
...a sexist would say!
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (ufFY8)
DC District judge declares Supreme Court to be unconstitutional.
Hawaiian Judge declares the US Constitution to be unconstitutional
Probably already done. sarc//
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (FJMtP)
It was used sparingly when the Uni-Party was in power. Perhaps, even, as a means to establish its 'legitimacy'.
If I correctly remember a graph I saw this morning, it's already been used 40 times against Trump this spring, whereas it was invoked 14 times against Obama during his eight years.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (6pVrF)
I assume this was the price of her and Robert's signing on to the decision. Alito has the same worries I do. He writes in his concurrence:
"I join the opinion of the Court but write separately to note two related issues that are left unresolved and potentially threaten the practical significance of today’s decision: the availability of third-party standing and class certification."
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)
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I don't think that's wishywashy at all. That seems pretty ironclad. It fits with the earlier discussion about what relief actually means. It felt like one of the stronger parts of the decision.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Did you read Alito's concurrence? He spells out in detail why I think its wishy-washy. The "standing" point opens up a YUGE door.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
OK, that's nice. But I'd prefer if the Supreme Court ordered Boasberg to report to Conor McGregor to have his dimestore Christopher Lloyd face punched through the back side of his fuckin' head.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (BI5O2)
I hate to say this, but... she's not doing women any favors. Both of these female justices seem to find it impossible to make clear decisions. They always leave things in a "maybe this, maybe that" muddle.
On the bright side, we'll only have to wait 25 years to find out what the law is.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (Riz8t)
I mean, I know Trump can ignore it, but I don't think the woke judiciary is finished beclowning itself.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (jYRYu)
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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First time they've been challenged?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (HuRzZ)
12 injunctions in all of Biden's presidency vs. about 60 in the first 4 months of Trump's second term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
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Fair enough on frequency. But it still makes me wonder. This is *so* not new that I want to know what has the bench spooked.
I *suspect* it is fear of a legitimacy crisis. The lower courts running roughshod and now even just ignoring SCOTUS is a serial problem for America's black-robed imperium. If it keeps up, people might just start ignoring them wholesale because victory is impossible.
If that is the case, I also suspect that the fix is already in and the judiciary is going to maintain at least much power as it has now, through some new contrivance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (c/KMW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I bet lefties are now wishing they were on record as saying life begins at conception.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (1U8ba)
SCOTUS slaps them down, "Know your place, bitches."
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (viPPY)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:21 PM (KRtlO
"I might need that dick later"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM\
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I really object to this characterization! I don't mumble at all.
Posted by: Justice Whoopie Brown-Jackson at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (Z9R/r)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (1U8ba
I chortled
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (RUMEY)
You know who knew this outcome was inevitable? Every single judge issuing one of these universal rulings. Not one of them had the nuts to find Trump in contempt. Doing that would have elevated the case and accelerated this ruling. If they thought they were right, they'd want Trump slapped down ASAP, but not one of them did it.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (jYRYu)
I agree, but let's take this win until they do...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (VE6XX)
She does not want to be constrained by what the Constitution and law actually says, and she insults the other justices for thinking that these things should matter.
I wonder if she does the finger and head wag thing, while going mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm when someone calls her on her nonsense.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (LPgB/)
CAT FIGHT!!
I should make some popcorn to enjoy this kind of entertainment.
Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
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I guess there's more to it than I thought, but I read it as, "Complete relief is about the relief of those who sued, not the nation as a whole. Here's a history of how the nation dealt with this, even under laws SCOTUS later did deem to be unconstitutional where only those suing received relief."
And, since the judiciary regularly dismissing things because of lack of standing already...I think too much is being made of this and it's actually a fairly strong element to the decision.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
It's either Judge Boasberg or Herman Munster. I'm not sure.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (L/fGl)
Yeah, the tea leaves are clear:
The line, we decide the constitutionality of laws, not policy, is going to be the same line repeated when the full BRC decision comes down.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (HuRzZ)
__________________________
I dislike George Soros with vigor, but you have to sit back and admire his understanding of the process and how it was more important to stuff states with Soros aligned State Attorney(s) General. It's going to pay off on this issue.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (dIske)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (1U8ba)
So yeah it's nice that 6 out of 9 made a partial concession to actual constitutional reality. Better than the alternative? Maybe.
The ruins of the constitutional system limp along, with a judiciary that is 75% too powerful and lives almost entirely outside their lane (while refusing to engage issues actually in their lane).
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 12:29 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:29 PM (t/2Uw)
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (6bTRc)
The progressives and the "loyal opposition" loved it because a case could be ginned up in a friendly area, a nationwide injunction issued from a carefully selected court, and then everyone got to say, "oops then I guess that is the law" with the benefit of not actually having to go through the legislative process and any electoral kick back from having made laws that the electorate despised.
It is a cheat code for "making shit up, making it stick, and keeping the stink off of everyone involved" because you know, Conservatives and corporatists always obey judges.
The judges have come to the opinion that are like Ephors
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 12:29 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 12:29 PM (Z9R/r)
Posted by: ace at June 27, 2025 12:29 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 12:25 PM (c/KMW)
Or: pass a law reorganizing them (districts, even locations, etc) and stipulate that as a result all the judicial posts are vacant. Aw shucks, we have to start over...
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 12:29 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (/2Cnr)
Posted by: mr tmz at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (rJ48h)
I'm still confused on how these district federal courts work anyway. Federal law does not apply in our state/district because reasons, but we allow that it does in all the others?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (HuRzZ)
I don't know why. Both seem to be a boil on the butt of justice and government. Apparently ignorant as well.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (6PCLE)
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Completely commensurate with the idiot who nominated her and put her on the court.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (qBdHI)
Now, for a layman, this is understandable. Laymen don't understand legalese and are impatient with it.
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Well, TBF, she's not a biologist -- so is still confused about the difference between a layman and a laywoman.
Posted by: ShainS at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (arzIt)
DC District judge declares Supreme Court to be unconstitutional.
Hawaiian Judge declares the US Constitution to be unconstitutional
Probably already done. sarc//
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (FJMtP)
California passed a Constitutional amendment that they ruled was Unconstitutional ( State constitution)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt
Jackson Browne>>>Browne Jackson
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (1U8ba)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Yes. ACB just gave KBJ cancer and diabetes.
Posted by: Jamaal Bowman at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (M0V4/)
So they can't have these annoying mosquitos of district judges keep sucking away at their authority and their prestige. At some point the district judges were going to get swatted. I just wasn't sure how bad the swatting would be.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (gWBY1)
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Then why did SCOTUS permit it for so long? Why did they do nothing for decades?
And, importantly, why did they finally do something *now*? Nothing has really changed. The lower courts are still "working toward the Fuhrer" as they always have.
This isn't new. This particular case isn't even particularly egregious when one considers the long, unbroken line of this crap.
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (6bTRc)
The Supreme Court can't just make decrees, they can only rule on cases brought before them. And then add the fact that they routinely refuse to see certain types of cases and it gets annoying.
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (YkGND)
Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (IqBEX)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM
Actually she would probably say, "See?? It IS a living document!!!"
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (rCia8)
Or they are remaking the Star Trek episode "What are little girls made of."
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 12:31 PM (c/KMW)
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (YkGND)
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Which is true.
The judiciary is reactive. It cannot be proactive.
The idea that it should have great power over the branches that are active, that do report directly to the people, is so ludicrous based on this simple fact.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:31 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 12:31 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 12:31 PM (m5cDg)
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"But that means I won't be liked in DC and won't get invited to cocktail parties with the cool kids."
True, gimps are popular among their chosen subset of society.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 12:32 PM (/y8xj)
I dislike George Soros with vigor, but you have to sit back and admire his understanding of the process and how it was more important to stuff states with Soros aligned State Attorney(s) General. It's going to pay off on this issue.
Posted by: Orson
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That and the Secretaries of State project (State as in the 50). Those are the people who count the votes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:32 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Nice. I reconnected with my sister-in-law, two nieces, and a nephew. And my niece's daughters are wonderful young lady. The oldest one, the one who's graduation we were celebrating, is heading to the U. of Michigan to study biology, with the eventual goal of attending medical school.
The only snag was that, on the way back, my rental car got a flat tire in eastern Pennsylvania. AAA came out and put on the spare, and then I had to drive reeeeaaal slow to the next exit on the PA Turnpike, where a garage affiliated with the rental company (Enterprise) patched and re-installed the original tire at no cost to me.
So, a fun and eventful trip.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)
Rather pissed the RINOs are going along with the parliamentarian throwing out the NFA revisions for "not being a revenue thing" after 90 years of "oh, it's constitutional because it's a revenue thing". Someone looking way into the future might argue that what can be un-NFA'ed via reconciliation, could be added back and then some; but that's largely irrelevant because the Dems are going to plunge us into civil war at some point anyways. Best to let our people arm up while they can.
Of my acquaintances that are close enough to tell me how they'd vote, the majority are indicating that if the GOP does this, they're never pulling the lever for them again. It was basically one of the only parts of the bill that wasn't shit, on account of the lack of real cuts.
Posted by: heya at June 27, 2025 12:32 PM (bUBn/)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 27, 2025 12:32 PM (Fju+s)
Familiar. The left decries a (air quotes) fascist while embracing fascism.
This line of thinking isn't new. Total projection. We don't mind a fascist. We just mind that he's of a different party.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:32 PM (RUMEY)
[ ] KJB
[ ] Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: mr tmz at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (rJ48h)
[X] None of the above
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
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I guess there's more to it than I thought, but I read it as, "Complete relief is about the relief of those who sued, not the nation as a whole. Here's a history of how the nation dealt with this, even under laws SCOTUS later did deem to be unconstitutional where only those suing received relief."
And, since the judiciary regularly dismissing things because of lack of standing already...I think too much is being made of this and it's actually a fairly strong element to the decision.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
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The "standing" point opens up the possibility that injunctions would reach anyone with standing to sue -- which could be litigants not party to the lawsuit. That's why Alito spends so much time talking about third-party standing. He sees what The Blade sees.
But don't get me wrong, this is a YUGE win for Trump.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a “solemn mockery” of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent."
So the constitution and its protection are valid in only some appellate jurisdiction. Birthright citizenship valid only where the appeals court says yep. Only a clown would say that citizenship by birth right is invalid.
Biden's SAVE student loan repayment plan was blocked for the entire nation due to an injunction from just the very rightwing Eighth Circuit. They picked the absolute worst case to grant trump these powers.
with the snails pace of the courts, people's birthright citizenship could be taken away and even deported until this supreme court decides to finally rule on it
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (ycI94)
Trump (taking more questions beyond the scheduled time): "This is the opposite of Biden! You tell me when it gets boring."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (HuRzZ)
We still have to get to the point that the Supreme Court also doesn't have any power over the Executive.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (pvvko)
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Yeah, she's no Dog-Eating Community-Activist Constitutional Scholar.
Posted by: ShainS at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (arzIt)
Just imagine being that stupid or biased as to be called out for your ignorance by another Justice.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (sdi9Z)
Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (IqBEX)
The Court is scared shitless--because they know Trump is right--that Marbury is not Constitutional:
They do not have the unlimited right to decide the Constitutionality of laws.
The Retard Wing of the Court keeps forcing the issue though, and the other 6 are realizing that to their horror.
I think also that the Court is also seeing that these injunctions are actually illegal writs of mandamus.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (GnVQ5)
"This is the opposite of Biden. He would take one question and half answer it."
(Referring to extending time to answer more questions.)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (ufFY8)
Well done ACB, very well done.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (Z9R/r)
Posted by: 13times at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (OhltJ)
But don't get me wrong, this is a YUGE win for Trump.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
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Wouldn't that be the whole class action element?
Which becomes a real problem when members of the class (like, say, the people of IL when the state tries to sue) object to the lawsuit?
"This can't be a class. The people of IL are not in agreement with this decision."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)
Soviet ideological writings were of course crap, but the central feature was making sure to box-check all the made-up crap from Lenin, and then others, as one spun new levels of nonsense out of thin air. A self-sustaining self-referential fake universe.
Like much of "jurisprudence" and precedent here.
"Doctrines" (my favorite being the one where the courts can decide how much to vitiate clear constitutionally imposed limits on state power, but only by using their own confected little system - "rational scrutiny"). All a giant coral reef of court-made law and make-believe. But society lets the Legal Cult usurp like this, so there we are.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (BI5O2)
Let's get Doc Brown to take Boasberg back about 3000 years, and drop him off in what will become DC. For anyone as active as he is, it shouldn't kill him outright.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: ace
Seinfeld?
George micturition in the gym showers - It's all pipes!
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (m5cDg)
Thomas- the law is the law as written
Alito- what Clarence said!
Roberts- leave me out of this
Katanga Jackson- on no you di' int!
Kagan- what are we doing for lunch?
Kavanaugh- whatever you guys think, I guess
Sotomayor- I'm with Katanga whatsername
Barrett - this is my Magic 8-Ball
Gorsuch- what
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (rCia8)
http://tiny.cc/le4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 27, 2025 12:35 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 12:35 PM (hfg0k)
I don't think you know about your future yet
I don't think you're gonna like the one you're gonna get
Ghost rider in the sky
Burner
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2025 12:35 PM (NtVYv)
[ ] KJB
[ ] Jasmine Crockett
I would go with KJB. At least she can wite a syntactically correct -- if semantically inane -- sentence. I don't think Rep. Eyelash can do that much.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 12:35 PM (/y8xj)
"The FACT that six Justices were OK with signing onto an opinion where Justice Barrett took a personal shot at Justice Jackson is a VERY STRONG indication that Jackson has alienated her colleagues and there is a growing lack of respect for her work."
https://tinyurl.com/2x6uc7f4
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 27, 2025 12:35 PM (paSBy)
How does this limit the class, to the district, state, or only to named parties?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (naiw2)
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Then why did SCOTUS permit it for so long? Why did they do nothing for decades?
And, importantly, why did they finally do something *now*? Nothing has really changed. The lower courts are still "working toward the Fuhrer" as they always have.
This isn't new. This particular case isn't even particularly egregious when one considers the long, unbroken line of this crap.
So why now?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (6bTRc)
Not a lawyer, but it's probably two things:
1) This is an SC, because of Roberts, more ruled by "public opinion" than the law. Public opinion is against the rogue district judges blocking Trump and the SC doing nothing.
2) Probably the "No Kings", Palestinian, illegal alien, anti-semetic riots, violence, nonsense, plus the blocking of deportation of murders, rapist, child molesters by district judges and the SC by their inaction is giving Trump a pretty good whip hand to ignore those little wormy judges.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (6bTRc)
Good choice
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Jamaal Bowman at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (M0V4/)
If so, maybe Jackson will die of the sugarfoot, cancer, and heart disease combined due to racism before Sotamayor dies of the sugarfoot due to diet.
(Seriously though... that politician declaring blacks have higher cancer rates due to the use of hearing the N word daily, was the best most ridiculous thing I've heard lately. And with Jasmine Crockett around ("the math ain't mathin,"), there is stiff competition.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (gWBY1)
I'm here for it.
Posted by: Shenanigans at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (qKI0i)
[ ] KJB
[ ] Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: mr tmz at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (rJ48h)
[X] None of the above
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (rCia
____
Jasmine Crockashit is not dumb. She's quite smart and articulate. Her dumb ghetto-rat ranting is an act. There are videos of her before she adopted this persona where she talks intelligently about issues.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
It is actually worse than that. The result is the only thing that matters to the left, and the law is to be ignored.
Look at the Kenosha trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. They are perfectly willing to put mobs around the courthouse to scare a jury into giving them the 'justice' that they want.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 12:37 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 12:37 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)
With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a “solemn mockery” of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent.
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It should be noted this is not a legal opinion. It cites no law, it's sort of just... if feelings were masquerading as a SC Justice.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:37 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 12:37 PM (/HVsR)
http://tiny.cc/le4o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
I would say she's ginger-adjacent.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:38 PM (77rzZ)
Painting over a natural stone fireplace is an abomination. Wait, what were we talking about....?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 12:38 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 12:35 PM (hfg0k)
ALL of you are wrong! OUR word is The Law! And we CAN and WILL do as we will damn well please because WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS!!!
(And we are infinitely better than the disgusting assholes who pay our salaries and pensions. Fuck them in particular.)
Posted by: Cops at June 27, 2025 12:38 PM (vm8sq)
[ ] KJB
[ ] Jasmine Crockett
Posted by: mr tmz at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (rJ48h)
[X] None of the above
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (rCia
[X] Sloth
Posted by: ShainS at June 27, 2025 12:38 PM (arzIt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 12:38 PM (c/KMW)
Garcia's lawyers are asking the criminal court to keep Garcia in jail now.
Because ICE's gonna deport his ass to South Sudan the second the criminal court lets him out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
But don't get me wrong, this is a YUGE win for Trump.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
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Wouldn't that be the whole class action element?
Which becomes a real problem when members of the class (like, say, the people of IL when the state tries to sue) object to the lawsuit?
"This can't be a class. The people of IL are not in agreement with this decision."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)
______
Class action status is a separate but also worrying issue. Hack judges could just certify a national class of plaintiffs (which can be done) and issue an injunction in favor of the class. That's what I expect these hacktivist judges to do.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (w6syA)
Jackson is an actual cretin who probably needed extensive training and continuing education just to put her robe on the right way around.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (BjH5D)
I could not believe people just folded on this and let it happen.
She is the best congress could do considering the circumstances. How more unserious can Congress get and we have a functioning government.
This is another reason to despise Biden and whoever was running him.
Posted by: pawn at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (hfg0k)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
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As we saw from the habeus attempts at creating classes, it's...not easy and can fall apart pretty quickly.
There are definite loopholes, but most that get talked about seem like small beans to me.
It's the APA exception that raises the most questions for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Because Daddy's Home, he's had it up to here with their shit and they know it.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
As I have pointed out over the years to certain trolls, at some point being dumb is no longer an act.
It's like my buddy who started using the word "like" as an ironic joke, and then a few weeks later realized he was using it for real.
More succinctly - as Malone queried in The Untouchables, "Who would claim to be that, who was not?"
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (pwtJC)
++++
He's a decent week or so.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Gref at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (aBgBM)
ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
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2m
Imagine What It Must Feel Like to Be a Democrat
▪️USAID is defunded
▪️DOW is skyrocketing
▪️Rogue judges’ power limited
▪️Iran nuclear capability stifled
▪️Zohran is the leader of their party
▪️RNC has 5 times more cash on hand than DNC
▪️Criminal illegal aliens are being deported
▪️President Trump is brokering peace deals
▪️States will begin defunding Planned Parenthood
▪️128 democrats voted AGAINST impeaching President Trump
▪️White males, like David Hogg, are being kicked out of leadership positions
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (t/2Uw)
Jasmine Crockashit is not dumb. She's quite smart and articulate. Her dumb ghetto-rat ranting is an act. There are videos of her before she adopted this persona where she talks intelligently about issues.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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Exactly right lol. She was born into an upper-middle to upper-class family of professionals and spent her childhood attending prestigious private schools.
Someone convinced her that putting on the Hoodrat Barbie act is the best path for her to get more attention, more press, and therefore advance her political career. She's basically a black woman doing blackface, somehow.
Posted by: ballistic at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (ERYKL)
I could not believe people just folded on this and let it happen.
She is the best congress could do considering the circumstances. How more unserious can Congress get and we have a functioning government.
This is another reason to despise Biden and whoever was running him.
Posted by: pawn at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (QB+5g)
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Not even Graham voted for Jackson.
Murkowski and Collins did, though. (So did Mitt.)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Max Power at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (q177U)
Katanji Brown-Jackson wrote an illiterate dissent in which she railed against "legalese"
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Doctor rails against complicated, difficult-to-predict human body.
Aerospace engineer rails against atmosphere and gravity.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:41 PM (HuRzZ)
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Consider the gay marriage decision started as a district court ruling in CA that only applied to the CA law.
It had to work it's way up to SCOTUS.
Now? That judge would have also issued a nationwide injunction against denying gays marriage licenses, not just in CA.
That's how much things have changed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 12:41 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 12:41 PM (c/KMW)
I'm here for it.
Posted by: Shenanigans at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (qKI0i)
Yeah, that was pretty harsh, rightfully so. They are probably all tired of her ignorance
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2025 12:41 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
And then back to the Supremes we go!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (D7oie)
I guess on balance it helps since the commies were ignoring the injunctions anyway?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (M0V4/)
++++
Possible, but what of it? The only risk associated with that is for Trump to ignore them and *both* the federal agencies and cops to go along with it, and for the people to back it to the point of intervention. I don't think we're all that close to those thresholds.
But the Court may be trying to front-run a legitimacy crisis. It won't work for me because they've been in the thick of one for as long as I've been paying attention, but it might work on a larger scale.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:24 PM (6bTRc)
I want construction so strict it rules making Christmas a federal holiday was in violation of the first amendment.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (2J/Lj)
Scott forgot to mention the kick to the nuts of the Old School NYC demorats when their idol Mario's son went down to ignominious defeat
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (dCxaZ)
This is another reason to despise Biden and whoever was running him.
Posted by: pawn at June 27, 2025 12:39 PM (QB+5g)
Did Joe know he nominated her ?... Maybe the Auto-pen thing will stick and we can call her null and void..
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (VE6XX)
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is she as smart and articulate as obama...?? because, we've been there before
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 12:30 PM (YkGND)
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Which is true.
The judiciary is reactive. It cannot be proactive.
The idea that it should have great power over the branches that are active, that do report directly to the people, is so ludicrous based on this simple fact.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
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This is a brilliant point.
Posted by: ShainS at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (arzIt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: The Donald at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (m5cDg)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (SXxzC)
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Stage managed. Despite her purported pedigree I think she's a mouthy guttersnipe following a script provided to her daily.
Same with AOC and most every other politician.
It's all scripted. By people we don't vote for. Imagine their anger and frustration with the likes of Trump who has no script.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (rCia
++++
Almost all nationwide injunctions were pro-commie, and non-pro-commie ones were extremely rare.
They all know their jobs.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (6bTRc)
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Thomas and Alito recognized this and basically said, "Don't you try it."
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (paSBy)
It didn't.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)
I rarely read SCOTUS rulings, but this one made my to-do list due to the Blackrobe-Catfight spiciness
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:44 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (/HVsR)
Lay 'em down and hac-em yac-em.
Posted by: Warai-otoko speaks jive at June 27, 2025 12:44 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (2J/Lj)
It definitely could be a State holiday under a constructionist view.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:44 PM (VofaG)
Happy Flaming Skull Friday Everyone!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)
We're expecting more to come? Wunderbar!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 27, 2025 12:44 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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Exactly right lol. She was born into an upper-middle to upper-class family of professionals and spent her childhood attending prestigious private schools.
Someone convinced her that putting on the Hoodrat Barbie act is the best path for her to get more attention, more press, and therefore advance her political career. She's basically a black woman doing blackface, somehow.
Posted by: ballistic
I tried to tell everyone that the last time we were talking about her and everyone said I didn't know what I was talking about. That she only went to private schools as a DEI student.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (1m82a)
Um, what? "Legalese" is a word used by non-lawyers to bitch about and to minimize the importance of contract terms or legal opinions. Her very use of the this term shows how shockingly unserious and unsuited she is for the role.
Posted by: Plus she's an imbecile at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Justice Brown-Jackson at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (fXFFd)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (m5cDg)
Sick of these woke Twitter personalities making it to meaningful and powerful positions. Go to hell
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (pWcbU)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (MyqLb)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:46 PM (RUMEY)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (2J/Lj)
It definitely could be a State holiday under a constructionist view.
Posted by: polynikes
*Juneteenth has entered the chat
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:46 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 12:46 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (IifOV)
"We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument"
In non-legalese Amy basically said, we won't even try to read this as it is so stupid and wastes our time. Brown simply comes to court to hang out, playing solitare on her phone, texting to The View, while we argue legal facts. So disregard this retard.
Ketanji, who half the time can't spell her name, either, is outraged that anyone, much less a lone white woman, would diss her! She runs, weeping, into the Wise Latina's office (is she the one with the diabeetus?). There is a conclave of the wimmen in robes, missing the wisdom, lace collars, and halitosis of RBG. All decide to not allow Amy to sit at their table at lunch anymore.
Amy is now left hanging out with the white dudes and Thomas. There is a lot of tension in the court.
Nelly Bly, SCOTUS reporter, filed this day 6/27/2025
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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Exactly right lol. She was born into an upper-middle to upper-class family of professionals and spent her childhood attending prestigious private schools.
Someone convinced her that putting on the Hoodrat Barbie act is the best path for her to get more attention, more press, and therefore advance her political career. She's basically a black woman doing blackface, somehow.
Posted by: ballistic at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (3BwY
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And her plan is working! She gets much more press and attention as an angry ghetto rat screeching at Bad Whitey than she would as an articulate black woman thoughtfully critiquing the political opposition.
This is not uncommon in the black community, where a dual personality is used to further social or political goals. I know a number of smart, articulate black girls. They can go in and out of ghetto persona on cue, depending on their audience.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (IifOV)
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I think Jackson is just louder.
They're equally stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 12:46 PM (fV+MH)
Math.
Posted by: and we still get math so...meh at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (VofaG)
Well, she uses it as toilet paper, so it's always possible it could bite her in the ass.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (pwtJC)
Garcia's lawyers are asking the criminal court to keep Garcia in jail now.
Because ICE's gonna deport his ass to South Sudan the second the criminal court lets him out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
We should offer him an opportunity to earn citizenship. We'll fly him to Iran, drop him into one of the holes at Fordow, and - if he survives - he can tell us how much damage there is. Then, if he makes it back to the US, he can be a citizen... but sentenced to life in prison.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 12:42 PM (2J/Lj)
It definitely could be a State holiday under a constructionist view.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:44 PM (VofaG)
Or...argue from practical purposes.
Yeah, if you make December 25 a day like any other...who will show up to work, except for the most critical of roles?
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (vm8sq)
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For that matter, how is it not incredibly racist for the Democrats to insist she play the part of "sassy black woman from the ghetto" for their amusement. How is she not a 21st Century Step 'n' Fetchit?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (sJLOw)
These emergency injunctions served no purpose except to delay I p,emendation of the EOs with no recourse for the administration til the case could be heard often weeks away.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: ballistic
Black fatigue.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (flKEw)
Scott forgot to mention the kick to the nuts of the Old School NYC demorats when their idol Mario's son went down to ignominious defeat
Posted by: kallisto
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No Kings, baby. That means no princes either.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Change my mind at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (4qN3i)
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Mmm, it only took a couple of screwups as Prez before his handlers put him on a steady diet of Teleprompters. Even this had consequences due to his HS reading level.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 12:49 PM (FmapG)
It's just bizarre that she's too stupid to dissent in a way that sounds legal.
Hey thanks Joe.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 12:49 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 12:48 PM (sJ4fj)
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Holy shit, how embarrassing.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 12:49 PM (PMtkd)
Sick of these woke Twitter personalities making it to meaningful and powerful positions. Go to hell
Posted by: melodicmetal1
I don’t really understand what you mean by Twitter personalities in this context, but thought you might find it interesting that Katanji is a unisex Hindu name.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 12:50 PM (p4NUW)
This is not to say actual high IQ people cannot be manipulated or even become parrots. What they absolutely cannot be is weaponized in this particular way, which our leftard system, university and otherwise, is expressly designed to do.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:50 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 12:50 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:50 PM (BjH5D)
They basically ruled that criminals didn’t have to register NFA firearms because that would be self incriminating. Only people that were legally allowed to own NFA firearms had to do it.
They broke gun control with that pretzel logic.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (hfg0k)
Posted by: ballistic at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (3BwY
She's just shuckin' and jivin', boss. She'd prolly make Speaker if she could tap dance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)
It's all about their feelings. And of course their ability to stop Trump.
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (w6syA)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (4qN3i)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
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Exactly right lol. She was born into an upper-middle to upper-class family of professionals and spent her childhood attending prestigious private schools.
Someone convinced her that putting on the Hoodrat Barbie act is the best path for her to get more attention, more press, and therefore advance her political career. She's basically a black woman doing blackface, somehow.
Posted by: ballistic
I tried to tell everyone that the last time we were talking about her and everyone said I didn't know what I was talking about. That she only went to private schools as a DEI student.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:45 PM (flKEw)
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You were not wrong. I too have been called wrong for thinking this. Whatevs. There are videos of her out there where they can judge for themselves whether the ghetto-rat persona is an act or not.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 27, 2025 12:18 PM (bNf8H)
Do we need a discussion about the "masculine gaze" vs. the "feminine glare"?
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (rj6Yv)
Friday night orders on holiday weekends with deadline to respond almost immediately. Either completely waiving or setting ridiculous tiny bond levels for injunction plaintiffs (I thought there was something in the BBB that actually addresses this novel form of lawless judicial abuse, could be wrong).
Every aspect of some district court's actions in some of these cases has been ridiculously lawless and abusive.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (AcTAo)
-Judge Boasberg, probably
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (YUL+W)
Katanji Brown-Jackson wrote an illiterate dissent in which she railed against "legalese"
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Doctor rails against complicated, difficult-to-predict human body.
Aerospace engineer rails against atmosphere and gravity.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Translator rails against target language.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 12:49 PM (PMtkd)
Maybe not....
"Wow. If you can survive dealing with that dizzy bitch, you can survive anything!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:52 PM (BjH5D)
.....
Why are black women so tacky?
Crockett with her fake nails.
Cori Bush with her bald dome.
Michelle Obama with her penis.
It's ridiculous.
Posted by: Problem Solved at June 27, 2025 12:52 PM (WFNbD)
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why ? Sudan is beautiful this time of year !
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:52 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: rickb223 at
Juneteenth is stupid and should not ever have Bern a fed holiday because it is stupid. But it isn't a religious holiday like Christmas.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 12:52 PM (2J/Lj)
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That Mitt was once the "best" the Republicans WOULD (not could) offer up for a Presidential candidate tells you a lot about the core of the party. We are so blessed that Trump, Vance, DeSantis, and Rubio are made of sterner stuff.
I'd like to throw Cruz in there for his willingness to fight, but he still buys into that "J6 was a nightmare" bullshit.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 12:53 PM (TN0g+)
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The whole: it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind...is based on the reality that they really just want to be able to do what they want to do when they want to do it and bright line rules get in the way of that desired flexibility. So I'll tell you no this time but keep my options open if something more attractive ambles by and gives me a wink and a grin.
Posted by: Girls you know it's true.... at June 27, 2025 12:53 PM (fXFFd)
"We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument"
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So much so it does not even sound like The Carrot.
Loosely translated it essentially means "She can go eat a big bowl of the shut the fuck up."
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:53 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:54 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 12:43 PM (Q4IgG)
Joos? -- about 2/3 of our trolls
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:54 PM (ExV1e)
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I think she referred to her in the ruling as a "fundamentally non-serious" choice.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 12:54 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 27, 2025 12:54 PM (sJHOI)
But not clear that the dumb ones like her and Jackson are any more damaging to the country than the not obviously stupid ones like Roberts or Kennedy, with their absurd usurpations and lawlessness.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 12:54 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 12:46 PM (fV+MH)
Math.
Posted by: and we still get math
We have many laws, BTW.
Posted by: Math at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (Fob1X)
Why are black women so tacky?
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Sad to say, black women think that if X looks attractive, 10X must be 10 times more attractive. See, for example: eyelashes, nails, asses.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (/HVsR)
Also, so many are saying “SCOTUS has been politicized.” It always has been. It just is centrist now rather than overtly leftist.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (Z3f34)
Well, "No, because Katanji Brown-Jackson is a Leftist political hack and never should have been put forth as a Supreme Court Justice let alone approved by the Senate."
Posted by: Kurtz at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (GGsXJ)
Posted by: davidt
That bitch enforcement might be a pickle, Justice Butt Pirate.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: butkus51 at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (+yda9)
Thomas- the law is the law as written
Alito- what Clarence said!
Roberts- leave me out of this
Katanga Jackson- on no you di' int!
Kagan- what are we doing for lunch?
Kavanaugh- whatever you guys think, I guess
Sotomayor- I'm with Katanga whatsername
Barrett - this is my Magic 8-Ball
Gorsuch- what
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM (AOsQT)
Love this! I do wonder wth goes on most of the time, and this seems true!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 12:52 PM (2J/Lj)
It was also just a local holiday for a part of one state. It’s like making the Maine Lobster Festival a national holiday.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (hfg0k)
You mean the "technicality" of their Constitutional rights?
The arresting officer failing to state a probable cause for the arrest is a "technicality."
There's a long list of "technicalities" and "legalese" they violated to ramrod through the convictions against Trump.
And the J6ers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (YUL+W)
TBH, That's what CLS is, and Ketanji is positively marinated in it.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (0Jl9j)
That's where the Democrats want to take us.
I know everyone here knows that, but it is sobering to know how close we could be to total lunacy.
Posted by: RM at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (n/1Oj)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (hfg0k)
Balderdash!
Posted by: Red Lobster at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Eyelashes should never look like a tarantula crawling out of your eye sockets.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (flKEw)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 12:57 PM (bk5Wq)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:57 PM (RUMEY)
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 12:53 PM (TN0g+)
He has come around a bit after looking at it from the outside instead of being in the middle of it. And what I think made him the most angry and probably still is is that he was scheduled to speak and lay out why he voted no to certify the electoral vote. I am disappointed no one will ever get to hear it.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:57 PM (VofaG)
Imagine being Coney Barrett who is actually an intelligent woman, spending your adult life studying the law and working your ass off and ending up on the Supreme Court.
Then the walking, talking embodiment of DEI comes be-bopping into the courtroom, knowing absolutely jack shit and contributing nothing to the furtherance of settled law, but her voice counts just as much as yours. We've all had that co-worker who lucked themselves into their role but it's clear they're case studies in the Peter Principle. Eventually it wears on you and you have to tell them, professionally, that they're fucking retarded.
Posted by: ballistic at June 27, 2025 12:57 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
But Queens are still cool, right?
-- Lindsey Graham
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)
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A samurai, or a some guy that really likes samurai movies (like TJM). Samurai movies seem to attract Gladiator movie aficionados.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: RM at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (n/1Oj)
We were exactly one Trump away from just that. I shudder to think where we would be right now had he decided to bask in the adulation he got from 80% of people and all the Talk Shows as a game show host.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Red Lobster at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)
Jumanji Brown's got to be fuming after getting very publicly derobbed(Pants'd) in front of everyone.
Scalia laughs from the grave.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (bk5Wq)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: ballistic
It's obvious pandering but who's she pandering to? The hoodrat constituency or white liberals who believe that being ratchet is "authentic blackness"? I would imagine that most black folks with two brain cells to rub together are cringing the fuck out over this.
Posted by: Who's the audience? at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (fV+MH)
It's an act, for clicks, congressional style.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:59 PM (RUMEY)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 12:59 PM (bk5Wq)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 12:52 PM (2J/Lj)
I want to know why Bern is in your autocorrect. Is there something we should know???
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:00 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (flKEw)
Glued-on palm fronds.
Posted by: How can they keep their eyes open with those things? at June 27, 2025 01:00 PM (TbWk/)
Boobs.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 12:59 PM (bk5Wq)
I don't think that's a fine enough sifter, sir. Plenty of boobs out there on chicks with dicks.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 01:00 PM (RUMEY)
Math is a Ron.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (fV+MH)
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Time to break out the banhammer! Stat!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 12:55 PM (hfg0k)
I like that idea!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (4qN3i)
Based on ny superior knowledge, I'd say the birth certificate woman visited her mother after delivery. Brown's Mama was on the phone talking about her cat to Angie and this is what the birth certificate lady wrote down, as she could not get her off her phone.
I hereby write this without legalese, but in cursive so some cannot read it.
Who knew that someday cursive would be another foreign language?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025
She was confirmed. I think we are stuck with this very poor excuse for a legal mind.
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (hfg0k)
Glorified clerks. But they need an individual "philosophy" to do their jobs.
Another great one is "orginalist". Hilarious. So if I look at the contract we both signed and just decide that no, the part where I pay you for a service doesn't mean I pay you for a service (the "originalist" "interpretation"), then you're out of luck, if I'm not an "originalist".
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 27, 2025 01:02 PM (jPdyB)
THANK YOU GOD!
My brother FINALLY signed papers and for the first time in about 6 months, I know where I am going to be living next month!!!
The closing is officially Monday but all papers have been signed. I won't rest comfortably until this is all complete but all paperwork has been done.
It cost me about 60 or 70 grand for 2 years of peace and quiet, but whatever. What a nightmare. Mom and Dad would be so disappointed that things turned out like this.
If there are any caregivers of elderly people here and you live in your parent's house, push to get the entire house in your name in the will if you have siblings. Trust me. Just do it.
I'm still nervous until this closes but I'm getting beer after I clean up.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:02 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Math "
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Holy shit. Math is here!
Math is a Ron.
So we've been wrong the whole time?
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 01:02 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
My cursive certainly is.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:03 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE
Cheers.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:03 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (flKEw)
https://tinyurl.com/4jy23sns
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:03 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ...
Bro, too soon.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:03 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:03 PM (77rzZ)
Whoa. In other countries of the world, Huge Islamist Attack on Military Factory in Belgium. 100+ Islamists attack...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (HuRzZ)
I hate to say this, but... she's not doing women any favors. Both of these female justices seem to find it impossible to make clear decisions. They always leave things in a "maybe this, maybe that" muddle.
Posted by: ace at June 27
Is this related to asking where we want to go for dinner?
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (p4NUW)
Juneteenth was all right when it was just a Texas observance. Actually I don't recall it even being a state holiday. But Pandering Joe had to make it another holiday to tell us America sucks.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: ballistic
It's obvious pandering but who's she pandering to? The hoodrat constituency or white liberals who believe that being ratchet is "authentic blackness"? I would imagine that most black folks with two brain cells to rub together are cringing the fuck out over this.
Posted by: Who's the audience? at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)
I think this is factually, culturally backward.
When she speaks well, she's acting "white." Blacks do this all the time: put on a more polished presentation for the masses, but act "black" around their peer group. She is ghetto (either by circumstances or by having chosen to adopt ghetto culture), and this is her true self leaking out, not an affectation.
It's kinda like homos. They can present almost normal. But if a coven of them assembles, they queen out, and it's all lisping and curled wrists. At least for a certain demo of the people of fudge.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (w6syA)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 12:59 PM (bk5Wq)
One might think that is a clever reply, but after witnessing the festivities on Bourbon Street during a Halloween night celebrated many, many moons ago, I find this definition insufficient.
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (pwtJC)
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1h
BREAKING: J.D. Vance surges to a commanding 34-point lead in the 2028 Republican presidential primary, per Emerson.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (85jOI)
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (jPdyB)
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:03 PM (77rzZ
Thank you.
I was going insane.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (jvJvP)
yeah. That's what I was thinking. Her ruling was too narrow and missed the mark, probably because she WANTED it to miss the mark.
Federal courts are not able to rule against the executive branch PERIOD because they lack jurisdiction. Federal courts are a creation of congress and are not coequal with the other two branches. They can rule against individual persons in the executive branch, but not against actions by the branch its self in carrying out its duties.
Only the Supreme Court can do this.
Plus, each district and area granted by congress to a federal judge permits them decisions over that area not globally or nationally. Once again, only the Supreme Court can rule on cases over the entire USA.
Failing to rule on this leaves these courts open to try to overrule the executive branch, just in tricksy ways.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (pwtJC)
Posted by: ballistic at June 27, 2025 12:40 PM (3BwY
She's just shuckin' and jivin', boss. She'd prolly make Speaker if she could tap dance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)
The only difference between statements from Jazzmine and Hakeen Jeffries is the choice of key words. The messaging is identical.
Posted by: Gref at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (aBgBM)
Eyelashes should never look like a tarantula crawling out of your eye sockets.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (flKEw)
When my husband, who is less detail oriented than I am in general snark, notices caterpillar eyelashes it is a thing to behold. In public he pokes me to LOOK! The fake eyelash trends blow what is left of his mind.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (6PCLE)
Who knew that someday cursive would be another foreign language?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 27, 2025 01:01 PM (6PCLE)
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Tell me about it.
Posted by: Manual Transmissions at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (/HVsR)
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1h
BREAKING: J.D. Vance surges to a commanding 34-point lead in the 2028 Republican presidential primary, per Emerson.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (AOsQT)
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I wouldn't expect anyone else to be close to him now. The only one with the kind of exposure he's getting now is Rubio, and in people's mind's Secretary of State doesn't lead to the presidency, VP does.
3 years and all, but this is probably Vance's to lose. He's gonna have sky-high name recognition, and if Trump's presidency is considered a success, he's the heir apparent to that.
It'll be a crowning with some noise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (dCxaZ)
That's perfect. Now the lefties don't lose their Fascist mantra.
Trump just got mo power! No Kings!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 01:06 PM (RUMEY)
Math is a Ron.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 12:58 PM (fV+MH)
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Time to break out the banhammer! Stat!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Suit yourself, I'll go back to lurking.
I'll still be watching each of you, closely.
Posted by: Math at June 27, 2025 01:06 PM (2E0GD)
When she speaks well, she's acting "white." Blacks do this all the time: put on a more polished presentation for the masses, but act "black" around their peer group. She is ghetto (either by circumstances or by having chosen to adopt ghetto culture), and this is her true self leaking out, not an affectation.
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Agreed. Her "passion" only comes out when she's speaking stupidly. The other stuff was just an act.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 01:06 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (85jOI)
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Her idiocy is going to turn the court more rightward.
So, Ryan is actually a super secret triple agent playing 12th dimensional chess!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
Darn, nothing to hate-watch yet. Plenty of triumph among the podcasters and youtubers, but the Obama bros must still be picking themselves off the floor. I'm looking forward to The Bulwark and Pod Save America, those stupid frat kids.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:07 PM (HuRzZ)
It was always an op against us lefties anyway.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 01:07 PM (fV+MH)
Its right up there with the "food deserts" crap blaming a lack of local grocery stores for diabetes in poor kids. Dude. There's even less excuse these days than ever before for not feeding your kids properly. These dumb parents are ordering door dash fast food for their kids, they can order groceries through the same service and feed them well.
Between delivery and public transport, there's no excuse to not feed your kids. Food desserts is just a power grab by the usual suspects.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:07 PM (dfIr7)
Trump just got mo power! No Kings!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 01:06 PM (RUMEY)
gotta keep the Useless Idiots all fired up!
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:07 PM (dCxaZ)
DEI credentialism.
Penn is trying to fire tenured professor Amy Wax for documenting this.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (xTIDn)
yeah. That's what I was thinking. Her ruling was too narrow and missed the mark, probably because she WANTED it to miss the mark.
Federal courts are not able to rule against the executive branch PERIOD because they lack jurisdiction. Federal courts are a creation of congress and are not coequal with the other two branches. They can rule against individual persons in the executive branch, but not against actions by the branch its self in carrying out its duties.
Only the Supreme Court can do this.
Plus, each district and area granted by congress to a federal judge permits them decisions over that area not globally or nationally. Once again, only the Supreme Court can rule on cases over the entire USA.
Failing to rule on this leaves these courts open to try to overrule the executive branch, just in tricksy ways.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (dfIr7)
Clarence Thomas warned tricksy ways will be used. In his concurring opinion.
Posted by: Gref at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Barack at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (g8z90)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (V362x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (pwtJC
I'm still nervous.
Twice this year, on the day papers were to be signed, my brother changed his mind. Twice!
I won't fully relax until it's official.
I've been giving off nervous, jumpy vibes for months.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:00 PM (rCia
Evidently it thinks I'm Swiss. The town in Indiana is Berne, with an e so it wouldn't be that.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (2J/Lj)
I'll still be watching each of you, closely.
Posted by: Math
Math at NSA
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (77rzZ)
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If it's so bad maybe they should stop saying it. Just a thought.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: ace at June 27
Is this related to asking where we want to go for dinner?
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (p4NUW)
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Sandy Day O'Connor has entered the chat ....
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (D1vbu)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (mlg/3)
There may be some terms that require explanation here and there for the layman, but it usually just isn't as bad as people claim. "Don't read it. It's just legalese." can be a trap.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (vd6bO)
Comments are brilliant and spot-on today.
You morons all get a raise.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (j4U/Z)
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And then there's me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
She really needs to lighten up.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)
It was always an op against us lefties anyway.
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I'd argue that cursive was never proper for anything other than private journals and signatures. Back before people lugged computers everywhere, I'm certain that my insistence on using the printed word for my field reports earned me a promotion or two--my supervisors commented more than once that they could actually *read* my reports.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (TN0g+)
She is definitely the dumbest and least qualified supreme court justice in my lifetime and in my understanding, historically. Its shocking that someone so lacking in judicial ability and mental capacity even was considered for the job. Its an insult to black women to even say she should be on the job I mean... this is the best you could find???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (dfIr7)
But I’m sure the left will pull through for us with more lunacy soon.
Posted by: H at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (2gjbv)
The Court emphasizes that injunctions can only apply to those before the court.
And, by extension, nor can a court enjoin indirectly what it cannot enjoin directly
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (GnVQ5)
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Naggers. Right. Yes, of course.
Posted by: Randy Marsh at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (TbWk/)
Comments are brilliant and spot-on today.
You morons all get a raise.
Posted by: Auspex at June 27, 2025 01:09 PM (j4U/Z)
Can I just get my cardboard membership card laminated instead?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (RUMEY)
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at June 27, 2025 01:10 PM (ymA/R)
FAFO.
Posted by: mrp at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Just eat your slop and be glad, comrade.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (mlg/3)
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But I want some more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (AOsQT)
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Polls this early are meaningless.
Given his performance so far, though, it's his to lose as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 01:08 PM (iFTx/)
No, it doesn't . She no longer has to do "maybe this, maybe that" about where she wants to go to dinner
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 01:11 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (ExV1e)
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And then Roberts can declare it a tax.
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Crusader at June 27, 2025 12:53 PM (TN0g+)
He has come around a bit after looking at it from the outside instead of being in the middle of it. And what I think made him the most angry and probably still is is that he was scheduled to speak and lay out why he voted no to certify the electoral vote. I am disappointed no one will ever get to hear it.
Posted by: polynikes
I am of the opinion that certification was not certain, and that is why the fake insurrection was staged. They were then able to bypass the rules.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (+qU29)
Jackson has two degrees from Harvard.
DEI credentialism.
Penn is trying to fire tenured professor Amy Wax for documenting this.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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I've said for years, the next wave of POC grievance will be "Whitey deliberately let us get away with cheating in order to discredit us." ChatCPT could write that Ph.D. thesis now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (HuRzZ)
I'm still nervous until this closes but I'm getting beer after I clean up.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE
Wha???
No house should be owned by an individual.
What everyone NEEDS to do, and I had assumed everybody had already done, is to create a trust named after the owners, then in the paperwork of the trust clearly spell out the hierarchy of trustees. This way, when the current trustee passes away, there is no change in ownership (the trust still owns trhe house), merely a change in trustee.
It's basically like a will, but much better for you, because there are no estate taxes, no increase in property tax on the house,no probate, etc.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (pMi6S)
Who knew that someday cursive would be another foreign language?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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At the Versailles Conference, Lloyd George was warned the telephone line he was speaking on may not be secure. He airily replied, "That's all right. We'll use Welsh."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Crusader
I agree. Cursive stinks. Just say what you want to say, dammit, and don't make a freakin' art project out of it.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)
Congratulations. I lived under that cloud for quite a while, too.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (TJMjl)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (xTIDn)
I'm within a tenth of a per cent of the high of January 2025.
I thought it was going to take longer for the market to adjust to King Trump's decrees...but I'll take it!!
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 27, 2025 01:12 PM (D1vbu)
Yeah, about that...
Posted by: 24/7/365 school meals at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (tubbA)
The rest of the states can't help it that Texas was slow to the news that slaves were freed. Catch up. Do better. Instead we make it into a national holiday to hate on white people.
Also, native americans still had slaves, so not all blacks were free by Juneteenth anyway. We had to do a treaty with the tribes to get them to finally stop owning slaves.
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Jumanji Jemima-Jerimiundah isn't going to live to 94.
Ain't no damned way.
Posted by: XTC at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (UnA8+)
Coney Barret blasted her, accusing her simply ignoring 250 years of constitutional practice in order to create an "imperial judiciary."
i/o
@avidseries
"We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."
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I anticipate a chick fight with lots of hair-pulling and slapping.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (ES1Rb)
Posted by: Gref
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ACB left this door open because standing for states is different than those of regular litigants due to the 10th Amendment. Individual plaintiffs have no 'constitutional' right to pursue decisions that affect others beyond the litigants bound in the case.
States do because states as a whole are a class defined by the US Constitution as having sovereignty themselves.
So NY would have the right as they did in Clinton v. NY to pursue an injunction that overturned the line item veto law because it affected them financially as well as others. Conservative states have used the same process to challenge overreach by Biden in things like shutting down all oil leasing in the Gulf, executive orders on guns, and so on.
Posted by: Cheese Nazi Chef at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: mr tmz at June 27, 2025 01:13 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 01:04 PM (dCxaZ)
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You've got to commend Yahoo for being able to twist a common-sense victory into what sounds like a sinister over-the-top and forced authoritative capabilities allowed for Trump.
Posted by: washrivergal at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (drgfo)
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: The Dark Lord at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (DBAaD)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Yoohoo, I have a law degree.
Posted by: Kamala at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (0Htd1)
or "Ketanji, you ignorant slut."
Posted by: LizLem at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (Eng1Z)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (63Dwl)
Child's play!
Posted by: This is CNN at June 27, 2025 01:15 PM (Eng1Z)
I'm still nervous until this closes but I'm getting beer after I clean up.
Posted by: Stateless
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Depending on the state, some US states allow real property titles to pass directly to the named individuals on the title without going to probate. Transfer on Death Deeds.
Posted by: Cheese Nazi Chef at June 27, 2025 01:16 PM (ctrM5)
I agree, but while its rare to find a man who can handle power well and rule wisely, its even rarer to find a woman who can. While men tend to abuse power and get into excesses of force and hedonism, women tend to misuse power by deciding irrationally and with excess empathy. The number of truly great female leaders is very few -- Thatcher, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, for example -- and they were REALLY great. But they tended to not let their compassion overrule their reason.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (dfIr7)
It's basically like a will, but much better for you, because there are no estate taxes, no increase in property tax on the house,no probate, etc.
Posted by: zombie at June 27, 20
Thank you zombie.
I wish I would have known. My late parents and I just figured things would be amicably settled. Boy were we wrong.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:17 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at June 27, 2025 01:18 PM (HI5Mk)
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
There are people on Judge Judy who look as if their eyelashes weight a half pound each. I don't know how they keep their eyes open.
Posted by: Kamala at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: mr tmz
Being on the Supreme Court is something similar to tenured faculty in a department. Life long 'marriage' of convenience where the parties often develop hatreds lasting as long as they are on the bench.
In the case of William O. Douglas, his relationship with his Scotus colleagues outlasted several of his marriages and they had to endure his alcoholism, petty nastiness, and his cavalier ignorance of the law. He is the guy creating the penumbras, shadows, etc. argument but was stupid enough to put it into an opinion to reach the result he wanted. AKA 'right of privacy' in Griswold.
Griswold itself was a collusive suit in where the Planned Parenthood plaintiff purposefully found someone willing to 'arrest' them so as to gain standing. Suit failed twice before because CT never enforced its silly law against contraceptives.
Posted by: Cheese Nazi Chef at June 27, 2025 01:20 PM (ctrM5)
FWIW, Florida has what is called a "lady bird deed" that allows a person to transfer ownership of a house to a beneficiary upon death without the expenses of maintaining a trust. The property taxes will recalculate, but if the beneficiary occupies the property, he or she can apply for the homestead exemption.
This was the better option for me when I made my will last year.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at June 27, 2025 01:21 PM (USyCi)
In Oregon at least the property naturally devolves to the next of kin automatically and without probate.
So NY would have the right as they did in Clinton v. NY to pursue an injunction that overturned the line item veto law because it affected them financially as well as others. Conservative states have used the same process to challenge overreach by Biden in things like shutting down all oil leasing in the Gulf, executive orders on guns, and so on.
Sure but... that is the Supreme Court's job, not federal courts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Scotus actually has the means to handle it via normal procedures. They have a Grant cert, vacate the lower court ruling, and remand to that court to fix their damn opinion. GVR for short and these rarely if ever have opinions attached to them. Sort of like swatting a fly to Scotus.
Scotus can also consolidate all the various cases into one and issue stays of all those courts in one opinion before resolving the issue.
Posted by: Cheese Nazi Chef at June 27, 2025 01:22 PM (ctrM5)
I am so sorry that you're having to deal with that.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (USyCi)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Nope, the problem is Scotus is NOT a trial court nor is the Courts of Appeal. District Courts ARE the proper place for litigation to start because they hold at least hearings normally to develop the fact pattern and legal reasoning for upper courts to pick through for legal errors.
Posted by: Cheese Nazi Chef at June 27, 2025 01:24 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at June 27, 2025 01:23 PM (USyCi
Thank you.
I'll be a better Moron after all this.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS MAYBE.. 51% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing ba at June 27, 2025 01:25 PM (jvJvP)
Seriously, it's about freaking time. And Barrett finally fired her cannon, at Jumanji Jackson, which is delicious.
Here's a tasty morsel for the Horde: "Don't Interrupt the Enemy When He Is Making a Mistake" (Napoleon). https://wlehman.substack.com/p/dont-interrupt-them
Posted by: Beverly at June 27, 2025 01:26 PM (Epeb0)
Not just black women. Puerto Rican women, white women, in fact the only ones that seem to reject this are oriental women.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:27 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: whig at June 27, 2025 01:28 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Kamala at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (0Htd1)
Oh man, this just reminded me of a story that came up last summer, not long after Kamala became their candidate. Apparently there was a cheating scandal in California with the California bar exam. Law students were paying lawyers to take their exam for them, usually after they failed. I wonder if Kamala did the same thing, she seems too stupid to have passed the bar exam.
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 01:33 PM (YkGND)
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South Korean chicks do a lot of plastic surgery bro...
Posted by: Girls you know it's true.... at June 27, 2025 01:33 PM (fXFFd)
They do not have the unlimited right to decide the Constitutionality of laws.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 12:34 PM
Say rather that they don't have the exclusive right to decide the Constitutionality of laws.
Each branch is empowered, nay, required, to interpret the Constitution and to follow it as their judgment determines.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:33 PM (jc0TO)
Except that they are the only court coequal to the executive branch. Federal courts are by definition inferior, having been created by congress. They are not able to rule on the executive branch any more than they can the supreme court or any more than a state legislature can impeach a US senator. They lack jurisdiction.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:34 PM (dfIr7)
But the final say is supposed to be the people of the USA, the citizen voters. Not courts.
South Korean chicks do a lot of plastic surgery bro.
But you rarely see an oriental girl walking around with three inch nails and eyelashes and a gigantic rear end.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 27, 2025 01:35 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM (w6syA)
Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at June 27, 2025 01:38 PM
They will try. AFAIK, he's still claiming jurisdiction in a case that the SC ruled moot.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 01:45 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 01:46 PM (NWqJf)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 27, 2025 01:49 PM (NWqJf)
So if they got three women working on it together they could make the deadline, right?
Posted by: Socratease at June 27, 2025 01:51 PM (YgfoU)
Posted by: Socratease at June 27, 2025 01:52 PM (YgfoU)
Posted by: LWC at June 27, 2025 02:16 PM (x4ce5)
Posted by: DEEBEE at June 27, 2025 02:22 PM (x/6At)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 27, 2025 06:26 PM (wGqjj)
THE MORNING RANT: Might A.I. do to Universities What Gutenberg did to Monasteries?
It struck many at the time as an unthinkable outrage, but in retrospect dissolving the monasteries was almost the most obvious move that Henry VIII could make. They had made themselves his political enemies, the domestic allies of his adversaries abroad: thus, by dissolving them, he crushed a hostile power centre.Yes, dissolving a domestic hostile power center allied with foreign adversaries makes perfect sense.
They had, over the centuries, allowed their wealth and power to lead them towards luxury and corruption. The monasteries were hostile, rich, and unsympathetic, and therefore a vulnerable and attractive target for liquidation.But most importantly, monasteries were no longer necessary, just like the entrenched four-year university structure is no longer necessary to provide a post-high school education.
Now that the world had the printing press, the monasteries’ primary reason for existence – the core justification for both their prestige and their accumulated wealth – no longer applied.They had outlived their usefulness, making them nothing more than an irritating thorn in the king’s side and a tempting concentration of loot. Henry VIII lost nothing whatsoever by dissolving them, and gained a great deal.
Our own university system is on the cusp of a similar collapse. This may seem outrageous, given the size, wealth, and massive cultural importance of universities, but at the dawn of the 16th century, the suggestion that monasteries would be dismantled across Europe within a generation would have struck everyone – even their opponents – as absurd.Mr. Carter goes on to discuss how AI is being used so extensively now by college students that there is almost no way to determine to what extent, if any, students are learning or doing any actual studying or writing.
In 2022, ChatGPT became available. Almost overnight undergraduate students began using it to write their essays for them. Its abuse has now become essentially ubiquitous, and not only for essays: ChatGPT can write code or solve mathematical problems just as easily as it can generate reams of plausible-sounding text.Aside from networking and “the college experience,” the main selling point of a traditional college degree has been that it serves a credentialing purpose. The degree provides prospective employers some level of attestation that the graduate was able to complete a rigorous four-year educational journey, and thus has the aptitude for professional work. (I wrote that last sentence knowing that there is an abundance of worthless degrees out there nowadays, but for STEM / accounting / architecture type fields of study, the degree has still retained its legitimacy.)
The class of 2026 will have spent their entire undergraduate career in an academic setting in which the use of AI is so ubiquitous that it is simply assumed that every student has outsourced every assignment they were given to the context window. Students assume this, professors assume this, and naturally, employers assume this.Mr. Carter then makes the assumption that employers will soon be abandoning their reliance on universities as a credentialing service since AI will be doing all the work for students. We can hope that is the case. But what follows? Aptitude tests in the subject being learned seem to be an obvious choice to me. In my perfect world, the whole university system collapses and we replace it with specialized academies (or conservatories) in which the students focus simply on their area of specialization for an abbreviated period, and not bothering with electives, history or whatever else fills up the current four-year degree plan. What I want in a new hire is someone who has solid math skills, understands T-accounting, can write a coherent sentence, and can pass a test proving that competence. While I would hope (s)he has an interest in science, history, and geography, those are irrelevant subjects to the career path. I also hate seeing these young graduates starting their careers while carrying a crushing debt burden from the four-year “college experience.” The demise of the legacy university system’s role in our society is inevitable, just like the demise of the monasteries’ prominent role was inevitable. It will crumble rapidly once the collapse starts. Maybe the battle of titans between Donald Trump and Harvard University will be remembered as the beginning of the end of the university cartel. [h/t to Mr. CBD, who sent me this article, and with whom I had a nice exchange of emails discussing the subject.] [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 11:02 AM (J86+s)
Not all of it. There's no way I would go to see a doctor who got all of his/her medical education online.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:03 AM (77rzZ)
SC news is about to take over everything else as we finally win some.
Still dancing. ❤️💃
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (t/2Uw)
Saw a headline earlier this week about HR people upset that people are using AI to tailor their resumes to match their posted job opening descriptions.
It's their own dang fault, of course. They were the ones that implemented online job application systems that uses code to screen out most resumes before they are seen by a human at the company.
But yeah, AI is changing ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING for white collar/laptop class jobs. Meanwhile, the HVAC guy and plumbers can't fake anything, so they're safe in that respect.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (VVnrT)
Here is the bigger problem. You still need people who can think, and a student cohort that does nothing but task AI with that thought is useless. We will need to develop alternative ways that maintain the integrity of the testing process, e.g. proctored tests with no devices of any kind.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)
The class is about the use and management of Information systems in business. For the first time I will introduce AI...something I just learned to spell recently. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (mlg/3)
SC news is about to take over everything else as we finally win some.
Still dancing. ❤️💃
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (t/2Uw)
The Macarena???
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)
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Blue books.
"But, oh no, I'll have to read bad handwriting!"
*points to elementary schools*
The rot is deep. Any desire to actually fix it requires a lot of effort.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: tars tarkas at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (mlg/3)
Not from me….
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:06 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:06 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 11:06 AM (2GCMq)
virginia?
Posted by: tars tarkas at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (sGtp+)
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Vir--ginnnnnia.
Now, jump!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Judge Kamehameha at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (rCia8)
Today's universities could hold on for much longer. Even if universities were today considered academically useless, it will take at least 3 generations before the prestige and tradition of attending a major university fades. Legacy is a very powerful thing.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (iFTx/)
The "barista proletariat", as someone put it.
A key reason for crushing the universities is to stymie the growth of this (mostly female) class, who will happily destroy American society, so long as they think their social position will improve.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: In my home and in my car at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (XQo4F)
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Not entirely accurate. Besides accepting at face value the official government narrative of the Henry's day, monasteries had already lost the monopoly attributed to them, to the universities.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (od0dV)
There was a secular book industry in Europe from the 1200's on, and they put out more books than Gutenberg ever managed to print. It takes a while for that stuff to scale.
And monasteries and seminaries bought printing presses.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (cHUaN)
AI is vastly overhyped in many respects
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 27, 2025 11:08 AM (lepZb)
Posted by: SEC football stadiums at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Curly Bill Brocius at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Not hardly. Mackerel Snappers never had it so good.
Posted by: Ecclesiastically Challenged at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM (PCK5/)
But schools hadn't been teaching "thought" for at least 40 years before AI so this is no big loss.
Maybe the reason chatgpt can so easily complete the majority of these wrriten assignments is because the assignments were already designed to be completed by a vacuous parrot.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM (rCia8)
Here's my pessimistic assumption: organizations are going to implement AI to make the decisions in place of people - for consistency and quality assurance, they'll claim! - so, no, they won't need people who can think. They'll need a lot fewer people and they'll be thrilled to reduce staff, one of their biggest expenses.
Just imagine how, say, United Health could streamline treatment plans and prescriptions if they set up parameters then let AI decide. "It's not our fault your cancer treatment was denied, the system weighed the probably outcomes of the prescribed treatment against your medical history and decided it would most likely not work."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 11:10 AM (ITkJX)
Modern American universities exist to house minor league professional sports teams and provide expensive credentialing in the field of robbing the treasury.
There are actual STEM-related fields which have value but pay an excessive burden to exist as part of the whole as opposed to being a technical school.
No one at the university is taught to think. None of the "well rounded" classes are worth a damn even in the event that the core classes are. Put a dagger through its heart and move on.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:10 AM (ExV1e)
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Somewhat related...
When applying for FedGov jobs there's a "formula" that people use to get their resumes past the digital screening processes... a pre-AI set of programs that can detect key words and phrases that are desirable for a future hire.
I'm sure AI could do the same.
But, even as late as 2020 FedGov was still (in some cases) doing in person interviews with various questions from a panel.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 11:10 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (xTIDn)
Let's not forget the free tuition illegals, foreign student visas to shitholes and hostile nations, many of whom are male and wed be better off if they stayed in their islamic slime or rapey african nations. And how many CCP spies do we really need in engineering programs?
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM (FZn/N)
Moreso, imagine what it could do to the K-12 Marxist Degeneracy indoctrination system?
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM (YNfms)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Billy Batson at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM (55re8)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (mlg/3)
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That's every day.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM (od0dV)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM (flKEw)
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Add in social credit scores, and voila! A perfect society!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 11:12 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 11:12 AM (+qU29)
Morning, skip… ready to join the scrum???
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (PCK5/)
Yep. Making AI a god was always the crux of the problem with it.
The Left knew this and so got in on the ground floor, programming it to agree with them from the start.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (rCia8)
The local state university literally charges more for engineering courses than other courses, because engineering degrees are actually valuable.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM
I recently had to correct someone who repeatedly writes "are" instead of "our". This person has a master's degree in...wait for it...healthcare communication.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (kgE5c)
years has been invaluable to my career. Just today I was on LinkedIn and saw one of my bros from back in the day was in the news. He’s an exec at a company that launched a pretty cool product this week. I wrote him a congrats note and we got chatting for a while about the old days. I’m pretty sure I could call him up and ask him for a job if need be and he’d find something for me. And if someone called me looking for a job id do what I could to find something at my company.
That’s what college is about, the experience and meeting people. Not the “education”.
So no I don’t think colleges will go away any time soon.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (ORJZB)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (Riz8t)
The student cohort wasn't doing so hot with thinking anyway.
Posted by: AI just accelerated it at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Music Nerd at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 11:14 AM (c/KMW)
So the monks aren't completely useless.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:11 AM
Call me biased, but I'm a Byzantine chant kinda guy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: tubal
This morning we found a new topic to argue about.
RICHARD III DID NOT KILL THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER!!! REEEEEEE!!!!
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Eeyore at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (od0dV)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (jc0TO)
Yes if by AI you mean Absolutely Impertinent.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (rCia8)
Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (Hxfl9)
I'm sure AI could do the same.
But, even as late as 2020 FedGov was still (in some cases) doing in person interviews with various questions from a panel.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 11:10 AM (Q4IgG)
AI scanning of resumes is a thing in a lot of places. There are programs that were designed just to do that, find the key words.
So... people applying for jobs started using programs that would help them insert the proper key words into the resume.
So if you were a janitor, you can't just say "I swept floors," you have to say "Implemented protocols to ensure sanitary conditions in the workplace, assisting in reducing pathogens, creating and implementing safety measures, and decreased workforce costs."
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2025 11:16 AM (c/KMW)
The liberal wing does not. Just wow.
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:16 AM (G0vdT)
The universities and the "everyone goes to college!" politicians gave it a huge head start. They've been issuing useless [whatever] Studies degrees for a few decades.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:16 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (mlg/3)
Every day, you pope-sucking bead-rattling mackerel snapping indulgence dealer!
Posted by: If you're gonna do it go all the way at June 27, 2025 11:16 AM (TbWk/)
A super senior, eh? It's all starting to come together... 🤔
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (rCia8)
These are self-reported diagnoses, so take that for what it's worth. The victim mentality could account for a significant percentage lying about or embellishing their mental health history.
https://tinyurl.com/mvj5k5j
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)
"But the General Education requirements are supposed to make you well rounded and better able to handle life's challenges from getting an exposure to a diverse worldview!" -Normal argument.
And of course the colleges will not be as profitable if a student can get a degree in two years vs. four.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: tubal
Wait. The system works?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (kgE5c)
I'm not aware of such a thing. I'll have to check it out.
Has Lady Gaga done any?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (dGCAG)
That’s what college is about, the experience and meeting people. Not the “education”.
So no I don’t think colleges will go away any time soon.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (ORJZB)
It's a good point, but leads to an obvious conclusion - the party schools on the beach provide the exact same benefit to prospective students that super expensive Ivy League schools do. It's just a matter of which social club you want to join.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (uWKK8)
Power is great, but power also corrupts. It's an enigma, or something about new wine in old wineskins?
Posted by: illiniwek at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
Someone put up a one-panel cartoon by the printer in an office I was working in. It showed a monk slumped unconscious over a manuscript, and another monk standing over him and yelling, "Printer's down!"
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:18 AM (jGJov)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (jc0TO)
Yes if by AI you mean Absolutely Impertinent.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (rCia
Astonishingly Ineffectual
Posted by: That's my AI at June 27, 2025 11:18 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: If you're gonna do it go all the way at June 27, 2025 11:16 AM (TbWk/)
That's some quality anti-papist cant there.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (2cS/G)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (rCia
Super duper.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (ORJZB)
Posted by: Back in the day at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (XQo4F)
So the monks aren't completely useless.
Posted by: BurtTC
Bavarian monks, in particular, brew some amazing beer.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (sya53)
I refer to it as "Doctor TikTok" myself.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (D7oie)
Today's universities could hold on for much longer. Even if universities were today considered academically useless, it will take at least 3 generations before the prestige and tradition of attending a major university fades. Legacy is a very powerful thing.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (iFTx/)
Yup. I won't see the university demise in my liftime. They'll hang on, if for nothing else, their sports programs.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (FZn/N)
Part of that was the whole "Disparate Impact" issue with testing for competency - companies get in legal hot water if they test things that a gung-ho pro bono lawyer could argue isn't needed (even if it's a secondary or tertiary thing, like being able to read). So that mess was offloaded to colleges, to have them do the testing and verification.
Except now Joanna (nee Johnny) can't write, can barely write, cannot follow instructions, but can cause a hell of a lot of problems because you aren't printing "Freedom For Palistine! River To The Sea!" paper cups at the factory. Despite a 4.0 GPA in Critical Alphabet studies.
So, if a bachelor's degree is no long indicative of being able to work hard and to learn new things, why would companies keep using it as the gold standard? They'd need new ways to determine if a person can actually do the work, rather than just saving money and "hiring" ChatGPT themselves.
Posted by: Another Anon at June 27, 2025 11:20 AM (4h45B)
Even simplistic, repetitive jobs like, say, mowing grass is a challenge for AI driven 'bots.
At some point they encounter something unfamiliar and fail.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)
https://tinyurl.com/mvj5k5j
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)
It's a fair question. Did they control for lib chicks who fake mental illness on TikTok for clout?
Posted by: Tourette's is IN this year... at June 27, 2025 11:20 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 11:20 AM (FmapG)
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That is inevitable, but it has little if anything to do with AI. AI will be blamed because it will in part be true but primarily because it is a convenient excuse to what needs to be done anyway.
Outside of certain hard sciences (engineering, doctoring, math, etc.) where the university is more akin to trade school, it is true *today*. A person who did not go to college is an unknown quantity. A person who went to college for a "studies" degree - or increasingly, a non-hard-sciences degree at all - may well be a pig-ignorant ideological robot.
The universities are killing themselves. The "degree as proxy for minimum competence" is a thing only because testing during interviews was racist or something. Something else will replace it, because it's not fit for purpose anymore. The universities did that themselves. AI *might* hasten the death of universities, but it did not cause it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:20 AM (6bTRc)
Well, a university education was supposed to be (note: *supposed to be*) the mark of a knowledgeable individual (whether a noble in days of old, or a voter in modern times) who did in fact have knowledge of those things, so the country could be properly governed-- for example, knowing that communism has failed every time it's been tried, or where the country we're currently bombing is located, and what historical factors led up to said bombing.
Institutions that focus strictly on a "career path" already exist. They're called trade schools.
So... there's that.
I'm not sure that generative AI systems are the answer to that need. They basically synthesize stuff from what's been put into them, and a lot of the university-level stuff nowadays (as we all know) complete garbage.
(this is not a criticism of trade schools, by the way... *good* trade schools are awesome and should be encouraged and supported whenever possible)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (qpyNK)
https://tinyurl.com/mvj5k5j
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)
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A desire to be mentally ill might be worse than actually being mentally ill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
Rep for Karmelo Anthony's family says murder indictment is 'yet another example of what it means to be black in America'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
So the monks aren't completely useless.
Posted by: BurtTC
Bavarian monks, in particular, brew some amazing beer.
Posted by: t-bird
Proof God loves us.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (flKEw)
The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
Rep for Karmelo Anthony's family says murder indictment is 'yet another example of what it means to be black in America'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
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Completely unrelated:
What's black fatigue?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
So... people applying for jobs started using programs that would help them insert the proper key words into the resume.
- - -
Had a friend who was job-hunting earlier this year. He used a chat group of fellow job-seekers to exchange ideas on what AI prompts to use to have AI rewrite his resume with each job application. He got to a point where he could turn around a new resume version almost immediately.
Job applicants have to do this nowadays thanks to the changes in company hiring practices. For starters, over half the job opening posted are not real - the are fishing for current resumes to see what's out there, trends, etc. Then there's LinkedIn where there will be a job posting that has hundreds of applicants within an hour.
It's bananas, and it's not the job-seekers who have made it such clusterf#%^k!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (sya53)
Having spent some time in the area, I put forth sufficient effort, trying to find beers I liked, and generally came up empty.
The whole "liquid bread" thing really turned me off.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (dGCAG)
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That used to be fairly common in employment/hiring, but muh racism.
But I also think this should be the norm in education. The notion of "testing out" of something is anathema, and it shouldn't be. If I already know it, or can go learn it quickly, why should I attend the class?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
In those days, Gold was still rather rare in Europe, and Silver was the precious metal of choice for coinage and almost all wealth storage. The monasteries had accumulated vast amounts, and Henry had it all rounded up and sent to the Tower, where Henry had it turned into coinage. (The true source of his and his heir Elizabeth's wealth) There was so much silver that the Mint worked around the clock for 12 YEARS melting it all down and stamping it all into coinage with Henry VIII's mug on them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (uWKK8)
I could tell them you’re not learning it’s cheating blah blah. But reality is everyone’s doing it. Why put my kids at a disadvantage for some morality play? Don't hate the player hate the game.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (ORJZB)
the universities could commit any number of heinous crimes before the average college football or basketball fan would be willing to admit there is a problem
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (jGJov)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (VofaG)
Re-reads the "Fifteen Second African" essay.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (BpO1e)
Today's universities could hold on for much longer. Even if universities were today considered academically useless, it will take at least 3 generations before the prestige and tradition of attending a major university fades. Legacy is a very powerful thing.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:07 AM (iFTx/)
Indeed it is. There was an article in Ted Gioia's Substack about his undergrad education as an American at Oxford. He said that it was impossible for cheating (or AI) there, because the system of teaching was largely discussion-based. There would be no midterm exams, just a final exam consisting of answering a couple of simple questions. The questions, however, were structured in such a way as to make it impossible to pass without showing deep and extensive knowledge of that subject.
I can see real colleges going back to the Blue Book system of my yout in the near future.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (zb+I1)
‘ Henry VIII destroyed the Cistercians in England, just as they were developing industrial steel. He destroyed his own prosperity by being grabby.’
Look. I had a lot of people that I didn’t like. How am I supposed to know which ones were the smart ones?
Posted by: Henry VIII at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: pudinhead
Dude, it's artificial intelligence, not artificial Moron.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
Is he saying stabbing a stranger is what it means to be black in America?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (VVnrT)
And people keep voting with their wallet to fund those overvalued stocks, because they are the stocks that keep going up ... the MoMo stocks of the ? 80s are now the MAG7, while good old GE flounders.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Just brew it at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 11:24 AM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:19 AM (ORJZB)
I'm sure all those freshman girls found that out about you the hard way.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:24 AM (rCia8)
‘ Henry VIII destroyed the Cistercians in England, just as they were developing industrial steel. He destroyed his own prosperity by being grabby.’
Look. I had a lot of people that I didn’t like. How am I supposed to know which ones were the smart ones?
Posted by: Henry VIII at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (jbnUc)
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He was upending an entire power structure and had to pay off loyalists to keep them loyal.
That was expensive.
Plus, Anne Boleyn wanted solid gold dresses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
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It's a sad state of affairs when you can't just stab a white boy in the heart whenever you feel like it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 27, 2025 11:24 AM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:24 AM (ORJZB)
Me: In Bonfire of the Vanities, was the "girl with brown lipstick" from the same part of the Bronx as AOC?
ChatGPT: All we know about Shelly is that she works (or at least sat) in the Bronx courthouse — there’s no mention of her specific Bronx neighborhood or community ties .
Me: Shelly Thomas lived with her parents in Riverdale.
ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right — The Bonfire of the Vanities does state that Shelly Thomas, the “girl with the brown lipstick,” lived with her parents in Riverdale, in the Bronx.
That means: Yes, she is from the same general part of the Bronx as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who also grew up in Riverdale/Kingsbridge, a relatively affluent area in the northwest Bronx.
Posted by: Oglebay at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (MMp6W)
It's bananas, and it's not the job-seekers who have made it such clusterf#%^k!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (VVnrT)
Agreed. You can't just be good at what you do, and have the right credentials, if you want a job nowadays, you damn well better get with the program, literally.
Your resume MUST have all the right words. Which means eventually the dimwits in the HR Industrial Complex will figure out they're getting bad candidates who use the same damn techniques they do, and will have to add more layers of idiocy to the hiring process.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (dGCAG)
Is that true? My college had placement tests at orientation to help people place out of the basic math and english classes. I used CLEP tests for a number of classes and all that was administered by the university. More students should take advantage of it though.
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (jGJov)
Posted by: Just the punchline at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (+qU29)
I could tell them you’re not learning it’s cheating blah blah. But reality is everyone’s doing it. Why put my kids at a disadvantage for some morality play? Don't hate the player hate the game.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:22 A
That's how I used to do my assignments but I used an encyclopedia.
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (ajCaF)
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He's the real victim here.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (rCia8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
I would agree. Actual mental illness, such as clinical depression, OCD, schizophrenia, PTSD, sucks ass. I'd give my left nut to ditch clinical depression and other shit I have to deal with. Anyone who's experienced these DOES NOT WANT IT and I piss on anyone who fakes and pretends for attention.
Posted by: No you aren't triggered or "feeling" OCD right now at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (TbWk/)
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Something of a self own there. Ask him why this is so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (Q4IgG)
I do a search on the term "paralegal," and I get all of these job postings for lawyers in addition to those for paralegals. I do not have a law degree or license, and therefore cannot practice law. But some bot just sees the "legal" part of paralegal and dumps all job postings with "legal" or "law" in them into the hopper.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
Social media has medicalized the concept of "stress" into anxiety. Xanax for everyone.
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:26 AM (jGJov)
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And like the monasteries, many will survive - albeit in a reduced way.
But there are staggering number of universities that are on the razor's edge of bankruptcy at all times. Any little nudge can kick them over. So far, the nudge hasn't happened but there are a ton of outfits that are functionally bankrupt.
My alma mater is one of them. That school's general fund endowment cannot cover even one full semester of operating expenses (the worst-case scenario of zero tuition). It went on a building binge and a "program" binge and its books are *awful* despite radically escalating costs. They simply spend - and, importantly, *spent* - too much money. And it is not at all a situation unique to my school.
Countless mid-tier and low-tier private colleges are already financial zombies. It's amazing how broke everyone is given the amount of money sloshing around, but that is also a tale as old as time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:26 AM (6bTRc)
I read the "birthright citizenship" decision. As I mentioned earlier, the issue in the case now concerns nationwide injunctions, not BRC on the merits.
ACB wrote the majority decision to which all the good guys signed on. Her decision includes some wishy-washy bullshit, but my takeway is that nationwide injunctions are basically dead.
As Thomas writes in his concurrence: "The Court today holds that federal courts may not issue so-called universal injunctions. I agree and join in full."
Yuge win for Trump! Link goes to SC opintion.
https://tinyurl.com/2r2nsejv
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
Networking is what gets jobs. It may not be fair or whatever. But it’s how the world works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ORJZB)
Posted by: And enrolled in community college at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (XQo4F)
Hell, if you followed the discourse about H1B fraud on X over Christmas, there are candidates who are using AI during Zoom interviews, entirely faking knowledge and experience on the spot.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (VVnrT)
https://is.gd/coJdQc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (xTIDn)
Another reason that STEM courses often cost more is that they typically require expensive equipment. Organic chemistry labs, supercomputers, and concrete compression testers aren't free (the exception here would be most math, where all you need is a piece of chalk -- numerical methods (finite element analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, etc. also need computers, the faster the better).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (jGJov)
Penn State's fans seem to care more about winning football teams than child rape.
So... what's worse than that?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (L5An7)
That statement could be interpreted in a way other than what the family intended.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 11:06 AM (2GCMq)
You're looking at it from a perspective almost 500 years removed from the event. Lots of things from the early 1500s look bad today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (ExV1e)
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Like the Florida College of Bridge Engineering?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:22 AM (ORJZB)
Cat's in the cradle...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (oXp8/)
Posted by: polynikes
Ideally, they should reinforce each other.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (jGJov)
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More common in colleges, but still not too common there (at least, it was on the way out when I attended in the mid aughts). Some courses allowed testing out, some didn't. They had systematized it to a point, in the form of AP credit. Pass your AP tests and you can skip some of the freshman courses.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (6bTRc)
Rep for Karmelo Anthony's family says murder indictment is 'yet another example of what it means to be black in America'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
Because white people NEVER would be indicted for murder if they pulled a knife out of their backpack and in cold blooded fashion stuck it right into a kid's heart.
Posted by: Nope, no white people get indicted for murder just blacks at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (TbWk/)
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Alito and Thomas?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (rCia8)
We could ignore them at a scale never previously imagined.
Posted by: Bombadil at June 27, 2025 11:29 AM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (6bTRc)
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I started my undergrad as a Junior because of all the AP and IB tests I had taken.
I really should have gotten a better degree, though.
I could be a nuclear engineer now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
What's black fatigue?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
People tired of the bullshit where EVERYTHING is whitey's fault, no matter what. Racism when & where it's not. Thug behavior everywhere always.
Living up to stereotypes.
Rachet assed people.
Rachet assed people - only goes one way - racism.
Always claiming racism.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 11:29 AM (flKEw)
It's how straight, white girls can claim victimhood and DEI membership. I'm neurodivergent, b#tchezz, stop calling me Becky!!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:29 AM (VVnrT)
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Alito and Thomas?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (rCia
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Yeah, they wrote separate concurrences (also Kav wrote one).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (VVnrT)
Heh, thankfully I had other ways I spent my Christmas holidays.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:29 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (zb+I1)
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Blue books worked well. I did feel bad for my profs, though. My handwriting sucks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: CNN at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: If you're gonna do it go all the way
My indulgences are hidden behind my borrowed Jooo Space Laser! How did you know???
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Bombadil at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (MX0bI)
Yeah, in the way that Hustler is an illustrated anatomy textbook.
They were graphic pornography force-fed to children.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: pudinhead
Dude, it's artificial intelligence, not artificial Moron.
That would be funny- Ace lets ChatGPT write some posts on a slow news day.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (KHLXg)
Yeah, I CLEPed out of (I think) 30 semester hours of courses when I was a freshman, way back in the Paleolithic. That's basically a year of college that I didn't have to pay for (there was a fee for the tests, but it wasn't much).
Does that program still exist?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Nope, no white people get indicted for murder just blacks at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (TbWk/)
He would have had to have a knife in his backpack if it wasn't for The System.
What this "Rep" is doing is essentially the OJ Play. Hope he gets off scot free due to a poisonous racist jury.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (rCia8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (VAINm)
https://tinyurl.com/mvj5k5j
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:17 AM (iFTx/)
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A desire to be mentally ill might be worse than actually being mentally ill.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
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Correct. I also wouldn't discount the fact that there's been an explosion of mental-health "services" that are hunting for -- and creating -- clients. Normal, usual bouts of disappointment or even general non-pathological depression are being pumped up to serious illnesses requiring treatment. But have no fear! For $300 a hour, you can talk to this hack to help you!
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 11:31 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Edgar Rice Burroughs at June 27, 2025 11:31 AM (MDua2)
Networking is what gets jobs. It may not be fair or whatever. But it’s how the world works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ORJZB)
True...especially if you're not "cheating" to get your resume seen. You're just getting kicked out at the start.
Honestly, businesses may need to go back to in person hiring events to talk to people and test them if they want to actually get non-North Korean employees (the story also talked about how they broke the system and got so many of their folks in by knowing the AI)...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:31 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:31 AM (mlg/3)
What this "Rep" is doing is essentially the OJ Play. Hope he gets off scot free due to a poisonous racist jury.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (rCia
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Nah.
I hope he gets the death sentence in Texas.
The whole, "I'm black and can do what I want because whitey is mean to me by microaggression," needs to die out, and putting Anthony in the chair (or whatever TX uses) will be a great signal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: No you aren't triggered or "feeling" OCD right now
I agree, except maybe for the OCD. I never worried about catching COVID because I'm a germaphobe who is constantly washing his hands. But depression sucks big time.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)
And the books written by men are dismissed. Especially if they are problematic.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (VVnrT)
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My current employer had a way to deal with that.
First was a phone/zoom interview. If they decided to bring you back for a second round, it was on-site. If the candidate was far away, they flew him in. The second round was an all-day, in-person marathon. Half a dozen interviews back-to-back with every interested party from the head cheese down to the potential future co-workers. Then the candidate goes home and they talk about whether to make an offer.
Very hard to cheat that system.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (6bTRc)
I was in college about the same time. The placement tests served the same role as having taken AP in high school, for a placement test that took an hour. Made me glad that as a lazy HS senior I had skipped the AP classes when I got the same credit.
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (jGJov)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)
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Everything's a racket.
I'm just gonna watch old Japanese movies instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Chris Van Hollen: It's dangerous to attack the press because they are “The Truth Tellers.”
This was said on MSNBC.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (VVnrT)
I’ve seen this several times interviewing people. It’s so obvious too. I end the interview right there.
And it’s not exclusive to h1bs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (ORJZB)
Because they prefer history and philosophy?
Weren't they just demonizing young men who've embraced Greek philosophy texts (Bronze Age Pervert) as "white nationalists?"
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (VVnrT)
Networking is what gets jobs. It may not be fair or whatever. But it’s how the world works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ORJZB)
This is very true. It's not what you know it's who you blow. Er, who you know. I didn't learn this lesson because I believed/hoped competence would carry the day, being introverted and nerdy as I am. That's a negative ghost rider. My desire to want this to be the case blinded me to the reality that I should've spent more time cultivating connections. And for this failing I cratered.
Posted by: Being good at what you do isn't enough at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (6bTRc)
I dont recall any other way I took a test.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (L5An7)
@EWErickson 14m
Gonna go with "Barretslap" for what Amy Coney Barrett did to the dimwit's dissent.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Yes. Most colleges have it but each one seems to have a set list of what they accept and don't.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (BpO1e)
Are you saying nah it's not the OJ Play or nah he will be found guilty?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (rCia8)
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Alito and Thomas?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (rCia
If she wrote it, it's probably a mushy opinion, unless it's 5-4 and not 6-3...and even then...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ORJZB)
It's how some parts of the world works.
Other parts work differently, and if you aren't sending your resume electronically, you don't exist. Don't walk in the door and introduce yourself, security will escort you out.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (dGCAG)
‘ about.
RICHARD III DID NOT KILL THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER!!!’
Are you sure? Because there’s always been a certain smell right there.
Posted by: Henry VIII at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (zb+I1)
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Blue books worked well. I did feel bad for my profs, though. My handwriting sucks.
That problem can be addressed easily. Simply hand out a laptop with nothing but Word on it to each student as they enter the testing hall, and collect them when they leave.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (G0vdT)
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Alito and Thomas?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (rCia
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Yeah, they wrote separate concurrences (also Kav wrote one).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
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Alito wrote three pages of text, iirc, while Jackson wrote a novel, and even cited aliens at one point. She's a nut.
Sotomayor went on at length as well but mostly missed the point of the ruling and focused instead on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (Ijr8/)
I'm still waiting for Roberts face turn. Maybe at Summerslam this year.
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (jGJov)
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Or stop accepting typed essays and require they be handwritten.
In class.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (GnVQ5)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (PCK5/)
And the books written by men are dismissed. Especially if they are problematic.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (BpO1e)
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I've managed to write a couple more pages of a book this morning. Slow going. Started more than a year ago.
My enthusiasm has waned. My drive, diminished.
But, I keep thinking about how I have literally three other books I've shown to no more than my mother on my hard drive (one of them, I haven't even shown to her yet), all within striking distance of self-publishing, and I say, "Get your ass to work, dumbass."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes
Ideally, they should reinforce each other.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
I agree in that book learning (theoretical teaching) can give one a base to start but once you start its all about hands on. Rarely will anyone refer back to their text books once they get into the real world.
This is not a chicken or the egg question. Practical learning came before books
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Vengeance at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (ptAPo)
Maybe the author just doesn't care.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (ExV1e)
I instinctively agreed with this sentiment, but I wonder how it can be more explicitly justified. What would be a valid "..., because..." phrase added to it?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (PQOq3)
One rumor is that Carmelo confessed to murder at the scene to a law enforcement officer, who testified before the grand jury. And if that is so, very smart of that officer to talk to no one EXCEPT the DA and the Grand Jury.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (uWKK8)
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Alito and Thomas?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:28 AM (rCia
If she wrote it, it's probably a mushy opinion, unless it's 5-4 and not 6-3...and even then...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (tOcjL)
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Um no, she went all gansta on KBJ.
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (G0vdT)
YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH MY COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!
SEC!!! SEC!!!!
Posted by: Drunk man in jorts who did not attend the university at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (jGJov)
i/o
@avidseries
"We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (G0vdT)
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Over what? I am shortly announcing significant limitations to the SCOTUS decision.
Posted by: President James Boasberg at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (Ijr8/)
Are you saying nah it's not the OJ Play or nah he will be found guilty?
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (rCia
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The guilty part.
He needs to be put down by the state for the good of society.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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There's a lot of truth in this
Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (8tFt2)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (lepZb)
Posted by: Archimedes
Hardwire a tablet like device into every desk without any wifi or USB connection.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:35 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (Hxfl9)
The decision which arose from the appeal of the injunction in the birthright citizenship case was released today, yes. District courts may not make universal injunctions unless the plaintiff is a State.
The actual question of birthright citizenship hasn't been argued yet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (pwtJC)
Ace is on this stuff already on X.
This will be a historic day. I predict flaming skulls.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (t/2Uw)
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He's respecting the morning schedule.
He'll probably post at 12 on the dot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
First was a phone/zoom interview. If they decided to bring you back for a second round, it was on-site. If the candidate was far away, they flew him in. The second round was an all-day, in-person marathon. Half a dozen interviews back-to-back with every interested party from the head cheese down to the potential future co-workers. Then the candidate goes home and they talk about whether to make an offer.
Very hard to cheat that system.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:32 AM (6bTRc)
But you lose all the good folks at the resume screening and 1st zoom interview, so you're only bringing in the crap cheaters.
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (tOcjL)
>>Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (6bTRc)
>>I dont recall any other way I took a test.
Where do you want to go to dinner tonight?
This is a test.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:37 AM (viF8m)
"But, oh no, I'll have to read bad handwriting!"
*points to elementary schools*
The rot is deep. Any desire to actually fix it requires a lot of effort.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM
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Came here to say this. I come from a time when tests were blue books. You go to class and hand write what you have learned about a subject.
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 27, 2025 11:37 AM (f1kZG)
Networking is what gets jobs. It may not be fair or whatever. But it’s how the world works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ORJZB)
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This is true in part. Much, much easier to have an "in." I got several jobs during my career thanks to an "in."
When I got laid off, most of my network collapsed, too. I had to do it the hard way - applying to job postings (online, through recruiters, in person at some local businesses, etc.). I ended up finding one thing through a personal connection and two through job applications on the web (I went from famine to feast, thankfully - I got three offers in two days).
Mixed bag. Most of the job applications fall into the void, but some are real. Damn hard to differentiate. The ones from job applications, though, were not through aggregators. I *found* the position through the aggregators, but went and applied directly on the company's website by hunting through the "careers" page and finding it. I got zero calls from applications *through* an aggregator.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:37 AM (6bTRc)
Ace is on this stuff already on X.
This will be a historic day. I predict flaming skulls.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (t/2Uw)
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See my comment above. Yuge win for Trump on national injunctions.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:37 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ORJZB)
It's how some parts of the world works.
Other parts work differently, and if you aren't sending your resume electronically, you don't exist. Don't walk in the door and introduce yourself, security will escort you out.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:33 AM (dGCAG)
Well yeah, the Boomer formula of "just walk right in, look them in the eyes, give 'em a firm handshake and you'll get the job" is insane nonsense. But if you have connections there and can use those connections to get your resume actually viewed by a human, and get a human to advocate for you to get an interview, you'll have a Lizzo-sized leg up on everyone else.
Posted by: BUT I'M GOOD WITH PEOPLE GODDAMMIT!!! at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 27, 2025 11:23 AM (zb+I1)
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Blue books worked well. I did feel bad for my profs, though. My handwriting sucks.
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This is why God invented graduate students.
Posted by: Professors already on vacation at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (Ijr8/)
Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2025 11:15 AM (Hxfl9)
The decision which arose from the appeal of the injunction in the birthright citizenship case was released today, yes. District courts may not make universal injunctions unless the plaintiff is a State.
The actual question of birthright citizenship hasn't been argued yet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
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See my comment above
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: toby928
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I'm sure some state schools can't plug the hole on all federal money, if it was withdrawn. Just capping admin costs at 15% on grants was estimated to cost nearly $60 million at the state school in my city.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (ITkJX)
She is clearly upset that the decision makes it harder for her to justify her preconceived decision that BRC is fine.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (Riz8t)
In class.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (GnVQ5)
++++
You just described a blue book exam!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)
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YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
Even non thug ghetto blacks are tired of it because it reinforces the stereotypes and everything they've done to overcome the ghetto.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 11:39 AM (flKEw)
In class.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (GnVQ5)
++++
You just described a blue book exam!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (6bTRc)
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He was imagining a green cover, though.
Totally different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)
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Copilot says
While President Trump declared the site “completely and totally obliterated,” preliminary U.S. intelligence assessments suggest the strikes caused moderate to severe damage but may not have fully destroyed...
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 11:39 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
One of the most painful exams I took. Writing for 1.5 hours is a bear.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:39 AM (mlg/3)
This is not a chicken or the egg question. Practical learning came before books
Posted by: polynikes
Becoming proficient in a foreign language (both speaking and writing) requires both types of learning.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)
Don't they have video of thew murder or was that misreported?
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:36 AM (tOcjL)
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Often true, yes. If the personnel department is using AI to screen resumes, many people wind up boned right from the start. If the personnel department is competent, it's less of a problem.
But there is no way to know how the company is handling its frontline screening.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (AOsQT)
Wow! Certainly no blinkered Protestant bias there! This is a grotesquely distorted synopsis of the execrable Henry's motives, and overlooks the fact that this libidinous narcissistic scoundrel is the one who drove Catholics into the arms of his foreign adversaries. Henry VIII makes me wish the Armada had succeeded.
Posted by: Paco at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (mADJX)
Well, there is a way.
You could assign students to write anti-Semitic or racist papers, then AI would be unable to write them.
It is only able to write papers critical of white, Christian males.
Posted by: Problem Solved at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (WFNbD)
Jackson on SCOTUS is going to make the court more right-leaning over time as the rest get fucking sick and tired of her bullshit.
Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes
Supposedly they do. But it's not been released.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (flKEw)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
One of the most painful exams I took. Writing for 1.5 hours is a bear.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:39 AM (mlg/3)
Done 3-4 hours before. Cast. Iron. Bitch.
Posted by: Hand cramps? I'll show you hand cramps! at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (TbWk/)
I've said it here before, but at some point, every open book or device in the world isn't going to help you. I reached that point in grad school. You either understood the material or you didn't.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
http://tiny.cc/z94o001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM
The kid brought a knife to a track meet.
He's boned.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
With Trump pushing for firings and Hegseth insulting journalists to their faces, today's @ReliableSources lead is about reporting versus cheerleading
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)
Don't they have video of thew murder or was that misreported?
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (VofaG)
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It has been reported that there is video of the attack, that the video does not show the victim approaching or touching Anthony at all before the attack.
This video has not been seen outside the grand jury, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (MDua2)
Take that stupid Montgomery County. Your recalcitrance has cost you the issue. Hah!
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (t/2Uw)
With Trump pushing for firings and Hegseth insulting journalists to their faces, today's @ReliableSources lead is about reporting versus cheerleading
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)
++++
The jokes write themselves.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: BUT I'M GOOD WITH PEOPLE GODDAMMIT!!! at June 27, 2025 11:38 AM (TbWk/)
Yeah, I was never interested in being a salesman anyway. I know nothing about aluminum siding or industrial latex.
The hardy handshake, and the Zig Ziglar attitude has never helped me find work.
I did get one job through a connection, but that was almost entirely by accident.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (gYnrv)
Or stop accepting typed essays and require they be handwritten.
In class.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Hidden earpiece dictates entire essay.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (HuRzZ)
In class.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
In cursive? Fortunately, I've been diagnosed with Handwriting and Speech Anxiety Disorder and am allowed to interact strictly thru email.
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (6pVrF)
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Here's a thought, that will likely piss some people off. Stop trying to be a man, i.e. provider, decider, self-sufficient, (girl-)boss. It turns men off when you don't need them (men need women too, it's meant to be mutual) and no one is happy.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (Dv3i1)
And good morning!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Your doctor at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Then tell me who is RIGHT NOW!
-- Foot-tapping Karen with her arms crossed
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (gYnrv)
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With both ACB and Alito shitting on her in the decision and the concurrence, it's obvious that her loud-mouthed, non-stop talking in service of abject idiocy is not helping her cause at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Purple-haired Librarian at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (MDua2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: pawn at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (pwtJC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Then tell me who is RIGHT NOW!
-- Foot-tapping Karen with her arms crossed
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)
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You are. You've been my supervisor this whole time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
(I'm at White House .gov but it's not yet?)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (HuRzZ)
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I doubt many students today have the ability to, you know, actually write.
Give them several blank sheets of paper, a typewriter and see what sort of drivel comes out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (Q4IgG)
i don't know if this is possible on a national level. Certainly not while teachers unions have political power. But it seems to be why home schooling, less likely to follow BS trends in education, has been so effective.
Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Paco at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (mADJX)
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I just have to note for the record my shock there is no mention in this overwrought paragraph of longbows, Ginger, or the War Between The States. Or boobs.
Posted by: Professors already on vacation at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (Ijr8/)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (ufFY8)
Did I just read on Free Beacon that the B2 bomber pilot was a girl?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:45 AM (HuRzZ)
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I doubt many students today have the ability to, you know, actually write.
Give them several blank sheets of paper, a typewriter and see what sort of drivel comes out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (Q4IgG)
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"Your final exam will be a blue book. You will have to write several thousand words, legibly. If I can't read it, I won't be able to accurately determine your knowledge of the subject and I will fail you. You have 3 months to ensure you can write legibly and for that long. Now, on to the syllabus for the semester."
-Day 1
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WisRich
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all it took was a President with cognitive abilities
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 11:45 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (6bTRc)
Depends on the job, obviously. In the healthcare world, if you need a phlebotomist, you need to see their phlebotomy certification. If you need a morgue tech, you can probably get away with asking "you're not into having sex with dead bodies, are you?" as your first line of screening.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (VAINm)
Give them several blank sheets of paper, a typewriter and see what sort of drivel comes out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Have you seen what happens when people under the age of 29 are given a sheet of paper and a typewriter?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (HuRzZ)
‘ Blue books worked well. I did feel bad for my profs, though. My handwriting sucks.’
Mine too. Particularly toward the end. My forearm felt like it had done a penmanship decathlon by then.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)
Jackson on SCOTUS is going to make the court more right-leaning over time as the rest get fucking sick and tired of her bullshit.
Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM
I think Jumanji Jackson might be the first supreme court justice to actually physically assault another justice.
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (IifOV)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (p4NUW)
If you cannot take a deadly weapon to a multi-school event, seek out a confrontation with a student from another school, and kill them... I just don't know what America has become.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Frank Barone at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (IifOV)
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It'll be Thomas.
She'll cry racism.
Roberts will protect her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (pwtJC)
Christ on a cracker, what's so hard about this?
Posted by: Chicken doing quantum mechanics at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (VofaG)
She's about 3 feet tall.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Polka will never die at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (I4CNo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (pwtJC)
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She apparently talks more than every other justice combined.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
With Trump pushing for firings and Hegseth insulting journalists to their faces, today's @ReliableSources lead is about reporting versus cheerleading
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)
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This is Justice Jackson level writing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (J8edR)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:42 AM (HuRzZ)
Which is prolly more effective than a butt plug tapping out Morse Code.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (dGCAG)
Jackson on SCOTUS is going to make the court more right-leaning over time as the rest get fucking sick and tired of her bullshit.
Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM
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Heh, looks like ACB has had it with the Liberals.
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (6bTRc)
I dont recall any other way I took a test.
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We would go to State Unies during the summer to pick up easy credits. All State testing was a combo or multiple choice and true/false questions. Essay tests were much different and required broader knowledge and competency. Hint - always outline your answers so if you run out of time writing you will likely get full credit due to the outline. Learned that from a John Foster Dulles biography. It worked too.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: chicagovota at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (baPXJ)
Did I just read on Free Beacon that the B2 bomber pilot was a girl?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:45 AM (HuRzZ)
Yes, one of them was. This has specifically been avoided being discussed by DoD b/c so few B2 pilots are female, and they did not want a direct target on her back b/c of the possible safety risk to her (and obviously, she'd be a great target for a crazy Muslim Iranian to attack and then propagandize in the home country)...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (VofaG)
In class."
She started doing that with quizzes for some classes.
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Great Moments in Jurispriudence at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (jGJov)
.....
Don't celebrate too quickly.
They ruled the lower courts exceeded their authority, but they are still dodging ruling in the real issue.
Posted by: Problem Solved at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (WFNbD)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (VofaG)
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Defense attorney in this case should be just throwing themselves on the mercy of the court, assuming the described video is accurate.
But, systemic racism may be the best defense possible otherwise. Enough to get one potential juror to say, "That white boy had it coming." Probably a 67 year old white lady with an advanced degree from an Ivy League school.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM
On the bright side, if their son gets life in prison, the family gets to keep all the donations, so they have that going for them.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:25 AM (VofaG)
Karmelo Anthony was studying to be a thoracic surgeon.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (okun6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Paco
No. Henry was a tyrant, no question. But the Spanish Hapsburgs were no bueno. Impoverished their country for centuries.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (G0vdT)
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"All my work! Wasted!"
-Kagan
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
She's about 3 feet tall.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:47 AM (viF8m)
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My "most-likely-to-assault" bet is on Sotomayor. Her blood pressure medicine is the only think keeping her in her chair. Or maybe her clerks belt her in, I don't know.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 11:49 AM (J8edR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I have a story I've been working on for the past year. Nothing ground breaking; just an idea I've had in mind for a while. I'm at page 70 and making myself think about what happens next.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (6pVrF)
Great line. And it is not just "imperial Judiciary", it is Imperial District Court judges ... Hawaii judges hardest hit.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (vbXSk)
Did I just read on Free Beacon that the B2 bomber pilot was a girl?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:45 AM (HuRzZ)
Trump and Hegseth both referred to the men and wom(a)n who executed this mission, when they were excoriating marxist media tools.
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (dCxaZ)
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I've managed to write a couple more pages of a book this morning. Slow going. Started more than a year ago.
My enthusiasm has waned. My drive, diminished.
But, I keep thinking about how I have literally three other books I've shown to no more than my mother on my hard drive (one of them, I haven't even shown to her yet), all within striking distance of self-publishing, and I say, "Get your ass to work, dumbass."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
What kind of asshole would talk to an employee that way?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (pwtJC)
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (BpO1e)
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I outline everything. Usually twice (at different levels of detail).
So, when I'm writing, there are no surprises or sudden stops because I don't know what happens next.
It works for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (FNvF+)
And black fatigue? It's not just for crackers.
Even non thug ghetto blacks are tired of it because it reinforces the stereotypes and everything they've done to overcome the ghetto.
Posted by: rickb223
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I've seen one of those fed-up Black people offer a useful clarification: ghetto fatigue.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Piper at June 27, 2025 11:46 AM (p4NUW)
Nope. Today's ruling, while in a birthright citizenship case, doesn't address that specific issue. It just prevents lower courts from issuing blanket, nationwide orders.
The actual birthright citizenship issue will need to be decided at a higher level.
Still, it's an awesome result. Judge Pakalolo Mahu in Whakatangihangaipukakapiki can no longer give orders to the entire country, just in his own jurisdiction. As it should have been all along.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (ULPxl)
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An illiterate one!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
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I saw a Youtube where some teenagers were staring at a rotary phone, and didn't know what to do with it
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (AOsQT)
She's also a great target for Antifa and other anti-American elements that live here.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (BpO1e)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)
Or create a problem that doesn't really exist. I witnessed a happy and pretty woman's destruction to an angry, bitter feminist bitch because of "modern" psychotherapy.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 11:52 AM (gYnrv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I have a story I've been working on for the past year. Nothing ground breaking; just an idea I've had in mind for a while. I'm at page 70 and making myself think about what happens next.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 11:50 AM (BpO1e)
You didn't pre-outline the major plot points (chanelling my Lit teaching husband now)...it's easier to keep yourself on track when you know the major points you want your story to hit and how you want it to end before you start fleshing it out...
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:52 AM (tOcjL)
‘ Certainly no blinkered Protestant bias there! This is a grotesquely distorted synopsis of the execrable Henry's motives’
It’s an analogy. Not a personal attack on you or your church.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 11:52 AM (jbnUc)
Did, uh, any morons misjudge "Amy Coney Island"?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (HuRzZ)
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The FACT that six Justices were OK with signing onto an opinion where Justice Barrett took a personal shot at Justice Jackson is a VERY STRONG indication that Jackson has alienated her colleagues and there is a growing lack of respect for her work.
Justices circulate Memos among with their legal views on certain cases in order to bring others around to their thinking.
Given what she has written in her dissent, imagine the memos that Jackson must have sent around in this case.
Barrett aptly boils it down to a single point -- Jackson would elevate the primacy of single district judges about the Executive because they are "the court" in the separation of powers.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (t/2Uw)
prob the same thing that happens when they're given a buggy whip.
Posted by: brak at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (jGJov)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (qpyNK)
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States may still be able to achieve universal injunctions (though that process is going to get abused and will probably end up getting slapped down at some point). Injunctions brought under the APA will be able to be universal, but that's fairly narrow.
Also, class action injunctions can happen, but building a class is difficult already, especially if members of the class object to the lawsuit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
Chris Cuomo says Democratic Party 'dead,' after brother loses NY mayor primary to democrat-socialist
In contrast to many who were surprised by the NYC mayoral primary results Tuesday, Cuomo said he was not.
During a monologue on NewsNation, he said Democrats' reaction to MAGA has become socialism.
https://is.gd/kd6tsm
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (FNvF+)
didn't the hiring manager look at her social media ahead of time??
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 11:52 AM (gYnrv)
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From the top rope!
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:52 AM (tOcjL)
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Stephen King doesn't outline shit and is one of the most successful writers in history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
Even non thug ghetto blacks are tired of it because it reinforces the stereotypes and everything they've done to overcome the ghetto.
Posted by: rickb223
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I was happy to see UFC great Jon Jones is a huge Trump fan and loves America.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)
She can't even tell a man from a woman.
I'm thinking that there's very little that she does understand.
What state is she from again? I'm thinking the bar exam must be really easy there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (qpyNK)
Don't they have video of thew murder or was that misreported?
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM (VofaG)
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It has been reported that there is video of the attack, that the video does not show the victim approaching or touching Anthony at all before the attack.
This video has not been seen outside the grand jury, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
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The video must be damning for this filthy scumbag, or else it would have been leaked already. I still don't think there's clarity as to what happened. I thought they were saying at one point the two kids did have a scuffle, but then Anthony left and came back with the knife. The video might be showing that part.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (iFTx/)
haha
he's living in Mirror Universe, obviously
it's exactly the other way around Chrissy Boo
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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I for one am getting conflicting signals
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Open Channel D at June 27, 2025 11:52 AM (gYnrv)
Girl fighting is the dirtiest kind of fighting...there's a reason it's called cat fighting. Have you ever known a cat to sheath its claws when attacking?
Posted by: Nova Local at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (tOcjL)
‘ The kid brought a knife to a track meet.
He's boned.’
The only way it goes south is if there are blacks or AWFLs on the jury.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)
Can't. He was under 18 at the time of the crime so SCOTUS said no death penalty.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (ExV1e)
Jackson on SCOTUS is going to make the court more right-leaning over time as the rest get fucking sick and tired of her bullshit.
Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:40 AM
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Heh, looks like ACB has had it with the Liberals.
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 11:48 AM (G0vdT)
They gave her a book deal and probably threatened her kids, but they forgot to warn her about the idiot cow orker she was going to have to put up with for the rest of her career.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (ULPxl)
Imagine a personalized tutor who is infinitely patient and will review a concept endlessly until the student demonstrates sufficient understanding to progress. Even more important, a highly intelligent and engaged student can progress at their rate instead of sitting in class being bored to tears when the instructor goes over the conversions from English to Metric lengths for the 10th time (or was it the 50th time, I was asleep)..
Some industry certification tests have been adaptive for years, a highly qualified candidate will see a few difficult questions, a barely qualified one will see many more to determine if they make the cut score.
Posted by: Rick T at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (xeXUW)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (ufFY
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Little Red Corvette >>>> Red books >> blue books >> Little Red Book
Posted by: Prince at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (ycs3a)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (pwtJC)
I don't think some understand the impact of this ruling. It's huge.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (viF8m)
Can't. He was under 18 at the time of the crime so SCOTUS said no death penalty.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (ExV1e)
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I can still hope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)
The analogy involved criticizing his church, calling it wealthy, elitist and no meaningfulness to society.
The analogy literally is comparing a rotten monastery system to a rotten university system.
So yes, it's literally attacking his church's history.
Posted by: Problem Solved at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (WFNbD)
Posted by: Toad-0 at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (cct0t)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:53 AM (HuRzZ)
Nah. It's like anyone else... I give her credit when she does good things and slag her off when she does bad things.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (VofaG)
I don't think some understand the impact of this ruling. It's huge.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (viF8m)
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See my comment above. But beware my "wishy-washy bullshit" concern. Alito has the same worries in his concurrence.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (dCxaZ)
That's the rub, in'nit? It seems like a self-evidently true statement but then so did "computers will never beat humans at chess" and "computers will never drive a car." The truth is that we really don't know what "to think" means.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 27, 2025 11:51 AM (FNvF+)
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Sucks to have one of those. Thankfully, I don't have one of those right now. We have one Zoomer girl on the team, but I have no idea what she does in her personal life or what she believes politically or whatever. She does her job and goes home. Excellent and refreshing.
Where I am, the worst are the older Zoomer/younger Milennial men. We have a couple real nasty, unpleasant types like the one you're describing. But my outfit is predominately male, so its unsurprising that the bad ones are mostly male, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 11:44 AM (ufFY
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IBM Redbooks?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:57 AM (6bTRc)
Have you considered the possibility that AI cheating doesn't really matter?
Everyone here agrees that most of what is going on in education today is politicized bullshit, just leftist indoctrination.
So Little Johnny cheats on his Herstory of Lesbian Literature exam. Who cares? It's all a farce. Not doing the work is almost a moral obligation.
Posted by: Throw Another Shoe in the Machine at June 27, 2025 11:57 AM (GeOhA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 11:57 AM (VAINm)
Though I was in a meeting where this was somewhat relevant.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 27, 2025 11:57 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadiso
Mrs. Karen, McKaren, I sincerely apologize for the inappropriate behavior my of direct report, Mr. TheJamesMadison. He is illiterate and an asshole. I have directed him to undergo DEI training to make him aware of the white privilege inherent in his Prometheus fanboidom, and to completely delete his collection of Daily Daddario pics, accumulated on his company laptop and on company time, and to surrender any printousts of same to HR for destruction.
Sincerely,
Blug B. Bulg
President, Bulg Industries, Inc.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
I've seen this a few times. One reaction is 'what the hell is this thing?'. They just walk away. Another is fascination, like it is personal magic and very cool. There is one universal reaction. They can't believe the physical effort needed to use a manual typewriter compared to a computer keyboard.
Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2025 11:58 AM (yTvNw)
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A Martian arriving here from another planet would see
these circumstances and surely wonder: “what good is the
Constitution, then?” What, really, is this system for protecting people’s rights if it amounts to this—placing the onus
on the victims to invoke the law’s protection, and rendering
the very institution that has the singular function of ensuring compliance with the Constitution powerless to prevent
the Government from violating it? “Those things Americans call constitutional rights seem hardly worth the paper
they are written on!”
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 11:58 AM (J8edR)
Have you considered the possibility that AI cheating doesn't really matter?
Everyone here agrees that most of what is going on in education today is politicized bullshit, just leftist indoctrination.
So Little Johnny cheats on his Herstory of Lesbian Literature exam. Who cares? It's all a farce. Not doing the work is almost a moral obligation.
For any class in which the test questions begin with "derive", that is not true.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 27, 2025 11:58 AM (Riz8t)
Sincerely,
Blug B. Bulg
President, Bulg Industries, Inc.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)
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Bulg, you're supposed to back me, bruh!
Where's the brotherhood, bruh?!
Bruh?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)
Can't. He was under 18 at the time of the crime so SCOTUS said no death penalty.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (ExV1e)
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I can still hope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)
_____
He might be spared the death penalty, but a fit young good-looking guy will be very popular in the showers ....
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 11:56 AM (/y8xj)
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Maybe. But we *do* know that computers can't do it.
Program a computer with the state of the art in aviation in, say, 1930. Ask it to design you the best airplane possible. It will. It will probably churn out a very clever monoplane with an excellent and reliable engine design.
But it won't figure out a jet engine for you. That would require an act of creation, and the computer can't do it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (ULPxl)
Harvey Penick - Golf book
Some consider it the Bible of golf
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (VofaG)
MAGA was a reaction to out of control anarcho-socialism/fascism
Posted by: kallisto
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And here's what's funny: MAGA is actually normalcy. It's not a wild swing to the extreme other side of the pendulum. There's a term for that, isn't there? (runs to Chat GPT)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (HuRzZ)
amplitude
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:00 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 12:00 PM (VAINm)
Dear Lord talk about educated beyond her intelligence
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:00 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Problem Solved at June 27, 2025 11:55 AM (WFNbD)
Are you suggesting that the history of Catholic Church is free of abuses and should be immune to criticism? I'm going to have to differ with you there. The Catholics have done some truly shitty things in the past (as well as some truly wonderful things, of course).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 12:00 PM (qpyNK)
Rabbit Barret:
JUSTICE JACKSON would do well to heed her own admonition: "(E )veryone, from the President on down, is bound by law." Ibid That goes for judges too.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (mlg/3)
Dear Lord talk about educated beyond her intelligence
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:00 PM (rCia
Odds AI wrote that for her?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (ULPxl)
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There are some loopholes (states as parties was not addressed, explicitly, in the decision, APA questions remain, class actions are different).
So, there will be pushback.
But precedent is set. Trump has clearance to dismiss unlawful rulings. Higher courts will be more likely to hold to the SCOTUS precedent. And SCOTUS will turn around in a few months or so to clarify things, for sure.
Remember, this whole thing starts just, like, 4 months ago. It wasn't years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
I've managed to write a couple more pages of a book this morning. Slow going. Started more than a year ago.
My enthusiasm has waned. My drive, diminished.
But, I keep thinking about how I have literally three other books I've shown to no more than my mother on my hard drive (one of them, I haven't even shown to her yet), all within striking distance of self-publishing, and I say, "Get your ass to work, dumbass."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
I've run into that too. I have a lead on a dev ed, but no money to pay her. I could rely on beta readers and AI editing, but that's not free either. If the dev ed likes my book, I'd consider trying for an agent first to avoid self pub. Odds are against, though.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2025 11:58 AM (yTvNw)
++++
It *sucks* to type on a manual typewriter. The Selectric was a great invention.
This is also, by the way, why so many Unix commands are so baffling and arcane. It was because terseness was its own reward. Typing 'ls' instead of 'list' counts when you have to do it on an electromechanical teletype with heavy keys that feel like trying to push a knife into a railroad tie.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (ULPxl)
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See my comments above. There's enough wiggle room in the majority opinion for asshole judges to continue playing games with national injunctions. Alito's concurrence has the same worries as The Blade does.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
So Little Johnny cheats on his Herstory of Lesbian Literature exam. Who cares? It's all a farce. Not doing the work is almost a moral obligation.
Posted by: Throw Another Shoe in the Machine
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No, I'm seriously sorry about the loss we've been experiencing of an appreciation and understanding of great art. But that precedes AI of course.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (HuRzZ)
Doing a decent job as a engineer is no longer a requirement in todays corporate, one-size-fits-all, technical environment.
I am surrounded by newly minted, 25-30 YO, Senior Principle Engineers and what not that now decide how things are to be done. While the not so special Associate and Senior engineers (that look like me) are given the shit jobs and can't get a decent raise because money is tight for some reason.
I am assured that these people are the best available.
Engineering in the US is pretty much doomed.
My company hired an ex-SpaceX guy, about 30 YO, as one of there upper tier dudes. He put out some recommendations on the reliability testing we needed to do for one of the radios we manufacture. I couldn't find any references to any of the things he had suggested.
I asked him in private point blank one day where he came up with these numbers and he sheepishly told me they came from Chat GPT. This guy is from Perdue.
Posted by: pawn at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (jc0TO)
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See my comments above. You'd be correct on that.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (sJ4fj)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (rCia
Cuomo is going to split the opposition vote and let the commie muslim win.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (ULPxl)
========
There are some loopholes (states as parties was not addressed, explicitly, in the decision, APA questions remain, class actions are different).
So, there will be pushback.
But precedent is set. Trump has clearance to dismiss unlawful rulings. Higher courts will be more likely to hold to the SCOTUS precedent. And SCOTUS will turn around in a few months or so to clarify things, for sure.
Remember, this whole thing starts just, like, 4 months ago. It wasn't years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
I was hoping more for an answer involving trebuchets or even helicopters, but that's a pretty good answer for an illiterate asshoe.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (0eaVi)
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I gave up completely on literary agents about 13 years ago.
Every single one of them said in their bios "Looking for unheard voices and underrepresented narratives," or whatever. Even the older white dudes.
No one would even write me back with more than a form letter.
So, self-publishing was my only option. Selling dozens of books.
Still, I write because I like it. I'd like to live on it, but that's never going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
Where's the brotherhood, bruh?!
Bruh?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I'm simply following my instructions from Chairman of the Board Doof D. Doof.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
This is a serious problem because the quality of the internet after the two big waves of post-2016 and post-2020 censorship is just.. awful. An actual human who knows how to dig can get info that is lightyears beyond what some bot can scrape, or some tech-deficient zoomer can manage.
Posted by: heya at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (bUBn/)
Yes.
cf. Trump's cabinet HHS secretary and DNI head. Neither of whom was ever GOP-curious in their lives. And of course DOGE maestro, I guess you could call him libertarian but definitely not conservative
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (ULPxl)
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I just bang on the keyboard until the red squiggles go away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:04 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:02 PM (6bTRc)
Carpal tunnel syndrom is an occupational hazard for programmers in exactly the same way that black lung disease is an occupational hazard for coal miners.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 12:04 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
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I'm going to get my Anti-Anti-Bruherhood-inator and go after him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
" 'No Kings' Protests bear Fruit. USSC acts in their favor and replaces Circuit Court Thrones with folding chairs."
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 12:05 PM (dIske)
Switch to writing screenplays
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 11:39 AM (mlg/3)
Nuclear power school. Allotted four hours. Covered every topic over the six month school. Pain.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:06 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:06 PM (pwtJC)
This has become painfully obvious in what's being published and its quality. They're doing for books what they did for comics. Slowly but surely.
Posted by: Throw Another Shoe in the Machine at June 27, 2025 12:07 PM (GeOhA)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 12:04 PM (qpyNK)
++++
I work in high tech. I once had a minor injury that required me to wear a wrist brace.
Many people asked me - fearfully - "is it the carpal tunnel?"
Thankfully, a good seating position and keyboard go a *long* way. I used to get a lot of pain in my wrists and fingers until I got a Model M keyboard. I type hard and the gradually increasing, analogue force feedback from the buckling springs - right up until they buckle, anyway - helped a lot. I quit bottoming out on my keystrokes, and the repetitive force/shock transmitted into my fingers and wrists fell radically.
A good keyboard - whatever "good" means to your particular habits and style - makes a huge difference.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 12:07 PM (6bTRc)
‘ He might be spared the death penalty, but a fit young good-looking guy will be very popular in the showers ....’
He’s not very big either. I think he’ll be the sweetheart of the cellblock.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 12:07 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:06 PM (g47mK)
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Class action is already hard to bring (they tried it on the habeus corpus for illegals thing and failed).
It also doesn't help when members of the class object to the lawsuit. So, "America is a class and objects to this," will be fun to watch attempted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 27, 2025 12:07 PM (ufFY8)
Gutenberg shagged Tahnee Welch, nein?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 12:07 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Frank Barone
I think what we're seeing is a justice who has never had to defend intellectually an argument in her life.
Whether HS, college or ?? She's glided thru and ran with the Sam herd that she can't believe there are others who think differently. And if she has encountered them, I'm black woke women argument has sufficed.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 27, 2025 12:08 PM (JkCto)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:08 PM (jc0TO)
ace is writing a cool post about SCOTUS for us. w000t
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:08 PM (HuRzZ)
It also doesn't help when members of the class object to the lawsuit. So, "America is a class and objects to this," will be fun to watch attempted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
I did not say they would be successful. Just that they will try , and will tie up resources, and make themselves a pain in the arse!
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 12:09 PM (g47mK)
Again, the categorical assertion about something that can't even be defined.
But it won't figure out a jet engine for you. That would require an act of creation, and the computer can't do it.
Maybe. *shrug* Who knows? What does "creation" mean anyway? As a Christian, I believe that there is only One Creator and anything else is a derivation or imitation of some sort. And we've seen AIs and LLMs do exactly that.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 27, 2025 12:09 PM (/y8xj)
Whether HS, college or ?? She's glided thru and ran with the Sam herd that she can't believe there are others who think differently. And if she has encountered them, I'm black woke women argument has sufficed.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 27, 2025 12:08 PM (JkCto)
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For a minute there, I think this was about Sotomayor.
Let's be honest, Jackson is the second of her ilk on SCOTUS.
She's just more obnoxious in chambers, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:09 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 27, 2025 12:08 PM (JkCto)
A BLACK WOMAN IS SPEAKING!
Posted by: Throw Another Shoe in the Machine at June 27, 2025 12:09 PM (GeOhA)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 12:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:06 PM (pwtJC)
aha! that is just a red herring to divert you to the True Power Behind the Throne...one Miss Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT!!
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:10 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
But I think Texas law says he can be tried as an adult.
No juvi hall
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 27, 2025 12:10 PM (JkCto)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 12:01 PM (0eaVi)
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I gave up completely on literary agents about 13 years ago.
Every single one of them said in their bios "Looking for unheard voices and underrepresented narratives," or whatever. Even the older white dudes.
No one would even write me back with more than a form letter.
So, self-publishing was my only option. Selling dozens of books.
Still, I write because I like it. I'd like to live on it, but that's never going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm still trying, haven't given up yet, although I have little faith I'll find one. In addition to them all saying they're not interested in new straight white male authors, they ask for your publishing history and if you currently have an agent. Wtf? If I was already published and had an agent, I wouldn't need you!
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)
Networking is what gets jobs. It may not be fair or whatever. But it’s how the world works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ORJZB)"
Sometimes, sometimes not.
I want to say that every opening we put out gets about 1500-2500 applicants. These get narrowed down to maybe 30 via the laugh test, of which maybe 2-4 will totally bomb a basic call with a recruiter by failing to pretend not to be psychotic. Say ~28 get sent actual technical problems (tech job - if you know, you know) Answers to those typically filter it down to 2-4 who need to make it through a call with an actual hiring manager; maybe 2-3 of those then make it into an on-site interview, which is usually a ~10 hour deal if you include an hour for lunch.
Those applicants are virtually all online.
Maybe 30% of the time, someone with an inside connection can pretty much guarantee they make it to the on-site. I don't recall any instances of skipping the earlier parts of the process unless they'd worked for us before, though.
Posted by: heya at June 27, 2025 12:10 PM (bUBn/)
USSC acts in their favor and replaces Circuit Court Thrones with folding chairs."
Posted by: Orson
===============
USSC replaces district court lightning bolts with pack of wet matches.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (HuRzZ)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (CqOiB)
Posted by: banana Dream at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (dCxaZ)
Accept no substitutes.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:06 PM (pwtJC)
__________
They're trying to take him from the rear
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 11:58 AM (J8edR)
Okay Justice Jumanji Jackson, now apply that to the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (L5An7)
Monasteries offered reduced land rents for people who otherwise couldn't afford farm land.
When Henry VIII destroyed the monasteries, he took away that safety net and plunged many of his own people into poverty.
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (o7+nL)
CTS used to be the Workers Comp go to for about 5 years of my career. Seems that WC attorneys and doctors come top with a new hard to objectively deny injury every five years or so. It screws the workers who have legit injuries.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM (VofaG)
The woman wouldn't recognize the Constitution if it bit her on the ass.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM (VAINm)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I met a civil engineer who took his exam in the '70s. 8 hour sitting, two days.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 12:12 PM (mlg/3)
ace is writing a cool post about SCOTUS for us. w000t
Who?
Posted by: JackStraw
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*sits at the table fully set with china and silver and candles, hears clanking noises in the kitchen, wiggles with excitement*
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (HuRzZ)
No details in the article I saw.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (qpyNK)
I saw something about magnets flowing again.
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:13 PM (VofaG)
A manual typewriter shouldn't take a lot of effort to press the keys. But for anyone who has only used computer keyboards it would feel hard. Still less effort than learning to play guitar.
Now they keys for a keypunch machine, that took some serious muscle and determination.
Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2025 12:14 PM (yTvNw)
‘ Are you suggesting that the history of Catholic Church is free of abuses and should be immune to criticism? I'm going to have to differ with you there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia ‘
Damn. And you would know too.
(The juxtaposition of your nickname to that post is too perfect)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 27, 2025 12:14 PM (jbnUc)
No one would even write me back with more than a form letter.
So, self-publishing was my only option. Selling dozens of books.
Still, I write because I like it. I'd like to live on it, but that's never going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
Of course, I'll probably be stepped on, but....
At my age, I'll never make any money, I'd just like to see if I can do it. Short story I submitted to a magazine was rejected today. So, not likely to have a career.
The main point is these unheard voices have been heard since the 70s. They're all crap. Nothing these voices say are of value at all, they're just complaints because they're not good enough to write something anyone would want to read. Big Publishing has ruined the writing biz pandering to perverts and losers.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2025 12:14 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (pwtJC)
OK, valid response. I have an idea in my head about what is going to happen but I have not written it down. I guess I know what I'm doing today.
Stephen King doesn't outline shit and is one of the most successful writers in history.
Then you get Brandon Sandersen who goes for hikes and dictates his stories on a voice recorder.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (BpO1e)
_____________________________
Here's a thought that I know has worked once or twice. It will cost you a little bit of money up front, but the investment is about getting your foot in the door.
Take a writing course (whether you think you need it or not) at a reputable college. Hob nob with the instructor who will have contacts in the literary field. She/he can get you through the first obstacle (actually meeting with someone).
That's how Jim Butcher started the "Dresden" series.
It sounds round about, and likely a waste of time from the writing aspect, but writing teachers have friends in the industry.
Posted by: Orson at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 12:15 PM (pwtJC)
Cat fight!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 12:16 PM (BjH5D)
Nowadays having a bunch of illegitimate kids would be seen as a negative factor for becoming Pope.
In his day, you kept your mouth shut if you knew what as good for you.
The thing is, he wasn't actually a bad Pope, as Renaissance-era Popes went.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (qpyNK)
But it won't figure out a jet engine for you. That would require an act of creation, and the computer can't do it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 11:59 AM (6bTRc)"
You're fundamentally misunderstanding what various types of AI do and what role the developers have in directing it. Several types are very much capable of creating something new and functional, and there are specific areas - like structural design - where they come up with some pretty wildly effective solutions and can run circles around human engineers.
A lot of this hinges on the ability to use raw non-AI computing power to simulate the performance of whatever is being designed - thus allowing rapid trial and error - combined with things like additive manufacturing where you don't have to sweat production details.
Note this is very different from asking an LLM to cough up a pile of information; 10 pages of bullshit can look good, but a truss either fails or not.
Posted by: heya at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (bUBn/)
Posted by: Toad-0 at June 27, 2025 12:17 PM (cct0t)
"Higher courts will be more likely to hold to the SCOTUS precedent."
So they're now "more likely" to adhere to the basic line of authority in the system? Sorta like the troops are now more likely to follow orders? This is any kind of "victory"? Lol.
"Remember, this whole thing starts just, like, 4 months ago. It wasn't years."
Isn't this exactly the same issue as arose in 2017 and after? The "Muslim ban" case? And of course even before, but with Trump the "judiciary" became a farcical parody of what it is supposed to be, starting during his first term (when it comes to this particular issue).
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2025 12:19 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: polynikes at June 27, 2025 12:03 PM (VofaG)
I 100% believe this
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 12:26 PM (rCia8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 27, 2025 12:27 PM (AcTAo)
By the way, I enjoy your writings enough to offer this course-correction.
Perhaps the monasteries were 'corrupt', but they also had lots of loot. You will notice that Henry grabbed the loot, which supports the theory that IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.
Posted by: dad29 at June 27, 2025 12:47 PM (zgw+6)
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 27, 2025 12:11 PM (o7+nL)
the monasteries also provided health care for the surrounding population
when the people had to leave those rural areas to head to London to seek work, it was the genesis of the nightmare Victorian London underclass. Noted by Charles Dickens, a notorious anti-Catholic. But even he couldn't deny the history.
also, Henry VIII proceeded to distribute the pillaged monastic properties to his friends, thereby creating an entirely new nobility. Many of the current Peers of the Realm owe their titles and wealth to Henry VIII defying the Pope.
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 12:51 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Lex at June 27, 2025 12:53 PM (l5xX+)
I can think of some academic areas that it could either teach as effectively as the classroom or at least render that body of knowledge irrelevant in terms of post-secondary careers. Humanities, math and foreign languages come to mind.
But those elite disciplines with real world consequences rely as much on mentoring and collaboration as they do on merely acquiring knowledge.
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at June 27, 2025 12:56 PM (jYRYu)
OK, I denounce myself, but really, he needs to stop dancing to yahoos tune.
Posted by: Whitepunk at June 27, 2025 01:00 PM (BfRTf)
Posted by: Whitepunk at June 27, 2025 01:05 PM (BfRTf)
maybe strict in-person testing will solve the AI doing the homework issue (if you don't learn via homework you'll fail the test anyway)
Posted by: The Dark Lord at June 27, 2025 01:19 PM (DBAaD)
I suspect most of this can be bypassed with certifications and testing of specific tasks.
Posted by: Beaver at June 27, 2025 03:43 PM (tCdjd)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 27, 2025 06:29 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: Annie Rose at June 27, 2025 08:02 PM (NzF2S)
Absolutely not true. What Gutenberg invented was the movable type printing press. That meant you could produce different pages on the fly. Until then you to carve each page separately, and when some of it wore down you had to carve the entire page over again (or patch it).
Posted by: GWB at June 27, 2025 08:33 PM (LaVqz)
So, you're arguing to replace the universities... with the guild system?
Which is NEVER what the universities were about.
Posted by: GWB at June 27, 2025 08:37 PM (LaVqz)
First, the "core purpose" of monasteries was not the preservation and transmission of knowledge.
Second, by the time the Gutenberg press showed up, the college and university system had already begun developing.
Third, the political issues over Church land are more extensive.
Ultimately, the passing of the monasteries is more due to the Reformation as a whole than just the Gutenberg press. Catholic monasteries remained centers of science for centuries after Henry VIII and Luther.
Posted by: Sam at June 27, 2025 08:41 PM (7jMef)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Jean-Paul Laurens
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: H at June 27, 2025 09:30 AM (2gjbv)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)
1838-1931
FrenchAcademic Classicalpainter, sculptor and illustrator
Les Otages
Hostages
1896
140 x 146 cms | 55 x 57 1/4 ins
Oil on canvas
Musee des Beaux-Arts
Lyon| France
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 27, 2025 09:32 AM (Btf0M)
Some context. . . ?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 09:32 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:32 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 09:32 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jean-Paul Laurens, Sr. at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (flKEw)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (Dv3i1)
(wiki)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (fFFrU)
Posted by: red speck at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (0Id0S)
"Oh, right on. Don't let the short one bite you."
"We dressed them like elves."
"...YOU MONSTER!!!!!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 09:34 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 09:34 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 09:34 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 09:34 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Never heard of him.
Posted by: Pete in Texas
Les Nessman, five-time winner of the Buckeye News Hawk Award and the Silver Sow Award!
-- Les Nessman
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 09:35 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: red speck at June 27, 2025 09:35 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 27, 2025 09:35 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at June 27, 2025 09:36 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: WitchDoktor
Sounds like Taylor's place would be much more fun.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 09:36 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:36 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 09:36 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: pookysgirl could say that about most of English history at June 27, 2025 09:37 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Les Bians >>> Les Miserables >>> Les Otages
Posted by: Moron Math at June 27, 2025 09:38 AM (ycI94)
I am prepared to offer double.
Posted by: John Podesta's brother at June 27, 2025 09:38 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2025 09:38 AM (jgmnb)
"Fighting during recess. You?"
"Falling asleep in class."
"Hmm."
Posted by: Warai-otoko
"We need that nerdy guy who can write that letter to the principal. And where is Ally Sheedy?"
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
Wouldn't hang. Thx for the effort though, CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 09:39 AM (pwtJC)
Moe. Moe the foe.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at June 27, 2025 09:39 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 09:39 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
Ha.
Although she -is- building a video game room.
When growing up I had no idea she'd be a techie. Her room looked like a place where Holly Hobby and Strawberry Shortcake would hook up.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 09:40 AM (WfZMN)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 09:40 AM (ITkJX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: dantesed at June 27, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)
(wiki)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 27, 2025 09:33 AM (ULPxl)
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They weren't exactly "hostages" though, were they? If you believe the story, Richard just wanted to get rid of them for his own ends. Wonder if this is a translation thing.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 09:41 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:41 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: pookysgirl could say that about most of English history at June 27, 2025 09:37 AM (Wt5PA)
++++
It is unclear what happened to the two princes after the last recorded sighting of them in the tower. It is generally assumed that they were murdered; a common hypothesis is that the murder was commissioned by Richard III in an attempt to secure his hold on the throne. Their deaths may have occurred sometime in 1483, but apart from their disappearance, the only evidence is circumstantial. As a result, several other theories about their fates have been proposed, including the suggestion that they were murdered by their kinsman the Duke of Buckingham, their future brother-in-law King Henry VII, or his mother Lady Margaret Beaufort, among others. It has also been suggested that one or both princes may have escaped assassination.
Regal politics is a rough game.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:41 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Court Jester at June 27, 2025 09:41 AM (fLQ2m)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Rando del Ashalle at June 27, 2025 09:43 AM (eCuBP)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:43 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:44 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Court Jester at June 27, 2025 09:41 AM (fLQ2m)
++++
Respectfully, what is you would say you actually *do* here?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: BifBewalski at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (L2nWE)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Nah. There were both hired on as Pony Express riders and ended up in Rancho Cucamonga at the Popeyes there.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:43 AM (VAINm)
*****
Gay dentists.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Rando del Ashalle
CBD's farewell to Pride Month.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (cYBz/)
++++
I love a happy ending!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:41 AM (6bTRc)
I couldn't bring myself to post the relevant part of that article on their fate, which is a bit further down than your excerpt. Possibly because I had my own little one in my arms.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to focus on the little musicmaker at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: The Schmenge Brothers at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)
Pride Month comes 3 months before the Fall.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Capt. Virgil Hilts at June 27, 2025 09:46 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)
And it's Big Boob Friday . . . . Hey! Where . . .?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 09:47 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: BifBewalski at June 27, 2025 09:47 AM (L2nWE)
Posted by: dantesed at June 27, 2025 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: The Schmenge Brothers
We were big in Sheboygan.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 09:47 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: pookysgirl
Is he ready for the football team yet?
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Turning the Tables - a limerick
The stolen kids of Old Mister Bransoon
Were obnoxious and a far cry from handsome
Their dad said "It's tough,
but if we wait long enough
The kidnappers will pay US the ransom!"
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 09:48 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:48 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:48 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)
Nah. There were both hired on as Pony Express riders and ended up in Rancho Cucamonga at the Popeyes there.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2025 09:45 AM (cYBz/)
======
False.
They were adopted by traveling gypsies and became a double act: The Knife Throwing Twins.
They honed their skills for years until they were sent on a mission to assassinate their uncle, Richard.
They threw the knives that killed him, but the evidence has been obscured by the damage done to Richard's body immediately afterwards and the time after his death and until his body's discovery under the car park.
The brothers then went off and continued their gypsy performing careers, dying happily in their 90s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BifBewalski at June 27, 2025 09:47 AM (L2nWE)
The grass is NOT always greener, is it, Bif??
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (PCK5/)
As much as I admire Laurens' talent, this is a tough scene. I hope the rest of the day is more uplifting.
Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 09:48 AM (poXs5)
The Apple Dumpling Gang or Ruthless People
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Otto Pen at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (fV+MH)
++++
Tower, not cellar. Royalty - even deposed royalty on their way to execution - get somewhat special treatment, I suppose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (6bTRc)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. The older kid is annoyed. It's his turn to clean the chamber pot.
Goes looking for coffee
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (W/lyH)
https://tinyurl.com/54r6vf3y
Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (IqBEX)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (xTinh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (VAINm)
++++
It's just out of frame.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (2GCMq)
"Timeout at CBD's House"
Caption:
"This hurts me more than you, but I've told you before, "No maple syrup on French Toast!!!"
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (VAINm)
++++
It's just out of frame.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (6bTRc)
---
Pro-tip: Do NOT drop a stone down the hole.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg
Nah, I expect something truly #FABULOUS on Monday to close out June.
Also, on a positive note, my very large corporate employer didn't mention gay pride at all this year. June is apparently National Safety Month. Who knew?
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Browbeaten Barry at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 09:52 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Almost. He's ridiculously strong and is currently mostly filling out a 18-month sleeper.
Posted by: pookysgirl, looking for toddler football leagues at June 27, 2025 09:52 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (LxER7)
++++
Seconded. Stones are rough. No joy at all. Nothing like a fuzzy lil' hamster!
Posted by: Richard Gere at June 27, 2025 09:52 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: Browbeaten Barry at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)
French-Adjacent.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 09:52 AM (xTinh)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:52 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 09:50 AM (xTinh)
Isn't that what Harvey Weinstein did to his ficus?
Is that what the kids are calling it?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 09:53 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 09:53 AM (6bTRc)
Circular Reasoning - a bonus limerick
The sad tale of Little Jack Horner
Who each day grew a little forlorner
His older sister Daisy
drove him just a little crazy
"Here's a round room, go sit in the corner!"
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 09:53 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025
***
Mystery novelist (and historian by training) Josephine Tey (her pen name) runs this theory up the flagpole in her The Daughter of Time. She wasn't the first to come up with the notion, but she makes it quite clear who is related to whom and asks Cui bono? (who benefits?). Henry VII had much more motive apparently than did Richard III.
It's also a very entertaining novel; recommended.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 09:54 AM (fV+MH)
The grass is NOT always greener, is it, Bif??
Posted by: tubal
absolutely not. i had to go help fix a red program due to zero system engineering, lack of good comms between the user, the government, and the program. they got themselves into a real dilly of barrel there. glad I only had to be there for the week.
those responsible have been sacked. the newbies are all certified by me for systems engineering and understand the problem they have to dig out of. executives have been notified of the messaging they must accomplish with the government to bail themselves out of the sinking ship. sad all around that it got so effed up.
happy to not live there for sure.
Posted by: BifBewalski at June 27, 2025 09:54 AM (L2nWE)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM
I believe it's National OKC Thunder month.
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 27, 2025 09:54 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Seconded.
Posted by: Tuna at June 27, 2025 09:54 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)
It's amazing how it captures the sheer soul crushing boredom of it all.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 09:55 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)
======
Now it's a prison for jewels.
I must liberate them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 09:55 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 09:56 AM (jc0TO)
Great museum of art, arms, and royal jewels.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:57 AM (gbOdA)
I must liberate them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
FAFO, Piggyback Boy.
-- Big Raven
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Seconded.
Posted by: Tuna at June 27, 2025
***
Daughter of Time is also amazingly told, in that you know who all the major players are and how they are related without needing a family tree. You know how, in reading history, you've got Richard Whatever, and then halfway through his life he gets made Lord So-and-So? If you miss the point where that happens, you wonder, "Who is this Lord So-and-So guy and where did he come from?" Somehow Tey avoids that confusion very neatly.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 27, 2025 09:58 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:58 AM (gbOdA)
I am pleased to announce that the United States Navy is renaming the USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.
We are taking the politics out of ship naming.
---
Oscar Verner Peterson was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:58 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Hangry Hank at June 27, 2025 09:58 AM (G5+As)
I have been to the Tower. Very interesting place.
Great museum of art, arms, and royal jewels.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 09:57 AM (gbOdA)
Yes, we've heard you raven about it.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 09:59 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:58 AM (AOsQT)
=======
"This is an attack on the Navy, politicization of the process, and a dishonor to a great American."
-NRO
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 10:00 AM (8ntUr)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Ha, I guess it is now! The outdoor lighting would suggest as much. Blue and orange, much better than rainbow.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 27, 2025 10:00 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 10:01 AM (g8Ew8)
I am pleased to announce that the United States Navy is renaming the USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.
We are taking the politics out of ship naming.
---
Oscar Verner Peterson was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 09:58 AM (AOsQT)
++++
1. Good.
2. I was promised that this would happen during "Pride Month," and it did. Secretary Hegseth is keeping promises!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 10:01 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: BifBewalski at June 27, 2025 10:01 AM (L2nWE)
Dude, handsome strapping male, says "I only eat fresh, organic pussy. None of that man made stuff." Cut to a post-op tranny...........hardest hit.
It made me laugh in my head.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 27, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2025 09:59 AM (iJfKG)
It is my favorite part off Rome.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:02 AM (gbOdA)
·
33s
SCOTUS rules universal injunctions by lower courts unlawful.
=======
SQUEEEEE!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)
I watched a documentary on the making of The Exorcist -- Schifrin wrote the original score that was rejected by William Friedkin (he was not pleased). However, you can hear the string arrangement in The Exorcist trailers (that scared the crap out of me as a kid).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 27, 2025 10:03 AM (qwx/I)
I've been saying that every conservative on the Court was sick of the lower courts bullshit and had been saying it for years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
I second that squeee.
Wait. We're dudes we shouldn't be squeeing.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Sad. If it was really good you would laugh out loud.
LIMH just doesn't hit the same as LOL.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (XlI3u)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (G0vdT)
So, they're admitting district judges can't rule outside of their district? Interesting.
What's Hawaii gonna do now? No one will hear from them, nor care anymore.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
I second that squeee.
Wait. We're dudes we shouldn't be squeeing.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (fV+MH)
======
This is true.
I amend my previous statement to read:
America. Fuck yeah.
*chugs lite beer*
*crushes beer can on head*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)
Well, it's about time you said something.
Posted by: dantesed at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (XlI3u)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (G0vdT)
++++
OVERRULED
Posted by: Circuit Court Judge at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (gbOdA)
======
Cormanized, but yeah.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)
Wait. We're dudes we shouldn't be squeeing.
Posted by: eleven
I ounce found myself sharing an elevator with Sebastian Gorka in DC.
I squeed in my head.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)
I still think the name should have been changed to the Oliver Sipple, as a colossal troll to the commies, but I'm vindictive that way.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 27, 2025 10:06 AM (FoIOl)
LIMH just doesn't hit the same as LOL.
Posted by: She Hobbit at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (XlI3u)
I was alone in my back yard hauling old fence to a trailer for disposal. I felt had I laughed hysterically out loud, someone might've overheard and called the police.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 27, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Circuit Court Judge at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (6bTRc)
Oh please oh please oh please....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:06 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie "
I still remember that trailer to this day. When they open the door and everything is flying around the room.
Literally made me too scared to see thje movie.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 10:06 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:06 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
*********
Betcher Bottom Dollar!
An optimistic giant named Yarrow
Had a boy who was thin as an arrow
Stayed in his room, wouldn't eat
Broken bones nor bloody meat
But hey, the son'll come out, for marrow!
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 10:07 AM (poXs5)
---------
Huh. Maybe we should insult the SCOTUS more.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 10:07 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Sad. If it was really good you would laugh out loud.
LIMH just doesn't hit the same as LOL.
Posted by: She Hobbit
ROTFLMAO
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 10:07 AM (flKEw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)
I used to do that in college as a party gag. Then, someone substituted a steel can.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 27, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)
When the 5th Circuit struck down Biden's student loan giveaway, it only applied to the states in the 5th Circuit according to the 5th Circuit's own opinion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
...we have birthright citizenship. It is written by Barrett.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:07 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: muldoon at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (gbOdA)
Somebody once asked Werner Klemperer, of Judgment at Nuremburg and Hogan's Hero fame, how he, a Jew who had escaped Hitler's Germany, could play a Nazi.
His reply was, "I'm an actor. If I can play Richard III, I can play a Nazi."
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (G0vdT)
·
3m
...Trump Administration wins a push back by the Court on lower court judges: Universal injunctions "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts."
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
I second that squeee.
Wait. We're dudes we shouldn't be squeeing.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 10:04 AM (fV+MH)
======
This is true.
I amend my previous statement to read:
America. Fuck yeah.
*chugs lite beer*
*crushes beer can on head*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)
*ponders*
*raises card*
9.5
Posted by: East German Judge at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (gbOdA)
I think I first read that book when I was about thirteen .i loved it and read it again decades later.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 10:09 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Werewolves of London at June 27, 2025 10:09 AM (0sNs1)
I squeed in my head.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)
++++
The only notable person with whom I've ever been in an elevator is the current governor of Colorado, well before he was Governor.
I told him exactly what I thought of his corrupt gerrymander and he had literally no response. None. Silence. Not even a literal "elevator speech" prepped for an *extremely* controversial issue (and very common item of discussion) at the time. Woefully unprepared and slow on his feet. I was decidedly unimpressed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 27, 2025 10:09 AM (6bTRc)
Running as Communist with Nazi ideas on race and Jews.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (gbOdA)
Fun fact:
"Pogrom" is not a German word.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:09 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 10:09 AM (fV+MH)
...we have birthright citizenship. It is written by Barrett.
Posted by: Don Black
And we are the only country in the world that does.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 10:09 AM (flKEw)
I amend my previous statement to read:
America. Fuck yeah.
*chugs lite beer*
*crushes beer can on head*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)
***
So close.
You came so close to reclaiming man points.
Lite beer. Sheesh!
Posted by: Man Point Accountant at June 27, 2025 10:10 AM (W/lyH)
You came so close to reclaiming man points.
Lite beer. Sheesh!
Posted by: Man Point Accountant at June 27, 2025 10:10 AM (W/lyH)
=======
Guinness should not be chugged, you swine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)
ACB getting a little fed up with Jackson.
ACB *blisters* Justice Jackson's solo dissent -- " We observe only this:JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while em-bracing an imperial Judiciary."
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:10 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Wiese at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (1pand)
*crushes beer can on head*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:05 AM
It is more impressive if you crush the can on your head before drinking it.
Posted by: Ahnold at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)
I always knew you were the kind of guy who sipped a car bomb.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)
Best ever Nazi in a movie is
Christoph Waltz
Col. Hans Landa
Truly evil.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Umm... at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ahnold at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (0sNs1)
++++
Buy the book.
Posted by: Tales from the E.R., Volume XXVII at June 27, 2025 10:12 AM (6bTRc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)
I always knew you were the kind of guy who sipped a car bomb.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:11 AM (BjH5D)
=======
I had a car bomb once. Didn't like it.
Too explosive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:12 AM (viF8m)
ACB getting a little fed up with Jackson.
ACB *blisters* Justice Jackson's solo dissent -- " We observe only this:JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while em-bracing an imperial Judiciary."
Posted by: WisRich
From fly-over country:
Conservative America is getting a little fed up with Amy Bony Carrot.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 10:12 AM (flKEw)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)
Too explosive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
Tilt the pint and slide the shot in next time.
This isn't the movies.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:13 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:13 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 10:13 AM (pwtJC)
Posted by: Warm. Hearty. Fibrous. at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (TbWk/)
Because they're being paid to do so. And also egos.
Maybe mostly egos. But for certain, there's money involved.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (Q4IgG)
broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with
standing to sue.
-------
Pretty much:
Lower courts can apply injunctions for their clients in order to receive relief, and no more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anaheim and Azusa at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 10:13 AM (pwtJC)
A wins a win....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
______
It's fine to chug Guinness. Only 4.2 ABV, barely higher than an average lite beer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:15 AM (ITkJX)
-- Les Nessman
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
Now with more music and Les Nessman!
Posted by: Dr. Johnny Fever at June 27, 2025 10:15 AM (vlXMQ)
Because they're being paid to do so. And also egos.
Maybe mostly egos. But for certain, there's money involved.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (Q4IgG)
======
They're shit throwing assholes who don't give a shit about the law or precedent.
Yes, they'll continue, but the slapdowns will come faster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:13 AM (G0vdT)
Sheesh. One more trigger word in this sentence and the Feds be all over this.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: dantesed at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM
They will circumvent this by certifying nationwide classes and making it a class action.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
______
It's fine to chug Guinness. Only 4.2 ABV, barely higher than an average lite beer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:15 AM (ITkJX)
=======
This is like saying it's fine to down a MacCallan 18 in one gulp because the alcohol content isn't higher than Jack Daniels #9.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
I think they can be ignored more easily too
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (VE6XX)
ACB *blisters* Justice Jackson's solo dissent -- " We observe only this:JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while em-bracing an imperial Judiciary."
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:10 AM (G0vdT)
The honeymoon's over?
https://is.gd/aO6EEc
*Yahoo "news" link
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:15 AM (ITkJX)
Instead of drinking imported beers, you should try a bottle of Orphan Tears
Posted by: Sip sipping on Orphan Tears at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (TbWk/)
·
5m
...Notably, Justice Kagan who condemned these universal injunctions during the Obama Administration has found a comfort level with those injunctions during the Trump Administration...
of course
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (AOsQT)
I reject your well-reasoned and compelling argument in favor of the documentary The Black Adder.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 27, 2025 10:17 AM (FoIOl)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 27, 2025 10:17 AM (Hw6WF)
"Yeah, but we're still gonna TRO your ass in the tower, twinklenuts."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:17 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:13 AM (G0vdT)
Sheesh. One more trigger word in this sentence and the Feds be all over this.
Posted by: Diogenes
I like the way ACB targeted her comment at KBJ.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:16 AM (jc0TO)
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Which is already hard to do, bumps up against jurisdiction, and is actively getting knocked down (Boesberg tried it and failed).
Yes, the lower courts will fight it because they're filled with activist douchenozzles.
But this is a huge step forward. It doesn't fix the out of control judiciary, but it makes it easier to adjust them back to reality.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anaheim and Azusa at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (0sNs1)
*kicks rock*
Posted by: Barstow at June 27, 2025 10:17 AM (W/lyH)
In a 6-3 ruling, the majority found that lower courts exceeded their authority by issuing a nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions.
“The injunctions before us today reflect a more recent development: district courts asserting the power to prohibit enforcement of a law or policy against anyone,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion. “These injunctions—known as ‘universal injunctions’—likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts. We therefore grant
the Government’s applications to partially stay the injunctions entered below.”
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 10:18 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 10:19 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 10:19 AM (VE6XX)
unless I'm wrong
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:20 AM (AOsQT)
==
ouch !!!
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 10:20 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:20 AM (G0vdT)
And another nephew (cousin of the first nephew) is the assistant coach.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:21 AM (viF8m)
*insert googly eyes here*
Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2025 10:21 AM (Hxfl9)
And another nephew (cousin of the first nephew) is the assistant coach.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
Hell of a way to find out your nephews are ghey.
Posted by: NTTAWWT at June 27, 2025 10:21 AM (TbWk/)
And another nephew (cousin of the first nephew) is the assistant coach.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)
Cool!
Do they give lessons?
I need lessons!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:21 AM (W/lyH)
( Long article on her book and the theory):
https://tinyurl.com/5eswbn8p
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 10:22 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:22 AM (VAINm)
Any time it rains for practice you can just hang out in the cafeteria and drink.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (BjH5D)
Do they give lessons?
I need lessons!
Posted by: Diogenes
Maybe. But you'd have to go to Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
All with the same thing.
Hardly a bother... all they need are a few extra runners to bring the complaints to the judges.
Or not.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (FmapG)
*sniff*
Posted by: Elana Kagan at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 10:24 AM (uWKK8)
*sniff*
Posted by: Elana Kagan at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (XQo4F)
Elena, I call you a lot of names.. Most not printable
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 10:24 AM (VE6XX)
*sniff*
Posted by: Elana Kagan
Maybe get married, you fat-assed lesbo.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
________
Fair, so I'll add that there's nothing complex about Guinness' taste. It's training wheels for stout drinkers.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:25 AM (ITkJX)
Posted by: Jackie Mackey Paisley Passey at June 27, 2025 10:25 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:25 AM (ITkJX)
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I do like other stouts more, for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)
Let'm fume!
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:25 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: The Chess Club at June 27, 2025 10:25 AM (XQo4F)
*sniff*
Posted by: Elana Kagan at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (XQo4F)
L Ana Kagan?
Elena K Gan?
Dumbass Piece'a Shit?
World's your oyster, lady.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (BjH5D)
-- Mickey Dolenz
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2025 10:24 AM (uWKK
T'would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
Posted by: Muy flamable at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (TbWk/)
This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: The Chess Club at June 27, 2025 10:25 AM (XQo4F)
"Stop using the clocks to time your chugging contests!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (VAINm)
It ain't good
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (VE6XX)
She is going to make my hair turn white.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:27 AM (D7oie)
Ocean doesn't have footprints
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 27, 2025 10:27 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:26 AM (VAINm)
It is carbon neutral like Chinese coal-fired plants
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:27 AM (D7oie)
*sniff*
Posted by: Elana Kagan
You just need more syllables.
Posted by: Sondra Sotomayor at June 27, 2025 10:27 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Boss Moss "
Or giant burning windmills.
Posted by: Jackie Mackey Paisley Passey at June 27, 2025 10:28 AM (fV+MH)
She is going to make my hair turn white.
--------------
So another day of being a Geo Bachelor? Make hay while the sun shines.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:28 AM (FmapG)
Lower courts can apply injunctions for their clients in order to receive relief, and no more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)
****
Courts don't have clients...unless they're leftist justices.
Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2025 10:28 AM (Hxfl9)
that is quite an achievement!
Posted by: kallisto at June 27, 2025 10:28 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Kindltot
So one more party at your place tonight?
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
Lower courts can apply injunctions for their clients in order to receive relief, and no more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)
****
Courts don't have clients...unless they're leftist justices.
Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2025 10:28 AM (Hxfl9)
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True. Typo.
Shame!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
Do they give lessons?
I need lessons!
Posted by: Diogenes
Maybe. But you'd have to go to Michigan.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
No way I can drive that far.
(SWIDT)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:29 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Hmmmm. I’m sure all those organic EVs pose no threat to the environment. None at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:29 AM (UNPQr)
Posted by: Kindltot
Hey sailor.
Posted by: Waitress at the local Hooters restaurant at June 27, 2025 10:30 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Wiese at June 27, 2025 10:31 AM (1pand)
(SWIDT)
Posted by: Diogenes
I'm glad I was able to tee that joke up for you.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 10:31 AM (pwtJC)
Posted by: Casual observer at June 27, 2025 10:33 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 27, 2025 10:31 AM (pwtJC)
When you look up the definition of DEI hire Jacksons name comes up...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 10:33 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Well, she married into the Ryan family, so...
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2025 10:09 AM (flKEw)
I believe almost every country in the Americas does it. Of course, only the US matters cuz no one is sneaking into Paraguay to have a baby.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:34 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 10:34 AM (rCia8)
Mining is mining.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2025 10:34 AM (3B0pS)
You marry a family.
Posted by: Ask me how I know at June 27, 2025 10:34 AM (XQo4F)
What's their motivation for defending Richard? Are they anti-Tudor?
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2025 10:33 AM (VE6XX)
I absolutely love the fact that Shitpants made a point of crowing about how she was, indeed, a pure DEI hire.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:35 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Bulg
I had no idea. Appropriate that she is now related to the last man to lose a debate with Joe Biden.
Posted by: Kratwurst at June 27, 2025 10:35 AM (fcDpY)
Posted by: The West Virginia Employment Commission at June 27, 2025 10:36 AM (XQo4F)
You marry a family.
Posted by: Ask me how I know
Sometimes more than once.
-- the Hatsfields, McCoys, and Hapsburgs
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:37 AM (VAINm)
Please take it up with Langley. I admire Saint Thomas More for his religious convictions. I still think that particular work was a Tudor snow job.
Also, it's no big deal but I can't stand the term "fan girl" for historians. Are there "fan boys" as well?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 10:37 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:28 AM (FmapG)
Five o'clock call to tell me that the airline check in is closed, and a frenzied search online to find out if the flight had been moved or cancelled . . . Her talking about sleeping in the terminal, talk about being on stand-by for tomorrow, and finally me checking that the second leg of the flight had been updated correctly (spoiler, it wasn't)
She is going to make my hair turn white. She is our little agent of Chaos
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 10:37 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:38 AM (ORJZB)
What's their motivation for defending Richard? Are they anti-Tudor?
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)
There's a grab-bag of motivations. Some are medievalists and Catholics who are indeed anti-Tudor, many are contrarians who know you get more attention by trying to upend established historical narratives than you do by supporting them. Some are Romanticist cranks, like the poet and amateur antiquarian Horace Walpole. And, again, many of them, like Langley or Josephine Tey, are women who have an unhealthy fixation with Richard as a tragically misunderstood bad boy who was really a good boy.
Posted by: Wiese at June 27, 2025 10:38 AM (1pand)
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 10:39 AM (fV+MH)
I reject your well-reasoned and compelling argument in favor of the documentary The Black Adder.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 27, 2025 10:17 AM
Chiswick! Fresh horses!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 27, 2025 10:39 AM (kgE5c)
Ocean doesn't have footprints
sure, it does. the ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise above.
Posted by: anachronda at June 27, 2025 10:40 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:40 AM (ORJZB)
Sorry; I laughed.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 10:40 AM (2GCMq)
Also, it's no big deal but I can't stand the term "fan girl" for historians. Are there "fan boys" as well?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Fen, when I was in college I read a very interesting book (forget what it was called) that was a dual biography of Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas More. The gist of the book was that, while Wolsey was certainly no saint, he was a more effective statesman than More, the latter of whom was a hypocrite and a phony. It was an interesting read, like I said, but I don't know how accurate it was. Revisionist history can be problematic if you don't know a lot about the period involved.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 10:41 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:41 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:40 AM
Still not tired of winning.
Posted by: For those of you keeping score at home at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 27, 2025 10:41 A
Good thing too.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (jc0TO)
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You need a seahorse with no name to see this.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: ...
__________
Then I denounce myself. I drink pretty much exclusively stouts, but I'll take whatever porter is available before ordering a guinness.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (ITkJX)
agent of kaos > agent of chaos
Posted by: siegfried at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: night lifted at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (FZn/N)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:40 AM (ORJZB)
Obviously we can't cut rates then. -- Jerome Powell
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
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we don't want to do that ! Especially the ones finances by the Tudors, and propagandized by the great engrish writers ! No sir !
Posted by: runner at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (g47mK)
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"For good reason, the Court today puts an end to the “increasingly common” practice of federal courts issuing universal injunctions. Hawaii, 585 U. S., at 713 (THOMAS, J.,
concurring). "
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (900v3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Fen, yes -- it's spelled "Fanboi".
Posted by: goozer at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (V1MWf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: m at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (CQE5S)
And of course, almost every dude who is interested in History is a fanboy about Rome when he is young.
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (VAINm)
So the oligarchs can have a higher profit margin. Can't go wasting good money on pay and benefits when you can get slaves.
Posted by: C-suite and multi-million bonuses here I come! at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM
It's usually heart failure.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: AWFL History buff at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (XQo4F)
Philosophers and theologians aren't even as bad as professional historians.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: goozer at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (V1MWf)
Thanks. Is it used for historians or just unbalanced men who are leftists?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Wiese
Interesting. The "historian" Thomas Costain (more like a writer of good historical fiction posing as a historian) also thought that Richard was innocent of the murders. But the points you raised above about Richard not producing the living princes when it would have been in his interest to do so are good ones. I will have to read more on this topic.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (BjH5D)
Education Majors, when they wake up at 11.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 27, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Wiese at June 27, 2025 10:45 AM (1pand)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (ITkJX)
It's one of my favorite things in the world and I can't drink it without a likely trip to the hospital so I have some personal frustrations I am working out.
It was always very difficult to find it fresh anyway but one pub in Boston had it in the 90's, and wow.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 10:46 AM (rCia8)
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:46 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Wiese at June 27, 2025 10:45 AM (1pand)
Motive. Means. Opportunity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 27, 2025 10:46 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Yes. See my comment above about sharing an elevator with Sebastian Gorka.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (ITkJX)
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Porters are nice. Stouts are hideous.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:47 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 10:47 AM (J86+s)
'LIKELY?!?!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 27, 2025 10:48 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: goozer at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (V1MWf)
=======
I refer to myself as a Ridley Scott fanboi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:48 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Old Dennis Miller at June 27, 2025 10:49 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
Goulash farts?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:49 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 27, 2025 10:49 AM (J86+s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (ORJZB)
WHO HOO Im Old
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Both my wife and I signed up with COSTCO.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: Farquad at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (YkGND)
it's a narrow ruling but GOOD NEWS
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (Pv3Rg)
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Last night at the News Emmys, the judges wanted to send a message of support to CBS News and "60 Minutes" amid Trump's ongoing legal battle with the news division. CBS took home five Emmys total, the most of any network, including three for "60 Minutes" reports.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)
Buchanan is an idiot. WW2 was started by Larry Fitzpatrick of 121 Chestnut Corner, London. Everyone knows that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (ExV1e)
people smarter than me will explain it
but I like the smack-down on lower court injunctions
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: pudinhead
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There are so many stouts out there that I guarantee you could find several you'd like. From sickly sweet pastry stouts, to bitterness off the charts.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (ITkJX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: pudinhead
That's not an olds thing. We've been signed up with CostCo since our son was small.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (Pv3Rg)
It is, I am just miffed at the 'Likely'. You fucking think?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 27, 2025 10:48 AM (bss/y)
They brought out the big guns. Just be happy they didn't cite the More Often Than Not Clause.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (rCia8)
...We have our fourth opinion. It is Mahmoud v. Taylor, by Justice Alito. Huge 6-3victory for parental rights over the ability to withdraw their children from LGBTQ lessons.
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (FmapG)
I quit costmuch as when I was there I always needed a new printer tablet screen ice chest side of beeve hogs head of olive oil.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:52 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Polka will never die at June 27, 2025 10:52 AM (6LBk0)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (ExV1e)
He just wanted to see the neighbor's wife's boobs- how did he know it would lead to that?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 27, 2025 10:52 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (ORJZB)
Which means they'll rule that it has to actually affect the state and not just people in the state. Delay achieved.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)
State governments can still get them
Like usual scotus can’t go all in on an issue and half asses it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:52 AM (ORJZB)
How exactly would that work? Since when can a state law bind the entire country?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)
Last night at the News Emmys, the judges wanted to send a message of support to CBS News and "60 Minutes" amid Trump's ongoing legal battle with the news division. CBS took home five Emmys total, the most of any network, including three for "60 Minutes" reports.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)
Oh, isn't he just adorable.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (BjH5D)
Posted by: Browbeaten Barry at June 27, 2025 09:51 AM (G5+As)
French-Adjacent.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 27, 2025 09:52 AM (xTinh)
hahahahaha
Posted by: m at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (FmapG)
Costco has medigap insurance?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (ITkJX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (VAINm)
If you are asking for a friend, better call 911.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (W/lyH)
shakespeare and everyone else was going by merton, a tudor propagandist,
Posted by: miguel cervantes at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:52 AM (ExV1e)
You’re talking g about Hawaiian judges. They’ll rule on whatever they want and still issue the injunction action.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (ORJZB)
Posted by: Don Black at June 27, 2025 10:54 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at June 27, 2025 10:54 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM
The question will be how the Appellate Courts take this decision.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: pudinhead
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That's not an olds thing. We've been signed up with CostCo since our son was small.
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Precisely what the wife said - we should have done this years ago. The down side is Imma looking at an even bigger big screen than I currently have. The only draw back is pretty much anything on TeeVee sucks Donkey Dicks.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (FmapG)
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (Pv3Rg)
The libs are having a bad day.
Posted by: WisRich at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (G0vdT)
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This means so much to me, thank you!!!
Posted by: The News Emmys' Mother at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (rCia8)
·
2m
JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court rules parents can pull children from public school lessons that use LGBTQ storybooks.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: goozer at June 27, 2025 10:43 AM (V1MWf)
Thanks. Is it used for historians or just unbalanced men who are leftists?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 10:44 AM (2GCMq)
Yes. Both "fanboi" and "fangirl" (or "fangrrl") are used to describe those whose fandom for something has warped into a narrow viewpoint that excludes all others verging on obsession. See also "White Knight" and "Simp".
Posted by: goozer at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (V1MWf)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:51 AM (VAINm)
Only if you're an android.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (FmapG)
That's what game consoles are for.
Posted by: Better than streaming! at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (TbWk/)
LOVE IT!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: pudinhead at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (FmapG)
I turn on my TV maybe once per month. That really helps you when you're walking past the new models.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (ExV1e)
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50s
Supreme Court Nukes Nationwide Injunctions Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)
It’s not a state law. It’s if the state brings a lawsuit against Trump. California makes up some reason they’ll be hurt if Trump does X. A judge can say yep, this will hurt Cali. I’m issuing a nationwide stop to X. Because if Nevada does X Cali will still potentially be hurt.
That’s the genius of the Roberts court. Even when we win we lose.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (ORJZB)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)
***
So it didn't matter if others were better, it was all about the message.
Didn't Marshall McLuhan write about that?
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:56 AM (W/lyH)
JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court rules parents can pull children from public school lessons that use LGBTQ storybooks.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
It's a sad commentary on our times that the highest court in the land even has to rule on this issue.
Posted by: Bulg at June 27, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
also fantastic for glasses/contacts
and prescriptions
basically it rocks!
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:57 AM (Pv3Rg)
It's not even worth thinking about. Not to mention the cases that would have come before it. We would be lucky to still have private property.
Posted by: ... at June 27, 2025 10:57 AM (rCia8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:57 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 27, 2025 10:57 AM (gbOdA)
should be a good'un
screw Roberts
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (Pv3Rg)
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They're all released at once. Only concurrences are by Alito and Kavanaugh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)
JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court rules parents can pull children from public school lessons that use LGBTQ storybooks.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (mlg/3)
See Dick.
See James.
See Dick's dick.
See James' dick.
See Dick blow James.
Blow dick, Dick. Blow.
Posted by: Gonna be in first grade if not already at June 27, 2025 10:58 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Welcome to streaming at June 27, 2025 10:58 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 10:58 AM (VVnrT)
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (jc0TO)
Well yeah that was always the case. But I’m saying the win isn’t really much of a win because it has a giant loophole in it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:58 AM (ORJZB)
ah then I should stop waiting lol
is Alito's worth reading? (if you've read it TJM)
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:58 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 10:59 AM (VAINm)
ah then I should stop waiting lol
is Alito's worth reading? (if you've read it TJM)
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 27, 2025 10:58 AM (Pv3Rg)
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*points to self*
Illiterate asshole here.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg
Yeah, but at this late date, we're holding on to whatever we can for our kids.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2025 10:59 AM (mlg/3)
https://is.gd/vDmXqw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)
***
Well! What happened?
Don't leave us hanging!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2025 10:59 AM (W/lyH)
Nice.
Of course, it's been integrated into every lesson, as has DEI, so good luck trying to opt out.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 27, 2025 10:59 AM (VVnrT)
also fantastic for glasses/contacts
and prescriptions
basically it rocks!
What about me?
Posted by: The Costco Gas Station at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (GBKbO)
https://is.gd/vDmXqw
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks"
That looked like it smarted.
Truck driver was probably texting.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 10:58 AM
All the law is a loophole, I think but, if the Circuit courts slap down each DC ruling in a couple of days it will suffice.
Posted by: toby928 at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (jc0TO)
Come on, man.
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (rCia8)
>>but it's a helpful ruling
Gotta disagree with you. The left has been playing a game with the courts to try and stop Trump's agenda. The SC just smacked them down hard and also took a big shot at Jackson.
Her dissent was so retarded Barret opened up a can of whoop ass on her which was just the cherry on top.
Trump is doing a victory lap on social media right now, not just for the win on nationwide injunctions but also on birthright citizenship, and to the chagrin of the haters giving big props to Bondi.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:00 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:01 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Bulg
And that passing ruffians can say "Ni" at will to old ladies.
Posted by: There is a pestilence upon this land! at June 27, 2025 11:01 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)"
Could be a goodn.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2025 11:02 AM (fV+MH)
Yeay conservative court!!!. lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 27, 2025 11:02 AM (ORJZB)
Posted by: tubal at June 27, 2025 11:03 AM (PCK5/)
Full disclosure -- I'm a "fanboi" of several things, so I denounce myself.
Posted by: goozer at June 27, 2025 11:03 AM (V1MWf)
Posted by: anachronda at June 27, 2025 11:03 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 27, 2025 11:04 AM (VAINm)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (BjH5D)
Cause we did.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 27, 2025 11:05 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: mpfs. Scott Bessent fan grrllll at June 27, 2025 11:09 AM (rOBg+)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 27, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)
You know how we reverse inflation? The tool the FED has is to keep rates high. You LIKE $15 Big Macs?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2025 11:10 AM (D7oie)
https://is.gd/coJdQc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: tubal
Wait. The system works?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 11:14 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 27, 2025 11:10 AM
I can recall the last modern novel I read by either a man or a woman. I tend to read things I enjoyed before that are from the 1700 's to the early 1900s
Someone would have to pay me immense sums of money to read "The Handmaid's Tale."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 27, 2025 11:20 AM (2GCMq)
and the bouquet emanating henceforth is exquisite.
Posted by: cmeat at June 27, 2025 01:14 PM (GAyiy)
But but but only when they speak fluently in Latin, use roman numerals and disclaim algebra as heathen. Then, MAYBE. Maybe Not.
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