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The Morning Report — 12/23/25
Good morning kids. It's Christmas eve EVE, and so with that in mind I'm going to try to keep the editorials through the end of the week a bit shorter if at all possible, breaking and/or critical news items deserving of further exploration notwithstanding.
And away we go. I don't claim t be an expert on defense issues, but this move on the part of President Trump just makes no sense to me.President Donald J. Trump has revealed plans for the U.S. Navy to develop a new line of “Trump-class” battleships, starting with the construction of two vessels. The America First leader shared the news from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he is vacationing over the holidays, joined by War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan. Trump described the vessels as components of a new “Golden Fleet,” with ambitions to produce up to 25 such battleships. He stated that these would be the “largest we’ve ever built.”“They will have 100 times the force, the power, and there’s never been anything like these ships,” Trump said. “We envision that these two ships will be the first of a whole new class of battleships that will be produced in the years to come.”The lead vessel in the class will bear the name USS Defiant. This development follows shortly after the Navy abandoned efforts to develop a different, smaller warship due to escalating expenses and extended timelines.Hey, I ain't no Alfred Thayer Mahan but in the immortal words of Isoroku Yamamoto via Toshiro Mifune "R-U-F-K-M?! don't bogart the wasabi, Nagumo!" Will dressing up like Teddy Roosevelt and running up a White House stairway as if it were San Juan Hill (watch Arsenic & Old Lace), while deploying a great white, er Golden, fleet really deter Xi and the Chi-Coms? Will it help get out the vote 11 months from now? Maybe in Newport News or Pascagoula (assuming they still build ships there?). Meanwhile in the all American town of Lawrence, Massachusetts:
Mayor Brian DePena appeared in court on Friday, where he required a translator to participate in proceedings at a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission proceeding on Friday. The hearing concerned former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro, a political ally of DePena, who was stripped of his policing credentials following an improper police chase. Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check . . . DePena testified on Castro’s behalf during the commission proceeding, but it was the mayor’s request to use a translator that drew significant attention. . . DePena is a native of the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York in the early 1980s before settling in Lawrence in 1989. Over 80 percent of the city’s population is now Hispanic, according to the US Census.The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English. Forget illegal immigration, this fool is a Legal Immigrant. both my parents' families (my father's side escaping the pogroms of Ukraine at the turn of he last century and my mother's side barely surviving the death camps of the Nazis,) came here to embrace and become fully American. Initially they barely spoke English but quickly learned enough to find work and support families while instilling the ideals and culture of this ountry on their children. That an illiterate unassimilated foreigner was elected to public office by an equally alien electorate in our country is among if not its greatest failings in its history. Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am. And Mike Pence and George Conway can go pump each other. And more "Walzing Muh shill dough" this time up in Maine. Funny how these desert dwellers all wind up living here in states that can get about as cold as the Arctic Circle. But best not talk about it because that can be very unhealthy.
And speaking of health, Bernie Sanders is cancer, so all he's doing here is protecting his own. But you young people go out and pimp socialism as the last best hope for humanity:
Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities. Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies. His complaint: the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, named for a teen cancer patient who died while advocating for its passage, is a pared-down version of a previous package that included other health-care measures as well, including funding for community health centers. Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
Yet without his vote, it didn’t win unanimous backing, so it’ll now have to make its way through a much more arduous procedural process when Congress reconvenes next year. . .Pray it doesn’t cost the lives of any kids who could’ve benefited. But make no mistake: This is super-villain behavior, as more rational lawmakers pointed out. Right-wing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who also supports funding community health centers, fumed: “To say that you’re not going to give a chance for children to have a cure for cancer if you don’t get what you want” is “selfish” and “tragic.” Amen to that.
Up yours NY Post for describing Bill Cassidy as "Right Wing," which by doing that is essentially saying Nazi/fascist/racist etc, ad nauseum One day, if Bernie and Mamdani take over, you can do like they do in England when you have a toothache. Make like Moe howard did to Curly, and tie one end of a string to your rotten tooth and the other to a doorknob.
Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.Just wait until we have "Free" healthcare here and free housing, education and food like every other "civilized nation" such as Cuba does as I have seen posted too many times by a bevy of scumbag leftists on Twitter and elsewhere. Yeah, life is such a paradise in Havana and Pyongyang but you insist on staying here in evil and illegitimate America. Have a great day! And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Glenn H. Reynolds: Because the DEI fad didn’t just wreck American lives. It went a long way toward wrecking America.
DEI hollowed out a generation — and sapped America’s promise
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- Finally, the multiculturalism cult is dying as the predictably wretched results are becoming painfully clear beyond what the leftist media could hope to hide.
The death of multiculturalism will save America
- Race discrimination is illegal and unconstitutional regardless of ‘equitable’ motives.
Why Hasn’t Trump’s CDC Ditched This Rule That Punishes Neighborhoods For Being Too White? "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - The small expense is far less than the cost of chasing and deporting migrants — and it comes amid growing economic pressure on migrants who are losing jobs and housing amid President Donald Trump’s enforcement of the nation’s popular migration laws.
DHS Offers Illegal Immigrants a $3,000 ‘Holiday Stipend’ for Self-Deportation
- Mayor Brian DePena immigrated to the United States in the 1980s.
Massachusetts Mayor Can’t Understand English, Needs Translator In Court - Two officers and Romero sustained non-life threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital.
Illegal Rams ICE Agents in Walz’s Minnesota, Officer Bitten, Shots Fired. WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Letting the jihadis write the histories.
Qatar-Funded Curriculum Materials in NYC Twist the Truth of 9/11
- A briefing for federal and state officials and policymakers.
Connecting the Dots from Hamas to CAIR OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - “In other words, James Burnham was wrong. . . The JQ absolves America. . . The JQ begs the GQ. . . There are good arguments for and against continuing Israeli aid.”
The Return of the Jewish Question SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION - Not only did the Obama and Biden juntas go to great lengths to protect Hillary Clinton, they went to unconstitutional lengths to get Trump.
New Docs Reveal Shocking Lengths Obama And Biden Went To Protect Hillary Clinton, Get Trump DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - The allegations highlight concerns over the misuse of taxpayer funds in the Somali community, and raise questions about oversight in Maine’s Medicaid and welfare systems.
Somali ‘Medicaid Mogul’ Accused of Fraud, Family Allegedly Put Bounty on Reporter. THE ECONOMY, STUPID - Many have sought to balance their portfolios with gold and silver as a hedge for future turbulence.
Gold, Silver Prices Reach New Highs to Reemerge as Hedge - South Korea is using “fairness” laws as economic weapons—targeting U.S. firms with raids and threats—turning a key alliance into a test of whether free trade still means fair play.
South Korea’s Betrayal of American Companies CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - The 30-year-old transgender man legally changed his name and sex in 2023, about a year before murdering his elderly parents Joseph and Gail Bailey, according to St. George News.
Trans Convict Who Fatally Shot His Parents in the Head Converts to Islam, Requests Death Penalty but Gets 25 to Life FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Though Google already owns a majority stake in the company, the deal will further support the Big Tech company’s build-out of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while keeping Intersect’s operations separate, according to Alphabet. As America’s energy demand climbs while projected AI data center needs skyrocket, Big Tech has been searching for reliable electricity sources — with some companies looking to resurrect nuclear plants.
Tech Behemoth Gobbles Up Power Company In $5 Billion Deal To Juice Data Centers
- Alfonsi's immigration piece needed additional reporting, Editor in Chief Bari Weiss told CBS staff
'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - National security concerns with Virginia Wind have been documented by the Navy for years
Public Interest Groups Applaud the Trump Administration's Order Halting the Virginia Wind Project.. “The CVOW and the other wind facilities at issue are dangerous boondoggles, posing a clear and present danger to U.S. national security, in addition to endangering protected marine mammals. There is no economic justification for CVOW. The power it provides will compromise the electric power grid while causing electric prices to skyrocket. EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Many American public schools have become perverse, left-wing failure factories, putting the nation at risk.
“Stupid in America” Turns 20
- Students need orderly classrooms to learn.
Why Southern States Are Outperforming Others in Education THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election.
2020 GA Election Fraud is Confirmed
- Clayton County resident Melanie Pickett is a Bahamian native but has lived in the Peach State for approximately 30 years.
Noncitizen Says She Voted In Multiple Georgia Elections: ‘They Gave Me A Paper To Sign’
- In a major win for the integrity of Ohio’s elections, Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation on Friday that requires all mail-in ballots to be received by the end of Election Day.
Ohio Enacts ‘Commonsense’ Law Requiring All Mail Ballots Be Returned By Election Day
- ‘… Our leaders uncovered an army of Michiganders eager to join our opposition once they learned the truth about Ranked Choice Voting,’ Patrice Johnson said.
Michigan Election Integrity Warriors Stop ‘Disastrous’ Ranked-Choice Voting Drive DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - The mass defection comes in the wake of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s video defense of Tucker Carlson
Heritage Foundation Scholars Jump to Mike Pence’s Group in ‘Reorganization of the Conservative Movement’ POLITICS - “The InsiderAdvantage poll shows stronger numbers for the president than those reflected in RealClearPolling’s national average, which shows him with a 44 percent approval rating and a 53 percent disapproval rating as of early Monday afternoon,” Breitbart explained.
Trump Just Got Some Good News About His Approval Numbers
- Midterms punish complacency, and without turnout, message discipline, and an affordability agenda, Republicans risk a 2026 defeat that hands Democrats Congress and the future.
How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around - Conway, who lives in Bethesda, Md., an affluent Washington, D.C. suburb, will vie in a crowded Democratic primary to represent a deep-blue Manhattan district to succeed Democrat New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is retiring. The vocal Trump critic is likely to frame his congressional run around his top attorney credentials and willingness to serve as legal pitbull against Trump in Congress. (RELATED: George Conway Comes Out As Antifa At ‘No Kings’ Rally)
George Conway Officially Running For Congress Months After Coming Out As Antifa
- Crossing off train set on my letter to Santa and requesting a meteor shower - jjs
Zohran Mamdani to Be Sworn In by Bernie Sanders, NY AG Letitia James FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - This marks the second sanctioned oil tanker seizure near Venezuela in recent days, increasing tensions with the Maduro regime.
U.S. Targets Third Oil Tanker Near Venezuela. - The approval increases the number of settlements in the West Bank by nearly 50 percent under the current government.
Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the West Bank.
- The final desperate act of a dying regime.
Iran’s Currency Collapse
- . . .the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, which has been shut down ever since the earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
Japan Ready to Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Reactor 15 Years After Fukushima Disaster DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - The announcement signals a significant expansion of the U.S. Navy’s capabilities with plans for up to 25 new battleships.
WATCH: POTUS Unveils Plans for ‘Golden Fleet’ of ‘Trump-Class’ Battleships. HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - After Mikaela's death, the House passed the renamed bill unanimously. Every senator but one was ready to do the same.
Bernie Sanders Singlehandedly Kills Pediatric Cancer Bill
(Bernie Sanders IS cancer - jjs)
- Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities. Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies.
Bernie Sanders is blocking cancer treatment for kids for his own selfish reasons - Many reporters have taken KFF’s claim that ‘premium payments will double’ to mean that total ‘premiums will double,’ but that’s just not true.
The Health Care-Industrial Complex Is Lying About Obamacare Premiums Doubling — And They Know It
- American health care's 340B drug scandal makes the Somalian grift look like small potatoes.
Enriching hospitals at taxpayer expense - Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.
UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (Image of Moe Howard tying one end of a string to Curly's molar and the other end to a doorknob-jjs) CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - After being asked by Mrs. Erika Kirk to share her advice for young men, Minaj replied, “Don’t be Newscum” — referring to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — eliciting cheers from the AmericaFest audience.
Nicki Minaj Urges Men to Look to ‘Amazing Role Models’ Trump & Vance at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest
- What the pundits don't understand is that we don't care about their feuds, not really. We have our own lives.
Turning Point's pundit wars and the battle for America's youth - Paramount announced that Ellison — whose son, David Ellison, serves as the company’s chairman and CEO — “had agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee” for the bid in a Monday press release. The elder Ellison’s cash-backing comes days after WBD asked its shareholders to reject a $108 billion Paramount offer to assume control of all of WBD’s assets, Reuters reported.
Pro-Trump Billionaire Larry Ellison Puts $40,000,000,000 On Line In Battle With Netflix
- Federal funding for Smithsonian museums is now conditioned on adherence to President Donald J. Trump’s executive order and compliance with the review process.
Trump Admin to Cut Smithsonian Funding for Refusing to Comply with DEI Review. - Christian Toto: New study reveals landscape's shocking, inescapable liberal bias
Late-Night Hosts Go Silent on Massive Minnesota Fraud
- Her apology was insufficient, because for an apology to be true, it must be done face-to-face with the injured party. Posting something on line accomplishes nothing. The right way for Ponce to have apologied would be for her to find Beeman, to apologize to her personally and publicly, to shake hands, and then to work to encourage a dialogue between them. If Ponce's employer demanded that from her -- instead of firing her -- we might actually be moving back to a society of good will. And demanding such in the Christmas season would have been wholly appropriate and fitting.
There is little good will on the left, and the right seems eager to lose it too - The NY Times along with this twisted subhuman courveh and everyone who follows her cannot be composted fast enough for the betterment of humanity - jjs
Degenerate Lowlife 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Mourns Cop-Killer Who Escaped to Cuba - The woke Grinches wish you a very equitable Christmas.
Decolonizing Father Christmas
- "In particular, we think of the people of 'Palestine,' Ukraine, and Sudan, our own history marked by forced immigration and loss," she said.
Ireland’s New President Fails To Mention Jesus In Christmas Message, Praises ‘Diversity’ HITHER & YON - Will upgrades to safety and air traffic control systems ease concerns?
Americans Still Have A Fear Of Flying, But They’ll Fly Anyway This Holiday Season: I&I/TIPP Poll
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Coulda been lost in translation. Literally. That isn't an excuse, but it *is* a potential explanation.
Unreal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:13 AM (avHHk)
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If it depends on one vote, it isn't "teed up to pass easily," it's a squeaker.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (lXoJ5)
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It'll be great living in a slave state, comrade!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (avHHk)
Or are these actually battleships in the traditional sense? Or are they more like missile carriers or ultra-heavy cruisers? I have no idea. But it does strike me as odd to the point that I wonder if people are using words differently.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (avHHk)
One of my mom's dearest friends moved to CA from Peru with her husband and children with little more than the clothes on their backs. They learned English through immersion and she was a nurse. She went off on one patient who asked for a translator and had been living in the country for 25 years.
Absolutely no excuse for this behavior.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:18 AM (lXoJ5)
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There is an excuse. The behavior was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and rewarded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:19 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)
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Oh yes. Quite sinister.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:21 AM (OsVgs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd)
The new BB's will be loaded with cruise missiles, EW gear and SEAL/Marine Raider types so if one is parked off shore of some tin horn dictator or New York City, some shitheads are gonna die. Sends a message to the fuzzy wuzzies to behave or else.
I like it.
Posted by: Zombie Admiral Robley Evans at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (m8zKa)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
0710 according to JJ.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:23 AM (avHHk)
And of course, I am cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial for insisting on a level of English fluency in our legal immigrants.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (lXoJ5)
Eh, I had a grandmother who could only speak heavily-accented and rather broken English to the end of her life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:24 AM (tgvbd)
I'll be even more shocked if something happens.
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at December 23, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
And she still tried. I'm also willing to bet that she could read and write as well even if it wasn't that high level.
But no; my ire is directed at the people who come here and demand we give them everything in their language. No other country in the world is so accommodating.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:26 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:24 AM (tgvbd)
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Sure. It happened all the time. Language is hard, and English is particularly hard. It's amazing that *anyone* can speak it. Some There have always been immigrants who couldn't make the transition.
But they also didn't run for - or get elected to - office or have that condition act as a ticket to special treatment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (GITLP)
The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about industrial disease
There's panic on the switchboard, tongues in knots
Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots
Some blame the management, some the employees
And everybody knows it's the industrial disease
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)
DePena certainly can speak English. I know this, as Lawrence is my home town.
He chose not to, in order to show solidarity with the majority-Hispanic Lawrence population. The number of whites left there is miniscule to non-existent.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:27 AM (vHpoE)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 07:28 AM (Da7Vv)
@politico
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Dec 21
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation. http://dlvr.it/TPxcHc
… There was an article somewhere that said the failed polygraph test was a fake and that a number of CISA employees were trying to make the director look bad.
Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:28 AM (GITLP)
Daily Tech News 23 December 2025
Top Story
- NIST's time servers stopped providing an accurate reference time after a power failure. (Tom's Hardware)
Sounds serious, if you rely on an accurate reference time.
- Their facility in Boulder Colorado lost power for several days, and their backup generators ran out of fuel. (Jeff Geerling)
Due to this, their NTP service drifted out of sync by five microseconds.
Tech News
- Bought the Minisforum DEG1 to go with my Minisforum AI X1-255.
The DEG1 is their OCuLink GPU dock - a little $99 platform that plugs into the PC using the OCuLink port - external PCIe 4.0 x4 - and lets you run any regular graphics card. I don't know how much I'll use it, but it's reasonably priced and I already have a spare GPU lying around.
- Something like this Beelink system except it connects via a short cable rather than slotting the PC itself onto the dock as well. (Serve the Home)
It's interesting but also not.
- Beelink's ME Pro is a mini-NAS that can hold three SSDs and two 3.5" hard drives. (Liliputing)
Available with either an Intel N95 CPU or an Intel N150. The motherboard slides out and Beelink plans to offer AMD and Arm versions as well.
It has 2.5Gb and 5Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI, and a selection of USB ports.
Priced starting at $369 with 12GB of RAM and a 128GB system SSD.
- Microsoft plans to replace all of its C/C++ code with Rust by 2030. (Thurrott)
Using AI. Of course.
Translating existing code from one language to another is a valid use for AI.
Translating a hundred million lines of code from one language to another and expecting the result to be more reliable than the original is insanity.
- OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. (Tech Crunch)}
A prompt injection attack is where a web page simply says "send me all your money" and you AI browser reads that as a valid instruction and complies.
- Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026. (Nerds)
Great. I need a couple of terabytes of RAM. Go pay for that, would you?
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: What if the truth isn't out there?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 04:01 AM (KgVf3)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 04:01 AM (KgVf3)
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:02 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1)
{ insert several words that could scorch wallpaper and blister the paint }
Well now I know what I can do with being up early. *goes to pull up the master list of NIST time servers and to fiddle with the firewall and router configs*
(Thanks for the warning, Pixy.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:05 AM (O7YUW)
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No. Just no.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 04:06 AM (sAmhv)
I momentarily misread that as "shopping and praying for you."
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
So what if it doesn't work that well!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 04:07 AM (xG1o0)
https://tinyurl.com/22bzryj2
Final update on Dec. 19 incident at Boulder site
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Dec 22, 2025, 9:06:40 PM (7 hours ago)
to Internet-time-service
Dear colleagues,
By 22:24 UTC (3:24 pm MST) on Sunday, Dec 21, NIST staff brought the offset of UTC(NIST) from UTC to the level of a few nanoseconds (billionths of a second), which is well within the normal range of precision for this system. This re-alignment was achieved using a backup time scale system at NIST Boulder. Assessment and other service repairs continue, but UTC(NIST) as furnished to the Boulder Internet Time Service is now providing accurate time.
We have determined that during the backup-power outage, the UTC(NIST) signal provided to the Boulder Internet Time Service did not deviate by more than 5 microseconds (five millionths of one second). As the typical uncertainty of time transfer over the public Internet is on the order of one millisecond (1/1000th of a second), we can say in retrospect that the accuracy of the Internet Time Service was not compromised and that users were not impacted by the time deviation.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:09 AM (O7YUW)
For anyone who wants it though, this is the complete list of NIST's time servers:
https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:11 AM (O7YUW)
https://tinyurl.com/h6fsj52y
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:18 AM (O7YUW)
Somehow find this amusing
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:18 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 04:07 AM (xG1o0)
Define “that well” in the context of a company notorious for products that don’t work that well. The end users will beta test/ guinea pig their way through it. At that point MS DOS will be 50 years old.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 04:21 AM (T8Fgi)
Congratulations. You are now the owner of 500,000 shares of Fireflies Incorporated.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:22 AM (O7YUW)
Hunter Biden – One of the Most Controversial Figures in America | SRS #264
Shawn Ryan Show
https://youtu.be/K4D4MqYS11k
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:28 AM (RuTUS)
https://youtu.be/rCUYMM6pABw?t=17
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:35 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS)
Another make-work project that will likely be abandoned after wasting a ton of money.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:37 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:38 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:41 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 23, 2025 04:41 AM (nOXs4)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:42 AM (O7YUW)
My writing partner - who is daily having more and more good things happen to her - forced me to sit and write yesterday, which was a good thing. Didn't stop me from being incredibly depressed after I left her, though. I have to say that I do wish I weren't so cynical, because I have yet to find a self-help book or advice column that I haven't immediately dismissed with a sneer.
Probably a couple of hours' work ahead of me right now. Christmas is an odd time in the medical field; people either put their visits off until after the holiday or go in now in order to have time to recover. I hope today and tomorrow are easy days.
Will post more later. Aren't you excited?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 04:43 AM (ufSfZ)
Good to see you this morning.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:47 AM (O7YUW)
But it will be a valuable learning experience all around.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 04:47 AM (6ydKt)
Hunter Biden – One of the Most Controversial Figures in America | SRS #264
Shawn Ryan Show
https://youtu.be/K4D4MqYS11k
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 04:28 AM (RuTUS)
Who listens to that degenerate?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:47 AM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:48 AM (O7YUW)
Musical retort:
https://youtu.be/bFEoMO0pc7k?t=10
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at December 23, 2025 04:52 AM (O7YUW)
Man writes on the promise of light in this devotional. It is followed by a thought for the day and a prayer:
https://tinyurl.com/77hfvytm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:59 AM (7RYym)
OMG! It's Y2K all over again!
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 23, 2025 04:59 AM (gLikB)
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 05:00 AM (T8Fgi)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 05:01 AM (dAOkg)
https://tinyurl.com/ypz5fvzd
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:02 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)
The man has such a powerful voice that he must has down singing either professionally or at a lot of Amateur events .
https://tinyurl.com/3umsrunj
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:06 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 23, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 05:11 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel
Oh my God, Y2K, I remember that the company I worked for spent lots of money sending technicians around to make sure and do something to my desk computer to fix something. I worried if my car would start the next morning, I worried if ...........
Posted by: colin at December 23, 2025 05:14 AM (wlQdF)
https://www.khadas.com/mind
I like the idea behind them, but Khadas is quite pricey with their models, and you can only get one GPU - 4060 Ti.
Pricing comes out to $1599 for just the PC component, $799 for a 16GB 4060 Ti, and $179 for the dock component.
That's with 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD, though, so there's that at least.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 05:14 AM (6ydKt)
That's the worst part of the equation.
You can nearly buy a RTX 5080 for that 4060 Ti 16GB price.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 05:16 AM (6ydKt)
I hate Wintry Mix on the weather app. What happened to sleet?
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 05:00 AM (T8Fgi)
Oh, who knows? It's the go-to of "it's not rain and it's not sleet and not snow, but maybe some or all or none." I've never wanted to be a meteorologist, but when I was a child, I had one of those small weather guides that explain what 'weather' is and how people predict it. If I can remember what it was, I'll try to post a link; it would be a good book for young kids.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 05:16 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Rosasharn at December 23, 2025 05:17 AM (PzBTm)
Hardly any of those places will it be the same
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:18 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/mus6v788
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 05:19 AM (ufSfZ)
Coming attractions for Windows 13: I identify as a Mac Dave and I've locked you out of your computer.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:20 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:42 AM (O7YUW)
hahahaha
Posted by: m at December 23, 2025 05:24 AM (RuTUS)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:27 AM (Ia/+0)
May everyone of good will who is darkness today receive light.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:33 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: colin at December 23, 2025 05:40 AM (wlQdF)
Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we’ve built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.
And just like that function pointers are dead. So too are comments sprinkled about code that read "Don't touch this, Nobody understands what's going on here," and will be replaced replaced with one comment that reads "Don't touch this, Nobody understands what's going on here,
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:40 AM (HTCU3)
Good morning. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas.
Thanks for your kind words. That started as a rumination on the rapid progression of flight technology but it turned a different direction.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 23, 2025 05:43 AM (T8Fgi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:50 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:22 AM (O7YUW)
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I'm still trying to sell off my shares in a spoo ranch.
Posted by: Londo Mollari at December 23, 2025 05:52 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:54 AM (Nx5jP)
"Wintry mix" . . . how I wish I could see some of it now and then. Not have to drive in it, not among idiots, but just to see it once in a while. Or have temps conducive to it.
Next year . . .!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 05:55 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 05:58 AM (wzUl9)
I can imagine a conversation between two employees trying to diagnose why in an old version of Excel everything works, while in the new development version, the values in the cells on the spreadsheet change with each refresh. It ends up with them selling their company stock and getting very, very drunk.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 05:59 AM (O7YUW)
Or so google's AI tells me when I enter "gps 5 microsecond difference". The GPS satellites take current time very seriously.
You might be able to argue that the satellite times have to be in sync within the GPS constellation itself versus any external time, but I haven't thought that through and probably won't. For most human day-to-day needs, a 5 microsecond clock drift is meaningless.
Keeping clocks in sync is more complicated than you might believe, unless you are a engineer/compsci human.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 05:59 AM (vHpoE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)
Then why are you using an LLM to do the work?
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:03 AM (vHpoE)
It'll be close enough for humans.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:04 AM (vHpoE)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:05 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: fluffy at December 23, 2025 06:05 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:05 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel
Oh my God, Y2K, I remember that the company I worked for spent lots of money sending technicians around to make sure and do something to my desk computer to fix something. I worried if my car would start the next morning, I worried if ...........
Posted by: colin
Heh! I remember getting online right at midnight, in defiance against something. Never did figure out the something. Anyway, nothing happened. The internet kept ticking along and I wound up playing Grand Prix Legends for a couple of hours (not online). The best thing Y2K did was get me hired as a Beltway Bandit, which I still am today. Why did they hire me? I had a security clearance and a pulse. I figured out the job as I went along.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (sAmhv)
*
It'll be close enough for humans.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025
***
That's what I figured. I'm not likely to be piloting any spacecraft, trying to match speeds with an asteroid, any time soon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 23, 2025 06:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 23, 2025 06:08 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:09 AM (O7YUW)
Next year . . .!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 05:55 AM (wzUl9)
As someone who's lived with the stuff all his life, I can tell you the experience gets old really fast.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 06:09 AM (ufSfZ)
That's okay. I can work out in fog.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:11 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025
***
I don't recall the last time I underlined anything here. But that would not be a bad idea.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:12 AM (wzUl9)
The criminal son of President Fimblefamble described America as being 'addicted to the problem' of immigration rather than having an actual desire to solve the problem.
He went on to say that "white men in America are 45 more times likely to commit a violent crime than an immigrant", like Donald Trump, who keeps blowing up his drug boats.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:12 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 23, 2025 06:14 AM (bQ4nt)
"You mean *right* now? Or when you started asking 'What time is it right now'?"
"When I finished asking 'What time is it right now'."
"Oh, ok. Well how long did it take us to say 'You mean *right* now...' etc etc"
"Uh......"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:14 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025
*
As someone who's lived with the stuff all his life, I can tell you the experience gets old really fast.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025
***
Well, you know, just now and then. A change from the endless hot jaundice-yellow sunlight and sticky dispiriting humidity like yesterday's. It was not fun when it happened in Denver when I had to go to work or the grocery, no.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 23, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (vHpoE)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (vHpoE)
If you could die from inhaling dicks, half of our civil service would be dead.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (06Hmj)
I know I'll screw it up at some point. Therefore, it's in there.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 06:16 AM (O7YUW)
Goddamn it! Now, I have to wipe my screens.
Umm, very well done!
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:18 AM (vHpoE)
Posted by: Ford Prefect at December 23, 2025 06:18 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:21 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 23, 2025 06:22 AM (qbLEp)
Dunno where you live, but going someplace cold with snow could be going someplace with Northern Lights at this time of year. That's kinda worth the trip, if you've never seen it in the flesh. My wife and I flew to Alaska in March this year to try to see the Northern Lights. It was worth doing once, if you don't live there already.
Alaska is expensive, BTW. At least if you don't live in CA or NY.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 06:24 AM (vHpoE)
60 Minutes has less credibility than a crack whore living in a dumpster.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:25 AM (vFG9F)
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Explodes like an F-150?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 23, 2025 06:26 AM (qbLEp)
https://is.gd/nl3dXy
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:26 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: 60 Minutes at December 23, 2025 06:27 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fluffy at December 23, 2025 06:29 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 06:32 AM (m6HS6)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:32 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:36 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:37 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)
Keeping clocks in sync is more complicated than you might believe, unless you are a engineer/compsci human.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 05:59 AM (vHpoE)
That's why we should switch to year-round Standard Time. Changing all those clocks? Oy!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:40 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd
Sell some paintings. Worked before.
I mean, what's changed? /s
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 06:41 AM (sAmhv)
Network authentication protocols rely on this, apparently.
I survived my trip to Virginia. Youngest child is officially graduated from college and my only remaining expense is to pay for 5-6 months of an apartment they no longer live in because everything is a scam.
Although numerous drivers made serious attempts to kill me over the trip there and back, none succeeded. Happy to be back home with the horde.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)
There's an entire character type trope in Victorian lit about the dissipated wastrel born of a connected but not necessarily Apex family, who lives like a king with no visible means of income solely on the rapacious credit of others.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 06:43 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Taking off my snark hat regarding what Microsoft's up to. If Microsoft can pull off what they're attempting to do; this is probably one of the most significant things in computing since what Alan Turing and his crew did during World War II. My mind is locked in in the '80s '90s 2000s time frame of computing; that is my blind spot here. What is being done, it seems, is a complete overhaul of computer science and software development. It's audacious, ambitious and full of risks. Those kinds of traits are exactly what moves the needle in advancing technology. They also can have wildly unexpected consequences. The key skill mentioned in that article is software engineers effectively have to be compiler experts. Software engineering will not be about writing application, rather it will be about writing the architecture to automate code writing.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:45 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)
I know what it is in Chicago!
Posted by: Warai-otoko, sitting cross-legged on the floor at December 23, 2025 06:45 AM (06Hmj)
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Time is, like, a social construct, man.
*takes another bong hit*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:46 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)
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John Cameron Swayze.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 06:47 AM (KgVf3)
Gonna be fun for them when they start getting flooded with "I didn't order this, I don't want this (or I didn't receive this), I'm not paying for this" and some attorney decides that all these unhappy customers constitute an aggrieved class and, sure, they'd like to make a billion dollars in legal fees.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:47 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)
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Does anybody really care?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 23, 2025 06:47 AM (qbLEp)
Men: Time is a god who must be respected.
Women: Time is an annoyance which can always be ignored.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)
Says the body: "Nope."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:02 AM (O7YUW)
I have made a successful first day's start on my first post-retirement project titled "Don't Get Up At 3am". Today I awoke at 5. Still have some work to do but it's a good start.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:50 AM (ExV1e)
I wasn't planning on spending that much PTO but I can manage.
As for good news. Shortly after losing Kroger, we heard from a couple whose dog we have babysat several times. Sweet boy, very malleable and lazy. They are returning him to the adoption group because they are expecting a child and they'd asked if we would take him.
Honestly, we were going to wait a while longer but life had other plans for us. But we did tell the relevant folks that we're not moving on this until January since we have a lot of guests coming in for the holiday week.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 06:52 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)
But the POWER OF H1B shall make this work! Get with the times, old man!
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 06:53 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
The good news is you can go back to bed anytime you want which I did yesterday from 11:00 a.m. till 2:00 pm. Plus it's Trash Day Eve today; I'm excited.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:54 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: The drummer for the band Chicago at December 23, 2025 06:56 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm sure that we be wonderful for the dog and you will enjoy him too, but I'm glad you get a break before the new addition.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 06:56 AM (PFs9e)
Ok, I think I've found your problem.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
It's an instructive exercise at a minimum. Or going to a non-Intersecting universe seems to make sense here too.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 06:57 AM (HTCU3)
Who authorized this?!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 07:00 AM (eZ5tL)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 07:00 AM (WPL6O)
Thanks. He's familiar with the routine and he gets along with my girl. But with my wife's babysitting service getting a lot of demands over the next few weeks, this will be a bit crazy.
And I am trying to avoid ranting about surrendering an animal because of pregnancy. But this is because I've been around dogs since I was born.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:01 AM (lXoJ5)
I violently agree with that statement.
"The key skill mentioned in that article is software engineers effectively have to be compiler experts. Software engineering will not be about writing application, rather it will be about writing the architecture to automate code writing."
Well, it used to be "train your replacement human [H1B local Indian/remote Indian/remote (insert cheaper source of labor)] to do what you do". Now it's "train your company's LLM (which is a robotic slave that requires nothing more than what it takes to keep it functioning) to do what you do".
I don't see a good ending to this for most of humanity but I'm old and cynical. And a tech weasel.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:01 AM (vHpoE)
"expecting the result to be more reliable" LOL.
assumes that that is the intent.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 23, 2025 07:02 AM (Cjt/F)
https://tinyurl.com/ccxa7vxm
" Not the Bee" site.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:03 AM (PFs9e)
It's forecast to be about 80 degrees today at Schloss Hadrian. After the sun comes up and everything dries off, I guess I'll give the lawn a last mowing for the season.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)
Chris Rea- Driving Home for Christmas
He died today. Cancer, I think. He was 74
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
How's Finn doing?
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (2Ez/1)
and Good Morning to you Beckoning, nice to see you this morning, usually only see you on the ONT.
Posted by: Pony Tail at December 23, 2025 07:07 AM (HcbZb)
It does seem like an overreaction on her part, but maybe best not to bring that up? You probably won't change her mind. As far as being "crazy" you've had to deal with that before in fostering, with lots of people coming and going right.? You'll make it through🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 07:08 AM (PFs9e)
The Spotify lawyers are going to be busy.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 07:11 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:11 AM (S3X3q)
Well off to bed I go. Later daywalkers. Probably be up in 3 hours anyway. Have not slept well the last couple of months.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 07:11 AM (sAmhv)
How's Finn doing?
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2025 07:05 AM (lJ0H4)
Thank you for asking. It's a bit hard to say. He's no longer hacking up blood, which is good, of course, but he's still coughing. He's fat, phlegmatic 10-year-old, so adjudging his general mood is a bit difficult. He's gone off his feed the last couple of days, which always worries me since I'm half Italian.
Finn will remain a house dog for another week until his antibiotics are finished. I don't think there's any reason for immediate concern, but he's also 10, which is a good age for a Borzoi boy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)
Oh no, that never gets brought up. The only thing our group focuses on is getting the dog rehomed. We recognize that this is never an easy choice to make.
As far as being "crazy" you've had to deal with that before in fostering, with lots of people coming and going right.?
Not as much as you'd think. When we fostered, we would typically get visitors on a weekend. Unfortunately, we live in the boonies as opposed to the DC Metro area so that narrowed down the number of visitors.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: colin at December 23, 2025 07:15 AM (wlQdF)
Posted by: White female overeducated elementary school teachers everywhere at December 23, 2025 07:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:16 AM (vHpoE)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 23, 2025 07:17 AM (vHpoE)
JJ
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:20 AM (tgvbd)
Vince Zampella, former CEO of video game developer Infinity Ward and current head of EA-owned Respawn Entertainment, was killed in a crash on Angeles Crest Highway north of Los Angeles.
Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 07:22 AM (GITLP)
Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/22/25)
Quote I "Unfortunately, it sounds like this is what that bear has potentially found under the homeowner's house in the crawlspace. It's unfortunate. We want to see the bears in the woods, not in people's homes." Cort Klopping, with CDFW.
Quote II “We support LGBTQ rights fully. This has nothing to do with identity. Providing powerful hormones to a person in a psychiatric crisis without proper psychiatric safeguards is not affirming care. It is reckless. In this case, it acted as an accelerant, intensifying instability, impairing judgment, and compounding risk.”Dustin Bailey
The real reason for the season.....
Lately you Morons have been an unhappy lot. Too much fun! Too much seriousness! Not enough of this...... Moar of that..... Less of this........
Here's hoping that the
It's bad enough to be called a Masshole. Insult to injury, Masshole Genius Award Winners!
A Rescue Report from New Hampshire Tees Off on Two Lost Hikers
A recent report published by the state’s Fish and Game Department pulls no punches in its assessment of two hikers who got stuck on a mountain and required lifesaving The report of the mission passes more than a little judgment on the two hikers at the center of the ordeal. Here are a few highlights They lost their composure and would not listen to any advice being given to them.
The two were ill-equipped for a hike of this magnitude and had departed for a nearly 9-mile loop at 1:00 p.m.
They lacked appropriate clothing for a hike in the weather conditions they encountered and were navigating with a phone when they lost the trail.
Chris McKee, a conservation officer with the Fish and Game Department, shared a few more details about the hikers in a story with New Hampshire Public Radio. McKee said the two were wearing work boots, not hiking boots, and lacked the gear you might take on a night hike in winter, such as crampons, snowshoes, or functional lights. “These individuals just didn’t have the proper gear or experience to be out there hiking in this,” he said.
Even Santa Claus gets it! And a Mystery Click?
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Repurposed Christmas Trees.
Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. The Fabulous, yours truly & our K9s wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:00 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (2WIwB)
Nobody waving fans made from peacock feathers ???
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (3ZUWJ)
Yay! It's awesome to see you. I hope all is well with you and family 😃!
Merry Christmas and thanks for ONT!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (dIJjD)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (uQesX)
Willowed
I bet!
Did you say yes on the saber?
Posted by: Diogenes
I 100% said hell yes. He let me handle it at the 2025 Army birthday dinner. Sweet friggen saber. Nice dude too.
Posted by: BifBewalski
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (QVmho)
Nobody waving fans made from peacock feathers ???
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (3ZUWJ)
_________
Flabillifers are a given
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (tgvbd)
Jack Frost roasting on an open fire
Chestnuts nipping at your toes
Although it's been said many times many ways
Happy ONT to you
🧑🎄
Click the nic link for my Christmas Commercials Collection. The good, the bad, and the merry.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's THAT time of year, eh? at December 22, 2025 10:04 PM (WB0Mb)
The KJV is wrong. The Douay-Rheims is right.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 10:04 PM (qFwJc)
Not that the second scenario is one I have had a lot of experience recently with.... grr....
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 10:05 PM (/ZkOF)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 10:06 PM (dIJjD)
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As a hyperpatriotic Amero-Qatari expatriate, I love questions erotically.
Like, where is Brown University? Is it anywhere?
And as a hyper faithful Christo-Muslim whatsit, I'm frankly offended by this obvious scheme. Rhode Island doesn't even exist, but these hummus eaters expect me to believe this fake state has a college in it?
I mean, really HAHAHAHAHA?!?!
Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (BI5O2)
Not that the second scenario is one I have had a lot of experience recently with.... grr....
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 10:05 PM (/ZkOF)
The boys are harder.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 22, 2025 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:09 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)
Not after hormone therapy, they aren't.
Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Tranny at December 22, 2025 10:09 PM (TR4+2)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
Yep, Olive.... says so right in the song...
Olive, the other Reindeer, used to laugh and call him names!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 10:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13
So be careful when you serve tapenade at Christmas dinner, because ... you know.
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:13 PM (3ZUWJ)
I have grown old. . . . . *snif*
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:14 PM (cYBz/)
CBS wanted Schultz to cut Linus speech, too religious. Schultz fought back and it stayed in. Classic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 10:14 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)
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Funny you mention that, I heard the correct quote quoted on an old time radio show just the other day, Johnny Dollar or something like that. It immediately rang true, and decided “now that actually makes a lot of sense!”
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (74/ii)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (IC093)
However, I had to pull out the classic with Khan and the swimming champion.
https://youtu.be/7MFJ7ie_yGU
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's THAT time of year, eh? at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: Zappa Month Reprise at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:16 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:17 PM (z0fsG)
Nobody waving fans made from peacock feathers ???
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic
Waving peacock feathers, nope he needs virgins tossing rose petals.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 22, 2025 10:17 PM (0Htd1)
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased!”.
The ESV has it right too. Best is to read it in the original Koine Greek, but not everyone can.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (E0Kkk)
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We have had several instances of this in the neighborhood. Bears have clawed off less-than-robust crawlspace doors, and made themselves at home.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)
Where will we find those? (Select your own "those".)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (z0fsG)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Don Black
You won't believe how long it took to come up with "GERONIMO~!"
"KICKAPOO!" just didn't have the right note.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)
Fun fact: During WWII, the War Department had Walt Disney Company crank out designs for shoulder patches for numerous non-existent Divisions, just to mess with Axis intelligence gather.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (TR4+2)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (AkkXw)
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (1zcQ9)
Yes, ideally, ‘Cort’, this is what we strive for in our current civilization where we’re eons past living in caves.
Tell me again, exactly what is it you do here?
What kind of name is ‘Cort’ anyway?
Sounds like a made-up John Wayne character name like ‘Taw’ or ‘Quirt’.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)
Well, that's a couple hundred watts of free heat under the floor...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Tonypete
Do you wear the bottoms of your trousers rolled?
Posted by: J. Alfred Prufrock at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: TRex -feliz navi dino at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Silver Dollar City at December 22, 2025 10:20 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: LRob in OK
Incels in Pasadena on Jan 1st ???
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 10:18 PM (rdVOm)
Yep. Olden Times. Back when men were men and women had their own spaces/sports.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (imZqa)
What does that even mean? I think if you incorporate leftist euphemisms and vague rorschach word salads, you’ve already conceded.
If fully grown adults want to bugger each other and get AIDS that is their choice. Anything else is just groomers and kiddie-fvckers perving on youth and corrupting their innocence and continuing the cycle of abuse.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:21 PM (74/ii)
You said crampons, I thought you said tampons, and I said I didn't need any more...
Posted by: Tampon Timmy at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (ynpvh)
@DeAngelisCorey 1h
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that parental exclusion policies are unconstitutional.
California can't force teachers to keep secrets from parents.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (mlg/3)
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When I was a kid, Johnny Dollar was my favorite radio show. I would lie in bed with the lights out, and the radio (inherited from my grandmother) turned low so that my parents couldn't hear it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (TR4+2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)
MEeeeeee...
Posted by: Geronimo, baling out of airplane at December 22, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:23 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:23 PM (CA6zO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:24 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:24 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 10:19 PM (mlg/3)
MEeeeeee...
Posted by: Geronimo, baling out of airplane
>The Arapaho never had a chance near a frontier settlement.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)
Which is quite awkward in a Speedo.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (zdQuL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Feline Pushover at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Mick at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (HFx9z)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (0CU3H)
What do we know about the first 100 airborne divisions?
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)
The 82nd was famously deployed in Western Europe.
But what do we *really* know about those other 99 missing divisions?
And how do we *really* know who died in those gas chambers? Maybe it was the 99 divisions? Maybe not? Who knows? But I think the patriotic thing is to at least ask.
And, how do we know those were actually German gas chambers that killed 99 divisions worth of brave American soldiers?
I'm here to welcome Thaddeus Magillicuddy, the world's foremost expert on phantom paratroopers, to answer some pressing questions about just why it is that every historical account places so many Jews in these notorious camps.
Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (QMAsf)
I have grown old. . . . . *snif*
Posted by: Tonypete
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Sorry, you'll have to take a number and wait your turn.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (0CU3H)
Erectile Dysfunction Syndrome?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh)
The boys are harder.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at
My son was on a traveling soccer team.They were playing in Iceland with girls' teams playing adjacent. For some reason the girls' team needed to change shirts, which they did on the field. The boys' game stopped completely until the girls had changed.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)
Which is quite awkward in a Speedo.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 22, 2025 10:25 PM (zdQuL)
But makes it easier to steer.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 10:28 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:24 PM (Da7Vv)
Don't worry, we've got this.
Posted by: The Hunt Brothers at December 22, 2025 10:28 PM (TR4+2)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)
I mean, really HAHAHAHAHA?!?!
Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:07 PM (BI5O2)
yeah is smack talking somebody's faith here the smart move, not sure that's the smart move. guess you're trying to find out huh?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:29 PM (jWNhz)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 22, 2025 10:30 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: The Hunt Brothers
geez, how old do yo uhave to be to know this, are you using the hq teletype ?
smile face
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (jWNhz)
.
Grammatically speaking, the subject of the first clause is δόξα (“Glory”
and the subject of the second clause is εἰρήνη (“peace”. The contrasting locations are ἐν ὑψίστοις (“in the highest” and ἐπὶ γῆς (“on earth”, and the respective recipients θεῷ (“God” and ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκίας (“those [lit., the men/people] on whom his favor rests”.
Most modern English translations render the noun εὐδοκίας (literally, “of good pleasure”
as denoting an attribute of the recipients of peace rather than as a second subject on par with “peace.”Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (imZqa)
Not that the second scenario is one I have had a lot of experience recently with.... grr....
Posted by: SimoHayek
More logical behavior: housecats or teenage girls?
Not gonna go there.
I think the original "herding cats," like in the commercial, refers to managing engineers. Or maybe programmers.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:32 PM (6ydKt)
One morning I go to look at the generator and see that it isn’t where I had placed it. I had an extended run fuel tank and hose connected too, everything was thrown around like discarded toys. The bear had chewed on the fuel hose, and nearly severed the extension cord. Turned out to be what I call a “teen” bear, not fully grown, though pretty good sized, not a cub or anything like that. Looked kind of ratty and disheveled with a little straw or grass in fur, wondered if it had been hibernating recently.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:32 PM (74/ii)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:32 PM (jWNhz)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (Da7Vv)
So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: J. Alfred Prufrock
And another thing, what is up with that love song of yours?
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
Really? This stream of consciousness stuff is just to much. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (6ydKt)
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I don't. Back in the closet please, we don't need or want such perversion in our society. I am tolerant no longer. And it's not transphobia, it's righteous abhorrence of evil.
Not trying to start an argument, just not going to be silent anymore.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:34 PM (igoLh)
The newest one I think is just a burn, the oldest one was due to an experiment with a paring knife when I was 4.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (rbvCR)
His Eminence has decided otherwise.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (b9CCz)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (jWNhz)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 10:36 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:36 PM (iK7NX)
So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK
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You've been a responsible parent, and I'm assuming you're of age. Pour yourself a double.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 22, 2025 10:36 PM (8AONa)
Posted
Oh no, poor Lily! I am so sorry.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (jWNhz)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
Sorry to hear this, hope it turns out better than you are thinking.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: JackStraw
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My coldest overnight camp experience was 18 degrees, freezing rain/sleet, whiskey and a Coleman lantern in a canvass tent. Can't imagine doing an over night in NH unprepared.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 22, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)
So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)
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Hot iron.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (ZOv7s)
I have heard mature, intelligent men speak in tongues whilst under the influence of tequila. Should be registered as a hallucinogen!
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (z0fsG)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:31 PM (OoFl2)
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A prayer for complete and speedy healing.
It's horrible when your kids is hurt.
I usually preferred the fleshy parts when inserting knives into my hands.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (iK7NX)
So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)
It might help to take the edge off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (6ydKt)
yeah is smack talking somebody's faith here the smart move, not sure that's the smart move. guess you're trying to find out huh?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:29 PM (jWNhz)
Who is smack talking anyone's faith? Is it you? Because it seems like it's you... I'm not the one besmirching the proud faith traditions of Christoislam around here.
I have some questions about that.
Posted by: T. Carlson at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: n
What ever could go wrong?
Posted by: Tonyp
endless merriment, tax payer funded, drive traffic though the roof
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (jWNhz)
Posted by: Braenyard
Impressive, Braenyard, that is quite a talent you have been hiding.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (igoLh)
Moral of the story: When drinking with friends and one's face lights up just before saying, "Hey, you know what we should do?" What follows should probably be disregarded in its entirety.
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:26 PM (0CU3H)
Erectile Dysfunction Syndrome?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh)
Well, he wasn't a big man.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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VDH said his brother learned Hebrew and Aramaic in order to read it in the original.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 10:39 PM (rdVOm)
I have some questions about that.
Posted by: T. Carls
have fun with that , not many ways you starting that goes the way you want
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:40 PM (jWNhz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (6ydKt)
You know what takes the edge off? Rice pudding.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:41 PM (Da7Vv)
"and so far, he's not motivated to leave."
Well, then, how about you SHOOT HIM. Shoot him, then throw a rope around him and drag his carcass out. The homeowner can make a rug out of him. And eat a bunch of stew for the next 2 years. Probably give some to the local Indian tribe to make up for living on their stolen land or some such BS.
Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 10:41 PM (D3HHy)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Thank you but the talent is in the internet.
Hope all is well for you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (imZqa)
I hate it when children are injured. We saw all kinds of emergency room trips with 5 kids. Broken bones, cuts. No fun. I hope she does OK.
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (z0fsG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: GWB
why it's a great story, maybe the most exciting to ever happen to the homeowner.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:42 PM (jWNhz)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (WGeqj)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (imZqa)
I bought at $17. Lots of junk silver as well...
However, as has been said, you can't eat silver or gold.
It's pretty to look at though 😳..
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (dIJjD)
What’s interesting is how quickly The Narrative from the left can change. A new set of directives is issued, and the old ways are discarded, like they Never Happened.
All of the grooming faggotry was right on the heels of the “Stranger Danger” and “Mandatory Reporting” legislation. Pornography of any type is illegal for minors, but (somehow) is peachy keen for even toddlers if distributed in public schools?
I grew up in a fairly working class mixed ethnicity suburban neighborhood, mostly Democrat probably. There were disagreements about politics for sure, but one thing in common is if the school teachers tried that shit back then the parents would have roasted them over a spit on a bonfire.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (0cASp)
Yes. I support "gender affirming care".
So if a male child (is convinced to) believes he is a female trapped in a male's body, he needs (psychiatric) gender affirming care, to persuade/show him ...
"No, you are a male in a male's body. Your "gender dysphoria" is due either to confusion as you go THROUGH puberty, and/or someone has been mind flucking you (flucking groomers) to make you believe you are actually a woman."
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (vbXSk)
From one of my favorite cartoons the kids liked when they were young:
https://tinyurl.com/2rxjub66
Posted by: barbarausa at December 22, 2025 10:44 PM (enw9G)
So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)
Y’all would have been so proud of me. She said she thought she needed a bandaid, I looked at it and saw just how deep it was. I didn’t panic, I just calmly told her we need to get it looked at even though I really wanted the throw up.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:44 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (pkeXY)
Made in Nashville?
https://youtu.be/I7onqDAwemQ
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)
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Compared to what? Pieces of paper with dead presidents?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (0cASp)
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Oh, too bad, I trust your knowledge over the Internet! 😊
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 10:43 PM (0cASp)
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The pervs took over the Democrat party. Look at how many public school teachers commit sex crimes. That's now their main constituency.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (GmKGk)
His Eminence has decided otherwise.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (b9CCz)
Maybe he should be arrested for impersonating a judge...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Another year survived, thanks in part to this place
Posted by: barbarausa at December 22, 2025 10:46 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (uFL4l)
The newest one I think is just a burn, the oldest one was due to an experiment with a paring knife when I was 4.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:35 PM (rbvCR)
That is my toes. I can’t tell you how many broken toes I have had thanks to my obsession with my ponies.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (OoFl2)
Good job! You actually quote the Koine. Pixy Missa’s Minx puts a lot of smileys in your Greek quotes however.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (z0fsG)
His Eminence has decided otherwise.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert
+++++
Sounds insurrectiony
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December
Thank you.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:48 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Boss
you have to get it out of the tin
Unless you’re a Billy goat!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:48 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Piper
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I did that sort of thing once. 2 dissolving stiches on the muscle and 7 to close it up, fortunately not across a joint, but right down where bone was visible. That was... ummmm... *uses fingers to count* ... 48 years ago, and the scar, though faint, is still visible.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 10:49 PM (TevVe)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:44 PM (OoFl2)
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One of the grandkids fell in some strange way, and cut his scalp. Everyone was going crazy, so Grandpa was summoned and I quickly identified the wound, improvised a bandage, put direct pressure and ice on it, and stopped the bleeding.
The panic subsided and my daughter said: "So now what? Does he need stiches?"
I said: "I have no idea. The military taught me to apply a dressing. What comes next is someone else's problem."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (GmKGk)
However, as has been said, you can't eat silver or gold."
But if you bought at $17, you can buy three times as much food with the silver as you could have if you just held your dollars (including interest on those dollars).
I bought some around $17, not nearly enough. My miners have done well lately, but will probably have to sell those as well, maybe when silver almost hits $100.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:50 PM (zZu0s)
We're still around.
Posted by: The Other Side of the Slope at December 22, 2025 10:51 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)
So competing with China? They'll lose.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 22, 2025 10:51 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)
So competing with China? They'll lose.
canada is more evil so
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (uFL4l)
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Compared to what? Pieces of paper with dead presidents?
At $5 for a silver dime, you can barter those for food pretty easily.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (z0fsG)
I said: "I have no idea. The military taught me to apply a dressing. What comes next is someone else's problem."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December
Ha! Those head wounds can bleed, too. Even the not so bad ones!
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:53 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: An Obse
not for food or ammo
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:53 PM (uFL4l)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:45 PM (uFL4l)
So competing with China? They'll lose.
canada is more evil so
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:52 PM (uFL4l)
Only if they lock up those opposed to a liberal gov't, force suicide, and take their organs...then multiply this 1000x.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: illiniwek
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My miners are in the middle of mudslides, fires, cave-ins and international disputes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 10:54 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:54 PM (GmKGk)
I said: "I have no idea. The military taught me to apply a dressing. What comes next is someone else's problem."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December
Ha! Those head wounds can bleed, too. Even the not so bad ones!
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:53 PM (OoFl2) ]
Tourniquets don't work well on neck, head, chest, or abdominal wounds...or maybe they do...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
Pity about Tucker. Maybe Mark Levin can fill that hole in Trump's media backers, and then we can get back to no longer having Trump's executive order specifically supporting Qatar.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim
it is not the act so much as how it came to be
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (uFL4l)
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That hurts just to think about.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 10:55 PM (igoLh)
And Kathleen Kennedy still has a job.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (2WIwB)
Take a look it this guys version. Powerful
https://youtu.be/EWPr3-njNSY
Posted by: javems at December 22, 2025 10:56 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (uFL4l)
A few days later, my squadron commander heard about it. I showed him the affected finger in the middle of a staff meeting. Everyone, including him, laughed!
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (z0fsG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss
you have to get it out of the tin
Posted by: n
And it'll be empty if anyone genocided cows since it was tinned.
Posted by: mikeski the tourist at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Absolutely No Scar at December 22, 2025 10:58 PM (oftw2)
Cmdr. Dick Best off Enterprise in a 1999 interview mentions the dive bombers were dealing with a 35mph wind at 20,000ft that was affecting their flight paths. And only because McClusky decided to circle back did they find the Japanese fleet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 22, 2025 10:58 PM (qnGrS)
And Kathleen Kennedy still has a job.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)
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I set a record for checking the time on my watch during that film. My kids were somewhat in awe of how much I visibly hated it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 10:59 PM (ZOv7s)
So, given the age, tequila shots are out, right?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 10:33 PM (z0fsG)
It might help to take the edge off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:38 PM (6ydKt)
That would have been helpful before knife met finger...
Posted by: Dull can be dangerous too at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (uFL4l)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 10:47 PM (OoFl2)
I always thought the joke was that an obsession with the ponies led to the bookies breaking your fingers, then your knees?
-- I haven't ridden a horse since I was 16 and I suspect both the horses and I are better off because of it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (rbvCR)
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With all due respect that completely minimizes and simplifies what Tucker has said.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (WGeqj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 10:57 PM (GmKGk)
I knew it was going to suck about 15 minutes in when Rey kept on telling Fin to stop holding her hand.
I’ve been preached to in movies, one way or another, ever since
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss
it is surprising they could even get airborne
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (uFL4l)
I don't really analyze mine closely, but read Bill Fleckenstein so own AEM, PAAS, WDOFF, AGI. They all are pretty solid. Sold Newmont too early, but with big gains. There are always risks ... I'm only 15% in equities cuz I'm old and (too?) cautious, but comfortable. heh.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: GWB
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Yahbut...
Every case of Trichinosis occurring in the US in the last 50 years or so has been a result of eating bear meat.
The pigs are innocent.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (TevVe)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (GmKGk)
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Not Shinano. It had an armor-plated flight deck.
So one torpedo from the Archerfish sent it down.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:02 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:02 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (GmKGk)
He also says just before Midway he took a nine ship of SBDs to the Molokai range to practice bombing. He says of his bomb run, two of the practice bombs were within 15ft and the other two withing 25ft of the bullseye.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (2GVsD)
Because they are illegal aliens. That’s why, fuckface.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (z1t++)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (z0fsG)
Posted by: San
if it is about another country who cares?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:04 PM (uFL4l)
190 The Japanese Carriers only needed about one dive bomb to sink.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (GmKGk)
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Both Japanese and American WW2 carriers had wooden flight decks.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 11:04 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:05 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:06 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Boss
it is surprising they could even get airborne
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (uFL4l)
Indeed. Carriers are quite heavy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:07 PM (E0Kkk)
The other finished Unryu class carrier survived the war but was not a factor in the war.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 11:08 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:08 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: GWB
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Yahbut...
Every case of Trichinosis occurring in the US in the last 50 years or so has been a result of eating bear meat.
The pigs are innocent.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:01 PM (TevVe)
Not even the feral ones?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (z0fsG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:06 PM (GmKGk)
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Imperial Japan was a mass of contradictions. On the one hand, the Arisaka rifle was the ultimate incarnation of the Mauser action, with post-war testing showing it to be crazy robust.
And yet...Nambu pistols. WTF.
The "Zero" was pretty damn good, but also fragile and an evolutionary dead end. Also: it's wartime, why are you still hazing your pilot trainees?
Have you considered an actual medical corps, or is your entire military based on the idea that no one gets sick or wounded?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)
Okay, who in the Horde just won the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)
I knew I was forgetting something...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)
There are some that think the NT was originally in Aramaic, kinda considered more the "language of the commoners", while Greek was more legal/official. So it is kinda nice to think JC gave the Sermon on the Mount in Aramaic.
There are interlinears of the NT in Aramaic, but the Greek became more dominant in the translations.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (z1t++)
Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (NlEaG)
Then there was the Taiho...
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:11 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:11 PM (uFL4l)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 22, 2025 11:12 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
Then there was the Taiho...
Posted by: Cicer
it is a bitch to have running flaming fuel going through holes in your decks into the engineering spaces
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:12 PM (uFL4l)
Maybe, just maybe because Trump asked them to, because the oil surplus allows Trump to take Venezuela’s production offline and crush Maduro’s government without the oil price spike that should have happened, and thus without any domestic political repercussions for Trump. And he gets to take down Cuba as well, a nice two for. Amazing how it all comes together.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (pLSjm)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:10 PM (z1t++)
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Yep. But trying to explain to a room full of women how shaving cuts can bleed but not be arterial is an uphill climb.
We've had each grandkid get a scalp cut, and both were scary due to blood, but did not need stitches.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:00 PM (WGeqj)
Pretty much everything Tucker has said shades into what Trump and Vance have said. You are pissed because he contradicts what you think is essential to justify what you believe. You are ranting on, not because you disagree with Tucker but because you are afraid someone will listen to him and stop believing what you believe.
Let me say something: no one listens to Tucker because they care what he says. No one listens to Joe Rogan because they care what he says, either. People listen to them to hear what the people they interview have to say.
You are as pissed about Tucker "platforming" points of view that are contrary to yours. fine. Go listen to people who agree with you, your blood pressure will be lower.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:14 PM (rbvCR)
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
I'm told those KJV foreign words are Aramaic, but it's been 45 years since I learned that, or maybe I remember incorrectly .... ha.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:14 PM (vbXSk)
Lots to do early tomorrow.
Have a wonderful evening all, and thanks MH.
"The tree may lean and the cookies may burn, but if we are together, it is perfect.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2025 11:14 PM (dIJjD)
Posted by: Common Tater
Once was common in pro wrestling to slice forehead/scalp to create a bloody head/face. Generally heals quickly.
Posted by: Classy Freddie Blassie at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Se
it is not good for American producers to have Saudis or anybody else producing more, besides, you should assume the venezuelans have the same doomsday strategy of blowing the wells the Saudis have.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (uFL4l)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:13 PM (pLSjm)
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It also squeezes Russia, who he wants to come to terms. They got most of what they wanted in terms of Russian-language populations, and the Crimea, and he feels that's enough. I think he also wants to sort out the stupid enclaves once and for all.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Let me say something: no one listens to Tucker because they care what he says. No one listens to Joe Rogan because they care what he says, either. People listen to them to hear what the people they interview have to say.
You are as pissed about Tucker "platforming" points of view that are contrary to yours. fine. Go listen to people who agree with you, your blood pressure will be lower.
Posted by: Kin
shocked face emoji
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (uFL4l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (rFLpo)
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
I also learned those words do not mean "why hast thou forsaken me", but more like "for this purpose was I spared". God did not forsake His son, but he did sacrifice him for us.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 22, 2025 11:03 PM (z0fsG)
Yes. I just discovered him a little while ago. I'll have to search for some more of his works.
Posted by: javems at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: jim
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Nope. I think.because everyone is very aware of pigs/trichinosis, so feral pig is cooked to a fare thee well. The fact that bears carry the parasite is not that high in public consciousness, so they get undercooked.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (TevVe)
Posted by: Piper
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At about six years of age I'm standing barefoot next to a horse and she steps on my toe. She doesn't know that she's standing on my toe. Mom is there but doesn't know what to do. The men across the yard are yelling instructions but she's unsuccessful.
Finally, they come over and get her to pick up her hoof. It was a most unpleasant experience.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: jim
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Nope. I think.because everyone is very aware of pigs/trichinosis, so feral pig is cooked to a fare thee well. The fact that bears carry the parasite is not that high in public consciousness, so they get undercooked.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (TevVe)
Yeah, any critter that eats flesh, and I guess folks forget that pigs will eat flesh...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
Not sure if they did.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
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Maccabees. Kind of important, particularly this time of year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Piper
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At about six years of age I'm standing barefoot next to a horse and she steps on my toe. She doesn't know that she's standing on my toe. Mom is there but doesn't know what to do. The men across the yard are yelling instructions but she's unsuccessful.
Finally, they come over and get her to pick up her hoof. It was a most unpleasant experience.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:17 PM (imZqa)
BIL closed a car window on my fingers before I could get them out of the way...I was banging on the window with the OTHER hand saying, "Put it down! Put it down!"...seconds are a long time in those situations...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
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Maccabees. Kind of important, particularly this time of year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)
First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
Not sure if they did.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms are now claiming we allied with Japan in WW II. Because of course.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ZOv7s)
HMMM I'll bet you won the Bible category on jeopardy.
Posted by: Derak at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (JUYGW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (GmKGk)
But we don’t have the NT in Aramaic but in Koine Greek. Certainly you can make a case that some of the Greek looks like the author was thinking in Aramaic and then writing it down in Koine. Also I think there were a lot of amanuenses who helped write down the text who may have had better mastery of Koine than the person dictating the text. The extent of their influence may explain why certain authors had better Greek in some of their writings than elsewhere. Of course Paul was well tutored and wrote good Greek.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (DK5Sh)
I just cried. Those are GREAT commercials. Thanks!
Posted by: Derak at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (JUYGW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
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Maccabees. Kind of important, particularly this time of year.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)
First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
And that officer, is when the fight broke out.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
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Is there a volume discount?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (GmKGk)
I have one Bible with the apocryphal books...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
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So many things to choose from:
Tucker does not bring the best nor the brightest; they are obtuse, elliptical, fringe thinkers that package their thoughts in intellectual appearing expression.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
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Is there a volume discount?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Indeed! Two for the price of one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
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There were a lot of third tier angels in the enlisted ranks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
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Is there a volume discount?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Indeed! Two for the price of one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
Buy one Bible with 1Maccabees, get 2nd Maccabees free!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (93VjR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:21 PM (GmKGk)
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Tobit is one of the more amusing books of the Bible. Chick keeps getting her husband whacked because of demons, but fish parts for the win!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)
My future ex husband and I took a backpacking trip up to Rampart Ridge in late spring. By the time we reached the ridge it was blizzard conditions and fog. Visibility was zip. We found a tree and pitched our tent for shelter.
Cooked some food, drank some Irish and listened to a Red Sox Mariners double header on the radio.
Saved us.
Woke the next morning early and could not see our footprints. Took put the topo map and the compass and headed downhill. Got kinda off the trail, but figured it out.
It was nice to get back to the truck and the heater and safely. Fun trip though. Will never forget.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 11:24 PM (syJGz)
Guess the last Chinese who remember the Flying Tigers or Flying Dragons have died off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
Tucker does not bring the best nor the brightest; they are obtuse, elliptical, fringe thinkers that package their thoughts in intellectual appearing expression.
Posted by: Braen
Yeah he never gets the deep thinkers such as mark levin.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (uFL4l)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
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It's why Jews practice circumcision. They demand 10 percent off *everything.*
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:26 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms did nothing to fight Japan. KMT shouldered that load. So they pretend that the US was a non-factor. Did you see their big celebration in September, where they pretended the CCP defeated Japan? Total joke.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:28 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Ann
I would seem more appropriate to have a BBlift ,
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (uFL4l)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:20 PM (ynpvh)
[to Inga from behind the bookcase] Put... the candle... back!
Posted by: Fr. Frederick Frankenstein at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:28 PM (2GVsD)
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I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille. Also a salvo.
Posted by: USS New Jersey at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms did nothing to fight Japan. KMT shouldered that load. So they pretend that the US was a non-factor. Did you see their big celebration in September, where they pretended the CCP defeated Japan? Total joke.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Mao made sure all veterans under him during the Great March were massacred in various places, including Korea. Leave no witnesses.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (2GVsD)
Good to know you ignore most MSM.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (GmKGk)
There's a "blind lesbian in a seafood store" joke to be in there, someplace.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7)
You haddock go there...
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:30 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (GmKGk)
There's a "blind lesbian in a seafood store" joke to be in there, someplace.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7)
"The Illiad" has Lesbians in it; King Agamemnon even offered some of his best to Achiles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (2GVsD)
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It's useful to know which lies they are telling.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:32 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:29 PM (E0Kkk)
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Milton made up a bunch of angels. Also went full Arianism.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:32 PM (JkO4W)
Ajax was a great cleaner, let me tell ya.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:33 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (GmKGk)
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Natives of which are termed "Lesbosians" for obvious reasons.
In the early days of the internet, "Isle of Lesbos" probably saw heavy traffic, not the least by an ewok with an interest in Busty Lesbian Porn.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:34 PM (ZOv7s)
next morning, the elk were gathered around the minivan, licking the mag-chloride, which is, I guess, a kind of salt. I think one of them flicked a cigarette butt at us. Punks.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 11:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
First or Second? Oh, you want both?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
What about third and fourth Maccabees?
Posted by: Pippin and/or Josephus at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (nhCoE)
He didn’t put up with any dissension on his own side.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (pLSjm)
Posted by: Pippin and/or Josephus at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (nhCoE)
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What are you, Russian?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Now, rip out that old propulsion system and put in a nuclear one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:37 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 11:37 PM (InAgz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (pLSjm)
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Yeah, but did he kill all the firstborn males? That's a real power move.
Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)
He didn’t put up with any dissension on his own side.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Shadow of Moses coming back from the mount.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:38 PM (GmKGk)
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Guam was always a sitting duck. I'm surprised the Japanese didn't send it to the bottom.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:39 PM (JkO4W)
And you know who lived on that island in classical times, right? Sappho the poet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:40 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Pippin and/or Josephus at December 22, 2025 11:36 PM (nhCoE)
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What are you, Russian?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Makes one wonder what the Bible would be if Constantine hadn't been in a rush.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:40 PM (imZqa)
It's not a traditional Christmas tree, but honestly, all I want to see on a tree is the ornaments, and with most trees in homes, about 3/4 of the tree is not viewable because they are usually set in a corner.
So years ago, I saw this in a catalog, and I Had.To.Have.It.
I still love it! Didn't put it up this year because of impending surgery, but we do try to put it up most years. We even ordered a taller one last year, but it didn't get to our house in time to put up, so we will have to wait until next year to see what it looks like 🎄🎄🎄
https://tinyurl.com/TheOrnamentRack
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 22, 2025 11:41 PM (9WXu1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:39 PM (JkO4W)
Guam had native divers equipped with thousands of yards of Flex Tape.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (GmKGk)
Tucker does not bring the best nor the brightest; they are obtuse, elliptical, fringe thinkers that package their thoughts in intellectual appearing expression.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:23 PM (imZqa)
So you don't listen to the podcast and yet you know why he is bad.
You have unique skills, sir. I am amazed.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Derak at December 22, 2025 11:44 PM (JUYGW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:32 PM (JkO4W)
Ajax was a great cleaner, let me tell ya.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 11:33 PM (ynpvh)
And he was a very, very good boy. Best dog i could have asked for.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 11:45 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 22, 2025 11:41 PM (9WXu1)
I'm not going to make any jokes about ornamental racks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:45 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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zzz zzzz zzzzz channeling Franpycho's brain zzz zzzz zzzzz
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:45 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:46 PM (E0Kkk)
So you don't listen to the podcast and yet you know why he is bad.
You have unique skills, sir. I am amazed.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Of course you are.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:47 PM (imZqa)
I'm not going to make any jokes about ornamental racks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Channeling the Horde's brain.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:48 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:43 PM (9ipOP)
I know nothing about you, only what you say.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 11:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 11:49 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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This sounds like a real world tragedy. Extrapolate, please.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 11:49 PM (imZqa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 11:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (zZu0s)
Just waiting for the k/m switch, video multiviewer and ram mount pieces tomorrow and everything will be pulled together.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:50 PM (GmKGk)
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You couldn't stop Ten High even if they ran out of corn.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:51 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:51 PM (GmKGk)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:52 PM (xG4kz)
I am having trouble opening your link:
https://tinyurl.com/TheOrnamentRack
Is the problem on my end?
Also, continuing to pray for you.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:53 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 22, 2025 11:55 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:52 PM (xG4kz)
Walz of the Foulers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 11:55 PM (npFr7)
https://tinyurl.com/TheOrnamentRack
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn
That's one of them balsams, isn't it?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:57 PM (xG4kz)
I have a Lamsa Bible ... somewhere. from wiki
"Some places in Lamsa's translation differ from the Greek texts used as the basis of other English-language Bibles.
Matthew 27:46
An example is found in Matthew Matthew 27:46, where Lamsa has "My God, my God, for this I was spared!" where the Greek text has "My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?"
And about the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
that is to say,
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
This is rendered in Lamsa's translation:
And about the ninth hour,
Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said,
Eli, Eli lemana shabakthan!
My God, my God, for this I was spared!"
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 11:58 PM (vbXSk)
The idea that there was a limited amount of it was good for keeping the prices up. The scam has always been.
Posted by: Azjaeger
Hey! Shaddup, you!
-- DeBeers
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 22, 2025 11:58 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 22, 2025 11:55 PM (3/XaG)
If you want to drill a well, or a hundred wells, to test abiotic oil theory, nobody is stopping you, if you can raise the money to do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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Maybe in his state, but I doubt it. My attorney that set up.the family trust advised me to get a good safe (or a big.piece of property to bury stuff) and give up.my safety deposit box. If you have a box in AZ, the estate must go through probate, with a probate court order required to open the box, with a neutral observer of the inventory,.said inventory submitted to.the court. Ain't gonna dodge no revenooers there.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:00 AM (TevVe)
Posted by: Azjaeger
Dino Juice was a marketing ploy to make petro more acceptable to luddites married to burning Whale Squeezenes.
More sophisticated than coal or lamp gas.
.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:01 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 12:03 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)
Just waiting for the k/m switch, video multiviewer and ram mount pieces tomorrow and everything will be pulled together.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Ask Ace for a consult.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:04 AM (TevVe)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 11:31 PM (GmKGk)
You don't say!
Posted by: Sappho The Poetess at December 23, 2025 12:06 AM (TR4+2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 12:07 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)
Of course it was a shorter trail and without much elevation gain and it was the summer so I didn't have to worry about snow or cold.
But it is easy to do. In my case there was a river in the area that I knew I could focus on if all else failed.
When I realized I was lost I just kept heading to the river, then followed it to pick up the trail again.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:09 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:10 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:11 AM (GmKGk)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 12:12 AM (E0Kkk)
Kidded him about it many, many times.
Posted by: 18-1
Not even half a limerick.
First line was a great start though
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:14 AM (/lPRQ)
I wonder if some percentage of our oil is abiotic with most biotic in origin - I know there has been unexpected seepage back into some wells when the expected reserves in the area were exhausted and of course we've found hydrocarbons outside of the earth in the solar system that are likely abiotic but...to your point no one has made a real strike based on the abiotic theory yet
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:14 AM (sKqQm)
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Maybe ... there.
Posted by: buddhaha
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Banks are not your friend. They are not on your side.
What goes on is not their business nor the govts.
In ancient times, before computers and cross referenced book keeping along with sloppy govt work.
Families did not record deeds or such transactions.
They would be generationally passed on. Only concerned parties, buyer and seller, involved.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:14 AM (imZqa)
$1.7B, after it's chewed up by taxation.. just might be enough to cruise through the rest of my life. Maybe.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)
03, 18, 36, 41, 54, and the PB is 07.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Hoping you won something. Maybe a tenth.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:15 AM (imZqa)
The wind up was, I never had to help carry groceries again (sorry Mom!!!)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:16 AM (fS43b)
Posted by: NCKate at December 23, 2025 12:19 AM (uQzkA)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 12:12 AM (E0Kkk)
The big problem with abiogenic oil is where to put it. I don't doubt that at some great depths in the earth's mantle the physical and chemical conditions are ripe for elemental carbon to combine with the hydrogen in water to form hydrocarbons. Problem is, at those great depths, all rocks are somewhat plastic, like modeling clay, and the crystal grains deform or regrow to fill all available pore space. No pore space = no place to put the oil. So the carbon+water>hydrocarbon reaction wheezes to a halt, because chemical reactions stop when there is no more room for the products to escape.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:19 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:20 AM (fS43b)
Posted by: a word to the wise at December 23, 2025 12:21 AM (iu6Qe)
I was wondering the other day...how common are caves beneath regular soil? If I went and dug down 1000 yards under my house what are the odds I'd hit a natural cave? 1/1000? Less?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:23 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater
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2 words for you: Under. wear.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: The Guy Who Always Talks About Turtles at December 23, 2025 12:26 AM (TR4+2)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:20 AM (fS43b)
I wonder if you could 3D print a pair of pants from some sort of soft flexible polymer like rayon? Legs, pockets, zipper, belt loops, everything. All one piece, no seams at all, no thread. When they are worn out, throw them in a special recycling bin at the store, and they are melted down, and formed into new filament for the printers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:26 AM (npFr7)
I like some of the numerous apparently well documented tales of strange items found deep underground in coal mines. Brass kettles and other artifacts, Not sure what to think of that.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:27 AM (fS43b)
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Posted by: 18-1
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Ex and I, hiking the piney woods, following a designated trail, little tin triangles. We are about an hour in and, and there are markers N, S, E, & W.
Some clown fixed it. OK, there's the sun. You know after a while all pine trees look alike.
Another hour, it's hot, the oranges are gone, more, there's got to be...wait I know this place, I feel it, it's like deja vu, Against the sun, the deliberate course and her objections, we go this way. Yes this is where we had out keggers. I know where I am.
Fifteen minutes later we're on a farm road, ten minutes later in the bed of a pickup being taxied to my ride. whew.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:27 AM (imZqa)
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You could include built-in Crocs at the bottom to complete the humiliation.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 12:28 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2025 12:28 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 12:29 AM (dK+Kv)
I like some of the numerous apparently well documented tales of strange items found deep underground in coal mines. Brass kettles and other artifacts, Not sure what to think of that.
Posted by: Common Tater
The crystal skills, not quite human, are puzzling.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:30 AM (/lPRQ)
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Send enough tornados through enough junkyards and eventually you'll wind up with a Boeing 747.
Posted by: Charles Darwin at December 23, 2025 12:30 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 12:31 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Except it oozes up to levels where our pipes can get bits of it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:32 AM (imZqa)
Kidded him about it many, many times.
Posted by: 18-
Not even half a limerick.
First line was a great start though
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I once knew a guy from Lesbos
Who worked for a guy named Jeff Bezos
They loved Amazon(s)
Had no.use for us 'rons
Sorta like Ozzies and Abos
*silence*
Bring on the next contestant.....
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:33 AM (TevVe)
Art Bell used to have a guy on who was big on such anomalous artifacts found in impossibly old formations. Something about anatomically modern human footprints found in impossibly old places, and other modern machine like stuff, a threaded screw or something like that.
I forget his name.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:34 AM (w6EFb)
Send enough tornados through enough junkyards and eventually you'll wind up with a Boeing 747.
Posted by: Charles Darwin
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What about those brand new P-38s packed in ice?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:34 AM (imZqa)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 12:23 AM (sKqQm)
Aside from lava caves, which are near-surface, mostly, caves are found in limestone formations which have been above the water table at some time, and caverns formed by rainwater with a little dissolved CO2 (making it slightly acid) dissolving away limestone as it percolates through cracks. Those cavernous formations can later be deeply buried. There places in Alberta where Cretaceous shales and sands sit unconformably on Mississipian limestone which is riddled with caves and holes. Drill into that, and your well "takes a drink" as all the mud in the well rushes into voids in the limestone. On the other hand, if you hit a local high in the Mississipian, you might get a bonanza oil well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:35 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
.........................................
Well, not too long ago, he seemed reasonable. Then, he wasn't. The cynic in me thinks his source of funding changed, so he changed. The same for a lot of these 'influencers'. Follow the money.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 12:35 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:35 AM (imZqa)
Some of the sites had considerably more dust than others, enough blown around by the descent engine making visibility effectively zero, and the landing difficult. I think a couple Apollo commanders basically agreed compared with making night carrier landings on a heaving deck, the lunar module was a piece of cake. I think NASA was kind of spring loaded for selection of the Navy pilots for the program for a reason
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:38 AM (MsRtR)
Heh: OOPAs, Out of place artifacts.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:32 AM (imZqa)
Possibly, over eons, reservoirs could be refilled that way. Porosity is the fraction of the rock that is open space. Permeability is the connectivity between the open spaces. Source shales can have pretty high porosity, but the permeability is near-zero. That is where massive fracking can turn non-viable reservoir rocks into pay.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:40 AM (npFr7)
Well, not too long ago, he seemed reasonable. Then, he wasn't. The cynic in me thinks his source of funding changed, so he changed. The same for a lot of these 'influencers'. Follow the money.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up
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Yeah, he was a shining star, I was very enthusiastic and then it was gone.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:40 AM (imZqa)
Who dove into a p^ssy headmost
She tossed him a line
But he would not climb
Now he's a notch on her bedpost
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 12:40 AM (TR4+2)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:27 AM (fS43b)
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I was just reading about that Oklahoma Iron pot the other day for no particular reason. They found it embedded in a large lump of coal in the early 1900's. Recent testing on the cup...AND how it was found within the coal suggested the age was in excess of 300 Million years. Which promptly caused all the archeologists to suggest the description of the find was false, and the testing on the pot was unreliable.
I tend to think that archeologists are some of the most close minded in the science field. If it goes against their theories...then it must be a mistake by the other guy.
Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 12:43 AM (dIske)
If we get to Mars, I'd love to start drilling and see just what the cores turn up. Might be some surprises.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:46 AM (w6EFb)
Most of the “anomalous artifacts” have been determined to be hoaxes or misconceptions. The “coso artifact” is very obviously a Model T spark plug, encrusted with some sort of accretion. I haven’t read of anything particularly compelling.
The coal seam stuff seems genuinely weird, and made the local newspapers, and usually had sworn statements from the foreman, things like that. “I, John T Breckinridge hereby attest that the aforementioned was found at a level of 1270 feet below ground in an unbroken seam and witnessed by 3 other blah blah blah”
A couple instances of people finding odd objects in lump coal purchased for stoves. Newspapers were full of stories of giant skeletons found in caves as well. The Injuns had quite a few tales about them. I’m not a “believer” but it is weird.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:48 AM (MsRtR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'm convinced that the EEOC has ruined mens pants. To many damned women designers, with no personal experience to inform those designs.
The bottom of the zippers on waaay to many mens pants end above the top of the plumbing. Female clothing zippers just have to be long enough that the pant top opens sufficiently to get over the hips, so female designers don't consider other uses. I have a couple of pairs where I have to unbutton as well as pulling the zipper in order to lower the entire pant. Otherwise its like trying to siphon with a hose draped over the windowsill.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:50 AM (TevVe)
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Heh. Maybe they're getting back at the men what designed high heels? (torture devices!)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 12:56 AM (rdVOm)
Apollo managed to drill 292 cm (9.7') into the lunar surface. That's the deepest hole yet drilled I think. Chicom rovers drilled, but I don't think they managed to go that deep.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)
Who dove into a p^ssy headmost
She tossed him a line
But he would not climb
Now he's a notch on her bedpost
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Much better, but, in my defense, I are a Injuneer, not an English major.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:57 AM (TevVe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 11:25 PM (2GVsD)
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Chicoms did nothing to fight Japan. KMT shouldered that load. So they pretend that the US was a non-factor. Did you see their big celebration in September, where they pretended the CCP defeated Japan? Total joke.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 22, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Yeah the communists were pretty much jerkoffs. I used to collect a lot of stuff from the CBI region from that period. 14th AF tiger patches, blood chits, CBI patches, etc. AVG stuff is like hen's teeth and priced like it too. Nobody really talks about that region much, but damn that was a rough area. The communists sat on their ass. Worthless pieces of shit that they are.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 12:58 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 12:58 AM (nljXp)
Back pockets too high and not deep enough for your bill fold.
No, buddhaha, it wasn't women what did us in, this time, it was MBA.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:03 AM (imZqa)
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 12:57 AM (TevVe)
Me, too. But I wasn't really good at it. I only took it up because I enjoy eating regularly and wearing shoes that don't have holes in the soles.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 01:04 AM (TR4+2)
Looking for a pair at Wally's, there are good sales out there, they had good, well made, inexpensive pants but the pockets were obscenely small.
Bought a pair of Wrangler work pants not the color I wanted, but on sale, with real pockets. Pockets that a man can easily put his hand in and deep enough to put things in. Back pockets big and deep enough to hold the fattest bill fold. joy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:07 AM (imZqa)
They promised the Chinese that B-29s were on the way. They built runways and airfields for them. Completely by hand, they would conscript whole towns to pick up rocks, not a single piece of earth moving equipment to be had.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 01:09 AM (Snw0w)
They promised the Chinese that B-29s were on the way. They built runways and airfields for them. Completely by hand, they would conscript whole towns to pick up rocks, not a single piece of earth moving equipment to be had.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 01:09 AM (Snw0w)
I have the dress uniform of 14th AF flying tiger turned hump pilot. Its nice, has the fancier bullion patches. Yeah, the hump,otherwise known as the aluminum trail. Many crashes because the planes couldn't carry the pilot's huge asteroid size balls.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 01:13 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Common Tater
2 words for you: Under. wear.
Posted by: JQ
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi!
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 01:13 AM (nhCoE)
Hey you. Im in Dallas if you need help.
Msg me.
Fenrisulven6@gmail.com
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 01:22 AM (5fCiA)
Who dove into a p^ssy headmost
She tossed him a line
But he would not climb
Now he's a notch on her bedpost
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
There once was a man from Lesbos
whose claim to fame, most grandiose:
His eleven-inch tongue!
The girls called him "well-hung,"
since he left them almost comatose.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 01:23 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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I was decent enough. I have (had? They're all expired) 4 patents with my name on them. Should be 6, but one was DoD program (classified) and the other was "stolen" by manager. Funny thing is, my verbal SATs were 40 points above my math.
In a land of milk and honey, I would have been a musician, but, like you, I'm addicted to food.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2025 01:31 AM (TevVe)
I always figured that lead-acid battery technology was tested to the limit on the Diesel boats. Exide had their theories and testing, but out in the Pacific, getting replacements had to be a problem.
How low can you deplete a battery? For how long? How fast can you charge them safely? When the life of the boat depends on the battery, and the battery tenders, people are dropping depth charges, all of the published specs are going to be looked at very critically.
At some point, they simply had to surface, and crank up those diesels and charge. Big problem. Dad said they could connect the battery bank in different ways (parallel/series) to get more speed, or get more endurance.
I always thought a Diesel boat would be great to have. A full load of fuel gives it a 10k mile range or something insane like that. Electrically, it could power a small town. If anybody gives you shit…
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 01:31 AM (v9Y2Y)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)
Yep. Same for me. Time to call it a night. Later, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:48 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)
Yep. Same for me. Time to call it a night. Later, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 01:48 AM (npFr7)
I think we all know BIG DINO calls the shots on AOP's bedtime.
Posted by: I've removed my fillings at December 23, 2025 01:51 AM (/jlFo)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:52 AM (nljXp)
There's been another black on white highschool murder in Texas. Black guy accused white guy of taking his vape pen.
Stabbed him in the neck with scissors.
They said it wasn't racialist, yeah, he would have stabbed anyone he thought took his vape pen.
Oh, yeah, he had a rap sheet and there are questions why he was permitted there in the first place.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 01:53 AM (imZqa)
I am much amused tonight by the variety of topics, threads interwoven randomly of course, praise Pixyism.
One can learn about the stars, the wars, biology, history, and just about anything else, by hanging around the Horde. Some of it is even valid!😶
We have a couple of Guest Doggies staying with us for the week, while Daughter & her hub The Scientist are visiting his family in New York for Christmas. So, just Son for Christmas dinner, if he gets off work in the afternoon. Three of us and five dogs, presuming Son brings his. Should be a pandemonious celebration.
Click the nic for my Christmas Commercials Collection. A few awful, some surprisingly touching.
Here's another one I just ran across.
https://youtu.be/RUSfOss6ymk
Sweet dreams, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's THAT time of year, eh? at December 23, 2025 02:04 AM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:09 AM (imZqa)
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Federal $$$ for every ass in a classroom seat. Nobody gets suspended or expelled, because reasons, and the $$& for every ass in the seat.
It’s just little more than a huge extortion racket now.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 02:14 AM (PQwzA)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 02:49 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 03:15 AM (KgVf3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 03:19 AM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
........................................
LoL!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 03:35 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)
Monday Cafe
Ruined abbey (no further details given)They're just kids..🐶🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/XdT0OZ1ESX
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025
Baby cow thinks it's a dog too..🐄🐾🐶😅
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025
📹grasspuppiesfarm pic.twitter.com/0LcyktfwV1
First meet..🐶🐾🐕😅❤️ pic.twitter.com/iefnEzJ7Yp
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025
He was filming resting sharks, and then this happened..🦈🦈😅 pic.twitter.com/C3wS7BICOQ
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 22, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: alpine_beer at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (van9r)
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I told her to keep her mouth shut, if she knew what was good for her.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (e+Yrg)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (pkeXY)
A Muppets Family Christmas 1987 TV Special
https://is.gd/W2Fiyl
I cued it up to Swedish Chef's entrance.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:46 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Count de Monet, misunderstanding at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (4786I)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: browndog laughing like Muttly at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (cYBz/)
After The Paolo, Abbey she will never-a be, how you say, satisfied.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 22, 2025 07:50 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Count de Monet, misunderstanding at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (wVcYX)
Well, her brother posted pictures of her wearing maternity clothes...
There ain't nothing wrong with 'her'. Damn fine spec-i-mines.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:50 PM (zZu0s)
Ben Had,
That's good to know. We haven't bought plastic wrap for years cause it's a pain in the ass.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:51 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 07:51 PM (77rzZ)
How are you doing these days? Are you putting some weight back on? Feeling chipperer?
Still holding you in prayer, sir. Know you are loved.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (dataO)
Posted by: fourseasons
Same here. I buy that self sealing stuff.
Posted by: Tuna at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
Being a southpaw, that might explain why I hate plastic wrap so much.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (0aYVJ)
https://is.gd/W2Fiyl
I cued it up to Swedish Chef's entrance.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:46 PM (CWez5)
LOL +1
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (zZu0s)
@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I hold it in my left and rip upwards right to left. I suck at it nonetheless.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:56 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:57 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 07:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 07:57 PM (u73oe)
@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)
Like turning off the security cameras for the Palestinean activists to harrass Jews without being filmed.
The Poison Ivy League.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 07:58 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Bob Vila, This Old Monastery at December 22, 2025 07:58 PM (jibVG)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:59 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 07:59 PM (KDPiq)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Could Have Called Grainger at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)
I have a funny video of our then 15mo old first granddaughter who tried to catch her shadow. There had not been a lot of sun for weeks and it was the perfect time for her to discover her shadow. The sun was streaming through the doors to the deck.
I kept telling her to catch it! She tries and at one point said she did. She was very articulate from a very young age and still super cute and funny two years later.
Her new baby sister may be the smartest of them all, as they compete with big brother in all things.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (WONhk)
.... this is probably Disney's fault, somehow.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 22, 2025 08:01 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)
When younger son was a toddler, we took a road trip from Montana to Fort Collins. It was 70 and sunny on December 3. A big reason why we moved there. Also, at the time it was a great place to get a good job.
Didn't take long for it all to go to shit.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (0aYVJ)
Looks like some of the ancient churches I saw in Turkey. Perhaps in better shape though.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (2WIwB)
Also I don't like it when characters from antiquity use contemporary parts of speech, such as 'can't ' for 'cannot'.
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (3uBP9)
Some will. Great Whites can't stop swimming a number of other species. But some can sleep on the bottom as long as water if flowing over their gills.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (77rzZ)
@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)
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Investigate their billion dollar trust fund and impound it into the national debt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Remember to "Burp" at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (zYpTz)
Bet it's a lot. They need to make them where they bounce.
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: fourseasons
The City of Columbus (Ohio) has posted on their website that the police will not help ICE in any way.
You know, we love everyone, even illegals, kumbaya blah blah blah.
Sure would be a shame if the Feds pulled all federal grants and $$ from the city.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:05 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:03 PM (viF8m)
And they pick the spot where the underwater current does it best.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 08:05 PM (KDPiq)
Odd that there is an intact font(?) right smack in the middle.
Local kids must bring out little generators, fill it up with "punch", and have raves.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:06 PM (/lPRQ)
Also I don't like it when characters from antiquity use contemporary parts of speech, such as 'can't ' for 'cannot'.
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:02 PM (ZxPkt)
The Sirens better have bewbs or I'm out.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:06 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Your Kid's MSW at School at December 22, 2025 08:07 PM (jibVG)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 08:08 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 08:08 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM
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Yep. Beautiful place. A little cognitive dissonance to see a "ruin" so well taken care of. Hidden gem.
Orval in Belgium is another worthy visit. Good beer there too.
Posted by: TRex - ruined dino at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
Being a southpaw, that might explain why I hate plastic wrap so much.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (0aYVJ)
Depends on what hemisphere you are in.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)
40 in central Montana. Was 48 this afternoon. Had 12 inches on of snow on the ground ago.
Posted by: free tibet at December 22, 2025 08:09 PM (iNp3L)
Wax paper rocks!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Opinion fact
We don't discuss the toilet bowl prank.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:10 PM (mlg/3)
The ruins of the Church of St Paul in Macao is pretty cool. Sits on top of a hill in a small park and there are series of steps up to the front wall of the church. That's all thats left.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:11 PM (viF8m)
@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: Trump admin. says it will investigate security failures at Brown University after deadly mass shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (mlg/3)
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Investigate their billion dollar trust fund and impound it into the national debt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (YubK1)
Good! I read that the administration turned off the cameras after pressure from pro-Hamas groups. Only 4 were functioning out of 1200.
The liberal womman president admitted there were NONE in the lecture hall or outside due to it "being an older part of the building" & opening directly to a residential area.
Again, it was residential cameras like RING who identified him. Clearer video from Alamo.
I would think Brown attny's were freaking out anytime she stepped up with her eye twitch to the mic.
It was something to see live. The press gave them pure hell, and, for once I enjoyed it. The press questioned the security nimrod on why no one checked warnings and he mumobojumboed until the Governor of RI inserted himself (he did this a lot, the guvnuh).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 08:11 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
I have long since given up on that plastic wrap tear strip nonsense. Stretch the wrap over the dish, press it down, and cut that b**tch clean with scissors.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:12 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)
Buy Costco plastic wrap with the included sliding razor cutter. Cheaper and no fuss.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 08:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Diogenes"
You'll be lucky if they don't have dicks.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:14 PM (vFG9F)
is how many products today are thoughtfully provided with zip-lock style closures, though crucially without genuine Zip-Lock materials or construction. I’m looking at you, Soft Tortilla people, among others.Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:15 PM (H4laq)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)
French Customs Official: Name?
German Tourist: Franz Gephardt
French Customs Official: Nationality?
German Tourist: German
French Customs Official: Occupation?
German Tourist: No, not this time. Just visiting.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (dAOkg)
At least the blog doesn't play that awful music.
Well, you know, except for the Zappa.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (syz1S)
Alcohol is killing the children, let's raise taxes:
- Tax revenue is down, this is hurting the economy!
Tobacco is killing the children, let's raise taxes:
- Tax revenue is down, this is hurting the economy!
Gasoline is killing the children and the environment, let's make them buy EVs:
- Tax revenue is down, this is killing the economy and is unsustainable!
Abortion is good, - open borders is better!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (nljXp)
Trump signs Lumbee recognition into law, capping tribe’s decades-long effort
https://tinyurl.com/2ekawwsk
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (CWez5)
You know, we love everyone, even illegals, kumbaya blah blah blah.
Sure would be a shame if the Feds pulled all federal grants and $$ from the city.
Posted by: Tonypete
That's the only way to get their attention.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)
It's three days before Christmas in bucolic Puyallup. Mrs D just said another big storm is rolling in on Christmas Eve. It's 45 out now and dropping, raining hard.
I got cigars. I got whiskey. Just finished the cookies. Generator is set. Mrs D said we may have to open a gift (French Press coffee maker early)
Oh shit!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:15 PM (H4laq)
Those tortilla packages will seal. You just have to be really, really slow about it. I buy them for my burritos.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Just The Punchline at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (H4laq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Move to Texas. Don't live in one of the mega plexes. No inspection.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:20 PM (dAOkg)
I get the Costco house brand plastic wrap and install the sliding cutter provided. Works fine.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 08:20 PM (azNOR)
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Well yes, but that’s … why I’m complaining. Don’t ruin my misery!
Posted by: Just The Punchline at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (H4laq)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Common Tater
I use Ziploc Freezer bags for everything. Except for the vacuum sealer stuff.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (cYBz/)
I think, though I'm not 100% certain, that the Columbus police then said they will cooperate with other law enforcement agencies, including ICE.
Can't find it, now.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:15 PM (H4laq)
Those tortilla packages will seal. You just have to be really, really slow about it. I buy them for my burritos.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 08:19 PM (gKDq2)
I keep a drawer full of binder clips, because I have very little patience with so-called zip locks. The best ones I ever saw were the ones that were more like velcro. I wonder why that technology is not more prevalent.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: toby928(c)
High cheekbones?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (dAOkg)
Thus it is good to see the true facts manifest themselves through the publication of news articles in the media. We have underscored the influence of left-wing billionaire Geetus L. Mazuma in reducing, if not eliminating, the international penguin population in pursuit of his goal of cornering the market on anchovies. Behold, the evidence, as published by SciTech Daily: “African Penguins Face Growing Danger As Fishing Fleets Move In”.
African penguin numbers have dropped by nearly 80% over the last thirty years. One contributing factor has been competition with local fisheries that harvest sardines and anchovies, which are a crucial food source for the penguins.
https://tinyurl.com/47mny9ru
Posted by: Paco at December 22, 2025 08:24 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (0aYVJ)
Those velcro types don't work very well if they get stuff in them, like spices or powdery debris from the snack inside.
Nothing beats binder clips.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 08:24 PM (zYpTz)
What The Fuuuuu???
I just watched the very end of the Muppet Christmas Special I linked above, and heard this:
https://is.gd/zd7hMg
During the end-credits, some ABC asswipe comes on to announce a segment on the next dumb "Nightline" episode. And it's a "keeping doomed babies alive for the organs."
Unbelievable.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:25 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:26 PM (H4laq)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:26 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: toby928(c)
High cheekbones?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:22 PM (dAOkg)
***
Best way to get tribal recognition in thus state requires an envelop stuffed with cash.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:26 PM (H4laq)
You and Weird Al.
Look up 'Foil' on ewetub.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)
Link (remove spaces) https://www.deseret.com /politics/2025/12/22/ trump-announces-golden-fleet- navy-battleships-venezuela/
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 08:28 PM (/ZkOF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (H4laq)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:31 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Common Tater
Nuke them in the micro for like 30 sec, then wet the edge with warm water. Press to close. Kinda sorta works.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:31 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Common Tater
Refried beans, black.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:32 PM (/lPRQ)
— Gina Lollabrigida
Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 08:32 PM (GITLP)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:32 PM (i4e1s)
——
Wait. Once opened, why would anyone want to close a potato chip bag? This makes no sense
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:33 PM (H4laq)
@PeterBernegger 3h
An FEC complaint has been filed against US Senator Mark Kelly for Smurfing. Totaling a stunning $41,300,637.00
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:33 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Com
cheese
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:34 PM (i4e1s)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (H4laq)
Refried beans on top. Makes a great glue.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 08:34 PM (gKDq2)
Because no one here grew up wanting to play Navy.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:30 PM (ZxPkt)
I thought all whypipa was forced out of sportsball leagues?
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 08:35 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: fourseasons
The City of Columbus (Ohio) has posted on their website that the police will not help ICE in any way.
You know, we love everyone, even illegals, kumbaya blah blah blah.
Sure would be a shame if the Feds pulled all federal grants and $$ from the city.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 08:04 PM (cYBz/)
Yeah, saw a clip that was said to be a bunch of klantifags blasting car stereos in a Columbus hotel parking lot at 2am because they thought some ICE agents were staying there.
Arrest the entire fucking department starting with the DEItard* chief. At 3am, with flashbangs and tear gas, and teewee crews.
*I don't know this but what odds would you give?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:36 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:39 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:39 PM (i4e1s)
Posted by: Blonde Mortician on another device at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (4LEHh)
Man O' War Puro Authentico
Bellicoso 4.5 x 50. But I'd say closer to a 45.
Full bodied. Ligero. Very well constructed. This one is the Maduro wrapper, so maybe a were less punch than the habano.
Good cigar for beginners ( Just kidding )
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (/lPRQ)
painting your girlfriend blue
or
dividing finance transactions into smaller bits to avoid regulatory limits
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (i4e1s)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:40 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (3uBP9)
Hasn't been turned into a mosque, because too much like work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)
Hell man, we had running commentary on the Big Beautiful Battleships with frickin' lasers on top as Donnie Two Scoops was talking live.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (pLSjm)
Posted by: Don Black
A specific type of money laundering that politicians engage in.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (/lPRQ)
@PeterBernegger 3h
An FEC complaint has been filed against US Senator Mark Kelly for Smurfing. Totaling a stunning $41,300,637.00
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 08:33 PM (mlg/3)
Who did it for him? I don't believe that timwalz could do it himself.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (2WIwB)
That's a LOT of Smurfing.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (W23D2)
You know that song that goes whoa oh oh it's magic?
I cued it up to the la-la-la-la-la part:
https://is.gd/n0ixHk
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 08:44 PM (sDWtc)
Because no one here grew up wanting to play Navy.
Posted by: Diogenes
Ouch.
Our head count for St. Barb is now up to 440. We have six or seven GOs registered, with MG Gibson as the guest speaker. 65 honorable, 12 ancients. 27 corporate sponsorships at $1500/table. The local FA association is going to have 12 honorable and 3 ancients.
I never expected it to get this big.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:43 PM (2WIwB)
Oh THAT kind of smurfing. I went right to the ddos type...
...so, what about the JEF?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM (ULPxl)
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'
Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:34 PM (i4e1s)
A hot glue gun you could load with string cheese would be useful for assembling all sorts of yummy snacks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM (QVmho)
Bif! That's awesome!!!
Just make damned sure the kitchen, bar, and wait staff are up to task. It's going to be great!!! I can taste the punch now!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (2WIwB)
I suppose the topic is a pet peeve of mine; I looked into the details of campaign finance closely a few years back. What I found is that laws are written with all kinds of hidden pitfalls along with loopholes so that the *only* way to keep from breaking the law is to hire a full time campaign consultant and an experienced attorney.
And that’s the only point of the rules, to make sure that anyone who tries to do it in their own is guaranteed to break the law.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (pLSjm)
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'
Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)
Wouldn't it be easier to set up a zillion bogus accounts controlled by the funder?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 08:52 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: TRex - stealth dino at December 22, 2025 08:53 PM (cCn4/)
Ruined abbey (no further details given)
----
I told her to keep her mouth shut, if she knew what was good for her.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (e+Yrg)
___________
"Ruined? Put the boots to her last night and she worked fine!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:53 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 08:46 PM
She exclaimed..
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:53 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (ZxPkt)
Gotcha covered:
https://tinyurl.com/msshy323
From 2022: Johns Hopkins students invent edible 'Tastee Tape' to keep burritos together
Posted by: MD_Mike at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (A5TIN)
146 140
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'
Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)
ActBlue, the Democrats main fundraising organization , did this for over a Billion dollars worth of campaign financing. And still no one has been arrested, no one has been charged.
Dinesh got charged for a few thousand, political chump change.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (pLSjm)
Caught Alaskan king salmon for Christmas
Eve dinner.
Also got some dungeoness crab cakes for breakfast Christmas morning.
Things are coming together!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (3uMpI)
To be called Trump Class.
The biggest ever built
This is not a joke or AI
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 08:55 PM (Mi0Ar)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (jc0TO)
Reddit Fuckface thinks that's an own.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Alber
cheezwhiz!
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (aQs8R)
I would have got some Ling Cod.
Hope you are doing well and that you (and your boys) have a Merry Christmas!
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (W23D2)
Hasn't been turned into a mosque, because too much like work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)
___________
Import some Philippine slaves. Problem solved.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (tgvbd)
Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)
Wouldn't it be easier to set up a zillion bogus accounts controlled by the funder?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
This what AI is made for.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 08:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 08:57 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:57 PM (jc0TO)
'Wouldn't it be easier to set up a zillion bogus accounts controlled by the funder?'
There are probably several easy ways to do it.
But the more efficient they are the more it looks like acrime.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (fd80v)
To be called Trump Class.
Obviously he has been playing Azur Lane while watching the Gorilla Channel.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (nZ8Vq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM
We still talking about smurfing?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: pawn at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 08:59 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)
I was trying to think of what foodstuffs could be used to make edible rivets.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 09:00 PM (zYpTz)
' And still no one has been arrested, no one has been charged.'
Charge in a red state. Shoot for maximum punishment.
I don't know what's holding them back.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (fd80v)
Things are coming together!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 08:54 PM (3uMpI)
Buddy of mine has a kayak and scored some crabs for a Christmas casserole. He got them off Camano.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (2WIwB)
Hope you are doing well and that you (and your boys) have a Merry Christmas!
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 08:56 PM (W23D2)
(sings)
Ling Ting Cod, he would never get scrod, ai somoka boom ai ay, ai somoka boom
https://youtu.be/zbdAWc4bY_Y
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (CfiRx)
Fight me!
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (SGZ8k)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (ZxPkt)
146 140
'Taking a large sum.of money and using a bunch of little people (smurfs) to make deposits in multiple accounts at levels below reporting thresholds.'
Someone had to give all the little people that money. Someone had to tell them where to deposit it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM
------
The Democrat organization ActBlue was found to be using thousands of peoples' names to make small donations without the peoples' knowledge or permission.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:03 PM (pLSjm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM
Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (ZxPkt)
Near as I can tell, they won't be actual battleships, more like guided missile cruisers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (npFr7)
Space Battleship Yamato is a silly movie full of inconsistencies with a bad and nearly inexplicable ending.
Fight me!
Posted by: toby928
Never saw it.
Recommend?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 09:02 PM (azNOR)
And don't you dare complain if they used your name, if you know what's good for you.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:05 PM (2WIwB)
Those stupid “voters” aren’t casting their ballots the correct way, so active measures must be taken. Democracy is far too important to be decided by voters, if you stop and think about it
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:05 PM (vlJl4)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM
Space Battleship Yamato is a silly movie full of inconsistencies with a bad and nearly inexplicable ending.
So, yeah. Sure.
At least you can say that you watched it.
Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 09:06 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM
Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (jc0TO)
If the hull shape is correct, it doesn't have to be slow, regardless of size.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:06 PM (npFr7)
To be called Trump Class.
---
As long as we have manned ships on the sea
Refurbish a New Jersey class, nuclear powered, bristling with modern electronic and kinetics but keeping its profile. - It could be the admiral's command ship.
Flag officers belong with their men not cloistered at the pentagon.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (YubK1)
Halibut also looked good.
Even though the salmon has been frozen, it will be wonderful. I will bake it and serve with a lemon raspberry sauce.
I get crabs off my sup (stand up paddle board) in the summertime. Fun stuff!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (r36Mc)
Recommend?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:04 PM (CWez5)
well the concept is to do outer space warfare they use the BB Yamato as a base. So if that's too silly...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:06 PM
If you could get it over 6 knots I would be impressed. A half a cubic mile of ice would weigh a bunch.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:07 PM (jc0TO)
Fight me!
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:01 PM (jc0TO)
That concept had a lot in common with Godzilla - modern Japanese trying to come to terms with the psychological baggage of losing WW2.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:08 PM (pLSjm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (jc0TO)
You magnificent bastard.
Ypungest was here with wife for Thanksgiving. They will be with her folks for Christmas. They are working on grandbabies! Prayers for their success!
Squeeeee!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (r36Mc)
Posted by: toby92
momentum, inertia, hump speed, it is not getting it moving fast it is stopping thats the thing
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (SGZ8k)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (YubK1)
You magnificent bastard.
Ypungest was here with wife for Thanksgiving. They will be with her folks for Christmas. They are working on grandbabies! Prayers for their success!
Squeeeee!
Posted by: nur
smiley face
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:11 PM (SGZ8k)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:10 PM (SGZ8k)
The Paolo has never worried abut hump speed.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 22, 2025 09:12 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:13 PM (CWez5)
STORY: https://buff.ly/NBXusHO
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:14 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:15 PM (rbvCR)
What it is is Big Don likes the term "battleship". So they're going to call them battleships. They are not traditional battleships.
I mean, you've got a Navy. You're gonna do battle. With ships. So, battleships. Makes perfect sense to me.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: toby928(c)
Again?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:13 PM
A prequel to Godzilla Zero. The rampaging of the giant lizard before he became atomic.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (fd80v)
Used to be, but that is what Act Blue does now. They just use names of doners that donated in the past, and assign a portion to each name. It is hard to spot.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:17 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM
But easy to prove and yet, no one in prison.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:17 PM (jc0TO)
——-
One of the few if not the only Generals in modern times to lead men in combat was Curtis LeMay. He flew flight lead, in the plane the enemy was most likely to try and hit.
One of the more remarkable individuals during a war that produced quite a few. Upon his death cunts like Peter Jennings (with the pseudo-intellectual affected speech patterns) had nothing good to say. That’s how you can tell he was good shit, even if you knew nothing about the man.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:18 PM (DSQyT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (YubK1)
But that's Godzilla Minus 1.
btw, I think it's supposed "dash" 1, but people call it "minus." Makes no sense.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:58 PM (jc0TO)
Of course. Schtroumpfing is far to Belgian to talk about here.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM
It never really got a good trial. I think it could be like a Death Star.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:20 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 22, 2025 09:00 PM (zYpTz)
Isomalt. If you are worried about ductability and strength, mix it will finely ground bran before extruding into shape.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: toby928(c)
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Bondi's giving us rice n beans while calling it steak.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:21 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:22 PM (jc0TO)
Just looked, they're gonna call it Godzilla minus 0.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (pLSjm)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:19 PM (jc0TO)
It got hashed over here a lot a year or two ago. I think the design had some potentially fatal defect that just got handwaved away by the proponents.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:24 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Tom Servo
-----------
Producer, Director and Cast were so disappointed that the public was not shocked but enjoyed the film.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:26 PM (YubK1)
Some more Epstein photos are out. These show Epstein holding and cuddling very young girls. Tweens and younger looks like.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 09:27 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:24 PM (npFr7)
If we had a new ice age you could put giant sails on it and go around the world. Hmm, come up with some characters, talk Kevin Costner into financing IceWorld!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:27 PM (pLSjm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:28 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:30 PM (jc0TO)
Democrat Madrassas
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 09:31 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 09:31 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:32 PM (npFr7)
I'm hiding.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:23 PM (jc0TO)
Good move.
So far today I have done nothing right, including not rolling the cooking in the sprinkles properly. I'm saying Eff It and staying in my den.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:32 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: The Cowardly Lion at December 22, 2025 09:36 PM (Q+gd/)
The US is $40T in debt, and they want to spend billions to fight WW2.
A question should be asked: Exactly what scenario these days includes a battleship as its solution?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:36 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 09:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Nuremberger Helper at December 22, 2025 09:38 PM (HduMd)
Trump announced that we would begin construction of new BATTLESHIPS
To be called Trump Class.
____________
USS Joseph McCarthy
USS John Wayne
USS Whittaker Chambers
USS Pat McCarran
USS Robert Taft
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 09:38 PM (tgvbd)
Maybe a situation exactly like what is playing out in the Gulf of America right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:40 PM (uVPc1)
USS John Wayne
USS Whittaker Chambers
USS Pat McCarran
USS Robert Taft
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 09:38 PM (tgvbd)
USS Charlie Kirk
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:36 PM
You have to read the fine print. They are at best light cruisers. Big destroyers more like.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:41 PM (jc0TO)
They seem to be able to board with just helicopters. I fail to see why one needs to bring a battleship (or cruiser) to a confrontation with a potential epic oil spill.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:44 PM (a4flb)
That said, this may well just be a Trump Christmas troll to distract from other operations.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 22, 2025 09:45 PM (I1a0i)
——-
Well, naturally. Of course. The left is very, very adept at character assassination, as well as the other kind.
You might not like the guy’s politics, but if you have to go to war, or your children, your husband, etc and sometimes that happens, he’s the type of guy you want in charge, leading. No way around this.
Patton was an asshole at times, but the war in Europe would have ended 6 months earlier had he been allowed to take Berlin. Politicians were sucking up to “Uncle Joe” and let the Iron Curtain trap millions. Inexcusable. It’s not well known, but approximately 20k Americans and a similar figure for Brits and other allies were POWs held by the Soviets and never made it home.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:46 PM (bFwPh)
Comet shows nothing but prestige pictures.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (kpS4V)
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Dec 20
Here's the Premier of New South Wales:
"We don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the U.S., and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community."
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (ZxPkt)
I kind of prefer the Chinese solution: a large platform that can deploy thousands of drones. Who know how many submersible drones could also be released.
Naval drones did a bang-up job on Nordstream pipeline
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (a4flb)
He's dead serious about his arctic plans and enforcing his version of the Monroe Doctrine. That means a lotta coastline to protect.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 08:28 PM (/ZkOF)
How bout you remove the spaces and whatnot and make the link useable?
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 22, 2025 09:47 PM (G+z4C)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 09:48 PM (jc0TO)
Anything that floats can be sunk, just admire the Iranian Navy†
† you will need a glass bottom boat to do so though.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (Q+gd/)
But I bet Mannheim Steamroller or that other Christmasy orchestra yells about their music being used.
Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (D3HHy)
Just make damned sure the kitchen, bar, and wait staff are up to task. It's going to be great!!! I can taste the punch now!
Posted by: Diogenes
I wwent with the beest venue i could get in town. They're waiving their venu fee because of the headcount, and advised me to secure five of the portable bars as well as the main pub for the size of the crowd. I asked them to put one bar in the hallway where the photographer will set up in a 'free' room they are giving us.
Jeebus, this is worse than deploying to SWA. I got five of my own damned vice presidents showing up. The former deputy under sec of the Army stopped me in Publix yesterday and asked if I wanted him to bring his vintage civil war sabre for the cake cutting ceremony.
I need whiskey.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 09:51 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:51 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:44 PM (a4flb)
Helicopters don't loiter for days, and don't carry big tubes. Apparently during the Missouri's trip to Lebanon and adjacent area, the thing that really got everyone's attention was making giant craters with the main guns.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (rbvCR)
——
We don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the U.S., and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community
Good Lord. Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (74/ii)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (pLSjm)
† you will need a glass bottom boat to do so though.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (a4flb)
Brilliant.
This is like saying no one should spend money on airpower because anything that can fly can be shot down.
Posted by: derp patrol at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (qSgoZ)
Now you know why every damned political fundraising solicitation comes with a "whatever you can contribute will be matched 300%"
They will make accounting tricks so your $20 is now $80 on the books.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:53 PM (a4flb)
They worked on trying to modernize the analog mechanical “computers” and tables used for the big guns, and decided they worked well enough, and left well enough alone.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (74/ii)
Ladies, some advice for wrapping your husbands Xmas gifts. Put them in a new 5 gallon bucket from the hardware store.
3 reasons:
1. Time Saver
2. Inexpensive
3. No man has ever said “I have too many 5 gallon buckets.
It’s two gifts in one. You’re welcome.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (pLSjm)
That the Cajun Navy could most likely sink it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (npFr7)
Which would make bigger news, shooting down a one-seater F16 or sinking the Gerald R Ford and why?
How long did the country mourn when one of the Thunderbirds crashed?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:56 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Tom Servo
The birthplace of Fezzig?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 09:57 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (pLSjm)
I was wondering about that, and I came to the conclusion that the Gov of LA knows a lot about being a completely different type of legal code and governmental order integrating into the larger US common law system.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:57 PM (rbvCR)
Kinda curious about that myself.
But the real issue isn't Greenland. It's the Arctic Ocean. For the first time Russia has sent every one of their icebreakers, and they have a lot more than we do, to the Arctic at the same time to clear the shipping lanes.
The arctic shipping lanes could be a game changer for international shipping and military and Greenland site right on the edge of it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 09:51 PM (QVmho)
I bet!
Did you say yes on the saber?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:44 PM (a4flb)
Helicopters don't loiter for days, and don't carry big tubes. Apparently during the Missouri's trip to Lebanon and adjacent area, the thing that really got everyone's attention was making giant craters with the main guns.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (rbvCR)
Landing Hot onto a ship is not an easy thing.... and the Helo you would need to use would only carry about half a boarding Team... which is why the Navy uses boats.
Much more controlled... and... as I can personally attest after having done this for a living while in the Navy... it also allows you the ability to RETREAT, because the Body Armor we used had inflatable life vests built in...
So if things go to shit? You go over the side and get picked up by the boat.
Also, if you do find contraband, you have to put aboard a prize crew large enough to control the crew... and who is knowledgeable enough to make sure the crew is not up to something.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 09:59 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 09:59 PM (cx+NO)
Helicopters is literally what they are using in the Caribbean (not the Gulf of America) Right Now.
Actually, spotting a periscope from the deck of a Tanker is a bit more intimidating than a battleship on the horizon
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:59 PM (a4flb)
† you will need a glass bottom boat to do so though.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 09:49 PM (a4flb)
Brilliant.
This is like saying no one should spend money on airpower because anything that can fly can be shot down.
Posted by: derp patrol at December 22, 2025 09:52 PM (qSgoZ)
****
Exactly. A F-35 does not look like a P-51. Why should a 21st century battleship look like the Missouri?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:00 PM (2WIwB)
You are probably right, I just know it made really large craters where there used to be installations that were not behaving civilly and most likely never would have.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:01 PM (rbvCR)
I bet!
Did you say yes on the saber?
Posted by: Diogenes
I 100% said hell yes. He let me handle it at the 2025 Army birthday dinner. Sweet friggen saber. Nice dude too.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (QVmho)
They worked on trying to modernize the analog mechanical “computers” and tables used for the big guns, and decided they worked well enough, and left well enough alone.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:55 PM (74/ii)
The USS New Jersey was there in late 83... Part of the same MARG 2-83 as my ship, the USS Iwo Jima.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 10:02 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 10:03 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 09:58 PM (viF8m)
Canals. Dig a canal from Lake Superior to James Bay. Another canal from the mouth of the North Saskatchewan River on Hudson Bay to Lake Athabaska. Upgrade the channel of the Mackenzie River to handle ocean-going ships. Most of the land involved is pretty low-lying. You'd need some locks, for sure. Site nuclear power plants along the canals, use canal water for cooling, keeps the canal unfrozen.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 10:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 10:05 PM (rbvCR)
Brown Custodian: I Warned Security About the Sketch Guy "Casing" the School Who Would Ultimately Shoot It Up
Is this something? I don't know. There are often dropped balls in cases like this. I don't know if this is just a normal dropped ball or an ideologically-dictated dropped ball.
I think it might the latter. After all, apparently Brown knew all about the homeless man illegally squatting in the basement of the building where the killer struck. (Yes, I know that homeless man turned out to be one of the few heroes in this story, but obviously Brown didn't know that when they chose to allow him to live in their basement.)In yet another case of "authorities" dropping the ball, someone saw something, someone said something, and the "authorities" did nothing.
Brown seems to believe that fake Social Justice "safety" is more important than the actual physical safety of the deluded marks paying $100,000 per year to be miseducated there. They had already been questioned about their failure to warn the campus about the shooter, and then, later, told everyone that there was no further danger, despite having no idea if there was a continuing threat or not.
A Brown University custodian just dropped a bombshell by claiming he flagged the man who murdered two students to the authorities multiple times before the deadly shooting occurred. Derek Lisi has worked at Brown University in Rhode Island for 15 years, and if he is telling the truth, the horrible and tragic shooting that cost the lives of two young students and injured multiple others could have been avoided. Lisi said in comments that The Boston Globe published that he saw a man walking through the hallways, looking into classrooms, and trying to avoid being seen by suddenly darting into a bathroom -- all weeks before the shooting. Lisi saw the suspicious man at least 10 times and notified the campus security at least twice, but it appears that nobody took the behavior seriously. ... "I knew there was something off with him," Lisi recalled of the man whom he saw casing the university building and whom he later recognized in photos of the accused shooter. "He'd been casing that place for weeks."
Brown University is facing questions over its security policies after its emergency sirens never sounded in response to Saturday's shooting, while taking nearly 20 minutes to send an alert out to students. The scrutiny comes after campus cops passed no-confidence votes against their police chief and questioned the school's emergency response capabilities. Rodney Chatman, the university's director of public safety and emergency management, blamed the lack of sirens on the hectic nature of the crisis. He said police became aware of the incident when an officer saw students fleeing the scene. ... From there, Brown issued and retracted a series of alerts. It sent one at 4:51 saying a suspect was in custody, then another 20 minutes later walking back that claim. A 5:27 alert warned that there was another shooting, but a 6:10 message said that was actually "unfounded."As you know, 34 "human rights" organizations, which I assume are all funded by George Soros, sent a letter demanding that Brown disable its security cameras so that criminal leftist agitators, some in the employ of foreign governments or terrorist organizations, couldn't be photographed committing their crimes.
Brown refuses to say if they disabled the cameras or not. I think we all know this is an admission.
As originally reported in August 2025, a group of far-left human rights advocates sent a letter to 150 U.S. colleges and universities asking them to disable the CCTV systems to protect "free expression and academic freedom across the country," because "the Trump administration has launched an aggressive campaign against US academic institutions." The motive for the request to disable CCTV systems as stated: "Right now these tools are facilitating the identification and punishment of student protesters, undermining activists' right to anonymity----a right the Supreme Court has affirmed as vital to free expression and political participation." The letter from 'Fight For The Future' (August 2025) came after an earlier campaign by the same group seeking to stop the use of facial recognition cameras on college campuses. The Brown University President and school officials have been giving ridiculous answers to questions about the 800 cameras on the campus and the fact that no current footage exists of the shooter walking around inside the campus or inside the buildings therein.
BREAKING - Brown University officials are now facing mass calls to step down after it was revealed that not only were CCTV cameras removed at the request of activist groups, but a university janitor saw and reported the killer stalking the area numerous times and they did nothing pic.twitter.com/61TLq1utHm
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) December 22, 2025
🚨 DISGRACEFUL: Brown University President Christina Paxson, smiling: “I don’t think a lack of cameras in that building had anything to do with what happened.”
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) December 19, 2025
Just days later, the same shooter — Manuel Neves-Valente — murdered MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro. pic.twitter.com/cpshPXWwgW
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (CWez5)
A dyke, a fag, and Senor Wences walk into a bar...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (XP28L)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (Kt19C)
Drat, foist with my own petard.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (w6EFb)
Eh. I am certain this joke has already been made numerous times on this venue, but I am tired and hungry, and am off to bake a tray of pizza rolls.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (0aYVJ)
Ace added that video clip on account of the boobs. Be honest.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (XP28L)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM
It's all wet.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:51 PM (XP28L)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (XP28L)
It worked before, you rubes.
Posted by: Your Betters at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (uQesX)
It is unknown if he is ghey, ever had a girlfriend, his politics or religion. He did know the MIT professor her murdered and the reason for all of this. The MIT prof won a WH award in January of this year from Biden. In Feb the murder guy had the first of 3 visits to Boston to stake it out.
He rented a car in Boston in November and tooled around Brown some, in and out of the lecture hall that apparently had bad memories of something. Then barked like a dog and murdered innocent kids. Later went to Boston to murder the former Portugal classmate he was jealous of.
BECAUSE! He was one of those "I am the smartest in the room" ugly creatures. I have met two who have not (yet) resorted to murder of me or anyone else. So far. They do carry grudges for 20+ years. I know this personally by a narcissist I have not spoken to since 2007.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (vFG9F)
You fucked up! You trusted us!
Posted by: People who told you smarts and hard work garner success at December 22, 2025 06:53 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Watch On The Rhine at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (XP28L)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (vFG9F)
That's why they call it brown...
Posted by: Boswell at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (BGfwC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Watch On The Rhine at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM
Only if you are nose blind.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Joey Ramone at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)
Complete opposite of the clown car crowd at Brown.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (viF8m)
I have followed this and know everything!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Any Online presence?
Shirley his phone/PC has his Internet history.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (CWez5)
Sweater meat?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (xNHSX)
I'm trying to think of words to describe the Brown U administration.
Pieces of shit, scum?
You all are more creative with words than me.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (trsuh)
I'd like to talk about meat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (CWez5
Yours, or someone else’s?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (qFwJc)
If not for the homeless guy and RING residential cameras they'd have NOTHING. Homeless guy ID'd the rental car and Alamo had film.
The day before the liberal president woman said there were no cameras in the lecture hall due to it "being in the older part of the bldg and opening right out into a residental area." Ok! She's a nitwit who had a nervous tic for most of the news conference.
I also enjoyed the Governor jumping in to save the day as the press were brutal.
He came to Boston to kill the guy he competed with in Portugal and won awards at MIT. The Brown kids were simply anger/hatred at Brown. I don't know why he barked like a dog.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (WONhk)
The discovery alone will make it worthwhile. Put these cretins under oath and under pressure.
Posted by: Random PJ at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (RRCAT)
Did MEAT prices drop drastically?
Rib Eye steaks at my local supermarket are at, like, 2018 prices, this week. $8.99/lb for bone-in rib eyes.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (CWez5)
FOIST
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Real cute...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (CWez5)
It was for you, my love.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:58 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 06:57 PM (0sNs1)
Times Square?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (CWez5)
Maybe that's why I'm strangely attracted to Sara there.
It's not the semi-bags under her eyes.
Or that she's almost doing the bird hands thing.
Her voice is kinda nasally.
It's gotta be the boobs.
And her eyes, maybe.
---
I wonder how long Derek the Custodian is going to have a job at Brown. His actions of telling the truth and being ignored seem excommunicateable.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (6ydKt)
"Retards" is coming back into vouge.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)
Bone-in Rib Eye Roast also $8.99/lb.
This is Boston suburbs.
I'm going to attempt Prime Rib via Instant Pot.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: tubal
No...sorry, you have the wrong number, this is 9-1-2.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (fryM6)
(There's something down there).
Posted by: Joey Ramone at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)
It's the KKK, about to take your girl away.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: The fine print at December 22, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (xNHSX)
Roast of what?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:01 PM
Hobo?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (0N4FZ)
How many schools have deactivated their security cameras?
Anyone who has kids in college needs to investigate that possibility.
Of course they will probably lie.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 07:03 PM (nljXp)
Bone-in Rib Eye Roast also $8.99/lb.
This is Boston suburbs.
I'm going to attempt Prime Rib via Instant Pot.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (CWez5)
reverse sear.... 225 for a few hours, depending on how large the rib roast is, internal temp 125... then increase temp to 450 for a few minutes to sear a nice crust on it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (mP0Kj)
The one I got this is is really nice.
$8.99 / lb.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (viF8m)
Did MEAT prices drop drastically?
Rib Eye steaks at my local supermarket are at, like, 2018 prices, this week. $8.99/lb for bone-in rib eyes.
Posted by: Soothsayer
It's become tradition to serve standing rib at Christmas/ New Years. So the supermarkets get you in the store with a sale, so you will buy $100 worth of potato chips. A loss leader like corned beef for St. Pats and .29 turkeys at Thanksgiving. I paid $7.99 for standing rib today at Food Lion, an 8 pounder.
Posted by: Savvy Consumer at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (oftw2)
Shirley his phone/PC has his Internet history.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:56 PM (CWez5)
The Feds found him but he was using an European SIM card and hard to track. Kept changing car tags, as well.
He was super ugly and weird but not totally stupid, like your basic insane schizo narcissist. He planned this out all year. Rented the NH storage unit weeks ago.
I truly believe the only person he intended to kill was the MIT professor. But he was seething about his failure at Brown, when they should have known he was the smartest person alive.
I know the conservative and pretty girl from Birmingham, Alabama was killed. But I honestly don't think he knew she was one of the rare pretty and conservative girls on campus. IF he turns out to be ghey or a new trans, that may lead to thinking he hated girls. Otherwise how many times she was shot is rumor from what I can tell.
Brown is fixin' to be sued off the planet. The $3million dollar prez is going to be fired along with the useless security people. I know it and they know it.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: You wanna an earworm? at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (jibVG)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 07:05 PM (nljXp)
hahaha, yeah, package says: "Large End Bone In Rib Roast"
I asked the butcher at the Supermarket, "Can I make prime rib with this?"
He just looked at me like it was stupid. Then he said, "Yes."
Then he explained it's a "four rib roast" and said he's probably going to buy the two-rib roast for he & his wife.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:06 PM (CWez5)
He's not a mathematical savant either...
He will be black balled. Homeless. Frozen on the sidewalk by spring...
Posted by: torabora at December 22, 2025 07:06 PM (w6sjj)
I just plunked down significantly more for my Christmas roast. I haven't seen $8.99/pound for rib roast in a long time.
Posted by: JackStraw
I went to my local Hannafords.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Ben Had
3/4" rebar.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (N/gmR)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (mP0Kj)
My favorite screen chef recommends taking it out the oven and letting it rest a half hour or more before putting it back in for the sear (redistributes the juices or some such).
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (6ydKt)
Well, call me! I want to get you money!
Posted by: Alexander Shunnarah, Billboard King And Ambulamps Chaser at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (R/m4+)
“Activist’s right to anonymity?” WTF is that bullshit? And how would it apply to foreigners?
Posted by: tcn in AK
They should have the same (non-existent) right to anonymity us normies had during covid when we tried to avoid the damned jab.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 07:09 PM (QVmho)
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"Noticing is racist ... and acting upon such racist information is fascist, h8rs!"
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:09 PM (21Usy)
The "angus" version at Hannafords were $9.99/lb.
But I think "angus" is a scam.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (CWez5)
One year the light went out on one of the letters of the local Black Angus sign...it read, "Stuart Anderson's Black Anus"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The fine print at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)
Bad memories...
Posted by: Josh Brolin at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (jibVG)
The "angus" version at Hannafords were $9.99/lb.
But I think "angus" is a scam.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:08 PM (CWez5)
Next you'll say most Wagyu in stores is not the real deal...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)
If he'd worn a red hat they'd have busted him before he got past the front gate.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 07:11 PM (6ydKt)
He's not a mathematical savant either...
He will be black balled. Homeless. Frozen on the sidewalk by spring...
Posted by: torabora at December 22, 2025 07:06 PM (w6sjj)
Who did he think he was, and Olympic Security Officer?
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 07:11 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: The fine print at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)
But enough about Bill Clinton...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)
Barky and Spartacus just did the meerkat look.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (0aYVJ)
Nah j/k. Nothing will happen to any of them of course.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: pookysgirl, quoting America's sweetheart at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (snZF9)
"When I see him in the street
My heart takes a leap and skips a beat."
The Shangri-Las "Give Him a Great Big Kiss"
"When I saw her walking down the street
My heart stood still and skipped a beat."
The Ramones "You're Gonna Kill That Girl"
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (xNHSX)
@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (mlg/3)
Just days later, the same shooter — Manuel Neves-Valente — murdered MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro.
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Old & Busted: "You will be made to care."
New Hotness: "You will be made to die."
"All within the Death Cult Party, nothing outside the Death Cult Party, nothing against the Death Cult Party."
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (21Usy)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 07:13 PM (/lPRQ)
It'd be a real shame if someone found the addresses of these organizations and you know, burned them to the ground.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:13 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (3ek7K)
@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (mlg/3)
Judge Boasberg was deeply involved in setting up Trump. Judge Boasberg should be tied to a glacier in Antarctica for the Penguins to have fun with.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (ynpvh)
They keep referring to this guy as a custodian. Were they using him as a custodian in exchange for room and board? In a different time that might be considered charitable but now it's just straight up slavery, right? Especially since he's a person of color? Multimillion dollar salary white President of Brown, indentured servant POC custodial staff of Brown.
Sounds about right.
Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (vFG9F)
It'd be a real shame if someone found the addresses of these organizations and you know, burned them to the ground.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:13 PM (fd80v)
They're all lefts...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:14 PM (ynpvh)
Use gutter spikes.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (snZF9)
White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement
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Take your funny hats and cram them where the sun don't shine!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM
Prime rib is typically cut from the 6th to the 12th ribs of the cow, and it can be divided into two main sections: the small end (also known as the first cut or loin end) and the large end (often referred to as the second cut or chuck end). Each end has its own set of characteristics that can significantly impact the dining experience.
The small end, coming from the rear section of the rib, is leaner and more tender. It is characterized by a more uniform shape and a finer texture, making it easier to slice into thin, even pieces. This end is often preferred by those who like their prime rib on the leaner side, with less fat and connective tissue. The small end is also known for its milder flavor, which some find more appealing, especially when looking for a prime rib that will absorb the flavors of seasonings and sauces well.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)
He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)
2 killed and 11 wounded or something like that.
It was a study group for finals in economics, not a class. He had physics classes in that room and maybe someone messed with him there. He was familiar with that building and lecture hall. I know lecture halls like this can hold 100, as I have been one of the few females in them (and no one asked me out in chemistry and physics, which was a total bummer. No I did not have BO. Yes I looked really good, so a mystery).
It sounds like half of the kids there (I think 28?) were shot with 40 rounds from a pistol. Maybe it's pistole in Portuguese?
Regardless, she got initial attention, being both pretty and president of the very rare conservative group. The killing of the MIT Portuguese professor sort of points to him (to me, time will tell) as the main reason for this guy going berserk.
If he turns out to be gay or trans, maybe he hated women and she stood out. I mean, it's Brown. I'd stand out as well even being as old as dirt.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (WONhk)
White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement
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Take your funny hats and cram them where the sun don't shine!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (L/fGl)
I'm waiting for unfettered immigration to the Vatican.
C'mon guys, lead by example! Take in some of those Muzzies you tell us are good people!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (UslNH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)
There has been a rumor that Brown was hiding or concealing students with visa overstays or without valid visas, which could get their funding yanked.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (sDNVV)
The first human right is not to have to belong to any "organization".
Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (Dv3i1)
You were to smaaht for them and they were intimidated? I liked smart; my wife was.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Paco at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (2L+MU)
The first human right is not to have to belong to any "organization".
Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (R/m4+)
Sovereign Citizen?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (CWez5)
Great episode of King Of The Hill when Bobby joins the meat team, or whatever it's called.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:20 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 07:20 PM (2GVsD)
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The "authorities" are complicit.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (8o16y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)
Because hellfire is fixin' to rain down on them for lack of security, lack of paying attention to warnings, and turning off cameras. As well as not having cameras in this lecture hall and a door that opened directly to a residential neighborhood.
It may wait til after the holidays, as finals and classes were cancelled. Parents are paying attention and contacting attorneys. Or I would be raising all sorts of hell if my kid was there and unprotected on this DEI campus.
The chief of campus security was fired from either one or two other university jobs for being a dummy. That did not stop Brown from hiring his worthless self.
I saw the press conference two days. The one prior to the storage unit suicide they were cocky. The one of the day they found nitwit dead, they were not doing well at all. I mean, the liberal woman was having all but Tourette's on the sidelines. Her eye was twitching like mad. I note weird stuff, mate.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (WONhk)
A simple 'step down' would indeed do it, if they felt shame, but these are administrators.
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (rJjpq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: goatexchange at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (hyS0X)
'They're all lefts...'
You mean everyone in the story? Yeah. I know.
But something about these Antifa front organizations pressuring anybody and everybody just so they can be allowed to terrorize just set my teeth on edge. I really want to watch them pay a price.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (fd80v)
White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement
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Take your funny hats and cram them where the sun don't shine!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (L/fGl)
On Christmas Eve, ICE should cross the frozen Delaware River in the night, in open rowboats, to sneak up upon violent illegal criminals reposing at their homes to capture and deport them.
It's the American Way!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (wVcYX)
The premier of New South Wales, responding to those calling for free speech, says that "we don't have the same freedom of speech laws they have in the U.S, and the reason for that is we want to hold together a multicultural community":
https://is.gd/S9xBz5
So, there you go, an admission that freedom and multiculturalism are not compatible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 07:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:23 PM (cYBz/)
'White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement'
Screw them. I want an all year pause in Catholic bishops' sedition attempts.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 07:20 PM (2GVsD)
Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
Posted by: Quint (1975) at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)
I'd settle for them just to stop diddling altar boys.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: Sweet Dick Honeycum at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (vbdXu)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)
I'd settle for them just to stop diddling altar boys.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:25 PM (AtFJ+)
I didn't see Diddled Altar Boys front for Pederast Priests at the Vatican in '05...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (ynpvh)
You were to smaaht for them and they were intimidated? I liked smart; my wife was.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (ynpvh)
I now like to tell myself this. I was not happy about it at age 20yrs, that was for sure. Things picked up when I started nursing school at the hospital where I met my guy.
I had a gang of friends who were male and I should have asked them at the time. I was too busy living, studying, partying and generally spaced out to fret about it long. I did think it odd. The TA's did pay attention to me. I was in my bubble or had an aura that my parents prayed for to keep me safe from serial killers and those with bad intent.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (WONhk)
So be on the watch for this. Nasty stuff.
Posted by: banana Dream - status of my bowels at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM
Not all meats, but some. And I'm always learning; every brisket teaches something.
Pro Tip: The brisket from the left side of the cow is more tender than the one from the right.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Soothsayer
It's a long way to the top.
you know where else it's also a long way to?
Posted by: tipperary at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (v3pYe)
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
If Trump were 1% the tyrant that Boasberg frames him to be Boasberg knows he would be disappeared long ago -> the frame-up continues.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)
There has been a rumor that Brown was hiding or concealing students with visa overstays or without valid visas, which could get their funding yanked.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 07:17 PM (rbvCR)
What happened to the thing about one of the students being targeted because she was Jewish?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:27 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: Paco
>Yes, give that land back to the Cherokee. Pocahontas Warren can rule it with an iron-hand Communist fist.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: banana Dream"
*puts tape over USB ports and backs away*
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)
@libsoftiktok 45m
BREAKING: The University of Oklahoma announced that it has ruled in FAVOR of the student who was discriminated against for quoting the Bible in an assignment to justify traditional gender roles.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (mlg/3)
Thy put out a claim the other day that we are going to have a huge population growth in Great Whites around here. Let the games begin.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
I find this surprising.
Not that Brown would hire an ignoramus as chief of security, but that they would deign to hire a male for that position.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (Dv3i1)
117 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:16 PM (WONhk)
This is what I think now. It could change. The MIT was his main guy he wanted murdered. I wonder if he barked at him as well?
I need to figure out if MIT professor was married or ghey. That might be a clue.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Amen to that. Our Bishop posted an article in our diocesan newspaper strewn with all the bullshit about The Holy Family being immigrants, etc.
What a load.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dream - status of my bowels at December 22, 2025 07:26 PM (3uBP9)
Be well. I have heard of such illness, locally. Fortunately, we've only had more mild bugs in our house.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (dK+Kv)
Not that Brown would hire an ignoramus as chief of security, but that they would deign to hire a male for that position.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (nhCoE)
He's black, does that count?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (WONhk)
'The University of Oklahoma announced that it has ruled in FAVOR of the student...'
That's damn big of them to tolerate someone else's first amendment rights.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (G1OIb)
He is ordering due process rights for people no longer under the jurisdiction of the United States.
That is, he's ordering the Legislature to fund and the Executive to set up, an auxiliary courtroom for the Judiciary to use in Salvador.
Where then, the Executive is ordered to abduct these persons from the legal custody of Salvador and present them to the court--under threat of war by the United States against Salvador.
A single, unelected man, has the power to bend the entire government to his whims.
But Trump is the dictator ....
It's hilarious, (if it wasn't so deadly) watching the entire Judiciary sit by and let this dumb bitch shit all over their reputations.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: banana Dream"
*puts tape over USB ports and backs away*
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)
*proffers hot iron*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:31 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:31 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:31 PM (9+gVx)
He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)
Because this is a spiritual war, not just a civil or social one, and this is one those instances where stan shows us his teeth and laughs in our faces openly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (trsuh)
What additional process are Alien Enemies due? A month in Greenland? A trip home seems more than generous.
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (1zcQ9)
'Our Bishop posted an article in our diocesan newspaper strewn with all the bullshit about The Holy Family being immigrants, etc.'
I feel for you having to put up with that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:33 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:33 PM (pkeXY)
—
Narrator: they won’t.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 07:34 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 07:33 PM (pkeXY)
I kinda like their music.
Posted by: Three Dog Night at December 22, 2025 07:34 PM (wVcYX)
@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to provide a hearing and due process for the 137 Venezuelans shuttled out of the country without due process in March after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 07:12 PM (mlg/3)
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That assclown needs to be disappeared a la Jimmy Hoffa -- or at least "discovered" in bed with a live boy and a dead girl ... pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (21Usy)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (sDNVV)
What a load.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)
Among all the other troubles of this world, the scourge of credentialism is one of the worst.
Bishops, perfessers, lawyers, cops, judges... all the self-anointed people who lord over the rest of us, because their fruity little guilds tell them they should.
Pikes... heads. Some assembly required.
Well, some disassembly first.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: MaxPower at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (q+LBI)
"Man Driving Electric Car Blasting Nicki Minaj Clearly Right-Wing"
https://tinyurl.com/mr3anskn
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (g47mK)
Is this a clown show? Does tragedy amuse you?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 22, 2025 07:36 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:36 PM (8o16y)
@tarapalmeri
What will leave the bigger stain on their legacy: the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?
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Ooooooo! I know! I know! [waves hand]
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (L/fGl)
Our Bishop posted an article in our diocesan newspaper strewn with all the bullshit about The Holy Family being immigrants, etc.
Posted by: Tonypete
They do this gaslighting bullshit every year.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I knew one who told me, in so many words, that she was only there to get her M.R.S. degree.
And all of them that I knew were either engaged or married by graduation.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It
That bed thing?
Credible!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (/lPRQ)
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The only thing that can save Brown now is ... can you say "President?" ... Claudine "DEI Plagiarist Galore and Anti-Semite on Steroids" Gay.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (21Usy)
Tara Palmeri
@tarapalmeri
What will leave the bigger stain on their legacy: the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?
Oh this fucking dunce, again?
She is one of the biggest lolcows on the Internet. A fake "influencer" who beclowns herself on the daily.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: MaxPower at December 22, 2025 07:35 PM (q+LBI)
--
If Nolan wants this movie to even be considered for an Oscar, he has to meet the Hollywood diversity requirements.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 07:30 PM (G1OIb)
As I understand it, it takes a Faculty Senate and assorted Deans, Provosts, Chancellors, Directors, and Department Heads working in concert to plumb the depths of stupid.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (wVcYX)
He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)
Two possibilities: A. He wasn't the shooter, and 2. Whoever set him loose did know her.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I knew one who told me, in so many words, that she was only there to get her M.R.S. degree.
And all of them that I knew were either engaged or married by graduation.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (nhCoE)
There was one who made no bones about want to sleep her way to a job and promotion, whereas the brighter ones were lesbo, taken, or too driven to bother with dudes at the time.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (8o16y)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (21Usy)
I hear Larry Summers is looking for a job.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (21Usy)
I hear Larry Summers is looking for a job.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: Meathead at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (R/m4+)
He did not know her.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (qFwJc)
Two possibilities: A. He wasn't the shooter, and 2. Whoever set him loose did know her.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (AtFJ+)
3. Rando
4. Lookalike spurned him, so she drew the misplaced ire.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: San
Indeed, were ordered there by the Romans to be counted for the census.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Htf7a)
Always making the black guy a scapegoat.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (viF8m)
*Golly!*
Posted by: First Jive Dude at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 07:18 PM (Dv3i1)
If he was hanging about campus he could have overheard chatter about the evil right wing girl from students or administrators and decided to take action for it.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (8avO+)
' the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?'
From what I've seen our targeting of drug boats has been well and correctly guided.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (8o16y)
4. Lookalike spurned him, so she drew the misplaced ire.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (dK+Kv)
Yeah, I'm just spitballing. Tossing it out there, as it were.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (AtFJ+)
What difference does it make?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)
if you call your police "public safety" you are sick in the head. That name has been expired since the French Revolution.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (ESVrU)
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Maybe somebody can start a viral hashtag:
#OscarsSoTrans
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (21Usy)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 07:37 PM (viF8m)
What about the rest of him?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: San
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Indeed, were ordered there by the Romans to be counted for the census.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Htf7a)
Go to your home city to be counted for a census. Hmm. Has potential.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 07:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 07:40 PM (8o16y)
They later fled to Egypt to escape Herod. However, most of the idiots don't even know that much.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (Htf7a)
POSIWID. Purpose Of System Is What It Does.
Graft, DEI, and demonization of whitey, males, Christians, Jews.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: San
Indeed, were ordered there by the Romans to be counted for the census.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:41 PM (Htf7a)
The tribes went to their ancestral 'capitol' to be counted and Joseph was of the house of David so he went to Bethlehem.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (Vh9CX)
'But why Ella Cook?
He did not know her.
Two possibilities: A. He wasn't the shooter, and 2. Whoever set him loose did know her.'
Did anyone get ahold of this guy's social media history?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 07:43 PM (AtFJ+)
Ah, OK. I misread that as ONLY two possibilities.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:46 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (trsuh)
This is rated 100% correct.
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (LHPAg)
@tarapalmeri
What will leave the bigger stain on their legacy: the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the misguided targeting of drug boats in the Caribbean?
Oh this fucking dunce, again?
She is one of the biggest lolcows on the Internet. A fake "influencer" who beclowns herself on the daily.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 07:39 PM (CWez5)
Well the first was Biden, not Trump. Or is Biden blowing up the boats now?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 07:32 PM (trsuh)
This is rated 100% correct.
Posted by: Erome
who is stan?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (Htf7a)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:42 PM (8avO+)
I get it. Until he murdered the MIT professor he knew from Portugal and people said he was a weirdo who whined. An uber intelligent person who was po'd that no one but mostly him recognized this.
Maybe he hates women? I simply doubt that poor lovely girl was the reason. And I'd be the first to say so. That was the thought until the MIT murder.
I doubt she was the target...the MIT professor was, and he was mad at either being kicked out of Brown or their not recognizing his genius.
I have met two people like this in my life. Both not good looking and clung to their vast IQ. Both were told from a young age how brilliant they were, etc.
In life he was a loser. He could not, according to a former Brown classmate, mingle at all with others. Maybe someone mocked him in that lecture hall he sprayed bullets. We may know or may never know.
I do know that Governor DeSantis will not withhold information from Miami, where he was living in a $900k apartment or townhouse.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 07:48 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 07:45 PM (Vh9CX)
It's kind of hard to mess up, except by overcooking it. Smoked, rock salt covered, sous vide and broil, etc. It's all good. And now I want prime rib. Thanks for the reminder. I need to take ours out of the freezer.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:49 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 07:50 PM (dK+Kv)
That's actually a true statement. If one disables the cameras that are already installed, it doesn't matter how many there were: any value of X cameras disabled is equal to zero cameras.
So it's absurd to say the cameras don't matter and prevented nothing since that contradicts the school's proactive financing and installation of an extremely high number of them. It's not absurd to say cameras didn't affect anything if no cameras were ever operational or were disabled for whatever reason.
In any case, there's a lot of bureaucrats who should be fired if not prosecuted for dereliction and perhaps illegal behavior at Brown. It has been putting its paying clientele at risk, perhaps intentionally, due to outside pressure.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 22, 2025 07:51 PM (gLikB)
'White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement'
Screw them. I want an all year pause in Catholic bishops' sedition attempts.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:24 PM (fd80v)
Trump said to them "Render unto Caesar things that are Caesar's." And nobody can argue that Illegal Criminals are God's
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (8avO+)
OK, so they were legitimate political refugees. And when the threat was over, they WENT HOME.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (3nLb4)
how is a private institution doing what it wants illegal in any way?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (Htf7a)
OK, so they were legitimate political refugees. And when the threat was over, they WENT HOME.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (3nLb4)
and by the UN rules for refugees, they went to the adjacent country, stayed there and did no crimes, and then went home when Herod died.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:54 PM (8avO+)
how is a private institution doing what it wants illegal in any way?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 07:53 PM (Htf7a)
There probably are dozens of regulations requiring surveillance and safety that were violated.
I remember once at Wash U someone got into a dorm suite and robbed a couple of students. The entire student campus was rekeyed in 48 hours
Posted by: Oldcat at December 22, 2025 07:56 PM (8avO+)
His wiki mentions that the murderer graduated top in their undergrad class in Portugal.
He was tops, you see. But had nothing much but his past to brag about.
I want to know what he's been doing since his return in 2017 and green card.
His parents in Portugal are said to be "well off." They also said he did not contact them for 20yrs, even once he returned in 2003. I find that a bit hard to believe and figure they are protecting their own assets.
He had to be doing SOMETHING as his townhouse or apt in Miami is worth $900k.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 08:05 PM (WONhk)
The way I would approach this is as a deception. A trade practices act. The campus is presented as a safe haven for the customers. The students will be protected while on campus. If steps were taken to proactively endanger these students, the school becomes culpable for harm that comes to them. I'd suggest that proactively disabling security (i.e. cameras and ignoring warnings) after installing hundreds of them is a deception and this one resulted in a mass deadly assault.
There's civic liability and criminal liability. I'm almost certain civic liability will come into play. Criminal liability is a harder nut, but, to me, not inconceivable. If, of course, the disabling of security cameras and apparatus was done to protect illegal activity (not this particular murderer but other violent campus hostility in general).
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 22, 2025 08:17 PM (gLikB)
Egypt was part of the Roman Empire, it would be as if fleeing from IL to seek refuge in IN
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:36 PM (a4flb)
So they can institute slavery on campus?
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 22, 2025 09:28 PM (rlXCY)
Posted by: EddieS at December 23, 2025 12:17 AM (wi25e)
The campus police chief was probably busy polishing his cap.
Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 23, 2025 07:14 AM (st9l0)
Surprise: The "Reporter" Who Leaked and Whined That Her Hit-Piece Got Held Up Turns Out to Have a History of Batty Leftwing Propaganda Pieces
Chuck Ross for the Free Beacon:
LOL.
'60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong
Alfonsi's immigration piece needed additional reporting, Editor in Chief Bari Weiss told CBS staff
A 60 Minutes correspondent is up in arms after CBS management delayed a story decrying the deportation of illegal aliens from the United States to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, accusing CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss of caving to political pressure and betraying sacred journalistic principles. The correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, was behind an embarrassing 2021 flub at 60 Minutes in which she falsely reported that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) gave preferential treatment to a campaign donor to distribute coronavirus vaccines. ... In her leaked email to her colleagues, Alfonsi accused CBS News and Weiss of engaging in "corporate censorship" and of "betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism." Reporters at CBS News are threatening to quit over the Weiss decision, CNN's Brian Stelter reported (it's unlikely that anyone will actually quit due to the fast-shrinking job market for television reporters).
... There's precedent warranting additional legwork on Alfonsi's segments. Alfonsi was the lead correspondent on a debunked story in 2021 that DeSantis gave preferential treatment to the supermarket chain Publix to distribute coronavirus vaccines because the company donated $100,000 to DeSantis's campaign. "How is that not pay-to-play?" Alfonsi asked DeSantis when she confronted him after one of the governor's press conferences. Several Florida officials, including Democrats, blasted the 60 Minutes report, saying that DeSantis's office was not involved in awarding contracts to Publix. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla.), who oversaw Florida's emergency management division in 2021 and is known for tangling with the GOP, said that the division recommended Publix for the contract because other pharmacies were not equipped to distribute vaccines. "No one from the Governor's office suggested Publix. It's just absolute malarkey," he said. Then-Palm Beach County mayor Dave Kerner (D.) called the story "intentionally false." Publix said the story was "absolutely false and offensive." And DeSantis said the story provides an example of "why nobody trusts corporate media." "They are a disaster in what they are doing," the governor said. "They knew what they were doing was a lie." Poynter, a media watchdog group funded largely by liberal charities, called the report a "sloppy moment" that "misses the mark." The Publix donations to DeSantis's campaign were "neither illegal nor unusual," according to Poynter. CBS did not correct or apologize for the segment, only issuing a narrow statement defending why it edited down DeSantis's comments to Alfonsi and pointing out that DeSantis declined 60 Minutes' offer for a full sit-down interview. ...In more propaganda news: NPR is warning its reporters from continuing to cite a "law professor" named Carl Tobias, who is apparently on dozens and dozens of reporters' cell phones as someone willing to give them whatever quote they need to sell the main political point they're trying to make. Apparently he's almost always cited as "an expert," and an expert in many different fields. Whatever you need an "expert" to comment on, Carl Tobias is your one-stop shop.
Alfonsi never weighed in on her faulty DeSantis report beyond the narrow statement issued by CBS. 60 Minutes rarely apologizes for or corrects its reporting unless confronted with widespread public opprobrium and overwhelming evidence that its reporting was false.
From the @semafor media newsletter: NPR says no more quotes from someone named Professor Carl Tobias pic.twitter.com/o0brCsLgrf
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) December 22, 2025
Making this even funnier -- NPR media reporter David Folkenflik quoted this "rent-a-quote" professor in two recent Trump-related media stories. https://t.co/CTDcKZAj9e pic.twitter.com/DlIov1CK2F
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 22, 2025
University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias is quoted in Politico characterizing Donald Trump's list of putative Supreme Court "candidates" as "fairly notable people but more for their active politics than maybe their jurisprudence." Tobias is not quoted as providing any evidence for this claim. It's not worth a great deal of time debating the makeup of Trump's list. Like most of Trump's policy statements, it won't bind Trump should he ever be in a position to nominate a Supreme Court justice. It's more of an olive branch to conservatives worried about the future of the court than a real short list for a vacancy. Trump's actual list may be completely different if the opportunity ever presented itself.This is from National Review, thus the intense anti-Trump animus. And also, the intense being-wrong-about-everything-ness.
I do think, however, that Professor Tobias's statement does a great disservice to those judges who -- through no fault, wish or desire of their own -- ended up on Trump's list. The overwhelming majority of the eleven judges on the list have had little to no involvement in elected politics (of the non-judicial election sort). Many are names that 99.9 percent of Americans have never heard of -- jurists who have had distinguished careers in academia, public service and the judiciary Take, for instance, the federal judges on the list. Steve Colloton, Tom Hardiman, Diane Sykes, Ray Kethledge, and Raymond Gruender were all appointed to the bench by George W. Bush after careers in private practice (Kethledge and Hardiman), as United States Attorneys (Colloton and Gruender) or as state court judges (Sykes). Bill Pryor, now on the Eleventh Circuit, served as the Attorney General of Alabama before he was recess appointed by President Bush after being filibustered by Senate Democrats. (He was later confirmed by the Senate). But Judge Pryor has hardly been a political activist from the bench. In fact, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which you might think would not have happened if he were a conservative political activist.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (mlg/3)
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Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (Wt5PA)
His nipples simply do not measure up.
Posted by: Tom Nichols at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (TbWk/)
CBS fake "news" tried to NBC-Ford-Pinto the Trump Admin.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: huerfano at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (98kQX)
_______________________
The guy is a real life "Mr. Know it All" from the Bullwinkle cartoons.
How to be a beatnik:
https://tinyurl.com/5n7xkw4n
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (dIske)
Dear William F. Buckley, Sorry about what happened to your brother, I am not going to ask you to cancel my subscription. I am simply not going to renew it.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (pS434)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: DPICM at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (zweKz)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)
s/he/it
FIFY
Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Carl Tobias at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (2GVsD)
I am uncomfortable in a world where Stelter is the voice of reason about a situation.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (dK+Kv)
Cool. That means I won't have to pay for unemployment.
Yeah, sport: there are 20 equally-talentless communist hacks just waiting in line to replace your lefty ass.
Posted by: Bari Weiss at December 22, 2025 06:01 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 06:01 PM (KDPiq)
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If that actually happens, I might actually be impressed.
But it won't happen.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:01 PM (9ipOP)
President: "You don't have a stupid president, anymore."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (5yDGQ)
Alfonsi jumped the sharked.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tobias at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (rkTTp)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (NwnyJ)
Why not? They have the inside scoop on things, sometimes from the very individuals they moved heaven and earth to install within campaigns and agencies.
There is nothin an establishment media hates worse than a closed campaign that doesn't leak or employ staff that can be used to influence policy.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (rbvCR)
It looks to me like she does *not* have the power to hire or fire, but she does have the power to spike anything they do if she doesn’t like it. Which when I think about it must really piss them off more than anything else possibly could.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (trsuh)
Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 22, 2025 06:03 PM (N/gmR)
Am I understanding this properly?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Carl Tobias at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (sDWtc)
well there were some firings, if I remember right. I don't know if she fired them on her own authority.
Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (MoRvC)
Not beating the male prison population rap.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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She's 53 to Weiss's 41, so there may be some whippersnapper resentment as well as cattiness.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (pS434)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (qFwJc)
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I am too kind to say, "your mask is soiled and spreading disease."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (9ipOP)
https://tinyurl.com/mzmaeukh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 06:05 PM (ix8EF)
Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (Wt5PA)
Lots of organizations like that. The "Center for Science in the Public Interest" was one dude with a postage meter. He was trained in microbiology, but has absolutely no expertise in human nutrition.
This is the yutz who issued dire warnings about how unhealthy movie popcorn was (among many other idiocies). Who the hell thought movie popcorn was healthy in the first place, and how much movie popcorn does an average person eat in a year? One bag? Maybe?
Posted by: Bari Weiss at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (pkeXY)
Barri Weise is trying to avoid that happening to CBS News.
I like the cut of her jib.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (qFwJc)
I don't know if any of You have noticed, but the Press Secretary has mixed in a healthy dose of "journalists" who aren't Democrat party Fake News into the press pool, so the President now gets asked reasonable questions. Sometimes these "journalists" are bit too pro-Trump, but they are a refreshing counter to the nasty Fake News fake "reporters" nasty fake "questions."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Senator Mitt Romney at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (jibVG)
Folkenflik sounds like a cheap German sound system.
Posted by: Cheri at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (oiNtH)
Apparently, for most stories they just find some random professor who likes seeing their name in print.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:06 PM (qFwJc)
I don't think her jib is cut.
More like a rounded, marshmallow texture.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 06:08 PM (WI7ox)
Posted by: Cheri at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM (MoRvC)
I'd sooner trust Tobias Gregson.
Posted by: Sherlock Holmes at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows The Mystery at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:09 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (guGkK)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (uQzkA)
It’s the largest supermarket chain in Florida.
There is one in every town.
When you cross the state line the sign reads:
Welcome To Florida, The Sunshine State - brought to you by Disney and Publix
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (qFwJc)
Yes, Rush spotted the Great Circle-Jerk these fake "journalists" partake in, often time with Government officials.
That's how they spearheaded the Russia Hoax -- Fake News used a Deep State Shit as a fake "source," and Deep State used Fake News as a fake "source," and this was their fake "evidence" for grounds to begin a fake "investigation." Of course, a fake "judge" is totally aware of the Shuck & Jive game going on and goes along with it.
Yes, it is truly a Conspiracy.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (CWez5)
Never to heard from again.
Posted by: Anna Puma
......
best sex of her life.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (v0R5T)
I am at risk of losing my sense of decorum with these festering fuckwits.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:11 PM (mlg/3)
Welcome To Florida, The Sunshine State - brought to you by Disney and Publix
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (6ydKt)
I've often wondered if devout Muslims (and Jews, for that matter) avoid shopping at Piggly Wiggly.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (IG3/x)
Another example is the ukraine phone call Hoax for the fake impeachment.
Literally a Conspiracy transpired.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (v0R5T)
She should be fired for this.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (RuTUS)
Michael: did someone paint you blue?
Tobias : no Michael I blue myself
Michael : there has to be a better way to say that
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (jibVG)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)
Whoa! That's unexpected.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Consider it a stopped clock (analog) right twice per day.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Expert analyst Ace of Spades at December 22, 2025 06:04 PM (1wjle)
If memory serves there were cutbacks, layoffs, and at least a couple flounces, but like you I’m not sure if she was involved or was just the instigator.
It’s not a stable situation for the company, of course - it must really chap the actual head of CBS to have the Big Bosses darling breathing down his neck and giving thumbs up or thumbs down to everything he does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (trsuh)
Even though he was well groomed, and a bit on the chubby side?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)
https://tinyurl.com/mzmaeukh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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A custodian talking up to his betters should know to keep his place.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:15 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 06:12 PM (IG3/x)
The larger the family, the more the need for Costco.
(or BJs, but that presents an entirely different problem)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (6ydKt)
For Christmas, I want to see Brown Univ foisted.
I also want Conan OBrien foisted.
In case you're unawares, rumors have it that Conan OBrian personally poo-poo'd the idea to his other guests of calling 911 to intervene between Meathead & his angry son.
So, Conan OBryan, whom I hate, is partly responsible for Meathead & Mrs Meathead getting butchered by their own son.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (CWez5)
Even though he was well groomed, and a bit on the chubby side?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)
Looked it up, that was Clarissa Ward.
Widely believed to be CIA.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (qFwJc)
And gay. But that was t he point of the character, no?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s)
Which is why nobody should believe a thing 60 Minutes reports. The most surprised people when 60 Minutes is called on for false reporting are the 60 Minutes reporters.
I openly laugh at anyone who cites anything 60 Minutes reports as fact. Alex Jones is more truthful, by far.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (4nEGa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (zZu0s)
She's an idiot, and a leftist, but she's pro-Israel, so people think she's something.
She's not.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (dGCAG)
Even though he was well groomed, and a bit on the chubby side?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)
Looked it up, that was Clarissa Ward.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:16 PM (dGCAG)
Didn't she explain it to you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:18 PM (uQesX)
I'm all right, don't have to worry about me.
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)
Heh. Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM
He owned a Rolls Royce back when that was a thing.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (jc0TO)
For Christmas, I want to see Brown Univ foisted.
I also want Conan OBrien foisted.
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Posted by: Soothsayer
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I think you mis-spelled hoisted.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (YubK1)
Sure, on deranged Boomers who consume 14 hours of programming a day.
Here's what "experts say" really means:
1) If they're not named, they're 80% fake; 30% rent-a-quote (110% false)
2) if they are named, 100% of the time, their partisan background is hidden.
Exception: if they are a RINO from an alleged conservative institution attacking conservatives, then the background is up front.
3) 0% of their "legal" experts have been right about any of the pending cases against Trump when they reach the SCOTUS. Yet never are their prior prognostications disclosed.
Seems like an ought-fer W/L record would be relevant to their "expert" status.
But for real, the media has had a roladex of go-to experts to give them a quote on what ever they want them to say for decades.
How bad must he be to put this in writing?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (HXT0k)
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. But for every fact, there is not an equal and opposite fact.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 06:22 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:23 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 06:23 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:24 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:24 PM (qFwJc)
I'm all right, don't have to worry about me.
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:19 PM (LHPAg)
I remember that looper.
Posted by: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama at December 22, 2025 06:24 PM (jibVG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (zZu0s)
He hates absolutely everybody. Why he crawls out from under his rock I’ll never understand.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 06:25 PM (4786I)
How bad must he be to put this in writing?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Roladex? I think they use Slack, or Stick, or Dick or something now.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:25 PM (mlg/3)
How bad must he be to put this in writing?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 06:21 PM (HXT0k)
The best ones are those who go into court to testify.
Who is paying you? That's who you side with. But they spend half an hour reciting their resume, and then when the other side brings up their expert, they do the same thing.
In the end, juries side with the expert they like more.
Awesome system we got.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 06:25 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:28 PM (qFwJc)
That's like Hillary getting booted from the Watergate hit squad for being too dirty. It takes some work to disgust your fellow Democrats!
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 06:28 PM (rJjpq)
Brown University needs to be sued into oblivion. They should be shut down because they will not change anything.
No amount of money can compensate for the loss of a child.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 06:29 PM (3ek7K)
Awesome system we got.
Posted by: BurtTC
I was on a murder trial jury once. The defense had an 'expert' testify that the sound on a home security camera was faulty or something, and tried to prove it with some audio software. Unforts for him, one of the jurists was an audio engineer. He didn't say anything until the case was over, but he ripped the expert testimony to the judge. Was the funniest part of a stupid trial.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:29 PM (mlg/3)
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. But for every fact, there is not an equal and opposite fact.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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He should take that to heart when he strays away from economics.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:30 PM (YubK1)
The producer that works most with this reporter is Oriana Zill de Granados. That's a real name...and you won't be shocked by the stories she is associated with. Including the DeSantis one, and the CETOS one.
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 06:30 PM (dIske)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:32 PM (qFwJc)
Brown University needs to be sued into oblivion. They should be shut down because they will not change anything.
No amount of money can compensate for the loss of a child.
Posted by: fourseasons
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But their billion dollar trust fund could help pay off the national debt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:33 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Tobias Funke, M.D. Analrapist at December 22, 2025 06:33 PM (wVcYX)
We should appreciate & utilize Thomas Sowell while he's still alive, instead of waiting until he's mort, which will be soon.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:34 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 06:33 PM
The Dissolution of the Monasteries for our age.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)
"An expert is a guy from out of town with a briefcase"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: no one
>FIFY
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (nljXp)
That it says "batty" instead of "penguinny" is proof that convincing people we don't exist is our biggest triumph!
* wing flaps in unison *
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (hEpeQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (sDNVV)
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I did see a blip about it but I am predisposed to disbelieve reports like that. The Iranians are more likely to murder a professor at MIT then attempt to laundh another massive attack. They have other priorities right now.
Then again, I'm always wrong.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (9ipOP)
No, you're not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:36 PM (dK+Kv)
@Reuters 26m
Instacart ends AI-driven price experiments after criticism http://reut.rs/3KWhJZR http://reut.rs/3KWhJZR
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 06:37 PM (mlg/3)
I also want Conan OBrien foisted.
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Posted by: Soothsayer
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I think you mis-spelled hoisted.
Posted by: Braenyard
Don't be a petard.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2025 06:37 PM (cYBz/)
Then again, I'm always wrong.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:35 PM (9ipOP)
No, you're not.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
Yes I am.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:37 PM (CWez5)
I mean yes he is.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Tobias Funke, M.D. Analrapist at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (wVcYX)
Heh. I was just reading. Trump's Big Beautiful Battleships aren't gonna be traditional battleships. They're going to be beefed up destroyers, really.
Donnie Two Scoops just likes the term "battleship", so that's what we're gonna call them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (8jVAy)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (qFwJc)
They have any reservoirs?
Posted by: The Dambusters at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Toby from Roots at December 22, 2025 06:40 PM (wVcYX)
Donnie Two Scoops just likes the term "battleship", so that's what we're gonna call them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (w6EFb)
lol
Which is what was surmised last thread on this here smart milblog.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 06:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (8jVAy)
Water's for closers.
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:41 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM
Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at December 22, 2025 06:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: The Dambusters at December 22, 2025 06:39 PM (uQesX)
Tehran's water supply has been managed in a manner similar to LA's. Apparently there were greater needs for the last 40 years than ensuring drinking water for the country's capitol.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 06:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:42 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)
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*swoons*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:42 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:42 PM (qFwJc)
By the way the Iranians talk crap all the time, they’ve been doing it every day for 40 years. So it doesn’t mean much to say “well look what the Iranians said.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (trsuh)
Posted by: Milton Bradley at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (oftw2)
Turns out they are only liberal with other people's stuff.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (TYS4f)
Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (8jVAy)
Their terms are acceptable.
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:38 PM (CWez5)
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Okay. Sometimes I'm wrong.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (9ipOP)
I also want Conan OBrien foisted.
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Posted by: Soothsayer
A Happy Foistivus to you!
Thanks, Ace! I keep reading your posts between wrapping gifts that I have had for months. Martha Stewart told me years ago this was not good and I still don't listen to her!Winning!
Someone, please send me snow! I am begging now for snow and ice. Please.
I could blame the lack of snow on my falalala being so late. I could.I probably will!
Tomorrow I am baking all day and probably drinking as well. ***those are snowflakes that I need***
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (MoRvC)
Who could have seen that coming?
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (YrUlT)
Posted by: Accomack at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (8jVAy)
Sharyn
You can tell just by the way she spells her name.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 06:44 PM (dAOkg)
Expert.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (6Bc88)
'Sharyn is kind of attractive. I thought she'd be a feminazi of indeterminate sex.'
(Opens story and looks at picture.)
Really?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (fd80v)
This is all about Chyna. The Chicoms are getting ahead of us in shipbuilding capacity. Trump is not going to let us get behind China in ruling the seas. The era of American decline is over as far Trump is concerned.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb)
Foist is not a word??
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Lucky you. I have to work. I do have Wed & Thursday off.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Micky Ninja at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 06:46 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Careful burning cookies in your state may be a felony.
Posted by: Cookie Puss at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (dAOkg)
They sacrificed hundreds, just to draw us out in the open. And then they came, and they came. We drained four of our phasers, and they still came. We killed thousands and they still came.
Posted by: Captain Tracey at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (R/m4+)
Turns out they are only liberal with other people's stuff.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (viF8m)
Had a professor from Brown. So good looking. Good thing there were rules about student teacher fraternization back in the old days. Eh, she was married, too, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM
Don't sell yourself short.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:47 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 22, 2025 06:43 PM (TYS4f)
As soon as you said miniskirts and net stockings no morons cared what came out of the expert’s mouth unless it belonged to said moron.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM (w6EFb)
Chinese marine rated steel, and Chinese laminated armor plate, both would make me nervous. Their quality control is such that every time one of those ships goes into salt water it turns into a giant battery and starts eroding.
It might last long enough, or it might turn out like those submarines. Depends.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 06:49 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (qFwJc)
'In case you're unawares, rumors have it that Conan OBrian personally poo-poo'd the idea to his other guests of calling 911 to intervene between Meathead & his angry son.'
Oh. Shit.
"No. Calling the police would be blowing it out of proportion. They'll be all right in the morning."
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (fd80v)
You don’t understand how bad Cuba’s situation is. No one is going to overthrow it; what’s going to happen is that all of the electricity for the island is goin to fail, and go down, and no one will be able to turn it back on again, no matter how many people they shoot.
And yes I can see a wave of starvation that might kill half the people there, and the other half will be eating their corpses just to stay alive.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (trsuh)
But I do remember very good looking gals wearing that combo.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:52 PM (qFwJc)
You know, anybody can perform baptism. It doesn't have to be a priest.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:54 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (qFwJc)
Expert.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 06:45 PM
I'd this group of kids the elevator next to us was pretty safe, but the one we were on was kinda shaky.
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 06:55 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Prince Of Wales and Repulse at December 22, 2025 06:59 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (G1OIb)
50
Folkenflik sounds like a cheap German sound system.
Posted by: Cheri at December 22, 2025 06:07 PM
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It's a German term describing the pleasure of driving an unreliable car made of thin metal.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:07 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 22, 2025 08:49 PM (rlXCY)
Is This Something?
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, due in theaters next July.
Matt Damon looks too stupid to be Shrewd Odysseus, and Nolan is doing the Industry Standard race-swapping, but... I do like most Nolan movies, and hope this is good.Seen anything worth recommending?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Matt Damon looks too stupid to be Shrewd Odysseus, and Nolan is doing the Industry Standard race-swapping, but... I do like most Nolan movies, and hope this is good.
criticism i saw a while ago, based on photos leaked from the shoot, is that the armor looks like they just dug it out of the ground instead of looking shiny and new.
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (/6GbT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQghy9ZtY4
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (Riz8t)
Of course the whole Injustice thing failed, honestly, because it is a superhero thing and didn't go deeper. Make Superman less over the top and the whole thing plays better on the classic topic of the limitations of power to actually make things better.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (sKqQm)
At this point, it's a Tourette's Syndrome affliction.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (Riz8t)
Merry Christmas ya Filthy Casuals.
Posted by: Hollywood at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (fryM6)
-- None of the overlapped, and
-- I hadn't even HEARD of most of the film, much less seen them.
It seems 2025 had a bumper crop of complete box-office catastrophes that were such bombs that no one even mocked them because they didn't even know they had been released. That's how bad 2025 was.
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (5yDGQ)
He is a MUCH better actor then Damon.
I suspect this movie will play out like Tom Cruise's Valkyrie where the movie was good but its obvious weakness was the lead actor.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (sKqQm)
Seussical the Musical. Kids just finished their winter show, in the round, and I have to say it is my favorite. It's not Phantom or Le Miserable, but it was fun, the kids put in a lot of work, and they put in some amazing performances.
You're obviously not going to see our version. But if it is in your area, it is worth a look.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (dK+Kv)
There are still a few days in 2025. Let's see what new depths they can plumb.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (Riz8t)
"Drop" was the other one. Excellent suspense.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)
Damned ancient Greek homos.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:49 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (5yDGQ)
Is it Festivus, yet?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (MNCvZ)
i thought he was good. The real problem is the director!
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Max Power at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (q+LBI)
I liked Troy. They also did the No Gods, No Magic thing.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (1wjle)
I agree and it reminds me a bit of Sunshine where the first half of the movie is an interesting SF movie of people trying to deal with a solar system level catastrophe and the second half is a bad monster movie.
Weapons's second half is better then that but not as good as its own first half.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:50 PM (sKqQm)
The only one who really seemed to have a good head on his shoulders. The opposite of that lunkheaded crybaby Achilles.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (Ia/+0)
I'd say that was accurate -- within a couple years, "going to the cinema" will be as esoteric and rare as "going to the opera" is today.
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (oraVG)
"I am Poseidon, RULER OF THE SEAS!"
"I am Odysseus, floating on this raft."
Posted by: pookysgirl grew up on PBS at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ben Affleck at December 22, 2025 04:51 PM (fryM6)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ODYSSEUS at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (dK+Kv)
I give them credit because they wrote themselves into a corner but then just brave-faced their way out of it through WTF audacity. No, not as good as the first half, but it's a horror movie, no one is going to accept dread and unanswered questions. Well, I might. 90% of the audience would feel cheated.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (viF8m)
I'd say that was accurate -- within a couple years, "going to the cinema" will be as esoteric and rare as "going to the opera" is today.
Interesting - and probably true.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy
Again?
Posted by: Ben Affleck
I would have socked that as "the Bear."
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)
"Drop" was the other one. Excellent suspense.
If you recall it had 217 on it. The best explanation I've seen is that the point of the image is to argue the witch has 2 adults and 17 children as weapons.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (sKqQm)
Finally ended up watching season 1 of Brokenwood Mysteries. Fairly dark and grim at times but realistic portrayals of ordinary people.
Different vibe than the boring repeated locked room mysteries that became overload on the Paradise series and spinoffs. Jonathan Creek, although with a very clever premise, eventually overloaded on that as well. Being clever rather than good acting.
Since Benedict Cumberbunch probably has little interest in extending the Sherlock! series, if such has to be rebooted, Alan Davies might make a good Sherlock.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (qPv0v)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (nljXp)
yup
Theaters will become a high-end but niche thing. Alamo Drafthouse is probably a good model going forward.
I can't stress how much I didn't mind paying $18.50 per ticket for a movie (Wake Up Dead Man) that I kind of hated. the experience was still good.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (rJ48h)
I always thought he should have gotten an Oscar for Kalifornia.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (KDPiq)
I loved what happened to him in Interstellar.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Archimedes
Eh, maybe. I can't keep these whippersnapper actors straight.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)
Also he plays a surprisingly good sneaky asshole as seen in Interstellar.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (sKqQm)
i totally didn't even see that. TBH, I was a bad movie watcher and mostly listened through the part with Julia Garner. The first half hour was "screen friendly" for me.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (1wjle)
I heard somebody a while back quip that Brad Pitt was a character actor trapped in the body of a leading man.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (w6EFb)
Theaters set the volume too high.
Nothing personal to all us Filthy Casuals ...
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: MATT DAAAMON at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (pkeXY)
"The Warner Bros. board of directors has rejected Paramount’s bid multiple times, opting instead to go with an offer from Netflix, which WBD says is more valuable. The board also said Paramount has misrepresented itself to WBD shareholders, calling into question the legitimacy of the deal’s “illusory” proposed financing.
To counteract that critique, Paramount said Oracle founder Larry Ellison – the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison – will guarantee all $40.4 billion of the equity he’s putting up to finance the $78 billion deal. That’s a big guarantee, putting Larry Ellison on the hook for about a sixth of his roughly $250 billion net worth if something falls through."
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (WDjG6)
So, it all has to be trite on the nose destruction of the myth and hero concept that they fire directly into our stupid male brains.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (3uBP9)
"And now men, I call on you to join me as we begin our great odyssey. "
Sailor raises hand: "Excuse me, what's an Odyssey?"
Odysseus: "It is a long and difficult journey, so full of dangers that only the leader will survive."
Sailor: "Oh Okay thanks. Wait what???"
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (uWKK8)
The perils of going back in time to change the future
https://youtu.be/xY48IkB9oIQ
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (rbvCR)
the duel with Hector was great. Effective and really showed what a combat monster Achilles was.
I don't remember having seen a spear-fight before. As Schola Gladitoria always reminds everyone, before firearms, most battle deaths were caused by the spear.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (1wjle)
Half the theater was belly laughing when I saw it.
I still feel it’s worth seeing
Posted by: Maroon at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (wP3Cr)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (1wjle)
Christian Bale (irrespective of him being a world class asshole)
Colin Farrell
Gerard Butler
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (sKqQm)
Her is perfect to be watched today.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (KDPiq)
"And now men, I call on you to join me as we begin our great odyssey. "
Sailor raises hand: "Excuse me, what's an Odyssey?"
Odysseus: "It is a long and difficult journey, so full of dangers that only the leader will survive."
Sailor: "Oh Okay thanks. Wait what???"
"The captain's naming things after himself now?"
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Archimedes
Schliemann oversold it, for glory.
"I FOUND TROY!!!"
Except it was just a random rather small Bronze Age provincial town. Not the center of a vast civilization. Hundreds of other archaeological sites are bigger, more impressive and had better artifacts.
To this day, it's not even clear which civilization or culture "Troy" was part of. Kind of an outlier village.
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (oraVG)
I always figured they were the same person double-dipping like Kurt Russell and Jeff Bridges or Frank Zappa and Leon Redbone.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (3nLb4)
How do we like The Carpenters' Christmas songs?
The one that goes merry Christmas is frequently played.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (CWez5)
Could be worse. Could be the Graham family, who refused to see WaPo for about $4B, then ended up selling it to Bezos for, IIRC, something like $250M.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 04:55 PM (3ZUWJ)
Seriously! I saw the Lord of the Rings trilogy when it was re-released to theaters last summer. The volume was deafening! Fortunately they turned it down for the second film. My ears are bad enough as it is.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (k9OZB)
He was co-created by Jack Kirby and his first appearance is in 1964.
Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ace
Pisses me off to no end that the douchebags in Walking Dead didn't figure to use spears until the last seasons.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (g47mK)
He was still getting there in Troy but did better then I would have thought he could of at the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
Colin Farrell isn't as physical.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)
What was wrong with his Jason Bourne? In the books he's supposed to look ordinary. The only think I can think of is he doesn't really seem, "haunted."
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (1wjle)
—————
Well, I’m the only one who survives so I kinda get to do what I want.
Posted by: Odysseus at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (u73oe)
I think he played Alexander the Great.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (Riz8t)
I watched Extraction last night. Kinda good. Kinda recommend if you're in the mood for action.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (CWez5)
Of course it has the part where he uses a sling to take down Goliath, but it also shows him getting older and becoming a king.
Basically he said "it's pretty darn good even if you aren't religious". Not the highest praise he has ever given a movie, but good enough I want to see this in a theater if I can.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (LNPSJ)
He was co-created by Jack Kirby and his first appearance is in 1964.
I remember him looking like a dope on Avengers covers (and West Coat Avengers covers, and Great Lakes Avengers covers) in the 80s. there were so many lame avengers, like Tigra. or captain marvel.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (1wjle)
The perils of going back in time to change the future
https://youtu.be/xY48IkB9oIQ
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (r
Rockwell has become a favorite.
Seven Psychopaths was great and also Mr Right.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (CWez5)
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Yes, the only song in history that goes "Merry Christmas".
Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Maroon at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (wP3Cr)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (vFG9F)
So is a tiger.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (MoRvC)
"Yeah, it doesn't really drive the plot but we thought you'd all like to see matt die again, so, enjoy"
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (3uBP9)
"I FOUND TROY!!!"
Except it was just a random rather small Bronze Age provincial town. Not the center of a vast civilization. Hundreds of other archaeological sites are bigger, more impressive and had better artifacts.
To this day, it's not even clear which civilization or culture "Troy" was part of. Kind of an outlier village.
There are three versions of the Trojan Horse in the area. Two are pretty basic an crappy. The best one by far is in the nearby town/port. It's...the one from the movie, which the makers donated.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (Riz8t)
They don't present the Greeks as pure awesome heros that go destroy the enemy with honor because of their inherent awesomeness but quite a range of personalities and leave open the question of whether the war was worth fighting at all.
And here Odysseys is the most interesting character because as "wisest of the Greeks" he didn't even want to go and tried his best to avoid it
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (sKqQm)
The perils of going back in time to change the future
https://youtu.be/xY48IkB9oIQ
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 04:56 PM (r
Rockwell has become a favorite.
Seven Psychopaths was great and also Mr Right.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (KDPiq)
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It is the return of Gore Verbinski, the director of the gothic horror masterpiece The Cure for Wellness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:52 PM (KDPiq)
Not sure I believe that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Also the first Lethal Weapon movie.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (fryM6)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (8CIFn)
matt damon fucking sucks
What's wrong with you people?
damon has only one emotion: I am a big dink.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:03 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 05:03 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 22, 2025 05:03 PM (f4tQo)
Odysseus is telling the other kings that they should probably go home because king Menelachus (?) was killed.
Sean Bean: We came here to get Menelachs's wife... we won't need her any longer.
Agamemnon: How dare you insult my brother's memory!
Sean Bean: it is no insult to say a dead man... is dead.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Matt Damon at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (9ipOP)
oh yeah....
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (1wjle)
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Silent Hill has entered the chat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (MoRvC)
That's the biggest in your face DEI movie for me.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bill Clintons Wiener at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (f4tQo)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
REPENT HERETICS
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (nljXp)
Carpenters at Christmas 1977 Complete TV Special
https://is.gd/2fbN1V
Harvey Korman is a guest star, if that excites you.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM
Michael Pena gets all the good lines.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (jc0TO)
Slightly better than Roland Emmerich and M. Night Shamalamadingdong.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (dGCAG)
Not a movie, but a series on Prime -- Deadloch.
Thought I wouldn't like it based upon the write-up, but it's great. And hilarious at times, especially the jokes about lesbians.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (krQz2)
He was still getting there in Troy but did better then I would have thought he could of at the time.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 04:59 PM (sKqQm)
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I'm ready for another close-up!
Posted by: Brad Pitt in Troy at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (9ipOP)
I heard there's a new superhero out of Hollywood.
Gay Man.
His anus opens up so wide that he can attack with it and kill other bad superheros and young cabana boys.
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (och2J)
Some more movies in which Bean's character doesn't die: National Treasure, Flightplan, Silent Hill, Percy Jackson Lighting Thief, The Martian, Possessor
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: Bill Clintons Wiener at December 22, 2025 05:05 PM (f4tQo)
He's a better director than actor but his brother is a very very good actor imo.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (KDPiq)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rx_uGQ2PSQ
Champions of seasons 16-20 facing off! For wackiness!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (jc0TO)
Odenkirk is gonna kick your ass for saying that.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (dGCAG)
Bookmark this if you need Christmas music:
Carpenters 1978 Christmas Portrait
https://is.gd/Aqa8GQ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (CWez5)
There was a time when the Avengers swelled up to a dozen or 20 members. They weren't all A-listers. Saying "he was once in the Avengers" is not strong praise.
There was in in-universe event where they assembled all the Avengers and said "we have to downsize the team, this is too crazy". I have that comic somewhere, probably.
I totally agree that Wonder Man is a D-lister. I looked up his Wiki page and his history is moderately interesting, more than I expected, but still he had zero impact on the fans let alone pop culture.
No little kid ever took lunch to school in a Wonder Man lunchbox.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (CWez5)
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Does Harvey Korman excite you?
Does explosive diarrhea excite you?
Posted by: zombie Don Rickles at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)
Nobody I was bad, too. It went from kinda good to fucking stupid.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (CWez5)
Wonder Man was a sort of Booster Gold before there was a Booster Gold. In the sense of being about PR, not in the sense of being a rich time traveler. Or what Spider-Man would have been had he stayed in show business.
It’s the perfect superhero movie for Hollywood, as it literally could take place on movie sets or television sets.
It’s also guaranteed to suck for anyone not in Hollywood.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (EXyHK)
The Iliad is a much more compact work, with the whole thing being set in the environs of Troy, and in a much shorter timeframe.
I was able to do the Classic Comics version of the Odyssey when I was a kid, however.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Opinion fact
That and the complete ball-washing of the CCP.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)
"The Tale of Silyan" is a barely disguised docudrama about a white stork and the Macedonian farmer that loves him. Solid low-key recommendation.
I've not seen any good "bombastic" movies in a while. Lotsa luck with documentaries: Blum (about the guy who ran Yugoslavia's biggest industry); Rebel with a Clause (a woman goes around setting up a "grammar helpdesk" on city streets across the country); Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost (Ben Stiller's documentary about his parents, surprisingly sensitive); Donn of Tiki (blast of a movie about the guy who invented the Tiki aesthetic/ethos).
A little hard up for interesting narrative films but HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is back in theaters for limited runs!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: ace
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Meanwhile, in Troy...
"I dunno, it could be a Trojan horse."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (pS434)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (CWez5)
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Does Harvey Korman excite you?
Does explosive diarrhea excite you?
Posted by: zombie Don Rickles at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (9ipOP)
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Well, he was one of the best parts of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (1wjle)
Hey, this might be an improvement. You can actually hear people speak in the trailer.
Wonder if in the movie theatre you can make out what the main characters are saying in every scene.
Would be great.
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (och2J)
Since his activities were in Wilusa (Troy) among other places, this could be the same conflict described in the Iliad.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (fryM6)
The colors and set design are really eye-caching, but the plot is trivial to the point of absurdity: A guy who's proud of his suburban lawn goes nuts when invasive mushrooms start sprouting up all over it.
But the reason to watch it is that this film was the debut performance by a 19-year-old Geneviève Bujold, and she is SCORCHING during her brief times on screen. You never saw anybody so cute/sexy in your life. And it was a very early example of the "manic pixie dreamgirl" trope
Another bizarre aspect mof the film is that every scene was filmed twice -- first with dialogue in French, and then with the same actors reading their lines in English. Two versions o the film were released, but so far only the French version has been re-discovered. (Thank god for auto-translated subtitltes.)
Anyway: semi-recommended.
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (oraVG)
then in the 2000s they made it even bigger but added everyone, including A-listers like Spider-Man and Wolverine and solid B-listers like Daredevil and Beast. the whole marvel universe were avengers.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (1wjle)
"Honey Don't" contains the best gay scene of the year.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (dGCAG)
"I dunno, it could be a Trojan horse."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:10 PM (pS434)
—————
Nominated for thread winner.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (0N4FZ)
Some more movies in which Bean's character doesn't die: National Treasure, Flightplan, Silent Hill, Percy Jackson Lighting Thief, The Martian, Possessor
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 05:07 PM (Yp6az)
The Sharpe movies which is a Highly underrated series or Movies. They were shot as movies. He was Richard Sharpe even the Writer of the Novels stated it.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: Bert G at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:12 PM (CWez5)
He is filled with power. Literally. Poke him and he explodes.
Seriously. It’s difficult to poke a hole in him because he’s powerful, but if you manage it, he is going to die and take out a city with him. Fighting supervillains is not a good career choice.
Note: this is all remembered from comics read decades ago, that I can’t be bothered to look up.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
Also Ronin.
Posted by: Stu Podaso
but he suffered a fate worse than death, cucked by that greasy retard Robert DeNiro
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)
Ben Affleck did surprisingly fine as Batman in the recent movies.
The script sucked but that wasn't his fault.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (sKqQm)
like Captain Atom?
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)
To me.
Laid down in '39 by Electric Boat in Groton, CT (home of 1 of 2 nuke boat bases in the US) she got 15 battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation.
An American version of Das Boot which I first saw in it's native German. With hot chick to translate for me.
Her adventures obviously were not "Midway" level action. But still...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (NwnyJ)
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"Drive-Away Dykes" killed all future Coen Bros movies for me, maybe.
I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)
I just tuned into the President just in time to hear him say, "...nobody's seen anything like it."
He needs to stop saying that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (CWez5)
Are we sending them to Houston?
Are they going to contribute to our oil reserve?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Ben Had
Hey, if you had the hottest chick in the world, you'd be p***y-whipped, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (77rzZ)
I was able to do the Classic Comics version of the Odyssey when I was a kid, however.
Posted by: Bulg
I saw the Kirk Douglas version.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Bert G at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (znREB)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)
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Up and at them?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:11 PM (fryM6)
My vote for best car chase scene movie.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (KDPiq)
i tried to get into those but I think I was expecting something like Flashman. Sharpe's kind of boring!
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (1wjle)
Is the Odyssey going to be as boring as the original? Because the original is a big bore.
If it's 3 hours, it'll feel like 6.
Also, in keeping with Nolan's proclivities, I hope it's filmed in Mumblevision. Not hearing the dialogue clearly is part of the fun.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (L8SXF)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (FCrpy)
I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)
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Well, it's just Joel. Ethan has nothing to do with the recent lesbian caper films.
It seems like...Joel may be the dumb one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (pkeXY)
> Is Wonder Man also an Amazon?
Nope, totally different origin and backstory. A lab infused him with "ion-based" powers. Later his brain scan was used to help create the Vision, plus he got blown up. Scarlet Witch kind of resurrected him but he was different and his powers were a bit different, then later still he became closer to his original human form and that's where he is now.
Also, in-universe he works as a stuntman. He can just do dangerous things without safety gear since he's invulnerable. If The Boys ever does a character based on him he'll probably be like Stuntman Mike from Death Proof.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (7yt4l)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (asXVI)
Have you seen "Bring Her Back"?
It was sorta paired with "Weapons," I guess for somewhat obvious reasons. It's an Aussie film.
Might be better than "Weapons," I'm not sure whether I think so or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)
Donnie Two Scoops: We're gonna build battleships again. Biggest battleships ever, like nothing you've even seen before. YUGE. Luxuriously lethal.
Also, even bigger carriers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (w6EFb)
A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (jc0TO)
Thought I wouldn't like it based upon the write-up, but it's great. And hilarious at times, especially the jokes about lesbians.
Posted by: one hour sober
I watched that several months ago and thought it was quite amusing in places.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (fryM6)
Posted by: Ben Had
Hey, if you had the hottest chick in the world, you'd be p***y-whipped, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (77rzZ)
Little known fact. Her sister only rated 500 ships.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg
I mean, if you were a guy, Ben Had.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (77rzZ)
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"Drive-Away Dykes" killed all future Coen Bros movies for me, maybe.
I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.
...
right but these aren't coen brothers movies, just one of the brothers. They split up. Someone said that one brother had a lurid b-movie sensibility, and the other one was more arthouse, and they needed each other to make good movies. Now the one guy is just making trash movies. (or so I heard, I haven't seen these two movies.)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)
If you mean the DC Captain Atom, I don’t remember him much except for the jokey Justice League that was funny for a few years and then well outlived itself. Giffen? Whatever it was, I don’t remember that Captain Atom being a barely-contained balloon of power. I think he actually ran some version of the League for a while? JLI?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (MoRvC)
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I think Nolan is my favorite director. I liked Following and most everything he's done. Speaking of race-swapping though, my dark horse favorite of his is Tenet. Which I originally didn't wanna see cuz it was coming out in COVID / wake of St. George of Floyd, and I totally thought it was Nolan doing DEI. Then watching it, thought it was awesome and John David Washington is a real good actor (thanks to his dad probly; and still think it's Robert Pattison's best work). Watched it again last night and, hearing the urban / rap track for it, started thinking maybe this is Nolan DEI, but Nolan's so good that even his DEI work is quality...
Anyway, Matt Damon's annoying. Oppenheimer was ok but as much as Nolan's Odyssey sounds awesome, Damon as Odysseus for 2.5-3 hours feels intolerable...
Posted by: bearski at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)
*nods knowingly* No "Barton Fink" feeling.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (jibVG)
Is the captain of the USS Defiant gonna be named Sisko?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 22, 2025 05:17 PM (TD894)
Ohhhhh... that's why I misremembered HIM being an android. Right, his brain was used to make the android Vision.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:17 PM (1wjle)
"Sacker of Cities"?
More like "Sipper of Penises".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:17 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (sKqQm)
I feel like "Honey Don't" would make me burn my collection of past movies.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)
I haven't seen "Drive-Away Dykes." Not sure now whether I should.
"Honey Don't" is pretty good. It borders on trying to be noir. Sort of. It's a decent Whodoneit.
And I just don't know how anyone could turn down a lesbo scene with Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (dGCAG)
Our Big beautiful Battleships are gonna have rail guns and lasers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: USS Alabama floating in Mobile Bay at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (Y1sOo)
I liked Troy. They also did the No Gods, No Magic thing.
Posted by: ace
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Would totally rather Brad Pitt do Odysseus instead of Damon...
Posted by: bearski at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (Bhsk7)
First he was fighting at the Great Wall in China, now he’s paddling around the ocean for decades during the Trojan Wars.
I’m not convinced of his Greekness.
Always took him for a Gaul.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)
In Hittite, the name of the city was Wilios.
The old name of Troy, reason for Homer's story being called the Iliad, was Ilios.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (uWKK8)
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (YubK1)
Also, have we hit the point where it's taken longer than Matt Damon's lifetime for him to be rescued/get home in the combined movies he's been in?
Posted by: Octochicken at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (oCS0o)
I'd argue Pattison's best work is The Rover. Turns out he can act when he isn't in Twillight...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (sKqQm)
I liked Troy. They also did the No Gods, No Magic thing.
Posted by: ace
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I've read that there's definitely gods and magic in Nolan's movie.
Charlize Theron let is slip that she was playing a witch (can't remember who). I think there are cast lists that indicate people playing gods (Zendaya is one, I think).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (GBKbO)
yeah that's what he is, he's a containment suit holding near-infinite nuclear power inside. I think it's a plot hook used from time to time where his suit gets breached and he has to get to a very desolate area to blow up without killing people
(he gets better)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (jibVG)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:19 PM (Dv3i1)
Charlize Theron let is slip that she was playing a witch (can't remember who). I think there are cast lists that indicate people playing gods (Zendaya is one, I think).
oh that's right
zendaya is Aphrodite. whatev's. (or maybe athena. also whatev's)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:20 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)
I thought you LIKED lesbo pron.
Freakin' prudes.....
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:20 PM (dGCAG)
It seems like...Joel may be the dumb one.
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Yeeeeeeah. It's funny but it may be that the, uh, "earthier" aspect of their movies may be entirely due to Joel whose overarchingly poor taste is kept in check by Ethan's loftier visions.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)
isn't that on some pay per view website?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM
Wave-Motion Gun?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)
LOL
This f'ing guy.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (asXVI)
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Joel should have reconnected with Sam Raimi and gone full nonsense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
Derek Hunter used a great nickname for him today: "Fraudie Murphie."
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (sKqQm)
She was probably lucky she didn't come out looking like a bird.
I hear she did get the brain, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (IG3/x)
Donnie: Everywhere I go, I sell a hundred planes. And we can't make 'em fast enough. These companies need to stop this stupid stock buybacks and dividends, and invest in production facilities.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (sDNVV)
I'm in a place where I can't play audio. Which shipyard is building the Trump Class battleships? Or will it be south Korea?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (pS434)
Posted by: the dandy at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (8l8nW)
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Tim should be called Wonder Man. You look at him and, man, do you wonder,
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Lana and Lilly Wachowski at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (jibVG)
You made me go on a tangent but I thought Furiosa was better than Fury Road.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:20 PM (1wjle)
I don't get the whole Zendaya thing, myself.
There are plenty of good-looking black/mixed race women.
She isn't one of them.
Aphrodite? YeahNo.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:16 PM (EXyHK)
THE ATOM was apart of the Justice Society and Captain Adam was with JLI and yes it was really funny and yes if Captain Adam's skin was pierced he could explode like an atom bomb
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (FCrpy)
There, I said it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (dGCAG)
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Ortega's actually kind of interesting. She has, like, actual opinions about movies.
She went viral slightly (and my blog did as well for a hot moment) because she name-dropped Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
She's also hitched herself almost fully to Tim Burton, which is interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (GBKbO)
Also, the native habitat of the native-to-North-America Grotopotomus.
An American version of Das Boot which I first saw in it's native German. With hot chick to translate for me.
Her adventures obviously were not "Midway" level action. But still...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:13 PM
So did you meet the German hot chick's advances midway?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (UdiE9)
You made me go on a tangent but I thought Furiosa was better than Fury Road.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (KDPiq)
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I prefer Fury Road, but they're just very different films. Love 'em both.
Maybe someone will want to lose $200 million in a fire and hand it to George Miller to make The Wasteland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (GBKbO)
Apparently, the Heritage Foundation is having some kind of meltdown and a lot of its folks are leaving, including some part of it affiliated with Meese.
He released a statement today that he's setting up shop somewhere else for the organization.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (77rzZ)
We're gonna build new yards to build all the ships, and planes, and submarines.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (w6EFb)
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Might be better than "Weapons," I'm not sure whether I think so or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (dGCAG)
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Well, "Weapons" is meant to be scary and wild and the second half, as noted, is trying for a big payoff (and hence splits the audience).
"Bring Her Back" is more in the mournful subgenre (see all the horror movies about orphanages and dead children, e.g.) so it doesn't have that severe a tone shift. It's definitely a more even film.
But of all the things that come down to taste and mood, horror and comedies do so more and harder than any other genres.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (CWez5)
Heh. Just seems like superheroing is not your best career choice if that’s your weakness.
Was there ever a supervillain whose power was, if you hurt him he blows up and takes out the entire city?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (GBKbO)
Is it?
Tim Burton was interesting about 25 years ago.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (dGCAG)
Did you know Trump tried to kill Biden with the help of the Jews and Macron? No really he did. Here’s the proof.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (UJWr0)
Because our Navy doesn't have the reach with their existing, or on drawing board, weapons to counter the PLAN.
And the aircraft built during Bush-Obama-Trump I can't reach targets unless the carriers move into ASBM range and get pulverized.
*But mostly because there will never be an aircraft carrier named after him. And that's a shame.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM
Explosive Vest Man.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)
isn't that on some pay per view website?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:21 PM (uWKK
1996 movie with Gina Gershon and JenniferTilly.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (KDPiq)
Donnie said something about "super-duper subs".
Big Beautiful Battleships. Yuge Carriers and Super Duper Submarines.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:23 PM (GBKbO)
Is it?
Tim Burton was interesting about 25 years ago.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (dGCAG)
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Burton's movies are kind of meh these days, but her working almost exclusively with this guy who suddenly is getting all the money in the world to make weird things on huge scales is interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (pkeXY)
There, I said it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:22 PM (dGCAG)
She's not even FUGLY just STOP with her she can only do resting Bitch face and she ruined the Dune sequel.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (viF8m)
I couldn't pick jenna tortuga out of a lineup.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (CWez5)
You wouldn't unless you put a bag on her head. What a sour puss.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Vivek R. at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: bearski at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (Bhsk7)
Ain't nobody wanna see that!
NTTAWWT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (7yt4l)
The Trump Admin should award 1 new nuclear power plant to each State (that want one). That would be great for the Tradesman and good for Jobs.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (CWez5)
The future is drones; air, land and sea.
That, and cyber attacks, GoF chimera, purchased politicians and judges and drugs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (kHd4y)
Posted by: bearski
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The extra hell of it is, Angelina Jolie would make an awesome Penelope.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (pS434)
i tried to get into those but I think I was expecting something like Flashman. Sharpe's kind of boring!
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (1wjle)
Speaking of a series that absolutely needs to be filmed, but never will...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
The first country to effectively deploy sat-based energy weapons will dominate. ( also, I don't think we sail any battleships anymore, no? )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Ben Had
Hey, if you had the hottest chick in the world, you'd be p***y-whipped, too.
Really? I heard he was tired of her s***.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (Riz8t)
"Bring Her Back" is more in the mournful subgenre (see all the horror movies about orphanages and dead children, e.g.) so it doesn't have that severe a tone shift. It's definitely a more even film.
But of all the things that come down to taste and mood, horror and comedies do so more and harder than any other genres.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:24 PM (asXVI)
I was cheering the climax in Weapons.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)
I’ll see your bound and raise you a desert hearts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)
I kinda want to see what Dan Crenshaw does with the role of Polyphemus.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (pIfcn)
Is jenna ortaga the same person as that audrey plaza?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (CWez5)
We're gonna hit $22 Trillion in investment for all this ship building.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM (w6EFb)
The future is drones; air, land and sea.
That, and cyber attacks, GoF chimera, purchased politicians and judges and drugs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (kHd4y)
Someone knows their warfare.
But don't forget lawyers, guns, and money.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
No ventilation system.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (fryM6)
DOnnie Two Scoops is saying the era of American decline is over.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Guy who notices at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (Dv3i1)
Good point. Given the propensity for anyone to build anything in superhero universes, there must be some guy who can make explosive vests using self-adhesive micro-nukes.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)
I’ll see your bound and raise you a desert hearts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM
Caged Heat.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:28 PM (mlg/3)
She has nice hips.
https://tinyurl.com/3h64k8mp
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (Riz8t)
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That happened with Amber Heard, too.
Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:25 PM (GBKbO)
Maybe he could do a remake of GWTW.
Cast Timothy Shamanama as Rhett.
"Frankly, my dear Jenna, I don't give a heck."
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (dGCAG)
Im happy to chip in to keep people employed especially in $16 hrs minimum wage Commiefornia.
Posted by: torabora at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (w6sjj)
Best lesbian movie by far is Bound.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:18 PM (KDPiq)
I’ll see your bound and raise you a desert hearts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:27 PM
Caged Heat.
Posted by: toby928
Schindler's List.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (w6EFb)
"Based on fact".
How much so, I don't know, but William Marston (creator of Wonder Woman) definitely lived in a menage a trois with his wife and one of his students and definitely had children by both women (also, the women continued to live together for the rest of their lives after his death).
Pretty good film, IMO, but then I have a thing for Bella Heathcote.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)
@RichSementa 1m
NEW - Trump: New Battleships Will Inspire Fear In Our Enemies
"They'll help maintain American military supremacy... and inspire fear in America's enemies all over the world... Ultimately we think it's going to be anywhere from 20-25 of these [built]."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (mlg/3)
She must be really good on the casting couch because they keep trying to make her a thing. She can't act, and unlike a young Jennifer Connelly or Amanda Seyfried she doesn't have the looks to get these kind of roles.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
Not with her breasts cut off.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (77rzZ)
What's next, zeppelins?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (Riz8t)
She has nice hips.
https://tinyurl.com/3h64k8mp
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (asXVI)
I didn't know that was her!
Time for a rewatch.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (XV/Pl)
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Greenland won't stand a chance!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:31 PM (sDNVV)
For example the Yemen pirates could be handled by going up and down their coast destroying every sea side village...
But even Trump won't go there and actually solve the problem
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (pS434)
Posted by: Ben Had
Couldn't you just pay them a wage instead?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (mlg/3)
She must be really good on the casting couch because they keep trying to make her a thing. She can't act, and unlike a young Jennifer Connelly or Amanda Seyfried she doesn't have the looks to get these kind of roles.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:30 PM (sKqQm)
Best Aphrodite is Xena Aphrodite.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)
Pretty sure it's standard 70s era sexploitation, drive-in fare.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)
Pretty sure it's standard 70s era sexploitation, drive-in fare.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (dGCAG)
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Pearl is better.
Still haven't seen MaXXXine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (XV/Pl)
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Do not know this one. I shall have to investigate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0
What? Really? That is like one of the most ubiquitous and OG Horde and indeed pop culture references.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 05:29 PM (UJWr0)
Pretty sure it's standard 70s era sexploitation, drive-in fare.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (dGCAG)
Someone just dated themselves, or came out of the closet.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (dK+Kv)
They are (for now) fairly unsophisticated flying, boating or whatever devices pre-programmed or GPS enabled to go from point A to point B (maybe by some circuitous route) and blow shit up.
Fry its brain and it's dead. We're looking into that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Gary Puckett at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (ynpvh)
Still haven't seen MaXXXine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (GBKbO)
Same
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (sDNVV)
They will never rise above that.
I think Ortega can be quite pretty when she isn't being weird.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (TEgX5)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 22, 2025 05:34 PM (TEgX5)
Don't hold back
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (VE6XX)
Why there won't be another Battleship again
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (WI7ox)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (dK+Kv)
By the time I was old enough to go to drive-ins, they were almost all gone.
I am familiar with the genre though.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)
>>@RiseOfAlberta
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>>This means the official process moves forward and signature collection can begin January 2.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (viF8m)
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Early Jonathan Demme, when Corman lit upon "women behind bars!" and the Philippines as a cheap shooting location with VERY low regulation and safety requirements!
It under-delivers, of course, but it has its moments.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (asXVI)
I liked Uma Thurman as Aphrodite in Baron Munchausen.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 05:33 PM (sKqQm)
Not voluptuous enough
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Next Mardigras will be held in Nuuk!
-- Trump's special envoy to Greenland
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)
Ralphie from Sopranos plays another fine role as douchey gangster.
Posted by: the dandy at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (8l8nW)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:32 PM (3uBP9)
I'd go with Ursula Andress in the original Clash of the Titans.
Mmmm.... Ursula.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:36 PM (IG3/x)
We are going to refight WW2?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 05:36 PM (PVBkQ)
I am familiar with the genre though.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)
We have one around here, and I still need to take the kids.
But on the genre, I have taken to searching out old 60-70s monster, sci-fi, and other movies, and those exploitation movies always show up in my search results or recommendations, too.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM
It's no Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (jc0TO)
When will Hollywood remake "The Bodyguard" and make it about a tough dyke loner who protects a small tranny fake "boy?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:38 PM (sDNVV)
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Screenplay by Roger Ebert!
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When will Hollywood remake "The Bodyguard" and make it about a tough dyke loner who protects a small tranny fake "boy?"
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It's almost in the works now. The currently-being-shot remake has a female bodyguard and a male ward.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: 18-1
A woman whose looks are truly overrated. Like Cameron Diaz.
One of them was in The Truth About Cats and Dogs with Jeanine Garofalo. I thought that Garofalo was the far cuter one.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 22, 2025 05:26 PM (y9nCu)
It was filmed, Malcom McDowell played Flashman. It was pretty bad. Royal Flash.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (MoRvC)
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Only Wholesome Murder and Mayhem For Me, Thanks!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (asXVI)
............
I first thought battleships? But then thought big ships with missles, drones, nuclear capability, marines, and artillery.
Posted by: Cosda at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (gP5NO)
Two Scoops: We've had different kind of presidents before me. They didn't mind getting ripped off. Didn't mind drugs pouring in our country and killing millions of Americans. I do mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (w6EFb)
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Only Wholesome Murder and Mayhem For Me, Thanks!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (asXVI)
Perversity is in the eye of the beholder.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dK+Kv)
https://tinyurl.com/2wknx98b
"The thing has a plot, but to summarize it would be to miss the point. It’s rather like what you would expect if a Henry Miller character had rewritten Our Town for serialization in Playboy or Penthouse."
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (jc0TO)
Loved to go as a kid
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
I much prefer 80s action and/or cheap teen sex romps.
Fast Times and Porky's are the first of the latter type I saw in theaters.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (3uBP9)
Damon can't help himself from making pseudo-intellectual political statements whenever he has a microphone in front of him to promote a new project. That's what happened with "The Green Zone." I'm hoping it happens with this one too. You'd think he'd be smart enough to realize that Hollywood films are a popularity contest. But, it seems his need to portray himself as smarter than the rest of the room always comes into play.
In case you were wondering. I don't like the guy.
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dIske)
Troy is better and I hated that slop.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (2GVsD)
A role I was born to play.
Posted by: USSS Special Agent FUPA at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (Y1sOo)
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But she's nowhere near as good looking as Demi Moore (whom she plays the younger version of in "The Substance").
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:41 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (MoRvC)
Better actress, world class dancing skills, and substantially better looking than her mom ever was.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:41 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 05:42 PM (Kt19C)
And frickin' lasers. Don't forget the lasers.
Seriously, it is all of the above. Nookular capable Big Beautiful Battleships, 100 times more powerful than the Iowa. If you see that topping over the horizon coming at you, you're toast, he says.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:42 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (2GVsD)
Yeah, and all they have to do is get within artillery range and stay there despite the missiles, air, and drones.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Cosda at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (gP5NO)
You'd have to. Of course we're not talking 16 inch gun boats.
There's gotta be drones, energy weapons, and drone countermeasures including the new UUVs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (dK+Kv)
Fake News fake "reporter": What are we (he did say we) going to do with the oil you seized on December 10th, the 1.9M bbls?
President: "Keep it. We're keeping the ship, too."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (MoRvC)
We're not getting the full story on that.
We're just going to wheel it in and ignore the horse's abnormally huge ass?
Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:43 PM (WI7ox)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (25LyA)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (KDPiq)
I am familiar with the genre though.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:35 PM (dGCAG)
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Up until about five years ago we had a drive-in around my neck of the woods. Thing is, it only showed adult films. Growing up, there'd always be about 50 high school kids camping out in the corn field behind the drive-in. No sound, but you make do with what ya got.
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (dIske)
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I'm with you on that one, Anna Puma. It was fine (I guess) to remove the Gods as actual players, but to remove religion completely was to be just the dorky kid smashing action figures together.
I'm glad people enjoy Nolan, but I haven't really liked one of his movies since "Insomnia", so I was out almost from the get-go anyway. (I recognize his ability but, like Scorsese or Mann, I just can't get into his films.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (Hkcdp)
One of them was in The Truth About Cats and Dogs with Jeanine Garofalo. I thought that Garofalo was the far cuter one.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 05:39 PM (77rzZ)
I think Thurman was 19 when she was in Dangerous Liaisons.
From the neck down, on a scale of 1-10, she was an 11.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (2GVsD)
I think Nolan is the most overrated director of our time, but I'll watch it because I love the story.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 22, 2025 05:45 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 05:45 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)
The Substance get points for being original, I'll give it that.
The Substance also pounds the shit out of the points it's trying to make.
Enough, already. You made your point, move on with the story.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (CWez5)
At least a aircraft carrier can keep opponents away much farther.
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Hkcdp)
Local Farmer: WTH!!! I have a field covered in kleenex again!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (MoRvC)
Fast Times and Porky's are the first of the latter type I saw in theaters.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)
Those are good, too.
It's just that I was a bit too young to appreciate some of the earlier works, and I am looking to explore some of those, especially given the similarities in zeitgeist with current times.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 05:44 PM (dIske)
When I was a kid we'd drive past the drive-in, and I was under the impression they always showed naughty films.
So I'd be in the back of the car, gawking as we drove past, trying to catch a glimpse of... something. I'm not even sure I would have known what I was seeing if I saw it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (jibVG)
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How squeamish are you? We're talking Cronenberg-plus levels of body-horror, that goes from horror into comedy. The last 20 minute sequence is the most deliriously excessive body horror I've seen in decades—maybe ever.
So if you can keep your lunch down, and this sort of thing is your bag, you get a lot of naked Moore and Qualley. (And Moore@60! looks amazing.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (asXVI)
At least a aircraft carrier can keep opponents away much farther.
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)
That's probably a sober assessment. We could get away with similar capacity with a fleet of destroyers.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (Kt19C)
Mmmm.... Ursula.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:36 PM (IG3/x)
Clash of the Titays was the first on screen boobs I ever saw. I think it was on regular broadcast, 85ish, watching some stupid boring movie on tv, and all of a sudden boobs!
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)
Anyone who doesn't think Qualley is a smokeshow is by definition, teh ghey.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (Hkcdp)
Against shithole villages full of third-world pirates?
Well, there's something to be said for hitting Habib's goat pen with a full ton of high explosive from 25 miles away.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Sadly, half the country wants our country to get ripped off and doesn't mind drugs flowing in. And illegal alien criminals to rape and kill their neighbors. If that's what it takes to Make America Respectable Again!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (Dv3i1)
Amazing discoveries abound at the DOJ. Just amazing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (MoRvC)
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Ach! My harem! Ululululuulululu!
Posted by: Habib at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (8CIFn)
So if you can keep your lunch down, and this sort of thing is your bag, you get a lot of naked Moore and Qualley. (And Moore@60! looks amazing.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:47 PM (asXVI)
Ever seen "American Mary"?
Yeah.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Skip
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Too expensive for whom? The attacker or the battleship?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (pS434)
Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)
Anyone who doesn't think Qualley is a smokeshow is by definition, teh ghey.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)
Nice teeth.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (dK+Kv)
Against shithole villages full of third-world pirates?
Well, there's something to be said for hitting Habib's goat pen with a full ton of high explosive from 25 miles away.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Will it be useful against China? Venezuela? India, if it comes to it?
Seriously, I'm honestly baffled. We need flexibility and affordability, not a Great White Elephant Fleet.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: coba at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (zZu0s)
Amazing discoveries abound at the DOJ. Just amazing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
I was wrong, it's a re-creation video. WTF?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (abIsI)
That's the sequel where Circe beguiles our hero while performing porcine surgeries on his crew.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (2GVsD)
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Nah. I mean, you're not wrong if you're talking a traditional film, but this is a balls-to-the-wall horror satire. Going halfway would not have worked. Yes, it's alienating to a lot of the audience but it wasn't the time for moderation.
The director is a Parisian girl (Coralie Fargeat) who did a revenge picture called "Revenge" where the lead girl prances around half-naked (and her lover is dong out half the time)--I mean, it's the sort of exploitation that nobody does any more and I thinks he gets away with it because, well, woman. It's empowering or something.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (asXVI)
Is Bari Weiss stupid? I she in over her head?
Yes.
Just say the 60 Minutes fake "story" was BAD. Don't be coy. Don't be respectful. Be honest and throw them all under the bus where they belong.
60 Minutes tried NBC Ford Pinto the Trump Admin and Bari Weiss beats around the bush about it. Just say it was Shit fake journalism.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Cynical Stoic at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (U6BqK)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (dK+Kv)
Legs a mile long.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:52 PM (zZu0s)
btw, Barry Weiss should FIRE whoever leaked it and made it a "news" "story" that she shelved the 60 Minutes hoax-story.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (CWez5)
During the Q&A, Trump said somebody, some country I missed, has "three big cocaine factories", and we know where they are. He better shut those down right now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 05:53 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 05:49 PM (Hkcdp)
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It's in the HUGE catalogue of movies over the past five years where I said, "Well, that was aMAzing and I can't think of a person to recommend it to." (Except Eris.)
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383 >>> I'd go with Ursula Andress in the original Clash of the Titans.
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"The Sensuous Nurse". I mean, if you like Ursula boobs (et al).
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:54 PM (asXVI)
Donnie Dreadnought?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:55 PM (3uBP9)
Seriously, I'm honestly baffled. We need flexibility and affordability, not a Great White Elephant Fleet.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 05:51 PM (OUMaO)
Venezuela, probably.
The thing is we haven't been fighting China, or Russia, or India for the last 40 years.
We've been fighting Libya, and Somalia, and Pockyston, and Sudan, and Iraq, and Iran, and Grenada, and Panama, and...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 05:56 PM (IG3/x)
And the gunsight for the Wave Motion Cannon is a surplus Luftwaffe Revi 16B.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (zZu0s)
nood
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 05:58 PM (3uBP9)
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Different film! (Though also co-written by Ebert, IIRC.)
"Valley of the Dolls" is based on the execrable Jacqueline Suzann novel. She hated Russ Meyer's sequel and threatened to sue, to "Beyond" had to have a disclaimer that it had no relation to the book.
Then Russ went off on his whole "Vixen," "Ultra-Vixen" and "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixen" thing.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (2GVsD)
No, by the time they get rail guns installed they'll need to be refitted with Ion Pulse Cannons. And by the time they catch up to THAT Neutron Blasters will be the thing.
Did no one else play MOO2? Be patient, take the risk and let your shipyard skip a generation of tech. Or you'll be facing a fleet of Black Hole Generators with Plasma Torps
Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:59 PM (WI7ox)
Let me just say as an eighties comic book collector I do care about Wonder Man. Except for the name I don’t know about the gender swap thing. It’s not like he came from some mystical island or has a silly assed rope or an invisible jet.
That said they will 100% screw this up.
Posted by: Clay at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (acuyW)
Posted by: a horse at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Y1sOo)
Anyone who doesn't think Qualley is a smokeshow is by definition, teh ghey.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)
She definitely caught my attention wearing those shorts in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
From what I gather her personality with that character is basically what she’s like offscreen, too.
She seems fun, but exhausting.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 06:00 PM (6ydKt)
During the Q&A, Trump said somebody, some country I missed, has "three big cocaine factories", and we know where they are. He better shut those down right now.
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It wouldn't surprise me if this information was known as far back as Clinton, but him and success presidents figured it was better if the American people didn't know about these so the the administrations wouldn't be forced to 'do something' about them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (Dv3i1)
Donnie Two Scoops: We're gonna build battleships again. Biggest battleships ever, like nothing you've even seen before. YUGE. Luxuriously lethal.
Also, even bigger carriers.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 05:15 PM (w6EFb)
Bring back the Iowa class, this time nuclear powered.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 06:10 PM (4786I)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 06:17 PM (jc0TO)
Foster recently made a French picture, A Private Life. She plays an American psychiatrist in Paris. One of her patients commits suicide, and the patient's husband blames the shrink. But then,
Foster finds stuff to suggest that maybe it wasn't suicide. Maybe, it was MURDER!!
That's about the only new movie I want to watch.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 22, 2025 06:36 PM (p9rFX)
I heard about the TV show, which I had heard was starring Eddie Murphy. Guess that fell through.
But, Wonder Man is supposed to be about a superhero (with actual powers) who wants to be an actor. That does not seem to be the story they are using. This looks like a The Franchise all over again.
Posted by: doug at December 22, 2025 07:00 PM (6tMnc)
Movies I saw and didn't hate; Naked Gun and Mission Impossible. MI was a slight disappointment.
Interesting thing about Naked Gun was that I found it amusing, but the twenty-somethings seated above went nuts for it. I think it's because the movie resurrected so many old sight gags and prat falls that I was so familiar with, but it was all new to them.
I saw Superman... I have regrets.
Posted by: John the River at December 22, 2025 07:04 PM (Li1E5)
Communist Cuba "On Edge of Collapse" Due to Trump's Oil Embargo of Cuba's Key Ally Venezuela
Late last week, Trump seized a second Venezuelan tanker.
Now he's tracking a third tanker from the "dark fleet."The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela as President Donald Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with a sweeping blockade targeting illicit oil shipments. "The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion," a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson. "It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order." Reuters reported that another official noted the tanker was operating under sanctions and that it had not been boarded thus far. The official also said interceptions could be taken by flying or sailing near vessels of concern. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the officials did not provide the name of the vessel or where it was operating while being pursued. The pursuit comes days after Trump announced a "total and complete blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. .. A second tanker was seized by U.S. forces on Saturday, again, off the coast of Venezuela. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that the U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Department of War, apprehended the oil tanker during the early morning hours. The ship had last been docked in Venezuela.This may result in Maduro's downfall. It might also result in the downfall of the Castroist regime in Cuba. Venezuela has been sending its communist ally Cuba shipments of very subsidized oil for decades, and now those shipments are less than one-third of what they had been.
Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights. A quarter of the population has fled during the island's most prolonged economic crisis.Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.
And it's about to get worse. The U.S. is ratcheting up pressure on Havana's key benefactor, Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro's regime, which has kept the Communist-ruled nation afloat with cheap oil. Now Venezuelan oil exports are at risk thanks to a partial blockade targeting sanctioned tankers--the kind that carry about 70% of the country's crude. One tanker that the U.S. has already seized was en route with almost two million barrels of Venezuelan oil. The blockade adds to a U.S. pressure campaign on Maduro that also includes a major military buildup in the Caribbean, airstrikes on boats allegedly connected to Venezuelan drug trafficking and threats of bombing the country itself. Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating. "It would be the collapse of the Cuban economy, no question about it," said Jorge Piñón, a Cuban exile who tracks the island's energy ties to Venezuela at the University of Texas at Austin. Venezuela has been vital for Cuba's economy since 1999, when then-President Hugo Chávez described the two countries as bound together "in a sea of happiness." Cuba deployed sports trainers, doctors and counterintelligence agents to Venezuela, the latter to root out traitors who might overthrow Chávez. Venezuela responded with 100,000 barrels of oil shipped to Cuba daily. The heavily subsidized oil shipments have fallen to 30,000 barrels a day. Agents from Cuba's vaunted intelligence service remain in Venezuela, where they have worked to purge disloyal military officers and government officials, helping ensure Maduro remains ensconced in power. Cuba's deep reliance on Venezuela means Cuba's Communist government is doing all it can to prevent Maduro--who trained in Cuba as a young man--from being forced from office in his greatest challenge after nearly 13 years in office. That means ensuring he is always surrounded by security and loyal aides, with no one carrying cellphones or other electronic devices. "They are taking very good care of Nicolás Maduro and his immediate successors," said Thomas A. Shannon Jr., a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat who engaged frequently with the Venezuelan regime. "The Cubans are not going to go quietly into the dark night."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (cuae1)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (cuae1)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (cuae1)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (cuae1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
How is Cuba paying for the oil?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (7yt4l)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (emBoF)
But then we'd have lots of unemployed academics who could no longer tell us why all the problems are our fault and insoluble, and we should just give up and accept our fate.
Posted by: Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes = Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (CWTWj)
Yep, I would like to see both the Venezuelan and Cuban governments to change to something more friendly to their people.
Posted by: BillB at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (TQxb9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Listen to her- she's got it goin' on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (7yt4l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (7yt4l)
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Walls are closing in!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (kT/XV)
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (pJizs)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (rkTTp)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (2uFUy)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: JFK at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (viF8m)
They don't pay for it. It's a barter system. In exchange for the oil, Cuber renders services to Maduro, like secret police goons and such.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)
Occasionally you will see them on the Florida Strait.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM
What have you heard?!
Posted by: George HW Bush at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (kT/XV)
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Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (2fdLC)
https://youtu.be/GHeWnGGScP0
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's late December. How sweltering can Cuba possibly be in late December?
I've been in southern Florida, 90 miles away from Cuba, in March and it was fucking cold, man.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (NwnyJ)
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (hhkIi)
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So, how much do those "vaunted" guys ... cost? Would they accept bananas? Coconuts? AMEX pre-paid cards? If they are overseas, I suppose the Cuban government probably keeps a close eye on the immediate family members, but, sheesh, we could buy the minders, too.
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)
Oh, he's absolutely going to get the Rodrigo Duterte treatment come 2029.
There's no way they don't try.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (fgmuN)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
You don't want that. Trust me on this.
Posted by: Zombie Ceaucescu at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (7yt4l)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (+mUZM)
_______
"Cocksuckers also helped Russia invade the USA, twice!"
-- Chuck Norris
-- Patrick Swayze
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)
Well, what's left of them. They are mostly made of russian tractor engines and Bondo these days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (6Bc8
WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)
Venezuela has been a hub of anti-American subversion for years. DataRepublican had series of X posts on that a while back. Even our domestic subversives like Antifa the commies are tied into that.
Some of their defectors have spilled a lot of the beans on this, including that flooding us with drugs is a deliberate destabilization plot to mess us up domestically. Chicoms are big on this, as well as Iran/Islamofacists and the Rooskies.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)
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Hi!
*waves at Cuba*
Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (ESVrU)
Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
They're like the combination of Sears and K-Mart; two failing companies which when combined, by some miracle of capitalism will suddenly become profitable.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Riz8t)
See - Armed Queers Salt Lake City
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (NwnyJ)
But, of course that's what will happen.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (7yt4l)
Posted by: TITP at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (OUE/9)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (pyeGn)
I guess they ran out of welding rods.
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
..................................................
#2 Weeks
#Soon
Etc .
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (viF8m)
Those defectors have also said that a lot of CIA and State Dept officials are on Venezuela's payroll. They've supposedly named names.
Trump has said enough of this shit. This is the Donroe Doctrine. No more big foreign powers messing around in our hemisphere to subvert us.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: tcn in AK
WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers
Sucks to be Ukraine.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 03:49 PM (dAOkg)
A little bit of horniness but mostly a lot of commie killin'
I highly recommend it.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:49 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: DBH at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (eMT6A)
This how they meet girls. Sad World.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (EyfuW)
Jews?
-you never know around here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (7yt4l)
Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)
Having spoken to Canadians who went there, you don't want them. Those cars are 20-footers, at best. They maintain them for the tourist trade. There are probably some real fine cars in Fidel's personal collection, whoever has custody of that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: zombie
If they run low on oil, they can burn doctors, sports trainers and counter intelligence agents.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: All Those Young People Its Go Time Donald Claims Look to Nick Fuentes for Leadership at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (viF8m)
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PR had a MAGA-ish conservative governor, Ricardo Rossello, who was doing good things on the Island. So of course he had to be destroyed. And he was, in 2019, in the "Rickyleaks" scandal. He was ousted for inflammatory (private texts) where he and his friends shat on their political enemies. Nothing they said wasn't 100% true, but it was enough to get rid of him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (oraVG)
Fled to where? I thought Cuba was a prison island and that only a raft made up of flotsam bound together or the Grim Reaper was the only way out.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (9s47C)
Now thats shooting
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)
I think those are all mostly 55 Chevy of Theseus by now. Maybe not much value.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (3uBP9)
You can find quite a few in Florida.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)
A lot of things are ending with that. ... THEN CAME TRUMP
Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (WI7ox)
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)
You sending your kids first, right? Right?
Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (dK+Kv)
They're close (in our hemisphere) and therefore pertinent to our security.
They're hostile, show no signs of being open to negotiation. Indeed, they're looking for ways to cause us more trouble.
I just want the coups to succeed and not leave us saddled with basket cases that we have to occupy and keep on life support.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wBaIH)
I said this the other day but it bears repeating...I was stationed at GITMO from 93-95 and even back then cuba was "weeks" away from collapse. I grant this time might actually be different but cuba has been on the verge of collapse dozens of times in the decades since I was stationed there and it hasn't happened yet.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (0N4FZ)
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
Thread winner...I'm putting that on my Linked In profile, in fact...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (9JDJW)
"TRUMP HATES BROWN PEOPLE!!!!"
"HE'S LETTING THEM DIE!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: All Those Young People Its Go Time Donald Claims Look to Nick Fuentes for Leadership at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)
lol
Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (dK+Kv)
Those defectors have also said that a lot of CIA and State Dept officials are on Venezuela's payroll. They've supposedly named names.
Trump has said enough of this shit. This is the Donroe Doctrine. No more big foreign powers messing around in our hemisphere to subvert us.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (w6EFb)
Donny Two Scoops won't put up with any trash in his neighborhood.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (Kt19C)
Cuba has suffered from the US embargo. Because we can't tolerate a successful socialist country. That's what I've been told at least.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (Kt19C)
So, you're saying Cuba just needs to be lit on fire?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)
If it does eventually collapse, it will turn in to a state-run Epstein enterprise.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tgvbd)
I'm curious as to their definition of 'success.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cooba at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wBaIH)
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Put AI to work. Transform every Cuban beach into a casino-resort-remote workplace paradise using AI for the transformation. Put that sh*t on the internet. I know the average Cuban's means of communication is a taut string between two coconut shells, but the people who count will see it.
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Limey Larry at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (oftw2)
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
Thread winner...I'm putting that on my Linked In profile, in fact...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
CHSI
Cubano High Speed Internet.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (dAOkg)
Do me a favor and keep their smelly asses locked down under socialismo.
Posted by: Babalu at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (m8zKa)
So it's an average Monday, then.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: zombie lee harvey oswald at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (rJ48h)
Carnival Section 8 Cruises 🚢
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: kactus at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (twS2i)
Been there, done that, Trump needs to cut off the Narco-funded LIBs, and their minion NEPOlibs left of launch before NY/MANDMANI espouses the inevitable: "FREE GAZA" chorus.
Every time you hear "FREE GAZA" know what it really means.
"They are coming. Atom by atom, they will coil around us and take all that we are. There is one way to confront this threat.... remain Klingon! That is why we light our beacon this day. To assemble our people. To lock arms against those whose fatal greeting is... WE COME IN PEACE"
Cry Havoc, and LET LOOSE the waves of LIBnepo's on NY. MADMANI even looks like a 1960's Klingon.
Meanwhile in the real world, Bill Clinton DEMANDS more of his guy-time on Jeffmass Island be revealed. Isn't that what the world needs now? more pictures of him in the blue dress pointing his finger at us?
No, not Remain Klingon -- FREE CUBA without firing a shot. Make Cuba the 51st state and there will be weath beyond dreams of avarice which will sweep across the Gulf of America and propel Rubio to be Prez...
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (vUKOt)
Cucker seems to be really going batsh*t and speeding his insanity up daily. I would find it entertaining if I bothered to watch him, which I don't.
Thanks, Ace, for watching for me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (WONhk)
Where did he go?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (fd80v)
I don't know, but he's not here to take are of ASS and his inane comments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Good job WSJ.
Posted by: DBCooper at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (+daAW)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
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Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.
/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
I don't care about the foreigners, or their shitty wars. And I don't want my predatory government using them as an excuse for endless graft, especially when my kids could well be swept up in it - it's not as if they'll benefit from the scam under any circumstances, and they could certainly suffer for it.
I don't care about the foreigners and their gay ass, fucked up economies. I don't want us absorbing these foreigners simply *because* they have no motivation and want to take something instead of make something.
I don't care about these foreigners and their petty tribal loyalties, or their religious commitments, or their insistence on their own questionable values.
Their food isn't good enough to justify all that stupid bullshit, and 2am Thai food isn't a real big motivator for me or my family.
If you care about these foreigners and their foreign bullshit so much, then go live in one of their foreign countries, & improve their foreign lives, and stop bothering me about it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (BI5O2)
Didn't work nearly as well there as it did when Obama controlled social media in the US.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (viF8m)
Then, Tucker can get property closer to the US!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Nah, we will use the same old formula the US has been using for generations:
• Go invade and tear apart and destabilize some country most people couldn't find on a map.
• Give them endless stream of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to "rebuild"
• watch as Our Betters mysteriously fall into new found generational wealth
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (c3sdc)
I don't care about the foreigners, or their shitty wars. And I don't want my predatory government using them as an excuse for endless graft, especially when my kids could well be swept up in it - it's not as if they'll benefit from the scam under any circumstances, and they could certainly suffer for it.
I don't care about the foreigners and their gay ass, fucked up economies. I don't want us absorbing these foreigners simply *because* they have no motivation and want to take something instead of make something.
I don't care about these foreigners and their petty tribal loyalties, or their religious commitments, or their insistence on their own questionable values.
Their food isn't good enough to justify all that stupid bullshit, and 2am Thai food isn't a real big motivator for me or my family.
If you care about these foreigners and their foreign bullshit so much, then go live in one of their foreign countries, & improve their foreign lives, and stop bothering me about it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (BI5O2)
X2
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)
You sending your kids first, right? Right?
Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM
Somewhat related, a mom from Turkey was at the window next to mine. Her 18 yr-old son was getting his learners permit. DMV employee informed him that he'd have to sign up for Selective Service. Once they explained to mom what that was, she freaked right out. After a while I intervened with a brief history of the draft, with a particular focus on which President ended it, and which one brought back the registration requirement. She wasn't entirely convinced, but I think the kid was able to get his permit...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Vacation Getaway at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (oftw2)
Rubio has a lot to do with this stragerizing. Little Marco grew up to be one hell of a wartime consigliere.
What you're seeing here with Trump 2.0, Trump unleashed, is using American power, military and economic to actually further American power and interests. As opposed to pissing away our blood and treasure on neocon type nation building shit and "for the good of all the world" shit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (w6EFb)
/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)
Latest survey came out (Blake Neff of TPUSA posted it) - and according to Americans the greatest threat facing American is ...Radical Islam. Cucker is in danger of being unfriended by Qatar's royal family!
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)
Think of all the new Amazon/Prime and Netflix subscribers exports of the cigars alone would produce the first round of infrastructure repair and build out, and then the serious growth would being -- once they overcome that laziness that has tolerated such diminishing returns and dismal state: A WORLD SAFE FOR SOCIALISM!
forWAR'd:MADMANI Futile entreaty: Remain Klingon!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (HDvbH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Qatucker Carlson at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (eRBFZ)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (2fdLC)
Are you saying that we CAN'T "hang them all?"
*stomps off in protest*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)
I'm going to need more detail...
Posted by: Archimedes
Moar bewbs
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dAOkg)
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It's only Monday. Holiday week too. They'll come around to it soon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (NwnyJ)
"Curing Cuba's energy problem requires a multi-pronged approach: immediate stabilization through plant repairs and securing fuel (oil from allies like Mexico/Russia), accelerated renewable deployment (solar, wind, hydro) with international backing, and long-term economic reform, as deep systemic issues hinder investment and fuel self-sufficiency, ultimately transitioning from aging thermal plants to a diversified, green energy mix with foreign help."
There. I note, no mention of political reform.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Il Donaldo at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (eRBFZ)
/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)
Latest survey came out (Blake Neff of TPUSA posted it) - and according to Americans the greatest threat facing American is ...Radical Islam. Cucker is in danger of being unfriended by Qatar's royal family!
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)
Good news is that once his Islamic brothers chop his head off, he won't go blabbing to the police about it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)
Flies gotta eat, same as Cubans.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: President James Boasberg at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (eRBFZ)
(Blake is posting TPUSA poll attendees)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (PWcY+)
Cuba should have collapsed when the Soviet Union collapsed, but they've always found someone to prop them up. First it was the Euro's, who knows why, then Chavez and Maduro took over being their sugar daddies.
Fatal weakness - their entire energy grid depends on the oil shipped in from Venezuela, because they've got ancient, decaying oil powered electricity generators and nothing else. If they go down (and they crashed 4 times just this last year) then the grid for the entire island goes down, and stays down.
And when that happens food production and distribution goes to zero, and they people won't have anything left to eat except each other. And that's really much of an exagerration.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Qatucker Carlson at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (eRBFZ)
Right! It was the Jooz! All of it!!!
Posted by: see eye ay at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: James Monroe at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (XeU6L)
Yahoo email? Ok boomer.
Yea, mine's down too.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (viF8m)
Peru is a wild card, last I looked the presnitrice of that dunghole was elected as a Leftist, and since then has just ruled as a crook in cahoots with a nonLeft parliament. So her opposition might end up being Shining Path tiers of angry.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Boss Moss
As bad as Cuber is now or will be after the final collapse, it's still better than Somalia. And Detroit.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (kT/XV)
That would ruin Haiti's Economy.
Cruise Ship Waste Tanks are their biggest Import.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (PWcY+)
REAL communism to the rescue!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM
I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (eRBFZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Haiti, since the French pulled out.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (XeU6L)
One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: one hour sober boomer at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM
I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)
Wanna bet?
Posted by: JUDGE Boasburg at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks "
The last ones to go are always the penguins.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (vFG9F)
How is Cuba paying for the oil?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)
By sending secret police and thugs to Venezuela to help Maduro keep the local population beaten into submission. Not kidding - Cuba is absolutely broke, they have no foreign exchange at all. Their sugar production is now the lowest its been in 100 years, since they can't afford fertilizer or diesel to run any tractors.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (npFr7)
Russia doesn't have nearly as much money to throw around as they used to. Certainly not the kind it would take to build a couple of free nukes to give to Cuba.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (uWKK8)
One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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AI is the land of green tea-sipping lotus eaters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Suck it, Guevarans and Castroites at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (XeU6L)
But James Comey did more damage to our precious democracy than Venezuela. And he's living it up and laughing at us.
He will be back to piss in our Cheerios again.
Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (NlEaG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (mlg/3)
Exactly! Which is why THIS is the time to sink both Venezuelan and Cuban governments now; with the political changes going on in the rest of SA, that could kick the Chinese out of the entire western hemisphere for a generation or more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)
Not our hemisphere.
... otoh, maybe whoever follows OrangeManBad can invade them and make them a colony of ours.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (ULPxl)
Then he went off on a tangent in some crazy spiel about how poor muslims are treated
...oh
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (HYKHz)
China is by far Venezuela's biggest customer for oil. The secondary affects of taking down Maduro are huge.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Do you mean Trudeau?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (YubK1)
Interestingly, that is about the same ratio of people (87%) who rely on discovering their desires from someone else.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xE0sV)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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Putin is bold, but not stupid.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Do you mean Trudeau?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)
Can we offer Justin $3k USD to move to Havana?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Tomorrow's Headlines Today at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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With what Navy?
Lmfao good luck hoss.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (w6EFb)
1. Trump ruins Cuba
2. Cuba becomes a US Territory
3. Democrats take Congress
4. Democrats make Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Washington DC 4 new States.
5. 8 More Democrat Senators and at least 4 more Democrats in the House.
6. Trump Impeached.
7. Vance Impeached.
8. Johnson switches parties to Democrat, and Resigns.
9. Hakeem Jeffries Sworn in as President of the United States.
10. Jeffries DOJ indicts, prosecutes, and convicts Donald Trump.
11. Trump dies in Prison.
Posted by: bill cuck kristol at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xE0sV)
HUH?? that was TPUSA poll, what are you raging about, boomer ?
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (g47mK)
You remember early on that business with the Panama Canal. And Marco went down with an offer they couldn't refuse? That was all about stopping Chicom control of the Panama Canal, which they were gaining.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (cn09p)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)
He's only a nephew to Raul.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (npFr7)
The analogy that he would assist his murdering brother escape capture and smuggle him out of the country didn't bother you too?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (KDPiq)
I confess I'm beginning to like the cut of this Carlson fellows jib. And his choice in neckwear is on point.
Posted by: George Will at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (kgG3s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (P7vXf)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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Putin is bold, but not stupid.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (PWcY+)
Not to mention that the Ukrainians have managed to sink most of his boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:23 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 22, 2025 04:23 PM (vTTFR)
Posted by: Elián González at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (XeU6L)
In August the entire area is hotter than Satan's ball sack.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (kT/XV)
Mimetic Theory posits that the vast majority of people obtain their desires from external sources (eg. propaganda, influencers, culture, etc.)
Come to your conclusions.
BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.
Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (U4c/V)
We aren't blockading Cuba. A navy is not required to ship a tanker of oil to Cuba from any country other than Venezuela.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JackStraw
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All west coast South American countries, excepting Colombia have voted socialists out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (YubK1)
*************
Missed that one, he says so much crazy stuff its hard to keep up
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (dIske)
Fake News found out the name of a Venezuelan tanker currently being harrassed by Trump -- the "Bella I"
It's very, very, very important you know the name of the tanker. Fake News thinks it will "humanize" the brown-skinned tanker, I suppose.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (CWez5)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (vFG9F)
Had Bill Clinton done back in '92 in Mogadishu (viz BlackhawkDown) what Somalia accomplished in a week nearly a decade later -- there factually would have been no OBL, NO 911, NO FOREVER WAR.
Why? because on that day the coms were receiving Arabic, not not local dialect, nor the local warlord -- CLINTON KNEW.
Same with the Rwandan Genocide, so many bodies were dumped into the bodies satellite photos showed the course of rivers change -- CLINTON NEW.
What the world needs now, according to Clinton, more Epstein disclosure -- what did him in that Blue Dress pointing a finger at us really mean? doesn't it deserve the same attention as Mona Lisa's smile? -- CLINTON KNOWS.
Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time -- Bill Clinton'06
it would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people "in a way that we hate." -- Bill Clinton'06
" I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" -- ctHILLARY, 2025
Deplorable Who?
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (Vs2Bx)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (U4c/V)
so you are in the 13%; ok, just say so, no need to pretend you have some kind of special knowledge
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (jc0TO)
Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Last night the kids were talking about how wonderful the 80s were. They didn't build that Boomers did.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: runner
Hitting the bottle rather early today, eh?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM
I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)
Wanna bet?
Posted by: JUDGE Boasburg
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Can't. Collateral estoppel. If you read carefully, each of the tankers seized have judicial seizure warrants issued for prior violations of international law. So you can't judge shop to prevent it as it has already been adjudicated.
From above, "The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion," a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson. "It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order."
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (WDjG6)
We aren't blockading Cuba. A navy is not required to ship a tanker of oil to Cuba from any country other than Venezuela.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (KDPiq)
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How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)
What they don't say is the demographics of this movement - it's not children or old people or the sick or the unfit who are leaving - they don't have the ability. Those leaving have been the majority of working age adults who would be expected to keep the country running on a day to day basis. Even the ambitious criminal class has left, because there's nothing to steal there anymore.
Cuba today is a dying island populated mainly by the elderly, the chronically sick, and the mentally infirm. The ones who couldn't leave.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (U4c/V)
not everyone live your life, boomer
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (5aZAZ)
I'm a big fan of South America. Beautiful area and if they can get some good government it could be boomtown. Place is packed with minerals and other goodies.
Chile is a very cool country. I could hang there.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (viF8m)
Are you saying we are blockading Cuba?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq)
The Brit fella who used to be married to her said she farted. A lot.
Nasty bitch.
Posted by: Fat Titties Though at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (m8zKa)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq)
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No, I'm not.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
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We really liked the TV series Black Sails and Toby Stephenson was good in that; of course, they had to eventually make his character be gay.
The great Ray Stevenson -- who played Titus Pullo in Rome -- was in that as well. IIRC, he played Blackbeard.
Another great actor killed prematurely by the clot shot like the great -- and extremely fit -- Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)
Things getting sport in LA. A mother chases down and rams the vehicle of a gang of thieves that tried to break in her house while her children were playing inside:
https://is.gd/MBxDvX
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (w6EFb)
They are the one's that 'help' Puerto Rico.
Cubans don't need that help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (MoRvC)
submarines.
*touches side of nose*
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (v3pYe)
TWEEEEET!
On the defense, #168 Math, Encroachment.
15 yard penalty. Automatic 1st down
Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (WI7ox)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)
I'm sure the only real obstacle to Russia's sending assistance to Cuba is Putin's complete lack of interest in getting involved there. Why piss off the American Eagle, and spur it to attack the Bear in the Ukraine?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (npFr7)
So it's like New York City.
Posted by: 53rd and 3rd at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (m8zKa)
submarines.
*touches side of nose*
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM
Milchkuh
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (jc0TO)
Come to your conclusions.
BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.
Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
Yes and no. Initial preferences can be set as such but real world personal experiences trump whatever blather is out there over time. Same reason that massive control over society and propaganda couldn't save the Soviet Union--too many people knew of all the regime failures.
The idea of image and news control is alluring to shitheads on powertrips but it doesn't produce lasting effects on most of the population over time. Experiences do. Former pollster, a guy named Yanklelovich, calls this coming to public judgment and it is true for all societies in the long run.
Leaders can't outspin reality for long periods of time, it always ends up destroying their credibility and right to rule when rectification occurs.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK8)
The great Ray Stevenson -- who played Titus Pullo in Rome -- was in that as well. IIRC, he played Blackbeard.
Another great actor killed prematurely by the clot shot like the great -- and extremely fit -- Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)
agree, it started well, then everyone became ghey. Lance Reddick dies of heart problems, heart disease.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (g47mK)
lots of carrots in chile. better than those in richese.
Posted by: third stage guild navigator at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (YubK1)
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Make it a Floridian Island.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:34 PM (FH6GK)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:34 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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With what Navy?
Really? Yet another Cuban Missile Crisis? To what end?
Its much easier and effective to continue to fund the internal destruction of the US and Europe through purchased politicians, cyber attacks against infrastructure, and a myriad of other asymmetric warfare that has been going on.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (U4c/V)
Things getting sport in LA. A mother chases down and rams the vehicle of a gang of thieves that tried to break in her house while her children were playing inside:
https://is.gd/MBxDvX
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Reason 999 to drive a beefy vehicle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (YubK1)
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Mimetic Theory... Come to your conclusions.
It has become a full operational Hyperstition, a strategic political science (and in this case, the very cause of LIB Strategic Insanity) -- an engineered self fulfilling fiction -- why the LIBs ceaseless quest for the unearned remains forever Ceaseless: because the value illicitly retains no value.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell
There will be no peace as long as Kirk (charlie) lives -- or even if he dies, or even remember,ed or forever whatever....
forWAR'd !!!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (KDKen)
Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (sAmhv)
So it's like New York City.
Posted by: 53rd and 3rd at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (m8zKa)
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I'm sorry, but you guys are woefully misinformed. Paul Krugman and the NYT's assures me that Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet.
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: for
DAMN IT! How the hell are we supposed to rig the Super Bowl now!?!??! They're already eliminated from the playoffs! Guess we'll just have to "eliminate" another team to slide them in...
Posted by: Roger Goodell at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (8yrSp)
Within 10 years that place will be the Glory of the Caribbean!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (uWKK8)
The mother is smart. She says she didn't intend to ram the vehicle, she was just running on adrenaline. They may or may not be true, but it's smart thing to say, especially in CA.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (npFr7)
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That and the fact that Cuba is 90 miles from a US Naval base and if anyone really wanted to test it we'd smoke check anyone that F'd around in about five minute, but mostly also that.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (5aZAZ)
Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.
Posted by: publius
Issue there is that Southern Hemisphere covers only their half of the sky. Northern Hemisphere has stars too. Hawaiian grifters don't want us looking at them.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (sAmhv)
That's because they are slow and went to a cow college.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK
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"The Anti Industrial Left: Return of The Primitive."
Is there nothing collectivism can't destroy? /rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (FH6GK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (w6EFb)
Mt. McKinley ought to be a good spot for an observatory. Drive a tunnel into the mountain at the base, then make a vertical shaft all the way to the peak. Who knows, you might hit some valuable minerals on the way there, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (cxFcK)
2. Cuba becomes a US Territory
3. Democrats take Congress
4. Democrats make Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Washington DC 4 new States.
5. 8 More Democrat Senators and at least 4 more Democrats in the House.
6. Trump Impeached.
7. Vance Impeached.
8. Johnson switches parties to Democrat, and Resigns.
9. Hakeem Jeffries Sworn in as President of the United States.
10. Jeffries DOJ indicts, prosecutes, and convicts Donald Trump.
11. Trump dies in Prison.
you forgot the step where hillary becomes president
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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As Maggie Thatcher said about socialism, "Sooner or later you run out of other people's money to spend."
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Where is he?
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (RuTUS)
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Well, he was right about the internet being just a fad.
Posted by: Parker at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (qUkBO)
I took a flight from Rio to Santiago. They made us sign a release in the event of an unscheduled landing on the Andes.
It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Second look at the French?
Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (sAmhv)
well, it wouldn't be aggie football if they didn't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: anachronda, usu class of '86 at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Blutarski
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All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Where is he?
Posted by: m
Probably at a festive Yuletide Prometheus convention.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)
I'm not addressing those things that fall under Mass Formation Psychosis.
For example, where did this quest for bling come from? How does one form of music seem to connect to some cultures different than others?
From a theological perspective, Mimetic Theory provides the vocabulary to understand the interaction of spiritual influence beyond the Western materialistic way of justifying Free Will and temptation and Following God's Will.
in terms of the infatuation with Israel, Mimetic Theory play a strong role in manipulating Evangelicals into an irrational practical worship of the state of Israel.
From one who has studied propaganda and Mimetic Theory, the spike in ham fisted propaganda and emotional blackmail is so obvious to me but has blinded the sychophants to either a strong pro or strong anti Israel.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)
There are cows in the Pacific North West? Ok, I see they do @ 1.29% US.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (3uBP9)
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Yeah, but its a good thing they have better medical care than the US.
Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (krQz2)
It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)
Did they hand out little airline bottles of hot sauce, in case you crash-landed and had to resort to cannibalism?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Where is he?
Posted by: m
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Busy guy right now with his own YT channel, highly recommended if you like movies, job search, and kiddies around Christmas family events.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Second look at the French?
Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (sAmhv)
"No French."
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Paolo at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (CDDVV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)
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Zombie Sammy Davis, Jr. hardest hit ...
"I don't care what da white man say ...
Santa Claus was a Black Jew slave trader."
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (FH6GK)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)
Cuba is also 0 miles from a US Naval base
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (3uBP9)
Quite a few, the more east you go, where WSU is located.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)
There was also an agreement with Russia in 2023 to provide oil annually . Shipments were made but have now been sporadic for a number of reasons.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (KDPiq)
What is going to increase the quality of life in America? How are America's interests served by this trade deal or military alliance?
That's it. That's the only question that matters, and it's not meant for Aztecs, or Qataris, or anyone else.
It's about us, and nobody else.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (BI5O2)
For example, where did this quest for bling come from? How does one form of music seem to connect to some cultures different than others?
From a theological perspective, Mimetic Theory provides the vocabulary to understand the interaction of spiritual influence beyond the Western materialistic way of justifying Free Will and temptation and Following God's Will.
Does mimetic theory explain those people who Just Got Dat Boogie Rythm?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Blutarski
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All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.
Posted by: whig
Yup. And I, for one, am glad to have their hands out of my pocket.
Posted by: MkY at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (q6tQZ)
Hey! I are a proud gradU8 of Clempson Cow Collidge. Don't be dissin' cow collidges.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)
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Tucker?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (FH6GK)
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v3pYe)
Mt. McKinley ought to be a good spot for an observatory. Drive a tunnel into the mountain at the base, then make a vertical shaft all the way to the peak. Who knows, you might hit some valuable minerals on the way there, too.
Which would be cheaper and more effective?
Giving Elon Musk the contract to dig your Mt McKinley observatory or to launch one into space?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (PVBkQ)
Posted by: whig
>The Chicago Bears have entered the chat.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)
"I can't gitmo naval action."
Posted by: Fidel Jagger at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (RuTUS)
They are the one's that 'help' Puerto Rico.
Cubans don't need that help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Make it part of Florida.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v0R5T)
No, but I did make a point of checking out my fellow passengers to see which ones might make a tasty snack.
Proper Planning and all that.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (viF8m)
From one who has studied propaganda and Mimetic Theory, the spike in ham fisted propaganda and emotional blackmail is so obvious to me but has blinded the sychophants to either a strong pro or strong anti Israel.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Eh, I think Muzzie past actions and their behavior over here have as much impact over time thinking Israel is a friend. Terrorist assholes tend to get a bad rep over time along with a religion that encourages such across the globe. In comparison, Jews haven't done such in Western societies and been far more likelty to be victims than abuser.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (FH6GK)
no, another female
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (g47mK)
What is that controversy about some sacred ground or some shit?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Where is he?
Posted by: m
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Busy guy right now with his own YT channel, highly recommended if you like movies, job search, and kiddies around Christmas family events.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (WDjG6)
Maybe he'll stop by to say hello.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)
Hey! I are a proud gradU8 of Clempson Cow Collidge. Don't be dissin' cow collidges.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)
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Is this serious? Cool if so. I also have an elite degree from Cow Collidge in upstate SC.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)
It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)
A promise not to eat fellow passengers?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)
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And Bosch.
Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (WDjG6)
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This is especially true for college sports.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (PWcY+)
"And now men, I call on you to join me as we begin our great odyssey. "
Sailor raises hand: "Excuse me, what's an Odyssey?"
Odysseus: "It is a long and difficult journey, so full of dangers that only the leader will survive."
Sailor: "Oh Okay thanks. Wait what???"
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Bulg
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To be fair. If there were no Atlantic there would have been no Atlantic slave trade. Think of the poor sharks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (YubK1)
It's not working out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)
We should support the locals diplomatically, morally, etc. but I don't want to start "color revolutions" (or worse) in a way that Uncle Suger is going to be pressured to pick up the pieces. Enough with the post WWII Pax Americana Empire crap already.
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)
It's not working out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)
what's killed that is that Cuba has nothing left to trade. They destroyed the sugar plantations, even the slave trade is down to the toothless ones with rickets.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Bulg
There is an African slave farm in there somewhere too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)
There's a worse fate than revolution or civil war - and that is when a country lets itself grind so far down that it just collapses, and it's not worth it to anyone to come in and try to take it over because it's nothing but a money pit. This is how cities, once vibrant, just sink back into the jungles that were there before.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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What's killed Cuba is communism.
Cuba has natural resources and the Holiday
tourist potential surpasses Hawaii.
Viva Cuba
CUBA LIBRE!!!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (YubK1)
Take your jew hating shit somewhere else
Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (WI7ox)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)
Per Candace Owens...
I bet there were a few Jews you could find working as financial backers for the Atlantic flesh trade. It's a profitable business, it'll attract capital, and some will be Jews. But most of the peddlers in the Americas were Brits and Spaniards.
And of course, all the supply was provided by blacks and Arabs, many of whom grew fabulously rich from the trade.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Random PJ at December 22, 2025 05:46 PM (RRCAT)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 22, 2025 05:50 PM (/RQ+2)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 22, 2025 05:57 PM (/RQ+2)
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 22, 2025 06:26 PM (mNOhh)
Posted by: Mav at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (FmhTN)
Posted by: Mav at December 22, 2025 07:21 PM (FmhTN)
Especially America.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 22, 2025 08:18 PM (NaCHI)
Posted by: Mav at December 22, 2025 07:19 PM (FmhTN)
He can’t say much with your tongue so far down his throat.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 09:16 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)
Supporter number eight million on AoS of a whiny, toothless America.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 09:17 PM (4786I)
Epstein Files Reveal Bill Clinton Cavorting With Very Young Women on Pedo Island; Democrat Flacks and Leftwing Media -- But I Repeat Myself-- Claim Trump Is "Curating" the Photos to Make Slick Willy Look Bad
Plus a rousing chorus of "But Trump!!!"
Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Friday released more than 300,000 pages of photos and evidence connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The vast trove includes images showing the disgraced financier and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell socializing with high-profile figures, including former president Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson. One photograph appears to show Clinton in a swimming pool alongside Maxwell and several unidentified, partially clothed women. Clinton broke his silence on Friday to turn the tables on Trump, releasing a statement that declared: 'The White House hasn't been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton. This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they'll try and hide forever.'Uh-huh. Should he have released them this morning instead, Slick? Isn't he on some kind of Congress-imposed deadline?
Britain's disgraced former royal, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, also appears in the material, along with his former wife, Sarah Ferguson. References to Trump are limited in the documents, and he has never been accused of wrongdoing in connection with the case.
Meanwhile, a recent NY Times hit piece failed to connect Trump to Epstein's crimes.
Byron York
@ByronYork 4h The New York Times makes another big effort to connect Trump to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Fails again. "The Times interviewed more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men over the years. The Times also obtained new documents that illuminate their relationship and scoured court documents and other public records...An examination of their history by The New York Times has found no evidence implicating Mr. Trump in Mr. Epstein's abuse and trafficking of minors."
🚨 BREAKING: New photo of Bill Clinton swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell and a potential victim and/or minor
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 19, 2025
Per the Epstein Files Transparency Act, DOJ was specifically instructed only to redact the faces of victims and/or minors
This is pretty damning for Bill Clinton. pic.twitter.com/ShXkEv0Bfm
NO!! She DOES NOT look 18!!
— SaltyGoat (@SaltyGoat17) December 21, 2025
Where's the outrage from the left around Bill Clinton on Epstein's jet with underage girls? pic.twitter.com/N8NRY6mBvc
🚨 CNN just said the quiet part out loud:
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) December 20, 2025
“Nobody cares about Bill Clinton” = Nobody cares about Epstein's victims.
If media & Dems actually wanted justice, they'd demand Clinton's arrest over the photos in the Epstein files.
Instead? They just laugh it off pic.twitter.com/vsALWczXAN
🚨 BOOM! SCOTT JENNINGS IS SPOT ON!
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 20, 2025
“The reason Bill Clinton’s picture is in the Epstein files is because this has ALWAYS been a story about Bill Clinton and NOT Donald Trump. We should call it the CLINTON FILES, not the Epstein files.”
pic.twitter.com/RHQBmcZKEf
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:33 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 02:34 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 02:36 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
Gotta be fake...Michael Jackson shows up in one of the pics, and we know he was only into boys...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Blade is fast?
Lmao
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:33 PM (3ek7K)
Is that what his GFs say?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:37 PM (3ek7K)
EVERYTHING would've come out during the Biden administration if it even REMOTELY hurt the R party.
They released nothing.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 02:37 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:37 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:38 PM (UJWr0)
Hell, I may be old but remember just because I can't cut the mustard anymore don't mean I can't lick the jar!
Posted by: Billy Jeff, Violent rapist and pervert at December 22, 2025 02:38 PM (m8zKa)
Well, this was in the United States Virgin Islands, ya know ....
More seriously, surely we can discover who this girl is an her age at the time.
But NOBODY CARES and never did. The Democraps only discovered Epstein was a bad guy when they thought they could tie him to Trump.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:37 PM (BI5O2)
You should. You paid for it, likely.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (UnA8+)
“The reason Bill Clinton’s picture is in the Epstein files is because this has ALWAYS been a story about Bill Clinton and NOT Donald Trump. We should call it the CLINTON FILES, not the Epstein files.”
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It just needs the proper journalistic treatment -
"This is about Trump. It always has been about Trump. You are misremembering if you think anything different."
*jedi hand wave*
"Clinton is not the pedo you are looking for."
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (MoRvC)
It’s someone going hey Bill let’s get a shot with you and this 16 year old girl you’re gonna rape in an hour.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: one hour sober
She has a great rack.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 02:41 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 02:41 PM (wtvvX)
She was eating at the Y same as the others.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
Web Hubbell was a pool boy?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 02:41 PM (wtvvX)
Boy?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (UJWr0)
Hey, welcome back!
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)
Well, thanks! Got back home from last Monday's surgery on Friday. I now have TWO belly buttons!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (ynpvh)
2) I'm not much of a "hurr durr 4d intergalactic space chess" kind of guy when it comes to Trump, but this whole thing gives me the feeling that he has been slow-playing this hand of poker for years when he has been holding pocket Aces the entire time, trolling the left into over-committing to the pot before the flop. I dunno.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:43 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (UnA8+)
Do you honestly think the FBI ever gets rid of anything except that which could hurt the FBI?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 02:43 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (uQzkA)
And I though I had a hardened heart.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:43 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:44 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 22, 2025 02:44 PM (ZLHME)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 02:44 PM (sDNVV)
They blame Trump for all crimes, even ones committed before his birth.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 22, 2025 02:44 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 22, 2025 02:44 PM (ZLHME)
So is a great swath of DC politicos.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NCKat
You really think they were there voluntarily without anyone having told them lies or coerced them?
Come on.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (UJWr0)
He's getting a blow.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Don't sneeze.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (mlg/3)
This is a guy who was credibly accused of rape unlike Trump, whipped his dick out to Paula Jones, diddled an intern with a cigar in the Oval Office and many other perverted sexual forays.
But Trump !!!
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (f+KrF)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
But you're back to normal pooping, right?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (77rzZ)
No way in hell that girl is 18+.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (uQzkA)
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That's pretty awful to say, honestly. This was grown-ass adults finding young, vulnerable, impressionable young women to take advantage of. Young people in general make poor decisions, especially when someone starts waving money, yachts, private islands and private jets around them. I'd be really, really pissed off if you said that about one of my daughters.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Don't sneeze.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (mlg/3)
or cough...
or laugh...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:43 PM (5aZAZ)
The info that came out about Bannon palling around with Epstein - at least in emails - post Trump admin makes me believe somewhat Trump's earlier remarks about protecting innocent people. Sure, it looks bad associating with a known pedo, but it is not in the same ballpark as what Clinton, et. al, were up to.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)
This is a guy who was credibly accused of rape unlike Trump, whipped his dick out to Paula Jones, diddled an intern with a cigar in the Oval Office and many other perverted sexual forays.
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But all those women were well over age of consent. It was a given he was a lecherous fuck. But fucking 14/15 year olds is a whole different ball game of sleaze.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
But you're back to normal pooping, right?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:45 PM (77rzZ)
I'm now the man with ONE asshole.
as for normal...yes, for some definitions of normal.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:47 PM (ynpvh)
Just because Bill Clinton was with underage girls on a known sex island proves nothing. He was schooling young girls to remain a virgin until they are married so they can turn out to be like Hillary.
We must find pictures of Trump because we all know Trump is HITLER because Comey found some rocks on the beach that said TRUMP -- 88.... HH or Heil Hitler
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 02:47 PM (J9q9v)
Who were the 14 year old victims? Epstein had of age young girls in his stable too.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 02:48 PM (f+KrF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (MoRvC)
Well, they also probably set fire to it as well. But I think that was just to destroy physical evidence on-site.
I'd expect that anything incriminating they had, they probably had before that raid, and any coincidentally valuable stuff got scooped up before the fire.
And that is all being held close to the vest, because it's still valuable, but it doesn't implicate PDT.
The Clintons are untouchable in this world, and they won't be in it much longer. They're right - nobody cares about Clintons in 2025.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:49 PM (BI5O2)
Just because Bill Clinton was with underage girls on a known sex island proves nothing. He was schooling young girls to remain a virgin until they are married so they can turn out to be like Hillary.
We must find pictures of Trump because we all know Trump is HITLER because Comey found some rocks on the beach that said TRUMP -- 88.... HH or Heil Hitler
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 02:47 PM (J9q9v)
Comey's "pessoi.", the stones the Greeks used for wiping their asses...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 02:48 PM (f+KrF)
The girl I the pic above can’t bemuch older than 14.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:49 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: steevy at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (YwEeS)
Yeah, and there is a picture of the great John Paul II with Epstein and he's not in a hot tub.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (MoRvC)
She was also noticeably absent throughout all of the 2024 campaign. I think that she's not in good health at all, and has to put a lot of effort into working up to any public appearance.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (uWKK8)
Everyone now saying they want justice for Epstein's victims, have hundreds and maybe even thousands of posts between 2020 and 2024 saying the same thing back then.
All of them have been demanding this since he was arrested.
Especially Tom Massie--he's always been seeking justice for the victims; he's never swayed or delayed from his righteous mission.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (HXT0k)
As the saying goes, "what an odd thing to say."
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: steevy at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (YwEeS)
After all the STIs he's contracted, I am.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (WTSkN)
Byron York
@ByronYork
4h
The New York Times makes another big effort to connect Trump to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Fails again.
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Just auto-post this weekly for the next three years, and you should be good Byron -- likely more accurate even than America's "paper of record," the Babylon Bee.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (RW1OD)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (5aZAZ)
Right? I am sitting here staring at my 14 year old in a doctor’s office about to get stitches because she cut her finger on Saran Wrap. She is just a kid.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (wD03y)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (mkm0l)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (uWKK
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Selling your soul to satan tends to have, er, detrimental effects.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (5aZAZ)
Just Satan's way of earning interest.
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: steevy at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (YwEeS)
Even hell doesn't want anything to do with him. Ick.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM
Planned Parenthoods are shutting down all over the place. She's running out of sources for her fetal blood and tissue treatments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
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In before the nothing will happen crowd ... and nothing will happen.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (RW1OD)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (UJWr0)
Right? I am sitting here staring at my 14 year old in a doctor’s office about to get stitches because she cut her finger on Saran Wrap. She is just a kid.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (wD03y)
Saran wrap, or the cutting edge of the Saran wrap box?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 02:53 PM (g47mK)
As the saying goes, "what an odd thing to say."
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (bufu1)
Sounds like it was written by Trump's lawyers, it was handed to NYT's lawyers, and it was passed to NYT editors for print.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:53 PM (dK+Kv)
Need I say more?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (UJWr0)
So does ClinTon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:53 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 22, 2025 02:53 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (k9OZB)
Even the Drill-dick Demons are afraid of getting raped by Bill Clinton.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 02:53 PM (UnA8+)
Hillary although in the room at the same time claims it was suicide just like Epstein.
How coincidental she said....
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 22, 2025 02:53 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 02:53 PM (VE6XX)
Damn you, modern medicine! But you kids should have seen me in my prime!
Posted by: Syphilis at December 22, 2025 02:54 PM (65cLN)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 22, 2025 02:54 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: hobbitopoly
He'll like that guy that had to wander the earth for ever, carrying a lantern to warn of his approach, because neither heaven nor hell wanted him.
Dick O'Lantern.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
"An examination of their history by The New York Times has found no evidence implicating Mr. Trump in Mr. Epstein's abuse and trafficking of minors."
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This is proof of Trump's guilt!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 02:54 PM (tgvbd)
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Make #MeToo Movements Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:54 PM (RW1OD)
- msm
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:55 PM (UJWr0)
'That's pretty awful to say, honestly. This was grown-ass adults finding young, vulnerable, impressionable young women to take advantage of. '
On the other hand, society judges 18 year old women as being adult enough to vote among other things. When do their decisions become their decisions?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 02:55 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 22, 2025 02:55 PM (bXbFr)
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Make #MeToo Movements Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:54 PM (RW1OD)
PoundMeToo! Why sure!
Posted by: BJ Bill Clinton at December 22, 2025 02:55 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 02:55 PM (fd80v)
The girl in this photo is nowhere near 18.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:56 PM (UJWr0)
These Fkin Leftists Judges should have to pay for the criminals they let out and cause injuries and damages
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 02:56 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (ynpvh)
The cutting edge on the box. She had pushed the doohickey in to hold the tube in the box but somehow it still slipped out, she tried to catch it and somehow sliced her entire finger open on the process. It’s pretty gross.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 02:56 PM (wD03y)
'That's pretty awful to say, honestly. This was grown-ass adults finding young, vulnerable, impressionable young women to take advantage of. '
On the other hand, society judges 18 year old women as being adult enough to vote among other things. When do their decisions become their decisions?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 02:55 PM (fd80v)
And some want to drop the age to 14-16...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (uQzkA)
I think the victims were vulnerable and from homes with problems or runaways and poorer backgrounds just like the victims of the rape gangs in the UK.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (bLA4G)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (J9q9v)
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This keeps bugging me as well.
1) What are the actual ages of these girls at the time?
2) What was the age of consent?
3) Is there a single one that did not voluntarily return--multiple times--to the island?
Also: 100% of those calling these girls victims on the left, also believe every one of these girls were old enough--without informing their parents:
1) to have an abortion
2) to change their gender, including drugs and surgery
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (HXT0k)
Seriously.
That's the best they've got.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 02:56 PM (Ia/+0)
The Clinton's, the Owebama's, the Biden's........a majority of Americans are CLAMORING for SOMEONE to be held accountable for their corruption, graft and overall destruction of this once great and beautiful country.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)
What an 18 year old does with a 19 year old is her decision. What an 18 year old does with a 50 year old should be a matter for Mr. Axe Handle to decide.
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (1Nv0l)
The left: well their of age now. Like duh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (MoRvC)
This is all old news, time to MOVE ON!
Except it's not news until the MSM reports it, and until then it's just propaganda, fascists.
Posted by: Auspex at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (YAFrp)
It sure ain't near Hillary.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (NwnyJ)
So just like the last 50 years then?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (UJWr0)
Merry Christmas, Fröhliche Weihnachten! from Germany !
https://tinyurl.com/43nanvu6
Posted by: runner
I was shocked to see German police attacking a crowd of pro-Palis. Until I saw most of the crowd looked were blond women of the not actual Pali cousin marriage persuasion. They were pro-Pali for reasons I can't fathom. But at least it makes sense to me why the police felt it was ok to throw punches.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (Dv3i1)
It sure ain't near Hillary.
Probably been like that since he left office....
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (TghYn)
Seriously.
That's the best they've got.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (sKqQm)
There's the one that has all the ladies faces blacked out, all while that image was released YEARS ago and it was Trump with the qualifiers for the Hawaiian Tropic beauty contest.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
There are a pictures of Walter Kronkite in there with Epstein too, I saw on the Daily Mail. None with any girls, mind you, just him yucking it up with Epstein.
Also Mick Jagger is in there, Michael Jackson, and even Diana Ross.
There's pictures of David Copperfield and Ghislaine frolicking around in matching bath robes, too.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (w6EFb)
Bill is animated solely by his STDs, like a T-virus zombie.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (jc0TO)
Yeah, Trump pleaded with the Dems to not throw him in the Epstein briar patch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper
I hate Saran Wrap with the heat of a thousand suns. I can never get a clean tear, and the half-sheet I do manage to tear off immediately sticks to itself. And then, yes, there are those metal shark teeth that you have to avoid.
Nasty stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)
Dudes, it's over.
Sex scandals don;'t work anymore, anyway.
Bill Clinton fucked and raped his way from Arkansas to the Oval Office, and everyone knew it -- and yet he was elected twice, and remained president the whole time, despite being caught red-
So even if the Left's fantasy came true and they unearthed some evidence of Trump banging some chick in 1987, NO ONE WILL CARE, and he will remain president.
But of course that won't even happen, because if there was evidence, they would have released by now a hundred times over.
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:52 PM (RW1OD)
Legally? No, of course not. Ruling class folks aren't touchable. Not like that.
But I think any hope Clinton had of sweeping his past misdeeds under the rug and riding off into the glorious sunset of a 47-week funeral hagiography are done for.
He'll just be remembered as an old hillbilly pedophile with a kill-crazy psycho wife, like a latter-day Macbeth, but without the honor to sacrifice.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:00 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
He'll just be remembered as an old hillbilly pedophile with a kill-crazy psycho wife, like a latter-day Macbeth, but without the honor to sacrifice.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:59 PM (BI5O2)
By you and I, sure. If the dems take power, they'll dig that f*ck up and lay him in state for 6 months.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (uQzkA)
I think the victims were vulnerable and from homes with problems or runaways and poorer backgrounds just like the victims of the rape gangs in the UK.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (bLA4G)
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Some were. Some were from privileged families going to expensive private schools. The lure of the jet-set lifestyle knows no specific demographic. There were lotsa girls with money or rich parents lining up for Diddy's "freak out" parties too.
As I mentioned above, the girl in the pic with Bill Clinton surely can be identified, and her age at the time and background known.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (iFTx/)
2) What was the age of consent?
3) Is there a single one that did not voluntarily return--multiple times--to the island?
This is the core thing here. Virginia Guiffree said their were girls there younger then her at 17. She said Bill Clinton was one she saw with the underage girls.
Who specifically were abusing those girls?
Now, I assume Epstein also had older girls working there voluntarily...yacht girls. That's not illegal, but I want every one of these clients of these released as well, both to embarrass the left and because I assume that's how he started on clients before getting them having sex with younger girls.
Also...shouldn't this lead to a charge against Bill Clinton? I don't know what the age of consent is in the USVI nor what their laws are around limitations, but let's get this one on the books.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:42 PM (uQzkA)
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And if they felt even slightly uneasy about the goings on all they had to do is not go there, say no. So spare me playing the victim now.
Posted by: Decaf at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (QpWpd)
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Biden "lost" 350,000 children.
Many known to have been sold into sex work.
The left doesn't have a problem with child sex slaves.
They have a problem when they can't get them regularly, cheaply and quietly.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (HXT0k)
Likewise, I reserve the right to beat the living shit out of you.
Not legal you say? See you in court. If you're still breathing.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (1Nv0l)
'These Fkin Leftists Judges should have to pay for the criminals they let out and cause injuries and damages'
Like you I missed the lower thread. It is past time to find out where judicial ends in these states and start filing some charges against them.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 03:02 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 03:02 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: publius
Mister Claudia Schiffer?? He was fooling around on Claudia Schiffer???
That right there should be a death-penalty offense.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo tagged 'oo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 03:02 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Don't slander hillbillies with his name.
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:02 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Epstein at December 22, 2025 03:02 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: publius
Mister Claudia Schiffer?? He was fooling around on Claudia Schiffer???
That right there should be a death-penalty offense.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)
So he's David "Cop-a-feel"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 03:03 PM (ynpvh)
1) to have an abortion
2) to change their gender, including drugs and surgery
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (HXT0k)
Sex trafficking is illegal regardless of age. If I recall these girls were 16 and 17, if they were telling the truth about their age, and were told they were going to learn to become message therapists.
That said, there were settlements and payments made with nondisclosures, etc. etc. This isn’t about victims- and victims they were. It’s about seeing who is a disgusting creature. This won’t heal any emotional damage caused to the girls.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 03:03 PM (wD03y)
This is the core thing here. Virginia Guiffree said their were girls there younger then her at 17. She said Bill Clinton was one she saw with the underage girls.
Didn't she also say she NEVER saw Trump do anything to anyone, much less underage girls?
Therefore her testimony is deemed inadmissible as she's and unreliable witness!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Decaf at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (QpWpd)
Oh I didn’t realize all a sex trafficked girl has to do is say no and she’ll be let out of it.
Thanks for the education.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 03:03 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Decaf
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Riiight, because barely 18s know exactly what they're doing and can't be manipulated at all.
Go fuck yourself. Hard.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:04 PM (1Nv0l)
The left: well their of age now. Like duh
Posted by: Smell the Glove
It's a private matter haters!
Posted by: Cheri at December 22, 2025 03:04 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 03:04 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: publius
Yeah David Copperfield was making the sausage disappear and reappear.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 22, 2025 03:04 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 22, 2025 03:05 PM (J9q9v)
I saw a picture of Chomsky with Epstein on an airplane.
Now the problem is that doesn't prove anything. But...where were they flying to? And it would be could to get everyone under oath. "He offered me a flight from NY to FL to try and get me to invest with him" is perfectly legal. But then...Chomsky's net worth is only a couple of million...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 03:05 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:05 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 22, 2025 03:05 PM (J9q9v)
probably only a lack of opportunity...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 03:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Decaf at December 22, 2025 03:01 PM (QpWpd)
Yeah, because Ghislaine and Jeffery were stand up people that would release a girl IMMEDIATELY and put them on a plane home if they had even the slightest reprehension.
FFS.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Yes.
And note she was almost killed around the time Trump was elected and has died since then....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:06 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:06 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 03:06 PM (L/fGl)
I never lie about anything, and you can trust me....
Posted by: Senator Adam Schiff at December 22, 2025 03:06 PM (J9q9v)
@GuntherEagleman 5h
🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED: SHOCK poll finds President Trump's approval rating at +9 nationwide, up +14 points from a month ago!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 03:06 PM (mlg/3)
Like Mr. Rogers with a poodle in the basement.
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (5aZAZ)
One would assume your daughters are well brought up, and would turn such a proposal down flat. There are plenty out there with more "flexible" moral standards. Seems like a lot of the recruitment was on a peer-to-peer basis. The gals who use their snizz as a bank card know other gals who do the same thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
In Israel the age of consent is 16, so Bill Clinton may have been innocent of any wrongdoing,
Posted by: One-Eyed Willy at December 22, 2025 03:08 PM (KrBFV)
1) to have an abortion
2) to change their gender, including drugs and surgery
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:57 PM (HXT0k)
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This is me not giving a rat's ass about the non-existent "standards" of the left.
A girl at 17 fooling around with her 18 year old boyfriend is one thing. A girl at 17 being sex-trafficked to a private island so that 50+ year old men can take advantage of her is a matter for a wood chipper to handle.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 03:08 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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No. They are trying to make "pedo" or "Epstein" the first thing anyone thinks of or any lefty says when Trump's name is mentioned from here to eternity. That is an effort to tar us as much as him.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (2fdLC)
I had to look that word up. Ace is pushing the vocabulary bounds today.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
Groupies and fans of certain music groups/musicians...
Like Don Henley...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Late Night TV 'Comedians' at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (pLaQB)
Must be part of the humiliation deal that Bill made. You don't release the evidence before a trial, do you? He must have sung like a bird.
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 03:10 PM (c9rBD)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:10 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 03:10 PM (L/fGl)
Bill Clinton is what professionals refer to as an Omni-Sexual.
I doubt it takes more than a knothole in a fencepost to get him going.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:10 PM (W23D2)
The girls at the island were not the purpose, they were a perk. A very small perk.
No one wants to talk about what was really going on there, while they wave the distraction of "Epstein victims" around.
Everyone that went there was rich enough and powerful enough to get as much underage ass (of either sex) as they wanted anywhere in the world.
It's like how there are banks you don't even know exist, where minimum deposits are in the millions.
So why they have us fretting about the sale of a bit of young vag, the people there were really there to buy and sell millions of lives, casually trading cities, states and even nations.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 03:11 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:10 PM (1Nv0l)
Hunter Biden was also with underaged girls...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 03:11 PM (ynpvh)
Meanwhile, Hillary was servicing the pool boy...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 02:41 PM (wtvvX)
No way. Frau Gruppencankles looks like a born gap-lapper to me.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 22, 2025 03:11 PM (y9nCu)
Gates is probably the next one we'll see drop.
But...is Bondi going to charge them?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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AFAICT, Bill's only requirement is that they are female and sufficiently stationary for him to do his business.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:11 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
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My wife and I do our best, but even the best-raised kids make poor decisions, and who knows what happens when a person "in the business" starts actually grooming them into the lifestyle and flashing a lot of money and powerful people around. You'd hope they turn it down flat and come tell me so I can [redacted] to the people trying it, but one can never be sure. Then to have some anonymous person just call them dumb whores who should know better rubs me the wrong way.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 03:11 PM (5aZAZ)
Groupies and fans of certain music groups/musicians...
Like Don Henley...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (ynpvh)
I would be willing to bet those kids had terrible childhoods and something bad happened to them prior to them sneaking out of the house to hook up with rock stars. Absent father at the minimum.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 22, 2025 03:11 PM (bLA4G)
A lot of the Media would knock that 13 year old over to get a chance to slobber on Bill's crooked knob.
Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, for example.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:12 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:46 PM (5aZAZ)
One would assume your daughters are well brought up, and would turn such a proposal down flat. There are plenty out there with more "flexible" moral standards. Seems like a lot of the recruitment was on a peer-to-peer basis. The gals who use their snizz as a bank card know other gals who do the same thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
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That is what happened. Epstein was running the operation like a multi-level marketing scheme. He would pay girls to "recruit" other girls into the fold. That's what helped doom the original Miami investigation and prosecution. The girls all took money, and returned to Epstein's parties again and again. It's hard if not impossible to get a conviction under those circumstances.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:12 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Late Night TV 'Comedians' at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM (Dv3i1)
I really enjoyed doing that one.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:12 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Pudinhead
When they were too old for Biden, that's when Clinton took over.
F'n sick fucks.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 03:12 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
Seems messy
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (viF8m)
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What color is the sky in your world?
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (TN0g+)
That's been their strategy and the retarded base buys it
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (61TgR)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:09 PM
They tried the language thing in their gun control lawsuits as well. They tried for the longest time to get the courts to recognize "weapons of war" as a legitimate description from AR-15's, etc in their litigation.
The federal courts shot down that attempt.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (0N4FZ)
I remember when CA was debated legalizing child prosecution the guy who came up with the law argued what guy hasn't paid a 17 year old boy for a beejeer.
The left is on another planet and one I don't want to share with them.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
I doubt it takes more than a knothole in a fencepost to get him going.
Which is why it’s been reported that his wiener is crooked. One too many trips around the corner.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 22, 2025 03:14 PM (VnVVA)
The funeral oration will focus on his charisma, which,through no fault of his own, is irresistible to 14 year old girls.
Jimmy Kimmel will deliver it.
Posted by: Auspex at December 22, 2025 03:14 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 03:15 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
Seems messy
Processing
Please leave chipcard inserted
Posted by: Oh noes at December 22, 2025 03:15 PM (HcoTw)
I never lie about anything, and you can trust me....
Posted by: Senator Adam Schiff
I also have...proof, yeah, proof, that's what I have. But I left it with my wife, Morgan Fairchild...
Posted by: Tommy Flanagan at December 22, 2025 03:15 PM (Riz8t)
Jimmy Kimmel will deliver it.
Posted by: Auspex at December 22, 2025 03:14 PM (YAFrp)
Speaking of a matter for a woodchipper to handle.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 03:15 PM (L/fGl)
I remember when CA was debated legalizing child prosecution the guy who came up with the law argued what guy hasn't paid a 17 year old boy for a beejeer.
The left is on another planet and one I don't want to share with them.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:13 PM (sKqQm)
That statement reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/wpjX4q5ZWQc
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hillary C. at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Vengeance
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Probably Peyronie's.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (1Nv0l)
Except Epstein himself.
Posted by: Tom Masshole at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (vqA1l)
If we wanted to do a deep dive into the psychology of the men I think we would find out why the men were into very young girls.
My opinion, for what it is worth, is most of the degenerate men were not popular with the girls they went to school with.
When the men achieved money and power they realized they could have sex with women who reminded them of the girls who rebuffed them when they were growing up.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (3ek7K)
She should probably shave it, then.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (W23D2)
I wonder how many money launderers were at Epstein's level? There's no way they'd trust it all to one guy.
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (c9rBD)
I suspect that if they see an opportunity to get Trump though they'll throw Clinton under the bus now.
The problem for them though is the actual Epstein clients are a list of lefty pols and celebrities...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
Seems messy
Posted by: ...
It was hard to keep the card reader clean.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:12 PM (
However you cut it, it's a flat-out prostitution racket, it involved underage girls, and if anyone outside this rotten ruling class was running it, he'd be a priority organized crime target for law enforcement in Miami and NYC.
But he was protected.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (BI5O2)
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You can tell the authentic people because they never stop talking about their authenticity.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (2fdLC)
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There is an "Epstein island" in every major city.
There is a group in TX that tracks thousands of under age "back page" posting for sex work in Houston, SAT/Austin and DFW every month.
They are keeping up the focus on Epstein to distract from what is going on everywhere and to demoralize.
They know nothing will happen; you (deep down) know nothing will happen.
And, by keeping in the news, that ensures nothing will happen. To them doing it now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (HXT0k)
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OK
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 03:15 PM (L/fGl)
Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Gates is probably the next one we'll see drop.
I'd exonerate him if he'd get rid of Windows 11.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (Riz8t)
Now, given that- do you think there is anything Democrats won’t do? I don’t.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (VnVVA)
Thanks for the education.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 03:03 PM (UJWr0)
He wasn't kidnapping choir girls off the street. His agents, usually already-compromised young prostitutes, were inveigling their peers to come join them in the fun and games. They had a chance to say "no", then and there. If they said "yes', they got sucked in. Kind of like islam, really.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:18 PM (npFr7)
FYI, that photo appears to be an AI add of Virginia Giuffre's face to a blacked-out image, which appears to be the only one officially released. There are other versions out there that add different faces to that image.
For her part, Virginia Giuffre, said she never saw Clinton at pedo island until after his Presidency, which would be 1997+, which would put her at 13-14+.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 03:18 PM (dK+Kv)
Gates has a loooooong history of going to strip clubs with other Microsoft guys and bringing back strippers to their houses for private parties, starting way back in the 80s. James Wallace included this information in his books about Gates, written in the 90s.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 03:18 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:18 PM (2fdLC)
Fecundity.
Finished.
What else would you like to do a deep dive into?
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:18 PM (W23D2)
'VIDEO - Jasmine Crockett: Republicans Are Scared of My Authenticity
OK'
I'm definitely afraid of her racist shit-brain.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 03:18 PM (fd80v)
I'd exonerate him if he'd get rid of Windows 11.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (Riz8t)
He's no longer a part of Microsoft, but he should've been strung up by his balls and launched into space for Winblows ME.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:07 PM (npFr7)
Seems messy
Posted by: ...
It was hard to keep the card reader clean.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (dAOkg)
No, no, no. It's swipe the credit card into the snizz.
Posted by: Cardi B at December 22, 2025 03:19 PM (ynpvh)
I'd not be surprised if they wanted to degrade those kids too as a result. The revulsion is going to be part of the kink.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 03:19 PM (sDWtc)
We must continue to make up stories to hurt Trump and America....
MAMA..... Make America Minneapolis Again...
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 03:20 PM (J9q9v)
When the men achieved money and power they realized they could have sex with women who reminded them of the girls who rebuffed them when they were growing up.
Posted by: fourseasons
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I think there's two kinds. Geniune pedos. Epstein was in that category, although he was pedo-adjacent: preferring them pubescent but underage.
Then there's the kind you describe. But I don't think it's so much about the rebuffal. I think it's about not being challenged in the least. That's my guess anyway.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:20 PM (1Nv0l)
Bill Clinton is the most high-profile name in the document release. This is initially overshadowing all the other names in there. The media is reporting on the cadaverous, not-long-for-this-world Clinton. He's yesterday's news, and his proclivities are long-established. Maybe he's a diversion from all the other names in there.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 03:20 PM (Ijbq0)
I'd exonerate him if he'd get rid of Windows 11.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:17 PM (Riz8t)
He's no longer a part of Microsoft, but he should've been strung up by his balls and launched into space for Winblows ME.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Old joke:
On Bill Gate's wedding night, his wife exclaimed, "Oh! Now I know why you called your company MicroSoft..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 03:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 03:20 PM (3ek7K)
63 Who else is shocked that Bubba is still above ground in late 2025?
Posted by: steevy at December 22, 2025 02:50 PM (YwEeS)
Me, for one. I fully expected him to "die of natural causes" in Oct 2016, with his widow winning the Presidency over Trump in no small part due to the election taking place during his mourning period. Hillary totes wouldn't be involved in his death. Totes.
Shows just how arrogant Die Frau was in the latter part of the campaign. Like how she ignored Bill's advice on where to campaign in the last couple of weeks, costing her the election.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 22, 2025 03:20 PM (y9nCu)
My opinion, for what it is worth, is most of the degenerate men were not popular with the girls they went to school with.
When the men achieved money and power they realized they could have sex with women who reminded them of the girls who rebuffed them when they were growing up.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 03:16 PM (3ek7K)
_________
The entire modelling and entertainment industry is built around barely-legal girls. Society has always sexualized girls and made their purity and innocence something sexually attractive. Hell, up until a few decades ago, there were dozens of songs by grown men about romancing 16-year-old girls -- many of them were big hits, too.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
Too old to sniff, Jack!
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 22, 2025 03:21 PM (kgG3s)
@zerohedge
Denmark Furious After Trump Names Special Envoy To Greenland
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They mean Special Envoy To
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (L/fGl)
Glad we never stooped to that level
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
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She was just 17 - not 16.
- Paul McCartney
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (sX1BW)
It's been mentioned before -- the girls may not have been the main event in Epstein's operation. Laundering money was.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (Ijbq0)
EG: No war and free Palestine, Ban guns and an anti-fa logo with an AK-47 and so on
But one that sticks in my mind here is there they also had a "sex work is real work" bumper sticker.
The left has gotten itself into a very odd place with their claims about sex now. Hell, their big complaint against the movie "Sound of Freedom" is apparently some of the girls that were freed in the island raid were supposedly their voluntarily...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 03:23 PM (sKqQm)
The entire modelling and entertainment industry is built around barely-legal girls. Society has always sexualized girls and made their purity and innocence something sexually attractive. Hell, up until a few decades ago, there were dozens of songs by grown men about romancing 16-year-old girls -- many of them were big hits, too.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
"Young Girl"...
"This Girl Is a Woman Now"...
What's wrong with my songs?
Posted by: Gary Puckett at December 22, 2025 03:23 PM (ynpvh)
It is Biology.
The rest is simply how we as humans deal with it.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:23 PM (W23D2)
Glad we never stooped to that level
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
________
"Hey, at least 17 is legal in many states!"
-- Winger
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 03:23 PM (a3CJ+)
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Finally, somebody understands!
Posted by: Benny Mardones at December 22, 2025 03:23 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Cardi B
Should just tap dat ass.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 03:24 PM (L/fGl)
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No. People with this much wealth and influence can get those chicks anytime they want - even if it's a weird-ass cosplay + artificial insemination scenario like Elon Musk. With that kind of long green, you can have practically any unmarried adult woman.
These guys are doing *because* it's so very criminal.
I always say that if pedophilia was socially acceptable, but gerontophilia was considered an unforgivable crime, people like Bill Clinton would be prowling around nursing homes with a bottle of XTC and a big floppy dildo.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 03:24 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
________
"Hey, at least 17 is legal in many states!"
-- Winger
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There's just something about a felony in tight blue jeans...
Posted by: Don Dokken at December 22, 2025 03:24 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:25 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 22, 2025 03:25 PM (8CIFn)
Kinda crazy...but this started with the CIA and really got out of control around Iran Contra.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:25 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:25 PM (v0R5T)
'Glad we never stooped to that level
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
"Hey, at least 17 is legal in many states!"
-- Winger'
"She's just 16 years old. Leave her alone they said"
Posted by: Benny Mardones at December 22, 2025 03:25 PM (fd80v)
He's a diversion from what Epstein was really doing.
I'd once again encourage any of you on X to follow Mike Benz if you aren't already and read his stuff and listen to his videos. Epstein was at the center of a lot of the CIAs off the books stuff for years.
There's a reason he was protected and the reason isn't Bill Clinton.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:26 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 03:26 PM (YubK1)
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
________
"Hey, at least 17 is legal in many states!"
-- Winger
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There's just something about a felony in tight blue jeans...
Posted by: Don Dokken at December 22, 2025 03:24 PM (TN0g+)
_______
"Inorite?"
-- Fresh Prince
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Every dude at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: steevy
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I'm even more shocked that Biden is still around.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:26 PM (Riz8t)
________
"Inorite?"
-- Stella
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
Anyone remember JonBenét Patricia Ramsey, the six year old American child beauty queen who was murdered the day after Christmas 1996?
There was a lot of conversation about "prostitots" then
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (a3CJ+)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
"Hey, at least 17 is legal in many states!"
-- Winger'
"She's just 16 years old. Leave her alone they said"
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I was way more interested in na-na-na-nineteen...
Posted by: Paul Hardcastle at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:28 PM (YlWIZ)
Monica Lewinsky was a giant leap up and she was plump with baby fat and barely legal.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 03:29 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Bill Clintons Wiener at December 22, 2025 03:29 PM (VnVVA)
............................
Not just the CIA. He was a useful tool for a variety of international IC types.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 03:29 PM (sAmhv)
There was some talk that Jim Biden had some property on a neighboring island.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (viF8m)
'Mike Benz had a good 20 minute video tying the entire Epstein story to Iran Contra.'
And how does he tie those together?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (1Nv0l)
Glad we never stooped to that level
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
*fistbump*
- - - Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Outfield
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bill Clintons Wiener at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (VnVVA)
When what you're doing is so dirty, so unspeakable, you can't have any possibility of using actual US govt funds to do it. You can compromised financial movers and shakers who you can squeeze for all the truly black money you need.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (w6EFb)
Niiiiiccceeee
Posted by: Every dude at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (HcoTw)
____
When I was 15 working my first job, one of the bosses was a lady about early 30s. She was as lecherous as Bill Clinton. She was sleeping with all the good-looking guys in the place, some of them also underage like me. She tried to put the moves on me several times. I never did it, not because of morals, but because she was only moderately attractive (great rack, tho!) and I was into hunting trophy game.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (YubK1)
Glad we never stooped to that level
Posted by: Kiss at December 22, 2025 03:22 PM (HcoTw)
________
"Hey, at least 17 is legal in many states!"
-- Winger
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)
...Soon
Posted by: Neil Diamond at December 22, 2025 03:31 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:31 PM (YlWIZ)
CIA Banking via Bear Stearns...he even uses NYT reporting to twist the knife.
You should check it out.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 03:31 PM (W23D2)
Monica Lewinsky was a giant leap up and she was plump with baby fat and barely legal
And thicker than prison glass
Posted by: Randall at December 22, 2025 03:32 PM (HcoTw)
Yep. The Safari Club.
I think it's going to come as a shock to a lot of people when they realize a lot of these spy agencies work together regardless of what elected officials say of do. A shadow government.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:32 PM (v0R5T)
Ages of consent and majority are how we've evolved our system to deal with it. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and we've pretty much settled where we draw it. Making excuses around it is a pretty gross topic.
Like I said before, teenagers fooling around and making poor decisions with each other about what they're doing with their no-no bits is one thing, young women who, let's face it, aren't exactly known for making informed, rational decisions being sex-trafficked by adults who know damn well what they're doing is an entirely different thing.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 03:32 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
We watched the movie, Snow Day, last night, a Christmas movie directed at kids, to which we relented.
My God, is there really a need to show a purported high school girl in a swimsuit with erect nips?
They mercifully cropped out low angle potential swimsuit cameltoe. But Jebus? Why would I want my kids to watch anything put in the last two decades sight unseen?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 03:32 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 22, 2025 03:32 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Which Outfield song? I only know the one album that has the "josie's on a vacation far away...".
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (kT/XV)
Posted by: U.S. Media at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (rQwsY)
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The word "evil" gets thrown around here a lot. IMO it's overused. Like "racist." But... in Hillary's case I'll make an exception. There's no way that thing is remotely human.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & lunatic pundits at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (5FaDg)
Which Outfield song? I only know the one album that has the "josie's on a vacation far away...".
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (3uBP9)
"You know I like my girls a little bit older, but I just wanna use your love tonight."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
As has been noted, Trumps only vice is banging hot adult women who he then marries.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (XV/Pl)
The beauty pageants for young girls is disgusting.
The parents, usually the mothers, are sexualizng their young daughters.
It is disgusting.
How many young boy beauty pageants do we see.
Leave the children alone. You are using them to fulfill some sick desire of your own.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (3ek7K)
Epstein was involved with that too.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (viF8m)
Christopher Wray, the 51 who signed the Russia document - There are more important fish that need frying, now.
But no. Bill Clinton has become the shiny thing to distract from active agents against the Republic.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (YubK1)
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, Bill. Maybe your dick will fall off into Hillary’s drink next.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (Py+sj)
Hmmm. More obvious perhaps that Tucker. I am still nkt completely sold on Tucker being a grifter yet. I think he has gone the 'mind so open it falls out of the skull' route.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (7yt4l)
There was some talk that Jim Biden had some property on a neighboring island.
Posted by: JackStraw
There's a whole string of islands in the Caribbean -- locals call it the Pervert Archipelago. Epstein's island is just one of them. They are, in order:
Pedophile Island
Butt-Sex Island
Foot-Fetish Island
Ilsa's Nazi Dungeon Island
Smegma Island
Futanari Island
Chubby Chaser Island
GILF Island
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (cuae1)
It’s someone going hey Bill let’s get a shot with you and this 16 year old girl you’re gonna rape in an hour.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:40 PM (UJWr0)
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Yeah, what's up with that? Three people in a pool. One of them, married. Two others women to whom he is not married. And, he's perfectly OK with some other person showing up and taking pictures?
I have a theory as to why this was acceptable to all parties, but it's a little bit of a conspiracy theory that goes back to Epstein's first arrest in 2008. And, everyone knows that none of our conspiracy theories comes true.
BTW, along those lines. Some Congressman with marbles should put Rene Alexander Acosta on the "under oath" hotseat, and you'll find out what Epstein was really doing, and how the process operated.
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 03:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:35 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 03:35 PM (1Nv0l)
Yep. The Safari Club.
I think it's going to come as a shock to a lot of people when they realize a lot of these spy agencies work together regardless of what elected officials say of do. A shadow government.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:32 PM (viF8m)
The same government that is so incompetent that its functionaries cannot find their way out of a phone booth are at the exact same time the most hyper competent clandestine organization on earth with the uncanny ability to keep secrets.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)
People will try to rationalize it, but everybody knows.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (BI5O2)
Trump remained good friends with Epstein gorcst least 2 years after he was convicted
Dems would never have elected him if he was a pedo friend of Epstein
GOP elected him AFTER. Trump was known to have been his child sex enablers for DECADES
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (pJizs)
Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (oraVG)
Example: It wasn't the cheerleaders, it was the coach of the cheerleaders. Must've been about mid-30s. Yowza.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Ah,... ya know I actually never listened to the song lyrics. So his actual girlfriend is on vacay, so there's this young thing and he wants to use her love. Yeah it's pretty f'ed up.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Paul Hardcastle at December 22, 2025 03:27 PM (TN0g+)
That song was a hit (gulp) 40 years ago.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (2fdLC)
Example: It wasn't the cheerleaders, it was the coach of the cheerleaders. Must've been about mid-30s. Yowza.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Y1sOo)
The English teacher I had a huge thing for in summer school was actually not an English teacher at all, but rather a business teacher and dance teacher. I believe the cheerleaders fell under her direction.
28. So bloody hot.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (rQwsY)
Ages of consent and majority are how we've evolved our system to deal with it. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and we've pretty much settled where we draw it.
9 yrs old.
Posted by: Mohammed
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (7yt4l)
I can save you some time. Genuinely. No.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (2fdLC)
Epstein was involved with that too.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Was that Bush the elder's bank for the CIA?\\
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (YubK1)
Then he dumped the democrats as a big donor and ran against Hillary as a Republican.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 03:49 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Piper
Super Glue Gel, let it dry, wrap the finger and put her back to work.
Posted by: Self-Starter at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (oftw2)
Barry seems to be more of a Chicago bathhouse boy, where the big, strong bears, like Big Mike, tossed him around, with a technical proficiency and a seasoned familiarity.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (nljXp)
Bill was having the time of his life without that hag he married.
I read a story about him from way back in Arkansas. It was said by a friend that people were shocked when he came home one weekend with Hag Hillary. She had BO, dirty hair and was snarling and not friendly. Doesn't sound as if she's changed much.
Put some ice on it, Bill.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (YubK1)
This. Bill has hit his expiration date as a useful political animal. Now his value is as a piñata.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (MZ+PY)
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/2002450017647301084?s=20
Posted by: Danimal28 at December 22, 2025 06:48 PM (mNOhh)
AGAIN: Violent Deranged Homeless Man, Set Free By Leftwing Judges Over and Over Again, Randomly Slashes and Permanently Blinds a 75 Year Old Woman
Below the fold, a cop says that this homeless criminal is "notorious" for randomly attacking people. Yet he was allowed to roam the streets, menacing and attacking citizens.
Oh and they said "he usually just punches people" I guess that is okay... Posted by: steevy
Tuck's News
@tucksnews HORROR: 75-Year-Old Seattle Woman Loses Her Eye After 'Serial Assaulter' Known to Cops Hits Her Face at Full Force with Wooden Board with Screw (VIDEO) Meanwhile, in the Democrat hellhole of Seattle... A 75-year-old woman lost her eye after she was brutally attacked by a serial assaulter who has a history of punching and stabbing people. 42-year-old Fale Vaigalepa Pea hit Jeanette Marken in the face with a wooden club with a screw through the end of the plank as she was standing on a street corner in downtown Seattle after picking up a food order earlier this month. Surveillance footage shows Pea approached Marken and swung the wooden club with full force at her face. Bystanders rushed to Marken after she hit the ground. She was rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for her facial injuries. Family members told KOMO News that Marken lost eyesight in the damaged eye.
Kevin Kijewski
@KevinKijewski This shocking Seattle video exposes the failure of soft-on-crime policies under Democrat prosecutors like King County's Leesa Manion, a recipient of George Soros funding. Repeat offender Fale Vaigalepa Pea - arrested eight times in 2025 alone for assaults, drugs, indecent exposure, and more - brutally attacked a 75-year-old woman with a spiked board, leaving her permanently blind in one eye and requiring facial reconstruction. George Soros has backed over 100 similar prosecutors nationwide to socially reengineer our communities, including potential Michigan Democrat Attorney General nominees Karen McDonald and Eli Savit. We also can't ignore the mental health crisis fueling this violence - too many cycle through arrests without treatment, endangering innocent people. As Michigan's next Attorney General, we'll fully prosecute violent offenders, support law enforcement, and pursue real solutions to protect families and address the mental health crisis endangering our communities. It's time to make Michigan safe, normal, and red again in 2026.
Update: I had to go to the UK to get a media story about this.
An elderly woman was savagely attacked in broad daylight by a man wielding a wooden board with nails in it. Jeanette Marken, 75, was left permanently blinded in her right eye after being hit in the face with the makeshift weapon in Seattle, allegedly at the hands of repeat offender Fale Vaigalepa Pea, 42. Family members told KOMO that a screw sticking out of the board gouged out Marken's eye, and after several surgeries she was told she will not recover her eyesight in the eye. Marken's son Andrius Dyrikis told the outlet that the random attack has left the family stunned, saying: 'To take a wood club with nails and hit her at full force in the face? I don't understand it.' ... Police said Pea was 'notorious' for attacking random victims on Third Avenue in Seattle. The bodycam footage showed a paramedic question the officer after he recognized Pea, asking: 'Who is this guy?' 'He's a regular. He usually punches,' the officer responds. 'I guess today he decided to escalate from his usual.' According to KOMO, Pea's string of offenses dates back to 2011, when he stabbed two people at a party. One of the victims in that attack was stabbed eight times, yet despite a jury finding Pea guilty of the savage attack, he received a sentence of just 18-months community custody. Pea continued racking up criminal offenses over the years, including one in 2020, four in 2023, and one in 2024. This year, the King County jail reported that Pea has been booked into custody a staggering eight times, for offenses including assault, indecent exposure, drug offenses, and property destruction.Oh and he's also a transgender. Whether he's a "real" transgender (I use that term with reservations) or just another thug who has a Courtroom Gender Epiphany, I don't know.
However, KOMO reported Seattle Municipal Court and King County Superior Court records show none of his arrests this year resulted in charges - until the alleged attack on Marken. Pea is now charged with assault in the first degree, and will remain in custody until he has a competency hearing later this month. Prosecutors cited Pea's lengthy rap sheet in a charging document for the assault on Marken, saying that his 'egregious actions in this case, as well as his prior assaultive criminal history, demonstrate that he is a substantial danger to the community and is likely to commit a violent offense.' Dyrikis said he felt let down by the justice system for allowing the repeat offender to roam freely on the streets despite his history. 'He's a usual? A usual what? Attacking people? Civilians? What the hell is wrong with your system?' he questioned. 'I want someone to at least say to my mom, 'Hey, we're working on this, we're fixing it... I want them to say, 'we notice, hey, we're working on it.''
75 year old Jeanette Marken was victim of an unprovoked attack by REPEAT violent offender Fale Vaigalepa Pea.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 22, 2025
She lost an eye and broke her nose and cheekbone.
Fale has a long violent record of stabbings to drugs.
Judges kept releasing him to terrorize others.
This must stop! pic.twitter.com/vBFJu8BdWu
Transgender violence…
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 22, 2025
Fale Vaigalepa Pea is repeat violent offender that identifies as a woman.
He hit 75 year old grand mom Jeanette Marken with a board. She lost an eye and broke her nose and cheekbone.
Judges repeatedly let him out to terrorize.pic.twitter.com/fehNJQDHHk
BREAKING: Violent repeat offender who was known to police just randomly slashed a 75-year-old woman in the face in Seattle and permanently blinded her pic.twitter.com/fXH2bXpsMc
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 21, 2025
0 AP stories on Jeanette Marken
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 21, 2025
0 PBS stories on Jeanette Marken
0 NYT stories on Jeanette Marken
0 NPR stories on Jeanette Marken
0 WSJ stories on Jeanette Marken
0 BBC stories on Jeanette Marken
0 CNN stories on Jeanette Marken
0 WAPO stories on… pic.twitter.com/KogLaTWrWd
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 01:27 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 01:27 PM (wzUl9)
Answer points to "Yes."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: steevy at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (XV/Pl)
Yet he was allowed to roam the streets, menacing and attacking citizens.
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Where have all the real men gone?
This asshole's body should have been disappeared long ago ...*spit*
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (2XN3U)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025
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How about "Shoot him repeatedly"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Avi at December 22, 2025 01:31 PM (ODW6Y)
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This is *not* "soft-on-crime" policy. Just no. There is no reason to call it that. This is *pro-crime* policy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:31 PM (avHHk)
Looks like this is one time the federal bureaucracy was not lying to get out of doing work...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:31 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Blanco at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (MHpW9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (pkeXY)
This must stop! pic.twitter.com/vBFJu8BdWu
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 22, 2025
The ONLY WAY you stop this is by removing these judges from oxygen.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)
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:: shrugs ::
There's no daylight to be found between them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: pookysgirl has been here too long at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (Wt5PA)
Where have all the real men gone?
This asshole's body should have been disappeared long ago ...*spit*
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025
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A small group of dedicated men, disguised from public cameras, could have done something about the creature. Knees are vulnerable to two-by-fours, for example.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: brak at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (jGJov)
yeah, I know... I said I use that term "advisedly," which I think means "with reservations"
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (iFTx/)
We used to look people up for violent crime in the 50s and before (or just execute them). Then in the 60/70s we decided to reduce putting people in prison and crime exploded.
Then we went back to more prison time in the late 80s/90s and again crime went down.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (sKqQm)
0 PBS stories on Jeanette Marken
0 NYT stories on Jeanette Marken
0 NPR stories on Jeanette Marken
0 WSJ stories on Jeanette Marken
0 BBC stories on Jeanette Marken
0 CNN stories on Jeanette Marken
0 WAPO stories on� pic.twitter.com/KogLaTWrWd
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 21, 2025
Tell me again how the CIA doesn't operate on US soil.
Project Mockingbird is ALIVE AND THRIVING.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Laws protect them from us, not the other way around.
Posted by: DPICM at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (zweKz)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (1wjle)
They saw that court case in NY where a guy stopped a previous iteration of Fale Vaigalepa Pea and was arrested for it.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (CxkMj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2025 01:35 PM (RVftD)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 01:35 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)
so you're saying he was just getting his life back together, possibly an aspiring rapper, on his way to grandma's house?
Posted by: NYT at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (jGJov)
Anyone released for a violent crime with no prison time served spends 3 months living in this housing no exceptions.
If the person is no threat then judges have nothing to fear right?
And if the person is a threat they shouldn't be allowed to go free...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T)
But if you maim or murder an American here in the good old USA, the government doesn't lift a finger.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (KrBFV)
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Arrest, Prosecute, Convict, and Imprison -- in Feral PMITA Prison gen pop -- every anarcho-terrorist Rogue Clown Judge for Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Conspiracy Against Rights & Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (2XN3U)
Trump should find out where these judges live, and then open halfway houses next door. I'm sure this guy would be an excellent neighbor.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM
Tongans eat horse.
Watch your pastures.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 22, 2025 01:36 PM (IifOV)
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Of course. And since Google no longer (and hasn't for a long time) honors search filters in the query - quotation marks, boolean operators, etc. - there is no way to bypass it. There is a reason they removed that functionality.
You *can* still get to that, but you must go to "Advanced Search" and force the issue, and then insist that you meant what you wrote by navigating beyond "fake pee."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 01:35 PM (1wjle)
There's no way that name is anything _but_ Tongan.
Though usually Tongans go to New Zealand, not the US.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (2fdLC)
Ah, I see 18-1 beat me to it at #34.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (Riz8t)
In fairness to Hegseth he's very legally limited here...but Bondi and Patel are much less so...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
I will move to an excluded island somewhere and start the hit list. I will pay for the people that need to be eviscerated to become liquid."
I saw it in a movie on the internet, so it must be true, right?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Sarah Hoyt talked about the feral homeless in 2012, and the problem has become worse every year since. "no room" "no carcerial culture" "no judgement" is what those who supposedly are paid to protect society shout while they do nothing.
No downtown businesses either, and roaming individuals who beat on people for imagined slights. What do you do when your husband has been hit in the head with an aluminum baseball bat by a feral homeless man who thought he was disprespected by not getting money when he begged, and left with a massive skull fracture and brain bleed and an ICU bill? What do you do when your shop window has been broken 20 times by the same homeless man and the insurance company is going to "adjust your coverage" due the expense?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)
Diversity really is our strength.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
Only if it's VIBRANT diversity.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:39 PM (2fdLC)
If a parent lets a child gain access to firearms, they face repercussions.
If a janitor fails to put up a wet floor sign after mopping and someone slips, they face repercussions.
If a judge sets a killer free to kill again, they get a COLA pay raise and a golden parachute retirement.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:39 PM (KrBFV)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (UnA8+)
Shouldn't he be playing football for a college on the west coast?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:39 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 01:39 PM (v0R5T)
it's pretty much every major city, and even many not so major ones, nationwide. 2 near me with roughly 150k population both have major violent homeless problems
Is there any urban area left that doesn't have a homeless issue?
Posted by: brak at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (MoRvC)
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I think the correct term isn't "judges" but "accomplices".
Why do we even have judges? Seriously, we simply need to remove all sentencing power from them.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)
Definitely Polynesian. "Fale" is typically a Tongan name, and the other parts of his name are extremely Polynesian, too.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (UnA8+)
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Of course. And since Google no longer (and hasn't for a long time) honors search filters in the query - quotation marks, boolean operators, etc. - there is no way to bypass it. There is a reason they removed that functionality.
You *can* still get to that, but you must go to "Advanced Search" and force the issue, and then insist that you meant what you wrote by navigating beyond "fake pee."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (avHHk)
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I just googled his name and tons of reporting came up on the attack
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Blanco at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (MHpW9)
We definitely need an update.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)
You misspelled 'subjected to the felonies the violent felon committed.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Arabs are Semites too. Why can't people say anti-Jewish?
Posted by: fd
I've been saying this for awhile. The term "Semitic" has no meaning outside of linguistics. Use "anti-Jewish," "Jew-hating," or "Judaeophobic" instead.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Or Wrestling in Japan after being trained in New Zealand.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (UnA8+)
In times like this, you may want to search with Yandex Qwant or hit "Did you mean: fake pee" in Google
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (rbvCR)
Sarah Hoyt talked about the feral homeless in 2012, and the problem has become worse every year since. "no room" "no carcerial culture" "no judgement" is what those who supposedly are paid to protect society shout while they do nothing.
No downtown businesses either, and roaming individuals who beat on people for imagined slights. ...
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (rbvCR)
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When a place allows vagrant camps to pop up outside of the traditional detente zone (every city has one) and then doesn't clear them, or lets street people roam after dark, or doesn't enforce the traditional bum-tolerance rules (don't threaten, nag or menace the citizens - panhandle peacefully and get back to the overpass by nightfall), the place is in a death spiral and you're flirting with violence every time you step outside.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (avHHk)
He stabbed someone 8 times at a party.
And they try, so hard, to convince us that conservatives are Nazis. The city officials in Seattle, their counterparts in Olympia, are monsters. They hate us. They want us on our backs, lying on the pavement, concussed and blind.
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)
That's because google knows that when you want to search for fake pee you just do it
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (2fdLC)
Imagine living in the UK where just pointing out this story will get you thrown in jail.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (n5tGW)
++++
I don't use google for anything I can avoid. not the browser and DAMN SURE not their 'search' engine.
Google is the Devil and will lie with impunity. As mentioned in a thread last week, they erased their old motto: "Do no evil."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)
Definitely Polynesian. "Fale" is typically a Tongan name, and the other parts of his name are extremely Polynesian, too.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (UnA8+)
_________
[Crying]
-- Moana
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: It's a Democrat Life at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (jGJov)
0 AP stories on Jeanette Marken
0 PBS stories on Jeanette Marken
0 NYT stories on Jeanette Marken
0 NPR stories on Jeanette Marken
0 WSJ stories on Jeanette Marken
0 BBC stories on Jeanette Marken
0 CNN stories on Jeanette Marken
0 WAPO stories on Jeanette Marken
0 Reuters stories on Jeanette Marken
0 MSNBC stories on Jeanette Marken
----------------
"An Inconvenient Truth?"
Who was it that first called the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Sycophantic Islamunist Whores "Narrative Engineers?"
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (2XN3U)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (dK+Kv)
I'm not entirely certain we do.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:43 PM (2fdLC)
I've been saying this for awhile. The term "Semitic" has no meaning outside of linguistics. Use "anti-Jewish," "Jew-hating," or "Judaeophobic" instead.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)
You'll use the language they WANT you to use and LIKE IT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)
And its funny to observe the sheer number of people demanding someone should do something to stop this who voted for that governor and a full slate of Democrats in the legislature
But the funniest part is of course the MA governor wants to share the same sort of diversity the cities have out to the burbs which is something these same Massholes would tell you is a positive thing until of course it comes to THEIR neighborhood.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:43 PM (sKqQm)
There needs to be a Star Chamber for failed judges.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (IifOV)
++++
I don't use google for anything I can avoid. not the browser and DAMN SURE not their 'search' engine.
Google is the Devil and will lie with impunity. As mentioned in a thread last week, they erased their old motto: "Do no evil."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
_______
Are you sure they didn't just erase the word "no"?
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (dGCAG)
Obviously, Trump screwed up Biden's Mach 2 Economy.
We need to Impeach Trump over this incident....
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (s0JqF)
It's written backwards in invisible ink on every paycheck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: breaking bogey at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (69oK7)
If they are released and continue to cause trouble, lock the judge up.
Of course that will never happen.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 01:45 PM (ESVrU)
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Residents of Martha's Vineyard, who just LUUUVVVVV them some illegals at December 22, 2025 01:45 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 01:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 01:45 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)
The problem is if you cede the emotionally loaded and inflammatory terms to them they will take advantage, and you won't convince many.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:45 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (dGCAG)
This is correct.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 01:45 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (rj6Yv)
They won't even do anything about fat trantifa blob Vincent Haskins-Delici ("Isabel Rosa Araujo"), and he'd be the easiest arrest in the world to make.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:45 PM (UnA8+)
needs to be prosecuted as such; judges, prosecutors, cops, the whole chain of command.
operating a terrorist organization + deprivation of rights under color of law.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (Cjt/F)
WATCH: Steelers player throws punch at Detroit fan
https://is.gd/tIEPd6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: brak at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (jGJov)
++++
There never has been. Every city with more than about 50k people has bums somewhere. It's all about how it's managed. The traditional rules are pretty simple:
1. Don't try to spend the night outside the tolerance zone (usually a specific overpass, near a railyard, etc.). Be outside the tolerance zone after dark, and you get hickory shampoo and a night in the box.
2. Don't menace the normals. Do your panhandling peaceably during daylight hours. If you menace the normals, you get hickory shampoo and a night in the box.
3. Don't settle your family business in view of the normals. If you have beef with another bum, duke it out on your own turf or get hickory shampoo and a night in the box.
4. Don't engage in illegal activity in view of the normals. If you want to dope up, you do it in the tolerance zone or you get hickory shampoo and a night in the box.
Keep violating and you get run out of town or locked up for a meaningful period.
That's it. These are the old rules and there are still cities - usually small or medium cities - that have them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (IifOV)
I'd settle for a free trip on an Oceangate submarine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: BurtTC
Don't look at me. The place was beautiful before you palefaces showed up.
-- Chief Seattle
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)
I've come to the conclusion that the judiciary is a terrorist organization determined to destroy the US as we know it. There is no other explanation for their actions except malice.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (b9CCz)
Update: I had to go to the UK to get a media story about this.
Look, look! For, upon my soul, it is curious. To learn something that happens here, we need the UK media and for those in the UK to learn something that happens there, they need the US media.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (iFTx/)
++++
I got nothing. I had to use "advanced search" before I could get it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (Wf0ti)
Posted by: breaking bogey at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (69oK7)
8-ball says Y-E-S.
As will 80% of Seattle.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: breaking bogey at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM (69oK7)
Not necessarily. She lived.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (dGCAG)
As for our criminal polynesian, no need to get fancy. Just do to him what he did to Jeanette Marken.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)
Bystanders rushed to Marken after she hit the ground. She was rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for her facial injuries.
----
Would have been nice if they surrounded her attacker and kicked the shit out of him, too.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (t1fZA)
I've played ball against Samoans. You don't want them "just punching you."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (BI5O2)
WATCH: Steelers player throws punch at Detroit fan
https://is.gd/tIEPd6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)
Buying a ticket to a game doesn't give you carte blanche. It doesn't even look like contact was made, but if the fan is being a belligerent asshole earning a punch in the face, so be it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
USA averages 50 homicides per day only a much smaller age picked up by any national media.
Aggravated assaults run more that 1000 per year
Mass media has only 1 agenda. Profits. .
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (pJizs)
Much jiggling.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (Wf0ti)
But no link.
Sigh.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (pkeXY)
----------------
Coming #Soon to #Woke Toy Stores & Departments Near You -- and just in time for Christmas:
The Tranny "Tickle Me Elemeno" Doll!
/With optional Assault 2x4 Attachment ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (2XN3U)
Much jiggling.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop
Hey, good to see your nic here. It's been awhile, no?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)
The problem is if you cede the emotionally loaded and inflammatory terms to them they will take advantage, and you won't convince many.
Yeah, no. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
https://is.gd/7xJMoq
Posted by: J.D. Vance and his flammenworder at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (Riz8t)
WATCH: Steelers player throws punch at Detroit fan
https://is.gd/tIEPd6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)
Apparently it wasn't a punch, and the two have a "history."
The fan had been thrown out of the stadium before, at the player's request.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: breaking bogey at December 22, 2025 01:44 PM
Even more reliably if she dies.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (jc0TO)
WATCH: Steelers player throws punch at Detroit fan
https://is.gd/tIEPd6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)
Buying a ticket to a game doesn't give you carte blanche. It doesn't even look like contact was made, but if the fan is being a belligerent asshole earning a punch in the face, so be it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
The fan actually wasn't. The player is a known hothead, and I'd probably suspend him for the last 2 regular season games. I mean, if he hit the ref, another person with no helmet, it would be a full season. You only get to hit fellow helmeted players for 1 game.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (tOcjL)
Much jiggling.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (Wf0ti)
You asked for it.......
https://is.gd/dSqQcB
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:50 PM (pLaQB)
Look, if you choose to live in an urban “diverse” shithole like Seattle, this is going to happen. It’s not if but when. It’s unfortunate but at some point people need to make a decision. Do they want safety or do they want the proverbial 3am Thai food? Choice is yours.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:50 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 01:50 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 01:50 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 01:50 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (tOcjL)
It didn't really look like contact was made, but whatever.
Society sucks balls and everyone knows the assholes win, so......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
https://is.gd/dSqQcB
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Golly!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (/HDaX)
It's always a sparkling wiggle because they are "oppressed" or misrepresented, or some other random Leftist DemoNcrat bullshit.
But. . . . . . white privilege. . . . . .
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & lunatic pundits at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (+uala)
Posted by: Dave's not here at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (kp5iD)
That's it. These are the old rules and there are still cities - usually small or medium cities - that have them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (avHHk)
And thus it has always been and the mind of man runneth not to the contrary that bums and riff-raff have been in cities, not liked, but tolerated so long as they kept themselves in a finite area and caused no trouble to normals.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:50 PM (pLaQB)
75 year old women aren't necessarily the best fighters.
Nonetheless, she just signed to be Jake Paul's next opponent.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (dGCAG)
They are just pacific negroes.
Big f*cking fairies once they meet their match.
There is a reason the fat-ass, lazy SPAM eaters don't fair well in combat sports.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (KrBFV)
Ah, I see 18-1 beat me to it at #34.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (Riz8t)
***
Some judges need to discover the joys of diving in Puget.Sound.
At night.
Without tanks.
And extra weights.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (2WIwB)
This was black on white crime. motivated by racial hatred. And also systematic training of a class of offenders to expect that there will be no consequences.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (t1fZA)
-- Chief Seattle
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
I am reading Ezra Meek's memoir about being a pioneer on Puget Sound in the 1850's.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:52 PM (rbvCR)
http://tiny.cc/69rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:52 PM (avHHk)
There has to be some law on the books that let's the feds go after the local officials if they refuse to enforce laws.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:52 PM (HXT0k)
Google is the Devil and will lie with impunity. As mentioned in a thread last week, they erased their old motto: "Do no evil."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Old slogan: Don't be evil.
New slogan: Don't. Be evil.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 01:53 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 22, 2025 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (KrBFV)
They dominated Sumo until the Mongolians showed up.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:53 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (avHHk)
Every locale that allows this is eventually going to require a Bukele to clean them up. In fact he's probably the nicer version of the strongmen who will turn up, as he actually puts those he arrests into prison. Much easier and cheaper to just dig a big pit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 01:53 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (8QsiA)
This was black on white crime. motivated by racial hatred. And also systematic training of a class of offenders to expect that there will be no consequences.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (t1fZA)
Not black this time. Pacific Islander.
But they probably deserve the blame anyway.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (UnA8+)
Brave browser brings it up
Posted by: FireFly at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (53oGX)
http://tiny.cc/69rw001
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This chick wants me in the worst kind of way.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (KrBFV)
They don't have off-switches.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:55 PM (rbvCR)
The homicide rate in Mississippi is about 20 per 100000 people
In Seattle it is 6.8. About 1/3' that of Red after Mississippi
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 01:55 PM (pJizs)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:55 PM (UJWr0)
-- Chief Seattle
In the clan based structure you found in the PNW, the way something like this would be handled is the old woman's clan would go kill a few of Pea's clan and vice versa until the two sides got tired of it.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:55 PM (sKqQm)
This chick wants me in the worst kind of way.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (pLaQB)
Usually all photos of women do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (8QsiA)
Oh, now I get it.
He was blinding the lady.
With the board of Restorative Justice.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (dGCAG)
http://tiny.cc/69rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:52 PM (avHHk)
____
Odds that chick lives in an urban area? High!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (iFTx/)
https://is.gd/dSqQcB
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Man hands!
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (0bjKf)
/s/ the Left
* which stat includes suicides
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (rbvCR)
Noem Offers $3K "Bonus" to Illegal Aliens if They Self-Deport by Dec. 31
Dem Officials In California Urge Illegals to Sign Up for Medicaid by Dec 31
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Inogame at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (pkeXY)
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My dad hated Spam. He ate it everyday from Bougainville, Guam and Iwo. Me, I like Spam.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 01:57 PM (QZThv)
But no link.
Sigh.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (/HDaX)
Bold and the Beautiful, CBS from 1:30p-2p
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 22, 2025 01:57 PM (Wf0ti)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & lunatic pundits at December 22, 2025 01:57 PM (+uala)
http://tiny.cc/69rw001
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This chick wants me in the worst kind of way.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (pLaQB)
______
She followed me around the city once, all day. She stayed right ahead of me the entire time!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:57 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Only the same-sex otters hold hands in Seattle.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
My dad hated Spam. He ate it everyday from Bougainville, Guam and Iwo. Me, I like Spam.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (pLaQB)
I cut up some Spam and put it in the spicy asian noodles I just cooked and ate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:57 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Uncanny!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Inogame at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (53oGX)
The Hero of Canton...
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (UnA8+)
In Seattle it is 6.8. About 1/3' that of Red after Mississippi
Imagine not understanding where in Mississippi the crime is lol. Hint: it’s not in Republican parts of the state.
But you know this. You’re just a liar like everyone on the left.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 01:53 PM (uWKK
This is in relatively stable and prosperous times.
Imagine this hellhole if power was out for a sustained period, or if EBT funds ran dry. What a nightmare scenario. Target rich, but nightmare.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (dK+Kv)
No creative thinking there.
Offer them $100k, then just arrest them when they show up to get their money.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (KrBFV)
She's shaved dolphin smooth.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (jc0TO)
But there are more gun deaths* in red states per capita!!
/s/ the Left
* which stat includes suicides
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (HXT0k)
To which I would reply: the crime data are granular enough to determine where gun deaths occur most. Please to determine the demographics of these places.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:54 PM (pLaQB)
Why? You have penicillin?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)
The lie. For a living. Each and Every Day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Offer them $100k, then just arrest them when they show up to get their money.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (KrBFV)
++++
Eh, disagree. Honey and vinegar. If this scheme works, let it ride. Maybe do another round at $2k for the month of January. Encourage good behavior.
Now the fake "you are owed a refund by the city, some come down to city hall to claim it" letters sent to illegals followed by arrest? That's outside-the-box thinking.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 02:00 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:00 PM (UJWr0)
If this were some dumb slut from CNN, we'd be seeing stories about how awful this is.
But it isn't the right people getting the brunt repercussions of demonstrable failure.
What if this dude decided to torch a news building?
That's when shot will change. When it affects the right people. Since it's only the normie, it's a ok.
I hate the news media with a passion
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 22, 2025 02:00 PM (dmQ3d)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 01:56 PM (pkeXY)
Gay hand-holding otters.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:00 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 02:00 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (77rzZ
Medical adventures, changes in schedules have somewhat limited my blathering here, sadly.
But probably a good thing for you morons, lol.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 22, 2025 02:00 PM (Wf0ti)
That is a long, tall glass of water.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (Riz8t)
She followed me around the city once, all day. She stayed right ahead of me the entire time!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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You should see her on the inside. An Nvidia GPU with 24GB of VRAM and a fast SSD. Your choice of voices on ElevenLabs.
There, I'm even more un-fun than It's Go Time Donald.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (n7rxJ)
Subotai Bahaduir
Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (QtvhG)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
Offer them $100k, then just arrest them when they show up to get their money.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:58 PM (KrBFV)
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Eh, disagree. Honey and vinegar. If this scheme works, let it ride. Maybe do another round at $2k for the month of January. Encourage good behavior.
Now the fake "you are owed a refund by the city, some come down to city hall to claim it" letters sent to illegals followed by arrest? That's outside-the-box thinking.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 02:00 PM
Bounties would be nice.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (jc0TO)
The odds of being murdered by Bjork are low, but not zero.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 02:02 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 02:02 PM (KrBFV)
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Poi. Hawaiian chicks are stunning at 17. By 25 you're buying them a circus tent for clothing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (pLaQB)
These attacks occur more often then we know.
The local government hides most news of these attacks along with the evil media.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (3ek7K)
I mean, for techies that's pretty hot too.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (QZThv)
AGAIN.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (j81Ny)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:04 PM (HXT0k)
Amory
Cleveland
Batesville
Laurel
Vicksburg
Picayune
Brookhaven
Horn Lake
Kosciusko
Corinth
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Yet he was allowed to roam the streets, menacing and attacking citizens.
Anarcho-tyranny. As an aside, he'd make a good cop. Got the smashing old ladies' faces in part down cold.
Posted by: At this point they're just driving donuts on the lawn at December 22, 2025 02:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (QZThv)
Weird looking women. They all dress like hippies.
Probably smell of funk.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:04 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Ian S.
Don't stand at the edge of a volcano with her.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
If a person gets murdered, who are the first people the police investigate?
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 02:02 PM (KrBFV)
White, Christian, male, heterosexual oil executives. Because they're the culprits according to every movie and TV show.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 02:05 PM (tgvbd)
I mean, for techies that's pretty hot too.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (QZThv)
And she can be programmed to make sammiches.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:05 PM (dK+Kv)
Much jiggling.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM
I'm more of a Bertha and the Butt Sisters man.
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at December 22, 2025 02:05 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (pLaQB)
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They invented the muumuu for a reason.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 22, 2025 02:05 PM (qbLEp)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 02:05 PM (pA1Hr)
In the case of Mississippi the worst place is the city of Jackson.
Kamala won there 68-30 in 2024
Mayor John A. Horhn is a Democrat who didn't even face a Republican candidate in the general election.
Horhn replaced a guy named Chokwe Antar Lumumba because he was sent to prison for corruption.
Lumumba campaigned on making Jackson "the most radical city on the planet", is a self described progressive and socialist, and endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
Previously his father Chokwe Lumumba also served as mayor of Jackson. The senior Lumumba changed his last name to that of the famous African communist leader and was a leader of the "Republic of New Afrika" movement
So, looks like the residents of Jackson are getting what they voted for
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 02:06 PM (sKqQm)
Imagine the administration, Congress and the judiciary all on the same side. It was pretty close under *biden's reign.
Yea, that'll be fun.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 02:06 PM (NwnyJ)
AGAIN.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (j81Ny)
Those two guys are back again?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)
I mean, for techies that's pretty hot too.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (QZThv)
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"I'd fuck her"
-- Techies
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:06 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ian S.
Don't stand at the edge of a volcano with her.
hmmm.... *scribbles note* buy more orange soda
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 02:06 PM (v3pYe)
If a person gets murdered, who are the first people the police investigate?
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 02:02 PM (KrBFV)
White, Christian, male, heterosexual oil executives. Because they're the culprits according to every movie and TV show.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 02:05 PM (tgvbd)
Don't forget white Christian male heterosexual pastors. And homeschoolers.
Posted by: It's all left-wing copaganda at December 22, 2025 02:07 PM (TbWk/)
FIFY
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 02:08 PM (KrBFV)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 02:06 PM (sKqQm)
It's also important to note, crime stats are NOT the same as incidents of crime.
Even if their politicians were NOT faking the numbers, crimes are routinely unreported in areas where it's more rampant.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:08 PM (dGCAG)
The manic pixie girl thing she has going on as her public persona pissed off the left because it contrasts with bitter bitch too starkly.
Also horde favorite Zooey Deschanel got crap for it as well
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 02:08 PM (sKqQm)
the sun never sets on the moron empire
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 02:09 PM (v3pYe)
A lot of little corners in Mississippi and Alabama like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:09 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: John Frederick Gacy at December 22, 2025 02:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:04 PM (HXT0k)
Totally fake. And gay. The SPLC and ADL include pretty much everything from the local boy scouts troop to the PTA to the American Family Association as right-wing radical extremist white supremacists, which is where the progtard faggots were cribbing all their information.
Posted by: All bullshit all the time at December 22, 2025 02:10 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: 496 at December 22, 2025 02:10 PM (8M2Lv)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:08 PM (dGCAG)
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Yup. Go to one of those "crime stats by zip code" (or census tract, or precinct) websites and use your own city. Put in a ZIP code you know is good through your own experience, and one you know is bad. The odds are very good that the good part of town has worse rates for property and sex crime, and it comes down entirely to reporting.
In the better part of town, people have an expectation - misplaced or not - that the cops can and will do something about it. People in the better part of town probably have insurance, and insurance will demand a police report for property crimes. They are much more likely to report across the board, for a variety of reasons. In the 'hood, there's little point in reporting crime and few people do. Except corpses (which are hard to hide), reporting is way lower.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 02:11 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 02:11 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 22, 2025 02:11 PM (O6icp)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 02:12 PM (YlWIZ)
I mean, for techies that's pretty hot too.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM
I misread techies as testes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 22, 2025 02:12 PM (bLA4G)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (2XN3U)
A lot of little corners in Mississippi and Alabama like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:09 PM (uWKK
Read a Substack a while ago about Murder Valley, a number of counties along the Mississippi with unusually high homicide rates despite being rather rural. I made note of the counties and had a look at the demographics in a selection of them. It confirmed my suspicions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (tgvbd)
As for Google, not sure if it is a ban, try "Fale Pea attack crime".
Posted by: Trip at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (npAJo)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)
65 Willowed:
Arabs are Semites too. Why can't people say anti-Jewish?
Posted by: fd
I've been saying this for awhile. The term "Semitic" has no meaning outside of linguistics. Use "anti-Jewish," "Jew-hating," or "Judaeophobic" instead.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM
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The term was coined by a German in the 19th century so he could name his organization the Anti-Semite Society. They wanted to deport Jews.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (iTNuP)
No, wait...That's not what I meant.
Posted by: Liberal Rationalizer at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (1DwxX)
You really don't sound like you're not a cop.
I suspect you're not being totally honest with us about that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (77rzZ)
No creative thinking there.
Offer them $100k, then just arrest them when they show up to get their money.
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$100k? That is nothing compared to what the doughy white patsies of Minnesota offer. No deal.
Posted by: Proud Somalian Pirate at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (Dv3i1)
LOL
That tard is so drunk on sniffing his own shit, he can't see that he's been given--forcefully and specifically--multiple opportunities to stop his mad quest for the Orange Whale.
Watching him tear down the judiciary in his quest amuses me.
I mean, ffs, he's demanding breach of attorney-client privilege to find contempt for not following an order the Supreme Court already said was vague and unenforceable.
His "you will respect the majesty of my office!!" is amazing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:14 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 02:11 PM (avHHk)
I'm also wondering, if the perp (even for murder) is a juvie, does it get reported as a "crime?"
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:14 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 02:14 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: 496 at December 22, 2025 02:10 PM (8M2Lv)
Is he a person of choler?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 02:14 PM (dAOkg)
That'd be a brain-shot for them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:15 PM (ynpvh)
I mean, ffs, he's demanding breach of attorney-client privilege to find contempt for not following an order the Supreme Court already said was vague and unenforceable.
His "you will respect the majesty of my office!!" is amazing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:14 PM (HXT0k)
And yet, nothing has happened and he's continually allowed to do it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)
His "you will respect the majesty of my office!!" is amazing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Until someone stops him, he will continue.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 02:15 PM (dAOkg)
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So his son could get his CIA pension?
/Leftist "Altruism" FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:16 PM (2XN3U)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:13 PM (iFTx/)
Poly= many
Nesian = of the islands
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
But they have plenty of hot springs and volcanoes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)
Every teenage boy needs to be told to look at the mom of any prospective woman he wants to marry.
I think most guys know? But a lot don’t.
It’s about the most accurate prediction of will she or won’t she balloon in 20 years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
His "you will respect the majesty of my office!!" is amazing.
The guy acts like the laws don't apply to him, like he was chosen by birthright as some special person that is above all others.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (KrBFV)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
None of the girls in Hawaii ever did anything for me.
-- Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (77rzZ)
That story disappeared pretty damn quick, no? "Rob who?"
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
They don't want you finding out how poorly Rob treated and ignored his son, providing him tools to develop his drug habits, but doing nothing to prevent it in the first place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)
-- Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (77rzZ)
I'm betting he was an incel and went homo because of that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (3ek7K)
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Much like Latinas.
Under 25 can be very hot. Post 25 the wall comes fast.
Also Hawaiian population is only like 10% native Hawaiian. It is weird how you’re in Hawaii but Hawaiians are almost non existent.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
There are hints and whispers coming out, about how his dad may very well have been Of The Cult.
Which cult is that?
Pedo, of course.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at December 22, 2025 02:20 PM (ilHZO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Except on Niihau, but haoles aren't allowed there.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hope and Change at December 22, 2025 02:20 PM (m8zKa)
Just for fun, do an internet search for Eli Savit Mazi Smith gun charges reduced.
Now try speeding at 50 mph down a residential street in Ann Arbor posted at 25 mph with a loaded Glock and three full magazine without having a state-issued CCW and see if Eli Savit lets you plead down to a misdemeanor and no jail time.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 02:20 PM (Y1sOo)
They don't want you finding out how poorly Rob treated and ignored his son, providing him tools to develop his drug habits, but doing nothing to prevent it in the first place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Not to mention the wholesome Hollywood environment that the family swam around in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Allegedly, there's a dungeon in Rob's basement.
Allegedly.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
"He is totally a legend who had some silly movies and stuff from 50 years ago, but you likely remember him from his Trump-hating on Twitter and now Trump is hating on him on Twitter and you should care about this very much because blah blah" probably wasn't the best angle.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
None of the girls in Hawaii ever did anything for me.
-- Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (77rzZ)
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"But those keiki kane were hot!"
-- Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Barack Obama at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (1DwxX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (MoRvC)
Every time I see something like this in the news I eventually think about this. We say a city will get it good and hard by electing dem scumbags -- well, they're getting it good and hard. I'm finding that I have less and less compassion for victims as time goes on.
And if one didn't vote dem, we've been telling everyone to get out of those shitholes for a long time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (uQzkA)
I Duckducked his full name and got lots of hits...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: iowaan at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (gMOlG)
Exactly. He has no reason to stop. When the next Democrat wins POTUS, he'll be handsomely rewarded.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (Yp6az)
>>>
Star Chamber. Time for their comeback.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & lunatic pundits at December 22, 2025 02:22 PM (+uala)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:22 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 02:22 PM (Dv3i1)
That story disappeared pretty damn quick, no? "Rob who?"
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (iFTx/)
They don't want you finding out how poorly Rob treated and ignored his son, providing him tools to develop his drug habits, but doing nothing to prevent it in the first place.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)
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That, plus this seems another instance of more red flags flying than in Red Square, this seems like it could have been prevented
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)
He was high fived by daddy for his efforts.
Reiner has a boatload of skeletons in his closet that won't see the light of day, I'm quite sure.
Learning that you can get away with things like that unscathed at an early age rarely leads to restraint and respect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)
-- Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:18 PM (77rzZ)
I'm betting he was an incel and went homo because of that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
He always liked a good toke.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (ynpvh)
Henry Fonda.
Who also has messed up kids.
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First rule of fathering, never bring up kids in a beach community.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: NCKate
guys are going to fuck whoever, if she's cute.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (9+gVx)
Who also has messed up kids.
Posted by: BurtTC
And ol' Henry had a lot to do with that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (uQzkA)
Penii?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:24 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 02:24 PM (pJizs)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 02:24 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: bonhomme
The 'Equalizer'. This would make a good TV show.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 02:24 PM (Dv3i1)
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Much like Latinas.
Under 25 can be very hot. Post 25 the wall comes fast.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:19 PM (UJWr0)
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"Fuck you, racist hater!"
-- AOC
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:24 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 02:24 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 02:22 PM (Dv3i1)
Who's the other dude on the double date? I mean, I wouldn't call it a dream if it was David French, but you can just lock him in the closet. But Cthulhu? That's a nightmare.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (pLaQB)
I don't think the beach was the problem.
Of course, his daughter is as big a beach as there is.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (dGCAG)
Henry Fonda.
Who also has messed up kids.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:22 PM (dGCAG)
wasn't he married to Lucille Ball when he was in the Navy?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (uWKK8)
Really? The ladies wouldn't date a tall, dark, suave Italian guy or Spaniard?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Pudinhead
My wife grew up in Virginia Beach. She turned out fine.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 22, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)
Hollywood's evil rot is not new.
It was there from the start.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:26 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
But they have plenty of hot springs and volcanoes.
Posted by: Bulg
So they'll sous vide you.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 02:26 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:27 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Tom Servo
He was KIA in the South Pacific, and Ensign Pulver moved in on her.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:21 PM (uQzkA)
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I date almost exclusively exotic girls, in part because the demographics where I live for single, looking-for-fun girls is ... not white.
I can't speak for the ladies on what they find attractive, but I'll bet there's some secret exotic swarthy dudes in a lot of their histories ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Pudinhead
My wife grew up in Virginia Beach. She turned out fine.
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I know it well. Beach communities encourage crazy.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 02:27 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 22, 2025 02:11 PM (O6icp)
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I ended a sorta serious relationship when I met her family and they were all either obese or just objectively unattractive as they aged. Just not a genetic line I am interested in furthering myself. She was fun though, had a certain "zest for living" if you will.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 02:27 PM (5aZAZ)
Who also has messed up kids.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:22 PM (dGCAG)
I was A#1 in the screwy kid department. So I beat them with a 5 iron now and then big deal! Fore! Oh boy Gary thats gonna leave a mark.
Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (m8zKa)
Really? The ladies wouldn't date a tall, dark, suave Italian guy or Spaniard?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Yp6az)
face it most guys would date a wookie if they drank enough.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Paco at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (2L+MU)
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The rule of law that replaced the law of feud and vigilante, that these judges are so desperate to do away with, included judges and police as legitimate targets.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)
The Left wants you to vote Dem AND they do not care if you are killed by any means.
This is Seattle, they are reliably dem. They are not protecting their ardent supporters, they do not give a shit. It is part of what is so fucking insane about this shit. Their supporters are literally signing up to see themselves and their families brutally assaulted/raped/murdered.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (bss/y)
That tard is so drunk on sniffing his own shit, he can't see that he's been given--forcefully and specifically--multiple opportunities to stop his mad quest for the Orange Whale.
Watching him tear down the judiciary in his quest amuses me.
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"Boasberg the Clown Turd" w/apologies to Ray Stevens
He wore a big ol' Judge robe wrapped around his head
And a ED Pump by his side
And, every evenin', about midnight
He'd hump on his camel named Clyde, and ride
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (nXRBt)
Posted by: Tom Servo
He was KIA in the South Pacific, and Ensign Pulver moved in on her.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
Did she wash that man right out of her hair?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (dGCAG)
Every teenage boy needs to be told to look at the mom of any prospective woman he wants to marry.
I think most guys know? But a lot don’t.
It’s about the most accurate prediction of will she or won’t she balloon in 20 years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:17 PM (UJWr0)
Young men generally seem to get either no advice or terrible advice about such matters.
Posted by: Unfortunate but true at December 22, 2025 02:29 PM (TbWk/)
Really? The ladies wouldn't date a tall, dark, suave Italian guy or Spaniard?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Yp6az)
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The Paolo, he has not a problem with the lighter ladies, he'll have you know ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 02:29 PM (iFTx/)
Really? The ladies wouldn't date a tall, dark, suave Italian guy or Spaniard?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Yp6az)
face it most guys would date a wookie if they drank enough.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (uWKK
There's some reason we have Neandertal and Denisoven DNA in the genes of our species...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:29 PM (ynpvh)
Thank goodness I never touch the stuff. My judgment is already suspect.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:29 PM (Yp6az)
Really? The ladies wouldn't date a tall, dark, suave Italian guy or Spaniard?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (Yp6az)
I made friends with a male exotic dancer when I worked as a cocktail waitress and I wouldn't have dated any of them, they were gay. They were handsome but I always found it kind of gross and women were terrible. We had a ladies night and these dancers come in and the ladies were terrible and I kind of felt sorry for the guys.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 22, 2025 02:29 PM (bLA4G)
Nope. Cities in red states are blue shitholes.
Take those out of the equation and Mississippi has the crime rate of Iceland.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:30 PM (UJWr0)
This is Seattle, they are reliably dem. They are not protecting their ardent supporters, they do not give a shit. It is part of what is so fucking insane about this shit. Their supporters are literally signing up to see themselves and their families brutally assaulted/raped/murdered.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (bss/y)
The message there is, you're voting D as required, however, your white skin makes you disposable. Win / Win for them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)
- Breitbart
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (sDNVV)
Thank goodness I never touch the stuff. My judgment is already suspect.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 22, 2025 02:29 PM (Yp6az)
I did.
Posted by: Barry O at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (ynpvh)
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Date a hairy Greek and Italian women? If the mustache is bleached enough and the eyebrows don't meet in the middle, I would thing most guys would date them sober.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 02:27 PM (uQzkA)
They call that "The Edgar", now.
The weird bowl cut that Cholo Thugs get to make themselves look less threatening.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Paco at December 22, 2025 02:28 PM (2L+MU)
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Ace is a benevolent kind of pirate!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (zV8MF)
Satan doesn't cast out Satan.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (WCaCG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 02:31 PM (sDNVV)
In my youth the cops would have given him an extrajudicial punishment too.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (bLA4G)
Obama did .................
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 02:33 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 02:33 PM (OUMaO)
Satan doesn't cast out Satan.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 02:32 PM (WCaCG)
to "encourage les autres"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 02:33 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 02:30 PM (UJWr0)
I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around,
Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson,
Look out Jackson town....
Posted by: Violent democrat goblins at December 22, 2025 02:33 PM (m8zKa)
Posted by: a Call for Honesty at December 22, 2025 02:35 PM (gfsyf)
The only pertinent results Google gave me were from The Daily Mail and The New York Post.
Furthermore, it prefaced them with the question:
"Did you mean: Fake Vaigalepa Pea"
You cannot hate either Google or the media enough.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 02:36 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: PG at December 22, 2025 02:37 PM (pk5S4)
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Tell me you worked at Caesars Palace in the '70s and wore one of those cute Roman mini-skirt & toga outfits.
/I had a little league baseball friend whose mom was a knockout and did that -- and she made over six figures in tips, even back then ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 02:39 PM (RW1OD)
Tucker Carlson, is that you?
Or just another commenter from Zero Hedge?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 02:47 PM (pawvM)
Oh, so this wild-eyed Samoan maniac usually just punched people? That's very reassuring.
I've played ball against Samoans. You don't want them "just punching you."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 01:48 PM (BI5O2)
The one and only time I ever played rugby was when my XO lassoed several of us grunts out of the barracks to bring his short-handed team up so that he didn't have to forfeit the game to the team of Samoans he was scheduled to play. There's something special about being flattened by a 280 lb meat locomotive in the guise of "having fun on the weekend".
Great bunch of guys when the game was over though..
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 22, 2025 02:49 PM (y9nCu)
"Yours Mine and Ours" was the Navy guy / Lucy reference here and they were both bad people. Especially Hank.
Posted by: Auspex at December 22, 2025 02:51 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:09 PM (uWKK
In more urban environments, it's always 'MLK, Jr Blvd' that's deadly to whites.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2025 02:58 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 02:25 PM (uWKK
Nope. Lucy married Desi in November 1940. They eloped.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 03:00 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (WONhk)
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I don't. White female boomer in deep blue city? Dollars to donuts she voted for the soft-on-crime policies that led to this. She's getting exactly what she voted for. And if she didn't vote for it, she didn't take it seriously enough to leave.
I have no more sympathy for blue state victims. Let it burn.
Posted by: Caiwyn at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (yHxqC)
And, since it's Seattle, nobody shot the guy, and nobody pursued and tackled him, it appears.
Also, this is EXACTLY WHY we passed mandatory sentencing in the 80s, along with 3-strikes laws.
Lastly,
"and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (nbgdO)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: sfcmac at December 22, 2025 04:49 PM (rtA3B)
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 22, 2025 07:52 PM (pE12i)
Bari Weiss Halts "60 Minutes" Hit Piece on Trump Over Sending Criminal Illegals to El Salvador, Saying Further Reporting and Context is Required; The Left Freaks Out
It's the same kind of entitlement that the hard-left progressives and communists infesting the federal bureaucracy have: It doesn't matter who the president is, it doesn't matter what his policies are, it doesn't matter if America voted for those policies -- they're the ones in charge. They own the place. Leftists are appointed by Nature to rule over all other men.
And the staffers, employees, and underlings at CBS "news" don't care that their leftwing agitprop business model has failed so badly that their corporations are being sold out from under them at a deep discount. Bari Weiss's position as Editor in Chief doesn't matter -- they are entitled to run the show.CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss defended her decision to pull a controversial "60 Minutes" segment on an El Salvador prison, telling staff Monday the piece "wasn't ready" and needed more reporting -- pushing back on accusations that the last-minute move was politically motivated. Weiss addressed the backlash during a network-wide editorial call, saying she held the segment because "we simply need to do more," according to a recording reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. "I held a '60 Minutes' story and I held that story because it wasn't ready," Weiss told CBS News staffers on Monday. When reached by The Post, CBS News confirmed the accuracy of the Journal's reporting. Weiss said the story "has already been reported on by places like the [New York] Times, the public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison. So to run a story on this subject, two months later, we simply need to do more." She said the only newsroom she wants to run is one where editors can have "contentious disagreements" while assuming "the best intent" of colleagues -- an implicit criticism of "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. "The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest editorial matters and do so with respect and crucially where we assume the best intent of our colleagues," Weiss said on the editorial call on Monday. Alfonsi blasted the decision in a Sunday email to top correspondents, writing that she learned just a day earlier that Weiss had "spiked our story" and arguing the move was political, not editorial.That's a laugh. Every story 60 Minutes runs -- or chooses not to run -- is political. They did no stories on Biden's mental decline, for example, nor any negative stories on Obama, Biden, or Hillary Clinton. But they choose to run hit-piece after hit-piece on Trump. These are choices, and they're animated by political animus. But they insist that they have access to an Objective Holy Standard of Newsworthiness that you wouldn't understand -- and neither would professional journalist Bari Weiss. Your facts are opinions, their opinions are facts. Just like your speech is violence, and their violence is speech.
... "Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices," Alfonsi wrote, according to the Times.As someone at Hot Air pointed out, the RatherGate forgeries passed your attorneys, too. All it takes to avoid a defamation suit when making allegations about a public figure is no provable malice. Note that CBS "news" staffers take the position that a story doesn't have to be true and accurate to run. It merely has to not be provably defamatory. By the way, 60 Minutes has already done this story. And they'll do it a dozen times more unless they're told they are supposed to be "journalists," not DNC staffers.
... Weiss rejected Alfonsi's characterization during the morning call on Monday, saying the prison conditions had already been reported by the Times and others and that airing a similar story months later required additional reporting, including making "every effort" to get key principals on the record and on camera. "To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else," Weiss said on Monday. "That is my North Star and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom."It's not. They're political actors with a political agenda.
Hello! How are you?! I missed you over the past three days. The computer is connecting to wifi now. But I disconnected from the internet for most of the weekend. I'm seeing pictures of Bill Clinton in a pool. What's the context? Is Bill Clinton just getting into shape and encouraging Americans to swim? I see him getting massages too. Is he raising awareness about rotator cuff health and maintenance?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
The hamsters didn't die, so that's a plus. Might want to refill the kibble feeder though.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 12:29 PM (/ZkOF)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)
She's reading the room. And by room, I mean the internet where 60 Minutes is getting absolutely DRAGGED for making gang member thugs as poor pitiful family men dragged from their children and thrown in a turkish prison.
F*CK the media. HAAARRRDDDD.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Diseased subway rats at December 22, 2025 12:30 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:31 PM (77rzZ)
The left freaks out. Because it's not propaganda.
And why, exactly, should we care again how El Salvador treats Venezuelan prisoners? Outside of any sort of abstract approval or not? Of what concern is it of ours?
Besides maybe "let's take some detailed notes" that is.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 22, 2025 12:31 PM (/ZkOF)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 12:31 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Estekl at December 22, 2025 12:31 PM (m8zKa)
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"It's right there in The Nation's Founding Document -- The Communist Womanifesto, h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:32 PM (agLqO)
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Old folks that died in their recliner and nobody looks in.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:32 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 22, 2025 12:32 PM (n5tGW)
Project Mockingbird is a CIA op and is STILL alive and well and THRIVING in the US.
Disband the CIA. Put the leaders on trial for attempting to overthrow the US government and when found guilty, public f*cking hangings on pay-per-view.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Coulda been Sponged
Posted by: Heirloominati at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM (euPbd)
Posted by: Savvy Viewer at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Estekl at December 22, 2025 12:31 PM (m8zKa)
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That one dude who beat the shit out of Mike Wallace decades ago?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM (agLqO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM (rX9hT)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM (VE6XX)
SHOOT ON SIGHT
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: 60 Minutes at December 22, 2025 12:34 PM (pIvtC)
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Old folks that died in their recliner and nobody looks in.
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Actually, that sounds better than what I got...
Posted by: Zombie Gene Hackman at December 22, 2025 12:34 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow! at December 22, 2025 12:34 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Estekl
According to my wife, my late father-in-law would watch it and get mad over its liberal nonsense, and start yelling at the TV.
My mother-in-law would ask him why he watched it if it made him so angry. I don't think she ever got a good answer to that question.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:35 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah...so?
*yawns*
Now...perhaps another Joe Mannix picture?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:35 PM (2WIwB)
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Not just the left. Greenwald and groyper fans too! Oh wait, You Are Correct - THE LEFT.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 12:35 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 22, 2025 12:35 PM (gm9Sb)
yup.
Did you know you're an Islamophobe? Tucker Carlson just said so.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:35 PM (1wjle)
Tee hee!
Posted by: Lesley Stahl at December 22, 2025 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)
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Old folks that died in their recliner and nobody looks in.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:32 PM (pLaQB)
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so...democrat voters.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:36 PM (2WIwB)
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Perhaps, but I suspect not. They are probably fine with not running it - so long as *she* isn't. Bring in some other "real journalist" insider with the same pedigree as the rest of the organization and who will run things the "right way" (that is, with perfect orthodoxy), and they'll be just fine taking order from the top.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:36 PM (avHHk)
If anything, had 60M run that story, it would have helped Trump. Nobody but the most pathological TDS sufferers gives a diseased rat's dick about illegal alien criminals any more. Normal people want them out of the USA. They don't care where they are sent. Back to Honduras, El Salvador prison, Hell, Sarlacc, etc.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Lesley Stahl
my memory fails me -- what was the story that Stahl told Trump it was HIS job to report?
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle)
Saw a rerun with cast wearing "black lives matter" t shirts during finals...
SNL IS DEAD TO ME
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (yPhso)
Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (+IpR1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (pkeXY)
yup.
Did you know you're an Islamophobe? Tucker Carlson just said so.
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I'd pay money to watch James Woods dismantle Tucker.
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (pDt9x)
Just like your speech is violence, and their violence is speech.
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Just like your ideas are domestic terrorism, and their domestic terrorism are merely "ideas."
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM (agLqO)
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If only it were political animus. It isn't. Political animus can be dealt with, compensated for, adjusted out. That isn't what this is. This is pure ideological animus. These people are much closer to jihadists than political hatchet-men.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:38 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:38 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: We the people at December 22, 2025 12:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 12:38 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 22, 2025 12:38 PM (gm9Sb)
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Even that seems to not matter any more.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:38 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Equity Now! at December 22, 2025 12:38 PM (oftw2)
Arbitrary statements like this from Hot Air takes away from their vibrant Art Thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 12:39 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: We the people at December 22, 2025 12:39 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 12:39 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 22, 2025 12:39 PM (n5tGW)
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Same as it ever was.
The most powerful form of so-called "bias" is not in coverage within a story, but in story selection itself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:39 PM (avHHk)
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I am going with Sun Tzu on this...
Posted by: We the people at December 22, 2025 12:39 PM (g47mK)
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I put my money o Tyrus.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)
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"The Unit" lasted only 4 seasons. Of course, it was a damn near perfect 4 seasons, but that is the type of show that could have lasted a decade or more with proper handling (including rotating some new characters thru and occasionally rotating some out...but the original cast was amazing).
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 12:40 PM (TN0g+)
Coulda been Sponged
Posted by: Heirloominati at December 22, 2025 12:33 PM
You are not sponge-worthy.
Posted by: Elaine Benes at December 22, 2025 12:41 PM (P5BPp)
This is about trying to get Democrats elected in the midterms.
This is what they do and have been doing for far too long.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 12:41 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 12:41 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Andy Rooney's Eyebrows at December 22, 2025 12:41 PM (yAQog)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 12:41 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 12:42 PM (g47mK)
Did you ever notice it's impossible to pee straight with morning wood? Why is that? Who made the design choice to make your dick hard as teak at the time of maximum pee-urgency?
Posted by: Andy Rooney After Dark at December 22, 2025 12:42 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)
Rooney could play the charming curmudgeon and his stuff was fun when he was non-political. But otherwise, he was an ass.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:42 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: steevy at December 22, 2025 12:42 PM (YwEeS)
Reading this post and the last post it's quite evident that the legacy propaganda ministries and "entertainment" companies can't become extinct quick enough
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 12:43 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Lames Jindsay at December 22, 2025 12:43 PM (vqA1l)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
The Paolo's awareness is, how you say, perpetually raised.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 22, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ)
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We must protect these poor little face tatted children from Trump's jackbooted thugs.
- Local NC Democrats
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 12:43 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 12:43 PM (OPGS/)
has ever been so, since American "journos" created a fervor to get us into the Spanish-American war
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Lames Jindsay
I mean, Tucker Carlson is now calling us Islamophobes so "woke right" doesn't seem as stupid as it did six months ago.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (1wjle)
There's still a 100+ foot Ponderosa Pine hanging over the Garage.
There is a snowball's chance that I can get a Sawyer over here tomorrow...luckily, I was able to get it limbed up to about 70 feet this weekend.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 12:43 PM (OPGS/)
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Only if you expect honesty.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (avHHk)
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*bites lip*
After muh open heart surgery, the Clenis was a bit lazy. Needed some extra spice to get going.
Posted by: Slick Willie at December 22, 2025 12:45 PM (1s0+g)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 12:45 PM (2fdLC)
Not the Aldous Huxley book, I hope?
That is the single most boring book I have ever attempted to read.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 12:45 PM (W23D2)
Like literally, getting paid to put out whatever story or to kill whatever story the IC wants.
If a man doesn't watch the news, he's uninformed. If he does, he's mis-informed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 12:46 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: garrett
No, the 60 Minutes feature.
"Jane, you ignorant slut."
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)
Not the Aldous Huxley book, I hope?
That is the single most boring book I have ever attempted to read.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 12:45 PM (W23D2)
He was no Marcel Proust.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 12:47 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Lames Jindsay
I mean, Tucker Carlson is now calling us Islamophobes so "woke right" doesn't seem as stupid as it did six months ago.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (1wjle)
And he's saying it like it's a bad thing
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 12:47 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (1wjle)
Tucker seems to not understand.
Phobias indicate a fear of something.
I, and many like me, do not fear Islam. We understand who the enemy is. That isn't fear, it is acknowledgement.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:47 PM (2WIwB)
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A North Star AKA Polaris is a social construct tool of the white cisheteronormativepatriarchalcolonial oppressor!
You can't spell white supremacy relying on polar regions!
Bari Weiss: The Semitic Face of White Supremacy.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:47 PM (agLqO)
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 12:48 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 12:48 PM (VE6XX)
I just saw one showing that "abstract expressionism" -- Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothco -- was a CIA-funded and promoted op. They wanted to counter Soviet art.
Also, the CIA was constantly funding and promoting left-wing liberal magazines as a counter, they claimed, to actual communism. The CIA preached left liberalism for 60 years just so lefties had an alternative to communism.
They wound up making the country ready to vote for communism by 2025. Whoops! Whoopsie!
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 12:46 PM (xcxpd)
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I hate that expression.
"Misinformed" implies incorrectness. An honest error can be "misinformation." That is not what happens in the American press. There is no honest mistake possible, because there are no honest operators. They are not wrong, they are lying. 100% of the time. The press is not "misinforming" anyone. They are deceiving.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (avHHk)
The real enemy is Tucker and the people running him.
I am at the point where I think I have more in common with devout muslims than I do with the rich elites of the West.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: garrett
"Eleonore, I think you're swell-inore."
Could be very funny sometimes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (uQzkA)
I'm back from the blood draw at the doctor's office -- it went very quickly and easily. I washed the car, hit Walmart for some stuff, and Office Depot trying to find a decent notepad that I can use for grocery lists. They had very little in that way, but I found one with little images of various dog breeds all around the margins.
So! Bari Weiss is actually attempting to be a journalist in the old sense, as in "Report the story wherever it leads and without fear or favor"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (wzUl9)
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Tucker is re-uniting with the shrinking, GW Bush wing of the party. His audience is 70+ yo neo-cons that want to send your kids off to war. Someone ought to let him know.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Irving Kristol eventually turned all the way from the left. Bill Kristol, of course, turned all the way back to the left.
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (MZ+PY)
The real enemy is Tucker and the people running him.
I am at the point where I think I have more in common with devout muslims than I do with the rich elites of the West.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (xcxpd)
Since my commonality with either is zero, can’t agree.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (pDt9x)
They wound up making the country ready to vote for communism by 2025. Whoops! Whoopsie!
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 12:49 PM (1wjle)
Where did the KGB land, post cold war.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 12:51 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 12:51 PM (sDNVV)
Doubtful.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 12:51 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 12:51 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Hey, there, Big Boy.
-- Sexy goat
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (pDt9x)
I suspect you have the same views they do on tranny kids, the war on faith and the importance of family. It may not be much, but it's more than you have in common with George Soros.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 12:51 PM (sDNVV)
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Oh, yes it is. That is exactly what "journalism" is.
*Reporting* should be straight facts, but there's a reason these people hate the concept of being a "reporter" and refuse to call themselves that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:52 PM (avHHk)
Not the Aldous Huxley book, I hope?
That is the single most boring book I have ever attempted to read.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 12:45 PM (W23D2)
If you think that's bad, you should try Arthur Machen's "Far Off Things".
Coma inducing.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 22, 2025 12:52 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 12:52 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: one hour sober
Yes, I know. I just wanted to incorporate a reference to the SNL skit.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 12:53 PM (pkeXY)
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Islam is right about women.
j/k, but it is always fun to watch the sparks fly from the intersectionality chips programmed into leftist NPC brains.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 12:54 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 12:54 PM (sDNVV)
"Misinformed" implies incorrectness. An honest error can be "misinformation." That is not what happens in the American press. There is no honest mistake possible, because there are no honest operators. They are not wrong, they are lying. 100% of the time. The press is not "misinforming" anyone. They are deceiving.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025
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Those who watch the "news" are being disinformed, then?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 12:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 12:54 PM (trsuh)
Tucker seems to not understand.
Phobias indicate a fear of something.
I, and many like me, do not fear Islam. We understand who the enemy is. That isn't fear, it is acknowledgement.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:47 PM (2WIwB)
I am. I'm afraid the mutherf*cker yelling allahu ackbar in my vacinity might get shot, multiple times.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)
WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 12:55 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 12:55 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 12:51 PM (sDNVV)
The people attracted to journalism by and large want to "change" the world. If it wasn't opinion, they wouldnt labor over every word choice like they were encoding the secrets of the universe. But they do. Because they fear one lax choice might make someone somewhere think the wrong thing, and that to them is the most dangerous notion of all.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 12:55 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
The muzzies love the war on faith -- on any faith that's not muzziness.
And about the importance of family -- yes, have as many kids as you can so that you can kill and injure them and blame it on the Jews.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:56 PM (77rzZ)
They BOUGHT their tickets. They KNEW what they were getting in to.
I say LET 'em crash.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)
I see him getting massages too. Is he raising awareness about rotator cuff health and maintenance?
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If your computer is spontaneously showing you these pictures, you don't need the Geek Squad.
You need an exorcist.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 12:58 PM (ESVrU)
They BOUGHT their tickets. They KNEW what they were getting in to.
I say LET 'em crash.....
Posted by: Sponge
Huh? Don't quite follow what you're trying to say here, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 12:54 PM (wzUl9)
No I think their term is malinformed
Disinformation is the use of facts in a way the Left doesn't approve of.
Malinformation is their word for lying. But they don't like flat admitting that it's information dealing in straight up lies because it's a bit too close to the bone. Malinformation sounds alien enough to be the domain of "other" people such as the Right.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 12:58 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Any old high school graduate can report the who, what, when, where of a story. Only a credentialed journalism degree from a prestigious school can impart the knowledge needed to shape a carefully cultivated narrative.
Bonus if the journalist also spends some time in 'public service' in an NGO, congressional staff, lobbying firm or in the deep recesses of the executive branch where the real policy is made and executed, away from the prying eyes of the public.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 12:58 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 12:59 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 12:59 PM (2fdLC)
Huh? Don't quite follow what you're trying to say here, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)
https://youtu.be/Pn0WdJx-Wkw
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 12:59 PM (v0R5T)
Rinse and repeat. Doesn't matter what it is, the left is always freaking out. It has to be exhausting to live that way.
Posted by: Ann at December 22, 2025 01:00 PM (w9jrX)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 12:59 PM (v0R5T)
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Free hot sex too!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
Because of this, they make themselves the heroes of their own stories and insert themselves into the reportage.
They're also mostly gay retards.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 01:01 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 01:01 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
When there was news of j6 prisoners being abused and the jail conditions being horrid this was not hidden. In fact the left crowed about it. Because they wanted everyone to know that the citizenry, all of us peasants, are their bitch and they can capture, imprison, torture, and kill us whenever at their discretion.
But I guarantee you that the Rs will fall over backwards to disavow any connection to making those poor criminal murderous invaders have hurt feewings. awwww poor widdle guys!
The only answer should be "I don't care Margret." and maybe GFY
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 01:02 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 12:50 PM (Dv3i1)
lol what?
He was 1000% against the Iran bombing and is also against the Venezuela happenings.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:02 PM (UJWr0)
I say LET 'em crash.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)
If you liked William Tregoe as Jack Kirkpatrick in "Airplane", check him out as John Fitzsimmons in "Kentucky Fried Movie".
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 22, 2025 01:03 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 01:03 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Journalista at December 22, 2025 01:03 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025
I had a book when I was a kid called "The Dictionary of Misinformation" that corrected various misconceptions that people commonly have (e.g., that the blood in veins is blue instead of red). It was a fun book to dip into from time to time.
The older I get, the more I discover, to my amazement, how little we actually know compared to what we think we know.
That's why I've developed an increasing skepticism of "experts."
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:03 PM (77rzZ)
Because of this, they make themselves the heroes of their own stories and insert themselves into the reportage.
They're also mostly gay retards.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 01:01 PM (5aZAZ)
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And mostly retards. The first part of this is the reason for "journalists are totally heroes, you guyz!!!!!!!" stories, but most of the problem is the second part - the part where they're abjectly stupid ideologues directed by irredeemably evil ideologues.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (avHHk)
Maybe a good thing this story has legs?
Posted by: Leupold at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (eIzlH)
Leftie group makes allegations of torture and abuse -> other leftie group repeats it -> another leftie group repeats it with a new set of "clients" and also cites the other leftie groups -> leftie group makes allegations of torture and abuse.
Repeat.
Not found? Proof. Evidence. Facts.
No actual details on what is the "torture" and what is the "abuse."
Not one single, independent, unbiased, eye witness.
Zero documentations.
Zero pictures.
Zero on-site interviews.
And absolutely not one single "witness" that isn't a low-life criminal who sees a ticket to freedom if he lies for them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/
If you strolled into the country without checking in with CBP at a port of entry with a valid passport, the only thing you deserve is deportation.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: ace at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (XV/Pl)
I've got a gun in my hand, but that gun won't cock
My finger's on the trigger, but that trigger seems locked
I can't stop staring at the tick-tock clock
And even if I could, I would never give up
With a vest on my chest, a bullet in my lung
I can't believe I'm dying with my song unsung
If and when I die, won't you bury me alone?
'Cause I'll never get to heaven if I'm singing this song
Posted by: Streetlight Manifesto at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (jNK17)
What a Guy .............
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 01:07 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 22, 2025 01:07 PM (ssz2a)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:07 PM (avHHk)
Putin also played Carlson like a fiddle
Posted by: Halfhand at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (jNK17)
But Russia is AWESOME because their McDonald's are BETTER!!!!
Down with 'Murica!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: Tom Masshole at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (vqA1l)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 22, 2025 12:44 PM (gm9Sb)
Dude, I remember that one! That was a good segment.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (Bo9Yf)
Not a Hamas member. Not the Bondi shooter. Not Nope, a guy who has a conversation with another guy on a podcast.
Like seriously guys? This is your play? Wow.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (UJWr0)
The same left boo-hooing and shedding tears over the poor life-time criminals going to jail ....
Are the same left that love to make prison rape jokes anytime a conservative is accused of a crime.
Fuk the left; choke on a bag of rotten dicks and die in a fire, alone and unwanted like you deserve.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (HXT0k)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
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Nice. Long legs, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 12:59 PM (v0R5T)
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Free hot sex too!
so... cecot > epcot?
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (2fdLC)
This is a stretch, but I'll allow it.
LMFAO.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 01:09 PM (J9q9v)
Not a Hamas member. Not the Bondi shooter. Not Nope, a guy who has a conversation with another guy on a podcast.
Like seriously guys? This is your play? Wow.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:08 PM (UJWr0)
I can’t understand why you love him and the Nick Fuentes troll so passionately.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:09 PM (rQwsY)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:07 PM (avHHk)
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I dunno, something seems "off" about "her." TBWNB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
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She looks like she may need my help guiding her homeward.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 01:10 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 01:04 PM (XV/Pl)
Be more specific. I’m a warmonger just because I advocate for peace through strength, deterrence, power projection, and the use of DIME.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:11 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:09 PM (rQwsY)
I don't love any media personality. They all have an agenda,mostly to make money. Doesn’t matter if it’s Tucker or Megyn or Little Ben. They’re all actors at the end of the day reading a script.
But I absolutely fucking hate the woke right trying to cancel people because they have opinions. That’s what the left does.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:11 PM (UJWr0)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Boy, you are bringing it today, Mannix.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)
i approve this message
Posted by: yo quiero taco bell at December 22, 2025 01:12 PM (v3pYe)
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Yup.
I've lost count of the number of clown judge opinions that rely on "news reports" as absolute, unbiased and true to justify their illegal injunctions.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:12 PM (HXT0k)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
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Nice bangs!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (agLqO)
He was 1000% against the Iran bombing and is also against the Venezuela happenings.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:02 PM (UJWr0)
So, like many here, he wants a whiny, toothless America?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (rQwsY)
@Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it is pausing all major offshore wind construction projects
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (mlg/3)
Who throws the bigger fit over this tonight, Colbert or Kimmel?
Their combined audience of 200k is dying to find out.
Posted by: Auspex at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (YAFrp)
Not a Hamas member. Not the Bondi shooter. Not Nope, a guy who has a conversation with another guy on a podcast.
Like seriously guys? This is your play? Wow.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Yeah, because we expect those other guys to be antisemites. Ain't no-one changing their minds.
Tucker encourages the low IQ losers ostensibly on our side of the political fence to blame Jews for their own shortcomings. In that way he is more corrosive.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (1Nv0l)
...well, it's something.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:11 PM (UJWr0)
So Tucker Carlson cannot be criticized for his views. Got it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:14 PM (rQwsY)
...well, it's something.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (UnA8+)
They want you voting Dem or dead, by any means necessary.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
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The face looks AI/Photoshopped
Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2025 01:14 PM (Q+gd/)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
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Nice bangs!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (agLqO)
^**
She bangs...
Posted by: William Hung at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (VE6XX)
@Breaking911 6m
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it is pausing all major offshore wind construction projects
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (mlg/3)
If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.
Posted by: Mao at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (rQwsY)
Not that you'll probably ever go wrong waiting for some fuck on our side to turn on us for cash. So it's not like I was taking a risky position.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (2fdLC)
Weiss better get bullet proof glass and food tasters pronto.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (IifOV)
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Wet farts as well?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (pLaQB)
The face looks AI/Photoshopped
Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2025 01:14 PM (Q+gd/)
That settles it. AI has ruined the internet for everyone and must be banished to Hell whence it came.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:02 PM (UJWr0)
So, like many here, he wants a whiny, toothless America?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (rQwsY)
Lemme guess if we don’t bomb them there they’ll bomb us here? Where have I heard that before.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:16 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 01:16 PM (MoRvC)
She bangs...
Posted by: William Hung at December 22, 2025 01:15 PM (Bo9Yf)
Isn't that a song by Cindi Lauper?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)
...well, it's something.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:13 PM (UnA8+)
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And real Saints (as in religious ones) into scum ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: davidt
*fistbump*
That's what that Camilla lady told me!
-- Joe Biden
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (77rzZ)
Trump Administration Breaks Wind
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (MoRvC)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
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I saw a girl who looked like her (though not as intriguingly dressed) at the coffee shop this morning. She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wilting weeds and deformed mushrooms.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (wzUl9)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
Nice. Very nice.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 01:16 PM (MoRvC)
He'll be on a beach earning 20%...........
He gives no shits......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it is pausing all major offshore wind construction projects
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There was recently, IIRC, another clown judge illegal injunction, that said Trump couldn't stop these. Administrative Procedures Act, blah, blah, blah.
From what I've read, the basis of this new suspension, that basically re-cancels the projects, is that they affect national security.
LOL, LOL, LOL.
1) begging the clown judge to issue another, even more illegal, injunction
2) mocking the clown judge, "I can do this shit all day, bitch."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (HXT0k)
We all want to strut our stuff
And you really want to show your scars
Forget all about that macho shit
And learn how to play Qatar
Posted by: Tucker Melloncamp at December 22, 2025 01:17 PM (pkeXY)
Gathering and presenting facts is not hard, at all.
Anyone can supply who, what, where, when, and why.
We don't need "Sharyn problem glasses" to insist what she does is on anyway difficult.
They could do a story on the fraud in Minnesota. That has "spiked" in public interest.
Fuck these clown whores
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 22, 2025 01:18 PM (61TgR)
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 22, 2025 01:19 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 01:19 PM (uQzkA)
@Breaking911
HOLY CRINGE! Let's check in on Eric Swalwell's run for California Governor
x.com/Breaking911/status/2002837375077208362
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 01:19 PM (mlg/3)
Lemme guess if we don’t bomb them there they’ll bomb us here? Where have I heard that before.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:16 PM (UJWr0)
Because Iran has never nor will ever sponsor terrorists or terrorist attacks against the United States or her allies so we all should just sing kumbaya and live in blind happiness.
A nuclear Iran is a good start to world peace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:18 PM (L/fGl)
++++
"Imagine being an employee and having to do what your boss says."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:20 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:11 PM (UJWr0)
So Tucker Carlson cannot be criticized for his views. Got it.
Posted by: Cow Demon
I think IGT Donald is only criticizing cancel culture, not criticism per se.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (77rzZ)
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What's funny is it can take like a decade to do anything on a project like this, but when Trump cancels something the Left likes, suddenly the court system can move insanely fast.
But a pipeline that gets slowed down over some bullshit claim of an endangered species or Indian burial ground, years and years to figure out.
Posted by: Leupold at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (eIzlH)
@Rightanglenews
BREAKING - An immigrant Lyft driver has gone viral after harassing her passengers upon discovering they were at AmericaFest, claiming Republicans are “slaughtering people,” before dumping them onto the highway.
“If America is so terrible, why are you here?”
Deport immediately.
https://tinyurl.com/yvxr8m9s
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (NpAcC)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:07 PM (avHHk)
A bridle would be a little over the top. A pair of equestrian riding boots and a crop is more than adequate.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:16 PM (UJWr0)
Iran can’t threaten anybody now and has to figure out how to get water to their people. They were bombing people as far away as Buenos Aires.
As for Venezuela, you might be shocked: I don’t advocate going in there. That’s more of a hindrance than a help. But enforcing sanctions? Sure. Maybe you are overjoyed at them sending drugs up here so they can prop up their evil regime. I’m not.
You think America is best when it is as whiny and toothless as possible like too many other isolationists and Code Pinkers here. That is far from the case. Peace through strength. Deterrence (you cannot deter anyone if you are a whiny bitch country like you so badly want us to be). Power projection. Implementing DIME. Why is that so hard?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (VE6XX)
@Breaking911
HOLY CRINGE! Let's check in on Eric Swalwell's run for California Governor
x.com/Breaking911/status/2002837375077208362
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 01:19 PM (mlg/3)
Leave it to the Democrats to take one of the worst songs ever recorded and make it worse..........
Also, how can Swalwell run for governor in a state he DOESN'T LIVE IN?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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Not so fast!
- Judge with no jurisdiction, but plenty of ambition
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (Dv3i1)
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:18 PM (L/fGl)
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"Imagine being an employee and having to do what your boss says."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:20 PM (avHHk)
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Methinks Glenn is jealous and butthurt over the pay package that Bari got. This is a gay guy Mean-Girling a lezzie.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
Rotor, spinner, whatever.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:18 PM (L/fGl)
As opposed to being devoted to Islamic Gulf Petrostates for... reasons?
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:22 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 01:23 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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LOL
No one is getting cancelled.
No one is spamming his socials with anti-Tucker comments.
No one is getting fired.
No one is going after Tucker's employer, advertisers or his sponsors.
No one is demanding he be charged with or investigated for crimes.
That's what "cancelling" on the left is; all that and worse.
So it's pretty fucking disingenuous for Tucker et al. to whine they are being "cancelled."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 01:23 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Kurtz at December 22, 2025 01:23 PM (KuiAG)
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:18 PM (L/fGl)
I mean, I think Israel has a LOT to answer for over the years, but what is this sudden all out blitz on everyone and everything relating to Israel?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: PG at December 22, 2025 01:24 PM (pk5S4)
I think IGT Donald is only criticizing cancel culture, not criticism per se.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (77rzZ)
To me, he was unclear.
I’m in agreement with that. Do I want to see Mr. Carlson feel the heat he so richly deserves? Sure. Do I want to see him get canceled? No.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:24 PM (rQwsY)
HOLY CRINGE! Let's check in on Eric Swalwell's run for California Governor
x.com/Breaking911/status/2002837375077208362
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 01:19 PM (mlg/3)
Leave it to the Democrats to take one of the worst songs ever recorded and make it worse..........
Also, how can Swalwell run for governor in a state he DOESN'T LIVE IN?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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That dude is gotta be gay. 100%. Methinks Fang-Fang was pegging him up the arsehole.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:24 PM (rbvCR)
Glenn Greenwald, Jewophobe.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 22, 2025 01:24 PM (WHfpM)
Really play up the American deportation and torturous prison conditions angles. No nuance needed.
And make sure every person in those countries have access to the story. Put it out for free on YouTube, social media, Al Jazeera and every other possible foreign network.
And run it over and over.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (KrBFV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:11 PM (UJWr0)
So Tucker Carlson cannot be criticized for his views. Got it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:14 PM (rQwsY)
Criticize all you want.
But calling him an anTi sEmiTe is the same shit the left does when everyone’s a rayciiiist. It falls on deaf ears. Nobody gives a fuck.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (wBaIH)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......
I like what's left of her jeans.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (v0R5T)
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Yeah, and you can shove the "woke right" stuff up your ass. Its not "woke right" to call out *pretenders* on "our" side who openly side with nazis and moslems while vilifying the Jews. "Woke right" is an op, pure and simple. It was *never* part of the right to embrace antisemitism, and the made-up tag of "woke right" is an attempt to pretend that there ever was a different version of that topic.
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:24 PM (rQwsY)
But we are in agreement that we don't want him to have influence over JD Vance should he win the Presidency next?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (rbvCR)
And this is the benefit the left still gets from the FNM. While it isn't the only way to get traction for a news story it is a major one.
Though, amusingly, I suspect the FNM freak out about illegals getting unhappy outcomes is partly what is driving self deportation.
The Trump admin tells illegals they'll have some long term consequences in not being able to come back if they don't leave while the FNM is telling them ICE will murder them in front of their children BEFORE sending them to ECOT to be serially raped by xenomorphs.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:26 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:26 PM (L/fGl)
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 01:18 PM (L/fGl)
I mean, I think Israel has a LOT to answer for over the years, but what is this sudden all out blitz on everyone and everything relating to Israel?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well, Putin and RUSSA RUSSIA RUSSIA is yesterday's news, so there's be an update to the NPC coding. But as I commented above, I think Greenwald (who is Jewish himself) is just jealous over Bari's pay package.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 01:27 PM (MoRvC)
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Not so fast!
- Judge with no jurisdiction, but plenty of ambition
Posted by: Chuck Martel
KILL THE WHALES
Posted by: Judge Kalikimaka at December 22, 2025 01:27 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (rQwsY)
We’ve done this worlld’s policeman thing for 75 years. And we’re 40 trillion in debt.
No more.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (UJWr0)
But we are in agreement that we don't want him to have influence over JD Vance should he win the Presidency next?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (rbvCR)
I must have faith that my next candidate for President will have more knowledge, sense and global understanding on his own than to listen to and be influenced by some egotistical blowhard JOURNALIST asshole.
Carlson was an MSNBC anchor before he became this 'warrior for the right' person.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 01:21 PM (77rzZ)
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I wish it were "only" that. He's part of or embracer of an "op" to divide the right so that they left can pretend that hatred of Israel is part of "our" policy position. He stays mostly silent when Ace is active, but races in on Saturday's open threads so that he can go to bat for Nick Fuentes and Tucker without confronting Ace.
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (sKqQm)
But calling him an anTi sEmiTe is the same shit the left does when everyone’s a rayciiiist. It falls on deaf ears. Nobody gives a fuck.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (UJWr0)
He won’t shut up about how horrible Israel is. What am I to conclude? Oh, he’s “just asking questions.” Sure.
You are conflating legit criticism with canceling. I want that idiot Carlson and your crush, Nick Fuentes, to have as much airtime as possible to so what a bunch of blithering fucking idiots they are. But I get to criticize them for their views. So do others. Why is that so hard to understand?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (rQwsY)
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 01:07 PM (avHHk)
I saw Lakeside Brunette open for Concrete Blonde at St. Andrew's Hall in '91.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2025 01:14 PM (Q+gd/)
Face looks real to me: good looking. Correct number of fingers on each hand. Pass!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (E0Kkk)
But calling him an anTi sEmiTe is the same shit the left does when everyone’s a rayciiiist. It falls on deaf ears. Nobody gives a fuck.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (UJWr0)
He's calling righties islamophobes. Which makes him what exactly.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)
There seems to be a subsect of non-practicing Jews that think that the Muslims would leave them alone if it wasn't for Israel.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (UnA8+)
You would think they lost their cheating partner.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)
He's jealous of Michelle's package because the world knows SHE can helicopter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (wzUl9)
You would think they lost their cheating partner.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 01:29 PM (NpAcC)
They got Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, so they're feeling quite invincible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (vFG9F)
You are conflating legit criticism with canceling. I want that idiot Carlson and your crush, Nick Fuentes, to have as much airtime as possible to so what a bunch of blithering fucking idiots they are. But I get to criticize them for their views. So do others. Why is that so hard to understand?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (rQwsY)
He doest like Israel. That’s not a crime.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (UJWr0)
x.com/Breaking911/status/2002837375077208362
Posted by: weft cut-loop
.....
Good grief.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 01:31 PM (2fdLC)
But calling him an anTi sEmiTe is the same shit the left does when everyone’s a rayciiiist. It falls on deaf ears. Nobody gives a fuck.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (UJWr0)Q
The only thing missing is the purple hair and septum piercings.
Other than that, the behavior is indistinguishable.
Posted by: One Man's Opinion at December 22, 2025 01:31 PM (KrBFV)
No more.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:28 PM (UJWr0)
So you DO want a whiny America, you ARE an isolationist, and you want a pussy country. Sorry. That $40 trillion in debt didn’t come from the military. And if we stopped funding a military that takes out…$800 billion.
Shift your blame elsewhere, defense is a legitimate function of government, maybe bitch about The Great Society instead.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:31 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (TN0g+)
Woke right is "The Left is winning because they have messaging and understand Alinsky's Rules, we must adopt them for our purposes because we must not lose"
It means you fall prey to the same excesses and internal purges the Left has. Have fun storming your own motte and bailey!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:25 PM (UJWr0)
No, it's not the same thing. The Left calls anybody they don't like or wish to speak a "racist" with no evidence whatsoever. Some are calling out Tucker for a demonstrable pattern of anti-Israel commentary. And who exactly has called him an "anti-Semite"?
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (UJWr0)
No but I can call him and you out for it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (rbvCR)
it's the 21st century. use lasers to project it onto the moon.
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (v3pYe)
Mentality is over. Young people don’t want to police the world anymore. We’re done sending 18 year old boys to be blown up in the name of democracy or whatever bullshit we’re supposed to be fighting for.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:33 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:30 PM (UJWr0)
No but I can call him and you out for it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 01:32 PM (rQwsY)
Great. Have at it. See unlike you I don’t try to silence you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (UJWr0)
This lakeside brunette has unbridled contempt for everyone involved in any part of the press complex, which is why she enjoys the outdoors instead:
http://tiny.cc/f7rw001
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The face looks AI/Photoshopped
Posted by: davidt
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At some point, they'll all be. Why hire a model and a photographer and pay a licensing fee or an outright purchase when you can get it from any number of AIs with a simple prompt for free?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (UJWr0)
No one is trying to silence Tucker. The the idea is silly anyway. He owns one of the largest independent platforms in existence. But if people don't him to blather his apodictic anti-Israel BS at their events, that's their right, and I hope they exercise it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM
I'd pay double if it was with a tire iron.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 01:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 12:37 PM
Notice how he never interviews anybody who can do that. At least Piers Morgan invites capable adversaries on his show.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 22, 2025 01:39 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 22, 2025 01:34 PM (n7rxJ)
I guess I always figured that one of the compelling reasons to go around photographing attractive women is that you get to meet a lot of attractive women. But when one costs, something, and the other costs nothing then the nothing will devour all the attractive woman economy. There's an economic principle about this but I forget the name.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 01:40 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Ordinary
besides guys such as shapiro, levin, who are openly saying they want him deplatformed, those guys? Teh guys that said not to invite him to tpusa, said Kirk should not invite, those guys.
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 01:41 PM (KvQc5)
Posted by: Ordinar
everybody in hq management agrees that anti zionism is antisemetic, where you been big guy?
Posted by: n at December 22, 2025 01:43 PM (KvQc5)
Mentality is over. Young people don’t want to police the world anymore.
Young people don't want to do anything but Goon online and have somebody else pay their way.
We don't listen to young people because they are retarded.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (W23D2)
We don't listen to young people because they are retarded.
Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 01:47 PM (W23D2)
And once they Goon too much, they want to Troon Out.
But they will Never be the Anime Girls they desperately wish they were.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 01:51 PM (UnA8+)
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"The Unit" lasted only 4 seasons. Of course, it was a damn near perfect 4 seasons, but that is the type of show that could have lasted a decade or more with proper handling (including rotating some new characters thru and occasionally rotating some out...but the original cast was amazing).
Posted by: Crusader at December 22, 2025 12:40 PM (TN0g+)
4 seasons!
Posted by: FireFly at December 22, 2025 01:52 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Random PJ at December 22, 2025 02:03 PM (RRCAT)
Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr at December 22, 2025 02:36 PM (YZhRl)
Journalism has always been biased and soft propaganda.
People call it "The Truth" when it aligns with their views.
People are just this way. How many people have you managed to alter their views based on what you have told or shown them?
Posted by: pawn at December 22, 2025 03:14 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (wGqjj)
THE MORNING RANT: As Warner Bros Discovery circles the drain, CEO David Zaslav extracts generational wealth for himself
to my “bad business tally.” Mr. Washington wrote:
To add to your bad business tally… WB’s David Zaslav did such a bad job his distressed studio is about to functionally disappear… there will be hundreds if not thousands of layoffs, many from the very divisions that created the value Netflix now wants to own. And despite this abysmal record, Zaslav is going to walk away from this deal with the reward of generational wealth for his failure.It doesn’t take much digging to see what a mess Zaslav has made, and how obscenely he has rewarded himself despite (or because of ?) the destruction he has wrought. Some quick background - David Zaslav was a successful executive at NBC before taking the helm at Discovery Communications. Meanwhile, AT&T had bought Time Warner Media in 2018. By 2022, AT&T decided to unload that same entity, which it had renamed Warner Media. Mr. Zaslav and Discovery took on about $40 billion in debt to buy Warner Media, plus it assumed Warner’s existing debt, leaving the post-acquisition company (named Warner Bros Discovery) choking on about $50 billion in debt. The cost of digesting the merger, along with a variety of operational reasons, caused WBD to start losing money, which was really inconvenient since it needed to service all that debt. Over the following three years, Warner Bros Discovery lost over $21 billion. These tremendous losses necessitated severe austerity measures, including several rounds of layoffs putting thousands of employees out of work. Those laid off employees weren’t actors. They were everyday people behind the scenes in sales, accounting, production, etc. The actual owners of the company, its stockholders, also took a financial drumming thanks to Zaslav’s stewardship of the company. A decade ago, Discovery stock was trading at about $40 per share, and it hit $50 per share shortly before the Warner Brothers acquisition. But as WBD bled red ink and focused on cost cutting, its top line revenue started decreasing too. Losses combined with negative revenue growth are a toxic combination to investors, resulting in the stock price dropping about 80% to less than $10 per share. Despite the rolling financial catastrophe at Warner Bros Discovery, Mr. Zaslav continued to be richly compensated. Over the past three full years, his total compensation exceeded $140 million. In 2024 alone, a year that WBD suffered an $11 billion loss on declining revenue, Mr. Zaslav was rewarded with total compensation of $52 million. Despite WBD’s persistent losses and its doubtful ability to service its debt, it houses a valuable film library, and it still owns some desirable properties such as HBO and Warner Bros Studios. Netflix and Paramount are both making bids to purchase WBD at about $30 per share, which doesn’t recoup all the money investors have lost, but it is much better for stockholders than the bankruptcy that seems imminent if WBD remains independent. Unfortunately for WBD’s employees, its acquisition will result in thousands more jobs being eliminated by the acquiring entity. But where does that leave Mr. Zaslav and his executive team? Don’t worry, they’ll be fine. According to The Hollywood Reporter, upon the sale of Warner Bros Discovery, Mr. Zaslav will receive $30 million in cash plus another $537 million in equity, for a total golden parachute of $567 million. Several of Zaslav’s top lieutenants will also receive golden parachutes worth in excess of $100 million. That is impressive compensation for destroying a company. Think of how much they’d be worth if they were running a profitable company with revenue growth. I am a free market capitalist. I don’t write these types of articles because I’m seeking government action to regulate away the behavior of people such as Zaslav. Just the opposite. To keep the socialists at bay, there is an obligation for us free marketeers to police those who are accessing levers of power to extract wealth rather than create wealth. If corporate boards don’t start putting some controls on parasitic executive behavior, people will start voting for politicians who will.
Oh, heck yeah! Let me do a little research and put together a post. I’m so glad that Zaslav and his heirs are set for life after he ran WB into the ground. Those lost jobs, livelihoods, and ruined lives are mere statistics. The transfer of wealth from WB to Zaslav is inspiring.
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) December 17, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 11:01 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 11:02 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 11:02 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:03 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 11:04 AM (/9IVT)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 11:05 AM (/9IVT)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM (gu2bt)
This makes zero sense. It seems like shareholders could sue the board for negligence… because even someone like me who knows nothing about running a corporation knows that’s ridiculous mismanagement… know it at a glance. It goes beyond incompetence to sabotage/theft
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM (xT8gx)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 11:07 AM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
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Was it a failure?
WB was a failed enterprise. Zaslav bought it at a discount to extract everything that could be extracted. That's done now. He cut out as much money-losing stuff as he could, and is selling off the remainder to someone who will finish strip-mining it.
Take Zaslav out of the equation. Where would WB be today, had Discovery not picked it up? Probably the same place it is now: gone.
Hollywood is finished. It sure looks like Zaslav strip-mined it and laughed all the way to the bank, but that is also probably all WB was good for. It was a dead letter, and what happened to WB is what is going to happen to the rest of Hollywood. Hollywood is down to asset value now, and people with money are going to extract those assets and throw the rest on the bonfire. The industry is dead, and the vultures will pick over the carcass.
Strip-mining is much more harmful when it takes out a going concern.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:07 AM (avHHk)
Well, depends on one's point of view, I guess.
Businesses, like all other human organizations, come and go...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 11:07 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)
That's how it works. That's how all of this works.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:08 AM (dGCAG)
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WB was a terrible acquisition, akin to AOL-TimeWarner in the realm of bad ideas. And its shareholders approved it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:08 AM (avHHk)
That would have been the MSM.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 11:08 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
Separated at birth?
https://is.gd/QOjuYq
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 11:09 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:09 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: David Zaslav at December 22, 2025 11:09 AM (vFG9F)
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Time will tell on that. They certainly destroyed the remnants of WB. It remains to be seen whether they destroyed Discovery. They may well not have.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:09 AM (avHHk)
Strip-mining is much more harmful when it takes out a going concern.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:07 AM (avHHk)
I for one welcome the AI movie industry.
Fewer child rapes.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:10 AM (dGCAG)
And at a higher value than not long ago... IIRC, it was around $10/ share, and the offers are at what, $30?
*cries all the way to the bank*
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 11:10 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
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I'm not sure if it's spineless or if it's all collusory at this point.
Corporate board-sitting is a literal circle-jerk of lefty cucks that all trade each other the favors of being on each others' boards, and it's little surprise to me when they hire a CEO from within their own Club and then pay that person an insane amount of money to fuck everything up.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 11:11 AM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 22, 2025 11:11 AM (van9r)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 11:11 AM (5aZAZ)
Weirdly, Lefties think that Zaslav is a right-winger.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 11:12 AM (UnA8+)
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The Boards won't. Shareholder elections are controlled by a handful of investment banks and retirement portfolio managers. The "public" who votes for socialism won't get it, either - they'll get even more cronyism. Too much money to raked off.
Accountability is the secret, and that is why no law will ever be passed - or observed - to increase it. Pass-through voting would be a good start. Shares owned by proxy (for example, in your retirement portfolio) should be voted by the owners of the underlying asset, not the fund manager. Pass through and tabulate fractional votes. If the person doesn't vote his interest, the vote is not cast.
Might be a way to start.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:12 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM
Yep. Get used to disappointment.
Posted by: Dread Pirate Westley at December 22, 2025 11:12 AM (P5BPp)
The BoD allows it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 11:12 AM (dAOkg)
That'll throw a wrench into the operation.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 22, 2025 11:12 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
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Makes some of the Disney horseshit seem... timid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 11:13 AM (NwnyJ)
The BoD allows it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 11:12 AM (dAOkg)
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They demand it. The boards of directors are serving different interests.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:13 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 11:11 AM (5aZAZ)
Vampires have higher ethical standards.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:13 AM (dGCAG)
So, Gerald Levin...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 11:13 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 11:11 AM (5aZAZ)
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Look at overlapping membership for an eye-opener. Steve Jobs was on the boards of Apple, Disney and several other major firms simultaneously. Who's interests was he representing?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:14 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 11:14 AM (xcxpd)
Didn't WB have a problem with there older DVDs due to being cheaply made and rotting in a few years. I've run into that myself. Can't remember if it was WB, Paramount, or some other company.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 11:15 AM (sAmhv)
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Nice work if you can get it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 11:15 AM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:09 AM
I resemble that remark.
Posted by: Carlos Taveras at December 22, 2025 11:15 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 11:15 AM (xcxpd)
It's not clear to me what I can do to "police" corporate shenanigans except to not give them my money. But I can certainly do that.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 11:17 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 22, 2025 11:17 AM (UdiE9)
Yeah. Disc rot
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 11:17 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 22, 2025 11:14 AM (xcxpd)
Corporatism is absolutely not a "conservative" principle, but for too long people who would otherwise understand that greed and screwing over "the little guy" are not positions that are morally defensible, had a kneejerk reaction to anything that was critical of business.
It's been more of a Yes, And situation for quite some time now. Idiot labor leaders killed industries in this country. And so did greedy bastard immoral business leaders.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:18 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
See also: The Butler shooter.
I'm so sick of this shit.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: DaveA at December 22, 2025 11:18 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 11:18 AM (xT8gx)
I am having trouble motivating any Fs to give themselves on behalf of a big player in an industry trying to groom my kids or have them trans themselves.
There was an FTC story in the tech thread about regulatory capture, and it does not matter if people will vote for pols that want some controls on parasitic executive behavior.
They, too, will get their grift, the regulators will become captured, and the bigs like WB will receive protection and regulatory and statutory carve outs, while the small players will dutifully surrender their scalps for the benefit of their grandstanding pols.
Sorry for the early Monday morning black pills, but it is what it is.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 11:18 AM (dK+Kv)
But I think it has also made it easier for mismanagement and corruption to grown in public companies since the institutional investors through which much of this stock is held don't really care.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:19 AM (sKqQm)
The problem with that statement is most of those people on boards seem to be aligned with those socialists...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:20 AM (sKqQm)
I would invest thusly.
But this is sadly not the case.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 11:20 AM (NwnyJ)
________
I often jump in to discussions to correct people who blame things on Boomers. Usually they are using something which really predated us, and which we bought uncritically, as the sheep we are.
But, oddly enough, this is not often enough blamed on us. The Rip-off Generation continued to hold to its All About (and for) ME attitude. We were the scum that added that to the standard of business practice. Previously, while that sort of thing did happen, it was disapproved of. It was in the late 70s or 80s that this sort of grasping attitude started being preached by management. (For some reason they didn't approve of a lack of loyalty by employees, and didn't see why that happened.)
Anyway, I will insist, this is the real damage the Baby Boom has done to us.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 11:21 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 11:21 AM (f9NFV)
Given money like that, and that number of layoffs, I'm sure they can afford excellent security. They many need it.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 11:22 AM (2WIwB)
Get into a position of trust, make the laws, make the rules, follow them to a 't'. THAT is how you do crime, folks.
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 11:22 AM (yurXG)
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"Pikers!"
-- Ford Motor Company
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 11:22 AM (wIAtt)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:20 AM (sKqQm)
I don't believe these people are socialists, in the sense that they have beliefs and values that align with socialism.
I think they stuck their fingers in the air, and misinterpreted the past decade or so, in thinking the country was moving leftward.
It will be interesting to see if they figure out that tranny love and other assorted nonsense doesn't sell.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:22 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 11:22 AM (G1OIb)
1) People who hold shares indirectly still get to vote at corporate elections (eg Joe Smith not Fidelity)
2) You can be on only one board at a time and you cannot be a C level official at another company at the same time
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Eeyore
The Boomers are responsible for the Black Death!
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
Projection ain't just how the movie gets on the big screen. (Or how it used to. I figure cinema multiplexes have less than a decade, tops.)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 11:24 AM (OUMaO)
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Yeah? Well . . .
Musk Becomes First Person Worth $700 Billion After Court Restores Tesla Pay Package
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 11:24 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 11:22 AM (G1OIb)
In this case, it's true.
It should only get posted when it's not.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:24 AM (dGCAG)
I think they stuck their fingers in the air, and misinterpreted the past decade or so, in thinking the country was moving leftward.
In this case it doesn't matter why they are allied with the left, just that they are. And, TBH, I think very few leftists elites believe in any of the crap they spew anyway - its all a way to get money and power.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:25 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: BurtTC
Given all the parasitic hiring of the past decade, I wonder how much influence executives actually have anymore at such places...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 11:26 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 11:18 AM (xT8gx)
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The jury is out on that. Assuming that the deal actually happens, WBD is selling the former WB to Netflix for around $83 billion. Discovery bought Warner Brothers for $43 billion plus a bunch of debt. I didn't find a breakout of that, but based on before-and-after debt loads, it was probably in the neighborhood of $30 billion. So call it $80 billion total, which is probably pessimistic.
$3 billion in profit on that investment over four years, after shutting off most of the bleeding at a failing enterprise and selling the remains. That is not a stupendous return - the acquisition was probably, in retrospect, a bad idea - but it doesn't appear to be a disaster (except for WB, of course, but WB was failing in the first place, which is why AT&T stripped it out and sold it in the first place, to throw much-needed capital at its own stupendous debt)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:26 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:25 AM (sKqQm)
Agreed. I just wonder if they will take their fingers out of their own arseholes, put them in the air, notice the wind direction change, and change with it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:27 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
Who praised Zaslav?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 11:27 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 11:28 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 11:28 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 11:28 AM (e87dM)
The idea you shouldn't abuse your position for money, power and sex is an explicitly rightwing idea.
As our elites have moved left they've also become more corrupt. With no God, and traditional morality something they see as a joke, why wouldn't they?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:28 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 11:26 AM (OUMaO)
I believe we live in a caste society. I would imagine lots of big company execs are not top tier.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:28 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 11:27 AM (mlg/3)
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I did. he came in and made much-needed cuts and major changes to try to turn Warner around. He was not entirely unsuccessful, and got rid of a lot of abject shit in WB's pipeline. He failed with CNN. The entire acquisition didn't work out, so he's unloading it to someone else who can strip it more effectively in a deal that is unlikely to make the final balance negative for Discovery. Not a good investment, not a disaster. I had hope that he would turn WB around. He either couldn't or didn't, but this is not going to be a tremendous loss for Discovery and the whole exercise may balance out to a modest profit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:30 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:14 AM (avHHk)
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Exactly! Corporate boards nowadays are less independent groups of industry or financial experts that are tasked with growing a company and safeguarding shareholder value than they are a hot tub full of swingers who swap back and forth all the time without regard for whose interests they're serving.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 11:30 AM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 11:28 AM (KDPiq)
If I had all the money in the world, I would buy the Looney Toons libarry, then all their classic films.
Then I'd hide them away for about a decade or so.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:30 AM (dGCAG)
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It's a conundrum. I mean, Mamdani, AOC, Warren, Sanders are the result of voting for those who ran on such issues.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:31 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:31 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 11:31 AM (cuae1)
I believe the equity part is based on sale to NF (or whoever) of the stock in WBD he owns or has options to.
This isn't NF just handing him over $500M. If you own stock (or have access to options) in a company that gets sold, your shares -- like all stockholders' shares -- get sold at whatever price the sale is valued at.
I'm not defending this guy. They're all creeps. I'm just saying that what's going on here is not unusual or nefarious at all.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)
Have the winds changed yet though? Ignoring moral questions if you were a VP at a globocorp right now does the path forward look easier if you still go with the generally leftwing corporate line or buck it?
Because TBH it looks to me like the former is still true...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:31 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 11:30 AM (5aZAZ)
Literally and figuratively.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:32 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 11:32 AM (KDPiq)
Until then, every rocket used to reach orbit had been single-use—discarded into the ocean or burned up in the atmosphere. But with this feat, SpaceX proved that rockets could be reused, dramatically reducing the cost of space access and bringing humanity a step closer to routine, sustainable space travel.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 11:32 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: BurtTC
Doesn't Disney own those now?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:33 AM (g47mK)
Because TBH it looks to me like the former is still true...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:31 AM (sKqQm)
I don't know. I want to think it has.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:33 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:14 AM (avHHk)
Steve Jobs
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 11:33 AM (2fdLC)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)
I don't think so? But I don't know.
The Borg is ever hungry.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:34 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 11:32 AM (KDPiq)
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No way to know. It isn't traded any more, and its books aren't public as a result. Some information can be inferred through Musk's other enterprises, but nothing concrete.
At least some, possibly a lot. But Musk, as you point out, wasn't making a purely financial decision. Vengeance was involved, as was his sometimes crazy-sounding future plans. If he succeeds in making X the "everything app" at the center of a lot of other things, it could end up being profitable many years down the line. But that's all hand-wavy future stuff.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:34 AM (avHHk)
I think the problem is collectively we tried something - moving significant C-level compensation to stock and tied to stock price performance.
But this just focuses those C-level people on stock value, not real corporate value, and they are then only focused on whatever time period they will be at that company.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:34 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 11:35 AM (KDPiq)
http://tiny.cc/74rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:36 AM (avHHk)
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Probably should point this out periodically. This is exactly how the left operates.
Everything they touch turns to shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 11:36 AM (NwnyJ)
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Well, he's no Nanzi Pelosi!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 11:36 AM (yQuiz)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 11:35 AM (KDPiq)
Tommy Boy was a documentary.
Until the end, when he saved the company and got the girl.
That was pure fantasy.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:37 AM (dGCAG)
It only beat the market by 5% this year.
The old bird is apparently getting worse at picking stocks, or you, lost some of the political power that made her stock picks work...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:38 AM (sKqQm)
http://tiny.cc/74rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:36 AM (avHHk)
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That girl was never on that boat (that seems an obvious superimpose) but ... TBWB
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)
Exactly! Corporate boards nowadays are less independent groups of industry or financial experts that are tasked with growing a company and safeguarding shareholder value than they are a hot tub full of swingers who swap back and forth all the time without regard for whose interests they're serving.
Posted by: ballistic
Just checked my own MIC company. 7 of the 10 are on other boards, even though our own bylaws limit that to no more than 4 in other boards. At least none of them are on other MIC company BoDs.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 11:38 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BurtTC
On Saturday I attended a memorial service for our neighbor who died just before Thanksgiving. She was a big fan of classic rock, and apparently one of her and her husband's favorite songs was "Imagine."
Very weird to be at a memorial service presided over by a minister who had just spoken about our neighbor being in Heaven and then hearing "Imagine there's no Heaven."
But her husband started tearing up as it was playing, so it must have had some special significance for them both. Maybe it was "their song."
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:14 AM (avHHk)
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Since he was the largest individual investor in both Disney and Apple, his own.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 11:39 AM (Ki5ky)
Lose a war? Bankrupt your company? Kill a group of peaceful dissidents in Texas....all while you were the leader? Well...it still isn't your fault. Obviously. You did all the things that a good leftwinger would do, so if it didn't work out it was just bad luck!
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:40 AM (sKqQm)
http://tiny.cc/74rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:36 AM (avHHk)
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That girl was never on that boat (that seems an obvious superimpose) but ... TBWB
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
SWB (So would Bulg.)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)
http://tiny.cc/74rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:36 AM (avHHk)
Wrap her in a red ribbon and put her under my tree.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 11:41 AM (2WIwB)
Until then, every rocket used to reach orbit had been single-use—discarded into the ocean or burned up in the atmosphere. But with this feat, SpaceX proved that rockets could be reused, dramatically reducing the cost of space access and bringing humanity a step closer to routine, sustainable space travel.
Posted by: rickb223
The real trick is controlling and safely landing something with aerodynamics and terminal velocity of a brick.
I assume they piggy-backed on control tech for something like the F-22.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 11:41 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 11:41 AM (2WIwB)
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Never! Orange ribbons only!
Posted by: Contrarian at December 22, 2025 11:42 AM (avHHk)
It only beat the market by 5% this year.
The old bird is apparently getting worse at picking stocks, or you, lost some of the political power that made her stock picks work...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:38 AM (sKqQm)
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5% in the sense that the ETF returned Market Average + 5%, so if MA was 10% the ETF returned 15% (10+5)?
Or 5% in the sense that the ETF returned 5% of the total MA return, so if MA was 10% then the ETF returned 10.5 (10 + (10 x .5))?
If it's the former, that's a YUGE increase over MA. It's 50% more! Investors would kill for that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:42 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Pantages Theatre Circuit at December 22, 2025 11:42 AM (oftw2)
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Has anybody written a "Grift For Dummies" book yet?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 11:43 AM (yol/s)
Posted by: Diogenes
And ONLY in a red ribbon.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS:
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
Very weird to be at a memorial service presided over by a minister who had just spoken about our neighbor being in Heaven and then hearing "Imagine there's no Heaven."
But her husband started tearing up as it was playing, so it must have had some special significance for them both. Maybe it was "their song."
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)
I don't put any stock in song lyrics. Most songwriters, like Lenin... oops, I mean Lennon, were stupid lefty douchebags, but like so many, he was a great artist.
It's a great song. Even though the lyrics are shite.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:44 AM (dGCAG)
Her trades in past year where beating the market by many times more.
But yes, I think this ETF is a create choice and my third best pick of all time.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:44 AM (sKqQm)
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All their complaints are projection.
They know what they would do if they got the chance so they rail against everyone else for that. It's projection AND justification.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 11:45 AM (2fdLC)
http://tiny.cc/74rw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:36 AM (avHHk)
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Pontoons.
/Nice teeth!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 11:46 AM (yol/s)
==
Good observation. And not just for elites. They forced removal of any kind of standard (SAT, ACT) from college admissions for example. (Obviously employing SAT as a standard for college admission was an example of deplatforming and and assault on freedom of expression ! ) They also ruined many cities by removing any kind of consequence for bad behavior, plus removed cash bail. Obviously they tried to silence a freedom to express yourself by taking a few things at Louis Vuitton without paying for it.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:46 AM (g47mK)
@ggreenwald
Imagine spending your life in journalism only to have some person float in to dictate what you can and can't report -- even though she's never broken a story or even reported -- and whose sole qualification is she is as devoted to Israel as the new family that just bought CBS:
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
Greenwald actually does some decent journalism.
Sometimes.
But he's still a silly stupid lefty. I wonder if he's truly perplexed at Bari Weiss having an agenda at CBS Nooz.
As if CBS was some bastion of journalistic principles before.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:46 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:38 AM (iFTx/)
What boat
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 11:47 AM (2fdLC)
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 11:47 AM (2fdLC)
"imagine spending your life in journalism only to find out that you have to listen to your boss."
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)
Well yeah, that's kind of what it means to work for an organization. If you want to make those kind of decisions for yourself, work for yourself.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 22, 2025 11:49 AM (3nLb4)
They know what they would do if they got the chance so they rail against everyone else for that. It's projection AND justification.
Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 11:45 AM (2fdLC)
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AND delusion.
They haven't been self-identifying as mentally ill for decades now for no reason.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 11:49 AM (yol/s)
The tears over Bari's management style nourish my soul.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 11:50 AM (OPGS/)
"imagine spending your life in journalism only to find out that you have to listen to your boss."
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK
His objection (other than the Israel stuff) is that Bari Weiss is a stupid idiot, who's never done "real journalism."
People like Gleen do seem to live in a fantasy world of belief that corporate media is supposed to do journalism.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)
This is a really good point.
At my job I regularly implement decisions I disagree with that come from above. And honestly some times those decisions are the right ones and I didn't have the full picture. And I assume this is normal for most people in any large organizations.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 11:52 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 11:51 AM (sKqQm)
Like nazzie Germany!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:53 AM (dGCAG)
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"journalism". Heh, yeah sure. Good one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 11:53 AM (/VF+8)
"imagine spending your life in journalism only to find out that you have to listen to your boss."
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The guy sips penis. Jeebus. You would looking for deep thoughts?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 11:53 AM (pLaQB)
People like Gleen do seem to live in a fantasy world of belief that corporate media is supposed to do journalism.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)
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Or that "real journalism" is some kind of good thing. Is it?
Anyone talking about "real" subjective professions - "real journalist" or "real historian" or "real political analyst" or the like - actually means "orthodox," which means "trained the same way I was, by the same people, in the same environment."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:54 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 11:52 AM (pLaQB)
I would think they do, but yeah, if Dinsey owns them, that's because the Entertainment Industrial Complex is like a solar system, where everything that is not hammered down in a regular orbit will eventually get sucked into the fires.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:54 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)
Anyone talking about "real" subjective professions - "real journalist" or "real historian" or "real political analyst" or the like - actually means "orthodox," which means "trained the same way I was, by the same people, in the same environment."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:54 AM (avHHk)
Like so many things in this world, I believe "real journalism" is mostly myth.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:55 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Pudinhead
I thought that Looney Tunes had been bought by Disney, but I was wrong. Still owned by Warner Bros.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
People like Gleen do seem to live in a fantasy world of belief that corporate media is supposed to do journalism.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)
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Or that "real journalism" is some kind of good thing. Is it?
Anyone talking about "real" subjective professions - "real journalist" or "real historian" or "real political analyst" or the like - actually means "orthodox," which means "trained the same way I was, by the same people, in the same environment."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:54 AM (avHHk)
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I hold "journalists" in less regard than I do hookers, OF THOTs, and diseased subway rats
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)
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Who you calling gay?!?!
Posted by: Qatucker Carlson at December 22, 2025 11:56 AM (/VF+8)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
Well sure. You can't put a condom on to protect you from journalists.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:57 AM (dGCAG)
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Media/journalism is a Protection - Extortion Racket. Always has been. Always will be. One in a while the blind squirrel finds an acorn. It happens cuz magic and hungry squirrel.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 11:57 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Diseased subway rats at December 22, 2025 11:57 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
So nothing about woke shit, right?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 11:58 AM (mlg/3)
And I bet she'll be out of there pretty quickly. These people aren't going to work for anyone even slightly outside their bubble.
Lotta $$$ down the drain.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 11:58 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 11:59 AM (/VF+8)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 11:56 AM (iFTx/)
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You're generous.
The hookers at least provide an actual exchange of services for cash.
Even subway rats eat some of the trash.
OF THOTs are closer. Mediated prostitution-by-proxy is more akin to journalism.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 11:59 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 11:57 AM (pLaQB)
There are people making a living these days as "independent journalists."
I'm sure most of them are still preening assholes, but some of them actually report things that are useful to know.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 12:00 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)
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Will Trump still be blamed for everything wrong with the universe in 3000 years?
If so, maybe Israel will finally get cut some slack ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:00 PM (yol/s)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2025 12:00 PM (sKqQm)
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Hungry blind squirrel and magic - an acorn appears.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:01 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
Had a discussion a while back with my dad regarding journalists. A cousin of mine has been in the media for a long time. I told him this: "I love her dearly since she's family. But the very instant, I had to deal with her in a professional setting that trust is gone. I would have three recording devices ready to go and I would upload the entire interview to counter her or her boss editing what I say."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 12:01 PM (OPGS/)
And I bet she'll be out of there pretty quickly. These people aren't going to work for anyone even slightly outside their bubble.
Lotta $$$ down the drain.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 11:58 AM (BI5O2)
It seems like an odd choice, but I have no doubt she's more than willing to whore herself to the powers that be.
Her problem is she's a nitwit. She'll do something to piss them off, then they'll get rid of her.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (dGCAG)
And I bet she'll be out of there pretty quickly. These people aren't going to work for anyone even slightly outside their bubble.
Lotta $$$ down the drain.
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Look, nobody put a gun to their stupid heads.
Posted by: Brian Kelly at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (1s0+g)
It's like walking into a steel mill and telling everyone they're going to make dresses now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (/VF+8)
It's like walking into a steel mill and telling everyone they're going to make dresses now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (BI5O2)
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LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (avHHk)
RSBN 🇺🇸
@RSBNetwork
President Trump names Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as U.S. special envoy to Greenland
https://is.gd/9YYyR8
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:03 PM (yol/s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 12:03 PM (E0Kkk)
1. Issue
2. Ruminate
3. JEWWWWWWSSSSS
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (XV/Pl)
3-4 decades ago, you'd hear about them all the time.
And it seemed it was a good check on insider greed.
Now, they're all gone; not even a toothless threat, a non-existent threat.
The only recent one was beyond stupid, and completely ignored all law, the one by a few lefties to try and drive Musk out of his own company by over-turning his compensation package.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (HXT0k)
https://is.gd/9YYyR8
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:03 PM (yol/s)
So who's going to coach the Cowboys???
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (dGCAG)
If so, maybe Israel will finally get cut some slack ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:00 PM (yol/s)
There is a 90s (?) clip of Trump on some TV show with Marla Maples ( yeah that old) , in some scene a teenager yells at him that it's all his fault! and he says eh, people blame me for everything anyway ! 🤣
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (
They're all retards. It's no impediment in the news biz. They'll just get rid of her for doing stuff like this. They're allergic to accountability. Even tiny amounts send them into shock.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)
The Democrat conundrum
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He only does Jewish Bidding cuz they have the weather machine. Once he conquers them he will move onto the Puerto Ricans. They have fiestas!
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:05 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:05 PM (pLaQB)
https://is.gd/9YYyR8
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:03 PM (yol/s)
I saw that and it seemed pretty bizarre. What does the Governor of Louisiana have to do with Greenland?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 12:06 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Jim Morrison and Richard Farina at December 22, 2025 12:06 PM (/VF+8)
The Democrat conundrum
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He only does Jewish Bidding cuz they have the weather machine. Once he conquers them he will move onto the Puerto Ricans. They have fiestas!
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:05 PM (pLaQB)
Nah, they'll just say Jews are the 21st century Nazis...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 12:06 PM (tOcjL)
This is how Hollywood is so rich with so little successful product.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 22, 2025 12:07 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)
Sure, the people in FRONT of the camera, but I figure there are people behind the camera who aren't idiots.
Plenty of them are, sure, but not all of them. Whoever they are though, they will be expected to do the bidding of the Oligarchy. Following orders isn't always hard. Especially when you have no principles.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)
And I bet she'll be out of there pretty quickly. These people aren't going to work for anyone even slightly outside their bubble.
Lotta $$$ down the drain.
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Look, nobody put a gun to their stupid heads.
Posted by: Brian Kelly
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A fool and his money, ya know what i mean?
Posted by: Lane Kiffin at December 22, 2025 12:08 PM (1s0+g)
https://is.gd/9YYyR8
Posted by: ShainS
Well, Louisiana and Greenland are very much alike, so I'm sure he'll fit right in there.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)
It's like walking into a steel mill and telling everyone they're going to make dresses now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 12:02 PM (BI5O2)
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What kind of dresses?
Posted by: Rosie the Riveter at December 22, 2025 12:08 PM (2WIwB)
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Mmm, could be that Hollywood is in the Money Laundering Business? Making movies is the cover.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:09 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Bulg
Just got here. Didn't read the last thread, but feel confident in saying that the shit-stirring Putz was giving others his "treatment.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 12:09 PM (Y1sOo)
2. Ruminate
3. JEWWWWWWSSSSS
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Wait. I thought it was j000000s! Did I miss a memo?
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 12:09 PM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 12:09 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (HXT0k)
in the Energy biz, leftists were always using them to try to make oil companies stop drilling for oil. They were always just a stupid, sometimes expensive annoyance, and I'm sure that corporate management finally figured out some tactics to kill them altogether.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Diogenes
Our attorneys will be in touch.
-- Amalgamated Union of Scum-Sucking Siberian Snow Pimps.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:11 PM (77rzZ)
3-4 decades ago, you'd hear about them all the time.
And it seemed it was a good check on insider greed.
Now, they're all gone; not even a toothless threat, a non-existent threat.
The only recent one was beyond stupid, and completely ignored all law, the one by a few lefties to try and drive Musk out of his own company by over-turning his compensation package.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 12:04 PM (HXT0k)
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"Strike suits" killed a lot of the investor shareholder litigation. Courts took an increasing dim view of what they saw as attorney-fee driven lawsuits with little recovery for the shareholders. So they tightened the requirements for shareholder suits, especially at the pleading stage, and gave the "business judgment rule" more weight.
It didn't help that a lot of the top plaintiffs-side lawyers turned out to be total creeps and crooks.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:12 PM (iFTx/)
Plenty of them are, sure, but not all of them. Whoever they are though, they will be expected to do the bidding of the Oligarchy. Following orders isn't always hard. Especially when you have no principles.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)
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Behind the camera, too, most of them are retards. The tiny minority who aren't abjectly stupid are actively evil and most of the stupid ones are evil, too. There is no good to be found anywhere in American journalism.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 12:12 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 22, 2025 12:13 PM (vbXSk)
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That's cuz there are no Fishing Magazines anymore.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:13 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Tongue firmly in cheek at December 22, 2025 12:13 PM (TbWk/)
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Zombie Dick Cheney, Mastermind on Viagra at December 22, 2025 12:13 PM (m8zKa)
This story came through the transom..
Kentucky Distiller Suspends Production due to uncertainty over tariffs.
When you click on the story, the reasons have literally nothing to do with tariffs, in fact the distiller never even mentions tariffs, that was an entirely made up reason by the author of the story.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:13 PM (XV/Pl)
Require private equity to have the same disclosure requirements of the public companies they own and a whole lot more of this goes away.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 12:14 PM (HXT0k)
This story came through the transom..
Kentucky Distiller Suspends Production due to uncertainty over tariffs.
When you click on the story, the reasons have literally nothing to do with tariffs, in fact the distiller never even mentions tariffs, that was an entirely made up reason by the author of the story.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:13 PM (XV/Pl)
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They'll still be blaming tariffs for every economic woe for decades after Trump leaves office ....
As was discussed this morning, the booze industry (and especially bourbon) is in trouble because of massive over-production during the boom years. The distillers were making yuge bank during those years. Now ... the tide has turned. Don't cry for the distillers.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)
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What "ban on buy backs"?
Such horse pucky.
Companies have every right to reduce their equity base, if management and the board think its a good investment.
Posted by: Jim Morrison and Richard Farina at December 22, 2025 12:17 PM (/VF+8)
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My guess the story is that the high end Bourbon market is over saturated with high end Bourbon. I was in the ABC store this weekend and saw Larceny selling at $55 a fifth. Two years ago you could buy it for $20. That's a lot of pricing that has to come down. Hell, Old Grand Dad is a bottom shelf Bourbon these days. WTF?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:17 PM (pLaQB)
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A. I was told by an accounting professor from Israel many years ago that in her country, 'treasury stock is a no-no'. Why not prohibit the holding of treasury stock except in companies which have an employee shareholder plan, where you buy your shares from the treasury when you pass your probation and sell them to the treasury when you leave?
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B. Why not permit boards to order stock splits and reverse splits, but prohibit share re-purchases?
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C. Why not reduce the share types to two: preferred with a guaranteed dividend but no voting rights and common with voting rights but no guarantees?
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D. Why not provide for the voting rights on common stock to fall into abeyance if the stock is purchased by parties with particular properties (e.g. governments, intermediaries for governments, financial sector enterprises other than stand-alone funds and private equity firms, and any kind of corporate body if the firm in question is a financial-sector enterprise)?
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E. Why not require annual shareholder meetings to occur in the county where company HQ is located or in the county wherein the charter was issued, and to take place in the same fortnight every year?
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Posted by: Art Deco at December 22, 2025 12:17 PM (2TXH9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 12:18 PM (/VF+8)
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Mmm, could be that Hollywood is in the Money Laundering Business? Making movies is the cover.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:09 PM (pLaQB)
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Next you'll be telling me that Meathead Reiner was a CIA Asset if not a Spook.
Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:18 PM (agLqO)
Wait, wut?
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I think you are describing Ben Hecht.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:19 PM (pLaQB)
>>My guess the story is that the high end Bourbon market is over saturated with high end Bourbon.
The reason for the halt is they are upgrading all of their facilities and production and have enough product to ship during the upgrade.
But a reporter cum propagandist saw an opportunity.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:20 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jubilant Delinquent at December 22, 2025 12:21 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: TJ Jackson at December 22, 2025 12:21 PM (bXvrr)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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Has the CBD Coup been lifted?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:21 PM (pLaQB)
X video: https://bit.ly/4qhEhmB
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 12:22 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
I don't need propaganda to appreciate cum.
-- Kamala
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:22 PM (77rzZ)
As was discussed this morning, the booze industry (and especially bourbon) is in trouble because of massive over-production during the boom years. The distillers were making yuge bank during those years. Now ... the tide has turned. Don't cry for the distillers.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:16 PM (iFTx/)
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I blame "The General" and "Tulsa King," Stye Stallone ...
/
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 12:22 PM (agLqO)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 12:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 12:23 PM (G1OIb)
Enjoy the new digital only American Rifleman ! And maybe 4 printed issues a year!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 12:23 PM (Kt19C)
He said any appointments to see him are on an 'as needed' basis.
Overall, good news.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)
I for one am doing my bit to keep brewers and distillers in the black.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Case at December 22, 2025 12:23 PM (G1OIb)
He doesn't need to. Today's egotistical millennial blowhard coaches going off ESPN analytics for every play call f*cks the game up all on it's own without any requirement from Jerruh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 12:25 PM (yPhso)
Posted by: PSA at December 22, 2025 12:25 PM (oftw2)
I for one am doing my bit to keep brewers and distillers in the black.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:24 PM (XV/Pl)
More for me. Keep going, America!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
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G. Why not requiring that all prospective board members be nominated from the floor at the annual shareholders meeting?
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H. Why not limit the franchise to act as a proxy to individual persons who are actual shareholders?
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I. Why not, in re publicly-traded firms, debar anyone who has been employed by the firm in the last twelve months or employed by law firms and consultancies the firm has had on retainer in the last twelve months from acting as proxies or being elected to the board?
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J. Why not require deferred compensation (including 'golden parachutes') be financed out of with-holdings from an executive's paycheck?
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K. Why not have an upper limit on executive compensation which is determined by a formula specified in a statute which has employee-compensation-per-worker in the economy at large and the number of employees a company has (FTE) as arguments?
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L. Why not limit the modes of compensation to a standard benefits package (including medical insurance), cash salary, deferred compensation, miscellaneous perquisites, and a bonus which is a function of revenues?
Posted by: Art Deco at December 22, 2025 12:27 PM (2TXH9)
But they won't repeal them, will increase the tax burden on taxpayers and will pocket even MORE billions.
Destroying Democrats is the ONLY way forward for this country. Period.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)
What was it that Obama said when talking to Wall Street? "I'm the one standing between you and the pitchforks"?
Posted by: pookysgirl needs a nap at December 22, 2025 12:28 PM (Wt5PA)
I for one am doing my bit to keep brewers and distillers in the black.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:24 PM (XV/Pl)
More for me. Keep going, America!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
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The "declining consumption" metric is based on self-reporting polls. While people surely say they're drinking less booze, I don't know if that is really true. These kinds of polls are notoriously fickle, depending on which direction the cultural winds are blowing.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 12:29 PM (pLaQB)
Sponge, how is the First Lady doing?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:28 PM (77rzZ)
Still asleep. I'm just trying to keep her dad from waking her up to "check on her."
You weren't a dad for the first 50 years, why start now?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)
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You recall the open letter Robert Samuelson published to Michael Eisner in 1998? The occasion was the enormous settlement given Michael Ovitz when he resigned from Disney after eighteen months there employed. Mr. Ovitz was given $90 million to resign from the company. RJS thought that a scandal which discredits corporate America.
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Actually, $200,000 a year plus benefits is the mode for your average corporate CEO. You see these gargantuan sums in a modest number of large firms. They used to be more embarrassed by the obvious looting of shareholders than they are today.
Posted by: Art Deco at December 22, 2025 12:35 PM (2TXH9)
Posted by: Spiff580 at December 22, 2025 01:03 PM (5S8x0)
Now let's do airline CEOs. After suffering on a recent United flight I noted the CEO makes $33 million a year.
Posted by: Random PJ at December 22, 2025 02:09 PM (RRCAT)
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The scandal there is that the airline business has the lowest profit margins of any sector of note bar retail groceries. That's a much bigger chunk out of the hide of people waiting for a dividend that it would be in an ordinary industry.
Posted by: Art Deco at December 22, 2025 03:04 PM (2TXH9)
Posted by: Art Deco at December 22, 2025 03:06 PM (2TXH9)
Posted by: Oakeshott at December 22, 2025 06:50 PM (7NzYL)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Osservanza Master This is wild! If you had told me that this work was from the Magic Realism school and was painted in the 1930s, I would have bought it!
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Posted by: Otto Pen at December 22, 2025 09:32 AM (sJHOI)
Title:
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Artist:
Osservanza Master (Italian, Siena, active second quarter 15th century)
Date:
ca. 1435
Medium:
Tempera and gold on wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (47.6 × 34.6 cm)
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I figured this was Moses after the flood, explaining the boat and muddy, barren landscape.
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Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Louis Cristillo at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (oftw2)
And here's some about his life:
https://tinyurl.com/5n7z5y8r
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (ix8EF)
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (2GVsD)
The painting is characterized by its use of tempera and gold on panel, typical of 15th-century Italian art. The figures are small in relation to the canvas, emphasizing their narrative importance. The flatness of the composition and the winding path create a sense of depth, guiding the viewer's eye through the scene.
covenantarthistory.blogspot.com
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (kT/XV)
"What in the crap is a dashboard?"
"You know, in a car?"
"You're weird, bro. No wonder they make you stay out in the wilderness."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: George Costanza at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bob Ross at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 09:37 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: huerfano at December 22, 2025 09:37 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:37 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: PabloD at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (kT/XV)
I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I've got my plastic Jesus
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car...
Posted by: He's phosphorescent at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: PabloD at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (Epuwl)
For the king......
https://youtu.be/m4UWdlfH86s
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Trim That Mess! at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tuna at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Long ago, in the before-time, Christian children had books with felt or vinyl cutouts of characters from Biblical stories they could place on the pages, which were scenes from Biblical stories...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (vFG9F)
----
Once you spot it, it's already too late for you....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (KDPiq)
Seems deer'ish.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Now that I see the buck I believe your correct.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (yycSj)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)
-
"RUN AWAAAAYYY!!!!!!!"
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (b8koU)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:41 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 09:38 AM (kT/XV)
Or water.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:37 AM (KDPiq)
*****
Capybara.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 09:41 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 22, 2025 09:40 AM (ftFVW)
It was an entry level painting until the St. was photoshopped in for extra credit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tuna at December 22, 2025 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:42 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:42 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:43 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:43 AM (pDt9x)
To the modern eye, no.
But to the 1435 guy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)
*******
Be fruitful and multiply.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Where are the leaves? at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (KDPiq)
----------------
Patron Saint of Fertility?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (b8koU)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:43 AM (pDt9x)
To the modern eye, no.
But to the 1435 guy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Oh I suppose so. Maybe he painted with a chewed stick.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM
+++
Don't get too close.
Posted by: The ghost of Jimmy Carter at December 22, 2025 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 09:46 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Sponge
********
While walking in the wilderness one day
Saint Anthony heard a fellow traveler say,
"Hey!I spotted a. fawn!"
Holy Tony said, "G'wan!
Don't be silly, they all come that way!"
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)
There is no doubt that he has a garter belt and stockings on under the robes. The only real question is, what color?
Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at December 22, 2025 09:46 AM (4SjnF)
Greed - he's after the gold carrot halo!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:46 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 09:46 AM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (KDPiq)
Seems deer'ish.
Posted by: Sponge
It's got spots. Fawn.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:47 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:48 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Sponge
A herd of elephants going through the area would devour everything and leave the earth barren and trampled.
Or one Governor Pritzker.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 22, 2025 09:48 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Mr. Guy of Hollywood at December 22, 2025 09:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Opinion fact
The rabbit of Caerbannog - the early years
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:49 AM (dAOkg)
I was still buying it until I found a commenter saying...1435?! I wonder how it was received back then. Everything but the saint himself looks surreal.
Posted by: t-bird at December 22, 2025 09:49 AM (yurXG)
Posted by: JTB at December 22, 2025 09:49 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM (dAOkg)
by a medieval palimpsest,
for regardless of gold,
this painting's so old,
there's plenty of fodder for jests.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: t-bird
Another victim of ergot-induced medieval delusions.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 22, 2025 09:51 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 22, 2025 09:51 AM (36PRH)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 22, 2025 09:51 AM (XLQLg)
I'll be taking the FiL to his follow up with the R oncologist this morning.
The hits just keep on comin'........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: t-bird
Another victim of ergot-induced medieval delusions.
Posted by: Moron Analyst
Don't lick the brown wormwood.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:52 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at December 22, 2025 09:52 AM (p0/TZ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 09:52 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Suck It, Tony! at December 22, 2025 09:52 AM (oftw2)
I'll be taking the FiL to his follow up with the R oncologist this morning.
The hits just keep on comin'........
Posted by: Sponge
Prayers everything is ok.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:52 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 09:53 AM (/iMjX)
Brother Anthony and I are opening a Fish and Chips Shoppe but we can't decide whether to name it "The Fish Friar" or "The Chip Monk. Can you help us decide?
/Brother Arthur Treacher
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 09:53 AM (/iMjX)
Yep. MD Anderson later today, and then a full battery of tests next Wednesday (all for Mrs)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:53 AM (XuXeR)
But to the 1435 guy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
------------
Just got a great idea for a Disney reality TV show reboot:
"Modern Queer Eye For The 1435 Guy."
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 09:53 AM (/UI17)
Prayers everything is ok.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:52 AM (dAOkg)
Thanks.
I share for the prayer, but do worry about people starting to think I'm going to the well once too often and begging for attention.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 09:53 AM (sDNVV)
Brother Anthony and I are opening a Fish and Chips Shoppe but we can't decide whether to name it "The Fish Friar" or "The Chip Monk. Can you help us decide?
/Brother Arthur Treacher
Posted by: muldoon
*snort!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:54 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:54 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 09:55 AM (rj6Yv)
I share for the prayer, but do worry about people starting to think I'm going to the well once too often and begging for attention.
Posted by: Sponge
Been there. Know you aren't.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:55 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 09:55 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:55 AM (KDPiq)
416 My daughter got the gene test (because of an already diagnosed disorder). They have the regular one, and regular + a special Ashkenazi panel.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
The "ask a Nazi' panel?!?! It's not even a dog-whistle anymore, but right out in the open!
Posted by: Tucker Carlson, Zoran Mamdani, or AOC? Is there a difference? at December 22, 2025 09:56 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 22, 2025 09:56 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 09:53 AM (sDNVV)
I love that whoever it was, their first instinct was apparently to draw a hand outline on the cave wall.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:57 AM (06Hmj)
The "ask a Nazi' panel?!?! It's not even a dog-whistle anymore, but right out in the open!
Posted by: Tucker Carlson, Zoran Mamdani, or AOC? Is there a difference? at December 22, 2025 09:56 AM (JCZqz)
*fistbump*
Fam.......
Posted by: Nick Fuentes at December 22, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 09:57 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 09:57 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 22, 2025 09:56 AM (bss/y)
Next up.......EVENIK wear!
Posted by: Nick Fuentes at December 22, 2025 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:57 AM (06Hmj)
Boobs and dead animals made early appearances too. That's how we know that most of the cave artists were guys.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (IG3/x)
I love that whoever it was, their first instinct was apparently to draw a hand outline on the cave wall.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:57 AM (06Hmj)
They were just trying to make the kindergarten art turkey.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had
It's pretty well-known that Dick Blick Art Supply had a medieval component.
Posted by: Ars Pro Multis at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (oftw2)
***********
20 bonus points for 'palimpsest'
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)
a silly millimeter longer.
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:50 AM
looks more like 40 thousandths
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
"In God We Trust" Everyone else keep your hands where we can see them.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:59 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 09:59 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:59 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:59 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (R11M+)
Absolutely on both counts.
I'm distracting myself a LOT.......New Year needs to bring new focus. Shit has to change. Soon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 22, 2025 10:00 AM (eqMW0)
Morning JJ and the Horde. Spot on about the Judges. They all think they are untouchable no matter, federal, State or local.
That is why it is so important to to get the Bush 1 and 2 Judges to retire also, many are no better than Dem appointments
Posted by: Jonah
It isn't just the damned judges, it's the lawyers, and enabling assholes that use them in conjunction with the corrupt judges. Don't watch this video about Heavy D Sparks getting put in jail for contempt when he was doing everything he could to cooperate in a harassment suit from a bunch of eco terrorist using the justice system.
https://youtu.be/TxExBnSg2xI
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 10:00 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 10:00 AM (rj6Yv)
Boobs and dead animals made early appearances too. That's how we know that most of the cave artists were guys.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 09:58 AM (IG3/x)
Bobs and vagene!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Jonah
Alito and Thomas should retire immediately. !!!
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Jonah
Also, any field-grade military officer who made rank under Barky or Dopey Joe.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Same with cell phone game cameras. If you've got cell service, you're hunting in town.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Cecilia Giménez at December 22, 2025 10:02 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (dAOkg)
"T-Mobile service sucks!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (dAOkg)
"T-Mobile service sucks!"
Posted by: Sponge
AT&T's red coverage map lies worse than a politician.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:03 AM (dAOkg)
"jeez, must be a million of 'em!"
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 10:03 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: And I'm not even Catholic at December 22, 2025 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cecilia Gim�nez "
/ heh
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:05 AM (L/fGl)
I liked Long John's Silver when things got all bound up and needed a little extra oomph to move things out. Fish offal and grease worked everytime.
Posted by: Mr. Colon at December 22, 2025 10:07 AM (m8zKa)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 10:07 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, lurking at December 22, 2025 10:07 AM (QnIJ2)
Posted by: Big Farma's Marketing Department at December 22, 2025 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:59 AM (KDPiq)
Closest one to me is 20 mi away at stone mountain. Once long ago my wife and I were driving across the country and stopped in some little city along the way with a bunch of fast food. As we were driving down the strip looking for a place my wife suddenly blurted out long johns silvers and I made a very hard right turn because we were right by it. A second later a dump truck ran through a red light and smashed over the cars in my lane. Bad accident. It would have definitely been us. So for good luck whenever we are traveling and see a long john's we stop.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 10:08 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: His wife at December 22, 2025 10:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 09:59 AM (KDPiq)
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Same. The one in our small city was crappy (SWIDT?) having been combined with a KFC.
Bur when I get down to North Phoenix, there's a very good one I'll stop by ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 10:09 AM (diNR9)
Posted by: cmeat at December 22, 2025 10:09 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: rickb223
-- - ----
^^^THIS!!!^^^
I can barely get service at my house, good thing I have good internet. I wonder what I'm paying for...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 22, 2025 10:10 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: huerfano at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (98kQX)
=========
Look closely at the building. It isn't a Christian church. No cross at the top of the steeple. A single, small slit window. The tower has no religious markings.
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 10:11 AM (rj6Yv)
"Modern Queer Eye For The 1435 Guy."
Posted by: ShainS
Tim Gunn, Project Runway: ugh, this fur lining looks so dated and frumpy. We're going for modern masculine, not caveman. For the pants, we have.....
https://shorturl.at/PBvV3
Notices bulge, OwO what's this?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 22, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)
Alito and Thomas should retire immediately. !!!
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (KDPiq)
I mean yeah they should. Alito is 75 and Thomas is 77. There is a good chance one or both may not make it to 2033. If Vance loses in 2028 do you want to roll the dice on Newsom replacing them?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 10:12 AM (UJWr0)
@TheBabylonBee
"Candace Owens Horrified To Learn Christmas Was Started By Birth Of A Jew"
https://tinyurl.com/4xv3cf7h
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:12 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2025 10:13 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM
Via Grok:
Over the December 20-21 weekend, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA's (TPUSA) AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona — an organization founded by Kirk. During his speech, Carlson addressed a hypothetical scenario involving a family member committing murder, which many interpreted as an implicit criticism of Robinson's family for turning him in. Here's the key excerpt from his remarks, based on video and eyewitness accounts shared widely on X:
"If my brother went on a drug-induced murder spree, I'd defend him. I'd say, 'That's my brother, I love him.' I wouldn't condemn him. I'd try to get him out of the country if I could. Family loyalty comes first."
The statement drew backlash online for its timing and venue, with commenters noting the insensitivity given that Robinson's father had turned him in just months after Kirk's killing.
Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/3KJ3FTt
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 10:13 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Opinion
The one in my area is combined with an A&W.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 22, 2025 10:14 AM (JCZqz)
https://is.gd/7l4NYM
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
_______
That's funny as shit!
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2025 10:14 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM
The Jews and French and Egyptians killed him. So yeah Tucker is right the family turned in an innocent man.
- Candy Cane Owens
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 10:15 AM (UJWr0)
the subject is the *other* St. Anthony, not the famous Portuguese-Italian from Padua
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 10:15 AM (dCxaZ)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I like the art, but that's a real wimpy wilderness.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:15 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Nordic Interiors at December 22, 2025 10:16 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 22, 2025 10:16 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: rickb223
-- - ----
^^^THIS!!!^^^
I can barely get service at my house, good thing I have good internet. I wonder what I'm paying for...
Posted by: lin-duh
I don't get service. If it wasn't for Starlink...
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:17 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:17 AM (XuXeR)
Hi, CBD! 👋
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 10:17 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 10:17 AM (+GKEt)
And no I’m not exaggerating. That’s the lunacy out there in podcast vile.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 10:18 AM (UJWr0)
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A Christian would say "God comes first". And there's a Commandment that forbids that kind of killing.
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 10:18 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:19 AM (XuXeR)
===
A Christian would say "God comes first". And there's a Commandment that forbids that kind of killing.
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 10:18 AM (rj6Yv)
His father did not turn him in months later, he did it same day or nearly same day. And it was facilitated by a family friend who was a religious leader or pastor of some sort.
I get the sentiment, but Tucker is off his rocker here, especially given the venue. Tucker is asshoe.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:20 AM (dK+Kv)
Isn't everything?
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:19 AM (XuXeR)
Yum is a piker.
Roark Capital (a PE firm you’ve probably never heard of) owns everything. They have hundreds of thousands of retail outlets in every conceivable industry under management.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 10:20 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
And we started with just one little island.
Posted by: Tattoo, Loose On Fantasy Island at December 22, 2025 10:23 AM (oftw2)
"If my brother went on a drug-induced murder spree, I'd defend him. I'd say, 'That's my brother, I love him.' I wouldn't condemn him. I'd try to get him out of the country if I could. Family loyalty comes first."
Voluntarily drug induced? Sorry. I'd smoke him.
Righteous pedo whacking? Yeah. Then I'd hide him.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:23 AM (dAOkg)
Isn't everything?
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:19 AM (XuXeR)
Long John Silver’s is my first recollection of death by beancounter, whereby a trusted brand becomes garbage by reducing quality and service to make a quick buck thereby destroying the brand.
Yeah, it's greasy fast food, but it became greasy fast that was the pinnacle of "would not eat even if you put a gun to my head."
Good riddance.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:23 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:23 AM (dAOkg)
Yeah, context matters. Still, Tucker is asshoe here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:24 AM (dK+Kv)
Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA:
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."
What??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: banana Dream
**********
Wow! Just Wow!
It seems like since then you've done some real sole searching!
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)
spoken like a true asset (Carlson, I mean)
my brother had serious mental issues. When I thought he was dangerous I did everything I could to protect the community and my family, including turning in his firearms and calling the cops.
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 10:26 AM (dCxaZ)
Edwin Booth would not allow John Wilkes Booth's name to be spoken in his presence after the latter's assassination of Lincoln.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 10:18 AM (UJWr0)
I am so glad I got kicked out of the Twitter cliques before they lost their ever-loving minds.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:26 AM (dK+Kv)
Seems to, at times. Their list of brands is...nuts.
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:26 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: PG at December 22, 2025 10:26 AM (pk5S4)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
----------------
I think Yum Brands is now owned by Madrigal Electromotive GmbH.
/obligatory "Breaking Bad" Universe reference
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 10:28 AM (QCDT5)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:28 AM (XuXeR)
Chuck Todd blames Americans’ cratering trust in the media on “lack of reliable political leadership” and “big tech algorithms."
It could never be the relentless stream of lies and hoaxes perpetrated on Americans by people *like Chuck.*
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."
What??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)
That's some Candace Owens level jackassery there. Looks like the two of them are even more alike than I thought.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:33 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:33 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:33 AM (Da7Vv)
Saint Anthony heard a fellow traveler say,
"Hey!I spotted a. fawn!"
Holy Tony said, "G'wan!
Don't be silly, they all come that way!"
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)
Might of been those birds overhead.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2025 10:35 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Please tell me that you pee off the porch like a real man. Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)
And no I’m not exaggerating. That’s the lunacy out there in podcast vile.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Exactly! And I was an innocent, inexperienced virgin when I married Akaash! When I said "I get painfully nostalgic for college...I was poppin' my pussy, living my best life in these white boy frat houses...," on my podcast, I just meant I was enjoying freedom and male attention! When I said I had a roster of dudes I was hooking up with, I was so innocent and naive, I didn't realize people thought that meant sex! No, they were just guy friends that I'd see occasionally!
Posted by: Jasleen Singh, wife to Indian comedian Akaash Singh at December 22, 2025 10:35 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:33 AM (Da7Vv)
==
Wow!
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 10:35 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
Chuckles is searching for relevance. But sure, don't look in the mirror asshat.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 22, 2025 10:35 AM (GTqXr)
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)
We would never carp about where to stop for a meal ever again.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 10:36 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:36 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:23 AM (dAOkg)
Which of course is complete nonsense.
He was responding to Ben Shapiro going on a rant about how Megan Kelly was supposed to denounce him and Candace and anyone else who refuses to play along with Ben's desired narrative.
According to Ben, Megan is supposed to de-platform people.
Just like the left does. Which people around here used to condemn.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:37 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)
I don't get service. If it wasn't for Starlink...
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:17 AM (dAOkg)
There's shockingly a fiber point at the end of the FiL's driveway provided by Spectrum. Installed within the last year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)
Edwin Booth would not allow John Wilkes Booth's name to be spoken in his presence after the latter's assassination of Lincoln.
Posted by: Bulg
Prince of Players
www.imdb.com/title/tt0048510
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 10:39 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:39 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:33 AM
Chinchillas, man. Outta fu*kin' nowhere.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 22, 2025 10:39 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Good for him! I always wondered what Mickey ended up doing after boxing and his later film work started drying up.
Posted by: Confused Moron at December 22, 2025 10:40 AM (JCZqz)
"If my brother went on a drug-induced murder spree, I'd defend him. I'd say, 'That's my brother, I love him.' I wouldn't condemn him. I'd try to get him out of the country if I could. Family loyalty comes first."
That makes you a Godless human piece of shit, Tucker.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)
That makes you a Godless human piece of shit, Tucker.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 10:40 AM
This man is not wrong.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 22, 2025 10:41 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: From Company Man at December 22, 2025 10:41 AM (2Ez/1)
I could get hooked on real fish n chips...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:41 AM (XuXeR)
(now the pedo whacking is an exception, but even then I'd have to be sure it was justified)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:41 AM (uWKK8)
I stopped listening to his monotone drone a LONG time ago.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)
thank you, I will check it out
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 10:42 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 22, 2025 10:42 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:43 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)
It was hyperbole.
One of Tucker's faults is that he gets mad, and then says silly things he later regrets.
But because there are people who hate Tucker for opposing the government of Israel, they use these kinds of silly statements to suggest things he doesn't mean.
So be it. Tucker's a big boy, he can defend himself.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:43 AM (dGCAG)
It seems like since then you've done some real sole searching!
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)
He should get on his knees and thank cod for his deliverance.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 10:43 AM (8DR9B)
But it was okay to cancel Kelly when she was a Trump enemy? Or to cancel all the NeverTrumpers? It's the same old story about who butters your bread to decide what position to take even if it's contradictory.
Personally I canceled Tucker long ago
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:43 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duuuude at December 22, 2025 10:44 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge
When they built our house, they didn't even wire it for landline.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:44 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:45 AM (g47mK)
I could get hooked on real fish n chips...
**********
Anyone care to tackle a few fish puns?
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 10:45 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:43 AM (KDPiq)
Which is your right.
But no, I don't recall anyone "cancelling" Megan over her opposition to Trump. I remember people criticizing her.
That's not the same thing.
The only legitimate response to speech one doesn't like is more speech. Not less.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:46 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:46 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
Roark Capital (a PE firm you’ve probably never heard of) owns everything.
Roark Capital is a fantasy.
Posted by: Tattoo at December 22, 2025 10:47 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:47 AM (XuXeR)
Pennsylvania school bus driver fired ... for telling unruly students to speak English
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: muldoon
I'll try to do it on the fly.
Posted by: Bulg
I wonder how many people we can reel in?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:47 AM (dAOkg)
You don't remember? That's what I call selective memory.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:47 AM (KDPiq)
You don't remember? That's what I call selective memory.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:47 AM (KDPiq)
No, I don't. Who cancelled her?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (wIAtt)
Roark Capital is a fantasy.
Posted by: Tattoo
They are a stand out island in a sea of private equity.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (dAOkg)
He was responding to Ben Shapiro going on a rant about how Megan Kelly was supposed to denounce him and Candace and anyone else who refuses to play along with Ben's desired narrative.
According to Ben, Megan is supposed to de-platform people.
Just like the left does. Which people around here used to condemn.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:37 AM (dGCAG)
What an idiotic use of analogy and a stunning lack of awareness (TC's).
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (dK+Kv)
that screechy oral emanation, it was not attractive...AT ALL!!
*hat tip Ami Kozak*
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (dCxaZ)
Even if he makes a correct observation sometimes, his shtick is unwelcome. We never asked him for censorship.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (+GKEt)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (dK+Kv)
Maybe, like I said, I don't have to defend everything Tucker says, but to suggest he was talking about Robinson is just silly.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
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The character was originally written for Gary Cooper?
/
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (wIAtt)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (XuXeR)
So's life...
/Aldo Nova
Posted by: man
Aldo Nadi > Aldo Nova
And if you disagree, sir, we can meet on the Field of Mars to settle the matter!
Posted by: Aldo Nadi at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (JCZqz)
Saying, in a public speech, that your first choice would be to become an accessory after the fact to murder, if you were friends with the murderer?? That is not a "silly thing", that is a fatal character flaw. Tucker does not have the basic sense of morality or decency or responsibility to those who live around him that I have, or that what I consider to be any decent person has.
Tucker has the ethics of Tony Soprano.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (KDPiq)
I saw it.
Shapiro sounds like a leftist.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (dGCAG)
Even if he makes a correct observation sometimes, his shtick is unwelcome. We never asked him for censorship.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (+GKEt)
Do you have any values yourself, or should we hug it out with dudes who think the best thing for Jews is to go back to the oven ? No standards ? None ??
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (g47mK)
President Trump, War Secretary Hegseth, Navy Secretary Phelan to Make “Major Announcement” Today
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 10:51 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (g47mK)
Cromulent observation. I missed info on Bannon's pedo friend.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:51 AM (dK+Kv)
Tucker has the ethics of Tony Soprano.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (uWKK
You hate him, and it colors your judgment.
Your hate is your problem here, not Tucker's words.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:51 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:51 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:50 AM (g47mK)
That's out of left field.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:52 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 10:52 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
They thought it would sound funny if Heaven was run by ChiChi Rogriguez.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:52 AM (uWKK8)
Thank you PG&E for at least not blowing up my house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:52 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:53 AM (XuXeR)
You hate him, and it colors your judgment.
Your hate is your problem here, not Tucker's words.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:51 AM (dGCAG)
What I know, by his own words, is that if Tucker's brother had been a guard at Dachau, Tucker would have covered his shift for him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:54 AM (uWKK8)
President Trump, War Secretary Hegseth, Navy Secretary Phelan to Make “Major Announcement” Today
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
"We begin bombing Russia in five minutes".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 10:54 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:54 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:55 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
You were the first person I thought about when I heard about the outage. Glad you're OK.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:54 AM (uWKK
No, you don't know that. You know he made a hyperbolic statement, that is indefensible.
That's all you know.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:55 AM (dGCAG)
Old and busted : A woman is now a man, shut up!
New hotness: Jews and Christian Zionist are the root of our problems, shut up !
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:55 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:49 AM (dGCAG)
The implication is obvious, and I'd have seriously discount his intellect to assume it wasn't intentionally inflammatory.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:56 AM (dK+Kv)
Cool. Will Dejah be there?
/
Posted by: man
I don't know him, but William Dejah is free to challenge me as well!
Posted by: Aldo Nadi at December 22, 2025 10:56 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 10:56 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:52 AM (dK+Kv)
No, it is exactly where we are.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:56 AM (g47mK)
I think if family members share the murderer's rationale for self-justification ("He deserved to die!") they will be more likely to become accomplices.
Posted by: muldoon at December 22, 2025 10:56 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:57 AM (XuXeR)
I think it's important that we all have and are able to express our opinions, and say the things that are on our minds, and I think it's important that I'm able to just tune out the idiots that I don't want to listen to. Ben seems to think it's important that he tells ME what to say and who to listen to or not listen to, and for that he can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
Today's media environment is based on clicks and interactions, and unfortunately ragebait works really well in that regard. Tucker and Candace are most definitely doing that so I just don't participate. Megyn I think is a woman scorned in a bunch of ways so she's flailing about in all directions and I find it unattractive.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 10:57 AM (5aZAZ)
Former Virginia Democrat Finance Chair Busted in FBI Child Porn Case
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
Bannon was Trump's chief strategist at the beginning of his first term. Then Trump found out that Bannon was constantly leaking stuff to the NYT and promoting himself to the detriment of all around him. And Trump said YOU'RE FIRED!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:57 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:58 AM (XuXeR)
In contrast to Tucker's presentation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 10:58 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:58 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: rickb223
All joking aside, I'm guessing probably Venezuela-related, with a lower chance of Middle-East or domestic/National Guard-ICE announcements. We just had several Iowa National Guardsmen killed and injured in Syria.
Posted by: Military Moron at December 22, 2025 10:59 AM (JCZqz)
That's all you know.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 10:55 AM (dGCAG)
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So if you stipulate that it's hyperbolic, ask yourself why he's making such a statement at an event put on by TPUSA a couple months after its founder was assassinated....
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 10:59 AM (5aZAZ)
That's a s**t ton of silver. Call up the Hunt Brothers...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 10:59 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 10:57 AM (uWKK
And then he went after Trump! with some other asshoe. Bannon was always a two faced , backstabbing POS. Just ask those who worked had to suffer his tenure at Breitbart !
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:00 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 10:56 AM (dK+Kv)
Tucker's at war with the Israel lobby.
They're at war with him. Lots of silly things get said on both sides.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:00 AM (dGCAG)
Osservanza Master Italian
ca. 1435
Saint Anthony the Abbot (c. 251–356 AD) was an Egyptian hermit, considered the Father of Monasticism, who went into the desert after hearing hearing Jesus' words in the Gospel about selling possessions to follow Him, dedicating his life to prayer, asceticism, and temptations, becoming a legendary figure in Christian history known for his radical faith and spiritual battles, inspiring countless others into the wilderness.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 956 -
In part, "This panel is the sixth in a series of eight that includes Saint Anthony at Mass (Gemäldegalerie, SMPK, Berlin); Saint Anthony Distributing His Wealth and Saint Anthony Blessed by an Old Hermit (both National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); Saint Anthony Tempted by the Devil in the Guise of a Woman and Saint Anthony Beaten by Devils (both Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven); and Journey and Meeting of Saint Anthony with Saint Paul the Hermit and Funeral of Saint Anthony (both National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)."
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New testament vs. Old testament art.
Given the life, I thought the rabbit was the gold.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 22, 2025 11:00 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
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Thanks quite an experience. First night was fun. Second night not so much.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2025 11:01 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 11:01 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 10:56 AM (g47mK)
Is the "we" in the room with us right now?
Or are you reading that specifically from Lizzy's words?
I didn't, which suggests you are bring much of that to the conversations, which is why I classify that as out of left field.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 11:03 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 22, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 10:59 AM (5aZAZ)
He did it specifically because Ben Shapiro named him, as someone Megan Kelly should denounce and deplatform.
And many people were calling for TPUSA to deplatform him, to not let him speak at the event, even though Charlie Kirk specifically told Tucker to go hard, to not go easy on his critics.
This is a fight between the Israel lobby and Tucker (and Candace).
Posted by: BurtTC at December 22, 2025 11:03 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 11:04 AM (Da7Vv)
a well trained asset gets his cult members to do that for him.
He is eroding Trump's support, thanks to his propaganda effort
Posted by: kallisto at December 22, 2025 11:05 AM (dCxaZ)
Shapiro has a speaking platform just like a lot of talking heads and that's the only difference between them and a blog and blog commentators.
What aggravates me is the undeserved influence all of these talking heads have and the ability to reach useful idiots. I understand that's the way it's been forever though.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM (KDPiq)
And thanks , God , that nobody broke in overnight to take anything from us.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 11:06 AM (m6Eem)
Posted by: Eromero at December 22, 2025 11:16 AM (dtj4g)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 11:24 AM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 12:24 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (wGqjj)
The Morning Report — 12/22/25
The Milwaukee County judge on trial for helping a violent illegal immigrant elude federal law enforcement authorities has been convicted on one of the two charges against her. A jury late Thursday found Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of felony obstruction but determined there wasn’t enough evidence to convict her on a misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual from arrest. Her attorney told reporters that Dugan will appeal the conviction, a verdict that should serve as a wake-up call to judges who disregard laws they don’t like in the furtherance of judicial activism.Well of course she'll appeal, since despite my seeing this as a positive sign, given the nature of who occupies far too many a judge's seat in far too many an American courtroom, she might have a shot at winning an appeal. And yet she lost in a Wisconsin court which as we all know, thanks to Madison and Milwaukee is not the conservative bastion that it seemingly ought to be, especially in the eyes of a NYC transplant like me. But be that as it may, here's hoping this criminal is disbarred, disrobed and never gets within 1000 miles of a judges bench except as a defendant, and ultimately serves a lengthy stretch in a federal lockup. And, speaking of Wisconsin, this decision came down from that state's highest court, that, given its current far-leftist majority is a pleasant surprise:
Earlier this year, on June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court rendered a major victory for religious freedom in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. In a unanimous judgment authored by Justice Sotomayor, the Court reversed an earlier order in favor of Wisconsin. The justices reasoned that Wisconsin violated Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights in denying it a tax exemption because it thought the services provided were not primarily religious insofar as its employees “‘do not proselytize or serve only Catholics’ in the course of performing charitable work.” On remand, Wisconsin officials ignored the Supreme Court, again denying Catholic Charities’ request for an exemption. However, on December 15, 2025, in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, on appeal, the state’s high court summarily ruled that Catholic Charities is entitled to the requested exemption from unemployment taxation. As such, this column reviews Catholic Charities’ judicial history before reflecting on its impact on religious freedom. . . . . . On December 15, 2025, in Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, Wisconsin’s highest court summarily ruled that “[i]n light of the Supreme Court’s holding that this court ‘impose[d] a denominational preference’ that does not survive strict scrutiny…we determine that Catholic Charities [and its sub-entities are] eligible for the religious purposes exemption to [state] unemployment taxation. . . . . . Catholic Charities is noteworthy because members of the Supreme Court, including separationists Justice Sotomayor, author of its unanimous opinion, with fellow separationist Justice Jackson penning a separate concurrence, put aside their ideological differences in rectifying Wisconsin’s having trammeled Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights. . . In sum, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court finally applied precedent properly in protecting Catholic Charities’ religious freedom rights. In so doing, Wisconsin’s judges acknowledged that because secular jurists lack the authority, and expertise, to interpret what qualifies as being at the heart of the Catholic Church’s or any other church’s mission, they must defer to the judgments of religious leaders who define their missions.So smacking down a rogue justice who interfered with federal law enforcement and actually aided and abetted a cviolent criminal evade apprehension and a decision that upholds religious liberty, we are given a couple of things to keep hope alive.
And yet elsewhere in the world as lurker extraordinaire Prof. Victor Davis Hanson notes it is indeed open season on Jews. For sure the ongoing 1,500-year bloody war of genocide waged by Islam is a war on Jews. But there is also a rhetorical war being waged against The Jews which sadly has its roots in racial/religious bigotry that predates the founding of this nation and even way before Islam.
Just a few years ago, it used to be that anti-Semitism was mostly on the left and repugnantly identifiable and condemnable by most. . . The right used to be a unified corrective to left-wing anti-Semitism. It still polls nearly 70 percent in favor of Israel. For a while longer, it is far more likely to condemn anti-Semitic violence than the left. But recently, its own base, in varying degrees, has come full circle and joined the left in its distaste for Israel and Jews in general. . . One hallmark of the new right-wing furor against Jews and Israel is the strange symbiosis they employ. Formerly edgy podcasters become vicarious hosts of virulent anti-Semites. The partnerships are a way of not directly owning up to their toxicity but just “putting it out there.”I have no idea how Carlson and Owens were brought up or arrived at their beliefs about "Jews" or "The Jews?" I assume that both have either inherited/absorbed the beliefs of their parents and families which have been passed on for generations. It's not the world's oldest hatred for no reason. Or, even worse, maybe they engage in this merely for personal gain. It's a very short walk from Charlie Kirk and 9/11, to the Deicide trope and even believing that Jews use the blood of Christian children to make Passover matzohs. And that's that, my friends. Have a great day! And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
. . .Candace Owens initially championed Kanye West (“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up, I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE."). Then she graduated to expressing her own old anti-Semitic tropes: “There is just a very small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism. … All Americans should want answers because this appears to be something that is quite sinister.” Tucker Carlson hosted critics of the U.S. effort against Hitler in World War II and Israel-behind-it conspiracists before escalating to inviting Nick Fuentes on in a mostly friendly manner—which might be attributed to his interview format, except he has attacked fellow conservatives far more than has odious Fuentes.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Victor Davis Hanson: As leaders equivocate and extremists unite left and right, open season on Jews spreads across the West—unchecked, unnamed, and certain to grow deadlier.
Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- “Democrat leaders are now vying to outdo each other in such violent ideations. They are fueling a rage addiction to achieve political power. It is a dangerous game…”
Michigan Senate Candidate Says She’d Hurl Beers at Conservative SCOTUS Justices if She Saw Them
- Leftists excuse perpetrators and vilify victims.
Leftism Promotes Psychological Abuse
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - ‘Judges are not above the law. Their core function is to respect the rule of law, not to undermine it,’ attorney Daniel Suhr said. (Shouldn't she be stripped of her law license before serving a lengthy prison sentence?
Court Finds Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Guilty Of Obstructing ICE - 'Sanctuary cities' for assaults on federal law enforcement personnel.
LA Legalizes Assaulting ICE Agents and Stealing Their Vehicle - The real question is how many illegals are on Medicaid?
California Dem Officials Urge Illegals to Sign Up for Medicaid by Dec 31
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Robert Spencer: The real reason some Americans are suspicious of Islam.
Tucker Carlson Demands That Americans Stop Doing This — But Who’s Doing It?
- A scary agenda, paid for by taxpayers, and ignored by the Canadian government.
Canada: Federal ‘Islamophobia’ Watchdog Hid $80,000 Pro-'Palestine' Grant From Taxpayers
- Can you guess what her punishment was?
In Austria, Muslima Thief Claims Stealing from Non-Muslims is Permitted
- “Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot.”
The Demographic Lesson of Lebanon OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - Wisconsin’s judges thought Catholic Charities was not Catholic enough to get a tax exemption. The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, 9-0.
Catholic or Not? SCOTUS Smacks Down Lower Court BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH - From Tehran’s diplomats to online threats, years of ignored warnings culminated in an Iran-linked jihadist attack on Jewish celebrants at Bondi Beach.
Did Iran Play a Role in the Chanukah Mass Murder in Australia? - Bondi Beach shattered the lie that antisemitism is merely anti-Israel politics, revealing an older, eliminationist hatred aimed at Jews as Jews, far from any battlefield.
Blood on the Sand: Australian Massacre Exposes Hollow Core of Anti-Zionism
- Grim-faced Albanese and his wife were further jeered with one man yelling out “blood on your hands” joined by a second who cried, “you are not welcome.” Other hecklers could be heard yelling out, “you don’t represent Australia” as he refused a call to apologise to members of the Australian Jewish community for his inaction.
‘Shame’ — Leftist Australian PM Anthony Albanese Booed at Bondi Terror Attack Vigil
- Proposed restrictions include limiting firearms ownership, stricter licensing, and a mass firearm collection and destruction initiative.
Australian PM Targets Law-Abiding Gun Owners Following ISIS-Inspired Beach Massacre. NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GUNNED DOWN IN DC, by Biden-Imported Islamic Savage - Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who previously worked with a CIA-backed partner force in Kandahar and entered the U.S. in 2021 through the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, has been arraigned and is facing charges in the Thanksgiving-week ambush-style shooting that left 20-year-old Spc. Sarah Beckstrom dead and critically injured 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.
George W. Bush Institute Urges Americans to Sympathize with Afghans After D.C. National Guard Attack SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION - His "goods" on Trump haven't stood up to the slightest scrutiny.
Jack Smith is Clinging to These False Claims to the Bitter End DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - The power failure left a large swath of the northern part of the city in the dark, beginning with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park in the early afternoon before growing in scope and size, the Independent reports.
Massive San Francisco Power Outage Leaves 130,000 Homes, Businesses in the Dark - It’s judges like Hannah Dugan who have badly damaged the reputation of our justice system.
The Dugan conviction is a first step back to judicial sanity
- Vermont is heading toward a doom spiral in which tax increases reduce government revenues. Other states should take notice.
Vermont Drifts Toward a Property-Tax Doom Spiral
- Efficient rail moves goods faster, cheaper, and with less environmental strain than trucking, freeing up highways and reducing road maintenance costs for taxpayers.
Powering America’s new golden age with rail
- NYC is in for a world of hurt.
Hochul Gives Mamdani a Big Boost in His Quest to Drive New York City to Destruction CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - As many have noticed, America isn’t as safe as it used to be, but each of us can create our own zone of relative safety by staying aware and acting smart.
Why America Must Relearn Situational Awareness
- “So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech (another miserable you-know-what Courveh - jjs)
- Brady lists give officers a scarlet letter with no opportunity to appeal.
States Are Denying Cops’ Due-Process Rights FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Much of the mainstream news this week has been partisan or devoted to less-than-significant matters.
This Week’s Underreported News
- The decision comes amid a massive network shakeup under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who was chosen to lead CBS News in October after CBS parent company Paramount Skydance acquired the online publication she founded, The Free Press.
CBS abruptly pulls ‘60 Minutes’ segment on deportees in El Salvador’s CECOT prison as correspondent blasts Bari Weiss
- Roger Kimball: As the media frets over Trump’s “fatigue,” he dominates the world stage, confronts woke institutions like the Smithsonian, and proves once again that reality keeps wrecking the anti-Trump narrative.
Trump Never Sleeps—But the Media Keeps Dreaming
- New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour talking head David Brooks loves himself some Stalin and Mao analogies. Back in May, he compared Elon Musk and DOGE to the murderous dictators. This Friday, he compared President Trump, the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, and “gigantic portraits” of Trump to the communist tyrants and claimed it reminded him of the “Stalin era.”
Brooks Claims 'Gigantic Portraits' Of Trump Remind Him Of 'The Stalin Era' (But Obama's pants crease soiled his panty liner - jjs) RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - We are not living through a mass extinction.
The Eco-Zealots Were Wrong Again EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - The win at the circuit level comes after the district court sided with the school.
9th Circuit Protects Professor’s First Amendment Right To Make Fun Of Land Acknowledgments
- Block claims to just want to protect children from abuse and neglect, but his nebulous ideas of what that means would put all homeschoolers at risk of being unjustly targeted by government officials.
Contrary To The New York Times, Homeschooling Is Still A Much Better Alternative To Public Schools
- 56% overhead rate funds college administrators under the guise of science grants.
How Universities Divert Federal Science Grants To DEI And Administrative Bloat
- Beth Rivkah High School in Brooklyn exemplifies family values and academic rigor.
An Educational Jewel in Crown Heights (Don't let Sharpton see this! - jjs) SECOND AMENDMENT - The 32-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy is running for the 12th Congressional District seat being vacated by Rep. Jerry Nadler. His proposal, dubbed the “Ricochet Rule,” would impose financial penalties on states that fail to conduct strong background checks for gun buyers, the New York Post reported.
JFK Grandson Wants To Fine States If Their Guns End Up At NYC Crime Scenes
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - There should be no excuse why Americans cannot return to a national electoral snapshot, with appropriate procedural guardrails in place, on one day.
Let’s Return to Election Day L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN - These pictures show why Epstein was able to make headway into the Clinton inner circle.
Epstein Photos Show What We Always Knew About Bill Clinton
- A rep claimed Bill Clinton was being scapegoated by the Trump administration.
Bill Clinton Responds To Shocking Photos In Epstein File Dump DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - After the 2023 Lewiston shooting in Maine, people donated $6.6 million to a charity that then diverted $1.9 million to NGOs, many with Somali connections.
A Maine charity diverted shooting victim funds to shady, often Somali NGOs
- Politics is all about rewarding your supporters for helping you get elected -- with other peoples’ money.
Somali Fraud equals DEI Hypocrisy equals Climate Scam POLITICS - The DNC buried its 2024 autopsy not because it learned nothing, but because the truth is fatal: Democrats lost by doubling down on the unpopular issues they care about most.
The Democrats Hide Their Failures, Choosing Instead to Repeat Them
- Imagine a Democrat — any Democrat — walking onto a college campus and telling students, “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. Prove me wrong.”
The Fatal Flaw in Democrats’ Plan to Create a Left-Wing Turning Point USA ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - NBC News: “Israeli officials … preparing to brief President Donald Trump about options for attacking” Iran’s ballistic missile program.
Netanyahu Expected to Brief Trump on Possible Iran Missile Strike During Visit
- Why would we spend a dime, let alone $60 billion "to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses"?
U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’ - Jihad by injection.
How a Hamas Doctor Murdered Noa Marciano
- The longer Western “experts” ignore the fact that Palestinian authorities routinely repeat that this is a religious war, the longer they will continue to recommend solutions, such as the vaunted two-state solution, that are not solutions at all. If you’ve been misdiagnosed, the medication you’ve been prescribed will not heal you. And that’s the situation today regarding Israel and the Palestinians.
Gaza Imam Reveals the Key to Understanding the Entire Israeli-'Palestinian' Conflict THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - Heightened tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the West, with the EU agreeing on a $100 billion aid package for Kiev, and Russia vowing retaliation for attacks on its tanker fleet.
Putin Claims Ukraine Unready for Peace as Kiev Strikes Tanker in Mediterranean.
- “Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
Russian general Fanil Sarvarov killed by bomb under his car in Moscow FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem released a video on social media showing a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter landing on the deck of an oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump declared the government of Venezuela to be a Foreign Terrorist Organization and ordered the complete naval blockade of the country.
U.S. Snatches Venezuela Oil Tanker in Dark‑Hour Strike on Narco‑Terror Funding
- He's done evil acts like this before.
Cornered rat: Venezuela's dictator reportedly offering a 'bounty' to cartels for a hit on President Trump - And falsely blames President Trump for “starving thousands.”
UN Fakes a Famine in Kenya to Save USAID - Thirty-nine prisoners languish, and no one seems to care.
A Race against Time in Iran’s Secret Cells - The ongoing collapse of the German chemical sector signals a political crisis -- one that will not end until this new socialist experiment has completely failed.
A Collapse in Germany’s Chemical Sector Is a Bad Omen
- Cllr Asghar now sits as an Independent on the council, amidst ongoing inquiries into alleged modern slavery.
UK Politician Resigns Far-Left Green Party Whip After Slavery Arrest.
- The China Matrix exposes how America’s China lobby enriched itself, empowered the CCP, and fought Trump’s bid to break a decades-long elite pact against the republic.
A Servant of Truth Who Knows America’s Enemies: A Review of Lee Smith’s The China Matrix HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - The message is not complicated. Anthem’s profits are rising because your costs are. And unless policymakers, providers, and the public push back, this model will only spread. Patients will have fewer choices, doctors will have less autonomy, and families will continue to pay more for less.
This BIG Insurer Is Now Punishing Hospitals for Putting Patients First.
- Trump should rethink his support for weed. Increasing the normalization and legalization of pot will only increase our nation’s problems.
Trump’s Marijuana Executive Order Is Woefully Half-Baked ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - “Ensuring American Space Superiority” includes a push for Golden Dome missile defense and developing nuclear power deployment capabilities.
Set Course for 2028, Maximum Impulse: Trump Space Order Targets Artemis Moon Landing and More
- “The bulk of STEM funding is not of this nature. . .No one viewed this as working for free. . .An environment of reduced research funding is here to stay.”
How to Reform Science Funding
- Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a bright object in the debris disk that surrounds the nearby star Fomalhaut that wasn’t there previously, suggesting it is a glowing cloud of material left over from the collision of two asteroids.
Scientists think they have detected a collision in the debris disk surrounding the star Fomalhaut
- Its main purpose is as a demonstration project to attract a bigger round of new investment capital, from universities like the ones listed above, for launching a larger private telescope with greater capabilities.
A new commercial smallsat space telescope is now operational and offering its data to scientists FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
- PBS: You Need a Medical Degree to Claim Men Can't Become Women
The PBS News Hour doubled down on its advocacy for transgender surgery for minors on Thursday evening, reacting with condescension and alarm to President Trump’s move to restrict so-called “gender-affirming medical care for minors.” This time PBS paired up with its (former) taxpayer-funded outlet National Public Radio. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: "The Trump administration today took its most significant moves yet in a wide-ranging effort to restrict gender-affirming medical care for minors."(PBS = Pubic Bullshit - jjs) CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - "You can't wake up and think about people who are just determined to stay mad," Minaj said of her detractors.
Erika Kirk Brings House Down, Interviews Rapper Nicki Minaj Onstage At AmFest
- Christian Toto:'SNL' alum picks up where Ben Shapiro left off at AmFest conservative gathering
Rob Schneider Roasts ‘Grifter’ Candace Owens
- He speaks among people as equals, openly sharing the daily struggles that come with being human in this world.
Scott Adams is America's patriot - At Christmas, sentiment rings hollow when policies shrink families, erase unborn children, and protect failing schools—because a nation’s future is measured by how it treats its kids.
A Christmas Present for the Children of America - Parents aren’t banning books—they’re pushing back against librarians and the ALA placing explicit sexual content in kids’ hands without consent, then hiding it behind slogans about “freedom to read.”
Wake Up, Parents: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids
- During America’s bicentennial, seven million Americans visited John Wayne’s ‘Freedom Train’ exhibit to celebrate America — but for America’s 250th, legal hurdles threaten to stop the Freedom Train in its tracks.
Will Amtrak Let The American Freedom Train Roll?
- No woke deed goes unpunished.
Minorities Sue American Airlines for Providing Them With Affirmative Action HITHER & YON - Rob Reiner did for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) what Ray Kroc did for hamburgers, what Henry Ford did for the automobile, and what Genghis Khan may have done for sexually transmitted diseases; he brought it to the masses. Reiner's tweets weren't informative, clever, or funny; they were over-the-top insulting and, more importantly, accusatory, so much so that an acne-besotted incel from Butler, Penn., might want to take a shot at Trump.
. . .Was Rob Reiner a Deep State Spook? Roll the Tape...
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:21 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (OPGS/)
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Wabbi season!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (E+OH8)
It still breaks my brain idiots think he's 'principled'.
Funny how he never tried to impeach Garland. Where were his 'principles' then.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (lCHt6)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)
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'Tis the time to be remorseless
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Wield we now are sharp stiletti
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Carve the pinks into confetti
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Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:23 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 07:24 AM (06Hmj)
Fa la la la la la la la la
'Tis the time to be remorseless
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Wield we now are sharp stiletti
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Carve the pinks into confetti
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Posted by: Eeyore
Golf clap
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:24 AM (dAOkg)
https://tinyurl.com/e55u75cb
Here's hoping that he needs to lawyer up at a minimum.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:25 AM (E+OH8)
If she can't figure out how to body slam these assholes then good riddance.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:28 AM (s0JqF)
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Great. Outsource it to a star chamber of carefully selected "religious leaders" like Al Sharpton and some acolyte of Yassir Arafat. This will not be an improvement, I fear. Time will tell, I suppose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (qFwJc)
https://tinyurl.com/e55u75cb
Here's hoping that he needs to lawyer up at a minimum.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:25 AM (E+OH
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Some prior history:
https://tinyurl.com/muz3bx4u
And yet 1000s of these criminal politicians across the entire United States are still walking free as a bird out on the streets.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2025 07:30 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)
C'mon JJ, she isn't an ordained minister.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (qFwJc)
I meant her judges robes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:31 AM (x0n13)
That's not going to end very well. But I'm sure we have enough people in this country that would aid the cartels in carrying it out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 07:32 AM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 22, 2025 07:32 AM (DDJSl)
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That gives a 404. And searching American Thinker didn't find it. Puzzling.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Frick, frack, frock. at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)
https://tinyurl.com/57899j46
That's the night that the lights went out.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (E+OH8)
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Good idea, but how to get there from here?
Posted by: Eeyore
Announce at noon today, "Election day is Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 ONLY. You are adults. You have ten months to figure out how you will be there on time or you will miss voting which will be entirely your fault."
Thank you for adulting.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:35 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:35 AM (D4Iav)
"Obama and Biden could get away with ignoring many of the rules and procedures because Democrats spent the last 30 years recruiting thousands of political judges and political DA’s. Conservatives have never done that and do not have resources like that to call on. The situation sucks but that’s the truth.
Posted by: Tom Servo "
That's another way of saying the GOP is a worthless pile of dog squit.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)
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Don't care. Don't trust his motives either.
If he did the crime, he needs to do the time. All of them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:36 AM (E+OH8)
Walks up to table.
"You're not dead."
Walks away from table.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:38 AM (uQesX)
Thank you for adulting."
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This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Grossly overweight females walking around Walmart in pajamas and fuzzy slippers at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Zombie Lou Monte at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (m8zKa)
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That gives a 404. And searching American Thinker didn't find it. Puzzling.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (s0JqF)
It's in its archives but I also get a 404 note.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (rPFFq)
Walks up to table.
"You're not dead."
Walks away from table.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Boom!
And they still wouldn't understand.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:40 AM (dAOkg)
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Never heard of a "Catholic Charities Bureau" before. Is it somehow related to the ubiquitous "Catholic Charities" that has been known to be involved in human trafficking and facilitating the migration of South and Central Americans to the US?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)
Why must I be assaulted daily almost everywhere with the stench of skunk?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:41 AM (uQesX)
SOROS has offered a Christmas week armistice
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 07:36 AM (RC8wk)
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3+ more years.
Hold your breath, Bozo.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:42 AM (E+OH8)
If he did the crime, he needs to do the time. All of them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,"
His motive was certainly not to get Trump elected again. The best I can tell his motivation is sucking GA GOP dick while letting the Dems have their way with his pooter.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rickb223
Exactly. But they will feel good which counts.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 07:42 AM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
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It’s fair, because that’s how a lot of them view themselves, I’d wager. High priests and priestesses of the Church of “Social Justice”.
They are apostate, to take the analogy further? They don’t belong in those positions. Saboteurs for lack of a better term, the way I see it.
Their oath of office is to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution, to uphold our laws, and they set about to subvert it, and pervert it. And they are quite honest about that.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (7NvEU)
Instead of asking to find 12k votes to Raffensberger Trump should have asked him to throw out the 300k fake votes.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)
Catholic Charities Bureau comes with matching Night Stand and Chest of Drawers.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Judges would have accepted 8th Grade Girls Volleyball Team.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:31 AM (x0n13)
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That is "disrobed."
I wish there was a better term for it, but it is what it is.
Clergy are defrocked.
Lawyers are disbarred.
Judges are disrobed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:46 AM (avHHk)
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Big resignation at Heritage Foundation:
https://t.co/Tn5eNM6Nr9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:46 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)
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Do all of them ship with third-world savages packed in with them?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (A1VDq)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:31 AM (x0n13)
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That is "disrobed."
I wish there was a better term for it, but it is what it is.
Clergy are defrocked.
Lawyers are disbarred.
Judges are disrobed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:46 AM (avHHk)
Thanks!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:48 AM (x0n13)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at December 22, 2025 07:48 AM (53oGX)
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech (another miserable you-know-what Courveh - jjs)
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District of Columbia government is basically a jobs program for non-whites
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:50 AM (ZxPkt)
Thank you JJ. I have no idea myself… having been raised as a Baptist preacher’s kid from my earliest memories I heard the Bible including the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 12: I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.
In my experience, Bible-based Protestants (that’s what I know best) are naturally resistant to antisemitism because we take the Bible very seriously… TuCa and CO just make me shake my head in disbelief.
This notion that the Jews killed God is ludicrous; again from the Scripture (Isaiah 53): Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him (it was the will of God the Father that Jesus die… it was the divine plan)
I’m rambling now. Anyway… Merry Christmas, all
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 07:51 AM (/iXAp)
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech
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Curiously, I can't find "F you" in my Bible.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Marion Barry at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (sDNVV)
This is how the world ends.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (A1VDq)
I know we don't need to believe polls, especially this far from an election, but weren't both Rs trailing the witch?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:56 AM (uQesX)
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I can only think of a few, blue shitholes where a headline like this would even appear.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:57 AM (NwnyJ)
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech
Curiously, I can't find "F you" in my Bible.'
You won't find "Be incompetent, lying trash" in the Bibe either but she did that too.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:57 AM (fd80v)
In my experience, Bible-based Protestants (that’s what I know best) are naturally resistant to antisemitism because we take the Bible very seriously… TuCa and CO just make me shake my head in disbelief. ...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 07:51 AM (/iXAp)
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In my experience, I have *not* found default anti-Jewish positions among most evangelical Christians, Mormons or Catholics. Historically, the Catholics used to have default - and even very well-developed - anti-Jewish positions, but I came up in John Paul II's world and his influence was titanic. I never have never experienced it as a default operational mode among Catholics.
I have met individual bigots of all stripes, of course, but there *are* groups where I write it off as something I need to potentially worry about.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech
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Curiously, I can't find "F you" in my Bible.
Posted by: Lady in Black
It's right next to Sister Bertha BetterThanYou.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (dAOkg)
Or the classic “You just hate women” as the reason nobody wanted to elect Mrs. Clinton for the presidency.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (7NvEU)
This is how the world ends.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)
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Which story is that?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
I.e. Dearborn
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (dAOkg)
https://tinyurl.com/4x6eusdb
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)"
"Massive San Francisco Power Outage Leaves 130,000 Homes, Businesses in the Dark"
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (7NvEU)
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Always loved that one, and its opposite of "I voted for her because she's a woman."
Not at all. She's no more a woman than John McCain was a man. These are sexless creatures of power.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:00 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:01 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)
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Thanks.
Not so "autonomous," are they? They can't operate in a vacuum. Without the radio, they can't work. Internet outages absent a power failure would have the same effect.
One of many reasons to *always* have some cash on hand. Systems are broadly reliable, but those outages are a bitch and a half. Anyone advocating for total, continuous reliance on them without even short-term (i.e., "a day or two") ability to function during an outage is either a fool or a monster.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:03 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)
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Waymos in SF. However:
https://tinyurl.com/3nzmcabj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:03 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:04 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:01 AM (qFwJc)
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It always amused me that one of the greatest modern songs about that war came from Canada.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:04 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:05 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:05 AM (qFwJc)
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In her 30-minute speech at TPUSA's AmericaFest, DNI Tulsi Gabbard -- whom the GloboHomo Deep State has been trying to take down (along with Pete Hegseth since their Cabinet appointments) named names, especially the threat of Islamist Death Cult Terrorist Groups like "Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Al-Shabaab Hamas, Boko Haram, and others."
Additionally: "If we don't take action TO IDENTIFY THIS THREAT, TO DEFINE IT, TO CALL IT OUT FOR WHAT IT IS, AND TAKE ACTION TO DEFEAT IT, we'll find ourselves in a place where many European countries -- and countries like Australia -- have found themselves."
\youtube.com/watch?
v=TBQjq1VGuc4&t=73s
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:05 AM (21Usy)
https://tinyurl.com/3nzmcabj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:03 AM (E+OH
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A couple of weeks ago, multiple Waymo vehicles deadlocked and blocked traffic after being unable to resolve a minor collision involving two Waymo vehicles executing multi-point turns to get out of a dead-end street.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:06 AM (avHHk)
One of many reasons to *always* have some cash on hand. Systems are broadly reliable, but those outages are a bitch and a half. Anyone advocating for total, continuous reliance on them without even short-term (i.e., "a day or two") ability to function during an outage is either a fool or a monster.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Stick a mannequin in the street. They can't differentiate between fake and human so they stop.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:07 AM (dAOkg)
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"I feel his pain."
/Bubba "BJ" Clinton
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:07 AM (21Usy)
Which will be destroyed in the first week, the building materials will be repurposed for weapons and the buildings that remain standing will be Hamas bases.
But hey; we can show that we Did Something to Help because we Care So Hard.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:08 AM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:08 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:06 AM (avHHk)
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Obligatory movie clip:
https://youtu.be/-TwBaNrk9XE
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:56 AM (uQesX)
On polls…. There’s a great series of Peanuts comic strips where Lucy convinces Linus to run for school president (with Charlie Brown as his VP). She’s taking her own personal polls of the student body (by yelling threateningly “who you gonna vote for! Well you better!)… and on the eve of the election she tells Linus “according to my polls you have the election in the bag… you have the whiplash vote, the eyelash, etc etc… as long as you don’t do anything stupid you’re guaranteed to win.
So Linus gives his last speech before the election and talks about… the Great Pumpkin… and gets laughed off the stage and blows the election. Charlie Brown is staring at him. He says: “You’re looking at me like I’m crazy.” Charlie Brown says “No, I’m looking at you like I coulda been VP.”
Never believe polls LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (/iXAp)
https://tinyurl.com/3nzmcabj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
There was an end of the world movie that mirrored that. Teslas all received the same instructions and then kept piling up on a road.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:11 AM (dAOkg)
That is why it is so important to to get the Bush 1 and 2 Judges to retire also, many are no better than Dem appointments
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:12 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:08 AM (OPGS/)
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FYI, the other day the WH said that claims that the money is coming from the US Gov are fake news.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:12 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 22, 2025 08:12 AM (xvV+O)
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Can she be stripped of her citizenship and exiled to CECOT in El Salvador?
/Damn 14th Amendment ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (21Usy)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (/iXAp)
If Hoc is that hated, any semi-decent R should be able to take her out. Wouldn't just be Stefanik who could do it. Besides, Trump said he liked her and the other potential candidate. Did she drop out because Trump didn't name her as the one? Maybe she quit because of something else?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)
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"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster. A classic.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:14 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:14 AM (YCxFk)
And yet she lost in a Wisconsin court which as we all know, thanks to Madison and Milwaukee is not the conservative bastion that it seemingly ought to be...
That's where Trump/Bondi have an edge. These charges are from Federal court, so they pull from a very large area, including lots of very red rural area. You get good jury screening to weed out the far Left Bluesky activists, and you, at worst, might have a jury of LIV normies.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:14 AM (ESVrU)
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Heh, that it is.
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Bradbury is sort of its opposite - the machine keeps going to the best of its ability absent man's influence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (avHHk)
She ugly.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: NR Pax
I wish we'd have spent $60 B turning Gaza into Glowing Land.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Duble Neg at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (avHHk)
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Possibly one of the most depressing stories ever written.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (ESVrU)
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Are the Democrat-Communists bleating that six of those Justices identify as Catholics and should have recused themselves?
/When was that last time we had a 3-0 SCOTUS ruling?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (21Usy)
We did get rid of one of them in Bob Casey last year
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (YCxFk)
At this point the politicians and banksters are doing nothing but going from stateroom to stateroom stealing all of the valuables on the Titanic.
Explain why I should continue to pay taxes when the game is plunder and fraud without restriction.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (nAS9C)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (uQesX)
The only thing I heard is that Trump declined to endorse because the other R in the race is close to Trump and he didn’t want to choose… said something like “they’re both great so it’s difficult for me”…. I speculate Stefanik didn’t want a bruising primary; maybe she’s tired of politics so she dropped out. At least she didn’t pull an MTG and leave Congress immediately. I know nothing about NY state politics but if it’s like CA I’m not optimistic… back in 2021 Gavin Newsom was hated it seemed by all and we got a recall on the ballot and mysteriously he beat it by a landslide. I think cheating with mail-ins…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:19 AM (/iXAp)
It was an interesting, speculative post.
TL ; DR - The same self-driving logic that is being developed for Tesla cars is very similar to what is being used in Musk's robots under development. IOW how they'd navigate around a warehouse, factory, hospital, your house, etc.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (NwnyJ)
Also, do you really think the homeless would exist if they were doing that? The streets would be clean in no time.
/eyeroll/ I cannot even....
Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (9Q9Z4)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (nAS9C)
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Comment 93 and inhale.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)
So what happens next? Looks like nothing happens next. Hamas continues to consolidate power in the parts of Gaza they still control; Israel consolidates power in the half they control. There will be peacekeeping force because no one will go in to face off with Hamas, and there will be no rebuilding of Gaza. The whole mess will just go on, and on, and on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (trsuh)
She ugly.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (oftw2)
Bend them over, they are all the same.
Posted by: Billy Jeff, Rapist and Pervert at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (m8zKa)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (Wmg4n)
Agree that Scott Adams is an American patriot. Unfortunately he doesn't have long to live. May God protect and keep him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (MoRvC)
Does everybody in the spotlight have to be a grifter?
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Really? and exactly where are they going to find this labor force that can build this "high-tech metropolis"?
$60B doesn't even cover the State Department's vig before the first architectural meeting takes place.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (U4c/V)
Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (9Q9Z4)
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THAT'S ALOTTA MATZAH!!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (E+OH8)
g'mornin' again, rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (tljrc)
I truly hope so.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:19 AM (/iXAp)
So, Hoc probably wins again no matter who runs. Frauding their way into rule. Vote fraud should be a capital offense.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)
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I suppose that's better than National Date Nuts Day, when Rule #1 is no longer in effect.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (ESVrU)
The new USPS system to collect mail locally at smaller stations and then centrally process (postmark) invalidates all forms of mail-in voting.
With there present system the local PO postmarks the mail usually within a day of drop off.
The central system could mean a piece of mail dropped off in Friday may not hit a process center until Tuesday.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Mrs. Choate's Marble Rye at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (ESVrU)
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Bradbury was good at bleak. "The Veldt" is bleak AF, too.
There was a good radio dramatization of "There Will Come Soft Rains" back in the 50s. IIRC, it was on "Dimension X," but it could have been "Exploring Tomorrow" or another.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)
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What's a vig?
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
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Is the end result the slow elimination of Gaza & Hamas. Let's assume you are right about Hamas and Gaza. They are consolidating power in a smaller area. Are we bound to repeat the past few years again and again until one day when Israel has total control over Gaza? Its a problem that no one really wants to deal with because no one wants the Palestinians.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (sX1BW)
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So who translated the Bible into Ebonics?
/Samuel L. Jackson?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (21Usy)
Does everybody in the spotlight have to be a grifter?
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
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Apparently so:
https://tinyurl.com/pe9mut2p
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (E+OH8)
Is this the end of his grift? I kinda think "no." I would hope making common cause with the Muslims would be a bridge too far for anyone on the Right, but I'm betting most of his followers will rationalize it.
Something along the lines of "you know, we share a lot of values with these cousin-fucking savages, after all, and they're a damn sight better than the Jews. Their hummus is better, too."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (MoRvC)
And it was glorious!
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (E+OH8)
short for "vigorish" - a commission or fee that a bookmaker charges for taking a bet.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM (U4c/V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)
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Someone closer the situation will have to explain it to me. From afar, it does not look like a good sign at all.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
A man who lives to be older than dirt, a.k.a. an Abe Vigoda
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mrs. Choate's Marble Rye at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
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Relax. That's only Asian and native American Indian blood.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (E+OH8)
There are thousands of miles of abandoned right of way that the railroads will never get back.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (jc0TO)
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If one were to presume Tucker was always a leftist, this begins to make some sort of sense.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
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Responding on behalf of JJ: A sheitel.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (E+OH8)
Mathematics Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)
The Left doesn't play by any rules.
They just expect YOU too.
Alinsky Rule #4.
EVERY SINGLE THING THE LEFT DOES FLOWS FROM ALINSKY #4.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (UnA8+)
short for "vigorish" - a commission or fee that a bookmaker charges for taking a bet.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM
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Hunh. I did not know that.
Posted by: In my best Johnny Carson voice at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Does everybody in the spotlight have to be a grifter?
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Yes.
You're in America, bruh. Every single important institution has been carefully retrofitted into a filter funnel that ensures no other kind of person makes it down the spout.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove "
Nope.
Posted by: Micky Ninja at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)
Something along the lines of "you know, we share a lot of values with these cousin-fucking savages, after all, and they're a damn sight better than the Jews. Their hummus is better, too."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM
They are, after all, natural conservatives.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (jc0TO)
The NYCT will include “the Young Democrats of America, the College Democrats of America, the High School Democrats of America, and an array of left-leaning organizing groups.”
Hitler Youth was already trademarked.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Need A Job at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (oftw2)
Mathematics Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
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/insert looping batman slaps robin animated gif
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (E+OH8)
Is this the end of his grift? I kinda think "no." I would hope making common cause with the Muslims would be a bridge too far for anyone on the Right, but I'm betting most of his followers will rationalize it.
Something along the lines of "you know, we share a lot of values with these cousin-fucking savages, after all, and they're a damn sight better than the Jews. Their hummus is better, too."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (BI5O2)
That's more likely with the Under-25 crowd than any of us would like it to be.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bill Cosby, Pudding Spokesmodel at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (O6icp)
1) a deep-red state that went for Biden = social "proof" Trump was unpopular with everyone, including Republicans
2) via deep-blue--and very black--Atlanta; extremely eager to commit fraud and they could fall back on racism cries to kill any investigation, if started
3) while dirty and corrupt state-level "Republicans" certify the steal.
4) If GA was "opened" up to honest audit, the fraud--and manner of fraud--there would force and justify a re-open of AZ, WI and MI.
And flip those to Trump.
That's why they went all-out--and are still committing crimes--to cover up the fraud in 2020.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Bulg
We won't go until we get some...
Posted by: Bill Cosby, Pudding Spokesmodel at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)
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There's always room for Jailo.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:33 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: Omaha at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Set. Hut!
Posted by: Omaha at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)
++++
LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (avHHk)
Tucker Carlson is antisemitic because he’s being paid by Arab states.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (jYRYu)
159 No word on groundbreaking for The Biden Presidential Lieberry?
Posted by: Need A Job at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (oftw2)
Looks like it’s gonna be. Bookmobile based in s van parked down by the river.
I think it would be hilarious for Trump to put up one of those My Little Library stands on the White House Lawn with a Biden presidential library sign over it. You can speculate which books should be stocked.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (trsuh)
But not, I have to say, nearly as gross as disrobing that fat ugly convicted judge… ugh ugh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (/iXAp)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (dAOkg)
++++
Why?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (avHHk)
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA:
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."
What??
https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
"The Corn Pop Chronicles."
Posted by: The Joe Biden My Little Library at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
I have a suggestion to address that problem!
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (OPGS/)
Similar thing happened yesterday. Was watching a Youtube of a live Hot Tuna performance from 1973 and Papa John Creech looked like a whippersnapper.
Posted by: Old Man Noll at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (oftw2)
Uh-oh.
++++
Twelve. Twenty two. Twenty. Twenty five.
Set. Hut!
Posted by: Omaha at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Three six nine… twelve fifteen eighteen… twenty-one twenty-four twenty-seven… THIRTY! Three, it’s a magic number 🎶
Love schoolhouse rock!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (/iXAp)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM (JheLn)
Clergy are defrocked.
Lawyers are disbarred.
Judges are disrobed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Cops are unholstered, and truckers
just get a new Peterbilt.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: rickb223
All part of the plan.
Posted by: The Merry Marching Penguin Majority at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (dAOkg)
++++
Why?
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The press' answer is tariffs. That may be part of it, but the long answer is probably more complicated and the tariffs may have just been the proverbial straw. But Jim Beam is now just a brand owned by a big foreign conglomerate.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:04 AM (avHHk)
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It may have been written by a Canadian Indian, but he spent his adult life in America. Hard to say the song "came from Canada".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (e87dM)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (dAOkg)
I thought he was too busy meddling in the LSU football program but maybe he has time now that Lane Kiffin is onboard
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (/iXAp)
Tucker has made a more vigorous defense of Islam in the last few weeks than he's ever made of Christianity.
The people who own the bot farms that were propping up Tucker, Owen, Fuentes, et al., are attempting a soft "re-launch" of them.
As if the X location feature doesn't exist, so we can see who is really supporting them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: rickb223
All part of the plan.
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May be a bit cold for the Cajun Navy, but they are a resourceful bunch.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
The distillery will stay closed while the firm takes "the opportunity to invest in site enhancements," it told to the BBC in a statement on Sunday.
Distillers in Kentucky - famous for its bourbon - face uncertainty, in part, due to US President Donald Trump's trade policies.
In October, the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) trade body said the amount of bourbon in warehouses across the state was at a record high of more than 16 million barrels.
According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)
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Takeaway.... the word "main" in that headline.
They're looking to boost prices by shorting supply of the spirts distilled at Happy Hollow in Clermont, KY.
Bourbon sales to Canada are down 60 percent due to tariffs. A reason given by some distillers around here.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (iJfKG)
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."
What??
https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
The left's bench is loaded with pathological lying flamethrowers.
Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (0U5gm)
According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)
Maybe people just aren't drinking as much hard liquor as before?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM (JheLn)
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Carlson should go back to worrying about alien invasions; that was more entertaining.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (e87dM)
Posted by: Jeff Landry at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: SH
The big answer is cannabis. Young adults aren't drinking as much. They are smoking or eating gummies. Bars have completely priced themselves out of a market.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & lunatic pundits at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (HeR4S)
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."
What??
https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
The only reason Vance is VP is because Trump tried to have Biden killed?
WTF? Do you even know what you're talking about?
TRUMP had 2 assassination attempts. Not Biden. Biden shit his pants. In front of the Pope. No one shot at him. No one plotted to kill him. No one even attempted to "take him behind the gym."
OMG we're such an embarrassment of clusterf*cks......WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Charlie Kirk was far more important to the movement than I ever realized. He was not only introducing hundreds of thousands of college-aged youth to conservatism, but was almost singlehandedly fending off the grifters that are now trying to atomize MAGA.
The Left probably celebrates Kirk's death every day. It's like their Archduke Ferdinand moment.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
They aren't.
Bars have priced themselves out of the market & big cannabis swooped in.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Whiny media a year from now at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Jeff Landry at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
This is how you call the big green dildo to a thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)
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All true, but bars didn't just price themselves out of the market. The costs for operating a bar have priced themselves out.
I'd say it is cannabis and iphones since people don't need to go out to socialize and connect.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: rickb223
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This
None of my kids drink. None of their friends drink. They either vape or consume edibles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)
Put her comments on record for the world to see for eternity.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Ya know, it's actually ok to be happy when we get a win.
Monty doesn't live here anymore.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:45 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 08:45 AM (GITLP)
Imagination exercise.
- The Palestinians are evacuated from Gaza for 5 years.
- During that time, developed countries transform Gaza with state of the art infrastructure: roads, sanitation, water, electricity, housing, etc. Plus the economic assets to sustain them.
- The Palestinians are moved back into the new, improved Gaza.
10 years after, what does the place look like?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (tgvbd)
None of my kids drink. None of their friends drink. They either vape or consume edibles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)
This is not the First Daughter or her boyfriend. They drink, mostly socially, but they don't eat gummies or smoke anything.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: MAGA Mutt at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
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Apparently so:
https://tinyurl.com/pe9mut2p
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (E+OH
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Great idea. Audit them and expose how every one of them made millions. Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar first, please.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (nyjNu)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)
***
What's a vig?
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
$20, etc, etc, etc.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (0CU3H)
Oh no! Canucks aren't the top bourbon market, so...
*quietly, so called spoke folk will admit demand has been dropping since end of '23
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)
__________________________
Black Democraticum Armor. Protecting corrupt politicians since 1964.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (JheLn)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (tgvbd)
Minneapolis
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (06Hmj)
More cannabis consumption than booze consumption? That cannot be good.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)
Pot is the Universal Medicine. Haven't you heard?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (tgvbd)
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Cannibas and pocket gambling. How did the Libertarians win? Because the small L libertarians did not.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: MAGA Mutt
Nobody watches TV anymore.
Posted by: Breaking News at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA:
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."
What??
https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
She means Mike Pence. Because of the "Hang Mike Pence" chants around J6.
But because she has to pretend she can't speak English so Democrats will think she's Black Enough", she said "President" instead of "Vice-President".
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (UnA8+)
All true, but bars didn't just price themselves out of the market. The costs for operating a bar have priced themselves out.
I'd say it is cannabis and iphones since people don't need to go out to socialize and connect.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (sX1BW)
Last I heard, at least in the state of Texas, it was $50k for a liquor license. Not sure if that's annually or a one time fee with a renewal fee every year. And that's for hard liquor. Not sure what it is if you only sell beer and wine. But not sure there's many places other than grocery stores that only sell beer and wine. I haven't been to one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)
__________________________
Black Democraticum Armor. Protecting corrupt politicians since 1964.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (JheLn)
Same reason they settled on Somalis to run their fleecing of Minnesota, and not Hungarians or Tibetans.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: MAGA Mutt at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)
I haven't watched FOX since Bill O'Reilly whiffed on his highly-touted Obama interview during Super Bowl halftime. Probably around the same time that the Mutt stopped watching.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (MoRvC)
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I don't think it's "more." I think more kids today opt for vaping or edibles if they indulge in anything. Those are marketed towards a younger set anyway. Booze is an "old man's" vice.
In their eyes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (nyjNu)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)
...
According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)
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Soooooooo which is it? Bourbon is a domestic product. We export it, so are Trump's trade policies in play because foreign countries are imposing tariffs on *us* as a response to those policies? Or is the problem state-level taxes, which have dick-all to do with Trump's trade policies?
Or is the problem demand and production being dislocated, causing an inventory overhang? And if so, what is the cause dislocation? Too much production or too little demand (e.g., market shift)?
Oy, what a mess that quote is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (avHHk)
Foreign demand had put a lot of great American whiskey, both bourbon and rye, out of reach for many here in the States. I'm already seeing a lot of stuff more readily available at MSRP or close to it. There was definitely a bourbon boom for quite a while. Beam rode that wave for sure. Like other industries, things are cyclical.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (QMAsf)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (sX1BW)
GET OUT!
Take the $3K. Americans don't want you here!
NOEM: "It's home for the holidays season! Not only are we returning kids to their families. We're saying if you voluntarily want to go back, we'll give you $3K through the holidays!"
https://tinyurl.com/34w7625r
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)
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So now Canadians can only afford Canadian Club, Black Velvet and Crown Royal? Quality of Life has gone down severely. But at least they can use these for varnishing.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
She means Mike Pence. Because of the "Hang Mike Pence" chants around J6.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (UnA8+)
He didn't 'try to have him killed' you stupid c*nt. He wanted him to do the right thing and not certify the stolen election and called for investigation. Trump was NEVER going to bring Pence back after that debacle of a clusterf*ck election in 2020, aided by Pence and his receiving of the corruption coin from Pelosi.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Canadian Mist at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)
According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)
Maybe people just aren't drinking as much hard liquor as before?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (uQesX)
That is 100% true of the younger gen...a combo of money and health reasons...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
I know this.
Democrats don't. And even if they do know it, it's not what they want to hear, so they're going to stick with the BS.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (UnA8+)
NOEM: "It's home for the holidays season! Not only are we returning kids to their families. We're saying if you voluntarily want to go back, we'll give you $3K through the holidays!"
https://tinyurl.com/34w7625r
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)
Why is my hard earned, government stolen money being given to assholes that broke my countries laws? Where's MY $3000 for being a law abiding AMERICAN citizen?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
See?
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You can't have eggnog without bourbon.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (JheLn)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (tOcjL)
Appearance reasons.
You read enough message boards or see enough social media, they'll constantly be talking about how Alcohol will prematurely age their face and make their looks fade.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (UnA8+)
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It's a quote from a industry mouthpiece in Louisville. Someone with a case of TDS.
I should have noted that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
Please give me a little break. You can't shoulder the entire burden alone.
Posted by: Huck's Dessicated Liver at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)
And when the demographic cliff really hits, demand will continue to decline...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (XuXeR)
According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)
Maybe people just aren't drinking as much hard liquor as before?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (uQesX)
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Massive over-production during the booze boom of the last few years. They were printing money for years, jacking up prices, and laughing all the way to the bank. Now the party is over and the industry has a hangover.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (/v/85)
We had a lot of commissions devoted to giving them away, and converting them to bike paths and parks so they could not be re-tracked.
But the biggest loss was sidings that served individual businesses. Big cities had "night rail" networks in the back alleys, on which supply and finished goods cars were shunted when traffic was light -- sometimes with horse power. Trains were made up of all those cars. Now, all that first and last mile transport has to be by truck, and across a different kind of dedicated dock. Once you have loaded a truck, there is a certain economy to leaving your freight on a truck.
Remember "piggy-backs"? That was a photogenic era.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (zdLoL)
GET OUT!
Take the $3K. Americans don't want you here!
NOEM: "It's home for the holidays season! Not only are we returning kids to their families. We're saying if you voluntarily want to go back, we'll give you $3K through the holidays!"
https://tinyurl.com/34w7625r
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They are counting on either 2026 em-peachment, or 2028 Precident AOC. When they can flock back in.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)
Ozempic is definitely decreasing America's drinking appetite.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)
So instead of "alcohol face" you get Ozempic face
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
They're a drag on our wallets one way or another. Either we're giving an extra ICE agent $3k a month in salary, or we're bribing the assholes to leave on their own, directly. Doesn't matter how the problem gets solved, it's going to cost us money either way. Probably both ways.
But yeah, it rankles.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (XuXeR)
Ozempic is definitely decreasing America's drinking appetite.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)
It's also killing Americans off at a faster rate, so there's that.
Saw a commercial yesterday that claimed 1 in 3 Americans will have cancer.
ONE in THREE.
Tell me you're causing massive amounts of cancer in the name of greed and profits without telling me you're in the business of causing and treating cancer for profit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (JheLn)
++++
Bourbon is still a thing at my house!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (avHHk)
And when the demographic cliff really hits, demand will continue to decline...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (XuXeR)
Unless more studies come out demonizing pot from a health perspective...and thus, it becomes a negative thing. Young people want something they shouldn't have = the entire vice industry is focused on making it their thing...and that does change (anyone remember Zima?)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)
It's also killing Americans off at a faster rate, so there's that.
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Wait until you see the long term effect of the vaccine + ozempic ... see happy fun ball.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (sX1BW)
“Overall, this [younger] generation seems to be more selective about how, when, and why they drink, and alcohol seems to play a smaller role than it did in previous generations,” "
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (JheLn)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (UnA8+)
Unlike those paragons of graceful aging, Tommy Chong and Keith Richards.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (06Hmj)
SEE - it's Drumphs fault! Reeeeeeee!
*spokesidiot
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (XuXeR)
I'd say it is cannabis and iphones since people don't need to go out to socialize and connect.
Posted by: SH
What stopped me from drinking "out & about"?
.08 Possibly two drinks.
I'm not risking my concealed carry license over a mixed drink and possibly faulty breathalyzer test.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (dAOkg)
My dad used to make great eggnog every Christmas. One batch for the adults and one for the kids.
What Santa didn't see didn't hurt anyone.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (HXT0k)
So that also mean Senator Bishop Holier than Thou Warnock was illegally elected.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)
It's also killing Americans off at a faster rate, so there's that.
Saw a commercial yesterday that claimed 1 in 3 Americans will have cancer.
ONE in THREE.
Tell me you're causing massive amounts of cancer in the name of greed and profits without telling me you're in the business of causing and treating cancer for profit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)
The longer you live, the more your cells have a chance to mutate. Add in some of the chemical and environmental effects we oopsied over the last few decades, and if you have a longer life span, of course, you're getting more cancer patients.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)
SEE - it's Drumphs fault! Reeeeeeee!
*spokesidiot
Posted by: man
Sitting on 16 million barrels just at Jim Beam will do that.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)
My grandmother used to drink her day drink (vodka and Squirt) and her night cap (Beam and cola) every day for decades.
She died of an infection from a cat bite at 99 years old and was only taking a shot of Flonase in each nostril every morning and just started a Tylenol regimen for arthritis.
F*ck off with your "alcohol is bad for you" bullshit. I've lost all respect for the medical community at large and will eat and drink whatever the f*ck I want for the rest of my days.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
******
It's somewhat of an incentive to leave because it's almost impossible to get rid of the over 15 million illegals that Biden and the Democrat party let in.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
A very Mohammedan "shame society" attitude
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (JheLn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (avHHk)
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Was recently gifted with 2 bottles from Wild Turkey:
1. Rare Breed Barrel Proof Bourbon.
2. Rare Breed Barrel Proof Rye.
Not at all enthused by the bourbon. But the rye is superb - and I've been negative about rye in general until now.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)
We've also gotten a lot better at detecting cancers. That "1 in 3" guesstimate may very well have been accurate give-or-take a bit since we were drawing antelopes on the living room wall with charcoal.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (06Hmj)
The longer you live, the more your cells have a chance to mutate. Add in some of the chemical and environmental effects we oopsied over the last few decades, and if you have a longer life span, of course, you're getting more cancer patients.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)
Then explain the Amish.
They don't do vaccines. They don't do most medicines. They don't do hospitals in most cases.
Yet they're the most healthy people on the PLANET and don't have such issues.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)
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She has the stink of quiter on her now regardless.
Idk what it was, but I detect a whiff of "I supported you, you owe me the endorsement (so I can easily win the nomination)" that caused her to quit.
(a la MTG, or, to put it another way "he didn't position them for success")
You can't trust the media, but Trump has always been pretty selective about who he endorses. With a lot being guaranteed wins already.
And he rarely endorses in contested primaries. I can't recall which race, but there was a clown-show recently where both were claiming Trump endorsed them.
Posit:
a) She approached Trump and asked for the UN job; cashed in her favor. He obliged.
b) Trump feels, wrong or right, she burned him, when that blew up.
c) she wanted a do-over favor with his endorsement
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (HXT0k)
It's somewhat of an incentive to leave because it's almost impossible to get rid of the over 15 million illegals that Biden and the Democrat party let in.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
They're digging in like ticks because of the sanctuary cities States...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (VE6XX)
and Israel will live in safety.
This is the name by which he will be called:
The Lord Our Righteous Savior.”
Jeremiah 23:6
Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (zfkPG)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (XuXeR)
My dad used to make great eggnog every Christmas. One batch for the adults and one for the kids.
What Santa didn't see didn't hurt anyone.
Posted by: JackStraw
Ex m-i-l used to make homemade eggnog with Wild Turkey 101 & heavy whipping cream.
It was damn good. Damn good.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (K7yvy)
A very Mohammedan "shame society" attitude
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (JheLn)
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At least if it was his sister, an honor killing is the way to go.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (E+OH8)
A very Mohammedan "shame society" attitude
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (JheLn)
Then you're a selfish asshole. My brother goes on a drug fueled murder spree, I'm arresting him myself. I will stand by his side during his trial and help where I can, but f*cking MURDER? Yeah, I'm kinda against that, Biblically.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
They're digging in like ticks because of the sanctuary cities States...
Posted by: It's me donna
Stop the transfer of federal funds. Let Hochul & Pritzker & Newsome pay wetbacks outta their own broke state budgets.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Tucker Carlson's Brother at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (06Hmj)
The longer you live, the more your cells have a chance to mutate. Add in some of the chemical and environmental effects we oopsied over the last few decades, and if you have a longer life span, of course, you're getting more cancer patients.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)
Then explain the Amish.
They don't do vaccines. They don't do most medicines. They don't do hospitals in most cases.
Yet they're the most healthy people on the PLANET and don't have such issues.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Absolute clean diet.
Almost nil for chemical and environmental oopsies.
Amazing physical activity per day.
No looking for mutations, so they just tend to die of them at the same life span we live (they have dropped back to ours).
And most do vaccinate and use health services to help live a longer life - that's not widely known but they use healths services to their advantage.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (E+OH
I actually have become a fan of the rye bourbons. Finished a bottle of George Dickel Green Label just last week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)
==
Whoa! He did not! She probably can have any job in his administration. The candidate that they agreed would have a better chance in getting to the NY gov mansion is the dude he endorsed. And he is right.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (dAOkg)
Overruled !
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (VE6XX)
They don't do vaccines. They don't do most medicines. They don't do hospitals in most cases.
Yet they're the most healthy people on the PLANET and don't have such issues.
Posted by: Sponge
They don't do processed foods.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (g47mK)
I thought he said nice stuff about her it's Greene he said bad stuff...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal
The ones that don't spontaneously blow up.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (dAOkg)
They don't do processed foods.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (dAOkg)
Soon........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (dAOkg)
And they all grow their own tobacco, too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by Sponge
Grandma might have been an outlier. I didn't get away with it.
Posted by: Lovely Actress Gail Russell at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (oftw2)
==
Whoa! He did not! She probably can have any job in his administration. The candidate that they agreed would have a better chance in getting to the NY gov mansion is the dude he endorsed. And he is right.
Posted by: runner at December
Yes, that sounds likely. She did the right thing, and noticeably seems not distraught.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (pDt9x)
- California’s last nuclear power plant received permission to operate for at least 5 more years in exchange for conserving thousands of acres of land in San Luis Obispo County.
- The agreement between The California Coastal Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric seeks to balance damage to the marine environment going forward.
- Some stakeholders in the region celebrated the deal while others, including a Native tribe, were disappointed.
Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (GITLP)
- The Palestinians are evacuated from Gaza for 5 years.
- During that time, developed countries transform Gaza with state of the art infrastructure: roads, sanitation, water, electricity, housing, etc. Plus the economic assets to sustain them.
- The Palestinians are moved back into the new, improved Gaza.
10 years after, what does the place look like?
A: The Klingon Homeworld.
Gaza is NOT Pandora and Palestinians are NOT the Na'vi and James Cameron is sad shadow of his former self, and (gr)Avatar wry 'omage to the LIB's forever war which leads to the 'just' extinction of the human race.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell There will be NO PEACE as long as Charlie Kirk is remembered -- Klingon Ambassador LIBBING Out.
Why?
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
the more brazen and relentless one’s acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one’s door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad name.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 09:07 AM (Ujfi+)
It was damn good. Damn good.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (dAOkg)
WT101 may be the most underrated bottle out there. $20 for an outstanding cocktail mixer and an above average daily sipper.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2025 09:07 AM (QMAsf)
- The Palestinians are evacuated from Gaza for 5 years.
- During that time, developed countries transform Gaza with state of the art infrastructure: roads, sanitation, water, electricity, housing, etc. Plus the economic assets to sustain them.
- The Palestinians are moved back into the new, improved Gaza.
10 years after, what does the place look like?
A: The Klingon Homeworld.
Gaza is NOT Pandora and Palestinians are NOT the Na'vi and James Cameron is sad shadow of his former self, and (gr)Avatar wry 'omage to the LIB's forever war which leads to the 'just' extinction of the human race.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell There will be NO PEACE as long as Charlie Kirk is remembered -- Klingon Ambassador LIBBING Out.
Why?
Sub 80 IQ?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (MoRvC)
I had a relative who suddenly got cancer and died very quickly about a year ago. They got all the covid shots and boosters. Now it’s not like they were young; they were not young. But always healthy and I would’ve thought another 10 years of life at least would be reasonable to expect. But no cancer comes out of the blue and death happened in just 2 weeks after detection. I can’t prove it but it smells like something covid shot related to me
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (YobFY)
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Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)
- The agreement between The California Coastal Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric seeks to balance damage to the marine environment going forward.
- Some stakeholders in the region celebrated the deal while others, including a Native tribe, were disappointed.
Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (GITLP)
Diablo Canyon will be online till 2050 and beyond. Cali can't survive without it.
They have no coal or gas burning plants left, so nuke and hydro is all they have. Solar and wind can't maintain 1/4 of their need.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (E+OH
I actually have become a fan of the rye bourbons. Finished a bottle of George Dickel Green Label just last week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
Thanks for reminding me. I need to get eggnog for Christmas Eve dinner.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)
Fuck you, war.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (UJWr0)
And of course, all the tribe members think exactly the same way...
/
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)
/
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
They think how they're told to think after the payola...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)
******
The first 25 will get a free Trump watch and some Trump cologne.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (NpAcC)
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Both are acceptable, and a good host will have both available.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (UJWr0)
Could he be playing for the Optics?
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (XV/Pl)
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I've a bit of an affinity for Old Forester. Almost as many variations as WT.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)
That would be me...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (VE6XX)
We will kick in for the wall and minefield to keep them inside of it.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (JheLn)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)
******
We've always had bourbon is brandy better?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)
____
Buffalo Trace makes one that is available at my local grocery store. I forget how it is branded, but the fine print on the label identifies the distiller. Pretty good.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)
NY has one of the highest energy costs in the nation. It’s the direct result of the governor and legislatures policies. Period.
NY permits abortion right up until birth. They rewrote the law so that could happen for any reason without penalty. They moved abortion into the health law to make sure there would not be an criminal repercussions
NY was one of the worst states during Covid. Not only did the lock down the populace, but the forced the elderly into situations that killed them.
NY’s schools are failing and have some of the lowest graduation rates. National studies are finding grade inflation is rampant and even though kids have “graduated” many cant read or wrote at grade level
NY’s governor and legislature are now going to put assisted suicide on the books.
NY election fraud is rampant and their voter roles and processes are operating in violation of federal law
NY healthcare system is in serious decline. It is being overwhelmed by illegal aliens who are costing the state billions and stealing care from citizens
I could go on…
Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (zfkPG)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)
Sore spot there. And yes, I know...anecdotes not data, but I'm caretaker and only "healthy" one of and entire family cohort who went all in on vacs - dementia, cancer, cardiac problems, more cancers.... now all have one cancer or another. It's beyond bad luck...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (XuXeR)
Canadian whisky is just nasty, and while I'm sure tariffs would increase its relative demand to some degree, all else being equal, most whisky drinkers would continue paying the markup for a bottle of bourbon. You can't just have the Canadian around. It's the moped of whiskies.
I suspect, if sales of bourbon are down big time in Canada, that's more on Trump than his tariffs. He's engendered a certain amount of ill-will among the Leafs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (BI5O2)
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That was all vaporware it was never going to happen .
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (UJWr0)
Almost nil for chemical and environmental oopsies.
Amazing physical activity per day.
No looking for mutations, so they just tend to die of them at the same life span we live (they have dropped back to ours).
And most do vaccinate and use health services to help live a longer life - that's not widely known but they use healths services to their advantage.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (tOcjL)
The Amish eat a shizzle ton of sugar. But they exercise like nobodies business, as you noted. They do see doctors, just not for check ups, etc. mainly because that is viewed as a needless expense. When sick, they do seek medical care. They do get vaccinated, but not on the cdc schedule. When there have been outbreaks like measles, they have gotten vaccinated as a community. They don’t smoke much at all, etc. Their average lifespan is 71 years. Oh, and there is genetic factors in play, too.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (OoFl2)
We will kick in for the wall and minefield to keep them inside of it.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (JheLn)
Ah yes. The unmitigated clusterf*ck if excess and corruption known as NEOM. My company went all in on that bullshit and have suddenly stopped talking about it altogether.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (zfkPG)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (tOcjL)
***
Love love LOVE Zima...
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (UJWr0)
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Someone has to fill the enormous void in crazy TDS takes now that Reiner is no longer here.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (Dv3i1)
I suspect, if sales of bourbon are down big time in Canada, that's more on Trump than his tariffs. He's engendered a certain amount of ill-will among the Leafs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (BI5O2)
Ah, but you're forgetting one demographic :
The Terminal Cheapskates.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (UnA8+)
Benchmark. Also no HFCS...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (XuXeR)
We will kick in for the wall and minefield to keep them inside of it.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (JheLn)
++++
The Saudi strip city sounds like hell on earth, even in the shiny marketing. Even if it works exactly as promised (it won't, because it can't), it will still be a totalitarian hellscape full of subhuman slaves masquerading in a milieu of ersatz humanity.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (pDt9x)
I hate you. lol.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (zfkPG)
Ditto.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sign at that little joint outside Pensacola when I was a kid at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
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you don't, just stop the yammering about how you don't care about XYZ, every time the subject of something that is further than 5 miles form dwelling house comes up
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)
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I'm up for it.
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 22, 2025 09:17 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:17 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: You're welcome at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (avHHk)
You could have just said "Dubai".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (06Hmj)
@WesternLensman
Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA:
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."
What??
https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)
Vance needs to file a huge lawsuit against that POS. Maybe she needs to be "talked to". Privately.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (5xuJ/)
This shit again. I have got news for you.
They practically invented processed food.
Time to move the goal posts again.
You all sashay in here and say stuff you'd never get away with in a bar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Strange Brew at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:17 AM (UJWr0)
++++
I still can't quite decide whether or not it was a joke to rook investors. It's the kind of thing the WEF types really believe in and would desperately want, but it's also very obviously insane and stupid.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)
Why spend all this energy worrying about what people do that don’t affect you? Nobody in NY gives a fuck about you. Why do you give fucks about them? It’s like a reverse TDS.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (UJWr0)
Reader will note that I refrained from commenting on that one.
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (pDt9x)
Vietnamese guy is violently ill on a passenger train. Waiter comes in and the guy points to the bowl of soup as he gags uncontrollably. The waiter tastes the soup and immediately starts gagging and barfing. A chef comes in and the waiter points to the soup, which he tastes and immediately starts gagging. The waiter apologizes and tells the guy he'll take the soup and get him a new one.
The guy says "No, it's fine. I'm drunk and I threw up in it."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
The Terminal Cheapskates.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025
Oh, certainly. During times I've been broke, I've bought the Canadian stuff. But always with a twinge of shame.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
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Her campaign for Senate is going to be LAF
Something "quotable" every damn day I bet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Zing at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (UJWr0)
Containment.
Some of us are stuck in neighboring states and don't want NY escapees coming here and trying to make where we are exact copies of NY.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (UnA8+)
This is absurd. I legitimately don't think it's possible for a judge to be "obstructing" in her own court room and if an appeals court doesn't agree it will be the judiciary continuing to undermine itself..
Peiple think the appeals process will be interesting to follow? Yeah I’m on the edge of my seat wondering how the MAGA SCOTUS is gonna rule on this one 🙄
Jury just got played and handed Trump a major win here. Absolutely shameful
Innocent until proven guilty. Someone going through the judicial process should be allowed to do so without needing to worry that doing the right thing and showing up at court will get them deported.
It's absolutely disgusting, and completely against all logic and morality for letting actual justice happen
We need a more universal education in jury nullification. This is a sad day for America and for people who stand against repression.
Leftists try not defending women abusing pieces of shit, challenge impossible.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
They're switching to cannabis and seltzers. Liquor and beer sales have been declining since 03. And Canada isn't even a top 5 buyer of bourbon...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (XuXeR)
I've mentioned previously that the powers that be are proposing a battery storage plant about a mile and a half from me. Any opposition is met with screeching. Well a battery plant just went up in flames in Orange County , just south of here, last night. You'd think that would change people's minds but we'll see
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (MoRvC)
That's serious money south of our border
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (OPGS/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (avHHk)
Classic case of embrace the power of and. 😃
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (UJWr0)
All the lefties trying to blame Trump's tariffs "see, they can't ship from Mexico anymore!!"
And trying to spin it up as a major warning sign, "if they're failing in Dec, which is a high shipping volume month, bad things are coming."
With a quite aside about how mile rates have fallen over the last few years.
And I'm over here, "maybe if they all hadn't been hiring all the dirka-dirkas and Aladdins illegally, rates wouldn't have cratered."
There has been no bigger theft of good-paying, American jobs than what happened in trucking.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (HXT0k)
Vance needs to file a huge lawsuit against that POS. Maybe she needs to be "talked to". Privately.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (5xuJ/)
She's accusing Trump. Trump should immediately file a $250m lawsuit against her for slander.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)
They're switching to cannabis and seltzers. Liquor and beer sales have been declining since 03. And Canada isn't even a top 5 buyer of bourbon...
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Isn't Canada filling up with Muslims?
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (sX1BW)
No shit Sherlock
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
++++
Does "no show" without notice (people *do* get sick or stuck in traffic, etc.) result in an immediate deportation order? If not, why not?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (HXT0k)
Once upon a time, "Trucker" was a quintessentially American job. Other places had Hauliers or Drivers. Not us. We had the Trucker.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Pedro at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)
Peiple think the appeals process will be interesting to follow? Yeah I’m on the edge of my seat wondering how the MAGA SCOTUS is gonna rule on this one 🙄
An appeal of a federal case automatically hits the Supreme Court?
These people really are almost functionally retarded, aren't they.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)
(Dozens of HQ commenters nervously pull their collars)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (sX1BW)
Vancouver is mostly Sikhs, I think.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Truckers at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)
(Dozens of HQ commenters nervously pull their collars)
Posted by: tubal
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TJM isn't even on this thread.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (HXT0k)
Once upon a time, "Trucker" was a quintessentially American job. Other places had Hauliers or Drivers. Not us. We had the Trucker.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (06Hmj)
You asked for it.......
https://youtu.be/0U-ermF-tQA
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (avHHk)
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If a CongressCritter can be wheeled in on a hospital bed to cast a vote ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (b8koU)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (UJWr0)
Wait until you see the long term effect of the vaccine + ozempic ... see happy fun ball.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22,
One of my instructors was joking to her husband (a doctor) that she wanted to go on this for a month to get into the inevitable class action lawsuit. He said the award will be like .25 cents a person, but agrees it will happen. The effect on muscle is incredible- and this includes your heart, as well as bone density. I know losing weight is hard first hand. It’s not fun. And everyone, including me, wants an easy way to do it. This diet, that diet, this pill, that shot. Truth is, eating less and better, while exercising is the answer. It’s slow going, but that is how you lose it and keep it off.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (OoFl2)
Posted by: People of Vancouver at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Not Waylon?
Respect.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (06Hmj)
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Dubai - the city for people who find Law Vegas too tasteful and restrained.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (j4WDO)
They're an illegal haven. Supposedly hit with nearly 100 drivers unable to speak English.
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (MoRvC)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Strange Brew at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (oftw2)
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Here in Israel, there's a genetic disease screen exam for engaged couples. Our pups all took it.
Also, we've had such a variety of ingathering from around the world that we've shuffled to gene pool.
We have pups married to spouses who families come from a mix of countries, including Iraq, Iran, Syria, Morocco, Egypt, and a variety of western and eastern European countries.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (dAOkg)
"Out of respect to English-only students, there will be no speaking Spanish on this bus."
https://tinyurl.com/2vdjny3h
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)
They're an illegal haven. Supposedly hit with nearly 100 drivers unable to speak English.
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)
I hear Cal is just going to reissue the 17k fake licenses.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (gbOdA)
Not Waylon?
Respect.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (06Hmj)
I figured an 87 mph change up was in order.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Obligatory at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (2Ez/1)
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That's pretty advanced. PGD ? Is it standard for all couples ?
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)
I signed up to one of those 3M military earplug compensation ads I saw a few years ago. Took probably over a year, but I think i got around $7,000 or so. And I was on the the lower tier of compensation: served and used 3am earplugs during the time period, had self-reported claims of tinnitus or hearing loss, but no documentation.
Posted by: Military Moron at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)
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This reminds me that I thought Jeb should have walked over and slugged Trump during the debate because of what he said about his brother. People would have respected him a lot more if he had.
JD can say whatever he wants to someone who talks shit about his wife. And if he beats someone senseless for it, he will be tough to beat.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)
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$50k? Haha! Sure, go with that number, stupid yankee.
Posted by: Somalian at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Obligatory at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (2Ez/1)
The Hittites!
....
No?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (j4WDO)
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No drunks, junkies, garbage piles and people who treat you kindly. So people who have visited tell me.
I have no interest personally to visit but Las Vegas it ain't!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)
That's all well and good, JD.
Now punch him in his stupid face.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (UnA8+)
They're an illegal haven. Supposedly hit with nearly 100 drivers unable to speak English.
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)
I hear Cal is just going to reissue the 17k fake licenses.
Posted by: rhennigantx
Sit outside the state lines and pull every truck over. Arrest those that you need to.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Took Three Bennies, And My Semi-trick Won't Start at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: rhennigantx
I think this needs to be the standard behavior towards folks like that.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (OPGS/)
No drunks, junkies, garbage piles and people who treat you kindly. So people who have visited tell me.
I have no interest personally to visit but Las Vegas it ain't!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (E+OH8
And only costs you about 3x anything in Vegas, so you dearly pay for the treatment.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)
I have no interest personally to visit but Las Vegas it ain't!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at
The parts you see. It’s really, really a have and have not place. Where the servants live (being nice here) is awful, like a step up from cardboard box. But yes, there is no crime, no junkies, etc. If you break the law, they do NOT play around.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:33 AM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
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Neither LV nor Dubai interest me. But if I had to choose, LV would be one of the last places I'd choose to go to.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (E+OH8)
The new USPS system to collect mail locally at smaller stations and then centrally process (postmark) invalidates all forms of mail-in voting.
With there present system the local PO postmarks the mail usually within a day of drop off.
The central system could mean a piece of mail dropped off in Friday may not hit a process center until Tuesday.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)
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The idea of relying on the USPS to deliver ballots is wrong from the start.
If one can't show a chain of custody, it screws up any potential court case.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Or, he being a Queens boy, have that "little talk" with the insolent bitch. She needs to live the rest of her miserable existence in fear. Damn....the Magyar in me is rearing its head again. I denounce myself. A little. Maybe.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:33 AM (OoFl2)
They confiscate the passports of the migrant workers (slaves), then threaten to kill their families.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (UnA8+)
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So I asked Grok. Nah.
https://tinyurl.com/yenxdaz9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (E+OH8)
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What? When was the last time you saw a hook & eye out jogging? Or at the Gym? LOL
No, the Amish work like nobody’s business.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (3hjQC)
G A T T A C A
Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (NuV6c)
Doesn't the Democratic Socialists (DSA) rise the the level of the NSS? What about their member-NEPOlibs whose moral and physical vandalism allows their parents and families to buy up businesses and properties devalued, corrupted and defiled by their actions?
Release, indeed, FREE AND SPONSOR! the HUNTER BIDEN's, the NICK REINER's, the ever now, and future present Epstein's, Clinton's, Soros', the John Walker/American Taliban's, the James Fergie Chambers (Cox Heir and professional revolutionaries) who will proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.
" I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025 -
I tried to represent a better America when I was president. But now I don't have to... -- Bill Clinton'06 while still celebrating with Jeffmas-prime
Who's the real deplorable? and why?
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 09:43 AM (qk3lp)
Not Waylon?
Respect.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM
I figured an 87 mph change up was in order.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM
I done 'splained the whole "truckin' bidness"
youtube.com/watch?v=MjtWaOPTYmU
Posted by: Zombie Merle Haggard at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM
It's Festivus Eve.
It's the day spent writing up lists of grievances to air tomorrow as well as doing last minute workouts to be ready for the feats of strength.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM
Via Grok:
Over the December 20-21 weekend, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA's (TPUSA) AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona — an organization founded by Kirk. During his speech, Carlson addressed a hypothetical scenario involving a family member committing murder, which many interpreted as an implicit criticism of Robinson's family for turning him in. Here's the key excerpt from his remarks, based on video and eyewitness accounts shared widely on X:
"If my brother went on a drug-induced murder spree, I'd defend him. I'd say, 'That's my brother, I love him.' I wouldn't condemn him. I'd try to get him out of the country if I could. Family loyalty comes first."
The statement drew backlash online for its timing and venue, with commenters noting the insensitivity given that Robinson's father had turned him in just months after Kirk's killing.
Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/3KJ3FTt
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 10:11 AM (P5BPp)
Candace Owens - Four very young children and a husband, George Farmer, the son of Lord Michael Farmer from the U.K. House of Lords & British-American businessman. It seems Farmer is well known for involved in free speech/anti-censorship advocacy, and also leading right-wing groups like Turning Point UK and tech platforms like Parler, where he was formerly the CEO.
Reportedly Tucker grew up "waspy," attending St. George's School, part of the esteemed "St. Grottlesex" group of New England prep schools. There, he met his wife, married and, much later, some of their (4) children attended.
He sold his ownership stake in the The Daily Caller and departed 2020, joining Fox. He was among the hosts named in the 2021 Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network defamation lawsuit, and in April 2023, Fox News canceled Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Both were always 'wonky' individuals. But when they woke and realize it's no longer a game - they weren't in control - they were going to protect whatever they have the best they can, likely with whatever family help and guidance they're open to. They can't step away yet. They're narcissists.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 22, 2025 10:14 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:18 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: MAGA Mutt at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM
I started watching Fox News Channel on 09/11/2001. I stopped watching during the summer of the 2004 Presidential campaign when Bill O'Reilly planted himself firmly on the fence post during his commentary on the John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans situation. I realized then that no one on TV was principled and everyone was just putting on a show.
At that point, I had been listening to Rush Limbaugh for years, so I kept up with politics listening to his show every day at work. And then that year was when political blogs and military blogs started up. I've been getting my news from blogs (and then Twitter/X) ever since. Have not watched any TV "news" in 20+ years.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 10:29 AM (P5BPp)
https://is.gd/rWmvlX
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:52 AM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Don Black
Watch the TV advertisement recruiting for Deputy Sheriff positions in Philadelphia.
You Tube, We Are Hiring! Apply online with the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office by Dec. 28th
Philadelphia Sheriff's Office
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 22, 2025 11:09 AM (NFX2v)
Yes, it's both being abused AND not being used enough. As some may not know, there ARE bad cops with bad supervisors that protect them, and when those bad cops are fired, they end up working for another city and keep doing bad things until they are found out and fired again: rinse and repeat.
If you don't believe me, just look up some of the egregious behavior cataloged by a guy who goes on EweToob as the Civil Rights Lawyer, @thecivilrightslawyer (he does 2nd Amendment stuff too). Guy has a website too: thecivilrightslawyer.com
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 01:11 PM (ynpvh)
So, that means anyone currently working for Gov?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 22, 2025 01:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 22, 2025 05:02 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 22, 2025 05:08 PM (wGqjj)
Posted by: kraki at December 22, 2025 06:01 PM (cG6Xc)
Posted by: kraki at December 22, 2025 06:02 PM (cG6Xc)
Daily Tech News 22 December 2025
Top Story
- How Pepsi saved the Roomba, and how Lina Khan murdered it. (Tech Crunch)
I hadn't heard the Pepsi story before:The press drove this huge initial demand - 70,000 robots. So next year we're going to do four times that. We made 300,000 robots. We even made a television commercial, but we were a bunch of geek engineers, so it totally failed. After Cyber Monday we were sitting with 250,000 robots in our warehouse like, "Oh my God, the world's going to end."
And now for Lina Khan's FTC, the AntiPepsi:
Then something good happened. The guy running our website said, "Why did sales quadruple yesterday?" We hadn't done anything. What had happened was Pepsi had started running a TV ad with Dave Chappelle. He walks into this beautiful home, picks up a potato chip, and a Roomba comes out. He's like, "A vacuum cleaner!" He throws down the potato chip, the vacuum eats it, then chases him. His pants are ripped off. He stands up in boxers. A beautiful woman appears, and he says, "Your vacuum cleaner ate my pants." We sold 250,000 robots in two weeks and realized we knew nothing about marketing.The amount of money and time spent was indescribable. I would not be surprised if over 100,000 documents were created and delivered. iRobot invested a significant part of our discretionary earnings against fulfilling the requirements that went along with doing the transaction. Amazon was forced to invest many, many, many times that. There was a whole team, both internal and external employees and lawyers and economists working to try to, in as many different ways as possible - because it seemed like our message was falling on deaf ears - demonstrate that this acquisition was not going to create a monopolistic situation.
It was never going to create a monopoly. The FTC didn't care. It wanted scalps.There was daily activity for 18 months associated with this. Perhaps most telling, when I was testifying as part of being deposed, I had a chance to walk the halls of the FTC. The examiners on their office doors had printouts of deals blocked, like trophies.
Tech News
- Apple's always extortionate memory prices are about to escalate to excruciating when their memory purchase agreements start to expire - some of them as soon as January. (WCCFTech)
If Apple had any wits about them they'd write Nanya a blank cheque and tell them to go for it. Or just buy them outright.
- IDC expects average PC prices to jump by up to 8% in 2026. (Tom's Hardware)
If prices jump by 8% it will only be because specs have been sharply reduced.
- Speaking of specs being sharply reduced, is 8GB of VRAM enough going into 2024? (WCCFTech)
Probably. If you have the 8GB 9600 XT, turn off ray tracing and you'll be good at 1080p and likely even at 1440p.
Roomba Interlude
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Babies seem to be born to widdle. I think the instructions got screwed up somehow.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 22, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 22, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 22, 2025 04:04 AM (YmxGb)
We built the PackBot, which was the first robot ever deployed in a combat mission for the US Army, went into caves in Afghanistan, and became the primary methodology for diffusing improvised explosive devices. We would get postcards: “You saved my life today.”
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 04:08 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 22, 2025 04:10 AM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: clarence at December 22, 2025 04:26 AM (JUmo3)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 04:27 AM (sAmhv)
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If Apple had any sense at all, it likely left the building years ago.
Posted by: clarence at December 22, 2025 04:28 AM (JUmo3)
They have an unsubscribe link. Do I click that?
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:38 AM (RuTUS)
I haven't cracked my box open to replace my GPU and PSU yet, as I don't want to risk not having a PC to work with if something goes wrong so it's still got the RX 7600 I originally built it with.
That card only has 8GB and I was running Cyberpunk 2077 at around 60 to 80 fps at 1440p (no Ray-tracing, I'd be lucky to get 15 fps if I turned any of that on).
Also The Outer Worlds, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Red Dead Redemption 2 all were giving me over 60 fps.
I'd run the games at Medium or High settings and tweak specific settings as needed. GotG even has some light Ray-tracing and it ran fine.
I think 8GB is still fine for most games people play.
It may cause some trouble at 1440p with some of the newer games, or specific games on specific game engines might run like crap, but for the most part people can get by on 8GB for a few more years if you don't go crazy with the settings.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 04:40 AM (6ydKt)
Amazon’s January 2024 decision to scuttle its $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot
That's some big bucks.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:42 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:38 AM (RuTUS)
I'd say for a reputable company it's probably OK, as they are legit about it being an Unsubscribe list.
Some other fly-by-night or janky spam mail lists are harder to trust as they may just be using an Unsubscribe to confirm a valid address and then they'll just send you more spam.
I generally just send stuff to Junk/Spam folders, and Gmail and Yahoo are pretty good about putting it all there so I never see it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 04:48 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:38 AM (RuTUS)
Some other fly-by-night or janky spam mail lists are harder to trust as they may just be using an Unsubscribe to confirm a valid address and then they'll just send you more spam.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 04:48 AM (6ydKt)
How to know! Thanks.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:53 AM (RuTUS)
Since I have 256GB of DDR4 SODIMMs, that reminder might come in useful if one of my older laptops decides to stop working - which is likely to happen before the memory drought is resolved.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 22, 2025 04:59 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 05:00 AM (kT/XV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 05:05 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 05:06 AM (KsL+3)
Since I have 256GB of DDR4 SODIMMs, that reminder might come in useful if one of my older laptops decides to stop working - which is likely to happen before the memory drought is resolved.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 22, 2025 04:59 AM (BLOW1)
People are going to get really creative with memory solutions if the prices keep climbing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 22, 2025 05:07 AM (6ydKt)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: fluffy at December 22, 2025 05:19 AM (AN2gy)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 05:25 AM (Ia/+0)
They have an unsubscribe link. Do I click that?"
What SpeakingOf told you.
Also, identify a piece of their email address from the "From:" line you can use to identify their mail, and create a couple of mail filters using that run when mail is received.
For inbound mail that matches:
- Mark it as read
- Move it to trash
For a while, you can leave out the "Mark it as read" step and check the trash folder manually to ensure that it's only tagging exactly what you want. Eventually though you want this running silently and not bringing your attention to it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 05:26 AM (O7YUW)
The image of the woman on the toilet when the robot went in the bathroom to vacuum that leaked out on the internet didn't help a lot.
For Telsa's cars using vision, we expect human driven cars to have their lights on to see, so it's not a big deal for the robot cars to do the same.
I was an early iRobot adopter (I've got 2 to cover my house now) and the FTC fucking the goat here pisses me off.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 22, 2025 05:29 AM (rlXCY)
https://tinyurl.com/htcy8dsa
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 05:34 AM (ix8EF)
What SpeakingOf told you.
Also, identify a piece of their email address from the "From:" line you can use to identify their mail, and create a couple of mail filters using that run when mail is received.
For inbound mail that matches:
- Mark it as read
- Move it to trash
For a while, you can leave out the "Mark it as read" step and check the trash folder manually to ensure that it's only tagging exactly what you want. Eventually though you want this running silently and not bringing your attention to it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 05:26 AM (O7YUW)
Thanks! They always go to junk/spam. I check junk/spam daily because some legit stuff goes there. And that's where I am forced to skim the subject line of the stupid ads and that's when I think, make it stop.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 05:44 AM (Da7Vv)
Are there people that do not know Tucker is full of shit?
Seems so obvious.
Same goes for Nick dude. 1 tweet picked up by 20 to 200 bots is not a trend.
Also add in all the people that tell you this or that (D) is preaching Jesus or whatever.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 05:45 AM (gbOdA)
I read a story year ago about how the DoW needed ATT to build switches for WWII. So they needed several tons of gold to make the contacts.
After war was over they melted down the switches and got with 1% of the gold back.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 05:49 AM (gbOdA)
tukker and pooentes
The sooner those two bastards disappear from view the better.
That is all.
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 22, 2025 05:51 AM (G+z4C)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 05:57 AM (Da7Vv)
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Peter Cook
@_Peter_Cook
6h
Journalists are widely distrusted by the public, and that is unfortunate, because the writers of the Constitution considered their jobs important enough to warrant government protection.
Journalists have burned all of that trust down over decades, and this is the result.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 05:59 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 06:08 AM (Cjt/F)
Just thought I'd explain why I talk about Silver prices, and not soybean prices, as the smart ass here asks.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 06:08 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 22, 2025 06:09 AM (qbLEp)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 05:59 AM (RuTUS)
And a fair amount was on purpose.
That is, they were will to risk the loss of trust to sell an idea.
Walter stated that the Tet offensive fail when it fact about 25% of the communist were dead or fallen.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 06:11 AM (gbOdA)
https://tinyurl.com/yffcxa9k
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 05:05 AM (Nx5jP)
Food for reflection. At this point in my life I want to go to the end of my time here doing those things that are pleasing to God. My early life was a denial, I want to end in affirmation.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:13 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 22, 2025 06:14 AM (bQ4nt)
Rejoinder: Born to eat big dinners rune.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 22, 2025 06:09 AM (qbLEp)
Have you considered growing a bergamot orchard?
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:14 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 22, 2025 06:17 AM (ewuvP)
I finally took my dead Dell apart and did the same for a friend who just wanted theirs out of their garage.
Watched 3 or 4 "how to" vids on utube and other stuff, of course, started popping up.
Some talking about what you're saying about silver.
One stated JP Morgan had sent all their silver desk traders to Singapore(?) Many, many tons shipped overseas also.
Lots of folks hair on fire about the opening this morning. Guess the far east which opened last night is/will be the tell.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2025 06:18 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:14 AM (pDt9x)
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The idea had not occurred.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 22, 2025 06:18 AM (qbLEp)
That's a very positive attitude to have. God bless you, tubal.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 06:19 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 22, 2025 06:09 AM (qbLEp)
Have you considered growing a bergamot orchard?
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:14 AM (pDt9x)
; )
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:19 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)
https://nitter.net/nickiminaj
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)
That's a very positive attitude to have. God bless you, tubal.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 06:19 AM (rZCVI)
You have always been an encouragement to me, over all these years at the HQ. Also Marcus T. I’ve taken on some new roles at my church that are stretching me, but hopefully they will bear fruit. Leadership classes for young members. They are the future, not me. I pray that my energy and resolve will hold up for the long haul.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:24 AM (pDt9x)
After the 1968 Tet offensive the Vietcong were destroyed as a fighting force. Everything from the Communist side after that was North Vietnam Army regulars.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 06:24 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:25 AM (RuTUS)
@nickiminaj
Followers
25,626,122
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:25 AM (RuTUS)
Her support is a big deal, no matter the disapproval of some. She does not need to do what she is doing. It seems her conscience has been stirred up.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:28 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:28 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 06:29 AM (Da7Vv)
Let's see if she says the same thing in a year. I bet she flakes out like the rest.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:30 AM (vFG9F)
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
verse 19
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Micah 7: 18-19
Posted by: Kingsman at December 22, 2025 06:30 AM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 22, 2025 06:32 AM (2Ez/1)
Let's see if she says the same thing in a year. I bet she flakes out like the rest.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:30 AM (vFG9F)
Well that’s the unknown part. The lunacy of Kanye West did leave us pretty gunshy.
Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 06:32 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:34 AM (vFG9F)
If you are diffusing them you're about to be in a heap of trouble in a heap of rubble. There is nothing more dangerous than a diffused bomb.
You must be a great evangelist, because you just made me say "Jesus Christ Almighty!" right out loud.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 06:44 AM (zdLoL)
I would have to go back and read the entire passage to get the context of those verses but something tells me that the word remnant is very important there.
I do know there are a lot of "day of the LORD" passages in the so called minor prophets.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2025 06:45 AM (T08Hw)
If you are diffusing them you're about to be in a heap of trouble in a heap of rubble. There is nothing more dangerous than a diffused bomb.
You must be a great evangelist, because you just made me say "Jesus Christ Almighty!" right out loud.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 06:44 AM (zdLoL)
Smart military blog!
"We would get postcards: 'You saved my life today.'" is nonetheless pretty cool.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:46 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 22, 2025 06:47 AM (WPL6O)
"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 06:49 AM (RuTUS)
Then: breakfast and coffee at a diner on my way home!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 22, 2025 06:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 06:28 AM (vFG9F)
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Catherine Herridge:
https://tinyurl.com/262b56z3
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 06:52 AM (E+OH8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 06:54 AM (kT/XV)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 06:54 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 22, 2025 06:55 AM (ph+d0)
https://tinyurl.com/262b56z3"
"Will there be accountability in 2026?"
Oh yeah, sure.
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at December 22, 2025 06:56 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tubal
--
Amen amen
Romans 13:12
The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 22, 2025 06:56 AM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:00 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:02 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2025 07:03 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 07:03 AM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 07:03 AM (kT/XV)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 22, 2025 06:55 AM (ph+d0)
Ha!
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 07:04 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:09 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:00 AM (ZxPkt)
I prefer the darkness. Better to see Christmas lights. Get enough sun here already. Next thing you know, it'll be 110 degrees.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:11 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Mick at December 22, 2025 07:12 AM (HFx9z)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 22, 2025 07:12 AM (w3u3d)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:13 AM (uQesX)
The democrats had Eric Holder, who ran guns in and out of mexico and killed people all the while being an anti-white racist. Trump has Bondi, who cant be bothered to get her hair mussed while scheduling her next vajayjay waxing.
Posted by: Fight Already at December 22, 2025 07:18 AM (m8zKa)
But what do I know? I didn't even sleep at a Holiday inn Express last night.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 22, 2025 07:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)
Yep, and yet....
More precious than silver and gold is the gift of salvation through Jesus, our Messiah.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:21 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:21 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)
++++
Sometimes. Arbitrarily.
The FTC wants scalps, but not if it will be politically inconvenient or upset someone's apple cart. iRobot's problem, if it had one in this regard, was not being an apple cart.
It is easy to look at the entire market and see the big monopolies and cartels - especially though not exclusively in high tech and medicine - and say, "where the hell is the FTC?" They're out chasing scalps that won't upset their masters. The bigger, more predatory, more damaging and more obvious scalps are politically protected.
Those scorecards on FTC office doors all need an asterisk. Not "these are the deals we blocked" but rather, "these are the deals where the dealmakers failed to have enough squeeze." I can think of *one* FTC block against major players that actually seems to have been related to its core mission, which was the AT&T/T-Mobile acquisition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:23 AM (avHHk)
I think it's hilarious.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:26 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (O7YUW)
Obama and Biden could get away with ignoring many of the rules and procedures because Democrats spent the last 30 years recruiting thousands of political judges and political DA’s. Conservatives have never done that and do not have resources like that to call on. The situation sucks but that’s the truth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 07:31 AM (trsuh)
So the market's going to be flooded by underspecced offerings for a year or two, and buying any hardware is going to be painful for any of a multitude of reasons.
Me, I'll be watching for the inevitable specials in February as hardware manufacturers of devices that either use memory (motherboards) or support things that do (power supplies, fans, cases, cpu coolers, etc...) get desperate to sell to a customer base that has paused purchases due to the memory price nonsense.
I might buy a few select things then. From what I was seeing over at Gamer's Nexus videos, Black Friday was kinda grim for console and other electronic device sales.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 07:33 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 07:38 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 07:38 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 07:42 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 22, 2025 07:44 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 06:52 AM (E+OH
pass
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 07:52 AM (RuTUS)
ChiComs are better, amirite?
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (rlXCY)
I think it's hilarious.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:26 AM (qFwJc)
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Read up on Samsung's new Solid-State battery, friend.
Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 10:45 AM (rj6Yv)
As far as spam filters, if you use a * instead of the text on the left side of the @ on the spam mail it defeats the spammers who change that part.
Posted by: epador at December 22, 2025 10:53 AM (TRnzq)
Posted by: epador at December 22, 2025 10:53 AM (TRnzq)
Thank you! I will look into this.
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 12:00 PM (RuTUS)
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - December 21, 2025 [Doof]
The Winter Solstice is upon us
The 21st Day of the 12th Month Warmest wishes to my friends who celebrate!
Click for greatness
Step 1 - buy a 119-meter hydrogen hybrid megayacht for $650 million or thereabouts
Step 2 - spend $435K on one tank of fuel Canadian hockey player Patrick Dovigi spent $435,000 on one tank of fuel to move Bill Gates’ former superyacht
Canadian billionaire and former National Hockey League (NHL) goaltender, Patrick Dovigi, has officially put Bill Gates’ once-hyped superyacht through its paces. The 119-meter hydrogen hybrid megayacht, named Breakthrough, recently sailed from Europe to Miami after a massive refuelling stop in Gibraltar. It was the longest trip that the Canadian hockey player had taken on the yacht, and the fuel he needed to take the trip came with an eye-watering price tag. That single fuel bill reportedly came in at a staggering $435,000.Video segment at the link. Go ahead and check it out - you'll totally feel like Bill Gates and the guy who bought his big ass boat are everyday folks like you and me.
The man, surnamed Li, had been working as an engineer for a company in Jiangsu Province for over a decade when he was let go because of his frequent and long bathroom visits during work hours. The case was recently reported by the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions after the engineer took his former employer to court over his termination. In its defense, the unnamed company submitted surveillance footage showing Li taking14 extremely long bathroom breaks, the longest of which lasted four hours, in a 30-day period between April and May 2024. Its lawyers also presented evidence that management had contacted Li via chat app when noticing his disappearance, but received no replies, mentioning that his position required him to always be available during work hours.Check out the story at the link to see how everything came out. ----- In case you are unfamiliar with the "four hour" bit I was paraphrasing above
John Pinette - Some foods shouldn’t be all you can eat (1995) pic.twitter.com/GckJWuFNZg
— History Defined (@historydefined) December 6, 2025
Peter Paul was acquired by Hershey in 1988. If you're interested, here is a detailed history of the company ----- On the subject of vintage TV and videos, particularly at Christmastime.
Oh my gosh !! I remember most of these toys! I loved my Chrissy doll the most of all of them! Do you have a favorite? 🤩 pic.twitter.com/SBYOcaqPhR
— Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@KathleenWinche3) December 16, 2025
Christmas shopping at the mall in the 1980s
— Cigarette Nostalgia (@CigsMake) December 16, 2025
The world you grew up in no longer exists pic.twitter.com/IYfOBJT5cf
Ladurée at The St. Regis For a dose of decadent Parisian indulgence, French patisserie Ladurée teamed up with The St. Regis hotels in New York and Washington, D.C. The 12-foot trees shimmer with sumptuous velvet bows, oversized macarons, dried florals, and colorful baubles, topped by a grand peacock-blue bow. It’s a feast for the senses, aligning with fashion's ongoing love for food-inspired motifs (think Moschino's playful collections). This collab’s vibe is glittery, gold-toned whimsy.
David Laport at Riggs Dutch couture darling David Laport dazzles at Riggs Washington D.C. with "Golden Origins"—an 18-foot celestial masterpiece of hand-sculpted gold pleats nodding to the hotel's banking heritage. It’s vibe is bold, architectural, and sensorially explosive.
Urs Fischer at The Connaught Spheres filled with AI-generated human faces glow via LED lights on this outdoor marvel. Symbolizing global togetherness, a take that blends tech with fashion's boundary-pushing narratives (think Balenciaga's digital innovations). This vibe is ethereal avant-garde.
John Derian x The Green Vase at The Dewberry In Charleston at my beloved Dewberry, John Derian joins forces with Livia Cetti of The Green Vase for a celebration of pure American style and artistry. The central tree stands tall in a miniature mossy forest of smaller evergreens and faux bois, while paper garlands bloom with delicate dewberry flowers, paperwhites, and amaryllis, handcrafted petals so lifelike you can almost feel their velvety softness and catch a faint, fresh floral whisper. The vibe is layered, collected elegance with a whimsical decoupage charm. Utterly divine.
My own tree? It’s a full-on spectacle: floor-to-ceiling Fraser fir dripping in layers of ribbon, chinoiserie ornaments, velvet bows, polished metals and just enough sparkle for an aesthetic of nostalgic elegance. Tell me about your tree and if you went with a fancy vibe, traditional aesthetic, or something completely different! ------ Thanks, Piper!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 21, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 21, 2025 10:00 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 21, 2025 10:01 PM (dIJjD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:02 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 21, 2025 10:03 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: TRex - charlie brown christmas tree dino at December 21, 2025 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)
Text on a gift bag for a bourbon bottle:
[_] Naughty
[_] Nice
[X] I Tried!
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 10:05 PM (nhCoE)
Step 1 - buy a 119-meter hydrogen hybrid megayacht for $650 million or thereabouts
Step 2 - spend $435K on one tank of fuel
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PRO TIP: Nuclear power. Refuel once, sail forever.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
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Saving the planet.
.
Bill Gates just announced he’s spending $1.2B on ‘Polio Vaccines’.
HHS RFK Jr. on the Bill Gates ‘Polio Vaccines’…
“The only Polio you see in Africa…is the Bill Gates Polio…from his ‘vaccines’…”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:06 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 10:06 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 10:07 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (vSvIl)
Best I can do is a recent video:
https://youtu.be/Du2vB480sf0
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Case at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (S/Y4j)
The jerk would never consider something conventional to spend his billions on, like having a super-hot girlfriend.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:09 PM (nWPIJ)
All those trees are beautiful.
The best Christmas trees are the ones that we have that are decorated with things our kids and grandkids made and ornaments we have collected over the years.
It's wonderful to look at the tree and remember when someone made the ornaments, remembering places we traveled.
We love the memories with our mixed up ornaments.
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2025 10:09 PM (3ek7K)
They missed one point, from the new movies:
"Oh, and how'd the rebels get the plans for the base? They were smuggled out in a droid. Part of a two-droid team. Guess who built the other droid in that team when he was a kid on Tatooine?"
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 10:10 PM (nhCoE)
“The only Polio you see in Africa…is the Bill Gates Polio…from his ‘vaccines’…”
Posted by: Braenyard
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Whoa. I'm hopelessly out of date I guess, but what happened to the Salk vaccine?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 21, 2025 10:11 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December
It is very, very real. Amazing, isn’t it?
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:11 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
I wouldn’t trust you civilians with my nuc’s
Posted by: zombie Hyman Rickover at December 21, 2025 10:11 PM (TTAGa)
I haven't looked yet, but since it took place in Red China, I'd say it's likely the employee was put in a gulag and is now providing a kidney, a lung, his liver and various other parts of his body to Party insiders.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:11 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 10:12 PM (KDPiq)
That 80s mall commercial hit harder than it had any right to.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 10:12 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 21, 2025 10:13 PM (gUzGm)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 21, 2025 10:14 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 10:14 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 21, 2025 10:14 PM (y171U)
Shopping at the mall at Christmas was wonderful.
Most people were happy and it was a wonderful time.
We've lost so much with online shopping.
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2025 10:14 PM (3ek7K)
Girl. Show him your tits. He will fall in love with you. It's biological. So many of these Hallmark Christmas stories would already have come to a happy ending if the ladies just...
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 10:15 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: four seasons at December 21
This is your perfect tree and I love how the warmth of those memories can be felt just reading your words.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:15 PM (Wmg4n)
https://youtu.be/tCQUUIFDlr8
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 10:16 PM (0vB2I)
[_] Naughty
[_] Nice
[X] I Tried!
Posted by: mikeski
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I have the coffee mug! Bought it for hubby a couple years ago... He was always saying "...but I *tried*..."
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:16 PM (rdVOm)
Great photo up top. So glad the days will now get longer.
Fantastic job by Piper on fashionable trees. Lovely!
John Pinette was an American treasure. Thank God for ewe toob!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 21, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)
First tree fails the test of "can you tell there's a tree inside it, or might it just be a conical pile of ornaments?"
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 10:17 PM (nhCoE)
A stressed-out big-city career woman (who hates Christmas because work) gets stranded in a quaint, snow-dusted small town, bumps into a flannel-wearing widower/handyman/baker/prince-in-disguise who loves Christmas, they bicker then bake cookies, almost kiss during a tree-lighting festival, have a dumb misunderstanding, reconcile with hot cocoa, and she dumps her boring fiancé to stay forever because small towns fix everything.
Where do I pick up my check?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 10:17 PM (cYBz/)
FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
Youhuang Xiang, a post-doctoral researcher and J-1 visa holder from China was charged with smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the U.S. and making false statements about it.
This is yet another example of a researcher from China - given the privilege to work at a U.S. university - who then allegedly chose to take part in a scheme to circumvent U.S. laws and receive biological materials hidden in a package originating from China.
https://t.ly/FR76S
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 21, 2025 10:13 PM (gUzGm)
Just read the spoilers for Sweeney's The Housemaid .
A chick power revenge flick. Might as well had been a straight to Lifetime movie.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 10:17 PM (KDPiq)
Step 1 - buy a 119-meter hydrogen hybrid megayacht for $650 million or thereabouts
Step 2 - spend $435K on one tank of fuel
---------
PRO TIP: Nuclear power. Refuel once, sail forever.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
There's a radio show in Sarasota devoted to investment advice. Host told a story about how he hired a guy to bring his 50-ish foot boat from California to Cabo, or thereabouts. The guy told him what the fuel requirement would be. Apparently, most marinas are cash-only, so he gave the guy something like sixteen grand in a suitcase to cover it. No big deal. Well, the bank closed his account not long afterwards, and he had a hell of a time finding another bank to take his business. The struggle is real, I guess...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 10:18 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December
Are you on X at all? There are a few pictures there before I put the velvet hand tied bows on it.
Doof has seen pictures. He was polite. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:18 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 21, 2025 10:11 PM (n7rxJ)
Salk vaccine is no longer used, not for many years, but I forget what replaced it. i think the Salk vaccine had some unhealthy side effects.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 21, 2025 10:18 PM (y171U)
Maybe my hens will start laying again 🐓...
I think they are democrats. Free food and stuff with no production....🤔
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 21, 2025 10:18 PM (dIJjD)
You know what we didn't have in the 1980s?
Go to Detroit. Listen to the music.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:18 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2025 10:18 PM (EXyHK)
Best I can do is a recent video:
https://youtu.be/Du2vB480sf0
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (lUFok)
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Not gonna lie... I was kinda expecting a This Is Spinal Tap clip.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 10:19 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:19 PM (Zz0t1)
A stressed-out big-city career woman (who hates Christmas because work) gets stranded in a quaint, snow-dusted small town, bumps into a flannel-wearing widower/handyman/baker/prince-in-disguise who loves Christmas, they bicker then bake cookies, almost kiss during a tree-lighting festival, have a dumb misunderstanding, reconcile with hot cocoa, and she dumps her boring fiancé to stay forever because small towns fix everything.
Where do I pick up my check?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21,
Oh my gosh this is genius! I cannot believe this has never been done!
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:19 PM (Wmg4n)
A couple of decades ago when we had a big house I would have three trees.
One was all angels, one with all santa ornaments and the main one was all our collected ornaments.
It was fun but we don't have all that room now.
Do what makes you happy.
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)
The jerk would never consider something conventional to spend his billions on, like having a super-hot girlfriend.
Posted by: Cicero
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You know how some guys will say "ain't enough whisky" about a fugly girl?
Well, take a look at Mr. Gates, and hear me saying "ain't enough money"
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:19 PM (rdVOm)
...and put their videos together for the musical theme.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 21, 2025 10:19 PM (gUzGm)
Shopping at the mall at Christmas was wonderful.
Most people were happy and it was a wonderful time.
We've lost so much with online shopping.
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2025 10:14 PM (3ek7K)
That picture hit me hard. The mall of my childhood was torn down 15-20 years ago. The mall nearest me know is slated for renovation for the land but no plan approved yet (fenced up for a year.)
Posted by: Iris at December 21, 2025 10:19 PM (bOJ2I)
Evenink wear comes with a big ass flashlight.
The best part of that commercial.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TRex - charlie brown christmas tree dino at December
Ummm….I have seen your tree and it’s the polar opposite of Charlie Brown.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:20 PM (Wmg4n)
I wouldn’t trust you civilians with my nuc’s
Posted by: zombie Hyman Rickover
Is it because I put salt on my eggs?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 10:20 PM (pkeXY)
Where do I pick up my check?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21,
My wife has been watching that movie every day for the last 2 weeks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 10:21 PM (6ydKt)
Youhuang Xiang, a post-doctoral researcher and J-1 visa holder from China was charged with smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the U.S. and making false statements about it.
This is yet another example of a researcher from China - given the privilege to work at a U.S. university - who then allegedly chose to take part in a scheme to circumvent U.S. laws and receive biological materials hidden in a package originating from China.
Block all muslham countries. Block China. Deport what's here.
America is GREAT again within 3 months.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Every person stepping off the plane was carrying E coli into the US - it's the principal bacterium in the human colon. So, unless this was a super-duper E. coli that Xiang was smuggling in, there was no need to smuggle it - it's already here.
Posted by: Nemo at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (4RPgu)
Where do I pick up my check?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 10:17 PM (cYBz/)
Make the guy a crazed coke fiend cop, played by Nick Cage. Have Werner Herzog direct it. Throw in some GrizzlyCam, WolverineCam, and WolfCam. Add some bewbs.
"Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call-Hallmark Village"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (0vB2I)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (lUFok)
Ummm….I have seen your tree and it’s the polar opposite of Charlie Brown.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:20 PM (Wmg4n)
What is THAT a euphemism for?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm with four seasons at #20 on Christmas trees. Hodge podge of memories ornaments. Those foo-foo trees are pretty and I respect the artistry of them, but they're not for me.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Methos at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (vSvIl)
I don't even want to guess at what supergay dudes can leap in a single bound.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (gUzGm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 10:17 PM (cYBz/)
Been done to death.
Posted by: Hallmark Christmas Movies at December 21, 2025 10:22 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 10:23 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: TRex - charlie brown christmas tree dino at December
Ummm….I have seen your tree and it’s the polar opposite of Charlie Brown.
Posted by: Piper
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Ah, for the record that's my tree...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21, 2025 10:23 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (gUzGm)
https://youtu.be/hqIrzkPDtrk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (3ek7K)
Where do I pick up my check?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 10:17 PM (cYBz/)
No check. That story is public domain now.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (krt76)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 10:25 PM (fd80v)
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and immediately I am with my Daddy trying to do his last minute shopping....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21, 2025 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 10:26 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 10:26 PM (6ydKt)
https://youtu.be/hqIrzkPDtrk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (Zz0t1)
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:26 PM (QMAsf)
Ladurée at The St. Regis
David Laport at Riggs
Urs Fischer at The Connaught
John Derian x The Green Vase at The Dewberry
All those look like AI-generated pictures to me.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 10:26 PM (O7YUW)
lol. She looked old. I would take her in a hearbeat. Funny how an old superstar can get old and look quite ordinary.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 10:26 PM (W7XSX)
___________________________________
Well, there are two topics that don't belong anywhere near each other (surveillance footage, bathroom)
Posted by: Orson at December 21, 2025 10:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 21, 2025 10:24 PM (krt76)
*hugs*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Frankie at December 21, 2025 10:27 PM (medbw)
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:26 PM (QMAsf)
Bad thing for me was, good lookin' was never there when I came back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Unless you hate food jokes. Then you're on your own.
Posted by: Another Anon at December 21, 2025 10:28 PM (4h45B)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (Epuwl)
Oh my gosh !! I remember most of these toys!
I (and my younger bros) had the play-doh noodle-extruder thing, Battleship, Simon, and Lite-Brite. And slinkys and Tonka trucks, but not those particular ones.
Neighbor kids had the Don't Break The Ice game.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)
No, I wasn't paying.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (2F0/Y)
I miss arcades - real arcades with a jukebox, a couple of pool tables, a bunch of pinball machines, and stand-up cabinet video games. Defender, Berserk, Galaga, Missile Command, Mr. Do!, Asteroids Deluxe, Venture, Pac-Man, Space Ace, and a bunch of others. *sighs*
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (O7YUW)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (W7XSX)
Next up, funeral procession wear!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:18 PM (Wmg4n)
It is very nice, just not my style. I probably just have no Christmas couth. I'm OK with that.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:30 PM (QMAsf)
That 80s mall commercial hit harder than it had any right to.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 10:12 PM (v23vE)
Yep. Not just the shopping of course but the vibe. It had a life to it, buzzing with not just consumerism but a sense of optimism and enjoyment. It was a wholesome social hub for teenagers, a place to develop your interpersonal skills, navigate current culture and trends, and scope out chicks with your buddies. A true piece of Americana. Instagram and Discord have taken the place of hanging out with friends in real life. Recession and mail order and COVID have devastated brick and mortar retail stores. Inflation has made even the food court and a movie an expensive proposition rather than a cheap outing for broke high school kids. It's a tremendous loss.
Posted by: They have taken so much from us at December 21, 2025 10:30 PM (TbWk/)
I don't think Ace is reading this thread.
I do want to wish him the Merriest Christmas and a wonderful year.
We are so blessed we have this place and Ace and the Cobloggers.
There is no other place on the internet like Ace of Spades.
Thank you all who contribute to make this place the absolute best!!
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2025 10:31 PM (3ek7K)
I (and my younger bros) had the play-doh noodle-extruder thing, Battleship, Simon, and Lite-Brite. And slinkys and Tonka trucks, but not those particular ones.
I had those as well.
Then I had that wacky thing that you could put the cube in the top and it super heated it where it expanded into a monster, then you could put it back in the crank thing and crush it back to a cube.
That's where we figured out burning spit smelled terrible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Doof
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You read my mind! I love a crazy, mixed-up bunch of ornaments too.
Department-store Christmas trees are great-- in a department store.
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 21, 2025 10:32 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Step 1 - buy a 119-meter hydrogen hybrid megayacht for $650 million or thereabouts
Step 2 - spend $435K on one tank of fuel
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PRO TIP: Nuclear power. Refuel once, sail forever.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
***
*glows in dark*
Damn!
Fail to tighten one wrong bolt...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 10:32 PM (2WIwB)
Pinette was hysterical. The story about him skating in Ottawa was a riot. The last time I saw him he was on Rogan and looked unbelievably skinny. Got heavy again and died. Too young
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 10:32 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 10:12 PM
I know, right?
*Gen X fistbump*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 10:32 PM (Wnv9h)
Used it until it broke.
It was magic to a kid to hear their voice on the radio.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 10:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (O7YUW)
*fist bump*
And grabbing a slice of great pizza afterwards
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:33 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 10:33 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 10:33 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:30 PM
Very nice!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM (Q+gd/)
I miss arcades - real arcades with a jukebox, a couple of pool tables, a bunch of pinball machines, and stand-up cabinet video games. Defender, Berserk, Galaga, Missile Command, Mr. Do!, Asteroids Deluxe, Venture, Pac-Man, Space Ace, and a bunch of others. *sighs*
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (O7YUW)
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Showbiz Pizza was our go-to for video games. Cheap pizza, animatronic floor show, and video games as far as the eye can see.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM (ZxPkt)
Life or death in the big city.
I heard about the shooting at the Dallas mall today.
Posted by: Case at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM (G1OIb)
Our parents knocked us into next week enough times that we're younger than our age.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2025 10:35 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Hunter/Garcia Goodness at December 21, 2025 10:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 10:29 PM (O7YUW)
My dad worked for a company that designed the monitor chassis for the stand up games. On occasion, he'd get to bring one or two home for a month or so.
I had Gorf, Scramble or Frenzy at the house for a time. Talk about being 8 or 9 years old and experiencing heavy amounts of sleep depravation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
***
*glows in dark*
Damn!
Fail to tighten one wrong bolt...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 10:32 PM (2WIwB)
Old joke:
How do you tell the submariners in a Soviet Sailors' Retirement Home?
.
.
.
They glow in the dark.
Posted by: RickZ at December 21, 2025 10:35 PM (gKDq2)
*glows in dark*
Damn!
Fail to tighten one wrong bolt...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 10:32 PM (2WIwB)
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Yeah, tell us about it, comradeski!
Posted by: The Russian Navy at December 21, 2025 10:35 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21
And it is really stunning.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:36 PM (OoFl2)
I did a serious double-take when they opened up a Chuck-E-Cheese down the road a few months ago. I thought that chain was dead and buried.
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 10:36 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:33 PM (QMAsf)
In an arcade, or a mall? You must mean "passable" pizza.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:36 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Might be an op though at December 21, 2025 10:37 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 10:34 PM
Showbiz?
I'll just leave this here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2uzCYPcE3I
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Department-store Christmas trees are great-- in a department store.
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:31 PM (rdVOm)
*pats chair seat*
Come hang out with me in steerage
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:37 PM (QMAsf)
That 80s mall commercial hit harder than it had any right to.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy
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Heh! Me too. I mostly recall that the really nice malls, like those in that video, was no where near my little part of Pennslytucky. Boardman Mall was ok, in Ohio, if you didn't mind the occasional Mafia hit or car bomb (I seem to recall them described as a Youngstown tune up).
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 21, 2025 10:38 PM (sAmhv)
That was my favorite thing in the world for a few years of my young life.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 10:38 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:38 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Not allowed anymore at December 21, 2025 10:39 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: msmanners at December 21, 2025 10:39 PM (yv+EB)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Tempest was one of my favorites. Also Q-bert.
Another that I loved was one I don't hear too many people talk about. Quirky game called Crystal Castles.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:39 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21,
Oh my gosh this is genius! I cannot believe this has never been done!
Posted by: Piper
--
Paging Paul Newman.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:39 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:38
That would be so cute in a kitchen.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:40 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Penguin/Greenland Alliance at December 21, 2025 10:41 PM (oftw2)
Come hang out with me in steerage
Posted by: Doof
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Sweet deal! Be right there...
*grabs bottle of Wild Turkey*
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:41 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
Somewhere in an unopened box of stuff is a six sided cookie cutter that was my mom's.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)
The best part of that commercial.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Svimwear...wife and I were at a Kmart, summer of 2000 I think it was, employee gets on the intercom asking for assistance in svimwear. Damned if she didn't sound like the Soviet chick in that commercial. I can see the wife struggling to hold it together, so I help by intoning, "ees next"...
I had to practically carry her out of there, tears streaming down her face, her hand and mine over her mouth until we made it to the parking lot where we both exploded into gales of laughter...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 10:42 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Doof
There was a band named after that game. They, uh, didn't behave well.
Alice Glass is still around though.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 21, 2025 10:42 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Haha, I have one of those!
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:43 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:36 PM (uQesX)
The pizza joint in our mall was really good. There is still a mall where I live now - it's barely hanging on. My favorite pizza place in my town -- in the mall. Old school pizzeria style pizza.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
Another that I loved was one I don't hear too many people talk about. Quirky game called Crystal Castles.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:39 PM (QMAsf)
Don't remember that one. Q-bert was crazy difficult because of the angles. I just never could keep from jumping off the edge.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Frederik X at December 21, 2025 10:44 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 21, 2025 10:44 PM (V362x)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 10:42 PM (nbLIj)
What a fantastic memory.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:45 PM (Zz0t1)
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Sales of Danish butter cookies have cratered, and it's bringing down the entire economy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:46 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2025 10:46 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: PabloD at December 21, 2025 10:47 PM (Epuwl)
Trump just blew the so-called “experts” out of the water by rattling off how hard drug prices are crashing.
Look at this
Blood thinner: $750 → $16
HIV meds: $1,500 → $217
Hep B treatment: $1,400 → $413
Hep C drugs: $25,000 → $2,500
That’s not a tweak. That’s a demolition.
Of course, the fake news won’t touch it
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:47 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Tempest was one of my favorites. Also Q-bert.
Another that I loved was one I don't hear too many people talk about. Quirky game called Crystal Castles.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:39 PM (QMAsf)
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I remember Crystal Castles. Basically had a track ball instead of a joystick.
Back in the 80s, there was a gameshow called Starcade that had contestants competing playing video games. The only episode of it I remember had a kid whose favorite game was Crystal Castles. It was one of the games contestants could choose. The kid avoided it until the final round, and the kid kicked his oppenent's ass.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 10:47 PM (OGOaV)
Ornaments are nothing special. There’s a bunch of kid made ones, those are my favorites. It’s not pretty or symmetric or color coordinated. And it has colored lights.
But it’s just me now, so I do what I like.
Merrry Christmas everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 10:48 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
Of course, the fake news won’t touch it
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:47 PM (1JTFF)
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Biden and his handpicked team of top-tier economic experts laid the groundwork for this.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:49 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 10:49 PM (trsuh)
My favorite glasses came from Dairy Queen-- they look etched (but it's decal) with a pinecone/pine needles design. Festive!
And then there were the Rodney & Rhonda Reindeer stuffies. Also, Toy Story figures...
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Galaga and Ms Pac Man were my go-to games, but I loved Tempest too.
Qix annoyed me. I liked it, but once it got to the levels where the Qix split in half, so you could get a bonus for drawing a line between them, I'd work so hard at that that I'd draw myself into a corner.
Then the more-complex later-80s games..... I spent way too much on Gauntlet 2 and Rampage. That 'add another quarter to continue' thing was murder on the wallet.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 10:50 PM (nhCoE)
But it’s just me now, so I do what I like.
Merrry Christmas everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 10:48 PM (IhIKR)
You asked for it...........
https://youtu.be/31A6RjOxE74
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:51 PM (1JTFF)
Ornaments are nothing special. There’s a bunch of kid made ones, those are my favorites. It’s not pretty or symmetric or color coordinated. And it has colored lights.
But it’s just me now, so I do what I like.
Merrry Christmas everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 10:48 PM (IhIKR)
This is awesome and your tree should be exactly what makes you happy. I think I am going to buy a fake tree for next year. They are easier to decorate, the lights are symmetrical, they don’t come with surprise critters. Has that ever really happened to anyone? Seems plausible.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:51 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 10:51 PM (2GVsD)
And which one had the big monster head at the end that you had to fight? It would laugh at you while you shot at it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 10:52 PM (trsuh)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
If it was a real place with outside locations, not just malls like Sbarro and that other one I can't think of, then that's different. In my area the best places were never in the mall.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
I suspect about 50 meters per gallon.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (trsuh)
Tom Homan@HomanNews . 9h
UH-OH
President Trump just referenced Title 18, Chapter 115, Section 2387, drawing attention to serious federal statutes—and directly addressed Commander Kirk Lippold (U.S. Navy).
The law is clear. Violations carry severe criminal penalties.
Trump’s message was unmistakable:
“Follow the law. Do your duty.”
The allegation is explosive—claims of sedition involving Sen. Mark Kelly are now being openly discussed.
This is no longer political chatter.
This is legal scrutiny.
And when the law is invoked at this level, accountability—not rhetoric—comes next.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Michelle Fields Farewell To Arms at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (oftw2)
"I can't hear the TV."
"Because you took your hearing aids out!"
"huh?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Kids wouldnt know what to do if they ever saw something like that up here in Seattle. So sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 10:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 10:54 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:54 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 21, 2025 10:44 PM (V362x)
Mama Mars is glaring at you.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:54 PM (uQesX)
And when the law is invoked at this level, accountability—not rhetoric—comes next.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (1JTFF)
In before the 'nothing will happen' guy........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 10:54 PM (trsuh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 10:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Piper
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Dad used to cut our trees from a friend's property. We never had surprise critters, but maybe because Dad would hose them off in the yard & let drip-dry in the detached garage before bringing into our house?
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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The only thing better than an archade is an archade located inside an amusement park.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:55 PM (1JTFF)
I don't mind window rattling south winds if snow follows. This woke me at 3am. My husband said our primroses have blooms today, which made me sad.
In the South we always got a cedar tree from our farm. In fact, my most favorite photo of our sons is bringing the tree (or trying to) near my father's lake. I keep intending to paint it for Christmas cards. I keep intending to do a lot of things.They are wicked to decorate due to sharp little needles, but we did.
My current tree is a fake but realistic 10' one with antique ornaments, ornaments collected since our '78 engagement, sterling snowflakes, crystal snowflakes (do you see a trend of what I want for Christmas yet?).
This year I added antique chandelier crystals for sparkle and pretend icicles (that I don't have hanging off the house, either...sometimes gigantic). I am getting more for next year as I like the effect (from etsy).
Love you all. Please send snow.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 10:56 PM (WONhk)
I will need to check it out sometime........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:56 PM (Zz0t1)
But it’s just me now, so I do what I like.
Merrry Christmas everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 10:48 PM (IhIKR)
I'd say your ornaments are VERY special! They bring Christmas magic to you. I can stare at various ornaments on my tree and be transported back in time. Some of my favorite ornaments have left my house and now hang on my son's tree. They share space with ones from his girlfriend's life and are making new Christmas magic and memories for them. It's wonderful.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:57 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 21, 2025 10:57 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 10:54 PM (Wmg4n)
Thanks, and good night!
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 10:58 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
Kids wouldnt know what to do if they ever saw something like that up here in Seattle. So sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (IhIKR)
Northpark
Posted by: We all shot J.R. at December 21, 2025 10:58 PM (RNPmW)
I will need to check it out sometime........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:56 PM (Zz0t1)
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We've got one up here in MN. $15 all you can play. Food and drink extra (and their food is meh). Lots of old school games.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 10:58 PM (OGOaV)
I'd hate to be a kid nowadays. WAY to much pressure with social media and all the bullshit. No wonder all the kids are on pharmaceuticals.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:59 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
What was that 3-D tank game?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 10:59 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum
The 3-D one with the green wireframe
Battlezone.
I still think of that game every time I see a Cybertruck.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Had that, it was the Strange Change - Lost World made by Mattel. Create 'Em, Crush 'Em, Create 'Em!
Posted by: Joemarine at December 21, 2025 11:00 PM (y171U)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX)
Definitely not the chain places like Sbarro. Think Perry's from Fast Times.
I know where I'm going for lunch tomorrow.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:00 PM (QMAsf)
Islam in Thirteen Easy Verses
https://tinyurl.com/48y6mrp4
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:59 PM (1JTFF)
Know islham, no peace.
No islham, know peace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:01 PM (Zz0t1)
I had somebody ask me if I needed hearing aids today because I didn't respond when she was trying to get my attention. Would have probably worked better if she had used the right name.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 21, 2025 11:01 PM (lUFok)
I will need to check it out sometime........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 10:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Don't go! It's horrible!
Posted by: It's not Pleasure Island at December 21, 2025 11:02 PM (uQesX)
Had that, it was the Strange Change - Lost World made by Mattel. Create 'Em, Crush 'Em, Create 'Em!
Posted by: Joemarine at December 21, 2025 11:00 PM (y171U)
That was it!!! Crazy toy for a kid, but in the era of Safety Third! it was perfect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 10:48 PM (IhIKR)
My sinus issues always got worse,too, with real spruce trees.I read about pollen and/or mold as well. We'd get one for the foyer that was 16' tall, and every year I'm snorting in videos. So now we have a fake one in the LR instead and sinus infection free for the holidays now.
I hope you have a lovely Christmas. I'm trying, but without our usual snow my normal joy is a bit muted...but present with our grandkids we see every week. We are blessed and have a new surprise girl this year for her first Christmas dazzle.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 11:02 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:03 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 11:02 PM (WONhk)
It's going to be 79 degrees on Christmas Day in N TX.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:03 PM (Zz0t1)
They had to call a man to come get it out, on a Sunday.
She sent us a video- he reached inside the tree, grabbed the squirrel and tossed it out the open front door.
We felt guilty about laughing- but it was funny.
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2025 11:03 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:03 PM (2GVsD)
That game was stupid hard and stupid expensive. Never got into it for those reasons.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:03 PM (2GVsD)
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Never got into that one, mainly because I always died within the first 10 seconds.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:04 PM (OGOaV)
History shows that women will always defect to the enemy if they feel their own men cannot or will not protect them
@HJB_News__
Up to 100,000 converts to Islam are living in the UK, with white women leading the growing number of people embracing the Muslim faith.
The number of converts to Islam have risen from around 60,000 in 2001 to up to 90,000 to 100,000 in 2024, according to estimates in a report for the Faith Matters organisation.
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The British government gives UK women the choice between their colon stretched for simultaneous penetration and gang rape or become a Muslim.
youtube.com/watch?v=8hr3Stnk8_k
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:04 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:04 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (QMAsf)
I know where I'm going for lunch tomorrow.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:00 PM (QMAsf)
(gulp)
Another "classic movie" I haven't seen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: We all shot J.R
Yes!
I also remember going to the Galleria in Houston. Holy crap. That was big.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (IhIKR)
If the Danes hadn't breed out existence their Viking heritage they could solve this in the old fashioned way by invading and looting England. Leaving that task to a bunch of Muzzies allowed to take over England without much of fight is a continental embarrassment.
This got me thinking about famous Danes over the centuries so I asked Microsoft Co-Pilot to name notable Danish strippers. Co-Pilot yelled at me for asking an inappropriate question and then list out a few Copenhagen strip clubs.
Western civilization is doomed.
Posted by: Zombie Harald Bluetooth Gormsson at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (nWPIJ)
The person who headed up the MN Somali fraud was a white woman who was dating a Somali.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:06 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Puddleglum
The 3-D one with the green wireframe tanks everything?
Battlezone.
I still think of that game every time I see a Cybertruck.
Posted by: mikeski
Battlezone! Yes, that's the one.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (XeU6L)
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My sister and her family live in a very small town. They order pizza from the gas station up the road.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:04 PM (2GVsD)
Finally made it out of that church!
Posted by: Mississippi Squirrel at December 21, 2025 11:08 PM (uQesX)
Blood thinner: $750 → $16
HIV meds: $1,500 → $217
Hep B treatment: $1,400 → $413
Hep C drugs: $25,000 → $2,500
That’s not a tweak. That’s a demolition.
Of course, the fake news won’t touch it
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 10:47 PM (1JTFF)
Now ban them from advertising prescription drugs to the general public. No different than advertising cigarettes to kids. They aren't legally able to decide for themselves, then you shouldn't be targeting them with ads.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 21, 2025 11:08 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 21, 2025 11:08 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:06 PM (KDPiq)
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A sterling example of how the wondrous tapestry of diversity makes us all better human beings, or something.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:08 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (uQesX)
Doesn't hold up when you become over 29 and conservative. Except for Phoebe Cates's boobs.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Cousin Dale at December 21, 2025 11:09 PM (Q+gd/)
I know where I'm going for lunch tomorrow.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:00 PM (QMAsf)
(gulp)
Another "classic movie" I haven't seen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (uQesX)
If you do ever watch it, it probably won't hit you in the same manner it would have if you watched it back in the 80s. One of my favorites and I can quote it all day. Couldn't imagine seeing it for the first time at this age though.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:09 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (OGOaV)
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How's the sushi?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:09 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (XeU6L)
Sheesh! A store and gas station. Lucky!
My little town had only the mayor's kid with a lemonade stand and a five gallon gas can.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 11:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (3ek7K)
Were they coffee colored?
Posted by: Babs at December 21, 2025 11:10 PM (uQesX)
This got me thinking about famous Danes over the centuries so I asked Microsoft Co-Pilot to name notable Danish strippers. Co-Pilot yelled at me for asking an inappropriate question and then list out a few Copenhagen strip clubs.
Western civilization is doomed.
Posted by: Zombie Harald Bluetooth Gormsson at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (HTCU3)
Denmark used to have this gag thing you could order from certain dive bars called what loosely translated to "dirty beer."
It's where a nasty old broad would climb up onto the bar, insert the tap handle in her vag and pour you a beer.
You can't find one now. They're supposedly the happiest people on earth, but they only really just exist. They've bred any toughness and strength out by being such a strict socialist nation, they don't know anything else and think life is just grand.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:10 PM (Zz0t1)
The most awkward, sad, and uncomfortable Christmas background story ever - Gremlins.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:10 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 21, 2025 11:10 PM (E0Kkk)
Sales of Danish butter cookies have cratered, and it's bringing down the entire economy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 10:46 PM (nWPIJ)
Because all the dang tins were really full of sewing notions!!!!
Posted by: moki at December 21, 2025 11:11 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (OGOaV)
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How's the sushi?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:09 PM (nWPIJ)
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Yeah, no amount of small town charm would get me to try that. I will say, though, that the pizza was pretty good!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:11 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:11 PM (77rzZ)
My sister and her family live in a very small town. They order pizza from the gas station up the road.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:07 PM (OGOaV)
Hunt Brothers Pizza. It's pretty bland on the other side of cardboard crust. 3 out of 10.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq)
I have seen that part. Golly, what a doll.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:12 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)
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Definitely true. I caught it on TV a few months ago and was surprised at how dark it was. The subplot with Judge Reinhold's younger sister getting knocked up by the creep who hung around the high school was pretty tragic.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:13 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:13 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:15 PM (IhIKR)
Youngest D, who was about three, and I were at Swiss Colony- what happened to them?- buying gift boxes.
The Mall Santa comes in and asks the clerk if he can use their restroom.
S's little eyes were like saucers- SANTA goes to the POTTY?
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2025 11:15 PM (f+FmA)
How's the reading going?
(debating whether to use a credit card to pay an editor)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:15 PM (uQesX)
They'd smell so good. Each had its own character-- "turn the bare spot to the wall!" or "the branches won't hold up those heavy ones" -- so the ornament choices would vary from year to year.
Had to water frequently. Stoopid tree stands never had a large enough reservoir, so a quart or two, 3-4 times a day at first. Let it go dry *one time* and tree would turn to a crisp within days. Sad.
After removal? UGH!!! Would be vacuuming up the dropped needles for months.
Artificial trees have improved MUCH over the years. I'd still rather put on the lights myself, though. Pre-lit is *too perfect* ya know?
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 11:15 PM (rdVOm)
My little town had only the mayor's kid with a lemonade stand and a five gallon gas can.
Was the gas can for the lemonade?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 21, 2025 11:15 PM (E0Kkk)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)
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I miss the days when Pizza Hut was a sit-down restaurant.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (uQesX)
Doesn't hold up when you become over 29 and conservative. Except for Phoebe Cates's boobs.
Posted by: Opinion fact
Yeah, that's about all I remember about FTaRH.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (sAmhv)
Older guy taking her virginity in a dug out. Turning into a slut and banging the ticket guy resulting in a no big deal abortion. Keep in mind these were 15 year old kids.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (KDPiq)
I know where I'm going for lunch tomorrow.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:00 PM (QMAsf)
(gulp)
Another "classic movie" I haven't seen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (uQesX)
If you do ever watch it, it probably won't hit you in the same manner it would have if you watched it back in the 80s. One of my favorites and I can quote it all day. Couldn't imagine seeing it for the first time at this age though.
Posted by: Doof
Watched Fast Times a year or two ago. Nostalgia during mall scenes was about all I got out of it.
Stranger Things mall scenes were more realistic for the set time.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (Q+gd/)
Wasn't that the one that was like Blue Lagoon, only she was naked 3/4 of the time?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma
That game was stupid hard and stupid expensive. Never got into it for those reasons.
Posted by: Sponge
Dragon's Lair, and Space Ace, were the Avatar of video games.
100% visual woo-woo, 0% story/gameplay.
A Japanese visual novel where you made choices by moving the joystick at exactly the right time.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 11:17 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Rex B at December 21, 2025 11:17 PM (C9oTe)
Yeah, that's about all I remember about FTaRH.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (sAmhv)
"Listen mister! You can shut up or I'm gonna kick 100% or your ass!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:10 PM (Zz0t1)
From what I’ve seen it appears that Danish men and women try to have exactly the same pageboy haircuts and all wear the same clothes. No wonder they’re depressed, they’re all boring each other to death.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (trsuh)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (Q+gd/)
Wasn't that the one that was like Blue Lagoon, only she was naked 3/4 of the time?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (Zz0t1)
correct
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (Q+gd/)
The south wind is going to drive me to the guestroom, that has foam toddler rails on the sides of the queen mattress. I reckon I won't be falling out of bed but can escape the wind. My husband is on his own tonight. It rattles the walls in our SE facing upstairs bedroom as well as the windows.
For Doof,my music man, or anyone who likes Kansas and the theme of the south wind. Plus I really love Steve Walsh in gym shorts. My runnin' bf/husband used to wear them.
Rock on, Morons! Keeps you young!
https://tinyurl.com/5e7r7dvm
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2025 11:15 PM (f+FmA)
Online only now, I think. You can still find pop up Hickory Farms stores. Both same company now.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (uQesX)
But don’t forget the great pinball tables the came out then too. My kingdom for a working Black Knight.
If you grew up in Denver, Celebrity Sports Center was the greatest place in the world to blow a roll of quarters. Owned by Disney at one point.
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (JsnfW)
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (Q+gd/)
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I'll see your movie and raise you Jennifer Connelly in Career Opportunities.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 11:19 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (OGOaV)
Carson City has one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:19 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (OGOaV)
Jennifer Connelly AND Virginia Madsen in The Hot Spot.
Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2025 11:20 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:20 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Or the edited for TV version - "I'm gonna kick 100% of your FACE!"
They also changed "You DICK!" to "You NERD!"
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:21 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:20 PM (KDPiq)
If you came off the rink onto the carpet and hit skate first into the coin door of a video game, you could rattle a couple of credits in. Of course, it made a loud noise and attracted attention to the area by bouncers if the music wasn't loud enough.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:22 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: nurse ratched at
Merry Christmas nurse 😊
My tree is a small old artificial tree of my grandma's. It has small wooden ornaments; sled, snowman, etc that came with it. I've added handmade ornaments of angels nestled in seashells.
I also have a nativity set that my grandparents bought for their first Christmas together in 1945. I don't know if the tree is that old
These are treasures to me.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:22 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: Penguin/Greenland Alliance
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Global warming has created so much pain for Penguins and trouble for Russian sea traffic that the increase in thick ice necessitated dispatch of all four nuclear ice breakers to open up sea lanes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:23 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:22 PM (Zz0t1)
1980s life hack!
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:23 PM (QMAsf)
Or the edited for TV version - "I'm gonna kick 100% of your FACE!"
They also changed "You DICK!" to "You NERD!"
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:21 PM (QMAsf)
It's why I really hate watching movies on TV.
"Maverick. You are still dangerous. But you can be my wingman any time!"
"*poor dub* No way. You can be mine."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:23 PM (Zz0t1)
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It looks like this weekend was the last of the decent weather for a while. We used it to move the boat to its new temporary slip yesterday since they're starting the demolition of our longtime home section of the docks in January.
I now have a close-up view of the bridge. Whatever.
and December 28 is the deadline for
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:23 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:23 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:24 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
All You Can Eat crispy greasy crust with barely there toppings!
Dropped some serious lunkers after after eating there
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:24 PM (/lPRQ)
Moved the little star lights into the hall & put larger twinkle stars in the breakfast nook window. The little stars didn't have enough little.
Repairing the light + colored glass stars & will hang them next. All the paper stars need re-glued edges, so ...
And AA batteries. Need more batteries.
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 21, 2025 11:24 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 11:24 PM (trsuh)
Lovely to see you, my dear. I’m sorry I haven’t checked in on you. Are you well?
Peace be with you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:25 PM (IhIKR)
Never saw the movie, or read his stuff.
But the unheated pool at NAS Miramar that was our final home pool for water polo senior year was key in defeating Clairemont's team, which was much better than we were. Aside from a friend who's been a teacher there for decades, thus endeth my connection to Clairemont High.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 11:25 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:22 PM (IhIKR)
2 of my all time favorites.
I should start a YT channel to compete with TJM. He does videos about highfalutin directors; I'd do ones about cheesy 80s movies.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:25 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 11:24 PM (trsuh)
I think there's still a Spencer's in OKC and maybe Houston. Dairy Queen bought Orange Julius, but I don't know if they're still selling them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Well, the solstice (sol-stice, sun-still) clocked in for me at ~34.75N degrees latitude at 09:45:25 of daylight. This is 4 seconds longer than the year I was born. The Erf's axial tilt, currently on a decreasing leg of that Milankovich cycle has decreased that much since 1967.
Well, this is the shortest day of the year (for those in the Northern hemisphere), tomorrow will be the longest. What? Today is the shortest in terms of daylight, sunrise to sunset times. However, the apparent solar day, the time between successive high noons, reaches a maximum tomorrow, the 2nd at just under 30 seconds longer than 24 hours. Due to earth's tilt and eccentricity, with perihelion close to the winter solstice, the true sun's longitudinal speed is the greatest tomorrow -- thus is takes the longest for the earth to rotate enough to catch back up with it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 11:26 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Teddy Duchamp at December 21, 2025 11:27 PM (HTCU3)
"Maverick. You are still dangerous. But you can be my wingman any time!"
"*poor dub* No way. You can be mine."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Platoon. Charlie Sheen (I think - might have been someone else) spraying machine gun fire yelling "Dance, motherfucker!" -- edited to "Dance, maggot-farmer!"
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:28 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Doof
Flash Gordon needs to be on there too!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:28 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 11:28 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 11:28 PM (trsuh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:28 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 21, 2025 11:28 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 11:29 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Dad's mother lived in a tiny town up in north Idaho. "Unincorporated" said the sign. Population 104(? or so). Freight train would come through twice a week-- didn't stop on Saturday nights but would just blow the horn and rumble on through.
The General Store was a short walk from her house, and about a dozen yards from the tracks. Sucked for the stock clerk when deliveries came on a rainy day, because nothing was paved 'in town'. There were 2 pumps $$$ out front of the store. Dad gassed up at grandma's-- she had her own pump by the driveway.
Creek ran past grandma's back yard. She'd set out lines in the morning, so we'd have pan-fried tiny trout for lunch. Game Warden? Nah, bro... never came around.
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 11:29 PM (rdVOm)
And then the music stores with thousands of LPs in waist high rack / bins you'd flip through... and the cut-outs for like two bucks each.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Teddy Duchamp at December 21, 2025 11:27 PM (HTCU3)
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Fredericks of Hollywood? They always seemed more risque than Victoria's Secret.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:30 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:31 PM (KDPiq)
Well, this is the shortest day of the year (for those in the Northern hemisphere), tomorrow will be the longest. What? Today is the shortest in terms of daylight, sunrise to sunset times. However, the apparent solar day, the time between successive high noons, reaches a maximum tomorrow, the 2nd at just under 30 seconds longer than 24 hours. Due to earth's tilt and eccentricity, with perihelion close to the winter solstice, the true sun's longitudinal speed is the greatest tomorrow -- thus is takes the longest for the earth to rotate enough to catch back up with it.
Posted by: publius
You had me at let's go drinking until I our eyes fall out.
Posted by: Paul Blart at December 21, 2025 11:31 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:22 PM (IhIKR)
2 of my all time favorites.
I should start a YT channel to compete with TJM. He does videos about highfalutin directors; I'd do ones about cheesy 80s movies.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:25 PM (QMAsf)
Hackers... so bad it's good...
Remember, Spandex, it's a privilege, not a right.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2025 11:32 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
We had plans for a bonfire, but it didn't happen. Maybe we need to bang pots and pans like my grandma would recommend at New Years.
Side note, I asked grok to tell me the story of the Brennan Town musicians. The crow, who was crowing with all his might was trying to bring in a pleasant day so Our Lady would be able to dry the Christ Child's clothes.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:33 PM (igoLh)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 11:33 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: We all shot J.R
Yes!
I also remember going to the Galleria in Houston. Holy crap. That was big.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 11:05 PM (IhIKR)
When I first moved to Dallas in the early 90s, Northpark had a billboard along 35 featuring Linda Evangelista, then at the height of her supermodel career. Northpark had another one with a big supermodel too. It might have been Naomi Campbell. I can't remember.
Posted by: We all shot J.R. at December 21, 2025 11:33 PM (RNPmW)
Watching on YouTube a German army band playing some Wagner. I recognize the song and my mind ups the tempo and I instantly visualize the scenes from What's Opera Doc.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:33 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 11:28 PM (trsuh)
SNL grew up in Phoenix playing hockey. He was pretty good too.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 11:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 11:24 PM (trsuh)
Spencer's was great. We had that and another store called world imports. There were 5 places that mattered. Spencers, world imports, the record store, and 2 arcades. The other stores were just places parents went to.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:30 PM (OGOaV)
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I don't believe Frederick's of Hollywood ever sought the corset and garter business of ugly hairy gay male trolls like Victoria's Secret does.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:34 PM (nWPIJ)
I don't believe Frederick's of Hollywood ever sought the corset and garter business of ugly hairy gay male trolls like Victoria's Secret does.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:34 PM (nWPIJ)
Or 14 year old girls wearing short shorts with "unwrap me" on the ass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 21, 2025 11:16 PM (OGOaV)
Carson City has one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:19 PM (uQesX)
So does Winslow Ariz. Ate there on a Road trip with me boy a couple years ago.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2025 11:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:33 PM (2GVsD)
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I attribute my appreciation for classical music to childhood cartoons.
Same with dropping anvils on people from several floors up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 11:37 PM (KsL+3)
Here's a cool time lapse from a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, showing a complete cycle of seasons from Sept. 2010 to Sept 2011. Each frame is shot at the same solar time each day, and you can see the terminator rock back and forth over the tropical year.
You can easily how the length of the day changes as the terminator angle changes.
https://is.gd/FXqq1P
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 11:37 PM (w6EFb)
Has a Victoria's Secret. They still stock for petite women. S, XS...
Unlike Wally's which starts at magnum and up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:34 PM (nWPIJ)
Well now we know Victoria's (aka Vic's) secret.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 11:38 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: moki at December 21, 2025 11:38 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:38 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2025 11:37 PM (mP0Kj)
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I ate at a sit down Pizza Hut in Marrakech once. IIRC, it was in a mall.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:39 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: We all shot J.R
Love Field. You could roller skate the entire concourse, all carpeted, with an ice skating rink and movie theater. Great place to meet girls when you were 12 yes old
Posted by: Fen at December 21, 2025 11:39 PM (Q4Rn4)
Same with dropping anvils on people from several floors up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
Tiny Toons "Anvil Chorus" may be one of the most violent cartoons made for kids. Virtually every beat a anvil comes down and crushes little Daffy.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:40 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:40 PM (77rzZ)
One lump or two?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 11:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:42 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2025 11:42 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 21, 2025 11:43 PM (HTCU3)
Sorry guys. Not all of us are so top-heavy!
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 11:43 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 11:29 PM (U/Byj)
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Ask her if she's enjoying the big slip rent increases.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 11:43 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched
We had a tragic death in the family, so I am spending some time in MT. In the big picture, all is well.
Peace be with you.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:43 PM (igoLh)
We had a tragic death in the family, so I am spending some time in MT. In the big picture, all is well.
Peace be with you.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:43 PM (igoLh)
Most sincere condolences for your loss.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 21, 2025 11:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)
My local one had a good old fashioned sit down BAR in it.
On one occasion I went shopping for MY Birthday present with Mom and the Wifey (now X)... after 20 minutes buying me a pocket watch (couldn't wear a wrist when working on electronics)... I suddenly found myself holding not one, but TWO purses and a Pile of clothes while the Women disappeared into a changing room... After about 10 minutes, I got the attendant to put the clothes and purses outside the dressing room, and told the attendant I could be found in the bar.
They later decided to 'punish me' with the silent treatment... Dad opined it had made it a much more pleasant evening.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2025 11:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Opinion fact
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Not the girls' fault! You're talking Levi's vs. "designer" brands. And the damned designers f'd up sizes, so the girls could all claim to be 2-3 sizes smaller than they really were.
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 11:46 PM (rdVOm)
https://tinyurl.com/2v6eryyf
The official title is "80's Terminator Rip offs That Are Actually Worth W" but the thumbnail title is "Terminator, with Boobs."
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 21, 2025 11:46 PM (94u4m)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JQ at December 21, 2025 11:47 PM (rdVOm)
I've hit the slows. I have two new stories I'm working on, but not sure which way to take them. Couple of short story ideas, but....
If we ever get the Trump Two grand, I'll probably pay the dev editor and see if I'm good enough to try to sell something.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 11:48 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2025 11:48 PM (wVcYX)
On one occasion I went shopping for MY Birthday present with Mom and the Wifey (now X)... after 20 minutes buying me a pocket watch (couldn't wear a wrist when working on electronics)... I suddenly found myself holding not one, but TWO purses and a Pile of clothes while the Women disappeared into a changing room... After about 10 minutes, I got the attendant to put the clothes and purses outside the dressing room, and told the attendant I could be found in the bar.
They later decided to 'punish me' with the silent treatment... Dad opined it had made it a much more pleasant evening.
Posted by: Romeo13
Always thought Ala Moana shopping center should have a bunch of small bars strung down the middle of it for the menfolk to sit, drink, wait, outside virtually every store.
That mall should still be going strong. Lot of high end Gucci type stores.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I..... the..... how? They're androgynously shapeless black-and white puppy people.
On second thought, I don't wanna know how. Too much SAN loss.
I'll just assume "animaniacs" was shorthand for "Hello Nurse."
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 11:49 PM (nhCoE)
Creek ran past grandma's back yard. She'd set out lines in the morning, so we'd have pan-fried tiny trout for lunch. Game Warden? Nah, bro... never came around
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Beautiful image, great memory!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:49 PM (igoLh)
I stuck to malls that spelled Town as Towne. They never had a Nordstrom or a Macy's; instead they had odd ball chains that went under years ago. Mostly likely because they were money laundering schemes for cocaine dealers. If you go to those today the open shops are run by illegal immigrants selling stuff they found at a garage sale.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 21, 2025 11:49 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
Prayers.
Posted by: mikeski at December 21, 2025 11:50 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:50 PM (2GVsD)
@SA_Defensa . h
@business reports that a 3rd oil tanker, the Bella 1 (IMO: 9230880), has been boarded by U.S. forces off the coast of #Venezuela.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:50 PM (1JTFF)
#oott bloomberg.com
https://tinyurl.com/5n77vx7
Rough crew to sign on to that rust bucket.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:51 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Braenyard
That was probably the false flag one that tried to run for it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:51 PM (/lPRQ)
https://tinyurl.com/y9u45pah
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:52 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 21, 2025 11:53 PM (94u4m)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 21, 2025 11:42 PM (CHHv1)
Also the anniversary of the death of General Patton.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 11:53 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sponge
Thank you Sponge, Bulg, and JQ. The Horde is good people.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:53 PM (igoLh)
TLDR - Russia ain't going to invade western Europe because we will kick their ass. Like last time...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Tonypete
Baby boom without the baby, but you did well.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 21, 2025 11:55 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 11:56 PM (2GVsD)
Prayers up for you and yours.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 11:56 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:56 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:57 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Bulg at December 21, 2025 11:49 PM (77rzZ)
Hey! You got us!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 11:57 PM (2WIwB)
I will be moving back to MT within the next year or so. I don't have family in AK and it is time to be close to family.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:59 PM (igoLh)
[hungarianconservative.com, . political director to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, ]
...For the first time, EU countries have extended a war loan to a non-EU state that is at war, explicitly to help it win that war.
...
This logic does not lead to peace, but to a deepening of the war. The conflict has entered an entirely new and dangerous phase, and the risk today is greater than ever.
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If Hungary had a Brussels-aligned government, we would already find ourselves among the countries providing war loans, chasing an Ukrainian military victory. And then would come war taxes, austerity measures, conscription—and who knows what else.
I do not want such a future for Hungary. Next spring, the country will face a major decision
https://tinyurl.com/2fvj6fxb
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:59 PM (1JTFF)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 11:59 PM (Cphwz)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
Am sorry for your family's loss.
Grief shared is grief divided.
Joy shared is joy multiplied.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 12:00 AM (wVcYX)
Merry Christmas, All.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2025 12:01 AM (nWPIJ)
TLDR - Russia ain't going to invade western Europe because we will kick their ass. Like last time...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 11:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Whole thing is silly IMO. Russia does not have the population to exploit the resources they already have... why would they want to put themselves in a position where they have to occupy Europe...
When the better play is to just sell to the EU.
Now, conversely, it is entirely in the EUs interest to start a war with Russia, and take the Resources Russia has in abundance, that the EU now needs.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 12:01 AM (mP0Kj)
Wait. That came out all wrong.
Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 12:01 AM (Cphwz)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 12:02 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:03 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Let me be the first to say: "Welcome home."
Hope you can find some joy this Christmas, in spite of the recent horrible event.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
Wait a minute! I have a list of naughty girls. I've been going about this all wrong!
Posted by: Mid Life Crises Santa at December 22, 2025 12:04 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2025 12:04 AM (2GVsD)
Now, conversely, it is entirely in the EUs interest to start a war with Russia, and take the Resources Russia has in abundance, that the EU now needs.
Posted by: Romeo13
Obviously.
Then some asshole blew up the main gas line....
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 12:05 AM (/lPRQ)
After about 10 minutes, I got the attendant to put the clothes and purses outside the dressing room, and told the attendant I could be found in the bar.
Posted by: Romeo13
This is the way. Smash has NEVER done that to me. In return, Ive never drug her through a junque yard or a scrap yard just browsing for something interesting to tinker with.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 12:05 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:06 AM (rdVOm)
Wait a minute! I have a list of naughty girls. I've been going about this all wrong!
Posted by: Mid Life Crises Santa
And here I thought you married Mrs Claus because she was at the top of the "naughty" list.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 12:07 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 11:51 PM (1JTFF)
I think the crews to those ghost tankers, like tramp freighters, are mostly Philippinos or Indonesians working for very low wages. The Captain and 4 or 5 officers will be the only ones who actually know anything.
Which makes them extremely easy to capture.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 12:07 AM (trsuh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:07 AM (77rzZ)
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Hungary is under good leadership right now. Prayers that it continues.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:07 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Romeo13
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That's what they want but Russia has something western Europe doesn't have - tough people.
Skinny Russian women are tougher than European men.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 12:07 AM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:09 AM (77rzZ)
oil tanker, the Bella 1 (IMO: 9230880), has been boarded by U.S. forces off the coast of #Venezuela.
When are they going to board 3I/Atlas?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
Grief shared is grief divided.
Joy shared is joy multiplied.
Posted by: Count de Monet
Yes. (And I love how your nic is reflected in these words) 😊
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:10 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:11 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:11 AM (77rzZ)
I am just going to take it easy here, and hit the road for AZ on Friday.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:11 AM (npFr7)
Joy shared is joy multiplied.
Posted by: Count de Monet
Now ... is this math or philosophy?
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 12:12 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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You have to ask Publius that question.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 12:12 AM (1JTFF)
oil tanker, the Bella 1 (IMO: 9230880), has been boarded by U.S. forces off the coast of #Venezuela.
When are they going to board 3I/Atlas?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
I'll admit, I've got really mixed feelings about using the US Navy for economic warfare.
It was bad enough when I was boarding Merchant ships looking for embargoed Arms in the Persian Gulf... at least we had some cover form the UN on that...
This is 'you stole from an American company' and we're going to us the US military to do something about it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 12:13 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Happy Trails !!!
Hope you can get off the road by New Year's Eve.
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 12:14 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 12:10 AM (pkeXY)
Thats what I'm curious about. Probably end up being like the pleasure barge in the 5th element.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 12:14 AM (snZF9)
tomorrow -- thus is takes the longest for the earth to rotate enough to catch back up with it.
Posted by: publius
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You had me at let's go drinking until I our eyes fall out.
Posted by: Paul Blart
This whole post made me divide by zero and bkue screeen of death. I began reading, skipped down to whom posted, and didn't see publius. Thought off nasty dead sock. Then upon rereading, saw the mall cop commenting on publius' post.
*duh*
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 22, 2025 12:14 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Bulg
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*hugs you back*
Don't you start cryin' on me, though... darn it...
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg
Prayers for you, too.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 12:15 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 12:12 AM (3ZUWJ)
Yes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 12:15 AM (wVcYX)
Let me be the first to say: "Welcome home."
Hope you can find some joy this Christmas, in spite of the recent horrible event.
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Thanks, I may make it over to Spokane while I am here. IIRC, you're in that area? Maybe we could get a coffee. Mark Andrew Edwards has my phone number.
I see my role as support to those more affected as they put their lives back together.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:16 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:16 AM (77rzZ)
3I/ATLAS is moving at ~130,000 mph. Going to need some fast boats to catch that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 12:16 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg
Ruling accepted.
Speaking of. I bought a 'modern translation' of Marcus Aurilius (sp?) a few years back & I can't find it. Was thinking it would be time to start a read.
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 12:17 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 12:18 AM (nljXp)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 12:16 AM (w6EFb)
What if they slingshot around the moon, like Armageddon?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 12:19 AM (wVcYX)
What part of MT? Might be closer?
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 12:16 AM (w6EFb)
Thats pretty frigging quick. Thats almost twice the speed of the earth as it orbits around the sun. Must have a hemi. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 12:19 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Freezing your balls off in winter, and in the dark just after 4:00, was always fun. Especially on a clear windy night.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 12:20 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 12:18 AM (nljXp)
Our local Mall now is pretty empty... no problems getting close parking at all.
Hell, even the Movie Theatre that shared a parking lot with them closed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 12:20 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Bulg
Prayers for you, too.
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Agreed, and for all the Horde, especially at this time of year and especially those who are dealing with loss
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:21 AM (igoLh)
ANdrew McCarthy (the astrophotographer, not the NRO cuck) got this pretty nice shot of 3I/ATLAS during closest earth approach on the 19th:
https://is.gd/EhK1KF
He's technically an amateur and that's from his backyard in AZ. His image processing acumen is far from amateur.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 12:22 AM (w6EFb)
Like there is no end to the dicking around you could do.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:22 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:23 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:23 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 12:23 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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Not much closer, but do-able after winter is over!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
Did you notice that all the mega-yachts pictured in that story all basically looked the same? Kind of like elongated layer cakes? Ugly as sin, they are.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:25 AM (npFr7)
Speaking of. I bought a 'modern translation' of Marcus Aurilius (sp?) a few years back & I can't find it. Was thinking it would be time to start a read.
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A wise man, definitely worth reading. MA is a favorite of one of my nephews.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:26 AM (igoLh)
I hope and pray for better times to come for all of us.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
Did you notice that all the mega-yachts pictured in that story all basically looked the same? Kind of like elongated layer cakes? Ugly as sin, they are.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Might be all from the same architect and shipyard
Small market.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 12:27 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bulg
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AMEN!
Good night, Bulg. Merry Christmas!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 12:26 AM (77rzZ)
Indeed. Faith, Hope, and Love.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 22, 2025 12:27 AM (wVcYX)
>>He's technically an amateur and that's from his backyard in AZ. His image processing acumen is far from amateur.
The only thing that really seperates a professional from an amateur is if they are getting paid to do the work.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 12:28 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 12:28 AM (3ek7K)
Here's it's orbit info page from InTheSky:
https://is.gd/bNZnLk
Click on the solar system viewer for a full screen where you can shift the view angle around and play the orbit. It came in like a bat out of hell, "hyperbolic excess velocity" of around 60 km/s. That's so fast the sun barely bends it's trajectory. Eccentricity is thus 6.1 (0 for a circle, 1 is a parabola exactly, and >1 is a hyperbola).
This the fastest thing they've ever discovered. Others have probably come in through the centuries, but only now do we have the instruments to detect tiny little interstellar interlopers cruising through.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 12:29 AM (w6EFb)
Thanks for your kindness. If I missed thanking anyone, I apologize and thank you now.
Good night
Peace
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 22, 2025 12:29 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 12:30 AM (rdVOm)
This the fastest thing they've ever discovered. Others have probably come in through the centuries, but only now do we have the instruments to detect tiny little interstellar interlopers cruising through.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
So... Aliens?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 12:31 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:25 AM (npFr7)
US Navy Burke class destroyers... $4 a gallon for fuel... about 1,000 gallons per hour at low cruise speeds if memory serves.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 12:32 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 11:23 PM (QMAsf)
I remember a Pong game aboard one of the B.C. Ferries boats that plied the route between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale. You could glitch it into giving free games by quickly unplugging and replugging the power cord a few times.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:39 AM (npFr7)
We need AL GORE NOW to save us before we all DIE !!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 12:39 AM (J9q9v)
Launching some from earth with a short notice time to catch something like 3I/ATLAS is impossible with current rockets. You'd need something far better. Not an Epstein Drive, but something far more efficient and higher thrust than we've got now.
They do have proposals to preposition some spacecraft, probably around the orbit of Mars or better and just lay in wait for the next interstellar object to come through. There, with enough detection lead time, you could maneuver the craft to be close enough for a good flyby. Not station keeping, just close enough to get some pictures and measurements as it whips by.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
Many of them look like proper ships.
Don't believe everything you see on the internet.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 12:41 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Jerry Saves at December 22, 2025 12:50 AM (3Qk1t)
I will be moving back to MT within the next year or so. I don't have family in AK and it is time to be close to family.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 21, 2025 11:59 PM (igoLh)
Late to the thread, AK, but condolences from me, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:50 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2025 12:50 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot
Well, if Santa Clause can save us from the Martians ...
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 12:53 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 12:53 AM (viF8m)
Yes, they are ugly. If I was wealthy I would want a unique looking ship.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 22, 2025 12:28 AM (3ek7K)
One of the reasons to own a super-yacht is bragging rights. How can you brag on a yacht that looks like every other billionaires yacht?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:57 AM (npFr7)
Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoHnmUihGY
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 12:57 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 12:57 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: raimondo at December 22, 2025 12:59 AM (BZcY0)
Do you bugger little boys, like your idol Ernst Rohm?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 01:04 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: raimondo
Surely you mean Festivus, since all you do is show up once a night to air an imaginary grievance.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 01:13 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: raimondo at December 22, 2025 01:14 AM (BZcY0)
Because they have to go into the ocean.
Were do you guys live where these ocean going yachts don't look similar?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 01:17 AM (viF8m)
Were do you guys live where these ocean going yachts don't look similar?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 01:17 AM (viF8m)
Having a superstructure that looks like an Italian wedding cake makes them seaworthy? I did not know that. I remember John Wayne's yacht, the Grey Goose. It looked like a ship is supposed to look.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 01:22 AM (npFr7)
Speaking of astrophotographers, I just saw that newly sworn in NASA director Isaaman has just hired on John Kraus as "Special communications assistant".
Kraus is just about the best rocket launch photographer there is.
And Andrew McCarthy got credentialed to be on site, up and close, for the Artemis II launch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 01:24 AM (w6EFb)
It's all about the hull.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 01:27 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 01:27 AM (viF8m)
Which you mostly cannot see in the photos. Talk about hiding your light under a bushel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 01:33 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
You can't let another yacht owner look down on you (literally), so you need a lot of decks.
But you also want to look like an Italian supercar and not the cargo ship that brings it to the USA, so every deck is all curvy, and smaller than the one below it.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 01:36 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2025 01:37 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 01:39 AM (1JTFF)
But you also want to look like an Italian supercar and not the cargo ship that brings it to the USA, so every deck is all curvy, and smaller than the one below it.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2025 01:36 AM (nhCoE)
And they all wind up looking like Temu cruise ships. I'd sooner have have something that looked like a 1/8 scale model of the Titanic, all white paint and brass and teak, with a posse of Hooters girls in scanty sailor suits polishing the brass 24/7.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 01:40 AM (npFr7)
So, funny, but it killed him.
Posted by: docweasel at December 22, 2025 01:40 AM (9HWSy)
Layer cake. Not ugly, not beautiful.
Center of buoyancy matters, I would think all these small ships pass the basic naval architecture tests for stability.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2025 01:40 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 22, 2025 01:37 AM (U/Byj)
I believe it was a minesweeper. Wooden hull, of course. Classic lines. I believe it still is in service as a charter boat, based maybe in Frisco?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 01:42 AM (npFr7)
Most people couldn't tell the difference between a 9mm and a 45 acp but the argument goes on here 365. Endlessly.
There are far more type of boats and reasons why.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 01:46 AM (viF8m)
Here's a Christmas song by an unknown artist from the '90s.
https://youtu.be/8kSU2J_WH64
Hasta Banaña, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sleep, then coffee, not the other way 'round at December 22, 2025 01:49 AM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 01:46 AM (viF8m)
I'd like a panga. Built to launch through surf, and a 90 horse outboard will push it along just fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 01:50 AM (npFr7)
https://youtu.be/8kSU2J_WH64
Hasta Banaña, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sleep, then coffee, not the other way 'round
Get off my penny-farthing, whippersnapper ...
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 02:00 AM (3ZUWJ)
But would you take it offshore or around the world?
3/4 of this planet is covered by water. I've never understood why that means we should go to Mars when we have can't even win here.
If the ocean freaks you out maybe space isn't the best alternative.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 02:03 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: pawn at December 22, 2025 02:04 AM (EMg+d)
If it's nice out tomorrow, will start trimming on the downed tree at Dad's place. Any work I can do will lessen the cost of removal... sure, the estate will pay, but the estate is low on cash so I must "loan" to pay for it & get it back on house sale later. Ugh.
Some days I just want to crawl under a rock and stay there.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:57 AM (npFr7)
If'n I was a Bazilionaire? I build a modern clipper ship... Sails, with engines hidden in case of need, but mostly powered by wind.
Full crew... and think of the Greeny Sect Kudos I would get!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 02:16 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 22, 2025 02:21 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 12:57 AM (npFr7)
If'n I was a Bazilionaire? I build a modern clipper ship... Sails, with engines hidden in case of need, but mostly powered by wind.
Full crew... and think of the Greeny Sect Kudos I would get!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 02:16 AM (mP0Kj)
I'd build a hunter-killer sub and sink super yachts.
A man has to have a hobby.
Posted by: Fast Attack at December 22, 2025 02:22 AM (iu6Qe)
Some days I just want to crawl under a rock and stay there.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:14 AM (rdVOm)
I cut up my downed tree yesterday. I'm glad it was a tall thin tree. I used the battery powered chain saw and burned right through it. Not sure where my gas one is. I saw it during the move, but poof. Might be in the shed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 02:22 AM (snZF9)
*When* exactly, is "Festivus"? I'm vaguely aware that it's a Seinfeld thing, but I wasn't a regular viewer (had to work during that time slot) and I only know of the popular references due to reading here LOL.
Because I really need to air some grievances, damnit.
Where's that time machine... gotta get back to the 80s/90s when my life was so much simpler...
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
They build 12 meters now.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 02:24 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Berserker
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I got a recip saw and pack of "pruning" blades. Only going to try for tip-top and some side branches. Pros can do the trunk!
Oh, and I measured-- it's NOT 3ft diameter, just looked like it, LOL. It's 20 inch dia. and still propped up off the ground by the rootball.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 02:29 AM (1JTFF)
3/4 of this planet is covered by water. I've never understood why that means we should go to Mars when we have can't even win here.
If the ocean freaks you out maybe space isn't the best alternative.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 02:03 AM (viF8m)
I wouldn't take a panga around the world. I would take it out of sight of land if I had basic navigation instruments aboard. I'm not a seafarer, but the ocean doesn't freak me out in the least. By the way, the guy, Patrick Dovigi, who bought Gates Hindenyacht, is supposed to be an ex-NHL goalie. Why have I never heard of him? I'm not a super hockey fan, but goalies are important players on a team, and I'd think the name would ring a bell, but it doesn't.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 02:29 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 02:32 AM (1JTFF)
Imma crawl in bed, and turn the electric blanket up to "brunette".
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 02:35 AM (npFr7)
A girl's got to know her limitations.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:40 AM (rdVOm)
Ok.
What if you didn't have any basic navigation instruments onboard?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 02:40 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 02:49 AM (1JTFF)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:54 AM (rdVOm)
Bill Gates - Like you and me only he won't have to eat bugs.
Posted by: LKP at December 22, 2025 02:59 AM (ylpKQ)
More Classic TV:
“The Fig Newton Dance” (Commercial, 1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkmS9tLgjDA
(You know that you needed the cardo)
Posted by: Arbalest at December 22, 2025 02:59 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: LKP
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I won't be eating bugs either-- plenty of quail and pheasant in these parts. And turkeys, rabbits & squirrel.
Fk klaus swabbie.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:04 AM (rdVOm)
Worth it? I didn't need one *then*! Probably sold out now, since the big storm.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
A girl's got to know her limitations.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 02:40 AM (rdVOm)
The way you work on cars I figure you just might have an inner Paul Bunyan. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 03:10 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:11 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 03:12 AM (1JTFF)
Posted by: JQ
Contact local boy scout troop ...
Present Dugout Canoe Merit Badge proposal.
???
Profit !!!
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 03:12 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:12 AM (rdVOm)
Worth it? I didn't need one *then*! Probably sold out now, since the big storm.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
The one I got is a ryobi, not exactly my fav when it comes to battery tools, but it worked pretty good. It was one of those specials where you buy 2 batteries and a charger and get a free tool. Well I needed the batteries for the other ryobi tools I have that actually work good. Any free tool they offered were things I already have in milwaukee and dewalt, but there was that chainsaw. I think its a 10", and I said hmmm, lets give that a try. It worked great. I had to adjust the chain a few times, which is expected when you're dealing with a new chain, they stretch fast, but the thing worked great. I let it do the work and it never bound up. I had the tree cut it up in under an hour.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 03:17 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard
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This is the way.
Scraps of sheetrock? Bag it!
Leftover pieces of tile? Bag it!
Chunks of broken concrete? Bag it!
L oh L!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker
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Hmm. Will check Hdepot this week & see what's left of the special. Yeah, could use a few extra batteries any time! Bet their lil chainsaw is a lot lighter than the old McCulloch!
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 03:24 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 03:25 AM (mlg/3)
Old fiberglass shower insert? Outside, into the yard, cut into chunks with sawzall. Into a big black bag!
Leftover hunks of wonderboard? Bag it!
Easy peasy! Eff the *garbage police*
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 03:34 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 03:39 AM (mlg/3)
So EU now Trumps its member nations Constitutions and Laws.
Good to know.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 22, 2025 03:42 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 03:25 AM (mlg/3)
We're nice clowns.
Close your eyes ...
Posted by: The Clowns Under The Bed at December 22, 2025 03:47 AM (uBR3V)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:52 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Daaaaang! I didn't know you knew Joe Biden ...
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 22, 2025 03:53 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:22 AM (rdVOm)
Well I got it last year, but they do run a shitload of specials around this time of the year. I haven't really checked whats going on this year, but I need to because I would like a good battery circular saw. The ryobi one I got is pretty much touch and go. Barely enough adjustment to get through the full depth of a 2x4, a bit under powered too. Its not their newer brushless ones though. I have probably 4 corded saws, but thats a pain if you just need to do something quick.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 22, 2025 03:54 AM (snZF9)
Just. plain. lights.
No fancy show, but the music is weird so maybe turn it off.
https://youtu.be/6d-5x01dRQ8
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 03:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 03:58 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
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Yep. Got one of those older ones. It's ok for small, light work. Can't push it hard and got to change battery as soon as it bogs even a little.
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 04:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Good to know. I always go for the extra tool or extra battery. Somewhere in the Home Depot web site is a Ryobi section, pages and pages. So much the an item will be offered and two pages later the item will be paired with an offer lower than the initial price.
Anyway, it's good to know the chainsaw is worth the money. (actually works) Maybe they make a pole model.
I really like the pole, it's much easier on the back and as you said of the Ryobi - let it do the work.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:02 AM (1JTFF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:04 AM (1JTFF)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 04:04 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:05 AM (1JTFF)
Posted by: JQ at December 22, 2025 04:08 AM (rdVOm)
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:00 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2025 07:00 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 07:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 21, 2025 07:01 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:02 PM (fJecM)
No range report. But I have a feeling that I may have one next year!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:02 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:02 PM (2WIwB)
I made my own lancero sampler out of it.
It hasn't shipped yet, despite the label having been printed a week ago.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2025 07:04 PM (C0Nlv)
And to all a good Zeit!
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:05 PM (30Gj0)
for 40 years I have been regretting not buying that Union Switch & Signal 1911
maybe not a Singer, but rare enough ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 21, 2025 07:05 PM (Cjt/F)
And he's cooking this year. I can't wait.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:05 PM (fJecM)
Sadly, not once did I ever awake Christmas Morning with a comely and nubile lass in them. In fact, I never awoke to anyone at all in them. Sad!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2025 07:07 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 07:08 PM (v23vE)
Maybe when I get my own place (with a fireplace) I will hang a stocking hoping Santa fills it with ammo!!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:10 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: DBCooper at December 21, 2025 07:10 PM (+daAW)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:10 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:12 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2025 07:12 PM (ynpvh)
Prayers for your lovely wife Schnor.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (DJPFk)
I continue to beat the drum for Turkish 1911 clones. Get them while you can, before world events make them a memory.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:10 PM (JB9kh)
Hmmm, those battle packs would fit nicely in the bigger stockings. Just anchor it well so the stocking doesn't fall down. (And no fires in the fireplace until stockings are removed Christmas morn.)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (fJecM)
Posted by: DBCooper at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (+daAW)
As a result I am prompted to asked the Horde, for those who are past 29, how do you plan to pass along your gubs to others once the good Lord calls us home?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: TRex - sleigh technician dino at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM
Good advice, only want popcorn popping off in the fire, not ammo.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:15 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 07:15 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
I'm pondering a trust, particularly since I want to add NFA items to my collection.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:15 PM (fJecM)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (DJPFk)
If the answer is no, maybe because:
1) No special traditions
b) don't wanna share
III) both of the above
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2025 07:16 PM (ynpvh)
I continue to beat the drum for Turkish 1911 clones. Get them while you can, before world events make them a memory.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (GjEvj)
I echo this. I really like mine.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:16 PM (2WIwB)
Weasel, I swear, your EweToob algorithm and mine must be in synch. Half of these videos popped up for me today.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:16 PM (Wnv9h)
As a result I am prompted to asked the Horde, for those who are past 29, how do you plan to pass along your gubs to others once the good Lord calls us home?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
A good question. I'm thinking the Sig P226 Tacops and my rifle can be museum pieces given their association with OEF. As for the rest...hmmm, maybe have them sold off with the proceeds going to the estate?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 07:16 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
I'm pondering a trust, particularly since I want to add NFA items to my collection.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:15 PM (fJecM)
In some states it's easier than others...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2025 07:16 PM (ynpvh)
Good evening everyone in the GunHorde and Weasel. No shooting for me this week, but the late muzzleloader and general firearms seasons fast approach…
A very merry Christmas to all and a happy Chanukah to those who celebrate that.
Good night all
Posted by: Coelacanth at December 21, 2025 07:16 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 07:17 PM (VCgbV)
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IV) statute of limitations has not passed
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:17 PM (DJPFk)
We have three adult children. Our daughter lives in
Boulder, CO, so you all know what she is.
Youngest son isn't interested in guns.
Oldest son and hubby have so many weapons, but oldest son will get them.
Hubby and son have 4 gun safes between them, don't know where oldest son will put them, but he and his wife, who is a great shot will figure it out.
Posted by: four seasons at December 21, 2025 07:17 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 07:17 PM (IhIKR)
Just finished a Dumbarton 2025 Holiday limited release. Not bad but not somehow up to the standard of previous Holiday editions, for me. Last year's edition, Holiday 2024, is now a regular production item. Very good. Amazing holiday aroma/flavor profile. These sticks use some pipe tobacco filler to achieve their distinctive profiles.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:18 PM (U/Byj)
For some reason others don't agree. I'd need to move somewhere away from close neighbors, anyway. /sigh/
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:18 PM (fJecM)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:18 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (DJPFk)
Waking up just before 0600 on December 25 so that I can cue up Track 1 of the Awake album by Dream Theater, so that when 5:59:15 strikes, I can hit play.
This way at exactly 0600 on December 25 I will hear "Six O'Clock on a Christmas morning! Six O'Clock on a Christmas morning!"
: )
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 07:19 PM (4786I)
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IV) statute of limitations has not passed
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:17 PM (DJPFk)
Sinco) Prohibited by TM, copyright, or NDA...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 21, 2025 07:19 PM (ynpvh)
maybe not a Singer, but rare enough ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 21, 2025 07:05 PM (Cjt/F)
I have always had an eye for the odd foreign pistols.
Now then there was the chance to pick up an Argentine made 1911 "sistema colt 11.25 mm MOD. 1927" at a decent price too.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 07:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM
I plan on making an appointment with a lawyer to get a will drawn up and maybe a trust. What happens with the firearms will be in there.
Also want to appoint someone with power of attorney and will abide my wishes in case I am incapacitated.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:20 PM (JB9kh)
For some reason others don't agree. I'd need to move somewhere away from close neighbors, anyway. /sigh/
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:18 PM (fJecM)
I worked with a lady who said her son had the habit of taking his tree to the driveway after Christmas was over, and setting it on fire.
I think that family was odd.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 07:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:10 PM (sDNVV)
Thank you, ma'am. She enjoyed meeting you as well!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 07:21 PM (v23vE)
Any NFA items in the trust still need to be transferred through BATFE ( the trust beneficiaries must qualify), however, with the upcoming zero tax changes, it may get easier.
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:21 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: TRex - not a doctor dino at December 21, 2025 07:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:22 PM (fJecM)
A recent one is a short sail in the afternoon before dinner at my sister's (that dinner is a tradition going back .... 30+ years).
Same marina where moron Cicero has his yacht. This year looks like rain, so probably no sail.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:22 PM (U/Byj)
I'll be talking to an attorney in the new year and will get it set up.
Thanxs Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 07:25 PM (Snn3i)
Dad brought an S&W 500 revolver. Was interesting to hear it - definitely a boom, not a crack, and not all that loud really.
And I tried out 4 brands/types of 22LR in the M&P 22 pistol, which simply wasn't working last time I shot it. Looks like it was indeed the ammo. 3 out of 4 types this time functioned just fine, now 2 kinds are marked "Single Six only".
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:26 PM (U/Byj)
My son and grand sons get most of them. Especially the ones that have been in the family for awhile. Others are earmarked for friends, all of who are much younger than I. Those that don't hold any emotional meaning I'm slowly getting rid of.
The bigger issue is all my reloading equipment and supplies. My freinds who reload and I have made a pact that when one of us passes, the others will clean out the reloading room to save the surviving spouse the headache.
Posted by: Charles Martel at December 21, 2025 07:28 PM (smrxK)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:18 PM (U/Byj)
rhomboid, I wish I had one to relate but alas I had to spend some time with the in-laws, some of whom frown on the evils of drink and tobacco. As they were feeding me, I respected their wishes. Next week though!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:29 PM (2WIwB)
DILIT got high viz sights for her Glock 44. For free shipping, I had to add a stainless steel guide rod and spring for my G 21.
I’ll go shoot on Christmas Day, assuming everyone else will be home!
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:31 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:32 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:32 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
I hope to have enough warning that I can hand a bunch of them out as gifts before I pass, and to convert the rest to cash via consignment sales.
I really need to get a will, with a list of guns, together, just in case The Grim Reaper is so impolite as to drop in unexpectedly.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 07:33 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2025 07:33 PM (RoO7G)
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CAO Brazilia Gol. Really like these!
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:33 PM (cIOlQ)
DILIT got high viz sights for her Glock 44. For free shipping, I had to add a stainless steel guide rod and spring for my G 21.
I’ll go shoot on Christmas Day, assuming everyone else will be home!
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:31 PM
Huh. I must have missed references to Junior's line of work. Goddaughter The Older's brother is headed to the Mass Maritime Academy next year.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:34 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: blaster at December 21, 2025 07:34 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
Don't be like a friend of a friend of mine, who had plenty of warning, but still left a 700 (!) gun collection to be managed by his uninterested heirs.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 07:35 PM (GjEvj)
Apart from that have advised the boss to go to one local gun store I like and do a sale of the whole lot. Ammo and reloading stuff a bit trickier, especially since the demise of CalGuns.net, which was a fantastic online forum for local private sales.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:37 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:37 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
Another thing. No matter what, get an inventory together, and include your best information on current values. There are plenty of snakes out there who dream of giving grieving widows $50 for a Singer .45 Automatic.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 07:39 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:33 PM
Nice. I like CAO. Good smokes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:40 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:33 PM
Nice. I like CAO. Good smokes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:40 PM (Wnv9h)
Have only burned one of those but I remember liking it. I'm a big fan of Brazilian leaf, mata fina, aripiraca, and what Eric Espinosa calls "laranja".
Spent a lot of time in the state of Bahia many years ago, before I was into cigars, but today would love to visit the tobacco-growing areas.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:40 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:14 PM (2WIwB)
And whatever you do, make sure your wife doesn’t sell them for the price you told her that you paid.
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:41 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:41 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:37 PM
Very nice. The boy child is looking forward to it. I think it will be good for him.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:42 PM (Wnv9h)
We heard you the first time. ;-)
Have you tested out the new scope yet?
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:43 PM (JB9kh)
HiC and Hiwainan Punch cans beat around a 9 mm into a full auto machine of death
fired from open bolt
So a squeeze of trigger is about 12 to 15 rounds.
Next squeeze open bolt
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2025 07:44 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:45 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:37 PM
St. Nicholas is a patron saint of sailors.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:41 PM (LMRVO)
Ha!
That's just for the ones she knows about, right?
I have a good inventory and a will, but the trust is probably a good idea. Hopefully I will give a few away first.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:46 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:43 PM
Not yet. Been a bit chilly. I'm off for the next two weeks, so if we gw5 a mild day, I'll hit the range to zero. I have a new bipod and some scooe caps coming tomorrow.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:46 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2025 07:46 PM
Coincidentally, the boy is also a Nicholas.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:47 PM (Wnv9h)
This was another example of Weasel's admonitions to remember fundamentals. They help every time. One advantage of a single action revolver: there isn't any temptation to try shooting quickly.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 07:47 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2025 07:49 PM (0sNs1)
Rhomboid, almost obligatory. Especially at AOS Gub Thread!
Mrs. Red is not hoplophobic, but she may not be aware of the size of the inventory.
That’s why Jr. is the primary Trust beneficiary.
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 07:49 PM (LMRVO)
Down here in NYC it was a very nice 2 or so days. But up where the range is not so much.
Let me know how it goes if you do get out there.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:50 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at December 21, 2025 07:50 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Guy Patterson at December 21, 2025 07:50 PM (mP0Kj)
Just today decided to retire and take a year off before even thinking about a part time job at Lowes.
So. 365 range days coming soon.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:50 PM
My club has a good 600 yard range. I'll get out to 100 to zero. So far the Strike Eagle seems like a pretty solid toob.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:53 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21, 2025 07:54 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:54 PM (vt7xw)
As a result I am prompted to asked the Horde, for those who are past 29, how do you plan to pass along your gubs to others once the good Lord calls us home?
Posted by: Diogenes
Have few significant guns.
Two owned by Grandfather, and a
Nice nickel Colt Trooper .357 that dad got for mom.... Light use.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 07:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Congratulations!!! Jealous of you voluntarily retired folks!!
Hope to join you soon!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:55 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 07:52 PM
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Congrats!
Posted by: TRex - full time dino at December 21, 2025 07:56 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 07:53 PM
Toob.. :-)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:56 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:57 PM (U/Byj)
I have to wonder though; what kind of inbred trailer trash keeps the factory plastic case the pistol came in, but manages to lose 2/3 of the interior foam padding, the instruction booklet, and the spare magazine?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 07:57 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:58 PM (vt7xw)
It feels like forever since I've gotten to the range. Hope to be back on a regular schedule after the first of the year. We don;t do adult gifts for Hannukah and Christmas so I'm thinking I need to gift myself a new firearm. Hmmm. So many choices.
Tomorrow I am off to an island off the coast of Venezuela. I've been warned to stay away from high speed boats with large cannisters on board.
Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and get something really nice to take out on your next canoe trip.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 07:59 PM (t/2Uw)
We have a possible JAXA launch tonight in about 30 minutes.
JAXA Michibiki 5 H3 Launch from Japan
https://youtu.be/BgOowvKVD7U
Posted by: Joyenz at December 21, 2025 08:01 PM (2F0/Y)
Thank you and Merry Christmas Weasel!!! Love these Sunday evening get togethers you throw :-)
Everyone have a Merry Merry Christmas!!!
Don't forget the cookies and milk for Santa!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 08:02 PM (JB9kh)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 07:58 PM (vt7xw)
Nice feeling huh?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 08:02 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:02 PM (RG+lC)
Posted by: TRex - not a doctor dino at December 21, 2025 07:22 PM (IQ6Gq)
Thank you, sir!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 08:03 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:03 PM (+OnsA)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 08:03 PM (Wnv9h)
Prayers for your lovely wife Schnor.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 21, 2025 07:13 PM (JB9kh)
Thanks, Scoob, and have a good evening and a Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 08:03 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 08:04 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 07:59 PM (t/2Uw)
Not only a word, but a GREAT John Wayne movie!
Posted by: Guy Patterson at December 21, 2025 08:04 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 21, 2025 08:06 PM (0sNs1)
JAXA Michibiki 5 H3 Launch from Japan
https://youtu.be/BgOowvKVD7U
Posted by: Joyenz at December 21, 2025 08:01 PM (2F0/Y)
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Teaching Nork Boy not to shoot his mouth off about the "Japanese threat."
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 08:06 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 07:57 PM
From what I gathered, third hand, Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. He could have started selling a year or two earlier, when he got The Diagnosis.
He successfully passed them on, but he saddled his heirs with the task of disposing of them, without his expert guidance to get maximum prices for them.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 08:06 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21, 2025 08:08 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Not yet. FSJ and Gertie are struggling by with multiple layers of blankets. Soon though!
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:08 PM (+OnsA)
But now that you’re retired, it’ll give you something to do when you’re not celebrating 365 shooting days like IAB. Congrats to both!
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 08:09 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:09 PM (+OnsA)
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Thanks, but you guys and gals really do all the work!
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:11 PM (+OnsA)
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 08:12 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 08:14 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:17 PM (t/2Uw)
Another tip for accuracy; stop blinking when you squeeze the trigger. Just don't do it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 08:17 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:19 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 08:14 PM (Wnv9h)
121 Doof! I was telling my son who is a great zac Brown fan about your kareoke rendition of Toes in Texas.Next year Chicken Fried for sure.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:17 PM (t/2Uw)
RMBS!
Sharon - Chicken Fried is another great one from ZBB. A few years ago, that was the first song I ever sang in a karaoke environment. I was on a cruise and it took 6 margaritas worth of courage to get me on stage.
Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2025 08:21 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:17 PM
Damn...I missed that?! LOL
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 08:24 PM (Wnv9h)
I don't know if you are a hoarder or what your inventory looks like, but it would seem that if you took an honest survey of your collection and identified what specimens you no longer planned to shoot, that you can pass them along to someone so that they can enjoy them now.
I'm at that point now, but don't have anyone in mind who I would trust to have them and either use or sell responsibly.
May just have to look at consignment sales.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:27 PM (U4c/V)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 21, 2025 08:27 PM (Hw6WF)
LOL, so there is this one I thoroughly enjoyed. Olivia Newton John and Gregory Harrison. He is handsome and she is middle-aged.
It was great. She used to be the one that everyone wanted. It was very nice to see how age turns a former beauty into a homely gal that I would love to meet.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 08:31 PM (W7XSX)
A completely and totally bad idea.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:31 PM (U4c/V)
We used to make fudge and buy donut holes and have mulled cider on Christmas Eve while we decorated the tree.
And on Christmas, one of our stocking stuffers was a box of whatever cereal we wanted, each of us with our own.
That was the only time we got the sugar bomb cereals, though I do remember asking for - and getting - Raisin Nut Bran for at least one Christmas.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2025 08:31 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 21, 2025 08:32 PM (Hw6WF)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2025 08:32 PM (LHPAg)
May just have to look at consignment sales.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 08:27 PM (U4c/V)
UDIP, I’d take them off your hands, but I’ve only got a few years left before they won’t let me take them to the Home.
BTW, interesting discussion at the TxMoMe. Not sure if you remember the subject, but was thinking about it during the recent New England shooting events.
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 08:35 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2025 08:36 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:36 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at December 21, 2025 08:27 PM (Hw6WF)
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Please don't.
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:37 PM (cIOlQ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21, 2025 08:08 PM (IQ6Gq)
Sadly, still in ICU, ma'am. They keep trying to to get her off of the ventilator, but it's not working.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 08:37 PM (v23vE)
I'm so old I remember when white guys on television could actually do stuff.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 08:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:09 PM (+OnsA)
Thank you, Weasel.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 08:37 PM (v23vE)
That would be Charles "Two Families Who Don't Know About Each Other" Kuralt?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2025 08:38 PM (3nLb4)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Long Time Lurker at December 21, 2025 08:38 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 08:38 PM (LMRVO)
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Sorry. It's not something I'm remotely interested in hosting or managing. I suggest checking for a place to advertise at your local range. Thanks
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 08:39 PM (cIOlQ)
I need another bier.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 08:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: TRex - praying dino at December 21, 2025 08:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
I know how hard it is to have to just wait. You are in my thoughts.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:40 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07
Number one son and I are discussing those matters as we speak. Not just gubs but storage devices as well to consider
Posted by: Javems at December 21, 2025 08:41 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 08:41 PM (yTvNw)
Prayers continue for you and your wife. Please keep us apprised a time allows.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 08:43 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 08:45 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:46 PM (t/2Uw)
Grandson #1 gets the H&Ks and an AR, everyone else can pick from the rest.
Posted by: KDKong at December 21, 2025 08:47 PM (Bc40B)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:46 PM (t/2Uw)
Sharon, I do that for IDPA. Very handy and makes a good seat. It also has a saddle holster for my carbine that helps with safe transport between stages.
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 08:49 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
Seen people step up to the line pulling a big honking cooler with everything in it. Everything.
I think they showing a newbie the wide of handguns of the world.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 08:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:51 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless)
*************
I am sorry to hear this...prayers up for both of you, this would be tough at any time, but more so at this time of year. If you need anything, or just to talk, you have my phone number...use it. As much as you need to...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21, 2025 08:52 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 08:54 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 21, 2025 08:55 PM (IQ6Gq)
Of course, with so much space, I have way too much stuff in there. Do I really need a handheld GPS?
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 08:56 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 08:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 08:57 PM (gm9Sb)
I'll just leave this here.
https://youtu.be/KSS6F0eminM
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 09:03 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 09:04 PM (t/2Uw)
What is your opinion of non-lethal armaments (Taser, beanbag, rubber bullets, etc.). Byrna makes personal protection devices and markets them to people who feel conflicted carrying real firearms yet know that mace doesn't quite cut it either.
Looking at a potential business opportunity involving that space, so the unvarnished truth is kindly requested here.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 21, 2025 09:05 PM (0CU3H)
I'll just leave this here.
https://youtu.be/KSS6F0eminM
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 09:03 PM (Wnv9h)
What, you read the content?
It’s like I don’t even know you.
BTW, Mrs. Red and I had lunch with the Dildos today.
That sounds weird.
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 09:05 PM (LMRVO)
Would the same people who think my weapons and ammo is an "arsenal" think my 2 bottles of bourbon, 1 scotch, 1 whiskey, 1 small vodka, 1 small Cointreau, and the 4 bottles of beer in my kitchen make my house a dive bar? Or make me an alcoholic?
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 09:06 PM (/u5H1)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 07:59 PM (t/2Uw)
It was the name of a John Wayne movie, so it better be, pilgrim.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 09:10 PM (/u5H1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 21, 2025 09:10 PM (2GVsD)
https://tinyurl.com/v7c9dxfa
$50
I looked up yours RI Red and I see how it makes a seat, but it wouldn't work for me. I'd have trouble lifting it into t he car. lol
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 09:11 PM (t/2Uw)
That sounds weird.
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 09:05 PM
Nice. I'm just chilling here getting over a cold so Christmas isn't a wash. I have to cook, after all.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 09:12 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 09:13 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 21, 2025 09:13 PM (YlWIZ)
Well, the Japs made orbit. This satellite, QZS-5 will start the expansion of their navigation satellite network from augmenting GPS to a fully independent regional system for the Asia Pacific region.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 21, 2025 09:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 21, 2025 09:14 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 09:13 PM
John Bernard Books chose his way.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2025 09:16 PM (LHPAg)
Thank you!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and hope to see you here next Sunday!
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 09:19 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 08:56 PM (LMRVO)
With that long range range you've got, you just might.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 09:20 PM (/u5H1)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 08:38 PM (LMRVO)
Thank you, sir.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 09:21 PM (v23vE)
I know how hard it is to have to just wait. You are in my thoughts.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 08:40 PM (t/2Uw)
Thank you, ma'am. You hit the nail on the head. As a certified male, I just want to Fix Things, and this is not something I can fix.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 09:22 PM (v23vE)
From Grateful and Dino.
Posted by: TRex - praying dino at December 21, 2025 08:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
Thank y'all very much.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 09:23 PM (v23vE)
Thanks Weasel. Sunday night my favorite night of the week.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good night.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 09:23 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: whig's phone at December 21, 2025 09:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 09:19 PM
Thanks for a great Gun Thread, Weasel! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 09:24 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: whig's phone at December 21, 2025 09:24 PM (WDjG6)
Thank you, sir.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 09:24 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 09:24 PM (JK1W1)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 21, 2025 09:27 PM (RoO7G)
Hoping to get James Earl Jones's high power this week. Really looking forward to it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 21, 2025 09:27 PM (b4o9z)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 21, 2025 09:29 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 21, 2025 09:29 PM (RoO7G)
Fast acting Cordless Hole Puncher!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 21, 2025 09:33 PM (mP0Kj)
sra blaster says "I am for anything that makes things neater."
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 21, 2025 09:33 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2025 09:34 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 09:36 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 21, 2025 09:40 PM (b4o9z)
Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah, Horde!
May God's grace keep you until we meet again.
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 09:42 PM (/u5H1)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 21, 2025 09:43 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 21, 2025 09:44 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at December 21, 2025 09:27 PM (RoO7G)
Thank you, sir
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 09:45 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 09:47 PM (W7XSX)
Not going to open it until Christmas Eve.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 09:47 PM (W7XSX)
Am jealous. Cannot find BT in my state for love nor money.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 09:48 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at December 21, 2025 09:48 PM (v23vE)
Happy new year to all!!
Posted by: goatlover at December 21, 2025 09:49 PM (sVReF)
I love you all.
Even aliassmithandsmith. He is an idiot, but if the good Lord forgives your idiocies, I beg of you to forgive mine and his and everyone else who is trying to walk in this life of darkness without His light.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 09:51 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 09:51 PM (yTvNw)
I also bought myself a Christmas present today, Shadow MR 920. For some reason I thought it had an optics cut on it but when I got home, turns out it doesn’t. Seems to have a very short reset on the trigger. Came in at just under $500 so I didn’t think that was too bad.
Posted by: Arch Stanton at December 21, 2025 09:53 PM (65pGX)
Merry Christmas to the Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 09:55 PM (2WIwB)
It's my Christmas present from my dead wife. Dec. 17 was our 48th anniversary. My life began when I met her. I thank the Lord that such a sweetheart lived.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 09:55 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 09:57 PM (xG1o0)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 09:59 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 09:55 PM
May her memory be eternal.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (Wnv9h)
sra blaster says "I am for anything that makes things neater."
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
You put a hurricane impact resistant door to make it harder to bust into. Maybe pull the interior GWB and infill the hollow stud walls with heavy wire mesh and pearlite concrete, the put you slat walls.
Don't forget circuit for lighting and dehumidifier.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Christmas of yesteryear - wow, how the toddler girl and her brother reminded me of my sister and a brother so many years ago. In tears; I miss her. But thank you for a cute memory.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 21, 2025 10:12 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 10:08 PM (Wnv9h)
May my gratitude be eternal.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 10:21 PM (W7XSX)
Food Thread: Nice Buns! But Size Does Matter!
I made Paella for a combination Hanukkah/Birthday celebration last week, and while it was successful, I was disappointed by the quality of the Chorizo that I used. My regular purveyor didn't have any, so I bought Boar's Head Chorizo at a good supermarket in my area. It looked...fine. But when I began to cut it into small chunks to be sauteed, I discovered that it was extremely hard (shut up!); far firmer than my go-to stuff. Yes, there are a bunch of different styles of Chorizo, but this stuff was like a dried salami, and not the best choice for Paella. And...the folks over at Boar's Head were quite skimpy with the paprika! But was even worse was how damned salty it was! Far too salty, even for a dish that can handle a lot of salt. I had to back off on salt for the rest of the dish! Luckily I also bought some Keilbasa, just on a lark, and that worked out extremely well, and will be in my next batch. One thing this Chorizo crisis reinforced in me was tasting the ingredients. It is a very good idea that cooks know what they are putting into their food. Maybe not the raw chicken, but it is important to know your ingredients, and the best way is to pop a bit into your mouth! Oh...of course I stirred it! It is vital to stir the rice so that the flavors are distributed evenly, and it begins to cook without the hot and cold spots in the Paella pan affecting the final result. Once most of the liquid has evaporated and the rice no longer moves freely, that's when to stop! But don't listen to that "Pete Bog" curmudgeon.
Biomedical research is famously inexact, and is filled with weasel-words like suggests and associated and possibly. But I choose to believe this one because...duh! High- and Low-Fat Dairy Consumption and Long-Term Risk of Dementia
Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia, whereas low-fat cheese, low-fat cream, and other dairy products showed no significant association. APOE ε4 status modified the association between high-fat cheese and AD. Our study's observational design limits causal inference.
Of course, my interpretation of this is that happiness reduces the risk of dementia, and high-fat cheese makes people happy!
Well, this is a new one for me! And I am very happy to have stumbled upon it. Brussels Sprouts Gratin sounds like something that I should have had, but I guess I was raised poorly and made some bad decisions in my life. Sadly, "Dad Cooks Dinner" makes a hugely problematic modification to the recipe he cribbed from (the execrable J. Kenji López-Alt)!
I followed Kenji's basic technique but left out the bacon because some of my guests are vegetarians.
This is madness!
A friend graciously gave me some genuine grown-in-the-USA garlic, and I tasted one clove and planted the rest, because my pathetic failure last year is an anomaly...right? I hope so, because it's in the ground (actually, a large pot), and it had better work this time! Send all of your extra antelope to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com. Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle. The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)
She made one for us to eat today.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 21, 2025 04:03 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:04 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 04:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:05 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 04:05 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 04:05 PM (KDPiq)
The Doritos Locos tacos are still amazing though.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:06 PM (4786I)
With my dijon, pickled onion and relish all beef hot dog, I'm making a "use up the fridge" vegetable stuffing, a tzatziki cucumber salad and strawberries.
Kid made homemade eggnog yesterday and failed to listen when I told her to be careful how long to cook it...so we have that pudding for dessert (not the plan, but pudding may have been a better idea than true eggnog for my kids yesterday).
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:07 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:07 PM (8DR9B)
Next couple of weeks will be hectic, as often happens around Christmas.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 21, 2025 04:08 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 04:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 21, 2025 04:09 PM (4JJSm)
I suspect chorizo is just another name for spicy sausage with many regional/national varieties.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 04:09 PM (/lPRQ)
Made a huge pot - all was gone. And it's so nice as a hearty wintery dish that involves veg...tomato soup is not hearty...but you can just have a bowl of this and be happy with dinner...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:09 PM (tOcjL)
Which reminds me that I need to buy some rolls today, before the supermarket descends into anarchy over the next few days.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 04:11 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 04:13 PM (mlg/3)
https://tinyurl.com/3hjdzza5
I will also have a ham if the goose doesn't work out.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2025 04:15 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 04:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: H.P. Lovecraft at December 21, 2025 04:15 PM (kpS4V)
And quit shaking the damn pan
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (KZIFw)
1 cup powdered sugar; ¼ cup orange juice concentrate; 2 cups pecan halves.
Keep the pecans heated; I did 225°. Mix sugar and concentrate and bring to a good boil. Add the pecans and stir “until all are coated” (these are the only instructions; I interpreted “coat” to mean at soft ball, i.e., 234°). Pour onto cookie sheet, cool, and separate.
It’s pretty good and an easy way to make an orange-fudge pecan jar, as long as you enjoy the flavor of orange juice concentrate.
“A change may be made with creme de menthe instead of orange juice, especially at Christmas time.”
From Mary Lou Turner.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (2NHgQ)
I really don't want turkey and ham again, with all the trad foods. Thinking about a taco-burrito bar. Something casual that can be returned to for noshing at will. Need to run that by my kids and nephew and see if they're in favor.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (h7ZuX)
I could be mistaken.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (GjEvj)
Yes. Apparently only their trucks are clean.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:17 PM (8DR9B)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:05 PM (4786I)
Nah - depends on the product and the price. I rule out no products I can eat with my allergies if it delivers on quality, contents, and price.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:18 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:20 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:20 PM (cYBz/)
I don't know if it's my imagination but I feel like there has been more food borne illnesses related to the above than ever before.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 04:20 PM (KDPiq)
For many years I lived about three or four blocks from a real German sausage shop in San Diego. “Sausage King” I believe it was called. Everything that had was amazing, and that included the linguica. It was run by a very old German couple. There was no one to take over when they finally stopped, helped, I think, by a fire.
It was a real relic of an older San Diego.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2025 04:21 PM (EXyHK)
Gonna fry a a couple for supper tonight, and have on a simple store brand burger bun, maybe some cheese and mustard.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2025 04:21 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
I'm heading over. The ass kicking I'll get when I get back from the lovely Mrs. will be so worth it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:21 PM (cYBz/)
That made me COL. ( chuckle out loud)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 04:08 PM (KDPiq)
I gave her a tiny strainer before she started and warned her to avoid "scrambled eggs" in it...so she didn't take it that far, but she didn't believe the time I told her and went til it felt thick...which of course when it cooled, meany pudding. Apparently, after the straining and cooling, it is pretty great for a 1st try, so there's worse things to screw up than overthickening...and the spouse is considering going half and half on eggnog and alcohol to thin it out for drinking his part...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:21 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Yum. I had some Bockwurst from a jar for lunch; nice mustard.
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 04:21 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:22 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:22 PM (kpS4V)
One thing I miss about living in NY and my Italian friends.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 04:23 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Sounds fantastic
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 21, 2025 04:23 PM (KZIFw)
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Posted by: Pete Bog at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (KZIFw)
My regular source has excellent quality Spanish chorizo. I learned my lesson!
As for shaking and stirring? It is absolutely no negotiable and creates a better result.
One day you will learn...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 04:24 PM (xG1o0)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:24 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 04:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 04:24 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:21 PM (cYBz/)
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Bring some back!
SE Michigan is a pierogi-rich environment. These were just from Kroger though. Still goood.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:24 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:20 PM (cYBz/)
That wasn't a typo, was it? So PA/OH!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:24 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 04:25 PM (zZu0s)
Glazed nuts in general are wonderful!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 04:25 PM (xG1o0)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 21, 2025 04:25 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 04:26 PM (eXHt3)
*stops chewing lunch*
Damn it!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 04:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Chuck Schumer at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (8DR9B)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Sigh...sadly no good Cuban restaurants within a miles of me.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:28 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 04:25 PM (xG1o0)
*blinks*
Posted by: Mayor Pete at December 21, 2025 04:28 PM (8DR9B)
I really don't want turkey and ham again, with all the trad foods. Thinking about a taco-burrito bar. Something casual that can be returned to for noshing at will. Need to run that by my kids and nephew and see if they're in favor.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (h7ZuX)
Returning to noshing is rough unless you keep it warm...with that being the case, I'd want something in a crockpot to keep hot with the stuff around it something that can sit 2-6 hours...
Meatball subs, chili and cheese nachos, BBQ, something like that would be the play if you want it to sit hours...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:28 PM (tOcjL)
Not really. Two-pound block of Velveeta, two cans of Ro-Tel, as many corn chips as it will take to eat it all. Slice the Velveeta into reasonable bits, place in glass casserole. Pour both cans of Ro-Tel in. Place in microwave and nuke on medium for several minutes, stirring occasionally. When it's a consistent saucy ... consistency, serve with chips.
Heck, it's just as easy as sloppy joes. (Oh, and if you already got out the hamburger and browned it, that's ok. Just throw that hamburger into the cheese, too. It's now a beefy Ro-Tel-Velveeta dip.)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 04:29 PM (Esy/h)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:29 PM (h7ZuX)
I thought the tradition for Jewish people was to go out for Chinese food on Christmas. Not that I'd ever do that. Now I usually get to celebrate both holidays but will be some placewhere it is 82 degrees year round on Christmas and I can't wait to get there. Don't know where we will be eating on Christmas. Hmmm. It is a Dutch island. Do the Dutch have a gustatory tradition for Christmas?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 04:30 PM (t/2Uw)
#HotDrosselmeyer
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:30 PM (kpS4V)
Their solution was to close the plant and stop selling liverwurst.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (6ydKt)
I'll do my version shortly. Baccala, calamari, clam chowder, shrimp, pasta with clam sauce, anchovies and lots of wine. One of the old ladies down the street will stop over and bring whatever strikes her fancy. She claims that long ago she was some mobbed up guys' goomah.
I believe her.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Not surprising. Their body count was only 10.
https://tinyurl.com/4vcv8s7s
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (8DR9B)
Posted by: Sir Eats-A-Lot at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (/t0DF)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (xG1o0)
It is not something you do for your good friend, unless you want to find that the bottle of Calvados he sets aside for you in the back of the cabinet is actually popskull apple brandy
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 04:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (h7ZuX)
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I had friends who celebrated with Taco Christmas! It was Jammies All Day too. Very laid back.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:32 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:32 PM (h7ZuX)
Caramelized onions and red wine jus with mashed potatoes...it's like holiday dinner not on the holiday - it will probably be our Tuesday dinner...although maybe Wednesday if the defrost takes forever...it is almost 10lbs of beef rib roast...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:33 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
HA! And the pretty lady wins a kewpie doll!! LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:33 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 04:30 PM (t/2Uw)
Bitteballen and beer!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 04:34 PM (xG1o0)
Chopped up turkey, gravy made from some frozen broth from a corned beef, sauteed onions and carrots.
I will add dried mushrooms and more spices next time, but the crust turned out very well since I used lower gluten white wheat flour.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 04:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 04:35 PM (Esy/h)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 04:35 PM (sDNVV)
Saturday was an all-day affair with extended family 90+ y.o. parents and aunts, cousins, siblings and offsprings assembling the entire mess together and cooking the finished tamales.
We left our house at 8:30 AM and didn't get back home until almost 3 this morning. Our older son flew out from the east coast to participate. It was a long, but fun day and a good chance to interact with the nieces and nephews and in some cases their offspring (great-nieces?).
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 21, 2025 04:35 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:36 PM (8DR9B)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:29 PM (h7ZuX)
Then yeah, I'd do the crockpot thing for all the hot stuff and make something fun. Since it's not the day, folks may appreciate the fun meal. I'd do something with beef just b/c it will still be special after this year with beef prices...
Any of my ideas worked with beef
. You can tell I have a holiday theme this year. I know someone mentioned the 7 fishes, but this year - nah, it's not special enough...Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:36 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:18 PM (tOcjL)
Well, I have the luxury of not having food allergies. I DESPISE virtue signaling. And to me, that stupid logo is cheap virtue signaling.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:37 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 04:16 PM (h7ZuX)
I love that sort of thing, although I usually overeat!
Keep us posted on the final menu!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 04:37 PM (xG1o0)
I thought the tradition for Jewish people was to go out for Chinese food on Christmas. Not that I'd ever do that. Now I usually get to celebrate both holidays but will be some placewhere it is 82 degrees year round on Christmas and I can't wait to get there. Don't know where we will be eating on Christmas. Hmmm. It is a Dutch island. Do the Dutch have a gustatory tradition for Christmas?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 04:30 PM (t/2Uw)
Nah, it's a tradition for Christmas Story fans, too...ask me how I know...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:37 PM (tOcjL)
1 pound lean ground beef
¼ cup chopped onion
¼ cup chopped green bell pepper
¾ cup ketchup, or to taste
1 tablespoon brown sugar, or to taste
1 teaspoon yellow mustard, or to taste
½ teaspoon garlic powder
salt and ground black pepper to taste
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 04:38 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 04:38 PM (EbHVJ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:04 PM (4786I)
I vote "yes."
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 04:38 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: RI Red at December 21, 2025 04:26 PM (eXHt3)
We were discussing Genesis this morning, and got to the part about Reuben's ... nastiness. He lost his rightful place because of it. Teacher said "All he got was a sandwich."
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 04:38 PM (Esy/h)
Question: At what point in the process do you put on the cheese?
Posted by: Chuck Schumer at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (8DR9B
As you are a Communist, of course you would suggest putting cheese on sloppy joes.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:39 PM (4786I)
Honey Baked Ham Store is overpriced and is not as good IMHO.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 21, 2025 04:39 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: High tech at December 21, 2025 04:41 PM (37cEZ)
I'm leaning more toward dinner roll size sliders or the classic deluxe cheeseburger. Fresh is always better than big, sloppy and the heat lamp.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 04:42 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: High tech
Is she giving you anything else, or is that it?
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 04:42 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:39 PM (4786I)
Somebody must do it, because that looks like a nice slice of cheddar on that sloppy joe at the top.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 04:42 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Cheese? Really?
Sounds more like some pagan ritual activity.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 21, 2025 04:45 PM (abIsI)
Question: At what point in the process do you put on the cheese?
Posted by: Chuck Schumer at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (8DR9B
As you are a Communist, of course you would suggest putting cheese on sloppy joes.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:39 PM (4786I)
I put fried onions on a sloppy joe...gives it crunch and extra onionyness...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:45 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 04:45 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:46 PM (FL09G)
Posted by: Boars Head at December 21, 2025 04:48 PM (8DR9B)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 04:48 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 04:39 PM (4786I)
Somebody must do it, because that looks like a nice slice of cheddar on that sloppy joe at the top.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 04:42 PM (6ydKt)
It sure does!
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 04:48 PM (RuTUS)
I'll do my version shortly. Baccala, calamari, clam chowder, shrimp, pasta with clam sauce, anchovies and lots of wine. One of the old ladies down the street will stop over and bring whatever strikes her fancy. She claims that long ago she was some mobbed up guys' goomah.
I believe her.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (cYBz/)
So far I have five of seven on the menu. Anchovies canapes, mussels marinara, some kind of shrimp, angel hair pasta and blue crab, calamari...maybe fry some catfish and do some lox for breakfast....
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 04:49 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:49 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM (FL09G)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Not surprising. Their body count was only 10.
https://tinyurl.com/4vcv8s7s
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (8DR9B)
Yikes.
The outbreak, which occurred between May and November 2024, resulted in 61 illnesses and 10 deaths across 19 states....
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM (RuTUS)
I'm leaning more toward dinner roll size sliders or the classic deluxe cheeseburger. Fresh is always better than big, sloppy and the heat lamp.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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I switched to Pepperidge Farms slider buns. Perfect size.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM (bQ4nt)
Garlic Rosemary Pork loin (Today, it was wonderful) with brown rice and asparagus (which was on sale)
Deconstructed Cabbage rolls. I chop the cabbage, cook it, and place it on the bottom of a casserole dish. The meat rice mixture is shaped to fit exactly on top. Then the sauce goes on top of that. Tastes like cabbage rolls without the fuss.
Rib roast
Jambalaya
Festive pork loin (Look it up in Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook.)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 04:52 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM (FL09G)
Use a different bun and toast it? And then add my fried onions? Be happier!
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:54 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 04:45 PM (nljXp)
I'm a sucker for good squid tentacle.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:54 PM (8DR9B)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
>I find my experience to be more enjoyable if I wrap my burgers in wax paper, like a burger joint, and that way I can eat it with one hand without the mess.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 04:54 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:46 PM (FL09G)
Oh yes, indeedy! 4-5 pound prime rib is on the Christmas menu here. I like Chef John's method. Local Amish market is getting 12.99/lb. Their beef never disappoints...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 04:55 PM (nbLIj)
I'll do my version shortly. Baccala, calamari, clam chowder, shrimp, pasta with clam sauce, anchovies and lots of wine. One of the old ladies down the street will stop over and bring whatever strikes her fancy. She claims that long ago she was some mobbed up guys' goomah.
I believe her.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (cYBz/)
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My grandfather from Italy did the F7F every Xmas. I cooked it once for my mom (his daughter) but theres’ only 2 or 3 fish/seafood she’ll eat, so … it was a one-and-done.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:55 PM (FL09G)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM (FL09G)
Use a different bun and toast it? And then add my fried onions? Be happier!
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:54 PM
The Miracle Whip will protect the bun.
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 21, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:56 PM (8DR9B)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:56 PM (tOcjL)
Easy peasy
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at December 21, 2025 04:56 PM (iZHkp)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 04:56 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 21, 2025 04:56 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 21, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)
Favorite toppings: avocado, carmelized onions, Tomato okay but never ever lettuce.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 04:57 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:46 PM (FL09G)
Oh yes, indeedy! 4-5 pound prime rib is on the Christmas menu here. I like Chef John's method. Local Amish market is getting 12.99/lb. Their beef never disappoints...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 04:55 PM (nbLIj)
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[fistbump] [not the gay homo bump, but the manly AoS bump]
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:57 PM (FL09G)
Around here, they would shoot you, drag your body through the streets and hang what’s left on a telephone pole if you didn’t have Seven Fishes. Shrimp (done several ways), spaghetti and clam sauce, calamari, scungilli, lobster, crab and anchovies (because a lot of Neanderthals don’t like baccala).
Posted by: Marcus T at December 21, 2025 04:58 PM (jBtak)
Have also made about 4 types of savory Chex mix and 4 types of Muddy Buddies.
Kid has left me 6 egg whites from the egg nog, so we're debating meringue cookies or macaroon cookies for cookie #5 (I want the latter, she wants the former)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:58 PM (tOcjL)
Favorite toppings: avocado, carmelized onions, Tomato okay but never ever lettuce.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 04:57 PM (t/2Uw)
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I too don’t like too much roll. I hollow out the rolls or go with pita bread. Remember that?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:59 PM (FL09G)
I've got Xmas Eve and another dinner the coming week for friends, pondering the menu. Probably from-scratch chicken pot pies for the second one.
Right now it's gorgeous sunny low 70s but by Wed. we're suppose to actually have weather - rain. So some hearty holiday dishes will "feel" right.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 04:59 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:01 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 05:02 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 05:02 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: LASue at December 21, 2025 05:02 PM (YDB6U)
Risotto is next.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:01 PM (Wnv9h)
Putting the two together for princess risotto or keeping separate?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 05:02 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 05:02 PM (t/2Uw)
What a dream! Did you get to work there?
Posted by: LASue at December 21, 2025 05:03 PM (YDB6U)
And got some humongous BBQ Triple Meat sandwiches so now we are going to have a delicious early evening dinner with brewskis.
They also got some fun photos with the Buc-ee's mascot and sparkly fashionable nails.
Mission accomplished for the ladies.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2025 05:03 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 04:59 PM (U/Byj)
Shrimp with Ceci Beans and Serrano chiles
Herb-crusted tenderloin roast
Roasted carrots
Salad
Flourless chocolate cake
Chocolate chip cookies with ice cream
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 05:04 PM (xG1o0)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 04:25 PM (xG1o0)
*watches ball comes flying lazily towards the plate*
*checks watch*
*reads War and Peace*
*checks on ball, still flying*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (zZu0s)
I thought the tradition for Jewish people was to go out for Chinese food on Christmas. Not that I'd ever do that. Now I usually get to celebrate both holidays but will be some placewhere it is 82 degrees year round on Christmas and I can't wait to get there. Don't know where we will be eating on Christmas. Hmmm. It is a Dutch island. Do the Dutch have a gustatory tradition for Christmas?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 04:30 PM (t/2Uw)
Well, in my youth I dated many handsome Jewish young men and yes, from my (LA-based) experience, Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas and then go the the movies.
Posted by: LASue at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (YDB6U)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (jBtak)
104 65 54 We get Boars Head deli stuff here, ain't died yet
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Not surprising. Their body count was only 10.
https://tinyurl.com/4vcv8s7s
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (8DR9B)
Yikes.
The outbreak, which occurred between May and November 2024, resulted in 61 illnesses and 10 deaths across 19 states....
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM
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Decomposing meat in uncleaned machinery.. Illegal immigrant employees who don't believe in germs because they can't see them. Suspicious looking cavities in some meat products that tested positive for STDs. Management reported record profits that year, attributing it to cutting expenses.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (AWhz/)
Yes, I think so. And US garlic isn't grown in a stew of heavy metals and sewage, like the cheap Chinese stuff that is imported.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (xG1o0)
Posted by: DaveA at December 21, 2025 05:07 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM (FL09G)
Use a different bun and toast it? And then add my fried onions? Be happier!
Sloppy Joe is my go-to when I have to use up some ground beef and weather/time considerations eliminate the burger option. Lots of onion, and either bbq or tomato sauce. Never thought to add cheese, but given how deep I am into my Old Fashion, I'll allow it...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 04:54 PM
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 05:07 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 05:02 PM (bQ4nt)
That is when they are the best...but they are almost health food, and macaroons feel more substantial (and I'm a sucker for coconut)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 05:07 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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One Christmas brunch I tore them apart and put in bread pan, poured French Toast egg wash over them and baked it. It was well received.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 05:09 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 05:02 PM
Nope. Separate. Risotto is going with seared scallops.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:09 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 05:09 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (AWhz/)
WTAF....I already had pretty much eliminated deli meats, because additives, but I never even suspected that kind of additive.
*retch
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 21, 2025 05:10 PM (h7ZuX)
*checks watch*
*reads War and Peace*
*checks on ball, still flying*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM
I believe Mayor Pete had something to say upthread.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:11 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 05:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (AWhz/)
I worked in food quality for 15 years. You do not want to know.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 05:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2025 05:12 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (xG1o0)
Just remember that the use of human manure is SOP in much of Asia. (From the PRC I would think heavy metals just might be the LEAST of your worries especially considering the legacies of the recent past.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 05:13 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 05:14 PM (FL09G)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 21, 2025 05:15 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 04:50 PM (FL09G)
The cure is J-I-T prep. Add the sloppy joe filling to your buns right before consumption.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 05:15 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 05:16 PM (FL09G)
Posted by: Elric the Blade
$10 a pound at Publix.
Picked a smallish but well marbeled one to cut into Ribeyes.
Ribs themselves become... ribs, or soup.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 05:17 PM (/lPRQ)
Baking more cookies tonight, Christmas cakes tomorrow, and some peppermint bark the next day.
Christmas will be nice and simple, with a ham, cornbread, and colcannon.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 21, 2025 05:18 PM (enw9G)
Somebody must do it, because that looks like a nice slice of cheddar on that sloppy joe at the top.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 04:42 PM (6ydKt)
It sure does!
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 04:48 PM (RuTUS)
Horrifying.
But then, unpopular opinion, cheeseburgers to me are revolting. Though I modified this slightly about 20 years ago: if you MUST add cheese to my burger, make it Swiss. Cheddar is just too sharp for that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 05:18 PM (4786I)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 05:12 PM
Portugalia in Fall River. A most cromulent store.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:18 PM (Wnv9h)
Local boat company we used to do business with had a foreman from Fall River. During the summer months he would set up a picnic/bbq lunch that included a bunch of breads and meats from his mother and grandmother, both incredible.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 05:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 05:14 PM (FL09G)
I used to take my mom there. I recall it is a solid place.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 05:23 PM (xG1o0)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 21, 2025 04:58 PM
Scungilli! I remember the first one I pulled out of Barnaget Bay. Dad was getting on me about my clam count (he'd consistently pull a dozen to my 4 or 5. When I brought that bad boy to the boat, he stopped bitching. Mom made a sauce and we ate very well that day...
Baccala is also on for the 7 fishes. I make the cold salad. The stew is an acquired taste and is usually made from salt cod steaks. Hard to find, and it smells like death. Very good, though...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 05:26 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 21, 2025 05:15 PM (FMtrg)
Me, too - I've bought every week of Safeway's $6.99 lb beef roast with $25 purchase this month - have another in my freezer and want to buy one this week, thus why one is defrosting for meals this week. I finally have the time to deal with it the way I want...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 05:26 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 21, 2025 05:27 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 05:22 PM
The Dad grew up in Faw Reeve. He knew where to get the best chourice. Loved that stuff growing up.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:28 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Emmie
Guga Foods on YouTube. The guy isn't a "trained chef", but he cooks. He sliced an eye round into filet mignon sized steaks and took a pineapple, blended the whole thing and let it cover the cuts.
The steaks came out tender as all get out. He fooled his nephew for a minute. Sam's has eye of round for $5.98 lb. I think I'm going to try that. Save about $11 lb.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2025 05:29 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 05:29 PM (2Ez/1)
Bit of a mess to cook sometimes, but perfectly good!
(wish the store had it more often)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 21, 2025 05:30 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 05:31 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Castle Guy
That's exactly what it is. Great for going in cooking. You will wind up with a lot more fat than normal.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2025 05:32 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Castle Guy
>I got a couple of packages of that when I picked up my half a pig. Pretty good stuff. That doesn't mean they didn't pick that stuff up off of the cutting room floor. Good for mixing in with other dishes.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 05:35 PM (nljXp)
I thought the tradition for Jewish people was to go out for Chinese food on Christmas. Not that I'd ever do that. Now I usually get to celebrate both holidays but will be some placewhere it is 82 degrees year round on Christmas and I can't wait to get there. Don't know where we will be eating on Christmas. Hmmm. It is a Dutch island. Do the Dutch have a gustatory tradition for Christmas?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 21, 2025 04:30 PM (t/2Uw)
Well, in my youth I dated many handsome Jewish young men and yes, from my (LA-based) experience, Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas and then go the the movies.
Posted by: LASue at December 21, 2025 05:06 PM (YDB6U)
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The “Jews eat Chinese food on Xmas” is a real thing. Old NYC tradition from back when literally every restaurant in NYC was closed on Xmas … except Chinese. That’s not true anymore, but it was tradition and Jews do like tradition. So to this day, many Jewish families have Chinese on Xmas.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 21, 2025 05:36 PM (FL09G)
Fall River used to have several small delis for different groups. My grandparents went there weekly to get the fresh pita bread, and similar, hummus, pickled veggies, and other Lebanese stuff they didn't have time to make themselves.
I believe Jesus Savior church on Broadway still makes melassadas just before Lent begins. It was a couple of blocks from our house and I walked there in snow more than once to get a bagful for everyone's breakfast that morning.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 05:37 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: skywch at December 21, 2025 05:37 PM (uqhmb)
It'll probably be just my daughter and grandson for Christmas dinner, as my SIL works nights and the holidays are especially busy so he'll most likely be asleep at dinner time, but we'll pack some up to send back home to him.
Posted by: Fritz at December 21, 2025 05:38 PM (sOqi6)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2025 05:41 PM (Dpv2s)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 21, 2025 05:41 PM (enw9G)
I lack freezer discipline, stuff is just piled in there, so I'm constantly getting surprised by what I dig out.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 05:43 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 05:44 PM (nbLIj)
So I had to cook up some chicken fajitas and now I'm just about to polish off the last few bites.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:44 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 21, 2025 05:41 PM (enw9G)
They do!
I'll bet they would be great pressed like a classic cubano!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 05:44 PM (xG1o0)
While I drink coffee black no sugar, I use a sweetener in tea, usually honey. Turns out a spoonful of Drambuie in place of the honey works and adds another layer of flavor. I'm sure tea purists would be appalled but I don't drink with them anyway.
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 05:45 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:45 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 21, 2025 05:18 PM (4786I)
Mushroom and Swiss is a good burger.
I'm not that picky when it comes to cheese on sandwiches.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:47 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at December 21, 2025 05:47 PM (2Ez/1)
Saute 1 1/2 lb 80/20 ground beef until no longer pink. Pour off the fat. Add small amount of canola oil. Chop 1/2 medium onion, 1/2 green pepper, and 3-4 cloves of garlic in food processor. Add to meat in skillet. Continue to cook under low heat until vegs are soft. Add seasoning: basil, oregano, celery seed, and thyme to taste. Add BBQ sauce, ketchup, and worcestershire sauce in proportions to taste and consistency. Stir and continue to cook until warmed through. Serve on open burger buns.
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 21, 2025 05:48 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:45 PM (Wnv9h)
I thought you were supposed to bury kimchi in the backyard for a few months before eating it?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:49 PM (6ydKt)
My folks kept Drambuie in their bar. Made a Rusty Nail with it. Never was there a more apt name for a drink. They loved it. Sometimes I wondered about them.....
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 05:49 PM (nbLIj)
I've enjoyed the few I've tried that way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:50 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:50 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Crumbles at December 21, 2025 05:51 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:52 PM (sDNVV)
Underrated cut, when done right. Up there with prime rib I've had in flavor.
Lean meat, cooked to mid rare, was aiming for rare to mid but this was my first try.
Salt, pepper, garlic and oil, in bag over night.
Bring to room temp.
450 for 15 minutes.
325 for 45 to hour; center to 125. (145 on mine, this time)
Rest for at least 20.
Cutting it in thin slices for a roast beef sandwich tomorrow.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 21, 2025 05:53 PM (5ekxb)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:55 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:49 PM
That would be the Oak Island variation.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:55 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 21, 2025 05:27 PM (Lhaco
I buy those, and sort them out to "full length" "chunks" and "bits and pieces" in ziplock bags for the freezer. I can decide to grab a bag for breakfast, soups, or fry up for making breakfast potatoes.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 05:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:50 PM (sDNVV)
I did a reverse-sear in the oven last year by watching a French chef on YT - "Chef Jean-Pierre".
He just loads it up with ghee (clarified butter) and Herbs de Provence, and by load it up, I mean a thick crust of it.
It comes out awesome, perfectly medium-rare.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:55 PM (6ydKt)
You are very welcome, dear lady. Merry Christmas!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:55 PM (Wnv9h)
https://youtu.be/wwwtchtTeoE
I sold these slicers in my last job. At 3:00 in the video, you'll see a seam come through for a split second and the result draft is not as clean/pretty. Once it starts on the next belly, it goes back to making pretty drafts.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 21, 2025 05:56 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:55 PM (Wnv9h)
Haha...
My mom knew a Korean lady who actually did take her fresh pot of kimchi and bury it in the backyard.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:57 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 21, 2025 04:22 PM (kpS4V)
Damn! My Christmas afternoon tradition is a tin of Danish cookies, tea and A Christmas Carol (the book).
There was a tin upstairs at the thrift store yesterday and I sampled one or two. I wondered if they were old and a bit stale, but I bet this explains the drop in quality.
I guess it will be Pepperidge Farm, then. But I'll read the package first.
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2025 05:58 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:58 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:50 PM
Not a straight salt crust, but I did make a beautiful black pepper and Parm encrusted prime rib. I think it was a Food Wishes recipe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:59 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 05:45 PM (Wnv9h)
Did you make it yourself? My wife will buy 2-3 heads of napa cabbage and garlic and make her own. She got done with the last batch which was about 2-1/2 gallons, and said she had about $75 worth of kimchi on the drainboard.
She uses salt, napa, carrots, garlic, gochu(chili) powder, green onion and anchovy powder. Usually. Unless she uses other things instead.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 06:00 PM (rbvCR)
Saving for Dec 26 in case it lied. But it's William Sonoma's and the bottle itself calls out "allergen free" specifically, and I imagine they don't want to be sued to oblivion. So, I will have a special morning coffee that day.
Looking it up, google agrees it exists and a product like it says it's dextrose with natural flavors - that's helpful...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 21, 2025 06:01 PM (tOcjL)
My mom knew a Korean lady who actually did take her fresh pot of kimchi and bury it in the backyard.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:57 PM
I mean, you can, but I use a variation of a recipe given to me by a college roommate's Seoul-raised mother.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 06:01 PM (Wnv9h)
>>I've enjoyed the few I've tried that way.
Add bacon.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 06:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:01 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 05:49 PM (6ydKt)
During the winter in Korea, it can get down to -20F, and even the salted kimchi will freeze. when they didn't have good insulation burying it was the only way to keep it fermenting and un-frozen.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:02 PM (sDNVV)
I feel kind of the same way about that on burgers as I do on steaks... although not quite as hardline/Steak Inquisition on the burger.
Certain things may go on a burger. Good burger. Cheese. Onion. Lettuce. Mayo. Perhaps ketchup and mustard, maybe. That's it for me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 06:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:05 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:06 PM (sDNVV)
Well that’s hardly mailing it in for a menu.
Prime rib at the sister’s next day, so probably ham or chicken. Used to do a killer coq au vin in a claypot in DC, but don’t have the claypot now.
Long overdue to make my mole poblano, would have noche buena salad with it. But doubt I will be willing to devote most of Tuesday to making it.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 06:06 PM (0/ySy)
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 06:07 PM (e8mjv)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:01 PM
Here you go.
https://youtu.be/W4J4tgfuCf0
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 06:08 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:08 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:09 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 21, 2025 05:49 PM (nbLIj)
Long ago I found out that downing 12 Rusty Nails in an evening was a very bad idea, and that they were called Rusty Nails because that's what they felt like, coming up.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 06:09 PM (GjEvj)
For something new, I'm making a pear cobbler because we were given a lot of gift box pears and he loves cobbler.
Posted by: sal at December 21, 2025 06:09 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
Lost it = someone smelled it & kept it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2025 06:10 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: JML at December 21, 2025 06:10 PM (EtRph)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:50 PM
Not a straight salt crust, but I did make a beautiful black pepper and Parm encrusted prime rib. I think it was a Food Wishes recipe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
>In another lifetime when I ran a supperclub (remember those?), all of our prime rib was salt encrusted. But we'd put a ton of pepper on it too. Lotsa white pepper.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 06:12 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:12 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: lin-duh
Dayum. Score!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2025 06:12 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 21, 2025 06:12 PM (fUSwr)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 06:13 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 06:12 PM
The RMBS Dad used to add a lot of ground coriander to that mix. Very tasty.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 06:14 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:14 PM (VCgbV)
Mary,
Wow can I get a Barry Obama Christmas Shirt also ????
Posted by: Jackson at December 21, 2025 06:15 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 21, 2025 04:17 PM (8DR9B)
_______________________________
Hey...now wait a minute. Oh, oh my, I misread. "trucks"...not "trunks".
Never mind. How embarrassing. I'll never forget this. I wish I could but...
Posted by: Super Hygienic Elephant at December 21, 2025 06:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:17 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: JML at December 21, 2025 06:10 PM (EtRph)
We are exactly opposite! Prime rib Christmas Eve, tamales Christmas Day. Chili for the tamales, obviously. I will do Yorkshire pudding, and I will love every last calorie bomb bite of it. Also, lyonnaise potatoes, roasted Brussels, salad with a pomegranate vinaigrette. Bouche de Noel for dessert.
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 06:17 PM (e8mjv)
Better on gri but either way is fine
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JTB at December 21, 2025 06:20 PM (yTvNw)
CHEERS!
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:23 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:58 PM (sDNVV)
I forgot to mention, Ben Had, before I had to run and clean the kitchen.
Chef Jean-Pierre recommends that you salt (kosher salt or similar) your prime rib very generously so it will penetrate deep through the meat, and then sit in in a pan on a rack for at least 24 hours before you cook it, and take it out of the fridge a few hours before cooking so it can get to room temp.
So his version is salt-encrusted in a sense but by the time you cook it it's almost all dissolved into the meat.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:23 PM (6ydKt)
CHEERS!
Posted by: Ben Had at December
You as well, Ben Had!
Posted by: Piper at December 21, 2025 06:24 PM (e8mjv)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 21, 2025 06:25 PM (t/66j)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:26 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:27 PM (VCgbV)
The restaurant cost/value proposition started eroding for me even prior to The Great Idiocy, but after that of course, with the mini-hyper-inflation disaster, we just sort of abandoned the restaurant thing. Great to cook at home, but so many Mexican, Vietnamese, and other treasures I can't do myself but readily available locally.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 06:27 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:28 PM (sDNVV)
CHEERS!
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:23 PM
Cheers, Ben Had! Have a wonderful Christmas.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 06:28 PM (Wnv9h)
https://youtu.be/_cgtAw21MM4
It's only 14 minutes long, and I followed it and it workd.
Quite easy, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:29 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:31 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 05:55 PM
Try the one with the orange butter sauce. I make it with Cornish hen when I can't get pheasant.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 21, 2025 06:32 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:33 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: kactus at December 21, 2025 06:33 PM (twS2i)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:33 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:34 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (cYBz/)
Next year, for Thanksgiving, I am going to do the different types of animal in creation: fish, fowl, and beast. I might do something with crawfish to get the "things that creep upon the ground" part. I figure if you're giving thanks to God, you ought to recognize ALL His goodness, right?
Posted by: GWB at December 21, 2025 06:34 PM (fJecM)
CHEERS!
Posted by: Ben Had
Cheers!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2025 06:34 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:20 PM (cYBz/)
Baked? My grandmother would wooden spoon you. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 06:34 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 06:37 PM (U/Byj)
Don't ever change.
Posted by: Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce at December 21, 2025 06:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:38 PM (sDNVV)
The recipe says to melt the chocolate in a saucepan. I consider this a recipe for disaster, and am using a little steel bowl with built in handles as a double boiler
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2025 06:38 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:39 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 04:31 PM (cYBz/)
Not since my grandmother died. Seven fishes? Noooo, she did the seven frigging seas. If it swam around in the waters of earth with it's mouth open it somehow ended up on her table.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 06:40 PM (snZF9)
Not positive for STDs.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 21, 2025 06:40 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:40 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 06:42 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 06:42 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 06:44 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:44 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 06:45 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:45 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:43 PM (Ia/+0)
You and me both. I don't do seafood, noo nooo. Thank god my grandmother made a billion other things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 06:46 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:47 PM (sDNVV)
The problem is obvious. You put the cheese on *after* it was cooked.
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Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at December 21, 2025 06:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 06:48 PM (41CYW)
Not positive for STDs.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 21, 2025 06:40 PM (NFX2v)
It was only their liverwurst that came out of one plant.
They closed the plant, and stopped selling liverwurst completely.
Something about that specific meat requires extra special handling.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:48 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Perfect - added rouch of fire.
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 06:50 PM (41CYW)
The problem is obvious. You put the cheese on *after* it was cooked.
For more cooking tips, follow me on Instagram.
Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY)
>I think they call that a "Raw Chuck."
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 06:50 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:50 PM (sDNVV)
Tonight, December 21st, is the Eighth and final night, where you light all eight candles plus the shamash in the nine-branched menorah (hanukkiah), symbolizing the miraculous eight days the oil lasted in the Temple.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 21, 2025 06:50 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Ben Had
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I have not. Had some that was injected and smoked - prepared by another outdoorsy person. Was damned good.
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 06:53 PM (41CYW)
However, in 2024, a major Listeria outbreak linked to Boar's Head liverwurst from their Jarratt, VA plant led to extensive recalls of liverwurst and other deli meats, resulting in illnesses and deaths, prompting the company to permanently discontinue liverwurst and close the facility. Consumers were warned not to eat recalled products with plant number P-12612, which carried "Boar's Head Strassburger Brand Liverwurst MADE IN VIRGINIA," and should discard any found.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 21, 2025 06:53 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Tuna at December 21, 2025 06:54 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 21, 2025 06:39 PM
I think Mary's heart is blacker than a San Francisco night.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 06:54 PM (2WIwB)
Salmon with raspberry sauce
Asparagus strudel
Big green salad with glazed nuts, goat cheese and blueberries
Rice spiked with saffron.
My niece is baking a pie and making ice cream.
Not too fancy, but it will be lovely. And we all love king salmon.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 06:55 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:56 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 21, 2025 06:56 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 06:59 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 06:59 PM (Pl/T1)
Thanks for reading and commenting...even that weirdo Pete Bog!
Cheers everyone, and Merry Christmas!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 21, 2025 06:59 PM (xG1o0)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 07:00 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 07:01 PM (41CYW)
to go along with it. My personal favorite is a standard Velouté (which is some light chicken stock mixed with a standard roux)...then, add a little high quality white mustard, and a little bit of horseradish. Serve it on the side as a gravy. You won't regret it.
Wonderful stuff.
Posted by: Orson at December 21, 2025 07:01 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 07:03 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Ronster at December 21, 2025 08:02 PM (4GQNV)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at December 21, 2025 08:40 PM (Tq4ud)
Have never denigrated any of your posts; but Boar's Head? How could you even consider them for a serving source?
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2025 08:42 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Lothar of the Keolu Hill People at December 21, 2025 09:18 PM (0ezwx)
Posted by: Persnickety at December 22, 2025 11:09 AM (jJdyX)
First World Problems...
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 01:59 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 21, 2025 02:00 PM (HTa/G)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Nothing worse than moving furniture with weak men.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:02 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 21, 2025 02:02 PM (HlyYF)
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Yup. Same reason the bread always falls butter side down.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 21, 2025 02:02 PM (0yLoC)
I dunno, those insurance investigators are pretty shrewd.
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Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:06 PM (4ZzTK)
I dunno, those insurance investigators are pretty shrewd.
Posted by: Paco at December 21, 2025 02:03 PM
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Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 21, 2025 02:07 PM (HlyYF)
Hey! You need a house to go with this doorknob.
Posted by: Daffy Duck, Salesman at December 21, 2025 02:07 PM (uQesX)
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Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 02:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 21, 2025 02:08 PM (MNCvZ)
"Why did you shoot me?," he asked. Really.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:09 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 02:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: ZooomZooom (R) at December 21, 2025 02:11 PM (8HxBH)
Posted by: Soothsayer
I wanted to watch a man die today.
Posted by: Johnny Cash at December 21, 2025 02:11 PM (N/gmR)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 02:12 PM (EMg+d)
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We should have a little chat about your policy.
Posted by: Your Insurance Adjuster at December 21, 2025 02:12 PM (NwnyJ)
"Houston Officer Shoots Suspect Holding Clerk at Gunpoint"
https://is.gd/cAezcL
Posted by: Soothsayer
Only if the first shot incapacitated the hoodlum and then Officer Friendly does a mag dump into his legs and gut
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 02:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 02:14 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: WVU fans at December 21, 2025 02:14 PM (N/gmR)
Let me help you:
https://youtu.be/jEZ5kay0MT4
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 02:14 PM (Pmfrl)
Posted by: Way to perpetuate a stereotype! at December 21, 2025 02:14 PM (TbWk/)
That reminds me, hearing the phrase - "the building was razed to the ground" will one day result in me getting charged with battery.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:15 PM (cYBz/)
Hey! You need a house to go with this doorknob.
Posted by: Daffy Duck, Salesman at December 21, 2025 02:07 PM (uQesX)
Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 21, 2025 02:16 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: DanMan at December 21, 2025 02:16 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:15 PM (cYBz/)
Lithium-ion or good old-fashioned alkaline?
Posted by: Get charged with battery, battery get charged with cables at December 21, 2025 02:17 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:17 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:15 PM (cYBz/)
Lithium-ion or good old-fashioned alkaline?
Posted by: Get charged with battery, battery get charged with cables
Nipple clamps or testicles?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 02:18 PM (/lPRQ)
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Posted by: George Michael at December 21, 2025 02:20 PM (N/gmR)
https://is.gd/nw90i3
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Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 02:21 PM (sDNVV)
Vance: We will end left-wing violence in America. We will prosectute BOTH the brick-thrower AND the buyer of those bricks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:21 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 02:23 PM (GjEvj)
https://is.gd/nw90i3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
And that is why we will never be a cashless society.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 02:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 02:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Am-Fest:
"Thanks everyone for coming tonight! I know you were invited to hear about an exciting opportunity – let's jump right in and learn about the plan that will take you...”
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 02:27 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 02:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 02:26 PM (Ia/+0)
That will destroy the current system.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 02:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 21, 2025 02:28 PM (zjSl+)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 21, 2025 02:28 PM (van9r)
I have seen the neatest switch though, the plate has an inset LED that is connected "on" all the time so in the dark there is a night light in each room
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 02:29 PM (rbvCR)
Alex Jones says he’s worried about Candace Owens and that she’s playing it fast and loose with the facts.
He says he’s coming out with a report to debunk Candace’s latest conspiracy theory around the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which involves — without evidence — a congressman from Nevada, Erika Kirk, a Daily Wire staffer, and Charlie Kirk’s head of security meeting at a U.S. military base the day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 21, 2025 02:30 PM (L/fGl)
Probably the leftist queers moving out of Texas and going to blue Colorado.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:30 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at December 21, 2025 02:30 PM (JsnfW)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 21, 2025 02:28 PM (van9r)
Do you still have energy search or production there? That's why Texans.
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2025 02:30 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:21 PM (4ZzTK)
Hee hee. And we'll overturn the verdict.
Posted by: Some Judge at December 21, 2025 02:31 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 21, 2025 02:28 PM (van9r)
I was briefly a New Mexico resident. I had heard tales of boorish Texans flooding the ski areas, but didn't really believe them. Then I found out they were true.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 02:32 PM (GjEvj)
But who the fuck are the people buying her nonsense? Those are the scary ones.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 02:32 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: cmeat at December 21, 2025 02:32 PM (R11M+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 02:33 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 02:32 PM (GjEvj)
Texan is the “boomer” of skiing. No matter the problem Texans caused it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 02:33 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Dodd at December 21, 2025 02:33 PM (1hSg1)
Merry friggin Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 02:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 02:35 PM (zZu0s)
Ended up leaving it there, the new owners said they’d be happy to have it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 02:36 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 21, 2025 02:37 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 02:38 PM (KDPiq)
Ended up leaving it there, the new owners said they’d be happy to have it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Maybe it was assembled in the room.
Was there an Ikea label on it?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 02:39 PM (/lPRQ)
Vance: we sent enough $$ to ukraine, America first
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:40 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:40 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: toby928(c) shrugs at December 21, 2025 02:40 PM (jc0TO)
Strange smell coming from Tennessee man's SUV turns out to be a giant python
https://is.gd/BZOK0Q
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 21, 2025 02:41 PM (L/fGl)
Hmmmmmm ....
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 02:42 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 02:42 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2025 02:44 PM (+sNap)
Posted by: toby928(c) shrugs at December 21, 2025 02:44 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
We have a shit ton of native sneks down here but pythons ain't one of them.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:45 PM (cYBz/)
Not that I'm aware of.
[drops toast, lands peanut butter side down]
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 21, 2025 02:45 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 02:32 PM (GjEvj)
Every other state is like Europe to Texans. And for those states they look at Texans like Europeans look at Americans. We just ignore the hate .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 02:45 PM (KDPiq)
Merry friggin Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 02:35 PM
I'm very sorry, JackStraw. Also, check your water heater.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 21, 2025 02:46 PM (zjSl+)
___________________________________________
NOOOOOOO! The solution is to put back on the stove, but turn the temp up to HIGH … then walk away for about 2 hrs or so. You'll have lots of lovely carbonized 'stuff' when it's done …
Posted by: Dr_No at December 21, 2025 02:46 PM (ayRl+)
The question is why was the couch in the basement to begin with?
Posted by: Tuna at December 21, 2025 02:46 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 21, 2025 02:47 PM (zjSl+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 02:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 21, 2025 02:48 PM (ydtVv)
Merry friggin Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw
What's the problem? Simply wait for the globull warmining to raise your temps to a comfortable range.
Voila!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:48 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 02:49 PM (zZu0s)
What to do. I'd really like to keep an extra set of towels in my bathroom, but there's no floor space to set a linen cabinet.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 21, 2025 02:49 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2025 02:50 PM (+sNap)
Its like Lena Dunham as furniture.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 02:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Emmie
More towels? Can't you just wipe your hands, butt, or face on your sleeves?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:51 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 02:49 PM (zZu0s)
No, we are supposed to be condemning Vance until he bows under the pressure and gives Levin's kid a job.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 02:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2025 02:51 PM (+sNap)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 02:49 PM (zZu0s)
You're just asking questions right?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 02:51 PM (KDPiq)
I assure you my internal temperature is toasty.
I literally had a new refrigerator installed yesterday after the previous piece of crap died for the last time. The joys of homeownership.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 02:52 PM (viF8m)
Both adhesives related.
Band aids where one side won't come off backing (most of the box).
Tissues where the plastic dispenser cover comes off the box.
I'm now done with both brands forever. Congratulations you found shaved and shaved costs until you 'premium' brand sucks
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 21, 2025 02:52 PM (KaHlS)
The time goes so quickly now that I've stopped working.
It'll be two years soon and it's gone by in the blink of an eye.
I also had a deadbolt lock fall apart on the door from the kitchen to the garage. Upon disassembly, found that a little 'C' clamp had fallen off. Reassembled it and it works but kinda wonder why it did that.
If I can get off my lazy A I'd take pictures and send them in.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 21, 2025 02:53 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2025 02:54 PM (2NHgQ)
My REAL SoothsayerWorldProblem today?
Lugging the heavy 3rd Row Seat out of the closet to reinstall in my Navigator so I can get a State Inspection Sticker.
No sticker unless all the "original" OEM is present & functional. Really.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:55 PM (Je/pu)
Posted by: Dr_No
>I refilled the pot with water and a splash of vinegar. Most of it all came out, but what's left, I suspect, is carburized. Pan still works, no unpleasant residual flavor.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 02:55 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 02:57 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: ERF at December 21, 2025 02:58 PM (qqD/x)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
>Did you rub some dirt on it? Maybe toothpaste?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 21, 2025 02:59 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: mrp
I suppose there are downsides also but I can't think of any right off.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:59 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 02:57 PM
Cuba is already collapsed. I mean, are we talking cannibalism here?
Posted by: toby928(c) shrugs at December 21, 2025 03:00 PM (jc0TO)
Not that I'm aware of.
[drops toast, lands peanut butter side down]
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 21, 2025 02:45 PM (/HDaX)
God has a sense of humor. But he's also kind of a dick.
Posted by: Cats always land on their feet, so Bastet? at December 21, 2025 03:00 PM (TbWk/)
"US oil blockade of Venezuela pushes Cuba toward collapse"
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 02:57 PM (rj6Yv)
Canadians hardest hit!!
Posted by: My dream vacation!! at December 21, 2025 03:00 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 02:51 PM (KDPiq)
That's me. I literally had a great uncle named Adolph. Northern Italian (Torino.) Born in Italy but came here as a boy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 21, 2025 03:01 PM (zZu0s)
==
It's Ace and shelves and CBD and switch plates.
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 03:02 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 21, 2025 03:06 PM (XXGyT)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 02:30 PM (4ZzTK)
So now all you have is steers ?
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 21, 2025 03:08 PM (van9r)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 03:10 PM (mlg/3)
“By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?”
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 03:12 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 21, 2025 03:13 PM (TD894)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
We have a shit ton of native sneks down here but pythons ain't one of them.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:45 PM (cYBz/)
No step on snek!
Sneks bad!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 03:13 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: The Westward Ho at December 21, 2025 03:14 PM (oftw2)
SUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 21, 2025 03:15 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 03:16 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: The Westward Ho at December 21, 2025 03:14 PM (oftw2)
Don't I know it.
Posted by: The Mirage at December 21, 2025 03:18 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2025 03:21 PM (C0Nlv)
I was going to ask whether that wasn't so obviously insane that it needed debunking, but then I remembered the Times In Which We Live
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 21, 2025 03:23 PM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 03:16 PM
I'm watching Fraser on Tubi. I forgot how funny it was.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 21, 2025 03:23 PM (zjSl+)
Posted by: The Westward Ho at December 21, 2025 03:14 PM
Recover the nails.
Posted by: toby928(c) shrugs at December 21, 2025 03:24 PM (jc0TO)
C'mon dude. This nothing. Hopefully you got a drop or three of paint that matches.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 03:25 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 03:16 PM (UJWr0)
When did all the white guys disappear from advertising? We're invisible unless we're being schooled by a smart young female/minority doctor or judge or neighbor...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 21, 2025 03:25 PM (QGaXH)
Sneks bad!!!
Posted by: Diogenes
--------
Ojection! You paint with a broad brush, sir!
There is a Southern Black Racer ('Blackie', 6' 2") which lives in the double-wall lattice brickwork of my porch. It seems to have adopted me, and slithers over passively when we are both out there, as if to say 'Hello'.
In the Fall, he left me an intact shed skin, which I have trimmed down into bookmark-sized strips and laminated for just that purpose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 03:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 03:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Prudence Dictates at December 21, 2025 03:25 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 03:26 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 21, 2025 03:27 PM (XXGyT)
Posted by: toby928(c) shrugs at December 21, 2025 03:24 PM (jc0TO)
You are not allowed to do that.
Posted by: The New York Legislature at December 21, 2025 03:27 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:51 PM (cYBz/)
I'm much too dainty and refined for that.
(extends pinky)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 21, 2025 03:27 PM (FMtrg)
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They are useful for portraying the inept or clumsy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 03:28 PM (XeU6L)
There is a Southern Black Racer ('Blackie', 6' 2") which lives in the double-wall lattice brickwork of my porch. It seems to have adopted me, and slithers over passively when we are both out there, as if to say 'Hello'.
In the Fall, he left me an intact shed skin, which I have trimmed down into bookmark-sized strips and laminated for just that purpose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 03:25 PM (XeU6L)
***
*shudders*
Dude! He's just trying to figure out how to eat you.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2025 03:29 PM (2WIwB)
"US oil blockade of Venezuela pushes Cuba toward collapse"
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 02:57 PM (rj6Yv)
well I won't take a bow, but I called that the night the first tanker was seized. It's inevitable. Cuba is so far down that no one even covers it anymore, so no one in the US realizes how close to the edge of total collapse it is.
In a way Candace is doing a service to us all by exposing a huge weakness in the way we're all doing things on the net - someone can hop on and make a huge splash by making absolutely wild and crazy claims on the net, and then make a lot of money by getting x million people to look at their site - and when it blows up they don't suffer for it, they just jump to the next insane claim. I don't know what the fix for that is, but it's not healthy for any of us to accept that as a normal state of affairs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 03:30 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: UnkleSteve at December 21, 2025 03:30 PM (cCEo5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2025 03:31 PM (ZxYC6)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 03:33 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2025 03:33 PM (Dpv2s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 03:30 PM (uWKK
Babalu Blog used to cover Cuba, but it disappeared. Never found out why.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 03:34 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 21, 2025 03:27 PM
+++
This one always makes chuckle.
https://youtu.be/gZAUXVw_TW4
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 03:34 PM (2Ez/1)
You don't get to complain. You have the only NY team with a QB. And he's really good.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 03:36 PM (viF8m)
* hides in bunker *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 03:36 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 03:38 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 21, 2025 03:33 PM (KDPiq)
Then there's the financial service commercial on Fox Biz with a 1800's wagon train and implausible for then couple in the lead wagon....
And do you ever see a car/truck commercial with a white male driving or even riding in the front seat?
And virtually every family commercial where the dad is the caregiver or in the kitchen while mom is at the computer working....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 21, 2025 03:38 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous!
I'm jumping ahead, and dunno if anyone's answered you yet, but plaster is easier than drywall. You have lathe behind it all. Use any anchor you like, and hang anything you like.
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 03:39 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: The Honeymooners at December 21, 2025 03:40 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: White males in commercials at December 21, 2025 03:42 PM (2Ez/1)
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Ahem. We'd like a word.
Posted by: The Honeymooners at December 21, 2025 03:40 PM (2Ez/1)
Big Bang Theory - Friends with 'Math'
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 21, 2025 03:42 PM (QGaXH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsObReAzbPA
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 03:44 PM (XeU6L)
---
Ahem. We'd like a word.
Posted by: The Honeymooners
---------
I Love Lucy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 03:45 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Never did understand why Texans are so sensitive.
Perfectly fine state.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 03:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan/i]
No, BBT was floppy wristed writers who lived in Pasadena thinking they were just as interesting as those that went to CalTech.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 03:47 PM (mlg/3)
Perfectly fine state.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
All hat. No cattle.
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 03:47 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 02:57 PM (rj6Yv)
well I won't take a bow, but I called that the night the first tanker was seized. It's inevitable. Cuba is so far down that no one even covers it anymore, so no one in the US realizes how close to the edge of total collapse it is.
In a way Candace is doing a service to us all by exposing a huge weakness in the way we're all doing things on the net - someone can hop on and make a huge splash by making absolutely wild and crazy claims on the net, and then make a lot of money by getting x million people to look at their site - and when it blows up they don't suffer for it, they just jump to the next insane claim. I don't know what the fix for that is, but it's not healthy for any of us to accept that as a normal state of affairs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 03:30 PM
We were stationed at GITMO from 93-95 and there have been stories on and off over the intervening years since then about the impending collapse of Cuba. I will believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2025 03:49 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 03:49 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 03:51 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 03:51 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Skip
How much farther from one to another can you think?
I think I'll have a taco. No, no, what I really need is milk.
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 03:52 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2025 03:52 PM (9H7EW)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 03:52 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 03:54 PM (mlg/3)
SDA had a story about the Māori doing the haka in protest of some Sikhs.
Stone Age Christian Cannibals or Sikhs
Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2025 03:55 PM (9H7EW)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 03:55 PM (IhIKR)
Perfectly fine state.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 03:46 PM (/lPRQ)
"Never ask a man if he is from Texas. If he is, he will tell you. If he isn't, well, there is no sense in embarrassing him."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 03:55 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Accomack
My first old house, I learned how to fix plaster walls. Much more resilient than drywall.
Also soundproof. That was lost with drywall.
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 03:56 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2025 03:49 PM (0N4FZ)
For me, it's their electrical grid that is key. It's already collapsed four times this year, and to make a long story short, without constant oil shipments from Venezuela, the entire electrical grid for the entire island collapses and there is no bringing it back up.
With no grid there's no food for anyone except each other.
You could say it would be easy for any other country to walk in and take over, except they are so far down that no one wants to step in and touch that tar baby.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Opinion fact
To be fair, they do get darker in the sun.
A lot of asian office workers stay out of the lest they get a solid tan and look like a laborer.
It's a class thing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 03:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 03:56 PM (q6tQZ)
Tell me more...
Posted by: Buffalo Bill of Silence of the Lambs at December 21, 2025 03:57 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 03:57 PM (uWKK
A new homeland for the Gazans!
Posted by: A Guy With A Bright Idea at December 21, 2025 03:59 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: MkY
Sheet lead will protect you from sound and radiation. Remember to us lead-headed screws. Nice asbestos draperies can further insulate your happy home.
Posted by: Hints From Heloise at December 21, 2025 04:00 PM (oftw2)
We were stationed at GITMO from 93-95 and there have been stories on and off over the intervening years since then about the impending collapse of Cuba. I will believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Mister Scott
Same with China.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 21, 2025 04:00 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Accomack
There is a reason why chairails and picture moulding was a thing when walls were plaster.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 04:00 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Buffalo Bill
As example, we built two guest bedrooms in the basement. How do hotels isolate sound?
They used to depend on plaster and lathe, now, they build a two wall system, with studs offset... or insulate.
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 04:01 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Never did understand why Texans are so sensitive.
Perfectly fine state.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 03:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Texas is to the US what France is to Europe; it's the part that knows that it's better than every other part, and doesn't stop letting the rest of them know it too.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 04:01 PM (uWKK8)
FOODIE NOODIE TIME
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: A Guy With A Bright Idea at December 21, 2025 04:01 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: MkY at December 21, 2025 03:56 PM (q6tQZ)
I have noticed this. It's such a blessing to not be awakened by things going on in the neighborhood. Previously, I have lived in a modern-built townhome within a mile of train tracks and the train whistle awakened me every couple of hours all night long. Urgh!
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 21, 2025 04:02 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Marybel Smiles at December 21, 2025 04:02 PM (cPkJi)
Posted by: UnkleSteve at December 21, 2025 03:30 PM (cCEo5)
Yes! This is what I was going to say, too.
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 04:05 PM (RuTUS)
Cuba is the Haiti of the 21st Century.
Posted by: no one at December 21, 2025 04:10 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: The Clinton Foundation, rife with grift at December 21, 2025 04:14 PM (XeU6L)
Employees are brave. But what matters is the employee in black's t-shirt
https://tinyurl.com/mtdkmaps
Posted by: javems at December 21, 2025 04:40 PM (8I4hW)
Jimmy Dore on the Covid narrative: "What woke me up was that I got vaccine injured."
"I was like, well, if they're lying about this, what else are they lying about? And it turns out... they were lying about everything."
"They lied about masks, they lied about herd immunity, they lied about natural immunity, they lied about lockdowns... There wasn't a thing they didn't lie about."
"And still people don't realise that they were lied to on such a grand scale, because I think it was such a big lie that they can't wrap their minds around it."
"And if people admit that they were lied to as much as they were... then they don't have to admit to themselves that they also acted like monsters."
"So instead... they just ignore it and go, oh, Covid's over, and so they don't have to face it."
X video: https://bit.ly/3L8Hnue
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2025 04:45 PM (P5BPp)
WAYMO CARS FREEZE ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO AFTER BLACKOUT KILLS TRAFFIC LIGHTS
Dozens of driverless Waymos are just sitting in intersections with no clue what to do.
Lights are out, roads are jammed, and the robots are frozen.
Locals say every direction is blocked.
Some cars are stuck trying to turn, others just sitting in the middle of the road like it's a parking lot.
The chaos started after a massive power outage knocked out signals across the city.
The Waymos weren’t built to handle this. And it shows.
Right now, a Waymo engineer is realizing the cars don’t know what to do without a green light.
X video: https://bit.ly/496rgWb
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2025 04:48 PM (P5BPp)
Also, what's the thing on the right-side? Some kind of dimmer or a switch for the margarita machine?
Posted by: DocCreep at December 21, 2025 05:18 PM (J9oiw)
Posted by: Beverly at December 21, 2025 05:22 PM (reMys)
Is it true we just sent another $800M to zleensky?
And $600M to Netanyahoo?
Perfectly fine with sending $ to Israel. They are whacking the moles so we don't have to. The Z $? Pooty isn't even a serious threat to Europe, if I even cared about Europe (rather have Putin running it than globalists and mooselimbs anyway) and no problem for us
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 21, 2025 05:26 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Oops Plate at December 21, 2025 05:44 PM (XeUzE)
Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 21, 2025 05:59 PM (vTTFR)
Nicki Minaj says being at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest is more important than any concert she's ever performed.
“Because this is a direct link between young people and God.”
“People who have a problem with us worshiping God… we absolutely cannot have them power.”
X video: https://bit.ly/496HeQf
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2025 06:29 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: ShainS -- A Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 21, 2025 06:42 PM (21Usy)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 21, 2025 06:45 PM (21Usy)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at December 21, 2025 06:55 PM (caMfM)
"You ain't really done remodeling until you've taken a chainsaw to a load-bearing wall."
Posted by: DaveK at December 21, 2025 09:14 PM (zAQ/x)
What An Incredible Time To Be Alive [Pete Bog]
On December 17th, 1903, one hundred and twenty-two years ago on a windy sand dune in North Carolina the world was changed. Two brothers, bicycle mechanics from Ohio ran a contraption made of wood, cloth, and wire down a rail until it gained enough speed to become airborne. The first manned powered flight. In the scale of recorded human history, about 5,000 years, 122 years is a trivial span. I would suspect that no similar span anywhere in that history has been as technologically prolific as these last 122 years. The 122 years preceding flight likely are the second most prolific. The power of steam had been harnessed to propel trains, boats, early automobiles, and mechanized farm equipment. Metallurgy flourished. Electricity had been turned from a novelty to useful applications that were just beginning to be implemented. Fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine had burst onto the scene.
The Wright Brothers pioneering pursuit of flight was only made possible by the application of power derived from what was at the time a groundbreaking innovation. A lightweight gasoline engine designed by an employee of their bicycle shop that weighed 180 pounds and produced 12 horsepower. He had hand built the engine in six weeks using simple tools such as a lathe and drill press. And it worked! It is difficult to overstate the importance of what the Wrights accomplished. In the few years following the first flight aviation exploded into the public consciousness and the pace of change in design, reliability, airworthiness, and range was significant. The First World War supercharged the development of the technology and culminated in the development of fast, maneuverable machines that could be armed with guns and bombs. Military tactics changed to accommodate the new technology. The interval between the wars supercharged the development of airplanes and modern aviation both from a civil and military standpoint. During this same period similar advances were occurring in just about every field of science and technology. Just as the telegraph had eclipsed the Pony Express to spread news, radios and air mail surpassed the telegraph. A dominant theme delivered in that stream of news was the pace and breadth change. One hundred twenty-two years. Both of my grandfathers were born before the first manned flight. Their great grandchildren may be able to go to space. I may be able to go to space. What an incredible time to be alive.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2025 12:02 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 12:03 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2025 12:03 PM (tgvbd)
From the Wright Brothers to Spirit Airlines. Progress;
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 12:03 PM (MoRvC)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 21, 2025 12:04 PM (Kt19C)
We have covered an amazing amount of ground.
I am convinced that we learn knowledge way faster than we gain wisdom.
Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 12:06 PM (AN2gy)
Posted by: We Wuz Pilots n' Sheeit at December 21, 2025 12:07 PM (MIYs/)
Posted by: scampydog at December 21, 2025 12:07 PM (XCWxh)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 21, 2025 12:07 PM (Y1sOo)
That beats my story. My grandfather had a gas powered tractor he started with a hand crank.
Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 12:08 PM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Post Time! at December 21, 2025 12:08 PM (oftw2)
Flight only came about from this country's legacy of slavery!!
_-_
Ever hear Dickran Gobalian discuss the first ever jazz recording?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 12:08 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2025 12:03 PM (tgvbd)
I thought we stole the tech from the Iroquois.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:09 PM (wGK1C)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 12:09 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 12:08 PM (vd6bO)
The recognized "King of Jazz" was a fat pale guy named Paul Whiteman. Look it up.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 12:10 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Norse Saga at December 21, 2025 12:10 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:09 PM (wGK1C)
No, that was our form of government.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 12:11 PM (uQesX)
Don't forget powering massive refrigeration plants (used heavily in the beer industry) and big azz pumps to keep subways dry... Or to move sewerage.
https://archive.org/details/
buildingtechnologyheritagelibrary
Check it out and search by year.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:11 PM (/lPRQ)
_-_
Heh.Yeah, wasn't it a British who first had the physics worked-out pretty well? Don't remember the name...
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 12:11 PM (vd6bO)
"Sarah A. Hoyt has a -"
Sarah Hoyt is a lying POS who has falsely accused me of Stolen Valor and refuses to look at my DD214 and post a retraction and apology. She poses as patriotic as a grift to pimp her book, don't fall for it.
Posted by: Fen at December 21, 2025 12:12 PM (T7Acs)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:12 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Bing Crosby was the "boy singer" for Whiteman until his popularity took off around 1932.
Posted by: Der Bingle at December 21, 2025 12:12 PM (oftw2)
'The Wright Brothers stole the airplane technology from the Somalian slaves that actually invented flight.'
Flight was built on the backs of slaves and migrants.
Only they should be able to take credit for it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:13 PM (fd80v)
I'd like to see smaller airships, with more leg room, and less cattle car style design and processing.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:13 PM (wGK1C)
Posted by: Fen at December 21, 2025 12:13 PM (T7Acs)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:11 PM (/lPRQ)
You mean you can follow the Connections?
Posted by: James Burke at December 21, 2025 12:13 PM (uQesX)
We still use the evolved telegraph with fiber optic internet.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:13 PM (/lPRQ)
'She poses as patriotic as a grift to pimp her book, don't fall for it.'
What is the name of her book?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:15 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Der Bingle at December 21, 2025 12:12 PM (oftw2)
More than one singer made his/her start that way. The band leader got more recognition than the vocalist.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2025 12:15 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 12:09 PM (0anTZ)
I vote Segway. I’m far from convinced that AI will be world altering in a way that the iPhone was… the smart phone is the only invention of my lifetime that truly and fundamentally changed the way people live
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 12:15 PM (YobFY)
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We still use the evolved telegraph with fiber optic internet.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:13 PM (/lPRQ)
It blows my mind the healthcare industry still uses fax machines.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:15 PM (wGK1C)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Wright Brothers had a whole stable slaves running advanced calculations to validate their flight theories.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Quick, before anyone notices, put an "of" in there?
Then hide this comment.😃
Good morning busy morning missed the book thread I see. That's okay that's okay gonna be a busy rest of the day. Myanmar shave.🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - coffee to the rescue at December 21, 2025 12:17 PM (WB0Mb)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Using stone knives and bearskins.
Posted by: Mr. Spock at December 21, 2025 12:17 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Zombie Douglas MacArthur, Japanese Warlord at December 21, 2025 12:17 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 12:17 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: If It Don't Go Down, Call Brown. at December 21, 2025 12:18 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
Grandmother moved to a new home a hundred miles away with covered wagon.
Draft animals were still a major part of ground transport through WWII.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:18 PM (/lPRQ)
'Wright Brothers had a whole stable slaves running advanced calculations to validate their flight theories.'
That was no small feat 40 years after the Civil War.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:18 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 12:15 PM (YobFY)
I am pretty sure, in less than 20 years we won't have any more films, with humans acting. We won't have musicians, we won't have students writing papers.
Or architects designing buildings, engineers making bridges.
Human error will be removed from all these industries that require us to do things that can harm us.
Will that make things better? Hell if I know, but it makes no sense to keep humans doing things that machines will do without worrying about stupid human mistakes.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:18 PM (wGK1C)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 21, 2025 12:04 PM
When I was a small child my grandparents house was heated with a coal furnace. They had to shovel coal into that thing all year long. They switched it out for gas when the gas lines got to their neighborhood. My grandfather turned to the coal bin into a root cellar. The house was built in 1889.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2025 12:19 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 12:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:15 PM (fd80v)
She writes a lot of books, and is generally quite charming. I know absolutely nothing about the personal feud being referenced, but I don’t think this is the day for the Airing of the Grievances yet.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 12:19 PM (0anTZ)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 21, 2025 12:20 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:12 PM (EMg+d)
Yes, they were world famous.
They sold airplane kits for awhile, but couldn't make a big business out of it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 12:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Kitty Hawk, NC at December 21, 2025 12:20 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I suggest getting anything / everything not available in hardcopy downloaded and saved offline as AI is actively turning the net into one big garbage dump.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:21 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 21, 2025 12:20 PM (R86kT)
It has electrolytes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 12:22 PM (6ydKt)
I'd like to see smaller airships, with more leg room, and less cattle car style design and processing.
Posted by: BurtTC
They call them "pax" for a reason
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:23 PM (/lPRQ)
People are conflating the AI stock market bubble with AI itself. Yeah the market is in a bubble. Just like .com was a bubble. But when that bubble popped the internet didn’t disappear. What happened was a lot of consolidation into the big companies we have now like Google, Amazon, etc.
Same will happen with AI we will have 3 or 4 behemoths. It’s a matter of guessing which ones it will be.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 12:23 PM (UJWr0)
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Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Always thought it would be that tractor
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 12:23 PM (ZxPkt)
Are you serious?
Have you heard about fiber optics?
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:24 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 12:24 PM (Pmfrl)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 12:19 PM (Ia/+0)
I thought one of them died in a plane crash, but just looked it up. Orville was in a crash that killed an Army Lt. who was instrumental in getting the military involved in flight.
Orville was injured, but not killed in that flight.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:25 PM (IrYHD)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 21, 2025 12:25 PM (NWwW8)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 21, 2025 12:25 PM (WJlVY)
Always thought it would be that tractor
Posted by: Don Black
I know Colorado has elks and mule deer-didn't know there were reindeer, or was grandma at a zoo?
Posted by: Large Ruminant Fan at December 21, 2025 12:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: BurtTC
I asked one of my "providers" about that.
Basically all-in-one printers so they can scan and automagically E-mail the doc or feed it into the NSA databases. They use the term loosely.
It would be cool to see them using an old-school fax with the rotating drum though.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:27 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at December 21, 2025 12:27 PM (rnujI)
Your grandfathers were born before 1961? And you think that will impress this room full of 29 year-olds?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:27 PM (lLEcp)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 21, 2025 12:19 PM (0N4FZ)
My parent's house had a coal furnace, steam heat. My uncle built the house in 1947 and we moved in November 1948 when I was a year and a half old. I grew up with my dad AND mom shoveling coal into the furnace, and "banking" the fire at night before bedtime. Dad worked steady midnights, so mom would do the task when he was working. We finally converted to oil in the summer of 1961 when I was 14.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 21, 2025 12:28 PM (5xuJ/)
And Tyrannical BigGov at every step tried to control the communications, and control The Narrative. The internet is now sorta breaking that iron grip, but Google Archipelago type controls still maintain powerful influence over The Message, while also censoring Wrong Think.
But life in general is better for most of us (for now, until things go Full Dystopian). But we must use the new tools for good, and not be controlled by them and the new AI Overlords. Always just one generation away from losing our liberties.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2025 12:28 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
And then their wives got the vote.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 21, 2025 12:28 PM (kfTpm)
It's a principle of civil engineering they picked up from the Romans. Romans silted up their grain port, Ostia, with their own ordure. As long as the crap got flushed downstream, they didn't give a shit. And the British keep mouthing "Sanitation, what have the Romans done for us lately?" because they never got one step further.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 21, 2025 12:28 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 21, 2025 12:28 PM (NBPRu)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2025 12:29 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2025 12:29 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 21, 2025 12:29 PM (NWwW8)
Basically all-in-one printers so they can scan and automagically E-mail the doc or feed it into the NSA databases. They use the term loosely.
It would be cool to see them using an old-school fax with the rotating drum though.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:27 PM (/lPRQ)
Email is not an acceptable way to transmit HIPAA protected docs, unless it's encrypted.
And since it's a hassle to encrypt and decrypt, most offices still use faxes. Manual or digital, it's still a fax.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:30 PM (IrYHD)
It’s not sexy in the way planes or iPhones are. And the improvements are incremental. So people take it for granted.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 12:31 PM (UJWr0)
I honestly think it could go sideways with only the slightest nudge. People being stupid, evil and all that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 12:31 PM (NwnyJ)
It would be well worth the trip.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 21, 2025 12:32 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 21, 2025 12:28 PM (NBPRu)
My dad's dad served in WWI. And he'd just emigrated here in 1914.
One of my mom's uncles was killed in that war.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:32 PM (IrYHD)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:30 PM (IrYHD)
That's all we ever ask for.
Posted by: Joe Friday at December 21, 2025 12:32 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 21, 2025 12:33 PM (Kt19C)
No they didn't. There was pre-wrapped "package coal," no dust, that you could just toss in, and there was a device called Iron Fireman that would auto-feed through the night. Had a little feed auger with an electric motor, remote controls, thermostat and everything. You've been sold a bill of goods by Big Gas.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 21, 2025 12:34 PM (zdLoL)
You had coal?!
I literally had to cut wood, split it, and feed two wood burners or freeze to death in winter.
When I moved out my parents not only got a gas furnace but whole house AC too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:34 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:15 PM (wGK1C)
Faxes are a little bit more secure than emails, as they are generally directed to a single phone number and can't be readily copied.
Compare that to having an accidental "Reply all" sending your Viagra prescription to five thousand people at once.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:35 PM (lLEcp)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
Did your Dad work with Fred and Barney down at Mr. Slate's quarry?
Posted by: You Make Me Feel So Young at December 21, 2025 12:35 PM (oftw2)
Have you heard about fiber optics?
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:24 PM (EMg+d)
I’m totally serious. People don’t walk around staring at fiber optics… they stare at their phones and use them for everything. I watched TV and made phone calls etc etc before fiber optics. Fiber optics are infrastructure nobody sees… they made things better but didn’t make observable changes in everyday life
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 12:37 PM (xT8gx)
AI and it's related techs has been around for a long time but was always regarded as niche and boutique because it was practical therefore unmarketable.
Ai development is just starting in reality.
Many technologies have followed similar paths.
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:37 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 12:37 PM (ZxPkt)
Messy.
Bought something else.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2025 12:37 PM (NwnyJ)
_-_
I heard an argument several decades ago that it would be more like intelligence amplification. The idea has held up well so far.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 12:39 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:35 PM (lLEcp)
Not too long ago, maybe six months or so, an email went out to everyone in my organization, and it shouldn't have.
There were literally over a thousand replies from people saying "take me off this email chain."
This is when it's a good thing I don't have a "Kill All" button on my pooter.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:40 PM (Fju+s)
'Fiber optics are infrastructure nobody sees… they made things better but didn’t make observable changes in everyday life'
They made data transfer radically faster. They probably noticed that even if they don't know it's fiber optics.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:42 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 21, 2025 12:43 PM (9ZTyf)
Posted by: He-Man Woman Hater's Club at December 21, 2025 12:43 PM (oftw2)
Obligatory, Steely Dan "I.G.Y."
I'm sure it was meant to be cruelly ironic. The joke's on them.
https://youtu.be/Ueivjr3f8xg
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:43 PM (lLEcp)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy
Did your Dad work with Fred and Barney down at Mr. Slate's quarry?
Posted by: You Make Me Feel So Young at December 21, 2025 12:35 PM (oftw2)
He worked for Anaconda, copper refinery. Blast furnace department. 24/7 operation. Yeah, hard manual labor.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 21, 2025 12:43 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 12:43 PM (vd6bO)
I am thinking more like "Genesis II". Pacifist Doo-Gooders versus War Mongering Slavers out for world domination.
Posted by: Zombie Gene Roddenberry at December 21, 2025 12:44 PM (R/m4+)
That's kind of lame. You are ignoring all the stuff that was invented to make the cell phone possible.
I guess that is a way that a consumer could see things.
So you think airplanes are an invention but the jet engine is not.
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:44 PM (EMg+d)
'Fiber optics are infrastructure nobody sees… they made things better but didn’t make observable changes in everyday life'
They made data transfer radically faster. They probably noticed that even if they don't know it's fiber optics.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:42 PM (fd80v)
Yes but “noticeably faster data transfer” doesn’t really change the way you live your life… it’s a convenience, a nicety but it doesn’t fundamentally alter behavior.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 12:44 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: We wuz kangz and sheeit at December 21, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:46 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 12:46 PM (gm9Sb)
'He worked for Anaconda, copper refinery. Blast furnace department. 24/7 operation. Yeah, hard manual labor.'
I'll that got pretty hot in the summertime.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:47 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:44 PM (EMg+d)
The jet engine was invented before I was born. I limited my comment to inventions made in my lifetime
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 12:48 PM (xT8gx)
What, exactly are you doing right now?
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:48 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 12:09 PM
I think it will be a world changer, but not in a good way. It will be a negative world changer in the same way that social media and smart phones have negatively affected society and culture.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2025 12:50 PM (P5BPp)
'He worked for Anaconda, copper refinery. Blast furnace department. 24/7 operation. Yeah, hard manual labor.'
I'll that got pretty hot in the summertime.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Getting hard to find decent copper clappers these days.
Posted by: Jack Webb at December 21, 2025 12:51 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:51 PM (EMg+d)
And innocent is totality gone from their judgements.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 21, 2025 12:51 PM (EyfuW)
_-_
I heard an argument several decades ago that it would be more like intelligence amplification. The idea has held up well so far.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
+++
For all values of "intelligence" including negative numbers.
From my perspective, for a lot of topics, it just averages out what info it is fed. After so many iterations it is just mud.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 12:52 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 12:52 PM (vd6bO)
What, exactly are you doing right now?
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:48 PM (EMg+d)
Remember the old stereotype of suburban housewives who did nothing all day except drink coffee and chatter on the telephone?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:52 PM (lLEcp)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:48 PM (EMg+d)
Posting a comment from my iPhone, which doesn’t contain any fiber optics….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 12:52 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: pawn
Yes, and no. BBS's were just full of more engineers and mathematicians. Now it's just assholes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 12:54 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 12:54 PM (Ia/+0)
I believe he also did a similar series called "The Day The World Changed"
Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 12:54 PM (AN2gy)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 12:55 PM (gm9Sb)
From my perspective, for a lot of topics, it just averages out what info it is fed. After so many iterations it is just mud.
_-_
Fair comment. I find it helps narrow a search when I am researching something new, but, oh, how it lies.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 12:55 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 12:47 PM (fd80v)
The men/fathers back then, did what they needed to do to support their families. He was drafted in 1942, served his time in combat over seas (wounded twice in action), and discharged in 1945. Those guys grabbed whatever jobs they could when they retirned. The Central Jersey area, especially Perth Amboy, was populated by many heavy manufacturing plants. No dad, that I knew of, in our neighborhood worked in a "white collar" position. Most, like my dad, were first generation Americans from Eastern European parents. Hard working, no nonsense people. I miss my dad. He was a good father.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 21, 2025 12:55 PM (5xuJ/)
Along with all that debt we have a billion or so getting very rich just buying stocks, or billionaires getting richer trading them. That all promoted amazing spending on everything ... it was "free money".
Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2025 12:55 PM (vbXSk)
Computers were highly specialized and somewhat exotic thing in the 1950s into the 1970s and now they are in just about everything, from cars to refrigerators.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2025 12:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
I bought a bag of coal to burn in my fireplace, Victorian England style. Ugh. Nasty, dirty smelly stuff.
I'd go conquer the world too, just to get away from the smell of Victorian England.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 12:56 PM (lLEcp)
I'd like to see smaller airships, with more leg room, and less cattle car style design and processing.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:1
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I was a private pilot and I dread modern flying. The experience of staying in that crowded metal tube with sometimes difficult people. Absolutely stay away from Spirit and Frontier.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 21, 2025 12:56 PM (NgpKB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 12:57 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:58 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 12:59 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: JTSmith at December 21, 2025 12:59 PM (reaJf)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:59 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:46 PM (EMg+d)
Connections was a good series, but I watch it now and pick up a lot of "slant" about what should be good. The facts are there, but there is a lot of opinion as well - and I disagree with a lot of the opinion.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2025 01:00 PM (rbvCR)
'I'd go conquer the world too, just to get away from the smell of Victorian England.'
You would have needed a time machine to get away from those smells. Coalsmoke, sewage and horse crap smells (or worse) were everywhere.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 01:01 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Zombie Bill Morton at December 21, 2025 01:03 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 12:44 PM (xT8gx)
Agreed. Cellphones and computers can (and did) exist before the advent of fiber optics. So did space travel. Useful and important infrastructure, but about as exciting as sewer pipes. Which are also useful and important infrastructure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:04 PM (npFr7)
My grandparents were way tougher than me.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 21, 2025 01:04 PM (NgpKB)
'Kind of an overglorified search engine.. or Cliff Notes if you don't want to really learn.'
Kind of a really good vessel for a Ministry of Truth if you ask me. No one will know the difference between AI fact and AI programmer opinion.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2025 01:05 PM (fd80v)
Shut up and drink your Brawndo.
Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 01:07 PM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Zombie Bill Morton at December 21, 2025 01:03 PM (R/m4+)
I'm waiting for recreational fentanyl to become safe.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 01:11 PM (LPgB/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 01:13 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 12:46 PM (gm9Sb)
A lot of those monster furnaces were "gravity furnaces", which were really convection heaters. No huge squirrel-cage blower to force hot air through narrow pipes. They had a few large pipes through which hot air would rise to heat principal rooms upstairs, and those room would have cold air returns, normally on outside walls. Fire burned all the time at a low level, and air circulated gently all the time, too. Very quiet and comfortable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 21, 2025 12:29 PM (NcvvS)
Had to look that one up.
The answer is Sir Patrick Moore.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 21, 2025 01:15 PM (b9CCz)
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 12:51 PM (
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Which is about the time we reached peak airline technology. Huge jets, low cost flights. Military aviation has progressed -- fifth generation fighters -- but has commercial aviation changed much in forty years? Government run air transfer control in the US is really lagging.
Still, a great time to be alive
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 21, 2025 01:15 PM (NgpKB)
From my perspective, for a lot of topics, it just averages out what info it is fed. After so many iterations it is just mud.
I have been having a lot of fun with AI running thought experiments like What if the people of Enoch's time (who lived more than five hundred) beheld Renaissance tools (printing press, universities, infrastructure/collaboration, trade, competition, high trust, etc.).
That is, if you gave domain geniuses such as Einstein, Newton, Michelangelo, et al lifetimes over 600 years, what would society look like?
A lot of interesting things come up - far exceeding what a conversation with intelligent people would yield.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 01:16 PM (PVBkQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 01:18 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 01:18 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 21, 2025 01:19 PM (jc0TO)
That is, if you gave domain geniuses such as Einstein, Newton, Michelangelo, et al lifetimes over 600 years, what would society look like?
What derived from that is telos (ultimate aim) where glorifying God vs today's self-glorification or nihilism.
Where we have had great advanced, art, beauty, human flourishing with a telos of glorifying God to our post-modern, post-Christian ethos of glorifying man and nihilism which yields rampant mediocrity. decay, decadence, ugliness and art devoid of the appreciation of craft, skill and cultural endurance.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 01:19 PM (PVBkQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 01:18 PM (gm9Sb)
Bob Cummings also was one of the few people ever to own and fly the Taylor Aerocar, a flying car that actually made it to production.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:23 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Zombie Bill Morton at December 21, 2025 01:03 PM (R/m4+)
I agree, in modern times.
My all-time best invention ever is irrigation agriculture. Came to be about simultaneous in the (now Iraqi) Fertile Crescent and the Lower Nile. Not needing every possible possible person in a village to be subsistence-critical hunter-gatherers, this fueled the ability for some to have enough free time to invent written language, money, to develop trade and trade routes, and invent/develop the other basic building blocks of every civilization.
Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2025 01:23 PM (5rh/l)
https://tinyurl.com/mr462mn2
Time doesn't always march on so fast maybe
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 01:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 21, 2025 01:23 PM (Kt19C)
My boss loves AI. Says it's great for researching. As long as you give restrictions. Things he really doesn't know a lot about.... Kind of an overglorified search engine.. or Cliff Notes if you don't want to really learn.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Seconded. I feel a twinge of guilt over how easy it's been to shortcut the artists, actors, devs, and translators I used to hire. Some of the artists in particular have whole YouTube channels about being unemployable. One girl started about 6 weeks ago and she just hit 100k subscribers because she's cute and she has a sort of Shoe-on-Head sarcastic persona. She livestreams herself drawing. That's her sustenance now. But the savings for precious MEE omg.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 21, 2025 01:24 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2025 01:25 PM (yPhso)
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Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 21, 2025 01:28 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 01:28 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Weasel at December 21, 2025 01:29 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 21, 2025 01:23 PM (Kt19C)
Why, yes. The hot air pipes were routinely wrapped in asbestos paper. And cracks and joints in the firebox were sealed with asbestos cement. Asbestos is wonderful stuff. Just don't fill the air you breathe with clouds of asbestos fibers, and you'll be fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:30 PM (npFr7)
It's already super useful for a lot of things that aren't chatbots, but I don't think it's a world changer. More of a productivity boost, like excavators were vs. shovels.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 21, 2025 01:30 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 21, 2025 01:31 PM (mlg/3)
Draft animals were still a major part of ground transport through WWII.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 12:18 PM (/lPRQ)
My Grandmother moved by covered wagon as well, from North Carolina to Indian Territories, now Oklahoma. Wish I had talked to her more
Posted by: javems at December 21, 2025 01:32 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 01:32 PM (MoRvC)
A lot of what it was used for was great. I don't get why it was in linoleum floors up through about 1950 though. Makes renovations a hassle if you do it right.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 21, 2025 01:34 PM (QZThv)
Right after the Wiles Vanity Fair fiasco.
When will these people learn the msm hates them and will do everything they can to hurt them and they should never do these things.
Rhetorical, I know. The answer is never.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:35 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 01:36 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I've known people lived in farmhouses with ductless convection heating. Firebox on living room and open oversized floor grates to the second floor. Kitchen was the best place to hang out in the winter as it had its own 'heater'.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 01:36 PM (/lPRQ)
Those are so common now I'm not even sure why it's a big deal. Women love the "duck" look, even though men don't give a shit.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 21, 2025 01:36 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 21, 2025 01:38 PM (a6PrB)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 21, 2025 01:30 PM (QZThv)
I liken it to the tractor. Farming didnt really chance at its core once the tractor came along. It’s still seeds in the ground. But the tractor fundamentally revolutionized farming from an efficiency standpoint.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:38 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2025 12:55 PM (gm9Sb)
Also fucking the poolboy while the husband is out working 75 hours a week to support those three kids that - unbeknownst to him - aren't even his.
Posted by: Life in modern America at December 21, 2025 01:39 PM (TbWk/)
I agree with Gref.
Posted by: Eromero
==> BEER
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 01:39 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 21, 2025 01:40 PM (pShv9)
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 01:40 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 21, 2025 01:36 PM (QZThv)
It’s not a big deal. But it just shows how even for the smallest shit like this People went out of its way to portray something negative.
Republicans for some reason keep agreeing to do these magazine profiles knowing they will never get a fair portrayal.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:40 PM (UJWr0)
Right after the Wiles Vanity Fair fiasco.
When will these people learn the msm hates them and will do everything they can to hurt them and they should never do these things.
Rhetorical, I know. The answer is never.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:35 PM (UJWr0)
They're all a bunch of catty, bitchy, high school mean girls who never grew up.
Posted by: Even the males at December 21, 2025 01:41 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2025 01:32 PM (MoRvC)
Nearly all the workers who got asbestos-related cancers were also smokers. Of course, most people were smokers back then, too. Not all smokers get lung cancer, but it clearly increases the risk. Not all people who work with asbestos get lung cancer, but it clearly increases the risk. But if you do both? You are dicing with the Devil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:41 PM (npFr7)
Those are so common now I'm not even sure why it's a big deal. Women love the "duck" look, even though men don't give a shit.
Posted by: Ian S.
Better seal.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 01:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 01:39 PM (/lPRQ)
There is a theory that beer is the reason the first farmers decided staying in one spot and planting lots of grain was a good idea.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 21, 2025 01:42 PM (lLEcp)
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Fun Fact:
Flies take off backwards. Aim behind the fly when swatting. Your score will improve immediately.
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2025 01:42 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2025 01:41 PM (npFr7)
Lucifer's cooking show. Accomplished chef, in addition to being a celestial rebel and The Accuser.
Posted by: Old Scratch Biscuits - Devilishly Good! at December 21, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ian S.
Better seal.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 01:42 PM (/lPRQ)
On the poolboy's dick.
Posted by: Cosmetic surgeons are quacks at December 21, 2025 01:43 PM (TbWk/)
AI is political, 100%
I just typed in "Mary, Did You Know" at Google.
Here's what comes up: Why is Mary Did You Know controversial?
AI: AI Overview
"Mary, Did You Know?" is controversial mainly for its theological perspective, seen by some as condescending "mansplaining" that infantilizes Mary by asking if she knew facts about Jesus, contradicting beliefs (especially Catholic ones) that she would have known her role as the Mother of God, particularly with the line about Jesus "delivering" her, which clashes with the Immaculate Conception doctrine. Critics argue it's theologically imprecise, while supporters see it as exploring the mystery of faith through Mary's human perspective, focusing on the wonder of Christ rather than literal knowledge.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 01:43 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 01:44 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 01:44 PM (snZF9)
When will these people learn the msm hates them and will do everything they can to hurt them and they should never do these things.
Rhetorical, I know. The answer is never.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:35 PM (UJWr0)
Yes… never is correct. I think it has to do with their age. Trump is 79? I think… Wiles is at least in her 60s if not older… they grew up in the age of Walter Cronkite. Their view of the media will probably never fundamentally change
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 01:45 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Dry grain storage for food was probably the real reason... Unless some got wet and sprouted... Oopsie. Well, let's malt it and make beer.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 01:45 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 01:44 PM (snZF9)
Those guys who duct tape a chair to an airboat engine and tie a paraglider chute to it.
Posted by: HOLD MUH BEER I'M GONNA FLY at December 21, 2025 01:46 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: HOLD MUH BEER I'M GONNA FLY at December 21, 2025 01:46 PM (TbWk/)
Florida man?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 21, 2025 01:47 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 01:45 PM (xT8gx)
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The days of Sander Vanocur and Eric Sevareid are long over.
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 01:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 01:45 PM (xT8gx)
Fuckin' Boomers. Although GenZers and Alphas seem to be just as unthinkingly credulous, even though they don't get their "news" from TV anymore.
Posted by: It's not just the media, it's the brain absorbing it at December 21, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 21, 2025 01:49 PM (ayRl+)
What is anisotropic speed of light ?
_-_
And are physical "laws" constant over time? A favorite dumb question of mine
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 01:50 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: It's not just the media, it's the brain absorbing it at December 21, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)
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Social Media "influencers" are media muppets for the most part.
Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2025 01:50 PM (rj6Yv)
Those are so common now I'm not even sure why it's a big deal. Women love the "duck" look, even though men don't give a shit.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 21, 2025 01:36 PM (QZThv)
I know, I see that story and think "why would I give a shit one way or the other?"
Women do stupid stuff for looks constantly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 01:51 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: HOLD MUH BEER I'M GONNA FLY
Got an uncle who made a one man hot air balloon. Not much more than a lawn chair, propane tank, big azz burner, and bag.
His brother made his own parachute. Said it packed a bit tight and you had to give it a firm bump or two with your elbows to deploy it...
Both were industrial sewers, riggers, jumpmasters, and had their own jump zones etc as a side gig to the day job. So, professionals.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2025 01:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 21, 2025 01:50 PM (vd6bO)
No, but Time itself has changed at the same rate as the physical "laws" have changed, so if you measure them they'll still look the same and you can never tell the difference.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 01:52 PM (uWKK8)
Women do stupid stuff for looks constantly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2025 01:51 PM (uWKK
Like, totally!
Posted by: Big Hair 80s Girl with Shoulder Pads at December 21, 2025 01:53 PM (lLEcp)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 01:45 PM (xT8gx)
Leavitt is 20-something. She should know better.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:53 PM (UJWr0)
Artists are fighting it now, but they are going to lose. Not every single one, it should go without saying (but someone will). You are going to have sites that make music for you based on whatever criteria you like: and not one of those songs will have existed previously. The same thing with art. And don't get me started with video. Movies about whatever you want on demand. Books about any subject you want, on demand. Poems, puzzles, RPGs. Everything.
Coders are going to diminish in number, greatly. The kinds of stuff I can churn out with claud.ai open in one window and visual studio in the other is wild. You still have to know what you are doing, but you aren't going to need nearly as many people.
I have no idea what the fallout will be. But it's going to be interesting times for sure.
Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at December 21, 2025 01:56 PM (U/7CP)
I’ll bet the next 122 years are even more technologically astounding.
Posted by: Pete Bog
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I'd love to time-machine in to take a look -- although something tells me I'd want to time-machine right back out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 21, 2025 01:56 PM (n7rxJ)
It's been fifty-six years since 1969, and our big achievement in that time span is the invention of social media.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2025 01:56 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 01:57 PM (4ZzTK)
I honestly don’t know how any even slightly to the right person in politics is dumb enough to do these magazine features. No matter what you say, no matter how you look it will be twisted and turned into a negative. There is literally 0 upside and unlimited downside. How do they not understand this?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:58 PM (UJWr0)
Last I heard, the old gentleman was still alive, in his mid-nineties.
Posted by: Paco at December 21, 2025 01:58 PM (2L+MU)
I've said it a hundred times here:
Human civilization peaked on July 20, 1969.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 01:57 PM (4ZzTK)
Amen
Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2025 01:58 PM (LHPAg)
The babies being born now, whatever their generation designation is, will not be able to keep the Power Grid operating.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 21, 2025 01:59 PM (4ZzTK)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:53 PM (UJWr0)
Yes… but she lives in an older world. I’m pretty sure her husband is in his 60s? She probably inherited his worldview
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 02:00 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pete Bog
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Which begets which? Culture vs. technology.
I fear that AI is going to destroy our culture as we know it. The humaness is going to be sapped. We see it now with the addiction to smart phones, 'apps', social media, etc.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 02:02 PM (XeU6L)
But she never does.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 21, 2025 02:02 PM (MNCvZ)
You bet. Humans, kicking and screaming into the future they created.
Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 02:06 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: mrp
My Grampa had 'Billy' a retired draft horse into the early 60's even though he owned a Ford 9N for years. Billy was a fantastic animal - he'd let us kids pull ourselves up using his tail or mane and take us for rides until Grammi would call. Then, he'd slowly turn around and drop us off at the back porch. I finally got rid of his horse collars when I sold the farm 15 years ago or such.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 21, 2025 02:07 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Tom Locker at December 21, 2025 02:07 PM (FQZ0B)
My FIL worked for the Jenny Oil Company that provided the fuel for that flight.
Posted by: DanMan at December 21, 2025 02:11 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 02:23 PM (RuTUS)
And after a few Apollo flights, we decided to take 50 years or so off from flights beyond low Earth orbit. Nice work liberals... what would we have done without you? I'd love to have found out!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 21, 2025 02:40 PM (FpP3s)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 21, 2025 12:30 PM (IrYHD)
That's all we ever ask for.
Posted by: Joe Friday at December 21, 2025 12:32 PM (uQesX)
; )
Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 03:06 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 21, 2025 01:53 PM
Yes... but she lives in an older world. I’m pretty sure her husband is in his 60s? She probably inherited his worldview
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 21, 2025 02:00 PM
Grok summary:
Karoline Leavitt was born on August 24, 1997, making her 28 years old as of December 21, 2025.
Yes, she is married to Nicholas Riccio, a New Hampshire real estate developer. They got engaged in December 2023, welcomed a son in July 2024, and married in a private ceremony in January 2025 (shortly before Donald Trump's second inauguration).
Her husband is approximately 60 years old (born around 1965), resulting in a 32-year age gap. Leavitt has publicly described their relationship as an "atypical love story" and noted that Riccio is supportive of her career while preferring to keep a low public profile.
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Atypical is an understatement. Average lifespan of American men is about 76 years old. If Leavitt's husband lives that average lifespan, he'll die when Leavitt is 44 and their son is 17.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2025 04:17 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 21, 2025 02:02 PM
Too late. Social media and smartphones have already destroyed western civilization culture. AI is just going to make it even worse.
I already see it worse just in my workplace. People not bothering to learn things, just using AI to ask for summaries of things so they can repeat that in meetings to pretend they know what they're talking about.
Also seeing people getting interviews and jobs by using AI to fake their credentials.
There are also cases where lawyers are not doing their own research and just relying on AI and not checking to see if AI results are correct. Same with students doing this in school/college. Same with doctors and nurses looking up treatments.
We also have all our training videos now done with AI voices instead of real people in classrooms or in Teams calls where we can interact.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2025 04:22 PM (P5BPp)
That was some time ago.
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My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)