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3 When Islam fully takes over, it will be a different kind of great...

4 That picture has me instinctively reaching for the spare grocery bags under the sink.

5 I suspect one could have similar conversations in any major blue city in America.

6 I take it one can find Winston Marshall guest on his podcast Britain will disappear in Hyde Park

7 Britain is rapidly becoming a bundle of dry straw, just waiting for a match. It could be anything, since every system they have is failing.
But weighing against that is the observation that the people there are now just sheep, incapable of any action other than to groan and bleat in their way to the slaughterhouse.

8 Thanks CBD. Britain will not be great again in my lifetime. In 100 years or more, who knows? But honestly they haven’t been great since the WWII era… maybe a tiny renaissance under Thatcher in the 80s… but during the Cold War they always needed our military because they poured so much money into their national health service they couldn’t afford to properly fund the royal navy which I understand is a bit of a joke these days… the next that won At Trafalgar and Jutland and ruled the seas for centuries is a shell

9 Diogenes especially if 3x 20 somethings were found in a urban Leftist hole

10 Short of American style revolution and a heavy side dish of ethnic cleansing, the UK is done.

11 Londoners have a first hand view of the terror of Islam, as CBD's friends seem to have noted. Their billionaires might start backing the Farage types, as they see their society slip sliding away.

Do those billionaires really plan to live their lives out in a Chalet in the Alps, or a Mediterranean seaside estate? And even there, would they really remain untouchable by Islam?

12 I was stationed in the UK in the early '90's. You never saw this. There wasn't so much as cigarette butts on the ground.

13 You sound pessimistic, CBD.
My lineage is almost completely Irish, English and Scottish, back to the Norman invasion, plus a kraut or two who snuck in.
There’s a village in the East Midlands with my surname on it. I wanted to visit there.
Now, nope.
I’m an American and I’ll fight for my heritage here.

14 UK is 6% Muslim
They tend to be socially very conservative
Anti gay
Anti abortion
Anti alcohol

15 If they had Walmart they could get Great Value.

16 5 I suspect one could have similar conversations in any major blue city in America.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 07, 2025 12:06 PM (2WIwB)

But there is still an escape path open in America, as attested to by the thousands who are relocating weekly to Florida, Texas, and other similar locales. For major Blue cities there is no hope, because all of their competent people are leaving.

17 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 07, 2025 12:10 PM (9k4Yy)

Oh my.

You are a fucking retard!

Not even worth batting around a bit.

18 UK is 6% Muslim
They tend to be socially very conservative
Anti gay
Anti abortion
Anti alcohol.

And vote like kooks. Their job is to help destroy society to usher in sharia.

Try to keep up, dickbag.

19 I was in se England 78 -80, would have if had to guess more like Camp of the Saints with so many Indian and Pakistani there.

20 I don’t understand British politics but how is that Labour is still in charge when they haven’t won a majority in… how long? I highly doubt Starmer is popular in any way but somehow the elites manipulate the system and stay in power… doesn’t sound like representative government to me. The parliamentary system stinks quite frankly

21 You sound pessimistic, CBD.

Posted by: RI Red at December 07, 2025 12:10 PM (3Aazl)

I am. London is one of my favorite cities in the world. It was a great place, and one of the repositories of Western culture, in particular the culture that helped spawn America.

But too much of it is unrecognizable.

Unless they awaken from their slumber, they will fall.

22 But there is still an escape path open in America, as attested to by the thousands who are relocating weekly to Florida, Texas, and other similar locales. For major Blue cities there is no hope, because all of their competent people are leaving.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 12:11 PM (c7Ygk)

Agreed. In England it is a national crisis and they have precious few places to go. Here it is regional. One is a tank of gas away from liberty.

23
And even there, would they really remain untouchable by Islam?
Posted by: illiniwek

I would expect the muzzies would see that as an afront to ttheir superiority, then go after them and destroy them root and stem.

And I won't lift a finger to stop it when it happens.

24 Bible Study Corner. King Solomon describes why they and we are f*cked.

https://is.gd/Oy8egx

25 Britain, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, etc.
All are on a trajectory that bodes poorly for the native populations.
The Marxists and the Muzzies will fight to gain control, until such time as they turn against each other for ultimate power.
My guess is the Muzzies win because demographically they are on a track to increase their population at a far greater rate over the next couple decades.
At which point, the cradle of Western Civilization, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution will fall into an Age of Darkness from which it will never recover.
Hopefully, America will watch and learn from their demise.

26 how is that Labour is still in charge when they haven’t won a majority in… how long?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 07, 2025 12:16 PM (+kWhq)

They won a majority in 2024.

27 “but during the Cold War they always needed our military because they poured so much money into their national health service they couldn’t afford to properly fund the royal navy which I understand is a bit of a joke these days… “
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 07, 2025 12:08 PM (+kWhq)

The entire UK military has been allowed to decay into virtual non existence. Early this year Starmer was talking about putting together an expeditionary force if 25,000 men to go help Ukraine. His top military men coughed politely and told him “um, tone that talk down. We might could find 5,000 available if you give us 6 months to work on it.”

28 I spent 2 months working in Reading in the late 90s. I would go into London pretty much every weekend and man it was such a vibrant fun city.

This was right as Tony Blair was getting started on destroying his country. I went back in 2005 for a week. And something seemed off. London was still fun but there was an air about it that something just wasn’t right. Then I went back in 2015 and Ho Lee Fuk it was a different universe than what I remembered. It wasn’t London anymore.

In one generation they destroyed it all.

I can only imagine what another 10 years has done to the place.

RIP UK

29 Unless they awaken from their slumber, they will fall.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 07, 2025 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

THEY WILL FALL.
Succinct, to the point, and accurate.
And sends a chill up one's spine.

30 Is it any wonder that Islam is on the march? After all, they have a plan. They have an alternative. They have a vision of the future. That their vision is evil and destructive means very little to its adherents, because they will reap the benefits of that destruction.
_________________

The exact can be said America's "Democratic Socialists.'

31 They won a majority in 2024.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 07, 2025 12:17 PM (n9ltV)

I didn’t know that… I thought they cobbled together a parliamentary majority by banding together with a bunch of other leftist parties but that the reform party of Farage got more votes than Labour…. Not the first time I’ve been wrong!

32 I would no longer step foot in the UK - and most of the EU, for that matter.

Mrs. BD and I both have relatives there and we don't understand what they're waiting for.

33 20 I don’t understand British politics but how is that Labour is still in charge when they haven’t won a majority in… how long?

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They won a yuuuuge majority last year. 400+ seats out of 650.

But percentage wise they only won 33% of the vote.

Parliamentary elections are wack in this aspect.

34 It's not just the UK, unfortunately. It's almost the entire western world.

I spent many years traveling around the world and the direction the west was going was obvious over a decade ago to anyone who paid attention. It's not a conspiracy theory or some cosmic coincidence, it's a plan. And outside of countries run by Donald Trump its been wildly successful. Now more than ever we are the exception not the rule.

Darkness is descending on much of the world and they only way out is going to be violent.

35

Europe’s embattled liberal-globalist elites erupted in fury this week after the Trump administration released its bold new National Security Strategy, which rightfully called out the EU’s anti-European positions, bureaucratic nightmare, and its diminishing geopolitical influence.

Valérie Hayer, head of the EU Parliament’s globalist Renew group, exploded in response, calling the U.S. analysis “unacceptable and dangerous.” She even went so far as to brazenly label the Trump administration “an enemy of Europe,” arrogantly claiming Washington has no business questioning the EU’s failed progressive agenda and increasingly authoritarian policies.

Liberal activist Gerald Knaus from a pro-immigration think tank went even further, hysterically declaring the U.S. a “direct threat to European democracy and peace.” He absurdly accused Washington of plotting to break up the EU and NATO, revealing the paranoia of an elite class clinging to power.

37 I've never been to Europe, even in my military days (USMC 69-76, you were going elsewhere). I have wanted to go, and now the only country I would like to visit might be Poland, or maybe Dad's birthplace, Finland, now that they are starting to get their act together. Fuck it, Vegas is warmer.

38 Oligarchs the world over don’t view countries as countries anymore. They’re just places to make money for them. Import 10M foreigners into the UK? If it lowers out production costs by 1%, totally worth it bro. So want if a 1000 year civilization is eradicated?

39 Sitting in front of the PC in my Helly Hansens (insulated coveralls), enjoying a last mug of coffee before venturing out to run the snowblower. Maybe 2,3 degrees F, but ZERO wind, and some sunshine. After that, round up the batteries from pickup, tractor, lawn mower and golf cart, and get them into warm shop, and on charge.

40 All symptoms of the extended Judgement Day the planet is experiencing. It's no wonder people are going off the rails. Much Biblical evidence points to 2033 as being the end of all things visible.

41 Europe has a socialist mindset , even the 'conservative' Europeans so they will continue the down slide until they start warring with each other over the scraps that socialism leaves.

42 > I have no crystal ball, but if I were a betting man I would bet against Britain ever becoming Great again.
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Presuming in our lifetime it was ever, really, great. In mine it was mostly meh. That goes for a lot of Europe. It's heyday was almost a century ago. If not centuries ago.

YMMV

43 I take it parliamentary seats/districts are never reapportioned?

44 Maybe 2,3 degrees F, but ZERO wind, and some sunshine.

—

That’s my definition of a prefect winter day.

45 I mean George Orwell remained a Socialist even when he recognized where that train always arrives.

46 England’s situation looks hopeless because they have 4 existential crises going on simultaneously, and each one reinforces the other.
1) A Government that now is only supported by 12% of the population, and yet which may remain in power in 2029. In response to criticism this government gets more fascist by the day; their latest proposal is to save costs by doing away with jury trials, and allow the accused to be sentenced to whether the Government appointed official feels like giving.
2) industry and the economy are collapsing; an insane obsession with NetZero by Ed Milliband is causing English electricity prices to skyrocket to being the highest in Europe; as a result England is deindustrializing and working class jobs are disappearing forever. As industry vanishes, the economy gets weaker and weaker. (Cont’d)

47 No. A perfect Winter day is 78 degrees in Palm Springs.

48 I take it parliamentary seats/districts are never reapportioned?
Posted by: no one at December 07, 2025 12:28 PM (W7XSX)

They are just like congressional districts are here.

Up until recently the number of seats would fluctuate as well. It was set at 650 as a permanent number only about 20 years ago.

49 AOP is basking in zero wind and sunshine, having sent the dreaded clippers our way.

50 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 07, 2025 12:25 PM (gm9Sb)

Croatia is where I would like to go if I ever visited Europe.

51 It's going to be 77 in San Diego on Tuesday.

52 I like 4 seasons. 70 and sunny every day gets boring.

53 After Trump (and Vance, fingers crossed) we're fucked too. Even with something of a reprieve, we're watching the caliphate grow within America like a cancer and state/local authorities all across the country continuing their anarchotyranny. And when those locations become intolerable, critical masses of their populations will move to the last redoubts of sanity in the country, then proceed to destroy them in the exact same way.

54 There were two things that allowed Hitler to rise...

1) The left letting its freak flag hang out

2) The right choosing to not try and stop the left because it would have caused issues personally for the right's leaders.

But, TBH, Britain doesn't look like Germany in the late 20s. It looks like any other conquered and colonized country.

Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon

This is a reread for me, separated by about 40 years. I first read this when I was in sixth grade. My family had just moved to Germany and for our first Thanksgiving my dad decided to take us on a chartered bus trip to Costa Brava, Spain, near Barcelona. It's a long way from Grafenwoehr, Germany to Spain. Naturally I took along several books, among which was Mystery Walk, that was loaned to me by a friend.

Mystery Walk is the story of two young men who are blessed--or cursed--with supernatural abilities. Billy Creekmore is able to see those who are about to die and also assist their weary spirits in crossing over to the other side. Wayne Falconer is the son of a bible-thumping tent-revivalist and he has the power to heal some people, but not everyone. Turns out Wayne and Billy have a deep connection as a result of their supernatural abilities. The evil shape-changer is ever-present in the shadows of their lives, twisting their abilities to serve his own purposes (mostly feeding on them).

As horror books go, the build-up is a bit slow, but it really gets moving in the middle and later parts of the books as the boys age into adulthood and take on the responsibilities and obligations of their powers.

Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

I decided to stick with horror for the next read after Mystery Walk so I turned to one of my recent favorite authors--Dean Koontz. He rarely disappoints.

Christopher Snow isn't ordinary, but he wants to lead an ordinary life. He's afflicted with a horrible condition that prevents him from enjoying the sunlight. He's extremely sensitive to UV radiation to the point where prolonged exposure will kill him in short order. Nevertheless, he manages to lead a happy, well-adjusted life in Midnight Cove, California. That is, until his father's corpse is body-snatched right out from under his nose. Now Chris is being hunted by shadowy, not-quite-human pursuers through the darkened streets of Midnight Cove. Chris has no idea what's going on, but he suspects his dead parents were hiding secrets from him, though they loved him till the end.

What's really going on in Midnight Cove? Was the nearby Army base shut down eighteen months ago, or is the government continuing mad science experiments in secret down in the bowels of the earth?

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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:57 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Thought I would be asleep at the wheel eh?

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:58 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Looks like how I stack my books.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 07, 2025 08:58 AM (iAcMN)

4 Didn't do any useful reading last week either.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:00 AM (uQesX)

5 And later, I have to give the wife driving lessons after the sun comes up. Why does stuff like this come up during the Book Thread?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:01 AM (uQesX)

6 Not much more to go in
Blucher Scourge of Napoleon
Campaign and Commanders series book #41 Michael V. Leggierre
At 1813 spring trust

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Booken morgen horden

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:01 AM (tcsrY)

8 MP4-
Kin I haz your clock?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 07, 2025 09:02 AM (Riz8t)

9 My wife, God rest her soul, loved "Homicide Hunter". I always mispronounced it as Homie-cide Hunter, as there were a few homies getting killed during the series...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:03 AM (ynpvh)

10 Quite the Hefty Histler Section, MP4.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:06 AM (ynpvh)

11 If those are Fleisher Popeye DVDs -- and I assume they are -- MP4 has taste.

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025 09:06 AM (p/isN)

12 I wish I had a library like that. Well done, MP4!

Posted by: dantesed at December 07, 2025 09:06 AM (Oy/m2)

13 Is "Hitler at Home" a cookbook?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (ynpvh)

14 As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants

So, pants ARE required, unless you're wearing THOSE pants, which means if you ARE wearing THOSE pants, pants are not required, and therefore you could take them off.

"Illogical", as Spock, son of Sarek, might say (perhaps even with a raised eyebrow!)

I am starting to have some sympathy with certain Commentators who are known non-pants wearers for this Thread. You know who you are.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (0sNs1)

15 How many of us read one book after another in order to simply rack up a book count?

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I used to maybe but I am too old for that now.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:08 AM (eZ5tL)

16 I see MP4 has an old style phone.

Posted by: dantesed at December 07, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)

17 Good Sunday morning, horde.

Nice library, MP4. Please tell me you live in an old Victorian mansion. I don't really see how you could live anywhere else.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 09:09 AM (h7ZuX)

18 14 As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants

So, pants ARE required, unless you're wearing THOSE pants, which means if you ARE wearing THOSE pants, pants are not required, and therefore you could take them off.

"Illogical", as Spock, son of Sarek, might say (perhaps even with a raised eyebrow!)

I am starting to have some sympathy with certain Commentators who are known non-pants wearers for this Thread. You know who you are.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (0sNs1)

There seems to be a reason for those pants...seems the wearer has a drainage line of some kind affixed beneath the cut leg...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:10 AM (ynpvh)

19 Yay Book Thread!

I'm still working my way through The Hobbit, and it has been probably 15 years since my last journey There And Back Again, when I read it to my kids. Going through it after reading Waugh, Ford, and other contemporaries, the humor and snark is a lot more pronounced. Tolkien was a brilliant writer, but he had an edge as well. I'm laughing out loud at gags that completely bypassed me.

My primary writing continues to be revisions to Conqueror: Fields of Victory, my fantasy/historical miniatures rules that have sold in the very low dozens of copy (so low I'm barely entitled to use a plural). So likely to be lucrative, but I'm playing games and painting, which is the point.

Also trying to finish up editing the audio for Battle Officer Wolf, which is resulting in a lot of corrections. I'm 2/3 of the way through, so on track to get it done this year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

20 Kindle trys to push that book count but I ignored it

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (Ia/+0)

21 15 How many of us read one book after another in order to simply rack up a book count?

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I used to maybe but I am too old for that now.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:08 AM (eZ5tL)

I never did; that takes it from a pleasure to a chore.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (ynpvh)

22 I have bookshelves with overstacking like that. I have also commandeered walls in several other rooms besides the library for shelving. I think the books are reproducing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (0U5gm)

23 20 Kindle trys to push that book count but I ignored it

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (Ia/+0)

Kids today talk about body count; here that has a different meaning.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (ynpvh)

24 Morning, bibliophiles,

I'm flattered to be quoted by our esteemed group leader here, and to see Trigger Mortis being devoured by our iconic squirrel. TM differs from the continuation novels done by John Gardner in the '80s not least because it's set as a period piece in 1957. Bond as we know him in teh novels is really a Cold War-era hero. He's timeless when it's done right (see Skyfall), but JG's idea, or publishers' mandate, was to update him to the 1980s. Some of it worked, some didn't. But I like TM much better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (wzUl9)

25 I am reading the Expanse novels -actually listening since I can do audiobooks while working usually.

3rd book - Abbadon's Gate - audiobook is still not ready on libby so I started the print book last night.

Also listening to The Ladies of Grace Adieu on audiobook.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:12 AM (eZ5tL)

26 Some authors are able to continue a previous author's works if they are able to capture the spirit of the previous author. Not every author is successful at this.

I've only read one Bond novel, License Renewed. Can't remember if I liked it, or even had any idea if it matched the Fleming originals.

I have read a few Matt Helms, and they're definitely not like the movies with that other Dino. But I still like them because of the Rat Pack Cool times. Dean Martin was a pretty good actor. You think of the Helm movies and Ocean's Eleven, and Robin and the Seven Hoods, but Dean said he preferred westerns. Did good work in Rio Bravo, a villain turn in Rough Night in Jericho, and comedic westerns like Texas Across the River and Four for Texas.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:12 AM (uQesX)

27 I am starting to have some sympathy with certain Commentators who are known non-pants wearers for this Thread. You know who you are.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (0sNs1)

...

::: looking for a pair of complaint lower-wear :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:12 AM (ynpvh)

28 5 And later, I have to give the wife driving lessons after the sun comes up.

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Please be patient with Mrs OrangeEnt.
Driving lessons to family can be a nightmare.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:13 AM (eZ5tL)

29 Morning, Perfessor.

Howdy, Horde.

MP4 -- NICE pics.

Re: Reading Slumps -- We've all been there? Jeez, I'm there now and have been for weeks.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 09:13 AM (q3u5l)

30 Good morning morons and thanks perfessor

Nice library MPPP I'm pleased to have looked for and found the Richard J. Evans trilogy on your shelves which to me is a mark of completeness.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 09:14 AM (m6HS6)

31 He also sent me a picture of his amazing DVD collection. Again, it's overflowing, which is only right and proper.

TJM has an amazing collection. I'm merely a dilettante.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:14 AM (ufSfZ)

32 The family did the century challenge a few times. That is setting a goal of 100 books read in a year for each person. Normally, I just read as much as I can without the competition.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:14 AM (0U5gm)

33 a pair of complaint lower-wear

I think those are called What-She-Saids.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 07, 2025 09:14 AM (zdLoL)

34 I read Cascade Failure by L. N. Sagas. It was recommended here a few weeks ago, and it didn't disappoint. The Ambit is a Guild ship captained by an AI, Eoan, with a crew of two, Saint and Nash. Interesting characters, lots of action-adventures, and a captivating story line. What more does one need in a sci-fi book?

Posted by: Zoltan at December 07, 2025 09:15 AM (VOrDg)

35 There seems to be a reason for those pants...seems the wearer has a drainage line of some kind affixed beneath the cut leg...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:10 AM (ynpvh)

It's a circular knitting needle. Pants are mid-construction. Should have been abandoned much sooner.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 09:15 AM (h7ZuX)

36 How many of us read one book after another in order to simply rack up a book count?
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I used to maybe but I am too old for that now.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:08 AM (eZ5tL)
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Not me. I was perpetually broke as a kid, so tried to choose my books with care. I did hit up the local library, but by the time I was in high school, I'd discovered that you could read history written by people who were there (Livy, Tacitus, etc.) and that became my focus.

I do not buy books lightly. I do not keep books that displease me. I rarely own books I have not read. If I go long enough without reading them, I sell them for books I will read.

As to a library, I do not have one; my books are distributed throughout the house, each shelf housing a particular topic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

37 I have bookshelves with overstacking like that. I have also commandeered walls in several other rooms besides the library for shelving. I think the books are reproducing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
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Are you letting the fiction mingle with the nonfiction?

If so, no wonder your books are reproducing...

Nonfiction = Male

Fiction = Female

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (ESVrU)

38 33 a pair of complaint lower-wear

I think those are called What-She-Saids.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 07, 2025 09:14 AM (zdLoL)

Don't have a Mrs. anymore, so things tend to be a bit...free-flowing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (ynpvh)

39 Re: Reading Slumps -- We've all been there? Jeez, I'm there now and have been for weeks.
Posted by: Just Some Guy

Give audiobooks s try

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (eZ5tL)

40 35 There seems to be a reason for those pants...seems the wearer has a drainage line of some kind affixed beneath the cut leg...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:10 AM (ynpvh)

It's a circular knitting needle. Pants are mid-construction. Should have been abandoned much sooner.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 09:15 AM (h7ZuX)

So shorts?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:17 AM (ynpvh)

41 TJM has an amazing collection. I'm merely a dilettante.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:14 AM (ufSfZ)
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Same here.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 09:17 AM (ESVrU)

42 1 Tolle Lege
Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:57 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Thought I would be asleep at the wheel eh?
Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:58 AM (Ia/+0)
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Old Faithful

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 09:17 AM (m6HS6)

43 37 I have bookshelves with overstacking like that. I have also commandeered walls in several other rooms besides the library for shelving. I think the books are reproducing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
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Are you letting the fiction mingle with the nonfiction?

If so, no wonder your books are reproducing...

Nonfiction = Male

Fiction = Female

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (ESVrU)

Glad there are no trannies in the mix...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:17 AM (ynpvh)

44 This week I finished the literary novel Tell the Wolves I'm Home, a debut by one Carol Rifka Blunt. It's entertaining in its way, clearly written (and not in that often-pretentious present tense), and involves complex emotions between a fourteen-year-old girl in 1987 NYC, her gay uncle who dies of the then-new disease AIDS early on, and the uncle's long-time lover who also suffers from the syndrome. And between the girl and her family, father and mother (both accountants!) and her older sister. Despite the AIDS business running through it, it's not dark and grim.

Not my usual fare, and I thought it was a little longer than it needed to be, but it was a good read.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

45 I'm about to finish one book I've been working through for a while. I can't decide whether I'm going to (a) pick an easy read from the TBR pile; (b) make a plan to do an extended deep-dive into the theology books in my "library;" or (c) focus on finishing my self-taught trigonometry course (I have books; it counts!).

Posted by: PabloD at December 07, 2025 09:18 AM (GALGA)

46 If so, no wonder your books are reproducing...

Nonfiction = Male

Fiction = Female

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (ESVrU)

Glad there are no trannies in the mix...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:17 AM (ynpvh)
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That's the mythology section.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 09:18 AM (ESVrU)

47 Please be patient with Mrs OrangeEnt.
Driving lessons to family can be a nightmare.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:13 AM (eZ5tL)

I taught the first one, I can teach her, too. That's what empty business parking lots are for on Sundays.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (uQesX)

48 The more I read from Eric Ambler the more he impresses me. I recently read Background to Danger, his second book, written in 1937. In this novel, one can see a prototype of a James Bond story, except the protagonist is a British news writer instead of a spy licensed to kill. To me, Ambler is a link between the golden age of mysteries and modern spy novels.

Kenton is in Austria looking for stories, nearly broke and traveling to Linz, hoping to call in a favor from a friend, when he is asked to hold an envelope for a fellow traveler. Little does he know that within hours he will be wanted for the man's murder. He is soon caught between soviet spies and their corporate competitors seeking the envelope he held.

Kenton has to choose which side to be on, despite not wanting to be on either. The novel develops dramatically, as the two sides vie for the documents, and the climax is as dramatic as any modern spy story.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (0U5gm)

49 I do not keep books that displease me.

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

I have a vision of AH Lloyd's books perfectly straight on the shelves, quaking with fear as he does the morning inspection.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (eZ5tL)

50 Anybody read "Morning Glory Milking Farm". LOL. I certainly haven't and won't...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (ynpvh)

51 Is "Hitler at Home" a cookbook?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (ynpvh)

There probably is a Hitler cookbook somewhere, I wouldn't be surprised, although it would just be a vegetarian tome. Hitler At Home is about his attempts, through architecture, to control his residential spaces and what that tells us about both his persona and the way he wanted to publicly present himself as Fuhrer.

And I wish I did live in an old, rambling Victorian or Queen Anne house. I do live in a nice, cosy 1924 bungalow. And yes, the candlestick phone in the second picture is real and it works.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:20 AM (ufSfZ)

52 I read plenty, just times can't seem to get back to a book I want to read

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 09:20 AM (Ia/+0)

53 I've finished "Thunderball" -- but wait, there's more. The story is in a three-novel omnibus, "Bonded Fleming," which also has "For Your Eyes Only," a collection of Bond short stories; and "The Spy Who Loved Me." I'll reread FYEO but skip the last, because I didn't like it the first time.

As for "Thunderball," Fleming could have shortened it by cutting several scenes, including an entire chapter in which the female lead rolls out a story based on the artwork on the packs of her favorite cigarette. It does nothing to advance the plot. I think Fleming was starting to get literary.

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025 09:21 AM (p/isN)

54 Nice collection, MP4!

I'm not so sure about your WifFi router placement, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 09:21 AM (6ydKt)

55 As to a library, I do not have one; my books are distributed throughout the house, each shelf housing a particular topic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

My wife loved cookbooks...a whole bookshelf of them... although seldom cooked from them...one day I'll donate/sell most of them except a select few that are useful. Many have beautiful pictures of food...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:22 AM (ynpvh)

56 vmom --

If I were still taking the occasional long bus trip or attending conferences for work, I'd probably do audiobooks. But retired now and not traveling, and it just doesn't seem to work for me. Buried around here somewhere I've got a set of Harlan Ellison's recordings of his own stories, and I love a lot of those stories and Ellison was a terrific reader; I revisit some of his work now and then, but in print and almost never in audio. Who can say why? When the eyes finally get too bad even for the Kindle, I'll try it again.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 09:23 AM (q3u5l)

57 On my TBR pile, lessee . . . I'm reading Anthony Horowitz's The House of Silk, a Sherlock Holmes novel set in 1890, only about three years after Watson met him. It is very much in Doyle's style. And unlike many Holmes adventures, including those of Doyle himself, Holmes has some *real* difficulties in the case -- including being accused of murder and thrown into a London prison!

A Lee Child Jack Reacher is on my pile, along with another Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife, one of his Daniel Hawthorne mysteries; and (for a reread) Robert Parker's first novel about Sunny Randall the female Boston PI, Family Honor.

The Sunny stories are set in the same universe as the Spensers and the Jesse Stones. I wonder why no one has adapted one of them for TV or a movie?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:23 AM (wzUl9)

58 I am starting to have some sympathy with certain Commentators who are known non-pants wearers for this Thread. You know who you are.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (0sNs1)
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Quite the breeze in here too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 09:24 AM (m6HS6)

59 I have bookshelves with overstacking like that. I have also commandeered walls in several other rooms besides the library for shelving. I think the books are reproducing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:11 AM (0U5gm)

I sympathize: I have the same problem.

The "Real Men Build Libraries" video really rang true for me. The Old Man was a bibliophile with a voracious appetite -- by the time he died, he owned a personal library of 25,000 books.

As a 'yoot' I had unrestricted access, and I still remember during elementary and high school conducting research for school essays based almost entirely on the books that the Old Man had at home.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025 09:24 AM (pJWtt)

60 I do not buy books lightly... If I go long enough without reading them, I sell them for books I will read.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

It must be a regional thing, selling books. I've never lived in a place where bookstores will buy your books. They usually offer exchanges or store credit. Too much snooping about sales to put them on ebay. Why do they think you need to calculate tax on a couple dollar sale?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:24 AM (uQesX)

61 And yes, the candlestick phone in the second picture is real and it works.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:20 AM (ufSfZ)

That's awesome!

Posted by: dantesed at December 07, 2025 09:24 AM (Oy/m2)

62 51 Is "Hitler at Home" a cookbook?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (ynpvh)

There probably is a Hitler cookbook somewhere, I wouldn't be surprised, although it would just be a vegetarian tome. Hitler At Home is about his attempts, through architecture, to control his residential spaces and what that tells us about both his persona and the way he wanted to publicly present himself as Fuhrer.

And I wish I did live in an old, rambling Victorian or Queen Anne house. I do live in a nice, cosy 1924 bungalow. And yes, the candlestick phone in the second picture is real and it works.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:20 AM (ufSfZ)

Turns out you're right, MP4...
on Goodreads, "The Adolf Hitler Cookbook: The Food the Fuhrer Ate" by David Rogers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (ynpvh)

63 taught the first one, I can teach her, too. That's what empty business parking lots are for on Sundays.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Wait, your WIFE can't drive???

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (VCgbV)

64 I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that my packed Schickelgruber shelves need some lebensraum.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)

65 I read every book I bought

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (Ia/+0)

66 OrangeEnt, Heinlein wrote that teaching a spouse to drive (paraphrasing) was a quick route to divorce. Of course, read that about 15 years after Dad taught Mom to drive - with 4 kids in the back of the station wagon. Spoiler: they did not divorce.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 09:26 AM (NcvvS)

67 64 I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that my packed Schickelgruber shelves need some lebensraum.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)

Well, they haven't invaded the middle shelf yet...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:27 AM (ynpvh)

68 As for "Thunderball," Fleming could have shortened it by cutting several scenes, including an entire chapter in which the female lead rolls out a story based on the artwork on the packs of her favorite cigarette. It does nothing to advance the plot. I think Fleming was starting to get literary.

If memory serves, Fleming actually wrote Thunderball as a movie treatment before adapting it to a novel.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:27 AM (ufSfZ)

69 As for civilizations building libraries, that reminds me of "Earth Abides." If you haven't read it, it's about a man, Ish, who is one of the few survivors of a global pandemic or biological attack. He wants to preserve a library he discovers, but ultimately he realizes that it will be lost to time because there aren't enough humans at this point to actually have a civilization - all the knowledge is meaningless without people who can effectively use it.

Posted by: PabloD at December 07, 2025 09:28 AM (GALGA)

70 66 OrangeEnt, Heinlein wrote that teaching a spouse to drive (paraphrasing) was a quick route to divorce. Of course, read that about 15 years after Dad taught Mom to drive - with 4 kids in the back of the station wagon. Spoiler: they did not divorce.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 09:26 AM (NcvvS)

May portent poorly for brothers teaching their sisters to drive in the deep South...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:28 AM (ynpvh)

71 I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that my packed Schickelgruber shelves need some lebensraum.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)

I was going to make a comment about Ace and shelves but then I noticed those shelves are in fine shape.

Posted by: dantesed at December 07, 2025 09:28 AM (Oy/m2)

72 I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that my packed Schickelgruber shelves need some lebensraum.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (ufSfZ)

Well, they haven't invaded the middle shelf yet...

They'll probably form a pact with the bottom shelf and partition the middle one.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 07, 2025 09:28 AM (Riz8t)

73 As for "Thunderball," Fleming could have shortened it by cutting several scenes, including an entire chapter in which the female lead rolls out a story based on the artwork on the packs of her favorite cigarette. It does nothing to advance the plot. I think Fleming was starting to get literary.
Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025 09:21 AM (p/isN)

Ain't no need for that poofy kind of stuff. Dulls down interest. Maybe he did it for word count?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:28 AM (uQesX)

74 I've finished "Thunderball" -- but wait, there's more. The story is in a three-novel omnibus, "Bonded Fleming," which also has "For Your Eyes Only," a collection of Bond short stories; and "The Spy Who Loved Me." I'll reread FYEO but skip the last, because I didn't like it the first time.

As for "Thunderball," Fleming could have shortened it by cutting several scenes, including an entire chapter in which the female lead rolls out a story based on the artwork on the packs of her favorite cigarette. It does nothing to advance the plot. I think Fleming was starting to get literary.
Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025

***
That last is one of the reasons I think TB is one of his weakest books. Spy Who is an interesting experiment, and he captures the tone of a young Englishwoman in the early Sixties writing about her dangerous adventure and brief affair with Bond. It's truly interesting to see him from an outsider's viewpoint.

The short stories are intriguing, esp. "Risico" and the title story. Be aware that "Quantum of Solace" is not only nothing like the Daniel Craig film of that title, but also not an adventure -- it's more of a Somerset Maugham tale.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

75 Speaking of MP4's DVD stack, I hinted to Santa that I want the Kolchak television series DVD this year. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:29 AM (0U5gm)

76 I still think Bond had one of the nest one-liners in movie history.

Plenty O'Toole:
Hi, I'm Plenty.

James Bond:
But of course you are.

Plenty O'Toole:
Plenty O'Toole.

James Bond:
Named after your father perhaps?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 09:29 AM (6ydKt)

77 . . . an entire chapter in which the female lead rolls out a story based on the artwork on the packs of her favorite cigarette. It does nothing to advance the plot. I think Fleming was starting to get literary.
Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025
*
Ain't no need for that poofy kind of stuff. Dulls down interest. Maybe he did it for word count?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025

***
Characterization. Though he usually was able to characterize his heroines just as well in less space in earlier books.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)

78 68 As for "Thunderball," Fleming could have shortened it by cutting several scenes, including an entire chapter in which the female lead rolls out a story based on the artwork on the packs of her favorite cigarette. It does nothing to advance the plot. I think Fleming was starting to get literary.

If memory serves, Fleming actually wrote Thunderball as a movie treatment before adapting it to a novel.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:27 AM (ufSfZ)

Does the cigarette carton have anything to do with the plot later on? Seem to violate Chekhov's gun...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:30 AM (ynpvh)

79 The town where my parents live has a Carnegie Library. Why they choose that town I don't know. It would have been a pretty rural area at the time. Still is, relatively.

Posted by: fd at December 07, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

80 75 Speaking of MP4's DVD stack, I hinted to Santa that I want the Kolchak television series DVD this year. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:29 AM (0U5gm)

Hah! I have that! Bought it at a going-out-of-business sale at a local DVD place a decade ago...sadly, haven't cracked it open yet, and SOMEHOW the "new" TV in the living room is dead, and nobody, not even the cats, will admit to breaking it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:32 AM (ynpvh)

81 50 Anybody read "Morning Glory Milking Farm". LOL. I certainly haven't and won't...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (ynpvh)

I won't even search it for curiosity's sake, as I fear my search suggestions would then be all minotaur porn, all the time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 09:32 AM (h7ZuX)

82 So, I came to a bit of a halt in my new novel.

I did mention that I had typed up the first draft and was getting ready to edit. But before I could do that, I needed to refresh my memory of the Taylor murder, to see what details I might have got wrong or what red herrings I could add. As you may or may not know, there are four full-length books about the murder, and I happened to mention to my muse that the thought of going through them and making notes was daunting and I didn't know where I was going to find the energy to do it.

Her suggestion was, why not go back a year and make the plot about the Roscoe Arbuckle case? The problem with that is, that while I can revamp the book, it still requires reading the three full-length books on his case.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:32 AM (ufSfZ)

83
*Well, they haven't invaded the middle shelf yet.*

Das Buchernacht.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 07, 2025 09:33 AM (XQo4F)

84 taught the first one, I can teach her, too. That's what empty business parking lots are for on Sundays.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Wait, your WIFE can't drive???
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (VCgbV)

Provincial Filipinas generally don't have access to cars.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:33 AM (uQesX)

85 I'm listening to The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith, aka J. K. Rowling. I find I enjoy the language, its English, of course, but the phrasing and terminology for common things is quite different and I get a kick out of it.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:33 AM (VCgbV)

86 81 50 Anybody read "Morning Glory Milking Farm". LOL. I certainly haven't and won't...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (ynpvh)

I won't even search it for curiosity's sake, as I fear my search suggestions would then be all minotaur porn, all the time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 09:32 AM (h7ZuX)

LOL. My elder child had his EweToob tab open and wasn't around, so I looked up as much weird music stuff as I could find. He started getting suggestions for Indian Lesbian rap...LOL.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:34 AM (ynpvh)

87 OrangeEnt, Heinlein wrote that teaching a spouse to drive (paraphrasing) was a quick route to divorce. Of course, read that about 15 years after Dad taught Mom to drive - with 4 kids in the back of the station wagon. Spoiler: they did not divorce.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 09:26 AM (NcvvS)

Didn't lead to the first one leaving, doubt it'll make the current one either. I'll just give her the basics, then see how much a driving school charges.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:35 AM (uQesX)

88 . . . I do live in a nice, cosy 1924 bungalow. And yes, the candlestick phone in the second picture is real and it works.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025

***
Just the kind of house I want -- though I'm willing to accept a 1940s through 1960s house too. And I'd like a classic 1950s-60s rotary phone, but the candlestick one is great too. Perfect for hanging a fedora on when you come back in from bad weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

89 Currently reading Glen Cook's Port of Shadows and stuck in Greg Bear's Anvil of Stars. Gave up on a book for the first time: The Education of Henry Adams - he was talking about Darwin and evolution in religious awe.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 09:35 AM (NcvvS)

90 I think there were all kinds of legal go-rounds between Fleming, the producers, and actor Sean McClory (who had been involved in coming up with the story for Thunderball IIRC). Later the story was reworked for Never Say Never Again (which I thought was a lot more fun than Thunderball - YMMV).

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 09:35 AM (q3u5l)

91 Wait, your WIFE can't drive???
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:25 AM (VCgbV)

More interestingly, neither could his first.

Where in the world do you shop for wives, OrangeENT?

* I keed, I keed

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 09:36 AM (h7ZuX)

92 I'm a bookslutaholic and, accordingly, have bought three books in the last few days including a history of WWII German intelligence "honey pot"operations. That's all well and good but I was charged twice for one of the books. I called Amazon and there was some confusion. They asked which book I was talking about. I whispered, "Nazi Sex Spies." The guy, who sounded like he was from Bombay, asked me to repeat. "Nazi Sex Spies," I said. He said he still couldn't understand. "NAZI SEX SPIES!" I shouted. "NAZI! SEX! SPIES!" I finally got my $5 back.

https://is.gd/ByzCJH

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 09:36 AM (L/fGl)

93 OrangeEnt, Heinlein wrote that teaching a spouse to drive (paraphrasing) was a quick route to divorce. Of course, read that about 15 years after Dad taught Mom to drive - with 4 kids in the back of the station wagon. Spoiler: they did not divorce.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025
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Didn't lead to the first one leaving, doubt it'll make the current one either. I'll just give her the basics, then see how much a driving school charges.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025

***
I taught Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 to drive without difficulties. Our breakup didn't occur until five years later. Miss Linda refuses even to consider the idea of driving, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

94 It must be a regional thing, selling books. I've never lived in a place where bookstores will buy your books. They usually offer exchanges or store credit. Too much snooping about sales to put them on ebay. Why do they think you need to calculate tax on a couple dollar sale?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:24 AM (uQesX)

They used to be all over the place around here when bookstores were plentiful.

The stores would buy the books from anybody, usually well-read paperbacks, and resale them for $1 to $5 depending on condition and popularity, I guess.

My mother read a lot of romance novels and she'd take them in by the garbage bag, sell them for whatever, and come back with a much smaller bag full of more to read.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 09:36 AM (6ydKt)

95 88 . . . I do live in a nice, cosy 1924 bungalow. And yes, the candlestick phone in the second picture is real and it works.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025

***
Just the kind of house I want -- though I'm willing to accept a 1940s through 1960s house too. And I'd like a classic 1950s-60s rotary phone, but the candlestick one is great too. Perfect for hanging a fedora on when you come back in from bad weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

House electrical wiring in homes pre-1940 are often a mess; paper-wrapped wiring doesn't stay paper-wrapped forever, you know...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:37 AM (ynpvh)

96 Gotta go - I signed up to bring chili (no carrots) to the church potluck, so I need to hit the kitchen. Have a good day.

Posted by: PabloD at December 07, 2025 09:37 AM (GALGA)

97 Wait, your WIFE can't drive???
Posted by: lin-duh

At a previous job, the company was bought out by a New York firm, and they sent down a team to help manage it. When the wives found out that groceries were not delivered to your home daily in Houston and they would need to learn to drive, the wives began a campaign to get out of town. I think the last ones to leave were less than a year later.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:37 AM (0U5gm)

98 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading.

A bit late to the thread. We've been doing some cookie baking.

Posted by: JTB at December 07, 2025 09:38 AM (yTvNw)

99 I am at least going to spend today reading David Yallop's The Day The Laughter Stopped to see whether recasting the book will work.

I think it's just the 'research' idea that's dauting me, though I like to research. Or, perhaps, I'm shooting myself in the foot by thinking I need to read all the Taylor books and not just one of them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:38 AM (ufSfZ)

100 @78 --

Does the cigarette carton have anything to do with the plot later on?

Not in the slightest. I'm going to research the image to see what she was yammering about.

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025 09:38 AM (p/isN)

101 Characterization. Though he usually was able to characterize his heroines just as well in less space in earlier books.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)

Maybe he'd just spent a few days with Tolkien before writing that chapter?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:39 AM (uQesX)

102 ***
I taught Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 to drive without difficulties. Our breakup didn't occur until five years later. Miss Linda refuses even to consider the idea of driving, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

So you'll be Driving Ms. Linda?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:39 AM (ynpvh)

103 Here's a ni e library for those who like all things building from design to construction to interior decorating -

https://archive.org/details/
buildingtechnologyheritagelibrary

Depending on browser you may have to take out the line break.
Suggest you search by year. They have some old stuff in there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 07, 2025 09:39 AM (/lPRQ)

104 I taught Mrs. F. to drive manual and it was...trying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (m6HS6)

105 >>Didn't lead to the first one leaving, doubt it'll make the current one either. I'll just give her the basics, then see how much a driving school charges.

I'll have to ask Mom, but I think Dad taught her and had her practicing at least 3 weeks in the summertime after dinner in the evening.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (NcvvS)

106 96 Gotta go - I signed up to bring chili (no carrots) to the church potluck, so I need to hit the kitchen. Have a good day.

Posted by: PabloD at December 07, 2025 09:37 AM (GALGA)

Are you Lutheran? Will it be in a mold?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (ynpvh)

107 I think there were all kinds of legal go-rounds between Fleming, the producers, and actor Sean McClory (who had been involved in coming up with the story for Thunderball IIRC). Later the story was reworked for Never Say Never Again (which I thought was a lot more fun than Thunderball - YMMV).
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025

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Kevin McClory was the fellow who worked with Fleming on the treatment for TB, not the actor Sean. Maybe they were related?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

108 Orange ent,
How long has she been here?

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (VCgbV)

109 I taught Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 to drive without difficulties. Our breakup didn't occur until five years later. Miss Linda refuses even to consider the idea of driving, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025
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So you'll be Driving Ms. Linda?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025

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Have been, for more years than she'd like me to tell you about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:41 AM (wzUl9)

110 And I'd like a classic 1950s-60s rotary phone, but the candlestick one is great too.

I don't know about your neck of the woods, but up north, you can usually find one or two in antique stores or large flea markets. Radio Shack used to sell easy conversion kits that allowed you to plug the phone into your regular jack, but I expect you can find the kits on eBay or Amazon.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:41 AM (ufSfZ)

111 You just need to convey the mood of the times, you dont have to go into minutae youre just beating yourself over it admittedly i dont know the details of thr case

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 07, 2025 09:41 AM (bXbFr)

112 I went to college at 17 and had only just gotten my license. then I stayed in the city thru college and grad school then worked at an agency for 15 years living in town

so yeah, in a way my husband DID teach me to drive even tho I'd had a license since 16 - re-teach me. I hope I was a good student!

right now I got some good books thru Libby - reading a semi-horror more fantastical anthology called "Get in Trouble" by Kelly Link. I just finished John Langan's fantastically creepy "The Fisherman" - I highly recommend. I have his "House of Windows" on my libby list now too.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 07, 2025 09:41 AM (emBoF)

113 Where in the world do you shop for wives, OrangeENT?

* I keed, I keed
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 09:36 AM (h7ZuX)

Ask vmom....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:42 AM (uQesX)

114 This past week I finished reading "Ascendant" (Song of Chaos Book 1) by Micheal R Miller. It's a recently-written dragonrider themed fantasy book, which tries to hit all the dragonrider tropes. Before I criticize it, I want to point out that I FINISHED the book. The last time I downloaded a recently-written fantasy novel, I bailed on it within the first couple pages, because it didn't feel like a fantasy. This book at least felt like it took place in a medeval fantasy land, and the prose and story flowed well.

That said, our main characters, both dragon and rider, have quite a bit of Mary Sue in them. In the early-going, the rider breaks all societal rules, and gets rewarded for it with a dragon. The middle of the book drags, as the author lays out all the mechanics of dragon-riding magic (he's obvious a fan of 'hard magic' systems) and then has our rider speed-run through training, figuring out every new task in a day or two. Oh, and the dragon, despite being blind, is super-unique and has never-been-seen-before powers.

But once we pass the training not-montage, the book does pick up significantly. There is a multi-chapter epic final battle, which was pretty satisfying..

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 07, 2025 09:43 AM (Lhaco)

115 85 I'm listening to The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith, aka J. K. Rowling. I find I enjoy the language, its English, of course, but the phrasing and terminology for common things is quite different and I get a kick out of it.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:33 AM (VCgbV)

Rowling is very good at making up words and phrases.
The Harry Potter books are filled with them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 09:43 AM (6ydKt)

116 Is "Hitler at Home" a cookbook?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:07 AM (ynpvh)

...Hitler At Home is about his attempts, through architecture, to control his residential spaces and what that tells us about both his persona and the way he wanted to publicly present himself as Fuhrer.
...
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:20 AM (ufSfZ)

Rather apropos, I'm currently reading Gods Beasts: The Nazis the Occult, by Dusty Sklar. Published in 1977 (I believe it was reprinted in 1989 just as The Nazis and the Occult), the book examines the influence of paganism (particularly Nordic mythology and Hinduism) and the occult upon the German people both before and after WWI.

I'm only about half-way through, but the book really helps put Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP into perspective. He didn't rise to power in a vacuum: the Germans were already talking about a Messiah that was going to rejuvenate Germany before Hitler came on the scene.

An fairly short book (180 pages), it has an extensive bibliography. However, there is a lack of citations. Rating = 4.5/5.0

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025 09:44 AM (pJWtt)

117 Characterization. Though he usually was able to characterize his heroines just as well in less space in earlier books.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)

Maybe he'd just spent a few days with Tolkien before writing that chapter?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025

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Could be! The anecdote is interesting and tells us a lot about Domino, but it could have been handled in a couple of paragraphs. I find TB to be relatively uninteresting because of Bond not operating on his own, which to me is the true JB form -- not with the help of half the U.S. Navy.

And TB has the business of Bond at the health farm -- though Fleming does tie that in with the main adventure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

118 This week I've been reading an odd one: Hellstrom's Hive, by Frank Herbert.

Apparently it was inspired by a quasi-documentary film called The Hellstrom Chronicle, which features a fictional scientist named Nils Hellstrom talking about how insects will inherit the earth. It looks as though Frank Herbert decided to create the fictional backstory for that film.

In the novel, Hellstrom is one of the leaders of a human hive hidden under a farm in Oregon. His cover is that he makes documentaries about insects. The hive and its members are pretty old -- Herbert doesn't actually explain how it began, but there are offhand references to migrations so presumably Oregon is just the latest home.

The hive is pretty damned creepy -- though since it was written in 1972 the cover copy and the non-hive characters in the book are all pretty excited about the NONSTOP SEX! in the hive. There's also a superweapon because the hive has some dudes with giant heads so it's more advanced than the rest of the Earth.

(to be continued)

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 07, 2025 09:44 AM (78a2H)

119 The town where my parents live has a Carnegie Library. Why they choose that town I don't know. It would have been a pretty rural area at the time. Still is, relatively.

Posted by: fd

I seem to recall that Carnegie purposely built libraries in places where he felt the need was greatest, ie smaller towns.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:45 AM (0U5gm)

120 Wolfus --

You're right. Kevin McClory. Not only are the eyes getting bad (to say nothing of the knees), but the memory is getting twitchy. Don't know if he's a relation, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Driving. Be happy, Orange Ent -- you could be trying to get me to drive. I don't either. Probably could in an emergency, but I probably hold the title for Most Nervous Dimbulb Ever To Take The Wheel. So I don't take the wheel, for which the entire planet should give thanks.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 09:45 AM (q3u5l)

121 Good morning all.
Woke up this morning and realized that I am going on vacation in two weeks for the first time since cataract surgery and have no idea what books to line up. My IPad runs out of electrons after about 2 hours and have trouble reading it outside anyways. I can read paper books during the day but currently do not own any that I can travel with.
Upgrade IPad? Hit bookstore? Probably both?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 07, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)

122 Part of my daily reading for the season is malcolm Guite's "Waiting on the Word: A poem a day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany ". The poems include selections from Spenser, Donne, George Herbert, modern poets like Luci Shaw and many of his own poems. The poems range from delightful to profound and all are worth the time each day to contemplate the season. It has joined the ranks of traditional Christmas readings.

Posted by: JTB at December 07, 2025 09:46 AM (yTvNw)

123 Apparently it was inspired by a quasi-documentary film called The Hellstrom Chronicle, which features a fictional scientist named Nils Hellstrom talking about how insects will inherit the earth.

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I saw that many the year ago.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 09:47 AM (L/fGl)

124 I guess being from Texas, I can't fathom not knowing how to drive. I find it curious that people don't/resist wanting to even learn. Of course, now you can get anything delivered to your house again and can call up an uber/lyft at any time.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:47 AM (VCgbV)

125 122 Part of my daily reading for the season is malcolm Guite's "Waiting on the Word: A poem a day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany ". The poems include selections from Spenser, Donne, George Herbert, modern poets like Luci Shaw and many of his own poems. The poems range from delightful to profound and all are worth the time each day to contemplate the season. It has joined the ranks of traditional Christmas readings.

Posted by: JTB at December 07, 2025 09:46 AM (yTvNw)

It's good, but it ain't no gay cowboy poetry...

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at December 07, 2025 09:48 AM (ynpvh)

126 Sometimes flemings obsession with research overwhelms i noticed that with tarantino novelization of once upon a time

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 07, 2025 09:48 AM (bXbFr)

127 I taught Mrs. F. to drive manual and it was...trying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (m6HS6)

Well, San Francisco is a good place for it!

I worked on a Victorian renovation on Jones street, near the top, and that was fun! Parking my manual pickup was good practice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 07, 2025 09:48 AM (n9ltV)

128 Just the kind of house I want -- though I'm willing to accept a 1940s through 1960s house too. And I'd like a classic 1950s-60s rotary phone, but the candlestick one is great too. Perfect for hanging a fedora on when you come back in from bad weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025
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House electrical wiring in homes pre-1940 are often a mess; paper-wrapped wiring doesn't stay paper-wrapped forever, you know...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025

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Oh, I want one that has been modernized in all the important ways, like that and with air-conditioning. The earlier inhabitants would certainly have wanted that if they could have had it or afforded it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

129 Rather apropos, I'm currently reading Gods Beasts: The Nazis the Occult, by Dusty Sklar. Published in 1977 (I believe it was reprinted in 1989 just as The Nazis and the Occult), the book examines the influence of paganism (particularly Nordic mythology and Hinduism) and the occult upon the German people both before and after WWI.

I'm only about half-way through, but the book really helps put Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP into perspective. He didn't rise to power in a vacuum: the Germans were already talking about a Messiah that was going to rejuvenate Germany before Hitler came on the scene.

That sounds very similar to 1985s The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence On Nazi Ideology, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. It has extensive notes and bibliography and is definitely for the serious reader.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:49 AM (ufSfZ)

130 1/2

I read the first book in the Master Mercurius Mystery Series, Death In Delft, and have begun the second, Untrue Till Death. Master Mercurius is not only an undercover Catholic in protestant 17th century Holland, he's an undercover Catholic priest disguised as a protestant minister. Or maybe vice versa since he was a minister first but became disillusioned with predestination preferring the freedom offered by Catholicism in that man's acts can influence his fate. He's also an introspective somewhat smart ass gifted with a certain amount of intelligence. As such, when three young girls go missing in Delft, he is sent to investigate.

I liked this historical book because it puts you the 17th century with 17th century attitudes with one possible exception. Although he is not a fanatic, he disfavors capital punishment even where, as here, an eight year old is dead. Mercurius takes his religion(s) seriously and questions where his duty lies. He is particularly concerned with honesty, rather ironic given his undercover priest status. I liked this book also because it's an interesting, emotional, well written story.

SPOILER ALERT!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 09:49 AM (L/fGl)

131 Are you Lutheran? Will it be in a mold?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (ynpvh)

Only lime jello with cottage cheese goes in a mold.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:49 AM (uQesX)

132 I find it curious that people don't/resist wanting to even learn.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:47 AM (VCgbV)

Driving is freedom. City folk don't understand that!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 07, 2025 09:50 AM (n9ltV)

133 2/2

SPOILER ALERT!

When Mercurius discovers the rather sympathetic perpetrator, his dislike of capital punishment causes him to return the girls but let the perpetrator escape and, perhaps doesn't exactly lie but definitely doesn't tell the whole truth and leaves an impression that he knows to be inaccurate. So much for honesty.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 09:50 AM (L/fGl)

134
Read "Cold Storage" a horror novel by David Koepp, the movie script guy.

In theory, there's a movie coming out about it at some date.

I didn't hate it, but I was kinda tired of the whole thing before I reached the end. He really undercuts his hour in an effort, I think, top keep the potential movies budget down.

Anywho, it involves our old pal, the fungus Cordyseps, what is taking over humans now.

CS starts out as Dollar Store "Andromeda Strain" almost directly stealing the opening scene from that classic.

Then it turns into, TEMU Stephen King with all of his faults and little of his propulsive writing.

Finally, it morphs into Roadside Fruit Stand George A Romero.

If they actually make this into a movie, I can't see them keeping much of the original story. The stakes are potentially high, but rather boringly presented.

Though it does get a goodly amount of good reviews.

Check it out if you wish to see what happens when a Hollywood script writer tackles a novel.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 07, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

135 @79 --

I went to school in a town that purportedly is the smallest burg in the U.S. to have a Carnegie Library. A delegation from the town pitched the idea to Andrew Carnegie, and he approved it.

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025 09:51 AM (p/isN)

136 Driving is freedom. City folk don't understand that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Exactly!!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:51 AM (VCgbV)

137 Orange ent,
How long has she been here?
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:40 AM (VCgbV)

2008, but she worked for the deputy consul in SF until 2011. Didn't start working until kid started school, and I worked grave, so she didn't need to drive while my parents were still here. Now, she needs to because I'm getting tired.

The first one didn't drive because her father was a colonel in the army and he had drivers. They also had maids for everyone.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:52 AM (uQesX)

138 Huh. I just ran into a word I had never read before.

'deracinated'- uprooted from one's natural geographical, social, or cultural environment:
"a deracinated writer who has complicated relations with his working-class background"

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 07, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)

139 128 Just the kind of house I want -- though I'm willing to accept a 1940s through 1960s house too. And I'd like a classic 1950s-60s rotary phone, but the candlestick one is great too. Perfect for hanging a fedora on when you come back in from bad weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025
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House electrical wiring in homes pre-1940 are often a mess; paper-wrapped wiring doesn't stay paper-wrapped forever, you know...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025

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Oh, I want one that has been modernized in all the important ways, like that and with air-conditioning. The earlier inhabitants would certainly have wanted that if they could have had it or afforded it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

Insulation is often missing or a mess too. Yeah, old homes often need LOTS of upgrading.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:52 AM (ynpvh)

140 I learned to drive when I was about 12 by backing boat trailers down the ramp for my father. I still get a laugh watching people who can't even back a sedan properly. At the oil company I worked for, all parking was backed in for safety, and walking across the parking lot, would see people making multiple efforts to get into a space properly.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 09:53 AM (0U5gm)

141
hour = horror

Who knew?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 07, 2025 09:53 AM (iJfKG)

142 (Hellstrom's Hive, continued)

Opposing the Hive in the novel is an unnamed government agency, and Frank Herbert deliberately goes out of his way to make the Feds as unpleasant as possible, full of personal feuds, bureaucratic infighting, and some genuine totalitarian tendencies. The reader is left without anyone to "root for" which may explain the book's lackluster sales considering it was by the author of DUNE. I think Herbert was trying to depict the agency as kind of a rival hive of its own, just one without NONSTOP SEX! like Hellstrom's.

The book has all of Frank Herbert's strengths and weaknesses on display. The science is (for its time) solid, and the characters are vivid and well-drawn, if not especially likeable. It does have all his stylistic quirks -- lots of people's internal mental monologs, the viewpoint jumping from character to character within a scene, a touch of woo about evolution leading to some goal.

Worth a look -- I don't know if it's in print any more. I got my copy from a giveaway pile at a science fiction convention a while back.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 07, 2025 09:54 AM (78a2H)

143 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025 09:44 AM (pJWtt)
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See any number of works authored by Alfred Rosenberg or Houston Stewart Chamberlain, especially The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 09:54 AM (m6HS6)

144 Here to recommend Chris Pavone's "The Expats," me about 60 percent into it.

Two couples meet in Luxembourgh, American expats, and all are leading double lives. One is a trained assassin.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 07, 2025 09:54 AM (KiBMU)

145 All three of my kids got their licenses within days of turning 16, given a car, and turned loose on the world. The spawn will travel 45 minutes, two towns over, just to go to the new "dirty" soda shop, on a whim.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:55 AM (VCgbV)

146 Took Driver's Ed in high school as it was required then in Chicago. Didn't care for it, but managed not to kill anyone when I was behind the wheel. By then I was used to walking or taking the bus everywhere. When we moved to our current digs far from Chicago and needed a car, I was used to walking or bicycling, and found I couldn't relax behind the wheel -- once I was moving at speeds over my usual max on the bicycle I didn't feel in control at all. Fortunately Mrs Some Guy likes driving. Not real crazy about that state of affairs, but there it is.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 09:55 AM (q3u5l)

147 When my daughters were learning to drive, there was, probably still is, a requirement that they drive 50 hours with me before they can take the test. It was a great time. We drove all over Hell and back talking and listening to music and usually stopped at our arbitrary destination for a bite before heading home.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

148 142
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I think Herbert was trying to depict the agency as kind of a rival hive of its own, just one without NONSTOP SEX! like Hellstrom's.
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Posted by: Trimegistus at December 07, 2025 09:54 AM (78a2H)

Yes, go on...

Posted by: Peter, Strzoking Himself at December 07, 2025 09:56 AM (ynpvh)

149 It must be a regional thing, selling books. I've never lived in a place where bookstores will buy your books. They usually offer exchanges or store credit. Too much snooping about sales to put them on ebay. Why do they think you need to calculate tax on a couple dollar sale?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:24 AM (uQesX)
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I live in a college town. Selling books is (or was) an annual event. I guess some texts are digital now.

Usually one can get more credit than money, but money is still on offer.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 09:56 AM (ZOv7s)

150 oh my gosh Shy Lurking Voter, you haven't even got to the best bits yet (must! not! give! spoilers! aaahh!) ... and there's a second one (Welcome to the Jungle) that just dropped last month, haven't finished it yet.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 07, 2025 09:56 AM (Cjt/F)

151 Ask vmom....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I do not supply wives, just equip them with stabbys

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 07, 2025 09:57 AM (tcsrY)

152 Orange ent,
Ah, I see. My dad's second wife was from where your wife is from. Retire Air Force so I've been around a bit growing up.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:58 AM (VCgbV)

153 All good things...

On the comic-reading front, I finished "Conan the Barbarian Omnibus 10," containing issues 241-275. This volume features the return of Roy Thomas as the series writer. Roy Thomas was the guy who first brought Conan to comics, and had written the first 115 issues of the series. His return was most welcome! Although it was sometimes awkward, as he often referenced stories from his first run (more than a decade in the past) and ignored most of what had happened between.

However, it was hard to read any of the book without feeling a tinge of sadness; this is the final book in the series, as the comic was cancelled with 275. While Roy's stories were mostly great, the decade of stories before him were mostly not, had de-valued Conan as a comic character, and made him feel pretty generic. Also, the comic was no longer getting the best artists. Not terrible artists, but not John Buscema. Finally, the series ended in 1993. Marvel was getting out of the licensed-character game at that point. And they were probably starting to make the bad decisions that led to their 1996 bankruptcy...

In sum, it was a fun read, but bittersweet.

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 07, 2025 09:58 AM (Lhaco)

154 Well, I'm off to other stuff. Have a blessed day ,folks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:58 AM (ynpvh)

155 Did not do a lot of reading this week. Still working on Zelazny #7 Blood of Amber. It is slow going just because of the sheer size of the book which is in a book which contains all 10 books in the series.
I would again recommend The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Kowal. It is short but really good sci fi. Reads like a movie. Terrific world building.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 07, 2025 10:00 AM (t/2Uw)

156
I saw that many the year ago.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 09:47 AM (L/fGl)

Yes, Hellstrom - I forgot all about that one!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 10:00 AM (c7Ygk)

157 I taught my kids to drive manual transmissions, which is how most of my vehicles are. Not only is it a modern anti-theft device, but it makes them concentrate on driving more, and virtually eliminates them letting other kids drive the vehicle.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:01 AM (0U5gm)

158 The other thing I've been doing this past week is trying to figure out what to _write_ next.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 07, 2025 10:01 AM (78a2H)

159 @134 --

I read "Cold Storage" a few years ago. It was recommended in a Book Thread. All the time I kept envisioning the sets for the movie. I enjoyed it, and I'm waiting for the movie.

Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025 10:01 AM (p/isN)

160 House electrical wiring in homes pre-1940 are often a mess; paper-wrapped wiring doesn't stay paper-wrapped forever, you know...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:37 AM (ynpvh)
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Our previous home was built in 1917 as a kit house and portions of it retained the original knob-and-wire electrical. We had an issue, and the electrician took one look at it and refused to so much as touch it. The part with the fault was modern, so it was fixable.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)

161

Rereading a novel by Mackinley Kantor, Andersonville. One of my relatives, Philander R., fought in some of the major battles in the Civil War plus a stint in A'ville near the end of the War, when it was at it's most awful.

Philander was a badass for certain, wounded a few times and coming out well medalled.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 07, 2025 10:01 AM (vFbHf)

162 I've been reading The Autobiography of Malcom X this week. I'm about halfway through. I have thoughts. I'll report next week after I'm finished.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 10:02 AM (h7ZuX)

163 I looked it up.

"The Hellstrom Chronicle: Directed by Walon Green, Ed Spiegel. With Lawrence Pressman, Conlan Carter, Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette. A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

164 I learned to drive when I was about 12 by backing boat trailers down the ramp for my father. I still get a laugh watching people who can't even back a sedan properly. At the oil company I worked for, all parking was backed in for safety, and walking across the parking lot, would see people making multiple efforts to get into a space properly.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025

***
I learned to back vehicles when I was with the courier company, only two years after I got my license. Parking an Econoline 150 van with only mirrors and smallish back door glass is a challenge at first.

I still park that way when I can. Though, even using the lines provided in the Buick's rear view camera, I often end up with the car a little crooked in the slot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:02 AM (wzUl9)

165 Yes, real men build libraries. Even as I pare down the number of books I own, mostly casual fiction I'll never reread, I'm aware of the value of the books I keep, which is still a huge number. Part of my consideration when buying a book is if it will add to the knowledge I think is important to preserve: practical skills, poetry and literature, philosophy, history, fiction that delights, excites, and makes you think, etc.

In the back of each decision is would the book be of value to pass along when I'm gone. Younger family members have already asked to be included in that distribution even if it, hopefully, takes a long time. Glad they are willing to wait.

Posted by: JTB at December 07, 2025 10:02 AM (yTvNw)

166 Usually one can get more credit than money, but money is still on offer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 09:56 AM (ZOv7s)

Of course, I wasn't including school bookstores in it. That was the only place I ever received money back from a bought book, the campus bookstore.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 10:03 AM (uQesX)

167 My youngest is burning through Lord of the Rings. We read it as a family some years ago, but she admitted that she mostly skimmed it because it felt like a school assignment and she knew she could bluff her way through the final exam.

She's now digging deep into it, and changing her view on the Peter Jackson movies, from loving them to realizing their many flaws.

Welcome to the club!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)

168 Rather apropos, I'm currently reading Gods Beasts: The Nazis the Occult, by Dusty Sklar. Published in 1977 ..., the book examines the influence of paganism (particularly Nordic mythology and Hinduism) and the occult upon the German people both before and after WWI.
....

That sounds very similar to 1985s The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence On Nazi Ideology, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. ..
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:49 AM (ufSfZ)

Dusty Sklar's book is definitely for the general reader. I don't doubt her quotations, but citations would have been nice.

For example, she makes a casual, almost throw-away, comment about the Gospel of John being regarded by Biblical scholars as a Gnostic gospel. I suspect she meant 19th C. German Biblical scholars but I'm not certain.

This was in connection with a large banner featuring Adolf Hitler's portrait with a quotation from John, "In the beginning was the Word." If the Gospel of John was Gnostic, that would neatly side-step the "Jewishness" of the Synoptic Gospels.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025 10:03 AM (pJWtt)

169 Lately I’ve been into Irish crime fiction, the latest being he first in the Ed Loy detective series called The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes. I highly recommend it.

Posted by: GeoNC at December 07, 2025 10:03 AM (wOaji)

170 Driving is freedom. City folk don't understand that!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 07, 2025 09:50 AM (n9ltV)
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They have successfully transformed private vehicles and drivers into pseudo-criminals here.

Closed roads, closed lanes, no turns, removed parking, speed "cushions"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 10:03 AM (m6HS6)

171 I still park that way when I can. Though, even using the lines provided in the Buick's rear view camera, I often end up with the car a little crooked in the slot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

When I back in, I roll down the window and put my head out. People ask me, "why don't you use the camera?" and I tell them it just doesn't look right that way. I guess I am too set in my ways.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:04 AM (0U5gm)

172 (A few additional thoughts on Conan comics)

I may have completed all 10 Conan the Barbarian omnibuses, but there's still more to read. There are still some Savage Sword of Conan (a black-and-white sister series that was 'unrated') omnibuses to read, and half of that series has yet to be reprinted in omnibus form. Plus some King Conan omnibuses, written when the comics were in their prime, but taking place later in Conan's life.

Plus, I can also focus on the currently-running rebooted Conan comic. I haven't heard anything bad about that series. Plus, it's written by Jim Zub. He doesn't wear his politics on his sleave, but he sat for an interview with the Midnight's Edge YouTube channel, so he's definitely doesn't have the hate-the-audience mentality that most creatives have...

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 07, 2025 10:05 AM (Lhaco)

173 Orange ent,
Ah, I see. My dad's second wife was from where your wife is from. Retire Air Force so I've been around a bit growing up.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:58 AM (VCgbV)

I always thought it was weird, as well. It used to be only people from NYC didn't drive.

Got my license at 16. Driving ever since. Until you know someone from other countries, you think everyone drives, but the poor in the RP don't because they have no money.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 10:06 AM (uQesX)

174 City folk and driving . . . I always loved Woody Allen's observation (in Annie Hall?) that, despite his friends' exhortations, he refused to move from NYC to LA. "I refuse to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light."

I thought the line was funny, and just meant that driving for an LA dweller was considered super-important, not for an NYC person. In 1998, visiting NYC, I found that it was literally true: A driver is not permitted to turn right on red after a stop. (It's the only way a pedestrian there would ever have a chance to cross a street.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:07 AM (wzUl9)

175 Of course, I wasn't including school bookstores in it. That was the only place I ever received money back from a bought book, the campus bookstore.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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My oldest is a freshman in college. Engineering School... not a single Physical textbook. I told him if it was an option always get a physical copy since you can sell it back. Apparently, everything is digital now.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:07 AM (VCgbV)

176 The Honest Book Store. (2 minutes)

https://is.gd/n59R0r

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:08 AM (L/fGl)

177 Good morning, fellow bibliophages. Woke up to see snow gently falling outside.

MP4, thanks for (re)posting photos of your book collection for my voyeuristic pleasure. And I love that your DVD collection has Pola Negri and "Häxan" cheek by jowl with Kolchak and Star Trek. I'd never leave the library.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025 10:08 AM (kpS4V)

178 Good morning, Professor! *puts a walnut on desk instead of an apple*

I gave up trying to keep up with my online book club. Even before my energy level crashed, I put books down and returned them without finishing them. I read a little in the evening, an Advent essay and a chapter or two.

In my continuing quest for to read award-winners, I picked Beverly Cleary's Ramona Quimby, Age 8. (Newbury Award) I vaguely remember reading her books about Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy.

There's a forward in Henry Huggins. Cleary explained that she wrote it because of a dilemma she'd had as a librarian. She was helping boys select books and found the best she could do was dog stories, "which they found acceptable if the dog did not die at the end". The boys were from modest homes and had ordinary lives, so that is what she wrote about.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 10:08 AM (Io7m1)

179 When I back in, I roll down the window and put my head out. People ask me, "why don't you use the camera?" and I tell them it just doesn't look right that way. I guess I am too set in my ways.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025

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I do use the mirrors as much as the camera. But I tend to line the car up with the vehicle parked on my left, and if he is parked crooked, the Buick winds up that way too. Still within the painted lines, but noticeably off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

180 121 Good morning all.
Woke up this morning and realized that I am going on vacation in two weeks for the first time since cataract surgery and have no idea what books to line up. My IPad runs out of electrons after about 2 hours and have trouble reading it outside anyways. I can read paper books during the day but currently do not own any that I can travel with.
Upgrade IPad? Hit bookstore? Probably both?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 07, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)

If you use the iPad for mostly reading you might like a Kindle Paperwhite more. They are much easier on the eyes for reading and due to the type of screen used, a lot easier to read outside in sunlight.

https://shorturl.at/AmZeA
(Amazon)

If you're using the iPad for more than that, than an upgrade will possibly get you more battery life and better screen brightness depending on how old yours is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 10:09 AM (6ydKt)

181 Woke up this morning and realized that I am going on vacation in two weeks for the first time since cataract surgery and have no idea what books to line up. My IPad runs out of electrons after about 2 hours and have trouble reading it outside anyways. I can read paper books during the day but currently do not own any that I can travel with.
Upgrade IPad? Hit bookstore? Probably both?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

You might like Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:11 AM (0U5gm)

182 Of course, I wasn't including school bookstores in it. That was the only place I ever received money back from a bought book, the campus bookstore.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 10:03 AM (uQesX)
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I wasn't referring to those, either. But their presence also provides considerable fodder for used book stores, particularly in literature. Even the chain book stores buy used and pay cash.

My point is that it is part of the local culture that you can get cash for books.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)

183 92 "NAZI SEX SPIES!" I shouted. "NAZI! SEX! SPIES!" I finally got my $5 back.

https://is.gd/ByzCJH
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 09:36 AM (L/fGl)

I can't stop laughing.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 10:11 AM (h7ZuX)

184 They have successfully transformed private vehicles and drivers into pseudo-criminals here.

Closed roads, closed lanes, no turns, removed parking, speed "cushions"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025

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And paying to park -- the city proper has live meters even on Saturdays. it's part of why I prefer the suburbs, and love to make a road trip jaunt to someplace far out of town.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:11 AM (wzUl9)

185 "The Hellstrom Chronicle: Directed by Walon Green, Ed Spiegel. With Lawrence Pressman, Conlan Carter, Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette. A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

So, basically, Empire Of The Ants.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 10:11 AM (ufSfZ)

186 I always back in when possible and I drive a suburban. All my kids were taught in it and hubby's crew cab, full length bed truck, so they can drive big vehicles..

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:12 AM (VCgbV)

187 You might like Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025

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The one I have here, The Twist of the Knife, is part of that series.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:12 AM (wzUl9)

188 The boys were from modest homes and had ordinary lives, so that is what she wrote about.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 10:08 AM (Io7m1)
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I read them a little early but Henry Higgins led a life that I could barely comprehend.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 10:13 AM (m6HS6)

189 I will add that Walls of Men got a major boost by the fact that a retired professor in the history department decided to sell off his library of Chinese books, many of whom would have been all but impossible to track down.

Once the book store owner learned of my interest, he expedited placing them on the shelves since he knew they would sell. It's packed with crazy liberals, but I love this town.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

190 Funny thing, I just recently learned to parallel park and I'm still bad at it.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:14 AM (VCgbV)

191 When I back in, I roll down the window and put my head out. People ask me, "why don't you use the camera?" and I tell them it just doesn't look right that way. I guess I am too set in my ways.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:04 AM (0U5gm)

My current car has a feature that makes me want to punch someone. When I put it in reverse, the side mirrors tilt downward. I guess it's to check for obstacles on the ground? But the result is, I can't see obstacles to the side, like the vehicles I'm parking between, or posts and the like.

It's especially unhelpful when backing into an inclined driveway in the dark.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 10:14 AM (h7ZuX)

192 In honor iof MP4's Reich-rich stacks, here's "Springtime for Hitler":

https://tinyurl.com/ek7nnmjw

"Heil myse-e-e-elf!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025 10:14 AM (kpS4V)

193 It's Sunday December 7th and there's a nip in the air!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 07, 2025 10:15 AM (Kt19C)

194 For example, she makes a casual, almost throw-away, comment about the Gospel of John being regarded by Biblical scholars as a Gnostic gospel. I suspect she meant 19th C. German Biblical scholars but I'm not certain.

This was in connection with a large banner featuring Adolf Hitler's portrait with a quotation from John, "In the beginning was the Word." If the Gospel of John was Gnostic, that would neatly side-step the "Jewishness" of the Synoptic Gospels.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025 10:03 AM (pJWtt)

I've never come across a Gnostic interpretation of John, although I'm in no way an expert. As far as "In The Beginning Was The Word," I have never seen it connected to John explicitly - I believe the artist Herman Hoyer used that quote simply because he was showing Hitler haranguing a small crowd, referencing the Party's early days when Hitler's only weapon was his mouth.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 10:15 AM (ufSfZ)

195 When it comes to modern trends for anything, especially reading, my natural curmudgeon attitude really helps me avoid getting caught up in such stupid, transitory crap. Those 'I read [X number] of books in a month' videos are a symptom of those trends. I can understand getting excited about a book series or topic but speed reading, especially as a competition, denies the pleasure of reading and the knowledge that can be garnered. Since I don't give a hoot in hell about those people or their 'contests', fashion statements, or whatever they claim is important, (it's not) I can go my own way without the distractions.

Posted by: JTB at December 07, 2025 10:15 AM (yTvNw)

196 My current car has a feature that makes me want to punch someone. When I put it in reverse, the side mirrors tilt downward. I guess it's to check for obstacles on the ground? But the result is, I can't see obstacles to the side, like the vehicles I'm parking between, or posts and the like.

It's especially unhelpful when backing into an inclined driveway in the dark.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs
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You can change that in the settings.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:15 AM (VCgbV)

197 Must get ready for church, catch y'all later!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:16 AM (VCgbV)

198 Not only do I not read competitively, I don't understand why any one would. Seems kind of self defeating to read for any other reason than that the book seems interesting. So I'm to learn and for enjoyment. That's enough. I do keep track of what I read and every year it's from 30-50 books.
I'm still reading Terry Teachout's Louis Armstrong bio and started Adam Bede. Adam Bede looks like a long on and may last the rest of the year. I've been working through Plutarch's parallel lives as well and just finished Cato the Younger. He may have had the most interesting life albeit in a losing cause.

Posted by: who knew at December 07, 2025 10:16 AM (+ViXu)

199 If the Gospel of John was Gnostic, that would neatly side-step the "Jewishness" of the Synoptic Gospels.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025

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Refresh my memory here. Are they called "Synoptic" because they narrate pretty much the same story -- the events were "seen together," as it were, by the writers?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

200 My IPad runs out of electrons after about 2 hours and have trouble reading it outside anyways.

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Kindle Paper Whites are fairly cheap, maybe $150, and can be read in full sunlight. Battery life is, I don't know, 10 -12 hours.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:17 AM (L/fGl)

201 Never have much cared to keep a count of the books I read.

I'm reminded of a Woody Allen comment re speed-reading. Something like: "I read War and Peace over lunch yesterday afternoon. It's about Russia, isn't it?"

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 10:17 AM (q3u5l)

202 It's Sunday December 7th and there's a nip in the air!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 07, 2025

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Eighty-four years ago, there were a lot more than just one!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:17 AM (wzUl9)

203 MP4, thanks for (re)posting photos of your book collection for my voyeuristic pleasure. And I love that your DVD collection has Pola Negri and "Häxan" cheek by jowl with Kolchak and Star Trek. I'd never leave the library.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025 10:08 AM (kpS4V)

You're welcome, dear lady. You're welcome to visit any time.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 10:18 AM (ufSfZ)

204 They have successfully transformed private vehicles and drivers into pseudo-criminals here.

Closed roads, closed lanes, no turns, removed parking, speed "cushions"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025

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And paying to park -- the city proper has live meters even on Saturdays. it's part of why I prefer the suburbs, and love to make a road trip jaunt to someplace far out of town.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:11 AM (wzUl9)

The madness has even spread to my suburban city is SW Ohio. In their infinite wisdom, the city gov't has narrowed a main street from five lanes (there was a dedicated center turn lane) down to three: all to make room for a very wide bike lane.

The bike lane is separated from vehicular traffic by narrow plastic "sticks" glued to the road surface. This neatly prevents the electric company from getting easy access to the power poles.

Every I time I drive this road, I rant to Mrs. Cop about the stupidity and cost (I assume grant money was used to fund this boondoggle).

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025 10:18 AM (pJWtt)

205 >>Some authors are able to continue a previous author's works if they are able to capture the spirit of the previous author. Not every author is successful at this.

Correct, not every author is successful at that. Take Lee Child's woketard brother, Andrew, as an example.

And don't give me that whole "he was brought in only as a co-writer on the Jack Reacher series" business. No he wasn't. Andrew took over sole writing of the series when Lee left it to him to pursue other monetary interests involving the Reacher saga.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 07, 2025 10:18 AM (Y1sOo)

206 My current car has a feature that makes me want to punch someone. When I put it in reverse, the side mirrors tilt downward. I guess it's to check for obstacles on the ground? But the result is, I can't see obstacles to the side, like the vehicles I'm parking between, or posts and the like.

It's especially unhelpful when backing into an inclined driveway in the dark.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs

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I think I had that in the BMW 3 Series. It was a setting you could turn off, and I did, but I found it useful *sometimes.*

The BMW also had a setting that folded the mirror housings inward when you parked, so they wouldn't get whacked off easily by a bicyclist.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:19 AM (wzUl9)

207 You can change that in the settings.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:15 AM (VCgbV)

I can??

*scurries off to read the manual

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 10:20 AM (h7ZuX)

208 "I have a vision of AH Lloyd's books perfectly straight on the shelves, quaking with fear as he does the morning inspection."

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Dog ear! Give me twenty!

Torn dust jacket! Two weeks KP!

HIGHLIGHTING?!? How the Hell did you even get into my beloved Corps?

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 07, 2025 10:20 AM (5YmYl)

209 50 Anybody read "Morning Glory Milking Farm". LOL. I certainly haven't and won't...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (ynpvh)

Most certainly not...

But your comment did put me in mind of a YouTube video; Greg Owen recently posted a long video that did a deep-dive into some of the more-reputable Romantasy books. (Well, slightly more-reputable, one of the books was placed in a haz-mat bag whenever Greg was holding it). Greg isn't a book-tuber, but he was looking into why Strong Female Characters are starring in best-selling fantasy novels but are failing and utterly destroying franchises in tv and movies. He has some interesting things to say... He didn't convince me to read A Court of Thorns and Roses anytime soon, but maybe I won't be as dismissive to it...

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 07, 2025 10:21 AM (Lhaco)

210 Somebody with more literary talent than me should write a book: "Europe 2050".

Mark Steyn raised the alarm about the impending Islamization of Europe twenty-five years ago, and was proven to be absolutely correct - what will happen in the next twenty-five years?

In many big cities in Western and Central Europe, a substantial fraction of the school children are Muslim, and you have the European elites are frantically imposing political and speech controls to keep the indigenous inhabitants of Europe from effectively opposing the ongoing social changes.

Michel Houellebecq wrote "Submission" ten years ago, but there really hasn't been anything since then.

.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2025 10:21 AM (xTIDn)

211 When I was young, I had the disgusting habit of dogearing books. Now, I find it abhorrent.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:22 AM (0U5gm)

212 I can't say I have a library, but I've got plenty of bookshelves. The main ones are in my living room and entirely cover one wall. I might have to start culling those as what I've got more books on the TBR than will fit. Nothing goes on the shelf until it's been read. I've got a second bookshelf in the spare room/den that is dedicated to books by Wisconsin writers or about Wisconsin (preferably both) and a third lawyers bookcase full of 'collector' books (various first editions I stumbled on at used book sales, Churchill's 6 volume WWII, Sandburg's ? volume Life of Lincoln and others)

Posted by: who knew at December 07, 2025 10:23 AM (+ViXu)

213 Refresh my memory here. Are they called "Synoptic" because they narrate pretty much the same story -- the events were "seen together," as it were, by the writers?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

Yes, each is giving a 'synopsis' of the same story.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 10:24 AM (ufSfZ)

214 If the Gospel of John was Gnostic, that would neatly side-step the "Jewishness" of the Synoptic Gospels.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025

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Refresh my memory here. Are they called "Synoptic" because they narrate pretty much the same story -- the events were "seen together," as it were, by the writers?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

Yes, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke seem to be based on a common oral source. (I don't hold with the idea of a lost document - called "Q" - as the basis). Mark and Luke were essentially the secretaries for Saints Peter and Paul, respectively, and were recording what they heard preached.

We moderns underestimate the importance of oral traditions. In a world where the majority of people are illiterate, stories are going to be recited by trained people with excellent memories.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 07, 2025 10:24 AM (pJWtt)

215 You can change that in the settings.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:15 AM (VCgbV)

I can??

*scurries off to read the manual
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025

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Most modern gadgety features can be turned off. However, one reason I refused to buy a 2017 Buick LaCrosse in '19, though the asking price was almost the same as my '16 and I loved the car's look, was that the auto stop-start could *not* be turned off. My '16 doesn't have it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:24 AM (wzUl9)

216 When I ask 20 or even 30-somethings if they’ve read this or that classic and they say ‘no’ that makes me sad.

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2025 10:24 AM (DXbAa)

217 198 Not only do I not read competitively, I don't understand why any one would.
Posted by: who knew at December 07, 2025 10:16 AM (+ViXu)

If competition is getting youngsters to turn off tiktok for a while and pick up a book, I'm ok with it. They will inevitably find things that interest them, and set them on a quest for more books that interest them. It's all right.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 07, 2025 10:25 AM (h7ZuX)

218 When Morning Glory etc was mentioned some weeks back, I looked at the description on Amazon (on an incognito window -- hate to think what recommendations would look like otherwise). Blecch. What was really scary to me, though, was that this thing had IIRC something like 20K ratings and reviews.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 10:25 AM (q3u5l)

219 and a third lawyers bookcase full of 'collector' books (various first editions I stumbled on at used book sales, Churchill's 6 volume WWII, Sandburg's ? volume Life of Lincoln and others)

Posted by: who knew

Every once in awhile, I take a look at the expensive books on Abe Books or similar, and see a book on the list that I found somewhere cheap that is going for $200 or more.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:26 AM (0U5gm)

220 When I ask 20 or even 30-somethings if they’ve read this or that classic and they say ‘no’ that makes me sad.
Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2025

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Even aspiring writers. At an SF convention in the '80s, I found fans who hated the downbeat-but-heroic ending of Heinlein's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, even the wannabe writers, had never read Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and didn't understand what Heinlein was doing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:27 AM (wzUl9)

221 The madness has even spread to my suburban city is SW Ohio. In their infinite wisdom, the city gov't has narrowed a main street from five lanes (there was a dedicated center turn lane) down to three: all to make room for a very wide bike lane.

The point of bike lanes on major arterials is to impede traffic and force people onto bikes and mass transit.

There is a major street in Portland (that serves as the main street for the Asian community in Portland) that the city government intends to cut from four car lanes to two, with one lane reserved for bikes and the bus that comes by once every fifteen minutes.

The only thing giving the city government pause is the certainty that this street will be gridlocked for most of the hours of the day, and there might be a political reaction to that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2025 10:29 AM (xTIDn)

222 >>It's packed with crazy liberals, but I love this town.

East Landfill?

Great place to attend college as long as you avoided doing anything to attract the attention of the local police.

But you couldn't pay me to live there post graduation.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 07, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

223 They put in raised concrete medians for the first time on a road I frequently travel, because the idiots running the county decided that opening up permitting for a huge new development of tens of thousands of new homes was a better idea than worrying about the traffic situation.

So now I have to make u-turns where I used to be able to pull into a median to make a left turn but I can't do that now because of the huge increase in traffic and the occasional idiot who makes a left turn right into another vehicle they should have seen coming.

Here's an idea; build the roads to handle the traffic first and then worry about building new subdivisions to add to that traffic afterwards.

But there's no money in that for the county, so here we are.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 10:30 AM (6ydKt)

224 I've assembled a few books that have become traditional Christmas season reading besides the Malcolm Guite book mentioned above. A Golden Christmas by William Gilmore Simms (all his books are worth reading), Washington Irving's Old Christmas, and The Christmas Cantata by Mark Schweizer (part of his Liturgical Mysteries series). They are rather short reads but really help set a pleasant seasonal mood.

Posted by: JTB at December 07, 2025 10:32 AM (yTvNw)

225 For example, I found and purchased the first edition of A History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill in pristine condition; $20 for all four. The pages are still immaculate.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:32 AM (0U5gm)

226 Europe 2050 would be an interesting read, and probably depressing as hell. Not sure it needs to be written, though -- can probably get the gist of it just looking at the news these days.

* Imagines that something like Islam would arise in any intelligent species and ultimately lead to its stagnation, thus answering the old SETI question of Where Is Everybody *

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 10:33 AM (q3u5l)

227 "Cold Storage"... Anywho, it involves our old pal, the fungus Cordyseps, what is taking over humans now...

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Sounds like the same plot as "The Girl with All the Gifts", an excellent book that was made into a terrible movie (because the director race-swapped the two main characters and turned it into an SJW message movie).

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 07, 2025 10:34 AM (5YmYl)

228 Happy Valley has gone traffic circle mad and my daughter is fit to be tied. She has always turned left from her street onto the highway to get to work BUT NO!!! Now she has to turn right, drive maybe two blocks, and navigate the new traffic circle to get turned around and headed toward work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

229 City planning was a solved problem two thousand years ago, but modern developers and planning commissions keep un-solving it.

Local governments have a weird phobia about new road construction. They'll widen an existing road to absurd proportions rather than build a parallel artery to handle increased traffic -- with the result that eventually they have to spend insane sums to build the parallel artery anyway, only now the route is all built up and must be eminent-domained and bulldozed.

Meanwhile developers hate the idea of "wasting" land area on extra roads, so they create these structures of endless branching ending in cul-de-sacs rather than a F*****G GRID THE WAY THE F*****G BABYLONIANS DID IT.

A "safety" based legal requirement that every dwelling should be reachable by emergency vehicles over two non-overlapping routes would go a long way toward fixing that, and then the grid would allow better circulation which would mean the main roads wouldn't have to keep being widened.

But that wouldn't be utterly retarded so we don't do it.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 07, 2025 10:37 AM (78a2H)

230 Europe 2050 would be an interesting read, and probably depressing as hell. Not sure it needs to be written, though -- can probably get the gist of it just looking at the news these days.

But what happens if this goes on for another twenty-five years?

Steyn notes that twenty-five years ago, it would have been possible to stop things by blocking mass immigration, but there are now so many young Muslims in the big Western and Central European cities that the social changes will occur even in even if immigration is sharply reduced.

Interestingly, Trump's new defense policy posture paper acknowledges that, which is why the EU-types are screaming.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2025 10:37 AM (xTIDn)

231 Happy Valley has gone traffic circle mad and my daughter is fit to be tied. She has always turned left from her street onto the highway to get to work BUT NO!!! Now she has to turn right, drive maybe two blocks, and navigate the new traffic circle to get turned around and headed toward work.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025

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Diagnosis: too many damned people. Cure? Unknown.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

232 good morning Perfessor, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 07, 2025 10:38 AM (E7tow)

233 Thanks for the advice. Got to figure this out this week while trying to finish Hannukah shopping due to early party. Sigh. I will be happy when January arrives and normal,life resumes.
I don't know if it is due to being 29 but so,etimes things seem a bit overwhelming..

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 07, 2025 10:40 AM (t/2Uw)

234 There's a forward in Henry Huggins. Cleary explained that she wrote it because of a dilemma she'd had as a librarian. She was helping boys select books and found the best she could do was dog stories, "which they found acceptable if the dog did not die at the end". The boys were from modest homes and had ordinary lives, so that is what she wrote about.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 10:08 AM (Io7m1)

Yeah, I never had good memories of books where the dog died in the end. I would (and did) re-read any of Jim Kjeljaard's dog stories before going back to "Where the Red Fern Grows."

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 07, 2025 10:40 AM (Lhaco)

235 Posted by: PabloD at December 07, 2025 09:28 AM (GALGA)

I re-read Earth Abides every few years or so. A true classic, and really packs some emotional punch at the end.

My only complaint is that the cross-country trip to search for other survivors that two of Ish's many children embark on turns out to be rather anti-climactic. Always wished that part had been further developed. But, that minor quibble aside, it's a great, great book. The kind of book that leaves you thinking about it for weeks afterwards.

Posted by: Delurker at December 07, 2025 10:40 AM (xNHSX)

236 Happy Valley has gone traffic circle mad and my daughter is fit to be tied.

Happy Valley? You live in Amherst?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 10:41 AM (ufSfZ)

237 * Imagines that something like Islam would arise in any intelligent species and ultimately lead to its stagnation, thus answering the old SETI question of Where Is Everybody *
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025

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Unless some good-hearted aliens land here; the Moslems enslave them and take their technology (without understanding it); and Islam spreads to the stars.

Now *I'm* depressed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:41 AM (wzUl9)

238 200 My IPad runs out of electrons after about 2 hours and have trouble reading it outside anyways.

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Kindle Paper Whites are fairly cheap, maybe $150, and can be read in full sunlight. Battery life is, I don't know, 10 -12 hours.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:17 AM
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I recommend the standard Kindle instead. Also perfectly legible in full sunlight and long-lived battery, but about $50 cheaper.

Posted by: werewife at December 07, 2025 10:42 AM (5ayY3)

239 I re-read Earth Abides every few years or so. A true classic, and really packs some emotional punch at the end.

I lived in the Berkeley neighborhood described in "Earth Abides" for several years, which amused me.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 07, 2025 10:43 AM (xTIDn)

240 Yeah, I never had good memories of books where the dog died in the end. I would (and did) re-read any of Jim Kjeljaard's dog stories before going back to "Where the Red Fern Grows."
Posted by: Castle Guy at December 07, 2025

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When I was writing a fantasy novel some years ago, the people in my writing group said I could kill off any of the characters I wanted, but not the griffin. He was decidedly un-doglike -- difficult and prickly, as well as paranoid -- but they loved him anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:43 AM (wzUl9)

241 When I was writing a fantasy novel some years ago, the people in my writing group said I could kill off any of the characters I wanted, but not the griffin. He was decidedly un-doglike -- difficult and prickly, as well as paranoid -- but they loved him anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025

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And no, I didn't kill him off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:44 AM (wzUl9)

242 Does the stand alone Kindle have two pages on the screen? This is why I like the IPad. It ends like a book swiping right when you complete the two pages.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 07, 2025 10:45 AM (t/2Uw)

243 That's it for now, thanks again, Perfesser!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 07, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

244 Wordsmith Eric Swalwell has chosen a slogan for his quest to become governor of California.

Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
It’s time to get shit done, California.

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And I thought the problem with California was that shit was done!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

245 Does the stand alone Kindle have two pages on the screen?

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No.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

246 Good morning! I have to go get ready for church, but wanted to wish everyone a great day.

Posted by: Piper at December 07, 2025 10:50 AM (OoFl2)

247
I've been working hard on my book (a technical work on a field of considerable industrial significance), but I haven't written a single word yet.

The whole thing is a puzzlement to me. It has to be some kind of compulsion. I find myself not greatly caring if anyone reads it. I don't care if I ever get any feedback. I hope never to read a review if anyone does read it ("A dull and pedestrian effort"). The accumulation of 40 years of information is bringing back horrible memories of a time I look back on with shame and a Hadrian I despise.

Maybe I just want, in the twilight of my life, to do one single thing I can be proud of. Maybe I'm the only person with the time to work on it and the interest in seeing the patent literature on the subject given the same weight as the journal articles. Maybe, even though I feel fine, I won't live long enough to see it through.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 07, 2025 10:50 AM (tgvbd)

248 Happy Valley has gone traffic circle mad and my daughter is fit to be tied.

Happy Valley? You live in Amherst?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

The Grand Valley in Western Colorado.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

249
When I was young, I had the disgusting habit of dogearing books. Now, I find it abhorrent.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 07, 2025 10:22 AM (0U5gm)

Dog show ribbons, of which we have thousands, make excellent bookmarks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 07, 2025 10:53 AM (tgvbd)

250 Hadrian, since you say the topic is of considerable industrial importance, is it possible your work might become a standard handbook on the topic? That would be flattering.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:53 AM (wzUl9)

251 If you're a cat lover, I think you'll enjoy "Cat Tales, A History: How we learned to live with them... and they learned to live with us" by Jerry D. Moore. He starts in prehistory when it was a predator/prey relationship on both sides, then on to mutually beneficial relationship of granary owner/mouser, and finally to fuzzy object d'art/slavish admirer.

He notes that there is an asymmetry in our relationships with other domesticated beasts that tips the relationship in humans' favor -- we use their meat, pelts, plumage, or power -- but not so with cats. We love their "intriguing indifference" to us humans. They don't perform as directed, and as for hunting rodents, terriers probably do a better job. So I guess we like them because they are Cool.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025 10:53 AM (kpS4V)

252 The order to destroy Endor in ROTJ was apparently filmed and deleted.

Posted by: steevy at December 07, 2025 10:54 AM (YwEeS)

253 He notes that there is an asymmetry in our relationships with other domesticated beasts that tips the relationship in humans' favor -- we use their meat, pelts, plumage, or power -- but not so with cats. We love their "intriguing indifference" to us humans. They don't perform as directed, and as for hunting rodents, terriers probably do a better job. So I guess we like them because they are Cool.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025

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Yes, and even cat-haters (under pressure sometimes) admit that cats are very good-looking animals.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:55 AM (wzUl9)

254 I've just started book 5 in the Suneater series, by Christopher Ruocchio, called "Ashes of Man."

I like this series, but it does seem to be dragging on a bit. I wish I didn't ha e to read another 2800 pages to get to rhe end of book 7, to find out why the protagonist is called the Suneater. I will soldier on, however, Book Nerd that I am.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 07, 2025 10:55 AM (/RHNq)

255 247 Best of success to you, Hadrian the Seventh

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 07, 2025 10:55 AM (E7tow)

256 I taught three kids to drive (and two of them to drive stick, by the time Number 3 was ready I had sold the Mustang so no stick shift car around to teach on). I thought it was a breeze. My ex-wife tried one lesson with the oldest and came back a nervous wreck. Driving is indeed freedom and I can't imagine not being able to jump in the car and go. After 42 29th birthdays i have to contemplate the possibility that I will have to give it up someday and I don't like it.

Posted by: who knew at December 07, 2025 10:56 AM (+ViXu)

257 I taught three kids to drive (and two of them to drive stick, by the time Number 3 was ready I had sold the Mustang so no stick shift car around to teach on). I thought it was a breeze. My ex-wife tried one lesson with the oldest and came back a nervous wreck. Driving is indeed freedom and I can't imagine not being able to jump in the car and go. After 42 29th birthdays i have to contemplate the possibility that I will have to give it up someday and I don't like it.
Posted by: who knew at December 07, 2025

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Though I'd loved cars since I was eleven, maybe earlier, I did not learn to drive until I was almost 23. Maybe it made me a more careful driver than I would have been at 16.

I love driving still.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:58 AM (wzUl9)

258 Haven't read it in eons, but John D. MacDonald wrote a book about his household's cats (may have been a couple of other pets in there too, can't remember) called The House Guests.

His cats tended to walk all over his work table whenever they felt like it IIRC, and he dedicated one of his best novels, The End of the Night, "To Roger and Geoffrey, who left their marks on the manuscript."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 10:58 AM (q3u5l)

259
Hadrian, since you say the topic is of considerable industrial importance, is it possible your work might become a standard handbook on the topic? That would be flattering.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:53 AM (wzUl9)

There have been a good many books on the subject, but they're all collections of contributions "edited by". That means the books are a compilation of snapshots of topics that can be written, not that need to be written.

There has never been a single, comprehensive treatment of the topic. Nothing that looks at the historical perspective of how it evolved. Nothing that doesn't ignore at least half the disclosures about it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 07, 2025 10:59 AM (tgvbd)

260 Well, I suppose I'd better make some tea and read. Thanks for highlighting my library, Perfesser!

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 10:59 AM (ufSfZ)

261 @92 Car Thread! Well, half-truck.

Nazi Sex Spies is by Al Camino, and if you believe that you had astro-turf in the back of your Chev.

Edited by Delray Belair?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 07, 2025 11:00 AM (zdLoL)

262 Unless some good-hearted aliens land here; the Moslems enslave them and take their technology (without understanding it); and Islam spreads to the stars.

Now *I'm* depressed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 10:41 AM (wzUl9)

That’s roughly the setup for the Star Trek Mirror Universe. With humans stealing Vulcan Tech.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 11:00 AM (c7Ygk)

263 I tried, unsuccessfully, to teach my second wife how to ride a bicycle. She never could get that you have to lean when making a turn. We tried it in a school playground and it looked like she might get it, but as soon as she saw the fence she froze, unable to turn until she rolled right into it. That was her last lesson.

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 07, 2025 11:01 AM (3d4tv)

264 Well, better than a yellow star, I guess.

Woman Says There Should Be a Law That All Trump Voters Wear a Trump Hat 24/7

https://is.gd/h7Cvj5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:01 AM (L/fGl)

265 Thomas Paine. I've gotten all my first editions the same way. I never paid attention to what edition a book was until one day I was in a used bookstore and saw a first edition of Elmer Gantry on the expensive book shelf. It looked familiar so I checked when I got back home and sure enough, I had a first edition of Elmer Gantry that I had paid a quarter for. Over the years I've found more. I've got a first edition of Out of Africa that has a beautiful binding (but no dust cover so probably not worth as much as I'd like to think).

Posted by: who knew at December 07, 2025 11:02 AM (+ViXu)

266 I added a book this week: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories. It's the B and N Collectible edition. Hardcover, silver gilt pages, and type that is easily read. It's over a thousand pages and includes about everything Lewis Carroll wrote. This is the kind of writing worth preserving in a good physical volume. And it uses the John Tenniel illustrations.

I'll peruse this over time when I'm in the mood for whimsy.

Posted by: JTB at December 07, 2025 11:03 AM (yTvNw)

267 My reading slumps were a result of reading so much material at work I had no desire to read on my off time.

Now that I’m retired , golf ,painting and TV get in the way. But I still manage to read a book a month give or take.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:04 AM (KDPiq)

268 A better law would be that all libtards must wear a kick me sign.

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 07, 2025 11:04 AM (3d4tv)

269 I tried "The Dragon's Prophecy" by Jonathan Cain, about the grand historic threat against Israel. Dinesh D'Souza made a documentary of it I understand. I couldn't make sense of it. Seemed like a lot of gobbledygook based on Revelations.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2025 11:04 AM (WHfpM)

270 I tried, unsuccessfully, to teach my second wife how to ride a bicycle. She never could get that you have to lean when making a turn. We tried it in a school playground and it looked like she might get it, but as soon as she saw the fence she froze, unable to turn until she rolled right into it. That was her last lesson.

Posted by: Toad-0 at December 07, 2025 11:01 AM (3d4tv)

Should have had Papa Bear teach her. He's good at teaching a kid to ride a bike....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:05 AM (uQesX)

271 The boys were from modest homes and had ordinary lives, so that is what she wrote about.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 10:08 AM (Io7m1)
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I read them a little early but Henry Higgins led a life that I could barely comprehend.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 10:13 AM

To me, it was a fantasy because I lived outside the city limits. My BFF lived in town but there were no public busses except Dial-A-Ride and no public pools or anything kid-friendly like that.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 11:05 AM (Io7m1)

272 Nazi Sex Spies is by Al Camino, and if you believe that you had astro-turf in the back of your Chev.

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Maybe his momma had a sense of humor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

273 Well, better than a yellow star, I guess.

Woman Says There Should Be a Law That All Trump Voters Wear a Trump Hat 24/7

https://is.gd/h7Cvj5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:01 AM (L/fGl)

I would do that except I don’t wear a hat when I sleep.

Wearing a hat would identify these nutcases for justified disposal .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:07 AM (KDPiq)

274 Woman Says There Should Be a Law That All Trump Voters Wear a Trump Hat 24/7

Because that wouldn't at all be Nazi-like.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2025 11:08 AM (WHfpM)

275 here have been a good many books on the subject, but they're all collections of contributions "edited by". That means the books are a compilation of snapshots of topics that can be written, not that need to be written.

There has never been a single, comprehensive treatment of the topic. Nothing that looks at the historical perspective of how it evolved. Nothing that doesn't ignore at least half the disclosures about it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 07, 2025

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Then it sounds like yours is a new take on the subject. Essentially you are writing a book *you'd* like to read, or use.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:09 AM (wzUl9)

276 Imagine how that lady would fill when she saw almost 100 million people wearing a Trump hat (Trump supporters have Trump supporting kids too)

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:10 AM (KDPiq)

277 "Woman Says There Should Be a Law That All Trump Voters Wear a Trump Hat 24/7"

And damned if she doesn't look just like I imagined she would.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:10 AM (q3u5l)

278 Feel - fill

WTH ?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:11 AM (KDPiq)

279 I finished Anthem by Ayn Rand. I have complained that Rand needed an editor, and I got more from reading the Cliff notes, but Anthem is the Cliff notes that needed expanding.
The Narrator, Equality 7-2521, lives in a controlled world that is post-restructuring to extirpate individua thought and existence, commits the sin of falling in love, examining things on his own, improbably discovering ancient knowledge, and discovering that he is an individual, and sets out his findings in a manifesto in the end, declaring individualism and denouncing collectivism.
As a story it is thin, and as an exploration of the concept of rejecting collectivism it needs a plot to carry it. However it does have echoes in subsequent dystopian science fiction, so Rand did manage to accomplish that.

At least it was short.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:11 AM (rbvCR)

280 278 et al

Is it me or does auto-cucumber seem to be getting even more intrusive and annoying by the day?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:12 AM (q3u5l)

281 e their technology (without understanding it); and Islam spreads to the stars.

Now *I'm* depressed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025
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That’s roughly the setup for the Star Trek Mirror Universe. With humans stealing Vulcan Tech.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025

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And the implication -- or maybe it's stated in one of the Man-Kzin Wars volumes -- is that Larry Niven's big cat-like Kzinti did the same to another star-traveling species, then set out to create an empire.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:12 AM (wzUl9)

282 Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:12 AM (q3u5l)

The worst is when it tries to correct proper names.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:13 AM (KDPiq)

283 At least it was short.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:11 AM (rbvCR)

I've always found her a much better essayist, polemicist and speaker than a storyteller.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2025 11:13 AM (WHfpM)

284 "Woman Says There Should Be a Law That All Trump Voters Wear a Trump Hat 24/7"

And damned if she doesn't look just like I imagined she would.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025

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Ain't it something, that these AWFLs or screaming libtards are so predictable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:14 AM (wzUl9)

285 Good news, everyone! It's isolated.

MS NOW Downplays $1 Billion Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud, Says It’s “Isolated”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

286 And it doesn’t recognize the word ill. It will always try to change it to i’ll .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:14 AM (KDPiq)

287 Now that I have seen the photo up close, I covet
MP4's bog bookshelf. My house is too small for a bookshelf that size unless I paid a very clever carpenter to remove a livingroom wall and build it in the closet behind. Hmmm...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 11:15 AM (Io7m1)

288 285 -

Oh, thank Heavens. For a while I thought it might spread. Then they'd come up with a vaccine to prevent it and then we'd REALLY be screwed.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:16 AM (q3u5l)

289 It's a circular knitting needle. Pants are mid-construction. Should have been abandoned much sooner.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

There is only one leg, therefore it is singular ‘pant’

Posted by: PMRich at December 07, 2025 11:17 AM (JtIAc)

290 Feature, not a bug.

Watchdog Report Uncovers “Large-Scale Systemic Failures” Leading to Obamacare Subsidy Fraud

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)

291
To me, it was a fantasy because I lived outside the city limits. My BFF lived in town but there were no public busses except Dial-A-Ride and no public pools or anything kid-friendly like that.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025

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As a boy, reading the Whitman "Lassie" books, whether with Jeff as his human or Timmy, they too seemed fantasy to me in reverse from yours. I lived in the city with public busses and the like. Jeff and Timmy and their families were Midwestern farm people, and going to the "big city," the capital of their state, was some hours' drive in the pickup.

Delightful fantasy, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:17 AM (wzUl9)

292 Also reading the surviving officer statements regarding the sinking of the USS Arizona. Pretty harrowing.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 07, 2025 11:18 AM (/RHNq)

293 Isolated to the Somali community. Does MS Now not realize that they are confirming Trump’s statements?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:19 AM (KDPiq)

294 MS NOW Downplays $1 Billion Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud, Says It’s “Isolated”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
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Straight from crisis communications handbook.
1. It was an isolated incident
2. It is unacceptable
3. There is no known motive

For example, "This type of crime is unacceptable and we will prosecute to the full extent of the law!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 07, 2025 11:19 AM (sF9Ts)

295 I taught the first one, I can teach her, too. That's what empty business parking lots are for on Sundays.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 09:19 AM (uQesX)

Go get a bunch of boxes for pylons to drive around, and later she can run over them practicing parking between the lines.
Make sure she understands ahead of time this is fun, and you are using boxes because they are cheaper than using Volvos

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:19 AM (rbvCR)

296 Does MS Now not realize that they are confirming Trump’s statements?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:19 AM (KDPiq)

They don't realize anything. They're unrealizable people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2025 11:19 AM (WHfpM)

297 It's Sunday December 7th and there's a nip in the air!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 07, 2025

The Japs still hadn't attacked PH yet by this time of the day here on the mainland.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 07, 2025 11:20 AM (g8Ew8)

298 MP4's bog bookshelf...
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You can't pull yourself away!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025 11:21 AM (kpS4V)

299 But then the terrorists will have won!

Trump Sides With Soccer, Says NFL Should Drop the Name “Football”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

300 I mentioned this yesterday during the Pet Thread. Lassie the TV series was a pioneer in what we call "rebooting" today. Each time, after several seasons, the cast of humans changed, but Lassie herself continued on. We had Jeff Miller, his mother, and her father Gramps. Then came Timmy, his father and mother (originally played by Cloris Leachman, as someone pointed out to me), then by June Lockhart; adopted parents, I think I was told. After that Lassie went to live in an even more outdoor environment with bachelor forest ranger Corey. Each time the background changed, but the central canine remained.

The Whitman "TV adventures for young readers" books had several about Jeff & Lassie, and at least two about Timmy & Lassie. I don't know if there was ever a "Corey the Ranger & Lassie" tie-in novel; I'd outgrown those books by then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:23 AM (wzUl9)

301 I taught the first one, I can teach her, too. That's what empty business parking lots are for on Sundays.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025

***
You still have stores closed on Sundays and empty parking lots? Luxury!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:24 AM (wzUl9)

302 The proper name for the abominable channel is

MS-13Now.

Please make a note of it.

Posted by: Thank you for your attention to this matter at December 07, 2025 11:24 AM (XQo4F)

303 But then the terrorists will have won!

Trump Sides With Soccer, Says NFL Should Drop the Name “Football”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

I would start watching the NFL again if they renamed it Murderball or Battleball but then they would have to go back to the old rules and get rid of the flag football rules.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:26 AM (KDPiq)

304 Hank Hill

Soccer was invented by French wives to give them something to do while their husbands cooked dinner.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:27 AM (KDPiq)

305 "Isolated to the Somali community. Does MS Now not realize that they are confirming Trump’s statements?"

No, they don't. Liberals are deeply deluded.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 07, 2025 11:27 AM (E7tow)

306 I think Ayn Rand has been accused often by her critics of writing ideological speeches disguised as novels.

Which a lot of writers do, especially in the dystopian genre.

Rand was just a lot more heavy-handed about it so it's easily noticed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 11:27 AM (6ydKt)

307 Barkin' calls her a dog.

Ellen Barkin Cruelly Attacks Charlie Kirk’s Widow, Calls Her a “Dog”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)

308 It's stopped raining here, but the streets are still damp and dirty. Until the sun comes out and dries them a bit, it would be pointless to wash the car. I can check the tires and see if they need air, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:28 AM (wzUl9)

309 MP4's bog bookshelf...
----

You can't pull yourself away!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025 11:21 AM

True! Going into a bookstore is like willingly stepping into a tar pit...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 11:28 AM (Io7m1)

310 Waiting for tea water and either book time or movie, not sure which

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 11:28 AM (Ia/+0)

311 Love seeing library pics, and MP4 has a nice one.

When Mrs Some Guy and I moved here from Chicago, we shipped over 100 cartons (large cartons) of books. Bookshelves in every room except kitchen and bathroom. Mostly gone now -- the libraries and second hand shops did quite well in that purge -- quite a few replaced with ebooks. Her books are now on one case and mine are on a couple of others. Oddly, even after the purge, we don't seem to have much extra space; Mrs Some Guy has quite a few glass figures and display cases. Oh, well. Pics of my current physical library would not be nearly as impressive as MP4s, either in size or content.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:29 AM (q3u5l)

312 >>And damned if she doesn't look just like I imagined she would.

They always do.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 07, 2025 11:29 AM (Y1sOo)

313 Kirk’s reply if any should be ‘ who’s Ellen Barkin? ‘

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:29 AM (KDPiq)

314 Go get a bunch of boxes for pylons to drive around, and later she can run over them practicing parking between the lines.
Make sure she understands ahead of time this is fun, and you are using boxes because they are cheaper than using Volvos
Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:19 AM (rbvCR)

I'm thinking instead to get ugly women who think Trump supporter should wear hats to stand up and we'll play hit the pylon. She can rack up some good points that way.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:30 AM (uQesX)

315 Huh. I just ran into a word I had never read before.

'deracinated'- uprooted from one's natural geographical, social, or cultural environment:
"a deracinated writer who has complicated relations with his working-class background"
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 07, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)

Get yourself some John Buchan novels, The Thirtynine Steps, and several others. That word shows up in several, I am sure. Also ripping good yarns.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2025 11:30 AM (npFr7)

316
The Whitman "TV adventures for young readers" books had several about Jeff & Lassie, and at least two about Timmy & Lassie. I don't know if there was ever a "Corey the Ranger & Lassie" tie-in novel; I'd outgrown those books by then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:23 AM (wzUl9

Lassie: Woof
Human: Timmy fell into a well?
Lassie: Woof
Human: AND THE FARMHAND IS FUCKING MY WIFE?!
Lassie: Woof

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 07, 2025 11:31 AM (g8Ew8)

317 Barkin' calls her a dog.

Ellen Barkin Cruelly Attacks Charlie Kirk’s Widow, Calls Her a “Dog”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)

So, she's barking at the moon?

Posted by: dantesed at December 07, 2025 11:31 AM (Oy/m2)

318 MS NOW Downplays $1 Billion Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud, Says It’s “Isolated”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)

Local news story

Posted by: ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, et al at December 07, 2025 11:31 AM (Y1sOo)

319 Her suggestion was, why not go back a year and make the plot about the Roscoe Arbuckle case? The problem with that is, that while I can revamp the book, it still requires reading the three full-length books on his case.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 07, 2025 09:32 AM (ufSfZ)

Jerry Stahl wrote I, Fatty about Roscoe Arbuckle. I never read it, but I heard him talk about it when it first came out. Stahl was a heroin addict (like Arbuckle) and that seems to have been his interest in the case.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:32 AM (rbvCR)

320 True! Going into a bookstore is like willingly stepping into a tar pit...
Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025

***
The old used paperback bookstores were like that for me. Now, the independent bookstores I see mostly have hardbacks, and recent ones at that, all sort of pricey if I haven't read the one I'm interested in and know it's good. And older authors, say the '30s to the '70s, are rarely represented. It's hard to find a John Dickson Carr or an Ellery Queen in such a store; the young proprietors often have never heard of either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:32 AM (wzUl9)

321 You still have stores closed on Sundays and empty parking lots? Luxury!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:24 AM (wzUl9)

Sure, the corporate office centers are all deserted on Sundays, other places, not so much. Shoot, even the churches around here are open on Sunday!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:32 AM (uQesX)

322 My favorite word is still Petrichor, not because of how it sounds but the definition immediately has your brain recall that sense.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:33 AM (KDPiq)

323 Meme for the Horde writers:
https://shorturl.at/ZhJwm

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 07, 2025 11:34 AM (ULPxl)

324 Get yourself some John Buchan novels, The Thirtynine Steps, and several others. That word shows up in several, I am sure. Also ripping good yarns.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2025 11:30 AM (npFr7)

Ripping Yarns is a good book, too. And TV series.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:35 AM (uQesX)

325 Confirmation that Ellen Barkin is just as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 07, 2025 11:36 AM (Y1sOo)

326 Speaking of words , I never heard or knew the definition of the word Spelunking until I read Calvin and Hobbes.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025 11:36 AM (KDPiq)

327 323 Meme for the Horde writers:
https://shorturl.at/ZhJwm
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 07, 2025

***
All too true.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:36 AM (wzUl9)

328 Racist!

VP JD Vance was asked why Why he’s pushing policies that hurt immigrants. His response was perfect…

“My job as Vice President is NOT to look out for the interests of the whole world. It's my job to look out for the people of the United States.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

329 All too true.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:36 AM (wzUl9)

Except for the binge snacking. Can't do that anymore.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:39 AM (uQesX)

330 Uh oh. Wife's out of the shower. She'll want to practice driving.

(snif) So long, Book Thread. I hardly knew ye.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:40 AM (uQesX)

331 Helena,

The segments for surfing the net, reading for inspiration, and binge snacking may vary in size from Hordeling to Hordeling, but -- yeah, spot on.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:40 AM (q3u5l)

332 329 All too true.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:36 AM (wzUl9)

Except for the binge snacking. Can't do that anymore.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025

***
A segment of my snacking would include smoking my pipe. And part of the circle should include exercise -- sadly, even smaller a slice than the "Actual Writing."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:41 AM (wzUl9)

333
“My job as Vice President is NOT to look out for the interests of the whole world. It's my job to look out for the people of the United States.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 07, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

If the world's media could figure out that they do not represent the moral order of the universe we might actually get somewhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 11:42 AM (6ydKt)

334 What's an Ellen barkin'?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 07, 2025 11:43 AM (XQo4F)

335 Not in the slightest. I'm going to research the image to see what she was yammering about.
Posted by: Weak Geek at December 07, 2025 09:38 AM (p/isN)

Hope it is not the same story as in Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Someone should apologize to the pulpwood trees cut down to print that book .

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:43 AM (rbvCR)

336 A segment of my snacking would include smoking my pipe. And part of the circle should include exercise -- sadly, even smaller a slice than the "Actual Writing."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:41 AM (wzUl9)

I include exercise in it. I've gotten a few ideas and dialog thinking about the WIP while on the elliptical.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:43 AM (uQesX)

337 The media were probably headed downhill after they started to believe that bit about their job being to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:44 AM (q3u5l)

338 What's an Ellen barkin'?

$20 Same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 07, 2025 11:44 AM (HTa/G)

339 >>What's an Ellen barkin'?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 11:44 AM (NcvvS)

340 Would "deracinated" also include someone who is *not yet in* his natural social or cultural environment? I don't know if I've been uprooted from it. All I know is where I am now isn't it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:45 AM (wzUl9)

341 Horde mind, Commissar.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 11:45 AM (NcvvS)

342 334 What's an Ellen barkin'?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 07, 2025 11:43 AM (XQo4F)

I seem to remember her as a slightly-hoarse-voiced actress who did a few OK movies in the 80s.

She appears to be taking over for Barbara Streisand in the obnoxiously liberal celebrity department these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 11:46 AM (6ydKt)

343 338 What's an Ellen barkin'?

A lightning fast peak beauty phase.

Posted by: Auspex at December 07, 2025 11:46 AM (Y8DZL)

344 The media were probably headed downhill after they started to believe that bit about their job being to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:44 AM (q3u5l)

All references to the press should be as follows:

The Streicherite network ABC News, or the Streicherite newspaper Washington Post....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:47 AM (uQesX)

345 'bout chore time, I'm afraid. It's been a fascinating Book Thread, one of the highlights of my online week, as usual. Thanks, Perfessor and all you bibliophages, as Eris called us!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:47 AM (wzUl9)

346 National Socialism is for the country
Marxism for the world

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 11:48 AM (Ia/+0)

347 The media were probably headed downhill after they started to believe that bit about their job being to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025

***
But but but . . . once the Afflicted get rescued from that status and become Comfortable, does that mean they'll be in line to be afflicted again? This sounds like an endless loop here. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:50 AM (wzUl9)

348 College Football Playoff teams announced starting in a few minutes on ESPN.

Near as I can figure, there are two slots available with three teams in the running -- Miami, Notre Dame and Alabama.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 07, 2025 11:50 AM (Y1sOo)

349 "Streicherite."
Good term. I like it.

He never wore the uniform. He never killed anyone.

All he did was publish.

And he hung at Nuremberg.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 07, 2025 11:50 AM (XQo4F)

350 And it's off to wreak havoc here at Casa Some Guy.

Perfessor, thanks for the thread. Always a pleasure.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:51 AM (q3u5l)

351 “ Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”

Exodus 24:7

Posted by: Marcus T at December 07, 2025 11:51 AM (vhFJq)

352 naturalfake, there is a Cold Storage trailer out, it has Liam Neeson in it, and it is seems a mix of Clerks and The Stand

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:51 AM (rbvCR)

353 And he hung at Nuremberg.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 07, 2025 11:50 AM (XQo4F)

He was a Gauleiter, but "inciting genocide" was the charge. So, maybe today's press oughta take a lesson from his fate.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 11:53 AM (uQesX)

354 So much literal Hitler in that bookcase!

Posted by: ERMAHGERD! NERTZERS! at December 07, 2025 11:53 AM (TbWk/)

355 The old used paperback bookstores were like that for me. Now, the independent bookstores I see mostly have hardbacks, and recent ones at that, all sort of pricey if I haven't read the one I'm interested in and know it's good. And older authors, say the '30s to the '70s, are rarely represented. It's hard to find a John Dickson Carr or an Ellery Queen in such a store; the young proprietors often have never heard of either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:32 AM

You aren't kidding! Plus, the bookstores near me have games and toys taking up shelf space.

I use the library loan system and limit myself to three requests. Once, eleven books arrived on the same day and it was like getting hit with a homework assignment.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at December 07, 2025 11:54 AM (Io7m1)

356 Thanks for another nifty book thread, Perf and Horde!

Time to do stuff.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 07, 2025 11:54 AM (kpS4V)

357 Wolfus at 347 --

Job security.

And, outta here. You all have a good one.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 07, 2025 11:56 AM (q3u5l)

358 Some folks just don't have the wits to drive and shouldn't.

Posted by: no one at December 07, 2025 11:58 AM (W7XSX)

359 Funny thing, I just recently learned to parallel park and I'm still bad at it.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 10:14 AM (VCgbV)

Driving forklift will make you a champ at that!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 07, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

360 My favorite word is still Petrichor, not because of how it sounds but the definition immediately has your brain recall that sense.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 07, 2025

***
So you *can* get blood from a stone!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 12:00 PM (wzUl9)

361 Saddest time of Sunday morning. The end of the Book Thread. Thanks, Perfessor.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 07, 2025 12:01 PM (uQesX)

362 We haz a NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

363 I hate to tell you, but there were several Lassies.

Posted by: no one at December 07, 2025 12:10 PM (W7XSX)

364 297 It's Sunday December 7th and there's a nip in the air!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 07, 2025

The Japs still hadn't attacked PH yet by this time of the day here on the mainland.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 07, 2025 11:20 AM (g8Ew

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii must have seemed like a distant and exotic place to mainland Americans on a Sunday afternoon in fall-winter 1941.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 07, 2025 12:11 PM (y171U)

365 313
'Kirk’s reply if any should be ‘ who’s Ellen Barkin? ‘'

Or
"You're barkin' up the wrong tree, lady.
If I throw a stick, will you run away?"

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 07, 2025 12:14 PM (fd80v)

366 300 I mentioned this yesterday during the Pet Thread. Lassie the TV series was a pioneer in what we call "rebooting" today. Each time, after several seasons, the cast of humans changed, but Lassie herself continued on. We had Jeff Miller, his mother, and her father Gramps. Then came Timmy, his father and mother (originally played by Cloris Leachman, as someone pointed out to me), then by June Lockhart; adopted parents, I think I was told. After that Lassie went to live in an even more outdoor environment with bachelor forest ranger Corey. Each time the background changed, but the central canine remained.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 11:23 AM (wzUl9)

I remember watching the Ranger Corey episodes on CBS Sunday nights, and Lassie somehow got lost from the Miller family, it was very disturbing as a child that Lassie never found her way home.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 07, 2025 12:17 PM (y171U)

Daily Tech News 7 December 2025

Top Story

That mini-PC I just bought increased in price by 25% the next day. In fact, the 32GB model now costs more than I paid for the 64GB model.

Which is not a huge surprise - it was markedly cheaper in Australia than on the British Minisforum store, and a key reason I bought it in the first place was because the price was so low compared to the current cost of RAM.

I'll post a quick review once I get it - or at least, next weekend once I have a chance to set it up. But if you're impatient Notebook Check just covered it in detail.
Speaking of which are the Chinas set to rescue the world from its folly?

Taiwanese memory maker Nanya has seen revenues soar 300% in the past year - and 30% in just the past month - as it scrambles to fill the gap left open by the Big Three.* (Taipei Times)

Nanya mostly produces older DDR4 memory but about 10% of their sales are already DDR5, and they've had an opportunity handed to them gift-wrapped.

Meanwhile West Taiwan's leading memory maker CXMT has entered mass production of DDR5 and LPDDR5X chips itself. (Trendforce)

CXMT was previously accused of dumping DDR4 RAM on the market at lower prices than even second-hand products. (Tom's Hardware)

Oh, how the turns have tabled. CXMT can only produce 16Gb chips, not the latest 32Gb models - so 32GB modules and 64GB dual-channel kits - but 64GB of memory you can buy is a lot better than 128GB you can't.

There may only be three big memory manufacturers, but that doesn't mean there aren't little ones looking to get big.

* Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix, formerly Hyundai Semiconductor.

Tech News

You can't buy the memory to run them, but you can pick up a 9800X3D (hands down the fastest CPU for gaming) for $439 right now, down from $479, or the previous generation 7800X3D for $365. (WCCFTech)

And use them as paperweights while the market corrects itself one way or another.
You can also pick up an AMD Radeon 9070 (the slower non-XT model) for $509 instead of $549 (or $569+ with the recently announced price increases), or an Nvidia RTX 5050 for just $209. (WCCFTech)

The 5050 is the low-end card in the lineup and largely gets ignored, but priced closer to $200 than $250 it starts to look like a bargain.
The radiation shielding at Chernobyl has stopped working because Russia blew it up. (Politico)

The shielding, not Chernobyl. Though that too, come to think of it.
Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe that everyone involved in this story should die. (Yahoo)

In a fire.
Phones, like everything else, look set to become more expensive next year. (CNN)

Panic-buy now and avoid the rush.
Indie horror game Horses deserves to be played, even if it's not very good. (The Verge) (archive site)

Counterpoint: No it doesn't, because it isn't.

Musical Interlude

Yes, it's that music from there.

Disclaimer: Doot.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 Thank you

Posted by: Steven at December 07, 2025 04:01 AM (HS1/y)

3 Good morning. Stay away from those ONTers; they're into meat clowns.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 07, 2025 04:01 AM (aDBgf)

4 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 07, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

5 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 07, 2025 04:07 AM (Cjt/F)

6 What other kinds of clown are there?

Or should I not ask?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 07, 2025 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

7 Mornin' Pixy!
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Good morning. Stay away from those ONTers; they're into meat clowns.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.

Nah.. just that *one* weirdo, what wants to show off his whatever that nobody wants to see

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:08 AM (rdVOm)

8 I’m just here to bump up Tech thread participation numbers, which have not always been meeting performance expectations in past quarters.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 04:08 AM (B4klT)

9 Or should I not ask?
Posted by: Pixy Misa
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You don't want to know.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:08 AM (rdVOm)

10 meh, I wouldn't insist on the fire, but yes, spot-on, Pixy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 07, 2025 04:09 AM (Cjt/F)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 07, 2025 04:11 AM (DqJmd)

12 >>>That mini-PC I just bought increased in price by 25% the next day.

Yay, you!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)

13 So, if Chernobyl is now "unshielded"-- what does that really mean for those downwind of it?

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:11 AM (rdVOm)

14 3 Good morning. Stay away from those ONTers; they're into meat clowns.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 07, 2025 04:01 AM (aDBgf)

It was scary.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)

15
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 07, 2025 04:15 AM (tljrc)

16 I remember the Chernobyl 'event'-- was working at a military base then-- and the SatCom guys were pointing & laughing about the blurry, grainy pics on the newscasts.

(paraphrasing)

"Hahaha, look at those sh!tty photos! What a lie! We can take a picture of a kopek on the ground in Red Square and tell you which side is up!"

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:16 AM (rdVOm)

17 Edwin Land, of Polaroid fame, had a lot to do with improving high altitude photography. In those days the captains of industry did things for their country not necessarily for money.

The Soviets took the first photograph of the far side of the moon, but they used a special type of film from the US cannibalized from something they shot down. I think I have that right, it’s early and caffeine levels have not been optimated

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 04:21 AM (B4klT)

18 13 - my guess? nothing at all.

just the "news" in its primary mission of spreading FUD

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 07, 2025 04:21 AM (Cjt/F)

19 Oh, wow.

I thought "meat clown" was just what we were calling Cenk Uyghur now.

well don't I feel silly for not reading the content....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 07, 2025 04:22 AM (06Hmj)

20 Clickbait, sock_rat_eez? It figures.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:23 AM (rdVOm)

21 Ehrling - Sthlm Sunset

Lounge bar music! Love it.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:24 AM (RuTUS)

22 I brought my meat clown with me to this thread with a bottle of tequila, and I must say, the spaciousness and openness and air of this thread is exhilarating and refreshing.

Happy Sunday morning!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 04:25 AM (w6S0H)

23 Meat Clown is the carnivore dieter's Kaboom.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 07, 2025 04:26 AM (06Hmj)

24 Ebb and flow.

Prayer by Henri Nouwen- RC Priest 1892-1971 . He wrote quite a few books

Dear Lord

Today I thought of the words of Vincent Van Gogh: "It is true that there is an ebb and flow, but the sea remains the sea" You are the sea . Although I experience many upd and downs in my emotions and often feel great shifts and changes in my inner life , you remain the same. Your sameness is not the sameness of a rock, but the sameness of a faithful lover. Out of your love I came to life by your love I am sustained . and to your love I am always called back. There are days of sadness and days of joy; there are feelings of guilt and feelings of gratitude ; there are moments of failure and moments of success; but all of them are embraced by your unwavering love .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:28 AM (afKoR)

25 6 What other kinds of clown are there?

Or should I not ask?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 07, 2025 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

There are horror movie clowns.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:28 AM (RuTUS)

26 Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 04:25 AM
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Oh, LMFAO--- hahaha, I can't stop laughing!

*tears running down my cheeks*

Hahahaha!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:28 AM (rdVOm)

27 Uh-oh, Wishbone...Fen is here...

COVER THAT THING!

Hahahaha... oh, LOL

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

28 Nouwen prayer part two to avoid the spam designation

My only real temptation is to doubt in your love, to think of myself as beyond the reach of your love, to remove myself from the healing radiance of your love. To do these things is to move into the darkness of despair.

O Lord, sea of love and goodness, let me not fear too much the storms and winds of my daily life, and let me know that there is an ebb and flow but that the sea remains the sea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:33 AM (afKoR)

29 I think a meat clown would be a big hit at the Sunday brunch after services.

We must all strive to be better.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 04:34 AM (w6S0H)

30 13 So, if Chernobyl is now "unshielded"-- what does that really mean for those downwind of it?
Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:11 AM (rdVOm)

The article is kinda useless on that point.

Somewhere within these three statements perhaps the truth resides:

- A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational

- the large steel structure "lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" when its outer cladding was set ablaze

- Beyond that, there was "no permanent damage to its load-bearing structures or monitoring systems"

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:35 AM (RuTUS)

31 The Politico Chernobyl article has, at the bottom of the page, photos of Musk and Meloni with almost exactly the same hilarious expression on their faces. Not an accident, I would think.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:38 AM (RuTUS)

32 I don't want my meat logs to have a face 😉but I did pick up some very cute cookies of snowmen and panda bears at the nicer local food market.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:39 AM (afKoR)

33 Nice to see you on a tech thread, JQ!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:40 AM (RuTUS)

34 Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 04:34 AM (w6S0H)

They probably laugh at it, but nope ,they're getting split pea soup.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:40 AM (afKoR)

35 The article is kinda useless on that point.
Posted by: m
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Yes, it is. But whatever, right?

The 'shielding' is gone & 'safety' is nil, but the structure will hold and 'monitoring' is active. Yay. *eyeroll*

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:42 AM (rdVOm)

36 Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:40 AM
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Haha, just like Old Times! (when I stayed up past bed-time)

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:44 AM (rdVOm)

37 One man acapella version of "The Lord bless you and keep you." Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/5n79hjmb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:49 AM (afKoR)

38 >>>They probably laugh at it, but nope ,they're getting split pea soup.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

>Split pea soup sounds fantastic. Of course I must have bacon and it should be heavy like brick mortar. It'll get there.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 04:50 AM (w6S0H)

39 >>>Oh, how the turns have tabled.

heh

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:52 AM (RuTUS)

40 Little boy asks to pray with police officer during routine traffic stop:

https://tinyurl.com/hy8zjua2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:53 AM (afKoR)

41 Split pea soup will be on the menu after Christmas ham dinner.

Then, for New Year's Day dinner-- Black eyed peas, simmered in broth made from that big ol' ham bone.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:54 AM (rdVOm)

42 Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 04:50 AM (w6S0H)

I've never had bacon in pea soup, but it certainly sounds like a good idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:54 AM (afKoR)

43 Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 04:54 AM (rdVOm

Sounds great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 04:55 AM (afKoR)

44
Disclaimer: Doot.
1 w00t

Loot!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:56 AM (RuTUS)

45 The structure is a very large area of sheathing that prevents mixing interior air with the outside, essentially what is called a "tight building". The integrity of the sheathing has been broken. It has a hole(s) in it. They have been patching it for a while now because of other drone hits.

It just means the Euros are going to pony up more money to fix it, or not.

Posted by: pawn at December 07, 2025 05:01 AM (70YV/)

46 I wanted to share the "God moment" I had yesterday. We were driving somewhere yesterday and we didn't get a lot of snow- maybe half an inch , but it looked lovely on the pine trees and the dare I say it-?- bunches of bamboo which we passed .
I also appreciate the trees which shed their bark and become white. Sycamore (?) . It's probably a mess to clean up if you have the bark in your yard but the white branches are pretty. I am reminded of the character of Anne Shirley from the "Anne of Green Gablez" series who says, "Everyday there is something beautiful to see or hear . May you all see or hear something beautiful today!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 05:05 AM (WFtAr)

47 I've never had bacon in pea soup, but it certainly sounds like a good idea.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Oh, yes! Any ham-based soup, will benefit from addition of bacon. You can even make roux with baconfat and flour, to thicken.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:06 AM (rdVOm)

48 Elon Musk's EU fine
(and his response)
(and US government officials' response)

https://archive.is/HeC4E

(Politico; archived)

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 05:10 AM (RuTUS)

49 "[Musk] followed up with another post to say the EU should be 'abolished.'"

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 05:11 AM (RuTUS)

50 LOL, Fen. Sycamores are pretty-- as long as they are in *somebody else's* yard!
They are horribly messy trees, year 'round. Bark, seedpods (big dingleberries!) and leaves that shed slowly, all winter long. Those leaves don't compress well or break down easily, so they are a hassle to bag or compost...

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:12 AM (rdVOm)

51 Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:12 AM (rdVOm)

I guess you have them or had them in your yard ?
I'm sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 05:13 AM (wZvvl)

52 Belated BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 05:13 AM (EYUUI)

53 Soup, I maintain, is generally just a stew that isn’t quite done yet. Split pea is a bean, technically ain’t it?

Anyhow beans are definitely immensely improved by a meaty ham bone and/or bacon by those who partake. Fat is flavor, and beans soak it up.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 05:15 AM (Yr1lv)

54 49 "[Musk] followed up with another post to say the EU should be 'abolished.'"
Posted by: m

The EU is picking a fight with a guy who has total control over 9000 orbital space lasers.

I don't know what they expect to achieve here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 07, 2025 05:15 AM (BLOW1)

55 Need to get things ready for church. Have a good day everyone.! Remember, you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 07, 2025 05:15 AM (wZvvl)

56 The EU is a failed experiment. Unfortunately, the only *losers* are the regular people who live in that zone.

The damned globalist "elites" are nearly done sucking all the money and sovereignty out of the Member Countries, and will have completely ruined greater Europe-- soon.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:18 AM (rdVOm)

57 I guess you have them or had them in your yard ?
I'm sorry.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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HAD! Lol, sold the place long ago.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:20 AM (rdVOm)

58 Sycamore drops a lot of branches too. Fast growing varieties of tree species provide quick shade, And there is the problem. Swamp maple aka Silver maple, is a wonderful tree in the woods maybe, but it fills gutters with “helicopters”. Its roots seek out moisture - wreaking havoc with city water mains, the service to your home, and sewer pipes. Also buckles sidewalks. And drops branches in ice storms. It isn’t even a particularly nice looking tree, they tend to look sort of bushy or unkempt. But they grow like a weed, because they are, I suppose. A favorite too, to place under power and telephone lines, (why??) where street crews stay busy pruning them up to look especially bad.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 05:23 AM (Yr1lv)

59 >>>a guy who has total control over 9000 orbital space lasers

And he's got a sense of humor, too!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 05:25 AM (RuTUS)

60 >>>The EU is picking a fight with a guy who has total control over 9000 orbital space lasers.

I don't know what they expect to achieve here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa

>Maybe override the telemetry or correct the issues that allows EVs to crash into mobile cell towers also known as law enforcement vehicles?

The monkey wrench is already in the works. While you're banging your bride-to-be in the back seat of an autopilot EV, remember that a cop car just might send you spinning into a Jersey barricade.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 05:27 AM (w6S0H)

61 It is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 07, 2025 05:27 AM (ExV1e)

62 >>>a guy who has total control over 9000 orbital space lasers

And he's got a sense of humor, too!
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Be ~~funny~~ hilarious if he used those lasers to burn a huge "X" across Brussels...

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:28 AM (rdVOm)

63 Finally, the hapless homeowner, faced with a tree planted long ago not suitable for landscaping must have it taken down, and nearly chokes when he discovers what it costs to have it removed by a licensed, bonded, and insured tree cutter.

Yes, trees are best viewed in somebody else’s yard. If only the wind would keep the leaves where they belong! Naturally, leftists have outlawed burning leaves, turning a timeless ritual into a huge hassle with bags and disposal issues, and fleets of trucks paid for with your confiscated dollars.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 05:28 AM (Yr1lv)

64 on Elon's big EU fine:

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Jarvis
@jarvis_best
18h
People are mad about this but you have to remember that fining US tech companies is Europe’s sole source of income.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

65

Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks.

I's the 84th anniversary of Pearl today. How many do you suppose will take note and perhaps comment?

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 07, 2025 05:38 AM (vFbHf)

66
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs let out. About to take a shower, get dressed and head out at 5:15 for Rosary at 6:30 and Mass at 7:00.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 07, 2025 05:39 AM (tgvbd)

67 The 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor is in fact at 1155 CST. And this year it is on a Sunday, just as it was then.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 07, 2025 05:39 AM (6KcYW)

68 Evening and morning, Sunday toilers and early risers/insomaniacals!

I'mup thanks to a nightmare that, in its plausible illogic, reminds me of the craziness of the employment world. In it, I was still at my old university. Miss Linda worked at a clothing shop and had a big discount, so we gave a blouse to one of the girl graduate students for Xmas. She seemed pleased.

The next day she brought it back to me, saying it had got some white splotches on it. She tried rinsing it and pressing it (mark this), and no improvement. I said, "Let me try," and took it home with the same result.

The next day, she *complains* that *I* ruined her gift -- though she washed it first -- and complained to the admin. None of their business, but suddenly I had a firestorm around me.

(cont)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

69 Finally, the hapless homeowner, faced with a tree planted long ago not suitable for landscaping must have it taken down, and nearly chokes when he discovers what it costs to have it removed by a licensed, bonded, and insured tree cutter.
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Yep. After 25 years of paying for trimming, thinning, and finally removal of various huge trees... I think I've paid for cars & college for at least 2 of the tree guy's kids.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:44 AM (rdVOm)

70 (Nightmare, part 2)

The dean calls me, saying I should know better. I keep pointing out that *she* washed it first and failed; and in any case it was a *gift*, and she's complaining?

I get back to my office, and one of my co-workers says the gift violates the university's rules on gift-giving. In my dream I see it in black-and-white: "The recipient if of the opposite sex may not be a co-worker, ex-wife, or wife."

So I'm exclaiming to the dean that not only am I being excoriated for "ruining" a gift, I'm in trouble because she's married (which I did not know)! I was pointing out that she was not a co-worker, but a grad student, thus not even in my chain of command, when I woke up.

The point: The dream illogic almost matches the kind of illogic HR departments force on us. I'm SO glad to be out of that!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

71 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 07, 2025 05:47 AM (/kUUQ)

72 Good night, Horde. Again, LOL

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 05:49 AM (rdVOm)

73 Anyway! Here I am, sipping coffee, with furry thugs drifting around waiting for breakfast. They were sleeping with me, but the moment I turned on the light, meatloaves that they are, they vaulted away, ready to eat.

55 F., very little wind, and the rain mostly to the south of us. Good workout conditions, if it's really not raining.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

74 I read yesterday (copy below) that fentanyl is "around 50x more addictive than heroin" and, googling, I don't find that, and it looks like the "50x" might be more true of fentanyl v heroin potency than addictiveness. But, still, imagine for a moment that that is true: around 50x more addictive than heroin.

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
21h
Fentanyl is around 50x more addictive than Heroin. The cartels are trading increased overdose deaths for exploding sales in a country with 320 million people.

They aren’t concerned about running out of customers. Nor does presumed intent negate the deadly result.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 05:54 AM (RuTUS)

75 So, I didn't see anything about the UKR military assets that may have been stationed near Chernobyl since the UKRs may have thought that to be a location the Russians wouldn't dream of attacking.

The Ukraine had been part of Russia since the 1700s (not voluntarily). It also changed hands to the German Empire in the last days of WW1, reverted to the Soviets after that, got invaded by the Germans in WW2 in 1941 (who could have raised an anti-soviet army with the Ukrainians, but they were Slavic sub-humans, so no), had a lot of major battles fought there, and ended up back under Soviet control in late 1944.

The Russians aren't angels by any stretch of the imagination, but the Ukrainians aren't much further away from the Devil IMO (plus they give money to my enemies, which I assume the Russians don't do as well).

The weird thing is that I came to comment that the song "Rock The Casbah" by the Clash would probably considered a hate crime in Airstrip One (formerly known as "Britain", fuck the "Great" bit).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 07, 2025 05:57 AM (yB/+Q)

76 It’s complicated, I’ll allow for that. But Twitter is a US company.

#1 - by what authority does any foreign entity have the purview to levy a fine on a US corporation?

2, 3, 4, etc. etc. This really is a hill to die on. Free speech is that important. There’s plenty I don’t like about it. The alternative is worse, is the crux of the issue. It isn’t up to Twitter to censor Europe. They can censor their own subjects on their own dime.

Maybe Mr. Musk can airdrop those single shot stamped steel .45 pistols to the millions of beleaguered denizens trapped behind the EU Curtain.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 05:59 AM (2Fnww)

77 James Stewart Westerns Day on Grit today: Winchester '73, The Cheyenne Social Club, Firecreek, etc. The Robe w/ Richard Burton is on Movies! at 5 am Central, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

78 The Robe is from 1953 -- at the start of the period when Burton really could have made a fine movie James Bond.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

79 I've read that people who ruin sweaters in dreams are evildoers and its their subconscious trying to process their ceaseless misdeeds.

Posted by: extrapsychotherapy at December 07, 2025 06:03 AM (J603h)

80 Dick Head up there has a point. But I don't know if he like Ukrainians or Russians or hates them both.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 06:06 AM (w6S0H)

81 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: grempht

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 07, 2025 06:08 AM (0cOaq)

82 The EU are blackmailers and will get their vig and control of his space lasers.
Fentanyl is so toxic it should be banned.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 06:09 AM (/Chlc)

83 I've read that people who ruin sweaters in dreams are evildoers and its their subconscious trying to process their ceaseless misdeeds.
Posted by: extrapsychotherapy at December 07, 2025

***
Then, like Dr. Morbius, I renounce my subconscious and give it up!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 06:10 AM (wzUl9)

84 Swamp maple aka Silver maple, is a wonderful tree in the woods maybe, but it fills gutters with “helicopters”.
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I had a big silver maple in my backyard. Upside: It was in a quarter where it provided maximum shade to the house during summer afternoons. Downside: as you say, it was a messy tree. I would from time to time have an arborist trim it up so it looked good and didn't have so many branches to drop. Then it died.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 07, 2025 06:12 AM (0cOaq)

85 Jimmy Stewart was a “believable” actor, at least when I listen to The Six Shooter radio program he starred in. I would say he was pretty one dimensional, he just played himself. But hisself was pretty dang good. He was a B-17 pilot during the war, and maintained flying status for some time. I think he may have flown a sortie or two in Viet Nam even.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 06:12 AM (2Fnww)

86 He was a B-17 pilot during the war, and maintained flying status for some time. I think he may have flown a sortie or two in Viet Nam even.
Posted by: Common Tater

B-24

Posted by: Tuna at December 07, 2025 06:14 AM (lJ0H4)

87 Someone put out a nice map, visually comparing Europe to the EU:

https://tinyurl.com/3txz7v9x

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:15 AM (EYUUI)

88 I have my opinions on why the Left created The War of NATO Aggression but I haven’t decided if Putin is a thief in on the con or simply knows it’s a con and is robbing the robbers.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 06:15 AM (/Chlc)

89 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 07, 2025 06:18 AM (bQ4nt)

90 That map of Europe might be meaningful if 70% of Europeans didn’t like being ruled by Brussels.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 06:18 AM (/Chlc)

91
I had a big silver maple in my backyard.

We had one in the middle of our front yard yet close to the street. Our arborist recommended yanking it out and got no argument from us.

When we bought this place 25+ years ago there was a real dog's breakfast selection of trees on the property. Bedraggled conifers and oaks. And two Bradford Pears. All but one are now gone, and they went with extreme prejudice. The last conifer's final days will come to an end this spring.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 07, 2025 06:18 AM (xG4kz)

92 Money laundering thru the bank of EU could build a continent. Sad that Africa has to suffer their savage culture.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 06:19 AM (w6S0H)

93 Jimmy Stewart was a “believable” actor, at least when I listen to The Six Shooter radio program he starred in. I would say he was pretty one dimensional, he just played himself. But hisself was pretty dang good. He was a B-17 pilot during the war, and maintained flying status for some time. I think he may have flown a sortie or two in Viet Nam even.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025

***
His George Bailey and a lot of his lighter roles might have reflected himself. But see some of the 'dark" Westerns he starred in during the 1950s like The Man From Laramie and The Naked Spur. Something raw comes out there in many scenes, something you would not want to see if it was set against you.

He has an early (1930s) film role -- I won't tell you which one to preserve the fun -- in which he appears for 95% of the film to be a nice guy, and then at the end is revealed as a snarling killer. And he is believable at both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

94 I would from time to time have an arborist trim it up so it looked good and didn't have so many branches to drop. Then it died.
—-

You’re kidding, right? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dead one. I thought they were impossible to kill, actually. lol.

My parents planted two of them in the front yard. They weren’t great tree climbing, but I managed. I had all the branches memorized and could climb to the top blindfolded probably. The house was at one of the highest points in our fair city, suddenly I could see for miles! I like silver Maples, but they should probably be illegal in a landscape situation.

As it turns out there aren’t really very many tree species that check all the boxes for good landscaping in a street environment or suburbia.

After all the American Elms died many cities looked completely barren for years. One of the replacements at the time was the green Ash, that too has now fallen almost completely victim to a type of invasive borer.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 06:21 AM (2Fnww)

95 The Ukrainians are of no strategic value to us. The Russians (from whom we peacefully bought Alaska, for whom we brokered a treaty with the Japanese in 1905, with whom we were allies in WW1) *could* have been a valuable counter-weight against West Taiwan (formerly known as China), but we've pushed them to bond closer to the CCP.

Since I believe there is more evidence of the Ukrainian government has funneled more money to corrupt the US government more than the Russians have been able to do, I hate them more.

What's really annoying is that we started dealing with the CCP to be a counter-weight against the USSR. Nixon couldn't see the future, but God damn it, he fucked a lot of shit up. Maybe his leaving early prevented his plans from coming to fruition, but that would be a reason to not leave willingly.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 07, 2025 06:21 AM (yB/+Q)

96
Someone put out a nice map, visually comparing Europe to the EU:

https://tinyurl.com/3txz7v9x
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Nailed it in one!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 07, 2025 06:21 AM (xG4kz)

97 Jimmy Stewart was a “believable” actor, at least when I listen to The Six Shooter radio program he starred in. I would say he was pretty one dimensional, he just played himself. . . .
Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025

***
One might say the same of his friend Henry Fonda. But see his turn as a quiet, ruthless killer in Once Upon a Time in the West.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

98 His George Bailey and a lot of his lighter roles might have reflected himself. But see some of the 'dark" Westerns he starred in during the 1950s like The Man From Laramie and The Naked Spur. Something raw comes out there in many scenes, something you would not want to see if it was set against you.
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His character in "Flight of the Phoenix" was actually kinda dark.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 07, 2025 06:23 AM (0cOaq)

99 Time I changed, stretched, and headed out for my exercise session. Later, folken.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

100 C

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 07, 2025 06:24 AM (bQ4nt)

101 86 He was a B-17 pilot during the war, and maintained flying status for some time. I think he may have flown a sortie or two in Viet Nam even.
Posted by: Common Tater

B-24
Posted by: Tuna at December 07, 2025 06:14 AM (lJ0H4)

Liberator!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:25 AM (RuTUS)

102 100 C
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 07, 2025 06:24 AM (bQ4nt)

; )

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

103 But see some of the 'dark" Westerns he starred in during the 1950s like The Man From Laramie and The Naked Spur.
——

Hm… I didn’t know that, I’ll have to check those out. Thanks!

My favorite Six Shooter episode, the church needs a new organ, and they cajole Jimmy into fundraising. He gets all the rough dirty outlaws on the lam to donate, somehow. Another episode, he gets corralled into judging a strawberry preserves contest, brutal cut throat competition. He finally breaks the log jam by declaring the winner is not between the actual contestants, but at the local diner.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 06:27 AM (2Fnww)

104 G'Day everyone
I guess I ought to get up at some point today

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 06:27 AM (Ia/+0)

105
The 'shielding' is gone & 'safety' is nil, but the structure will hold and 'monitoring' is active. Yay. *eyeroll*
Posted by: JQ

Is former Soviet Union. You pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 07, 2025 06:28 AM (xG4kz)

106 NYC plants a lot of male ginkgoes. Mulberries are plentiful in south Jamaica. I see Paki’s trying the berries.
Our Trinnie neighbor had a mulberry and silver maple on her side of the property line. She took the mulberry out first and then the maple so she can have her garden.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 06:28 AM (8jVAy)

107 HA HA . YES. YES, SIR.

Posted by: Fat Talentless Co-Host at December 07, 2025 06:33 AM (8agIx)

108 Stay safe, Nick Sortor:

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

The question that caused them to use violence against me: “You just encouraged this entire crowd to chant ‘the National Guard is racist — can you cite an example?”

Video:

https://tinyurl.com/45ky28rz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:33 AM (EYUUI)

109 Ginkos are good street trees, pollution tolerant. They are a “living fossil” maybe the air was dirtier in the Pleistocene or whatever? They were thought to be extinct, known only from the fossil record iirc. Then they were found growing at a Japanese monastery. They are interesting in that usually they drop all their leaves at once. Makes for easier raking anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 06:34 AM (2Fnww)

110 moar fentanyl twitter:

Daniel
@growing_daniel
9h
Bro brainstorming with fentanyl smugglers how to get bad PR for the country he calls home

@cturnbull1968
Dec 5
What’s Pete Hegseth going to do when these cocaine smugglers start carrying women and children in the boats, which will inevitably happen?

No more videos or no more missiles?

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:35 AM (RuTUS)

111
We had our wave of dead trees caused by ash borers about five years ago. The entire neighborhood had at least one tree removal service at work practically every week from May into September. As the neighborhood has been around for seventy years now, practically every large tree is that age and they are beginning to expire on their own volition.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 07, 2025 06:35 AM (xG4kz)

112 I slept more than 9 hours

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 06:37 AM (Ia/+0)

113 We had our wave of dead trees caused by ash borers about five years ago. The entire neighborhood had at least one tree removal service at work practically every week from May into September.
-----------
Two years ago, we had a nasty blizzard. Lots of trees and big branches down. The arborists were busy for quite some time.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 07, 2025 06:37 AM (0cOaq)

114 They don’t kill National Guard because they are racist. The call the National Guard racist so they can kill them.

That’s why all the invective and hateful rhetoric. It’s the same playbook used everywhere for 250 years at least. “Otherize” the enemy. They have ramped this up to eleventy in recent years, clearly there are forces at work demanding open conflict and the “media” is more than willing to help facilitate this. Orders is orders, I supoose.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 06:38 AM (2Fnww)

115 followup on Nick Sortor:

Sarah Fields retweeted
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
9h
Pray for Nick. He is a good friend and he really puts everything out there because he is a fearless foot warrior of God.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:39 AM (RuTUS)

116 Yesterday, in response to the EU:

X Freeze @XFreeze
·
10h
𝕏 just terminated the EU Commission's ad account

Details:

https://tinyurl.com/bn32nuzz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:39 AM (EYUUI)

117 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 07, 2025 06:40 AM (0cOaq)

118 116 Yesterday, in response to the EU:

X Freeze @XFreeze
·
10h
𝕏 just terminated the EU Commission's ad account

Details:

https://tinyurl.com/bn32nuzz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:39 AM (EYUUI)

wow

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:42 AM (RuTUS)

119 I don't know who this guy is but his words are true:

Rob H @RobH02050318

I can’t believe I’m saying this, having always been a staunch supporter of NATO but this what I think now:

The U.S. created NATO to protect the liberty of west Europeans. Now that many European Nations have abandoned their desires for those liberties there is no reason for the U.S. to be in the Alliance.

Make mutual defense treaties with Poland and the various other countries like Poland that are aligned our values and let the west Europeans go their own ways.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:43 AM (EYUUI)

120 this site is keeping up on the Elon/EU debacle:

https://xcancel.com/XFreeze

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:46 AM (RuTUS)

121 https://tinyurl.com/bn32nuzz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:39 AM (EYUUI)

wow
Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:42 AM (RuTUS)
-

X's product manager:

Nikita Bier @nikitabier
12h

The irony of your announcement:

You logged into your dormant ad account to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer — to post a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.

As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it seems you believe that the rules should not apply to your account.

Your ad account has been terminated.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:46 AM (EYUUI)

122 Dec 7th, 1945, the first time the whole world was at peace since Dec 7, 1941.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 07, 2025 06:52 AM (2GVsD)

123 X's product manager:

Nikita Bier @nikitabier
12h

He seems like a really smart guy.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 06:52 AM (RuTUS)

124 What other kinds of clown are there?

Or should I not ask?
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Silicon clowns, frequently referred to as "LLMs."

Posted by: mikeski at December 07, 2025 06:58 AM (C58we)

125 Seems like it's not just the Dept. of War that's adopted Franklin the Turtle:

https://tinyurl.com/4hx2s4z6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 06:59 AM (EYUUI)

126 - Wondering how much silver is on those boards of that 20 year old or so Dell tower I took apart yesterday. And if there's anyone out there who buys em instead of just 'you can drop those off here for recycling.'
Then there's those little, yellow tabs on em.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 07, 2025 07:00 AM (jMlHD)

127 Urgh. Raining. Guess I'll do breakfast instead, then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

128 I think he may have flown a sortie or two in Viet Nam even.
Posted by: Common Tater

I seem to remember he stayed in the reserves, rose to the rank of General. I think he was involved with the strategic bombers flying the tripwire over the artic. At any rate, the Eighth Air Force was not a comfy, cozy billet during the war. The losses sustained were breath taking.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 07, 2025 07:01 AM (cxFcK)

129 Me thinketh that thou protesteth too muc:

https://tinyurl.com/3hdz2be6

(WARNING: the word "geometry" is mentioned)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:02 AM (EYUUI)

130 Europe and Japan- China were all at war on Dec 6 1941.
Americans were fighting volunteers in England and China

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 07:04 AM (Ia/+0)

131 G'morning Horde.

Slow time rules this morning.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 07, 2025 07:04 AM (O7YUW)

132 CNN cheatsheet

When Germany invaded Poland on

September 1, 1939,

it was the second time the world went to war. With the Japanese surrender on

September 2, 1945,

World War II was over.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:05 AM (RuTUS)

133 129 Me thinketh that thou protesteth too muc:

https://tinyurl.com/3hdz2be6

(WARNING: the word "geometry" is mentioned)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:02 AM (EYUUI)

Ha! But TLDR.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:07 AM (RuTUS)

134 [s[No Some one is above the law:

https://t.co/yDngrPx9kR

Disgusting!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:09 AM (EYUUI)

135 Yonder Horde

Looks like it'll be day 10 with no sunshine here. At least it will likely get above freezing. Maybe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 07, 2025 07:11 AM (NwnyJ)

136 @129/Biden's Dog:

I searched that article for the word "mirror".
I didn't find it.
I am somehow, not surprised.
The author (Mark Hemmingway) should turn in his man card immediately.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 07, 2025 07:12 AM (O7YUW)

137 No, air raids were insanely dangerous. Flying is dangerous enough as it is, never mind people trying their best to shoot the plane down, blow it up, cannon fire, flak.

Curtis LeMay rose to prominence partly because he advocated a straight line approach flight plan to the target. Previously they had zig zagged or something like that. This was largely unworkable.

Everybody at the briefing said he was nuts, and would get a lot of people killed. They were correct, but LeMay pointed out he would be piloting the lead plane, the very plane the enemy would shoot down first. He was a remarkable individual. This strategy worked, his crews had success where others didn’t. He knew how to treat subordinates and kept maintenance crews happier, etc. you can train people to become great leaders but the really great ones figured it out early and did it on their own somehow. These guys are never appreciated until they are needed.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 07:13 AM (jIaF7)

138 "Wondering how much silver is on those boards of that 20 year old or so Dell tower"

Teej, having disposed of 100s of PCs over the years I have wondered the same thing. I looked into it and while it is possible on a small scale to retrieve the gold and silver from computers, it's a difficult and nasty process that is not really worth the effort unless you have nothing better to do. All old PCs I get nowadays go on the scrap trailer to be sold at maybe 7 cents a pound.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at December 07, 2025 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

139 If you already watched the USCG videos of a coke boat's engine being taken out by a Barret sniper in a chopper, here's the video from the CG craft boarding and securing the enemy ship:

https://tinyurl.com/33ch8e25

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:18 AM (EYUUI)

140 The EU has been pulling off this same trick ever since they went after Microsoft for having the audacity to include their own browser with Windows (Internet Explorer).

While I agree IE was a crappy browser that I avoided at all costs because, at the time, it was a magnet for ever malware that existed, and I spent many hours of my life back then repairing people’s machines who’d been infected, MS didn’t deserve the judgement or fines or remedy that were forced on them.

There were only a few browsers out at the time, and Netscape, the instigator of the entire drama, wasn’t packing anything special in Navigator, which proved true as they went out of business a few years later only to partially re-emerge later as Mozilla/Firefox.

Then the EU tried to go after M$ for including Windows Media Player in Windows which is sort of like going after GM for putting AC Delco radios in their cars.

I noticed they never went after Apple for putting QuickTime Player in MacOS, since forever, and they sold the software & hardware!
Probably because Apple had a minuscule market share at the time and M$ was Mr. Monopoly Moneybags.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 07:21 AM (6ydKt)

141 139 a coke boat's engine being taken out by a Barret sniper in a chopper

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:18 AM (EYUUI)

heh; coke boat

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)

142 Say you just finished burning a fire ant anthill and you notice two ants have survived and are back on the hill, waving their little antennas at you. Do you let these two survivors survive, knowing they are still fire ants and would bite you if they could? I say no, I would not.

Posted by: fd at December 07, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

143 Israel has a new incoming Mossad chief. Video of him wounded on Oct. 7, 2023. No gore but a grim situation:

https://tinyurl.com/ybme6fxe

We lost 2 relatives that morning.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:24 AM (EYUUI)

144 > If you already watched the USCG videos of a coke boat's engine being taken out by a Barret sniper in a chopper, here's the video from the CG craft boarding and securing the enemy ship
-----------
Nothing beats that badass video of a USCG guy jumping from the pursuit boat onto the deck of a narco's semi-submersible drug running boat and ripping open the hatch. 6 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQWcHOTdGgc

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 07, 2025 07:25 AM (NwnyJ)

145 Good morning!

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

Here is a fanfare for the morning: https://youtu.be/5LoUm_r7It8
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine – BBC Proms 2014

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

146 heh; coke boat

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)
-

Die it coke boat.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:25 AM (EYUUI)

147 146 heh; coke boat

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)
-

Die it coke boat.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:25 AM (EYUUI)

Dad joke!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:25 AM (RuTUS)

148 - Thanks fd.
Yeah, sometime back I saw a couple vids of people doing the "recovery" thing.
Nope, not gonna go there.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 07, 2025 07:26 AM (jMlHD)

149 Dad joke!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:25 AM (RuTUS)
-

More! It's a grand dad joke.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:27 AM (EYUUI)

150 Probably because Apple had a minuscule market share at the time and M$ was Mr. Monopoly Moneybags.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

* nods *

Posted by: zombie Willie Sutton at December 07, 2025 07:27 AM (C58we)

151 I was looking up current time in Australia, and I am told that "People also ask":

What is the right time in Australia now?

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:28 AM (RuTUS)

152 Ads are making You Tube unwatchable.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

153 Well, it is a grand grand dad joke.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)

154 I was looking up current time in Australia, and I am told that "People also ask":

What is the right time in Australia now?
Posted by: m at December 07, 2025

***
Like the US, AU has several time zones. Time where?

Sydney is about 11:30 pm right now, about to go into Monday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

155 or

A grand granddad "dad joke" joke.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:31 AM (RuTUS)

156 YouTube wants 20$/month for ad free viewing. Solution is YouTube free viewing

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 07:31 AM (T8bqm)

157 "Yeah, sometime back I saw a couple vids of people doing the "recovery" thing.
Nope, not gonna go there.
Posted by: TeeJ "

One method is basically the same as what some gold panners used to do. Crush the chips and mix some mercury with the dust. Then recover the mercury and burn it off, leaving the gold that had combined with it.

Posted by: fd at December 07, 2025 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

158 m

Congrats on first. Are you sure you are not an autonomous A/I? You never seem to sleep. And go for round numbers ending in zero.

May your voltage always be even, never stop, and what you need.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

159 It never fails.

I pour myself a cup of cocoa and suddenly I have an audience of kitty cats.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 07:35 AM (ESVrU)

160 Last F-1 race in 20 minutes

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 07:36 AM (Ia/+0)

161 Morons will easily spot the logic error:

https://tinyurl.com/mtp3f27h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:37 AM (EYUUI)

162 YouTube and Amazon Prime are converging platforms.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 07:37 AM (T8bqm)

163 158 Are you sure you are not an autonomous A/I?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

whirrr *click! whirr *click!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:38 AM (RuTUS)

164 fd

The recycler in town gets most of the electronic waste in Kansas.

I had a way, using a dodgy Chinese Patent, to turn them into a rare earth, gold, and copper mine. But the procedure needed industrial-sized acid vats. The city was difficult. So that plan ended.
I was not concerned over the Patent's intellectual property. It was similar to other recycling procedures, and was better than a ball milling operation near residences. Turn around and all that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

165 m

I knew it!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

166 Blessings on you, NaCly Dog!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:39 AM (RuTUS)

167 >>I pour myself a cup of cocoa and suddenly I have an audience of kitty cats.

Apparently, that's the cat signal.

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 07, 2025 07:39 AM (NcvvS)

168 "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'll get to the book thread too late to post today. I'll read it this afternoon. Thank you in advance.

How is the new situation working out?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

169 m

You are very sophisticated for an A/I. Bravo to your two programmers. Do you call them Mom and Dad?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

170 What is WW2 was a war between heresies and both are strongly antisemitic?

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 07:42 AM (8jVAy)

171 > Last F-1 race in 20 minutes
Posted by: Skip
---------
Also the last F-1 race broadcast in the US for a while. The series is moving to AppleTV streaming next year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 07, 2025 07:42 AM (NwnyJ)

172 "Morons will easily spot the logic error:"

I think you have to kill enough of the target population to make them believe that your aren't fucking around when you tell them to stop acting like they were whilst you were killing them.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 07, 2025 07:44 AM (yB/+Q)

173 TJM,'s movie suggestions are showing up on my YouTube
Late Spring the Japanese movie appears as a suggestion.
Maybe later today

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 07:45 AM (Ia/+0)

174 Accomack

An infantry companies worth of Jewish intellectuals, scientists, engineers, artists, etc. was driven out of Germany. Plus all the waste of killing 8 million people. They lost big time, and their women were raped repeatedly by the Soviets.

Should be a cautionary tale. But Leftists never learn.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

175 How is the new situation working out?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:40 AM (u82oZ)
---
It's going quite well. Thank you for asking.

Working from home is an adjustment, but I find I can be quite productive.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 07:46 AM (ESVrU)

176 We had our wave of dead trees caused by ash borers about five years ago. The entire neighborhood had at least one tree removal service at work practically every week from May into September. As the neighborhood has been around for seventy years now, practically every large tree is that age and they are beginning to expire on their own volition.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 07, 2025 06:35 AM (xG4kz)

Every time someone in my neighborhood has their trees trimmed by "four guys in a truck", cuz it's cheaper, I have nightmares for days about Oak Wilt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 07, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

177 "September 2, 1945,

World War II was over.
Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:05 AM"

September 2nd, 1946,

My parents got married.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 07, 2025 07:46 AM (/kUUQ)

178 On that Meta glasses thing, some states are two party agreement meaning both the camera person and the person being filmed have to agree to the act of being filmed. Don't know about nyc. Alabama is a single party agreement state, so on the camera person needs to approve. Now we get into ethics of what gets recorded... kids are right out. Pervy shit is legal, but you'll get your ass kicked (as it should be).

I run front and ream dash cams on all my vehicles, and both motorcycles. Has saved my ass in a redlight runner t-bone.

So mixed emotions. Nyc subway dude filming pervy shit....yeah he got what he deserved. Karen needs her ass kicked as well for damaging personal property though.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 07, 2025 07:46 AM (QVmho)

179 "But the procedure needed industrial-sized acid vats."

Yeah. First the acid, then the mercury. Even without using the mercury process it's nasty.

I think maybe sometime in the future there might be nanobots that will be able to go into landfills and separate the garbage into it's constituent parts, including the gold and rare earth metals. Our garbage will be a gift to future generations

Posted by: fd at December 07, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

180 Breakfast is done. Time I went to noodle around on the desktop computer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 07, 2025 07:46 AM (wzUl9)

181 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Good to hear. Do you teach via Zoom, or on campus? And are homework assignments emailed to you so you don't have to grade papers?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

182 Midwest Check's Sunday memes - https://tinyurl.com/3n8mra7b+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 07, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

183
So, if Chernobyl is now "unshielded"-- what does that really mean for those downwind of it?

Posted by: JQ

Well, it's mostly Eurowienies that hate us.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 07, 2025 07:48 AM (QVmho)

184 BifBewalski

Russia is downwind of Ukraine. Best reason for no first use of nuclear weapons by Russia.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

185 "The Decline of Everything." Good piece by Matt Walsh.

https://tinyurl.com/3a9ywvn5

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2025 07:52 AM (WHfpM)

186 a few days old; wild numbers:

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
Dec 2
About This Account has now been used over 360 million times since launch -- and has one of the highest DAU of any new feature we've launched this year (only behind the new link experience).

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
Nov 22
In a couple hours, we'll be rolling out About This Account globally, allowing you to see the country or region where an account is based. This will be accessible by tapping the signup date on profiles.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:52 AM (RuTUS)

187 The only thing lefties learned is to be on the winning team.
I think that explains a lot of pundits going rogue: the money is only a cover for the change of heart.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 07:53 AM (/Chlc)

188 DAU = Daily Active Users

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:54 AM (RuTUS)

189 How does About This Account deal with VPNs?

Posted by: fd at December 07, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

190 I only see ads on YT when I watch on the TV.

On the PC, browser Adblockers are still doing wonders.

So I don’t feel bad, YT is still shoving ads at inopportune times for about half of my visits.

YouTube Premium is now at $13.99 a month.
It was a much better deal at $5.99/month which was only a few years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 07:55 AM (6ydKt)

191 At American Thinker- Europe is dying is a eye opener

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 07:55 AM (Ia/+0)

192 Good to hear. Do you teach via Zoom, or on campus? And are homework assignments emailed to you so you don't have to grade papers?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
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I teach on campus MWF. It's only a few miles away.

As for grading, all that's done electronically via the Learning Management System. No physical papers at all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 07:56 AM (ESVrU)

193 NYC is a jungle but it does have rules. FA and you will FO. Karen was in the right. Dude was lucky only his glasses got fucked up.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 07:57 AM (/Chlc)

194 189 How does About This Account deal with VPNs?
Posted by: fd at December 07, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

I see several answers to that online but I'm not sure.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 07:59 AM (RuTUS)

195 185 "The Decline of Everything." Good piece by Matt Walsh.

https://tinyurl.com/3a9ywvn5
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2025 07:52 AM (WHfpM)

Matt made a video version of this, too.
https://youtu.be/C6F_OOtL-TE

I watched it last night, and I find it difficult to disagree either him on most his observations.

He’s especially correct about food quality going straight to hell, and things that used to last 20 years now lasting one or two, if you’re lucky,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 07:59 AM (6ydKt)

196 >videos of a coke boat's engine being taken out
-----

Coke
exciting and new
come aboard
we're expecting you
The Coke Boat

Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:00 AM (ZxPkt)

197 Dec 7th, 1945, the first time the whole world was at peace since Dec 7, 1941.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 07, 2025 06:52 AM (2GVsD)

All of Europe, which had been at war since Sep 1, 1939, sighs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 07, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

198 TDS has Democrats/ Marxists defending drug runners
There isn't anything TDS can't do

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)

199 Have a great day, eveyone.

May upper altitude ice crystals give your sky sun dogs. Sun dogs were seen in Texas during the MoMeet. So good news.

Not sun pillars at dawn. A sun pillar is bad news if you see one. Means very cold. Arctic air mass cold.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

200 200

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:03 AM (RuTUS)

201 198 TDS has Democrats/ Marxists defending drug runners
There isn't anything TDS can't do
Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)

So true; tying themselves into knots.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:03 AM (RuTUS)

202 - The recovery vids I saw were doing the acid thing.
Looked like they were somewhere in Mumbindiastan.
Felt bad for the folks having to resort to that.
**wonders about just using a file to file off the solder nubs**
An "I'm bored" winter project? Like powder painting bulk jig heads? 🤣

Posted by: TeeJ at December 07, 2025 08:03 AM (jMlHD)

203 Ads are making You Tube unwatchable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 07, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

Brave. Youtube ads problem solved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 07, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

204 >198 TDS has Democrats/ Marxists defending drug runners
There isn't anything TDS can't do
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one crazed Democrat said those bins and barrels in the drug boats might be suitcases

Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:05 AM (ZxPkt)

205 17 Edwin Land, of Polaroid fame, had a lot to do with improving high altitude photography. In those days the captains of industry did things for their country not necessarily for money.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 04:21 AM (B4klT)

And in all days, I imagine.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:06 AM (RuTUS)

206 Last F-1 race in 20 minutes
Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 07:36 AM (Ia/+0)

F-1 has been banned?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 07, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

207 204 >198 TDS has Democrats/ Marxists defending drug runners
There isn't anything TDS can't do
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one crazed Democrat said those bins and barrels in the drug boats might be suitcases
Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:05 AM (ZxPkt)

omigosh

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:07 AM (RuTUS)

208
Russia is downwind of Ukraine. Best reason for no first use of nuclear weapons by Russia.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Just remembering being in the ash and smoke radioactive cloud back in Germany when it melted down. Prevailing winds were blowing it all mostly due west at the time. If it harms people, countries, and governments that hate me. Oh well.

I loathe the UKR assholes, Russia as well. The outright piracy and banditry of most of Europe towards the U.S are neck and neck racing Russia and UKR for whom I despise most.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 07, 2025 08:08 AM (QVmho)

209 I have a relative visiting Oahu today!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:09 AM (RuTUS)

210 Just this year, drivers championship is up for grabs

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:10 AM (Ia/+0)

211 CNN:

Only 12 Pearl Harbor survivors remain. On the 84th anniversary, none can attend this year’s remembrance

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:11 AM (RuTUS)

212 No Some one is above the law:

https://t.co/yDngrPx9kR

Disgusting!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 07:09 AM (EYUUI)
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I wonder if there's a reason why the Chicago Tribune doesn't show a pic. Hmmmm........

https://tinyurl.com/mrjhsk55

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:12 AM (EYUUI)

213 CNN, searching for the word "mortality":

That means no one attending will have firsthand memories of serving during the attack, which killed more than 2,300 troops and catapulted the US into World War 2. The development is not a surprise and is an evolution of an ongoing trend.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:12 AM (RuTUS)

214 The EU is great! It allows me to dress up in my gimp outfit and fondle Bill Gates's man titties while getting the poors to eat ze bugs!

Posted by: Klaus Schwab, Weirdo and Closeted Homosexual at December 07, 2025 08:14 AM (R/m4+)

215 When I watch YouTubeTV live here in Accomack, I get the Virginia Beach stations. The recorded versions of games, however, are from NYC local stations.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 08:15 AM (/Chlc)

216 Happy Pearl Harbor Day!

Posted by: guy who also says "Happy Memorial Day" at December 07, 2025 08:16 AM (Y1sOo)

217 Good morning to all the tech people from an aspiring luddite who is only here on the off chance that somebody might be taking attendance.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2025 08:16 AM (KDYdw)

218 Ads are making You Tube unwatchable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
_____________

I always get the ad about Harold and his metastatic prostate cancer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (XvL8K)

219 198 TDS has Democrats/ Marxists defending drug runners
There isn't anything TDS can't do
Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)

Someone needs to just say it: The Democrats have become the country's first overtly anti-American political party.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (WHfpM)

220 I-I-I-I-I-I-I...

...am hooked on a feeling:

https://t.co/dVh6TnnVLC

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (EYUUI)

221 Ads are making You Tube unwatchable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
_____________

I always get the ad about Harold and his metastatic prostate cancer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (XvL8K)
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And it's all the fault of one of our better know morons.

I constantly am forced to click on the buttion "Skip."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:19 AM (EYUUI)

222 WWII Pearl Harbor hero to have aircraft carrier named after him.

Not her.

Posted by: USS Doris Miller at December 07, 2025 08:19 AM (/kUUQ)

223 Allie settled into my lap just as I was finishing up my book. Now I'm stuck...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 08:20 AM (ESVrU)

224 My mom’s dad was born 12/6. I was born 12/7. He did war stuff with Linde in Buffalo. Neither the attack nor the war ever came up during b’day parties.

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 08:20 AM (/Chlc)

225 I have to turn off the ad blocker on Brave on the iPad or pages just won't load. Doesn't seem to do that on the phone.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 07, 2025 08:21 AM (+mUZM)

226 CNN Pearl Harbor survivors story (archived):

https://archive.is/5fuaq

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:21 AM (RuTUS)

227 Allie settled into my lap just as I was finishing up my book. Now I'm stuck...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 08:20 AM (ESVrU)
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So no book thread for another 12 hours or so?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:23 AM (EYUUI)

228 221 Ads are making You Tube unwatchable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
_____________

I always get the ad about Harold and his metastatic prostate cancer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (XvL8K)
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And it's all the fault of one of our better know morons.

I constantly am forced to click on the buttion "Skip."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:19 AM (EYUUI)

I--very seriously--think of "our" Skip every time I click that button.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:24 AM (RuTUS)

229 Allie settled into my lap just as I was finishing up my book. Now I'm stuck...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
_________

Scratch her butt. She'll get up, but it may cost you a bite.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 07, 2025 08:26 AM (XvL8K)

230 I am so glad I saw that disclaimer before making a purchase.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 07, 2025 08:26 AM (KDYdw)

231 You remember Pearl Harbor, McMahon?

Mr. Fuji love to torture American wrestler!

Posted by: Zombie Mr. Fuji at December 07, 2025 08:26 AM (oftw2)

232 So mixed emotions. Nyc subway dude filming pervy shit....yeah he got what he deserved. Karen needs her ass kicked as well for damaging personal property though.

I think its funny because NYC is right up there with the most public cameras like Babylon DC, London and many Chinese cities.

She takes out one camera, yet at least two others live stream / record the event in living color.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 07, 2025 08:27 AM (a4flb)

233 I have to turn off the ad blocker on Brave on the iPad or pages just won't load. Doesn't seem to do that on the phone.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 07, 2025 08:21
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That just started happening on my iPhone. I reported the problem to Brave for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 07, 2025 08:29 AM (bQ4nt)

234 Allie settled into my lap just as I was finishing up my book. Now I'm stuck...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 08:20 AM (ESVrU)
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So no book thread for another 12 hours or so?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:23 AM (EYUUI)
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Crisis averted. She moved out of my lap.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 07, 2025 08:31 AM (ESVrU)

235 My iPhone 13 would crash loading the site. The 17 ProMax doesn’t. iPad is 2 y/o. Handles the site well.
Tinyurl has gone wonky to the point where I don’t click links unless it’s to a text only X

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 08:35 AM (8jVAy)

236 Someone needs to just say it: The Democrats have become the country's first overtly anti-American political party.

Anti-American since April of 1861

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 07, 2025 08:35 AM (a4flb)

237 236 Someone needs to just say it: The Democrats have become the country's first overtly anti-American political party.

Anti-American since April of 1861

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 07, 2025 08:35 AM (a4flb)

Don't forget their platform through the decades...
pro-slavery
pro jim crow laws
pro segregation
against anti-lynching laws
against suffrage for women
lovers of fascism/not-sees
pro-abortion
pro commie
...
their latest stuff is just a natural progression of their values.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 08:42 AM (ynpvh)

238 What’s good for America is bad for Democrats.
-Maja Rushie

Posted by: Accomack at December 07, 2025 08:43 AM (8jVAy)

239 Good morn to all moronin!

Posted by: Eromero at December 07, 2025 08:43 AM (LHPAg)

240 220 I-I-I-I-I-I-I...

...am hooked on a feeling:

https://t.co/dVh6TnnVLC
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (EYUUI)

Rosie O'Donnell content and photo warning!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:44 AM (RuTUS)

241 Guard duty after Dec 7 at Pearl caused a lot of people to crack up.

“Tap tap tap” metal on metal at night of guys trapped in the capsized battleships went on for weeks. No way to get them out

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 08:44 AM (8JbE1)

242 one crazed Democrat said those bins and barrels in the drug boats might be suitcases
Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:05 AM (ZxPkt)

omigosh
Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:07 AM (RuTUS)

I saw that. Of course lost luggage is returned to the US packed in blue barrels and carried by speedboats all the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 08:46 AM (c7Ygk)

243 Here's the guy saying those bundles in the drug boats are 'packages' that might be 'suitcases'

https://x.com/amuse/status/
1997632761146794263

Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:47 AM (ZxPkt)

244 Santa Claus just put a raccoon in my tinyurl.com/CageyMcCageFace.

Posted by: Marooned at December 07, 2025 08:48 AM (kt8QE)

245 243 Here's the guy saying those bundles in the drug boats are 'packages' that might be 'suitcases'

https://x.com/amuse/status/
1997632761146794263
Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:47 AM (ZxPkt)

Thank you. The comments are pretty good.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:48 AM (RuTUS)

246 241 Guard duty after Dec 7 at Pearl caused a lot of people to crack up.

“Tap tap tap” metal on metal at night of guys trapped in the capsized battleships went on for weeks. No way to get them out

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 08:44 AM (8JbE1)

And really nothing that could be done. My Dad was a mid-teenager at the time (ended up serving near the end of the war in the Philippines and later Japan). He remembered hearing about Pearl Harbor on the radio with his folks. Dad passed away four years ago; his centennial is coming up next year...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 08:49 AM (ynpvh)

247 245 243 Here's the guy saying those bundles in the drug boats are 'packages' that might be 'suitcases'

https://x.com/amuse/status/
1997632761146794263
Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:47 AM (ZxPkt)

Thank you. The comments are pretty good.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:48 AM (RuTUS)

So filled with ballots destined for some dem sh!thole city for the next election?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 08:49 AM (ynpvh)

248 And finally saw an explanation of the blue barrels - they are watertight, they float, and each carries a transponder. They will be dropped into the ocean about 12 miles out from their destination, and the speedboat will turn back. Then small fishing boats with the transponder codes will come out from the destination and pick up one or two at a time; they will completely blend into the normal harbor traffic in the area.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 08:50 AM (c7Ygk)

249 243 Here's the guy saying those bundles in the drug boats are 'packages' that might be 'suitcases'

https://x.com/amuse/status/
1997632761146794263

Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:47 AM (ZxPkt)

They're filled with water now...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 08:50 AM (ynpvh)

250 Yes
And travelers sending their luggage ahead on speedboats is a thing

FFS

Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:54 AM (ZxPkt)

251 201 198 TDS has Democrats/ Marxists defending drug runners
There isn't anything TDS can't do
Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)

Some of them have more personal reasons for being Big Mad - read a report that street prices for Cocaine have already gone up by 1/3 in the Netherlands since the US started blowing up boats.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 08:54 AM (c7Ygk)

252 228 221 Ads are making You Tube unwatchable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
_____________

I always get the ad about Harold and his metastatic prostate cancer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (XvL8K)
-

And it's all the fault of one of our better know morons.

I constantly am forced to click on the buttion "Skip."
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 08:19 AM (EYUUI)

I--very seriously--think of "our" Skip every time I click that button.

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:24 AM (RuTUS)

There's code for that, but this website no likey as too long a string, so I'll add CR to it:

javascript

function(){var s = prompt("Playback Speed:");
if (s!==null){document.getElementsByClassName
('html5-main-video')[0].playbackRate = s;}})();

Use this and you can set even the speed of ads. Go too fast, and Youtube will accuse you of using an ad blocker...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 08:57 AM (ynpvh)

253 225 I have to turn off the ad blocker on Brave on the iPad or pages just won't load. Doesn't seem to do that on the phone.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 07, 2025 08:21 AM (+mUZM)

Same here, well for AoSHQ anyhow.
I gave up trying to figure it out on the iPad and just turned the shields off. Loads fine then.

The iPhone, on the other hand, refuses to load it on a 4G connection no matter what I do.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 08:57 AM (6ydKt)

254 There are two characters this site decided to turn into a pic, a colon ":" and a parenthesis "(" in the above...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 08:58 AM (ynpvh)

255 Grab your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:58 AM (Ia/+0)

256 I usually go at 3x or 4x on EweToob ads...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 08:59 AM (ynpvh)

257 Has anybody at the War Department revealed what type of ordnance is being used in the boat strikes? I imagine a drone launched missile, like a Hellfire. This could start getting pricey and it may be cheaper to keep an AC130 loitering in known trafficking areas. At least it would be more fun to watch.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 07, 2025 08:59 AM (gm9Sb)

258 One thing I wondered about, was the circuitous route Mexican weed took to make it to the hinterlands of the US. Called “mud bud” by many (that’s what i heard, anyway, cough) it was often a deep brown. Oxidized. Green weed does that, eventually. But it takes months, or more, and loses potency. That’s what I heard. When green sinsemilla arrived on the scene it was a revelation, as “smells pretty green, boys” was not a compliment up until that time. That’s what I heard.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 09:00 AM (8JbE1)

259 255 Grab your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 07, 2025 08:58 AM (Ia/+0)

But I'm wearing forbidden pants...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 07, 2025 09:01 AM (ynpvh)

260 one crazed Democrat said those bins and barrels in the drug boats might be suitcases
Posted by: Don Black at December 07, 2025 08:05 AM (ZxPkt)

omigosh
Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 08:07 AM (RuTUS)

I saw that. Of course lost luggage is returned to the US packed in blue barrels and carried by speedboats all the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The barrels are probably filled with fuel for those big engines on the boats. The bundles are the drugs.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 07, 2025 09:02 AM (VCgbV)

261 One thing I wondered about, was the circuitous route Mexican weed took to make it to the hinterlands of the US. Called “mud bud” by many (that’s what i heard, anyway, cough) it was often a deep brown. Oxidized. Green weed does that, eventually. But it takes months, or more, and loses potency. That’s what I heard. When green sinsemilla arrived on the scene it was a revelation, as “smells pretty green, boys” was not a compliment up until that time. That’s what I heard.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 07, 2025 09:00 AM (8JbE1)

We called it Mexican Dirt Weed.
It's the stuff that you'd have to break apart because they'd pack it so tight in bricks for smuggling that it would still be in brick form a few weeks later by the time it was on the street.

It's very difficult to find dirt weed these days but people don't want it anyhow. Most stuff available is hydroponic bud grown indoors under lights or in greenhouses.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 07, 2025 09:10 AM (6ydKt)

262 Ads are making You Tube unwatchable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
_____________

I always get the ad about Harold and his metastatic prostate cancer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 07, 2025 08:17 AM (XvL8K)

Ads?? What are they?

Posted by: Brave-The Ony Browser You';; Ever Need at December 07, 2025 09:20 AM (5xuJ/)

Saturday Night "Club ONT" December 6, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT. A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. We are officially in the "Turkey-to-Tinsel Gap" portion of the holiday season. People are pretending to work, and many are in the early stages of convincing themselves they will "begin eating healthy tomorrow" - which means Monday, or later. The Club does not endorse such ideas of slimming and trimming over the holiday season.

The 3D's are here to help you slide into a bit of mischief, joy, and lighthearted fun. The doorman? We don't think the doorman is coming back from vacation. Please see yourselves in.

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

A bear walks into a bar. He says to the bartender, "I'll have a............beer." The bartender responds, "what's with the big pause?"

The bear holds up his arms and says, "always had 'em."

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Two guys are out drinking when one of them falls off his bar stool and lies motionless on the floor.

"One thing about Fred" his buddy says to the barman, "He knows when to stop"

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Drinks of the Night

Playing card drinks return. Wow - into the 4s now!

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For Our Patrons Who No Do Not Partake

Mom's Eggnog

1 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 quarts whole milk
4 egg yolks
4 egg whites
4 teaspoons white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 pinch ground nutmeg
1 cup whipped cream, garnish

In a large saucepan, stir together sugar and flour. Gradually stir in the milk. Bring to a boil over medium heat. In a small bowl, whisk egg yolks until smooth. Ladle a small amount of the hot milk into the yolks and quickly whisk in. Pour the tempered yolk mixture back into the hot milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
In a medium glass or metal bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add 4 teaspoons sugar, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form. fold whites into eggnog and refrigerate until chilled. Serve garnished with a dollop of whipped cream and a dash of nutmeg.

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The beverage that needs no marketing budget for you to know it exists. The brand is deserving of some Horde slogans and taglines.

Sound is terrible in the mystery click. Visuals tell the story.

RC Cola, and you thought TikTok was mainstream.

RC Cola, because influencers have no taste.

RC Cola, the underdog that refuses to pay for fame.

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If you're talking about RC Cola, you better grab a Moon Pie!

What's that - you're not familiar with this combo? We can help!

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Club ONT Department of History and Religion

Happy St. Nicholas Day! The "Feast of Saint Nicholas" is celebrated on December 6 each year (although some celebrate on the December 5 eve). The American Santa Claus, as well as the British Father Christmas, derive from Saint Nicholas.

St. Nicholas was a bishop known for his good deeds, especially those that helped children and the needy. He often gave generously and without anyone knowing the gifts were from him. Nicholas was officially recognized as a saint in the 800s, and in the 1200s, Catholics in France began celebrating Bishop Nicholas Day on December 6.
Many European countries celebrate the Feast of Sinterklaas - also known as St. Nicholas - starting on the 5th of December, the eve of the day, by sharing candies, chocolate letters, small gifts, and riddles. Children put out their shoes filled with carrots and hay for the saint's horse the evening prior, hoping St. Nicholas will exchange them for small gifts. Source

St. Nicholas does not operate alone...

In most areas where Krampus is known, the tradition is that St. Nicholas visits children on the night of December 5 (St. Nicholas Eve) or on December 6 (St. Nicholas's Day), leaving presents much like Santa Claus in American tradition. On these visits, St. Nicholas is often accompanied by a Krampus.
In his role as St. Nicholas’s companion, Krampus's main duty is to punish or threaten naughty children while the saint rewards good ones. This can be seen as one of the many variations of the "good cop/ bad cop" or "carrot and stick" approach to managing children’s behavior - and Krampus literally wields a stick, or more commonly a bunch of birch twigs, to discipline children. If this isn't sufficient, St. Nicholas's Krampus companion often carries a basket or a sack, into which he is said to stuff naughty children to take them away and punish later at greater length. Source

Are you a well behaved Moron or are you getting a visit from Krampus this year? (Public service announcement: Do not confuse Krampus with the Wumpus. Very different.)

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Club ONT Eye-Pokers

The Old State Saloon is at it again (scroll through to see their daily specials).

Amusement park of promotions that put liberals on tilt. In September, they ran a follow up on their June Heterosexual Awesomeness Month with the Hetero Fest.

Currently, they are offering free beer for a month for anyone who helps ICE identify and deport an illegal from Idaho.

"ALERT: Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!"
When word of the deal spread online, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reacted with a gif of a dinosaur character dropping what appeared to be a beer can while it had a dumbfounded look on its face:

https://t.co/NhEdvnUJ3H pic.twitter.com/moA5zbJXjo
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 29, 2025

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Club ONT Science

Those living in colder climates know. The time has arrived.

Some sciencey reading on fuel stabilizer.

A petrol fuel stabilizer is a chemical additive formulated specifically to slow the degradation of gasoline, protect against ethanol-related issues, and keep the fuel system clean during long-term storage.
It prevents the two biggest problems in stored gasoline:
Oxidation
Ethanol moisture absorption + phase separation
Without a stabilizer, petrol can become unreliable in 30-60 days.

How about diesel? Glad you asked. Similar to the information above, but with the bonus of helping prevent gumming and microbial growth.

A diesel fuel stabilizer is a specially formulated chemical additive that slows the degradation of diesel fuel, prevents microbial growth, controls water contamination, improves lubricity, and stabilizes the fuel for long-term storage.
Diesel is more complex than petrol, so its stabilizers must address different and more severe degradation mechanisms, especially water contamination and microbial growth.

Lubricity? Marking that one to slide into a future sentence.

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Club ONT Payment Options

The Club would proudly accept Woz's funny money!

Did you know that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been using his own custom $2 bills for over 30 years?
He doesn't print the money itself, which would be illegal. Instead, he legally purchases large, uncut sheets of genuine $2 bills directly from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving… pic.twitter.com/9bFbUATZMQ
— Dr. Lemma (@DoctorLemma) December 4, 2025

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Club ONT Music

The Woz inspires tonight's tunes

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Club ONT was brought to you by: fun with meat

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NOTICE: Patrons with flatulence are welcome to utilize their vanvera while inside Club ONT. Rentals are available for those that did not bring their own. Rentals are believed to have been "cleaned" before re-use, but your mileage may vary (similar to bowling shoe or roller skate rentals).

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Comments

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1 Saturday Night already?

I'll have an egg nog with brandy, thanks.

No, no, wait, make it a hot chocolate.

No marshmallows.

Posted by: mindful webworker - don't marsh my mallow at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (yqA/D)

2 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

3 I just finished the revue

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (04Glf)

4 Is Santa humping that beer?

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:01 PM (ZjL9c)

5 2st!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:01 PM (0fIud)

6 Happy Saturday!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:01 PM (6p0Jv)

7 Is Santa humping that beer?
Posted by: GWB
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Milk and cookies finally put Santa on tilt.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (LVaYG)

8 Good evening morons and слава тройке!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (BW4I7)

9 RC Cola is fine. I'd rather get a stockingful of switches and coal than eat a Moonpie. Marshmallow and Graham cracker. Worst snacks ever. Chocolate cannot cover the multitude of this sin.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:06 PM (6p0Jv)

10 Just had an RC cola yesterday. Cashier at Dollar Tree asked me about it. Told her RC was big in the 60s and 70s. It was for those who didn't have enough money for a Coke or Pepsi. Disappeared for a while in my area. Tasted better than house brand colas.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:06 PM (uQesX)

11 FIRST … ! Okayyyyyyyy … 'kinda' …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 06, 2025 10:07 PM (ayRl+)

12 My favorite ONT of the week. Thank you Doof Dino, and Doggo! I will now show myself to the WT and peruse the content. JQ! A round if you please.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:07 PM (TfUTr)

13 ROC and a moonpie. Brings back lots of memories.
Around the parts I grew up in that was a thing.

Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (5Je/N)

14 I'll buy the Horde a round. No egg nog.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (6p0Jv)

15 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (DqJmd)

16 Can't stand marshmallow. I liked it as a kid. I also used to like coconut. Don't like it now. Anyone elses food tastes change as the get older?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:08 PM (7RYym)

17 Hey, Santa deserves a cold one. He's working hard yo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (kpS4V)

18 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (lUFok)

19 I swear I never heard of Krampus until very recently. It was never mentioned when I was small, I know (I'd have been too terrified to sleep on Dec. 5). And in all my wide reading about supernatural manifestations and beliefs in my adult life, I *never* heard of this entity until just a few years ago. Are we sure it's not a creation of Hollywood so they can have a new horror franchise? The Krampus: Naughty Is Nice (well, okay, that sounds like a pr0n title, but you get the idea)?

Krampus IV: Naughty Is Fatal!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)

20 Howdy 3Ds!

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (fveCG)

21 What, no bottles of yellow HEET by the checkout? I can’t figure out why that stuff is still sold. When fuel tanks were vented and carburetors ruled, gas line freeze ups were common. A bottle of HEET would set things right. Today fuel systems are completely closed, and most gasoline contains 10% alcohol anyhow.

Related - everyone used to carry jumper cables. If you were thinking ahead anyway. Before electronic ignition, before fuel injection, unless you kept your car in a high state of tune a subzero or below zero engine start was an iffy proposition. I haven’t needed a jump start since forever.

But I still carry jumper cables. I must be the last guy, old habits die hard.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (0fIud)

22
RC was the AMC of Colas.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (DJUFe)

23 Reckon I gotta pay a visit to Old State Saloon. It's not far down the road. And I think I would like the clientele. But. Gotta have my glowie radar set.

Being an introvert is a good thing, mostly.

Ah, hell, I'll never go. Never mind.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)

24 Saw a funny cartoon: "It's not waterboarding if you use eggnog".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (kpS4V)

25 16 Can't stand marshmallow. I liked it as a kid. I also used to like coconut. Don't like it now. Anyone elses food tastes change as the get older?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Heh. I think you and I could do a whole ONT on how time has changed taste buds. Like you, script has flipped here on many, many things too.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (LVaYG)

26 You also drop salted peanuts in an RC.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (Wmg4n)

27 Oh yes, li much prefer St. Nicholas to Santa Claus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (7RYym)

28 Can't stand marshmallow. I liked it as a kid. I also used to like coconut. Don't like it now. Anyone elses food tastes change as the get older?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yes - I'm with you with marshmallow. Also, I used to be able to eat damn near anything no matter how spicey. Blow-the-top-of-your-head-off hot was a favorite. No more. I can barely do crushed red pepper flakes on my pasta these days.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)

29 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️🎄

Surgery is scheduled for Thursday (Dec. 11th) at 2:30 pm. Prayers would be appreciated 🙏🙏🙏

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (SRRAx)

30 A cold slice of that meat clown and a bowl of Kaboom with warm reconstituted milk. Mmm mmm mmm, Christmas dinner!

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (GALGA)

31 @ 10 Just had an RC cola yesterday. Cashier at Dollar Tree asked me about it. Told her RC was big in the 60s and 70s. It was for those who didn't have enough money for a Coke or Pepsi. Disappeared for a while in my area. Tasted better than house brand colas.
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You need to visit Bell Buckle, TN … every year, this li'l town of 430 people hold the 'RC Cola & Moon Pie Festival'. The waitress at the restaurant where my daughter & I had lunch about 3 weeks ago said they get about 100K people over the course of that week. I have NO idea where they park or eat, 'cos we were there in NON-festival time and, even tho' we saw the entire town in 30 minutes or so, there just ain't that much room 'cos it's all built next to each other … but hey, MOON PIES & R-O-C Cola! Win-win every time …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (ayRl+)

32 After the first Gulf War, fizzy beverages were difficult to find as supply chains were not re-established quickly, The Embassy chow hall had an RC drink machine that dispensed tepid RC's that were flatter than Rachel Corrie. But we sure as heck drank them after working in 120-130 degree heat. I'll always have a small (tiny) place in my heart for RC because of that.

Posted by: moki at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (wLjpr)

33 RC Cola is fine. I'd rather get a stockingful of switches and coal than eat a Moonpie. Marshmallow and Graham cracker. Worst snacks ever. Chocolate cannot cover the multitude of this sin.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025

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Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 swore that RC Cola was the best soft drink, and that Skippy Super Chunk peanut butter was the best in that department.

As for the Moon Pie, maybe it was better decades ago. I had a freebie mini-pie the other night, and it was chalky and reminded me of sweetened sawdust.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (wzUl9)

34 I love egg nog but it is not popular around here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:12 PM (93/YK)

35 Will keep you in prayer, Teresa. Thanks for letting us know the date, dear

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:12 PM (7RYym)

36 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:12 PM (zZu0s)

37 Sorry I'm late:

Current Wumpus status:

✅️ Hunted

Not Hunted

(I would have been here sooner if I had the cheat codes.)

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (KDYdw)

38 I once had the RC Cola and Moonpie combo. Closest I've ever come to developing diabetes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (lUFok)

39 I used to make egg nog as a kid. The recipe was in one of my mom's cookbooks. Didn't think twice about chugging down raw egg, which now sounds terrible.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (GALGA)

40 Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:12 PM (93/YK)

Now that they have lactose free egg I can drink it again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (7RYym)

41 I find it difficult to respect a site which would include me in its top tenish comments. Very disappointing, heartbreaking even.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (ZTJjv)

42 Hey, Santa deserves a cold one. He's working hard yo.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (kpS4V)

My kids would leave me a beer and some kind of salty snack. They knew who Santa is.

We never had to sit them down and give the The Talk.

My folks didn't either. Kids are not dumb, mostly. Just play along.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (0aYVJ)

43 But I still carry jumper cables. I must be the last guy, old habits die hard.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025

***
I have a set in the Buick. Haven't used 'em in years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (wzUl9)

44
I've never like sodas. I can't stand the carbonation of the sodas.

Posted by: four seasons at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (3ek7K)

45 Reckon I gotta pay a visit to Old State Saloon. It's not far down the road. And I think I would like the clientele. But. Gotta have my glowie radar set.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy

Why can't all States be like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon...hell, Red States in general!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)

46
Can't stand marshmallow. I liked it as a kid. I also used to like coconut. Don't like it now. Anyone elses food tastes change as the get older?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I came around to admitting that there are things I don't like. My mom always offered me maaaarrrrsshhhmalloooows! as if they were something special, so I thought they were. In reality, I didn't like them. Now I don't eat them, even if they're lying around free or an option for my cocoa.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (isqj7)

47 Krampus is Metal Santa. Norwegian black metal soundtrack.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 06, 2025 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)

48 Krampus V: He's Coming For YOU

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:15 PM (wzUl9)

49 Thanks for a special holiday-ish edition of the Saturday Night ONT, Disco, Doggo and Dino!

Great Saturday night jokes! (He knows when to stop... heh)

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)

50 I made the Martha Stewart egg nog recipe one year. A fifth of bourbon was in it. I forget the other ingredients.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (6p0Jv)

51 Moonpies are an acquired taste.

Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (5Je/N)

52 Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:10 PM (LVaYG)

Yes, we probably but then we'd sound rather like old grouches😉. There was some poor poster On here recently that can't eat nuts or maybe it was raw nuts. Anyone, I could empathize with his pain.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (7RYym)

53 41 I find it difficult to respect a site which would include me in its top tenish comments. Very disappointing, heartbreaking even.
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel
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Shakes algorithm machine. Shakes clerical dep't too.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (LVaYG)

54 Surgery is scheduled for Thursday (Dec. 11th) at 2:30 pm. Prayers would be appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

Best of everything for you. Prayers and hopes for you and your family.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (TfUTr)

55 Tom Seaver was a spokesman for RC Cola and so was Meredith MacRae more than a half-century ago.

Posted by: Cola Wars at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (oftw2)

56 BBIAB. Gonna go walk the hound and look at the Christmas lights.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 10:17 PM (GALGA)

57 I remember all the contortions working people (no garage for many) had to do to get to work on a cold winter morning. Go out about an hour early on Monday morning and (hopefully) get the damn thing started, let it idle and maybe warm up a bit. Steam and exhaust rising everywhere. Alternators moaning and fan belts squeeling. Snow makes crunching noises when it’s really super cold.

The really interesting stories are the early days. Hand crank starters, women and children need not apply. It used to be common to drain the oil out and bring it in the house, and reinstall in the morning. Basically either that, or light a fire under the engine, or use charcoal under the pan all night.

Kerosene was often used for antifreeze. It works, but rubber hoses didn’t care for that too much. Alcohol was used too, but it was expensive, and loses potency over time. Glycol coolant/antifreeze aka “permanent” antifreeze was a big deal, as was the electric starter. To say nothing of power steering.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (0fIud)

58 Prayers for Teresa. God bless.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (6p0Jv)

59
Connie Stevens status: not mort

Connie Stevens is RC cola of Debbie Fishers

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (DJUFe)

60 Are we sure it's not a creation of Hollywood so they can have a new horror franchise? The Krampus: Naughty Is Nice (well, okay, that sounds like a pr0n title, but you get the idea)?

Krampus IV: Naughty Is Fatal!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)

I always thought it was that crazy history group: E Krampus Vitellius.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)

61 RC Cola was considered "bargain-brand" like Fanta. Or Faygo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (BW4I7)

62 Evening, Three D's, and ONT Horde. I think my chili may be ready. Must go sample.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)

63 The Evan Williams Egg Nog i like.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (zZu0s)

64 I carry jumper cables. You don't need 'em until you need 'em.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (Q+gd/)

65 Praying Teresa. God bless and keep you and give the surgeons wisdom throughout this procedure.

Posted by: moki at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (wLjpr)

66 DHS) reacted with a gif of a dinosaur character dropping what appeared to be a beer can while it had a dumbfounded look on its face:
Dino...this you?

Good evening all good and naughty Morons😷!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (3pxDZ)

67
First person to mention "grape knee high" gets a nut punch.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (DJUFe)

68 Orange Crush.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (Q+gd/)

69 I soooo want that eggnog!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (3pxDZ)

70 I came around to admitting that there are things I don't like. My mom always offered me maaaarrrrsshhhmalloooows! as if they were something special, so I thought they were. In reality, I didn't like them. Now I don't eat them, even if they're lying around free or an option for my cocoa.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (isqj7)

If there are mini-marshmallows hanging around when I make a cup of cocoa, I'll add a few. But only the mini ones. And I won't buy them.

Posted by: RickZ at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)

71 Kerosene was often used for antifreeze. It works, but rubber hoses didn’t care for that too much. Alcohol was used too, but it was expensive, and loses potency over time. Glycol coolant/antifreeze aka “permanent” antifreeze was a big deal, as was the electric starter. To say nothing of power steering.
Posted by: Common Tater

Dad used to thank heavens we didn't own anything with a flathead in it.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (TfUTr)

72 but hey, MOON PIES & R-O-C Cola! Win-win every time …
Posted by: Dr_No at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (ayRl+)

I'd drink the RC, but ewww. Not that mushmelon thing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:21 PM (uQesX)

73 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️🎄

Surgery is scheduled for Thursday (Dec. 11th) at 2:30 pm. Prayers would be appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 10:11 PM (SRRAx)

May every damned thing come out all right!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

74 >>Marshmallow and Graham cracker. Worst snacks ever. Chocolate cannot cover the multitude of this sin.

If you add the heat from a campfire it becomes magic.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)

75 The Flying Lizards?

The thing I remember about that band (which made the charts, btw) was that every time I heard something by them I thought to myself, "I could do that. But, I'd have to be really drunk and focused on something else at the time."

They were horrendous, and people paid to see and hear them. For the life of me I don't know why. How am I supposed to make fun of the latest generation's music if at any time they can point to "The Flying Lizards" and blow up my argument?

Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (dIske)

76 Marshmallows. I was so thankful to not have to make the disgusting sweet potato marshmallow thing this Thanksgiving.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (6p0Jv)

77 Should update the post, but I'll leave it here. Being reported that someone won the Beer For A Month thingy. He turned in a Republican rep that was allegedly hiring illegals at her farm.
https://tinyurl.com/2xx6z3tr
Link goes to Headline USA - never heard of the place.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (LVaYG)

78 Watch out tomorrow for Japanese aviators transmitting "Tora, Tora, Tora" tomorrow.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (S/Y4j)

79 RC Cola was my drink until it was bought out and the formula adulterated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:24 PM (04Glf)

80 December 6, 1917 is the day that the Mont Blanc, a cargo ship carrying explosives bound for the fighting in Europe, collided with another ship, sparking a fire.

Fires are not good on a ship loaded with TNT.

The resulting blast was the largest man-made explosion ever, until the Trinity nuclear test in 1945.

This song tells the story:

https://youtu.be/T_5PHU7vQu4

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:24 PM (KDYdw)

81 First person to mention "grape knee high" gets a nut punch.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025

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We had one here, a local soft drink called Big Shot. A Coca-Cola wannabe. We also had Rex Root Beer, a competitor to (or maybe a sub-brand of) Barq's. Barq's was a bit tart, Rex was sweeter.

On a road trip to MS in the early '70s, we saw a brand called Sunrise. Someone quipped, "Drink that stuff and you'll never see another sunrise!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9)

82 66 DHS reacted with a gif of a dinosaur character dropping what appeared to be a beer can while it had a dumbfounded look on its face:
Dino...this you?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM
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Nope. That's Earl Sinclair.

I would never drop a beer.

Posted by: TRex - beer is our friend at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ITBpd)

83 The American Santa Claus, as well as the British Father Christmas, derive from Saint Nicholas.
Note that there was no Santa Claus, nor even much Christmas at all, in America (at least in the states originally planted by Protestant Religious Dissenters) before the Germans and such came. The Religious Dissenters were all pretty iconoclastic and didn't do "saints" or feast days, except Easter. It was considered idolatry or pretty adjacent thereto.

The Germans (and the Nordic folks) brought "Santa Klaus" and things like the Christmas tree to America. Americans seemed to actually think that was pretty cool, and made it their own.

I think all except the most Grinchy of Christian denominations now accepts that celebrating Jesus' birth is almost as important as celebrating His death and resurrection. Of course, a lot of Americans (including a lot of Christians) have forgotten that's what is being celebrated at Christmas. (And most have forgotten it's supposed to be celebrated from Christmas to Epiphany, with the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas being Advent, when you are celebrating looking forward to Jesus coming, instead of already here.)

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ZjL9c)

84 ***If you're talking about RC Cola, you better grab a Moon Pie!
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Brother Dave, is that you?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (04Glf)

85 I swear I never heard of Krampus until very recently.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)
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Unless you're of Alpine German descent, you wouldn't have. Back in high school, we learned about Krampusnacht and various other folklore that was annihilated in this country when German language newspapers and culture were banned by Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (ZOv7s)

86 RC Cola was considered "bargain-brand" like Fanta. Or Faygo.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:19 PM (BW4I7)

Yeah, if you didn't have enough pocket change for Coke, you got RC. Isn't Fanta a German creation?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (uQesX)

87 f you add the heat from a campfire it becomes magic.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)

Marshmallows toasted on a stick over an open fire are awesome. Bonus points if you get them nice and brown, without setting them on fire.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)

88 "Prevents deposits" - so it could work on arterial plaque?
"Removes water" - and it's a diuretic?!
Sounds like a Moron self-help liquid!

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (ZjL9c)

89 Beer for a month. LOLz I do hope, though , that the saloon doesn't get vandalized . I did notice today that there is a bar about 30 minutes from me that has a Gasden flag outside their establishment . I like it

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (7RYym)

90 Note that there was no Santa Claus, nor even much Christmas at all, in America (at least in the states originally planted by Protestant Religious Dissenters) before the Germans and such came.

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ZjL9c)
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Celebrating Christmas was illegal under the Puritans.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (ZOv7s)

91 Marshmallow and Graham cracker. Worst snacks ever. Chocolate cannot cover the multitude of this sin.

If you add the heat from a campfire it becomes magic.

Posted by: JackStraw

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I usually dig your posts, but no thanks to the graham crackers and marshmallows, sir. To each their own.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (6p0Jv)

92 Good evening Horde. Thanks for being here.

Enjoy your time in Club ONT, especially if your table is wobbly.

Extra prayers for Teresa!

Posted by: TRex - Das or Der or Die Krampas? at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (ITBpd)

93
remember "Za-Rex" the syrup?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (DJUFe)

94 Surprised no Morons mentioned St. Nicholas was also famous for socking Arius right in the kisser at the Council of Nicea.

Santa Claus kicking some heretic ass.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (ZOv7s)

95 But I still carry jumper cables. I must be the last guy, old habits die hard.

Probably since a good lithium battery jump kit is the same price as sturdy jumper cables and takes up far less room in the vehicle.

The Bonus is that you don't need someone friendly nearby who has the time and ability to help.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)

96 Unless you're of Alpine German descent, you wouldn't have. Back in high school, we learned about Krampusnacht and various other folklore that was annihilated in this country when German language newspapers and culture were banned by Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025

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Oddly, I *am* of German stock (Alpine? Not sure) on my father's side. But he never talked about that or much at all about his family. So I see why I wouldn't have heard of Krampus.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)

97 The "Pop Shop" "Great tasting sodas for only a nickel!"

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (TfUTr)

98 Not the Mama

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (pkeXY)

99 Marshmallows toasted on a stick over an open fire are awesome. Bonus points if you get them nice and brown, without setting them on fire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
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When we make s'mores, I'd just eat graham crackers and chocolate. Cooking marshmallows added nothing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)

100 Why would you ruin good chocolate with marshmallow? I have never understood this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (93/YK)

101
At this exact moment...84 years ago...

the Germans got the okay from FDR & Henry Ford to bomb Pearl Harbor

Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky WWII ConspiracyTheories at December 06, 2025 10:31 PM (DJUFe)

102 First person to mention "grape knee high" gets a nut punch.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 10:20 PM (DJUFe)
* * * *
Ha! Used to love grape Nehi!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:31 PM (kB9dk)

103 97 The "Pop Shop" "Great tasting sodas for only a nickel!"
Posted by: Some Rat
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My man. Off Sprague & Bowdish...I think.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:31 PM (LVaYG)

104 >>Marshmallows toasted on a stick over an open fire are awesome. Bonus points if you get them nice and brown, without setting them on fire.

Proper marshmallow toasting is an art form.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)

105 Rained last week, time to cut the grass again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (04Glf)

106 Celebrating Christmas was illegal under the Puritans.

Especially since according to John's Revelation, our LORD was born on what would be today's calendar equivalent of September 11th, 2BC some where around 6:15 PM Standard Jerusalem Time.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (a4flb)

107 Prayers continue, Teresa! Everything will be just fine. You are in His good hands!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (kB9dk)

108
...and Joe Kennedy

Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky WWII ConspiracyTheories at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (DJUFe)

109 I once had the RC Cola and Moonpie combo. Closest I've ever come to developing diabetes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (lUFok)

Rookie move. Shoulda gone with the double decker moon pie!

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (nB1L/)

110 Oddly, I *am* of German stock (Alpine? Not sure) on my father's side. But he never talked about that or much at all about his family. So I see why I wouldn't have heard of Krampus.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)
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My great-grandparents spoke fluent German, but under cultural pressure, refused to teach it to their children because it was the language of the enemy.

Long about 1943, my grandfather thought: "Gosh, I wished they'd have taught it to me. Would sure be useful guarding all these German PoWs!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (ZOv7s)

111 Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ZjL9c)

I am reading a book now for Advent and Christmas which is called "Jesus Listens" with spiritual reflections and Bible quotes. It is by Saran Young who wrote a ton of books ( I haven't read any but this And who died several year ago which also has lovely sweet illustrations mostly of animals in the snow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (7RYym)

112
Dang if ain't foggy here, pea soup. Temp is 33F, and RH is 100%. However, it isn't cloudy above, and I can see the Moon, Jupiter, Orion, and Sirius, and a couple three or four other bright ones.

The rain gauge on the weather station tripped .01" due to the fog condensation. That's how foggy it is.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (w6EFb)

113 I keep a charged up battery jump device in the car at all times. Also has a useful light built in.

Posted by: Semper Paratus at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (oftw2)

114 Nehi Grape Cola is the best. Orange not so much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (04Glf)

115 Especially since according to John's Revelation, our LORD was born on what would be today's calendar equivalent of September 11th, 2BC some where around 6:15 PM Standard Jerusalem Time.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:32 PM (a4flb)
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No, it was because they were pricks. Joyless scolds. Even the Dutch couldn't put up with their shit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (ZOv7s)

116 41 I find it difficult to respect a site which would include me in its top tenish comments. Very disappointing, heartbreaking even.
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 06, 2025 10:13 PM (ZTJjv)

How do you think the rest of us feel?

But, truly, great comment. We're all expecting big things from you in the future.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:34 PM (KDYdw)

117 It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7BC.

Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC at December 06, 2025 10:35 PM (oftw2)

118
I keep a charged up battery jump device in the car at all times. Also has a useful light built in.
Posted by: Semper Paratus

How often do you have to charge it up?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 10:35 PM (pkeXY)

119 My man. Off Sprague & Bowdish...I think.
Posted by: scampydog

Sounds about right...somewhere in the depths of Sainted Mothers domicile, there is a Pop Shop crate. My family throws NOTHING away.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

120 >>When we make s'mores, I'd just eat graham crackers and chocolate. Cooking marshmallows added nothing.

Not everyone is gifted with good taste buds.

I will pray for you.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)

121 113 I keep a charged up battery jump device in the car at all times. Also has a useful light built in.
Posted by: Semper Paratus at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (oftw2)

me too

Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:37 PM (gbOdA)

122 98 Not the Mama

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM
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Gold star. Well done.

Posted by: TRex - working the vanvera rental counter dino at December 06, 2025 10:37 PM (ITBpd)

123 Are we sure it's not a creation of Hollywood so they can have a new horror franchise?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (wzUl9)

I wonder if it didn't come to America with the other Germanic traditions because of the (mostly Calvinist) Protestant bent of much of America? They would definitely look askance at any celebration involving a demon or other representation of evil.

(Oh, how so much has changed.)

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:37 PM (ZjL9c)

124 A delightful Krampusnacht song for all.

https://tinyurl.com/yh527fy2

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:38 PM (6p0Jv)

125 The Meat Clowns was the name of my high school garage band.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 10:39 PM (R86kT)

126 The brand is deserving of some Horde slogans and taglines:

"RC Cola, the red-headed step-child of Colas."

"Pour yourself a Royal Crown mixed with Crown Royal because if that's what you're drinking there's no one else there to pour it for you."

Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)

127 Marshmallows toasted on a stick over an open fire are awesome. Bonus points if you get them nice and brown, without setting them on fire.

Proper marshmallow toasting is an art form.
Posted by: JackStraw

Set the marshmallows on fire, they burn out, consume.
That's the way it was, it's the way it will always be.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (TfUTr)

128 114 Nehi Grape Cola is the best. Orange not so much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (04Glf)

My mom had a sad story she was sent down the road to get Orange but she got Grape.
She was about 6 and her mom was quite upset.

Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (gbOdA)

129 I had a poster of the RC Cola girl on a skateboard.

Posted by: vin at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (cC0M+)

130 Wooo, what a day.

Got your orders, Some Rat & BarelyScaryMary... coming up!

And an extra round -- on me, 'cause late!

Happy Caturday, all!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (rdVOm)

131 As a boy I tried Dr. Pepper. Once. Years later I had it described to me as "carbonated prune juice," and I have to think that was on the money. (Yes, I know Lt. Worf considers it a "warrior's drink.")

The other big treat disappointment of my kidhood was a new flavor of Life Savers. They used to have more than just Pep-O-Mint, Spear-O-Mint, and Wint-O-Green. I was on a (heh) roll, trying them all . . . until I hit Clove. That ended my experiments in candy for a while. I don't recall now what it tasted like, but I know my ten-year-old taste buds Did Not Like It.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)

132 No, it was because they were pricks. Joyless scolds. Even the Dutch couldn't put up with their shit.

I suppose that it is the vulgar explanation, but Puritans were committed to the Regulative Principle of Worship and Roman Catholic Tradition, tied to a liturgical calendar and Papal authority was outside explicit commands in Scripture to be part of Worship.

I'm guessing that the Saturnalia tie-in, the Observation of Days (rather than Sabbath) and the usual bacchanalian atmosphere made the 25th of December too pagan for their tastes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (a4flb)

133 But I still carry jumper cables. I must be the last guy, old habits die hard.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 PM (0fIud)

Nope. I carry them, too. Saved my kid's bacon once or twice, as well as mine. (I did learn the hard way that the amount of electricity flowing through a jumper cable can melt thick rubber. Do NOT cross the wires when jumping!)

However, I am considering tossing them for a jumpstart device. Because it can also serve as an emergency device for pumping up your tires and recharging your phone (if your car itself is broke).

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (ZjL9c)

134 Santa and Dutch Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDD8Y3IJrg

Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (gbOdA)

135 Did someone say grape nehi soda?

Posted by: Radar O'Riley at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (ITBpd)

136 This Indiana - Ohio State game is really entertaining.

No matter how hard they try to ruin college football this has been a day of really good games.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (viF8m)

137 I keep a charged up battery jump device in the car at all times. Also has a useful light built in.
Posted by: Semper Paratus at December 06, 2025

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What are these things called, and where can you buy one?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

138 Campfire in the back yard, which is on 6 acres and isolated. Night has fallen, stars shine brightly overhead. Roasting marshmallows for s'mores.

Perfection.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (kB9dk)

139 In his role as St. Nicholas’s companion, Krampus's main duty is to punish or threaten naughty children while the saint rewards good ones.

It used to be that Krampus coming to punish the naughty children was for those parts of Germany where providing a beat-down on your punk-ass nephews was considered a valuable family value.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (rbvCR)

140 78 Watch out tomorrow for Japanese aviators transmitting "Tora, Tora, Tora" tomorrow.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 06, 2025 10:23 PM (S/Y4j)

Or an attack on Gaza with callsign “Torah, Torah, Torah!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (c7Ygk)

141 It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7BC.
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC

Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)

142 83 And most have forgotten it's supposed to be celebrated from Christmas to Epiphany,
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:25 PM (ZjL9c)

That's where we get the 12 Days of Christmas.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:42 PM (KDYdw)

143 Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (rdVOm)
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JQ, looking like next Saturday for the Club ONT Christmas Party!

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:43 PM (LVaYG)

144 RC Cola wasn't that bad. I say "wasn't" because I've literally not had one in the last 30 years.

Perhaps if RC had hit the "Diet RC Cola" with a big ad-spend back in the day, they'd be in a different place.

Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:43 PM (Cjcf6)

145 Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025

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Because, like a certain other public figure, He has it locked away?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:43 PM (wzUl9)

146 Here's a tiny peek at the back area, look past the end of bar. There's a room around the corner, where the wobbly table resides:

tinyurl.com/5n97kfzw

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (rdVOm)

147 It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7BC.
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC

Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate? It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7BC.
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC

Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate?

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Liberals say we can do that for air travel, but not for voting purposes.

Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)

148 Any of you guys ever drink Moxie? We used to say it was made from roots and dirt.

Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (dIske)

149 I suppose that it is the vulgar explanation, but Puritans were committed to the Regulative Principle of Worship and Roman Catholic Tradition, tied to a liturgical calendar and Papal authority was outside explicit commands in Scripture to be part of Worship.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (a4flb)
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They were so obnoxious that literally no one in Europe could put up with them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (ZOv7s)

150 Why can't all States be like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon...hell, Red States in general!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)

It's the people. It's always the people who screw it up for everyone else.

Also, great hash, though I can't come up with any fun meanings at the moment.

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (ZjL9c)

151 Everybody is late. I have a great excuse though. I was taking photographs of salmon dressed up in women's clothes. I tell you it was like shooting fish in apparel.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (CDX35)

152 JQ, the Club ONT Christmas decorations are totally fabulous!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (6p0Jv)

153 After the first Gulf War, fizzy beverages were difficult to find as supply chains were not re-established quickly,

While running around doing things in Kabul during the fun years, I mentioned to my 'terp that I would like a can of Monster and for $20US he returned with a case of it the next day.

You can't even get it in the US for anywhere near that price.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (a4flb)

154 Dany Okeefe best version of Goodtime Charlie

Posted by: E knievel at December 06, 2025 10:46 PM (gbOdA)

155 There is the Finnish movie, Rare Exports, which is about the Krampus legend.

"In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus."

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 10:46 PM (rbvCR)

156 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2025 10:46 PM (gbOdA)

157 Liberals say we can do that for air travel, but not for voting purposes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)
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Liberals think its perfectly fine to restrict your rights to do anything at all without a shot record, but voter ID is discriminatory.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:47 PM (ZOv7s)

158 Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate?

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Liberals say we can do that for air travel, but not for voting purposes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)

Jesus had it easy
All his words were in RED.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2025 10:47 PM (gbOdA)

159 I made the Martha Stewart egg nog recipe one year. A fifth of bourbon was in it. I ~~forget~~ don't care about the other ingredients.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (6p0Jv)

FIFY.

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:47 PM (ZjL9c)

160 They were so obnoxious that literally no one in Europe could put up with them.

Rome found pretty much anyone who didn't prostrate themselves before the Pope as worthy of torture and death.

I guess that is that culture's idea of "obnoxious". Now the Pope is in love with the death cult Islam.

Maybe if the Puritans sawed off a few heads and killed scores of people in crowds, they wouldn't have been run off.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (a4flb)

161 138 Campfire in the back yard, which is on 6 acres and isolated. Night has fallen, stars shine brightly overhead. Roasting marshmallows for s'mores.

Perfection.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM
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Excellent! Enjoy!

Posted by: TRex - just past full moon dino at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (ITBpd)

162 Any of you guys ever drink Moxie? We used to say it was made from roots and dirt.

Posted by: Orson

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It is a root beer beloved by Maine-iacs? No. I have not partook. But I've liked the Maine-iacs I've known.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (6p0Jv)

163 105 Rained last week, time to cut the grass again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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You live at the equator? Negative 12 here tonight.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (LVaYG)

164 If you add the heat from a campfire it becomes magic.

Posted by: JackStraw

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I usually dig your posts, but no thanks to the graham crackers and marshmallows, sir. To each their own.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:28 PM (6p0Jv)

My campfire smore recipe includes a schmear of peanut butter. Keeps the Hershey bar in place. To that you add one perfectly toasted marshmallow. Press the top graham cracker on to the assembled ingredients and chase it down with a couple fingers of Jack Daniels..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 10:49 PM (nbLIj)

165 Eating mushmelon is like having a mouth full of phlegm.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:49 PM (uQesX)

166 117 It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7BC.
Posted by: Herod Died 4 BC at December 06, 2025 10:35 PM (oftw2)

Not sure of the day, but the year seems about right. The monk who determined year zero was off by a few, but he was close, for the time period.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 10:49 PM (6Bc88)

167 Babylon Bee has remake of Blackhawk Down filmed in Minneapolis.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2025 10:50 PM (gbOdA)

168 I like the non-alcoholic eggnogs you can get in the cartons at Aldi and Walmart. They should be available at other times.

(It would, I know, if I made it myself)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:50 PM (wzUl9)

169 JQ, looking like next Saturday for the Club ONT Christmas Party!
Posted by: scampydog
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Awesome!!!

I've been decorating the beer garden out back, but only have this "before" pic:

https://tinyurl.com/dexehamt

No worries, I've added colored lights too. Need to keep those big white lights, so our guests can still see where they're going, LOL

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

170 What are these things called, and where can you buy one?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:41 PM (wzUl9)

Booster packs, or something like that. Commonly look like a yellow lunchbox with a pair of booster cable clamps on short leads attached to the ends. Amazon, Harbor Freight, Walmart, and any auto supply store, and big-box stores. They are everywhere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)

171 >> The monk who determined year zero was off by a few, but he was close, for the time period.

And he probably adjusted it so that leap years were exact multiples of 4, without a vexing offset.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

172 Rome found pretty much anyone who didn't prostrate themselves before the Pope as worthy of torture and death.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (a4flb)
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They were kicked to the curb by Protestants. Rome had nothing to do with it. The English kicked them out, so they went to the Dutch, who were Calvinists but got tired of their shit and sent them back. The English strongly encouraged them to get on a slow boat to nowhere, which is how they ended up here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (ZOv7s)

173 Could we just not fight over Puritans again and make generalizatios because they chose not to celebrate Christmas ? Jonathan Edward's who was the most prolific religious writer in America and a Puritan and is only known for writing "Sinners In The Hand of An Angry God" because that all the @&# public school used to teach.
had a great appreciation for the love of God and nature and what he wrote about his wife is beautiful

I am for tonight . I hate religious arguments here

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (lQ+/f)

174 Campfire in the back yard, which is on 6 acres and isolated. Night has fallen, stars shine brightly overhead. Roasting marshmallows for s'mores.

Perfection.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient
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Sounds like heaven on a clear night!
I need to build a firepit area in my yard...

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (rdVOm)

175 I was on a (heh) roll, trying them all . . . until I hit Clove. That ended my experiments in candy for a while. I don't recall now what it tasted like, but I know my ten-year-old taste buds Did Not Like It.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)

So, how do you feel about clove cigarettes?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:52 PM (uQesX)

176 50 I made the Martha Stewart egg nog recipe one year. A fifth of bourbon was in it. I forget the other ingredients.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (6p0Jv)

I made Alton Brown's eggnog - a lot of alcohol - delicious!

Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (bOJ2I)

177 151 Everybody is late. I have a great excuse though. I was taking photographs of salmon dressed up in women's clothes. I tell you it was like shooting fish in apparel.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (CDX35)

Very nice.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (KDYdw)

178 Farking windy out there, and not letting up. People in Palmer and Wasilla are posting things like, "If your shed is missing, I think it is in my back yard."

Wings blown off light planes, trees down across roads, roofs blown off several places in Wasilla, including Settler's Bay Lodge, which is my go-to fancy dinner place, about 10 miles up the road. Closed until further notice.

Walmart lost some roof too. I don't go there, so no loss.

Ruby paced all night, miserable since it sounds like Armageddon out there when it is over 20 mph. She DOES NOT LIKE. I didn't really notice, but then, I sleep through earthquakes.

So far we are intact and have power, but I have a fire in the wood stove just in case.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (6Bc88)

179 The Evan Williams Egg Nog i like.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Do those have the booze already in them.

I saw an old lady driving one of the grocery store scooters tap into one right out of the cooler... Glug glug glug ..
... and scooter on down the aisle.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 10:53 PM (/lPRQ)

180 Before they overplayed the crap out of it and all the Super Band bullshit of the 70s started this was a fun song. And Lyndsey Buckingham could play.

I have no idea why Mick Fleetwood was wearing his laundry on his head.

https://tinyurl.com/3yn4ze4c

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (viF8m)

181 It was pointed out to us that the 3 wise men in a nativity scene are not Biblical since they probably didn't arrive until Jesus was a few years old.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (VCgbV)

182 Birth certificate? The courthouse burned down.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (YlWIZ)

183 Saint Nick was a Catholic bishop. There ain't no Mrs. Claus.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (W7XSX)

184 My campfire smore recipe includes a schmear of peanut butter. Keeps the Hershey bar in place. To that you add one perfectly toasted marshmallow. Press the top graham cracker on to the assembled ingredients and chase it down with a couple fingers of Jack Daniels..

Posted by: Joe Kidd

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Jack Daniel's is the only thing that would make s'mores tasty.
I've never made them. Would rather skip the preliminaries. Graham Crackers and marshmallows take up pack weight.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (6p0Jv)

185 Surprised no Morons mentioned St. Nicholas was also famous for socking Arius right in the kisser at the Council of Nicea.

Santa Claus kicking some heretic ass.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:29 PM (ZOv7s)

Thanks for the reminder!

Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (ZjL9c)

186 RC cost the same as the other brand names where I lived.
I'm five states over now and they still cost the same as the other colas.

Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (5Je/N)

187
All the theories about the birthdate of Jesus are quite interesting. Also just what the Star of Bethlehem could've been. There are theories there. There was a striking, very close conjunction of Jupiter and Venus near Regulus in June of 2BC. That led to one theory of Jesus birth as in spring of 2BC. But that would have been in the western sky at sunset, not in the east.

There are some others and if interested, it's fascinating. But none of them can account for all the properties ascribed to the Star.

Herod's death is widely considered to be 4BC, but that is disputed, could've been as late as 1BC.

Anyway, the consensus is 6 - 4BC.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (w6EFb)

188 Oh yes. One more thing: Jonathan Edwards on his future wife:

https://tinyurl.com/53hb7uhs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (lQ+/f)

189 It was pointed out to us that the 3 wise men in a nativity scene are not Biblical since they probably didn't arrive until Jesus was a few years old.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (VCgbV)
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You're not supposed to add them until Epiphany. Set them on the other side of the room and have them creep towards the Nativity.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)

190 Booster packs, or something like that. Commonly look like a yellow lunchbox with a pair of booster cable clamps on short leads attached to the ends. Amazon, Harbor Freight, Walmart, and any auto supply store, and big-box stores. They are everywhere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025

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You charge them at home via USB, I guess? Is there any risk of them starting a fire in your car when not in use?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)

191 Here's what I call the "lunch counter" area of the Club. Just white lights there:

https://tinyurl.com/2rmbd9xf

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)

192 Tomorrow is the day when travon sakamoto wants to bomb pearl bailey.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (CDX35)

193 Everybody is late. I have a great excuse though. I was taking photographs of salmon dressed up in women's clothes. I tell you it was like shooting fish in apparel.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (CDX35)

Why were you wearing women's clothes?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (uQesX)

194 Well, the chili is good enough that I will have another bowl. Then put the leftovers in the fridge. Or put it outside for ten minutes to chill in the sub-zero air. Less work for the fridge to do.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)

195 It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7BC.

That is a stretch. Herod's death plus a few years. It was Josephus who noted that Herod died shortly after a lunar eclipse before Passover. So those who like Josephus' reckoning in March/April BCE.

It is my expert opinion that anyone using BCE is a liar and can't be trusted with any theological or biblical historical questions because their motives are to foster distrust of Scripture rather than to pursue Truth.

But since no one's salvation is contingent on the exact date, I really don't care what people want to believe.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (a4flb)

196 By the time the 3 wise men showed up, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus were in a house.

Look it up.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:57 PM (W7XSX)

197 181 It was pointed out to us that the 3 wise men in a nativity scene are not Biblical since they probably didn't arrive until Jesus was a few years old.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:54 PM (VCgbV)

Next you’ll tell me that there wasn’t any snow on the ground. Killjoy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 10:57 PM (c7Ygk)

198 Tomorrow is the day when travon sakamoto wants to bomb pearl bailey.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (CDX35)

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Lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (6p0Jv)

199 I was on a (heh) roll, trying them all . . . until I hit Clove. That ended my experiments in candy for a while. I don't recall now what it tasted like, but I know my ten-year-old taste buds Did Not Like It.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025
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So, how do you feel about clove cigarettes?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025

***
I dated a hot girl in the Eighties (she looked like the young Janet Jackson) who smoked 'em now and then. Does that count?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)

200 99 Marshmallows toasted on a stick over an open fire are awesome. Bonus points if you get them nice and brown, without setting them on fire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
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When we make s'mores, I'd just eat graham crackers and chocolate. Cooking marshmallows added nothing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:30 PM (ZOv7s)

I want to make Christmas s'mores with Gingerbread Peeps. Don't you think that would be cool?

Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (bOJ2I)

201 LOL, you think the Blessed Virgin Mary didn't remember her Son's birthdate?

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (W7XSX)

202 Oh yes. One more thing: Jonathan Edwards on his future wife:

https://tinyurl.com/53hb7uhs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (lQ+/f)
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Streaming series pitch: Outlander but instead of going to Scotland, she goes to New England and is romanced by Jonathan Edwards-type dude. Use actual letters and quotes to make the Christians swoon. Gold, Jerry, pure gold!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (ZOv7s)

203 I am back. Doof made me work after the SEC Championship and won’t even pay me overtime!

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (Wmg4n)

204 By the time the 3 wise men showed up, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus were in a house.

Look it up.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025

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No shortage of affordable houses? I guess Blackrock wasn't buying up everything in sight yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

205 Rome found pretty much anyone who didn't prostrate themselves before the Pope as worthy of torture and death.

I guess that is that culture's idea of "obnoxious". Now the Pope is in love with the death cult Islam.

Maybe if the Puritans sawed off a few heads and killed scores of people in crowds, they wouldn't have been run off.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:48 PM (a4flb)

Rome had nothing whatsoever to do with the Puritans. England had been Protestant for years before they showed up.

The Puritans were buzz-kills. No dancing, no booze, no colors, no music, no nothing.

Catholics, on the other hand, brew beer, have plenty of music and art, believe that God is the author of beauty and deserves the best, and party at the drop of a hat.

The Popes come and go, and some of them are quite worthy of a trip to hell. They do stupid stuff, but none of that is particularly Catholic. The only thing the Pope can do infallibly is speak ex-Cathedra, which means he speaks of doctrine and is guided by God to speak the truth AT THAT MOMENT. That hasn't happened since 1950. Otherwise, he is just as much an idiot as any other person.

YMMV.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (6Bc88)

206 It was pointed out to us that the 3 wise men in a nativity scene are not Biblical since they probably didn't arrive until Jesus was a few years old.

Wasn't the practical aspect of the gift of gold part of the plan to underwrite the family's escape to Egypt because of Herod's desire to kill all the male infants in that area?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (a4flb)

207 (ZOv7s)

I want to make Christmas s'mores with Gingerbread Peeps. Don't you think that would be cool?
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025

The sugar just burns. We tried it with snowmen.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)

208 I am back. Doof made me work after the SEC Championship and won’t even pay me overtime!
Posted by: Piper
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You missed some Moon Pie blasphemy in the comments.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (LVaYG)

209 "Prevents deposits" - so it could work on arterial plaque?
"Removes water" - and it's a diuretic?!
Sounds like a Moron self-help liquid!
Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:27 PM (ZjL9c)

Try looking into Nattokinase instead

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

210 I want to make Christmas s'mores with Gingerbread Peeps. Don't you think that would be cool?
Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 10:59 PM (bOJ2I)
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Our Christmas tradition is bourbon balls. We use Maker's Mark.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)

211 You charge them at home via USB, I guess? Is there any risk of them starting a fire in your car when not in use?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)

I think mostly they have their own on-board charger. Many probably have a USB port so you can charge cellphone. Some may have an inverter built in, so you can get 120 volts AC out of them (for a while). Jacks of all trades; depends on how fancy you want. I'm a car guy, and I don't own one. Have several sets of good (heavy copper) jumper cables. And usually one or more spare batteries to jump with.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:03 PM (npFr7)

212 I dated a hot girl in the Eighties (she looked like the young Janet Jackson) who smoked 'em now and then. Does that count?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

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Good Times Janet Jackson, Diff-rent Strokes Janet Jackson or Nasty Janet Jackson? Asking for lurkers, I'm guessing

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:03 PM (6p0Jv)

213 Next you’ll tell me that there wasn’t any snow on the ground. Killjoy.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And that drummer-boy nonsense!! I call bs!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:03 PM (cYBz/)

214 I dated a hot girl in the Eighties (she looked like the young Janet Jackson) who smoked 'em now and then. Does that count?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)

Did she always Ham it up?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 11:04 PM (uQesX)

215 203 I am back. Doof made me work after the SEC Championship and won’t even pay me overtime!
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (Wmg4n)

Do we need to get HR involved?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:04 PM (KDYdw)

216 Wow.

Come on Indiana.

Three words I never thought I would say in a sentence.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:04 PM (viF8m)

217 183 Saint Nick was a Catholic bishop. There ain't no Mrs. Claus.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 10:55 PM (W7XSX)

I had a couple of homeschool kids in my RE classes for First Communion prep. At Christmas, one of the little dudes pointed at a yard decoration and said, full of indignation, "Who IS that WOMAN!!"

Hilarious.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (6Bc88)

218 204 No shortage of affordable houses? I guess Blackrock wasn't buying up everything in sight yet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

Joseph was a carpenter, he probably built his own.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (KDYdw)

219 I am back. Doof made me work after the SEC Championship and won’t even pay me overtime!
Posted by: Piper
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Disco is a *slave driver!* Didja see the mess of tangled lights he threw on the bar for me, the other night? UGH! Good thing I'd already bought some new ones out of Petty Cash and put them up already...

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)

220 I am back. Doof made me work after the SEC Championship and won’t even pay me overtime!
Posted by: Piper

For you folks in SEC land, is the Championship game like a double time day?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (TfUTr)

221 Balthasar was in Ben Hur.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (pkeXY)

222 A.H. Lloyd - your comment reminded me that my mother used to make bourbon balls every Christmas, but she hasn't done so in ages (and couldn't do so now, anyway). I should dig through her kitchen and find the recipe.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (GALGA)

223 Man, this snifter of brandy is lasting forever. I think I poured out 90 minutes ago. Still a little left, but then to bed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (ZOv7s)

224 They were so obnoxious that literally no one in Europe could put up with them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 10:45 PM (ZOv7s)

Politically they were associated with Oliver Cromwell, and they despised the Church of England for cultural as well as doctrinal reasons. So when the Monarchy was restored and the CofE was given back its primacy in Great Britain, they fell very out of favor.

Their problem with the rest of Europe was that they had taken a very anti-monarchial position, and no monarchy (all of Europe except the Dutch at the time) was going to let them in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (c7Ygk)

225 I dated a hot girl in the Eighties (she looked like the young Janet Jackson) who smoked 'em now and then. Does that count?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

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Good Times Janet Jackson, Diff-rent Strokes Janet Jackson or Nasty Janet Jackson? Asking for lurkers, I'm guessing
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025

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Circa 1987, so whichever one that was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (wzUl9)

226 JQ, is that Elf on the Shelf I sent working? Nothing helps the Morons much. I hoped it would help your efforts.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (6p0Jv)

227
For you folks in SEC land, is the Championship game like a double time day?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:05

Triple and a 1/2 - holiday pay. Also, GO DAWGS!

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (Wmg4n)

228 198 Tomorrow is the day when travon sakamoto wants to bomb pearl bailey.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (CDX35)

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Lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 10:58 PM (6p0Jv)

My sister's kids were born on December 7 and September 11. We call them the disaster kids.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (6Bc88)

229 Balthasar was in Ben Hur.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (pkeXY)
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Played by the same actor who was St. Peter in "Quo Vadis."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (ZOv7s)

230 There are some interesting devices out there, the size of a pack of smokes and able to jump start a Diesel. Yeah, I’d be leery too, though no horror stories of fires.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (xtYJY)

231 Joseph was a carpenter, he probably built his own.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (KDYdw)

I wonder how readily available lumber was in Bethlehem in those days? I'd have figured adobe to be the most common building material?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)

232 16 -- Fenelon -- It's age, the gift that keeps on giving. My late mother-in-law spent the last twenty-some years of her life complaining that nothing tasted the way it used to taste, and I would snicker to myself. Well, as they say, Karma is a bitch. Nothing tastes right to me any more. On the positive side, I've lost weight and a couple of sizes in the past few years.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 06, 2025 11:08 PM (DK5Sh)

233 I keep a charged up battery jump device in the car at all times. Also has a useful light built in.
Posted by: Semper Paratus

How often do you have to charge it up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Wire it in to the cars electrical system to keep it charged. Then take it the next step so if your battery died it will already be wired in and will sense automatically to give you a jump.
It will be just carrying a spare battery in case you need a jump but less work...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)

234 Elf on the Shelf has been stuffed back in its box for ClubONT. The guys were complaining about it being over the urinal...

What happens here, *stays* here!

It'll be back in place, on top of the cash register, in the morning.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (rdVOm)

235 No shortage of affordable houses? I guess Blackrock wasn't buying up everything in sight yet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025
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Joseph was a carpenter, he probably built his own.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025

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Ah. Buy some land and you're good to start. No need to deal with RealtorNazareth dot com.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (wzUl9)

236 221 Balthasar was in Ben Hur.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (pkeXY)

Catholic tradition means we mark the lintel over the front door with chalk with B+M+C and the year. Balthasar, Melchoir, and Caspar, as if they visit for Epiphany and bless the house. It's a cute tradition but a nice reminder.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (6Bc88)

237 A.H. Lloyd - your comment reminded me that my mother used to make bourbon balls every Christmas, but she hasn't done so in ages (and couldn't do so now, anyway). I should dig through her kitchen and find the recipe.
Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:05 PM (GALGA)
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They are wonderful, and make great gifts. Pack up a half-dozen and people will thank you...a couple of days after they get them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:09 PM (ZOv7s)

238 JQ,
If the Club ONT Christmas party is next week, I'll bring some trays of Christmas cookies. Let me know if you have any favorites I should include...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (ITBpd)

239 Thanks anyway, BarelyScaryMary!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

240
Wasn't the practical aspect of the gift of gold part of the plan to underwrite the family's escape to Egypt because of Herod's desire to kill all the male infants in that area?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Actually it was all the male children 2 and under.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (VCgbV)

241 I wonder how readily available lumber was in Bethlehem in those days? I'd have figured adobe to be the most common building material?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025

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Cedars from Lebanon, perhaps? In that case, Jesus grew up in a really great-smelling house!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (wzUl9)

242 Circa 1987, so whichever one that was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

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That was Control album Janet.
"Miss Jackson if you're nasty."
Fun times

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:10 PM (6p0Jv)

243 Bourbon balls? (clutches groin)

Posted by: zombie Louis XVI at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (npFr7)

244 ...Let me know if you have any favorites I should include...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Oh, how thoughtful! ALL cookies are good cookies, thank you!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (rdVOm)

245 "People are pretending to work, and many are in the early stages of convincing themselves they will "begin eating healthy tomorrow" - which means Monday, or later. The Club does not endorse such ideas of slimming and trimming over the holiday season."

Just finished a three day fast. Never done it before. Feel great.

Posted by: Sam Adams at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (X+xvk)

246 England had been Protestant for years before they showed up.

The Puritans were buzz-kills. No dancing, no booze, no colors, no music, no nothing.

Anglicans have a "via media" identity, somewhere between Rome and Reformed. They liked the episcopal structure, the liturgy and sacraments but didn't consider Papal Authority and Holy Tradition to be equal to Scripture. (there was also the Justification by Faith thing too)

Anglicans, like Rome, liked to torture and persecute non conformists (because that is what Christ would do). England was really getting to suck in general and I think that with news of the New World a Covenant Vision materialized and they felt called to create a "city upon a hill".

That vision turned into the United States, so I believe it was of Divine intervention that the Puritans were driven out, leaving the demonic spirits behind in Europe long enough to establish a foothold and foundation for a God fearing society - something impossible to do in Europe then, now and in the future.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (a4flb)

247 Also, I need to find a source for good pfeffernusse cookies. I want them to be coated in powdered sugar, not icing, and not too heavy on the licorice flavor. Trader Joe's used to carry a decent version, but they quit a couple years ago (bastards!).

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (GALGA)

248 You charge them at home via USB, I guess? Is there any risk of them starting a fire in your car when not in use?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)

I think mostly they have their own on-board charger. Many probably have a USB port so you can charge cellphone. Some may have an inverter built in, so you can get 120 volts AC out of them (for a while). Jacks of all trades; depends on how fancy you want. I'm a car guy, and I don't own one. Have several sets of good (heavy copper) jumper cables. And usually one or more spare batteries to jump with.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I had the "Cat" version...really handy if you have various battery dependent equipment around the place. Lasted about 6 years before it stopped taking a charge.
(had 12dc,120ac out, usb, light)

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (TfUTr)

249 Holy shnit.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:12 PM (viF8m)

250 I wonder how readily available lumber was in Bethlehem in those days? I'd have figured adobe to be the most common building material?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)

You are probably correct.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 06, 2025 11:12 PM (KDYdw)

251 206 It was pointed out to us that the 3 wise men in a nativity scene are not Biblical since they probably didn't arrive until Jesus was a few years old.

Wasn't the practical aspect of the gift of gold part of the plan to underwrite the family's escape to Egypt because of Herod's desire to kill all the male infants in that area?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

God's provision. Yes.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:12 PM (DqJmd)

252
Puritans didn't celebrate Christmas?

Were they Jews, or something?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Wacky WWII ConspiracyTheories at December 06, 2025 11:13 PM (OsagP)

253 Elf on the Shelf has been stuffed back in its box for ClubONT. The guys were complaining about it being over the urinal...

What happens here, *stays* here!

It'll be back in place, on top of the cash register, in the morning.

Posted by: JQ

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The world is their urinal, JQ. It is the way of the world.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:13 PM (6p0Jv)

254 249 Holy shnit.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Yup. Protect the ball, Indiana.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:13 PM (LVaYG)

255 219 I am back. Doof made me work after the SEC Championship and won’t even pay me overtime!
Posted by: Piper
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Disco is a *slave driver!* Didja see the mess of tangled lights he threw on the bar for me, the other night? UGH! Good thing I'd already bought some new ones out of Petty Cash and put them up already...
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:0

Did he complain they were white and not colored lights?

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (Wmg4n)

256 Anglicans, like Rome, liked to torture and persecute non conformists (because that is what Christ would do).

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (a4flb)
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Catholicism was banned in Protestant countries. It went both ways.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (ZOv7s)

257 @166.-It can be shown from the Bible that Christ was born on October 1, 7 BC.

Christ is a Libra?

Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (5Je/N)

258 ---
No, it was because they were pricks. Joyless scolds. Even the Dutch couldn't put up with their shit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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They believed that married couple should have sex often.
That it was righteous and healthy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (04Glf)

259
That historic fact I mentioned yesterday is 100% true.

The Colonists started the tradition of candles in the windows so's the neighbors didn't think they were Papists!

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (OsagP)

260 I wonder how readily available lumber was in Bethlehem in those days? I'd have figured adobe to be the most common building material?

Given that the area was two thousand years closer to The Flood and subsequent Ice Age that covered Europe and definitely providing a very different climate in Palestine, there is also evidence that the Dead Sea was once connected to the Mediterranean Sea which would have further altered the climate and make far more sense to the Hebrews at the time of the Exodus to enter in to a land "flowing with milk and honey".

It isn't the desert wilderness that we see today.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (a4flb)

261 When I was overseas with XH, the base radio station hosted a fundraiser. Pledge & they would play your song.

Somebody (LOL, wasn't me but I know who did it) pledged $100-- a small fortune in 1983-- for them to play Flying Lizards' Money for AN HOUR.

Yes, they did it. LMAO.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

262 S'pose it's time I headed off to bed. Tomorrow I plan to work out, have breakfast, and do some writing. It's just noodling around with ideas at this point . . .but it's amazing how things can come cranking out when you sit down and type away whatever comes to mind.

Book Thread too! Woo-hoo!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (wzUl9)

263 Guess I'm the only one watching UVA beat themselves in the ACC Championship. On the bright side, if Duke holds on, James Madison U will be in the BCS playoffs!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (DqJmd)

264
Well, I think 100% true. My details might be a bit off on account I caught some senility from being around You People.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (OsagP)

265 Good thing I'd already bought some new ones out of Petty Cash and put them up already...
Posted by: JQ
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Did you turn in the receipt? That damned accounting department, they've been on my ass again.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (LVaYG)

266 That vision turned into the United States, so I believe it was of Divine intervention that the Puritans were driven out, leaving the demonic spirits behind in Europe long enough to establish a foothold and foundation for a God fearing society - something impossible to do in Europe then, now and in the future.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 PM (a4flb)

So, your opinion is that both Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism is of "demonic spirits?" And yet, from whence came the Bible, the Trinity, and the rest of the trappings of Protestantism? Is it all demonic? Just asking, since you seem to think this is the case.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (6Bc88)

267 OUT with the Baptists!!

_Massachusetts

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (04Glf)

268 Man, this snifter of brandy is lasting forever. I think I poured out 90 minutes ago. Still a little left, but then to bed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:06 PM (ZOv7s)

You are not supposed to fill it to the brim.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (rbvCR)

269 Well, my lurking time has come to an end.
Good night pals.
Many prayers to TiFW🙏

"I’ll sleep when I’m rich… or right now, because I’m tired.”

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (3pxDZ)

270
For "joyless scolds," those Puritans sure did fornicate a lot. Like, all the time, a lot.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)

271 They believed that married couple should have sex often.
That it was righteous and healthy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:15 PM (04Glf)

That is the Catholic position as well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (6Bc88)

272 Piper will get paid at time and a half her normal rate.

Multicolor lights only in the Club!

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (QMAsf)

273
And I don't believe for a minute it was always "missionary."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (OsagP)

274 >>Yup. Protect the ball, Indiana.

I've seen enough to know this kid has the brains and talent to be a good NFL QB. And also the Jets will never draft him.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (viF8m)

275 258 ---
No, it was because they were pricks. Joyless scolds. Even the Dutch couldn't put up with their shit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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They believed that married couple should have sex often.
That it was righteous and healthy.

Posted by: Braenyard

And when they got to the New World, they had many many children. But sure, the Pilgrims hated sex. Whatever.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (DqJmd)

276 That is the Catholic position as well.

Which, of course, is the same as in town.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:18 PM (GALGA)

277 Did you turn in the receipt? That damned accounting department, they've been on my ass again.
Posted by: scampydog
************
I think that goes back to the dragon you requested....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (ITBpd)

278 You are not supposed to fill it to the brim.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (rbvCR)
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If I did that, I would be incapable of typing. Or conscious.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (ZOv7s)

279 Multicolor lights only in the Club!
Posted by: Doof
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*Adds to agenda item to the Monday D's meeting*

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (LVaYG)

280 Some are much better at rebuke than at acceptance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (04Glf)

281 Did he complain they were white and not colored lights?
Posted by: Piper

No, because I put colored lights over the Main Bar and the fireplace area.

There are no pictures available of those areas, because photos just can't capture the ambience ya know?

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:19 PM (rdVOm)

282 The Colonists started the tradition of candles in the windows so's the neighbors didn't think they were Papists!

And here I thought it was a concept borrowed from France to act as street lighting.

There is an interesting history of street lighting and candles in the windows were local ordinances due to the darkness and crime that took place without lighting. (circa 1667 Paris and London sometime late 1600s)

The wealthy didn't like the hassle of messing with candles through the night and such helped advance the technology of gas lighting.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (a4flb)

283 The climate was probably better in the Roman Optimum in Judaea than it became during the later Roman Empire when everything started to suck (it sucked hardest for the Jews given they, uh, lost some wars).
The issue with vegetation around the eastern Med is that a lot of it was chopped down. They didn't have oil or natural gas electricity then. No vegetation then led to erosion, making difficult for new growth.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (gKWVE)

284
Not to mention some of those so-called Puritans were marrying teenagers.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (OsagP)

285 The sugar just burns. We tried it with snowmen.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)

^^Oh no! The dream dies...

Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (bOJ2I)

286 For "joyless scolds," those Puritans sure did fornicate a lot. Like, all the time, a lot.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)
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I forget I'm dealing with Morons, who think the *only* joy is fornication.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (ZOv7s)

287 For "joyless scolds," those Puritans sure did fornicate a lot. Like, all the time, a lot.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)

They did their courting in bed. Called it bundling.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (uQesX)

288 When I was overseas with XH, the base radio station hosted a fundraiser. Pledge & they would play your song.

Somebody (LOL, wasn't me but I know who did it) pledged $100-- a small fortune in 1983-- for them to play Flying Lizards' Money for AN HOUR.

Yes, they did it. LMAO.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)

Epic! I'd buy that person a beverage or 3.

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (QMAsf)

289 , unless you kept your car in a high state of tune a subzero or below zero engine start was an iffy proposition.

In the late 80s early 90s, the Ford fuel injection was scary. If a GM wouldn't catch and it flooded, if you held the pedal to the floor it would clear. Not with the Fords. You had one shot and then the only way to fix it was plug replacement. Whenever it got really cold the dealer lot would fill up with cars and we had gravy work all day

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (3/XaG)

290 Christ is a Libra?

Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 11:14 PM (5Je/N)

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The people who like me seem to be Libras. I don't believe in that astrological crap. And if I'm socially awkward, ok. But I pray Jesus thinks I'm loveable .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (6p0Jv)

291 ---
Our Christmas tradition is bourbon balls. We use Maker's Mark.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:02 PM (ZOv7s)

Hmmm might have to consider.

Posted by: Iris at December 06, 2025 11:21 PM (bOJ2I)

292 I think that goes back to the dragon you requested....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Heh. The dragon, it resides on the dresser. Just biding its time.

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:22 PM (LVaYG)

293
We know there's other joys in life.

Right, fellows?

There's....ah...um...you know, other stuff. Plenty of stuff.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (OsagP)

294 DOOF!!! You saw all those colored lights!!!

Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!

So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.

We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

295 ...and the snifter is empty. Good night!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (ZOv7s)

296 279 Multicolor lights only in the Club!
Posted by: Doof

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My decor is safe.
*wipes brow*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (6p0Jv)

297 Posted by: GWB at December 06, 2025 10:40 PM (ZjL9c)
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I have the Dewalt one and like it. I charge it 1x/month and have used every feature on it except the alternator-check.

Posted by: 496 at December 06, 2025 11:24 PM (7MeQV)

298 Epic! I'd buy that person a beverage or 3.
Posted by: Doof
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His first name is Alex, active duty sailor at the time. He moonlighted as a punk-rock DJ at the base clubs. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:24 PM (rdVOm)

299 And the buckeyes lose. Go Hoosiers.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 11:25 PM (2NHgQ)

300 It's Kirk vs Gorn on MeTV!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:25 PM (pkeXY)

301 Fantastic.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:25 PM (viF8m)

302 How 'bout dem Hoosiers.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (zdLoL)

303 DOOF!!! You saw all those colored lights!!!

Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!

So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.

We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

Put the white lights in the ladies room then. Keep that boring stuff where I don't have to see it!

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (QMAsf)

304 Indiana!!!!

Posted by: scampydog at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (LVaYG)

305 (jumps on bandwagon)

Go HOOSIERS!!!

(looks for exit...)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (DqJmd)

306 "Without a stabilizer, petrol can become unreliable in 30-60 days."

Just today I started my log splitter without adding gas, no stabilizer, after about a year, started right up. But it did get non-ethanol fuel.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (vbXSk)

307 Wasn't raised in the church. My first time relating to the Bible and reality was a Video program done on the Prophets by Fr. Mitch Pachwa. Not to long ago, driving and looking for an interesting radio station I came across a Catholic channel. Thought great, maybe I'll learn something, this could be interesting.

What a disappointment. All the Catholics did, the whole program, was talk about how and why the Protestants were wrong and they were right. What a put off it is to hear.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (04Glf)

308 The issue with vegetation around the eastern Med is that a lot of it was chopped down. They didn't have oil or natural gas electricity then. No vegetation then led to erosion, making difficult for new growth.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:20 PM (gKWVE)

I watched a fascinating program a few years back about Alexander’s incursion deep into Asia, and it made the surprising claim was that it was made easier because Alexander’s army could ride on ships most of the way. They backed the theory up with evidence that the Caspian Sea was at least a third larger than we've ever seen in modern times, and that many rivers that have been dry for a millennia were deep flowing rivers in Alexander’s time, not to mention dozens of lakes that are now dry.
They made a very good case that all of Central Asia was far, far wetter than we see today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:27 PM (c7Ygk)

309 So, your opinion is that both Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism is of "demonic spirits?" And yet, from whence came the Bible, the Trinity, and the rest of the trappings of Protestantism? Is it all demonic? Just asking, since you seem to think this is the case

European religions are similar in nature to Islam and other socio-culture-religions, where participation in the religion is mandatory otherwise a person is ostracized and is harmed in various ways.

So there is far more likely a chance of a person in the cultural religion to not be regenerated and thus live as carnal creatures. This is why a Mafioso can gun down some competitor in the street on the way to Mass and there not be a conflict.

Protestant faiths subscribe to the Doctrines of Grace, all of the Elect is regenerated and takes on a spirit made alive. This is not true in State Religions. Though you can have truly saved people like Thomas Aquinas while you have Popes that are burning in Hell.

So yes, demons love infiltrating State Religions and boy howdy is there a lot of evidence to the depraved wicked ness that was State Religion sanctioned.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (a4flb)

310 My BFF is from Indiana I'll go with Hoosiers, except I think she went to Purdue

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (6p0Jv)

311 Ethanol is hydrophilic, it keeps water from collecting in you gas tank.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (04Glf)

312 My BFF is from Indiana I'll go with Hoosiers, except I think she went to Purdue
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (6p0Jv)

Ball State

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:29 PM (QMAsf)

313 Ethanol is hydrophilic, that's why you want the water for your ice to be pure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:30 PM (04Glf)

314 DOOF!!! You saw all those colored lights!!!

Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!

So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.

We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

Tell me you put up more than four light? More than five?

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 06, 2025 11:30 PM (S/Y4j)

315 "And the buckeyes lose. Go Hoosiers."

First time for Hoosiers to win Big 10 since 1945?, if I heard that right. hard to believe.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:31 PM (vbXSk)

316 293
We know there's other joys in life.

Right, fellows?

There's....ah...um...you know, other stuff. Plenty of stuff.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (OsagP)

Like model trains?

Posted by: guy with a model train stuck in his rectum at December 06, 2025 11:31 PM (MIvVV)

317 It's Kirk vs Gorn on MeTV!
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Yes it is. Kirk could have just run circles around him until he weakened.

Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 11:31 PM (Cjcf6)

318 They made a very good case that all of Central Asia was far, far wetter than we see today.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I believe it for the Aral Sea. Central Asia got very, very good at retaining water for the Silk Road cities. Especially during the Islamic era.
All that water going to feed crops wasn't flowing into the big lakes. The Aral, the Urmia, the Van are all drying out now. Probably then too.
Caspian on the other hand I dunno. There weren't major cities around that one.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (gKWVE)

319 DOOF!!! You saw all those colored lights!!!

Dang it, some areas need a little more illumination. Safety reasons. **Liability** reasons!

So I put white lights AS WELL AS colored ones.

We're inclusive here at The Club. *sniff*
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)

Put the white lights in the ladies room then. Keep that boring stuff where I don't have to see it!
Posted by: Doof

Kids! We all like our Club ONT to be George Bailys Martinis, let's not bicker and turn it into Nicks version....

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (TfUTr)

320 Ethanol is hydrophilic, it keeps water from collecting in you gas tank.
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(cough)

Hydrophilic refers to its good solubility in water (due to polar nature), while hygroscopic describes its tendency to attract and hold water vapor from the atmosphere, essentially "self-contaminating" by becoming diluted over time if exposed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (XeU6L)

321 Hate to say it, but I miss MisHum's Zappa videos. Not a fan, but I guess I should seek them out on my own.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2025 11:34 PM (CHHv1)

322
Like model trains?
Posted by: guy with a model train stuck in his rectum

Yeah, I guess.
And ham radios.

Mowing the lawn.
Changing the oil in the car.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:34 PM (OsagP)

323 There's....ah...um...you know, other stuff. Plenty of stuff.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:23 PM (OsagP)

Like model trains?
Posted by: guy with a model train stuck in his rectum

HO, HO, HO.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (TfUTr)

324 Caspian was once a monster sea, almost an ocean, during the early Holocene. "Great Khvalynian", they call it.
But not during Alexander's time.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (gKWVE)

325 There's at least 3000 colored lights up, Doof.

I'll unplug the white ones, but they're too mixed up with the colored strings to remove.

Besides, they help me at clean-up time. Can you at least grant that?

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)

326 Kids! We all like our Club ONT to be George Bailys Martinis, let's not bicker and turn it into Nicks version....
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM

I had to throw a record I painted at him earlier. He is out of control.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:36 PM (Wmg4n)

327 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:28 PM (a4flb)
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Well said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:36 PM (04Glf)

328 There is nothing better than watching a beaten down long shot finally earning their day. And when their best player first gives heartfelt thanks to God it's all good.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (viF8m)

329 For "joyless scolds," those Puritans sure did fornicate a lot. Like, all the time, a lot.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 06, 2025 11:17 PM (OsagP)

They did their courting in bed. Called it bundling.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Engaged meant joined at the hips.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)

330 Well, we've reached the point in the thread where people are talking about keestering objects, so I'm going to bow out. See you weirdos on the book thread.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (GALGA)

331 Interesting. They now have jump starter packs powered by ultracapacitors. The ultracapacitors can deliver a powerful jolt of current for a few seconds, even in sub-zero temperatures. They also have a small on-board lithium battery to charge the ultracapacitors. Trickle current into the ultracaps for a few minutes, or few hours, then it can come out in a huge surge to crank a dead engine.

Posted by: zombie Louis XVI at December 06, 2025 11:37 PM (npFr7)

332 There's at least 3000 colored lights up, Doof.

I'll unplug the white ones, but they're too mixed up with the colored strings to remove.

Besides, they help me at clean-up time. Can you at least grant that?
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:35 PM (rdVOm)

Acceptable option. As long as they are far outnumbered by the colorful ones!

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:38 PM (QMAsf)

333 This one's for you, Doof!

https://youtu.be/uRo426va26I

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:39 PM (rdVOm)

334 There are no pictures available of those areas, because photos just can't capture the ambience ya know?
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:19

I don’t think it’s the ambience so much as it’s a little blinding. 😂

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:40 PM (OoFl2)

335 This one's for you, Doof!

https://youtu.be/uRo426va26I
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:39 PM (rdVOm)

Love it - thanks!

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (QMAsf)

336 Cream Soda was decadent. Can't remember who made(s) it

Posted by: javems at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (8I4hW)

337 Ethanol is hydrophilic, it keeps water from collecting in you gas tank.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025

***
With the "winter" dampness here, it might be a good idea if I put 1/4 to 1/2 ethanol gas in my tank along with the E0.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (wzUl9)

338 https://youtu.be/uRo426va26I
Posted by: JQ

What in the hell was that?!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (TfUTr)

339 I had to throw a record I painted at him earlier. He is out of control.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:36 PM (Wmg4n)

I probably deserved it

Posted by: Doof at December 06, 2025 11:43 PM (QMAsf)

340 What a disappointment. All the Catholics did, the whole program, was talk about how and why the Protestants were wrong and they were right. What a put off it is to hear.

Wait until you introduce Eastern Orthodox doctrines. In the general realm of "Christianity" you have the wild west of Evangelicals on one side, and Eastern Orthodox on the other, with Rome closer to the Orthodox and Reformed between Rome and Evangelicals.

The Soteriology, doctrines of Justification, Sanctification, Eschatology and what it means to be in the Church are wildly different, with Evangelicals with the Prescient Election views (aka Free Will), Rome and EO looking at variations of synergism; Evangelicals see heaven in purely materialistic terms while EO sees afterlife in terms of Theosis.

There will always be discord because the underlying theological templates, the syncretization of cultures and hermeneutics are wildly different.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:44 PM (a4flb)

341 Ethanol is hydrophilic, it keeps water from collecting in you gas tank.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025

Till it evaporates....then all that water in suspension...isn't.
Which is why I don't use wd40.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:45 PM (TfUTr)

342 Janet was okay, but Vanity was THE *Nasty Girl*

https://youtu.be/0aQndRqi3jE

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)

343 The Virginia receiver stepped out of bounds before he caught that pass.

Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 11:46 PM (Cjcf6)

344 Canada Dry Cream Soda?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 11:46 PM (04Glf)

345 Woot! Virginia ties it up!! 20-20. Looks like OT is coming up!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:46 PM (DqJmd)

346 343: They ruled he got pushed out by the DB.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 11:47 PM (DqJmd)

347 Faygo Cream Soda ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 11:47 PM (/lPRQ)

348 Freak-a-Zoid. Good tune,JQ!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:47 PM (6p0Jv)

349 You know who else was out of bounds?

Posted by: Department of Schicklegruber Studies at December 06, 2025 11:48 PM (MIvVV)

350 Just today I started my log splitter without adding gas, no stabilizer, after about a year, started right up. But it did get non-ethanol fuel.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:26 PM (vbXSk)

I had to fire up my ancient Coleman generator last night, because power went out. Took the fuel cap off, and there was some nasty-smelling gas at the bottom of the tank. Filled it brim-full with fresh gas, and it started, briefly, on the second pull of the starting rope ( the kind you wrap around the cup, not a recoil). Third pull, no go. Fourth pull, I gave a little shot of go juice in the carb, and it started, and stayed running, and ran well, until the carb screws rattled loose and it began sucking air. Re-tightened them, it started again one one pull, and ran fine for an hour.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 11:48 PM (npFr7)

351

Big Red

The big red drink that'll tickle you pink

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:50 PM (pkeXY)

352 Janet was okay, but Vanity was THE *Nasty Girl*

https://youtu.be/0aQndRqi3jE
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025

***
Wasn't Vanity involved with Prince at one point? I've never been a fan of his music (though he was a good songwriter), but his taste in girlfriends was impeccable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:50 PM (wzUl9)

353 What in the hell was that?!
Posted by: Some Rat
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Something between disco and motown.. electronic dance? I don't know.. but it sounded good at the time, LOL.

Isn't it a bit early for Christmas tunes? Don't want to get burned-out on them YET.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)

354 336 Cream Soda was decadent. Can't remember who made(s) it
Posted by: javems at December 06, 2025 11:42 PM (8I4hW)

IBC Cream Soda is the best!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:52 PM (c7Ygk)

355 Wasn't Vanity involved with Prince at one point? I've never been a fan of his music (though he was a good songwriter), but his taste in girlfriends was impeccable.
Posted by: Wolfus
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Yes, I believe she was. (RIP, Vanity and Prince)

Prince definitely had good taste.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 11:53 PM (rdVOm)

356 >> Caspian was once a monster sea, almost an ocean,

Thanks, very interesting and I'm now going to be reading that geological history of that. Fascinating.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)

357 Big Red

The big red drink that'll tickle you pink

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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I moved to TX 30 years ago. I love this place. Tried a Big Red. Once. I just couldn't.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 11:54 PM (6p0Jv)

358 It's Kirk vs Gorn on MeTV!
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Yes it is. Kirk could have just run circles around him until he weakened.
Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025

***
Maybe. But Kirk had no idea how much stamina a Gorn had, or how much water he needed. The planetoid did not not look temperate and didn't seem to have surface water. He himself could have died of thirst before the Gorn did.

I love stories where the hero uses a trick, esp. a fact of nature or science, to defeat his enemy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 11:54 PM (wzUl9)

359 Isn't it a bit early for Christmas tunes? Don't want to get burned-out on them YET.
Posted by: JQ

Heh, day after Thanksgiving a couple radio station here start playing Christmas music. My radio does not leave those stations till they stop.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 11:54 PM (TfUTr)

360 I had to fire up my ancient Coleman generator last night, because power went out. Took the fuel cap off, and there was some nasty-smelling gas at the bottom of the tank.

If it was anyone else I would say that they broke the rule of emergency generators, and that they should be the most reliable engines around and should be run frequently to ensure proper function.

There there is you, which could unearth a contraption buried since the early Roman era, in the dark and cold figure out how it works, quickly fashion makeshift parts to replace the original parts that failed, and get it running continuously.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:55 PM (a4flb)

361 Okay, all that robot dancing made me tired. Off to bed! Nightsie noodles!

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 11:58 PM (Wmg4n)

362
And now, some Sydney Sweeney:

https://is.gd/klTpQd

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 06, 2025 11:58 PM (w6EFb)

363 Pop Shop was mentioned way above. Seemed like that place had 30 kinds of pop. You could build your own case.

Posted by: mot at December 06, 2025 11:59 PM (fIPNY)

364 On that log splitter I always cut off the gas supply and let it run dry, every time I use it. That seems helpful.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 11:59 PM (vbXSk)

365 The Jethro Tull Christmas album is my favorite. Hubby hates Christmas. He'll at least kind of listen to this one.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:02 AM (6p0Jv)

366 All that water going to feed crops wasn't flowing into the big lakes. The Aral, the Urmia, the Van are all drying out now. Probably then too.
Caspian on the other hand I dunno. There weren't major cities around that one.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 06, 2025 11:33 PM (gKWVE)

One haunting image especially stayed in my mind; a picture of the ruins of what was once large city, now just extensive piles of rubble and brick, on land in the edge of a 200’ high cliff. Nothing green anywhere, just rubble and dust to the horizon in any direction.
Yet there was no cliff when the city was built; it was built on the banks of a large deep lake, where the spice road came through, and traders could water their camels and rest in luxury.
The past, it was a different place.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 07, 2025 12:03 AM (c7Ygk)

367 On that log splitter I always cut off the gas supply and let it run dry, every time I use it. That seems helpful.
Posted by: illiniwek

I put fuel shut offs on all the yard equipment. Run 'em dry at shut down. It definitely helps.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 07, 2025 12:03 AM (TfUTr)

368 Catholic tradition means we mark the lintel over the front door with chalk with B+M+C and the year. Balthasar, Melchoir, and Caspar, as if they visit for Epiphany and bless the house. It's a cute tradition but a nice reminder.
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We did this as well, but using Latin, Christus mansionem benedicat, which is translated as “Christ, bless this house (mansion)”. And we would write it like: 20 + C+M+B + 25.

This is a nice site that details this custom: https://tinyurl.com/582zmev4

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:04 AM (La8zG)

369
Yet there was no cliff when the city was built; it was built on the banks of a large deep lake, where the spice road came through, and traders could water their camels and rest in luxury.
The past, it was a different place.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Midnight at the Oasis

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:05 AM (pkeXY)

370 If it was anyone else I would say that they broke the rule of emergency generators, and that they should be the most reliable engines around and should be run frequently to ensure proper function.

There there is you, which could unearth a contraption buried since the early Roman era, in the dark and cold figure out how it works, quickly fashion makeshift parts to replace the original parts that failed, and get it running continuously.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:55 PM (a4flb)

You are right, I neglected it. Bad Peon, no donut! But it was stored indoors, in a shop with radiant floor heating. So I had a toasty warm place to work on it, and ample light from an LED hand lantern that kicks out like a hundred-watt light bulb. So I got it going inside, nice and warm, then dragged the running generator two yards out onto the apron after raising the bay door. Once it was running steady, I pulled the pole switch, disconnecting my buildings from the utility line, and kicked in the breaker for the welding outlet that the generator was plugged into. And lights came on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2025 12:05 AM (npFr7)

371 >>>There there is you, which could unearth a contraption buried since the early Roman era, in the dark and cold figure out how it works, quickly fashion makeshift parts to replace the original parts that failed, and get it running continuously.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Speaking of: Recently someone posted a clip of a Toyota Land Cruiser that was wrecked then washed out to sea, rolling in the surf was cleaned up and started. Then they really started abusing it. Last scene it was placed atop a building to be demolished, blew up the building, retrieved the Toy and ... yes they got it running. End of clip they set it alight.

clip 2

Oxygen bottles (full) in the back of a Ford Explorer? Shot the bottles w/ 50cal tracers setting off the bottles which blew up and went alight along with the Ford. After they put the fire out, yep, it started.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:06 AM (04Glf)

372 I parked & tarped the riding mower and tow-behind sweeper today, while it was sunny and dry outside.

Did the same thing last year, without running it until carb empty.. no fuel cut-off (I need to remedy that).. but started up no problem this Spring.

Non-ethanol gasoline. No 'sta-bil' or other additive. Of course, it's only parked for about 3 months. First mow will usually be ~mid-March.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

373 362
And now, some Sydney Sweeney:

https://is.gd/klTpQd
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Favorite Sweeney is her burning down that gotcha' interviewer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:11 AM (04Glf)

374
You can't keep pouring in gas station gas and not expect your Carb to gum up on things you use infrequently.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:13 AM (OsagP)

375 >>The past, it was a different place.

Pangea says hi.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 07, 2025 12:13 AM (viF8m)

376 Movie idea: "Bamboo Love" about Ryan Lizza's surprise (even to him) love-by-proxy affair with such political luminaries as RFK Jr. and Mark Sanford (of Appalachian Trail fame), via Olivia Nuzzi, the ground underneath whom their love was spread like the roots of bamboo grass. It could touch on everything from the nihilistic amorality of secular culture to the same exact thing through a different lens -- such as intimacy, celebrity, politics, and news -- as if that makes it different.

And with a bonus homoerotic subtext to banging the same ho as another dude!

Posted by: SciVo at December 07, 2025 12:14 AM (Sy6m/)

377 Fuel stabilizer is a good idea. I probably did put some in the old Coleman last time I ran it.

I plan to service the generator. Replace carb and manifold mounting screws, and Loctite them in. Maybe rig a brace to the bottom of the intake elbow to give carb added support. Change oil. Take end bell off generator, and try to find why one leg of the split 240 is flaky. I suspect a bad solder joint on one of the panel fuses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2025 12:16 AM (npFr7)

378 What a disappointment. All the Catholics did, the whole program, was talk about how and why the Protestants were wrong and they were right. What a put off it is to hear.
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Sorry to hear this. I think it is always more beneficial to talk about truths than to bash other ideologies.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:16 AM (La8zG)

379 "Did the same thing last year, without running it until carb empty.. no fuel cut-off (I need to remedy that).. but started up no problem this Spring."

I saw "Chickanic" (youtube channel) say it was better to leave a heavy oil mix in the carb for longer term storage. Keeps it oiled or something. idk ... dry has worked over the last 8 years or so for me.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 07, 2025 12:17 AM (vbXSk)

380 I haven't been around much recently. This club is shaping up quite nicely. Love the lights and the ambiance. 😊

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:18 AM (La8zG)

381 JQ, I humbly suggest a song for the Club ONT Christmas Party

https://tinyurl.com/4kbmhfbb

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:18 AM (6p0Jv)

382
I think she was talking about 2-strokes.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:19 AM (OsagP)

383 380 I haven't been around much recently. This club is shaping up quite nicely. Love the lights and the ambiance. 😊
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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You should come around more often. And for the season there's been a lot of decorating going on.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:22 AM (04Glf)

384 I will be trying something new over the next few days. My brother butchered a cow and I asked for the fat. I now have 2 five gallon buckets of fat from which I will attempt to rend tallow. Anyone have experience with this? It doesn't look too difficult. If it all goes well and I want an additional challenge, I will attempt to make candles with the tallow as well.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (La8zG)

385 Why should Idahoans get special treatment? We have more illegals in Colorado. I don’t drink, so maybe a cash prize or a state tax refund.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (tRYqg)

386 Money is what I want.

Great lyrics

Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (YGRGv)

387

Ford CEO Jim Farley Says Fuel Economy Standards Were 'Totally Out Of Touch'

Farley said during an appearance on Fox News. "We are forced to sell EVs and other vehicles...we're not going back to gas guzzlers, we have a lot of EVs and a lot of hybrids at Ford. But now customers get a chance to buy what they want, not what we force on them."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:25 AM (pkeXY)

388 You should come around more often. And for the season there's been a lot of decorating going on.
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Thanks Braenyard. How have you been?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:26 AM (La8zG)

389 It's an incendiary round not a tracer.
Here's the shot, oxygen bottle blowing up the Ford.

youtu.be/2tX06z2h3YY?t=793

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:31 AM (04Glf)

390 https://tinyurl.com/4kbmhfbb
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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It's on my playlist now! Thanks!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

391 With the "winter" dampness here, it might be a good idea if I put 1/4 to 1/2 ethanol gas in my tank along with the E0.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Our small engine repair guy told us to never use ethanol in small engines. I've read boat motor mfrs void warranties if you use ethanol gas.
I don't use it for anything but vehicles.

Posted by: MkY at December 07, 2025 12:34 AM (q6tQZ)

392 Colored light pic (see it Doof?!)

https://tinyurl.com/2x5w3aym

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

393
Heh, day after Thanksgiving a couple radio station here start playing Christmas music. My radio does not leave those stations till they stop.
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I think I've mentioned before that after Thanksgiving I start listening to Handel's Messiah. I came across this song today, featuring a singer from Trinidad. Beautiful voice! And she is pleased with her performance, beautiful smile at the end.
https://tinyurl.com/296dvahb

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (La8zG)

394 >>>we're not going back to gas guzzlers, we have a lot of EVs and a lot of hybrids at Ford. But now customers get a chance to buy what they want, not what we force on them."
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That sounds confused.
Customers can buy what they want as long as it's tiny engines or EVs and hybrids. Farley's the same guy that pushed the Lightening isn't he?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (04Glf)

395 Okay, now that I'm looking at the content...

Is it just me, or was anyone else disappointed to realize the "TopPop" and similar shows are fake? They are not live performances. They are like music videos, adding a new visual on top of the separately recorded and mixed production audio. But they don't present themselves that way. What a gyp!

Posted by: SciVo at December 07, 2025 12:35 AM (Sy6m/)

396 How have you been?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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It's been smooth this season.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:36 AM (04Glf)

397 385 Why should Idahoans get special treatment? We have more illegals in Colorado. I don’t drink, so maybe a cash prize or a state tax refund.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at December 07, 2025 12:24 AM (tRYqg)

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TX here. I don't want a f'kin prize. I want the illegals and cartel gone. I am tired of the trash and the crime. It looks like a Mexican trailer park here. No bueno.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:36 AM (6p0Jv)

398 Why should Idahoans get special treatment? We have more illegals in Colorado. I don’t drink, so maybe a cash prize or a state tax refund.
Posted by: Norrin Radd
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It's an Idaho bar what's sponsoring it. That's why.

Tell your local Colorado establishments to Get With The Program!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:36 AM (rdVOm)

399
1. CEO Farley never said a peep before. Craven.

2. Ford is "out of touch" with the stupid trucks they build.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:41 AM (+J1QL)

400 https://youtu.be/LsUm_5jHhJ4

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)

401 I am heading in for the night, but the seemingly rash decision to move to Idaho has been the best rash decision we have ever made. Even better than the rash decision we made to move to Colorado 30 years ago, when CO was still a great state.

So, I guess the same thing could happen here, but, well...

I trust in the Lord.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 07, 2025 12:43 AM (0aYVJ)

402
Does the World have enough Lithium to support the ever-growing demand?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 07, 2025 12:45 AM (+J1QL)

403 It's been smooth this season.
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😊

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:48 AM (La8zG)

404 Good night pug, Can't go wrong, putting trust in God!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:50 AM (La8zG)

405 https://youtu.be/GOzi-gD7-ts

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)

406 Killing a Toyota Part 1 | Top Gear | BBC
Sep 28, 2010
Jeremy Clarkson puts Toyota's claim that their Hilux pick-up is virtually indestructible to the ultimate test. Top Gear series 3,

youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:52 AM (04Glf)

407 Does the World have enough Lithium to support the ever-growing demand?

Ha. But will lithium enable logical thinking?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 12:53 AM (La8zG)

408 Online mags are saying that Toyota can't build a $20K HiLux in the US. I hope they are proven wrong.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 12:54 AM (04Glf)

409 JQ, the Merle Haggard tune is appreciated...

Waylon will have a word.

.https://tinyurl.com/yeyr6nhm

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 12:55 AM (6p0Jv)

410 Ford CEO Jim Farley Says Fuel Economy Standards Were 'Totally Out Of Touch'

Farley said during an appearance on Fox News. "We are forced to sell EVs and other vehicles...we're not going back to gas guzzlers, we have a lot of EVs and a lot of hybrids at Ford. But now customers get a chance to buy what they want, not what we force on them."
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Where was his courage when it counted? He should be fired for admitting he folded when he should have made a stand.

When I was a kid, CEOs were portrayed as macho money lovers. That's actually the type you want in charge of your profit-seeking enterprise. This guy is just one of dozens of top-50 CEOs that weren't concerned enough about their company's profitability.

Posted by: Crusader at December 07, 2025 12:57 AM (Cjcf6)

411
Online mags are saying that Toyota can't build a $20K HiLux in the US.

What about affordability?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:58 AM (pkeXY)

412 If I was in the market for a truck, I would want that Toyota.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:01 AM (La8zG)

413 Happy St. Nicholas Day! The "Feast of Saint Nicholas" is celebrated on December 6 each year (although some celebrate on the December 5 eve). The American Santa Claus, as well as the British Father Christmas, derive from Saint Nicholas.

Done tole ya'll people

Hope all dem kids is happy

Posted by: Miklos is Magyar for Nicholas at December 07, 2025 01:04 AM (N7hqt)

414 Hey Horde, I started reading comments about an hour ago but I got sidetracked. JQ, the club is looking quite festive, you did a great job!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 07, 2025 01:04 AM (0nHVk)

415 45 Reckon I gotta pay a visit to Old State Saloon. It's not far down the road. And I think I would like the clientele. But. Gotta have my glowie radar set.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy

Why can't all States be like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon...hell, Red States in general!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 06, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)

They all sound so wonderful - but right now in deep deep blue Southern California it's 55 F outside.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 07, 2025 01:05 AM (QGaXH)

416 Online mags are saying that Toyota can't build a $20K HiLux in the US. I hope they are proven wrong.

Posted by: Braenyard

maybe, with some changes to the National Firearms Act

Posted by: Miklos will pay extra the twin Ma Deuce model at December 07, 2025 01:06 AM (N7hqt)

417 Online mags are saying that Toyota can't build a $20K HiLux in the US.

What about affordability?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 07, 2025 12:58 AM (pkeXY)

412 If I was in the market for a truck, I would want that Toyota.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:01 AM (La8zG)

I want six hard points in the bed as standard, not an option.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 07, 2025 01:07 AM (/lPRQ)

418 Hi, Miklos!

Hey, the big ClubONT Christmas Party is *next* Saturday night... Will you be making those 3-layer Jello Shots for us?

I think I've got all the supplies-- check the storage room & let me know if you need anything else, ok?

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:07 AM (rdVOm)

419 When is Festivus again?

Posted by: Archer at December 07, 2025 01:09 AM (YGRGv)

420 Hope Krampus did not get any of the naughty Morons. At least their families get a lump of coal.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 01:10 AM (6p0Jv)

421 Hi, Debby! Thanks!

*slides Chivas/rocks down the bar*

Doof chewed me out for having some white lights, but phooey-- told him it helps me see during cleanup-- there's plenty of colored lights anyhow... *shrug*

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

422 Does the World have enough Lithium to support the ever-growing demand?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing

"Lithium is used to treat mania that is part of bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness). It is also used on a daily basis to reduce the frequency and severity of manic episodes. Manic-depressive patients experience severe mood changes, ranging from an excited or manic state (eg, unusual anger or irritability or a false sense of well-being) to depression or sadness."

Posted by: Blue haired pierced communists demand MOAR LITHIUM at December 07, 2025 01:10 AM (N7hqt)

423 *slides Chivas/rocks down the bar*

*intercepts*

*replaces with Old Crow*

*let's see if she notices the improvement*

Posted by: Guy at bar stool 6 at December 07, 2025 01:12 AM (N7hqt)

424 I used to make speculaas cookies for St. Nicholas day. So yummy. I don't have the recipe with me, but maybe I will just look one up and make them tomorrow. It is a soft dough that is rolled into a log, refrigerated, sliced thin and then baked.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:14 AM (La8zG)

425
Heh. Col. Klink is on tonight's episode of Lost in Space on MeTV. He's a galactic cop.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 07, 2025 01:14 AM (w6EFb)

426 When is Festivus again?
Posted by: Archer

You don't know ???

I'm disappointed.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 07, 2025 01:14 AM (3ZUWJ)

427 I think I've got all the supplies-- check the storage room & let me know if you need anything else, ok?
Posted by: JQ

https://tinyurl.com/yhc4bp2z

Posted by: Miklos has the inflatable pool and Coomercail quantity Jello ready for the ladies at December 07, 2025 01:16 AM (N7hqt)

428 Posted by: Guy at bar stool 6
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Hey, now... don't EVER mess with a lady's drink!

*side eye* Never seen you here before, friend. You got references?

*hands Debby a fresh Chivas/rocks*

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

429 Much obliged, Miklos, I'll give it a try.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 07, 2025 01:17 AM (0nHVk)

430 I used to make speculaas cookies for St. Nicholas day. So yummy. I don't have the recipe with me, but maybe I will just look one up and make them tomorrow. It is a soft dough that is rolled into a log, refrigerated, sliced thin and then baked.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel
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If you're willing to share, please post in the Food Thread tomorrow!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

431
I want six hard points in the bed as standard, not an option.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Scrolling from the bottom up it looked as if you were going a bit kinky.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 01:18 AM (04Glf)

432 Worked hard outside today. Good night, Horde.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 01:21 AM (6p0Jv)

433 tinyurl.com/yhc4bp2z
Posted by: Miklos
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I picked up a whole case! Oh, they're by the door, not with the other plastic cups... my bad.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:22 AM (rdVOm)

434 Hey, now... don't EVER mess with a lady's drink!

*side eye* Never seen you here before, friend. You got references?

*hands Debby a fresh Chivas/rocks*
Posted by: JQ

Hey look, Miss - we serve hard drinks in here for ladies who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you a Bacardi 151 with Kahlua and cream for a convincer?

Posted by: Surly bartender Miklos, who was supposed to have the night off at December 07, 2025 01:22 AM (N7hqt)

435 Night, BSM. Sweet dreams!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

436 Posted by: Surly bartender Miklos, who was supposed to have the night off
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Well well well... wth you doin' *sitting at the bar* and intercepting a drink I served? Get yer butt back here & I'll gladly clock out for the duration.

Yeah, I'd *love* to have that 151 with k&c right about now, thanks!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm)

437 Ugh. Holiday stress...

Sorry.

*attitude adjustment underway*

Drains glass.

Ahhhhh............

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)

438 If you're willing to share, please post in the Food Thread tomorrow!
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I don't know if I will be around tomorrow, so I asked grok and got the following recipe. It looks similar to the one I have used in the past.

https://tinyurl.com/yjc9396m

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:31 AM (La8zG)

439 One difference being that I didn't roll out the dough and used cookie cutters, but rather, rolled dough into a log, chill, and then slice thin, to bake. Easier. 😊

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:33 AM (La8zG)

440 Yeah, I'd *love* to have that 151 with k&c right about now, thanks!
Posted by: JQ

I worked at place in new Orleans that was even open during Prohibition.

Nick's Night Train Bar

Mixology was both an art and a condition of employment.

I created a few, and that was one.

Alas, Nick's 1918-katrina

Posted by: Nostalgically less-Surly bartender Miklos at December 07, 2025 01:35 AM (N7hqt)

441 Another difference is mixing the sliced almonds right into the dough. Again, easier.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:37 AM (La8zG)

442 Hey Kestrel, it is good to see you, I hope that all is well with you.

JQ and Miklos behind the bar together next Saturday night, I think the Christmas party is off to a good start. What can I do or bring to assist in the celebration?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 07, 2025 01:38 AM (0nHVk)

443 I didn't roll out the dough

Roll, roll

Roll out the dough

The dough must be roll-ed

Roll out the dough!

Posted by: Obscure Polka lyrics at December 07, 2025 01:38 AM (N7hqt)

444 Hey look, Miss - we serve hard drinks in here for ladies who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you a Bacardi 151 with Kahlua and cream for a convincer?

Posted by: Surly bartender Miklos, who was supposed to have the night off at December 07, 2025 01:22QAM (N7hqt)

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There was a blue drink with a rubber ducky . It was delicious. Not JQ's fault.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 01:40 AM (6p0Jv)

445 What can I do or bring to assist in the celebration?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Another inflatable pool, more Jell-o, lip balm, and many tiny umbrellas.

And a few dozen cotton bar mop towels

maybe more cheap Chinese strings of party lights

a fire extinguisher

Posted by: Event organizer Trainee Miklos at December 07, 2025 01:43 AM (N7hqt)

446 Hi Debby! Good to see you! How are things going?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 01:48 AM (La8zG)

447
Oh, ow

youtube.com/shorts/taqsGyQqDXw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 01:49 AM (04Glf)

448 JQ and Miklos behind the bar together next Saturday night, I think the Christmas party is off to a good start. What can I do or bring to assist in the celebration?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Just come on in! Be ready to *jump in* at any time, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:50 AM (rdVOm)

449 There was a blue drink with a rubber ducky . It was delicious.

I could create a drink with a ducky of whatever ever color in it.

The cute little ducky would be edible, or after a while slurpable, and would have about the same alcohol content as the drink on which it would happily float.

Posted by: Miklos would need a one day advance notice, with color of duck specified at December 07, 2025 01:51 AM (N7hqt)

450 Oooo!

Check these out! Think Doof will let me put them up? They're not exactly *white* lights...

https://tinyurl.com/y3ennu5x

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

451 Oh, ow

youtube.com/shorts/taqsGyQqDXw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 07, 2025 01:49 AM (04Glf)
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So that's how the perverts got infected with monkeybox?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 01:53 AM (EYUUI)

452 The cute little ducky would be edible, or after a while slurpable, and would have about the same alcohol content as the drink on which it would happily float.
Posted by: Miklos
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Soaked Gummy Ducks!

*whispers* Don't eat more than one, friends...

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 01:54 AM (rdVOm)

453 Miklos. I still have the rubber ducky. Danced at a luau for it, which was not in character. The blue drink was not my usual thing, but delicious.

And good night, for realz.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 07, 2025 01:55 AM (6p0Jv)

454 Kestrel, I am doing well, thanks.

Sweet dreams Horde, I am sleepy.

JQ, I think that Doof will allow those lights.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 07, 2025 01:58 AM (0nHVk)

455
https://tinyurl.com/y3ennu5x
Posted by: JQ a

This reminds me of Christmas in Munich, merrily going from one Gluhwein to the next....

Posted by: Mulled Miklos at December 07, 2025 02:01 AM (N7hqt)

456 Good night Mary and Debby,

I too will retire, good night grey box friends.

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 07, 2025 02:01 AM (La8zG)

457 I have nightmares about Meat Clown.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2025 02:03 AM (JkO4W)

458 Blue drinks are the Devil's imbibable.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2025 02:06 AM (JkO4W)

459 Blue drinks are the Devil's imbibable.
Posted by: Cicero

This assertion requires proof

Posted by: Kelly's Blue Book at December 07, 2025 02:09 AM (N7hqt)

460 Peace
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

You may say peace, peace

But there is no piece!

Oh wait

I have most of a chocolate cream pie

Posted by: late Nite Miklos misread that as Tom Paine demanding freedom and pie at December 07, 2025 02:13 AM (N7hqt)

461 Mmmmm. Chocolate dream pie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2025 02:16 AM (JkO4W)

462 Blue drink? Heh...

https://tinyurl.com/2hvph9vr

Any combo of rum & pineapple, plus other goodies, is a winner with the Ladies.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

463 Mrs. BD's late uncle used to call blue curaçao "sardine juice."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 07, 2025 02:23 AM (EYUUI)

464 https://youtu.be/PpIDyKZvS80

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

465 Any combo of rum & pineapple, plus other goodies, is a winner with the Ladies.
Posted by: JQ

Rum and Coca Cola

Both Mother and daughter

Working for the Yankee dollar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqAmrUEnc1g

Posted by: Miklos stipulates that he is NOT a Yankee at December 07, 2025 02:27 AM (N7hqt)

466 https://youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

467 Anything with Alison Krauss is OK by me

Posted by: Miklos likes her old hillbilly stuff the best at December 07, 2025 02:30 AM (N7hqt)

468 Good night, horde... time for me to clock out.

See ya all next time!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

469 See ya all next time!
Posted by: JQ
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If'n I'm not *fired* by next ClubONT!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

470 Well, I have been watching ewetoobs. Now, I must go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 07, 2025 02:33 AM (npFr7)

471 The meat clown looks like my penis after 4 shots of tequila.

Too much information?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 02:38 AM (w6S0H)

472 The meat clown looks like my penis after 4 shots of tequila.

rules

pics

Posted by: Miklos dons protective eyewear at December 07, 2025 02:39 AM (N7hqt)

473 My exit number for this evening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmiZEZJoxGQ

Posted by: Miklos is an unabashed honkey at December 07, 2025 02:42 AM (N7hqt)

474 Well, I have been watching ewetoobs. Now, I must go to bed. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

One suspects there may have been accordions involved

Posted by: Zydeklos at December 07, 2025 02:44 AM (N7hqt)

475 My great grandfather was a meat clown in a dick circus.

It was honest work.

Posted by: clownkin at December 07, 2025 02:46 AM (fkNqv)

476 The meat clown looks like my penis after 4 shots of tequila. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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rules
pics Posted by: Miklos dons protective eyewear
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No. Just... no.

Nobody wants to see *that* TYVM

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 02:46 AM (rdVOm)

477 Yeah, still here... didn't want to leave without getting my "shift drink" LOL

Before I get canned for putting up all those white lights...

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm)

478 Well that was a loud night. Late one too. Talk about rocking around the christmas tree.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 07, 2025 02:53 AM (snZF9)

479 You're just in time. Rev. Wishbone is going to display his genitals.

Posted by: behold at December 07, 2025 02:56 AM (fkNqv)

480 >>>You're just in time. Rev. Wishbone is going to display his genitals.

Posted by: behold

>This is a unruly, bawdry forum, somebody has to step up on occasion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 03:00 AM (w6S0H)

481
>This is a unruly, bawdry forum, somebody has to step up on occasion.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 03:00 AM (w6S0H)

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The appropriate sound effect will be a

SPROOOOIIIINNNNG!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 07, 2025 03:03 AM (JkO4W)

482 DH says I must make the little cookies. I am having shoulder surgery in a week and a half. He says I must make the cookies and put them in the freezer until Christmas. Otherwise, it will NOT be Christmas, or, I can put off the surgery until after the New Year.

I'm making the damned cookies.

Everybody wants them. Even I want them. But they are a one time a year sort of thing.

They keep well in the freezer, so I guess that's the path we are taking.

No little cookies, no Christmas.

Not sure Jesus agrees with that assessment, but then, He's never had them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 07, 2025 03:27 AM (6Bc88)

483 Just passing by. Late. Watched a movie we had never heard of. Stars Ben Kingsley. We liked it. Stayed up too late because we couldn't quit watching. Will probably snooze through the book thread tomorrow morning.

I usually leave a g'night music link; instead, here's one to the movie. (Since it's way too late for the movie thread.)

Jules (2023) 👽
https://youtu.be/-CfqCY9V4DQ

G'nite, y'all. 💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - surprising simple and nice at December 07, 2025 03:29 AM (yqA/D)

484 So Yakutat had a 7.0 earthquake this morning, and has had about 20 aftershocks. Rocking and rolling down there. I have heard nothing about damage, or injury, or any other issue at this point.

Of course, mostly nobody lives in Yakutat, but still, that's a good sized earthquake.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 07, 2025 03:30 AM (6Bc88)

485 Looked up Yakutat. It does seem to be all by its lonesome. Then, most of Alaska is. It's in the same part of Alaska as the capital, Juneau. Probably no where near it but looking at the map, it's in the general region. Did Juneau feel anything. 7.0 is quite the rattle.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 07, 2025 03:43 AM (DqJmd)

486 >>>Of course, mostly nobody lives in Yakutat, but still, that's a good sized earthquake.

Posted by: tcn in AK

>I tried to sleep thru the Northridge earthquake, but the ceiling buckling and the toilet expelling water caught my attention.

This kind of event reminds you that you are mortal and just along for the ride.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 07, 2025 03:44 AM (w6S0H)

487 Yeah, 7.0 is enough to get one's attention.

I was in San Leandro during the '89 Loma Prieta 'quake.

Posted by: JQ at December 07, 2025 03:45 AM (rdVOm)

488 I just made up "Yakutat" like three days ago

Posted by: Miklos best geographic troll prank ever at December 07, 2025 03:56 AM (N7hqt)

489 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 07, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Rental Family

If he hadn't had his career derailed by a series of mishaps and downright evil, Brendan Fraser would be alongside Tom Hanks in terms of being the modern equivalent of a Golden Age actor like Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda. The difference between the two is that I will go see a movie just because Brendan Fraser is in it, which is not at all true of Hanks.

The excesses of The Whale aside—and its director, Darren Aronofsky, whom Ken Russell calls from the grave to say "Settle down"—Fraser was terrific. A well-earned Oscar.

This is probably a double-edged sword in that we probably permit a character played by Fraser to get away with things he really shouldn't. In fact, despite the very strong marks for Rental Family, all I could see as the movie started rolling, was all the many, many ways this movie could go bad.

Gaijin on the train.

Fraser plays Phillip Vandarploeg, an American who moved to Japan seven years prior after becoming a sensation as the star of a toothpaste commercial, has fallen on hard times when he's called by his agent to play—well, I'm not going to say what, exactly, because while this movie doesn't have really big twists or surprises, the ones it does have shouldn't be spoiled. Despite not doing very well at the gig (because he's completely unprepared) he's approached by Shinji, the owner of a company called Rental Family. They need a token American.

Philip is obviously used to this, although I can't help but note that he's not a token at all.

You see, the business that Shinji has is that he supplies people to act out parts in other people's lives for various reasons. One of their most popular jobs is euphemistically called "Apology Services", where a woman (Aiko, played by Mari Yamamoto) pretends to be a man's mistress and apologizes to his wife for having an affair.

This is the important thing about this job: He's lying to someone, and he has considerable issue doing so. The first job he has seems relatively harmless. And he has a kind of nice one where he plays video games and acts friendly toward a shut-in. But the first big job he gets is pretending be a girl's father.

The girl's mother is trying to get her into an elite private school, and the school isn't interested in single mothers. The mom doesn't want to force the child to have to lie, so instead has Philip pretend to be her father to her.

Philip's inability to FAKE attachment is very American, and of course why we like him.

This, and another job, where Philip pretends to be a journalist interviewing an old, forgotten actor (played by Akira Emoto, who has over 700 credits to his name) are the ones where you can see the train wreck coming. As light a touch as the movie has, you just wanna yell "Don't do it! You're not cut out for this, Brendan Fraser!"

Because there are two main ways you can go with a story like this, right? You can pull a Rain Man and have your Tom Cruise character be a semi-sociopath/narcissist who learns a little something about being human.

But Philip is alone in Japan. He has no family. The only people we see him interact with are his agent (on the phone) and a prostitute. Professional relationships, in other words.

You know, immediately, that Philip is going to end up caring too much, and possibly caring in ways that are culturally inappropriate.

The director (the mononymic Hikari) handles this with a deft touch: Very light, very Japanese, able to clearly communicate the issues that arise from arrangements like these without being moralizing or heavy-handed. This might not be "true" on some level, I wouldn't know. But it makes for a pleasant and emotional experience that still manages to avoid being mawkish.

This gig, which happens immediately after Philip accepts the job, made me a bit nervous about what might come next.

Seriously, I look more for (and celebrate) movies avoiding pitfalls these days than achieving high aesthetic points. This does both. The cinematography of Japan is perfect in that sense: It shows lovely shots of Tokyo and the countryside—but it isn't a fairy tale like (e.g.) Amélie. The wonderfully scrubbed and saturated views of France worked perfectly for that film: This one looks like a Tokyo you could actually go visit.

Terrific acting. Good story structure. Strong ending. Highlighting the issues with these arrangements but still managing to pull out a happy ending.

It's an increasingly rare "general recommendation". If you like movies about people with humor and drama, the only negative (for the average moviegoer) is the use of subtitles. I would argue the film excels at that, too, though because there are just enough subtitles to make you remember where you are. There are a lot of excellent touches that enhance the fish-out-of-water feel, like Fraser being 6'3" and having a pot-belly. (Although Takehiro Hira is six-feet tall, Fraser is always bigger and taller and paler than everyone else.)

It probably won't get a lot of award nominations, but it should.

Oh, there is a theoretical negative that filled me with dread: The idea that somebody would remake this movie, but base it in America, and have it star, I dunno, Kevin James and Adam Sandler. Or Vince Vaugh and Chris Pratt.

One of the best movies of the year and a rare mix of award and box office bait. You know, what used to just be known as "a good movie". And one of three in 2025 I would recommend for general audiences—which, honestly, is two or three more than I'm able to recommend in the past few years. The other two are Mission: Impossible 8 - The Final Reckoning and The Naked Gun reboot.

Destined to be crushed by Wicked, Zootopia and Five Nights at Freddy 2, and to under-perform Bugonia, Heart Eyes, Chainsaw Man, the re-release of Wicked—all of which serve as a challenge of my ability to estimate what "general audiences" will go for.

It's nice to see small businesses thriving in Japan. Even if they're fundamentally very weird.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:30 PM

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1 I am your host, Mr. Roarke.

Welcome to the Saturday Evening Movie Thread.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:31 PM (asXVI)

2 That great Celtic man, Ricardo Montalban.

(I don't care, but I think it's funny.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:32 PM (asXVI)

3 I loved The Mummy, more that I expected to.
The chemistry between him and Rachel Weiss was amazing. (And Rachel Weiss was so hot…wait til you see her in a snug, tight plaid pencil skirt…

Anyways, this was the one and only time I remember seeing Brendan Frasier in a movie.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 07:35 PM (4786I)

4 Damn autocorrect…has it never heard of Rachel Weisz? Really?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 07:35 PM (4786I)

5 They're talking sequel to that franchise. I would be down for it, if ... nervous.

Check out Fraser in "Blast from the Past". Hell, he's good in "Encino Man," which is just a goofy, dumb teen comedy.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:37 PM (asXVI)

6 I like Brendan Fraser more than I will ever like Hanks.

Forrest Gump was the only thing Hanks was remarkable for in his appearance and he just seemed a natural.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 06, 2025 07:38 PM (w6S0H)

7 Yeah with fraser it comes almost as innocent

Sort of a variati9n on lost in translation

Hos integral rachel was to rhe plot wss when they replaced here with maria bello for the third film

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:40 PM (bXbFr)

8 Adam Sandler's Uncut Gems is the train wreck you see coming movie I found hard to watch though it was written, acted and directed fantastically

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (KDPiq)

9 That's a good summary of "Uncut Gems".

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (asXVI)

10 I, too, like Brendan just because he seems like a nice guy. He has an open face. Which probably limits the kind of rolls he can take.

And I, too, have no idea what the GenPub likes, because I'm a bit of a weirdo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:44 PM (kpS4V)

11 I used to sort of liked Tom Hanks at the beginning of his career but started not to care for his acting or able to suspend belief seeing him as a leading man.

Though I think Nothing in Common with Jackie Gleason is an underrated Hanks film.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:45 PM (KDPiq)

12 With hanks after a point, its like they were forcing us to like him

Fraser is more like chris pratt to which chsrm comes natural

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (bXbFr)

13 "If he hadn't had his career derailed by a series of mishaps and downright evil, Brendan Fraser..."

What does this mean?

Posted by: Lyford at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (gb+vr)

14 Loved Fraser in Bedazzled

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (SRRAx)

15 Fraser was great in the TV sitcom , Scrubs for the 2 or 3 episodes he did playing the brother of Dr Cox's wife.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:47 PM (KDPiq)

16 8 Adam Sandler's Uncut Gems is the train wreck you see coming movie I found hard to watch though it was written, acted and directed fantastically

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (KDPiq)
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I had the exact same reaction. You could not derail this bulletin train of bad choices.

I tried to see it first in a theater but the volume was cranked to Monsters of Rock levels and I had to flee, thinking I hated the film. I later saw it at home and liked -- well, admired -- the story.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:47 PM (kpS4V)

17 I like movie but I do not know movies.

PS 2.17.26 there will be a release of a remastered Star Wars.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:48 PM (gbOdA)

18 I thot 50 First Dates was great.
It has about 50 layers.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:50 PM (gbOdA)

19 There are some evil people in hollywood

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:50 PM (bXbFr)

20 And apparently there's gonna be a third Mummy movie and Brendan and Rachel Weisz are penciled in.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:50 PM (kpS4V)

21 Apollo 13 and Road to Perdition were good Hanks movies that could have been just as good or better (Perdition) with a different actor.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:51 PM (KDPiq)

22 Promethius

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (Kt19C)

23 Over on Kickstarter, there's a campaign for a documentary about "The Final Sacrifice," an old, indy-produced Canadian movie. The film is best known for being featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and, in my humble opinion, it made for the single best episode in the 13 seasons of MST3K! It had the best of both worlds; there was a competent script and memorable characters, so the story of movie is enjoyable in-and-of itself, but the lack of budget and just the oddness of some of the characters made the movie eminently mock-able!

Anyways, the reward tiers for the documentary are a little bit steep, but....considering how often I've watched that movie, I don't have too much hesitation throwing a bit of cash their way.

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (Lhaco)

24 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)

25 He played kind of an antihero in that dc version of the avengers

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)

26 Alien earth (retired thr prize)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)

27 I honestly haven't seen much of Brenden Frasier, but The Mummy was better than it had any right to be, and he's a star just based on that performance!

It's nice to see him have a career resurgence, even if I'm not terribly interested in the new movies he's making.

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (Lhaco)

28 ROWZDOWER!!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (kpS4V)

29 Loved Fraser in Bedazzled
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (SRRAx)

Yes. Wife and I love that movie.

And the two Mummy movies. As someone mentioned, he and Rachel Weisz had crazy chemistry. A rare thing in cinema.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:55 PM (0aYVJ)

30 Speaking of Adam Sandler , one of his other serious movies that I think is really good and would recommend is Funny People. I even liked Seth Rogen a lot in the movie which is very unusual for me.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (KDPiq)

31 The film is best known for being featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and, in my humble opinion, it made for the single best episode in the 13 seasons of MST3K!
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It's great, but it's no "Space Mutiny" or "Alien From L.A.". I do love all the hockey hair and Canuck jokes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (kpS4V)

32 Yeah that was a good one with liz hurley

Some what less plausible than the original with dudley moore

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)

33 So many many years ago my best friend had to work and his sister (1 year and 1 grade older) wanted to go see
a movie she had won tickets to.
So low and behold I am at his house with duct tape hemming up he Gloria Vanderbuilt jeans (she had bought that day) to go see Bee Gees St Peppers.
North Park Mall Dallas Tx must have been summer of 78.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:57 PM (gbOdA)

34 Castle Guy at 27

I'll second that.

If memory serves, Fraser starred with Michael Caine in a remake of The Quiet American. Never saw either version, but heard good things about both -- will get to them Real Soon Now.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (q3u5l)

35 Both Vaughn and Sandler have more range than just comedy. It's just that few of the projects they are on bother to use that range.

Posted by: ravenshrike at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (16udA)

36 Speaking of Adam Sandler , one of his other serious movies that I think is really good and would recommend is Funny People. I even liked Seth Rogen a lot in the movie which is very unusual for me.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (KDPiq)

Me too. Very well done.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (0aYVJ)

37 there will be a release of a remastered Star Wars.
Posted by: r hennigantx

With the true story of Solo shooting first!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (z/7Ah)

38 I even liked Seth Rogen a lot in the movie which is very unusual for me.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (KDPiq)

Me too. Very well done.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (0aYVJ)

I am taking a lot of rhino penis
please dont call me that in public

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (gbOdA)

39 Yes rogen should be taken in small doses like idocaine

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (bXbFr)

40 Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 07:57 PM (gbOdA)

I liked The Bee Gees a lot and don't hate the Beatles but that movie was really bad Earth Wind and Fire's Got to Get You Into My Life was the only saving grace.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (KDPiq)

41 With the true story of Solo shooting first!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:59 PM (z/7Ah)

original

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (gbOdA)

42
Tom Hanks is kinda hated, yes?

He's no James Stewart.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (DJUFe)

43 I liked The Bee Gees a lot and don't hate the Beatles but that movie was really bad Earth Wind and Fire's Got to Get You Into My Life was the only saving grace.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (KDPiq)

I think the fifth beatle played that one too.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:01 PM (gbOdA)

44 Phrasing (or perhaps not)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (bXbFr)

45 Evenin', all,

I'm back from the Christmas (Weihnachten) fair at the local German-American Center. No National Socialist night, but lots of outdoor booths with crafts -- mostly for women and children -- and some food and mulled wine. Miss Linda got a pic with Krampus, her favorite Christmas icon.

The good: The city has paved the road in front of the center, and the live band, w/ Xmas music of course, was not ear-shatteringly loud. The bad: the prices! $8 for a cup of mulled wine, $5 for a big pretzel, and one booth wanted $15 for a loaf of Stollen bread. And they wanted $5 to park in their lot. (I dodged the last two.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (wzUl9)

46
He's no James Stewart.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Can't hate a Brigadier general.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (z/7Ah)

47 Is this going to be the original version of Star Wars with no CGI Jabba the Hutt?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (kpS4V)

48 Both Vaughn and Sandler have more range than just comedy. It's just that few of the projects they are on bother to use that range.
Posted by: ravenshrike at December 06, 2025 07:58 PM (16udA)

Vince Vaughn was awesome in Brawl in Cell Block 99.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)

49 13 "If he hadn't had his career derailed by a series of mishaps and downright evil, Brendan Fraser..."

What does this mean?
Posted by: Lyford at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (gb+vr)

He was blacklisted after accusing the head of the HFPA of sexual assault after the guy groped him at a luncheon.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 06, 2025 08:03 PM (gUs21)

50 Wolfus, I've sent out Krampus cards for Christmas,

My favorite has a cute Krampus glowering and saying "You. In the bag".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:04 PM (kpS4V)

51 from what I read pure star wars

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:05 PM (gbOdA)

52 Been a while since I watched it, but I don't recall Vaughn being bad in Dragged Across Concrete either. And yes, he was awesome in Brawl in Cell Block 99.

I didn't even think Vaughn was all that bad in the van Sant remake of Psycho. Not up to Perkins maybe, but who would have been?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 08:05 PM (q3u5l)

53 Tom Hanks is kinda hated, yes?

He's no James Stewart.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025

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No, nor is he a Jack Lemmon. But he has taken the *kind* of roles that JL would have during his career, going from light comedy to drama and back again. I can imagine a 1960 Jack doing a film like Cast Away, for instance, or You've Got Mail, in his case w/ Shirley Maclaine. And Hanks in a film like The Apartment -- though I'm not suggesting he would be as good as Jack was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)

54 Vince Vaughn was awesome in Brawl in Cell Block 99.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)
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Also in "Dragged Across Concrete", which is great but a tough film to watch, like "Bone Tomahawk".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:07 PM (kpS4V)

55 If he hadn't had his career derailed by a series of mishaps and downright evil, Brendan Fraser would be alongside Tom Hanks

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"George of the Jungle" was bad, but evil? Come on now.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 06, 2025 08:07 PM (kDHiw)

56 Vince Vaughn was awesome in Brawl in Cell Block 99.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025

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He always surprises me -- in a good way -- when I see him in a film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:08 PM (wzUl9)

57 I didn't even think Vaughn was all that bad in the van Sant remake of Psycho. Not up to Perkins maybe, but who would have been?
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The trouble was, Vaughn seemed quietly psychotic from the get-go. Not like that nice young man Anthony Perkins!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:09 PM (kpS4V)

58 Speaking of Adam Sandler , one of his other serious movies that I think is really good and would recommend is Funny People. I even liked Seth Rogen a lot in the movie which is very unusual for me.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025

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I didn't go to see Just Go With It for him, or Jen Aniston either, but for Nicole Kidman. But both Adam and Jen did well and had nice chemistry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:09 PM (wzUl9)

59 And Hanks in a film like The Apartment -- though I'm not suggesting he would be as good as Jack was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)

Agree . I think Hanks would have been a good casting choice if they had done a remake.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:09 PM (KDPiq)

60 Another example of on-screen chemistry is Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in The Wedding Singer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)

61 >>11 I think Nothing in Common with Jackie Gleason is an underrated Hanks film.

It was a path Hanks could have taken to become a serious actor. He didn't. That said, in spite of its myriad appalling flaws, Joe vs the Volcano is a wonderful flick.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:11 PM (NcvvS)

62 Forrest Gump was the only thing Hanks was remarkable for in his appearance and he just seemed a natural.

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I actually didn't think Hanks was that good in Forrest Gump; Gary Sinise was really good in that one. I did think Hanks was great in Apollo 13 though.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (kDHiw)

63 Speaking of mummy movies, The Mummy's Tomb is on Svengoolie.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (vFG9F)

64 I first noticed Hanks, like a lot of people did, when he was in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. I'd thought it would be a one-joke show, but it was written quite well and was often very funny.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (wzUl9)

65 Yeah that one rang thrue and still holds up

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:14 PM (bXbFr)

66 Another example of on-screen chemistry is Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in The Wedding Singer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)

You reminded me of one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Actually I think it's really good and don't feel guilty.

Blended.

And as you say the chemistry between Sandler and Barrymore is great.

Speaking of Drew Barrymore, if you're looking for a RomCom to watch, I would highly recommend Going the Distance.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:14 PM (KDPiq)

67 Maybe because of the ensemble

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:15 PM (bXbFr)

68 I never got over Tom Hanks in a dress.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:15 PM (vFG9F)

69 Maybe fraser might be able to do what cruise did with top gun maverick

His mummy film wasnt god awful like hatbours hellboy but it wasnt good

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:17 PM (bXbFr)

70 Flash Gordon is the greatest movie ever

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:17 PM (Jj1OR)

71 I liked Tom Hanks in 'Road to Perdition'. A very un-Tom Hanks movie. It's not the best gangster flick ever, but it's good.

Kind of like Kevin Costner in 'Mr. Brooks'. He plays a serial killer. He actually does creepy normal very well. Again, not the best serial killer movie but a good one. (Citizen X and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer are the best ones)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (DqJmd)

72 68 I never got over Tom Hanks in a dress.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:15 PM (vFG9F)

I don't need you to worry for me 'cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (gbOdA)

73 I never got over Tom Hanks in a dress.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025

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His character and Scolari's only wore the female getups when entering or leaving the residential hotel for women they had been forced to live in -- everything else in NYC, even in 1980, was too expensive, was the setup. They didn't dress as The Girls at work, for instance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (wzUl9)

74 70: the soundtrack was great anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (DqJmd)

75 Hanks did a good job playing Mr Roberts in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (KDPiq)

76 What was the film with Sandler and Tea Leoni? Was that Blended?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:19 PM (wzUl9)

77 Neil Breen has a new one

https://dire-duplicity.com/

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 06, 2025 08:20 PM (f0sNM)

78 31
It's great, but it's no "Space Mutiny" or "Alien From L.A.". I do love all the hockey hair and Canuck jokes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 07:56 PM (kpS4V)

"Alien From LA"? There's an episode that doesn't get talked about much...I do enjoy it (how can I not, with Kathy Ireland as the star?!) but it's not on my list of favorites. Ironically, I wanted the miner guy (Gus?) to be a bit more over-the-top and a bit more featured...Basically, I thought the movie/episode would have been better had he been more like Rowsdower!

As for "Space Mutiny," I have nothing bad to say about Space Mutiny! It is easily on my Top-10 list, but I just personally love "The Final Sacrifice" more.

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (Lhaco)

79 Without a doubt

The camp factor was dialed to eleven

Its a whole de laurentis held the studio afloat for so long

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (bXbFr)

80

I like Bad Monkey tv series, a lot, and I think it got a 2nd season.

But if you don't like Vince Vaughn, you will hate Bad Monkey, because it's Vince Vaugn being Vince Vaughn the whole time -- he never lets up.

(btw, I still hate fucking monkeys, and this show does not change that fact)

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (DJUFe)

81 With the king kong remake and fjnally dune

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 06, 2025 08:21 PM (bXbFr)

82 Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:18 PM (DqJmd)

I thought Road to Perdition could have been much better with someone other than Hanks. I liked it anyway though I could not see Hanks as a tough guy gangster.

Mr Brooks was really really good and Costner nailed the role. Demi Moore is who almost ruined it.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:22 PM (KDPiq)

83 What was the film with Sandler and Tea Leoni? Was that Blended?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:19 PM (wzUl

Blended was Drew Barrymore

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 08:23 PM (KDPiq)

84
NOBODY looks back at ANY Tom Hanks role and thinks fondly or warmly at that character. He is not, nor will he ever be a "George Bailey."

Not even Forest Gump, which is not a great movie. It's okay. I was original, I'll say that. Forest is not some lovable character -- he's a pathetic dolt in which the audience feels pity, mostly.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:24 PM (DJUFe)

85 "His character and Scolari's only wore the female getups when entering or leaving the residential hotel for women they had been forced to live in --"

Oh yeah sure they were totally not gay.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

86 77 Neil Breen has a new one

https://dire-duplicity.com/
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 06, 2025 08:20 PM (f0sNM)

Well, well, Merry Christmas to everyone who has a YouTube channel devoted to watching/reviewing B-movies!

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 08:24 PM (Lhaco)

87 OT, For Shame Ohio State. Street punk tackle on Indiana QB.
Game should be forfeited. A real coach would take them home.
Lousy crooked cheating SOB's.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 08:25 PM (zdLoL)

88 For several work-and-recreational reasons, never saw Bosom Buddies. The movies Hanks did during the mid-to-late 80's were pretty good. He was not ever going to be James Stewart, but would like to come up with a comparable actor who did light/romantic comedy and historical fiction, with some drama included in the mix. He was never going to be Lord Olivier, but he was capable within his realm.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:26 PM (NcvvS)

89 "His character and Scolari's only wore the female getups when entering or leaving the residential hotel for women they had been forced to live in --"
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Oh yeah sure they were totally not gay.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025

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Not sure about Scolari's character, but Hanks's was besotted with the tall Marilyn-like blonde. (The actress later married Dan Aykroyd.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:26 PM (wzUl9)

90
Speaking of "great" actors...

that goofy idiot Gene Simmons is receiving a Kennedy Center award from Our Favorite President, tonight.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:27 PM (DJUFe)

91 NOBODY looks back at ANY Tom Hanks role and thinks fondly or warmly at that character. He is not, nor will he ever be a "George Bailey."

Not even Forest Gump, which is not a great movie. It's okay. I was original, I'll say that. Forest is not some lovable character -- he's a pathetic dolt in which the audience feels pity, mostly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025

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What about the film, can't think of the title, where he plays a young boy cast into adult form? There's a scene or several at F.A.O. Schwarz.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:28 PM (wzUl9)

92
livestream of Kennedy Center honors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPgHy7hpr1I

rewind 10 minutes for Skillvester Skallone

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:28 PM (DJUFe)

93
What about the film, can't think of the title, where he plays a young boy cast into adult form? There's a scene or several at F.A.O. Schwarz.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

BIG?

Yeah, it was okay.
Don't know if it stands up today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:29 PM (DJUFe)

94 And Wolfus said at @53 what my thoughts were - only more cogently. *doffs cap* sir.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:31 PM (NcvvS)

95
President keeps saying "tape" instead of film.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:31 PM (DJUFe)

96 What about the film, can't think of the title, where he plays a young boy cast into adult form? There's a scene or several at F.A.O. Schwarz.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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BIG?

Yeah, it was okay.
Don't know if it stands up today.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025

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That's it. For some reason I was thinking the title was Restless!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:32 PM (wzUl9)

97 The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan, and Road to Perdition were also good Hanks movies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:32 PM (L/fGl)

98 that goofy idiot Gene Simmons is receiving a Kennedy Center award from Our Favorite President, tonight.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:27 PM (DJUFe)
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LOL I momentarily conflated him with spastic imp Richard Simmons.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:33 PM (kpS4V)

99 I can't watch more than the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan anymore, Hanks doesn't help it

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:34 PM (Ia/+0)

100 The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan, and Road to Perdition were also good Hanks movies.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025

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I think I've seen the first (and read King's novel), but not the others.

Hanks has had good luck -- his costar Peter Scolari was as talented when they were on Bosom Buddies, but he hasn't had the big-screen fortune that Hanks has. And since he became a big name, TH has picked good material on the whole.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:35 PM (wzUl9)

101 NOBODY looks back at ANY Tom Hanks role and thinks fondly or warmly at that character. He is not, nor will he ever be a "George Bailey."

Not even Forest Gump, which is not a great movie. It's okay. I was original, I'll say that. Forest is not some lovable character -- he's a pathetic dolt in which the audience feels pity, mostly.

Posted by: Soothsayer

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Tom Hanks peaked during Bosom Buddies. I hated Forrest Gump. He was a producer of Band of Brothers which I really like and a worthwhile program.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:35 PM (6p0Jv)

102 Never saw Big, but saw trailers for it when his 'colleague' wanted to sleep with him, Hanks wanted the top bunk. :-)

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:37 PM (NcvvS)

103 Lo these many years ago, I saw Hanks in the screwball comedy Bachelor Party and he was good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:38 PM (L/fGl)

104 The soccer ball was more charismatic than Hanks in whatever movie that was.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:38 PM (6p0Jv)

105 The Green Mile was a bit too long. It was OK.

Saving Private Ryan, after the first 20-30 minutes, was meh.

Road to Perdition was pretty good. Hanks was good in a non-Hanks like role. Paul Newman was great. I believe it was his final role before he died.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:39 PM (DqJmd)

106 I never knew mummies were such good climbers.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:41 PM (vFG9F)

107 Bachelor Party as screwball? Kinda/sorta farce, okay...

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:42 PM (NcvvS)

108 I was trying to thinknof movies to defend Hanks and am having a tough time.

His roles are all right, but he kind of floats through them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

109 I haven't seen The Whale yet but have always thought Brendan Fraser was a great actor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:43 PM (SwYQF)

110 Hanks is our equivalent of Jack Lemmon, as Harrison Ford was our Bogart. Neither is the equal of the original, but they handled the same *kinds* of roles.

Chris Pratt could be another young Ford -- but Hollywood has lost its way in the PC Forest and doesn't know how to make movies like Raiders any more. Otherwise CP would have donned the fedora, jacket, gun, and whip years ago for a couple of period-piece Indiana Jones movies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:43 PM (wzUl9)

111
Back to Brendan Fraser...

Always liked him...until he got weird in the last few years.
Really Low-T guy.

The Mummy is one of favorite movies, which means I re-watch it. Rewatchable movies means they are great. I never had the urge to rewatch Forest Gump, Saving Ryan's Privates, or Lost.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:43 PM (DJUFe)

112 The scene [in Bachelor Party] where the nude Tracy (Monique Gabrielle) seduces Rick was cut out of mainstream TV broadcasts. Gabrielle said they also shot a TV version where she wears a negligee with one strap lowered, but it was also cut out of broadcasts because it showed too much cleavage.

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I don't understand the phrase "too much cleavage."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:44 PM (L/fGl)

113 The soccer ball was more charismatic than Hanks in whatever movie that was.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:38 PM (6p0Jv)

Castaway. I saw a ewetub blurb that was trying to intimate that whatshername was already cheating on him before the plane crashed but passed as the movie always annoyed me. Guys plane crashes, everyone in his life moves on. The End. Thanks movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

114 Very obscure movie trivia, but I think 'Vandarploeg' is the alias Jeremy Iron's character Simon Gruber uses when he visits the Federal Reserve in Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (CwhoI)

115 Anybody seeing "Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2"?

There's a couple movies I want to see but I'm lazy and it's cold outside.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (kpS4V)

116
I even recently downloaded Blast From The Past because I like it -- but that dummy Alicia Silverstone said some dumb things recently and ruined it for me.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (DJUFe)

117 I'm trying to recall any Brendan Fraser movies that I've seen that are not 'The Mummy' +sequels. I'm drawing a blank.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (DqJmd)

118 I'm currently watching the series"Rabbit Fall" on Amazon Prime. Think of a low budget version of "Twin Peaks" made in Canada, for Canadians. It was made in 2007, but follows the Kathleen Kennedy model of "put a chick in it and make her lame and gay!"

Well, at the end of Season 1, she isn't gay, yet. I will continue to watch, keeping score of the plot twists that are telegraphed. I'm betting there will be a "Luke and Leia are what!?!?" moment coming up soon.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (znQHQ)

119 I loved The Mummy, more that I expected to.
The chemistry between him and Rachel Weiss was amazing. (And Rachel Weiss was so hot…wait til you see her in a snug, tight plaid pencil skirt…

Anyways, this was the one and only time I remember seeing Brendan Frasier in a movie.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 07:35 PM (4786I)

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The first time we saw him was at a drive-in theater -- in Santa Cruz with my teenaged step-daughter and her friend -- with Pauly Shore in Encino Man.

I had low expectations, but it was pretty funny ... and I loved The Mummy and its sequel.

I forget what "evil" like him being blackballed for some reason happened to his career (I do remember some controversy) -- and will have to search for the details.

I'll be back ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (My0zW)

120 I don't understand the phrase "too much cleavage."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025

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Not in that order, anyway. "Cleavage too?" "Much" would work fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:46 PM (wzUl9)

121 Harrison Ford is NOT our Bogart. He'll, I think Bruce Willis is closer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

122 I remember Tawny Kitaen was in Bachelor Party also. Later to dance across the hoods of cars in Whitesnake videos. And she is an illustration of Rule No. 1 for the Morons.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:46 PM (6p0Jv)

123 I can't watch more than the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan anymore, Hanks doesn't help it
Posted by: Skip

Watched it again recently .. they did more stupid shit than I remembered.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (/lPRQ)

124 When I think of Brendan Fraser, my mind goes to Blast from the Past (watched so often) and Bedazzled (re-watched recently), and I see him now and think, whatever happened to the poor guy? Of course, those movies were a quarter-century ago. How tempus fugits! Only other thing I ever saw him in was Doom Patrol, where he really didn't look good. (Robot suit.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - we all were so much older then, I'm younger than that now at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (yqA/D)

125 I enjoyed “Money Pit” , but mainly because it felt like a documentary of my attempt at completely redoing an old house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (c7Ygk)

126 [1 of 2 -- per Brave "AI":]

Brendan Fraser's career experienced a significant decline in the late 2000s and early 2010s, following a period of major success in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly with the The Mummy franchise.

His absence from major Hollywood films was attributed to a combination of personal and health-related challenges. Fraser has publicly discussed suffering from severe injuries sustained during stunt work, particularly while filming The Mummy series, which led to multiple surgeries, including a laminectomy and a partial knee replacement, and a vocal cord repair.

He also revealed he was in and out of hospitals for nearly seven years due to these injuries.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (My0zW)

127 I'm trying to recall any Brendan Fraser movies that I've seen that are not 'The Mummy' +sequels. I'm drawing a blank.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025

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Wasn't there one where he plays a young man who grew up with his parents in a well-equipped 1960s bomb shelter, and when he emerges he's gobsmacked by the 1980s?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:47 PM (wzUl9)

128 Very obscure movie trivia, but I think 'Vandarploeg' is the alias Jeremy Iron's character Simon Gruber uses when he visits the Federal Reserve in Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 06, 2025 08:45 PM (CwhoI)

Vanderflug?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

129 People in Palmer and Wasilla are posting about things that are blowing into their yards, like, "If this is your shed, please wait until the wind stops and then come and get it."

Hurricane force winds in the valley this weekend, along with serious ice from last week.

We are staying in, thanks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:48 PM (6Bc88)

130 [2 of 2 -- per Brave "AI":]

In addition to physical health issues, Fraser faced profound personal losses, including the death of his mother from cancer in 2016, and the emotional toll of a difficult divorce from his wife Afton Smith.

He has also spoken about being sexually assaulted in 2003 by Philip Berk, then president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an incident he claims led to a period of depression and a belief that he was blacklisted from Hollywood.

Fraser stated that after making the allegation public in a 2018 GQ interview, his career phone calls stopped, and he questioned whether he had been ostracized.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 06, 2025 08:48 PM (My0zW)

131
Incidentally, I recently downloaded a 1992 B-movie titled Nemesis. Set in 2027.

I don't remember it, but it has all the greats, such as Tim Thomerson, Brion James, and boobies.

IMDB description:
Alex, a burned out LA cyborg cop, is forced by commissioner Farnsworth to find his former cyborg partner and lover Jared who's about to deliver sensitive data to cyborg terrorists who wish to wage war against humans. Is he being played?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:49 PM (DJUFe)

132 Oh, wait. The Burbs. I love that movie. Carrie Fisher and Corey... Haim?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

133 Wolfus, Hanks has never had Lemmon's manic vibe. Hanks has no equivalent the 50's-70's that would resonate. Hanks could never have been a believable Ensign Pulver in Mr Roberts. If he'd been in the film, he'd have been one of the (probably featured) EMs (Dolan, maybe?).

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 08:49 PM (NcvvS)

134 Tom Hanks plays himself in every movie. So boring. He was not even funny in Bachelor Party. I do not understand his appeal at all.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:50 PM (93/YK)

135 Wasn't there one where he plays a young man who grew up with his parents in a well-equipped 1960s bomb shelter, and when he emerges he's gobsmacked by the 1980s?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yes. 'Blast from the Past'. I haven't seen it. Heard it's ok though. (and I'm not 100% on the name of the movie but I know which one you're referring too)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 08:50 PM (DqJmd)

136 Harrison Ford is NOT our Bogart. He'll, I think Bruce Willis is closer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025

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Maybe so. But I can picture Bogart as an Indy Jones-like character in a 1943 thriller set in the Andes or the mountains of Mexico. And Ford did play Bogart's role in the remake of Sabrina, right? A very different interpretation, from what I gather -- I've never seen either film all the way through -- but the same basic role.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:51 PM (wzUl9)

137
I think what "blacklisted" Fraser is he's emotional, and nobody wanted to work with him. He simply wasn't worth the trouble. It's obvious, isn't it?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:52 PM (DJUFe)

138 I like both Sabrina's but both... have issues.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

139 A Boy Scout troop walks though 1944 Normandy

Tawny did OJ for awhile

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:53 PM (Ia/+0)

140 I hesitate to admit what movies I saw this week. Sometimes I just impulsively watch something that shows up on the YooToob sidebar recommendations instead of sifting through the library to see if I'd rather watch something else.

Well, I'll admit to watching Star Trek: First Contact. Had its moments. Wanted to see Zefram Cochran at the end say, That'll do, pig. 🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - make it sew at December 06, 2025 08:54 PM (yqA/D)

141 I think what "blacklisted" Fraser is he's emotional, and nobody wanted to work with him. He simply wasn't worth the trouble. It's obvious, isn't it?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:52 PM (DJUFe)

His career did seem to suddenly stop after being in many movies at the same time he claims he got assaulted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:54 PM (zZu0s)

142 Bogie was Bogie whatever role. Harrison Ford was Indiana Jones or Han Solo.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 08:54 PM (6p0Jv)

143 Therefore the Mummy movies, then Blast from the Past, also that George of the jungle thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:55 PM (zZu0s)

144
two Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving movie recommendations:

Sleepy Hollow
Dark Shadows

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 08:55 PM (DJUFe)

145 Honestly Ford seemed to forget how to play Solo after Empire. Or just didnt care to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:56 PM (zZu0s)

146 And I can believe the claims of gaybsexual assault. Fuck, Terry Crews got assaulted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

147 Big is worth a watch mainly for Robert Loggia. I remember nothing else about the flick.

And if I had to pick a Hanks picture to revisit, it'd be The Money Pit. Not so much for Hanks himself, but the never-ending disaster of trying to fix up that wreck of a house. Joe Mantegna doesn't get a ton of screen time, but is quite funny. Alexander Godunov (sp?) too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (q3u5l)

148 So this mummy walks dragging one foot but he climbed that trellis to the second floor no problem. Excellent upper body strength I suppose.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (vFG9F)

149 Speaking of screwballs . . .

Sleepy Joe FORGETS the name of his former Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

BIDEN: "When I took office I promised to have an administration that looked like America... not just for the community, but my Press Secretary 'KAREEM.'"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 08:57 PM (L/fGl)

150 Tom Hanks was pretty good in "Last Man Standing"
He was perfect for his character

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 08:58 PM (/lPRQ)

151 Great Escape is on UToob at the moment. Holds up fairly well. Think there's a "making of" video also on that platform that is interesting. McQueen and Garner's characters didn't exist, but producers reasonably figured US audiences would be much more interested in based-on-real events flick with Americans inserted into it. But there was a fair amount of dedication to accuracy in certain things, especially by the standards of the time.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 08:59 PM (U/Byj)

152 Bogie was Bogie whatever role. Harrison Ford was Indiana Jones or Han Solo.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025

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His Capt. Queeg was very different from his Sam Spade, or Roy Earle, or Fred Dobbs. But you're right in that I could not see Ford playing any of those roles, except maybe Spade.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:00 PM (wzUl9)

153 Why in the world is Creepy Joe speaking in public at all?

Posted by: I gotta ask at December 06, 2025 09:00 PM (XQo4F)

154 Weird that the two actors that have made the most movies I like got their big break playing Stoners and not considered great actors.

Keanu Reeves and Matthew McConnaughey

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:01 PM (KDPiq)

155 Actually went to the theater last week to see Sarah's Oil, filmed right here in Land of the Red Man. Did a fair job of showing Oklahoma in the early oil boom wars. Really liked the young actress who played Sarah.

Local theater will be showing Scrooged on the 16th. We first saw it in first-run theater, large audience. The end where Murray breaks the fourth wall and addresses the theater audience works much better with a theater audience.

Posted by: mindful webworker - lives in the Cherokee Nation at December 06, 2025 09:01 PM (yqA/D)

156 Calling it a night, all, but consider: is there an actor from the last 30 years who could do Rick Blaine in Casablanca and Charlie Allnut in African Queen? Maybe Bruce Willis in the 90s. Maybe.

Thanks, moviegique, for the thread!

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:01 PM (NcvvS)

157 My sister rented Saving Private Ryan when it came out on VHS so my father could see it. When it was over, I'm told that his comment was, "Now let me tell you everything they got wrong in that one." He was WWII 82nd Airborne and knew whereof he spoke.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:02 PM (q3u5l)

158 Tom Hanks was pretty good in "Last Man Standing"
He was perfect for his character
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025

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He was in that? The lead was Bruce Willis, wearing a fedora a shade too big for him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9)

159 I enjoyed Fraser during early career. I'd probably like him again, but he's just not making movies that interest me so far. He seems weird. But I can't tell if he's weird because of whatever happened, or he overreacted to whatever happened because he's weird. I've never really understood what happened either.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 06, 2025 09:03 PM (MIvVV)

160 Bogie was Bogie whatever role
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Bogie had the characteristics of a genuine movie star which put limits on what he could do as an actor. But it surely wasn't lack of capability. He's radically different in "Caine", "African Queen", "Sabrina", etc. He has a very fey turn in "Falcon" that makes you cringe but not from being unconvincing.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:03 PM (asXVI)

161 I do like Bogart movies

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:04 PM (Ia/+0)

162 Bogart always played the bad guy early in his career. But his acting is so good you forget he's not the best looking or toughest looking or stereotypical lady's man actor.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:04 PM (KDPiq)

163 Calling it a night, all, but consider: is there an actor from the last 30 years who could do Rick Blaine in Casablanca and Charlie Allnut in African Queen? Maybe Bruce Willis in the 90s. Maybe.

Thanks, moviegique, for the thread!
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025

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Excellent point, Nazdar! Willis could certainly do both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:04 PM (wzUl9)

164 ***
He was in that? The lead was Bruce Willis, wearing a fedora a shade too big for him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Just joking.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (/lPRQ)

165 Key Largo was also one of my favorite Bogart roles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (zZu0s)

166 Nazdar,

Elliot Gould had a good turn with "The Long Goodbye" but mostly by NOT being Bogie. Besides being the '70s. I mention it only because the thought of Gould in that role really turned me off so much that I didn't see that movie until the 2010s.

In the past 30 years? Kiefer Sutherland, maybe. Or Tom Hardy.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (asXVI)

167 Relative got bumped up to first class on a flight to Hawaii many years ago. Movie being shown (days of one screen, not little ones in every seat) was Money Pit.

Fairly young infant was in tow, young enough that mom kept him on her lap. When she needed to hit the facilities, she got up, and was hesitating to wake the sleeping husband. Another passenger - Tom Hanks - quickly says to her he'd be glad to watch the kid while she's gone. "Oh, I'm in this movie". There was another well known actor, woman, forget her name, she sauntered over and they both entertained the kid while mom was away.

Apparently Hanks was a very nice guy, and unsurprisingly was good at being goofy to entertain a toddler. So there's that.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:06 PM (U/Byj)

168 His Capt. Queeg was very different from his Sam Spade, or Roy Earle, or Fred Dobbs. But you're right in that I could not see Ford playing any of those roles, except maybe Spade.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:00 PM (wzUl9)

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Thank you for putting it better than I did. Bogie is a favorite. A classic. Perhaps it's because he is of my great grandparents generation. He was in so many classic movies. Some stinkers, but some truly greats.

Hans Solo and Indiana Jones are of my childhood. Those are the only two roles I think of when you say Harrison Ford.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:07 PM (6p0Jv)

169 Key Largo was also one of my favorite Bogart roles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:05 PM (zZu0s)

In my top ten films. I'm not a Bogart fan boy but he happens to have 4 of the movies in my top ten .

The other three are Casablanca, Sahara and Caine Mutiny.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:08 PM (KDPiq)

170 Bogie had the characteristics of a genuine movie star which put limits on what he could do as an actor. But it surely wasn't lack of capability. He's radically different in "Caine", "African Queen", "Sabrina", etc. He has a very fey turn in "Falcon" that makes you cringe but not from being unconvincing.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025

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His Queeg is the definitive version of the character. Lloyd Nolan (look him up) played Queeg in the Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial w/ Henry Fonda as the defense attorney, and I'll bet Nolan was great. But Bogart is the man.

As for HB's Sam Spade, he makes the line from Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) believable when the latter says that one never knows what Spade will do or say next.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:08 PM (wzUl9)

171 >>145 Honestly Ford seemed to forget how to play Solo after Empire. Or just didnt care to.

Have to throw this in, and thank you, Wolfus (looking forward to you joining us in Kentuckiana!):

Ford was told to make Han Solo a buffoon. Only way to explain him in Return of the Jedi.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:08 PM (NcvvS)

172 Bogart's last movie, Harder They Fall is very good.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:09 PM (KDPiq)

173 148 So this mummy walks dragging one foot but he climbed that trellis to the second floor no problem. Excellent upper body strength I suppose.
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Well, sure, he had to make up for the bum leg.

I think Fraser's claims of harassment are legit to the extent that the guy doing it said as much. Or, wait, no, he said, "Sure I grabbed his taint. It's a joke!"

I suspect his wife was the bigger problem, tho'.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:09 PM (asXVI)

174 The African Queen is great, even with the insufferable Katharine Hepburn, who is actually great in the movie.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:09 PM (6p0Jv)

175 Think Sahara is also on UToob now, or was as of last week.

Desert films shot just east of here in Borrego, I believe. Ironically, not that far from the actual desert training grounds Patton used for armor work.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:10 PM (U/Byj)

176 What does this mean?
Posted by: Lyford at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (gb+vr)

He was blacklisted after accusing the head of the HFPA of sexual assault after the guy groped him at a luncheon.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer

Thanks very much Lyford for asking that and Jeff Weimer for answering! Was very much wondering too.

Posted by: jocon307 at December 06, 2025 09:11 PM (EuROc)

177 I got issues with the Money Pit.

Touchstone was so sleazy. It was almost like Eisner said, "We're gonna make non-family movies," and that was the equivalent of saying "As sleazy as they can possibly be."

And I love "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House".

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:11 PM (asXVI)

178 More controversy.

Special Needs Community Demands People Stop Comparing Them To Tim Walz

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:11 PM (L/fGl)

179 Great story Rhomboid!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 09:12 PM (kpS4V)

180 Mazes and Monsters.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:12 PM (Q+gd/)

181 The Harder They Fall is a terrific Bogart picture -- nice double feature if you like grim is to catch that one back to back with Requiem for a Heavyweight with Quinn, Gleason, & Rooney.

In a Lonely Place ain't too dusty either.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:12 PM (q3u5l)

182 In the past 30 years? Kiefer Sutherland, maybe. Or Tom Hardy.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025

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Sutherland impressed me in his first big role, that of the juvenile delinquent leader in Stand By Me. The moment I saw him on screen, too, I knew whose son he had to be. The same way you know whose son Miguel Ferrer is, and who sired both Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:13 PM (wzUl9)

183 156 Calling it a night, all, but consider: is there an actor from the last 30 years who could do Rick Blaine in Casablanca and Charlie Allnut in African Queen? Maybe Bruce Willis in the 90s. Maybe.
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Bruce Willis is a good call. He could do the world weary Blaine, and did (demand was high)! But he had the comedy chops, and the right quirkiness to be Allnut, too, I think. It wouldn't have been the same as Bogie, of course, but it would've been watchable.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:13 PM (asXVI)

184 >>Elliot Gould had a good turn with "The Long Goodbye" but mostly by NOT being Bogie. Besides being the '70s. I mention it only because the thought of Gould in that role really turned me off so much that I didn't see that movie until the 2010s.

In the past 30 years? Kiefer Sutherland, maybe. Or Tom Hardy.

moviegique, not up on Tom Hardy's work, so can't respond. Kiefer Sutherland...I'd have to think about; seen a little of his work, and could only say, maybe.

AND THIS IS HOW I STAY ON THE MOVIE THREADS!

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:14 PM (NcvvS)

185 @180 I forgot that early 80s made for TV movie with Tom Hanks and Chris Makepeace from Meatballs . Don't play Dungeons and Dragons, kids!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:14 PM (6p0Jv)

186 For me, Kiefer Sutherland's best role will always be in Lost Boys .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:15 PM (KDPiq)

187 And who can forget Man with One Red Shoe?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

188 The Burbs is a fun Tom Hanks film

Posted by: kelly at December 06, 2025 09:16 PM (bn0S5)

189 Local theater will be showing Scrooged on the 16th. We first saw it in first-run theater, large audience. The end where Murray breaks the fourth wall and addresses the theater audience works much better with a theater audience.
Posted by: mindful webworker - lives in the Cherokee Nation at December 06, 2025

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You know, I've never seen that. I have high hopes for it, as Murray seems to pick good material over some script that will just make him look good. Out of my Ten Movies I Would Change Nothing About, he's in no less than three.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:16 PM (wzUl9)

190 Or the first Splash?

Turner and Hooch.

Oh, Dragnet. Love that one too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:16 PM (zZu0s)

191 Kiefer Sutherland

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There's talk of rebooting 24. I don't know whether Kiefer will be back or not.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:17 PM (L/fGl)

192 Splash! Yes, good little movie -- or so I recall. Haven't seen it since the '80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:17 PM (wzUl9)

193 And I, too, have no idea what the GenPub likes, because I'm a bit of a weirdo.
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Eris, I'm more comfortable making recommendations for you than I am GenPub. And it's not even close.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:18 PM (asXVI)

194 For me, Kiefer Sutherland's best role will always be in Lost Boys .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:15 PM (KDPiq)

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The Lost Boys? Off to my bunk.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:18 PM (6p0Jv)

195 Way past bedtime
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:19 PM (Ia/+0)

196 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:16 PM (wzUl9)

Speaking of Murray which automatically makes you speak of Groundhog Day, anyone else see and like Palm Springs with Andy Samberg.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:19 PM (KDPiq)

197 Haven't seen mention of Hanks in Splash. Been thinking it's been a long enough while we could watch that again. Hanks was okay as dumb and beleaguered, and the other comic cast members, like Candy and Levy, kept it interesting. And, of courses, yummy Daryl Hannah.

I can't imagine how bad Splash, Too must be, with neither Hanks nor Hannah. (Re TJM's latest, he should follow up with sequels we really didn't need.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - Disenchanted at December 06, 2025 09:21 PM (yqA/D)

198 I saw Sahara, the Bogart original, some years ago. I liked especially that his character is not an officer, but a sergeant. It fitted his look much better.

(Yes, I know that Bogart grew up in an upper-class family and often played light comedy playboy roles in his early stage work, and in the Universal flick he did with Bette Davis, Bad Sister, around 1931. But he always seemed more working class in his roles.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:21 PM (wzUl9)

199 War movies will never satisfy history geeks (like me), but there is a spectrum. Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Saving Private Ryan, a few others, made serious efforts to get the big things right, and also did amazing jobs of creating the cinematic experience as close to the real thing as possible.

Then you have things like the last atrocity of the Pacific War, Midway (the recent one). A very compact, understandable true story that - if told straight, would be more compelling and dramatic and tension-filled than almost any fictional script. But, no. The sadly mediocre writers and producers cannot comprehend anything apart from dumbed-down dreck following the mediocre formula they usually follow.

Ironically, the best written and acted role in the movie was Nimitz, played by the obnoxious and dumb Woody Harrelson. He nailed it, based on everything known about CinCPac.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:22 PM (U/Byj)

200 More screwball comedy . . .

WATCH: Virginia window-washers dangle from broken line before being rescued

https://is.gd/dIvstH

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:22 PM (L/fGl)

201 Hi! Back again! Can't quit all y'all, it seems.

ROSE SAYER IS THE ROLE KATHARINE HEPBURN WAS BORN TO PLAY.

Dorothy Parker said of one of her roles that she ran all the gamut of emotions from A to B; here, she covered a few more and found a couple of others.

And all that said, The Philadelphia Story remains my number-one favourite movie.

Ok, trying for a final goodnight; my day has hit the 18-hour mark.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:24 PM (NcvvS)

202 I wrote, "Haven't seen mention of Hanks in Splash," and when I catch new comments, it's mentioned twice. Of course.

Posted by: mindful webworker - splish splash I was takin' a bath at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (yqA/D)

203 (Yes, I know that Bogart grew up in an upper-class family and often played light comedy playboy roles in his early stage work, and in the Universal flick he did with Bette Davis, Bad Sister, around 1931.

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By the way, Davis does not play the title role in Bad Sister. She herself hated the film and her performance in it . . . and I lost interest in the movie half an hour after I started it on YooToob. It being her first movie, and the fact that Universal didn't realize what they had in Bogart and Davis and let their contracts lapse, are the historical reasons to know about the flick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (wzUl9)

204 Is this going to be the original version of Star Wars with no CGI Jabba the Hutt?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 08:02 PM

Wasn't Jabba a fat Irish guy originally?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (jc0TO)

205 Woody Harrelson and Matt McConaughey were great in that first season of True Detective. I appreciated them both after that one. Well done TV.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:26 PM (6p0Jv)

206 Yes, yes he was

https://youtu.be/cw1gkNd6Z_8

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 09:26 PM (jc0TO)

207 . . . Dorothy Parker said of one of her roles that she ran all the gamut of emotions from A to B; here, she covered a few more and found a couple of others. . . .

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025

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Dottie was never slow to toss out a meow about a fellow woman.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:27 PM (wzUl9)

208 There's a terrific documentary from this year called "Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes".

I don't think he was upper class, though.

https://moviegique.com/2024/12/november-movie-roundup/

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:28 PM (asXVI)

209 Yeah, it is supposedly no Jabba, han shoots first, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:28 PM (zZu0s)

210 Sam Rockwell makes any movie better.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (KDPiq)

211 Harpo Marx was my favorite member of the Algonquin Round Table. Honk honk!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (6p0Jv)

212 209 Yeah, it is supposedly no Jabba, han shoots first, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:28 PM (zZu0s)

I liked that Han shot first. Why be at a disadvantage when someone wants to kill you?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)

213 This revue is of 'normal' people. I mean, there appears to be no blood, no one is disembodied or disemboweled. Haven't finished the revue but it seems to be a warm movie that the, you know, average 'normal' person would want to see.
Way to go, moviegique. I think I'm going to try this one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (04Glf)

214 Sam Rockwell makes any movie better.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (KDPiq)

He's good.

'Mmmm, Guy.'

'Something really bad happened here.'

'I'm just a glorified extra, Fred.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (zZu0s)

215 211 Harpo Marx was my favorite member of the Algonquin Round Table. Honk honk!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:29 PM (6p0Jv)

His economic theories were much better than his cousin twice removed Karl...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)

216 Best true WWII story with a movie angle has little to do with heroics. During the Battle of the Bulge - and after Skorzeny's irregulars in US uniforms had induced panic and led to heightened security procedures - David Niven came to a US checkpoint. He worked for Monty's HQ organization.

Sentry asked him who won the latest World Series. Typical screening question when trying to ferret out imposters.

His reply, according to him but quite plausible - "I haven't the foggiest, but I was in Bachelor Mother with Ginger Rogers." Sentry had seen the movie, let him pass. Hard to beat that one.

Niven was in some real and interesting s**t during the war, never talked about it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (U/Byj)

217 198 I saw Sahara, the Bogart original, some years ago. I liked especially that his character is not an officer, but a sergeant. It fitted his look much better.”

I like that movie a lot, I think it’s one of the better WW2 movies, and I’m always surprised it’s not more well known.
It’s also notable for featuring one of the only film appearances of the M3 Lee tank. It was the main American battle tank at the outset of the war, and the army was shocked when German panzers ripped it apart like it was made out of aluminum foil. By 1943 they had all been taken out of service.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:31 PM (c7Ygk)

218 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (zZu0s)

He was great in Seven Psychopaths.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:31 PM (KDPiq)

219 I liked that Han shot first. Why be at a disadvantage when someone wants to kill you?
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I remember being shocked. It's kind of a classic anti-save-the-cat moment.

That Bogart doc was from last year, doy.

As for Kate, I grew up with her being in these New England patrician matraiarchal (is that an oxymoron) roles that she kind of got squeezed into after "African Queen".

She had a very good range in the '30s and '40s, though.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (asXVI)

220 I don't think he was upper class, though.

https://moviegique.com/2024/12/november-movie-roundup/
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025

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I believe his mother was an artist or illustrator, which might have meant she was well-paid, or that her husband was high-salaried in *his* job. She, I understood, illustrated the baby on the Gerber baby food labels, leading to the rumor that the model was little Humphrey himself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (wzUl9)

221 His economic theories were much better than his cousin twice removed Karl...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)

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And his book 'Harpo Speaks' is much more entertaining.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (6p0Jv)

222 I liked that Han shot first. Why be at a disadvantage when someone wants to kill you?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 06, 2025 09:30 PM (ynpvh)

It said a lot about his character at that point. He murders Greedo because he knew it was him or Greedo. And he shoots him before he knows what is happening.

That's characterization.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (zZu0s)

223 Ironically, the best written and acted role in the movie was Nimitz, played by the obnoxious and dumb Woody Harrelson. He nailed it, based on everything known about CinCPac.

The really odd thing about Woody Harrelson, and I still have troubled wrapping my brain around this, is that he is a great actor and very versatile. Has done pretty much every kind of role and is always very good at it. I forget I'm watching dumb and obnoxious Woody Harrelson.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 09:33 PM (DqJmd)

224 I didn't even think Vaughn was all that bad in the van Sant remake of Psycho. Not up to Perkins maybe, but who would have been?
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JSG, I read the book not too long ago.

By Bloch's description, the perfect guy to play Norman?

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:33 PM (asXVI)

225 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:32 PM (zZu0s)

Best part of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Indy shot first there too.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:34 PM (KDPiq)

226 I believe his mother was an artist or illustrator, which might have meant she was well-paid, or that her husband was high-salaried in *his* job. She, I understood, illustrated the baby on the Gerber baby food labels, leading to the rumor that the model was little Humphrey himself.
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That rings a bell. The documentary covers this but it's been a year so mostly what I recall is Bogie & Bacall's relationship and that they started the Rat Pack.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:34 PM (asXVI)

227 Vaughn was in the delightfully bizarre The Cell.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:35 PM (Q+gd/)

228 Yeah, it is supposedly no Jabba, han shoots first, etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025

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My memory from 1977 was that Jabba the Hutt is *mentioned* by the alien (Greedo?) -- we don't actually see him until Return -- and that we are certainly given the impression that Solo shoots first. As he should.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:35 PM (wzUl9)

229 Staggering off to do a few things before the ONT.

Okay, I'll confess. We watched My Super Ex-Girlfriend this week. Again. The shark still is about the best part. And the two super girls fighting was actually some of the best superduper action.

Posted by: mindful webworker - don't marsh my mallow at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (yqA/D)

230 "Alien From LA"? There's an episode that doesn't get talked about much...I do enjoy it (how can I not, with Kathy Ireland as the star?!) but it's not on my list of favorites.
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I have the Vinegar Syndrome DVD. It's classic bad low-budget movie in that it's a mess of slightly off decisions (or very off, like having Ireland speak like that) and limitations of budget and marketing.

There was a pseudo-sequel!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (asXVI)

231 I believe his mother was an artist or illustrator, which might have meant she was well-paid, or that her husband was high-salaried in *his* job. She, I understood, illustrated the baby on the Gerber baby food labels, leading to the rumor that the model was little Humphrey himself.
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That rings a bell. The documentary covers this but it's been a year so mostly what I recall is Bogie & Bacall's relationship and that they started the Rat Pack.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025

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I believe Humphrey was college-educated, not sure where, and that a lot of his early stage roles, he said, consisted of him strolling on stage in whites and with a racket, saying, "Anyone for tennis?" That changed when he was cast as gangster Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (wzUl9)

232 Moviegique --

Been some time since I read Bloch's novel, but you're right re that casting. Hoffman would have been much closer to Bloch's description of Norman Bates than either Perkins or Vaughn.

Bloch did two sequels to Psycho himself, and they had nothing to do with the sequel movies. Out of print, I think, but should be fairly easy to dig up used or on interlibrary loan.

There was a hardcover omnibus years ago with all 3 of Bloch's Psycho novels, but it contained a disastrous printing error which omitted the last page of the first novel.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:38 PM (q3u5l)

233 227 Vaughn was in the delightfully bizarre The Cell.
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Tarsem's breakout movie. (Tarsem Singh, but at the time just Tarsem.)

He perfected this visually arresting story-telling with "The Fall," which is all done sans CGI. And since then? Oy.

https://moviegique.com/2008/06/pride-before-the-fall/

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:39 PM (asXVI)

234 @207 Yeah, still here - comment got eaten, I'll try again

Wolfus, you know this: Katharine Hepburn was not admired for her acting chops in her early days.

Saw Sahara several times in my youth (WGN was very fond of old flicks that they could run late at night) and loved it; there was a remake in the '90's(?) with Jim Belushi. Jim Belushi is not Humphrey Bogart.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 09:39 PM (NcvvS)

235 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:35 PM (wzUl9)

Yeah, in the original, no Jabba.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)

236 Been some time since I read Bloch's novel, but you're right re that casting. Hoffman would have been much closer to Bloch's description of Norman Bates than either Perkins or Vaughn.
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And Hoffman did this kind of role really well. He could look really harmless and then turn on a dime. Alas.

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There was a hardcover omnibus years ago with all 3 of Bloch's Psycho novels, but it contained a disastrous printing error which omitted the last page of the first novel.
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Whoops! Whoopsie!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:40 PM (asXVI)

237 64 I first noticed Hanks, like a lot of people did, when he was in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. I'd thought it would be a one-joke show, but it was written quite well and was often very funny.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 08:13 PM (wzUl9)

I first noticed Tom Hanks in Taxi. He played young Jim Ignatowski's roommate at Harvard.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 09:41 PM (0CU3H)

238 So, the thing about Gump.

It's a classic Spielberg/Zemeckis joint. Much like "Who Censored Roger Rabbit," it has little to do with the source material.

And in the book? Gump is not mentally handicapped: He's a dumb-ass. The thing is a farce. Gump's best friend is an orangutan named Sue who rides on the shuttle with him.

Steve & Rob realized: Make him genuinely (pseudo) mentally handicapped, and we're in Oscar territory.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:42 PM (asXVI)

239 Wolfus, you know this: Katharine Hepburn was not admired for her acting chops in her early days.

Saw Sahara several times in my youth (WGN was very fond of old flicks that they could run late at night) and loved it; there was a remake in the '90's(?) with Jim Belushi. Jim Belushi is not Humphrey Bogart.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025

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Given the right script, Belushi can convince. I'm not sure the tank sergeant would be one of those roles.

As for Kate, she had several movie flops in the Thirties and got labeled "Box Office Poison." So she went back to the stage. The story goes that she had a hit in The Philadelphia Story on Broadway. She *bought the rights,* and Hollywood had to negotiate with her -- and set her as the star -- to do the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:45 PM (wzUl9)

240 Not sure about Scolari's character, but Hanks's was besotted with the tall Marilyn-like blonde. (The actress later married Dan Aykroyd.)
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Donna Dixon. Possibly THE main attraction of "Bosom Buddies". Although Scolari and Hanks had good chemistry and Hanks' manic comedy reactions to Dixon were pretty good.

Alas, she and Aykroyd separated after 40 years.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:45 PM (asXVI)

241 I believe Humphrey was college-educated, not sure where, and that a lot of his early stage roles, he said, consisted of him strolling on stage in whites and with a racket, saying, "Anyone for tennis?" That changed when he was cast as gangster Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:37 PM (wzUl9)

He went to prestigious private schools but not college. He enlisted in the Navy in 1918 because he got kicked out of school.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (KDPiq)

242 his costar Peter Scolari was as talented when they were on Bosom Buddies, but he hasn't had the big-screen fortune that Hanks has.
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Dying in 2021 hasn't helped his career, either.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (asXVI)

243 Thinking of all the good flicks I need to revisit after too many years, or the ones I haven't seen yet -- and what I'm probably going to do this weekend is catch Twilight again. The one with Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, and James Garner (who steals, effortlessly, every scene he's in). Worth a watch if you've never seen it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (q3u5l)

244
Yeah, in the original, no Jabba.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025

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So the re-release has Jabba visible -- in that saloon scene, or was it somewhere else? How did they fit that creature into an average room? He needed a *lot* of space.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (wzUl9)

245 I like Brendan Fraser a lot and I wish his movie well.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 06, 2025 09:48 PM (xcxpd)

246 [Bogart] went to prestigious private schools but not college. He enlisted in the Navy in 1918 because he got kicked out of school.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025

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I did not know that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:49 PM (wzUl9)

247 Saw Bloch on the old Tom Snyder show, Tomorrow. He based Norman Bates on Ed Gein, the serial murderer cannibal.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:49 PM (Q+gd/)

248
Why should the Trump Admin allow Netflix to buy WB?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 09:49 PM (DJUFe)

249 his costar Peter Scolari was as talented when they were on Bosom Buddies, but he hasn't had the big-screen fortune that Hanks has.
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Dying in 2021 hasn't helped his career, either.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025

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He was a regular on Bob Newhart's Vermont series, the one with the surprise ending in the last episode.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:50 PM (wzUl9)

250 And outta here.

Moviegique, thanks for the thread.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 09:50 PM (q3u5l)

251
I mean, we have the power, why not wield it?
We can tell obama's Netflix to go shit in their hat.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 09:50 PM (DJUFe)

252 Bogart was also a pretty good chess player.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025 09:51 PM (Q+gd/)

253 Saw Bloch on the old Tom Snyder show, Tomorrow. He based Norman Bates on Ed Gein, the serial murderer cannibal.
Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2025

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Bloch is credited with the line, when asked how he can stand to write such horrifying material: "I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:51 PM (wzUl9)

254 Hepburn wrote a book about her experience filming African Queen. She got some tropical disease and almost died, and almost the entire crew got some disease or another. She wrote that the only two who were healthy throughout were John Huston and Bogart, and in her opinion this was because the two of them never touched any water but instead hung out together and drank whiskey and gin from the moment they got up until they finally went to bed.
Their blood was probably had such a high alcohol content in their blood that no pathogen could survive there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:52 PM (c7Ygk)

255 Confession: I NEVER liked Katherine Hepburn. Not young, not old. Not in African Queen, not in Rooster Cogburn. There is something about her that set my teeth on edge. Of the silver screen ladies, give me Lauren Bacall or ... dammit, the lady from His Girl Friday... Russell?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:52 PM (zZu0s)

256
He went to prestigious private schools but not college. He enlisted in the Navy in 1918 because he got kicked out of school.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025

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Right -- he'd have been about eighteen or nineteen then, as he was born in 1899 or 1900.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:52 PM (wzUl9)

257 I didn't do Netflix after they quit DVDs. But I'm an invisible person. Not sure missing my $$$ means anything to them.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:53 PM (6p0Jv)

258 I mean, we have the power, why not wield it?
We can tell obama's Netflix to go shit in their hat.
Posted by: Soothsayer

The real question is if a Judge will allow it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (/lPRQ)

259 Sorry... Frasier's bestest role?

Blast from the Past...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (mP0Kj)

260 He based Norman Bates on Ed Gein, the serial murderer cannibal.
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Many such cases! Bates, Leatherface, Buffalo Bill AND Hannibal Lechter.

The demand for serial killers FAR outpaces the supply.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (asXVI)

261 or... maybe.... George of the Jungle?

(are you arguing with the narrator?)

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 09:54 PM (mP0Kj)

262 How did they fit that creature into an average room? He needed a *lot* of space.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (wzUl9)

An inserted or deleted scene after Solo and Chewie leave the Cantina. In the hangar they find Jabba waiting for them. The CGI is horrible too. He's tiny vs his size in Return.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)

263 Rosalind Russell. His Girl Friday. Hubby hated that one. They tried really fast I recall. She had a smart hat, I think.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:55 PM (6p0Jv)

264 Talked really fast

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (6p0Jv)

265 257 I didn't do Netflix after they quit DVDs. But I'm an invisible person. Not sure missing my $$$ means anything to them.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:53 PM (6p0Jv)

Netflix has had a couple interesting TV series...

But... wait a year? and you can stream them elsewhere.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (mP0Kj)

266 238 So, the thing about Gump.

It's a classic Spielberg/Zemeckis joint. Much like "Who Censored Roger Rabbit," it has little to do with the source material.

And in the book? Gump is not mentally handicapped: He's a dumb-ass. The thing is a farce. Gump's best friend is an orangutan named Sue who rides on the shuttle with him.

Steve & Rob realized: Make him genuinely (pseudo) mentally handicapped, and we're in Oscar territory.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 09:42 PM (asXVI)

So....Kurt Lazarus's lecture in "Tropic Thunder" was actually 100% earnest and accurate advice?

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (Lhaco)

267 Confession: I NEVER liked Katherine Hepburn. Not young, not old. Not in African Queen, not in Rooster Cogburn. There is something about her that set my teeth on edge. Of the silver screen ladies, give me Lauren Bacall or ... dammit, the lady from His Girl Friday... Russell?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025

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Rosalind Russell. Yes, Kate kind of an acquired taste. I wonder what Bringing Up Baby would have been like with another comic actress playing opposite Cary Grant.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (wzUl9)

268 How did they fit that creature into an average room? He needed a *lot* of space.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:47 PM (wzUl9)

An inserted or deleted scene after Solo and Chewie leave the Cantina. In the hangar they find Jabba waiting for them. The CGI is horrible too. He's tiny vs his size in Return.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025

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A mistake, dramatically. Part of the interest in the situation is, "What does this 'Jabba the Hutt' look like?" Keeping it a mystery until the third film was the right way to go.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:58 PM (wzUl9)

269 If they hadn't cast Harrison Ford in Revenge of the Jedi, the tag line could've been, "Look, Ma, No Hans!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:58 PM (L/fGl)

270 >>>The really odd thing about Woody Harrelson, and I still have troubled wrapping my brain around this, is that he is a great actor and very versatile. Has done pretty much every kind of role and is always very good at it. I forget I'm watching dumb and obnoxious Woody Harrelson.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Ed Harris doppelganger.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (04Glf)

271 Many such cases! Bates, Leatherface, Buffalo Bill AND Hannibal Lechter.

The demand for serial killers FAR outpaces the supply.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025

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Time for a new, faithful movie adaptation of Ellery Queen's serial killer novel from 1949, Cat of Many Tails.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (wzUl9)

272 And ONT is nood

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (wzUl9)

273 Rosalind Russell may be one of my favorite actresses. She was brilliant in "His Girl Friday" and in "The Trouble With Angels". She unlike so many in Hollywood was married to the same man for about 45 and was also a Roman Catholic That may be why her Mother Superior role in "The Trouble with Angels " was so good- because she went to RC schools as a young person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (7RYym)

274 Confession: I NEVER liked Katherine Hepburn. Not young, not old. Not in African Queen, not in Rooster Cogburn.
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Thing is? Those are BOTH old roles. She's 44 in "African Queen"--which is way long in the tooth in 1951.

Check her out in "Little Women," "Stage Door" and "Bringing Up Baby". Oh, and she plays a pilot in one where she's quite appealing. "Christopher Strong"?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (asXVI)

275 So....Kurt Lazarus's lecture in "Tropic Thunder" was actually 100% earnest and accurate advice?
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YES! Which is why, you'll notice, we haven't HAD a mentally handicapped protagonist in a film since.

It'd just make people laugh and be embarrassed.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:02 PM (asXVI)

276 Talked really fast
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 09:56 PM (6p0Jv)

It was a bit faster than your average Thin Man movie. But they seemed to respect the audience more back then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:02 PM (zZu0s)

277 202 I wrote, "Haven't seen mention of Hanks in Splash," and when I catch new comments, it's mentioned twice. Of course.
Posted by: mindful webworker - splish splash I was takin' a bath at December 06, 2025 09:25 PM (yqA/D)

Hanks is an OK actor... but... Hanks plays Hanks in different situations.

It's like John Wayne.... he is always John Wayne... or Clint Eastwood... same deal.

They are just themselves in different situations.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (mP0Kj)

278 Fast talk/overtalk was Howard Hawks' signature. Enough to where when Christopher Nyby directed his first film "The Thing From Another World," people just figured Hawks (who produced) had actually done the direction.

Thanks everybody for coming by! See you in the New Year!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:03 PM (asXVI)

279 Check her out in "Little Women," "Stage Door" and "Bringing Up Baby". Oh, and she plays a pilot in one where she's quite appealing. "Christopher Strong"?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:00 PM (asXVI)

I picked those two because they were movies I sort of liked. Hated old Lion in Winter too. Fuck Henry Finda and On Golden Pond.

Young, she is marginally less annoying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 10:04 PM (zZu0s)

280 Didn't like Hepburn, wasn't fond of Russell.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 10:05 PM (04Glf)

281

Several of us were sitting around today, doing the BS routine. Not about anything important, simply gassing, but it turned out to be totally enjoyable. One of the things was putting bets on tomorrow if anyone would deign to comment on the 84th anniversary of that momentous day at Pearl. I say yes, from the people like me who are steadfast lovers of the most exceptional country on the planet, not so much from the left side.

Any thoughts on the matter? And thank you for letting me change the subject.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (vFbHf)

282 It's a little late to change the subject since we got NOODed, but I think there will be recognition of Pearl Harbor tomorrow by all the usual suspects, in all the usual ways.

(Which isn't saying much, of course.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 06, 2025 10:33 PM (asXVI)

283 Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 06, 2025 10:16 PM (vFbHf)

Boomers and Gen Xers with an interest in history might mention it. If they do Millenials, Gen Z, and 100 million foreigners will just look confused.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 10:36 PM (R86kT)

284 I rarely go to the movies anymore, not only for political reasons. Brendan Fraser is one of the few actors I still admire and happy to call myself a fan. If I see this movie on my streaming services I'll check it out.

Posted by: hadsil at December 07, 2025 10:32 AM (Xht4H)

285 I loved George of the Jungle!

Posted by: Random PJ at December 07, 2025 11:06 AM (RRCAT)

286 Saw Rental Family in the theatre, because we saw the trailer and loved it.

Great movie. Well worth the ten bucks for tickets. (Yes, my PA theatre charges 12 for tickets, 10 for seniors; they even have a Tuesday night for 7.50 tickets).

Posted by: Lou Shumaker at December 07, 2025 11:09 AM (TJ0gw)

Hobby Thread - December 6, 2025 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on scavenging and scrounging.

Are you thinking "I'm not into scavenging and scrounging and I really don't know what that means, but I am eager to learn more. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Pants are optional. Puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Nothing like found treasure - especially as one man's trash is another's treasure. Are you a scavenger or scrounger? Do you look at piles of rubble and wonder what lurks within? Do you look at bulk garbage items left at the curbside and think how you can repurpose or restore or re-sell? Do you keep an eye on dumpsters?

Do you look for treasure? are you opportunistic? Are you a woodworker that sources materials from discarded furniture? Are you a musician that has found and restored tired instruments?

Do you haunt estate sales or auctions or seek barn finds? Do you stop by garage sales or tag sales looking for bargains? Have you ever bought the contents of an abandoned storage unit? Do you visit swap meets?

Do you live on craiglist, FB marketplace, ebay or other online marketplaces - just to see what pops up?

Do you make a hobby of buying and re-selling? Did you buy something novel with the intent to sell but just couldn't pull the trigger and let it go? Have you ever bought something that was intriguing but you didn't actually know what it was? Do you stop by local flea markets or junk sales when on holiday?

We did a bargain hunting theme in February, but let's think wider and bigger. This is more of a scavenger hunt idea - do you look for cool things and what cool things have you found (whether a bargain or not)?

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HORDE REQUEST:

Next week's Hobby Threat requires Horde participation. Next week we will honor the Christmas ornament. Please send photos of ornaments from your collection to the Hobby Thread email address. What qualifies?

Could be something sentimental, something you made as a child or an adult, something special given to you, something you picked up on your travels, something whimsical or fun, something particularly novel, something really old, something handmade, something intricate or fancy, something irreverent and cheeky, etc.

I will be very disappointed if someone does not submit an ornament made of macaroni art.

Don't worry about sending your "favorite." We all know that many ornaments are treasures for different reasons.

If there is a story behind your photo, send a brief description. I may edit or inappropriately embellish, so be warned.

Send individual photos - one ornament for each photo (unless there is a cohesive set that go together). No limit, but the humble Hobby Thread only has so much space to work with.

I'm counting on you!!

Be ready with stories next week! (not this week)

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Impressive - but amazing that someone has a YT channel dedicated to curbside and dumpster and amazing so many people watch!

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Trade-offs of scrounging:

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I looked at several YouTube videos from people that scavenge using magnets in bodies of water (called "magnet fishing"). They pull up anchors, scrap metal, locks, fishing equipment, bicycles, and more. I was hoping to find a good one for the content, but ultimately got tired of the clickbait and opted for "none of the above."

Same for videos of people dumpster diving and picking up curbside junk. Amazing.

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Finding free lumber:

Tips - but look at the tools and organization behind him!

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Things I find in the garbage

I'm a professional scavenger making a living selling curbside garbage. This blog details my finds and sales. It also acts as an archive for things beautiful and historic that would otherwise have been destroyed.

Coins, postcards, artwork, military medals, photos, catalogs, jewelry, pottery, trophies, and more. This blog looks like a slice through history and culture.

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The interweb makes the world a bit smaller. Case in point - The rich history and symbolism of church kneelers

For years I have wandered around churches on days out, and am always drawn in by the colour and imagery of church kneelers. In amongst the grey stone and deep brown of the pews they sing out. They conjure up fantastical worlds filled with everything from the local swimming club to strange mythological beasts and heraldic crests. Three years ago on a trip to St Breaca Church in Breage, Cornwall, a towering pile of kneelers caught my attention. I snapped a photograph and so an obsession was born. I began The Church Kneeler Archive, where I actively collect and archive images of kneelers. I have travelled everywhere from the depths of West Yorkshire to the tip of Land's End in my pursuit of these tiny tapestries, and along the way I have made extraordinary discoveries.

20251206-Christchurch Priory, Christchurch, Dorset.jpg

20251206-Church of King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth, Cornwall.jpg

20251206-St Erme Church, Cornwall.jpg

20251206-Tresco, St Nicholas Church, Tresco, Isles of Scilly.jpg

Anyone make kneelers for their church?

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Random: anyone made your own barrels? I'd love to learn how to do this someday.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an advent calendar theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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1 Don't scrounge anymore.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:31 PM (uQesX)

2 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

3 I guess my current hobby is making comments on the Hobby Thread and being ignored.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:32 PM (uQesX)

4 Used to be called a "scavvie" if you went scrounging in jr and high school.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:33 PM (uQesX)

5 Well, was going to bring up my hobby that finally got back to yesterday and this evening, scrapping lead. Made a ingot last evening from bunch of lead scraps and getting slag got a bit more our of it just before dark.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

6 Thrift stores! Estate sales! These things make me happy. Finding quality things on the. cheap. Thank you, Mr. Dino.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:34 PM (6p0Jv)

7 Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I'm detailing and weathering a 1/35 Whippet and it's turning out pretty nice. Ordered a Type 1 Chi-He from a hobby store in Tokyo. I like ordering from them because they send Japanese snacks along with every order.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 06, 2025 05:34 PM (31p00)

8 I got my scrounging from my grandfather, he lived through the depression raising a family so nothing got tossed away if it had potential.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

9 I will be very disappointed if someone does not submit an ornament made of macaroni art.

Did you forget most of us are 29, T?

I'd say most of the macaroni art we made was probably in the 60s and long since gone.

I have one or two from the 60s, but they're all stored where I'm too tired to get to anymore. The wife insists on newer ornaments on the tree. Does a darn good job of decorating it, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:38 PM (uQesX)

10 Well, was going to bring up my hobby that finally got back to yesterday and this evening, scrapping lead. Made a ingot last evening from bunch of lead scraps and getting slag got a bit more our of it just before dark.

Posted by: Skip

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I have a bucket of lead scraps behind the shop. Mr. Scary says maybe one day he will cast some bullets. I'm guessing one day will be never.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:38 PM (6p0Jv)

11 Got a feeling people are untangling Christmas lights today.
Those things can be frustrating. Hanging them on the eve of a house is not fun either.

Posted by: Case at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (5Je/N)

12 I got my scrounging from my grandfather, he lived through the depression raising a family so nothing got tossed away if it had potential.
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

My Dad was Silent Generation, raised by Depression-era parents. One of my chores as a kid was straightening nails he had pulled from various things. We grew up in a frugal family, to say the least. Mom would re-use ziploc bags if they had previously stored something dry.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (0aYVJ)

13 https://tinyurl.com/yc6fp6a3
Missed this as happened on Sunday, the family tradition to make Christmas grave wreaths for passed family members.
4 of us made 16 wreaths.
This is a very long tradition, hope it continues

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

14 I remember making macaroni art and a matchstick cross at Vacation Bible School in the mid 70s.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:40 PM (6p0Jv)

15 I don't scrounge anymore either Orange Ent. I never had the knowledge to really find treasures at thrift stores and the like but in college and early working days they were my go to for filling the wardrobe and decorating. The last few years have been collecting things that are still good that I or my parents had acquired that were not being used and getting them to a thrift store.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:41 PM (hhkIi)

16 Cannot do the scrounging.
I find I hold onto things for no reason at all.
Then I go into a wild cleaning phase where I will trash what I have accumulated.
When I finally move from this apartment I want to take as little as possible with me.

So as it stands my hobbies are golf, shooting. Scuba diving is no longer viable.
I do hope to add travel as a hobby in the near future. ;-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (PxkKd)

17 I no longer have any macaroni art from my childhood.

I did find the Christmas stocking knitted for me by my grandmother.

It has my name and my birth year among other features.

I have a couple of other hand-made Christmas stockings but that one is by far my favorite because it's so personal.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (ESVrU)

18 My lead scavenger started to make bullets but my job sometimes its a bonanza. I have to have over 400 pounds of lead here.
Pure lead not from contaminated can be worth a bit

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)

19 Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:41 PM (hhkIi)

Yeah. Pale. Unless you have the knowledge of the value of so many things, you can pass up something worth real money. I occasionally watch a scrounger type show on Roku where people have all this expensive stuff in their garages or barns.

At my age, I'm more into getting rid of things instead of acquiring more stuff my family has to get rid of when the time comes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:45 PM (uQesX)

20 12. I still do that with ziplock bags. Not all the time but fairly often. Frugal family and then it was 'save the environment' in school so it just feels wrong to toss the clean ziplock or not re-use the sturdy plastic bottles from Pure Leaf tea etc with water from home instead of buying a fancy water bottle or buying bottled water routinely.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:46 PM (hhkIi)

21 As long as you don't put food in the bags, I see no reason not to reuse ziplocks instead of buying new ones if they're in good condition.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:47 PM (uQesX)

22 I actually still have a ceramic mug I made back in junior high. Never drank from it.
Currently it is on a shelf with a golf ball and other knick knacks in it.
Also a small wooden box made in shop class. That too was made in junior high.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (PxkKd)

23 ""Are you a woodworker that sources materials from discarded furniture? Are you a musician that has found and restored tired instruments? ""

Both.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (snZF9)

24 I'm trying to use up all the stuff I've scavenged, Scrounged or hoarded. It will probably take the rest of my life even if I don't get anything else.

On a different hobby topic; Where Winds Meet is a new (to the US) free to play game on Steam. I have created a guild in game for the Horde, if anyone is interested. It's called AoSHQHorde and, my toon is named Nissanna. Feel free to message me in game or here to join.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (lFFaq)

25 I used to go too all the hamfests I could and buy parts in the flea market. Now I have a garage full of junk that I'm starting to throw away.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 05:50 PM (pkeXY)

26 Also a small wooden box made in shop class. That too was made in junior high.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 05:49 PM (PxkKd)

Oh no! Not a wooden box!!

https://tinyurl.com/yhwam7n6

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:51 PM (uQesX)

27 When I was in graduate school prime scavenging locations were the dumpsters outside student housing areas at the end of the month (moving day) especially at the end of the semester. The secret underground student economy was a thing, and it was considered good manners to leave any furniture that was functional but not a part of *your* life any more outside the dumpster so it could find a new home. I still have two very sturdy chairs I saved from the grad school dumpster ...

(ooh, I got a Notable Comment! First time for everything!)

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (CidsT)

28 ""Do you haunt estate sales or auctions or seek barn finds? Do you stop by garage sales or tag sales looking for bargains? Have you ever bought the contents of an abandoned storage unit? Do you visit swap meets?""

I used to do motorcycle swap meets for rare harley parts, and these days its all mostly junk, so I rarely do that anymore.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (snZF9)

29
Mom would re-use ziploc bags if they had previously stored something dry.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide

My mom washed them out and kept them. So do I.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (pkeXY)

30 My Granddad was a Dumpster Diver. He liked to put together bicycles for kids who didn't have one. He also liked putting together lawnmowers from parts he'd find.

He was a Depression kid and WWII veteran of the China Burma India theater. He saw terrible things and never spoke of them. He was kind and jolly. It made him happy to recycle things to help someone else. He was a great man. I miss you, PaPaw.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:55 PM (6p0Jv)

31 Since I'm not Catholic/High Church I had no idea kneelers were still worked by individuals and not just covered in mass-produced fabric.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 05:55 PM (lFFaq)

32 Curbside scavenger sounds like a lot 0f crackheads I've met.

Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 05:57 PM (LHPAg)

33 Anyone who reloads their ammunition will be a scrounger. Used brass at the range nobody picked up is the usual. I'm not above looking through the trash barrel at the range. I have a trash barrel of old style lead wheel weights, probably a few hundred pounds, that I melt down to make cast bullets. An old heavy pot, found at the curb, can be used to melt lead. I have a small electric furnace to do that but have heard of people using old Coleman stoves to do the melting.

Part of the fun of reloading ammo is to make a game of doing it for the least cost without skimping on safety. Some creative scrounging is standard.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 05:58 PM (yTvNw)

34 >>>I used the 3D printer to make the Nakatomi plaza Advent calendar.
As you pull each day, Hans Gruber falls one more floor. She loved it.
Posted by: Chappyman66 at November 29, 2025 06:01 PM (boKcN)

This is so great!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:59 PM (RuTUS)

35 26 Oh no! Not a wooden box!!

https://tinyurl.com/yhwam7n6

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:51 PM

LOL LOL Damn that was funny!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 06:00 PM (PxkKd)

36 Thrift stores! Estate sales! These things make me happy. Finding quality things on the. cheap. Thank you, Mr. Dino.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Oh, I couldn't agree more. I can spend hours just wandering among the stalls looking at all the "treasures." Some have even come home with me!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:01 PM (ITBpd)

37 13 https://tinyurl.com/yc6fp6a3
Missed this as happened on Sunday, the family tradition to make Christmas grave wreaths for passed family members.
4 of us made 16 wreaths.
This is a very long tradition, hope it continues
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

Wonderful, Skip!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:03 PM (RuTUS)

38
I was expecting either i) toy train sets, or ii) bamboo.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 06:04 PM (KJCdi)

39 I spent a good part of the day prepping for my main winter hobby; I got my snowboarding gear out, gave everything a good test-fitting, and filling the pockets with the appropriate emergency or back-up gear. Tomorrow I actually go snowboarding. Still not a whole lot of snow on the local mountain, so it may be short day if the runs aren't any good. But, still, it's important to get on the mountain and at least work the rarely-used muscles...

Posted by: Castle Guy at December 06, 2025 06:05 PM (Lhaco)

40 Anyone who reloads their ammunition will be a scrounger. Used brass at the range nobody picked up is the usual.

Ya gotta be careful with range brass. If you accidentally pick up a caliber you don't reload, you're now obligated to buy the dies and a rifle and start reloading it.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2025 06:06 PM (3nLb4)

41 Always sadly, 1 wreath is for my cousin who died when she was barely not 16yo in a car accident right around Christmas.
She would have been 50 this year

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)

42 38
I was expecting either i) toy train sets, or ii) bamboo.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 06:04 PM
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Bamboo?

Posted by: TRex - topic research dino at December 06, 2025 06:09 PM (ITBpd)

43 29 years ago went to a sale at UC Berkeley. Lots of sciency stuff. Guy was buying an electron microscope. Said he was going to make one helluva mouse trap!

ZZZZAP!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 06:09 PM (Kt19C)

44 My uncle Tony worked for NYC Sanitation and brought home all kinds of treasures.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:10 PM (sF9Ts)

45 The one thing I did always try to seek out is old vacuum tubes. Ones from the 40's, 50's or 60's. I used to try to find old wrecked radios, TVs, or anything that used them. Either 12ax7 preamp tubes, or 6v6, 6L6, or EL34 power tubes. Vintage tubes are great in guitar amps.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 06:11 PM (snZF9)

46 Bamboo?
Posted by: TRex - topic research dino at December 06, 2025 06:09 PM (ITBpd)

Pro tip, T: go for the Big Bamboo.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:11 PM (uQesX)

47 Those kneelers are needlepoint. A task baked in patience. I made one needlepoint piece in my life - for my brother. When I gave it to him I informed him he would have the ONLY piece of needlepoint I would ever make, lol. I've only ever seen those kind of kneelers in old historic Southern churches....beautiful pieces that have lasted the ages....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:12 PM (ITBpd)

48 When I did more woodworking, I would scrounge any wood I could. I have a couple of hunks of tree trunk I use as a hammering spot. I collected some fruit wood branches, left at the curb, to make walking sticks and trivets. Fruit wood is hard but can be worked with sharp hand tools. You can do a lot of shaping with rasps and files. I used to haunt garage sales for old hand tools that could often be restored with a little effort. Probably saved a few hundred dollars over the years doing that.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:13 PM (yTvNw)

49 I have a gold pocket watch, with gold chain, circa 1885, from family long ago.

There are other family heirlooms. Nobody cares.

Seriously valuable stuff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 06:13 PM (NwnyJ)

50 25 I used to go too all the hamfests I could and buy parts in the flea market. Now I have a garage full of junk that I'm starting to throw away.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I'm searching for a reasonably priced vacuum variable capacitor for 20-10M mag loop project.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 06, 2025 06:14 PM (abIsI)

51 used to do motorcycle swap meets

At a campout guy had euro bike parts. Bought a beautiful streamline headlight nacelle dirt cheap. Resold it cheap within an hour to a welcome buyer.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 06:14 PM (Kt19C)

52 I inherited a pocket watch. It is missing the crystal and one hand. I took it to the jewelers for repairs. They sent it out and it sat there for three months, untouched. I finally got it back. Still should be repaired as it seems to run.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 06:15 PM (+mUZM)

53 35 26 Oh no! Not a wooden box!!

https://tinyurl.com/yhwam7n6

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 05:51 PM

LOL LOL Damn that was funny!!
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 06, 2025 06:00 PM (PxkKd)

hahahahaha good ones

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:15 PM (RuTUS)

54 Mrs. Mahon is getting back into cross-stitching, after a lengthy battle with Lyme disease. She is very happy about the muscle memory recall.

Last winter she could barely walk without a cane. Her recovery has been remarkable.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 06, 2025 06:15 PM (0aYVJ)

55 Pug, that is wonderful news. Hoping her recovery continues. And cross-stitching is my main happy place, just calms me. I have two more ornaments to finish before Christmas...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:17 PM (ITBpd)

56 40 ... "Ya gotta be careful with range brass. If you accidentally pick up a caliber you don't reload, you're now obligated to buy the dies and a rifle and start reloading it."

I avoided that temptation, sometimes just barely. Since I have to sort the cases anyway, I just put the calibers I don't use aside and offer them to folks who do use them. Met some nice people doing that.

I don't do this myself but some brass can be reformed, especially the case neck, into a different caliber.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:19 PM (yTvNw)

57 45 The one thing I did always try to seek out is old vacuum tubes. Ones from the 40's, 50's or 60's. I used to try to find old wrecked radios, TVs, or anything that used them. Either 12ax7 preamp tubes, or 6v6, 6L6, or EL34 power tubes. Vintage tubes are great in guitar amps.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

I have an even dozen NIB 811 RCA tubes for my HF amplifier. I purchased the whole set about 15 years ago
from some old guy that listed them on Craigslist. They were cheaply priced.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 06, 2025 06:19 PM (abIsI)

58 Magnet fishing?

*giggle*

Posted by: UXO at December 06, 2025 06:20 PM (Wnv9h)

59 Scavenging & scrounging brings out the hoarder in me.
Dangerous

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:20 PM (dE3DB)

60 3 I guess my current hobby is making comments on the Hobby Thread and being ignored.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

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*participates by ignoring OrangeEnt*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:23 PM (dE3DB)

61 Pug, that is good news that your Mrs. can stitch again. It has been a long time but cross stitching is nice to do.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 06:24 PM (6p0Jv)

62 *participates by ignoring OrangeEnt*
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:23 PM (dE3DB)

And a fine job you've been doing! (snif)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM (uQesX)

63 56 I don't do this myself but some brass can be reformed, especially the case neck, into a different caliber.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:19 PM
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Anyone try melting down the brass and re-using the raw material for something else?

Posted by: TRex - brassy dino at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM (ITBpd)

64 *participates by ignoring OrangeEnt*
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 06:23 PM (dE3DB)

And a fine job you've been doing! (snif)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM

You guys hear something?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2025 06:28 PM (Wnv9h)

65 Hey Scube, if you are not scuba diving anymore is your nic going to change?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:29 PM (ITBpd)

66 I was waiting for the hobby thread to post this (thought some of you may have seen it already).

Guy made a massive Christmas Village and Train display.

https://youtu.be/ag3AFwavnMk

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 06, 2025 06:31 PM (OGOaV)

67 Anyone try melting down the brass and re-using the raw material for something else?
Posted by: TRex - brassy dino at December 06, 2025 06:26 PM (ITBpd)

I have more brass and lead than I'll ever need. Don't know what to do with it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:33 PM (uQesX)

68 Kneelers? I have always had kneeler pads, but they are built in to the pews.

Is this a Protestant thing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

69 13 the family tradition to make Christmas grave wreaths for passed family members. 4 of us made 16 wreaths.
This is a very long tradition, hope it continues

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:39 PM
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Nice tradition Skip. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: TRex - wreaths are circular garland at December 06, 2025 06:36 PM (ITBpd)

70 I have lots of brass scrap as well. Constantly watch videos on people making objects with brass.
A sword would be neat to make, but smaller objects as well.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:36 PM (Ia/+0)

71 This is my 'round to it scavengering. I save wood from old furniture, strip copper out of defunct engines and wires , cut and save unusual shapes of wood out of trees and strands of horse tail hair for braiding.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 06:37 PM (sDNVV)

72 I do lead out in my fire pit with a grate supported by blocks around the pit. But think brass would need a bit higher temperature and a kiln

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:38 PM (Ia/+0)

73 I am getting rid of most of what I accumulated through estate sales and curb pickups.
Beautiful wood (walnut and birch, some cedar), table saw, hand tools.

The only thing I use routinely now is a power supply from an estate sale that runs my slot car track.

Posted by: Chappyman66 at December 06, 2025 06:39 PM (GwqYh)

74 I used to embarrass my kids by hauling stuff out of people's trash.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 06:39 PM (0nHVk)

75 Hording is just an element of all my other hobbies. I horde until I have a complete project then I forget about it and horde some more stuff until...
It's all about having stuff to do when and if I retire.

Posted by: Reforger at December 06, 2025 06:41 PM (03GBw)

76 C-class solar flare(not CME - my mistake) M 8.1 duration 20 minutes. 20:39 UTC today.
Anyway, to the hobby - trying to play a few tunes with a guitar tuned down a whole step like Leon Redbone used to to...makes the strings on this Takamine Santa Fe a little loose and ringy...nice to sing, though. Tunes fit for a baritone.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:42 PM (vd6bO)

77 Did not realize how big a thing scrounging was until I settled in Florida. People put stuff on their curb and advertise it on Facebook Marketplace as free stuff.

The ex was addicted to thrift stores, so now I tend to avoid accumulating stuff. My general rule is, once it's in your house, you'll at some point need to figure how to get it out of your house...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 06:42 PM (nbLIj)

78 Folks who shoot traditional black powder guns (not the cursed modern inline stuff) tend to be scroungers. Old felt hats are stamped out to make wads for revolvers and for black powder cartridges. Cloth from end of rolls at fabric stores, often given away or at a huge discount, can be made into shooting or cleaning patches, heavier cloth into shooting bags and other cloth accessories. Percussion caps can be made from aluminum soda cans and toy caps. Pure lead for round balls can be found in scrap piles of old plumbing pipes and old style window weights. Metal containers like Altoid boxes get turned into fire starting kits, little tool and implement tins. Pure cotton, heavy stuff, can be made into charcloth using a grill and tight tin can.

So many possibilities for scrounging and improvising.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:43 PM (yTvNw)

79 I guess my current hobby is making comments on the Hobby Thread and being ignored.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

And you are very good at it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:43 PM (z/7Ah)

80 And you are very good at it!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:43 PM (z/7Ah)

Sorta slacking at it this week. I've been noticed a couple times.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 06:46 PM (uQesX)

81 66 Guy made a massive Christmas Village and Train display.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 06, 2025 06:31 PM
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Wow. That's impressive! Thanks for posting!

Posted by: TRex - All aboard! at December 06, 2025 06:47 PM (ITBpd)

82 I have a short box trailer here filled with stuff for projects.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 06:47 PM (sDNVV)

83 Anyway, to the hobby - trying to play a few tunes with a guitar tuned down a whole step like Leon Redbone used to to...makes the strings on this Takamine Santa Fe a little loose and ringy...nice to sing, though. Tunes fit for a baritone.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:42 PM (vd6bO)

Welcome to my life. Frigging metalheads never tune to E standard anymore, some do, but now we got E flat, D, C#, C, and some even B. Technically the guitar needs to be set up for the key its tuned to. The string gauge needs to be heavier, the truss rod needs to be adjusted, etc. I have a rack that holds 7 guitars next to me because of all the frigging tunnings, and they're not my good ones because I'm not putting them through that crap.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 06:47 PM (snZF9)

84 I have lots of brass scrap as well. Constantly watch videos on people making objects with brass.
A sword would be neat to make, but smaller objects as well.
Posted by: Skip

BIL, no not that one. A different one! Thi one cast a big brass skull. it is really well done.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:48 PM (z/7Ah)

85 When we moved last winter, we had to be very harsh about getting rid of all the stuff that we accumulated over the 20-plus years we lived in our house. Even after The Cull, we have a storage unit crammed with stuff in our new town.

We had a garage sale, which helped. But I ask, why did we have six TVs? Sons joked that we lived in a sports bar. We now have two, which is less crazy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 06, 2025 06:48 PM (0aYVJ)

86 63 ... "Anyone try melting down the brass and re-using the raw material for something else?"

Lead for bullets can be melted on a campfire or over a camp stove. Brass melts at around 1,700 degrees F, IIRC. Never heard of a hobbyist reloader melting down brass cases.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:49 PM (yTvNw)

87 I scrounged some steel angle and some lag bolts today.

Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 06:50 PM (vFG9F)

88 Sorta slacking at it this week. I've been noticed a couple times.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Take heart, I'm sure we'll all start ignoring you again soon!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:50 PM (z/7Ah)

89 once it's in your house, you'll at some point need to figure how to get it out of your house...

Used to date her
.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 06:50 PM (Kt19C)

90 I picked up a real cute little kitchen setup from someone's trash, I was going to fix it all up for my grandkids to play with when they visit, unfortunately I had it sitting next to the garage when the big tree fell on it back in October. I have since burned it in the fireplace.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 06:51 PM (0nHVk)

91 I have since burned it in the fireplace.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Definitely up scaled it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 06:53 PM (z/7Ah)

92 I was waiting for the hobby thread to post this (thought some of you may have seen it already).

Guy made a massive Christmas Village and Train display.

https://youtu.be/ag3AFwavnMk
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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Thanks for sharing this. What a collection! Love the views from the camera on the front of the train, and the night shots. And yes, my collection started as 3 village pieces back in the day, and then grew - but not anywhere near the size of theirs. And a third was donated when we were moving cross country. Does he really take that down and then reassemble it every year?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 06, 2025 06:54 PM (ITBpd)

93 Lead is only about 750°f to melt. We would drop shot anywhere between 760 and 810 depending on size. Any higher some trace element , I forget which, level goes haywire. Antimony I think.

Posted by: Reforger at December 06, 2025 06:55 PM (03GBw)

94 , and they're not my good ones because I'm not putting them through that crap.
_-_
Howls! I have a few I keep out...one archtop, a 2000's vintage Recording King, an Epiphone J45, the l'il Takamine, and a banjo.

The Takamine has led a very rough life, so it is the one that gets the de-tune assignments.

Downside to having them all out realized last night. The teenage son who does not realize how big he is tried to wrestle me to the floor yesterday. Landed on the guitar rack and collapsed it. Oddly enough, not a scratch on any of them...only damage seemed to be that the cookie the big boy was holding seemed to be in pieces inside the Epiphone....easier to get out than a pick, though.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (vd6bO)

95 My favorite was a comment made by a workman who said his grandfather had a shoebox on which he had written "string too short to save," filled with, yup, exactly what he described.

Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (PkCdJ)

96 As my tendonitis recedes I'm going to start some small simple whittling projects to get back some hand strength. Probably ball in a cage, 'five minute' wizard or owl (takes me longer), or comfort birds. Basswood all the way. Might as well use a hobby as minor physical therapy.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (yTvNw)

97 90 I picked up a real cute little kitchen setup from someone's trash, I was going to fix it all up for my grandkids to play with when they visit, unfortunately I had it sitting next to the garage when the big tree fell on it back in October. I have since burned it in the fireplace.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

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Inadvertently repurposed toys into Lincoln logs? That is a win-win.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (6p0Jv)

98 Might as well use a hobby as minor physical therapy.
Posted by: JTB

That sounds like a great idea.
Purchase Band-Aids first!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (z/7Ah)

99 Thanks for the interesting and informative Scrounging Hobby Thread, T-Rex!

I have reached the stage where I really need to evaluate what to keep and what treasures to bless someone else with. Mostly blessing others with my treasures which are no longer needed or used.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (kB9dk)

100 My housemate is an artist and wants to sell some of her scratchboard works for Christmas money. https://tinyurl.com/2aedc8nu link goes to facebook.

I had to search online to get some idea of what scratchboard art went for, the 11x14 size which is what she has seems to be around 400 dollars at the etsy links that came up.

I'm wishing I was farther ahead on my decluttering, I think these are great, but its always "but where would I hang it?"

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 07:01 PM (hhkIi)

101 AZ deplorable moron, good to see you, please say hi to your lovely Missus for me. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 07:02 PM (0nHVk)

102 Looking at some empty Balvenie bottles. A string soaked in gasoline tied around the bottle and ignited then doused in water will give you a clean cut on the glass.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:03 PM (sDNVV)

103 Yellow brass melts 1650- 1720 F
Videos I watch use a kiln and gas fired

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (Ia/+0)

104 "My favorite was a comment made by a workman who said his grandfather had a shoebox on which he had written "string too short to save," filled with, yup, exactly what he described.
Posted by: Wenda"

I have a box full of springs labeled "Springs". Then I have another box of springs labeled "More Springs".

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)

105 say hi to your lovely Missus for me. Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Thank you!
I will!
And I thought the same when I saw DDS!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (z/7Ah)

106 That is wonderful news about Mrs. Mahon's recovery from Lyme disease. She must be thrilled.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (yTvNw)

107 Downside to having them all out realized last night. The teenage son who does not realize how big he is tried to wrestle me to the floor yesterday. Landed on the guitar rack and collapsed it. Oddly enough, not a scratch on any of them...only damage seemed to be that the cookie the big boy was holding seemed to be in pieces inside the Epiphone....easier to get out than a pick, though.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 06:59 PM (vd6bO)

Yup, dodged a bullet there. Nothing expensive goes in my rack. The last thing I need is Mrs B knocking them over like a leg lamp. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (snZF9)

108 I still have, and often find a screw or bolt my grandfather collected in cans. And if you need say 4, and find 1 then there are 3 others just like it in that can

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (Ia/+0)

109 >>My uncle Tony worked for NYC Sanitation and brought home all kinds of treasures.

There's a woman here in town that runs a dog walking/sitting business. Her husband works for the local rubbish service. They have a room in their house where the 4 legged visitors stay and its furnished with furniture he finds people throwing away.

Dogs live large in that house.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (viF8m)

110 I did acquire a nice sofa today that folds out to a full size bed for Little. 40 bucks and it looked like it just came out of the showroom. He and I hit the Waffle House on the way down. Waitress had a nose ring, but was absolutely effervescent. I was conflicted...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (nbLIj)

111 It took my wife and I quite a few years to mostly break the scrounging habit. When we were younger, broke and raising the kids, something on the curb with a "Free" sign was a red flag. Yes, we found some good and useful stuff.

Best find I ever came across was a Dual Reference turntable, perfect condition, in a thrift store for $4.95 . Still use it.

Posted by: The Neon Madman at December 06, 2025 07:09 PM (yNfcm)

112 I have a box full of springs labeled "Springs". Then I have another box of springs labeled "More Springs".

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)

I got box full of old harley valve springs. I keep meaning to go through them one day and put them on a tester to check them out and make matched sets to weed out the weak ones. In reality, that probably won't get done before colander face mask world happens and they'll be repurposed for other shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 07:10 PM (snZF9)

113 I have a box full of springs labeled "Springs". Then I have another box of springs labeled "More Springs".
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)

NO SPRINGS!!! HA HA HA HA!

Posted by: Coily at December 06, 2025 07:10 PM (0aYVJ)

114 98 ... "That sounds like a great idea.
Purchase Band-Aids first!"

Trust me. With my big hands and small whittling projects, band-aids are always nearby. Plus I use a kevlar carving glove to hold the wood and a thumb pad on the knife hand. I haven't cut my knife hand. Yet.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 07:11 PM (yTvNw)

115 Cleaned-out the father-in-law's garage when he passed...in addition to his own stuff, he woulld retrieve things from the dumpster that the neighbors threw away that he thought they might actually need later. Each thing...and the garage was very, very full of the things, had a piece of scrap paper with the retrieval date witten on it in pencil.

I was new to their family, so I got the job of cleaning it out. Nobody else wanted to, since you never know what kind of stuff that belongs to a family member has memories that matter attached to it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:11 PM (vd6bO)

116
Keychain Compass

I've been meaning to acquire one, but don't want cheap chinese junk. So I occasionally look at ebay. These things were cheap & plentiful when we were kids, yes?

Didn't Coleman make some?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:13 PM (xTbNp)

117 Sorry to be less visible tonight. Interweb connection is unstable at best. Just wanted to say hello and thank everyone in case it becomes unpossible later.

Posted by: TRex - bad connection dino at December 06, 2025 07:14 PM (OOGCW)

118
btw, the chinese can't even make a compass that works

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:14 PM (xTbNp)

119 NO SPRINGS!!! HA HA HA HA!

Posted by: Coily

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My hobby is MST3K references. The Master would not be pleased.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:14 PM (6p0Jv)

120 We moved here 4.5 years ago. I filled two 3rolling garbage bins With stuff collected over the previous 3 houses. I was lucky the bins rolled...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:15 PM (z/7Ah)

121 "I keep meaning to go through them one day and put them on a tester to check them out and make matched sets to weed out the weak ones. In reality, that probably won't get done before colander face mask world happens and they'll be repurposed for other shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division"

That's kind of my philosophy. I'll sort them if I need them. Life is too short to spend sorting springs.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

122
a jackknife
a compass
a piece of Bazooka gum, or just the wrapper from a piece

When did these things stop being "essential" to us?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:16 PM (xTbNp)

123 Thanks Coily! I knew someone would get it.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)

124 "My hobby is MST3K references. The Master would not be pleased.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary"

You would love my ringtone. It's Krankor laughing.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:18 PM (vFG9F)

125 My mother used to sew/knit/crochet/make dolls, etc. She never seemed to make just one of anything, usually aiming for 20-50 in quantity. When we cleaned out that place, we thought we were done with the craft supplies after emptying the house, but as any good redneck can tell you, junk cars make for good storage...most of them were actually rat/mouse-proof. Not all, though. Fun.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:18 PM (vd6bO)

126 a piece of Bazooka gum, or just the wrapper from a piece

When did these things stop being "essential" to us?
Posted by: Soothsayer

I know, right!
In corps school we were taught how to use the clear wrapper off a pack of cigarettes on a sucking chest wound!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:19 PM (z/7Ah)

127 That no springs video is so silly it's unforgettable

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)

128 "My hobby is MST3K references. The Master would not be pleased.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary"

You would love my ringtone. It's Krankor laughing.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:18 PM (vFG9F)

MST3k is my version of the 3 Stooges. I never get tired of it. The missus, however, does. A lot of sighing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:21 PM (0aYVJ)

129 A lot of sighing
_-_
That's a good woman right there....some get to throwing things after a spell.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vd6bO)

130 Mrs fd absolutely does not get MST3K. I wonder sometimes if she gets me.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vFG9F)

131 Mrs fd absolutely does not get MST3K. I wonder sometimes if she gets me.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vFG9F)

Sometimes she'll quote something from MST, the Simpsons (the old ones), or Monty Python. And then she'll pause, and say, "what have you and the boys done to me?"

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:27 PM (0aYVJ)

132 I have Manos: The Hands of Fate and Santa Claus Comquers the Martians on DVD. It is a Christmas favorite in the Scary household

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (6p0Jv)

133
There's always a running loop-stream of MST3K episodes on Youtube. I've often piped it through the bluetooth and listen during my commutes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (DJUFe)

134 ft, spring-collecting is even funnier than string-collecting!

My own personal coup was a Louis Vuitton trunk that a neighbor put out as garbage. Spotted it on my morning run, which turned into a morning sprint home so I could get the car and go back for it!

Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (PkCdJ)

135 I want to get the Torgo theme music for my phone.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (0aYVJ)

136 133 There's always a running loop-stream of MST3K episodes on Youtube. I've often piped it through the bluetooth and listen during my commutes.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (DJUFe)

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PlutoTV has an MST3K channel (and a RiffTrax channel as well)

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 06, 2025 07:30 PM (OGOaV)

137 One last, and pleasant, thought. We put a twin bed in good condition on the curb. In a half hour a young mother stopped and asked if it was for sale. When told it was free she lit up. Her older boy, perhaps seven, was going to get his OWN BED. She almost had tears in her eyes. Knowing something we didn't need could be so appreciated was hugely satisfying.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 07:31 PM (yTvNw)

138 Pluto TV has channels for MST and Rifftrax. But, they seem to play the same ones for a long time before adding any more. And sometimes they feature the new MST, which is garbage (por ejemplo: Patton Oswalt) Blech. Very blech.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:32 PM (0aYVJ)

139 Mid 1980's my recently retired late father is taking his daily walk around his then sparsely populated Florida neighborhood and finds maybe 10 sheets of high quality 4 X 8 plywood on the side of the road. He comes back with his truck and as he's loading his plywood up comes a county sheriff, a lady deputy. She asks what he's doing, he tells her 'I found it'. She helps him load it into his truck and follows him to the sheriffs station.

They held it for 30, maybe 60 days. He'd go every week to make sure it was covered and undamaged. No one claimed it so they released it to him.

He built a nice storage shed with it.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 07:32 PM (QGaXH)

140 He and I hit the Waffle House on the way down. Waitress had a nose ring, but was absolutely effervescent. I was conflicted...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 07:06 PM (nbLIj)
~~~~~

Some years ago I was in the hospital for a couple of days and a new night nurse walks in...spiked bright white hair, tattoos up and down both arms and an eyebrow piercing. I groaned internally but she turned out to be the absolute best nurse I've ever had.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2025 07:33 PM (3ImbR)

141 I was new to their family, so I got the job of cleaning it out. Nobody else wanted to, since you never know what kind of stuff that belongs to a family member has memories that matter attached to it.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

When the old lady next to me died (old man nice but passed years before) I had to check out the estate sale. Almost nothing of value. She purged all the man stuff over the few years since he passed, all that was left was a dilapidated house full of china dolls.

Before the estate sale they haul off two construction dumpsters full of the even more worthless garbage. Guy that bought the house as-js hauled off three more.

People running the estate said the good stuff was sold on line weeks ago. But they have to have the home estate sale with the leftovers. After a couple hours they were basically telling everybody. "Make any offer and it is yours."

Yup, all that shit I wasted money on is going to the dump when I die.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 06, 2025 07:34 PM (/lPRQ)

142 Yeah, I am a scavenger. I don't prowl the curbsides, because I rarely see heaps of stuff. Used to routinely scavenge the metal pile and the tire pile at the local dump, until they banned scavenging. Once in a while, I will see something really worthwhile there, I will ask the attendant if I can snag it, and usually he's OK with it. On the tire pile, I will come in with some totally rotten tires, and frequently leave with one or two "rollers" to put under inoperable cars.

If I scrap something, I try to separate out the valuable metal scrap, and trash the worthless stuff.

BTW, does anybody here know if scrap pot metal, (aka Zamak, or die-cast, or "white metal") can be melted down and cast into ingots, or something useful?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 07:34 PM (npFr7)

143 130 Mrs fd absolutely does not get MST3K. I wonder sometimes if she gets me.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:23 PM (vFG9F)

She doesn't have to get your taste, so long as she gets you in all the right places, dear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 07:36 PM (6Bc88)

144 Happy to see so many MST3K fans here. One of my favs, and a holiday tradition here.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2025 07:36 PM (3ImbR)

145 An after the sale 'garage sale had a large steel shed full of tools and 'metal'. I did buy anything , they priced it all like new.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 06, 2025 07:37 PM (z/7Ah)

146 The end of the school year in Madison WI is also known as "hippy Christmas." All the furniture and other items left on the curb are free to passers by. Makes for a damned mess of traffic downtown but nothing ends up in the landfill.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 07:37 PM (6Bc88)

147 Wow Trumpy, you can do magic things!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 07:38 PM (pkeXY)

148 "Wow Trumpy, you can do magic things!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

Prophetic, huh?

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

149
Son and Daughter-in-law moved to rural Wyoming. One of visits i asked them why they save so much stuff, mostly pieces and scraps of stuff.

He told me we live rural and you save everything you can, you never know when you'll need it. We moved here and he is right.

Our landfill is actually fun to visit. They have different places for specific stuff, wood, metal, electronics, etc.

People "shop" there first before going to stores.

It's fun and saves people money.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 06, 2025 07:40 PM (3ek7K)

150 tcn, did you feel the earthquake?

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

151 Drill bits. For the zombie times.

Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (LHPAg)

152 135 I want to get the Torgo theme music for my phone.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:28 PM (0aYVJ)

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Here is 10 hours of it. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

https://tinyurl.com/485nut25

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (6p0Jv)

153 Drill bits. For the zombie times.

Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (LHPAg)

Good cross bow bolts.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (snZF9)

154 One person's junk is another person's treasure.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:42 PM (sDNVV)

155 Happy to see so many MST3K fans here. One of my favs, and a holiday tradition here.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 06, 2025 07:36 PM (3ImbR)

Rifftrax does a Yule Log episode, featuring Kevin's fireplace, a little TV and a speaker. the interrupt the fir to play snippets of numerous Christmas themed shorts. You can find that on Pluto TV.

Posted by: Pug Mahon Knows Stuff at December 06, 2025 07:46 PM (0aYVJ)

156 TUBI has mst3k.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 07:49 PM (pkeXY)

157 BTW, does anybody here know if scrap pot metal, (aka Zamak, or die-cast, or "white metal") can be melted down and cast into ingots, or something useful?
_-_
Never tried, but seems like you could do that and wax-cast it into something...jacks....the legos of the 20th century (for your bare feet).

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:52 PM (vd6bO)

158 Solar flare mentioned earlier is starting to cause some excitement.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (vd6bO)

159
My brother works at a landfill in NC. He is amazed how much good stuff people bring in. He's a good Ole country boy who will talk to any9ne so he always asks people why they are trashing stuff.

The main reason is people are cleaning out relatives houses and they don't want the hassle of trying to sell the stuff.

One young couple had boxes of antique toys. He loaded them in his truck and auctioned them off for hundreds of dollars.

Wrought iron outside furniture is another frequently dumped item. He has sold a lot of that also.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)

160 TRex, thank you for another great hobby thread

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:54 PM (sDNVV)

161 My brother works at a landfill in NC. He is amazed how much good stuff people bring in.
_-_
One of my grandfathers bought by the truckload from a fella who ran the local dump - set up a shop downtown to resell the stuff..Dad always joked that we should get rid of anything we didn't want to see again at a different dump or Mom might buy it back.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (vd6bO)

162 Solar flare mentioned earlier is starting to cause some excitement.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 07:53 PM (vd6bO)

About an hour ago, I was browning some hamburger in the skillet to make a pot of chili. While that went on, I fired up the Zenith Transoceanic, and was getting good activity on all bands, even 16 meters. (So I have a good 1L6 in there!) I think this radio should have the selenium rectifier replaced. I was thinking full-wave diode bridge, and maybe a choke-input filter, to get real low-ripple DC. From my on-line reading you want 1.4 volts to the 1L6 filament, and no more.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 08:00 PM (npFr7)

163
Don, lol.

That is so true.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 06, 2025 08:01 PM (3ek7K)

164 And I am going to go clean up my radio bench, speaking of hobby-related. It's damned cold here, will go below zero tonight for sure. It was only 2 degrees F this afternoon when I took my trash to the dump.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 08:03 PM (npFr7)

165 150 tcn, did you feel the earthquake?
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

No. It was down near Yakutat. About 400 miles east of here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:03 PM (6Bc88)

166 We are having a wind storm, gusts into the 90 mph range in Palmer, not nearly so bad at our place. Wasilla is taking a beating. Roofs torn off, RVs tipped, wings ripped of light planes, trees down all over and of course the ice from last week making things just delightful for travel.

We are staying in, thanks.

Haven't lost power but I have the wood stove burning just in case.

Supposed to keep doing this through Monday. Ack.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:05 PM (6Bc88)

167 Luckily the Tug Bar posted that they are open for business, so in an emergency...

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 08:06 PM (6Bc88)

168 tcn

We got windy Thursday evening. Supposed to get seriously wet tomorrow through Wednesday.

It’s always nice when the ground gets saturated and the wind kicks up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2025 08:08 PM (mT+6a)

169 Hopefully not late enough to get myself banned from the blog. Cracked open a TRS Challenger 1400 earlier today. Somebody had let something nasty drip down the face, dissolving the paint as it went and rusting where it was allowed to pool.

So this one's going to be fun.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 06, 2025 08:10 PM (lUFok)

170 In keeping with the them of the thread, I have a friend that does thematic posts on Facebook of all the curb alert finds he sees during his daily drives (furniture, appliances, plumbing fixtures{yes, toilets} and such. As for me, a friend just got me a gift certificate to Scale Hobbyist as a retirement gift and I was on their website shopping like old school Wheel of Fortune: okay, for $18 I'll take the X; for $27 I'll take Y and finally for $62 I'll take Z.

Posted by: Stacy0311 at December 06, 2025 08:59 PM (BfTZK)

171 Bench cleaning proceeds apace. Packed away an old desk lamp that had gone unused for several years, May make it an LED conversion project. Ditto the little Tensor "high-intensity" lamp. Remember those?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 09:31 PM (npFr7)

172 The interesting thing about scavenged junk is someday, it will end up hosting a show on MSNOW (or MSDNC or whatever they call it)

Posted by: VirginiaSmoker at December 07, 2025 03:25 AM (zwTY9)

Ace of Spaces Pet Thread, December 6

Courtesy Jack Jackson

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Courtesy Hadrian the Seventh (who didn't put his nic in his email)

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Meet The PetMorons

16 year old Spot
from the desk of "THE LORD PROTECTOR" the BIG "T"

Spot looks like a lovely, healthy kitty! And still a hunter?

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This is Tillie my 14 yr old Dachshund/Mix that went to heaven on Nov 24th. I had rescued her back in 2011 after losing my beloved Chou/Mix Sierra quite unexpectedly. Sierra had been my angel and her sudden loss had left a huge hole in my heart. Tillie was only 10 months old when I adopted her and she quickly healed my heart. She was just a few months shy of her 15th birthday when she passed. Over the years she was quite a handful sometimes but I'd do it all over again just to have her back.
She was around 1-2 yrs old in the first two photos and about 2-3 yrs old in the third photo. The second photo is her waiting for the squirrels to come down the trees (she loved chasing squirrels).
Wish to remain a lurker. Thank you and keep up the great work.

Tillie looks like a wonderful dog. So sorry that you have lost her, and also Sierra. The "waiting for squirrels" photo is endearing. Stay in touch.

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You asked about pet shelters. This is a small shed in the backyard I transformed into a stray cat shelter. I looked up instructions and followed them. Raised up off the ground. An ingress large enough for entry, but small enough to keep out the elements. Insulated with straw bales. It is shown with Sakura, who is the current stray yard khet. She isn't sold on it. And my hope is by feeding her near it, she will come to see it as a place to get out of the cold.
Victor Tango Kilo

Sakura may be a stray, but she's a pet. A lovely one.

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

Parakeets taking a bath this morning on Broadway in Garland Texas!
Eromero

Were they noisy?

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An American raccoon has been in the news recently. And By-Tor has raccoon visitors again.

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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, November 29

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 03:31 PM

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1 Amazing Horde Pets as always. I love them all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 03:34 PM (ESVrU)

2 Petz!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 03:36 PM (Kt19C)

3 Afternoon, Pet Folken. Sakura looks like a longhaired beauty -- and regular food and keeping out of the weather will enhance her health.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 03:37 PM (wzUl9)

4 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 03:42 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Paisley and I are settling into our new bachelor suite. It has a big window looking out onto the street. Paisley likes to sit on the bed, look out the window and bark at random shit.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 03:43 PM (8CIFn)

6 Lassie introduced the concept of "series reboots" to TV. Think about it. First there was Jeff Miller (Tommy Rettig), his mother (played in the first season by Cloris Leachman), and Gramps on their small farm. Then came Timmy Martin and his parents, his mother played by June Lockhart. Then came forest Ranger Corey Bray, a bachelor. There may have been another before the show was canceled in the late Sixties or early Seventies. Each time, Lassie continued, but her environment changed.

It's possible -- I don't remember -- but Timmy may have been shown actually passing Lassie on to ranger Bray when that reboot happened.

And I've read that Timmy was never caught in a well in any episode. Jeff might have been, but somebody else will have to answer that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 03:44 PM (wzUl9)

7 Big black Stirling is sleeping atop the back of the couch, on a blanket folded there for humans to use. Little gray Dagny is curled on my bed between the pillows, where she napped with me just now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 03:45 PM (wzUl9)

8 Too bad I can't figure out a way to share the short video I got of the visiting possum. It's large!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 03:45 PM (+mUZM)

9 Love the pets. Lurker, condolences on the loss of Tillie and Sierra.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 03:47 PM (6p0Jv)

10 Hi guys,

I have updated our cat blog

https://tinyurl.com/4k65zjkx

I'm sorry to the lurker who lost Tillie.

Sakura is quite a beautiful cat. I hope she stays safe.

Spot is cute and I hope he keeps going for a lot more years. I do feel for that poor squirrel though.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 06, 2025 03:48 PM (2F0/Y)

11 Petzzzzz

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 03:49 PM (6U1c2)

12 Afternoon, everyone. Just waiting for some ground beef to defrost so I can make meatloaf. My two pups are napping right now, but they'll be happy and awake once they smell the cooking.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 06, 2025 03:49 PM (ufSfZ)

13 Doggeh has such a sensitive tummy
Today is a bad poo day

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 03:49 PM (6U1c2)

14 I will stick to pure breed dogs from now on. At least I know what I'm getting into. I also need to stick to under 30-25 lbs.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 03:51 PM (VCgbV)

15 Tommy Rettig was later a software guy if memory serves. I dimly recall using a book of his when I was first learning dBASE.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025 03:52 PM (q3u5l)

16 I got up from my desk to go check on Penny because I thought she was napping in my bedroom.

Turns out she's been sitting next to me at my desk this entire time.

She's laying on a black towel, so she sort of blends into the background (she's a black kitty).

I need to get my eyes checked again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 03:54 PM (ESVrU)

17 Meow!

Some sad news. My co-workers cat had to be put down last night. Poor kittuh had a stroke and was blind and couldn't walk. Also, it had diabetes. An older cat. Still, very sad. I can't recall the kittuh's name but kittuh's staff member's name is Geoff. He's pretty shook up, even though he new this was coming at some point.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 06, 2025 03:55 PM (sAmhv)

18 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 06, 2025 03:55 PM (sAmhv)

Poor kitty. Give our condolences to Geoff.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 06, 2025 03:57 PM (2F0/Y)

19 Condolences to coworker Geoff. Always tough to lose a pet.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 03:58 PM (6p0Jv)

20 Poor cat. At least it's not in pain anymore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 06, 2025 04:00 PM (ufSfZ)

21 Riddles hubby sent (answers are all breeds of dogs) and I need help with these 3:

1 - would sound like a musical instrument if you changed the first vowel sound from long E to long U?

2 - contains somewhere within it the consecutive letters -CHSH-?

3 - is an anagram of SOMEDAY?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 04:01 PM (GhIJO)

22 The parakeets (Mrs.E says they’re Monks) were on a rest stop headed south. Bucky’s is a lot louder.

Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 04:03 PM (pS4Fh)

23 And thanks, KT!

Posted by: Eromero at December 06, 2025 04:03 PM (pS4Fh)

24 Too bad about the squirrel. Is it playing possum?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 06, 2025 04:04 PM (w6S0H)

25 21 Riddles hubby sent

Samoyed

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:06 PM (7xrfc)

26 Number 3 is Samoyed

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 04:07 PM (sDNVV)

27 (That was for #3.)
#2: Dachshund

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:07 PM (7xrfc)

28 Heck, the cat PUSHED Timmy into the well.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 04:08 PM (kpS4V)

29 Dachshund

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 04:09 PM (sDNVV)

30 Greetings one and all. So over here, my boy Kroger is on restriction. He got a strain that was so bad, he can't walk very well. At least the vet told us that this was not osteo so we took some relief from that. But he's a bit annoyed that he's not allowed to jump around like he wants to.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:09 PM (7xrfc)

31 #1: Beagle

Posted by: NR Pax at December 06, 2025 04:11 PM (7xrfc)

32 Lily is mrrping and trilling for me to deploy the feather toy. I'm basically here to feed and entertain my feline overlord(-lady).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 04:11 PM (kpS4V)

33 Victor Tango Kilo, you are so thoughtful to provide shelter for stray kitties.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 04:12 PM (kpS4V)

34 Jan Clayton was Tommy Rettig's mother. Cloris Leachman was Timmy's first adoptive mother to be replaced by June Lockhart after one season.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 04:19 PM (pkeXY)

35 Tommy Rettig was later a software guy if memory serves. I dimly recall using a book of his when I was first learning dBASE.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 06, 2025

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That's right -- when the acting gigs dried up, as they so often do for child actors, he reinvented himself.

I understand he was very much attached to the Lassie he worked with on the show. I'd like to think he adopted a collie of his own later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

36 Jan Clayton was Tommy Rettig's mother. Cloris Leachman was Timmy's first adoptive mother to be replaced by June Lockhart after one season.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025

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Oh, so Cloris came later? I was confused.

Whitman's series of "TV adventures for young readers" had at least two Jeff & Lassie novels, and two Timmy & Lassie ones. I had and read them all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:22 PM (wzUl9)

37 Heck, the cat PUSHED Timmy into the well.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025

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Just to see him splash!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:23 PM (wzUl9)

38 >>>One minute I'm telling my dog, "no, you can't have my bacon." Then he makes this face and I'm making him an omelette to go with it.

Ha ha!

I had to leave my cat (The World's Most Beautiful Cat) with an uncatted relative once, and as I was explaining cat things face-to-face, and the cat was purring happily on my lap, the relative said, "Ew. Do you let it sit on you?" And my heart sank, and yet we continued, and my cat was rapidly winning over the relative, and within hours the relative said, "Do you think [cat's name] would like some warm milk?"

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:23 PM (RuTUS)

39 >>>waiting for the squirrels to come down the trees

Catching a glimpse of St. Francis at the base of the tree!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:27 PM (RuTUS)

40 Puddleglum, I'm sorry to hear about your co-worker's feline friend. That's the tragedy, that we know their time will be shorter than ours, and they don't -- and we do our best to make that time a happy one.

If I were there, I'd tell your co-worker (though maybe not right away) to remember his buddy as he was, to honor him. Any whitewashing of his memory ("He was *always* a good cat! He never did anything wrong!") would be a disservice to him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:27 PM (wzUl9)

41 I had to leave my cat (The World's Most Beautiful Cat) with an uncatted relative once, and as I was explaining cat things face-to-face, and the cat was purring happily on my lap, the relative said, "Ew. Do you let it sit on you?" And my heart sank, and yet we continued, and my cat was rapidly winning over the relative, and within hours the relative said, "Do you think [cat's name] would like some warm milk?"
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025

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I'v always said that Marie-Antoinette the smart black cat would have converted a cat hater. Big Arizona or Wolf? Probably not. Little Dagny might manage it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 04:30 PM (wzUl9)

42 >>>Parakeets taking a bath

Looks like more than a pair-a-keets. More than a dozen!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:33 PM (RuTUS)

43 Our tortie cat charmed a family member who claims to not enjoy animals. Cat just jumped up in the lap of person and dared them to protest. Family member was actually pleased and giggling.. In a contest of strong-willed females, the cat wins.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 04:35 PM (6p0Jv)

44 Thanks so much for the many threads, K.T.!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:35 PM (RuTUS)

45 43 Our tortie cat charmed a family member who claims to not enjoy animals. Cat just jumped up in the lap of person and dared them to protest. Family member was actually pleased and giggling.. In a contest of strong-willed females, the cat wins.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 04:35 PM (6p0Jv)

In my case, they were both females of their species, too!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)

46 Was the young Cloris Leachman a cutie?

The immortal words of June Lockhart are "Who do I have to fuck to get off this show?"

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:44 PM (W7XSX)

47 46 The immortal words of June Lockhart are "Who do I have to fuck to get off this show?"
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:44 PM (W7XSX)

!!!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:47 PM (RuTUS)

48 Lost in Space. Irwin Allen had a scene where June and the others were violently tossed is boat on body of water on a strange planet. It was so violent that June was battered and bruised.

Hence, the comment.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:49 PM (W7XSX)

49 The immortal words of June Lockhart are "Who do I have to fuck to get off this show?"

Posted by: no one

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And I thought it was spicy when Barbara Billingsley spoke jive in Airplane! Those TV moms had potty mouths.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 04:51 PM (6p0Jv)

50 Julie Andrews cursed like a sailor.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:53 PM (W7XSX)

51 Your read a script. It off-camera things are completely different.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:54 PM (W7XSX)

52 young raccoons are so stinking cute. But then they grow up and become destructive trash pandas.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:00 PM (hhkIi)

53 A few times a week, my lawn gets a visit by a flock of white ibises like the one's pictured here:

http://tiny.cc/hn3w001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 05:03 PM (nbLIj)

54 We have a communal nest of 4 monk parakeets near our house in Queens. They chose a transformer box. The city seems to leave them alone as the nest has been there for years.
Feral monk parakeets are common.

Posted by: Accomack at December 06, 2025 05:04 PM (8jVAy)

55 My old bloodhound-ish doggeh loved/hated young raccoons. Or old. He did not discriminate. We have memories of him front paws on tree and baying that bay.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:06 PM (6p0Jv)

56 CME headed our way? 20:39 UTC? Only a couple of places reporting it. Fake?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:09 PM (vd6bO)

57 We have a communal nest of 4 monk parakeets near our house in Queens. They chose a transformer box. The city seems to leave them alone as the nest has been there for years.
Feral monk parakeets are common.
Posted by: Accomack at December 06, 2025 05:04 PM (8jVAy)

Kentucky Fried Chicken > Queens Fried Parakeet..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 06, 2025 05:09 PM (nbLIj)

58 I've heard of those parakeet colonies in TX. They seem to be a city/suburb thing. Have never seen or heard one out in the sticks.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:12 PM (6p0Jv)

59 My husband never had pets as a child. Our first pet was a male bouvier--120 pounds of dog. My mother-in-law couldn't understand why we bothered.

But she went from that to saying, "Water? That's all you give him?" to sneaking him pieces of her world-famous pizza when she thought we weren't looking.

Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 05:12 PM (PkCdJ)

60 Julie Andrews cursed like a sailor.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:53 PM (W7XSX)
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Now I'm picturing the von Trapp family singing bawdy sea shanties.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 05:16 PM (ESVrU)

61 Clearly he was a coonhound Mary. Which brings back memories of listening to Jerry Clower tapes.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:16 PM (hhkIi)

62 Clearly he was a coonhound Mary. Which brings back memories of listening to Jerry Clower tapes.

Posted by: PaleRider

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Yep! A Bloodhound/Treeing Walker coonhound mix. I need to send pics for this thread. I haven't had the heart to yet.

LOL on the Jerry Clower. Dad listened to him a lot. He was funny.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 06, 2025 05:20 PM (6p0Jv)

63 Parakeets are considered a major ag crop pest and are generally hunted down.
City folk really want to live in a diorama.

Posted by: Accomack at December 06, 2025 05:22 PM (8jVAy)

64 I had no idea parakeets could survive in the wild, let alone do well enough to become a crop pest.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 05:24 PM (hhkIi)

65
I had no idea parakeets could survive in the wild, let alone do well enough to become a crop pest.
Posted by: PaleRider

I've never seen one outside of a cage.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 05:36 PM (pkeXY)

66 59 My husband never had pets as a child. Our first pet was a male bouvier--120 pounds of dog. My mother-in-law couldn't understand why we bothered.

But she went from that to saying, "Water? That's all you give him?" to sneaking him pieces of her world-famous pizza when she thought we weren't looking.
Posted by: Wenda at December 06, 2025 05:12 PM (PkCdJ)

; )

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (RuTUS)

67 Thank you, smart Morons!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (gDlxJ)

68 Like most invasive pests, parakeets probably have no natural predators.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 05:48 PM (zZu0s)

69 67 They're fun, vmom!

Thank you, smart Morons!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 05:44 PM (gDlxJ)

21 Riddles hubby sent (answers are all breeds of dogs) and I need help with these 3:

1 - would sound like a musical instrument if you changed the first vowel sound from long E to long U?

2 - contains somewhere within it the consecutive letters -CHSH-?

3 - is an anagram of SOMEDAY?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 04:01 PM (GhIJO)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:48 PM (RuTUS)

70
Hobby Thread - December 6, 2025 [TRex]
Posted by Open Blogger at 05:30 PM

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:54 PM (RuTUS)

71 Tillie was quite a beautiful animal. I’m glad you had so many good years with her. I love the picture of Tillie in your backyard! Such a charming oasis I hope you still live there. Wherever you are, the Lord goes with you.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at December 06, 2025 06:46 PM (S3aD9)

72 Thanks for all the kind comments about my catio last week, y'all. Sorry I was out of town and unable to respond to questions on that day, but in case anyone's still interested:

1. The window is the access point. It's a standard ground floor window, not a basement or garden window; it looks lower to the ground than it should be because our patio was added after we bought the house. But it's just our back kitchen window. We just open the window to let the cats out.

2. I don't know if the mesh screen filters out fleas. It's Phifer Pet Screen, which can be purchased at Home Depot. It's like a heavier-duty plastic mesh screen that can be used to repair screen doors and window screens, and is more resistant to pet claws than standard fiberglass mesh. I just got a 8-foot wide roll of it and cut a large piece that fit around the front and sides of the structure. The only reason for the screen is to keep the cats from getting out, as they are indoor cats and cannot be trusted to roam safely outdoors. There are coyotes and cars about.

I'll see if I can get some nice pictures of the kitties to send in for a future thread.

Posted by: Caiwyn at December 06, 2025 11:39 PM (0mzVh)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Dec. 6

Not a lot happening hee in the chilly DMV but I do have two spots of color. My Encore Azalea has not disappointed. Not a lot of blossoms but it's been in the thirties and I am still getting new buds and blossoms.
My Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter cactus is also in blossom. I will literally have flowers til Spring.
Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

More from 58Mikie! (remember our special feature two weeks ago?)

Consumption of Hazelnuts is very healthy....high in folic acid for pregnant women, second highest nut in mono-unsaturated oil. The nut is high in oil but the good oil, (like an avocado or olive oil) which really does help reduce cholesterol.
Please see photos attached. The book is really good for Hazelnut recipes...tough to scan the pages on my scanner, but it is available on Amazon and I saw there was a listing for a "very good" used edition for $ 1.99....the Hazelnut salad recipe with broccoli is very good...once roasted Hazelnuts can be made into "butter" with a nut grinder like in stores or I think a Cuisinart type device.

I have always thought of hazelnuts in connection with Christmas and nutcrackers, but grinding them makes sense to me for most recipes.

Try to get a used copy of the book, as suggested above.

Nature

Fascinating.

Time-lapse of various species of mushrooms growingpic.twitter.com/j87LmPhC8q
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 30, 2025

Puttering

Transitioning from Thanksgiving to Christmas; a project completed by a friend - Autumn Friendship Quilt:

Gardens of The Horde

I got my Baker Creek catalog, so i'll be doind some armchair gardening. You decorating, shopping for the yard or anything?

Giving any garden presents? Seeds? Tools?

🍅🍅🍅❣️Tomatoes are incredibly rewarding to grow, but they can also be vexing, especially for beginning gardeners. Check out the basics in our new blog post, 'Tomatoes 101."https://t.co/qjwJzxVn48
— Baker Creek Seeds (@rareseeds) January 22, 2025

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Nov 29

In addition to other updates, The famous Pat* and her husband have a row of Blue Spruce big enough for Christmas trees. Ahyone else?

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:34 PM

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1 Good afternoon Greenthumbs

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (Ia/+0)

2 https://tinyurl.com/yc6fp6a3
This is a picture of the Christmas grave wreaths a few of us made this year.
It's a yearly tradition in the family to make wreaths for passed family members. It's only 4 of us now but hopefully will continue for years to come.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (Ia/+0)

3 lovely photos as usual! My Christmas Cactus is blooming as well, had a photo of it posted here last year. Looked some stuff up and learned that their blooming date is set by a steady progression of diminishing hours of sunlight; so gardeners who are on top of things can manipulate the light so that they bloom at a very specific time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (uWKK8)

4 Also, as of yesterday, though had many cold mornings and frost and snow, the Anaheim peppers plants in my mini greenhouse are still growing, not doing anything else but amazed cold hasn't killed them yet.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:43 PM (Ia/+0)

5 You can get oil out of hazelnuts too. All it takes is a Corona grain mill.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 01:47 PM (+mUZM)

6 I just picked up a white bloomed Christmas cactus yesterday. Today, I decided to deal with my oldest plant. It was still in the original pot. I'd put it on top of another pot, with a planted bulb, and the roots grew down into it. I managed to cut away the old pot and flipped some potting soil into my eye doing it. Got my eye cleared out but may have to move the plant to a bigger pot.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 02:00 PM (+mUZM)

7 I have a small polyantha rose, "Verdun", that put out a few flowers just before this last cold spell. They're a bright pink/mauve color, and really stand out now that everything else is gone!

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 06, 2025 02:01 PM (ky7/T)

8 Skip, the Christmas wreaths are lovely! Each one is unique, but they are all beautiful.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 06, 2025 02:01 PM (FMtrg)

9 Wacky computer stuff today. Sorry.

Posted by: KT at December 06, 2025 02:06 PM (7vIsy)

10 We're licking our wounds from the last summer, and planning next year's garden.
Only the peppers thrived. We have enough ancho, smoked and regular paprika, chipotle, and green chili that we don't need any but fresh peppers next year.
We're deficient in tomato products.
Sweet tates did fine. Butternut did fine. Should be peak asparagus next spring,

Posted by: MkY at December 06, 2025 02:08 PM (q6tQZ)

11 More on hazelnut in the wings for next week. Got any recipes of your own?

Posted by: KT at December 06, 2025 02:17 PM (7vIsy)

12 Afternoon everybody
Happy to report that my Encore Azalea survived the snow yesterday. The terrace today looks like it never happened. There are pansies everywhere in the planters scattered all over Bethesda covered with snow. I always wonder how they survive an entire winter.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 02:20 PM (t/2Uw)

13 When I first looked at that salad, I thought it was a bowl of tomatoe soup. Favorite winter meal: tomato soup with croutons( has to have croutons) and a grilled cheese sandwich on sour dough.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 02:23 PM (t/2Uw)

14 Deez nutz roasting on an open fire...

Posted by: Not quite Nat King Cole at December 06, 2025 02:24 PM (TbWk/)

15 Speaking of Baker Creek, just ordered a couple new varieties of maters: Black Strawberry (thanks Miley), Chocolate Miracle, and Alice's Dream.

Also pink celery and black carrots. I like the oddballs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:25 PM (kpS4V)

16 Hope this growing season is better than last year's. Too much fluctuation in temps and precipitation.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:28 PM (kpS4V)

17 And by last year, I meant this year.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:28 PM (kpS4V)

18 Maryland has such weird weather. Out west it's basically Pennsylvania, but out east you can have mild winters or killer ice storms. And Japanese beetles are a crapshoot.

Thank goodness the summer stinkbug swarms and river floods are dependable.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 02:32 PM (kpS4V)

19 I have a Christmas cactus that isn't doing too well although the other one is growing. Thought I would propagate from the poorer one with leaf cuttings. Anyone tried this and how did it do?

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:33 PM (yTvNw)

20 From Boise area: lows 21-36 F, highs 39-45. Some rain.

We bottled a 3rd batch of cider - just four 6-packs per batch, as we're doing many trial batches to see what we like best.

We finished shredding leaves from our huge silver maple. I raked leaves out of the front drainage ditches. We cut the leaves off some of the Siberian Irises.

I went to a ladies' "Favorite Things" exchange last night - bring four of something (under $10), display it all, ladies take numbers - first and third rounds in numerical order, second and fourth rounds in reverse order, one pick per round. Everyone takes home four things. Among my loot is an amaryllis bulb, so I'll be looking forward to watching it grow.

Posted by: Pat* at December 06, 2025 02:34 PM (tiz3J)

21 Pat* what sort of changes are you doing to your cider? Different mixes of apples, or different yeast?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:38 PM (rbvCR)

22 That video of the time lapse mushrooms is fascinating. So much variety and such weird shapes. A few made me think of something from a Lovecraft story. No wonder Beatrix Potter used mushrooms in so many of her botanical drawings.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:39 PM (yTvNw)

23 My task for today is to chop up a sweet-meat Hubbard squash so I can blanche and freeze it. This is the big one that grew almost unnoticed in one of the tomato cages.
Sweet Meats are grey and pretty tough, so I have developed the technique of taking them down to manageable sizes in the back yard with a machete. Inelegant, but effective. I am always worried about slipping when I am cutting squash apart with a knife, the durned things tend to twist and slither away.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:44 PM (rbvCR)

24 you propagate Christmas cactus by taking those leaf segments and plant them in dirt, and keep them warmish and moist. My wife does this all the time, and my Mom used to do it too.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:48 PM (rbvCR)

25 KT, since terra preta came up in the thread below, does anyone have any information on using charcoal in their gardens?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 02:49 PM (rbvCR)

26 Just went out and planted some garlic in an old container in the back yard. Lousy potatoes from it a couple of years ago. Rainy, 40°, a little snow expected.
We'll look again in the RI spring when it comes.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 02:49 PM (sl73Y)

27 I have a Christmas cactus that isn't doing too well although the other one is growing. Thought I would propagate from the poorer one with leaf cuttings. Anyone tried this and how did it do?
Posted by: JTB
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Never done it, myself. Good luck!
"The Spruce" has some info:

tinyurl.com/s85yrx8c

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:49 PM (rdVOm)

28 24 ... Kindltot,
Thanks. I figured that would be the case but never tried it with Christmas cacti.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:52 PM (yTvNw)

29 Bought a plant light to try for indoor plants but experiment isn't working too well

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)

30 27 ... Thanks to JQ as well about the Christmas Cactus. Think I'll try both ways.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 02:56 PM (yTvNw)

31 I have a hanging ivy plant of some kind in the den, been doing fine for 25+ years. But its hung seven feet up, i reach to water from an old tea pot, and it has never been repotted.
What the hell does the root ball look like. Andcould, should anything ever be done. Shoots go out fifteen feet and I just tuck thenm around the curtain rods with the others when they hang to low and start entering the printer.
And why do they always do that?

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 02:58 PM (sl73Y)

32 Picked up my Poinsettias today, and should you see them, you would ask why the heck there are orange peels sitting on top of the soil of each.

My cat would explain, "Because he's a bastard and doesn't want me vomiting all over the house."

Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 03:00 PM (dIske)

33 29 Bought a plant light to try for indoor plants but experiment isn't working too well
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)

__________________________

Find a stoner and get some tips.

Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 03:02 PM (dIske)

34 Thanks for the Christmas cactus reminder. I promised my granddaughters a plant. I know I've taken cuttings and done this but it's been a while.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 03:05 PM (t/2Uw)

35 Orson was thinking same thing.
I think you need like 500 of them

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 03:07 PM (Ia/+0)

36 I do know, if the Christmas cactus gets too dry, it will drop leaves, which put out roots if it hits soil. Should be easy to get a start.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 03:20 PM (+mUZM)

37 I did notice that the garlic I planted is growing! I can see growth peaking through the straw.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 03:21 PM (+mUZM)

38 18 degrees out there today, but in the midst of a wind storm. So far the peak is only 26 mph, but it is making Ruby nervous so she's been pacing since about 5 a.m. Broke one of the flag posts clean off, and we had to deflate our giant Christmas decorations outside. A real tragedy.

Meanwhile, the orange and lemon trees I bought are now about 2 feet tall, loving the heat from the TOYO. They didn't do much in the greenhouse this summer. Maybe they are just indoor plants. I consider them a bit of a lark. Doubt I will ever get them to fruit up here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 03:34 PM (6Bc88)

39 @Kindltot #21 Pat* asked me to answer since I'm the brewmaster.

We are varying both yeast and apple mix, plus some other experiments:

Three different yeasts: MA33 (our usual), Windsor, and Nottingham (both usually for ales) using same apples

Two different apple mixes - both using our usual Golden Delicious base but mixing in different tart/sour apples - Jonathan vs. Golden Russet

A few experiments to come, mixing various adjuncts with small batches of our 'original recipe': holiday spice, pear juice, Nelson Sauvin hops, maybe some raspberry syrup.

And a small batch spiked with sugar to get to 11% ABV, and current aging in a small ex-bourbon cask.

There's still four gallons stashed in the freezer, but I'm out of my mixing apples so those may stay there until next year since the trees usually have an off year after bearing so heavily.

Posted by: Pat*'s Hubbie at December 06, 2025 06:18 PM (tiz3J)

Why THIS Story NOW?

Ken Burns' Egregious Omission

This week, I have been thinking about how issues which have been in the background for a considerable amount of time suddenly become part of "The Narrative".

First up today, Ken Burns' new series on The American Revolution.

Timing: just before Christmas.

Questions:

Why does this series seem different from, say, his Civil War epic?

It's not long now until the 250th anniversary of the country. Has anything else about the Founding of the Country made the news lately? Why is Ken Burns introducing the subject?

Burns’ latest PBS six-episode documentary, The American Revolution, explores the founding of the United States and the subsequent war with the British Empire. It could have been an excellent start to the upcoming celebration of America’s 250th anniversary of the founding, but sadly, it steers away from celebration and emphasizes both explicit and implicit criticism of the Founders.
Within the first five minutes of the first episode, we are told that the Founders (specifically Benjamin Franklin) used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.

Franklin frequently commented on the lives of Native Americans, but we have to be careful how we evaluate Franklin’s words on the subject. He was famously satirical, whether he spoke about the British, Americans, or Indians. In a letter to James Parker, dated 20 March 1751, Franklin writes,
It would be a very strange Thing, if six Nations of ignorant Savages should be capable of forming a Scheme for such an Union, and be able to execute it in such a Manner, as that it has subsisted Ages, and appears indissoluble; and yet that a like Union should be impracticable for ten or a Dozen English Colonies, to whom it is more necessary, and must be more advantageous; and who cannot be supposed to want an equal Understanding of their Interests.
Much later, in 1784’s “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” Franklin speaks highly of the “Civility” of Indians in comparison to the Americans. However, he ends up satirically and equally alluding to a hypocrisy of both groups, as well as the human need to praise the group that he or she is part of.
But Burns doesn’t seem to be interested in nuance and leaves out certain complexities of political and philosophical thought. The entire series is devised around an oppressor-oppressed dialectic.

Concerning Benjamin Franklin and satire, I just read somewhere that the Founders didn't allow Franklin to write the Declaration of Independence because they thought he might include a joke in it somewhere.

Concerning Ken Burns, we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time.

After watching the entire series, Burns’ objective is to claim that principles played no role in the founding of the United States. Rather, it was based on low self-interest. But this creates a contradiction for Burns and his co-directors. One does not speak of liberty and yearning for it unless one has experienced tyranny. Tyranny creates destructive conditions for an individual, be it existentially, economically, or politically. As historian Bernard Bailyn says in the documentary, the creation of the United States is about the “struggles between the possibilities of power and liberty.” It still is. It would have behooved the filmmakers to include a few philosophical points about what the American mind truly is. And why the Americans have loved liberty and limited power.

Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

Compare to the principles made clear in Sullivan Ballou's letter from the Ken Burns Civil War epic. There are versions of the letter floating around in which the part of Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife concerning the future growth of their sons into "honorable manhood" has been removed. Could not upset The Left with a reference to "Manhood" once "gender" became an issue.

Watch on YouTube

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Minnesota and Somalia

When did this become a national issue?

Was it when the NYT finally acknowledged that there were problems under the watch of Tim Walz? Was their piece a personal message to Tim Walz?

Was the NYT piece a response to the piece by Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo revealing that terrorists in Somalia were profiting from public program fraud in Minnesota?

If you have been tracking these issues over at Powerline, you know that they have been urging people to give credit to responsible prosecutors (for seven years!), to local reporters and to government whistleblowers who have not gotten much national attention. WHY?

Additionally, a little before the Thorpe/Rufo piece hit, a 7,000 word story was written by Armin Rosen in County Highway.

Thank you to the Wall Street Journal for graciously mentioning and quoting from Armin Rosen�s �superb� 7000 word report on the Minneapolis Somali welfare scams � and crediting local journalists.https://t.co/TzDBu4kZSA

Here is a link to Armin�s story:https://t.co/YgTgC2fzHv
— County Highway (@countyhwy) December 4, 2025

So, when and why did this really become a national issue?

Rosen's X feed has been kind of interesting, whether you agree with it or not.

And here's the other thing, the third rail of this whole topic isn't immigration or Islamophobia or whatever�it's the, uh, frequency with which major politicians drift in and out of the margins of these schemes. It's not smart to go after an Ellison or an Ilhan or a Tim Walz�
— Armin Rosen (@ArminRosen) December 2, 2025

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WEEKEND

The Week In Pictures: Minnesota Meltdown Edition

The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist. The The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist. The Democrats chose their latest cause: standing up for Venezuela’s narco-terrorist regime. They advanced a novel “legal” theory, that it is perfectly OK to kill drug dealers in the Caribbean by blowing up their boat, but only if you do it in a single explosion. Makes perfect sense, just like how we fought World War II.
But the biggest story of the week was corruption in Minnesota–billions stolen from taxpayers, mostly by Somalis, under the somnolent eye of Governor Tim Walz. Actually, that was the big story of 2022, but better late than never. We welcome the national press to the fray, and have participated enthusiastically in their reprise of the stories we have been writing for years.

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Music

Winter, original version

Meahwhile, in Poland, the Energy Chamber orchestra

Allegero non molto, First Movement

If you don't think it's different from the original, check at 2:09.

Largo, Second Movement

Allegro, Third Movement

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, November 29, Reaching a State of Readiness After Thanksgiving

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:20 AM

Comments

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1 hola

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 06, 2025 11:22 AM (van9r)

2 Unlike Burn's Civil War Documentary, I think only a relative handful of people are paying any attention to this one. Most likely due to the collapse in the numbers of those who tune in to PBS over the last couple of decades.
Oh, they'll still get all the Righteous and Faithful who will swear that it is Holy Doctrine, and they control the pages of the NYT - but not many people are really paying attention to them, either. Not anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)

3 After watching the entire series, Burns’ objective is to claim that principles played no role in the founding of the United States. Rather, it was based on low self-interest.

I was wondering if he would go all 1619 on us. He did. FOAD.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

4 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (Ia/+0)

5 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

At the Bicentennial, there were a whole bunch of community cookbooks to celebrate it. I’ll be releasing my own Sestercentennial Cookery (one TexasMoMe attendee got a one-off AOSHQ ashcan in October) in January.

But what about a second AOSHQ cookbook, with not just heritage recipes but also Moronic history lessons and other revolutionary advice? I’m thinking Junior Moron Guidebook; I think we have a lot of historical writers here on the HQ as well as other practical writers that might be able to contribute one-page or one-paragraph essays related to American history.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:34 AM (EXyHK)

6 Question:

Who TF died and made Ken Burns the expert on US history?

When I first heard he was going to 'do' the American Revolution, I could sense his deconstruction of it coming a mile away.

Ken Burns is a sawed-off leftist prick, and we should pay him no mind.

Posted by: Don Black at December 06, 2025 11:35 AM (ZxPkt)

7 Burns is obsessed with the nobility of the Black Man! He will do anything to tear down the institutions that he thinks enslaved him or kept him servile (baseball).

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:36 AM (GLocS)

8 This little charmer from a (claims to be Somalian) X account:

"...after close to a century of attacking Islam they’ve never been successful. Their plans to demonize and vilify Islam have never worked. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. --You can never defeat a people who only fear Allah.--"

Pulling them off the gubmint tit won't be pretty...and that's just the politicians. Then comes the millions of newly arrived gimmegrants from sheitholes that hate us.

Posted by: ju at December 06, 2025 11:36 AM (EgpoY)

9 I guess it's a good thing that PBS can't survive without taxpayer money, otherwise we'd all be paying for this.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

10 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:34 AM (EXyHK)

Nag Ace. We are all set and ready to go with a second edition, but would prefer his okay.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:37 AM (GLocS)

11 Ken Burns is, was and always will be an Ass Head.

Why anyone watches his anti-white, anti-American and anti-truth propaganda nonsense is beyond me.

Posted by: Zombie Leni Riefenstahl at December 06, 2025 11:37 AM (R/m4+)

12 >>> Within the first five minutes of the first episode, we are told that the Founders (specifically Benjamin Franklin) used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.

Yes, Franklin only credits the Iroquois for inspiring the idea of banding together in a confederacy of shared interests. He has no western influences to draw on...like the Greeks or the Swiss. Nope, Indians only! It is to laugh.

Ken Burns luckily has faded in relevancy. Who cares about him anymore? The only threat this documentary has is if it's shown in high schools to young skulls full of mush, who are too uneducated to be critical thinkers yet, and don't realize it's all bogus info. Thats where the danger happens.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:38 AM (gWBY1)

13 Ken Burns?

Isn't he the guy that played “Feels So Good” in '77?

LOL - Well, that's who he looks like to me.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:39 AM (cYBz/)

14 I'm burning all my Channel 13 Tote Bags in protest!

Ken Burns can go squeeze a a breeze!

Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988 at December 06, 2025 11:39 AM (oftw2)

15 What Key is Largo in?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:39 AM (pkeXY)

16 Does Burns still have that goofy haircut?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 11:40 AM (L9Jmf)

17 Ken Burns is, was and always will be an Ass Head.

Why anyone watches his anti-white, anti-American and anti-truth propaganda nonsense is beyond me.

He kind of restrained himself in The Civil War. That was before he was famous and could let his freak flag fly. Now, it's "I hate whitey". He blends right in at PBS.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

18 Saw but a long trailer on Ken Burns Propaganda 6 part miniseries. But watched a couple hours of videos taking down Ken's Propaganda miniseries.
Actually best wasn't as much as taking apart as what Ken's Propaganda didn't say. The synopsis the video said was it was about the war, not the Revolution. Besides all the Propaganda filled war, was about nothing the Revolution was about. Nothing hardly on the Constitution they fought for, the Bill of Rights they fought for. Just a lot of what Ken wanted it to be for which wasn't historically correct.
I might be able to find that video but can't be sure to find it.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:41 AM (Ia/+0)

19 The only threat this documentary has is if it's shown in high schools to young skulls full of mush, . . .
Posted by: LizLem

We need the likes of Professor Houseman once again.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:41 AM (cYBz/)

20 What Key is Largo in?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The key of Sea.

Duh.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 11:42 AM (cYBz/)

21 Ken Burns lost his virginity to his mommy's black maid, who was then fired for stealing the silver.

He has felt guilty ever since!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:42 AM (GLocS)

22 Ken Burns or Howard Zinn. What a choice!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:43 AM (pkeXY)

23 It will be interesting to contrast the upcoming "Young Washington" movie with Burns' agitprop.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

24 >>> But what about a second AOSHQ cookbook, with not just heritage recipes but also Moronic history lessons and other revolutionary advice?

That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:45 AM (gWBY1)

25
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy have set off on their trip.

I love my wife, but by the time she leaves I'm ready for her to be gone for three weeks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 11:46 AM (tgvbd)

26 Ken Burns is the Howard Zinn of PBS.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 11:47 AM (W7XSX)

27
We need the likes of Professor Houseman once again.
Posted by: Tonypete

John Houseman reads the phone book:

https://youtu.be/S_LA4gJeCio

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 11:49 AM (pkeXY)

28 https://tinyurl.com/2z2xv4rn
Bit as said think I did a good quick synopsis on his video

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:49 AM (Ia/+0)

29 There's speculation that the Somali fraud will approach much more than the $1 billion being reported.

More like $8 billion.

Or more.

And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)

30 My mom was surprised I wouldn't want to watch a nice history of the Revolution

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (Ia/+0)

31 That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.
Posted by: LizLem

Doesn't dry, old cornbread stick to wooden teef?

Posted by: Affordable Dentures, Inc. at December 06, 2025 11:52 AM (oftw2)

32 Reportedly, the cocaine street prices in Europe have gone up by a quarter to a third. This is hurting someone or someones bigly.

The Dutch navy has been patrolling the Dutch Antilles and waters off Suriname for 20 years, boarding and sinking the drug couriers, and have not been able to make this much of a dent in the supply.

I have heard speculations that if the drug trade out of South America were ended, it might collapse some countries' economies

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:52 AM (rbvCR)

33 My mom was surprised I wouldn't want to watch a nice history of the Revolution

To which the correct response is "when they make one, I will".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

34 Thing of State Fraud is the fraud is shoveled out by state bureaucracy who earns lots of salary and no doubt bonuses how much they can shovel out.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (Ia/+0)

35 we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time.

Oh, honey chile, that just shows how badly we need reeducation camps in this so-called country.

Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (0sNs1)

36 That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.

I’m making Thomas Jefferson’s beans & rice for tonight, and it’s making the house smell ridiculously good.

I’ll bet that cornbread would be great with it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (EXyHK)

37 Ken Burns is the Howard Zinn of Herbert Marcuses.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (W7XSX)

38 If the gop cuts $1B spending they’re the worst monsters on earth.

Somalia steal $1B, what the big deal guys?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 11:53 AM (wrRTB)

39 But the biggest story of the week was corruption in Minnesota–billions stolen from taxpayers, mostly by Somalis, under the somnolent eye of Governor Tim Walz.

Somalis are all over X explaining how wonderful Somalia is.

It's just that they don't want to live there.

And, of course, you have Minnesota AWFLs on X (who probably live in lily-white small towns) explaining what wonderful neighbors the Somalis are.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 11:54 AM (xTIDn)

40 That could be fun! I've made George Washington's favorite cornbread recipe and it's really good.

I'd say you should try his rye whiskey, but I've had his rye whiskey. Bleccchhhh.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:54 AM (Riz8t)

41 Ken Burns is the Howard Zinn of Herbert Marcuses.

Ken Burns is the Lloyd Christmas of Moe Howards.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

42 Problem with Ken Burns is 20 or 30 years from now it will be THE truth. Like if you say it’s nonsense that Indians wrote the constitution people will say no it’s true, the great historian Ken Burns did a show on it and everything.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (wrRTB)

43 To which the correct response is "when they make one, I will".

Allen Guelzo’s America’s Founding Fathers was quite good. I don’t think it’s ever been aired on TV, though.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (EXyHK)

44 Could not upset The Left with a reference to "Manhood" once "gender" became an issue.
----

As a power lesbian, Ken Burns felt particularly targeted by such engorged speech.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (kpS4V)

45 Burns' Civil War completely ignored the religious revival that was happening at the same time. I finished an annotated diary and collected letters of an Illinois volunteer who was in the Army of the West, and he speaks regularly about camp meetings and church services.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 11:56 AM (rbvCR)

46 Allen Guelzo’s America’s Founding Fathers was quite good. I don’t think it’s ever been aired on TV, though.

Agreed, and I actually saw it, but can't remember where. Possibly Netflix?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (Riz8t)

47
Take out the Cat Ballou letter from his "The Civil War" series and Burns would have had have nothing special.

He's a nullity who is flying above his clearance level.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (f0f+R)

48 Breaking News: Famous astronaut Katy Perry and distinguished Canadian political figure Justin Trudeau are now an official couple!

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)

49 Take out the Cat Ballou letter from his "The Civil War" series and Burns would have had have nothing special.

He's a nullity who is flying above his clearance level.

No, I don't agree with that. Between the music, Shelby Foote, and what was at the time a revolutionary way of presenting a documentary, it was quite good (IMHO). You could tell, though, that he had to fight the urge to make it all a polemic about the evil white man.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

50
And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)

____________

My guess: this will not be pursued vigorously because nobody wants to know how bad and so widespread it really is.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 12:01 PM (tgvbd)

51 Apparently many of the whistleblowers on MN's mega-corruption are in fact from state agencies, and much of the digging/reporting has been done by actual local journalists. For years.

It's actually a pretty stark (if redundant) illustration of how normal, good things and people still exist across the country, even in the worst-run places - but the de facto blackout on information by MSM and the indolence of Congress, supplemented by collaboration by key federal agencies (except during the black swan Trump periods), conceal such mega-scandals from most of the public.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 12:02 PM (U/Byj)

52 If Somalia is so great when Trump deports their asses they should be delighted to return to the homeland. Right?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 12:02 PM (wrRTB)

53 I had a history teacher at UH who loved all the woke tropes, and this was the late 80's. So I heard that Iroquois Confederact thing. Also, Cleopatra was black, and other shite.

But, he was a very engaging speaker and did point out that the Aztecs were an imperialist power who engaged in a bit of cannibalism to boost the protein content of their food.

It was a fun class if you already read a lot of history and took his words with a bag of salt.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 12:04 PM (kpS4V)

54 12 >>> Within the first five minutes of the first episode, we are told that the Founders (specifically Benjamin Franklin) used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.

Yes, Franklin only credits the Iroquois for inspiring the idea of banding together in a confederacy of shared interests. He has no western influences to draw on...like the Greeks or the Swiss. Nope, Indians only! It is to laugh.
Posted by: LizLem
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Ben proposed a unified colonial structure to deal with the British Empire during the midst of the French and Indian War in a meeting of colonies.
Here are some original sources directly from the NY Historical Society (meeting occurred in Albany NY 1754)

His later colonial agency to the Crown as a lobbyist for the colonies also played into his interest in the matter later.
https://tinyurl.com/k4mm3a68

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:06 PM (WDjG6)

55 Breaking News: Famous astronaut Katy Perry and distinguished Canadian political figure Justin Trudeau are now an official couple!
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)

And didn't think Justin liked girls.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 12:06 PM (L9Jmf)

56 Watch 1776 and April Morning, will get more history from those movies than Ken Burns' 'documentary.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 06, 2025 12:06 PM (e2cjy)

57 >>> Breaking News: Famous astronaut Katy Perry and distinguished Canadian political figure Justin Trudeau are now an official couple!
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 06, 2025 11:57 AM (0sNs1)

This is not the "suck it, Orlando!" Flex she thinks it is. Apparently her ex was pursuing Sydney Sweeney at the Bezos wedding. Why pine for Perry's two fjords when you could have Sydney's?

She tried to buy a convent in LA and the nuns there were fighting against the sale. Apparently the stress of it killed one of them. I never heard who eventually bought the property. But I hope it's not some satanic worshipper after being such holy ground.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 12:07 PM (gWBY1)

58 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique. Also something about them discovering strawberries 12 year old me had no clue that he was full of shit. I figured it out later.

But I’d bet 75% of the class still believes it (assuming they paid attention in class to begin with).

This is how the left wields its power in education.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 12:08 PM (wrRTB)

59 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique.

Burying a fish at the base of each corn plant?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

60 used the Iroquois “flourishing democracy” as a blueprint for the United States Constitution. The evidence, however, is sparse, if non-existent, in the documentary.

At the time, the Iroquois didn't have a written language.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 12:11 PM (xTIDn)

61 Agreed, and I actually saw it, but can't remember where. Possibly Netflix?

I got it from one of those Great Courses catalog sales about a year ago. I used to get them all the time, but haven’t received one in probably over a year now.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (EXyHK)

62 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique.

Ummmmm. . . . pooping in the garden.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (cYBz/)

63 Shamans vs Antibiotics - who you gonna trust?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (NBPRu)

64 If Somalia is so great when Trump deports their asses they should be delighted to return to the homeland. Right?

Minnesota is full of Somalis who are allegedly here because they would be killed in Somalia who periodically return to Somalia on vacation.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (xTIDn)

65 Katy Perry did win a lawsuit against an aging veteran to get his mansion.

Stay classy Katy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (e2cjy)

66 "And, of course, you have Minnesota AWFLs on X (who probably live in lily-white small towns) explaining what wonderful neighbors the Somalis are."

One would think Somalis could at least pretend to be wonderful neighbors, while they are stealing billions from us. I have no idea what their US neighborhoods are really like ... probably 10X better than Somalia.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (vbXSk)

67 53 I had a history teacher at UH who loved all the woke tropes, and this was the late 80's. So I heard that Iroquois Confederact thing. Also, Cleopatra was black, and other shite.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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Academia got into thing where the latest fad became a contest to see how outrageous one could be in assertions rather than the actual and rather dull accumulation of knowledge. The strange, queer, and atypical was the ticket to getting published and grants so that became what academia favored.

Add in leftist capture of the institution, you basically got a leftist version of Ripley's Believe It or Not where all the villians were of pallor and wealth and all the various imagined oppressed groups were the true heroes of history. Add in conspiracy based crap on no evidence, then you get Cleopatra had to be black as did Jesus, or even the nutty sun people versus whitey promoted by Hakeem Jeffries uncle Leonard.

Denialism of accepted historical explanations backed by documented original sources and derivative secondary ones and archaelogical evidence became the norm.

White guilt is one of the most destructive things promoted by neo marxists to destroy the West.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:13 PM (WDjG6)

68 65 Katy Perry did win a lawsuit against an aging veteran to get his mansion.

Stay classy Katy.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I would prefer she stays in Canada and keeps up with Justin Trudeau. They deserve each other.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:14 PM (WDjG6)

69 I think Sullivan Ballou's letter may tell us more about the principles behind the American Revolution that Ken Burns' new series. And the music they put with it really fits.

Posted by: KT at December 06, 2025 12:15 PM (7vIsy)

70 62 In middle school I had a history teacher tell us how Indians invented some kind of farming technique.

Ummmmm. . . . pooping in the garden.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Ecclesiastes nothing new under the sun comes to mind here and mainly sells because Colleges of Education admit some of the lowest performing students on campus and then fill their heads full of rubbish. These students then become teachers spouting rubbish to the students who promptly internalize the rubbish themselves and then proceed to build their own rubbish heaps in their minds.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:17 PM (WDjG6)

71 "Burying a fish at the base of each corn plant?"

We all seemed to have learned that in 5th grade. Probably urban legend. If they had that many fish, they should have eaten the fish rather than the possible ear of corn months later.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2025 12:18 PM (vbXSk)

72 I did read how South American Indians developed a kind of living soil made from burnt plant and animal matter, plus pottery shards and of course poop from various sources, that they would use in farming plots since the soil of the jungles was, oddly enough, so deficient.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 12:19 PM (kpS4V)

73 Katy was in the McLaren garage at the F-1 qualifying this morning

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:19 PM (Ia/+0)

74 Matt Walsh does a long take down of Ken's Propaganda inserts

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:22 PM (Ia/+0)

75 It can be lunch time, but then it's Saturday

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:23 PM (Ia/+0)

76 69 I think Sullivan Ballou's letter may tell us more about the principles behind the American Revolution that Ken Burns' new series. And the music they put with it really fits.
Posted by: KT

Liberty! The American Revolution by noted historian Thomas Fleming is the far better bet. History Channel when it actually had history used to run that series over and over again. Better yet, actually read many of Thomas Fleming's historical works (or his historical fiction where he doesn't make up key historical events nor facts if that is your cup of tea).

One of the most thorough eviscerations of FDR and his WWII performance is in Fleming's The New Dealer's War book. Unlike Schlaes who tends toward the polemic, Fleming admits he began the project being favorable toward FDR and his legacy but the historical evidence he uncovered of FDR's nasty/vicious personality and his minions ideology over practicality changed his mind when writing the book.

His book on Washington's Fabian tactics to win the Revolutionary War is also quite excellent. Basically his political opponents to his strategy wanted to rerun Bunker Hill over and over again. Washington, after the NYC debacle, declined.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:23 PM (WDjG6)

77
I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.

Sure thing, dearie.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 06, 2025 12:26 PM (xG4kz)

78 " ... we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time. "

and yet here we are.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 12:27 PM (Cjt/F)

79 72 I did read how South American Indians developed a kind of living soil made from burnt plant and animal matter, plus pottery shards and of course poop from various sources, that they would use in farming plots since the soil of the jungles was, oddly enough, so deficient.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Heavy rains tend to wash out the key ingredients of biomass. Even in the US, many areas of primeval forests actually had a thin layer of fertile soil over rocky or clay soils that needed biomass to become fertile for crops. That decline in soil fertility from continuous crop cultivation and erosion of the humus was in part drove Western expansion from the Eastern colonies by farmers.

A few wise farmers, like George Washington did crop rotations, allowing animals to graze the stubble and poop, and other practices to keep the soil fertile but most simply sold up back east to buy new fresh land in the West.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

80 Tim Pool claims his house was shot at by an unknown gunman who approached his property in a vehicle.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 12:30 PM (Y1sOo)

81 Eris, the Amazon Indians are descended from Polynesian and Australia. They are the ones that knew how to enrich sandy soil. DNA has confirmed the Kon Tiki story.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2025 12:31 PM (NBPRu)

82 "Burying a fish at the base of each corn plant?"

We all seemed to have learned that in 5th grade. Probably urban legend. If they had that many fish, they should have eaten the fish rather than the possible ear of corn months later.

I always assumed they just picked up dead and rotting fish on the shore.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

83 And, yea, Walz and many MN state/federal politicos are in on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:50 AM (NwnyJ)

Tim Walz reminds me of that episode where the retarded kid shows Archie Bunker he had the blade in backwards while planing the bathroom door and no little crinkles were coming out.

Posted by: Meathead at December 06, 2025 12:35 PM (R/m4+)

84 18 Saw but a long trailer on Ken Burns Propaganda 6 part miniseries. But watched a couple hours of videos taking down Ken's Propaganda miniseries.
Actually best wasn't as much as taking apart as what Ken's Propaganda didn't say. The synopsis the video said was it was about the war, not the Revolution. Besides all the Propaganda filled war, was about nothing the Revolution was about. Nothing hardly on the Constitution they fought for, the Bill of Rights they fought for. Just a lot of what Ken wanted it to be for which wasn't historically correct.
I might be able to find that video but can't be sure to find it.
Posted by: Skip

If you are interested in real history, one of the more interesting collections of Revolutionary War original documents is one of ministerial sermons that were recorded and passed around.

Here is a link to a general discussion of Revolution as seen from the pulpit.
https://tinyurl.com/yw77cncr
Link goes to Academia website. Article is about 46 pages.

Online Library of Liberty from the Liberty Fund has a two volume compliation of ministerial sermons about the Revolution and precursor events to it.

https://tinyurl.com/2vfpwzww

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:36 PM (WDjG6)

85 77
I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.

Sure thing, dearie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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I suppose it would be rude to suggest that Canada has a solution for that issue.

Being direct, I would probably just mention that bigotry is pernicious even if you think badly of yourself. Actions matter more than color.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:38 PM (WDjG6)

86 This is a timely thread - but I have nothing optimistic to say about it. I will note ... take a look at Fox News right now. Number One article ? A puff piece about Little Mogadishu.

What do I think - not that you care ? We've hit critical mass here. Regardless of what IronGrampa says - we collectively are going to give this country away. Partly as a rejection of nationalism, partly as a pursuit of the quarterly-profit capitalism that prevails here, but mostly as a rejection of anything remotely resembling a collective treatment of groups - commonly called racism or stereotyping.

That thought process, before certain folks start howling, didn't begin with Gen Z. It was taught in public schools to all ages in the 80s. Gen Z wasn't doing the teaching 40 years ago. No more than Millennials made their own participation trophies.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 12:39 PM (k2Vk4)

87 One of the most thorough eviscerations of FDR and his WWII performance is in Fleming's The New Dealer's War book.

I read that one recently and it was excellent. I'm currently reading "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" by David T. Beito. As if I needed another reason to hate FDR.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:42 PM (Riz8t)

88 One of the most thorough eviscerations of FDR and his WWII performance is in Fleming's The New Dealer's War book.

Or just read anything - pretty much anything - late by Morgenthau.

FDR doesn't reside on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks for nothing.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 12:44 PM (k2Vk4)

89 78 " ... we do not need another oppressor-oppressed dialectic at this time. "

and yet here we are.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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They do it for power and to raise their social status over others. I call it bullshit. And most normal people of any race don't try to pull that shit. It is almost wholly the conceit of overeducated and maleducated twits that are trying to compete among other perceived opponents in their social class for personal benefit.

History periodically records such idiotic enthusiasms among the perceived elite classes such as iconoclasm, witchcraft, or traditional economic based Marxism. All bullshit and designed to make the bien pensants think they are better than others in society because their shit doesn't stink.

1776's line in the song about the triangular trade comes to mind, "who stinketh the most!" illustrating hypocrisy.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)

90 Thx K.T.
Liked Burns Civil War largely because of Shelby Foote. Also because Ashokan Farewell is written by people from my county and the Ashokan Resovoir is about 12 m from my house.
His Baseball series kind of sucked.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 06, 2025 12:45 PM (bfwj/)

91 My people buried a penguin at base of every corn plant, which led to mass starvation and the end of the tribe. Except for me.

Posted by: Heap Big Lizzy Warren at December 06, 2025 12:45 PM (vFG9F)

92 I'm going to pick up Rick Atkinson's second book on his Revolutionary War trilogy. It includes the burning of my city . The first book was good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 06, 2025 12:47 PM (bfwj/)

93 A six tribes of savages ocracy if you can keep it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 06, 2025 12:47 PM (H12NW)

94 His Baseball series kind of sucked.

In all fairness to Ken Burns - any series about a sport that sucks is gonna' suck just because.

Ken Burns does Manual Bowling Pin Placement Through The Ages could be incredibly insightful and factual. Yet suck by default.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 12:47 PM (k2Vk4)

95 Oops. We call it maze.

Posted by: Heap Big Lizzy Warren at December 06, 2025 12:48 PM (vFG9F)

96 He did one documentary on the African Space Program.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 06, 2025 12:49 PM (H12NW)

97 Have not watched this series. My sister loved it, so I assume that it was leftist revisionism with musket volley sound effects.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 12:49 PM (R86kT)

98
Oops. We call it maze.
Posted by: Heap Big Lizzy Warren

That's where you get lost.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 12:50 PM (pkeXY)

99 The American Revolution started a little too early. We let some trouble makers drag us into the war early.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 06, 2025 12:50 PM (H12NW)

100 The American Revolution started a little too early. We let some trouble makers drag us into the war early.

Probably Ukraine.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)

101 Or just read anything - pretty much anything - late by Morgenthau.

FDR doesn't reside on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks for nothing.
Posted by: The Slow Decline

What I think was unique about Fleming is in the foreword where he admits that he was a FDR fan in part due to the FDR saved Democracy trope. Fleming spent much of his career investigating the Revolutionary War and its aftermath but not much on more recent history. So he kind of just went with the flow of his generation (he died in his 90's fairly recently (1927-2017) and so did not seriously consider FDR as a historical figure until quite late in his career. That Man, by confidant and later Scotus Justice Robert Jackson is also not a flattering portrayal of the man whether Jackson realized it or not.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:52 PM (WDjG6)

102 "At the time, the Iroquois didn't have a written language."

Nor wheels.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:52 PM (W7XSX)

103 Fox News: Somalis are just like all immigrants guyzzzz.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 06, 2025 12:54 PM (wrRTB)

104 Good morning everyone,

The comment below clearly outlines what we have lost. (Thanks whig)

"Denialism of accepted historical explanations backed by documented original sources and derivative secondary ones and archaeological evidence became the norm."

Now, how do we return to any accepted historical explanations? Trust in any historical claims has been destroyed. Wasn't there a quote that came out of communist Russia along the lines of "the present we know, it is the past that keeps changing"?

Our country's history should be a shared heritage, but is now fractured by competing views. It is difficult for me not to be discouraged when trying to see a way forward.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 06, 2025 12:55 PM (La8zG)

105 Ken Burns no longer has Shelby Foote to hold up the series and it clearly shows. He should do what he really wants to do and that's Black History

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 06, 2025 12:56 PM (FCrpy)

106 John Adams:"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." It is inadequate for savages from another culture, especially those who have no respect for Euro-American traditions

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 12:56 PM (tyDOg)

107 Roundheads were the hot heads. Oddly. It was the American Anglicans that won the Rebellion.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2025 12:57 PM (NBPRu)

108 Yet Shelby had a plagiarism hanging over his head and somehow I decided never to read any of his books.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)

109 If Netflix does a Washington movie he'll be black and gay. They'll get Jussie Smollett to play the part.

Posted by: Aren't you that faggot nagger from Mt. Vernon? at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)

110 Academia got into thing where the latest fad became a contest to see how outrageous one could be in assertions rather than the actual and rather dull accumulation of knowledge.

Several years ago Biblical Archaeology ran something from some nutcase about how Adam’s rib should actually be translated as Adam’s penis.

In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (EXyHK)

111 Yet Shelby had a plagiarism hanging over his head and somehow I decided never to read any of his books.

AI:
While
Shelby Foote himself wasn't accused of plagiarism, his letters and personal life were central to a major plagiarism controversy involving Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer-winning novel Angle of Repose (1971), where Stegner heavily used Foote's (and his wife Mary Hallock Foote's) unpublished letters without full attribution, sparking debates on fair use, appropriation, and literary ethics that continue today, with critics calling it literary theft while others defended it as creating authentic depth

I think you can read Shelby Foote in peace.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (Riz8t)

112 His Baseball series kind of sucked.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Heroes and Villians bullshit, most documentaries are actually propaganda disguised as information. Using tricks of the trade, a documentarian can easily omit conflicting stories and evidence, manipulate emotions at the lizard brain level through images and music, and choose which features to highlight and which to downplay.

So Burns made Ty Cobb a monster which was a gross overstatement for example while making other not so nice players into saints.

Documentaries that feature panels of experts can be a bit better but often books and original sources are far better in information presentment, more recognizant of nuance, and more dense in actual information than what is put into a documentary.

Harder to manipulate emotions through printed matter than by storytelling with music and images. Easier for most to spot tricks in printed matter by going back to the specific page than rewinding to 32:17 on the tape to replay something unfair, distorted, or downright a lie.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

113 Ken Burns has always been a Leftist, and the difference between his Civil War documentary and his American Revolution documentary is reflective of the journey made by the Left over the last four decades. Leftists have become increasingly Marxist, totalitarian, and now hate the U.S., and they admit it. Leftists have gone off the rails. That was not generally the situation in 1990 when Burns did his Civil War documentary.

Posted by: Ralph at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (8WZD4)

114 Putting on YouTube see VDH has a take down on Ken Burns Propaganda miniseries

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (Ia/+0)

115 As if I needed another reason to hate FDR.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 12:42 PM (Riz8t)

FDR should have been dug up and placed in the docket at Nuremberg alongside Goering and Dr. Gurgles.

Posted by: FDR was a communist and War Criminal at December 06, 2025 12:59 PM (R/m4+)

116 What I think was unique about Fleming is in the foreword where he admits that he was a FDR fan in part due to the FDR saved Democracy trope.

Interesting.

I've done - like I always do - my own reading on FDR. And Lincoln. And Nixon. And on and on.

I decided, at least by my 30s, that FDR was much more Communist than Hitler. Morgenthau's writings told the tail. Good ol' FDR wanted to convert the entire war effort to everyone collecting their paycheck from the Fed. FDR had to be talked down from simply Nationalizing entire "critical corporations". Even Hitler never considered these things.

On these simple number-lines of how to look at WW II ? We were to the Right of the Soviets but Left of the Nazis when it came to Economic Freedom.

So, of course, two generations deified the guy and statues and schools were built in his name. FDR was a tyrant.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:00 PM (k2Vk4)

117 Obligatory

https://youtu.be/T6xJzAYYrX8

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 01:00 PM (jc0TO)

118 I cannot tell a lie. Two white men in King George III hats forced me to chop down the cherry tree. Then they wrapped a noose around my neck, poured a solution of ashen lye upon me, shouted "THIS IS RED COAT COUNTRY" and ran away.

Posted by: George Faggington at December 06, 2025 01:01 PM (TbWk/)

119 Katy Perry did win a lawsuit against an aging veteran to get his mansion.

Stay classy Katy.

Meh. The veteran sold the property to Perry and then tried to back out of the deal. His defense was that he didn't know what he was signing.

This was probably the correct legal result, although Perry might wonder whether the hit to her reputation was worth the money.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 01:01 PM (8DR9B)

120 Several years ago Biblical Archaeology ran something from some nutcase about how Adam’s rib should actually be translated as Adam’s penis.

In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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Yep. And opposite the truth, increasingly academic presentations as a discussant meant that any criticism became politically charged as whitey putting POC down or some other stupid bullshit. Simple epistemology observations of shoddy research became verboten. Even when it was kindly packaged as "what make you think this 'finding' is generalizable beyond your classroom".

Millennials ruined academia. And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)

121 NG Andrew Wolfe I take it still clings onto life, one can only hope he recovers fully but it will be a very long road I guess

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:05 PM (Ia/+0)

122 KT,
Thanks for including the Voices of Music video using period correct instruments and original score. Bach and Vivaldi played like that is different, so much better and richer than modern versions. The other video is a talented burlesque with the foot stomping.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 01:05 PM (yTvNw)

123 I cannot tell a lie. Two white men in King George III hats forced me to chop down the cherry tree.

But you could exceed orders - by quite a bit - and if you didn't start the French and Indian war by yourself ? Well, you at least got in the Team Photo.

Ol' George was politically ambitious right out the gate. It really is amazing that he didn't try to hold onto power more than two terms. Because George liked power.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:06 PM (k2Vk4)

124 107 Roundheads were the hot heads. Oddly. It was the American Anglicans that won the Rebellion.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Charlie Brown was a Roundhead.

No, on second thought, he was a Blockhead.

Posted by: Lucy Van Pelt at December 06, 2025 01:06 PM (oftw2)

125 I decided, at least by my 30s, that FDR was much more Communist than Hitler. Morgenthau's writings told the tail. Good ol' FDR wanted to convert the entire war effort to everyone collecting their paycheck from the Fed. FDR had to be talked down from simply Nationalizing entire "critical corporations". Even Hitler never considered these things.

On these simple number-lines of how to look at WW II ? We were to the Right of the Soviets but Left of the Nazis when it came to Economic Freedom.

So, of course, two generations deified the guy and statues and schools were built in his name. FDR was a tyrant.
Posted by: The Slow Decline

Not much to disagree. FDR was a collectivist/bureaucrat enabler just like Woodrow Wilson who FDR served in his cabinet.

Al Smith, FDR's predecessor as NY governor came to recognize that in FDR and his apparatchiks.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)

126 And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

The takeover of the educational system is complete.

Homeschool your children.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 06, 2025 01:08 PM (La8zG)

127 Similar to the MN whistleblowers, in Chicago, back in the day, Mike Royko (newspaper columnist and sometime muckraker) would get a LOT of info about misbehaving politicians, though his sources were never called whistleblowers. He was an old-school reporter who had a lot of contacts in city & county government. Sadly, as his contacts retired/left govt employment, he did less of that and more social commentary. He was very good at his trade. His bio of Mayor Richard J Daley,Boss, was a masterpiece - gave Daley credit for a lot (especially that he was never a grifter), but dragged the hell out of him for political shenanigans.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:10 PM (NcvvS)

128 He was very good at his trade. His bio of Mayor Richard J Daley,Boss, was a masterpiece - gave Daley credit for a lot (especially that he was never a grifter), but dragged the hell out of him for political shenanigans.
Posted by: Nazdar
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I agree. It also helped that Royko was at the Sun Times which was the scrappy underdog at the time to the Chicago Tribune. Royko was given much more latitude to go after the business is business sorts in City Hall.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:11 PM (WDjG6)

129 And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:12 PM (EXyHK)

130 A few wise farmers, like George Washington did crop rotations, allowing animals to graze the stubble and poop, and other practices to keep the soil fertile but most simply sold up back east to buy new fresh land in the West.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

Whig, what Eris is talking about is Terra Preta, which is a carbon rich soil that the Amazonian cultures made through creating middens in their farm lands. They make them to this day. It is a combination of charcoal and food prep waste, as well as left overs and whatever else. These were not slash and burn farmers
The laetrite soils of the jungle have high recycling of minerals and nutrients, what the micro-life doesn't take the roots of the trees will take and the remainder is washed off, like you say. The charcoal appears to absorb the nutrients, and hold it for the plants and micro-life to utilize at need. Some dark earths are "meters" thick, and still fertile in spite of the cultures that made them dying off in the 1500's.
The current organic fad of creating Terra Preta in your home garden is getting a lot of attention, and seems to have a serious value. It is a step up from crop rotation

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:12 PM (rbvCR)

131 I friend of mine recently bought a nice place. While in escrow, the seller want to bail because the value of the property went up.

He had to begin legal proceedings to make it happen.

It's not her fault. He signed a contract.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (W7XSX)

132 My view is in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Socialism was the big craze of the world. FDR was just as thrilled by it.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (Ia/+0)

133 The takeover of the educational system is complete.

Homeschool your children.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Only if you are capable and some people aren't by nature or inclination. It require careful curation of curriculum because a lot of that is infected wokist tripe as well. If one is inclined to do that, reaching out to networks that have already resolved some of these issues among parent educators is very useful.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (WDjG6)

134 ***Questions:

Why does this series seem different from, say, his Civil War epic?
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It seems different because people have only been taught one narrative on the Civil War. Burns 'epic' on the Civil War is as big a crock of shit as his 'epic' on the Revolution.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:14 PM (04Glf)

135 " buy new fresh land in the West?"

My ancestors sold out in SC when the soil was depleted and moved west for free land in Alabama.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (W7XSX)

136 129 And Colleges of Education ruined millennials before that because k12 ideology from teachers from these education mills in the 70's and 80's preceded millennials being maleducated.

“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:12 PM (EXyHK)

Even in the early stone ages, when Boomers were going to college, radicalism was overtly taking over the academy, and the education majors were full-on retards. We've been on this downward trajectory for some time.

Posted by: The seeds were planted even earlier at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (TbWk/)

137 [Mike Royko] was very good at his trade.

His stories about learning to be a reporter at Chicago’s City News Bureau make it sound almost like a Chinese Opera training school but for journalists.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (EXyHK)

138 FDR was a collectivist/bureaucrat enabler just like Woodrow Wilson who FDR served in his cabinet.

Which is ironic. At least as far as I've read - FDR was one of the first wave of Industrial Candidates. Big funding from J.P. Morgan, J.D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.

Its odd how it always works like this, ain't it ? Wall Street loved Obama.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (k2Vk4)

139 I have an in-law, a white person, publicly declaim that she was tired of white people.

Sure thing, dearie.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 06, 2025 12:26 PM (xG4kz

Did you tell her that she should kill herself to relieve her anguish? I often offer helpful advice to poor misguided souls such as herself. With age comes an absence of mouth filters.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (5xuJ/)

140 I looked up Howard Zinn and found out his shitty book is considered "great."

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:15 PM (W7XSX)

141 Corporatism.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:16 PM (W7XSX)

142 “This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity

Everyone can keep their G.K. Chesterston. Seriously. C.S. Lewis understood how things work. G.K. loudly told you how he wished it did.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (k2Vk4)

143 I think Royko was at the Daily News, the afternoon paper. Moved to the Tribune when the Daily News shut down. 1981?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (R86kT)

144 Only if you are capable and some people aren't by nature or inclination.

At this point, I disagree. Even the most incapable parent is going to provide a better education than most schools do. Paraphrasing what Jefferson said about newspapers, if the only thing a parent does is teach nothing to their children, their kids will still be more informed than public school kids who are taught lies.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (EXyHK)

145 The Burns documentary went as I expected: anything but good white people. The content was so basic and limited with almost no mention of the philosophical underpinnings. The music couldn't compare to Ashokan Farewell. The 1776 versions of the Ballou letter which exist but weren't used lessened the personal emotional context. And there was no equivalent to Shelby Foote providing insight and humor. The commenters were knowledgeable but not lively.

Glad I didn't waste too much time with the whole series.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (yTvNw)

146 Also, for tobacco, the farmers in the South tended to do a form of slash and burn, always expanding as they needed more land that was not exhausted. In New England (and later in the South) more scientific methods of crop rotation, fallow, and amending in a way that would have made the original Jethro Tull proud.
it is both from the background of the different farmers, and the crops and economics of the regions. You farm wheat and corn differently from tobacco, in part because wheat and corn allowed smaller plots, and not requiring a latifundia to be economically viable

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

147 132 My view is in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Socialism was the big craze of the world. FDR was just as thrilled by it.
Posted by: Skip

I would include fascism under that monicker. Progressivism was essentially fascism with better pr in combining and managing industry and society by groups rather than individualism. The later pluralism movement (government is the arena and referee where interest groups duke it out) can be shown as derivative of fascist emphasis on the fasces (different strands of society) being welded together by the state in order to promote and enforce whatever the top honcho/ruling counsel felt was in the interest of the state.

In reality, the managerial class because of information control often ran the place on a day to day basis whether in corporations, government, or ngos. Burns, the Managerial Revolution, was written at the height of WWII with its insights over institutions like the OPM.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (WDjG6)

148 Only if you are capable and some people aren't by nature or inclination. It require careful curation of curriculum because a lot of that is infected wokist tripe as well. If one is inclined to do that, reaching out to networks that have already resolved some of these issues among parent educators is very useful.
Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:13 PM (WDjG6)

And you have to be of the right temperament. If you are impatient or snap easily, don't do it. Or you'll find yourself screaming and hitting your kids for not understanding Algebra II fast enough. Or at a less extreme end burning out.

Posted by: You have to be very self-controlled and self-aware at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (TbWk/)

149 Tisquantum learned the technique of burying a bit of fish with the corn seed from continental Europeans while a slave in Spain before escaping to England and eventually returning to Massachusetts. The fish technique was not a local Indian custom. It is a Spanish technique.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (xqL5c)

150 One word for Ken Burns; Dungeon

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (04Glf)

151 Everyone can keep their G.K. Chesterston.

“He says, ‘Neither in religion nor morality, my friend, lie the hopes of the race, but in education.’ This, clearly expressed, means, ‘We cannot decide what is good, but let us give it to our children.’”—G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (EXyHK)

152 149 Tisquantum learned the technique of burying a bit of fish with the corn seed from continental Europeans while a slave in Spain before escaping to England and eventually returning to Massachusetts. The fish technique was not a local Indian custom. It is a Spanish technique.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 06, 2025 01:18 PM (xqL5c)

He was also known as Squatto because he taught them how to build latrines.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (uWKK8)

153 It's funny not funny that WW2 started in part because of FDR's meddling in China to protect American investments there and Chamberpot guaranteeing Poland's independence yet by 1949 both were communist.

Ken Burns outta do a series.

Posted by: And Yet at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (R/m4+)

154 The New Deal was all about effing the little guys like the Schecter brothers.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (W7XSX)

155 143 I think Royko was at the Daily News, the afternoon paper. Moved to the Tribune when the Daily News shut down. 1981?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
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You would be right that he started at the Daily News which folded about 1970 and then to the allied Sun Times until Rupert Murdoch purchased it in the 80's and then to Tribune.

Daily News was before my time really and I read Royko's syndicated columns before I read his books.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:20 PM (WDjG6)

156 Thank you for the lovely music, K.T.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 01:21 PM (hW+ut)

157 >>Because George liked power.

George refused the kingship which was suggested because he had no legitimate children. Don't know if he had illegitimate children, but neither they nor his stepchildren would have been acceptable successors. He retired, albeit temporarily, to private life after the war and served as President for a *limited* period to try to model how that should work.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:22 PM (NcvvS)

158 dad said that Grandpa buried fish in the garden, and in an allotment he rented during the war for a a victory garden. Dad also said Grandpa only did it once because it stank to high heaven.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:23 PM (rbvCR)

159 Fleming admits he began the project being favorable toward FDR and his legacy but the historical evidence he uncovered of FDR's nasty/vicious personality and his minions ideology over practicality changed his mind when writing the book.
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Sounds like the guy who wrote a biography of LBJ. Caro?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 01:23 PM (0cOaq)

160 Ken Burns and Why Now?

Well, its another facet in the never-ending trolling by the Left. Continuously calling Conservatives racists, H8tr's, Fascists, Nazis, then introduce a bullsh*t series on the founding fathers and suddenly its seems much more OK to revolt against authority. How can you not when armed with the righteous cause of "democratic socialism"?

Well, bring it assholes. Come to my little town and let's dance.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 01:24 PM (2WIwB)

161 Pacos first came over to this country as indentured servants in the early 18th century from England (probably stole some spoons or a cow or something). My ancestor fought against the British and was awarded a parcel of land after the Revolutionary War concluded. You can bet the old boy knew a thing or two about oppression and freedom, and the big difference between the two.

Posted by: Paco at December 06, 2025 01:25 PM (mADJX)

162 My mom bought a thing called "fish emulsion" for her flowers. A little goes a long way.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:26 PM (W7XSX)

163 Ken Burns, Civil War, epic
Ken Burns, Revolution, epic

The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias where people recognize inaccuracies in media reports about topics they know well but still trust the media on subjects they are less familiar with.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:26 PM (04Glf)

164 And you have to be of the right temperament. If you are impatient or snap easily, don't do it. Or you'll find yourself screaming and hitting your kids for not understanding Algebra II fast enough. Or at a less extreme end burning out.
Posted by: You have to be very self-controlled and self-aware
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Good points. Same criteria as those planning on teaching as a career.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (WDjG6)

165 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

166 It's kind of like sardines. Nobody wants them. But Bobby Flay puts them in his Sprimp and Grits and never loses.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (W7XSX)

167 It's funny not funny that WW2 started in part because of FDR's meddling in China to protect American investments there and Chamberpot guaranteeing Poland's independence yet by 1949 both were communist.

WW II was guaranteed when the Treaty of Versailles was signed to send both teams to the locker-room at the end of WW I. A twenty year armistice. A long half-time.

No country would have lived under those terms without force to make them do so. No sane victor without the means to muster such force, long term, would have considered it.

So, of course, Wilson waded our asses in to tip the balance and then sign such a moronic plan.

Wilson is also on my Mt. Rushmore of Presidential Pricks. FDR, Lincoln, and Wilson. Spot Number Four is still up for grabs.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (k2Vk4)

168 Anchovies. Yikes.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (W7XSX)

169 Several years ago Biblical Archaeology ran something from some nutcase about how Adam’s rib should actually be translated as Adam’s penis.

In unrelated news, this appeared shortly before I let my subscription lapse.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 12:58 PM (EXyHK)

Ah the "Baculum theory". It argues that parts of Genesis is a "just so" story that has no parallel that anyone has presented, based on the observation that Humans are the only mammal without a baculum, however it misses that ungulates like horses, cattle and sheep also lack them.
Possibly one of the more exciting unprovable thesis to come out of modern maundering.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (rbvCR)

170 105 Ken Burns no longer has Shelby Foote to hold up the series and it clearly shows. He should do what he really wants to do and that's Black History - Patrick from Ohio

Maybe he'd like to start with contemporary history in the Minneapolis area. No? Well, just an idea...

Posted by: Paco at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (mADJX)

171 161 Pacos first came over to this country as indentured servants
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Both of Buddy's fore-parents came to the rebuilding of Jamestown as indentured servants.
They've got stories.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:29 PM (04Glf)

172 Sounds like the guy who wrote a biography of LBJ. Caro?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Yes. Caro took a turn when he documented LBJ's rise to power in his first volume. Believe by his second volume research, LBJ's family and supporters were upset by the first one and tried to hinder his ability to access LBJ's donated papers and his presidential library.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (WDjG6)

173 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

Haven't read comments yet, so I'm sure others have said this earlier and better.

Trump needs to get a real American to do a quick revolution series telling the background of the whole idea. Someone who doesn't use this platform to denigrate the country and founders, but celebrates what they did. Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery. We need to know why, not that the founders were imperfect.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (uQesX)

174 "White Slavery"

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (W7XSX)

175 My mom bought a thing called "fish emulsion" for her flowers. A little goes a long way.

Fish emulsion is the last stop for fish that aren't good enough to use for lutefisk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (8DR9B)

176 >>It also helped that Royko was at the Sun Times

whig, before that, he was at the Daily News, which was the Field family's afternoon paper, and the one Dad brought home. Was reading him before hitting double-digit age; didn't get some things, but sure got a lot. He moved to the Sun-Times when the Daily News shut down ('74?) and the S-T did a morning & afternoon edition.

Both the Sun-Times & the Tribune killed their afternoon editions a few years later; hell, the Trib bought the Chicago American and made it the Chicago Today, for a while.

The real grin is that Royko moved to the Tribune when Rupert Murdoch bought the Field publications, because, while he had sworn that he would never work for the Trib, he loathed Murdoch more. There's a story (too lazy to look up) that Royko rode an elevator in the S-T building with one of the Field heirs right after the sale was announced and blasted him practically out of the elevator.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:32 PM (NcvvS)

177 "The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist. The The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do."

As I've said before (and I trust others have said as well), there should never have been a J6 rally - especially if the J5 pipe bombs were discovered when they should have been. The whole Capitol complex should have been shut down due to a bomb investigation, instead of allowing any group of people to congregate around discovered and undiscovered explosive devices.

The government let the bombs be planted, allowed the demonstrations to take place in spite of those bombs being planted, and conspired to railroad innocent protestors and derail the possibility of a second Trump term - either in 2021 or today.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 01:34 PM (0CU3H)

178 174 Pacos first came over to this country as indentured servants
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Both of Buddy's fore-parents came to the rebuilding of Jamestown as indentured servants.
They've got stories. - Braenyard

Cherish them and pass them on. I have few details, unfortunately, about the First Paco in America. Great Aunt Murdy commissioned a genuine genealogical history probably before I was born, and she never let anybody read it. Some of the basic info got out, though, such as that indentured servant business. I take it that my people were not exactly in line for the throne.

Posted by: Paco at December 06, 2025 01:34 PM (mADJX)

179 @137 Stephen Price Blair

I've got 3-4 of Royko's books and love them for the stories of learning his trade.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:35 PM (NcvvS)

180 From what I understand, lutefisk would be better used as fertilizer.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (W7XSX)

181 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

No. Honestly ? No.

Because there's a reason the Left - under Obama - systematically erased every Civil War name and monument. Why did they do that ?

Because they wanted to erase the idea of organized disobedience. Because they had the idea that they had a lock on authority. And now ? They love the idea of disobedience.

There is no message that will work - unless you teach the idea of whites vs. whites vs. natives. Which will not play with the young 'uns. Or we can go State's Rights. North-East Republicans will hate that.

Or we can get into the real lives of the "Founders". They were not Saints or Deities. That'll work well.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (k2Vk4)

182 173 Got any better ideas for recognizing the American Revolution as an important anniversary approaches?

Haven't read comments yet, so I'm sure others have said this earlier and better.

Trump needs to get a real American to do a quick revolution series telling the background of the whole idea. Someone who doesn't use this platform to denigrate the country and founders, but celebrates what they did. Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery. We need to know why, not that the founders were imperfect.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 06, 2025 01:31 PM (uQesX)

The White House has put out a series of videos on YouTube highlighting individual Revolutionary figures - both well-known and unknown. It's pretty good, and it's short as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (0CU3H)

183 BTU VS Texas Tech... some crazy plays!
!!!!!GUNS UP!!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 01:37 PM (VCgbV)

184 GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:37 PM (Ia/+0)

185 I've got 3-4 of Royko's books and love them for the stories of learning his trade.

There’s not a dud in the bunch. One of his most memorable essays is getting carried away watching True Grit. I think it’s from Sez Who? Sez Me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 06, 2025 01:38 PM (EXyHK)

186 175 When Dad and I would go bank fishing, he kept carp and other bottom feeders for his miserable garden. A friend's Dad, a guy about my age, keeps carp and smokes them. It took him a few tries, but what comes out now is pretty good.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 06, 2025 01:38 PM (gm9Sb)

187 Some of the basic info got out, though, such as that indentured servant business. I take it that my people were not exactly in line for the throne.
Posted by: Paco

That is too bad. We were the Kings, but then we abdicated the Throne.

Posted by: The Schmenge Brothers at December 06, 2025 01:40 PM (oftw2)

188 >>I think Royko was at the Daily News, the afternoon paper. Moved to the Tribune when the Daily News shut down. 1981?

Ted, Daily News shut down in '78, and I think Field stopped producing an afternoon paper then. Tribune killed Chicago Today and produced an afternoon edition for a few years - remember because delivered afternoon Chicago papers from 1973-1975 before turned 29.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 01:41 PM (NcvvS)

189 I went out on a half-day boat out of San Diego. We caught a lot of mackerel. Nobody wants the mackerel, but this old guy. He takes all we want to give him.

He was old man Ghio. Portugese. They used the mackerel to make fish stock at the Anthony's restaurants in San Diego.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (W7XSX)

190 Our revolution inspired others, just like the French one, but ours didn't devolve into savagery.

Good Grief.

Prisoners kept in cages (the Brits did that in Boston). Buildings "fired" - which meant those inside burnt alive.

Do you understand that, in that Revolution, men lined up against other men to kill them ? And if they missed at close range, there was always the bayonet or the hatchet ?

War IS savagery. By definition.

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (k2Vk4)

191 The bomb story stinks. They traced him buying one piece of pipe at Home Depot a year apart from buying another piece at Lowes and the other few pieces at different times (months or years apart) and places.

They can do this but they can't find a killer? They can't trace back on the Trump shooter or Las Vegas or two hundred other things that are strung together much better than a piece of pipe here and a piece of pipe there. He may have placed the bombs but the whole story is a crock.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:42 PM (04Glf)

192 From what I understand, lutefisk would be better used as fertilizer.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:36 PM (W7XSX)

Lutefisk has too much lye in it for fertilizer

You can make you own fish emulsion by dumping those hagfish, bullheads, fish guts and heads in a barrel, topping with water and letting it rot down for a summer. That is what it is, basically. Some people advise stirring it from time to time, and others say it is best to strain the bones out before use.

By the way, if you were to put in lots of salt, you could make fish sauce or garum instead, but you probably want to clean the barrel well, first.

"Makes your plants grow tall - either from the fertilizer, or because they are trying to get away from the stink"

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 01:44 PM (rbvCR)

193 It's the Las Vegas shooter story that stinks.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:45 PM (W7XSX)

194 Well, lutefisk before the lye.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 01:46 PM (W7XSX)

195 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

Heh. The Coal Mining sketch by Monty Python really does hit the nail.

'Coal minings a wonderful thing, Father!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 06, 2025 01:48 PM (RE5em)

196 One can only think the Eff Bee Eye doesn't see what they don't want to see

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

197 Ken Burns came to my local high school to talk to students about the documentary, as I live in a Massachusetts town that saw early action in the Revolution. No word on whether John Locke or the Iroquois were more influential to Franklin.

Posted by: Lex at December 06, 2025 01:54 PM (y4H1r)

198 The real grin is that Royko moved to the Tribune when Rupert Murdoch bought the Field publications, because, while he had sworn that he would never work for the Trib, he loathed Murdoch more. There's a story (too lazy to look up) that Royko rode an elevator in the S-T building with one of the Field heirs right after the sale was announced and blasted him practically out of the elevator.
Posted by: Nazdar
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Thanks for the true story. Mine was garbled because I read his syndicated column in the local rag, not the original papers where they were first published.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 01:57 PM (WDjG6)

199 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.

Yeah. And the worldview of the right is mostly "I forgive you, Dad".

Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:57 PM (k2Vk4)

200 I've very disappointed that Burns ignored the critical contributions by transgender people, without whom we would still be speaking the King's English.

Posted by: p-squared at December 06, 2025 01:58 PM (0prFs)

201 @185

Yep, looked it up, it's toward the end in section 7.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 02:00 PM (NcvvS)

202 'Coal minings a wonderful thing, Father!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Not hardly. It's a struggle every day. A regular Mine Kampf!

Posted by: Ned From Newcastle at December 06, 2025 02:01 PM (oftw2)

203 199 The worldview of the left can be mostly summed up with the phrase 'I hate you, Dad!'.

Yeah. And the worldview of the right is mostly "I forgive you, Dad".
Posted by: The Slow Decline at December 06, 2025 01:57 PM (k2Vk4)

The worldview of the TradCon right is mostly "Dad beat me and I turned out fine so I'm going to beat you so you'll turn out fine. Also, because God."

Posted by: Ah the good old days at December 06, 2025 02:03 PM (TbWk/)

204 My pleasure, whig. Of course, he printed the story in the Sun-Times just before his departure.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 06, 2025 02:05 PM (NcvvS)

205 It's on PBS? Pfffft screw that, never gonna watch.

Posted by: Brometheus at December 06, 2025 02:13 PM (XQPCp)

206 In before the guy that overshares!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)

207 Why Does Hollywood Hate the American Revolution?

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhs7ym

Posted by: Alex Holz at December 06, 2025 02:29 PM (rbKtB)

208 and Texas Tech goes up two TDs late to try and get the CFP committee out of a cleft stick of their own cutting.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 06, 2025 02:31 PM (jc0TO)

209 The notion that the Founders, and Enlightenment Europeans in general, got a lot of their ideal from observing the loosely democratic tribal confederations and decision-making processes among North American Indians is popularized in "The Dawn of Everything (2021) by Graeber and Wengrow. I'll bet Burns has read it. I found it interesting, but don't have enough subject matter knowledge to know if it's got a solid foundation or relies primarily on cherry-picked and anecdotal evidence.

Posted by: Bryan at December 06, 2025 02:42 PM (SCSMo)

210 As I posted a review of a video up top, the Leftists H8 the country so no Revolutionary War movie about why their was a war will ever be made.
Make a move on the Constitution and you will have one about the Revolution.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 02:58 PM (Ia/+0)

211 The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist.

Mike Benz pointed out this morning that in the actual aftermath of J5/J6 the FBI released a statement pointing out the rare fancy Nikes the bomber was wearing and then did nothing to track them down. I would assume that was a signal to the bomber to stop wearing them.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2025 03:04 PM (QZThv)

212 TTU has been bringing it all season!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 03:13 PM (VCgbV)

213 Lots of articles on how the Democrats/ Marxists Propaganda Ministry is turning a Black Leftists into a White MAGA Trumper

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 03:19 PM (Ia/+0)

214 CONGRATULATIONS TEXAS TECH!!!!🏈🏈

Posted by: lin-duh at December 06, 2025 03:24 PM (VCgbV)

215 The FBI apprehended the J6 pipe bomber, something the Biden FBI had somehow been unable to do. Weirdly, he turned out to be a left-wing extremist.

Mike Benz pointed out this morning that in the actual aftermath of J5/J6 the FBI released a statement pointing out the rare fancy Nikes the bomber was wearing and then did nothing to track them down. I would assume that was a signal to the bomber to stop wearing them.
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Yes. And once upon a time "independent journalists" would have seized on that tip and raced to identify the perp. It would have been quite the prize to have beat the FBI to the punch, and comparatively easy too since the Biden-era FBI wanted no part of solving this case.

Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 03:36 PM (TN0g+)

216 They tracked him down and when they found out he was black and gay and autistic, they buried it.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 04:37 PM (W7XSX)

217 123 "Because George liked power."

Yes, but he also liked pussy, and decided to work on becoming more the literal Father of His Country as he grew older. I mean, nobody's gonna shoot the First President just because he tapped your old lady! Many would have seen it as an honor!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 06, 2025 05:14 PM (FpP3s)

218 When I toured Alaska, our guide said all the green we saw in the bay where we were whale watching was because eagles ate salmon, dropped them in the bare rocks, and they created the biomass that allowed vegetation to begin forming and building.
I'm sure the Iroquois could figure out that same thing: plants like fish biomass. They don't understand the scientific WHY, nitrogen and all that, but they saw it works.

Also the three sisters thing, plant beans corn and squash together, does work. They have a symbiotic relationship. Agriculture in general is delayed gratification: I plant these seeds now, later I see a harvest. I plant a fish under my corn instead of just eating the fish now, my corn grows taller and bigger. And then I can use the corn to survive the winter.

It does scholars absolutely no credit to be honest about the Iriquois' planting prowess, and then go a step too far and say "the native Americans inspired the concept of democracy." It negates everything historically true, and makes them look like lazy woke fools. (Which they are, but for Pete's sake, don't PROVE it beyond all doubt!)

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 05:38 PM (gWBY1)

219 Currently reading the excellent bio of John Adams (cleverly title "John Adams") by David McCullough. Franklin does not come out looking quite so "adorably quirky" as we'd been led to believe. Sort of a dick at times.

Posted by: VirginiaSmoker at December 07, 2025 03:54 AM (zwTY9)

The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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The way I drink coffee you think I was from Luxembourg and/or the world's richest man. H/T Helena Handbasket

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They told us that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack. So are you going to believe them when it comes to coffee consumption? I think not.

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Since it is the Christmas Season, classical tunes will be shelved until 2026 or whenever it happens. Before entering the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Minneapolis)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) Running with sharp objects will not be tolerated unless you have a note from a responsible adult.
4) Have a great weekend!

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
10/22 – Pennsyltucky requested prayers for his dad, who underwent cancer surgery on 10/21. Everything seems to have gone well (they’re confident they got it all!) but due to his age, his hospital stay and convalescence will be longer than usual. Dad is doing well, is awake and alert. A full recovery is anticipated but it will take a while. Thank you so much.
11/6 Update – Pennsyltucky’s dad is out of the hospital and is now convalescing at home with the aid of home care nurse visits. He’s not able to walk very well, having spent so long in a hospital bed, but he’s in good spirits and improving daily. Thanks for your prayers!
10/27 – Polliwog the ‘Ette asked for prayers for her youngest daughter, "LK", who needs prayers for safety and peace, and her best friend "C" for health and that stress not cause a flare up of psoriatic arthritis as they and another roommate work with the police and the landlord to have the 4th roommate "M" evicted because she is threatening them and making the living situation a nightmare. “M” is bipolar and medicating with alcohol. Prayers for her healing and that she find salvation from the self-destructive path she's on would also be appreciated.
11/8 Update – The situation still needs lots of prayer. LK sand C have been staying at a hotel to avoid M, who wants to fight whenever she sees them. M is supposed to move out the end of Dec. but that seems like a very long time when C still needs to attend class and keep her arthritis in check.
11/5 – Mary Poppins’ Practically Perfect Piercing said he could use a prayer or two. He has a pain in his head which, it seems, is occipital neuralgia. It’s not fatal, thank heavens, but is painful until a proper treatment course is settled upon. Many thanks.
11/12 Update – Pronouns corrected above.
11/6 - D sent an update on his wife Susan, and her battle with cancer. He sent his thanks to everyone for the prayers. They are helping and much appreciated. Susan had an infection which is being treated, but her sodium levels are bad again. She will be sent home soon, but is on restrictive fluids until this is cleared up. The good news is that she has gained some weight back and her voice is much stronger now. Thank you, and please keep up the prayers. They appreciate everyone!
11/20 Update – Susan is out of the hospital, after 2 weeks. For the first time in months, she doesn’t have any drainage tubes. Chemo is on hold for the next 2 weeks, to give her time to rest, recover, and gain some weight back. Thank you, everyone, for your prayers – please continue them!
11/7 – BarelyScaryMary requested prayers for a friend, RJ, who is having heart issues. She will likely get stents or a bypass soon. Prayers are needed for RJ’s recovery, and also that she is able and willing to make the lifestyle changes necessary for her health.
11/13 Update – Stents were not an option for RJ, so she needs a bypass. She is waiting for the surgery to be scheduled. She is apprehensive about the surgery and recovery. Prayers are also needed for BarelyScaryMary’s dad, who is also having heart problems. Her mom could use prayers, too, as she is watching her husband of 60 years decline.
11/8 – Dash my lace wings had an urgent request for prayers for a co-worker and friend who is hospitalized with sepsis. It is extremely resistant to antibiotics and has attached to the artificial heart valve she got less than a year ago. Her situation is tenuous.
11/15 Update – The co-worker is healing. She was released from the hospital and is on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. Thank you for your prayers. We nearly lost her.
11/8 – Farmer Bob asked for prayers for his Uncle Richard’s MIL who passed away on 11/7, and for Richard’s wife Linda. Linda’s putting on a brave face and it was not unexpected, but it’s hard to lose your mother.
11/14 – Halfhand requested prayers for a sister whose husband recently passed away unexpectedly in his sleep. They had just upended their lives to move from California to Tennessee; now she is all alone.
11/15 – Smell the Glove asked for prayers for an 81 year-old aunt who has colon cancer. She is stopping chemo, since it’s not working and it’s tiring her out. Doctors will determine if any other treatment is proper.
11/29 Update – Thank you all for the prayers. The good Lord had another plan and the aunt passed away. She had taught at a Catholic school for over 20 years, raised 3 daughters and had 8 grandchildren. She also babysat Smell the Glove the first couple of years of life.
11/15 – Sponge posted an update on the “First lady”. She is doing OK from the surgery pain-wise, however it appears her compromised immune system from chemo is susceptible to viruses. She has been spiking a fever all weekend.
11/20 - Bluebell sent an update on grammie winger - good news! At her appointment, the doctor said her bloodwork is nearly perfect and her cancer cell count is dropping. She is in minimal pain. The chemo is working, thanks be to God! She will go back in 3 weeks for another round of chemo and then they will do a CT scan to see if she can have surgery to clean out the rest of the tumors. She is convinced – CONVINCED – that this is due in no small part to the treasured prayers of friends and family! They gave her weeks, and now she is looking at possible remission.
11/22 – Duke Lowell posted an update. He said that he is gradually starting to feel normal again, two months after his surgery. The main problem is that the effects of anesthesia are still suppressing his appetite.
11/22 – Commissar Hrothgar posted prayers for President Trump, to keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught.
11/22 – Oddbob requested prayers. He found out that his job is going away the end of December. They are a one-income family. He also requested prayers for another co-worker, who is in the same situation.
11/22 – Cosda sent an update on his wife’s condition. She started a year of immunotherapy in June for cancer. She is doing well with her treatments every three weeks, but her follow up dermatology scan found another mole with melanoma and 2 other abnormal and suspicious spots. She will be having more tissue removed from those areas for lab tests. Prayers are appreciated.
11/22 – The Walking Dude sent an update. We prayed for his mom in August, when she fell and broke her hip. She is 90 years old. She is still in the hospital but has been transferred to a better rehab run by the Masons. They are unsure if she will ever get out. Please pray for her recovery and return home.
11/24 – Bulg requested prayers for a neighbor who has cancer, and also prayers for his son and two of his friends, who are moving into a rental house in Arlington, VA on 11/28. Prayers for the 3 of them, that they may live together contentedly, and prayers for Bulg and his wife as they adjust to their son’s absence.
11/26 Update – The neighbor passed away on 11/24. Prayers are needed for the neighbor’s husband, Steve, as he grieves. They had no children.
11/29 – From about That Time asked for prayers after a lymphoma diagnosis. From about That Time has already begun chemo, and the kids and granddaughter had fun cutting off a ponytail and shaving hair in preparation.
12/1 – P received news that her 24 year old daughter has changed her name to a male name and had “top surgery”. P needs wisdom as to how to speak to her, and also how to speak with P’s other children, in a loving but honest way. Also, that God will use this to turn all their hearts back to Him.
12/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She had an MRI on 12/3, and will meet with the oncologist on 12/4, the surgeon on 12/8, and the surgery on 12/11. This is a good thing, because it looks like more tumors are starting to crop up in her liver. It doesn’t appear to have spread beyond there yet, thank goodness.
12/4 – E asked for prayers as she will be having surgery in two weeks. She is nervous, but everyone she has spoken with has nothing but good things to say about the surgeon, and she is looking forward to being on the other side of it. Please pray that all will go according to God’s will and that His name will be glorified.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:00 AM

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1 Good morning, MisHum!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (kOluj)

2 Good morning!

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 06, 2025 07:50 AM (MbmRO)

3 I like my coffee like I like my Luxembourgers, bitter and black.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 07:51 AM (R86kT)

4 5.3 cups of coffee? You'd think that they'd be more productive.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:04 AM (dK+Kv)

5 Whoa- I think I got bucked off of the blog....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 08:05 AM (t/66j)

6 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:05 AM (Ia/+0)

7 3) Running with sharp objects will not be tolerated unless you have a note from a responsible adult.
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I'm guessing that leaves out notes from the Horde...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 08:05 AM (ESVrU)

8 In local news, Skip fixed his phone!

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

9 I've got a note from Epstein's mom.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

10 Prayers to all for G*d's mercy and comfort. I'm so happy to read the latest update on Grammie. G*d is great!

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2025 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

11 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:07 AM (NwnyJ)

12 3) Running with sharp objects will not be tolerated unless you have a note from a responsible adult

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*wrestles PA mic away from grouch nurse*

"Paging Dr. Muldoon... please bring your scrip pad"

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 08:09 AM (t/66j)

13 This morning is Pike Place market blend. Not quite as fresh roasted as I’d like though good. They must not move a lot of it. I purchased a brick of Bustelo for emergency bacckup, and a small pack of Bustelo freeze-dried. Put it on the shelf, it’s there when you need it. Freeze-dried crystals. They were zero-balance on Folger’s singles, thus illustrating the wisdom of holding back one of the 19 count boxes from the last purchase. I may die tomorrow, but not without coffee on hand.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:09 AM (Npcdm)

14 Please add my FiL to the list. He went into the hospital this week for AFIB, congestive heart, and received two scents. He is home now, still short of breath, and has a long road ahead including the gamut of meds they gave him. As much as he vexes me, he is a kind-hearted man and a loving father.

As you may recall, my wife lost her Mom a few years back to brain cancer, which makes this even more difficult for her to bear during the holidays.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:09 AM (dK+Kv)

15 Good morning again dear horde with thanks to mh and annie and you morons for praying

{grammie}
{TiFW}
Hiya JT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:10 AM (LbMjz)

16 I think Hitman: World of Assassination has officially jumped the shark.

Their latest update has a new mission called "Eminem v. Slim Shady."

And yes, Eminem himself is a part of this mission. He's trying to track down his evil twin, "Slim Shady," and put him down for good.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 08:11 AM (ESVrU)

17 Sad to say, I reheated whatever was in last night's cup of coffee. (waiting for the household to wake up before making an Americano from the espresso machine)

Received a fresh shipment of green coffee beans to roast and deciding will be next up in the queue. Couple interesting wet hulled samples (1 pound each) from Sumatra.

My supplier is once again offering a vintage (five year old Sumata) that is definitely an acquired taste for very rustic tasting coffee. $10 a pound. Don't know whether I want to do that again. Most certainly a change from the usual - NOT a crowd pleaser.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)

18 Willowed:

Ben Had
No joy in contacting OMB. I have asked for help from the staff of my local Congressman.

They answered on the first ring, had clear American voices, and seemed very willing to help. I'll see what they can do.

We have put up with so much poor customer service that it was stunning to get good, American service. Not outsourced to a foreign country.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:13 AM (u82oZ)

19 Finally all is right with the world for now anyway
Thought my phone was done and all because I had a night message so put on Do not disturb, that turned off all media playing.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:13 AM (Ia/+0)

20 I bought an assortment of Kuerig coffee pods at Costco. This morning I randomly tried a Hawaiian blend. Not bad.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 06, 2025 08:14 AM (cxFcK)

21 They answered on the first ring, had clear American voices, and seemed very willing to help. I'll see what they can do.

You know that AI has gotten a lot better at telephone service than most Americans these days.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

22 Is there anyone out there that does not know that X was formally known as Twitter? How long are they going to keep telling us that?

Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

23 Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)

How do you make Americano coffee?

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 08:15 AM (Oy/m2)

24 We are the United States of Amerigotin! Joe Bribem said so! Look it up on that tweet thing if you don't believe me. Or some other source........I'm to lazy to link

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (jrgJz)

25 Sad to say, I reheated whatever was in last night's cup of coffee. (waiting for the household to wake up before making an Americano from the espresso machine)

Received a fresh shipment of green coffee beans to roast and deciding will be next up in the queue. Couple interesting wet hulled samples (1 pound each) from Sumatra.

My supplier is once again offering a vintage (five year ol5thd Sumata) that is definitely an acquired taste for very rustic tasting coffee. $10 a pound. Don't know whether I want to do that again. Most certainly a change from the usual - NOT a crowd pleaser.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:11 AM (a4flb)

That is the worst, having had been up since 3 am.

The rest now makes your nic make more sense.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (dK+Kv)

26 Happy St. Knickerless Day!

Posted by: Pants Free In NC at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (oftw2)

27 I prefer an Amerigotin blend.

Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

28 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:17 AM (ZOv7s)

29 https://iotwreport.com/
wait-where-are-we/

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 06, 2025 08:17 AM (jrgJz)

30 Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.

St. Nicholas, bishop and confessor, pray for us.

I have prayed Rosaries for the intentions, both stated and unstated, of the members of the Horde.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:17 AM (pJWtt)

31 Oh, and I just recalled that I have some freshish ground coffee that I ground for last camping trip.

*off to make some stealth coffee*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:18 AM (dK+Kv)

32 Prayers for all the horde as needs them

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:18 AM (DoBxX)

33 Good morning again.

I am grateful for the Horde, Misanthropic Humanitarian and Annie’s Stew.

Prayers ascending for those in need and those with unstated needs in our community. I credit Annie's Stew with helping turn us from just a smart military blog into a caring, thriving, incredible community.

{{{grammie}}}
{{{TiFW}}}. You looked marvelous in Corsicana.
That Billy Crystal video haunts me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

34 Is there anyone out there that does not know that X was formally known as Twitter? How long are they going to keep telling us that?

Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

It will always be Twitter.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (dK+Kv)

35 In college sportsball news, Michigan State University athletics has jumped into the big boys ring after receiving a $290M donation from a wealthy booster. Another $100M from the same booster goes directly to the university's name___-likeness collective.

Total donation to the university was $401M and the dude isn't even and alum.

I hate what has become of college sports.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (Y1sOo)

36 I bought an assortment of Kuerig coffee pods at Costco. This morning I randomly tried a Hawaiian blend. Not bad.

There is just enough "Hawaiian" in that blend so as not to be sued for false advertising.

You mentioned Kuerig, which guarantees that your coffee will have those delightful plastic flavor undertones in each cup.

BUT if you are looking for that Hawaiian taste without the Hawaiian premium pricing, Costa Rica, particularly the Tarrazu region is your Huckleberry.

I would recommend Panama, but their pricing is like Hawaii for almost the same reasons. But if you could ever get a Geisha variety from Panama - definitely go for it. (though no one in their right mind would put that been into a plastic K-cup)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)

37 Prayers up for all on the list.
Please pray for Tim, an acquaintance through church. He has prostate cancer and begins 28 days straight of radiation beginning next week. We've seen miracles through prayer and Tim may need one.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 08:20 AM (2NHgQ)

38 You look mahverlous darling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 08:20 AM (LbMjz)

39 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I loath A/I phone answering.

My requests usually can not be handled by the pre-scripted prompts. A person does much better. Unless they are in India or the Philippines with a phony name and a vile accent.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

40 A non paywalled version of the nyt link in the post

https://archive.is/3nc8z

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:21 AM (DoBxX)

41 Is there anyone out there that does not know that X was formally known as Twitter? How long are they going to keep telling us that?

As long as editors are looking for volume over quality of content.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)

42 The US needs to up our coffee drinking. We're losing to Europeans.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)

43 Morning, horde!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2025 08:22 AM (wVcYX)

44
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 06, 2025 08:22 AM (tljrc)

45 A.H. Lloyd, you mentioned last week that you wanted to get an icon of St. Nicholas slapping the heretic Arius. Did you look for such an icon?

Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (pJWtt)

46 May you all have a day that will live in golden memories.

I have to start some mundane tasks called chores.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

47 Good morning horde, and prayers up for all of is who need them. Which is all of us!

Anyway, moar covfefe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 08:25 AM (J5UAN)

48 I would just like to have a couple days with sunshine and temps above 30. It's been 8 or 9 days since I've seen the sun or 30 degrees.

Miserable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:25 AM (NwnyJ)

49 Best Wishes and good vibrations for all who are in distress this day.

Posted by: Don Black at December 06, 2025 08:25 AM (ZxPkt)

50 Anybody wondering, chemo sucks. But the people are nice.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (sl73Y)

51 The rest now makes your nic make more sense.

X = an unknown in maths equation
Pert = a drip under pressure

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)

52 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)

I don't have a capsule coffee maker at home, but I always try the hotel room machines. They range from excellent to abysmal.

This week was pretty awful. So bad I didn't bother after the first try.

One floor down in the lounge they had some interesting coffee. A commercial machine that used concentrate. I was suspicious, but it was drinkable.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (GLocS)

53 It's a bit cold out here to go without sans-culottes

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:27 AM (Ia/+0)

54 Total donation to the university was $401M and the dude isn't even and alum.

I hate what has become of college sports.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:19 AM (Y1sOo)
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It's always been about money. The notion that there was some innocent and pure age is just nostalgia. From its foundation, college sports was tainted with scandal. The filthy and totally amoral University of Michigan has more "wins" in part because during its early years, it employed non-students on the team, many of whose names aren't even known. Players switched teams in mid-season, often defecting to a team they just played.

I am tickled that this athletic Death Star is being funded by a Michigan grad. I guess he hated Ann Arbor.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:27 AM (ZOv7s)

55
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are off this morning to Orlando for the AKC National Championship show next Saturday.

It's the only big show we've never taken Best of Breed at (we won at Westminster, Morris and Essex and our National Specialty), though Dutch and Delilah gave it a good shot. We hope The Big Dummy can do just a bit better.

There are all-breed shows Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as well as a Hound show the Sunday after. Plus HM has AKC delegate meetings Thursday and Friday. A busy week for them both. Wish them safe travel and good luck.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:27 AM (tgvbd)

56 prefer an Amerigotin blend.

Posted by: fd, formally known as f'd at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

The way covfefe was intended.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:28 AM (dK+Kv)

57 My requests usually can not be handled by the pre-scripted prompts. A person does much better. Unless they are in India or the Philippines with a phony name and a vile accent.

Due to the nature of my work, I have gotten rather used to the accents.

Though with the increasing use of AI, I suspect that we are going to have to learn to communicate differently, where we think in terms of clarifying AI tokens rather than colorful metaphors and idioms.

Leftists hardest hit since they can only communicate in vague euphemisms and incendiary trigger words.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)

58 And what’s what wrong with “soft and slow” applies to “rules” anyhow?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:30 AM (2VfHu)

59 A.H. Lloyd, you mentioned last week that you wanted to get an icon of St. Nicholas slapping the heretic Arius. Did you look for such an icon?

Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (pJWtt)
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Sadly, no. Last week was something of a blur due to cars rotating in and out of the shop, and a stream of tradesmen moving in and out of the house. Speaking of which...

God be praised! The ceiling repairs are complete, and Home Improvement 2025 is finished at long last! I'm pausing frequently to look up and see no sign of the hole through which water infiltrated this room for several years with growing intensity, from intermittent droplets to a full stream this time last year.

We did have the grandkids set out their shoes and St. Nicholas left them gifts. I got an early wakeup as a result.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:31 AM (ZOv7s)

60
My sis went in this week for an atrial valve replacement due to stenosis.

Everything went fine.

The interesting thing is that instead of using a pig valve for replacement, they upgraded her to the latest and greatest replacement using bovine valve material.

The Downside?

The threat of marriage to a muslim is now back on the table!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)

61 I am surprised that Vietnam is so low on the coffee consumption list, and that Lebanon is so high.

Ny stereotypes would have put Turkey & Vietnam higher

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:33 AM (znREB)

62 >> Anybody wondering, chemo sucks. But the people are nice.

Indeed. Stay strong. Stay focused on the goal, and pray. God will carry you through it.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 08:33 AM (Viiux)

63 >> The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
a light has dawned.

Isaiah 9:2

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (Viiux)

64 >>>>Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are off this morning to Orlando for the AKC National Championship show next Saturday.

Was there in 2019 with the late Missus when our bitch finished in the top ten in owner-handler and thus got the auto-invite.

The Orlando convention center is HUGE.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (Y1sOo)

65 It's the season of Advent.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (W7XSX)

66 One floor down in the lounge they had some interesting coffee. A commercial machine that used concentrate. I was suspicious, but it was drinkable.

On layover in Dubai, rather than camp out in the airport lobby like unwashed heathen, I spent a short night in whatever hotel I could find nearby and put on an expense report without hassle - they had a full blown espresso machine and grinder in the room.

Staying at a pricy hotel room in The Woodlands, they offered some K-cup garbage and a cheap machine. I ignore it these days, use it only to heat water to run through an Aeropress.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

67 The Downside?

The threat of marriage to a muslim is now back on the table!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)

Her stock went up with the Hindus, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:35 AM (dK+Kv)

68 It's the season of Advent.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 08:34 AM (W7XSX)
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Monday is a Holy Day of Obligation.

It's interesting that celebrities are getting into Advent. Chris Pratt and Gwen Stephani are both doing audio on Hallow. Pratt isn't Catholic, but I believe Stephani is a revert. She co-hosting with an Eastern Rite Sister.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)

69 Anybody wondering, chemo sucks. But the people are nice.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 08:26 AM (sl73Y)

Godspeed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (dK+Kv)

70 I used to order a lot of green beans from Sweet Maria’s. Shipping charges made it tough to pencil out really, unless ordering a lot. I’m sure it’s much worse now. Sumatran was good stuff as I recall.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I was looking at the Lewis and Clark loadout for 1804 and in addition to all the tons of equipment and trade goods they put together, there was 50 pounds of green Coffee beans. After roasting this makes about 40 pounds or so.. Not enough coffee for a crowd. It must have been the stash for the captains. Lasted longer than the Whiskey, it did.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (2VfHu)

71
Was there in 2019 with the late Missus when our bitch finished in the top ten in owner-handler and thus got the auto-invite.

___________

Dutch got a Group 1 in Owner-Handled the first year they had it.

https://tinyurl.com/m3yevt5y

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:39 AM (tgvbd)

72 Good morning, All. Thanks to "Annie's Stew" for keeping the list.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 08:39 AM (rsCxw)

73 It's always been about money. The notion that there was some innocent and pure age is just nostalgia. From its foundation, college sports was tainted with scandal.

Southern Methodist University sports program has entered the chat

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:39 AM (a4flb)

74 Only peasants prepare their inferior coffee at home. Us coastal elitists purchase our inferior coffee at shops, like God intended.

Posted by: Rob at December 06, 2025 08:42 AM (zhWvq)

75 MisHum

Sent you a picture you might like

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 08:42 AM (0U5gm)

76 Best Wishes and good vibrations for all
——

That wasn’t a Theremin, you know

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:42 AM (2VfHu)

77 Good morning everyone. Thx MisHum for putting up prayers for my aunt and the update. Thx to all the Horde for your condolences. Judy was a good lady.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 06, 2025 08:44 AM (bfwj/)

78 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at December 06, 2025 08:45 AM (oftw2)

79 Running with sharp objects will not be tolerated unless you have a note from a responsible adult.

Anybody needing a note for sharp object running let me know. Every time something goes wrong around here they say I'm responsible.

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 08:46 AM (/iMjX)

80 We have a turkey rampaging out back by the bird feeders. She is snorking up all the cracked corn I scattered for the bunnies and other ground feeders.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (AN2gy)

81 I was reading the ONT while waiting for the Coffee Thread to open shop, and-

saw the Leftist women learn about marriage meme along with their complaint that American men step up.

This always makes me want to tell them-

Gals, if you want to get married:

1) Don't Be a Ho - guys have a literal million years evolutionary background in spotting which ladies are and are not good Genetic Investments for their Progeny. If you're chasing every wang in town, or dating five guys at a time, you are not a good investment for pair-bonding. A quick pump and dump, yes. Marriage/ No.

2) You need to bring something else to the table besides your Pink Thang and gaggle of girlfriends.
For me, being able to cook is a big deal. It shows you can take care of yourself and want good things which means you can take basic care of the kiddos.
But, you know, a pleasant and positive personality is great.
So, is patience. No one wants to live with a highly emotional lunatic.
presenting yourself well is nice. No one's proud to be escorting a slob about town.
Etc.

I know, I know - guys can improve too.

It just seems that women in general have been targeted with the worst possible advice for life.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)

82 Only peasants prepare their inferior coffee at home. Us coastal elitists purchase our inferior coffee at shops, like God intended.

When in Guanajuato, Mexico that is the only way. The city is built literally on top of a huge silver mine from centuries ago and the whole city is a "walking city" where the driving thoroughfares are old tunnels below the surface.

You want coffee? Just walk a few minutes to the nearest shop. Want something to eat, walk a little bit and find a street taco cart or some other literal hole in the wall. (most buildings are centuries old stone structures)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 08:48 AM (a4flb)

83 I am surprised that Vietnam is so low on the coffee consumption list, and that Lebanon is so high.

Ny stereotypes would have put Turkey & Vietnam higher

Posted by: vmom

Turkish coffee is about four times stronger than what even Europeans drink. You don't need to drink a lot of it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 08:49 AM (0U5gm)

84 45 A.H. Lloyd, you mentioned last week that you wanted to get an icon of St. Nicholas slapping the heretic Arius. Did you look for such an icon?

Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

I have seen medieval illustrations of Mary beating the devil, and Monday is her feast day (Immaculate Conception of Mary)

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:49 AM (eZ5tL)

85 A.H. Lloyd, you mentioned last week that you wanted to get an icon of St. Nicholas slapping the heretic Arius. Did you look for such an icon?

Fittingly, today is the feast day of St. Nicholas.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:23 AM (pJWtt)
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Sadly, no. Last week was something of a blur ...

We did have the grandkids set out their shoes and St. Nicholas left them gifts. I got an early wakeup as a result.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:31 AM (ZOv7s)

I did a quick search of the Inter-tubes and found an image that I like. The image is in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Here's the site I found (tny url is beyond me):

https://www.threads.com/@shieldofiron33/
post/C0j_-K2vy3K/media

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:50 AM (pJWtt)

86 I don't have a capsule coffee maker at home, but I always try the hotel room machines. They range from excellent to abysmal.

I used a Nescafe unit in the cruise ship whilst waiting for room service to bring me coffee. It wasn't bad, although that may have just been me Jonesing for caffeine after waking up.

Sad to say, I reheated whatever was in last night's cup of coffee. (waiting for the household to wake up before making an Americano from the espresso machine)

Which machine do you have? I'm considering a purchase.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (Riz8t)

87 It just seems that women in general have been targeted with the worst possible advice for life.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)

It works. TPTB have studied history, have studied psychology, and they are running the playback to the letter. Manipulate the emotional to whatever your ends.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (dK+Kv)

88 My wife and one of her sisters could sit and drink coffee all day long while yacking at each other. I've seen the two of them go through a couple pots before noon.

I don't think either does much of that anymore. But years ago it was quite something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (NwnyJ)

89 Turkish coffee is about four times stronger than what even Europeans drink. You don't need to drink a lot of it.

Oh, yeah. I love that stuff. If you're especially aggressive, you can swill down the grounds in the bottom of the cup.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:52 AM (Riz8t)

90 >> There are all-breed shows Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as well as a Hound show the Sunday after. Plus HM has AKC delegate meetings Thursday and Friday. A busy week for them both. Wish them safe travel and good luck.

Good luck and Godspeed. My girls sire was a Sieger Champion and her Dam was another SCHH3 who always placed top 3. I’m still an SV member, but don’t have the time for it these days. One day…

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (Viiux)

91 >>> Turkish coffee is about four times stronger than what even Europeans drink. You don't need to drink a lot of it.

The antithesis of 'prairie coffee'.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (AN2gy)

92 Prayers for all the listed intentions, and that God will continue to shine His grace through us and upon us.

This has become one of my favorite Christmas songs, thought I'd share it with you all:

https://youtu.be/09azEfx71rc

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (t/66j)

93 I don't think either does much of that anymore. But years ago it was quite something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:51 AM (NwnyJ)

Probably discovered where you store your crop.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 08:53 AM (GLocS)

94 I used a Nescafe unit in the cruise ship whilst waiting for room service to bring me coffee.

Nespresso, not Nescafe.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:54 AM (Riz8t)

95
Being of common clay and never having seen coffee as a sacramental rite, I'm perfectly happy with my Kirkland dark roast made in a Keurig.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:54 AM (tgvbd)

96 Monday is a Holy Day of Obligation.

It's interesting that celebrities are getting into Advent. Chris Pratt and Gwen Stephani are both doing audio on Hallow. Pratt isn't Catholic, but I believe Stephani is a revert. She co-hosting with an Eastern Rite Sister.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 08:38 AM (ZOv7s)

I think more-and-more people are seeing the open embrace of evil by the Neo-Pagans and "nice Christianity", and are seeking the stability of traditionalist Christianity.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 08:55 AM (pJWtt)

97 I have seen medieval illustrations of Mary beating the devil, and Monday is her feast day (Immaculate Conception of Mary)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 08:49 AM (eZ5tL)

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Grandma is beating off the Indians!

I wonder if should ask Grok for an illustration.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 08:55 AM (c7Ygk)

98 Being of common clay and never having seen coffee as a sacramental rite, I'm perfectly happy with my Kirkland dark roast made in a Keurig.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Okay everyone, this guy's next on the stone altar. Prepare the obsidian knife!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 08:56 AM (Riz8t)

99 I noticed the (at least this was good) French influence in Phnomh Penh. Good strong black coffee and fresh french bread rolls for breakfast was everywhere.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:56 AM (2VfHu)

100 I am surprised that Vietnam is so low on the coffee consumption list, and that Lebanon is so high.

Tea. Vietnamese drink lots of tea.

Posted by: Zombie Nguyen Cao Ky, commie killer at December 06, 2025 08:57 AM (R/m4+)

101 Is there anyone out there that does not know that X was formally known as Twitter? How long are they going to keep telling us that?

***********

That will last until long after it is dead.

Posted by: The artist formerly known as Prince at December 06, 2025 08:57 AM (/iMjX)

102
I think more-and-more people are seeing the open embrace of evil by the Neo-Pagans and "nice Christianity", and are seeking the stability of traditionalist Christianity.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer

____________

Stern gods are feared and worshipped. Nice gods get melted down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 08:57 AM (tgvbd)

103 Kier Starmer says free speech has NOT been banned in the UK.

Anyone who says otherwise will immediately be arrested.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 06, 2025 08:58 AM (cxFcK)

104 They told us that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack. So are you going to believe them when it comes to coffee consumption? I think not.

It's behind a paywall, but looks like an article on quitting caffeine or finding alternative, lower concentration sources?

In the Army, coffee consumption is on the decline, both with younger soldiers and many of the older ones. Energy drinks are consumed at an alarming rate by both, and Zyns (little nicotine pouches) are incredibly common with younger troops.

I've found, as I get older, I'm getting what I assume are caffeine related headaches more often. Drank too much at work, now my head hurts and I'm crashing when I get home. It's the weekend and I don't have the easy office access, and I'm hurting by the afternoon. Try to cut back or stop, but...it's so tasty and convenient. Damn you coffee!!!!

Posted by: Military Moron at December 06, 2025 08:58 AM (JCZqz)

105 The Dems and douche bag Rand Paul want to help the Cartels to resume their drug deliveries. At least Rand Paul is foolishly consistent .

I can’t hate these anti American commies enough.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:00 AM (KDPiq)

106 “How are you getting along in London, getting settled in?

Not bad, can’t complain

That’s good.

Well no, I mean I can’t complain or I’ll get arrested.”

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:01 AM (2VfHu)

107
IIRC, the latest research shows that those who drink 2-3 cups of coffee per day have a lower risk for Alzheimer's.

Which is nice if true.

Chug your favorite beverage and don't become Joe Biden!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:01 AM (iJfKG)

108 It just seems that women in general have been targeted with the worst possible advice for life.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)

And their douche bag radar is broken.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (KDPiq)

109
Diana loves going on trips. Diana is excited because she can tell Mommy is going on a trip. But Diana is not going on a trip.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (tgvbd)

110 None of our kids drink coffee. The girls drink "energy drinks" like Monster or Redbull. My son doesn't drink anything but water and occasionally Coke or Pepsi.

I think those energy drinks taste like cough syrup.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (NwnyJ)

111 There are a lot of good decaf beans now that don’t have weird aftertastes or lack the full body of real espresso. A friend sent me some Lavazza DEK decaf from Italy and it’s pretty magnificent, rich and produces a good crema on the Gaggia machine.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (Viiux)

112 It has been both entertaining and satisfying this past week to see Candace Owens being regarded as a pathetic joke by everyone who mentions her now. And Tucker Carlson is sliding into Keith Olberman territory.
Dan Rather shakes his head and says “come on, at least show some dignity while you destroy your careers!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (c7Ygk)

113 My neighbor used to volunteer at the church food bank, and the volunteers always got some stuff at the end of the day, mostly produce so it wouldn't spoil. One day she got home and gave me a box of Vietnamese instant coffee packs. Cafe au lait. It was actually pretty good. Made in an industrial park outside of Bien Hoa according to the English on the box.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (gm9Sb)

114
It just seems that women in general have been targeted with the worst possible advice for life.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)

__________

Today's feminism advocates behaviors that run completely against women's natural instincts. That's why so many are unhappy nowadays.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (tgvbd)

115 Only peasants prepare their inferior coffee at home. Us coastal elitists purchase our inferior coffee at shops, like God intended.

I'm pretty sure that God did not intend for civilized human beings to drink French Roast coffee, or whatever that over roasted dreck is they foist upon the unsophisticated American palate.

Unless you are buying beans by the FEU, civilized people buy according to the farm lots or plantations and then roast to City or Full City - very near first crack and before the smoke, based on how bright and how much body they want their. (body is pointless when using a paper filter)

If people enjoy the taste of bitter charcoal then, yeah, the local franchise coffee joint for those who want to bury the taste of that vile abomination called "coffee" with a myriad of syrups, spices and dairy additives.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:05 AM (a4flb)

116 One cup of coffee in the morning with my bowl of oatmeal with fruit is my routine.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:05 AM (KDPiq)

117 Coffee detox is what causes headaches. Caffeine is a common adjunct with Aspirin, Excedrin maybe. Anacin? Whatever happened to Anacin? They had those neat little yellow tins, for carrying anywhere at work, or when mother in law shows up

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:05 AM (2VfHu)

118 Diana loves going on trips. Diana is excited because she can tell Mommy is going on a trip. But Diana is not going on a trip.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:02 AM (tgvbd)

Having seen it on my own dogs many times, I can imagine the heartbreaking body language when Diana realizes she is not going on a trip.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 06, 2025 09:06 AM (h7ZuX)

119 So, I took Buckley for a walk yesterday. It has been a while with my knee being sore from it being
de-brided. It didn't start well. I had him in a sit in my front yard while a lade was walking a small
shitz-tsu on the sidewalk. Buckley got very excited and right as she walked about 10 feet in front of us, he took off to greet her. I wasn't prepared and he almost pulled me to the ground. We have practiced this many times and he usually holds. It's been a while so my fault since he was out of practice but I have a spot on my ring finger where the leash took some skin off, ouch. I'm afraid he's going to seriously hurt me one day, my right shoulder is still not right because of him. He is a good dog but I don't think we are active enough for him. When I got him as a puppy I thought he'd be about 20lbs smaller full grown. I will stick with pure breed dogs from now on, at least I can make an informed decision on what I'm getting into.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:06 AM (VCgbV)

120 >>> I think those energy drinks taste like cough syrup.

I've seen on U Toob that Redbull deliberately tastes bad as marketing strategy.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:07 AM (AN2gy)

121 the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:05 AM (KDPiq)

You put oatmeal and fruit in your coffee??

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Oy/m2)

122 There are a lot of good decaf beans now that don’t have weird aftertastes or lack the full body of real espresso. A friend sent me some Lavazza DEK decaf from Italy and it’s pretty magnificent, rich and produces a good crema on the Gaggia machine.

Look for "SWP" (Swiss Water Process) its a chemical free, pure water osmosis method that preserves all of the things you enjoy in a proper coffee sans the caffeine.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (a4flb)

123
Having seen it on my own dogs many times, I can imagine the heartbreaking body language when Diana realizes she is not going on a trip.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 06, 2025 09:06 AM (h7ZuX)

__________

When the great Lacey was finally retired and Diva went instead for the first time, the look of astonishment on Lacey's face was something to behold.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (tgvbd)

124 There are a lot of good decaf beans now that don’t have weird aftertastes
——

“Coffee that doesn’t do what coffee does” I just can’t.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (2VfHu)

125 117 If you look at the ingredients of BC and Goodys powders you will find caffeine. Bufferin used to have it. That was Mom and Dad's NSAID of choice.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (gm9Sb)

126 Kier Starmer says free speech has NOT been banned in the UK.

Anyone who says otherwise will immediately be arrested.

Posted by: Blutarski

In case anyone missed it, yesterday in Parliament, an MP introduced an amendment to take every British pension dollar and invest them in green energy and public housing. I knew that stash of dollars was too tempting. Guess what happens if the democrats take control here?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (0U5gm)

127 I am asking for prayers for my dearest friend Julia who has been told by her doctors that she has very little time left ion this planet. Julia was the first woman I enjoyed the company of after the disastrous end of a disastrous marriage almost twenty yeas ago.

Julia has an incredible mind and drive that lead her to become a Naval officer, a college professor a competitive sailor and Mom.

She went into the hospital with pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and left with a terminal diagnosis.

She is incredibly strong willed and never learned to let go of any problem she encountered and shared her strength with endless loving support to her family and friends.

Please pray to God to give her the strength she needs in these last few days.

And the peace that comes from acceptance.

Posted by: pawn at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (70YV/)

128 Welp, it was inevitable.

BREAKING: Family of January 6th Pipe Bomb suspect say he is not a Trump supporter, contradicting claims made by many in legacy media.

His family says he's an autistic, recluse, computer nerd. (Insty)

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Riz8t)

129 We always took all of our dogs with us to dog shows, even those who were not entered.

When we got our fourth dog, we bought a VW Atlas which, after laying down the second and third rows of seating, provided adequate room for them on trips.

When we got our fifth dog, we bought a Itasca Sunova. lol

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 09:09 AM (Y1sOo)

130 You put oatmeal and fruit in your coffee??
Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (Oy/m2)

No if you read it again it seems I put coffee in my oatmeal😀

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 09:10 AM (KDPiq)

131 At one point when I lived in a flat off Portobello Road in London. I liked the area because there was a street market where you could buy a lot of produce and other things. A bit Bohemian, but that’s me anyway.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 09:11 AM (Viiux)

132 If I was in England might go yell Throw out the Muslims, then when surely get arrested tell the Bobbies to go arrest Starmer who said I could say that

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:11 AM (Ia/+0)

133 I've seen on U Toob that Redbull deliberately tastes bad as marketing strategy.

Posted by: fluffy

Way back in the 60's, when Coca Cola was formulating their new diet soda Tab, they found in testing that people did not believe the artificially sweetened beverage was actually a diet drink. They had to add a bittering agent in order for it to be accepted in the market.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 09:11 AM (0U5gm)

134 >>His family says he's an autistic, recluse, computer nerd.

What nic does he go by here?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

135 BREAKING: Family of January 6th Pipe Bomb suspect say he is not a Trump supporter, contradicting claims made by many in legacy media.
——-

Yeah, what would they know?? I Trust NBC and their cohort of brain dead newsreaders way more than primary sources.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:13 AM (2VfHu)

136 It just seems that women in general have been targeted with the worst possible advice for life.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM (iJfKG)
------------------
Today's feminism advocates behaviors that run completely against women's natural instincts. That's why so many are unhappy nowadays.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:04 AM (tgvbd)

I've seen a graph that shows that births by women 25 years or younger are now FEWER than births by women 40 years or older. No wonder that something like 25% of these women are on anti-depressant medications.

Congratulations ladies, you're working for companies that will gladly pay for your abortions in exchange for having little children that will love you ... all for a career.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 06, 2025 09:14 AM (pJWtt)

137 How fresh is that coffee?
I generally make a fresh pot every week – even if there’s some left over.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 06, 2025 09:14 AM (gbOdA)

138 I try to tell these guys the zyn and energy drinks are no bueno. You can’t expect to go from zero to 60, with adrenaline and everything else that involves and not expect some damage. The incident of heart events for younger age groups is directly traceable to too much of that junk.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 09:15 AM (Viiux)

139 >>> I knew that stash of dollars was too tempting. Guess what happens if the democrats take control here?

They will empty the SS fund of cash and put it all in government bonds?

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:16 AM (AN2gy)

140 Since this is the prayer thread, I'll go ahead and mention there has been a lot written about the spirituality of the Monster energy drink packaging. I can't offer a link to a definitive discussion of the topic, but the reader is encouraging to pursue individual study on this matter.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 09:17 AM (XQo4F)

141 Which machine do you have? I'm considering a purchase.

Five or six years ago Bezos was giving away Calphalon espresso machines. Mine has a built in burr grinder and steam wand; the pump is way over spec for espresso pressures.

Apparently the model has been long discontinued, and this thing runs without fault. I'm going to be in a bit of a quandary if/when this thing fails before I die or otherwise don't drink coffee anymore.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:17 AM (a4flb)

142 Getting snow flurries again

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:18 AM (Ia/+0)

143 My boys aren't on the caffeine bus...yet, they are not quite 20 yet. The spawn on the other hand is well known for her Monster Energy consumption. It's usually 1 can a day sometimes 2. She has a black vehicle which she has embellished with that lime green that the Monster logo is known for so the car resembles the black and green can/logo.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (VCgbV)

144 Good morning Horde, offering prayers for all who need them, especially those who are battling depression at this time of year.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (0nHVk)

145 134 >>His family says he's an autistic, recluse, computer nerd.

What nic does he go by here?

Ummmmm....ALL of them?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (Riz8t)

146 Last F-1 race this weekend, driver champion is still up for grabs

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:19 AM (Ia/+0)

147 They will empty the SS fund of cash and put it all in government bonds?

Do you notice that we always seem to be just moments away from running out of Social Security money but NEVER run out of foreign aid or gifts, in the billions if not trillions to foreigners living on entitlements?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:20 AM (a4flb)

148
all for a career.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer

__________

All for a career that is likely to be a disappointment when you've found out you're not go-getter girlboss material.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 09:21 AM (tgvbd)

149 Happy St. Knickerless Day!

Posted by: Pants Free In NC at December 06, 2025 08:16 AM

1990s Kmart commercials about knickers.

"1990s Kmart commercials were out of control!"

Instagram: https://bit.ly/4pyoCiM

"Wait a minute, what'd he say? Awww, knickers, please!"

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (P5BPp)

150 In case anyone missed it, yesterday in Parliament, an MP introduced an amendment to take every British pension dollar and invest them in green energy and public housing. I knew that stash of dollars was too tempting. Guess what happens if the democrats take control here?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 06, 2025 09:08 AM (0U5gm)

The tragic yet hilarious part is the reason he’s proposing this. All of the “green energy” investments are collapsing as private funding pulls out, and even the government can’t afford to keep building housing for immigrants. (62% of public housing in the UK is filled by recent immigrants)
So he wants to seize the pension and put it all into ventures he knows will fail.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (c7Ygk)

151 93 y/o M-I-L had a rough week. Lower dentures failed, needed a new mold and a rebuild, so time and anxiety in the dentist's chair getting a retrofit. Shaky, unsteady on her feet and pain in her ribcage. Didn't eat for two days, Stayed in bed for the whole day yesterday. Missus Muldoon gave her some good nursing care (pain relief cream, Advil, a lidocaine patch, a back rub, a tiny bit of CBDTHC gummy and some TLC).

This morning she sprang out of bed, no pain, hungry and raring to go. Downed a fried egg, half a piece of toast, half a banana, half a cup of coffee (home roasted Brazilian) a small slice of ham and a small Christmas cookie. Amazing bounceback!

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (/iMjX)

152 I'll go ahead and mention there has been a lot written about the spirituality of the Monster energy drink packaging.

You should be more concerned about the plastics used within the Monster energy drink cans, as the microplastics are linked to contaminants crossing the blood-brain barrier and leading to dementia and other brain-fog ailments.

Energy drinks are of the Devil. If you absolutely insist on amping up performance I recommend Re-Lyte and high servings of Creatine (though don't use Creatine if you are treating kidney issues since it will throw off kidney function tests)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:24 AM (a4flb)

153 Indeed. Stay strong. Stay focused on the goal, and pray. God will carry you through it.
Posted by: Marcus T

God an family, and friends. Counting on it Marcus. Might make a bit of an effort myself.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 09:25 AM (sl73Y)

154 Hope no one expects any money to.be there
But some will become millionaires

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:26 AM (Ia/+0)

155 Get a job, they said. Have a career they said. You'll be fulfilled, they said. Give your time, energy and talent to a thankless soul sucking corporation they said. Kids are an inconvenience they said. You're a kick butt girlboss they said. Cats are great they said.

Posted by: Where are they now? at December 06, 2025 09:26 AM (XQo4F)

156 Put your thinking cap on. Social security payments are not required, by law. Timely interest payments on existing debt held by foreign creditors is, however.

Take a guess …. who gets thrown under the bus first?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:27 AM (2VfHu)

157 They answered on the first ring, had clear American voices, and seemed very willing to help. I'll see what they can do.
Because it's becoming increasingly rare, I feel compelled to give praise when a company actually has very good customer service. I bought a Delta kitchen faucet over 16 years ago; all Delta faucets come with a lifetime original owner guarantee. I've had to have the cartridge replaced a couple of time. In each case, called their 1-800 number given on the package, answered within minutes (if not seconds), talked to a very polite rep speaking American English, parts ordered immediately, shipped within days, and arriving a within a week. No hassles, no weaseling, no if-and-or-buts, just excellent service.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 06, 2025 09:27 AM (XMwZJ)

158 An expert is someone that used to spert.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:27 AM (W7XSX)

159 I was a stay at home mom and very happy. I was forced back into the labor market about 9 years ago when Hubble lost his job. Now I'm stuck. Hubble did eventually find another job but still not making as much as he was 9 years ago. Everything is 50% more expensive and we have a kid in college and 2 more headed there very shortly. It is not what I chose and I am not happy to have to work but I am still very blessed that we are doing well.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:29 AM (VCgbV)

160 I try to tell these guys the zyn and energy drinks are no bueno. You can’t expect to go from zero to 60, with adrenaline and everything else that involves and not expect some damage. The incident of heart events for younger age groups is directly traceable to too much of that junk.

They said the same thing about Ephedrine. The banning took place as soon as the DEA discovered ephedra was a much sought after ingredient for cooking meth.

Because of the high linkage between the two, I suspect the "heart damage" line was part of the typical lies and bullshit propaganda we have come to expect from our sorry excuse for government.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:29 AM (a4flb)

161 Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 06, 2025 09:27 AM (XMwZJ)

Delta and Brizo (their high-end brand) are the only plumbing fixtures I will buy, specifically because of their customer service.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 09:30 AM (GLocS)

162 Mornin', Hordelings. Think I'll head down to the diner in about half an hour and load up on unhealthy fats and carbohydrates. Maybe it'll rain just enough to give me an excuse to stay indoors all day and be a sloth. Feels like a good weekend for it.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:32 AM (GALGA)

163 I was reading the ONT while waiting for the Coffee Thread to open shop, and-

saw the Leftist women learn about marriage meme along with their complaint that American men step up.

This always makes me want to tell them-

Gals, if you want to get married:

1) Don't Be a Ho

2) You need to bring something else to the table besides your Pink Thang and gaggle of girlfriends.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:47 AM

Hoe_math has an entire YouTube channel dedicated to explaining that "modern" women think they ARE the table. Meaning they do not have to bring anything to the table at all. But expect men to bring everything to the table.

SELF-MAXIMIZE: [What do you bring to] THE TABLE?

YouTube: https://bit.ly/4iH5ZGZ

Bonus - hoe_math Bird Hands video: https://bit.ly/4pY4Ptb

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (P5BPp)

164 Viva Bustelo
I also have some Kona beans arriving soon- so I can see what that fuss is all about
always exploring new ways to get my caffeine on

Posted by: Don Black at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)

165 Anacin had caffeine. Very popular on Saturday morning for folks that only drink coffee at work M-F.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (W7XSX)

166

I thought this was the Prayer Thread.

Oh well, enjoy your day.

Posted by: pawn at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (70YV/)

167 156 Put your thinking cap on. Social security payments are not required, by law. Timely interest payments on existing debt held by foreign creditors is, however.

Take a guess …. who gets thrown under the bus first?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:27

Social Security payments are required by law.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (OoFl2)

168 93 y/o M-I-L had a rough week. Lower dentures failed, needed a new mold and a rebuild, so time and anxiety in the dentist's chair getting a retrofit. Shaky, unsteady on her feet and pain in her ribcage. Didn't eat for two days, Stayed in bed for the whole day yesterday. Missus Muldoon gave her some good nursing care (pain relief cream, Advil, a lidocaine patch, a back rub, a tiny bit of CBDTHC gummy and some TLC).

This morning she sprang out of bed, no pain, hungry and raring to go. Downed a fried egg, half a piece of toast, half a banana, half a cup of coffee (home roasted Brazilian) a small slice of ham and a small Christmas cookie. Amazing bounceback!
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:23 AM (/iMjX)

Sounds like she's fit and spry enough to move your spare weight set into the attic for storage. 👍

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)

169 A reminder: While pants are required in tomorrow's Book Thread, knickers are not, if you prefer not to let anything get between you and your Calvin Kleins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2025 09:34 AM (0sNs1)

170 "His family says he's an autistic, recluse, computer nerd. (Insty)"

Just wondering if mom took tylenol while pregnant.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:35 AM (W7XSX)

171 OK pipe, if you say so.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:35 AM (2VfHu)

172 "They will empty the SS fund of cash and put it all in government bonds?"

LOL

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (W7XSX)

173 I would like to ask for prayers for Fenelon Son who apparently has -surprisingly-to me- an in person interview on Monday ( I thought that this was all done by Zoom now.) for some some company as a lab technician. This is really not his field ( His degree is in botany) but, of course he had all kinds of lab courses in community college and in the four year school and place requires is a two year degree. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (LIvrk)

174 The threat of marriage to a muslim is now back on the table!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)

----

I don't generally judge a group by the acts of a minority, but for 1,400 years , they've been bent on conquest and domination. I hope the threat comes to nothing.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (3I53N)

175 Meant " what the place...."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:37 AM (LIvrk)

176 I was a stay at home mom and very happy. I was forced back into the labor market about 9 years ago when Hubble lost his job. Now I'm stuck. Hubble did eventually find another job but still not making as much as he was 9 years ago. Everything is 50% more expensive and we have a kid in college and 2 more headed there very shortly. It is not what I chose and I am not happy to have to work but I am still very blessed that we are doing well.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:29 AM (VCgbV)

Hang in there. It will all become worthwhile when one day, out of the blue, one of those kids will call or write to thank you and appreciate the lessons you taught them. BTDT.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2025 09:38 AM (wVcYX)

177 hoe_math is hilarious but also enlightening (and somewhat depressing at the same time). Dating and relationships were awkward enough before everybody lost their minds with social media. I feel like I won the lottery getting married when I did, to whom I did. If I were single again I wouldn't even bother trying.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:39 AM (GALGA)

178 The threat of marriage to a muslim is now back on the table!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 08:32 AM (iJfKG)

----

I don't generally judge a group by the acts of a minority, but for 1,400 years , they've been bent on conquest and domination. I hope the threat comes to nothing.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 09:36 AM (3I53N)

It was a joke, a jape, a bit of frippery as it were. 🤪

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:39 AM (iJfKG)

179 Do you notice that we always seem to be just moments away from running out of Social Security money but NEVER run out of foreign aid or gifts, in the billions if not trillions to foreigners living on entitlements?

And SNAP and EBT and disability payments to anyone and everyone and somali feed the children and oh forget it.

It's all a swindle, a swindle. A rock n roll swindle.

Posted by: Zombie Malcolm McLaren at December 06, 2025 09:41 AM (R/m4+)

180 Meant " what the place...."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:37 AM (LIvrk)

I will pray that Fenelon Son gets the job...I can attest first hand his professionalism, patience with complex tasks, and his ability to push a task to its completion.

Should anyone desire a recommendation, that is.

Good Luck!

Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2025 09:42 AM (BGfwC)

181 Sounds like she's fit and spry enough to move your spare weight set into the attic for storage. 👍
Posted by: Count de Monet

********

As soon as she finishes staining the deck...

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

182 It was a joke, a jape, a bit of frippery as it were. 🤪
Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:39 AM

Is that allowed here? I was under the understanding that such was only allowed, in very moderate quantities, on the ONT.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2025 09:43 AM (0sNs1)

183 This may be a dumb question ( sorry) but what do you even wear to an interview for a job to be a lab technician- just nice pants and a shirt?. Surely not a suit and tie?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (1Vo6X)

184 "They will empty the SS fund of cash and put it all in government bonds?"

LOL

I believe that is how Billy Jeff Clinton (D-Little St James Island) "balanced the budget"

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (AN2gy)

185 friends.

Please pray to God to give her the strength she needs in these last few days.

And the peace that comes from acceptance.
Posted by: pawn at December 06,

I am praying for you and Julia. May the love of God
Surround you.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (OoFl2)

186 183 This may be a dumb question ( sorry) but what do you even wear to an interview for a job to be a lab technician- just nice pants and a shirt?. Surely not a suit and tie?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December

Why not a suit and tie? It presents professionalism.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:45 AM (OoFl2)

187 Lab coat and safety goggles. Bring an Erlenmeyer flask filled with a blue liquid, and peer intently into it whilst swirling gently now and then.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:46 AM (2VfHu)

188 Al Franken is planning another run at the Senate in Minnesota. He should be a shoo-in if he uses his stage name...

...Stuart Somali.

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)

189 Would present myself in best wear possible

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 09:46 AM (Ia/+0)

190 Appropriate attire for a job interview as a lab technician would, I think, consist of (a) a white coat, disheveled hair, and nerd glasses, or (b) a filthy robe, a bulging eye, and a hump on one's back.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:47 AM (GALGA)

191 This may be a dumb question ( sorry) but what do you even wear to an interview for a job to be a lab technician- just nice pants and a shirt?. Surely not a suit and tie?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 09:44 AM (1Vo6X)
===
Nice pants and shirt. Maybe a sweater or jacket.

Simply showing up for the interview will amaze the interviewer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 09:47 AM (sF9Ts)

192 >>> This may be a dumb question ( sorry) but what do you even wear to an interview for a job to be a lab technician- just nice pants and a shirt?. Surely not a suit and tie?

I would recommend a jacket and tie over nice pants.

How does he look? Is he semi-comfortable in a jacket or does he look like it is wearing him.

I personally prefer a pocket square to a tie as they add something extra without the fuss of getting a proper knot.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:48 AM (AN2gy)

193 Don't forget the slide rule!

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 09:48 AM (GALGA)

194 This may be a dumb question ( sorry) but what do you even wear to an interview for a job to be a lab technician- just nice pants and a shirt?. Surely not a suit and tie?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December

Why not a suit and tie? It presents professionalism.
Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:45 AM (OoFl2)

I believe a suit and tie is always good, however-

if you know what the boss and people actually wear to work, say...a polo shirt and khakis with nice shoes, then wear that as it shows you're already one of them psychologically and behaviorally.

Just my two cents.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)

195 By law, the SS Trust Fund must be invested in U.S. Treasury securities. It's a gigantic pile of IOUs.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:49 AM (W7XSX)

196 If I were single again I wouldn't even bother trying.

Amen. I can't imagine a more godless dating pool for both sexes than the petri dish we have today.

Then again, there are a number of LeTourneau men attending our church, they seem pretty much tuned and switched on with a plan.

OTOH, the women out here seem to be in deep loving relationships with the buffet table of food, drugs and low-lifes - or have the personality of life-long shut-in spinsters.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:49 AM (a4flb)

197 Anacin had caffeine. Very popular on Saturday morning for folks that only drink coffee at work M-F.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025

***
In my first year at my former employer, I drank coffee Mon-Sat., and for some reason skipped the stuff on Sunday. Then I'd wake up with a crashing headache on Monday morning. I liked my job, so it wasn't a reaction to that. Eventually I figured out it was a coffee withdrawal headache.

If a hurricane or other storm is coming that might knock out the power, I brew up some coffee and stick it in a jar in the fridge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (wzUl9)

198 >>This may be a dumb question ( sorry) but what do you even wear to an interview for a job to be a lab technician

A positive attitude and excitement over the opportunity. You'd be surprised how far that goes when applying for any job.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (viF8m)

199 171 OK pipe, if you say so.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06

It’s called The Social Security Act. If I didn’t withhold and do my match in payroll, it ends badly for me.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (OoFl2)

200 >>> Nice pants and shirt. Maybe a sweater or jacket.

A sweater over a nice shirt is a good compromise if he doesn't wear a jacket well.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (AN2gy)

201 “Unitary Budget” control act 1968. Government finances were not looking too good. Rolling Social Security (formerly a separate budget) made the general revenue look much better.

Not sure what Slick Willie did, but they had already raped Social Security long before. They also took liberties with Fannie Mae about the same time. The 2008 debacle was actually “sloppy seconds”.

The general theme seems to be privately held entities loot the system, and then drop it back into the lap of the taxpayer. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:50 AM (2VfHu)

202 And the way benefits are calculated, it is more of a welfare plan than a pension plan.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:51 AM (W7XSX)

203 Private profit and public losses.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 09:51 AM (W7XSX)

204 I was going to leave the desktop computer and go out to the living room, but for some reason little Dagny kitten is keeping me company here on my desk. That's rare. I hate to abandon her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 09:52 AM (wzUl9)

205 Racist sumbitch!

Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

206 Good morning everyone, on this grey and chilly day. Oddly, I'm enjoying iced coffee.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 09:54 AM (kpS4V)

207 Well, time to get rolling. God be with you!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 06, 2025 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)

208 The incident of heart events for younger age groups is directly traceable to too much of that junk [caffeine]...

********

...well, that and mRNA COVID vaccine spike protein, but mostly spike protein.

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)

209 tptb have been trying to demonize coffee since the 80s; or at least that's when I started noticing ...

and I personally think that energy drinks will someday be the asbestos of the early 21st century

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 09:56 AM (Cjt/F)

210 Fen, I think you and Fen Son have a mother-son bonding activity this afternoon.

I never liked my mother fussing over my clothes and he might not either, but just approach it in businesslike manner.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (AN2gy)

211 Wolfus,
Do you ever give your cats a real bath? I know cats groom themselves but big, long haired cats, can't always do this very well. I hear their coat can get very oily. I brush Eddie and he seems to enjoy it, so no mats but he looks oily. I read up on it and saw that you should give Maine Coons regular baths.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (VCgbV)

212 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for all of God's children today.

And may God continue to bless the USA and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (kB9dk)

213 It’s called The Social Security Act.
——

I don’t care what they call it. The courts ruled long ago, there is no “right” to social security payments per se. Trust Me. They are termed an “entitlement”, but they can renege on payments. Governments have a long history of default, it’s the norm not the exception.

But making interest payments on the debt. They HAVE to pay those, assuming they want to be able to continue to borrow money, or at favorable rates. They MUST do this.

When the music stops, when phony baloney funny money is no longer acceptable, particularly for imports, when it’s cash on the barrelhead, then governments have to make hard choices. There is no money for sex change operations for illegal aliens on death row. They have to Triage payments.

Mu point is they will throw Americans under the bus first. Guaranteed. Sort of like it is now, only a lot worse.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 09:57 AM (2VfHu)

214 Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 09:53 AM

What's the issue? I'm reliably informed by leftists everywhere that black people don't frequent national parks and the outdoors generally. Because racism or something.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2025 09:58 AM (Wnv9h)

215 It’s called The Social Security Act. If I didn’t withhold and do my match in payroll, it ends badly for me.

I have been paying 12% of my income (well, the part that falls under the ceiling) for forty years.

It is NOT OK for them to say that SS is "running out of money" while importing 50 million illegal aliens for the specific purpose of draining the treasury.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09:58 AM (a4flb)

216 >>Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.

Trump's birthday is June 14th. So is Flag Day. Admission is free on June 14th because of Flag Day not Trump's birthday.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 09:59 AM (viF8m)

217 Happy Saturday! Sitting by the fire, full cup of coffee in my happy bunny mug, dog is. . somewhere (he'll come snuggle soon)!

Oh yeah, gotta work today. *sigh*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 09:59 AM (GbwPZ)

218 well, that and mRNA COVID vaccine spike protein, but mostly spike protein.
Posted by: muldoon
----
Muldoon,
Glad to see someone who actually knows about this subject say it out loud!!! So glad I did NOT get my kids shot up despite the immense pressure.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 09:59 AM (VCgbV)

219 215 It’s called The Social Security Act. If I didn’t withhold and do my match in payroll, it ends badly for me.

I have been paying 12% of my income (well, the part that falls under the ceiling) for forty years.

It is NOT OK for them to say that SS is "running out of money" while importing 50 million illegal aliens for the specific purpose of draining the treasury.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 09

Those are 2 separate things, what you said first and what you said here.

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (OoFl2)

220 Sumbitch is dead naming her!

HHS updated the nameplate on Admiral Levine's portrait to properly reflect reality

https://is.gd/Id1SHR

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)

221 Marxists want to spread the wealth to the world

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (Ia/+0)

222 A hard hat and florescent safety vest.

Posted by: Always in fashion at December 06, 2025 10:00 AM (XQo4F)

223 "They will empty the SS fund of cash and put it all in government bonds?"

"cash", LOL!

as someone noted above, it's all
just an enormous heap of IOUs

(like the rest of the gummint's financing ... )

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 10:01 AM (Cjt/F)

224 Attending a wedding on a Massachusetts island today. Because where else would you choose to get married than an island in the north Atlantic in early December, with the wind cutting through your coat and gloves every time you venture outside? Fortunately, there is plenty of bourbon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:01 AM (tqvfY)

225 >>> Trump's birthday is June 14th. So is Flag Day. Admission is free on June 14th because of Flag Day not Trump's birthday.

Flag Day makes more sense than MLK Day. Why not Juneteenth? Someone vacationing in June would certainly welcome it.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 10:01 AM (AN2gy)

226 Many prayers for the horde for comfort and/or healing. Love seeing the updates with good news, such as for grammie winger!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:02 AM (GbwPZ)

227 Welcome to the hood, Huck! It's going to get colder.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2025 10:02 AM (Wnv9h)

228 ...well, that and mRNA COVID vaccine spike protein, but mostly spike protein.
Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 09:55 AM (/iMjX)

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I noticed a product called "Ultimate Spike Detox" claiming to help rid the body of this nasty bit of biochemical detritus. I'd be grateful to know your professional opinion on whether this may be worth trying or if it's likely just more snake oil....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 06, 2025 10:02 AM (t/66j)

229 >>Attending a wedding on a Massachusetts island today. Because where else would you choose to get married than an island in the north Atlantic in early December, with the wind cutting through your coat and gloves every time you venture outside? Fortunately, there is plenty of bourbon.

Heh -- beach wedding?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:03 AM (GbwPZ)

230 >>> Attending a wedding on a Massachusetts island today. Because where else would you choose to get married than an island in the north Atlantic in early December

Maybe it is a really nice venue but was booked solid through Thanksgiving?

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 10:03 AM (AN2gy)

231 Do you ever give your cats a real bath? I know cats groom themselves but big, long haired cats, can't always do this very well. I hear their coat can get very oily. I brush Eddie and he seems to enjoy it, so no mats but he looks oily. I read up on it and saw that you should give Maine Coons regular baths.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025

***
No, I really don't bathe them. Linda's Marie-Antoinette was fine with it, but she was much smarter than the average cat. We pretty much brush these two and comb them, and cut out any knots we find. In his whole life, longhaired part-Coon Arizona had, I think, only one bath that was not related to flea-killing, and only had to be shaved (the "lion cut") once. The same with the late Chekov D. Siberian, though he got the topical flea killer regularly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

232 Social Security funds are actually IOUs for IOUs. “Special” T-Bills that can not be traded on the open market.

Some crank kept pestering them “Where’s the money?” so they printed up a bunch of them in lieu of the ledgerbook entries, they are kept in a manila folder in a locked metal file cabinet in an office at the Bureau of Public Debt in Parkersburg, West Virgina. So we’re good!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:05 AM (2VfHu)

233 Truth be told, Huck Follywood, I love a winter walk on the beach in NE.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:05 AM (GbwPZ)

234 Mu point is they will throw Americans under the bus first. Guaranteed. Sort of like it is now, only a lot worse.

They have been more than telegraphing that message for decades.

I'm expected to forgo any return on the hundreds of thousands extracted from me because some Zoomer can't afford a high rise condo and a new SUV fresh out of six years of a four year college program bearing only the skillset of a horny Wallmart door greeter.

That money in the "social contract" made generations ago is to flow directly to pagan savages to free up their daily schedule from work-like activities so they can focus on the important events like fraud, rape, burglary and murder.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (a4flb)

235 Biden: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Afghan Watchdog Reveals Billions in U.S.-Abandoned Weapons Now Form the “Core” of Taliban Military

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

236 >>Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
Trump administration makes Trump's birthday a free-admission day for national parks while canceling free admission for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, according to park service web site.

Sounds like the man has a pen and a phone and he's not afraid to use it! Call it 'the Obama precedent'!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (GbwPZ)

237 They pride themselves here on living exuberantly in cold weather. There was an ocean dip this morning that I, being rational, skipped.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:07 AM (ASw1o)

238 >> Attending a wedding on a Massachusetts island today. Because where else would you choose to get married than an island in the north Atlantic in early December

You'd be surprised how many wacky things happen on islands in the North Atlantic in early December.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:07 AM (viF8m)

239 I don’t think I am ever going to get the glitter from my tree ribbon out of my rug!

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 10:08 AM (pZEOD)

240 Because where else would you choose to get married than an island in the north Atlantic in early December
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Are the bride and groom arriving by Nantucket sleyride?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:08 AM (kpS4V)

241 Someone here will know. On Westerns, they have a sound effect they play for dramatic scenes, a gunfight or whatever. Kind of like a rattle snake. Or a boot spur being spun. What is that?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (2VfHu)

242 No Black National Anthem?

National Dog Show Beats Monday Night Football in Ratings

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (L/fGl)

243 Truth be told, Huck Follywood, I love a winter walk on the beach in NE.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:05 AM (GbwPZ
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I generally have a lot of respect for your views Lizzy, but here we differ

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (ASw1o)

244 >> I would like to ask for prayers for Fenelon Son who apparently has -surprisingly-to me- an in person interview on Monday

Will do, Fen!
Suggest he write individual thank you notes to those he interviews with, if he doesn't do that already.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:10 AM (GbwPZ)

245 There once was wedding in Nantucket...

Posted by: Limerick lover at December 06, 2025 10:10 AM (XQo4F)

246 I credit Annie's Stew with helping turn us from just a smart military blog into a caring, thriving, incredible community.

==

I believe giving credit where credit is due. So let's include her predecessor (s) who made it "a thing", and kept it going for a number of years prior to Annie taking over.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM (g47mK)

247 Truth be told, Huck Follywood, I love a winter walk on the beach in NE.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025

***
I suspect that when I move North, I'm going to need a gym for workouts on cold mornings, near and below freezing, or I'll have to buy a treadmill. The wind chill really gets to you. And I'd hate to slip on ice while walking or running.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM (wzUl9)

248 The Adults are back in charge
Too funny what they did to Dick

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM (Ia/+0)

249 Afghan Watchdog Reveals Billions in U.S.-Abandoned Weapons Now Form the “Core” of Taliban Military
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

Yes. Free SAWs for afghan child diddlers but not for American citizens.

Seems backasswards....or not.

Posted by: Abolish The Federal Government Already at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (R/m4+)

250 >>I generally have a lot of respect for your views Lizzy, but here we differ

Understood. Had my dog during my MA years, so I learned to love it. So beautiful and peaceful, except when it was wicked windy.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (GbwPZ)

251 Sony Developing a New “Men in Black” Movie

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Will Smith will slap the shit out of the aliens.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

252 That would be FenelonSpoke. For the newbies here. Who put in a lot of faith and prayer into the list.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (g47mK)

253 Some crank kept pestering them “Where’s the money?” so they printed up a bunch of them in lieu of the ledgerbook entries, they are kept in a manila folder in a locked metal file cabinet in an office at the Bureau of Public Debt in Parkersburg, West Virgina.

I'm relieved to know that they have hard-copy receipts on file in an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia because I was afraid that a District Judge would free up the twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter from prison so that they can erase yet another government database.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (a4flb)

254 >>You'd be surprised how many wacky things happen on islands in the North Atlantic in early December.

. . . just don't ask for a Nantucket sleigh ride!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (GbwPZ)

255 Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 10:01 AM (AN2gy)

June 19th is not a real holiday, so nothing should be done to commemorate it.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (R86kT)

256 Suggest he write individual thank you notes to those he interviews with, if he doesn't do that already.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025

***
That little move alone will make him stand out. Way back in '95, I interviewed with the guy who would be my future boss at my first computer job. As I'd been taught, I sent him a thank-you note. After I started working for him later that year, he mentioned I had been *the only one* of his interviewees to do that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:13 AM (wzUl9)

257 But Diana is not going on a trip.
Posted by: Hadrian the Sevent

Injustice!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 06, 2025 10:14 AM (DoBxX)

258 Someone here will know. On Westerns, they have a sound effect they play for dramatic scenes, a gunfight or whatever. Kind of like a rattle snake. Or a boot spur being spun. What is that?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 10:09 AM (2VfHu)

A vibra slap? Ozzie used one on Crazy Train.

Posted by: alpine_beer at December 06, 2025 10:14 AM (van9r)

259 God bless the United States of Ameragottit!

Posted by: Joe B. from Scranton at December 06, 2025 10:14 AM (Y1sOo)

260 A dog makes all the difference. I miss my dogs most days. But travel requirements make dog ownership tougher nowadays, since our dog sitting neighbor moved away. I never liked putting my dogs in kennels.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 06, 2025 10:15 AM (ASw1o)

261 I suspect that when I move North, I'm going to need a gym for workouts on cold mornings, near and below freezing, or I'll have to buy a treadmill.

Good grief, get a set of kettle bells and watch some Youtube videos.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:15 AM (a4flb)

262 Good morning
Just finished getting caught up with all of you. Took a while.Finishing second cup of coffee and trying to decide if I'm hungry enough to make breakfast.
My life very unexciting right now.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 10:15 AM (t/2Uw)

263 Minnesota Nice should be replaced with Minnesota Retard. They should also redo the state flag into a Kick Me sign.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 06, 2025 10:16 AM (Py+sj)

264 Jake Tapper Calls J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect a "White Man," Photos Tell a Different Story

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And Jake Tapper is a "Smart Man."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

265 I suspect that when I move North, I'm going to need a gym for workouts on cold mornings, near and below freezing, or I'll have to buy a treadmill.
*
Good grief, get a set of kettle bells and watch some Youtube videos.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025

***
Sure, I can do some weight work. But I'm a long-time cardio boy as well. Even something like a Planet Fitness (urgh) would be better than doing nothing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:17 AM (wzUl9)

266 Good thing I'm not there anymore.
I'd have to kick that governor's ass every day and twice on Sunday for taking my act.

Posted by: The ghost of Don Rickles at December 06, 2025 10:18 AM (XQo4F)

267 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:17 AM (wzUl9)

Just do a brisk walk of 20 minutes or so. That'll get your heart rate up.

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2025 10:19 AM (Oy/m2)

268 Wolfus, if you dress for it, a walk on the brisk winter air is invigorating. Just tell someone your route so they can find the body.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 06, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)

269 >>Understood. Had my dog during my MA years, so I learned to love it. So beautiful and peaceful, except when it was wicked windy.

No wind today. Cloudy and overcast. Elvis and I are headed to the beach soon and then we have to go welcome Santa.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:20 AM (viF8m)

270 >>Minnesota Nice should be replaced with Minnesota Retard. They should also redo the state flag into a Kick Me sign.

WSJ print version has a letter to the editor from someone who moved to OH after a lifetime in MN over the fraud, but goes to great length to explain that it's the fault of the government officials who allowed it. You see, all the Somalis she knew were disgusted by the fraud, and so very sad it persisted in MN after having so much of it in their homeland.

Amazing how some people are so committed to not being 'racist' they cannot blame the most obvious bad actors in the scenario.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:20 AM (GbwPZ)

271 Pamplona: Running of the Bulls

NYC: Running of the Homeless

Socialist Mamdani Vows to Let Homeless Run Wild in New York City

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

272 Has Jake Tapper acknowledged his mistake or lie?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (8CIFn)

273 There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.

Posted by: The Finns at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (XQo4F)

274 Sumbitch did it again!

U.S. Military Strike Kills Four Narco‑Terrorists, Destroys Drug Vessel in Caribbean

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

275 If the criminal media identified a white felon as black would there be any fall out?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 10:24 AM (8CIFn)

276 >>U.S. Military Strike Kills Four Narco‑Terrorists, Destroys Drug Vessel in Caribbean

"F.U. War!!"
-- Ghost of Anfrew Breitbart

It's nice to finally see the military lethality unleashed to directly protect American citizens.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:24 AM (GbwPZ)

277 Neighbors say the four men in the boat were just turning their lives around and on their way to a Bible study.

Posted by: Local media at December 06, 2025 10:24 AM (XQo4F)

278 Do all Somalis have that teardrop shaped head

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 06, 2025 10:25 AM (8CIFn)

279 Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:05 AM (GbwPZ)

Lizzy, I hate to break it to you, but NE doesn't have any beaches!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 10:25 AM (GLocS)

280 > Do all Somalis have that teardrop shaped head
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Inbreeding will do that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 10:27 AM (NwnyJ)

281 "Do all Somalis have that teardrop shaped head?"

Yes, honey, but it's not polite to notice.

Posted by: Your grandmother at December 06, 2025 10:27 AM (XQo4F)

282 I agree with CBD. Having grown up in NE,I didn't realize you could actually swim in the ocean until I went to Florida for,the first,time.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 10:28 AM (t/2Uw)

283 Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:10 AM (GbwPZ

Yes; He has done that before . Thanks .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:29 AM (6jy2V)

284 Good thing I'm not there anymore.
I'd have to kick that governor's ass every day and twice on Sunday for taking my act.
Posted by: The ghost of Don Rickles

I don't get no respect.

Posted by: Twinkle Toes "Rodney Dangerfield" Walz at December 06, 2025 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

285 The average IQ of Somalia is 68. We consider 70 the begging of mental retardation. It also means that half of the distribution is BELOW 68.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 06, 2025 10:30 AM (cxFcK)

286
Having grown up in NE,I didn't realize you could actually swim in the ocean until I went to Florida for,the first,time.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

The East River is always available.

https://youtu.be/rdQXtmGuQUY

Posted by: Kramer at December 06, 2025 10:30 AM (XQo4F)

287 You'd think that a two hour jet lag would be easy to overcome. Well. Being over 29, not so much anymore. I barely thru breakfast and I'm ready for a nap. Thank God for coffee.
Morning Hordemates!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:31 AM (2WIwB)

288 >> I agree with CBD. Having grown up in NE,I didn't realize you could actually swim in the ocean until I went to Florida for,the first,time.

There is a group of certified old farts that live in town and they swim pretty much every single day, year round.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:31 AM (viF8m)

289 >>Lizzy, I hate to break it to you, but NE doesn't have any beaches!

Heh, confusing New England with Nebraska. Must be from NY. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:32 AM (GbwPZ)

290 274 Sumbitch did it again!

U.S. Military Strike Kills Four Narco‑Terrorists, Destroys Drug Vessel in Caribbean
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)

I deeply love that answer to all of the “you killed poor innocent fishermen!” bullshit. The cartels probably thought they were good to go again.
Best part - each strike costs the cartels $50 -$100 million in lost revenue.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 10:32 AM (c7Ygk)

291 Tapper is the definition of
Believe me or your lying eyes

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:33 AM (Ia/+0)

292 "P" in the recent requests is me. Middlest Kidlet told us this week that she'd changed her name *3 years ago* and had "top surgery" a year ago.

She's autistic, and I'd suspected her new "friends" were encouraging her in this once she'd moved out. I hadn't realized it had progressed this far, since all communication is by text and computer not voice, and Inspector is completely blindsided.

We are both very angry at my M-I-L and other kids for saying nothing when they knew about this, her therapist and "friends" who encouraged her to try to erase the femininity she was uncomfortable with, and her for spending her inheritance on something that would have broken her Daddy's heart. Inspector is depressed because he blames himself, even though she carefully hid this, and can't relieve his feelings by hunting down and ending those who did this to her.

As you can see, there is a lot that needs prayed about. Wisdom, peace, reconciliation to reality, for a start.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 10:33 AM (lFFaq)

293 Best part - each strike costs the cartels $50 -$100 million in lost revenue.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at December 06, 2025 10:34 AM (XQo4F)

294 U.S. Military Strike Kills Four Narco‑Terrorists, Destroys Drug Vessel in Caribbean

I have to give the cartels credit for more stamina than I expected. I figured after three or four boats sunk just to prove that the first two weren't flukes, they'd stop sending them until they figured out something else. Instead, they just keep loading up inventory and soldiers and sending them out to keep getting splashed. Do they think we're going to run out of missiles any day now?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2025 10:34 AM (3nLb4)

295 Rubio Says Venezuelan Government a “Transshipment Organization” for Drug Trafficking

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I guess we're eliminating the middle man. With extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)

296 Someone here will know. On Westerns, they have a sound effect they play for dramatic scenes, a gunfight or whatever. Kind of like a rattle snake. Or a boot spur being spun. What is that?
Posted by: Common Tater
++++
ummm, a spur spinning and a rattle snake shaking it's rattle...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:35 AM (VCgbV)

297 >>I deeply love that answer to all of the “you killed poor innocent fishermen!” bullshit. The cartels probably thought they were good to go again.
Best part - each strike costs the cartels $50 -$100 million in lost revenue.

Anyone mention this yet? Because it certainly explains why we haven't been so warlike in the past with our decades-long 'war on drugs.' How many others are compromised?
@Rightanglenews
BREAKING - The DEA’s chief financial director under Obama, Paul Campo, who resigned in 2016 ahead of Trump’s administration, had his Virginia home raided and has been charged for agreeing to launder $12 million for the CJNG, a Mexican cartel, while acting in his role at the DEA.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (GbwPZ)

298 SELF-MAXIMIZE: [What do you bring to] THE TABLE?

So I watched that video. There were a lot of take-aways.

The various bimbos that claimed "I am the table" are basically saying "my childish mindset and and fine rack".

They expect abs and a thick wallet.

OK, fine. The rack is diminishing, while the wallet, in a career oriented man, is increasing over time. So she needs to provide some sort of risk mitigation where his assets are appreciating while hers are depreciating in the form of something that can be improved (without plastic surgery) and a sincere will to improve.

The quick short-cut is, anyone who says "I am the table" is basically saying "I'm perfect the way I am and see no need for improvement" when the reality is that this person has no self-awareness, thus unable to process the abstraction of time over their worth as a human being in a relationship with another.

Definitely a No Go.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (a4flb)

299 I have to give the cartels credit for more stamina than I expected. I figured after three or four boats sunk just to prove that the first two weren't flukes, they'd stop sending them until they figured out something else. Instead, they just keep loading up inventory and soldiers and sending them out to keep getting splashed. Do they think we're going to run out of missiles any day now?
Posted by: Oddbob

Kamikrazy Navy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

300 Finally getting to hear this week's Cut Jib News podcast.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:36 AM (Ia/+0)

301 I tried to find out what a “cup” of coffee is in those places like Luxembourg but searching for anything these days suck. It varies widely from country to country so some of the difference is coffee per cup.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2025 10:37 AM (dLRVC)

302
As you can see, there is a lot that needs prayed about. Wisdom, peace, reconciliation to reality, for a start.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 10:33 AM (lFFaq)

Prayers for you and your family

Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2025 10:37 AM (VE6XX)

303 Yesterday a former high ranking DEA agent under Obama was indicted for trying to help a Mexican cartel launder $12 million and provide them with "military grade weapons".

https://tinyurl.com/ma2tdux4

For years we were told it was impossible to seal the southern border and we should accept some level of illegals pouring into the country. Trump sealed the border in a long weekend.

We are going to see the same thing with the cartels. They could have been stopped years ago but it was not in the interests of our deep state to do it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)

304 Do they think we're going to run out of missiles any day now?

Also knowing that you are part of a team blowing shit up is definitely a morale booster.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:38 AM (a4flb)

305 >>. . . As you can see, there is a lot that needs prayed about. Wisdom, peace, reconciliation to reality, for a start.

Words fail, Polliwog the 'Ette
Will pray for you and your daughter.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:39 AM (GbwPZ)

306 @Rightanglenews
BREAKING - The DEA’s chief financial director under Obama, Paul Campo, who resigned in 2016 ahead of Trump’s administration, had his Virginia home raided and has been charged for agreeing to launder $12 million for the CJNG, a Mexican cartel, while acting in his role at the DEA.

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Public service works best when you know how to monetize it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 10:39 AM (JkO4W)

307 ***I suspect that when I move North, I'm going to need a gym for workouts on cold mornings, near and below freezing, or I'll have to buy a treadmill. The wind chill really gets to you. And I'd hate to slip on ice while walking or running.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 10:11 AM***

MBiC, that's the least of your problems

how are you going to go for weeks on end ( months, even) without washing your Buick because it's too cold?

Posted by: heywood the third at December 06, 2025 10:39 AM (YHzoo)

308 The average IQ of Somalia is 68.

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And Timpon Walz is their governor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

309 *Do they think we're going to run out of missiles any day now?
Posted by: Oddbob*

A single zap from a high energy laser costs about a dollar.
Call us.

Posted by: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, or General Atomics at December 06, 2025 10:40 AM (XQo4F)

310 Morning!

In case it hasn't been posted yet, JD had a funny anecdote about Trump and shoes. Marco wears 11.5. JD wears 13. I wonder who the unnamed politician is that wears a 7.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/
1997132492747227450

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:41 AM (gWBY1)

311 Has Jake Tapper acknowledged his mistake or lie?

Trick Question!

Psychopaths never admit to mistakes because in their mind, they never make any.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 10:42 AM (a4flb)

312 >>The various bimbos that claimed "I am the table" are basically saying "my childish mindset and and fine rack".

You've called my bluff I'm not so hot
Now is that love
My assets froze while yours have dropped
Now is that, is that --

It's the cupid cupid cupid disguise
That more or less survived
Now that is love

Posted by: SQUEEZE at December 06, 2025 10:42 AM (GbwPZ)

313 Sorry to hear that Polli! How old is she? I
Do you know if she's taking any hormones?

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:43 AM (VCgbV)

314 Lin-duh,

If you are using a six ft lead, try a longer lead with him. I use a 30 footer on Jake and coil it up when he is walking. I find I have better control, as I can let the lead out as needed.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 10:43 AM (+mUZM)

315 Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog

The average IQ in Somalia is 68, which is below the line for mental retardation. 7 out of 10 Somalians live in poverty. Their per capita GDP is 1,000 dollars (USA is 90,000). Somalia does not have a functional waste management system. The tallest fully constructed building in the country is 10 stories. So where is this Somali excellence exactly?

Aaboom16🇸🇴 @aaboom16

Whites are jealous coz they can’t compete with Somali excellence

X: https://bit.ly/44NjsXR

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 10:44 AM (P5BPp)

316 281 "Do all Somalis have that teardrop shaped head?"

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Yeah, WTF?

They look like some bizarre offshoot from the main line of hominids. But I'm sure one of them will cure cancer any day now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 10:44 AM (JkO4W)

317 In case it hasn't been posted yet, JD had a funny anecdote about Trump and shoes. Marco wears 11.5. JD wears 13. I wonder who the unnamed politician is that wears a 7.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/
1997132492747227450
Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:41 AM (gWBY1)

Saw that.
Hilarious!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:44 AM (2WIwB)

318 The cartels know they just have to wait a few more years and all this goes away when their boys are back in charge here.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2025 10:45 AM (dLRVC)

319 Musk's Clone War Army.

https://is.gd/I0lZ5O

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

320 Posted by: Boswell at December 06, 2025 09:42 AM

Thanks so much, Boswell!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:46 AM (1Vo6X)

321 >>The cartels know they just have to wait a few more years and all this goes away when their boys are back in charge here.

That's why Trump is so focused on removing Maduro. Venezuela has become ground zero for foreign meddling in the US by countries such as China and Iran and of course Hezbollah. Time to take away their sanctuary in our backyard.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 10:47 AM (viF8m)

322 Anyone know where, specifically, these narco-terrorist "go fast" boats are being interdicted?

I don't think the military has provided location data. The Caribbean is pretty big and those boats have limited range. Just curious... if they're sailing from Venezuelan waters or elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 10:49 AM (NwnyJ)

323 In case it hasn't been posted yet, JD had a funny anecdote about Trump and shoes. Marco wears 11.5. JD wears 13. I wonder who the unnamed politician is that wears a 7.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:41 AM

Anna Scott: You know what they say about men with big feet.

William Thatcher: No, I don't, actually. What's that?

Anna Scott: Big feet... large... shoes.

Posted by: Notting Hill at December 06, 2025 10:49 AM (P5BPp)

324 I was in Somalia for three months for the final UN pullout. He place is a true shithole. It was easy to feel sad for them, until they started shooting at you. After that, they're just pathetic targets. FACT: Somalia proves anyone with an IQ of 68 or less can still learn how to shoot an AK.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:49 AM (2WIwB)

325 Trump probably gifted them 4 pairs of $1000+ shoes. I doubt he had a catalog of any less than Allen Edmunds but probably something much more high end.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:50 AM (VCgbV)

326 The average IQ in Somalia is 68, which is below the line for mental retardation. 7 out of 10 Somalians live in poverty. Their per capita GDP is 1,000 dollars (USA is 90,000)

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I would think that ilhan's incredible talent for wealth acquisition skews the average up by several hundred dollars at least.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 10:50 AM (JkO4W)

327 >>> You should be more concerned about the plastics used within the Monster energy drink cans, as the microplastics are linked to contaminants crossing the blood-brain barrier and leading to dementia and other brain-fog ailments.

Gross! Good to know.

My husband loves zero sugar energy drinks and Mountain Dew. But lately he's been buying G-Fuel online, powdered instead of the cans of Monster or Reign or whatever.

Well, his birthday I bought him a soda stream and the Mountain Dew syrups. Soda is so expensive in the stores. I mostly bought it to save money in the long run (I got the machine half off on prime day!) and because I hated doing late night soda runs if he ran out. Glad he loves the gift! He mixing up his soda in the morning and taking it to work.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 10:52 AM (gWBY1)

328 Coffee. Otherwise known as Sine Qua Non

Posted by: 496 at December 06, 2025 10:52 AM (oOhQ4)

329 The average IQ in Somalia is 68, which is below the line for mental retardation. 7 out of 10 Somalians live in poverty. Their per capita GDP is 1,000 dollars (USA is 90,000)

***

And add to this their "religion" which tells them it's ok to lie and steal from nonbelievers.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 10:52 AM (2WIwB)

330 Posted by: runner at December 06, 2025 10:12 AM (g47mK

Thanks; I so appreciate that. I would like to praise dear and departed Oregon Muse who came up with the idea , for Annie's Stew in receiving the prayer requests after I left the role , and for MisHum for continuing to post it It is so important, I feel.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 10:53 AM (1Vo6X)

331 Somalia- spray and pray you don't shoot your brother

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 10:54 AM (Ia/+0)

332 Whoa. Someone was actually INDICTED for corruption.

https://tinyurl.com/45ptwdfn

Posted by: One of those people who says Nothing Will Happen at December 06, 2025 10:54 AM (XQo4F)

333 As you can see, there is a lot that needs prayed about. Wisdom, peace, reconciliation to reality, for a start.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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Sending prayers. I learned recently that a young woman I used to babysit *mumble* years ago has changed her name and probably is living as a "man." Her father just passed after a long hard fought battle with cancer. It is heartbreaking. And enraging.

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 06, 2025 10:56 AM (UONii)

334 I'm surprised that U.S. coffee consumption is that low. But unless they did something to standardize for cup size we may actually be higher. I personally drink 1 or 1.x truck stop mugs of coffee a day and many ceramic coffee mugs hold 12 ounces. Europeans probably drink 2+ demitasse (sp?) cups per day that are barely 4 ounces each.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (hhkIi)

335 Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 10:43 AM (VCgbV)

She's 24. Don't know about hormones. She is calling herself non-binary, so hopefully won't take that step. The thing is, I *understand* a lot of what drove her to this because I went through it myself when much younger. If she'd said *anything* we may have been able to help.

It doesn't help that she was an absolutely stunningly beautiful child (and it wasn't just me saying that) and a very pretty young woman. Being autistic, she found the attention it drew anywhere from uncomfortable to downright creepy and frightening. It made her easy prey for those who get off on destroying beauty.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (lFFaq)

336 >>>Whoa. Someone was actually INDICTED for corruption.

"Armed federal agents swarmed the Oakton home of Paul Campo, a former top DEA official accused of planning to launder over $12 million."

When you get to stealing $8 billion, call us. *laughs in Somalian*

Posted by: Somalis in Minnesota at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (gWBY1)

337 Portland jury acquits black man who stabbed a white man because the white guy said the "N-word" AFTER he was stabbed

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Silence may be violence but so is speech. His duty was to bleed quietly.

https://is.gd/N00Vrj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

338 Pollywog way beyond my expertise, some young woman not wanting that opposite affection sometimes make themselves obesity. Guess it's the same defense mentality

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 11:01 AM (Ia/+0)

339 HHS updated the nameplate on Admiral Levine's portrait to properly reflect reality

********

Regarding Doctor Levine, the NPR piece referred to him as an Admiral in the Public Health Service, a medical leader and a woman. When in fact:

1. He was born a male, socially transitioned in his 50s after being married with two children. He is not a woman. And I don't care what pronouns he prefers, the grammatically correct pronouns are he/him/his.
2. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Sec'y of HHS he never served in the Public Health Service, wore the uniform or attained any prior rank. His immediate appointment and elevation to the rank of Admiral was purely political and ceremonial, and not earned. It should have been offensive to career officers of the Health Service.
3. He is not now and never was a leader in the field of medicine. In the years I knew him in medical school he was at best a dullard. As a physician he parroted the party line of the AAP and WPATH, pushing the so-called transitioning of minors. His medical practice focused on affirming the gender delusions of teens and preadolescents.

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 11:01 AM (/iMjX)

340 Bibi says he'll still visit NYC despite Mamdani's threat to arrest him

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Could get spicy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 11:02 AM (L/fGl)

341 Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2025 10:32 AM (GbwPZ)

Nobody appreciates my humor.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:02 AM (GLocS)

342 Polli,
Hopefully she doesn’t/didn't take hormones. It's awful that she mutilated herself but she can recover otherwise down the road if no hormones were taken. Many of these kids wind up changing their minds as they mature and realize they made a very bad mistake. Praying for her and your family!🙏

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:03 AM (VCgbV)

343 Pamplona: Running of the Bulls

NYC: Running of the Homeless

Socialist Mamdani Vows to Let Homeless Run Wild in New York City
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

Second go at our rickshaw service idea?

Posted by: Kramer & Newman at December 06, 2025 11:03 AM (wVcYX)

344 Maybe I missed it but I am surprised that the commies are not pushing a narrative that blowing up the drug boats is killing innocent fish and seabirds etc. Perhaps they don't want to remind people that these drugs are toxic.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 11:05 AM (hhkIi)

345 Did Levine ever have his junk removed?

Posted by: Because that's what matters at December 06, 2025 11:05 AM (XQo4F)

346 If the criminal media identified a white felon as black would there be any fall out?

The suburban county to the west of Portland, with a substantial Hispanic population, refuses to use the category "Hispanic" in its arrest records.

So, when they arrest Jose Maria Lyons-Santos Garcia, he gets classified as "white".

"Look at all the white people committing crimes in suburban Portland!"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 06, 2025 11:05 AM (xTIDn)

347 Did Levine ever have his junk removed?
Posted by: Because that's what matters
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No, his was a "social transition".

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:06 AM (VCgbV)

348 Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 11:01 AM (/iMjX)

Thank for that. We need constant reminders of the lunacy of the left and their desire to subvert even the most non-political institutions.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:06 AM (GLocS)

349 Taking to dog to try and get him washed. We'll see if he cooperates....
Laters!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 06, 2025 11:07 AM (VCgbV)

350 blowing up the drug boats is killing innocent fish and seabirds

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Innocent seabirds?

https://is.gd/9qQ5n6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 06, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

351 Hadrian, in case you haven't seen, pray you never meet this woman on a walking trail.

https://x.com/Phoenix2A_1980s/
status/1995873684503015836

I am 100% for shelter dogs and finding loving homes for them all. They deserve it. But we had to get a hypoallergenic dog because of allergies. Our doodle pup has blessed our lives and made it richer. If we hadn't gotten him, it wouldn't have saved a shelter dog's life. We would just have no dog. And that would be a tragedy.

Karens need to stop Karen-ing and get a life. That woman clearly has a hole in her soul. But scolding others won't fill it.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:10 AM (gWBY1)

352 Insty:
Europe needs to decide whether it’s America’s friend or America’s foe. Europe can’t have it both ways.

the US has long failed to address the glaring inconsistency between its relations with NATO and the EU. These are almost all the same countries in both organizations. When these countries wear their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual security. But when these countries wear their EU hats, they pursue all sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to US interests and security—including censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation, support for Communist Cuba, etc etc. This inconsistency cannot continue. Either the great nations of Europe are our partners in protecting the Western civilization that we inherited from them or they are not. But we cannot pretend that we are partners while those nations allow the EU’s unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative bureaucracy in Brussels to pursue policies of civilizational suicide.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

353 good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (E7tow)

354 Maybe I missed it but I am surprised that the commies are not pushing a narrative that blowing up the drug boats is killing innocent fish and seabirds etc. Perhaps they don't want to remind people that these drugs are toxic.

Is it OK to blow up the boats if they were bringing in mustard gas or nukes? Or no boeno?

Fentanyl killed over a 100k last year - so it definitely clears the hurdle of being deemed toxic.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (a4flb)

355 Those weirdly-shaped heads of the Somalis might be because their brains are small!

Phrenology makes a comeback!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (GLocS)

356 336 >>>Whoa. Someone was actually INDICTED for corruption.

"Armed federal agents swarmed the Oakton home of Paul Campo, a former top DEA official accused of planning to launder over $12 million."

When you get to stealing $8 billion, call us. *laughs in Somalian*
Posted by: Somalis in Minnesota at December 06, 2025 10:57 AM (gWBY1)

This is actually a very significant story - he was the former CFO for the DEA, under Obama. I strongly believe, and I think this is evidence, that large parts of the DEA (as well as other agencies, both Federal and State) have been working as allies with the Cartels for a long time. I think this guy was a Cartel asset the entire time he was working for the DEA.

This is why the attacks on the drug boats terrify so much of "Polite Society". It threatens to end the game that has enriched so many of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:12 AM (uWKK8)

357 Muldoon, thanks for the inside take on Levine. He's a fitting symbol of whatever one would call the state of much of America in the last 10-15 years.

UDUP, how do you roast your coffee? Curious if a dedicated roaster is needed to make the whole effort worth it, and what those might run in $.

Per the busted DEA executive. Seems fairly likely this could be big, in that such an arrest normally leads to unraveling a much wider corruption situation. Campo is fairly highly placed, and presumably a plea deal could yield a lot of stuff implicating many others.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 11:12 AM (U/Byj)

358 Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:10 AM (gWBY1)

Please use a URL shortening app. You are blowing the margins for some phone users.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:13 AM (GLocS)

359 As a physician he parroted the party line of the AAP and WPATH, pushing the so-called transitioning of minors. His medical practice focused on affirming the gender delusions of teens and preadolescents.
——

Check the crawlspace at his previous homes. He’s a kiddie fucker, guaranteed

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 11:13 AM (IY3/h)

360 Sean Davis @seanmdav

Every time I rewatch this, I find something new to love. The pained look on his face. The constant chewing but not swallowing because he isn’t sure he can keep it down if he does. The frenetic pointless rearranging of the slop in the bowl to give the appearance of engaging with the meal while doing everything possible to not eat it.

johnny maga @_johnnymaga

Lmfaooo. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holding on for dear life as he dines in a Somali restaurant to stick it to Trump.

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.

X video: https://bit.ly/3KM2tP1

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 06, 2025 11:14 AM (P5BPp)

361 Prayers up

Pollliwog, my heart goes out to you. I hope your family and especially your Daughter (no matter what she calls herself) heals from this hellscape.

Posted by: Moki at December 06, 2025 11:14 AM (wLjpr)

362 Europe needs to decide whether it’s America’s friend or America’s foe. Europe can’t have it both ways.

its like Uncle Sam is dating Eve†

† of the Three Faces of Eve movie

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:15 AM (a4flb)

363 The cartels are also heavily involved in human trafficking. During *biden's reign they were responsible for hundreds of thousands of woman and children being sold into sex and slavery.

Our government paid for it.

This was alluded to early in Trump's current term by at least two cabinet members. No specifics were given at the time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:16 AM (NwnyJ)

364 Oh no!!! Sorry CBD! I'll repost and you can delete my other comment.

Hadrian, in case you haven't seen, pray you never meet this woman on a walking trail.

https://tinyurl.com/2zdmsvjn

I am 100% for shelter dogs and finding loving homes for them all. They deserve it. But we had to get a hypoallergenic dog because of allergies. Our doodle pup has blessed our lives and made it richer. If we hadn't gotten him, it wouldn't have saved a shelter dog's life. We would just have no dog. And that would be a tragedy.

Karens need to stop Karen-ing and get a life. That woman clearly has a hole in her soul. But scolding others won't fill it.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:16 AM (gWBY1)

365 Europe needs to decide whether it’s America’s friend or America’s foe. Europe can’t have it both ways.

The Old Europeans = Friends
The "New" Europeans = Not Friends

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (2WIwB)

366 Muldoon, you seem less than fond of DocLevine. Understand why given your specialty.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (sl73Y)

367 The roasters are junk, for the most part. Good concept, poor execution. I paid a small fortune for one with all the bells and whistles. Held 1/2 cup of green beans. If you can’t roast a pound at a time, forget about it. Loud as hell, and it soon horked. Turns out high heat and electronics, LCD display, etc, don’t get along.

What you probably want is a drum roaster. The tech goes back centuries. Can use on about anything. Makes copious smoke. Even a cast iron skillet and wooden spoon works excellent. That’s how they probably do it in the wilds of Brazil.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (IY3/h)

368 That tension between EU and European NATO behavior on matters of mutual interest has existed for a long time. Predating it by a smidge is an even more fundamental problem: NATO's raison d'etre after 1991.

This was discussed - loudly and angrily - immediately after the Soviet collapse, within actual foreign policy circles, though mostly in private. The expansionists never won an argument (or even really made much sense) but won the war, along with inertia.

It's almost amusing that the current administration's approach just ignores the fundamental question, and focuses on burden-sharing and budget %s, neither of which are really the point. The wry way of putting it would be "the 1960s called and they want their Mansfield Amendment back."

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 11:19 AM (U/Byj)

369 The Old Europeans = Friends
The "New" Europeans = Not Friends

Is that backwards? I thought the "New" Euros were the former Soviet bloc countries.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

370 366 Muldoon, you seem less than fond of DocLevine. Understand why given your specialty.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 11:18 AM (sl73Y)

this is certainly not meant to denigrate Muldoon; but I would loathe anyone I ran across who *was* fond of that louse Levine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 11:20 AM (uWKK8)

371 Pro tip: don't snack on several ounces of almonds. The belly ache and shits are spectacular, long lasting.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 06, 2025 11:21 AM (Kt19C)

372 UDUP, how do you roast your coffee? Curious if a dedicated roaster is needed to make the whole effort worth it, and what those might run in $.

For the first year, I was perfectly happy doing small batches (3-4oz) using an air popcorn popper I picked up at Goodwill for $5

Now using a Behmor for ½ pound at a time roasts (smaller usually means better consistency per roast). Though the Behmor, due to its design is sort of a Roast-n-Coast since it takes forever to cool the beans, so right at first crack I'll pop open the door and hit it for 30-40seconds with a small leaf blower to cool the chamber and the beans.

With both the air popper and the open-door cooling method of the Behmor - it will make a tremendous mess of silverskin from the bean. Do it outdoors or in the garage near the door. Normal Behmor operations discharge only a pleasant roasted bean smell to the environs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:21 AM (a4flb)

373 UDUP, how do you roast your coffee? Curious if a dedicated roaster is needed to make the whole effort worth it, and what those might run in $.

For the first year, I was perfectly happy doing small batches (3-4oz) using an air popcorn popper I picked up at Goodwill for $5

Now using a Behmor for ½ pound at a time roasts (smaller usually means better consistency per roast). Though the Behmor, due to its design is sort of a Roast-n-Coast since it takes forever to cool the beans, so right at first crack I'll pop open the door and hit it for 30-40seconds with a small leaf blower to cool the chamber and the beans.

With both the air popper and the open-door cooling method of the Behmor - it will make a tremendous mess of silverskin from the bean. Do it outdoors or in the garage near the door. Normal Behmor operations discharge only a pleasant roasted bean smell to the environs.

This sounds more like a job than what I want.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

374 Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:16 AM (gWBY1)

No worries! I edited your original comment. The margins are slim and happy!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:22 AM (GLocS)

375 Phrenology makes a comeback!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:11 AM (GLocS)

**********

Knot gonna happen...

Posted by: muldoon at December 06, 2025 11:23 AM (/iMjX)

376 >>Per the busted DEA executive. Seems fairly likely this could be big, in that such an arrest normally leads to unraveling a much wider corruption situation. Campo is fairly highly placed, and presumably a plea deal could yield a lot of stuff implicating many others.

We've been living in a sort of Matrix like world where we focus on the next shiny object in the public sphere while a lot of the real action is taking place behind the scene. Another example, there is no way that the Biden crime family was scooping on foreign cash by the truck load in places like Ukraine without the knowledge and blessing of the intel community. The place was basically being run by the CIA, they knew everything that was going on and did nothing.

Fast forward to the Biden fake presidency and he helps start a war in Ukraine where nearly $200 billion of our tax dollars disappeared into the ether. Much of that money went straight back to politicians in DC and the intel community.

If the intel community is not brought to heel we will never get out of this cycle. The CIA should be closed. It is beyond reform.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:23 AM (viF8m)

377 Pro tip: don't snack on several ounces of almonds. The belly ache and shits are spectacular, long lasting.

You realize that some AI engine is scooping up this advice and will appear some day in ChatGPT.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:23 AM (a4flb)

378 nice hash CBD!

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 06, 2025 11:24 AM (UONii)

379 Thanks for cleaning up after me CBD! AOS Cobs are the best Cobs.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:24 AM (gWBY1)

380 This doesn't need to be on the prayer list yet, but on Monday, I'm going in for a blood test to see if the IVF implantation worked. I am far, far more nervous/stressed than the last round that gave us Lil Pooky, because this is our only girl embryo. This is our one shot to give Pookette a sister. So, yeah, I'm nervous.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs Monday to get here at December 06, 2025 11:24 AM (Wt5PA)

381 This sounds more like a job than what I want.

Normal operations means you pour a half pound of green beans (at $7/lb) into the cage, push two buttons and come back to a fresh batch of beans in 20 minutes.

Its easier than toasting a bagel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:25 AM (a4flb)

382
"Now using a Behmor for ½ pound at a time roasts (smaller usually means better consistency per roast). Though the Behmor, due to its design is sort of a Roast-n-Coast since it takes forever to cool the beans, so right at first crack I'll pop open the door and hit it for 30-40seconds with a small leaf blower to cool the chamber and the beans.

With both the air popper and the open-door cooling method of the Behmor - it will make a tremendous mess of silverskin from the bean. Do it outdoors or in the garage near the door."

+++

You know we sell ground coffee ready to brew, right?

Posted by: The grocery store at December 06, 2025 11:25 AM (XQo4F)

383 The Old Europeans = Friends
The "New" Europeans = Not Friends

Is that backwards? I thought the "New" Euros were the former Soviet bloc countries.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

I should of been more clear.
New Europeans = All the Mohammedians moving in.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)

384 New One: Ken Burns

Posted by: Archimedes at December 06, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

385 You know we sell ground coffee ready to brew, right?

Posted by: The grocery store at December 06, 2025 11:25 AM (XQo4F)

Freshly roasted and ground coffee is simply better.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 11:27 AM (GLocS)

386 Thanks UDUP. I'm a reloader, so not averse to DIY when it comes to some basics. But I might not be ready for the roasting thing, perhaps apart from a cast iron pan.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 06, 2025 11:28 AM (U/Byj)

387 >>

I bought silicone molds to make bagels at home, since they can get pricey buying them all the time. But I realized I'd rather just buy them at the store. I'm too lazy to make bagels from scratch.

Bread on the other hand... love my bread maker! We are saving so much money baking bread at home.

Posted by: LizLem at December 06, 2025 11:29 AM (gWBY1)

388 I don't think it was drip, but there is a horde member that is into roasting coffee and shared the wisdom that with roasting coffee, super fresh is not the best. I don't think I would manage the planning to roast a new bit of coffee 4-7 days or whatever before I was going to need it.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 11:29 AM (hhkIi)

389 The roasters are junk, for the most part.

I assure you that not a single person has griped or complained about the quality of the output.

Roasters allow you to manage the heat and cooling profiles. While the Behmor has a tendancy to under-roast beans, and the lawyers put in a baby-sitting mode where you physically have to be around the thing right before it kicks into cooling mode, I like the ability to roast different beans and empirically evaluate the smoke, the crack and the color during the process becaues each batch is slightly different.

FWIW, decaf beans are difficult to roast because there are none of the traditional signals like crack, smoke and color. You have to actually use those infra-red heat probes to measure the external bean temperature if you are particular about the result.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:31 AM (a4flb)

390 I do buy whole bean roasted coffee and grind fresh every morning for my french press.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 06, 2025 11:31 AM (hhkIi)

391 Ok, let's see. Air fryer. Leaf blower. Plunger. Channel Locks. Putty knife. Propane torch.
Let's make a cup of coffee!

Posted by: Because it tastes better at December 06, 2025 11:31 AM (XQo4F)

392 > If the intel community is not brought to heel we will never get out of this cycle. The CIA should be closed. It is beyond reform.
---------
The CIA is self supporting. They've got so many fronts making money for their ops they don't need federal funding. Like you said; the Agency is beyond reform, but it's also ungovernable and totally self sufficient.

How do you deal with that? I've no clue.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (NwnyJ)

393 In the next town over there is a small strip of stores located together. Excellent coffee roaster/shop, fantastic butcher shop, seafood shop and a cigar bar.

If someone opens a brothel I might sell my house and by and RV and live in the parking lot.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

394 I don't think I would manage the planning to roast a new bit of coffee 4-7 days or whatever before I was going to need it.

I roast several pounds in one session of different varieties. I find that the high elevation Central American beans don't profit from that one-two week maturation.

Kenyans and Ethiopian beans, yeah. Especially the dry processed Indonesians prefer some outgassing time.

The rule is: start a new session a week before the existing inventory is exhausted. No planning necessary. If I have any beans extra, I bag them up and give them to the pastor or my barber.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:34 AM (a4flb)

395 Ok, let's see. Air fryer. Leaf blower. Plunger. Channel Locks. Putty knife. Propane torch.
Let's make a cup of coffee!

Wasn't that a MacGyver episode?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:35 AM (a4flb)

396 You know we sell ground coffee ready to brew, right?

Rule Of Fifteen:

• fifteen months from harvest before beans go stale.
• fifteen days after roasting before beans go stale
• fifteen minutes after grinding before beans go stale.

And I doubt your grocery store keeps roasted or ground beans in the refrigerator before you pick them up. And yes, those beans sit in multiple warehouses and truck trailers before sitting on your grocery shelf.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 11:38 AM (a4flb)

397 The way I drink coffee you think I was from Luxembourg and/or the world's richest man. H/T Helena Handbasket

https://archive.is/WGxve

(archived site for the article linked in the post)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 11:43 AM (RuTUS)

398 393 In the next town over there is a small strip of stores located together. Excellent coffee roaster/shop, fantastic butcher shop, seafood shop and a cigar bar.

If someone opens a brothel I might sell my house and by and RV and live in the parking lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 06, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

It's a shame this got willowed!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 11:46 AM (RuTUS)

399 Been interesting to see all the discussion about coffee but not one word about the water. You can improve the taste of most hotel/motel coffee by simply using distilled or bottled water instead of the tap water. Chorine levels and other additives can play havoc with the taste of coffee in terms of expectations of how it should taste.

The interplay of water with the coffee beans at high heat means that often people prefer whatever they got used to because that is 'normal' which is the combination of their coffee beans and whatever passes for water in their specific locality.

I think the big coffee store merchants all used filtered water to get the same consistency in taste between stores.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2025 11:55 AM (WDjG6)

400 390 I do buy whole bean roasted coffee and grind fresh every morning for my french press.
Posted by: PaleRid

I just use a Mr Coffee machine but I also buy whole bean coffee. I buy Trader Joe's medium roast and French roast, mis the beans to get just the right strength that I like. Use light cream. Perfect.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 06, 2025 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)

401 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at December 06, 2025 01:19 PM (HFx9z)

402 FWIW, decaf beans are difficult to roast because there are none of the traditional signals like crack, smoke and color.
———

What an exercise in futility! Good Lord, save us from the fucking hipsters.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 01:48 PM (skqM3)

Daily Tech News 6 December 2025

Top Story

I bought myself a mini-PC for Christmas. Minisforum X1-255.

Not because I particularly need a new system, though this one is a lot better than my two existing Beelink units (twice the speed, memory*, and storage).

Mostly because it comes with 64GB of RAM and only costs $50 more than the RAM alone.

Looks like it's completely sold out in the US already.

Update: Placed the order just four hours ago and it's already shipped. Should have it by Friday.

* The existing units only came with 8GB of RAM, so as shipped the new one has eight times as much. But I already had RAM for those left over from upgrading my laptops, back when that was cheap to do.
AI gadget makers are chasing problems that don't exist, says the CEO of AI gadget maker Logitech. (Tom's Hardware)

That's a little unfair. Logitech's webcams use discriminative AI to keep you centered in the frame, for example, and to mute background noise. Other companies, though:
Faber argued that the wave of AI-first gadgets released over the past year remains untethered from a clear purpose. Products such as the Humane AI Pin - acquired by HP in February - and Rabbit R1 launched with the promise of replacing parts of the smartphone experience, only to draw criticism for slow performance, limited features, and subscription-driven pricing.
The upcoming unnamed product from OpenAI looks to be another screenless phone piece of overpriced junk.
Their reception has shaped the debate around whether a general-purpose assistant belongs in a dedicated device at all. According to Faber, these early efforts solve little that a phone or PC cannot already handle, which is a view that has gained traction as both devices incorporate larger on-device models and tighter integrations with cloud assistants.
As annoying as AI is, dedicated AI devices are even worse.

Tech News

AMD's upcoming "Gorgon" family Ryzen 470 CPU is basically just a Ryzen 370. (WCCFTech)

I was comparing specs earlier. The Ryzen 370 has 12 CPU cores and 16 GPU cores, where the Ryzen 255 I just bought has 8 CPU cores and 12 GPU cores.

But the 370 is just 20% faster than the 255 while the relevant Minisforum model is 60% more expensive.
Intel chips could power iPhones in 2028. (WCCFTech)

That's Intel as a manufacturer, not Intel as a designer. They'll still be "Apple Silicon", but Apple has booked space on Intel's 18A production line to start fabricating chips now that TSMC is 100% sold out.
Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US because it is, well, 100% sold out. (WCCFTech)

This of for chips like modern AMD and Intel CPUs, where multiple small dies are packaged together on a larger silicon substrate.
Nimony is a compiler from the Nim team. (Nim-lang)

It will become Nim 3.0 in time, but it is already a useful compiler if you're interested in high-performance code with built-in memory management.
Two government contractors who were sentenced to prison in 2015 after being caught hacking government computers have been indicted for hacking government computers again after being rehired after their prison sentences ended. (Bleeping Computer)
According to court documents, Muneeb Akhter deleted roughly 96 databases containing U.S. government information in February 2025, including Freedom of Information Act records and sensitive investigative documents from multiple federal agencies.

One minute after deleting a Department of Homeland Security database, Muneeb Akhter also allegedly asked an artificial intelligence tool for instructions on clearing system logs after deleting a database.
Fill the cell in with cement. Then go after whoever hired these people.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Saturday morning?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 Good morning. Slowly I turned ...

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (WKHVO)

3 (Uses dynamite to blast m from comment jail.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 Would that be step by step, Fluffy?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

5 Seven days a week. Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 06, 2025 04:04 AM (pIfcn)

6 >>>Logitech's webcams use discriminative AI to keep you centered in the frame, for example, and to mute background noise.

Keeping you centered in the frame and muting background noise sounds like mathy computing tech algorithms or something but not really Artificial Intelligence, tho.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

7 ouch

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 04:10 AM (YoT4f)

9 >>>now that TSMC is 100% sold out
>>>Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US

TSMC = Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

10 AMV - S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Anime Night

That video seems very life-affirming. The first half ... especially.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:21 AM (RuTUS)

11 tech (2 days old):

Polymarket
@Polymarket
Dec 4
BREAKING: Within the past 72 hours:

- Apple's AI Chief steps down
- Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta
- Apple's Policy Chief steps down
- Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS)

12 Yeah, I saw those Apple departures. Not sure what is going on over there, though none of those people are notable success stories.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

13 Keeping you centered in the frame and muting background noise sounds like mathy computing tech algorithms or something but not really Artificial Intelligence, tho.
_-_
Yeah, most of the marketing gas these days has AI in it somewhere....kinda like all-natural, high fidelity, DIGITAL, High Definition. And the stuff that actually is AI, well, not THAT useful yet.

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)

14 Bought one of those mini computers with impressive amounts of RAM and enough connectors to run just about anything I have. The only thing it doesn't have is all those flashing LED's and whirling fan LED's that add nothing but look cool. Didn't really need it, but its small enough to put on a table and its not very visible to anyone. Happy with it and the price was right. Two M.2 slots, and turns on a few seconds. Those little ones have got to be the future of home computers, as I like bigger screens than a laptop, or watching a movie on a tiny phone screen..

Posted by: Colin at December 06, 2025 04:51 AM (wlQdF)

15 I don't know Polymarket. The comments are pretty dumb, but this one's funny:

Dec 5
Tesla buys Apple & the fun begins.

... and prompted some engaging comments, like:

Totally Legitimate Person
@selfstyldpundit
9h
Tesla’s market cap is 1.4 trillion. Apple’s is 4.1 trillion. You can keep fantasizing but if there’s a sale it’s going the other way.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:51 AM (RuTUS)

16 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 06, 2025 04:52 AM (XQo4F)

17 13 Yeah, most of the marketing gas these days has AI in it somewhere....kinda like all-natural, high fidelity, DIGITAL, High Definition.
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)

high-fiber

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:55 AM (RuTUS)

18 16 Birdbath status?
_-_
Ain't no birdbath around here... If they was, I'd a seen it.

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:55 AM (vd6bO)

19 17 13 Yeah, most of the marketing gas these days has AI in it somewhere....kinda like all-natural, high fidelity, DIGITAL, High Definition.
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)

high-fiber

Lite, Low Fat, non GMO

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:58 AM (vd6bO)

20 12 Yeah, I saw those Apple departures. Not sure what is going on over there, though none of those people are notable success stories.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

It seems that C-suite techies (higher than these, I think) come and go.
(talking of Michelangelo)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:01 AM (RuTUS)

21 The 'muting background noise' has been a problem of late with a lot of videoconferencing tools. Try doing a music lesson on one of them...they decide that difficult passage you are playing for the student is background noise....fiddle witht the settings as recommended and still...about two notes and the music goes away.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:07 AM (vd6bO)

22
"talking of Michelangelo"

https://tinyurl.com/5n6pnyfu

(Poetry Foundation)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:08 AM (RuTUS)

23
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 06, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

24 G'mornin' everyone!

Saturday morning, affirm. Coffee will be required.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 05:14 AM (Cjt/F)

25 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:20 AM (AN2gy)

26 I haven't seen bunnies this early in the AM since last February or so. We have a solid crust so I assume it showed up because it would be a good place to forage.

I had finished with most bird feeder task and gone in the house, but I came back out with a little dog.
Bun Bun slowly retreated, but when I looked from the kitchen window it was back, munching away at cracked corn and millet.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:25 AM (AN2gy)

27 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (Ia/+0)

28 G'morning, all!

'Scromiting'

It's a thing

https://tinyurl.com/yc2yzfmm

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

29 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

49.
That's like a half a century ago.
Or more.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

30 >>> Two government contractors who were sentenced to prison in 2015 after being caught hacking government computers have been indicted for hacking government computers again after being rehired after their prison sentences ended.

There needs to be firings through several layers of management.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)

31 29 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

49.
That's like a half a century ago.
Or more.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

In a world of 30-year generations, that's, like, gettin' on to two generations.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

32 Tried a schedule restart on my phone but don't think it restarted, didn't act like it was shutdown.
Was looking up my issue of no.media sounds and does say not restarted ( a few weeks now) could be the problem.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:30 AM (Ia/+0)

33 Does anyone know -of course you do- 🙂how to get my phone off of private mode, so I don't have to keep filling in my handle and name which because of my poor typing on a tiny keyboard comes up sounding something like Dutch or that I've been having early morning drinking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:31 AM (zMLZ6)

34 Get a bigger hammer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)

35 That advice is for both Fen AND Skip.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:33 AM (XQo4F)

36 Man from Oregon contemplates "The Gift of Love"
and Luke 2:1-7:

https://tinyurl.com/5su732f8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:36 AM (Nx5jP)

37 or that I've been having early morning drinking.
_-_
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (vd6bO)

38

Good morning, good people. Winter is finally here, next Wednesday before it breaks out of the teens.

With snow.

Please enjoy the usual max benefit from your effort, while giggling at the leftwit fungi squirming under their utter wretchedness.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (vFbHf)

39 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin covered it about 20 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjQhkdqMUI

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)

40 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)

So, not a big fan of cell phones, eh?😉 Me either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:38 AM (Nx5jP)

41 I have a solution, switch to my new phone.
But this one still mostly works and is fine ither than it has no media sound

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:42 AM (Ia/+0)

42 Kind friends from North Dakota help farmer complete his final harvest:

https://tinyurl.com/56xn2dy2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:42 AM (ix8EF)

43 34 Get a bigger hammer.
_-_
Actually did that to mine once...kinda therapeutic, really....Dropped it on the ground and it started freaking out like it was possessed....screen was spiderwebbed, and it was like the screen was pushing buttons, but my sledgehammer handled the job nicely, put it out of its misery....wife insisted I buy a new phone, though, dagnabit.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)

44 Powerline Week in Pictures is up!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 05:44 AM (Cjt/F)

45 One minute after deleting a Department of Homeland Security database, Muneeb Akhter...

'Homeland Security'. 'Muneeb Akhter'...

I already see the problem, and it isn't the 34-year-old "Virginia Man", as the DOJ describes him.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2025 05:45 AM (f4tQo)

46 First graders help save their teachers life. Sunny Sky's site:

https://tinyurl.com/3d9cxksk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:46 AM (ix8EF)

47 43 34 Get a bigger hammer.
_-_
Actually did that to mine once...kinda therapeutic, really....Dropped it on the ground and it started freaking out like it was possessed....screen was spiderwebbed, and it was like the screen was pushing buttons, but my sledgehammer handled the job nicely, put it out of its misery....
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)

hahahahaha great story

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:47 AM (RuTUS)

48 "There needs to be firings through several layers of management."

And decide that a "Department of Homeland Security" was a bad fucking idea from the get-go and get rid of it.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 05:49 AM (1JufS)

49 Wildfire uncovers Biblical town of Jesus' disciples:

https://tinyurl.com/bdywxe77

Faithpot site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:49 AM (ix8EF)

50 T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! Is the song of this generation.
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.Harry

Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 05:50 AM (SXn5K)

51 Homeland Security is neither.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:51 AM (XQo4F)

52 39 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin covered it about 20 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjQhkdqMUI
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)

Tons of fun!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:51 AM (RuTUS)

53 It does say it restarted, tried a diagnostic test and if there is a media only speaker then it's shot

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:57 AM (Ia/+0)

54 Maybe it's just me, but I think Don Rickles did a better version of Tim Walz than the Tim Walz version of Tim Walz that Tim Walz is doing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:59 AM (XQo4F)

55 >>>on-device models and tighter integrations with cloud assistants.

>>As annoying as AI is, dedicated AI devices are even worse.

Cloud assistants mean SaaS and subscription pricing for crap you don't need and likely don't want for myriad reasons.

Kill them all. Let God sort them out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:00 AM (dK+Kv)

56 * Emerging, blinking, from a dusty cave * Saturday? They still have Saturdays? Whaddaya know.

Evening and morning, Tech Folken. I'm up, a bit earlier than I planned (thanks, Stirling, you flying meatloaf!), and am having coffee before feeding the thugs and then myself. Whassup this day?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

57 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago. . . .

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025

***
I hear it's all right for fighting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

58 Like the sound of a switchblade and a motor bike.

Posted by: Sir Elton at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (XQo4F)

59 >>>it is already a useful compiler if you're interested in high-performance code with built-in memory management.

What's their secret?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (dK+Kv)

60 T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! Is the song of this generation.
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.

My grandchildren should be singing W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! That should be a difficult lyric. Hopefully AI will help them out?

Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 06:04 AM (SXn5K)

61 *What's their secret?*

It's got electrolytes. Plants love it.

Posted by: Idiocracy at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

62 Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)

I laughed . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (QAQdw)

63 58 Like the sound of a switchblade and a motor bike.
Posted by: Sir Elton at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (XQo4F)

A couple of the sounds that you really like?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (RuTUS)

64 We have a dusting of snow

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)

65 I've bought a couple of items from https://protectli.com/

The ones that I bought are used as servers within my home network. gateway/ntp/dhcp/dns for one, the other a cacti server (https://docs.cacti.net). I've got Slackware 15.0 on the first one and Obarun on the second. (Both are Linux distributions.)

I won't claim the devices are cheap or cost-effective (that wasn't in my decision matrix), but they have been solid performers and simple to load different Linux distributions upon themselves. There's a 1U rack mount shelf you can get that works just fine (for those who have rack mounts).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 06:07 AM (1JufS)

66 From dust we came and to dust we shall return.
That's why I don't dust.
It might be someone I know.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)

67 Joe Biden:
"We're the United States of Ameragottit!”

https://tinyurl.com/m7s7zpxk
(Greg Price on X)

He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

68 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (bQ4nt)

69 Fen, at the bottom of the screen - might have to hold it portrait, it’s easier - you’ll see how many tabs are open e.g. “12 tabs open” tap that and it should show the public / private thing.

Sometimes I’ll brush the phone with my thumb or grab it wrong and it goes into ultra magnification mode. That’s fun to fix without rebooting.

The only time i was worried a little bit I was messing around in Settings. Oops.

I saw all the different languages it supports. Cool! I wonder what everything looks like in a different language?

Hm, let’s find something really exotic looking. Cambodian should do, I think. It worked! And …. You’ll never guess what happened! I couldn’t find the language part in Settings to get out of Cambodian, took me about 15 minutes.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (4eslj)

70 Happy Saint Nicholas Day -a day celebrated in the Orthodox and RC church:

https://tinyurl.com/5n62zvbs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:10 AM (IEV/x)

71 You know...the thing!

Posted by: Creepy Joe at December 06, 2025 06:10 AM (XQo4F)

72 A company is building a new Lotus Esprit.

https://tinyurl.com/43yry6pc
(Carscoops.com)

Made famous by James Bond in a few of the movies, especially For Your Eyes Only.

I thought they were the coolest looking cars on the planet when I was like 10.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (6ydKt)

73 There is a article at American Thinker
Minnesota is raping itself

A Somalian is on a raping spree and hasn't served a very light sentence. They are doing what England did

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

74 67 Joe Biden:
"We're the United States of Ameragottit!”

https://tinyurl.com/m7s7zpxk
(Greg Price on X)

He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

Another transliteration:

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
12h
Joe Biden at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute cannot pronounce the "United States of America."

"We're the United Statz Aadfsoihiopuefhqwnjklavds"

That's the phonetic pronunciation. h/t @RyanSaavedra

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (RuTUS)

75 My 'Net was out for a time yesterday afternoon. It happened mostly while I was napping. I got up to see texts from Cox about "the outage" and then "It has been resolved." No, it hadn't -- or so I thought. For a while I occupied myself with other things, then did what I should have done right away: turned off the system and my computer, waited a little bit, then switched back on. Success!

Rebooting often works.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

76 high-fiber

Lite, Low Fat, non GMO

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:58 AM (vd6bO)

Green, sustainable, carbon-neutral.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:13 AM (dK+Kv)

77 He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.

He's taking extended-release stupid/evil pills. His normal state is zombie mutter but, occasionally, a micro-dose of evil will be administered and he starts screaming... unless a little girl in nearby.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 06, 2025 06:15 AM (ExV1e)

78 hahahahaha from the comments under the @SteveGuest post:

Kevin Joseph
@ShiloZafun
10h
I'm hearing "United States of Merrick Garland" some times and other times I hear "United States of Olive Garden."

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:16 AM (RuTUS)

79
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs let out, coffee made, now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian. Getting Her Majesty and The Big Dummy on the road to Florida this morning, going out for dog food for the beasts, plus some other shopping, then going to Confession.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:17 AM (tgvbd)

80 >>> A company is building a new Lotus Esprit.

>>> I thought they were the coolest looking cars on the planet when I was like 10.

When I was slightly younger, I had a Lotus Europa in my Matchbox collection and thought it was one of the coolest looking cars I had.

It was only in adult years did I realize how small they are. Apparently they are popular for DIY mods and you can get quite a lot of speed out of a decent four banger.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (AN2gy)

81 Keeping you centered in the frame and muting background noise sounds like mathy computing tech algorithms or something but not really Artificial Intelligence, tho.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

That's just it. They use models and datasets to train the systems to recognize the problems and perform some sort of correction, which is pretty standard machine learning stuff. Hardly "AI" or even "I." But marketers don't care.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (dK+Kv)

82 Cool, 51 F., and raining lightly here. We expect rain all day. And here I need to venture out to Walmart for some stuff. Maybe the rain will keep some of the Walmartians home until tomorrow.

And this afternoon Linda wants to go to this Christmas fair, indoors at least, at the German-American Center in the city proper. Gah. Not the center itself, or the fair, or the people -- but going into the city, wondering when the shot or carjacking will come, or when I'll burst a tire in a pothole.

I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

83 "...and other times I hear "United States of Olive Garden."

I'm just here for the bread sticks.

Posted by: Not A Doctor Jill at December 06, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)

84 interesting, R C, particularly the open-source BIOS.

I have noticed a variety of chicom-modded AMI-style BIOSes in boxes lately; got to regard them with a degree of suspicion.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:20 AM (Cjt/F)

85 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Monday, Monday.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (0cOaq)

86 I've fed the monsters. Little Dagny did not think her wet food/dry food mix was to her taste and walked off from it. I rescued it from her brother. Now she's looking at me as though I never fed her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

87
I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

I vaguely remember some satirical headline like "Boyfriends Fear Free Concert in the Park Season". This must be the winter version.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:22 AM (tgvbd)

88 "We're the United Statz Aadfsoihiopuefhqwnjklavds"
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Looks like a Hawaiian-Scandinavian hybrid language.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:22 AM (0cOaq)

89 85 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (0cOaq)

I have broken out a newish Lipton Forest Fruits Frutti Rossi Black Tea with Strawberries - From France

and the whole room reeks of strawberries.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

90 "...but going into the city, wondering when the shot or carjacking will come, or when I'll burst a tire in a pothole."

###

Download our apps.

Posted by: The good people of Uber and Lyft at December 06, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)

91 I've bought a couple of items from https://protectli.com/

The ones that I bought are used as servers within my home network. gateway/ntp/dhcp/dns for one, the other a cacti server (https://docs.cacti.net). I've got Slackware 15.0 on the first one and Obarun on the second. (Both are Linux distributions.)

I won't claim the devices are cheap or cost-effective (that wasn't in my decision matrix), but they have been solid performers and simple to load different Linux distributions upon themselves. There's a 1U rack mount shelf you can get that works just fine (for those who have rack mounts).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 06:07 AM (1JufS)

I have one set up as an opensense router/gateway that has been rock solid. Very impressive.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (dK+Kv)

92 As early as I was to the thread yesterday, I'm even more late to it today.

I am the time-pendulum.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

93 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Monday, Monday.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025

***
"From this time forward, you will service . . . us."

Posted by: Locutus of the Borg at December 06, 2025 06:25 AM (wzUl9)

94 92 As early as I was to the thread yesterday, I'm even more late to it today.

I am the time-pendulum.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

We've kept it all warm and cozy for you.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

95 I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.

You don't remind me much of Claudius from "Hamlet". I hope that the day is better anticipated .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (IEV/x)

96 I am the time-pendulum.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM

Stay in your lane.

Posted by: The grandfather clock in the foyer at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (XQo4F)

97 "...but going into the city, wondering when the shot or carjacking will come, or when I'll burst a tire in a pothole."

###

Download our apps.
Posted by: The good people of Uber and Lyft at December 06, 2025

***
I'd sooner trust the Borg.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

98 98

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:27 AM (RuTUS)

99 it's a rough job, G&R, but someone's got to do it!

watch out for rogue Gallifreyans!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:28 AM (Cjt/F)

100 100

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:28 AM (RuTUS)

101 I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.
*
You don't remind me much of Claudius from "Hamlet". I hope that the day is better anticipated .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025

***
Fen, the event itself is fine. For a time the German Center used to be in the suburbs, off a major Federal highway, and visiting there was great. For that matter, for a big part of my life the city itself was exciting and magnetic. Not no mo'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

102 Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange
...
Feb 23, 2014 — The Time Lords are the rulers of Gallifreyan society as well as their military leaders, selected from early childhood (age

, shown the untempered schism.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (RuTUS)

103 When I was slightly younger, I had a Lotus Europa in my Matchbox collection and thought it was one of the coolest looking cars I had.

It was only in adult years did I realize how small they are. Apparently they are popular for DIY mods and you can get quite a lot of speed out of a decent four banger.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (AN2gy)

I had a few Matchbox, but several dozen Hot Wheels (they ran smoother and faster ).

My favorite was a silver Ferrari Tesstarosa.
I gave away most of my collection when I was a teenager but I still have eight or ten that I kept and the Ferrari is one of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

104 T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! Is the song of this generation.
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.

My grandchildren should be singing W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! That should be a difficult lyric. Hopefully AI will help them out?
Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 06:04 AM (SXn5K)
----
In addition to the "no math rule" maybe we should have a "no spelling rule."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 06:30 AM (ESVrU)

105 *( age 8 ) shown the untempered schism

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:31 AM (RuTUS)

106 97, this is wisdom, Wolfus!

happy to observe that the uber/lyft business model does not extend into cows&corn country, lol, nor does doordash ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:31 AM (Cjt/F)

107 >>> I am the time-pendulum.

You'll get in the swing of things

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:34 AM (AN2gy)

108 97, this is wisdom, Wolfus!

happy to observe that the uber/lyft business model does not extend into cows&corn country, lol, nor does doordash ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025

***
I suppose if I *needed* a car ride, say, back from my mechanic or something, and had no other choice, I could do Lyft or Uber. But the recent stories about "immigrants" driving for them make me less than trusting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)

109 Good morning morons

I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (m6HS6)

110 Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (4eslj)

Thanks for the helpful advice. I gave it to FenSpouse and he fixed it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (uA11f)

111 mornin yall. People are incredibly stupid.

"A Tennessee man and his three-month-old granddaughter were found dead after being mauled by seven pit bulls inside their family home.

DA's office said authorities are still investigating whether the victims died before or after being attacked by the dogs"

Having been in the middle of a dog fight, I can attest it is a melee that you do not want to be in without a weapon.

Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

112 >>> My favorite was a silver Ferrari Tesstarosa.
I gave away most of my collection when I was a teenager but I still have eight or ten that I kept and the Ferrari is one of them.

I have none of my mine, but I do pause to look when I pass them in store aisles.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (AN2gy)

113 But the recent stories about "immigrants" driving for them make me less than trusting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)
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My friend recently took a Lyft and the driver was quite based and a Trump fan! In the Portland metro area!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (0cOaq)

114 109 Good morning morons

I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (m6HS6)

Wow. To be used inside a business (manufacturing plant or such)? Or by private patients/subscribers?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)

115 >>> we should have a "no spelling rule."

*** gimlet eye ***

Posted by: Autocucumber at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (AN2gy)

116 midwestchick.com Saturday Meme Drop is up!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:39 AM (Cjt/F)

117 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (0cOaq)

118 In another lifetime, I worked on an Elite a few times. It was a cool looking car but not real fast and the interior finish was terrible. It looked like a kit car inside. Most of what I worked on were electrical problems. Care to guess why?

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

119 115 >>> we should have a "no spelling rule."

*** gimlet eye ***
Posted by: Autocucumber at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (AN2gy)

Is that g-i-m-l-e-t?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)

120 But the recent stories about "immigrants" driving for them make me less than trusting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025
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My friend recently took a Lyft and the driver was quite based and a Trump fan! In the Portland metro area!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025

***
Then I guess it's just the luck of the draw.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

121 I have none of my mine, but I do pause to look when I pass them in store aisles.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (AN2gy)

Haven’t been down a toy aisle in forever.

Do the toy cats even look the same?
Same size, materials, and all?

I recall Hot Wheels was getting into the fantasy style for while; crazy designs with bright colors, etc.

That turned me off of them.
I like my fake toy miniature cars looking exactly like the real thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:41 AM (6ydKt)

122 "I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now."

That must be something like the drop detector pendants for old folks I see advertised nowadays.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

123 I would like to have a Lotus Elan for the classicness but a modern Miata will be faster and much more reliable than the Elan's ever were.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

124 Wake up fellow believers in Christ😉 Hank Wiliams Sr-"I heard my Savior calling me"

https://tinyurl.com/2p5cdndw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:45 AM (IeCgc)

125 Care to guess why?

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

Made in Britain?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:46 AM (dK+Kv)

126 >>> I recall Hot Wheels was getting into the fantasy style for while; crazy designs with bright colors, etc.
That turned me off of them.
I like my fake toy miniature cars looking exactly like the real thing.

They had fantastic designs in the early 70s, though I think some were based on famous custom cars. Pretty sure my Red Baron mobile was not ;--)

They did do track and track friendly wheels a few years before Matchbox did.

I shall do some inspecting later this AM as I wander the supermarket.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:47 AM (AN2gy)

127 122 "I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now."

That must be something like the drop detector pendants for old folks I see advertised nowadays.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

super cool

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:47 AM (RuTUS)

128 Lucas, the Prince of Darkness?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:48 AM (Cjt/F)

129 Yeah, the Brits are pretty good at car design, but I’ve heard nothing but nightmare stories about electrical systems and all around terrible engineering in most of their brands from Jaguar to Range Rover.

I think Rolls Royce’s & Bentleys had a good reputation but who can drive a Rolls these days?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:48 AM (6ydKt)

130 Why do Brits drink warm beer?

Lucas made refrigerators, too.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (AN2gy)

131 Wow. To be used inside a business (manufacturing plant or such)? Or by private patients/subscribers?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)
====

It is mostly being installed in memory care neighborhoods.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (m6HS6)

132
Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)

133 My Friend Flicka, the 1943 movie with Roddy McDowall, is on Movies! I have a faint memory of the 1955-1960 TV series -- probably more from the tie-in materials like comic books and coloring books than from the show itself. It, and all the other Western series on TV then, cemented my interest in all things Western, including the modern West.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

134

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

135 sock_rat_eez got it. Your prize is headlight switch made of paper mache and graham crackers.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

136 131 Wow. To be used inside a business (manufacturing plant or such)? Or by private patients/subscribers?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)
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It is mostly being installed in memory care neighborhoods.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (m6HS6)

Really great!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:51 AM (RuTUS)

137 >>> who can drive a Rolls these days?

"Honey, I know a promised we would take a cruise around the world when we retired, but I decided to lent a Rolls Royce for a weekend, instead."

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:51 AM (AN2gy)

138 The Red Baron was an actual show car.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

139 Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025
*
A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025

***
I'll stick with my mini-tigers, thanks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

140 AI is also coming into wide use analyzing health data in real time.

Mrs. So-and-So is sleeping longer than usual, let's check if she still needs her Trazadone.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (m6HS6)

141 >>> The Red Baron was an actual show car.

I have learned something. I can let my brain rest for the day.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:54 AM (AN2gy)

142 A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)
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There is a beautiful pittie in our neighborhood that whenever we walk by, she flops over and demands belly scritches.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:55 AM (m6HS6)

143 Bentleys? James Bond's second Bentley in the novels was a 1953 Mark VI, bought at the end of 1955's Moonraker. Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mortis, set in '57, still has him driving it.

I did an image search. What a beautiful car, esp. in "drophead coupe" (= convertible?) form.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (wzUl9)

144 @128/sock_rat_eez: "Lucas, the Prince of Darkness?"

Lucas Electric is the Prince of Sudden and Unexpected Darkness.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

145 Woohoo!

woulda been a drop in replacement for my old TR-4A !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (Cjt/F)

146 Fluffy, its even got its own wiki page. I didn't know this about it:

"While the original model featured a 1914 Mercedes-Benz inline 6-cylinder engine, the full-size car received an OHC Pontiac 6-cylinder"

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (vFG9F)

147 "Yeah, the Brits are pretty good at car design..."

No.
No, they're not.

Posted by: MG and Triumph owners everywhere at December 06, 2025 06:57 AM (XQo4F)

148
"All Parts Falling Off This Car Are of the Finest British Workmanship"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (tgvbd)

149 Slightly OT but:
A commercial that had sticking power:

(Wikipedia) "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" is a line spoken in television commercials for LifeCall, a now defunct medical alarm and protection company.

The line was spoken by actress Dorothy McHugh in a 1987 LifeCall television commercial. LifeCall subscribers, mostly seniors and disabled people, would receive a pendant which, when activated, would allow the user to speak into an audio receiving device and talk directly with a dispatch service, without the need to reach a telephone.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

150 I really wish that Google would get around to updating all of my Google home devices with Gemini since the home automation functions and capabilities of the AI are now better than Google assistant's.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (WYStd)

151 >>> The Splittin' Image was one of the first concept cars that sprung from the fertile imagination of Mattel designer Ira Gilford.

Found on the interwebz.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (AN2gy)

152 There is a beautiful pittie in our neighborhood that whenever we walk by, she flops over and demands belly scritches.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025

***
I just don't find pitbulls and their mixes to be attractive dogs. German shepherds, collies, mini-collies, Corgis, even Schipperkes are good-looking or cute. Pitbulls, not so much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

153 Spider solitaire is evil
Have 3 empty spaces and only 8 cards hidden, 6 are doubles
533 moves and trapped

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (Ia/+0)

154 I really wish that Google would get around to updating all of my Google home devices with Gemini since the home automation functions and capabilities of the AI are now better than Google assistant's.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (WYStd

*raging eye twitch*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:00 AM (dK+Kv)

155 My FiL had an infamous Jaguar that became legendary for spending more time in the shop than on the road.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:01 AM (m6HS6)

156 I always liked bigger breeds of dogs

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:03 AM (Ia/+0)

157 I've got a 65 Spitfire. It's not a very good car by modern standards but it's red and looks so cool with the top off. I can drive it to the gas station or grocery store and will get a half a dozen comments from people who want to look at it or talk about it.

I had one guy come up while I was pumping gas who said "I didn't know that Triumph made cars".

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

158 We used to hold rifle matches on a private range in central Ohio, where the neighbor had his own menagerie of big cats. The range owner was a policeman's widow who delighted in having her late husband's friends and competitors over for the weekend. I'll never forget her because she was kind of old and extremely good looking. If you camped out in the hay field, the lions and tigers inside their heavy fences would roar all night and really give you something to think about. Seeing all those EZ-up line tents from across the acreage gave a good impression of what medieval tournaments must have been like.

After several years, the family's insurance agent intervened and insisted that sponsored rifle matches on a farm were just too dangerous to cover. Nobody said a damn word about the pumas.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (zdLoL)

159 My FiL had an infamous Jaguar that became legendary for spending more time in the shop than on the road.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025

***
And my mechanic warned me that, while Jags are great cars, the parts are no cheaper than Mercedes parts. He works on both and loves 'em, but acknowledges their drawbacks.

His father had a modern aluminum-bodied Jag saloon for a time, before he stopped driving.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

160 >>> The project was designed by model designer Tom Daniel in 1967 for the Monogram Company

Looks like the Red Baron got its start as a plastic scale model kit.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (AN2gy)

161 My brother still has his foster pit bull.
She’s a sweet dog most of the time, and she does listen if you’re using a firm voice with her.

But they are built so strong, and are so impulsive and fast, it’s scary because you never know when the aggression will turn up.

She already bit one person out of nowhere.
Thankfully it was minor, but bro and his wife don’t take her out of the house/yard anymore because of it.

And this dog has never been trained to be aggressive. She’s been loved, given attention, and treated like any other dog they’ve had.

There’s just something in pit bulls that can cause them to snap unexpectedly as far as I can tell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)

162 I always liked bigger breeds of dogs
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025

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They seem to be more placid. The little ones are more yappy and excitable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:07 AM (wzUl9)

163 modern standards, phooey!

also lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 07:07 AM (Cjt/F)

164 There’s just something in pit bulls that can cause them to snap unexpectedly as far as I can tell.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025

***
Apparently they have been bred for it. You might as well expect a collie not to herd as a pitbull not to be aggressive, methinks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

165 *raging eye twitch*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:00 AM (dK+Kv)

I know the horde doesn't like it, but the utility I get from these little devices is something that I now cannot live without. Had a smart home ever since I bought this place ten years ago, and it's awesome

I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)

166 >>> I've got a 65 Spitfire. It's not a very good car by modern standards but it's red and looks so cool with the top off.

Wikkid cool. I wouldn't say anything but would be noticeably gawking.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:09 AM (AN2gy)

167 165 I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)

I would welcome a list of those.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)

168 "modern standards, phooey!"

I won't take this 1150 cc beast on the freeway. It's so low and little it's just too scary and at 80mph the engine is turning about 5000 rpm.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)

169 I like big data and I cannot lie...

Posted by: Sir Spiesalot at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

170 Cat *breed* personalities seem to be much less variable than those of dogs. Siamese are noisier, Ragdolls are placid, Siberians are weird (I know, having lived with three and known a fourth very well). But all of them generally want to hunt small prey, play with toys, sleep curled up, enjoy human company, etc.

Individual cats are another box of litter entirely.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (wzUl9)

171 Through an extremely unlikely series of events, I bought a packet of Uncle Ben’s ready Brown Rice, which is intended for the Microwave. I think it’s semi-cooked already, Not a fan of instant rice, but at 6k feet brown rice isn’t practical without a canner. I’m thinking it might be OK in a crockpot? Chicken & Rice hangs in the balance

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (4eslj)

172 Time I went to pretend to be writing. In about an hour, when it's fully light, I'll head off to the grocery, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:12 AM (wzUl9)

173 169 I like big data and I cannot lie...
Posted by: Sir Spiesalot at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

also dogs

156 I always liked bigger breeds of dogs
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:03 AM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

174 @149/m: Wheeeeere's the beef?

;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

175 “ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Matthew 21:9

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (E24OL)

176 >>> I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.

I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (AN2gy)

177 When I was a kid, my dad's uncle lived with my great grandmother and he had a kennel rasing pomeranian and chihuahua, they seemed snippy to me

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:14 AM (Ia/+0)

178 Pit bulls were bred for aggressiveness, I don’t think that can be removed or conditioned out of them. Once in a while they just snap and go into lizard brain mode entirely. Not a fan.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:14 AM (4eslj)

179 Uncle Ben's Ready Rice?
Are you kidding? Squeeze the package a few times. Tear the top back one inch at either top corner. Microwave on high for 90 seconds.
Boom. You've got perfectly cooked rice!
Thanks patriarchy!

Posted by: Guys everywhere at December 06, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F)

180 Those little ones have got to be the future of home computers, as I like bigger screens than a laptop, or watching a movie on a tiny phone screen..

Over a decade ago decided that a desktop was too big, noisy, hot and power hungry and moved to notebook computers which could be stored in a vault when not in use or when leaving.

Due to the nature of my work, I'm running 3 4k monitors (43", 2 x 36"). I want the mini PC to be the future since with USB4 and modern docking stations throwing a cube half the size of a Kleenex box in the vault is really easy.

The mini-pc gives me all the stuff a notebook does except the screen, keyboard, and the ruggedness for travel - which I need only a few times a year.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

181 >>> Cat *breed* personalities seem to be much less variable than those of dogs. Siamese are noisier, Ragdolls are placid, Siberians are weird

We had a ragdoll, can confirm. I think he was home brew, not a registered cat.

Mrs fluffy has noticed that tabbies tend to be extroverted and friendly. My puppycat is a tabby.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (AN2gy)

182 I noticed it can get too hot and humid for dogs to do their job. On one of the worst hot and humid days ever experienced I was making a delivery to a house. Attack dog was under the deck in the shade. I heard a muffled, not very enthusiastic “woof” and that was that. Dog said “I ain’t moving”. In better weather I would have been a snack.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (4eslj)

183 174 @149/m: Wheeeeere's the beef?

;-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

"New ... York ... CITY?"

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (RuTUS)

184 I know the horde doesn't like it, but the utility I get from these little devices is something that I now cannot live without. Had a smart home ever since I bought this place ten years ago, and it's awesome

I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)
====

Have you seen Demon Seed?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:18 AM (m6HS6)

185 Get a rope.

Posted by: Pace salsa at December 06, 2025 07:19 AM (XQo4F)

186 175 “ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Matthew 21:9
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (E24OL)

Thank you, Marcus T!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)

187 Pit bulls were bred for aggressiveness, I don’t think that can be removed or conditioned out of them. Once in a while they just snap and go into lizard brain mode entirely. Not a fan.

The mental retards that live around here love their pit bulls and let them go charge people simply walking down the street (admittedly, I'm the only one walking down the street - people here are so lazy they drive to the mailbox)

That is why bullwhips are lovely stand-off weapons.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)

188 Yeah tabbies tend to be gregarious and good natured. The nicest I knew was named “Mike” which for some reason I thought was comical.

My observation is you can tell a LOT about people, by the nature or disposition and health of their pets.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:21 AM (4eslj)

189 176 >>> I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.

I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (AN2gy)

Now do toilets.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)

190 "That is why bullwhips are lovely stand-off weapons.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

If they get inside the range of the whip you better have a pistol or large knife.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

191 171 Through an extremely unlikely series of events, I bought a packet of Uncle Ben’s ready Brown Rice, which is intended for the Microwave. I think it’s semi-cooked already, Not a fan of instant rice, but at 6k feet brown rice isn’t practical without a canner. I’m thinking it might be OK in a crockpot? Chicken & Rice hangs in the balance
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (4eslj)

Maybe it says, on the package?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:23 AM (RuTUS)

192 But the 370 is just 20% faster than the 255 while the relevant Minisforum model is 60% more expensive.

Why would you give a product a name that most everyone will mis-read as misinform?

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 07:24 AM (sl73Y)

193 >>> Now do toilets.

I saw the discussion yesterday, or earlier this week.

It brought to mind a parody I saw years back about the Google toilet. IIRC correctly, it blackmailed a guy into buying stuff because of his shameful browsing habits.

"Google: We're way up your ass"

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (AN2gy)

194 Nope, it only has directions for microwave. I didn’t look at it real close however, I’m still in the pissed off mode. Hazards of buying online. I thought it was a big ass box of instant. No, just a twee pack, it’s like a brick. I think it might have moisture, leading me to believe it would be OK after an hour in the crack pot.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (4eslj)

195 I have a strict no pit bull policy. Neighbor had one that killed one of my colts. A stray tried attacking one of the older geldings. S S S

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (sDNVV)

196 I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.

I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.

• Don't be the signal, be the noise.
• If you don't even make noise, you become the signal. (the dog that didn't bark)
• Don't do such evil shit that Leviathan decides to make you a cat toy.

Yeah, your refrigerator might not be reporting on you, but thousands of other things do. (e.g. neighborhood Ring door cameras, ALPR, traffic signal crossings, your phone, your power meter...)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (a4flb)

197 The more technology advances the farther away I want from it.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:27 AM (sDNVV)

198 Pit bitches can be very loving. Still protective though.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 07:28 AM (W7XSX)

199 Why would you give a product a name that most everyone will mis-read as misinform?

Its a pure Chinese product. Their marketing teams open a can of alphabet soup and discover their product name and company name in the first scoop.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (a4flb)

200 200

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)

201 Now do toilets.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)
=====

There is a lot of good health data to be gathered from the toilet.

Please Google "poop chart"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (m6HS6)

202 I know the horde doesn't like it,

. . .

I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)

Do what pleases you, group preferences be dawned. I was just going for the funny.

"[ M] ost of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense . . ."

I read that as, "not proven right or justified just yet."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (dK+Kv)

203 So many foreign sports car comments, and nobody has said:

FIAT

"Fix it again, Tony."

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (RuTUS)

204 >>> Yeah, your refrigerator might not be reporting on you, but thousands of other things do. (e.g. neighborhood Ring door cameras, ALPR, traffic signal crossings, your phone, your power meter...)

I know that I am constantly observed , albeit passively. I feel like I have yielded too much ground already.

Not sure what you mean by 'be the noise'. Be statistically anomolous?

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (AN2gy)

205 The web based email, where I used to work would sometimes switch an account display to Danish. No idea why, but I got very good at logging into their account and changing it back to English.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (+mUZM)

206 195 I have a strict no pit bull policy. Neighbor had one that killed one of my colts.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (sDNVV)

yikes

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (RuTUS)

207 I've had a few Fiats. They are not so bad if you can work on them. I had a 128 sedan that the fuel pump failed on so I strapped a motorcycle gas tank to the hood and ran a hose to the carb. Drove it for a few weeks like that.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

208 If they get inside the range of the whip you better have a pistol or large knife.

If I was going for a nice evening walk in a neighborhood I don't know, then I suppose, but it would look weird a kitted up for CQB.

Doing summer work as a teen, when canvasing a neighborhood occasionally people would greet me with a GSD or Doberman (the cool attack dogs at that time).

Having a BB Nidan in martial arts, providing the dog with a concussion or cracked ribs was effective (I had a very high risk threshold at the time).

Worst case, years later attacked by a GSD out in the alley at night - provided a sacrificial arm while the other jammed an automatic SOG knife in its chest and vigorously swirled the knife around in the cavity until the threat ended.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:38 AM (a4flb)

209 "I have a strict no pit bull policy."

Me too now. If I see one in the yard I am not going to wait around to see what it does.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

210 >>>Don't do such evil shit that Leviathan decides to make you a cat toy.

Problem isn't me, it is Leviathan.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:40 AM (dK+Kv)

211 203 So many foreign sports car comments, and nobody has said:

FIAT

"Fix it again, Tony."
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (RuTUS)

Quoting my dad, here.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:43 AM (RuTUS)

212 I had a Fiat where on windshield wiper quit working. You'd have to remove the dash to work on it, so my husband used baling wire to wire it to the working one. Drove it that way, till I decided I really needed a different car.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 07:43 AM (+mUZM)

213 The problem is pit bulls are practically immune to pain or anything. Most dogs, even mean ones, are not of sufficient size or whatever to really take on a pissed off human effectively who has a cane or weapon. Not fun but manageable. A pack of dogs is different, but what I’m getting at a pit is not gonna be persuaded by a club or anything. You’re fooked. That’s why all those stories only end one way, you’ll notice.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (bocsn)

214
One thing I've learned (yes, even I can learn) is that a bad temperament is always intolerable. Always.

We had a Borzoi boy we bred who had aggressiveness problems. We tried everything, including having him neutered. But he still snapped at the others. We had to have him put down. We cried, but we did it because we had to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)

215 Good morning!!

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

This will wake you up, & in a good way. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/fqwIpH6phJs

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

216 I can't seem to find really good windshield wiper blade for the truck.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:46 AM (sDNVV)

217 It is indelicate to diss Leviathan to those who had to suck mightily just to get into a cubicle in Leviathan's basement.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 07:46 AM (zdLoL)

218 We cried, but we did it because we had to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)

It was the right and brave thing to do.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:47 AM (dK+Kv)

219 214
One thing I've learned (yes, even I can learn) is that a bad temperament is always intolerable. Always.

We had a Borzoi boy we bred who had aggressiveness problems. We tried everything, including having him neutered. But he still snapped at the others. We had to have him put down. We cried, but we did it because we had to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)

You're a good source for these things. We're lucky to have you here.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:48 AM (RuTUS)

220 Not sure what you mean by 'be the noise'. Be statistically anomolous?

Short Answer: Yes.

There are two very different strategies for that, one is to be indistinguishable from your neighbors. In the case of power meters (I'm just picking one) with the gains made in AI, they can detect when and what types of high draw equipment you are using (electric oven, hot water heater, A/C, etc.) Not sure most utilities are using low granularity or just collecting 15 minute KW/h segments, but you can pretty well establish pattern of life from just that data.

Second strategy is to be random each day so that no pattern of life can be determined. That is hard to do on a consistent basis but does keep you out of the pattern analysis made by a lot of algorithms.

As for the frig: Watch what people buy at the store. Only your health/life insurance company cares what you put in and out of it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)

221 Trico makes good blades. Rainx does not, at least in my experience.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:48 AM (vFG9F)

222 illage Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, guv'nor

Your card arrived yesterday. Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

223 I'm officially getting older. Had to change my subdued watt bulb for a 75 watt one in my desk lamp and the lamp has been moved closer to my work area. I have a new monitor arriving, larger and sharper imaging. Having my eyes checked on Tuesday and just know I'll need new glasses. Getting old ain't for the faint of heart, however it beats the alternative.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (2NHgQ)

224 fd.Thank you. I will look for them.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (sDNVV)

225 Ben Had. Good morning. I believe it was you that suggested using Broken Arrow Ranch for goodies. If so, thanks. They are a part of my Christmas gift giving this year. It will be interesting to see how quail and wild game sausage are received by family members.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (2NHgQ)

226 Hadrian the Seventh

You are doing the adulting for us all, in taking care of needed tasks.

Hope the rest of life for you, Her Majesty, and all your furry companions is a saga of golden times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

227 NaCly, Good morning . Did you ever get through to the agency you were trying to contact?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (sDNVV)

228 A friend of mine is selling her mini-farm in SC. It's not far from Hilton Head. 4 acres and 2300 sq ft house, $400K. If I wanted to be down there I would consider it.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

229 Mrs fluffy has noticed that tabbies tend to be extroverted and friendly. My puppycat is a tabby.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (AN2gy)
---
Both of my tabbies (Jasmine and Hexie) are very friendly, but only one (Hexie) is extroverted.

Jasmine takes her sweet time getting to know a stranger, but eventually she'll be friendly.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 07:53 AM (ESVrU)

230 640K outta be enough for anybody.

Love me, take my vaccine, rub my generous mammary glands. Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at December 06, 2025 07:53 AM (R/m4+)

231 Different schools of thought on blades.

I take the goldi-locks approach. Buy reasonably good ones and replace every year. The “Lifetime Heavy Duty” type do last a long time but they don’t work nearly as well, and tend to scratch the glass. A good wiper in the rain (that’s what they are for) is not an inherently durable thing is the problem.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:54 AM (Npcdm)

232 neverenoughcaffeine, I have never had anything but rave reviews from people that have received their products. The quail are unparalleled.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:55 AM (sDNVV)

233 , but what I’m getting at a pit is not gonna be persuaded by a club or anything. You’re fooked.

I like to bicycle ride in the back roads. There is one house in particular where the asshole has FIVE unrestrained pits running on the property. Yes they will always come out and "greet" me as I go by. Yes that is also the fastest segment of my ride. Yes I fantasize about a midnight visit with a shotgun or a suppressed subsonic .300 Blackout.

The pits in my AO though respect the bullwhip. I suspect that they are bored senseless by the drug addict ne're do wells in their hovels, and a passerby is simply something to chase.

These mental retards around here are low-energy people yet they insist on having high-energy dogs and refuse to walk, play, or otherwise engage their dogs so there is ALOT of pent up energy and sense of discovery in those poor animals.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:55 AM (a4flb)

234 Different schools of thought on blades.

I take the goldi-locks approach. Buy reasonably good ones and replace every year. The “Lifetime Heavy Duty” type do last a long time but they don’t work nearly as well, and tend to scratch the glass. A good wiper in the rain (that’s what they are for) is not an inherently durable thing is the problem.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:54 AM (Npcdm)

New blades are almost always better than old, sun-baked, road grime encrusted ones, regardless of quality. I go higher quality like Bosch, and I extend their wipeyness by cleaning them off with an alcohol or 409 soaked paper towel from time to time. After a few cleanings, it is time for replacement, typically about two years or so.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (dK+Kv)

235 {{{Ben Had}}}

I chose to explain the Horde to my last remaining liberal friend. We've been friends for 21 years, and she still ignores my responses to her insanity. But not a Karen, so we can have differing views. She wanted to know. The good news is she is 92, nd will forget it tomorrow.

It brought home to me how special and wonderful this entire community is, and especially you for organizing legal fun. I burbled with happiness the entire time I was there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

236 Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US because it is, well, 100% sold out.

The Irrational Analysis substack (written by an anonymous Silicon Valley chip designer to explain what's really going on to a more general audience) says this is because one thing Intel unquestionably is good at is advanced packaging, and that's the impetus behind both the Apple deal and this move by TSMC.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (ciXcx)

237 Yep, been there. A pack of dogs is a different scenario altogether. It’s like being in an episode of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom on the Serengheti waiting for Marlin to give to play by play.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:58 AM (Npcdm)

238 223 I'm officially getting older. Had to change my subdued watt bulb for a 75 watt one in my desk lamp and the lamp has been moved closer to my work area. I have a new monitor arriving, larger and sharper imaging. Having my eyes checked on Tuesday and just know I'll need new glasses. Getting old ain't for the faint of heart, however it beats the alternative.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 06, 2025 07:49 AM (2NHgQ)

"Youth is wasted on the young."
I didn't understand that one until I became not-young.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:59 AM (RuTUS)

239 How stupid, found out my non media playing was because I put Do not disturb on after a message came through in middle of night a couple days ago

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:00 AM (Ia/+0)

240 A friend of mine is selling her mini-farm in SC. It's not far from Hilton Head. 4 acres and 2300 sq ft house, $400K. If I wanted to be down there I would consider it.

--

Wow, that sounds like she has it listed for an excellent price. I doubt it will last long.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2025 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

241 Right, better rubber is more expensive, but it is always susceptible to oil damage, sunlight, and ozone. It tends to harden, not what we want in wipers. Or tires.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:01 AM (Npcdm)

242 Nood

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 08:02 AM (dK+Kv)

243 Morning peeps

Windshield wipers on my vehicles are 4 different sizes. Longer on the driver's side, shorter on the passenger side. Quite noticeable on the Explorer.

Weird.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 06, 2025 08:02 AM (NwnyJ)

244 Ben Had. No joy in contacting OMB. I have asked fr help from the staff of my local Congressman.

They answered on the first ring, had clear American voices, and seemed very willing to help. I'll see what they can do.

We have put up with so much poor customer service that it was stunning to get good, American service. Not outsourced to a foreign country.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 06, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

245 We cried, but we did it because we had to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)

That would be a tough one. Of all our Bullmastiffs, we never had one that showed even an ounce of aggression toward humans.

Other dogs? Yes. We had to retire two from the show dog circuit because of dog aggression.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 06, 2025 08:03 AM (Y1sOo)

246 If you’re out for a walk anywhere, even mowing your lawn, a small can of dog spray, pepper spray is nice to have. Works on 2 legged critters too, so there’s that. Dogs do not respect property lines and can roam far and wide with astonishing speed

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 08:04 AM (Npcdm)

247 239 How stupid, found out my non media playing was because I put Do not disturb on after a message came through in middle of night a couple days ago
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 08:00 AM (Ia/+0)

Oh, yay, Skip!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 08:05 AM (RuTUS)

248 I know this broad who went to the hospital to have some tests done. On her old Ford Explorer she had a set of new wiper blades. When she came out of the hospital and drove off, she noticed she now had rusty, dirt covered wiper blades. Somebody did the old switcheroo on her.

Posted by: Joe Ghetto at December 06, 2025 08:18 AM (R/m4+)

249 Who’s foolish enough to do a re-hire after jail time?
Someone with a name like that needs extreme vetting followed by circular file for the job application.

Fill the cell with concrete?
Sure
After stuffing their mouths full of bacon and scrapple and taping them shut

Posted by: Coelacanth at December 06, 2025 08:35 AM (Mz0Jz)

250
Trico standard blades have always seemed to me like best performance / value for money; ymmv

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 08:50 AM (Cjt/F)

251 Finally!!! Some news I can use. I've been in the market for a new mini to replace my 5 year old beelink. This minis forum AI X1 is sold out, so, I requested a notice when it becomes available again.

Posted by: Guillermo at December 06, 2025 09:29 AM (558mO)

252 where'd everyone go?

Posted by: heywood the third at December 06, 2025 10:33 AM (YHzoo)

253 I saw that the minisforum webpage said it can drive FOUR monitors? But I didn't see any HDMI ports, let alone four. Does it take a dock or some other giz-wiz to do that, maybe driven by a single usb4 port?

Posted by: sf at December 06, 2025 08:51 PM (hohh4)

For Unlawful Carnal ONT

Howdy all! Boy, the left is really in a tizzy about ICE, aren't they?

Fido Friday: Whack A Carrot

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Canadians through Japanese eyes

Today's comic: Dad

Have a beer

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A lesson learned

The Frosty Saga

Lighter

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What's in a name?

I'm the first type and my son is the second

Busted! For being rad AF

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Pick your helmet

Ripped from this week's headlines

Ad from Hungary's tourism board

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On proposals. Punctuation matters

What an idea!

It's a what?

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This...is CNN

Uh oh

Merry Christmas!

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NSFW Christmas sweater

Click only if you are OK with seeing mild, non-sexual nudity

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by being drunk:

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Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 Words in search of a poem, part 1

diverticular, extracurricular,
perpendicular, extravehicular,
interfollicular, monarticular,
acromioclavicular, testicular

Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent at December 05, 2025 10:00 PM (pv4q5)

2 Good evening morons y gracias wd por el ont

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:01 PM (vL0rw)

3 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 05, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

4 I'm here!

Posted by: Half Dozen at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (EYvpB)

5 I dated a chick named Pakistani International Airline in high school for a while. I called her Paki.

True story.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (JkO4W)

6 Happy Friday WD! Back to the meme-a-thon....

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (t/66j)

7 Back to content

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (w3u3d)

8 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

9 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at December 05, 2025 10:04 PM (JkO4W)

10
The lesson tonight is: Daughters are horrible. Have boys.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:04 PM (1lXzG)

11 Frosty trauma tracks with the Christmas trauma in Gremlins.
Another reason to prefer the sequel [which brought in Abraham Lincoln trauma]

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:04 PM (gKWVE)

12 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 10:05 PM (YoT4f)

13
President won "a" "peace" "prize?"

That's nice.

He should just award himself a DEEZ Prize.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:06 PM (1lXzG)

14 I must be a third haircut type. The kind who shaves his head in the summer, goes to the barber to knock off the sides a couple times in the late fall, then lets it grow in the winter because it's cold and screw you.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

15 Dad comic isn't that funny.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:07 PM (dyewR)

16 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

what about the rest of us? especially those from Canada ?

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 10:07 PM (g47mK)

17 Happy Friday night!

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 10:09 PM (Cjcf6)

18 The lesson tonight is: Daughters are horrible. Have boys.
Posted by: Soothsayer

It was my privilege to have five sons before I was blessed with a 14 year old daughter by marriage.

Even though I had, by that time, numerous aunts, sisters, and female cousins, I quickly learned I knew absolutely nothing about daughters.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)

19 Pakistan International Airlines, please report to the customer service desk. Your passengers are waiting.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 05, 2025 10:10 PM (31p00)

20 Canada-ah-ah-ah-ah...

Posted by: Van Halen at December 05, 2025 10:10 PM (Q+gd/)

21 I must be a third haircut type. The kind who shaves his head in the summer, goes to the barber to knock off the sides a couple times in the late fall, then lets it grow in the winter because it's cold and screw you.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

Then there's a 4th kind, me. A protester. No haircut until somebody goes to jail for the VOVID-1984 bullshit. Needless to say, my hair's the longest it's ever been. On the plus side, living in Queens behind enemy lines, like Mona Lisa Vito said, 'I blend'.

Posted by: RickZ at December 05, 2025 10:10 PM (gKDq2)

22
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by being drunk:

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf)

Those poor poor bleachers. Won't anybody care for the bleachers?

Was this a fast 1/4 mile dirt track? Looked like a lot of where I grew up. May have dated her granny back in the 70s.
*rednecks are awesome

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:11 PM (QVmho)

23 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️🎄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 05, 2025 10:11 PM (SRRAx)

24 Any station this net. Any station this net.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 05, 2025 10:12 PM (jt/rW)

25 Bleacher Chick is a Roadhouse 2

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:12 PM (dyewR)

26 It would be tough to resist giving that deer a boop on its nose.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 05, 2025 10:12 PM (syz1S)

27 Looks at the NSFW Christmas sweater.

Thinks of a Nancy Pelosi joke.

Types.

Deletes.

It wasn't that funny.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 10:13 PM (TR4+2)

28 Weird Dave, thank you for Whack a Carrot. After spending time lugging my Christmas stuff up from the basement, I needed the laugh.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 05, 2025 10:13 PM (0Htd1)

29 My mom's name was Patience

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 10:14 PM (rbvCR)

30 like Philadelphia

I did not see that one coming. Mind blown.
One difference, sleight of hand if you will, is that the Ottomans did not end slavery. There was a ban on the trade in 1857 but by then, Constantinople/ Istanbul was too weak to enforce any real ban on slavery outside Thrace and west Anatolia. The Kurds were still on it, the Balkans were the Balkans, and Arabia and Africa were like LOL glwt.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 10:14 PM (gKWVE)

31
My mom's name was Patience
Posted by: Kindltot

Was it Patience or Prudence in Support Your Local Gun Fighter?

*looks at imdb*

Suzanne Pleshette as Patience. I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:17 PM (QVmho)

32 Pick your helmet

#7. Definitely #7.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

33 Thanks for the ONT.

Always been the 2nd type of Man as regards haircuts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

34 Not only read everything, but also watched the videos!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 10:20 PM (xqL5c)

35 Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (dyewR)

36 That last video is a prime example of "public intoxication."

Posted by: pookysgirl has yet to be arrested at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (Wt5PA)

37

Forget all about that macho shit
And learn how to play Qatar

Posted by: Tucker Melloncamp at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (pkeXY)

38
The girl on The Ghost & Mrs Muir is named Prudence.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (1lXzG)

39 Ad from Hungary's tourism board

Its got to be fake but it's true. Middle finger to EU.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:22 PM (y171U)

40 Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

I was in Istanbul a few weeks ago. I went to the Blue Mosque, which is adjacent to Hagia Sophia. I've always wanted to see the latter, but it's restricted now for non-Muslims. Some friends got inside and took pictures.

The Blue Mosque is much superior.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 10:22 PM (Riz8t)

41 Apparently they're still pumping the walking corpse named Joe Biden full of chemicals and having him deliver what is allegedly "speeches". He gave one today at a LGBTQRSEUGBPISQ assembly.

What's funny is that Joe Biden when he was in his alleged "prime" was such a mean and vicious person that had THAT version of Joe Biden been present tonight he would have denounced them all as a bunch of perverts.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (Cjcf6)

42 #7 for $500

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (SZI4T)

43 The girl on The Ghost & Mrs Muir is named Prudence.

--------

Blitzen had a girlfriend named Prudence.

Deer Prudence.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (dyewR)

44 From a drunk raccoon to... whatever that was.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 05, 2025 10:24 PM (MZ+PY)

45 Bleacher Chick is a Roadhouse 2
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I donno. Get some wave action going and your off to paradise!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 10:24 PM (L/fGl)

46 Evening, people-oids,

Did anybody ever answer Ace's question on the Cafe of "What is this thing?" Seems to me I'd seen a pic of one like it at some time, and read the name, but now I can't recall it. It looks like a relative of the llama and alpaca. Guanaco?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

47 Was it wrong to laugh at the fat lady falling down?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:25 PM (IC093)

48
The girl actress on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is name Charisma (Carpenter).

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:26 PM (1lXzG)

49 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2025 10:26 PM (lUFok)

50

The girl on The Ghost & Mrs Muir is named Prudence.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Did poobertty hit her hard?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (QVmho)

51
the kids today say "rizz"

it's short for charisma

but they really don't know what "charisma" means

So "rizz" to them is, like, cool.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (1lXzG)

52 38 The girl on The Ghost & Mrs Muir is named Prudence.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:21 PM (1lXzG)

Grew up with the kids TV show and didn't know it was originally a movie made in the late 1940s.

Now it is my top 5 movie favorite. Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney wow, what a beautiful couple. And what a moving story.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (y171U)

53 Trotting those beer steins upstairs would get old fast.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (L/fGl)

54 Follow-up from this morning's Rant thread:

356 Last year's concert from the Tabernacle Choir just got broadcast on PBS a week ago and it was quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obZDWSUxwVo
Posted by: pkudude99 at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (ODCB/)

I got sick and missed the final rehearsals for that concert, so I wasn't able to participate. Instead, I got to attend the concert with my little granddaughter. Great memories.

The 2025 Christmas Concert will be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this coming week. Our regular broadcast on that Sunday morning will be a much shorter recap of parts of the concert. You can watch that one live at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dqzv8khQmQ

Official video of this concert will be released around December 1 next year.

Posted by: Half Dozen at December 05, 2025 10:28 PM (EYvpB)

55 NSFW Christmas sweater really needs a second reindeer. Like a friend.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:28 PM (dyewR)

56 Ad from Hungary's tourism board

🎵🛳️🎵 it's a dream of how we used to be.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:29 PM (SZI4T)

57 Deer Prudence.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:23 PM (dyewR)

We saw what you did there.

Posted by: The Beatles at December 05, 2025 10:29 PM (QZzSm)

58 53 Trotting those beer steins upstairs would get old fast.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 10:27 PM (L/fGl)

----------

They used to have a dumbwaiter but he went on disability.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (dyewR)

59
Was it wrong to laugh at the fat lady falling down?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Only of you didn't channel Eddie Murphy's Aunt Bunny routine.

I'm not going to hell, because I was all...
Hep me lord, bommboomboom, oh lord, help me, boomboomboom.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (QVmho)

60 My helmet...9...everyday...except Christmas 🍺😊

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (3pxDZ)

61 And the passings just keep on coming, co-worker that I worked with for over 15 years passed yesterday, I used to get to the office before everyone, when Bob started he got to the office earlier than I did, we had a good competition of who could get there the earliest, ultimately, he won out.

RIP Bob, you will definitely be missed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)

62 The St. Pauli girl, for want of a better term, has worked a few Oktoberfests.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (xqL5c)

63 Lots of great stuff tonight. Thanks Weird Dave.

There is a small area made up of very south Jersey, a piece of Delaware, and a bit of Maryland that pronounces merry, Mary, and marry individually. And, yes, I do come from that small area and after nearly 60 years in Nebraska I still pronounce each word differently. And one of these days I am going to smack the XO for asking for a "pin" when he actually wants a "pen".

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (DK5Sh)

64 I have to figure out how to give Mrs. F. the slip tomorrow and get over to McD's for a McRib.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (IC093)

65
I have to figure out how to give Mrs. F. the slip tomorrow and get over to McD's for a McRib.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

Her car has a funneh sound and you need to test drive it. Duh.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:32 PM (QVmho)

66 The girl actress on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is name Charisma (Carpenter).

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025

***
Cordelia. Also a regular on Angel for part of the series' run.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:33 PM (wzUl9)

67 Women discover traditional marriage.
hahahahah
that's tough.

Women, come on down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:34 PM (SZI4T)

68 I have to figure out how to give Mrs. F. the slip tomorrow and get over to McD's for a McRib.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I got hungry mid-week, and decided the McD's was the closest place.
Ordered McRib. Determined McRib was not a mobile sandwich. Had forgotten that somewhere along the way.

Posted by: MkY at December 05, 2025 10:36 PM (q6tQZ)

69 The girl on The Ghost & Mrs Muir is named Prudence.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025
*
Grew up with the kids TV show and didn't know it was originally a movie made in the late 1940s.

Now it is my top 5 movie favorite. Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney wow, what a beautiful couple. And what a moving story.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025

***
There was a kids' TV show? I know there was a prime-time series with Edward Mulhare as the Captain and Hope Lange as the woman who buys his house, but it only lasted a year. I don't know if it was more comedy or drama with humor like the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)

70 This...is CNN

Hey, man, look at his teeth. Just look.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (SZI4T)

71 RIP Bob, you will definitely be missed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)
=====

May his memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (IC093)

72 The Prudence in Dear Prudence was Prudence Farrow, Mia Farrow’s sister, who spent some time in the UK hanging out with the Beatles.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 10:38 PM (c7Ygk)

73 Ad from Hungary's tourism board

It's got to be fake but it's true. Middle finger to EU

From all I could find out, it's real.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 05, 2025 10:39 PM (df/te)

74 Always been the 2nd type of Man as regards haircuts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025

***
I suggest there is a third type: the man who gets his hair cut on a schedule whether the hair needs it or not. (Yes, that's me. This summer I tried extending the three-week interval to four, and it was too much for me. I'm back to three.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)

75 I got hungry mid-week, and decided the McD's was the closest place.
Ordered McRib. Determined McRib was not a mobile sandwich. Had forgotten that somewhere along the way.
Posted by: MkY at December 05, 2025 10:36 PM (q6tQZ)
=====

I'll have to go the ghetto but it's worth the risk. They had one at the mall but it closed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:40 PM (IC093)

76 Robert Young Pelton, author of "World's Most Dangerous Places," said that the abbreviation for Pakistan International Airlines had several alternate meanings:
Pilot Is Asleep.
Passengers Invoking Allah.
Parachute Is Advisable.

Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:41 PM (GALGA)

77
Wait.
I think I messed up and named the wrong TV show.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:42 PM (1lXzG)

78 Well, good evening and good night...
Thanks WD!
"Sleep: nature’s way of saying ‘you’re done for today.’”
Good night pals👋💤💤💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 10:42 PM (3pxDZ)

79
What's the TV Show with "picadilly" in the theme song?

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:42 PM (1lXzG)

80 Only of you didn't channel Eddie Murphy's Aunt Bunny routine.

I'm not going to hell, because I was all...
Hep me lord, bommboomboom, oh lord, help me, boomboomboom.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:30 PM (QVmho)
====
I didn't but I will now LOL

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (IC093)

81
British lady, Janet Mills? She's shows up as a Nanny...

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (1lXzG)

82
Now I 'membah...

The Nanny & the Professor

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:44 PM (1lXzG)

83
That's the show with the "Prudence" girl, not Ghost & Mrs Muir.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:44 PM (1lXzG)

84 Robert Young Pelton, author of "World's Most Dangerous Places," said that the abbreviation for Pakistan International Airlines had several alternate meanings:
Pilot Is Asleep.
Passengers Invoking Allah.
Parachute Is Advisable.
Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025

***
Peeing In Air

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)

85 Never had a McRib.

McDonald’s is best for an Egg McMuffin on the way up to the ski slopes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:45 PM (mT+6a)

86 British lady, Janet Mills? She's shows up as a Nanny...
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (1lXzG)

----------

Juliet Mills.

Nanny and the Professor.

Which incidentally, would make a fine title for a sitcom about a muslim weapons instructor who lives with a goat,

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (dyewR)

87 The James Madison Dukes won the Sun Belt Conference by beating up Troy, 31-14. It was a good game till the 4th, and then JMU broke it open. the other two games tonight are not close. Boise St is beating UNLV 28-14. Tulane is stomping North Texas, 31-7.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (YoT4f)

88 I take Boy F. and myself for haircuts every three weeks and he is super super compulsive about staying on schedule.

I had to cut his hair myself until he was about 6 because there was no way he was going to still for a barber.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (IC093)

89 British lady, Janet Mills? She's shows up as a Nanny...
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025

***
Juliet Mills, daughter of John and sister of Hayley. I always thought she was much lovelier than her sister, who got all the attention back then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (wzUl9)

90 Dear Prudence

youtube.com/watch?v=wQA59IkCF5I

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (SZI4T)

91 CBD would be very disappointed with Japanese-imagined Canadians...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

92 Hiya, Nurse!

I like the Egg McMuffin, but the post-McMuffin breath is enough to knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.

Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:47 PM (GALGA)

93 Gordon has been doing very well

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:47 PM (RdmzP)

94 Cordelia. Also a regular on Angel for part of the series' run.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:33 PM (wzUl9)
---
Joss Whedon reportedly pressured her to sleep with him, as many of the actresses he employed did, but she refused, so he wrote her character in a deliberately humiliating way before killing her off.

Other cast members subsequently denounced him (including Michelle Gellar, who he had the sense never to try to score with), and he's been sidelined.

Never trust "male feminists."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)

95 To McRib or not to McRib this weekend... maybe I'll justify it by giving in to my occasional craving for McD's fries.

Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (GALGA)

96 Never had a McRib.

McDonald’s is best for an Egg McMuffin on the way up to the ski slopes.
Posted by: nur

there's a bunch to work with there but I am going to leave everything as is.

for now

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (RdmzP)

97 89 There was a kids' TV show? I know there was a prime-time series with Edward Mulhare as the Captain and Hope Lange as the woman who buys his house, but it only lasted a year. I don't know if it was more comedy or drama with humor like the film.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:37 PM (wzUl9)

Wolfus, I called it a kid's TV show because I was a kid when I watched it...no confusion intended.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (y171U)

98 Apparently there is an actor named Paul Dano.

Apparently Ben Stiller thinks his opinions should carry weight. Which is weird, because he made a living out of being a 100% full time wimp.

Alec Baldwin supports the alleged actor "Paul Dano" as well. Alec is in the habit of shooting people he works with that he doesn't like, so I guess this endorsement is genuine.

What would we do without the Film Actors Guild?

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)

99 >>>And one of these days I am going to smack the XO for asking for a "pin" when he actually wants a "pen".
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
----

Tough girl, good to see you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (SZI4T)

100 Chilly and damp here, with rain due to start anytime and last through tomorrow evening. Sunday looks better, Monday will be a little colder, and then a warmup with no rain until we have about 70 F. on Thursday. I can get caught up on my workouts this week. Maybe, a road trip up to the Tecovas store about eighty miles NW of me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (wzUl9)

101 McRib is worth trying if you like pork bbq because people who like it love it. But it is really in its own category.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (IC093)

102
Soft & sweet...

Phoebe Figalilly...

is a silly name...

and so many silly things keep happening

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (1lXzG)

103 To McRib or not to McRib this weekend... maybe I'll justify it by giving in to my occasional craving for McD's fries.

it is technically crypto cuisine, it is the bigfoot of foods, yeah it exists but it is probably not really food.

The good news is you cannot say it is artificial

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (RdmzP)

104 Greater grandma named, Faith.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (SZI4T)

105 @1 (apologies to the great Muldoon)

I joined a club, extracurricular
For those who love all things testicular,
We decked all the halls
With pictures of balls
And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (t/66j)

106 Wolfus, I called [Ghost and Mrs. Muir] a kid's TV show because I was a kid when I watched it...no confusion intended.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025

***
Ah. It might have been dumbed down for TV anyway, unlike the subtle humor and character interplay of the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (wzUl9)

107 Hocus Pocus by Focus?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (xcxpd)

108 Wolfus, I called it a kid's TV show because I was a kid when I watched it...no confusion intended.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:49 PM (y171U)

====

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (IC093)

109
It had Charles Nelson Reilly in it -- it was a kids & adult kids show.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (1lXzG)

110 bbq is way overrated, nothing more than some away to serve foods that are too tough to eat

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (RdmzP)

111 81 British lady, Janet Mills? She's shows up as a Nanny...
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:43 PM (1lXzG)

Phoebe Figalilly is a silly name.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:53 PM (y171U)

112 101 McRib is worth trying if you like pork bbq because people who like it love it. But it is really in its own category.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (IC093)

Real talk: If you think you might like a McRib, go buy a pulled pork sammish from a BBQ place. Only buy the McRib if you are unable to find a BBQ joint in your AOO

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:53 PM (xcxpd)

113 I suggest there is a third type: the man who gets his hair cut on a schedule whether the hair needs it or not. (Yes, that's me. This summer I tried extending the three-week interval to four, and it was too much for me. I'm back to three.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:40 PM (wzUl9)
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It's flat out wrong. I used to get my hair cut to remain in regulation. Now I do it whenever I damn well feel like it.

Being a civilian rocks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 10:53 PM (ZOv7s)

114 110 bbq is way overrated, nothing more than some away to serve foods that are too tough to eat
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (RdmzP)

Smoked meat is wonderful and proof that God wants us to be happy with Hickory smoke.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (xcxpd)

115 110 bbq is way overrated, nothing more than some away to serve foods that are too tough to eat

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (RdmzP)

Depends how one barbecues...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

116 bucees is probably the best way to get bbq

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (RdmzP)

117 Mark!

It’s blowing stink out here in the beach! You got wind?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (mT+6a)

118
Juliet Mills, daughter of John and sister of Hayley. I always thought she was much lovelier than her sister, who got all the attention back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I concur, ol' chum. Juliet was lovelier than Hayley.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (1lXzG)

119
Joss Whedon reportedly pressured her to sleep with him, as many of the actresses he employed did, but she refused, so he wrote her character in a deliberately humiliating way before killing her off.

Never trust "male feminists."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)

If I remember correctly, she was also pregnant during filming of Angel, and he told her to have an abortion so she could continue to be "sexy". She refused and that contributed to his disgusting treatment of her.

Posted by: moki at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (wLjpr)

120 If anyone here really thinks a McRib tastes like Bar-b-que please travel to S.Carolina and get some.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (SZI4T)

121 109
It had Charles Nelson Reilly in it -- it was a kids & adult kids show.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:52 PM (1lXzG)

Match Game?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (xcxpd)

122 n!

You cantankerous bastard. How are you?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (mT+6a)

123 I'm a holiday haircutter. Went right before July 4, and right before Thanksgiving. Wolfus is obsessed.

Posted by: Helmet #9 at December 05, 2025 10:55 PM (oftw2)

124 I imagine Sauron wished he had a big beautiful border wall.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (jc0TO)

125
Smoked meat is wonderful and proof that God wants us to be happy with Hickory smoke.
Posted by: Mar

it is great tasting, but unecessary with good meats and definitely not healthy to eat, tough its better than smokinh cigarettes and eating the butts

however if you smoked and bbqed the butts they would taste good

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (RdmzP)

126
Juliet Mills
Status: Not Mort
turned 81 two weeks ago

Hayley Mills, sister
Status: Not Mort
79.5 yrs of age

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (1lXzG)

127 102
Soft & sweet...

Phoebe Figalilly...

is a silly name...

and so many silly things keep happening
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:50 PM (1lXzG)

The Addrisi Brothers...love that theme song.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (y171U)

128 Mark!

It’s blowing stink out here in the beach! You got wind?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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You know there's a fart joke in there.

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (rdVOm)

129 117 Mark!

It’s blowing stink out here in the beach! You got wind?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:54 PM (mT+6a)

It's very mild and pleasant in Monroe, though very misty and moist. Moist.

I'm bringing a .22 for you try out vs George tomorrow.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (xcxpd)

130 n!

You cantankerous bastard. How are you?
Posted by: nur

Everything's very good. How have you been, good holiday?

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:57 PM (RdmzP)

131 125
Smoked meat is wonderful and proof that God wants us to be happy with Hickory smoke.
Posted by: Mar

it is great tasting, but unecessary with good meats and definitely not healthy to eat, tough its better than smokinh cigarettes and eating the butts

however if you smoked and bbqed the butts they would taste good

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (RdmzP)

I like big butts and I cannot lie!

Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 10:57 PM (ynpvh)

132 I smoked a prime rib one year for Christmas.

It was sublime.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 10:57 PM (mT+6a)

133 it is great tasting, but unecessary with good meats and definitely not healthy to eat, tough its better than smokinh cigarettes and eating the butts

however if you smoked and bbqed the butts they would taste good
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 10:56 PM (RdmzP)

Well...fair, you don't want to use the best cuts of beef (or pork) with smoked BBQ.

But I dearly love smoke and sauce on meat.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (xcxpd)

134 It had Charles Nelson Reilly in it -- it was a kids & adult kids show.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025

***
Looking it up, I see it was on for two seasons, not just one. Kenneth Mars, our old friend from The Producers ("Der Fuhrer vas an egg-zellent painter!") and Young Frankenstein, was in two episodes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)

135 105 @1 (apologies to the great Muldoon)

I joined a club, extracurricular
For those who love all things testicular,
We decked all the halls
With pictures of balls
And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (t/66j)

I'd say that's a Muldoon 7.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (0CU3H)

136 Charles Nelson Reilly was a guest on The Tonight Show more than 100 times.

Posted by: Freakwent Flyer at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (oftw2)

137 I was planning to go to a Bucc-ees for the first time this fall but dog running into a tree killed my vacation.

Some day. Some day....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (xcxpd)

138 I don't even think of the McRib as "BBQ." Eating one as an adult is like eating a bowl of Kaboom because you're trying to recapture something of your lost childhood. Your sad, sad childhood.

Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (GALGA)

139 Helmet 8 has taken a few blows. It's got to hurt a bit taking a hit hard enough to dent a rudimentary helmet like that.

Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (WRA0V)

140 I need a fix cause I'm goin' down
down to the

youtu.be/vdvnOH060Qg

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (SZI4T)

141 Greater grandma named, Faith.

That was the foster kid's name.

She hated it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (lUFok)

142 Everything's very good. How have you been, good holiday?
Posted by: n

All good. Busy. Too many damn people for Thanksgiving.

It’s really windy tonight. I suspect the power will go out at some point.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (mT+6a)

143 I'm a holiday haircutter. Went right before July 4, and right before Thanksgiving. Wolfus is obsessed.
Posted by: Helmet #9 at December 05, 2025

***
When your mental image of yourself is "young Robert Vaughn" and your mirror says "Charles Manson follower wannabe," it's time for a haircut.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

144 89 British lady, Janet Mills? She's shows up as a Nanny...
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025

***
Juliet Mills, daughter of John and sister of Hayley. I always thought she was much lovelier than her sister, who got all the attention back then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (wzUl9)

I remember seeing Juliet in that movie with Jack Lemmon, Avanti! If I remember, there may have been a little Northern Exposure from Juliet in that movie.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (0CU3H)

145 I was planning to go to a Bucc-ees for the first time this fall but dog running into a tree killed my vacation.

Some day. Some day....
Posted by: Mar

If ever youre in a must have need for bucees holler and I will send you a care pkg, it travels nicely

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (RdmzP)

146 "It's very mild and pleasant in Monroe"
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Was it the Monroe golf course that used to have a periscope?

Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (hBtiT)

147 Classical Gas?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (xcxpd)

148 bbq is way overrated, nothing more than some away to serve foods that are too tough to eat
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No. I'm sorry, you're mistaken.

The best barbecue on earth is served at the original Arthur Bryant's in Kansas City. You will want to be there for the lunch or early afternoon menu. Its not (or wasn't 5 years ago) in a part of town you'd want to be in after dark.

But...my goodness...the sliced brisket and smoked sausage are out of this world! The smoked sausage is sliced length-wise, rather than into tiny circles. And the fries are perfect. But the barbecue sauce....there aren't words to explain how good it is.

If you don't appreciate barbecue done right, you might as well just go vegan and give up sex too.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (Cjcf6)

149
Just completed assembling a cheap chinese stainless steel cart. A "food prep" cart, some call it. A work table, other might say.

It's on wheels. I like wheels.

For $85, it's not too bad. Supported me when I jumped on it, and the stainless steel top looks nice. I like stainless steel.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (1lXzG)

150 105 @1 (apologies to the great Muldoon)

I joined a club, extracurricular
For those who love all things testicular,
We decked all the halls
With pictures of balls
And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 10:51 PM (t/66j)

I'd say that's a Muldoon 7.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 10:58 PM (0CU3H)

On second thought, a Muldoon 8.5. The Truck Nutz is worth 1.5 all by itself.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (0CU3H)

151 146 "It's very mild and pleasant in Monroe"
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Was it the Monroe golf course that used to have a periscope?
Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (hBtiT)

*checking map*

This is not the golf portion of WA state....

Echo Falls is the nearest golf course. So far as I know, they don't have flooding problems. My FFL is right near the course, so I go by it a lot.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:03 PM (xcxpd)

152 136 Charles Nelson Reilly was a guest on The Tonight Show more than 100 times.
Posted by: Freakwent Flyer at December 05, 2025 10:59 PM (oftw2)

He was available to cover when someone cancelled. Carlin did some that, too.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (pIfcn)

153 bbq is way overrated, nothing more than some away to serve foods that are too tough to eat
----

No. I'm sorry, you're mistaken.

The best barbecue on earth is served at the original Arthur Bryant's in Kansas City. You will want to be there for the lunch or early afternoon menu. Its not (or wasn't 5 years ago) in a part of town you'd want to be in after dark.

But...my goodness...the sliced brisket and smoked sausage are out of this world! The smoked sausage is sliced length-wise, rather than into tiny circles. And the fries are perfect. But the barbecue sauce....there aren't words to explain how good it is.

If you don't appreciate barbecue done right, you might as well just go vegan and give up sex too.
Posted by: Crusader

it is not much more than flavoring, nobody goes to a great steak house and slather's sauce over some great steak, bbq tastes good but its not necessary unless you are trying to convert boots to food

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (RdmzP)

154 @135
Why thank you, Mr. Harris - you're too kind

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (t/66j)

155 When your mental image of yourself is "young Robert Vaughn" and your mirror says "Charles Manson follower wannabe," it's time for a haircut.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I prefer the Cave Man look. People give you a wide berth in public. Also learn some facial tics.

Posted by: The Missing Link at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (oftw2)

156 If ever youre in a must have need for bucees holler and I will send you a care pkg, it travels nicely
Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:01 PM (RdmzP)

You are very kind. May take you up on that man.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)

157 You are very kind. May take you up on that man.
Posted by: Mar

if i did not mean it I would not say it

there's a bucees not too far from where we are

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:05 PM (RdmzP)

158 OMG, the giant hell-hound is lounging on the floor next to me and he has the worst S-B-D gas. I'm hoping this is temporary and not something that will be a more frequent occurrence. I know some dogs have digestive issues as they age, and he's a little over 9 years old.

Posted by: PabloD at December 05, 2025 11:06 PM (GALGA)

159 141 Greater grandma named, Faith.

That was the foster kid's name.

She hated it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2025 11:00 PM (lUFok)

Knew an atheist who's given name was Christian...

Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)

160 Of course I have a local BBQ joint. I'm surrounded by hog confinements.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Iowan at December 05, 2025 11:09 PM (Wt5PA)

161 149
Just completed assembling a cheap chinese stainless steel cart. A "food prep" cart, some call it. A work table, other might say.

It's on wheels. I like wheels.

For $85, it's not too bad. Supported me when I jumped on it, and the stainless steel top looks nice. I like stainless steel.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 11:02 PM (1lXzG)

Chinese stainless...will rust pretty easily...

Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

162 And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Scrota Vehicular were produced behind the Iron Curtain 1947-90. Two-stroke diesel that would run on paint thinner. Smoked like all get out.

Posted by: Leutonians at December 05, 2025 11:10 PM (oftw2)

163 I got a haircut back in 2020. Maybe it was 2019.

Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)

164 it is not much more than flavoring, nobody goes to a great steak house and slather's sauce over some great steak, bbq tastes good but its not necessary unless you are trying to convert boots to food

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:04 PM (RdmzP)

Ah, there's your problem...you not supposed to BBQ boots...

Posted by: Sir Mixalot at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

165 Echo Falls was a pretty course. I played it a few times in the 90's. I was in a golf league, and there was a course we played that had a periscope. I wonder which one it was. I suck at golf, but it was a fun league.

Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (1OIAD)

166 off sock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

167 I'm divorcing Mrs.D.and marrying bier girl!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:12 PM (2WIwB)

168 163 I got a haircut back in 2020. Maybe it was 2019.

Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)

it's not a terrible look unless you're going bald...then it starts looking like a Chinese queue...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

169 I'm divorcing Mrs.D.and marrying bier girl!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:12 PM

Announcer: Beer not included. Tax and fees may apply.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (jc0TO)

170 Announcer: Beer not included. Tax and fees may apply.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (jc0TO)
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Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (1OIAD)

171 I got a haircut back in 2020. Maybe it was 2019.

Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)
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I last saw a barber in 2000.

I got a clipper and use it when required. Which is now entirely up to me.

Haven't shaved since December, 2022, though I do trim things from time to time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (ZOv7s)

172 it's not a terrible look unless you're going bald...then it starts looking like a Chinese queue...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM

I've grown a bit of forehead over the years but no balding.

Low-T FTW!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (jc0TO)

173 31. *looks at imdb*

Suzanne Pleshette as Patience. I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 10:17 PM (QVmho)

And I remember Dub Taylor as Doc Schultz telling her 'have some patience, Patience'.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (QGaXH)

174 We need that beer chick at the Mome.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (snZF9)

175 171 I got a haircut back in 2020. Maybe it was 2019.

Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)
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I last saw a barber in 2000.

I got a clipper and use it when required. Which is now entirely up to me.

Haven't shaved since December, 2022, though I do trim things from time to time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (ZOv7s)

I remember when my Dad got a Flowbee...he stopped using it after the first time when he realized he had suddenly become even MORE bald afterwards...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh)

176 it's not a terrible look unless you're going bald...then it starts looking like a Chinese queue...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
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I disdained haircuts upon leaving the military, but one day last September, realized I was developing a natural tonsure and buzzed all of it.

Back in the 70s I resolved I would never be one of those guys who was going bald, and grew out the rest.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (ZOv7s)

177 172 it's not a terrible look unless you're going bald...then it starts looking like a Chinese queue...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM

I've grown a bit of forehead over the years but no balding.

Low-T FTW!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:15 PM (jc0TO)

My hair started to thin a little a few years back. After the wife passed, it quickly thinned...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

178 ...it is not much more than flavoring, nobody goes to a great steak house and slather's sauce over some great steak...
----

This is where the *types* of barbecue battles begin.

Kansas City barbecue and Texas barbecue are "rub" dependent, and the sauce serves as an accent.

Memphis and Carolina barbecue are sauce-dependent. They both should just give it up, because the rub is the thing, and a great sauce (not that garbage Carolina sauce) just takes it over the top.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (Cjcf6)

179 My poor son takes after my wife's side of the family. He's about ten years away from a Friar Tuck.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (jc0TO)

180 it's not a terrible look unless you're going bald...then it starts looking like a Chinese queue...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
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"Try to take the grant money from my hand, grasshopper."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ZOv7s)

181 176 it's not a terrible look unless you're going bald...then it starts looking like a Chinese queue...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
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I disdained haircuts upon leaving the military, but one day last September, realized I was developing a natural tonsure and buzzed all of it.

Back in the 70s I resolved I would never be one of those guys who was going bald, and grew out the rest.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (ZOv7s)

I've basically decided the same thing. Once a certain threshold is reached, I'm going Yul Brenner.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)

182 Which is sad because he had a magnificent Rock God mane in HS.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (jc0TO)

183 169 I'm divorcing Mrs.D.and marrying bier girl!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:12 PM

Announcer: Beer not included. Tax and fees may apply.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:13 PM (jc0TO)
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Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (1OIAD)

***

Well...Hell.

*switches to scotch*

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (2WIwB)

184
Haven't shaved since December, 2022, though I do trim things from time to time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025

***
I sport a "Commander Riker"-style beard (though I grew mine some months before he appeared on the show with his). It just grows that way. I keep it neat with clippers. The facial real estate that doesn't have dark beard gets shaved every day or two with a double-edged safety razor employed with brush and cream/soap.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (wzUl9)

185 Ah, the sweet smell of barbeque debates. I guess it beats re-fighting the ACW.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (QZzSm)

186 RethugliKKKans on supreme court vote on birthright citizenship. When we get in we will strip rethugs on the supreme court of their citizenship then rethugliKKKan members of congress and deport them to one of those pacific islands that are only a few inches above sea level! We will then use their redistricting to put all rethugliKKKans into just a few districts

Posted by: raimondo at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (aRMT2)

187 Welp. Power is out.

Good thing it’s not cold.

Have fun, morons.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 11:20 PM (XWuHt)

188 Piss off, racist foreign weirdo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:20 PM (jc0TO)

189 *Contents may have settled during shipment*
Posted by: 496 at December 05, 2025 11:14 PM (1OIAD)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7)

190 185 Ah, the sweet smell of barbeque debates. I guess it beats re-fighting the ACW.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 11:19 PM (QZzSm)

Not until longbows, crossbows, .45 and 9mm have their say...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)

191 Sold by weight not volume.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:21 PM (jc0TO)

192 The thing is, this place is the best interaction that raimondo gets anywhere. It's why he keeps coming back.

Kind of sad, actually.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM (dyewR)

193 bbq has an irish flair to it, I think, goes back to some faminie or other, when sean was saying to his wife shawn, "hey we have this bunch of hooves and tails, maybe if we hang them in a pan over the fire for a week we'll have something to eat, otherwise we have to eat those potatoes"

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (tld9k)

194 192 The thing is, this place is the best interaction that raimondo gets anywhere. It's why he keeps coming back.

Kind of sad, actually.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM (dyewR)

He's also of a mind that we should be dehumanized and put into concentration camps, apparently. Fits with the Leftist ideologies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

195 I pity the poor person who thinks bar-b-que is only meat with flavorings.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (SZI4T)

196 The thing is, this place is the best interaction that raimondo gets anywhere. It's why he keeps coming back.

Kind of sad, actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM

It's not really him though, is it. I think he's the Mary Cloggistein of AliasSmiths.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)

197 I've basically decided the same thing. Once a certain threshold is reached, I'm going Yul Brenner.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
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I've razored it a few times over the years, always in the summer.

About 15 year ago, I was on orders to provide photo support for a military-sponsored youth came and I shaved my head - and so did the other two photographers.

We all showed up, looked at each other and laughed, and everyone at the camp thought we had coordinated it.

Now I just trim it to stubble.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)

198 193 bbq has an irish flair to it, I think, goes back to some faminie or other, when sean was saying to his wife shawn, "hey we have this bunch of hooves and tails, maybe if we hang them in a pan over the fire for a week we'll have something to eat, otherwise we have to eat those potatoes"

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (tld9k)

That's soup, dude, not BBQ.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (ynpvh)

199 I got a haircut back in 2020. Maybe it was 2019.

Since then I just cut a couple of inches off the ponytail when I think it needs it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:11 PM (jc0TO)

Last time I got anything resembling a haircut was in highschool for the year book pictures. Mom said if I didn't do it years later I would look at the picture and regret it. I look at the picture today and I still regret it. You were wrong mom. Since then its been very slight trims of no more than 1/4 " to remove any dead ends and to keep any layers. Basically, no hair cut since Reagan was president.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9)

200 I've basically decided the same thing. Once a certain threshold is reached, I'm going Yul Brenner.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)

Went the Yul Brenner route years ago. The top was gone, the upper sides brown, and the lower sides white. I looked like I was wearing a friggin' horseshoe on my head. So now its as smooth as a baby's butt, and add a nice tan, it looks OK.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (2WIwB)

201 Miss Linda is dragging me tomorrow to the local German heritage society's Christmas fair, with some food and gifts and things. I wouldn't mind, except that it's in a part of the city that is hard to get to, not safe (though better than some), and annoying to drive the streets in.

She wants to go to "Christmas things." I tell her, not in the city proper. Every time I go there now it's unpleasant and scary. I'm always worried about our getting carjacked or shot, and if not that, I worry that I'm going to hit a bad pothole in the dark.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)

202 I was looking a head-on car crash tests from 1972 on Youtube. They teamed the large car of each manufacturer with their new compact/subcompact. Impala vs. Vega, Galaxie vs. Pinto, and Ambassador vs. Gremlin head-on at 45 MPH. All three little cars suffered pretty catastrophic damage, but the Gremlin fared the best of them. It was heavier than the other two, it being a Hornet with slice pout of the back corner and a hatchback.

Posted by: Auto Hijinks at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (oftw2)

203 A pulled pork BBQ sandwich is awesome and no way overrated.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (KDPiq)

204 You're smokin' some garbage, rainman.

*Slaps joint out of rainmandodo's mouth*

We don't allow that crap indoors, dumbass. Get out!

*Steps on joint*

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

205 I think he's the Mary Cloggistein of AliasSmiths.

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Cloggenstein is usually pretty clever. I don't get why some of the Horde hate her.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:26 PM (dyewR)

206 197 I've basically decided the same thing. Once a certain threshold is reached, I'm going Yul Brenner.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
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I've razored it a few times over the years, always in the summer.

About 15 year ago, I was on orders to provide photo support for a military-sponsored youth came and I shaved my head - and so did the other two photographers.

We all showed up, looked at each other and laughed, and everyone at the camp thought we had coordinated it.

Now I just trim it to stubble.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (ZOv7s)

I've gone clean a few times or more. Shaved it smoooth. The first time I did, a couple of days later, while drying my hair, the towel got stuck like velcro...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:26 PM (ynpvh)

207 194 192 The thing is, this place is the best interaction that raimondo gets anywhere. It's why he keeps coming back.

Kind of sad, actually.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Since starting here he now can write in complete sentences.
Astonishing improvement. He keeps visiting, critical judgement may creep into his mind.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (SZI4T)

208 I think Assman is a legitimate troll. Rainmando not so much.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (jc0TO)

209 we have backyard nabes from tenessee, they got a cement pond last week,

The had some smoked bbqed turkey for Thanksgiving, it was getting gassed for a day and a half,

the entire time we could smell it and it smelled good, however, I could not help thinking they were going to a bunch of work to infuse something with the same things we pay somebody to remove from our chimney.

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (tld9k)

210 It's not really him though, is it. I think he's the Mary Cloggistein of AliasSmiths.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)
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The whole "When we get power we will kill you all" schtick is self-limiting, because it begs the question: If you will harm us, why would you ever be allowed to gain power?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)

211 I don't understand smoking food for a million hours or giving it a tepid bath for a day. I don't have time for that shit.

Posted by: NCKate at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (uQzkA)

212 He's also of a mind that we should be dehumanized and put into concentration camps, apparently. Fits with the Leftist ideologies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

He better bring a lot of fucking guns, or else the left will be fertilizer in those camps.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (snZF9)

213 202 I was looking a head-on car crash tests from 1972 on Youtube. They teamed the large car of each manufacturer with their new compact/subcompact. Impala vs. Vega, Galaxie vs. Pinto, and Ambassador vs. Gremlin head-on at 45 MPH. All three little cars suffered pretty catastrophic damage, but the Gremlin fared the best of them. It was heavier than the other two, it being a Hornet with slice pout of the back corner and a hatchback.

Posted by: Auto Hijinks at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (oftw2)

Yeah, the physics is quite unkind. Even if the car isn't mangled, the deceleration of the passengers will be quite larger for the occupants of the smaller car than the larger car...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)

214 Sorry I'm late, the rabbit re-scheduled its vasectomy at the last minute. An hour later I had to schedule its wife a sonogram.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 05, 2025 11:28 PM (SnVNy)

215
Yes, chinese "stainless steel" is quite magnetic, or ferritic, because china sucks at everything they produce. They are an inferior people in every way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (1lXzG)

216 210 It's not really him though, is it. I think he's the Mary Cloggistein of AliasSmiths.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)
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The whole "When we get power we will kill you all" schtick is self-limiting, because it begs the question: If you will harm us, why would you ever be allowed to gain power?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)

Also assumes passive or non-resistance.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

217 You're smokin' some garbage, rainman.

*Slaps joint out of rainmandodo's mouth*

We don't allow that crap indoors, dumbass. Get out!

*Steps on joint*

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

Yeah, only the good stuff, no horse shit and splinters.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (snZF9)

218 'bout time I headed off to bed. I'll run some errands in the morning if it's not raining heavily, nap a bit, and then I'll drive Linda to her German-American fair. (I always say, "When, oh, when are they going to have a National Socialist Night?")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (wzUl9)

219 What really bugs me about eating out in general is all the peasant food we ate as kids or our parents ate has now gone mainstream and is hideously expensive: polenta, pasta, mush, cheap cuts of meat cooked slowly (brisket), cod, etc.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 11:30 PM (cYBz/)

220 I've gone clean a few times or more. Shaved it smoooth. The first time I did, a couple of days later, while drying my hair, the towel got stuck like velcro...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:26 PM (ynpvh)
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Pat it dry. You'll give yourself whiplash if you try to move the towel too fast.

Not gonna lie. When it is really, really hot, that is the secret sauce to staying cool. Feel the breeze on that scalp skin!

Because of my thinning hair, I'll probably clip it before spring, but not super-close. The beard will mitigate the heat loss.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:30 PM (ZOv7s)

221
I was looking a head-on car crash tests from 1972 on Youtube.
Posted by: Auto Hijinks

Heh. That video popped up on my Youtube today, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:31 PM (1lXzG)

222 @194 you have to be human to be dehumanized. @188 I am none of those projection?

Posted by: raimondo at December 05, 2025 11:31 PM (aRMT2)

223 Retardo mentioned the "natural-born citizen" decision. Has that come down? Woulda thought it would rate a thread, either way the decision went.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:32 PM (npFr7)

224 218 'bout time I headed off to bed. I'll run some errands in the morning if it's not raining heavily, nap a bit, and then I'll drive Linda to her German-American fair. (I always say, "When, oh, when are they going to have a National Socialist Night?")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Please greet the Bund for me!

Posted by: Franz Liebkind! at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (oftw2)

225 Yeah, only the good stuff, no horse shit and splinters.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Exactly!

(and no alfalfa. sheesh)

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

226 I don't understand smoking food for a million hours...
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Sincerely, just take a simple test drive by ignoring "barbecue" and instead putting some sort of meat into something as simple as a crock pot. If you leave it in there on low and wait 8 hours to retrieve it, it will *crumble* in tenderness to a simple fork. Smoking does the same thing, but you get to add a "rub" of whatever spices you might want to add.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (Cjcf6)

227 222 you have to be human to be dehumanized.

Wow, that EXACTLY what that little Austrian dictator guy said about the Jews too! Birds of a feather!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (ynpvh)

228 > BierSteinFräulein

keeper

Posted by: Timothy McVeigh at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (1Nv0l)

229 225 Yeah, only the good stuff, no horse shit and splinters.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Exactly!

(and no alfalfa. sheesh)

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

Idaho weed, i.e. hemp?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)

230 oops. Sock off.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (1Nv0l)

231 Yes, chinese "stainless steel" is quite magnetic, or ferritic, because china sucks at everything they produce. They are an inferior people in every way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (1lXzG)

Their metallurgy is crap. I see it in the garbage aftermarket harley engine parts that no harley wrench worth his salt would ever use. The shit is comical, they could fuck up tin foil. The real question is do they actually know how to do it and keep it for themselves, and then flood the world with the lesser garbage. I'm pretty sure they could be assholes like that. Especially with all the technology they steal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)

232 Who was the notorious anti-communist fighter who was asked what it felt like to kill a fellow man and replied "I don't know, I've only killed Communists"?

I've quoted him before. There was quite the "White Army in Being" between the world wars and afterwards. It doesn't get a lot of attention in the Western press because they're all pink or red, but it was a thing. A bunch of Finns came to Spain to stop the Reds, but it gets scant attention.

I mean, it's in my book...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ZOv7s)

233 231 Yes, chinese "stainless steel" is quite magnetic, or ferritic, because china sucks at everything they produce. They are an inferior people in every way.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:29 PM (1lXzG)

Their metallurgy is crap. I see it in the garbage aftermarket harley engine parts that no harley wrench worth his salt would ever use. The shit is comical, they could fuck up tin foil. The real question is do they actually know how to do it and keep it for themselves, and then flood the world with the lesser garbage. I'm pretty sure they could be assholes like that. Especially with all the technology they steal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)

The proof is in the pudding. We'll see when their warships get into a real war...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ynpvh)

234 Exactly!

(and no alfalfa. sheesh)

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

Idaho weed, i.e. hemp?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)

Shitty Jamaican brown frown.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (snZF9)

235 We view you as more as a projectile than a projection. Really mostly a projectard...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (t/66j)

236 Idaho weed, i.e. hemp?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Naw, hemp is "Kansas Killer" -- the headache maker!

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (rdVOm)

237 The proof is in the pudding. We'll see when their warships get into a real war...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ynpvh)

Didn't they actually have problems with the steel in their ships?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (snZF9)

238 >>>Yeah, the physics is quite unkind. Even if the car isn't mangled, the deceleration of the passengers will be quite larger for the occupants of the smaller car than the larger car...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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This teeny car is the safest. No. That teeny car is the safest in its class. Head on the safest teeny car into a Chevy 1/2 ton and see who walks away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (SZI4T)

239 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ZOv7s)

Intertubes say Rafał Gan-Ganowicz

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (ynpvh)

240 Their metallurgy is crap. I see it in the garbage aftermarket harley engine parts that no harley wrench worth his salt would ever use. The shit is comical, they could fuck up tin foil. The real question is do they actually know how to do it and keep it for themselves, and then flood the world with the lesser garbage. I'm pretty sure they could be assholes like that. Especially with all the technology they steal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (snZF9)

Didn't they have a newly-launched naval vessel sink right at the pier?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (npFr7)

241 Didn't they actually have problems with the steel in their ships?
Posted by: Bers

We have too, the cunt that was in charge of testing the hy steel we use for subs was passing the quality tests without doing the testing of the steel she was given

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (tld9k)

242 "Hey guys! We're going to go all in on breaking the law and of course you will still follow it, and then when we steal elections and regain power we will send you to camps! Ha! Ha! Ha! How will you like that?

Oh, also we'll make you turn in your guns just by asking, because we're retarded."

Posted by: Current Day leftists at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)

243 237 The proof is in the pudding. We'll see when their warships get into a real war...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:35 PM (ynpvh)

Didn't they actually have problems with the steel in their ships?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (snZF9)

If there is, it would be a Titanic mistake on their part.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (ynpvh)

244 same as with faling from a building, its not the falling it the sudden stopping

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (tld9k)

245 241 Didn't they actually have problems with the steel in their ships?
Posted by: Bers

We have too, the cunt that was in charge of testing the hy steel we use for subs was passing the quality tests without doing the testing of the steel she was given

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (tld9k)

There were also cases where the bolts, which were supposed to be made with a SPECIFIC strength of steel, were allowed to be used, only to find out later those bolts did not meet spec even though they were marked as meeting spec...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (ynpvh)

246 Before the world was safe I drove to work pre-dawn. - The drunks were still on the road. Head on between a Chevy 1/2 ton and a Corvette.

Cops were walking around with two bags, one to pick up pieces of the vette the other to pick up pieces of the driver.
Driver of the pickup was walking around dazed holding a cloth to his banged forehead.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (SZI4T)

247
The real question is do they actually know how to do it and keep it for themselves
Posted by: Berserker

I have a theory: the chinese have no idea what they're making and what it's used for, because they are uneducated peasants communist slaves who own nothing.

That's why all their electronics are junk. For instance, they make "jumper cables" out of 10 gauge aluminum wire because they don't know what jumper cables are for -- they just know how to copy stuff and make it as cheap as possible.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (1lXzG)

248 same as with faling from a building, its not the falling it the sudden stopping

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (tld9k)

Cause of death? High speed dirt.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (snZF9)

249 248 same as with faling from a building, its not the falling it the sudden stopping

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:39 PM (tld9k)

Cause of death? High speed dirt.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (snZF9)

excessive deceleration...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:43 PM (ynpvh)

250 Didn't they actually have problems with the steel in their ships?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:37 PM (snZF9)
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China has a bunch of problems. The first is that military service is traditionally regarded as socially undesirable. In the old Confucian system, soldiers weren't even ranked. Bandits in uniforms.

Communism tried to change that, but ChiComs could never make up their minds: are we elite professionals or peasants with guns? So they went back and forth.

Right now it's a racket. The PLA is also a business. The generals expect to get rich. Conformity is the rule, and that goes back thousands of years.

So you have a combination of zero warrior culture, historic and current pressures to cover up problems rather than solve them, and the endemic corruption of Communism.

And yes, I have a book...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:43 PM (ZOv7s)

251 High speed dirt.
Posted by: Bers

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:43 PM (tld9k)

252
The Elvis kid is hereby awarded a full scholarship.

Posted by: the University of Miklos at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (N7hqt)

253

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (tld9k)

254 242 "Hey guys! We're going to go all in on breaking the law and of course you will still follow it, and then when we steal elections and regain power we will send you to camps! Ha! Ha! Ha! How will you like that?

Oh, also we'll make you turn in your guns just by asking, because we're retarded."

Posted by: Current Day leftists at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)

Well, the first part sorta worked, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (ynpvh)

255 I have a theory: the chinese have no idea what they're making and what it's used for, because they are uneducated peasants communist slaves who own nothing.

That's why all their electronics are junk. For instance, they make "jumper cables" out of 10 gauge aluminum wire because they don't know what jumper cables are for -- they just know how to copy stuff and make it as cheap as possible.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (1lXzG)

You know, it almost seems like that. Nothing ever seems to be engineered right, it almost always looks like a facsimile, as if they made it from a picture. Kinda like if you sent a picture of a boat back to 1,000,000 BC and see with the primitives come up with.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (snZF9)

256 There were also cases where the bolts, which were supposed to be made with a SPECIFIC strength of steel, were allowed to be used, only to find out later those bolts did not meet spec even though they were marked as meeting spec...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (ynpvh)
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They've had multiple large bridges fall down in just the last few weeks.

QC is not their strength.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)

257 253

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:44 PM (tld9k)

My computer refuses to show that image, says it's a potential security risk...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ynpvh)

258 Which reminds me

I need to practice the "Elvis lip"

Use it or lose it

Posted by: Miklos, volunteer Elvis Santa at December 05, 2025 11:46 PM (N7hqt)

259 Xi's amping up his people.
Every day is a training day.

https://tinyurl.com/5afkhyrf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:47 PM (SZI4T)

260 My computer refuses to show that image, says it's a potential security risk...

it was a picture of christi brinkley having sex with her daughters of a smiley face

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:47 PM (tld9k)

261 They've had multiple large bridges fall down in just the last few weeks.

QC is not their strength.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)

I have...stories.
One of my favorites: They had a process in place that all Ethernet cables at the factory had to be inspected, so when bad cables started to get out, they went and checked what went wrong. Sure enough, the cables HAD been inspected, but not being told what to do with failing cables, they were passed along with the passing cables...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (ynpvh)

262 or a smiley face

Posted by: n at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (tld9k)

263 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)

264 They've had multiple large bridges fall down in just the last few weeks.

QC is not their strength.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)

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Rumor has it their brand new carrier Fujian is a mess. It's got electromagnetic catapults with steam turbine propulsion that probably won't be able to supply the massive electrical requirements while powering the rest of the ship. (This is what nuclear reactors are for.)

But electromagnetic catapults were insisted on by the political bosses, so in they went.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)

265 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Surgery is a go for next Thursday 🙏🙏🙏

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (SRRAx)

266 {{{BeckoningChasm}}}

Hope you don't mind... just seems like you need a big hug tonight.

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:50 PM (rdVOm)

267 265 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Surgery is a go for next Thursday 🙏🙏🙏

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (SRRAx)

Well howdy! Mine is Monday after next!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:50 PM (ynpvh)

268 263 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)

?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:50 PM (ynpvh)

269 But electromagnetic catapults were insisted on by the political bosses, so in they went.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)

Yeah, NOTHING could POSSIBLY

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:51 PM (ynpvh)

270 go wrong with those

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:51 PM (ynpvh)

271 But electromagnetic catapults were insisted on by the political bosses, so in they went.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)

Vast banks of lithium batteries down in the bilges, to run the catapults. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (npFr7)

272 >>>You know, it almost seems like that. Nothing ever seems to be engineered right, it almost always looks like a facsimile, as if they made it from a picture. Kinda like if you sent a picture of a boat back to 1,000,000 BC and see with the primitives come up with.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
--

Cargo culture

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (SZI4T)

273 242 "Hey guys! We're going to go all in on breaking the law and of course you will still follow it, and then when we steal elections and regain power we will send you to camps! Ha! Ha! Ha! How will you like that?

Oh, also we'll make you turn in your guns just by asking, because we're retarded."

Posted by: Current Day leftists at December 05, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)

*applauds*

Yes. That's where we're at.

If you don't believe that's where we're at, review what was "our" response to Covid. We complied. We willingly walked to the train. We stayed away from family because they told us to. We stayed away from church because they told us to. We didn't get our hair cut because they told us to.

The weed shops stayed open, but family gatherings and church was completely *out*.

The left now believes we won't fight.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (Cjcf6)

274 196 The thing is, this place is the best interaction that raimondo gets anywhere. It's why he keeps coming back.

Kind of sad, actually.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:22 PM

It's not really him though, is it. I think he's the Mary Cloggistein of AliasSmiths.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 11:24 PM (jc0TO)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !

Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER at December 05, 2025 11:53 PM (X5Jzz)

275 Well, I'm off (more than just mentally). Night all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (ynpvh)

276 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)

I think Trump recently commented that the electromagnetic catapult is inferior to the steam powered catapult. I don’t know why he came to that conclusion but I assume he had conversations with knowledgeable people who have that opinion.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (KDPiq)

277
But electromagnetic catapults were insisted on by the political bosses, so in they went.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 05, 2025 11:49 PM (dyewR)

Now we just need them to launch Zumwalt knockoffs because espionage can also be hilarious.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 11:55 PM (pIfcn)

278 Um…America doesn’t have the “tax farm” system that the Ottimans had. Nor a confused line of succession.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:55 PM (6KcYW)

279 What really bugs me about eating out in general is all the peasant food we ate as kids or our parents ate has now gone mainstream and is hideously expensive: polenta, pasta, mush, cheap cuts of meat cooked slowly (brisket), cod, etc.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 11:30 PM (cYBz/)

Beef tongue is $9 a lb. It used to be something you got for the dog.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 11:56 PM (rbvCR)

280 I tend to think because Covid response was so fucked up that people will not refrain from cutting a bitch the next time. Just my thought.

Posted by: NCKate at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (uQzkA)

281 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)

Ja! You are scum! If you are a good boy, you may lick my boots!

Posted by: Mistress Ilsa, She-Wolf of the ONT at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (QZzSm)

282 If excessive depressurization is the bends,
is excessive deceleration the splats?

I mean, it's ED either way...

Posted by: Piercello at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (NRGJj)

283
The left now believes we won't fight.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (Cjc

Um, they never have. And it didn’t take the coof.

But where would you? Remember the switch is easy to turn on and hard to turn off.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (6KcYW)

284 Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:52 PM (Cjcf6)

I don’t know where you live but I didn’t do any of those things you listed.,

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (KDPiq)

285 234 Exactly!

(and no alfalfa. sheesh)

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

Idaho weed, i.e. hemp?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)

Shitty Jamaican brown frown.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 11:36 PM (snZF9)

We called it "Kansas Killer" back in the day.

Posted by: a.moron at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (X5Jzz)

286 I think Trump recently commented that the electromagnetic catapult is inferior to the steam powered catapult. I don’t know why he came to that conclusion but I assume he had conversations with knowledgeable people who have that opinion.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (KDPiq)

Well, steam catapults have proven satisfactory for 70 years or more, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:58 PM (npFr7)

287 And gave our trucks scrota, vehicular
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

Yay. It worked. So glad someone took up the challenge. Well done.

Among tonight's "wandered off to watch" was Pearl Harbor December 5. 1941 with the History Guy. How the ships ended up in Pearl, or not, that fateful Sunday.

Did not yet watch that movie guy, but it's on my TBW list. John Carter and King Arthur, The Sequels that Never Were. Interested in Carter, not so much in Arthur. Maybe that will save me half the 28 minutes.

Enjoyable Friday ONT as always, WeirdDave. Imagine I made a bunch of comments on all the bits. I'll just say, beer girl was a suspenseful video with a happy ending. Bleachers Beluga, also suspenseful. Not so happy, but satisfying funny schadenfreudeally.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Back to lurking and surfing. at December 05, 2025 11:59 PM (pv4q5)

288 I mean, it's ED either way...
Posted by: Piercello at December 05, 2025 11:57 PM (NRGJj)

Bob Dole has a blue pill for that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 12:00 AM (npFr7)

289
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !

Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER

https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 12:00 AM (pkeXY)

290 178 Kansas City barbecue and Texas barbecue are "rub" dependent, and the sauce serves as an accent.

Memphis and Carolina barbecue are sauce-dependent. They both should just give it up, because the rub is the thing, and a great sauce (not that garbage Carolina sauce) just takes it over the top.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 11:17 PM (Cjcf6)

Ah....there's the rub.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:01 AM (QGaXH)

291 There were also cases where the bolts, which were supposed to be made with a SPECIFIC strength of steel, were allowed to be used, only to find out later those bolts did not meet spec even though they were marked as meeting spec...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 11:41 PM (ynpvh)
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They've had multiple large bridges fall down in just the last few weeks.

QC is not their strength.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 11:45 PM (ZOv7s)

A dude brought in a set of lifters for his harley engine one day. I looked them over quick and said they're probably chinese junk. You can tell, completely unrefined. Harleys have roller cams, had them since christ was a child. The rollers are held into the lifter body with a steel pin that are staked in. Good lifters have a serious stake, you can tell they were done in a press under 1000s of pounds of pressure. The ones on the chinese pieces of shit had the pins protruding to where the lifters wouldn't even slide into the lifter bores. Its like they copied the lifter, but had no clue what it did, and that it actually had to fit in a bore. I told the dude to throw them out.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:01 AM (snZF9)

292 m…America doesn’t have the “tax farm” system that the Ottimans had. Nor a confused line of succession.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 11:55 PM (6KcYW)

Yeah that doomsaying text left out a lot of historic facts. Mainly the USA has had similar periods before only worse.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:01 AM (KDPiq)

293
Yeah, Lithium

The World runs on Oil, but Lithium sure is catching up fast. So much of the Stuff we use every day is powered by lithium batteries and we're screwed without it.

We allowed china to control the World's Lithium, pretty much. Smart.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:02 AM (1lXzG)

294 >>>Beef tongue is $9 a lb. It used to be something you got for the dog.
Posted by: Kindltot
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A year or two ago there was a drought in the mid-west all the way up to Idaho. At the same time governments were regulating water away from ranchers and farmers. There was a big sell off of beef.

Remember when Bidenomics eggs were going through the roof beef was not.

Well that law of supply and demand is back at us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:02 AM (SZI4T)

295 263 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)

Oh, come on BC, you're certainly not everything...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:03 AM (0CU3H)

296 Shhhhhhhh.....I saw a boob. Now, I can't be certain, but if we're really quiet we might see another one. They usually travel in pairs.

Posted by: Orson at December 06, 2025 12:05 AM (dIske)

297 I do like it when women wear a sweater with a hole in it and the decorate a nice breast to look like a reindeer.

Just love it.

Fun gals.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:05 AM (W7XSX)

298 Breaking news! It’s past 11 and I am still awake AND the tree that has been fighting me to the death is just about finished - it might even be the best one to date!

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (ZdaMQ)

299 289
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !

Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER

https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2025 12:00 AM (pkeXY)

O....M...G.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (0CU3H)

300 I think Trump recently commented that the electromagnetic catapult is inferior to the steam powered catapult. I don’t know why he came to that conclusion but I assume he had conversations with knowledgeable people who have that opinion.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 11:54 PM (KDPiq)

Doesn't the Ford use EM catapult?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (rbvCR)

301 293

The World runs on Oil, but Lithium sure is catching up fast. So much of the Stuff we use every day is powered by lithium batteries and we're screwed without it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:02 AM (1lXzG)

Oil is a source of energy. Lithium is used to make batteries which can store energy. Lithium is not a source of energy and cannot and will not replace oil.

Posted by: a.moron at December 06, 2025 12:07 AM (X5Jzz)

302 Doesn't the Ford use EM catapult?

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It's going to be a feature of the entire class.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 12:07 AM (dyewR)

303 Ottomans??? There’s plenty of historical comparisons one could make to our situation, but not the Ottomans, they were nothing like us.
Most often I think of us as a slightly pre-Sulla Rome.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 12:10 AM (c7Ygk)

304 It's going to be a feature of the entire class.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2025 12:07 AM (dyewR)

Did they get it to work, finally?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (rbvCR)

305 Doesn't the Ford use EM catapult?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (rbvCR)

Yes. , they replaced the steam catapults.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (KDPiq)

306 --------

It's going to be a feature of the entire class.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Thought Trump nixed that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (SZI4T)

307 I think we are post-Aurelius Rome.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (W7XSX)

308 I would suggest feeding trolls is akin to mud wrestling a pig* in that eventually you realize the pig enjoys the interaction...

* I have never mud wrestled a pig. There was a girl named Marlene? Doreen? Irene?...I think she fell down some bleachers...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:12 AM (QGaXH)

309 Good Friday eve friends in the magic box.

Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:13 AM (Q0yOR)

310 Time to read for a bit, then off to bed. See you miscreants on the prayer thread, or maybe the tech report if my traditional Friday night / Saturday morning insomnia kicks in.

Posted by: PabloD at December 06, 2025 12:14 AM (GALGA)

311 I think we are post-Aurelius Rome.
Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 12:11 AM (W7XSX)

Yep, about 1,900 years or so.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:14 AM (rbvCR)

312 303 Ottomans??? There’s plenty of historical comparisons one could make to our situation, but not the Ottomans, they were nothing like us.
Most often I think of us as a slightly pre-Sulla Rome.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 12:10 AM (c7Ygk)

As great as the Ottomans may have been, they were begging for mercy after encountering one fat, naked man.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:14 AM (0CU3H)

313
Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

You got this, bruh.

Chin up. Chest out. Act like you got, and people will treat you like you got it. It becomes habit, then you start believing it yourself when others treat as such.

You got this shit.

*bro hug*

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 06, 2025 12:15 AM (QVmho)

314 222: See ? You folk said his name too many times and look what happened....

*Goes looking for mop, bucket....grumbling to self the whole way....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:17 AM (QGaXH)

315
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT COULD BE ANYBODY SOCKING HIM WITH A STUPID COMMENT !
Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER
-----
https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
-----
O....M...G.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

As a service connected disabled veteran with ibs.... i've had less painfull shits than what it took to read that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 06, 2025 12:19 AM (QVmho)

316 President Donald Trump announced plans to sign an executive order directing the U.S. Navy to revert back to traditional steam-powered catapults for aircraft carriers instead of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) currently in use. He made this announcement during a visit to the USS George Washington on October 28, 2025.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:19 AM (SZI4T)

317 Breaking news! It’s past 11 and I am still awake AND the tree that has been fighting me to the death is just about finished - it might even be the best one to date!

Posted by: Piper at December 06, 2025 12:06 AM (ZdaMQ)

I'm on the last string of lights, I had to get more since a few strings were dead. That concludes day 1. I think there is about 1400 lights on it. Tomorrow is most of the ornaments, and sunday is the rest of them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (snZF9)

318 Breaking news! It’s past 11 and I am still awake AND the tree that has been fighting me to the death is just about finished - it might even be the best one to date!
Posted by: Piper
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Christmas trees are like doggos-- every single one is *The Best Ever*

Congratulations on having successfully drinkorated!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (rdVOm)

319 Anyhow, I bought a bunch of pork shoulder and I am considering turning it into sausage. It is a bit fatty so it should be just fine.
I am thinking "apple sausage" since I still have some apples from the tree.

once I bought a brisket on impulse, and corned it, It turned out very nice.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (rbvCR)

320 222: See ? You folk said his name too many times and look what happened....

*Goes looking for mop, bucket....grumbling to self the whole way....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:17 AM (QGaXH)

Reminded me of my favorite walks into a bar joke.

A skeleton walks into a bar. The bartender say ‘ what can I get you’

The skeleton replies ‘ I’ll take a beer and a mop’

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (KDPiq)

321 223 Retardo mentioned the "natural-born citizen" decision. Has that come down? Woulda thought it would rate a thread, either way the decision went.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 11:32 PM (npFr7)

I believe the supremes just decided to hear arguments.

I can go to my in-laws for that!

Saw your post t'other night about space for RV/camper at Stately Peon Manner. Will keep it in mind if ever up that way.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (QGaXH)

322 The girls names that start with P combined with my experiences with computers along with the majority of AI pics remind me of a thought I often have...is AI a danger to humans because of evil, or is the problem going to be that if important decisions are made by it incredibly stupid things will happen

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:21 AM (3/XaG)

323 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:19 AM (SZI4T)

When it works as intended the EC has a few advantages , mainly less wear on the air frames and less maintenance. They need to work out the bugs .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 06, 2025 12:23 AM (KDPiq)

324 Sister and niece blitz the house last week so the house is decorated. No stress. Love it when a plan comes together and I don't have to do a thing.

Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:25 AM (Q0yOR)

325 295 263 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)

Oh, come on BC, you're certainly not everything...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:03 AM (0CU3H)

I'm joking, of course, but I don't want to leave this at that.

I've had a very, very challenging year. I lost my job in August of last year, and I haven't had a steady job since. At my age (29+..), I realized that getting a regular job again was not going to be in the cards for me. That really sucked, because I like working and I don't like having my wife's consulting income as the primary source, but that's reality. A few months ago, I decided to take the bull by the horns and understand that God has given me an opportunity to completely reinvent myself. A few months - and one local election - later, my life is opening up big-time. I've always liked politics, and I now have the freedom to volunteer. That has opened up amazing opportunities for me that I'm just beginning to walk through now.

I don't know what you're going through, but I will tell you that if you keep walking, some very, very interesting things happen.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:26 AM (0CU3H)

326 While it has undergone testing, real-world scenarios, especially during wartime, can introduce unforeseen challenges.
Dependence on Electrical Systems: Electrical components, particularly in a saltwater environment, face risks of corrosion and failure, which could compromise operations.

Saltwater Impact: Despite advancements in material science, continuous exposure to saltwater could lead to degradation over time, affecting the long-term viability of electrical system

While EMALS offers several advantages, your concerns emphasize the need for careful consideration of its application in real-world situations, especially where reliability is paramount. ...
_DDG AI

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 12:26 AM (SZI4T)

327 Another stabbing on a train here in Charlotte. The ACC championship game is tomorrow so we are getting good PR again.

Posted by: NCKate at December 06, 2025 12:27 AM (uQzkA)

328 263 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)

BC - if you are still here - You are most definitely NOT worthless. You are valued.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:27 AM (QGaXH)

329 158 OMG, the giant hell-hound is lounging on the floor next to me and he has the worst S-B-D gas. I'm hoping this is temporary and not something that will be a more frequent occurrence. I know some dogs have digestive issues as they age, and he's a little over 9 years old.

- - - - - - - - -

Raise the food dish above the ground (like on a small box) Bending over too far when eating means they swallow more air (which of course comes out the other end)

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 06, 2025 12:28 AM (aRKFD)

330 is AI a danger to humans because of evil, or is the problem going to be that if important decisions are made by it incredibly stupid things will happen
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:21 AM (3/XaG)

Listen, and understand. Customer service is there, on the phone. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. It will not provide answers or resolve problems. It will route you to different "desks" in different "units" for "advanced resolution" and go on every hour in every day, and you will be in the call-tree loop of hell until you are dead!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:30 AM (rbvCR)

331 >>BC - if you are still here - You are most definitely NOT worthless. You are valued.
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^^^^This!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:30 AM (rdVOm)

332 Posted by: BEN ROTHESBERGERER

https://stoatnet.org/raimondo.php

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Thank you

I used to use this, but lost the link in a computer canoe fire

Another Fine Hogmartin Product, based on an Original Concept by *insert sock here*

Posted by: On Tap is BACK at December 06, 2025 12:31 AM (N7hqt)

333 anyways, the Mantra for getting things done:

"I must not be safe.
safety is the fun-killer.
safety is for children, customers and the help.
I will face safety.
I will permit safety directives to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn to see its fruits.
Where safety directives have passed, nothing will have been achieved.
Only I will remain."

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (rbvCR)

334 I believe everyone has worth and I tell myself that every single day - even when I don't feel like I do. Depression is a demon some fight every single day and unless you have been there, done that you don't fully understand.

I pray for those here and myself that deal with it. I pray for those who toss out prayer requests. I pray for everyone here because I may never meet you, I still believe you are my "friend". I think we get that even if our family and friends do not fully understand. LOL

Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (Q0yOR)

335 303 Ottomans??? There’s plenty of historical comparisons one could make to our situation, but not the Ottomans, they were nothing like us.
Most often I think of us as a slightly pre-Sulla Rome.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2025 12:10 AM (c7Ygk)

That's it. Keep saying 'Otto....' - next thing you know a picture of a nekkid fat dude sitting on one's gonna appear...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (QGaXH)

336 The gusty wind that nurse warned about, has arrived here. Not terrible, really. Must've gotten slowed-down by the Cascades.

It's now 55F outside. Much warmer than the 40 degrees we had at noon, LOL. But it won't be long before temp drops & stays low again.

Can maybe do some yard stuff if it's not pouring rain this weekend.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

337 The girls names that start with P combined with my experiences with computers along with the majority of AI pics remind me of a thought I often have...is AI a danger to humans because of evil, or is the problem going to be that if important decisions are made by it incredibly stupid things will happen
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:21 AM (3/XaG)

I've always considered the scariest part of AI to be the decisions that we'll let it make for us.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 06, 2025 12:36 AM (NZPfR)

338 Saw your post t'other night about space for RV/camper at Stately Peon Manner. Will keep it in mind if ever up that way.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

What you do, is buy a busted up one for cheap a few miles down the road.

AOP will either fix it, or let you park it there until it becomes parts.

Posted by: The Wtertched Museum of First Peoples Panhards at December 06, 2025 12:37 AM (N7hqt)

339 The Great BBQ War: http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=340203#c20766902

If some of the references seem dated, remember I wrote it 12 years ago.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 12:38 AM (GjvfC)

340 Hey sexists! For the first time in auto racing championship history their will be more female drivers then men. Saudi f4 this weekend. Also Jade Avedisian will be stock car racing at 5 flags against over 50 men. For non sexists she could use your support as woman have a hard time finding rides in nascar. Ask Hailie Deegan and Natalie Decker how hard it is.

Posted by: raimondo at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (aRMT2)

341 Christmas trees are like doggos-- every single one is *The Best Ever*

Congratulations on having successfully drinkorated!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:20 AM (rdVOm)

Not sure I could do mine any better. 1400 lights, probably close to 300 frigging ornaments. There is no more real estate for improvement, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (snZF9)

342 Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM

I agree with all you wrote. Thanks for posting it!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

343
Imagine having the last name Fish...

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (1lXzG)

344 If you've ever done "customer service" or heard it being done, you will understand. Low paid people, usually being monitored and controlled by slightly higher paid people, with "goals" to hit and often "words you must or cannot use" with the result of not meeting these idiotic standards being harangued by people.you wouldn't even talk to in real life. Meanwhile, having zero authority to solve any of the few problems that aren't a result of incredible dense news and having to send them to someone else who has that authority. Bigger the organization, the more this all is intensified.

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 06, 2025 12:40 AM (3/XaG)

345 I love barbecue like I love women- there's something lovely in most. NC whole-hog barbecue with a vinegar-based sauce is great. Texas BBQ with mesquite is delicious. Kansas City makes amazing BBQ. Southern BBQ with a sweet sauce is delicious. It's true that you can use sauce to cover bad barbecue, but not all barbecue misuses sauce. Some sauces are excellent.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 06, 2025 12:41 AM (NZPfR)

346 The girls names that start with P

FUN FACT

The name "Pamela" was unknown in Hungary until they started showing the TV show Dallas.

The gypsies in particular started naming their girl babies after the character.

Now many Pa-me-lahs in Hungary, none of whom resemble Victoria Principal

Posted by: Friday Fun Fact Miklos at December 06, 2025 12:42 AM (N7hqt)

347 338 Posted by: The Wtertched Museum of First Peoples Panhards at December 06, 2025 12:37 AM (N7hqt)

Miklos....of course....I shoulda known....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (QGaXH)

348 I lost my job right before Thanksgiving and have yet to tell anyone in my family. Living with my elderly parents and helping them adds to the stress. I will find something. I have to. Remote/work from home is what I have been doing. We shall see what I can find next week. Prayers if you are the praying type and I thank you.

Yes, I lurk but read every single day and night and have for a long time. This place is a home from the crazy out there in the weird wide web.

Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (Q0yOR)

349 Imagine having the last name Fish...
Posted by: Soothsayer

And the first name Stanley

What has the culture gone to...

Posted by: Miklos is surprised that Duke ever hired him at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (N7hqt)

350 Jeepers, Bers! 1400 lights? On *one* tree? How tall is that tree?

I have a total of 375 lights. Includes 100 minis on the tree, 25 C6s around one window, and 50 C9s plus 200 minis across the deck.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)

351 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
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I'm glad you're here. Nobody is worthless. You're going thru a hard time, and there's nothing fun about that. But you're here. And tomorrow could bring a change to your circumstances.

Because of that, get some sleep and then tomorrow "accidentally" bump into as many people as you can. They might have a suggestion, or a solution. Just smile, even though you might not feel like smiling. Engage in some some small talk. See what happens.

I'm not a great Man of God, but I believe in him. I will pray for you tonight.

I hope your Saturday is amazing!

Posted by: Crusader at December 06, 2025 12:44 AM (Cjcf6)

352 I believe everyone has worth and I tell myself that every single day - even when I don't feel like I do. Depression is a demon some fight every single day and unless you have been there, done that you don't fully understand.

I pray for those here and myself that deal with it. I pray for those who toss out prayer requests. I pray for everyone here because I may never meet you, I still believe you are my "friend". I think we get that even if our family and friends do not fully understand. LOL

Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM (Q0yOR)

People will touch other's lives and have no clue they did it, no matter who they are. That alone brings value.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:45 AM (snZF9)

353 of course....I shoulda known....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

*uncertain whether to read that in a Curley or Moe voice*

Posted by: why Miklos oughtta at December 06, 2025 12:45 AM (N7hqt)

354 342 Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:34 AM

I agree with all you wrote. Thanks for posting it!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm

And I agree with what JQ Johnson wrote about turambar Johbson....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:45 AM (QGaXH)

355 343
Imagine having the last name Fish...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 12:39 AM (1lXzG)

Tell me about it...Abe Vigoda

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:48 AM (QGaXH)

356 ...Yes, I lurk but read every single day and night and have for a long time. This place is a home from the crazy out there in the weird wide web.
Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 12:43 AM (Q0yOR)

As you may find upthread, I've been going through this myself. I'm finding myself now in the most interesting period of my life. My relationship with God has never been more real. My wife and son are true partners in my life. I've been going through this in their full view - both good and bad - and I've found that I'm teaching my son more in how I act in adversity than anything that I could tell him. If I have one regret, it's that I wish I had gone through this epiphany two decades ago.

I'm praying right now for your situation, and I approach the Prayer Thread in the same way you do.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 06, 2025 12:49 AM (L5wrM)

357 Jeepers, Bers! 1400 lights? On *one* tree? How tall is that tree?

I have a total of 375 lights. Includes 100 minis on the tree, 25 C6s around one window, and 50 C9s plus 200 minis across the deck.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)

I want it to be seen from space. lol

Seriously, its 7 1/2 feet tall, and 4 1/2 foot wide at the bottom. At the bottom 1 string of lights will only make around 1 lap. I run the lights up and down the branches as I go around. Its a light eater, but I tried doing it with less lights one year and it just didn't look right. It takes around 7 strings of white, and 7 strings of colored lights.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 12:52 AM (snZF9)

358 Christmas trees are like doggos-- every single one is *The Best Ever*

Congratulations on having successfully drinkorated!

Posted by: JQ

*drinks*

*sets Best Doggie Ever to tree decorating*

*GOOD DOGGIE!*

*gives Miss Dixie some Bourbon and a treat*

This will be THE BEST EVER

Posted by: Dr. Miklos Pangloss at December 06, 2025 12:53 AM (N7hqt)

359 Good Night Everyone!

A most fascinating discussion! Most fascinating! Most fascinating!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 06, 2025 12:58 AM (QGaXH)

360 >>It takes around 7 strings of white, and 7 strings of colored lights.
>>I want it to be seen from space.
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LOL!!! That oughta do it....

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

361 Can maybe do some yard stuff if it's not pouring rain this weekend.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

For it is written-There is no yard work in winter. Seriously, its written. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9)

362 Goodnight! Off to game some and write a bit.

Posted by: turambar at December 06, 2025 01:05 AM (Q0yOR)

363 Good Night Everyone!

A most fascinating discussion! Most fascinating! Most fascinating!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

I am learn so much from your excellent commentings.

I am also make 11740$ each month as work from home

Posted by: click HERE at December 06, 2025 01:05 AM (N7hqt)

364 >>It takes around 7 strings of white, and 7 strings of colored lights.
>>I want it to be seen from space.
-------

LOL!!! That oughta do it....

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

its really not that obscene. Ok, it can throw shadows, but.. its christmas. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:05 AM (snZF9)

365 OK

Holiday colored three layer Jell shots can be done.

But I need some stuff.

Also short on these 2 ounce "souffle cups" as they are called if and when you remember to order

Posted by: Miklos does not do inventory at December 06, 2025 01:09 AM (N7hqt)

366 I've been working on the "beer garden" area tonight. Needs colored lights & a Christmas tree, but I think it'll be ready for ClubONT... next weekend. Got to finish putting up the glass walls for winter.

tinyurl.com/3hew95bv

White lights are great, when you need basic illumination. Colored lights are for FUN.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)

367
sorry about your job woes, turumbar

we'll all be praying for you

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 01:11 AM (1lXzG)

368 For it is written-There is no yard work in winter. Seriously, its written. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
--------

I *need to* move the riding mower & sweeper to a different area, and cover them with a tarp for winter!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

369 Well I just did a quick count. 1 branch alone has 16 lights. And thats a mid branch, not a lower one. The lower one has 24-25 lights, so probably 12 of each color there. I'm sure I can gauge it with a star magnitude chart, but its really not insane. Its a big tree. Without that many lights if you step back and look at it it will have dark areas. I went through that one year when I tried to do it with 800 or 900 lights. The ornaments didn't even have the sparkle they normally do. Eh, just call me Thomas muthafuckin berserker Edison. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:13 AM (snZF9)

370 Holiday colored three layer Jell shots can be done.
But I need some stuff.
Also short on these 2 ounce "souffle cups" as they are called if and when you remember to order
Posted by: Miklos does not do inventory
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No problemo, Miklos! On the list-- I'll pick 'em up when I go to restaurant supply in the morning.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

371 Dixie thinks it's bedtime

But I want pie

Like with Darleen

But that was Natty Daddys

Also, I put bacon bits and peanut butter all over the tree.

Miss Dixie is a happy doggie

Posted by: Miklos already got a Waffle House gift card from Arleen at December 06, 2025 01:15 AM (N7hqt)

372 Good job on your tree, Bers! I'll bet it's beautiful. Just teasing about the quantity of lights, haha. Full sized trees do need quite a few strands to look their best.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

373 351 Hi folks, love you all, sorry for being so worthless and everything.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 11:48 PM (CHHv1)
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---

Horse shit. You are welcomed here with people who value you. Whoever put that notion in your head cast it and them out.
Come sit wit us by the fire and be comforted by the care of your brothers and sisters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 06, 2025 01:18 AM (SZI4T)

374 FUN FACT

In Hungary, December 5th is "Saint Miklos Day", when Saint Miklos brings the kiddies their gifts.

They might get, traditionally, an orange or such on Christmas Eve or Day, but mainly they are waiting now for Szent Miklos.

Posted by: Miklos is into the Christmas Spirits at December 06, 2025 01:21 AM (N7hqt)

375 Santa always put an orange and/or a tangerine in our Christmas stockings, along with hard candies and mixed (in-shell) nuts-- plus small gifts like colored pens, card games, hair ties, or matchbox cars-- simple stuff.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

376 It makes me sad, seeing how so many people want to believe Tucker Carlson says what he does because he's being paid by a foreign country, as opposed to believing THIS country shouldn't always be at war, killing people around the world.

If you aren't Christian, I guess this doesn't apply to you, but those who are, who do you think is closer to Christ's vision for this world: Someone who wants all war to stop, or someone who thinks a little more war might just fix the problems they perceive this world has.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:41 AM (/2KcO)

377 Not even 11pm here. Friday night!

But yeah, time to wind-down...

tinyurl.com/mr3feuym

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:45 AM (rdVOm)

378 Back! For I don't know how long. Power went off here about 10:10 PM. I drove around the 'hood, didn't see any sign of line crews working. Whatever blew, it's pretty local; affects me and the other two homes on this branch, and a farm a mile east of here. Further east, all is brightly lit.

Came back and fired up the generator. Computer room has pretty steady power, lights in main part of basement are flickering badly. One leg of the split 240 has a flaky connection, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 01:46 AM (npFr7)

379 BurtTC, I'm pretty sure the final vision for this world *IS* one of war, death and destruction.

The Revelation lays it out in detail.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

380 If you aren't Christian, I guess this doesn't apply to you, but those who are, who do you think is closer to Christ's vision for this world: Someone who wants all war to stop, or someone who thinks a little more war might just fix the problems they perceive this world has.
-
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ"

might shed some light on the topic.

Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:48 AM (vSvIl)

381 Driving back to Arizona tomorrow. Colorado is not for the timid.

Went to Silverton today, it's such a lovely town, but everything is closed! Too early for ski season, I was told.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:48 AM (WeJ8p)

382 Welcome back, AOP. Nurse was here earlier, said her power went out too. Didn't see any more posts from her, so she might've just gone to bed...

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

383 BurtTC, I'm pretty sure the final vision for this world *IS* one of war, death and destruction.

The Revelation lays it out in detail.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

Yes, I'm well aware there are many who believe they are doing God's work, by forcing war on the planet.

I think that is not God, who is commanding them to be so fully invested on the basis of thinking they are going to bring Christ back to the planet by killing people.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:51 AM (lGyAR)

384 Good job on your tree, Bers! I'll bet it's beautiful. Just teasing about the quantity of lights, haha. Full sized trees do need quite a few strands to look their best.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

The funny thing is in *this* house I can go with a super tall tree in this room, but hell no. Yeah I really need to be running another 800 lights. Years ago when I renovated my inlaw's family room I converted it to a full cathedral ceiling with skylights. They thought they would be cute and get a 10 foot tree for a couple years. That didn't last, go figure. When I moved to this house my MIL, the "ham fairy" sees the family room here and says Ooooh you need to do a really tall tree. I said right, how come you don't do that anymore? She looks at me and says "you're still young", lol. It would be cool, but screw that. I have enough ornaments to do it, but I don't need a tree that takes 2500 lights, a ladder, and 5 days to decorate.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 01:53 AM (snZF9)

385 I worry about Steven Crowder going to schools with his "Change my mind " tours. I don't want him to end up like poor Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 01:55 AM (Nx5jP)

386 I think that is not God, who is commanding them to be so fully invested on the basis of thinking they are going to bring Christ back to the planet by killing people.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:51 AM (lGyAR)

No one actually thinks that.

This is just an evil smear you have asserted against people who don't share your cowardice fetish.

Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:57 AM (vSvIl)

387 >>They thought they would be cute and get a 10 foot tree for a couple years.
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Yeah. My parents did that, too. High ceiling? Great! We'll get a bigger tree!!! The kids can climb the ladder for us!!!

It really *was* grand, when we were done. Mom was the happiest I'd ever seen her, in those days.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

388 Welcome back, AOP. Nurse was here earlier, said her power went out too. Didn't see any more posts from her, so she might've just gone to bed...
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah. I don't know what caused the blackout. Strictly local. I suppose I should call it in, but I thought the utility had placed radio transmitters on selected poles to auto-report outages. They put some damned thing, with a cell antenna on it, on a pole down along my hedge line, this summer.

I should go outside and see if I can fix the loose connection on the other side of neutral. If power is restored, I can tell by the yard light coming on at the neighbor's place a mile south; it's very bright. And I did pull the main switch at my pole, so I am not energizing the line.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 01:58 AM (npFr7)

389 No one actually thinks that.

This is just an evil smear you have asserted against people who don't share your cowardice fetish.
Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:57 AM (vSvIl)

Yes they do. You're delusional if you think they don't.

Cowards are those who go on the internet and lie for their masters. Grow some balls, dude.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 02:01 AM (RkrlD)

390 Yes they do. You're delusional if you think they don't.

Cowards are those who go on the internet and lie for their masters. Grow some balls, dude.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 02:01 AM (RkrlD)

You've asserted it. Prove it. Maybe start with me and Mike Huckabee, since you've claimed it's true of us.

I'm sure you're familiar with the rules, the testimony of two witnesses will do.

Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 02:06 AM (vSvIl)

391 I suggest you re-read Revelations to see what actually happened is written about the end times.

The Four Horseman are not coming to give out candy and teddy bears. They each have a defined mission. Jesus Crist has a defined mission.

Bottom line, you have a choice. Jesus Crist or lucifer. Choose wisely.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 06, 2025 02:08 AM (iAcMN)

392 Christ will return, regardless of the action (or inaction) of mankind.

Sure, there may be a few megalomaniacs who believe they can "bring about" The Return, but who are they and what shall we do about them?

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

393 90 Dear Prudence

youtube.com/watch?v=wQA59IkCF5I

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 10:46 PM (SZI4T)

All this time, I had no idea that the Siouxie & The Banshees version was a Beatles cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rrTROoZIw

Posted by: SciVo at December 06, 2025 02:09 AM (Sy6m/)

394

Jesus just called. He said to me, "I'm not coming back until the Buffalo Bills win the Super Bowl."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:16 AM (FBdDh)

395 But the real invasion is the backwards apostrophes.

Posted by: pjungwir at December 06, 2025 02:21 AM (noE7F)

396
Jesus just called again and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, I'm not returning before they get rid of Daylight Savings. I ain't dealing with that shit."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:21 AM (FBdDh)

397 Back again. Power still out. Carburetor was trying to fall off the generator; tightened some screws, and it quit, but I was able to restart it. Basement lights still flickering. I have a little Diesel genset sitting right there, but I don't know if I have any fuel for it. Not going to try to siphon Diesel out of the tractor when it's 3 F out there, and snowing. Moderate breeze, but no way it's a blizzard. This should not be a weather-related outage. Power company is aware, but cannot give an estimate of when it will get fixed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 02:22 AM (npFr7)

398 Dang, AOP. Hope you have a good heat source!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

399 Dang, AOP. Hope you have a good heat source!
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

As long as the generator runs, my furnace will put out. I have another, smaller gas genset, and the aforementioned Diesel job, which I know will run if it has fuel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 02:36 AM (npFr7)

400 394

Jesus just called. He said to me, "I'm not coming back until the Buffalo Bills win the Super Bowl."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:16 AM (FBdDh)

No one should miss that party.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 06, 2025 02:41 AM (pIfcn)

401 Good. Stay warm, AOP. Hope power is restored soon.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

402 Happy St Nicholas Day. I never knew it was a thing before MiladyJo of Catholic heritage put goodies in my shoe for the morning. Just like a Christmas stocking, only stinkier.
🎅👞🍬🍎

https://youtu.be/-xRkRMIwPOA

G'nite, y'all. Maybe meet for coffee & prayers mañana.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Long Time Gone at December 06, 2025 02:42 AM (pv4q5)

403 Good. Stay warm, AOP. Hope power is restored soon.
Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

Cozy enough for now. If the genset quits again, I will see if I can scare up some Diesel fuel, and try the Diesel job. It would not be impossible to siphon fuel out of the tractor. The tank is up high, so I could set a can on the ground, stick clear hose in the the tank, and suck on it until I see fuel appear around the bend, and drop the hose into the can.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 02:46 AM (npFr7)

404 Temp has been rising, here. Now 57F. Has been 20s-40s for over a week. A bit early for that cold, really.

Can finally turn down the pellet feed-rate again, yay.

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

405 Hey Horde, just stopping by to say good night. There was a small holiday get together on the street tonight. It was fun and I had a good time but I must sleep. Catch you at the club tomorrow night.

{{{BC}}}}, consider yourself hugged and hang in there.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 06, 2025 03:03 AM (0nHVk)

406 https://youtu.be/zP33z3lGHyo

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)

407 Jesus just called again and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, I'm not returning before they get rid of Daylight Savings. I ain't dealing with that shit."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 06, 2025 02:21 AM (FBdDh)

For that I might convert!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:07 AM (VqWjn)

408 Still in Londonistan, CBD?

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

409 Back again. Power is back on. Saw the yard light glimming at the neighbor's place south of here, and went out, shut down the generator (the carb had not worked loose again!), unplugged the death cord, and went to the pole and threw the switch back to "on". House lit up. Dragged genset into shop, turned off fuel valve, closed up shop.

And I am going to close up here, too, since it's 1:15 A.M. And all's well. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2025 03:15 AM (npFr7)

410 'Night, AOP. Glad power is back for you!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:16 AM (rdVOm)

411 Good evening, All.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 06, 2025 03:17 AM (SLBsp)

412 Howdy, JM in Illinois. How are you tonight?

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:18 AM (rdVOm)

413 If you aren't Christian, I guess this doesn't apply to you, but those who are, who do you think is closer to Christ's vision for this world: Someone who wants all war to stop, or someone who thinks a little more war might just fix the problems they perceive this world has.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 06, 2025 01:41 AM (/2KcO)

I don't for a minute think Christ thought we would ever have peace on earth. Peace be with you is not so much a wish for no war but rather an inner peace that one can have by belief. He knows we are a bunch of fuckups, but he came to forgive that, if we at least try.

Those who think starting wars in the Holy Land will bring Armageddon apparently didn't read the part about how you will not know the day or hour. He will come when He's damned good and ready, and there's not a thing anyone can do to change that.

What is more important: The end of the World, or Your end? Get right with God, and then do it again, because you will fuck up again, and He is there to make it right.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 03:19 AM (6Bc88)

414 Time for me to clock out.

Good night, Horde!

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:22 AM (rdVOm)

415 Still in Londonistan, CBD?

Posted by: JQ at December 06, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

On a plane to go home...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:36 AM (VqWjn)

416 Posted by: tcn in AK at December 06, 2025 03:19 AM (6Bc8

Or just ignore him because he is contentious and combative and will tolerate no other opinions.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:39 AM (VqWjn)

417 It makes me sad, seeing how so many people want to believe Tucker Carlson says what he does because he's being paid by a foreign country, as opposed to believing THIS country shouldn't always be at war, killing people around the world.

If you aren't Christian, I guess this doesn't apply to you, but those who are, who do you think is closer to Christ's vision for this world: Someone who wants all war to stop, or someone who thinks a little more war might just fix the problems they perceive this world has.

What do you think is more along the lines of Christ's vision, luxuriating in a 5 star hotel, with hot and cold running hookers on tap, plus great whiskey and millions of dollars in your pocket, or spouting the filth of the goat fuckers, and supporting his father's people against Satan's minions?

War? War is the default condition of man since the snake offered an apple. The only question is what are you going to fight for:

Good?

Or Evil?

Now, as a Christian, look me in the eye and tell me that Tucker sucking up to those who demand submission to Allah (not God), are the ones who are the problem.

You may want to be a dhimmi in service of an imagined "peace", but I don't.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:40 AM (df/te)

418 Ronald Reagan:
"We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you can have it in the next second - surrender."

Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:41 AM (df/te)

419 What I think is closest to Christ's vision is to stand up against the forces of evil. YMMV.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:44 AM (df/te)

420 "...there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you can have it in the next second - surrender."

Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:41 AM (df/te)

This should be axiomatic, yet the last few generations in the West have been so spoiled that they have lost sight of the reality of the human condition.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2025 03:50 AM (VqWjn)

421 What I think is closest to Christ's vision is to stand up against the forces of evil. YMMV.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 06, 2025 03:44 AM (df/te)

Pretty much. The way I see it, muslims are killing Christians and Jews around the world like it was free. Sooo...I either follow the example of a dude that walked around in a sheet and sandals and got his ass nailed to a tree, or I follow the school of John Moses Browning and cure the motherfuckers of their lead deficiency. Christ's teachings are nice, but sometimes turning the other cheek is suicide. It isn't helping the christians in Africa, thats for sure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2025 03:54 AM (snZF9)

422 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

423
No one actually thinks that.

This is just an evil smear you have asserted against people who don't share your cowardice fetish.
Posted by: Methos at December 06, 2025 01:57 AM (vSvIl)

Ultimately, nothing means shit to BurtTC. He just wants to listen to “Imagine” 25/8 and believes the one true path to peace is simply being a whiny little pussy. Nothing could be further from the truth. You MUST prepare for war to ensure peace, and it sucks, but there it is.

BurtTC wants to live in fantasy land and put people on blast who do not share his delusions.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 06, 2025 04:14 AM (6KcYW)

424 nood

Posted by: heywood the third at December 06, 2025 10:28 AM (tljrc)

Unconscious Body Surfing Cafe

Sunset photographed from under water, by Dan Legend

Tiger gives some tourists a story to tell their families once they've recovered from their heart attacks.

Re-post: horse racing through sea caves.

Hula Baloo.

What is this thing?

Lazy horse doesn't want to give rides. So any time you approach him to get on him, he flops over and pretends he just died.

Life with huge dogs who still think they're little puppies.

Soulful dog.

Baby and dog play.

A torrid affair that scandalized the barnyard.

Weekend plans.

Steve Inman:

Old pervert gets Instant Justice. If only this guy were around during Biden's political career.

This has to be the sloppiest public brawl ever.

Purse-snatcher learns that not only does crime not pay, but it results in serious and possibly permanent physical injury.

Season's beatings.

Would be carjacker gets jacked by a car.

This better not be AI.

What in the Disney is going on here? pic.twitter.com/FwXWmwHLwa
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 24, 2025

Commercial passenger flight over Iceland.. pic.twitter.com/qtYMyMZo8f
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 25, 2025

Tiger cub pestering his mom. pic.twitter.com/pWnJjxJnGZ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 25, 2025

Someone is jealous.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/vc0MNz8P7C
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 4, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Soothing

Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (8I4hW)

2 onest!

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (/enuJ)

3 My cats pester me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (NwnyJ)

4 Threest?

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (/enuJ)

5 dangst!

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 05, 2025 07:23 PM (/enuJ)

6 Boy, that Iceland is a bit of an ashole.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc88)

7 Hey that Sunset photo really turns me on!

Posted by: Rapey the Dolphin at December 05, 2025 07:25 PM (c7Ygk)

8 Evening all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 07:28 PM (9bIJg)

9

What makes a horse race through a cave?

Courage!

Posted by: Cowardly lion at December 05, 2025 07:29 PM (pkeXY)

10 If it scandalized the barnyard, my first thought was that penguins had to be involved, but fortunately, this is no the case, at least in this instance.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

11
So...

are Toy Train sets gay & lame, like Barber Shop Quartets?

Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (cPNKV)

12 Hello

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (LjSYW)

13 That bird at the end is cuckoo...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (ESVrU)

14 All of a sudden I have Whitesnakes Here I go again in my head.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:32 PM (zZu0s)

15 11
So...

are Toy Train sets gay & lame, like Barber Shop Quartets?

Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (cPNKV)

Nobody puts Thomas the Tank Engine in the corner.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 07:32 PM (6Bc88)

16 When I got home from campus today, Jasmine and Penny were curled up in my office chair, just like the best friends they've been their entire lives.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:33 PM (ESVrU)

17 I'd say ham radios.

Not gay really, just a subculture. Kind of like model builders (or a lot like model builders.)*

*gentle dig at Anna Puma

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:36 PM (zZu0s)

18 Another great week of posts. Thanks Ace and Cobs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 07:37 PM (jc0TO)

19 My favorite part in Blackhawk Down is when the Somalis hit the Helicopters with an RPG..

Me, Ilam, and all Somali friends all cheer loudly !!!!

Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (J9q9v)

20 thank you and thanks on behalf of the cobs, toby.

You guys did a good week of commenting, without reading the posts.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (1wjle)

21
RV is almost loaded for Her Majesty and The Big Dummy's trip to Orlando for the AKC National Championship show next Saturday. Plus all-breed shows Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and a Hound Group show the Sunday after. And AKC delegate meetings.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (tgvbd)

22 That's why dad tiger went out for a gallon of milk and never came back.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 07:39 PM (YwEeS)

23 Hubby bought a space heater for his work space but the house thermostat is still set at 64
*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:40 PM (eZ5tL)

24
I'm the best non-reader of posts.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:41 PM (cPNKV)

25 Hadrian, Orlando sounds nice and warm

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:42 PM (eZ5tL)

26 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)

27 Hubby bought a space heater for his work space but the house thermostat is still set at 64
*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

How do you put up with that? My thermostat is always on 72 during the winter. 64 is like having the air conditioner on to me.

Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 07:44 PM (lJ0H4)

28 Just got on the boat.

Beautiful sunset happening. So many folks taking pictures…. We live here and still can’t get enough.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 07:45 PM (VTZ1R)

29 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons! Enjoying a bowl of beef stew I snuck out of the crockpot an hour or so early. Still tasty. I was outside, hitching up a trailer in 8 degree weather. I needed a warmup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:46 PM (npFr7)

30 Hubby bought a space heater for his work space but the house thermostat is still set at 64
*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:40 PM

As it says in the good book, "Many are cold, but few are frozen."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

31 * Getting into The Christmas Song Spirit: *

"I don't care what da white man say ...
Brian Cole is a black man."

[h/t Fake Tapper]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 07:47 PM (My0zW)

32 are Toy Train sets gay & lame, like Barber Shop Quartets?

Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (cPNKV)

You know whose attic was given over entirely to a model railway layout?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:48 PM (npFr7)

33 J J hasn't said anything about his trains in forever.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

34
You wanna feel 10 degrees warmer instantly?

Put on a knit hate.

hat.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:49 PM (cPNKV)

35 Hey! Top 30, and I read all the content to boot.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 07:50 PM (0CU3H)

36 You wanna feel 10 degrees warmer instantly?

Put on a knit hate.

hat.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Wanna feel 8 degrees warmer in half an hour?
Turn up the damned thermostat!

Posted by: MkY at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (q6tQZ)

37 Would you believe...top 40?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (0CU3H)

38 Few things are better than snuggling into a down comforter on a winters night.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

39 thank you and thanks on behalf of the cobs, toby.

You guys did a good week of commenting, without reading the posts.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (1wjle)
----
Christmas bonuses for everyone! Yay!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (ESVrU)

40 Few things are better than snuggling into a down comforter on a winters night.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)
----
Amen!

Got a warm kitty sitting in my lap right now!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:52 PM (ESVrU)

41 Try again
Cover photograph is a excellent shot

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 07:53 PM (Ia/+0)

42 Me, Ilam, and all Somali friends all cheer loudly !!!!
Posted by: Timmy Walz

If Minnesota's welfare programs are this fraudulent, imagine how fraudulent their elections are.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 05, 2025 07:53 PM (cxFcK)

43
In case you missed it, Trains & Christmas music:

https://is.gd/rAjFMl

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:54 PM (cPNKV)

44 Few things are better than snuggling into a down comforter on a winters night.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 07:51 PM (sDNVV)

I bought me an electric blanket about a week ago. Very cozy. No more cold feets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:54 PM (npFr7)

45 You guys did a good week of commenting, without reading the posts.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM

Does this mean we are or aren't supposed to read the posts?

Asking for The Commentariat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

46 Few things are better than snuggling into a down comforter on a winters night.
Posted by: Ben Had

Nice soft flannel sheets and an electric blanket for me.

Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 07:55 PM (lJ0H4)

47 How do you put up with that?

Posted by: Tuna

With narrowed eyes and plots of revenge...

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:55 PM (znREB)

48 This be yeer Holyday display in a tr e city center will without a black baby Jesus. Instead it will be reused with asine that be says...Ice was here... This whey we can show the world we be hate Trump two !!!

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 05, 2025 07:55 PM (0IwHf)

49 No more cold feets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:54 PM

I hear Sydney might be on the market.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:56 PM (0sNs1)

50 34
'Put on a knit hate.

hat.'

I want a hate hat.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 07:56 PM (fd80v)

51 A lot of global warming in that Iceland video. How come it never gets warm there? I landed there once around Memorial Day and it was snow/sleeting and around 32 degrees.

Posted by: Andreas Andreassen at December 05, 2025 07:56 PM (oftw2)

52 I feel trapped. Jasmine is using me for her blanket. Allie is using my book for a pillow. What to do, what to do...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:56 PM (ESVrU)

53 I feel trapped. Jasmine is using me for her blanket. Allie is using my book for a pillow. What to do, what to do...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:56 PM

C'mon, Perfessor, man up! Sit back, look at the ceiling, and think of Dostoevsky.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:58 PM (0sNs1)

54 48 This be yeer Holyday display in a tr e city center will without a black baby Jesus. Instead it will be reused with asine that be says...Ice was here... This whey we can show the world we be hate Trump two !!!
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt

That's the Christmas spirit, Mary!

Posted by: Fellow Traveler (FART Tube Fan) at December 05, 2025 07:59 PM (oftw2)

55 Thread babe. SFW.

http://alturl.com/79kni

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 07:59 PM (dK+Kv)

56 I read the content. That's why I comment so little

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 07:59 PM (LHPAg)

57 Global Warming is only a phenomenon that occurs in Western Europe and North America.

For some reason the rest of the world does not suffer from thus disaster created by Trump ....

Posted by: Jackson at December 05, 2025 08:00 PM (J9q9v)

58 Too much THC tonight, Mary ????

54 48 This be yeer Holyday display in a tr e city center will without a black baby Jesus. Instead it will be replced with a sine that be says...Ice was here... This whey we can show the world we be hate Trump two !!!
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt

Posted by: Jackson at December 05, 2025 08:02 PM (J9q9v)

59 How do you put up with that? My thermostat is always on 72 during the winter. 64 is like having the air conditioner on to me.
Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 07:44 PM (lJ0H4)

I keep mine on 69 . Summer it's on 74.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)

60 Bedding choices sometimes depend upon sleepwear choices.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:03 PM (sDNVV)

61 Summer is 80
Winter is 70

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:03 PM (sDNVV)

62 You guys did a good week of commenting, without reading the posts.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (1wjle)

You can count on us, Boss!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:04 PM (RE5em)

63 Well, we are the best commenters on the webz.

Posted by: toby928(c) sucks up at December 05, 2025 08:04 PM (jc0TO)

64 Nazi penguin sex spies in America, thru the use of their innate polymorphic perversity, obtained top secret information from compromised sources that was quickly funneled to the Rosenbergs for dissemination to the Russians. These source were sometimes know by the acronym "PACO", which stands for "Penguin Activated Comrade Operater". PACO assets were kept in line in the usual manner, assisted by carefully maintained catalogs of photographs and films of their clandestine midnight mephitic meetups.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

65 Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:03 PM (sDNVV)

80? Do you keep ceiling fans running?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:05 PM (KDPiq)

66 the way, yes.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:06 PM (sDNVV)

67 Penguin Facts asked me to pass that along to you tonight as he is on a top secret fact finding mission to Venezuela.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

68 I bought me an electric blanket about a week ago. Very cozy. No more cold feets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 07:54 PM

When I used to live in colder climes, an electric blanket was the snizzle. Down here it is overkill.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 08:07 PM (jc0TO)

69 Congress votes to allow drug boats to continue their delivery service.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:08 PM (KDPiq)

70 Howdy Cafe dwellers!

Wellness check -- anyone seen halfhourshower lately? He was at he MoMe in October but none of the 3 D's have seen him around in the past month or so.

Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:10 PM (QMAsf)

71 Never had an electric blanket . When I lived in NY I was too poor ( or cheap) to buy one and now back living in the south don't need one.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:10 PM (KDPiq)

72 Doof, I sent him an email but no reply.

I have not seen alteria around either.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (sDNVV)

73 Wellness check -- anyone seen halfhourshower lately? He was at he MoMe in October but none of the 3 D's have seen him around in the past month or so.
Posted by: Doof

Stateless has been absent for quite a while also. Hope he's ok.

Posted by: Tuna at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (lJ0H4)

74 147 Why would you make fake bombs with real gunpowder?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

Because you want them to be found by the dogs?

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (E0p3T)

75 Beautiful sunset photo! I hate that I saw it, and I instantly thought AI. Humans ARE capable of great art without machines, though I'm sure Lightroom or Photoshop enhanced it a bit.

I'm seeing writers talk about how their actual written work is getting flagged as AI. Like, it's so good it had to be synthetic. It's causing some problems as people try to clear their names and reputations, especially at colleges.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 08:14 PM (Eng1Z)

76 Just got back from our town's Christmas tree lighting. There was a furry.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 08:15 PM (f0sNM)

77 Because you want them to be found by the dogs?
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (E0p3T)

Makes sense. Another reason I thought it was one of the alphabets that planted them to further the plan to frame the J6ers.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:15 PM (KDPiq)

78 But they didn't find them.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM (vFG9F)

79 Holy crap! Wind kicked up BIG TIME! Batten down the hatches! It’s blowing stink.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM (mT+6a)

80 6 Boy, that Iceland is a bit of an ashole.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8

Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (ynpvh)

81 Electric blankets are great when you're chilled, just want to *thaw out* & don't want to mess with the thermostat.

When hubby first got sick (and lost too much weight), I couldn't get this house warm enough for him, poor guy. Bought him an electric blanket & he snuggled under for about 2 weeks; I swear he only got out of bed to use the bathroom!

I use it to pre-heat the bed before I turn in on coldest nights, then switch it off or I'll get too warm.

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (rdVOm)

82 Congress votes to allow drug boats to continue their delivery service.

The people who don't know what a woman is- but DO know what a white bomber looks like- tell me that those are mostly peaceful fishing boats.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (XFXIk)

83 >>> You guys did a good week of commenting, without reading the posts. Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 07:38 PM (1wjle)

I read them! But sometimes what you or other cobs/commenters have written on it is so spot on, it's like well how can I top that? Do I just put "Mega dittos, Ace?"

So instead I post about other random crap in the news that has intrigued or enraged me. Or try to add a funny.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (Eng1Z)

84 I've decided I will now just nerd out on 3D Printing, Day Trading, programming projects and working on cars and pretty much check out of the larger culture.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)

85 LizLem, I always enjoy your comments.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (sDNVV)

86 Holy crap! Wind kicked up BIG TIME! Batten down the hatches! It’s blowing stink.
Posted by: nurse ratched
---------

Thanks for the warning, nurse. We'll get it here in a couple hours. Ugh.

*hot toddies all 'round!*

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (rdVOm)

87 82 Congress votes to allow drug boats to continue their delivery service.

The people who don't know what a woman is- but DO know what a white bomber looks like- tell me that those are mostly peaceful fishing boats.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 08:17 PM (XFXIk)

The Spice must flow...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (ynpvh)

88 I have an electric mattress pad. I recommend it over an electric blanket. It's like radiant heating. Makes a difference but you don't notice it.

Posted by: Wenda at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (PQHCc)

89 ‘
I love model trains, hell I love real trains.’
-S. Fluke

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 08:19 PM (LHPAg)

90 80
'Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...'

It chokes the engines.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)

91 Emmie makes the best hot toddies.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:21 PM (sDNVV)

92 Posted earlier today by Publius:
FLOTUS at a children's hospital for Christmas visit:
https://is.gd/8acp6s

She lights up with kids around. It's cute. I hope Barron finds a nice girl that gives her a bunch of rugrats to love on! She'll be a fab grandma.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 08:21 PM (Eng1Z)

93 90 80
'Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...'

It chokes the engines.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)

There was a jetliner that, during it's long flight, started having engine troubles. A faint aura surrounded the engines and the front window became opaque. Yeah, the flew through the ash of a huge eruption and didn't realize it. Their landing was...exciting.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:22 PM (ynpvh)

94 I will match my military record against Hegseth anytime !!!

I was a Sgt Major in the Minnesota Salvation Army and what was Hegseth ????

You know I was one of the guys ringing the bells at Christmas to help Somali children of color in Minnesota...

Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (J9q9v)

95 The front window went from clear to translucent, not opaque. My bad.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)

96 94 I will match my military record against Hegseth anytime !!!

I was a Sgt Major in the Minnesota Salvation Army and what was Hegseth ????

You know I was one of the guys ringing the bells at Christmas to help Somali children of color in Minnesota...

Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (J9q9v)

I thought you helped yourself to the little boys...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)

97 I've decided I will now just nerd out on 3D Printing, Day Trading, programming projects and working on cars and pretty much check out of the larger culture.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)

I'm not checking out but I've always just followed the Serenity prayer.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference,"

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:23 PM (KDPiq)

98 Got a warm kitty sitting in my lap right now!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

My ***** is always warm!!

Posted by: Zombie Mrs. Slocombe at December 05, 2025 08:24 PM (cYBz/)

99 So...

are Toy Train sets gay & lame, like Barber Shop Quartets?

Or just kinda lame, like ham radios?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM

Dunno. But they're like bewbs. Meant for the kids, but somehow dad spends the most time playing with them.

It's now a bewb thread. You're welcome.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:24 PM (Wnv9h)

100 91 Emmie makes the best hot toddies.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:21 PM
Rated 110% true fact.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 08:24 PM (LHPAg)

101 90 80
'Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...'

It chokes the engines.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)

And not in a good way.

Posted by: Zombie David Carradine at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (ynpvh)

102 61 Summer is 80
Winter is 70
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:03 PM (sDNVV)

That’s just about what we do. I should say, what the wife insists on. She’s a Louisiana girl, the more hot and humid it is, the more it feels like home to her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (c7Ygk)

103 You know how you can tell the difference between a mock tiger charge and a real tiger charge?

Whether or not you get eaten at the end.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (syz1S)

104 Holy crap! Wind kicked up BIG TIME! Batten down the hatches! It’s blowing stink.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM

Single digit cold out here. And in New England fashion, having vodka straight from the freezer.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)

105 104 Holy crap! Wind kicked up BIG TIME! Batten down the hatches! It’s blowing stink.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM

Single digit cold out here. And in New England fashion, having vodka straight from the freezer.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)

Got into the low 40s here this morning. The heater turned on! At least it warmed up into the low 70s...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (ynpvh)

106 Working outside in the heat all day, 80 feels cold .

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (sDNVV)

107 Doof, I sent him an email but no reply.

I have not seen alteria around either.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:12 PM (sDNVV)

Thanks for trying!!

Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (QMAsf)

108 Hubby bought a space heater for his work space but the house thermostat is still set at 64
*angrily puts on fleece sweater over sweatshirt and a knitted cap
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 07:40 PM (eZ5tL)
---
So you're saying he's lowering overall heating costs by using a space heater where he spends most of his time.

And this is a bad thing?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

109 Single digit cold out here. And in New England fashion, having vodka straight from the freezer.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)

Cold and a little bit of snow on the ground here. Margaritas and chillin with the TV and Christmas tree for me and my lady tonight

Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:31 PM (QMAsf)

110 Got into the low 40s here this morning. The heater turned on! At least it warmed up into the low 70s...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM (ynpvh)
---
Single digits this morning, negative with wind chill. A month early for this sort of thing, but its warming up. In the mid-20s now.

That opens the path for snow. Michigan never gets serious snow when it's single digits.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 08:32 PM (ZOv7s)

111 Doof, Good for you!!! Enjoy.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (sDNVV)

112 Working outside in the heat all day, 80 feels cold .
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:29 PM

Y'all can keep that down there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)

113
9

What makes a horse race through a cave?

Courage!
Posted by: Cowardly lion at December 05, 2025 07:29 PM (pkeXY)

------

Why do federal employees just sit on their butts?
Why is every GOPe a putz?
What makes the Newsome crush his nuts?

Curridge -- that they ain't got.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (VWtfl)

114 Boy, that Iceland is a bit of an ashole.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 07:23 PM (6Bc8

Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...

I kinda thought it might be AI, for that very reason. I can't imagine why an airliner would fly that close to an eruption.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Riz8t)

115 Cold and a little bit of snow on the ground here. Margaritas and chillin with the TV and Christmas tree for me and my lady tonight
Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:31 PM

*raises glass*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)

116 Doof, Good for you!!! Enjoy.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (sDNVV)

Thank you, my friend!
*raises glass toward Texas*

Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:34 PM (QMAsf)

117 'Ash is NOT a jetliner's best friend...'

It chokes the engines.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 08:20 PM (fd80v)
---
Some years ago a big eruption in Iceland caused major disruption for airlines and the rotator aircraft out of Dover.

Subsequently, that's now a planning factor - the air link can be severed without warning.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 05, 2025 08:35 PM (ZOv7s)

118 Thanks, Doof-- (/sarc) for leaving *this* on the bar for me last night!

tinyurl.com/3fa4sxsb

I've gotten *this far* with that project:

tinyurl.com/2p9f5wk

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:35 PM (rdVOm)

119 I kinda thought it might be AI, for that very reason. I can't imagine why an airliner would fly that close to an eruption.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:33 PM (Riz8t)

Probably no big deal if you are well upwind of the ash plume.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 08:36 PM (npFr7)

120 Doof, clicks glass and sends a hug.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 08:36 PM (sDNVV)

121 Holy cow...
Had me a Newfoundland once...awesome dog!
As long as you didn't mind slobber all over the walls🤪!
Loved that boy...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 08:36 PM (3pxDZ)

122 Chilly in Babylon DC. Its 30 more or less, and had a bit of snow today. Just enough to cover the ground but easy enough to brush off the car. No issues driving into work other than slow, Friday beltway traffic. One of my co-workers cat had a stroke so he won't be in tonight. Going to have to put the ole kittuh down, sadly. Poor kittuh. He's pretty shook up. Hard to lose a pet.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 08:37 PM (YoT4f)

123 Thanks, Doof-- (/sarc) for leaving *this* on the bar for me last night!

tinyurl.com/3fa4sxsb

I've gotten *this far* with that project:

tinyurl.com/2p9f5wk
Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:35 PM (rdVOm)

Hahaha! Keep going!

Fortunately for you, we have an uncomplicated Drink of the Night for Saturday this week.

Posted by: Doof at December 05, 2025 08:40 PM (QMAsf)

124 When I did live in NY I always planned on making a Summer room if I ever bought a house. I'd take the smallest bedroom and cover the floor with sand , project an ocean beach scene with gentle waves on an entire wall and hang a hammock . A couple of sun lamps would complete the room. I loved the first month of winter and dreaded the next 3 months.

Now back South I just converted two of my bedrooms to a movie theater and an art studio.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:42 PM (KDPiq)

125 Hahaha! Keep going!

Fortunately for you, we have an uncomplicated Drink of the Night for Saturday this week.
Posted by: Doof
--------

*smiles, with gritted teeth*

Thanks, buddy!

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:43 PM (rdVOm)

126 For a bunch of soi disant elites, they sure are dumb:

The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect”
(A list of 13 European countries follows in which X is the top source of news.)

https://is.gd/1Qq41X

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:44 PM (Riz8t)

127 It really is eerie how much Ayn Rand has been right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

128 This is why (some!) people learned to carefully put their Christmas lights back into the original packaging:

tinyurl.com/ms2mymv4

Posted by: JQ at December 05, 2025 08:48 PM (rdVOm)

129 I’ve read the comments. Don’t understand them. But then again, I’m a retard.

Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 08:51 PM (ZTJjv)

130 It almost feels like ONT....
See you guys upstairs...I'll be, as usual, sitting over there at my favorite wobbly table...🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (3pxDZ)

131 The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect”
(A list of 13 European countries follows in which X is the top source of news.)

https://is.gd/1Qq41X

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 08:44 PM (Riz8t)

Kind of scary, ain't it, when a website that was initially founded as an online version of CB Channel 19 becomes regarded as a legitimate source of news.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (npFr7)

132 News you can use: storebought chocolate milk makes fabulous hot chocolate if you steam it.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (P1Kdk)

133 132 News you can use: storebought chocolate milk makes fabulous hot chocolate if you steam it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 05, 2025 08:52 PM (P1Kdk)

This outrage cannot stand!

Posted by: Swiss Miss at December 05, 2025 08:54 PM (ZTJjv)

134 127 It really is eerie how much Ayn Rand has been right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
And George Orwell.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 08:57 PM (LHPAg)

135 Doesn't get much better than this.

https://tinyurl.com/3newuxf9

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)

136 In somewhat ignored news: NASA responds after Russia accidentally blew up its only way to send astronauts to space. The accident prevents Russia from sending anyone into space

NASA has finally issued a response after Russia's space operations came to a catastrophic halt last week, as the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport was 'blown up' – albeit accidentally – following the launch of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft last week.

https://tinyurl.com/msayyvwd

The only working orbital system at the moment is SpaceX

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 08:59 PM (rbvCR)

137 Nice soft flannel sheets and an electric blanket for me.
Posted by: Tuna
------
I won't use an electric blanket. We have a mattress cover that has electric heating elements that we turn on a half hour before we go to bed so we don't climb into cold sheets, but it gets turned off when I'm in bed.
I've found that I feel very tired and listless in the morning if I sleep.with an electric blanket. It is probably due to the heat making it difficult for my body to regulate my temperature, but I have an alternative theory.
Each one of those wires next to your body is creating a small magnetic field at 60 HZ. Red blood cells are hemoglobin, which contains iron. Are the red blood cells on the surface of your body vibrating at 60 HZ if you're under an electric blanket? Can't be good.
I'll remove my tinfoil hat and leave now.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 05, 2025 09:00 PM (E2vqx)

138 124 When I did live in NY I always planned on making a Summer room if I ever bought a house. I'd take the smallest bedroom and cover the floor with sand , project an ocean beach scene with gentle waves on an entire wall and hang a hammock . A couple of sun lamps would complete the room. I loved the first month of winter and dreaded the next 3 months.

Now back South I just converted two of my bedrooms to a movie theater and an art studio.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 08:42 PM (KDPiq)
When I miss Florida I play Florida Room by Donald Fagan.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 09:02 PM (LHPAg)

139 134 127 It really is eerie how much Ayn Rand has been right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
And George Orwell.
Posted by: Eromero

And Neil Postman.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:03 PM (YoT4f)

140 Are the red blood cells on the surface of your body vibrating at 60 HZ if you're under an electric blanket? Can't be good.
I'll remove my tinfoil hat and leave now.
Posted by: buddhaha at December 05, 2025 09:00 PM (E2vqx)

Probably not. Depends upon the oxidation state of the iron atom in the hemoglobin molecule. Does blood get attracted to a magnet?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 09:03 PM (npFr7)

141
Remember Dole/Kemp '96?

Remember how, after losing, Jack Kemp couldn't keep his mouth shut in 1997 and he'd say stupid things as if the Voters didn't reject him in the last election?

You don't remember that because it never happened. Why can't retard walz be like Jack Kemp?

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:04 PM (cPNKV)

142 [ai] It really is eerie how much Ayn Rand has been right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

except she really needed an editor. She was dead wrong, there.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 09:07 PM (rbvCR)

143 I found this thermal underwear that has a fleece lining. Really comfy and warm. Thermajohns(?) I like them.

Not as warm as a wool sweater. Fucking hell, I want this:

https://www.norskwear.com/
product-page/sbwc-g

My sister got one for my dad a few Christmas ago. So warm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:08 PM (zZu0s)

144 I am not AI! I like to think I make all sorts of innovative mistakes on my own, thank you very much!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

145 The top photo? I would...
tell her of the waters of my home world...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (XuXeR)

146 144 I am not AI! I like to think I make all sorts of innovative mistakes on my own, thank you very much!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

Indeed. Real dems prove that real "intelligence" is dumber than "artificial" intelligence...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (ynpvh)

147 Ok

Serious face on here.

Please be very careful with heated blankets and heating pads.

Deep tissue burns are awful. And they don’t develop like surface burns. They are nefarious. You don’t know you’re damaging your tissue until it is too late.

Use a timer. Use the lowest setting.

DO NOT LEAVE IT ON ALL NIGHT.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (mT+6a)

148 145 The top photo? I would...
tell her of the waters of my home world...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (XuXeR)

Doesn't work if your home world is Arrakis...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (ynpvh)

149 Indeed. Real dems prove that real "intelligence" is dumber than "artificial" intelligence...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:12 PM (ynpvh)

That's right!
-Col Mustard

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (zZu0s)

150 Does blood get attracted to a magnet"

No. Variety of reasons...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (XuXeR)

151 Evenin', y'all. Here's something I just went through on my and MiladyJo's Win11 laptops. Maybe you might need it?

10 Windows Settings You MUST Disable NOW (2025 UPDATE) [uploaded 2 weeks ago]
https://youtu.be/MMtJXs3rbjs

I didn't need to do all of these, but there were a couple.

Win11 sucks much less when you turn off all the spyware and automatic BS. Yeah, it's still Gatesware, but like our Daisy the half-feral Malinois, it can behave if you use the leash and shock collar. Mostly.

Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent at December 05, 2025 09:15 PM (pv4q5)

152 150 Does blood get attracted to a magnet"

No. Variety of reasons...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (XuXeR) ;

Although, if in a strong enough magnetic field, polar molecules do fun things...I mean like Magnetar-level magnetic fields...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:17 PM (ynpvh)

153 Why is it that people love electric blankets, but hate electric chairs?

Posted by: Warm For Life at December 05, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)

154 153 Why is it that people love electric blankets, but hate electric chairs?

Posted by: Warm For Life at December 05, 2025 09:18 PM (oftw2)

One keeps you warm for the night; the other for the rest of your life...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:19 PM (ynpvh)

155 Although, if in a strong enough magnetic field"

Like when Rebecca Romijn nails you some iron?

Heh

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:20 PM (XuXeR)

156 "With", dammitt

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:21 PM (XuXeR)

157
Funny how retard walz doesn't go "hunting" anymore. Or wear plaid shirts.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:22 PM (cPNKV)

158 Earth’s magnetic field: about 0.5 gauss.
Fridge magnet: about 100 gauss.
MRI machine up to 10,000 gauss.
Standard neutron star: about 10¹² gauss.
Magnetar: 10¹⁴ to > 10¹⁵ gauss (stongest magnetic field in the known universe)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:23 PM (ynpvh)

159

I want a hate hat.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Just wear your red MAGA hat. Lefty progtards hate that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:23 PM (QVmho)

160 157
Funny how retard walz doesn't go "hunting" anymore. Or wear plaid shirts.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:22 PM (cPNKV)

Only if he's playing lumberjack with the boys...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:24 PM (ynpvh)

161 Geraldo Rivers catapulted to fame and fortune on the backs of profoundly retarded folk in Willowbrook on Staten Island. Maybe Walz is trying to do the same thing.

Posted by: Eyewitless News at December 05, 2025 09:24 PM (oftw2)

162 161 Geraldo Rivers catapulted to fame and fortune on the backs of profoundly retarded folk in Willowbrook on Staten Island. Maybe Walz is trying to do the same thing.

Posted by: Eyewitless News at December 05, 2025 09:24 PM (oftw2)

So lifting himself up by his own bootstraps?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:25 PM (ynpvh)

163 Deep tissue burns are awful.

Just 3.6 roentgen. Not great. Not terrible, da?

Posted by: Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov at December 05, 2025 09:25 PM (gKWVE)

164 She was nekked when she swam with whales.

Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood
_The Wrap

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:26 PM (SZI4T)

165 64 Nazi penguin sex spies in America, thru the use of their innate polymorphic perversity, obtained top secret information from compromised sources that was quickly funneled to the Rosenbergs for dissemination to the Russians. These source were sometimes know by the acronym "PACO", which stands for "Penguin Activated Comrade Operater". - fd

Very cunning, these "Paquistas". Quite an extraordinary conspiracy yarn; I believe the only participants you left out were the KKK, the Trilateral Commission and the Rosicrucians.

Libelous, of course. You'll be hearing from my Rechtsanwalt. Er, lawyer, that is to say.

Huffs on monocle, wipes it with bat-wing handkerchief and pops it back over his right eye

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 09:29 PM (mADJX)

166 Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood
_The Wrap
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:26 PM (SZI4T)

If she's agin' it, I'm for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (npFr7)

167 Just because politicians say something stupid doesn't necessarily mean they're stupid. They're telling people stupid enough to believe them what they want to hear..

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (Q+gd/)

168 SpaceX is preparing to sell insider shares in a transaction...
-company’s latest tender offer could value SpaceX at as much as $800 billion (speculation)
SpaceX could pursue an initial public offering as soon as late next year, one person said.
_Bloomberg
---

If he goes public the Board of Directors will manage SpaceX.
He can't live with that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:33 PM (SZI4T)

169 167 Just because politicians say something stupid doesn't necessarily mean they're stupid. They're telling people stupid enough to believe them what they want to hear..

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (Q+gd/)

That is true...but there are some real retards:
Jasmine Crockett
Sheila Jackson Lee
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:33 PM (ynpvh)

170 Cute with the duck.
Lam Leung Tim, better known as LT Lam, who has died aged 101, was a Hong Kong industrialist Who created the little yellow duck.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:35 PM (2WIwB)

171 It does bother me that all entertainment is being concentrated in fewer hands. I'd be all right with that if I didnt know how jealously they guard against outsiders and upstart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:36 PM (zZu0s)

172 Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood

Lefties really do use Constitutional/Unconstitutional and Democratic/Fascist as mindless synonyms for "Stuff I like / Stuff I Don't Like."

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 09:38 PM (3nLb4)

173 D Vance@JDVance . Dec 4
Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.

@cb_doge . 5h
𝕏 is now the #1 news app in:
UK Germany Italy Spain Switzerland Netherlands Greece Austria Poland Ireland Hungary Finland Romania
People across Europe trust 𝕏 as the best source of truth

Elon Musk@elonmusk . 3h
The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 09:39 PM (SZI4T)

174 Does blood get attracted to a magnet"
No. Variety of reasons...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 09:13 PM (XuXeR) ----------
Although, if in a strong enough magnetic field, polar molecules do fun things...I mean like Magnetar-level magnetic fields...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 09:17 PM (ynpvh)
~~~~~

Whoa. Stay away from MRI machines!

Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 09:40 PM (3ImbR)

175 It does bother me that all entertainment is being concentrated in fewer hands. I'd be all right with that if I didnt know how jealously they guard against outsiders and upstart.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 09:36 PM (zZu0s)

I say they are in the same position as the Buggy Whip and Kerosene Lamp Consortium would have been. "Hollywood" is dead, it just doesn't know it yet.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 09:41 PM (TR4+2)

176
Posted by: Diogenes

Hey, brother. We got MG Gibson (cdr for gold dome execution) to be our guest speaker at our St. Barbara dinner in March. I already have 330 registered guests, and may have to shut down registration when I max out the venue at 400 heads. 83 total awardees, 8 of them are Ancients. ADA has 63, FA has 20. 3 of the ancients are FA.

It's scary. LTG Lozano knows my first name, and LTG Karbler is ragging on me to get his good side in the photos this year. My buddy, told Karbler he didn't have a good side. Fucker laughed, and bought us all three a beer.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:45 PM (QVmho)

177 Sharp as a tack.

NEW NAME ALERT:
Biden renames the USA to the “United States of Ameragottit."

https://is.gd/cYl49j

-
God Bless Ameragottit
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Through the night with the light from above.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 09:46 PM (L/fGl)

178 Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood

-
She didn't shoot planes over Hanoi for this!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 09:48 PM (L/fGl)

179
Natalie Wood or Natalie Portman. Basically brunette bombshells.
Posted by: Hut

The one that can swim, obviously.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:50 PM (QVmho)

180 164 She was nekked when she swam with whales.

Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood
_The Wrap
Posted by: Braenyard

Oh. Well, I love it then!! LOL!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:51 PM (YoT4f)

181 Ameragottit was in Lord of Rings, daughter of Hurin and Melian.

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)

182 Ro Khanna gets credit for engaging with Vance rather than just calling him a fascist or whatever.
But he's wrong:
x.com/DanReich/status/1997074429948711170
The small movie theatre is dead. Alamo-Drafthouse dine-in theatres might still work, and IMAX; but the old 1930s model does not work for the 2020s.
What might work better is to disassociate movie release from movie display.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 09:51 PM (gKWVE)

183 I'd be outraged by the Warner-Netflix merger, but I already died from Net Neutrality.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (TR4+2)

184 Bif!
Sounds like a great event coming together. I wish I could be there!
But I gotta say, all my bosses had a good side. For some of them it was their backsides.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (2WIwB)

185 HAHAHAHHAH!! as predicted !!

"BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms that a large portion of Nick Fuentes’ audience and engagement is coming from the Middle East and Pakistan.

No surprise. Who the fuck in the US of A would care what a fagghy dork from Berwyn (the jokes write themselves) has to say ?

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (g47mK)

186 172 Jane Fonda Denounces Netflix-WBD Deal as a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ That Could Destroy Hollywood

Lefties really do use Constitutional/Unconstitutional and Democratic/Fascist as mindless synonyms for "Stuff I like / Stuff I Don't Like."
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 09:38 PM (3nLb4)

Only time I agree with her. It is a monopoly. #1 streamer buying the #3 streamer.

Netflix doesn’t release its content into theaters, and the goal is to kill the entire movie theater business in favor of streaming.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 09:55 PM (y171U)

187 Now they just need to see who is banging Tucker Carlson's network.

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:55 PM (g47mK)

188
Posted by: Diogenes

You get to Austin, I'll keep you posted on future events. Love to meet you in people space.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:57 PM (QVmho)

189 You get to Austin, I'll keep you posted on future events. Love to meet you in people space.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 09:57 PM (QVmho)

Count on it!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)

190 I'm deeply concerned that Trump has abandoned Americans in favor of a venomous coalition of globalists.

Make Arabia Great Again, not Make Israel Great Again!

Posted by: Concerned Conservative Pakistani at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (sf4IA)

191 Dollars to Qatari riyal that Carlson's "engagment" is mostly Turkey, Qatar, South Africa, Pakistan with a sprinkling of Germany (the Turks and Palis who live there).

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (g47mK)

192 187 Now they just need to see who is banging Tucker Carlson's network.
Posted by: runner

I read he's heading over to Qatar for some conference soon. FYI.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (YoT4f)

193 Netflix doesn’t release its content into theaters,

And that's a problem. Why not? I'd be happy to watch a good movie in a nice environment (read: with food, or IMAX) for a modest premium. I don't care what logo plays before it starts.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 05, 2025 09:59 PM (gKWVE)

194
Hair Fuentes

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 09:59 PM (1lXzG)

195 BTW, top picture is mind blowing.

It is underwater but the perspective makes it look above water.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 05, 2025 10:00 PM (y171U)

196 As a real America First American , whose ancestors fought int the Revolutionary War, I insist we focus on America First problems, and stop supporting filthy Zionists !!

Posted by: Starbucks T�rkiye at December 05, 2025 10:00 PM (g47mK)

197 Nood ONT.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 10:00 PM (TR4+2)

198
Youtube comments on "our side" videos (content we would watch) were inundated with "release the files" from mostly new accounts.

It was obvious it was total astroturf because Our Side didn't give a shit about "the files" being "released."

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (1lXzG)

199 I read he's heading over to Qatar for some conference soon. FYI.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 05, 2025 09:58 PM (YoT4f)

He is headlining a slew of American "influencers" there. The list will shock you.

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (g47mK)

200

nooododdood

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 10:02 PM (1lXzG)

201 HAHAHAHHAH!! as predicted !!

"BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms that a large portion of Nick Fuentes’ audience and engagement is coming from the Middle East and Pakistan.

No surprise. Who the fuck in the US of A would care what a fagghy dork from Berwyn (the jokes write themselves) has to say ?
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 09:54 PM (g47mK)

I do wonder if Fuentes is suffering from Audience Capture, where he started getting so many likes for specific stances on specific topics that he started bending to them to get more likes, and so on.
In short, he flew up his own butt for likes.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 10:05 PM (rbvCR)

Here We Go Again: Leftwing Propaganda Media Claims the Anti-Trump, Anti-ICE BLM Supporter Is Akshually MAGA

Of course. Of course.

The Daily Wire reported Thursday evening that Cole comes from a family deeply entrenched in left-wing activism.
Weeks before the alleged bombings, Cole worked for his father's bail bond company, which specialized in freeing illegal immigrants and even sued the Trump administration's DHS over immigration enforcement.

...
Later in 2021, the company held a press conference bemoaning anti-black racism with a left-wing attorney. Cole Sr. and Benjamin Crump, who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, attempted to sic the Biden Department of Justice on a local Tennessee prosecutor who had raised questions about the bail bond company.
Cole and his father ran multiple bail bond companies specializing in helping illegal immigrants avoid jail. Public records show the father relocated to Knoxville, Tenn., around 2017. One company even sued the Trump administration's DHS over immigration policies, claiming its clients were unfairly penalized when they missed court dates, but the D.C. Court of Appeals rejected all their claims just weeks before Cole allegedly planted pipe bombs. In fact, Cole Jr. had already been buying bomb-making parts as early as May 2019 -- long before any disputes over election results.

But on Friday morning, the mainstream media started pushing the narrative that Cole is a Trump supporter who "believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election."
"The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter," NBC News reported.

CNN published the same story. See the link for that.

Noted Fusion Slut and RussiaGate Hoaxer Natasha Bertrand is pushing this story too:

Natasha Bertrand of Dirty 51 fame enters the chat pic.twitter.com/zE6UDFpD9W
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 5, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

Comments

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1 Wow, you still working?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)

2
Yeah, more like he believed TRUMP was trying to *steal* the election.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (cPNKV)

3 Same playbook as with the Kirk assassin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

4 I guess it's better to burnout than to fade away.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (jc0TO)

5 Wow, you still working?"

It's two o'clock somewhere...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (XuXeR)

6 When all you have is gaslighting you have to go hard core gaslighting.

Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (0N4FZ)

7 My theory is that he was pissed because the nomination was stolen from Bernie Sanders, which would explain the bomb at the DNC. He just hated republicans, which would explain the bomb at the RNC. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (98kQX)

8 I can't imagine why no one reads or watches the "msm" anymore.

(heavy sarcasm)

Posted by: Ann at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (w9jrX)

9 So Tapper was right and he really is white? I mean MAGA = white supremacist, so they keep telling me. Damn clever disguise, I must say.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (3nLb4)

10 The going rate on gas must be.... cheap to gaslight this much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (NwnyJ)

11 I'd say that too if I was actually a Trump hater... Maybe trying for a pardon ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (VE6XX)

12 Love the twit - admittedly forth hand info?

Stop the presses!

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (XuXeR)

13 The nut is probably lying.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (vFG9F)

14 The nut is probably lying.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM

Ya think?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)

15 >>So Tapper was right and he really is white? I mean MAGA = white supremacist, so they keep telling me. Damn clever disguise, I must say.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM

A Larry Elder style white supremacist.

Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (98kQX)

16 ND and Miami replay. Better than any news show.

Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (GbONR)

17 I thought ace said he was taking off for the weekend 3 threads sgo.
Ewok just can't quit us.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (eZ5tL)

18 My theory is that he was pissed because the nomination was stolen from Bernie Sanders, which would explain the bomb at the DNC. He just hated republicans, which would explain the bomb at the RNC. Prove me wrong.
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (98kQX)

Doesn't really fit the prototypical Bernie Bro leftist wishing they were back in 1969.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

19 ND and Miami replay. Better than any news show.
Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM

I liked the idea of Miami and Vandy playing an unsanctioned game tomorrow. Too bad it won't happen.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (jc0TO)

20 Yeah... and who is the anonymous source who leaked this?

I'd wager they do not exist, or have anything to do with interrogating the suspect.

Flat out cur dog lie.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (mP0Kj)

21
This "white" black man, the builders of the gallows, and whoever "tipped off" or "found" the pipe bombs are ALL involved the Conspiracy to FRAME President Trump, and they all have connections to the US govt.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (cPNKV)

22 thought ace said he was taking off for the weekend 3 threads sgo.
Ewok just can't quit us.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (eZ5tL)

he could have queued them all up before 2:30 when he said that. Or Elon gave him an AI trained ACE-BOT 3000

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

23
He was gloating that the 2020 election was successfully stolen.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (azNOR)

24 But it does show how stupid "The Playoff" can be.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (jc0TO)

25 I still think large parts of this story are BS.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)

26 Is this like the anonymous leak earlier this week that the IG report on "Signalgate" found Hegseth guilty of sharing National Security secrets ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (VE6XX)

27 1 Wow, you still working?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)
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Scheduling things to post to the blog so that you can go guzzle Val-U-Rite in peace....how does that work?

Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (5aZAZ)

28 The left throws their own under the bus. Typical.

Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 06:38 PM (5Je/N)

29 He believes that the 2020 election was stolen, he's white, and wears MAGA pajamas to bed. Sure. I've heard 5 year olds lie better than this.

Posted by: Cheri at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (oiNtH)

30
And here's another rabid left-wing Democrat activist with ZERO Internet social media history?!?!

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (cPNKV)

31
Ace is on Automatic.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)

32
What's that song that goes Au-To-Maaa Tic, with the woman singing it?

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)

33
is it a woman?
what's the song?

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (cPNKV)

34 He's still upset that ObamaCare was not single-payer.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (wVcYX)

35 And here's another rabid left-wing Democrat activist with ZERO Internet social media history?!?!

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (cPNKV)

Released at 5 pm Friday for maximum impact.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (8avO+)

36 Goebbelsists. Always go with the biggest lie.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (sDNVV)

37 I like how his glasses are on crooked like his left ear grew higher up on his head.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (v0R5T)

38 Kid looks like Malcolm X sorta.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (pDt9x)

39 He believes that the 2020 election was stolen, he's white, and wears MAGA pajamas to bed. Sure. I've heard 5 year olds lie better than this.
Posted by: Cheri at December 05, 2025 06:39 PM (oiNtH)

What cookies?

Posted by: Facially becrumbed 5 year old Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (wVcYX)

40 38 Kid looks like Malcolm X sorta.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (pDt9x)

Remember he's white so Talcum X

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (VE6XX)

41 Whatever nobody listens to them anymore besides aged shut ins.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (YwEeS)

42
This is EXACTLY what the muslim-world does -- they blame Israel for THEIR terror attacks.

They take credit for the bombing. Celebrate it.
Then they blame Israel for doing it.

Fucking Gaslighting. They think it's funny. They're laughing at us while they Mindfuck us.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (cPNKV)

43 Just plain, "White Man?" Not, "White Negro?"

Posted by: White Hipanic Zimmerman at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (Q+gd/)

44 What is the big deal about this Al Shabob guy ???

I know him well and we go bowling every Saturday.

Al is a great shot !!!!

Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (J9q9v)

45 I'm tired of these people brazenly lying their asses off, but it's what I expect them to do. What bothers me far more is that so many people unhesitatingly and uncritically believe it. And they don't just believe it - they absorb it into their very souls like the parakletos has descended upon them and will defend it with a fire and zeal greater than the most devoted religious fundamentalist.

Posted by: That's the really terrifying part at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (TbWk/)

46 What's that song that goes Au-To-Maaa Tic, with the woman singing it?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)

33
is it a woman?
what's the song?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:41 PM (cPNKV)
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Pointer Sisters, with some kind of voice modulation effect.

Kind of weird that I know this.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 05, 2025 06:43 PM (0aYVJ)

47 Remember he's white so Talcum X
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (VE6XX)

BLMinem?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:44 PM (06Hmj)

48 Remember he's white so Talcum X
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (VE6XX)

He's a Soul Man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

49 How would Bertrand have transcripts of his interviews with the FBI?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:44 PM (36PRH)

50 That "believes the 2020 election was stolen" is meaningless. Pull my other finger that all the Dems believed Biden won that election and there was no fraud. I'm sure in private they were like "thank god our side managed to pull off this fraud and get Drumpf out of office".

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (hhkIi)

51 Black .. MAGA ...

Posted by: Breathy Elizabeth Taylor voice at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (jc0TO)

52 I think he looks like Steve Urkel.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (v0R5T)

53 Not directly related but looking at the earlier post featuring Jake the Snake Tapper, is it just me or is he starting to more closely resemble Kieth Olbermann?

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (YWi3q)

54 What's that song that goes Au-To-Maaa Tic, with the woman singing it?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)

There's a Pointer Sisters one.

I also seem to recall one by the Motels or some other New Wave band.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (8avO+)

55 So didn't this guy start buying the bomb parts before the election ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (VE6XX)

56 Well, he is a white person (per Jake Tappedout) and we all do this. Do big deal.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (WONhk)

57 He is a White Man of Color that probably voted for Trump twice .......

Posted by: Timmy Walz at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (J9q9v)

58 Of course you are entitled to your own opinions , but not your own facts.
Trump was talking about stolen elections and rigged ballot boxes best back in 2016 I read about right here

The bail company was making bank. Because if Trump arresting so many, of course he supported Trump The company was floundering under Biden business boonmed under Trump

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (uCqBP)

59 Would sloppy Jake Tapper even be able to distinguish a whiteman's cock from a blackman's cock?

Jake is only interested in racking up the credits.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (w6S0H)

60 Ace is on Automatic.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (cPNKV)

Automatic Commenter:

"Boobs. Slap a hot iron on the MSM while I make booze for dinner and my dog does the darnest thing while opening for gubs at the Corn Palace. Boobs."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (QZzSm)

61 Dog the Bounty Hunter >> Cole the Bounty Hunter.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (wVcYX)

62 All those white people of color look the same to me.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (v0R5T)

63 I guess we know why they didn't murder him.

He still has uses.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (oOhQ4)

64 2016?

Ass is chemjeff!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

65 Automatic

The Pointer Sisters.

Damn. Don’t you have any couth?

Posted by: Hamitchell62 at December 05, 2025 06:46 PM (tWkg3)

66
More blubbering on tonight's CBS News show about the poor, innocent drug dealers and the war crime against them. I hope we never - repeat, never - pass up the chance to blow them all to hell and not spare the means by which it's done.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (tgvbd)

67 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (uCqBP)

Never not funny.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (jc0TO)

68 I think he looks like Steve Urkel.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:45 PM (v0R5T)
----
The media always likes to show these criminals in the best light, which is why we see their yearbook photo.

We should see their selfies where they are posing all gangsta, trying to establish their street cred.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (ESVrU)

69 Early access or not, crashing on Alt-tab is an unforgivable sin.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (06Hmj)

70 22 thought ace said he was taking off for the weekend 3 threads sgo.
Ewok just can't quit us.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:36 PM (eZ5tL)

he could have queued them all up before 2:30 when he said that. Or Elon gave him an AI trained ACE-BOT 3000
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)
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Can ACE-BOT 3000 come up with pitches for box office winners?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (36PRH)

71
Marilyn Cole >>>>> Brian Cole

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:49 PM (tgvbd)

72 Early access or not, crashing on Alt-tab is an unforgivable sin.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (06Hmj)

Heh. I tried out the new dlc for fallout 76. Servers were crashed first day. Second day I could log in and the main quest immediately bugged out. I am moving towards Besthesda is dead to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:49 PM (zZu0s)

73 Don't forget Cole is white.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (0sNs1)

74 More blubbering on tonight's CBS News show about the poor, innocent drug dealers and the war crime against them. I hope we never - repeat, never - pass up the chance to blow them all to hell and not spare the means by which it's done.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (tgvbd)

"Them" is unclear. CBS News? Drug dealers? Both?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (QZzSm)

75 Automatic live by Lake Street Dive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCrC959P0OM

Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (98kQX)

76 @72 People still play that game?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (36PRH)

77
Them" is unclear. CBS News? Drug dealers? Both?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (QZzSm)

_________

First, business. Then pleasure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (tgvbd)

78 @72 People still play that game?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (36PRH)

People *ever* played that game?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)

79 I'm a bookslutaholic and, accordingly, have bought three books in the last 24 hours. That's all well and good but I was charged twice for one of the books. I called Amazon and there was some confusion. They asked which book I was talking about. I whispered, "Nazi Sex Spies." The guy, who sounded like he was from Bombay, asked me to repeat. "Nazi Sex Spies," I said. He said he still couldn't understand. "NAZI SEX SPIES!" I shouted. "NAZI! SEX! SPIES!" I finally got my $5 back.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (L/fGl)

80 People still play that game?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM

I don't.

Posted by: Homey at December 05, 2025 06:52 PM (jc0TO)

81 People still play that game?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 06:50 PM (36PRH)

I got it for like $9 a couple months ago. Got through 7 years of content in a month and then got really bored.

I can't imagine player counts are particularly high.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

82 They aren't scared yet. They aren't going to be scared until big names are hurt. LAWFARE !

I'm so angry waiting to see them fork over millions for lawyers
I could eat a pumpkin pie, a pumpkin pie and a quart of milk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 06:52 PM (SZI4T)

83 58 "Of course you are entitled to your own opinions , but not your own facts.
Trump was talking about stolen elections and rigged ballot boxes best back in 2016 I read about right here

The bail company was making bank. Because if Trump arresting so many, of course he supported Trump The company was floundering under Biden business boonmed under Trump"

---

I'm just wondering if the above text was altered.

If not, it's incoherent. I don't generally read this clown's posts, but for some reason I did this time.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (tXY4l)

84 Marilyn Cole >>>>> Brian Cole
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 05, 2025 06:49 PM

Concur.

Posted by: Peter North, Proud Canadian and occasional commenter at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (I/fAz)

85 How long did the msm go before they started lying about the bomber being a donk terrorist? 24 hours?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (QVmho)

86
I am couthless.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (cPNKV)

87 If not, it's incoherent. I don't generally read this clown's posts, but for some reason I did this time.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (tXY4l)

Seems pretty normal to me. Attempt at a sick burn using a phrase from 10 years ago. The usual bullshit. Seems pretty standard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (zZu0s)

88 45 I'm tired of these people brazenly lying their asses off, but it's what I expect them to do. What bothers me far more is that so many people unhesitatingly and uncritically believe it. And they don't just believe it - they absorb it into their very souls like the parakletos has descended upon them and will defend it with a fire and zeal greater than the most devoted religious fundamentalist.

------

This, exactly. They've gone completely psychotic, and have built their own lefty Bizzarro World. It's basically a secular Islam, with the almighty State standing in for Allah. Submit or die.

The problem is that the otherwise disengaged LIVs absorb some of this, subliminally. All they hear is Trump....Epstein....war crime...blah blah blah. Even my mother, who voted for Trump but doesn't really pay attention, thinks that there has to be some validity given all the smoke the left has been putting out there for 10 years.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (xverI)

89 So he had financial as well as ideological motives.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (9vfnu)

90
Remember, We "don't know" the "motive" of biden's afgan "refugee."

But he was probably stressed about Trump's lousy economy.

FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (cPNKV)

91 Seriously?

"The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican."

If the election was stolen, stolen from...who exactly? Why bomb both? I suspect he'll say the election was stolen from "the Rent is too Damn High" guy.

Look at how poorly designed the bombs were. How he wandered around and around after planting them. He's a kook. I don't expect his ideology makes any sense.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (gDhA9)

92 couldn't understand. "NAZI SEX SPIES!" I shouted. "NAZI! SEX! SPIES!" I finally got my $5 back.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I guess everybody is different and God bless you, but I would have let them keep the five bucks. That would be like having to get on the phone to explain that you're sending back the condoms because they were too big.

Posted by: Delicate Disposition at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)

93 Today's progressives...

BLM is MAGA
Left is Right
Black is White

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 06:57 PM (2WIwB)

94 Seems pretty normal to me. Attempt at a sick burn using a phrase from 10 years ago. The usual bullshit. Seems pretty standard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:54 PM (zZu0s)

It's gibberish. Weird grammar.

Could be AI generated.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:57 PM (EWlvz)

95 People *ever* played that game?"

So what did we spend that $$$ on anyway?

/Amazon Video

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:57 PM (XuXeR)

96 couldn't understand. "NAZI SEX SPIES!" I shouted. "NAZI! SEX! SPIES!" I finally got my $5 back.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I guess everybody is different and God bless you, but I would have let them keep the five bucks. That would be like having to get on the phone to explain that you're sending back the condoms because they were too big.
Posted by: Delicate Disposition at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (oftw2)

it would be worth keeping one to sneak into bookshelves and take portraits of serious people with that book out front and center.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:58 PM (8avO+)

97 Media delenda est with a topping of nuclear fire to cleanse it clean.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (2GVsD)

98 If the election was stolen, stolen from...who exactly? Why bomb both? I suspect he'll say the election was stolen from "the Rent is too Damn High" guy.

Look at how poorly designed the bombs were. How he wandered around and around after planting them. He's a kook. I don't expect his ideology makes any sense.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:55 PM (gDhA9)

I still say the evidence we've seen so far, it looks more likely this guy didn't do it.

Or if he WAS involved, he was participating with the help of a three letter agency.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (v2PU4)

99 13 The nut is probably lying.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (vFG9F)
_________
Of course. That's what Natasha Bertrand does.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2025 07:00 PM (s0JqF)

100
Cole is Maga. He tried to hang me while I was getting a subway sandwich.

Posted by: Jussie Smollet at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (IifOV)

101 Where did he get the black powder? Or was it white powder?

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (Q+gd/)

102 According to this X thread researching Cole and his presence online:

https://tinyurl.com/y4r63ptm
(thereaderapp)

I_am_Hot_4_Cock appears to have been his username associated to his email colebrian****@gmail.com that was involved in the 2016 hacking of the Adult Friend Finder sex and swingers hook-up site.

He has some other "patriotic" usernames, etc.
Was into anime, and played a lot of video games.
Liked to use the name "Delta" a lot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (6ydKt)

103 Or if he WAS involved, he was participating with the help of a three letter agency.

Remember the pine scented druid's agency was very good at giving 'lone wolf' terror cells all they needed to make the bombs and then arrest them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (2GVsD)

104 Akshually MAGA

Of course he was. And the corrupt Biden FBI hid the fact so that Donald Trump could win his third election.

Or something.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 07:02 PM (XFXIk)

105 So were Urkel's pipe bombs workable? Or were they potential duds?

I hear conflicting stuff

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 07:02 PM (ZxPkt)

106 He got his tech tips from some white guys in khakis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 07:03 PM (SZI4T)

107 >> Automatic live by Lake Street Dive

That chick has pipes.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 07:04 PM (TR2dy)

108 If your head cannon tells you that anime is the root cause of it all, you are a fvcking tourist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:04 PM (2GVsD)

109 Remember the pine scented druid's agency was very good at giving 'lone wolf' terror cells all they needed to make the bombs and then arrest them.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Now you tell us

Posted by: El Mikloso, Abogado por Cesar Sayoc at December 05, 2025 07:05 PM (N7hqt)

110 I hear conflicting stuff
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 07:02 PM (ZxPkt)

No way!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 07:05 PM (2v2r4)

111 Who believes more than anyone that the 2020 election was stolen, a MAGA extremist...or a Democrat insider?

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 07:06 PM (XFXIk)

112 I still say the evidence we've seen so far, it looks more likely this guy didn't do it.

Or if he WAS involved, he was participating with the help of a three letter agency.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (v2PU4)
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yeah, chances are pretty good there are some DMs out there where he's chatting with someone providing "encouragement" that he'd be doing the country a favor.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:06 PM (ESVrU)

113 Whoa whoa whoa. Fallout 76 and properties after (including the show from what I have seen) are shit.

Fallout as a franchise was pretty damn awesome .

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (zZu0s)

114 It doesn't matter to me that this tard is a faggot.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

115 Fallout 76 - "we're going for the modern audience!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (2GVsD)

116 Way

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 07:08 PM (ZxPkt)

117 Re I am hot 4 cock

Sounds like a good Amish boy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:08 PM (zZu0s)

118 The problem with women isn't the babies or lack thereof, it's the the psy ops being run on them through the media. Black women have babies, they're not conservative.

Look at all the trends that started magically around "2009" when the media managed to convince everyone, women included, that politics was personal.

Targeted psy ops are the issue.

From Obama, Trayvon and RACISM through the phony Hillary Rise of Women and hashtag MeToo bs, through covid... all were targeted planned psychological operations designed to mush the brains of the susceptible. And we are living the result.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 07:08 PM (E0p3T)

119 Fallout 76 - "we're going for the modern audience!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:07 PM (2GVsD)

It had some interesting ideas, but the latest thing which is supposed to be New Vegas themed is set in... Ohio? Wtf?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

120 It doesn't matter to me that this tard is a faggot.
Posted by: fd

Gotta fag, handsome sir?

Posted by: Eliza Doolittle, pre-Professor Higgins at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (N7hqt)

121 David French ratted Cole out, he was jealous of that nic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)

122 Noted Fusion Slut and RussiaGate Hoaxer Natasha Bertrand is pushing this story too:

Well, she may be a slut, but she's fairly easy on the eyes

https://shorturl.at/gv4C9
https://shorturl.at/jNwu5

Have to admit, though...that last photo has crazy/sanpaku eyes.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (ycI94)

123 yeah, chances are pretty good there are some DMs out there where he's chatting with someone providing "encouragement" that he'd be doing the country a favor.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 07:06 PM (ESVrU)

That's possibly the least of it.

My thing is, this is 2025. Don't show me a grainy photo, wearing a unique pair of shoes, and tell me you have the guy.

In other news, I saw a video the other day where Santa Claus was wrassling Stephen Hawking.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2025 07:10 PM (PFg0D)

124 David French ratted Cole out, he was jealous of that nic.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)

Strictly speaking, it's his wife who's hot for cock.

Please make a note of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:11 PM (zZu0s)

125 I thought Stephen Hawking was Santa Claus.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:11 PM (2GVsD)

126 That guy is as black as Jasmine Crockett. I will never forget her cotton picking and wearing chains speech. The only cotton she ever picked was some out of a medicine bottle.
The only chains she ever wore were gold chains around her neck. The stupid, stupid lies these people tell to get their way is sickening bullshit. Anyone who believes it is a retard.

Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 07:11 PM (5Je/N)

127 Hell, even us know cole is black

Posted by: West Virginia code miners at December 05, 2025 07:12 PM (N7hqt)

128 105. I'm curious as well. I'd read the bombs were duds and in my mind went "fake" But yesterday someone posted that the pipes were packed with black powder and and metal scraps. The dud was that "maga Urkel" did not have anything that would detonate them, just kitchen timers, that were not set up to even complete an electric circuit and potentially make a spark.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 07:12 PM (hhkIi)

129 Anyone who believes it is a retard.

Timmy Walz, "reporting for duty!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:12 PM (2GVsD)

130 Some don't give opinions, they jaculate them.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 07:13 PM (EyfuW)

131 I thought Stephen Hawking was Santa Claus.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Sleigh v wheelchair

Discuss

Posted by: Miklos has enough pennies for many more two cent's worths at December 05, 2025 07:13 PM (N7hqt)

132 A sleigh with training wheels on the skids?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (2GVsD)

133 Why would you make fake bombs with real gunpowder?

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

134

If Urkel was involved it might have involved time travel.

Posted by: frankly at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (pvBJS)

135 Ha! Went out on the front porch and there was a Cologuard box sitting there. My wife asked me what I knew about it and I said all that I knew was this

https://youtu.be/Mu12X2cu6Y0

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 07:16 PM (jc0TO)

136 Look to see who is most verbal in portraying this falsehood. Those folks are likely the ones that influenced it being buried, and there is likely communications to that effect. The Jan 6th committee destroyed a lot of their communications, but they were sent somewhere, and I'm still curious about the details of what was found in the burn room of the FBI.

The louder someone proclaims Cole is MAGA, the more likely that person is in ass protection mode. The premise is so outlandish, that this seems like a Hail Mary to avoid repercussions.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 07:17 PM (dIske)

137 108 If your head cannon tells you that anime is the root cause of it all, you are a fvcking tourist.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:04 PM (2GVsD)

If you have an actual head cannon you might be in an anime.

Posted by: Just saying at December 05, 2025 07:18 PM (TbWk/)

138 Woo hoo! The Toyota Helux Champ will soon be on the American market! It’s a light-duty, basic pickup truck that will likely sell for less than $20k. Until today, U.S. regulations made it impossible to sell in our markets.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

139 The fact that he thought the 2020 election was stolen just tells me he knew his ass from a hole in the ground.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 07:18 PM (fd80v)

140 He escaped this long for being a not a Jan6 MAGA protester, now will be claimed one since he got caught.

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)

141 The Toyota Helux Champ will soon be on the American market!

Will it accept an M-2 in the bed? I know some Afghans would be interested.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:19 PM (2GVsD)

142 The real box is smaller than the skit.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 07:21 PM (jc0TO)

143 >>>----
yeah, chances are pretty good there are some DMs out there where he's chatting with someone providing "encouragement" that he'd be doing the country a favor.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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we'll just look the other way on that oz in your glove box

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (SZI4T)

144 Anyway, I don't think that I will "unleash".

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (jc0TO)

145 4 wheel drive Helux available?

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2025 07:22 PM (Q+gd/)

146 Will it accept an M-2 in the bed? I know some Afghans would be interested.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:19 PM

I'd be interested! Don't know if Weasel will allow it on the range, however.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

147 Why would you make fake bombs with real gunpowder?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

Because you want them to be real, but you don't want them to go off. Maybe? I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (zZu0s)

148 Head canon

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (E0p3T)

149 Nood. Cafe. If anyone besides me did nkt know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:31 PM (zZu0s)

150 147 Why would you make fake bombs with real gunpowder?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

Because you want them to be real, but you don't want them to go off. Maybe? I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 07:30 PM (zZu0s)

because he's a fucking idiot/lunatic.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 07:34 PM (gDhA9)

151 103 Or if he WAS involved, he was participating with the help of a three letter agency.

Remember the pine scented druid's agency was very good at giving 'lone wolf' terror cells all they needed to make the bombs and then arrest them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 07:01 PM (2GVsD)

If this guy (or some other people) planted these bombs on J5, the rally that happened on J6 should never have taken place. Someone should have discovered the EDs, then notified Capitol Police, and then the whole site would have been declared off limits to the public as there would have been an active investigation taking place on J6.

Why were those devices even allowed to stay there? That area is probably some of the most remotely monitored real estate in the world.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 08:06 PM (0CU3H)

152 The media is nothing more than a subversive, treasonous Fifth Column. They should be destroyed without pity.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 05, 2025 08:50 PM (aKxxZ)

153 If I wanted to do as much damage as possible to Trump I'd give the FBI a BS story like that, too.

Posted by: Socratease at December 05, 2025 08:50 PM (YgfoU)

154 Check which party he's registered as.

Posted by: Socratease at December 05, 2025 08:51 PM (YgfoU)

155 ...Why were those devices even allowed to stay there? That area is probably some of the most remotely monitored real estate in the world.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 08:06 PM (0CU3H)

And I seem to remember that there were reports of a police car or two sitting within the danger area/blast radius, seemingly unconcerned and the drift of the story I recall is that they knew the bombs were fake which is why they weren't reacting. Maybe my memory is bad but I distinctly recall something like that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 05, 2025 08:54 PM (aKxxZ)

156 Distraction 101. The 'pipe bomber' is not a story, islamo-communists taking control of the worlds capital - NYC - and even London is.

The 'republican' party is either complicit or plain stupid.

Pam Bondi is friends with Ben Crump and allowed a fake witness(Jeantel) in the Trayvon Martin bullshit.

Sodom on Potomac is a screenplay distraction laundering our money.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 06, 2025 08:01 AM (mNOhh)

The Week In Woke

How many trillions does the Racism, Inc. grift cost us?

[T]here's one aspect of this industrial-scale robbery of the American people that feels especially chilling: It's this: When officials raised concerns about one of the Somali scams, the scammers threatened to publicly brand them as "racist."
You will be tarred with the brush of "racism," the fraudsters warned, and it will be "sprawled all over the news."

And here's the thing: it worked.
The officials crumbled in the face of the scammers' shameless playing of the "racism" card.
They carried on funding what they suspected was a sketchy outfit, so desperate were they to avoid being called "racist.".
This reveals a chilling truth not only about Minnesota but about the West more broadly.
It speaks to the lethal power of the racism grift.
It confirms that accusations of "racism" have become a key weapon in the armory of the duplicitous.
Even the state itself can now be cowed by mere whispers of the r-word.
It was Feeding Our Future that aroused the suspicion of state officials.
The Minnesota Department of Education was alarmed by the number of "feeding sites" that were popping up.
Yet the Somali scammers knew how to silence their doubters -- just cry "racism."
You will be in trouble if you fail to fund "minority-owned businesses," they said, and the Department of Education buckled.
"The money kept flowing," as one report says.
It was blackmail. Minnesota officials essentially handed wads of cash to the scammers to buy their silence, to shush their talk of "racism."
They gave away the taxes of working-class Americans in order to save their own bureaucratic skin -- such is the hypnotic power of the "racism" panic.
And it's not just in the United States; throughout the Western world, state officials are so scared of being called racist that they'll even turn a blind eye to criminal behavior.
Here in the UK, the "grooming gang" scandal was underpinned by the same moral cowardice.
White working-class girls in towns across England were raped by gangs of men from mostly Pakistani backgrounds, and everyone from cops to politicians looked the other way.
Why? Because, as one inquiry found, they feared "being thought of as racist."

Forget the trillions of dollars stolen -- how many needless deaths does the Racism, Inc. scam cost us?

A new book about George and Alexander Soros' project to elect leftwing anti-justice prosecutors notes their success, as they define it.

As Soros spokesman Michael Vachon admitted, "We started a movement . . . the knee-jerk, so-called tough-on-crime philosophy has been discredited in many communities."
He is right, and the results are catastrophic.
The foundational belief these progressive DAs share is that systemic social change, not aggressive prosecution, is the answer to crime.
...
It meant the effective elimination of criminal justice, putting more criminals -- even repeat offenders -- back on the streets.
This week an NYU student was assaulted in Greenwich Village by James Rizzo, a recidivist criminal with 16 arrests and a lengthy record of assaulting women.
Last week in Chicago Lawrence Reed, a man with a 72-arrest record and eight felony convictions, set a young woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line.
In Denver last month, repeat offender Charles Cooley broke into the home of Kevin and Sarah Root. After posting a $500 surety bond, Cooley is back on the street ("awaiting trial").
And these harrowing stories aren't one-offs; they reflect the data showing how Soros-backed prosecutors worsened crime.
In 2021 Philadelphia, under Soros DA Larry Krasner, broke its all-time murder record -- as did 12 other cities with progressive DAs.
In Chicago under DA Kim Foxx, overall reported crime skyrocketed by 369% between 2019 and 2023, driven largely by huge jumps in property crimes like motor vehicle theft.
Other major cities saw similar spikes.
In Oregon, under the direction of Soros-funded DA Mike Schmidt, drug decriminalization policies coincided with a huge spike in drug overdose fatalities, which more than tripled from 280 in 2019 to 956 in 2022.

I have never seen a man crush his testicles harder than this dude. pic.twitter.com/rey7LBeSOa
— BORED (@BoredElonMusk) December 4, 2025

Adam Carolla has been pointing out that ball-less leftist "men" have been crossing their legs like women for years.

Tim Walz, who has joked about "getting some news" about Trump being murdered and never apologized for it, is now complaining that people are shouting out "Retard!" at him after Trump declared him to be "seriously retarded."

People are driving by his house and shouting "Retard!" And this fat retarded queen is very angry about it.

JUST IN: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is now whining that people are driving by his house yelling �retard� and pouting that Republicans won�t rush to defend him.

Did he not forget he was calling Trump and his supporters fascists and equating them to Hitler? This guy is a joke! pic.twitter.com/GEdcNjU4yK
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) December 4, 2025

He is claiming that calling him a retard is "dangerous" and incites violence.

And he still hasn't apologized for wishing for Trump's murder.

BREAKING: Governor Tim Walz asks you to stop calling him "retarded", saying it might "incite vioIence" pic.twitter.com/EFX2HXaNM8
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 4, 2025

Don't click this, it might incite violence.

Camus
@newstart_2024
Bret Weinstein just said something that won't leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented -- sex and pair-bonding.
Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.
Result? An entire generation of 18--35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing... but with zero actual children. That energy didn't disappear. It got redirected.
Heather Heying's observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is -- it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.
And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as "free" as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution's primary carrots -- mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.
Weinstein's ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life... and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate...What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?
Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.
Watch it all the way through, then tell me -- honestly -- does this explain the absolute intensity we're seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?

Video here.

Work hard. Remember, there are foreign layabouts on food stamps and Somali pirates depending on you!

�Some days I want to give up but there�s people on benefits depending on me.�

People who graft and work in all conditions to help fund Migrant benefits.

I mean you would laugh if it wasn�t so sad and true. pic.twitter.com/h8PuZgRBM7
— Benonwine (@benonwine) December 2, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1
What Are The Odds You & Your Wife/Girlfriend would have FOUR Z's in your names??

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (cPNKV)

2
The odds of someone with two Z's in his name hooking up with an unrelated woman also with two Z's in her name are, like, what, 0.001?

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (cPNKV)

3 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (xcxpd)

4 And yes, Liberal Minnesotans are terrified of being called 'racist' or 'mean'. They're worse than Brits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)

5 also, Tim Waltz is a retard.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)

6 We be thinks that what Trump and the Hagelf guy are doing in the CARIBEN Sea is be worst then that Lt. Kelly did at that Mai Tai place in Vietman. They should be put in jail now !!

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (0IwHf)

7 So something I have noticed recently. The Left would deploy the racism, Islamphobe, transphode, hater, -something-ist diatribe against the Right and they'd automatically FOLD. Since "some" on the Right have apparently reconnected to their gonads, these diatribes have much less effectiveness. HOWEVER, because the Left has sold their souls to these intersectional paradigms, any accusation that imperils their "bonafides" is deadly.

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (e/Osv)

8 Notified the otters, bats and penguins.

Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (+OGAU)

9 "Adam Carolla has been pointing out that ball-less leftist "men" have been crossing their legs like women for years."

You don't see Big Mike sitting like that, Little Mike would complain...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (RbgyB)

10 I went to see FNAF2 with my kid today. I think there were about ten people total in the theater. By that blumhouse studio that does horror stuff. Not really my thing but the kid is a big fan. Lots of inside stuff that you would have to know from the games and be a fan and went over my head.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

11 >>People are driving by his house and shouting "Retard!"

I really hope this gets legs. It's funny as hell and it obviously pisses Walz off. Mockery is still the best weapon.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:42 PM (viF8m)

12 Hey Timmy the Tard, it's "retard", not "the R word", you fucking retard

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 05, 2025 05:42 PM (RbgyB)

13 If everyone has the same amount of money, money is not status. Something else, something probably stupid, will be status. Because status is by definition what only a few people have. It used to be white skin was status because it meant you didn't have to work outdoors (and most people did). Then tan skin was status because it meant you had the money to vacation in Hawaii (and few people were that rich).

And seriously, people only got stupid and fanatic *after* birth control? The Tulip Craze would like a word.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (CidsT)

14 Being called a racist by pond-scum Somalis should be a badge of honor.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (rJ48h)

15 Tim Walz *is* a retard, and so are any people from Minnesota that feel uncomfortable recognizing that fact.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (TN0g+)

16 Inciting violence on Walz is all I want for Christmas.

Well, one of the things. Not the only. There are others I want violence to visit.

Yea.... I'm getting a lump of coal for Christmas, but you know what?

I do not give a fuck.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (NwnyJ)

17 Somalian are a country of criminals for the most part.
Surprised they are not pirating boats in the Great Lakes

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (Ia/+0)

18 That Newsom guy is loathsome
things are going to suck when he's President

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (ZxPkt)

19 Racism? Nah. Pick an issue... starving chillens, food deserts, medical deserts, lead paint, etc...

The issue is that the "cradle to grave" money stream attracts grifters who will yell anything as an excuse to grab with both hands and make a stash...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (XuXeR)

20 and he does cross his legs like a wine mom

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (ZxPkt)

21 Citizen Kane is on TCM, and in my upgrade to faster internet and all HD TV I lost my favorite channel

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)

22 [Nixon Voice]: "I am not a retard"

Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (9ZILp)

23 What Are The Odds You & Your Wife/Girlfriend would have FOUR Z's in your names??
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (cPNKV)
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How many points is that worth in Scrabble if I use a Triple Word Score?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 05:47 PM (ESVrU)

24 “Some days I want to give up but there’s people on benefits depending on me.”

Even with being retired the wife and I can't escape the tax man. We worked a combined 100 years between the both of us and we are still paying $15,000 in federal taxes each and every year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 05:47 PM (0N4FZ)

25 at that Mai Tai place"

Hey... what happened to those great "Caribbean" drinks? Anyone have a blue hawaiian lately?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:48 PM (XuXeR)

26 Even with being retired the wife and I can't escape the tax man. We worked a combined 100 years between the both of us and we are still paying $15,000 in federal taxes each and every year.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 05:47 PM (0N4FZ)
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Which the government doesn't even need since they just print however much money they want.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (ESVrU)

27 We worked a combined 100 years between the both of us and we are still paying $15,000 in federal taxes each and every year."

Feels great being a sucker, huh?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (XuXeR)

28 The odds of someone with two Z's in his name hooking up with an unrelated woman also with two Z's in her name are, like, what, 0.001?
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (cPNKV)

Lots of lining up in elementary schools by alphabet can do that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (8avO+)

29
Wait , what? Weren't we just bracing for this ungodly pairing?

Vanity Fair will be parting ways with Olivia Nuzzi, the magazine’s short-lived West Coast editor, extricating itself from a storm of controversy over her past romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (WE5Gl)

30 Oh come on, it wasn’t threats of ‘racism’ that kept the Somali Vermin fraud going. It was cold hard cash. Everyone that needed to be paid off was paid off. The mafia did the same thing back in the day, without cries of racism, by paying off the right people. The ugly Somali mutants aren’t nearly as cool as Don Corleone, but they are using his play book. It’s all corruption, straight up, to the left and right, and right up taxpayers assholes.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (osKUJ)

31 Selfishness, compliancy, apathy and dependence. This is the last stage before the return to bandage in the Tytler cycle.

We are are a couple of steps down this path.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (sDNVV)

32 "There's one aspect of this industrial-scale robbery of the American people that feels especially chilling: It's this: When officials raised concerns about one of the Somali scams, the scammers threatened to publicly brand them as "racist..."

And here's the thing: it worked.

The officials crumbled in the face of the scammers' shameless playing of the "racism" card.

They carried on funding what they suspected was a sketchy outfit, so desperate were they to avoid being called "racist...."

I don't understand.

The word "racit" had already lodt all its power TWO DECADES ago.

I wrote this definition in 2005:

racist - A statement of surrender during an argument. When two people or disputants are engaged in an acrimonious debate, the side that first says "Racist!" has conceded defeat. Synonymous with saying "Resign" during a chess game, or "Uncle" during a schoolyard fight. Originally, the term was meant to indicate that one side was accusing the other of being racist, but once it was noticed that people only resorted to this tactic when all other arguments had been exhausted, it acquired its new meaning of "indicating one's own concession of defeat."

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (oraVG)

33 When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life... and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate...What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?

Eventually it will devolve to the elimination of the other. I suspect that the muzzies have a head start on that one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (ExV1e)

34 11 >>People are driving by his house and shouting "Retard!"

I really hope this gets legs. It's funny as hell and it obviously pisses Walz off. Mockery is still the best weapon.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Considering Walz ordered police to lock up Minnesotans in Covid time, he can certainly enjoy the fruits of his rule of error.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (WDjG6)

35 I think the younger generation won't give the accusation of "racism" the time of day anymore. You should see some of the chat groups I'm in on Instagram with friends and people I don't even know that pass around content that the left would surely say is "racist" or "racially insensitive".

The youngest in the groups are the ones sending the ones that even get me saying "whoa thats... thats pretty bad".

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2025 05:51 PM (WYStd)

36 I find myself agreeing with that Blade person. Yoikes.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (XuXeR)

37 Are we sure that's a leg cross?
Looks more like a yoga position.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (6ydKt)

38 >>I really hope this gets legs. It's funny as hell and it obviously pisses Walz off. Mockery is still the best weapon.
Posted by: JackStraw

Ndat nhguy ees uh wetahd!

Posted by: Marlee Matlin at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (TR2dy)

39 Wait , what? Weren't we just bracing for this ungodly pairing?

Vanity Fair will be parting ways with Olivia Nuzzi, the magazine’s short-lived West Coast editor, extricating itself from a storm of controversy over her past romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
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MSNOW could use a woman like Nuzzi. Pair her with Ken "Fusion" Dilanian and you gotta a dynamic duo of misinformation and propaganda.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (WDjG6)

40 And yes, Liberal Minnesotans are terrified of being called 'racist' or 'mean'. They're worse than Brits.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)

unless they are speaking of their Republican countrymen. Then its death camps all the way.

They don't mean any of that shit. They hate everyone, including themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)

41 29
Wait , what? Weren't we just bracing for this ungodly pairing?

Vanity Fair will be parting ways with Olivia Nuzzi, the magazine’s short-lived West Coast editor, extricating itself from a storm of controversy over her past romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 05, 2025 05:50 PM (WE5Gl)
——

So it was RFKJ who VF could not bare? I guess VF was okay with the army of guys this Nuzzi whore fucked to get ahead. But that RFKJ, no way!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:53 PM (osKUJ)

42 Hey Timmy the Tard, it's "retard", not "the R word", you fucking retard
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 05, 2025 05:42 PM (RbgyB)

If someone said "the R word" to me, I would just start listing words which begin with R in a questioning tone. Random? Regional? Risotto?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 05:53 PM (ExV1e)

43 What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?"

Sounds like it's 1450 again...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:53 PM (XuXeR)

44 “Some days I want to give up but there’s people on benefits depending on me.”
====

This idea is so utterly fascist it begs belief.

Get back to work, slave.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (m6HS6)

45 I don't really buy that "oh we were scared of being called racist". Its a handy excuse for being too lazy to do the hard part of your job and do a bit of legwork to verify those groups were feeding kids. Yes in 2008 the commies used the race card to elect Barack and push their commie agenda with the "You are racist retort to criticisms of any of Barky's commie policy moves.

And most folks figured it out and the race card lost a lot of its power. The Soros DAs and judges putting criminals on the streets are not doing it because they think it evens the racial scales, the thugs are mostly attacking their own race. But crime and anarchy makes people willing to give up their freedom for a promise of safety. Maybe some of the dumb bunny FNM newsreaders think that putting black thugs back on the streets is less racicst than locking them up so that ordinary blacks or brown people whatever can be more safe.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (hhkIi)

46 I think the younger generation won't give the accusation of "racism" the time of day anymore. You should see some of the chat groups I'm in on Instagram with friends and people I don't even know that pass around content that the left would surely say is "racist" or "racially insensitive".

The youngest in the groups are the ones sending the ones that even get me saying "whoa thats... thats pretty bad".
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2025 05:51 PM (WYStd)

I liked it when people started calling things racist that even an idiot knew it didn't apply. "The grasshoppers are eating the crops, the pests" "That's racist!"

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)

47 Inciting violence on Walz is all I want for Christmas.

and this lamp.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (jc0TO)

48 Don't click this, it might incite violence.

I tried, because I'm a risk-taker, and X simply won't cooperate.
All I'm getting right now is an endless loading loop.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

49 17 Somalian are a country of criminals for the most part.
Surprised they are not pirating boats in the Great Lakes
Posted by: Skip
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International Falls and Lake Superior is too cold even for Somalian pirates to operate.

I guess they could pirate barges on the Mississippi but would have the problem of selling the grain on them.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (WDjG6)

50 Got TJM on the big screen as finally connected my phone to TV
He looks younger on the big screen

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (Ia/+0)

51 I love the guy's Hero of Socialist Labor pose and uniform.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (m6HS6)

52 I don't really buy that "oh we were scared of being called racist". Its a handy excuse for being too lazy to do the hard part of your job "

This. Times 10,000

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (XuXeR)

53 Hey... what happened to those great "Caribbean" drinks? Anyone have a blue hawaiian lately?
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:48 PM (XuXeR)

With the American judiciary, you don't need alcohol to get fucked by a blue Hawaiian.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 05:55 PM (ExV1e)

54
I mentioned it yesterday, and it's still going on today: 100% of the Left's Internet Hate-Rage is directed at the 6 Justices on the Court.

They are intentionally trying to get Justices assassinated.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (cPNKV)

55 Those of you thinking zoomers and later will ignore "racist" as a serious label forget that half the US lives in the shadow of ridiculous blue police state local/state government. Ignoring it isn't an option, they WILL go after you, and you will not stand a chance in court, if a jury is even allowed.

Not to mention the input from all the zampolits in the HR departments of just about any corporate employer.

We have a long way to go and I doubt we will be free of this bullshit without some serious unpleasantness.

Posted by: heya at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (TkJMd)

56 He looks younger on the big screen"

So on the 85" he's what, 12?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (XuXeR)

57 I liked it when people started calling things racist that even an idiot knew it didn't apply. "The grasshoppers are eating the crops, the pests" "That's racist!"
Posted by: Oldcat
======
Agree and Amplify and the idiots will lap it up until the epithet has no sting anymore.

Upper class twits slow on the uptake and criminals going to jail are about the only ones that engage in that trash anymore.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (WDjG6)

58 Heather Heying's observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is -- it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

Pretty good observation.
It does explain AWFLs quite well.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (6ydKt)

59 Not to mention the input from all the zampolits in the HR departments of just about any corporate employer."

They will pound you down. Comply, worker!

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (XuXeR)

60 11 >>People are driving by his house and shouting "Retard!"

I really hope this gets legs. It's funny as hell and it obviously pisses Walz off. Mockery is still the best weapon.
Posted by: JackStraw
------------------

This one is worth a click:
https://tinyurl.com/suruy3cn

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:57 PM (1ZMNP)

61 He is claiming that calling him a retard is "dangerous" and incites violence.
_______________________

Speaking for myself. I'm less likely to throw down on a retard for a couple reasons. First, beating up retards is like beating up women. There is no up side. No sense of accomplishment.

Also, there are a select few retards that possess "retard strength"...which is not explainable by our current understanding of biology or physics.

(I'm pretty sure I offended everyone with this post. Mission accomplished.)

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (dIske)

62 54
I mentioned it yesterday, and it's still going on today: 100% of the Left's Internet Hate-Rage is directed at the 6 Justices on the Court.

They are intentionally trying to get Justices assassinated.
Posted by: Soothsayer
=================
Federal marshals are still one of the least corrupted forces and they protect the justices. Plus you don't have asshole Bidenites around to manipulate security force coverage anymore.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (WDjG6)

63 I mentioned it yesterday, and it's still going on today: 100% of the Left's Internet Hate-Rage is directed at the 6 Justices on the Court.

They are intentionally trying to get Justices assassinated.
Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:56 PM (cPNKV)

kinda stupid since Trump can appoint a younger one. And a meaner one. Like his assistant Miller. He'd tear the liberal judges a new one every dissent.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (8avO+)

64 young women especially began"

"began"??? Orwell was observing already existing behavior.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 05:58 PM (XuXeR)

65 61 He is claiming that calling him a retard is "dangerous" and incites violence.
=========
Mebbe he prefers groomer or pedo instead.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (WDjG6)

66 But he's pretentious enough for a mid-life Weimar German.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

67 And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as "free" as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution's primary carrots -- mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.

Elon is a dreamer.
I like him, but he's dreaming.

AI is likely to put a lot of white-collar workers out of a job.
How this creates abundance is beyond me unless Universal Basic Income is about to become a thing, and that won't be making people abundant, it will make them more dependent with a lower standard of living for most, while the wealthy will be even wealthier.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (6ydKt)

68
Yeah, good luck getting a Trump-nominated Justice out of Senate committee. Never gonna happen.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:00 PM (cPNKV)

69 I have seen it noted that the somali fraud has finally been called out but I haven't seen anywhere that the fraud has been cut off.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 06:00 PM (n5tGW)

70
If Thomas, or any of them, croak today, the seat will be vacant until after the 2028 election.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:01 PM (cPNKV)

71 >>Heather Heying's observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is -- it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

This is a fascinating incite and so true.

Or alternatively....

We're f**ked, proper f**ked.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)

72 The officials crumbled in the face of the scammers' shameless playing of the "racism" card.

*********

They crumbled like a...

...cheerleader pyramid with the fat kid on top.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (/iMjX)

73 It confirms that accusations of "racism" have become a key weapon in the armory of the duplicitous.
.......

So only people of color committed these crimes?
Interesting.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (v0R5T)

74 Elon is a dreamer.
I like him, but he's dreaming.

AI is likely to put a lot of white-collar workers out of a job.
How this creates abundance is beyond me unless Universal Basic Income is about to become a thing, and that won't be making people abundant, it will make them more dependent with a lower standard of living for most, while the wealthy will be even wealthier.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:59 PM (6ydKt)

Someone has to clean the shit off the robots.

As for white collars losing jobs, huge chunks of administration people have a negative value to the company, impeding the work of the others or making it impossible at worst. Every company outside mom and pop shops have em.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)

75 They crumbled like a...

...student-designed pedestrian bridge in Florida.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:03 PM (/iMjX)

76 Because Trump got the FNM to pounce on him calling Tim Walz retarded way more of the country knows about the Somali fraud in Minnesota. Trump has still got the ability to get the FNM to jump at that laser dot and talk about things they were going to smother. I hope it opens more LIVs eyes.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 06:03 PM (hhkIi)

77 68
Yeah, good luck getting a Trump-nominated Justice out of Senate committee. Never gonna happen.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Blue slip does not apply to Scotus appointees. As long as GOP has the majority, Trump would likely get his pick even leaving Collins and Murcow off.

In part, killing Roe means that it is no longer a big criteria in senate races proposing to save the ruling anymore. The issue has returned to the states.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:03 PM (WDjG6)

78 56 He looks younger on the big screen"

So on the 85" he's what, 12?
Posted by: man

To me, he looks like the 8th grader running for GO president promising the kids cheerleaders and soda machines.

Posted by: Ancient Hippie at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (oftw2)

79 It confirms that accusations of "racism" have become a key weapon in the armory of the duplicitous.
.......

So only people of color committed these crimes?
Interesting.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (v0R5T)

They sometimes plug in a new term - homophobia, trans genocide....the only one with power is 'racist'.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (8avO+)

80
And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as "free" as sex became in the 1970s.

Powered by perpetual motion machines.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (pkeXY)

81 Knee socks, hand jive and hair gel. That's presidential material for you.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (v0R5T)

82 How does this society with free money work? Can anybody buy anything? Does everyone get a mansion and airplane?

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (vFG9F)

83 Forget the trillions of dollars stolen -- how many needless deaths does the Racism, Inc. scam cost us?

All of them

If Republicans would put on their big boy panties and point out the Ass Slapper had 16 arrest. The boy killer in Charlotte was involved in 3 murders.

Just call them out and NOTHING will happen.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (gbOdA)

84 "If you don't keep giving us money, we will call you a racist!" Somali Criminal

"Here is a video of you feeding 206 children breakfast every day for a week. Apparently, they all eat breakfast in the bathroom because they never set foot in the 'feeding facility' for the entire week we filmed." Minnesota official with the balls to actually investigate. (Theoretical, apparently)

If they threaten you, GET PROOF and then call them out! If they did not investigate, they did not want to REALLY find out!

Posted by: JB1000 at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (HJAV5)

85 76 Because Trump got the FNM to pounce on him calling Tim Walz retarded way more of the country knows about the Somali fraud in Minnesota. Trump has still got the ability to get the FNM to jump at that laser dot and talk about things they were going to smother. I hope it opens more LIVs eyes.
Posted by: PaleRider
=======
Nice insight and I agree.

Somalian fraud also upsets the other ethnic groups as they think of government cheese as their birthright and giving new grifters part of their stash is simply not on.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (WDjG6)

86 Every company outside mom and pop shops have em.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)

This. HR is usually at the heart of this. It is necessary, but in many cases takes the company over and remakes it in whomever image.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (zZu0s)

87
'Tard of the week was ginger Harry going on a late night show nobody watches trying to provoke Our President and getting boos from the leftist live audience. Then begging publicly for some kind of acting job.

Life has to be difficult when you're universally despised.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (Y8DZL)

88 >>Heather Heying's observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is -- it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

This is a fascinating incite and so true.

Or alternatively....

We're f**ked, proper f**ked.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)

ironic that the proverbial woman with 10 cats is more sane than the girlbosses of today. At least the cats will love them until naptime.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (8avO+)

89 Wasn't Al Franken from Minnesota?

Stuart Somali

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (/iMjX)

90 Elon is pipe dreaming

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (Ia/+0)

91 What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?"

Sounds like it's 1450 again...
Posted by: man

So

You read my book about Christopher Columbus

Posted by: Samuel Eliot Miklos-Morrison, noting that the Drinking Lamp has been lit for hours already at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (N7hqt)

92 Islam is an ideology, not a race. Why is rejecting that ideology racist?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (8CIFn)

93 I liked it better when it was called Personnel and all they did was make sure you had your W-4 filled out correctly.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)

94 If Republicans would put on their big boy panties and point out the Ass Slapper had 16 arrest. The boy killer in Charlotte was involved in 3 murders.

Just call them out and NOTHING will happen.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Actually NC state leg did something. Irnya's law pretty much puts judges in a cage now regarding sentencing and bail. Forced the D governor to reluctantly sign the bill or his veto would have probably been overridden.

Saw that a recent violent murderous asshole with a lengthy record in Charlotte ended up having to stay in jail because under the new provisions, he could not be bailed out. Judge's discretion to do stupid home detention etc. no longer could be done.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (WDjG6)

95 Stuart Somali
Posted by: muldoon

" I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit people pay me"

Posted by: Mullah Miklos at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (N7hqt)

96 Wasn't Al Franken from Minnesota?

Stuart Somali
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (/iMjX)

Holy cow! Ha!

I say again: HA!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (0aYVJ)

97 He is claiming that calling him a retard is "dangerous" and incites violence.
=========
Mebbe he prefers groomer or pedo instead.
Posted by: whig
......

How about 'Fatty'?

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (v0R5T)

98 I worked at a truck line once and I swear there was a Personnel Manager and two secretaries, one of whom was a notary. That was it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (jc0TO)

99 Yeah, even blue-collar jobs will start disappearing once they can make the robots to replace them.

That's several years away, but it's coming, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

100 He's a manly military man, you know.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (wBaIH)

101 How does this society with free money work? Can anybody buy anything? Does everyone get a mansion and airplane?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (vFG9F)

desires are infinite, resources are finite.

Not everyone can have that house on the beach in peak season.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (8avO+)

102 Somalesota.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)

103 I liked it better when it was called Personnel and all they did was make sure you had your W-4 filled out correctly.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)

In many cases, they have far more power than anyone else in the company. I put most of the wokification of companies down to zealous HR folks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)

104 How about 'Fatty'?
Posted by: wth
======
Meh, would matter for a women but there is a weird subculture of gay men that consider them as bears and thus desirable.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (WDjG6)

105 How do you say 'retard' in Somali Arabic?

Mocking Walz is like beating up a retard. Though, be mindful of his retard strength.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (w6S0H)

106 Is being a retard dangerous? I mean apart from the dangers associated with playing in traffic.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (8CIFn)

107 I also worked at a tech-ish firm in the 1980s and I don't even know if we had a personnel department. I have no recollection of where their office was on campus, assuming we had one.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

108 I liked it better when it was called Personnel and all they did was make sure you had your W-4 filled out correctly.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)

No Human Resource Department ever dug one up in a mine somewhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (8avO+)

109 Walz, you have to be a important to invoke lese-majeste.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

110 Yeah, even blue-collar jobs will start disappearing once they can make the robots to replace them.

Robo-Rooter

Posted by: Miklos eyes decreasing employment prospects at December 05, 2025 06:12 PM (N7hqt)

111 Governor Tim Walz asks you to stop calling him "retarded", saying it might "incite vioIence"

Maybe, but it makes you a shoo-in if you apply to Harvard.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 06:12 PM (XFXIk)

112 >>How does this society with free money work? Can anybody buy anything? Does everyone get a mansion and airplane?

And a baby's arm holding an apple.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)

113 Robo-Rooter

Posted by: Miklos eyes decreasing employment prospects at December 05, 2025 06:12 PM (N7hqt)

Roomba

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

114
Great. Now Youtube thinks I'm a huge T'Pau fan.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (cPNKV)

115 In many cases, they have far more power than anyone else in the company. I put most of the wokification of companies down to zealous HR folks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)

The other purpose is to have gals to drink the wine on tap in the office and go out to 'team building' meetings after hours with the dudes there.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)

116 And a baby's arm holding an apple.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)

*snort*

What do you want a babys arm holding an apple for, Jack?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

117 Even the state itself can now be cowed by mere whispers of the r-word.
---
The SCOTUS ruling that's about to come regarding minority-majority districts is going to gut that grift.
Because it'll cut out the only leg of the racism scam: That the cry must be accepted as true.

That's what they said yesterday in the TX ruling:
You can't claim racism just because minority races are negatively impacted.

Oh, and having a DOJ that don't give a F about cries of racism for at least the next 3 years ...
And a President they inoculated against such because of the egregious accusations for the last 8 years.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (HXT0k)

118 Nose ring Nazis.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (wBaIH)

119 And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as "free" as sex became in the 1970s. "

I got news for Elon and anyone else who believes this pipe dream: it ain't gonna happen that way. There won't be any Star Trek dream world where everyone has everything they want just because they want it. Nope.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (uWKK8)

120
I'm still laughing at my own joke from yesterday:

What do you call a hot 16 year old Vulcan girl?

...

T'Rap

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (cPNKV)

121 16
'Inciting violence on Walz is all I want for Christmas.

Well, one of the things. Not the only. There are others I want violence to visit.'

I agree. I want these bastards to finally get what they deserve.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (fd80v)

122 The other purpose is to have gals to drink the wine on tap in the office and go out to 'team building' meetings after hours with the dudes there.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)

Case in point: HR gal and that CEO. Both cheating on their spouses. He lost everything, she kept everything.

Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (zZu0s)

123 Walz, you have to be a important to invoke lese-majeste.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

Funny how he didn't think that cheering on Trump's assassination was fine and dandy.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (8avO+)

124 It's not really just "racism", is it?

It's Critical Everything Theory. Every single damn thing you can think of, and some things they just flat out made up, are now Isms you can crush your enemies with and bring them to heel with the full force of the state. (Bludgeonspeak.... such a timely neologism, that....) The racism aspect is really irrelevant. It's a coat of paint on a nation-scale personality disorder.

"We're Good. Anything that even hints at being against us is Bad." And everything is the moral equivalent of War except for war, which is ... i don't know... Zionist, or Colonialist, or something, whatever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (06Hmj)

125 Weinstein's ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life... and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate...What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?
---
Children of Men.

People stopped having children because they just ... didn't want real children.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (HXT0k)

126 T'Rap

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (cPNKV)

Wouldn't that be a Vulcan ladyboy?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (6ydKt)

127 Roomba
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Only when the voice controls involve Spanish or perhaps Nahuatl.

A more authentic human-like interaction.

Posted by: El Mikloso, actual Charter Member of the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (N7hqt)

128 I think the younger generation won't give the accusation of "racism" the time of day anymore. You should see some of the chat groups I'm in on Instagram with friends and people I don't even know that pass around content that the left would surely say is "racist" or "racially insensitive".

The youngest in the groups are the ones sending the ones that even get me saying "whoa thats... thats pretty bad".
Posted by: Defenestratus

My kid and middle school friends were mocking it eight years ago.
When driving them somewhere they a dead raccoon on the side of the road,
OMG, that is sooo racist!

Howells of laughter from them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (/lPRQ)

129 The other purpose is to have gals to drink the wine on tap in the office and go out to 'team building' meetings after hours with the dudes there.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)

Case in point: HR gal and that CEO. Both cheating on their spouses. He lost everything, she kept everything.

Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:15 PM (zZu0s)

That's evolution in action. Men have to recognize a high threat environment and act like it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)

130 Your kitchen machine won't make Earl Gray, Hot out of a bunch of molecules like a printer

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (Ia/+0)

131 Great. Now Youtube thinks I'm a huge T'Pau fan.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:13 PM (cPNKV)
====
What's the problem? She is much revered.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (WGeqj)

132

A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (pkeXY)

133 I will not play the racist game nor the gender game. I will speak the truth in love. I am not responsible for other’s hurt feelings. I will not have my intelligence insulted.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (i+bC1)

134 Telling how old I am, the first place I had a computer job didn't even have Personnel. They just had Payroll.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (jc0TO)

135 she a thief
well she needs to feed her kids
he sells drugs
well black kids need spending money
he shot at a teacher
our community has different conflict rules
he killed a fellow student
sometimes neighborhood issue are brought to school

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (gbOdA)

136 My kid and middle school friends were mocking it eight years ago.
When driving them somewhere they a dead raccoon on the side of the road,
OMG, that is sooo racist!

Howells of laughter from them.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (/lPRQ)

Anything a society makes Taboo is automatically going to the thing that the next generation thinks is the coolest and funniest thing in the world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK8)

137 What's the problem? She is much revered.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 06:17 PM (WGeqj)

She's not even the third Hottest chick in star trek history.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

138 One good thing about AI replacing a whole lot of jobs - let's hope that it replaces all of the HR departments first.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:19 PM (uWKK8)

139 We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx.

Posted by: The Priests of the Temples of Syrinx at December 05, 2025 06:19 PM (Dh8nQ)

140 Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon found out that over 260,000 DEAD PEOPLE and THOUSANDS of noncitizens or illegals are confirmed to be registered to vote in the U.S.

Add a ZERO and 4 X

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)

141 Weinstein's ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life... and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate...What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?
---
Children of Men.

People stopped having children because they just ... didn't want real children.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:16 PM (HXT0k)

One interesting thing even in ancient times is city folk just don't have kids, even the rich ones. Especially the rich ones, rather. You can read about Caesar Augustus railing about people not having enough kids in 0 AD. Once the farm areas stopped having free farmers with large families to replace them things got dicey and the action moved to the provinces.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)

142 The quote of Walz whining that calling him retarded might incite violence is just so funny. HOW Walz, are you going to snap and attack someone for saying it? They are driving by in their cars, I don't think there is a serious risk of you being able to punch them. Are your supporters going to get so worked up that they punch out someone calling you a retard? I can't imagine anyone actually supporting Walz, I expect the FNM got folks fired up to vote against his opponent like they normally do for their commie brethen.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (hhkIi)

143 Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon found out that over 260,000 DEAD PEOPLE and THOUSANDS of noncitizens or illegals are confirmed to be registered to vote in the U.S.

Add a ZERO and 4 X
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)

A couple of counties here in LA area struck a million or so off the rolls a few years back.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (8avO+)

144 I got news for Elon and anyone else who believes this pipe dream: it ain't gonna happen that way. There won't be any Star Trek dream world where everyone has everything they want just because they want it. Nope.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:14 PM (uWKK

====

My replicator says otherwise.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (WGeqj)

145
Eagle Cam

10 yr old video of some european jerkoff putting a camera on his trained Eagle:

https://is.gd/AzKSG9

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (cPNKV)

146 Cheating was also rampant in Rome. Decadence is a thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s)

147 "He is claiming that calling him a retard is "dangerous" and incites violence."

Only if the shoe fits...

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (gDhA9)

148 I always enjoy Movie Night with my Somali friends watching Black Hawk Down...

Posted by: Tim Walz at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (J9q9v)

149 Omg. That Walz video is going to get me fired.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (W2Pud)

150 HOLY CRAP! It was just revealed that the Somali Minnesota fraud might end up toward $8 BILLION DOLLARS, not just $1 billion

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (gbOdA)

151
Wouldn't that be a Vulcan ladyboy?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

hmmm, that could work, too

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (cPNKV)

152 Anything a society makes Taboo is automatically going to the thing that the next generation thinks is the coolest and funniest thing in the world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK

Also, our "Taboos" are laughably weak. Some tut tutting by ugly chicks on television or at your school... getting fired from a job you bitterly despise and were going to quit anyway... BFD.

Actual Taboo is more along the lines of "oh shit one of the Emperor's henchmen is disembowling the entire village now because of some shit I said last week". Actual Taboo makes people physically kick the crap out of you for even suggesting you might go against it, lest they have to suffer for your bullshit.

Those are the Taboos that have sticking power.

And i'm like 55% sure that Taboos is not the correct plural of Taboo, but I also don't really care.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (06Hmj)

153 I don't know how Waltz can preside over such a titanic fraud scandal and not expect some name calling.

Retard is certainly better than the other names I was thinking of....

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (gDhA9)

154 Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?

Posted by: Octavian Augustus at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (jc0TO)

155 The Left would deploy the racism, Islamphobe, transphode, hater, -something-ist diatribe against the Right and they'd automatically FOLD.
---
There's the usual R response: I have black friends/I supported a black/ etc.

And Trump: Black people love me, I have the best numbers of any Republican.

And watching the left sputter:
The first is an admission you might be racist.
The second is calling the accuser a racist and a liar.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (HXT0k)

156 My one thought - if we live in an abundance "cost is no object" world, then having more kids is terrific.

Having kids was the best thing I ever did.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:24 PM (gDhA9)

157 I think Walz should just sit in a lawn chair in his front yard with a big sign:
I AM NOT A RETARD

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (v0R5T)

158 So, it turns out the Jan 6 Pipe Bomber was a White Man of Color !!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (J9q9v)

159 Walz rambles like someone with a severe case of encephalitis.

Fucking mosquitos jacked his brain.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (w6S0H)

160 I always enjoy Movie Night with my Somali friends watching Black Hawk Down...
Posted by: Tim Walz at December 05, 2025 06:22 PM (J9q9v)

There's a YT trend of having foreign girls (and men) rate US stuff. It has spread to movies and one group of Vietnamese girls watched Tropic Thunder and they all cheered when 'their side' attacked the good guys. It was pretty funny.

When they watched 'Its a Wonderful Life' they were super weepy. Very cute in their Santa Suits.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:25 PM (8avO+)

161 Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?
Posted by: Octavian Augustus at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (jc0TO)

And that was after she had something like 6 kids with Agrippa.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

162 Paging Br Mengele:
Doctors have admitted to performing 'non-standard' gender-affirming procedures on youngsters and sometimes base treatment purely on cosmetic goals — as they see a spike in patients seeking out 'nonbinary' surgeries.

... One social worker from Oregon once described how an 18-year-old high school graduate wanted to look like 'a Barbie down there.'

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (gbOdA)

163 There comes a time in a man's life when he asks himself, 'who will float my corpse down the Ganges?'

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (jc0TO)

164 Are all Somalis pirates

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (DoBxX)

165 My one thought - if we live in an abundance "cost is no object" world, then having more kids is terrific.

Having kids was the best thing I ever did.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:24 PM (gDhA9)

Well Elon isn't being a laggard in that department.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)

166 In 2023, 1 in 3 subsidy recipients—$21B total—used Social Security numbers that didn’t match IRS records.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (gbOdA)

167 A Cowboy a Muslim and an Indian walk into a bar.

The Indian says, "We were once many now we are few."
The Muslim says, " We were once few but now are many."
The Cowboy says "Yea. We haven't played Cowboys and Muslims yet."

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (NwnyJ)

168 Hey Timmy..... Retard,retard,retard

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 06:27 PM (VE6XX)

169 I don't really buy that "oh we were scared of being called racist". Its a handy excuse for being too lazy to do the hard part of your job and do a bit of legwork to verify those groups were feeding kids.
---
That and the kickbacks.

I think, when this all gets unraveled, that we're going to be un-surprised at just how much was knowingly--on both sides-- sent to Democrats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:27 PM (HXT0k)

170 In whining about being called retarded, Walz has gone full retard.

Posted by: Kirk Lazarus at December 05, 2025 06:28 PM (Q+gd/)

171 TIMMEH!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

172 Feelin' that woke fatigue over here, Boss!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:29 PM (wVcYX)

173
Two words:

Hollow Chocolate Santa Clauses

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:29 PM (cPNKV)

174 things got dicey and the action moved to the provinces"

And then, "let's import labor"!

Worked out well, no?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 06:29 PM (XuXeR)

175 "And a baby's arm holding an apple.
Posted by: JackStraw"

To go with the Winnebago?

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:30 PM (vFG9F)

176

nood gaslighting

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (cPNKV)

177 I think Walz should just sit in a lawn chair in his front yard with a big sign:
I AM NOT A RETARD
Posted by: wth

Letting a bunch of illiterate Somalis take him/his state for 8 billion kind of confirms he is.

Posted by: old chick at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (F3Dlr)

178 It would be great if a reporter at a press conference asked Walz, "Governor, your shirt buttons are not lined up correctly. Are your staff proud that you dressed yourself?"

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (/iMjX)

179 "It was just revealed that the Somali Minnesota fraud might end up toward $8 BILLION DOLLARS, not just $1 billion
Posted by: r hennigantx"

If they admit 8 then it's at least twice that.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

180 Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?
Posted by: Octavian Augustus at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (jc0TO)

And that was after she had something like 6 kids with Agrippa.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

Five children. Germanicus had 9 children in the next generation.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 06:31 PM (8avO+)

181 Nudity

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)

182 Sorry I'm late, I was opening all my windows to hear people calling Tim Walz a retard.

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 05, 2025 06:32 PM (UONii)

183 LOL, and just so you know, some areas figured out a long time ago how you get past cries of racism:

You just hire a bunch of black assholes to do the job.

Is it kinda sorta racist to say that no one is more willing to beat down a black man than a well-paid black man?
Not really; wasn't that a quote of Malcolm X?

Anyway, there's always a solution.
There's just a lack of will to solve the problem.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (HXT0k)

184 Hey Timmy..... Retard,retard,retard
Posted by: It's me donna
.....

it would be fun to borrow one of those Mexican guys car with the loudspeaker on the roof and drive by his house playing that on a loop.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (v0R5T)

185 ... One social worker from Oregon once described how an 18-year-old high school graduate wanted to look like 'a Barbie down there.'
Posted by: r hennigantx

Like Mr. Smooth in "Happy".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 06:33 PM (/lPRQ)

186 >>To go with the Winnebago?

Hell, a herd of Winnebagos, we're giving them away.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (viF8m)

187 Anything a society makes Taboo is automatically going to the thing that the next generation thinks is the coolest and funniest thing in the world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 06:18 PM (uWKK

Also, our "Taboos" are laughably weak. Some tut tutting by ugly chicks on television or at your school... getting fired from a job you bitterly despise and were going to quit anyway... BFD.

Actual Taboo is more along the lines of "oh shit one of the Emperor's henchmen is disembowling the entire village now because of some shit I said last week". Actual Taboo makes people physically kick the crap out of you for even suggesting you might go against it, lest they have to suffer for your bullshit.

Those are the Taboos that have sticking power.

And i'm like 55% sure that Taboos is not the correct plural of Taboo, but I also don't really care.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:23 PM (06Hmj)

Let's ask Emmanuelle. She's on Taboo Island (1976)
Boom Chicka Wow-Wow!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 06:37 PM (wVcYX)

188 125
'What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?'

Destroying enemies.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 06:40 PM (fd80v)

189 > it would be fun to borrow one of those Mexican guys car with the loudspeaker on the roof and drive by his house playing that on a loop.
----------
I'd park about a dozen remote loudspeaker around his property.

Set to go off at random intervals so they'd be harder to locate.

"retard" "fucking retard" "retard" 24X7

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 06:42 PM (NwnyJ)

190 It's not a great idea to provide infinite resources. We can't handle it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

Posted by: Joker of Clubs at December 05, 2025 06:47 PM (JmRgc)

191 Tim Walz,
From the Planet Retardia
With Powers and Abilities
Far Below those of Mortal Men!

(I stole that from a moron here - don't remember who and I don't care, 'cause I'm a retard)

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (Vpqw1)

192 'What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?'

I don't know. Nor do I know where I will be buy then but I won't smell too good, that's for sure.

Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 06:59 PM (8I4hW)

193 I've decided I will now just nerd out on 3D Printing, Day Trading, programming projects and pretty much check out of the larger culture.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 08:16 PM (XV/Pl)

194 I am not saying the racism charge can't be used to intimidate people. What I am claiming is that in this case there's no way that is what happened. The people in charge wanted that money out the door and they use the "fear" of being called racist to justify not looking too closely at the fraud. We know for a fact if a minority does not have the right politics they have no fear of racism and go all out to screw them over in any which way they can. This is about making the white people who allowed this to happen look like victims instead of the accomplices they are. Tim Walz & crew didn't allow this to happen because they were afraid of being called racist. "The fear of racism" is the cover story.

Posted by: blkemoji at December 05, 2025 09:31 PM (7a4RG)

Quick Hits

A liberal grand jury has refused to indict Big Tish James for her obvious, blatant mortgage fraud.

A leftwing judge dismissed the first indictment, claiming that the prosecutor was illegally appointed.

Another prosecutor brought the charges to a new grand jury.

Now that the left has made Big Tish a cause celebré, they're determined that she should go unpunished.

A federal grand jury in Virginia refused Thursday to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, shutting down -- at least for now -- the Justice Department's revived attempt to prosecute her over mortgage fraud allegations. According to sources familiar with the closed-door proceedings, prosecutors empaneled a new jury to review revised charges, only to have them tossed a second time.
James, 67, had previously been hit with two felony counts for alleged bank fraud and submitting false statements tied to a six-figure loan she secured in 2020 to buy a second home in Norfolk. She has repeatedly dismissed the accusations as political and baseless. In a Thursday statement, James thanked the jurors, adding she was "humbled by the support I have received from across the country" and would continue "standing up for the rule of law and the people of New York."
The first indictment -- returned Oct. 9 in Alexandria -- never got off the ground. On Nov. 24, U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie threw it out entirely, ruling that acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed and had "no lawful authority" to bring charges in the first place. The decision blindsided DOJ leadership, prompting Attorney General Pam Bondi to announce that the department would pursue "all available legal action, including an immediate appeal." Bondi also vowed to challenge separate lying-to-Congress and obstruction counts against former FBI Director James Comey, which prosecutors have six months to revise or refile.
That six-month window applies here as well. Because the judge dismissed James's case without prejudice, prosecutors could return with yet another indictment -- though Thursday's outcome makes that path steeper. Abbe Lowell, the high-profile Democrat attorney representing James, told CNN the decision "should be the end of this case," claiming that continued pursuit after a judge's ruling and a grand jury's rejection would be a "shocking assault on the rule of law and a devastating blow to the integrity of our justice system."

Note that no one is reporting the grand jury is liberal. I make this assertion based on the fact that it sits in one of the most liberal areas of the country -- northern coastal Virginia, where all the leftwing federal bureaucrats live, the reason that former Confederate state Virginia is now as blue as Brian Stelter's withered balls -- and that they rejected a slam-dunk indictment. Only a political jury nullification can explain this.

In better legal news, an appeals court has reversed a Lowly Lawless District Court judge who blocked Trump's firing of an "independent" board member, claiming the Executive cannot fire Executive branch employees. By 2-1, the three judge appeals panel asserted that yes, the Executive, get this, has power over the employees of the Executive Branch.

The Supreme Court will probably finally overrule the bad decision in the Humprhey's Executor case that claimed the President cannot fire his subordinates. The Supreme Court has largely hollowed that ruling out by finding exceptions her and exceptions there; they may now take the necessary step of just wiping this bad precedent off the books.

Warner Bros. has been up for sale for a while. Skydance/Paramount tried to buy it, but their offer was rejected.

Now Netflix has bought Warner Bros., further consolodating the media into a few left-wing hands.

Netflix
@netflix
4h
Today, Netflix announced our acquisition of Warner Bros. Together, we'll define the next century of storytelling, creating an extraordinary entertainment offering for audiences everywhere.

On Black Friday, there was an offer for 12 months of HBO Max for $3/month. I said "what the heck" and signed up, mostly for the very big library of older movies that HBO offers. Those are all (or mostly) Warner Bros. movies. I wonder if this deal will wind up taking those older movies off of HBO's servers to save them for Netflix.

Amusing... but Warner Bros. was already doing this. In their very unnecessary Harry Potter remake series -- commissioned purely to exploit Warner Bros' existing IP and get Warner/Discovery a little bit closer to solvent -- they already announced that Hermoine and Snape would be black.

Under pressure from the FCC, AT&T says it's abandoning illegal DEI race discrimination.

The move follows years of controversy, much of it fueled by revelations that AT&T's internal training materials pushed the notion that racism was a "uniquely white trait" and urged white employees to accept blame as part of a broader critical-race-theory framework. Those claims first surfaced in 2021 through documents obtained by researcher Christopher Rufo, who reported that the company's curriculum told white staffers they "are the problem." The backlash never fully subsided -- and with Carr signaling that companies seeking key FCC licenses would need to demonstrate they are not running discriminatory programs, the pressure point became impossible for AT&T to ignore.
In a letter sent Monday to Carr, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel David McAtee said the company has overhauled its employment and business practices "to ensure compliance with all applicable laws," emphasizing that the changes would be substantive, not cosmetic. According to AT&T, that means no hiring quotas, no supplier-contract quotas, no race-based training, and no positions devoted to policing identity-based metrics. DEI courses have been stripped from employee requirements, and the company says it will not resurrect them.

We'll see if they just continue the illegal race and sex discrimination under a different name.

Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet
I'm coining a term today: "bludgeonspeak".
Bludgeonspeak is the use of invented terminology, or historical terminology that has been hijacked and corrupted, and then emptied of all meaning except as an attempt at moral blackmail.
Here are some notable bludgeonspeak items in 2025: "racist", "fascist", "homophobe", "transphobe", "islamophobe", "far-right". Also, the term "genocide" might not be quite there yet, but it's being pushed in that direction pretty hard.
Some bludgeonspeak terms, like "fascist" and "racist" and "genocide", used to have substantive meanings which have been destroyed by persistent abuse. It may be appropriate to recognize and use those meanings if you are reading or writing or speaking about history.
Others, like "homophobe", "transphobe", and "islamophobe", were bludgeonspeak from birth. There are no circumstances in which these have substantive meaning, and it is unwise to treat them as though they do.
The only way to win is not to play. When somebody throws bludgeonspeak at you, call it out. State that you will not be controlled by their language, and you refuse to be assigned to a category you reject.
The key thing that people who employ bludgeonspeak don't want you to grasp is that these words only have the power over you that you allow them.
Once a term has been generally recognized as bludgeonspeak, it not only loses its power as direct moral blackmail, it can no longer be used as a social attack.
So: learn to recognize bludgeonspeak. Shut down the people who use it by refusing to give it power. And educate other people about this manipulation tactic, so that they too can reject it.
You can prevent semantic manipulation. All it takes is the will to do so.

This must hurt: Because Trump pardoned a pair of J6 non-insurrectionists, they're entitled to have the money they paid for restitution and fines given back to them.

The judge forced to order their restoration of funds is the corrupt, highly-impeachable rogue Judge Boasberg.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered that a couple pardoned by President Trump for their convictions regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot be refunded their restitution payments and fines, reversing his earlier decision.
On Wednesday, Boasberg ruled that because of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, Cynthia Ballenger and her husband, Christopher Price, are to be refunded the $570 each in restitution payments and other fees paid as a part of their convictions, Fox News reported.

Gavin Newsom is shielding the killer of an 11-year-old boy from deportation.

ICE announced Tuesday that it lodged an immigration detainer with the San Diego Sheriff's Office for 44-year-old criminal Mexican national Hector Balderas-Aheelor after he was arrested for a felony hit-and-run that killed 11-year-old Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz a day before Thanksgiving. The DHS' press release said the arrest detainer would not be honored because California is a sanctuary state.
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Newsom's press office responded in a post calling the allegation a "complete lie."
"As we have repeatedly said: The state coordinates with ICE on the deportation of convicted criminals. California honors federal criminal warrants. Nothing prohibits the federal government from doing its job in this case," the post states.
Just over an hour later, DHS responded in a follow-up tweet claiming the governor's office was "playing word games to keep an illegal alien murderer in America."
"California REJECTED the ICE detainer for an illegal alien charged with killing an 11-year-old boy. Gavin Newsom says he'll only cooperate with ICE if the criminal illegal alien is CONVICTED, meaning California will let him roam free even though he's been arrested for FELONY hit-and-run," the department wrote.
Along with its criticism, DHS included a cropped picture of an immigration detainer's rejection on Sunday, with a note reading, "No qualifying criminal history, however current charge would qualify upon conviction with a new 1247 from ICE."
Following publication, the department provided the Daily Caller News Foundation with the full filing, with Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin issuing a statement calling out Newsom and the state's politicians.
"The sanctuary politicians of California and Governor Newsom once again REFUSED to protect the safety and security of American families," McLaughlin told the DCNF. "It's despicable that our ICE arrest detainer of a criminal illegal alien who killed an 11-year-old boy would be rejected. When will Governor Newsom and his fellow sanctuary politicians stop releasing criminals into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk?"

The left has new book out about the sacrament of killing an unborn child: Abortion is Everything.

The book isn't intended for 21 year old women already on their third abortion.

It's intended for 5-to-8 year olds.

Get 'em while they're young.

The Shout Your Abortion IG post celebrates this book as a way to �normalize� abortion for children in kindergarten through 2nd grade.

But why even introduce such a violent, adult topic to kids who still sleep with stuffed animals and ask for night lights?

Because reshaping� pic.twitter.com/8MZ5WcSM9g
— Jenna Ellis 🐊 (@realJennaEllis) December 3, 2025

If you had any doubt, the book is hardcore pro-abortion propaganda designed to appeal to little children in ways designed to appeal to child-like mind.

The official book description proudly states:
"Abortion Is Everything speaks directly to five to eight-year-olds about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions. With accessible, inclusive language, Abortion Is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision. Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us."

She has mostly been spared the embarrassment of this performance by mainstream coverage. But it should be clowned on bc it�s very dumb that she put on a Nudie Suit and sang Dolly on the last night of the campaign after being caught on tape saying she hates country music. And you� https://t.co/NSYRsI9rNS
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 4, 2025

America First or something. https://t.co/d7TenzFW0e
— Chris Loesch 𝕏 (@ChrisLoesch) December 4, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (5IH8V)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (5IH8V)

3 Bankrupt her fat ass

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (4/TSN)

4 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (5IH8V)

5 There are rumblings that the DOJ is against the Netflix/WB acquisition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

6
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Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:35 PM (cPNKV)

7
Speaking of coining terms...

You all had better remember I coined Hair Fuentes first.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (cPNKV)

8 oh my God

A Child's First Murder Book?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (emBoF)

9 Willowed:

"I would have liked this if it had another name," is never, ever persuasive to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

I wouldn't have liked it anyway.

As I said before, it's an incoherent mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.

"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)

10 Why not just re-release the Pre-Persons as a children's book?!?!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (emBoF)

11 If your a Leftist doing crime stay in a Leftist area

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (Ia/+0)

12 9
I wouldn't have liked it anyway.

As I said before, it's an incoherent mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.

"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)

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Then the inaccuracies to the legend are immaterial to your critique. Focus on the actual reasons you dislike it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

13 I've had a lot of willows today, but this one is relevant to the post.

I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?

Netflix has a new adaptation of Beowulf. I got excited until I saw the picture accompanying the description. It, of course, had a black warrior. Now, I have nothing against a black warrior in an appropriate setting, but I'm gonna guess that they were not exactly common in the Beowulf setting, and that tells me what I need to know about the show.

Next.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

14 Hmm. Tucker didn't announce he would be in Qatar until the last moment.

Why the delay?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (iK7NX)

15 The left has new book out about the sacrament of killing an unborn child: Abortion is Everything.

The book isn't intended for 21 year old women already on their third abortion.

It's intended for 5-to-8 year olds.

They make trans, fag, and drag books for ages 2 and up, so I am about as unsurprised as can be.

Posted by: The ones they don't kill they'll neuter at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (TbWk/)

16 "Bludgeonspeak"

Mace Nightstick batted second, after Waddy Staff's single, and hammered a triple over the head of Beetle Whangee in right field.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (GHIyr)

17 13 Netflix has a new adaptation of Beowulf. I got excited until I saw the picture accompanying the description. It, of course, had a black warrior. Now, I have nothing against a black warrior in an appropriate setting, but I'm gonna guess that they were not exactly common in the Beowulf setting, and that tells me what I need to know about the show.

Next.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

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No one will top Zemeckis' version anyway.

But original Netflix content largely doesn't interest me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

18 Harry Potter, a white man...

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (thvln)

19 I just sent out designs - supposed to be in for review by Friday and this is CLOSE ENOUGH

how do I get one of them email jerbs where I just hang out emailing and going on zoom all day

instead I fight with Adobe and Figma

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (emBoF)

20 The judge forced to order their restoration of funds is the corrupt, highly-impeachable rogue Judge Boasberg

==

is Boasberg em-peached yet ??

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (g47mK)

21 If you want to punish Tish James, make her eat a salad.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (vbdXu)

22 Re the Arthurian discussion on the last thread:

Has an Arthurian adaptation ever been done where Arthur actually fights the Anglo-Saxons and defeats them at the Battle of Badon? Because that might be the closest to a historical Arthur, assuming he existed (and I think he did in some form following the Roman withdrawal from Britain).

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

23 Nothing quite as sick as talking to five year old girls about how their mother could have legally killed them.

I foresee much pain in their future.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

24 No one will top Zemeckis' version anyway.

Ah, Angelina Jolie in early CGI.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (Riz8t)

25 18 Harry Potter, a white man...

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (thvln)

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I remember when Rowling went on Twitter to say that Hermione could have been black. She'd never described Hermione as white.

And someone screenshoted a description of Hermione from one of the books calling her skin white.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

26 24 No one will top Zemeckis' version anyway.

Ah, Angelina Jolie in early CGI.

for real that one was really good tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (emBoF)

27 When will Governor Newsom and his fellow sanctuary politicians stop releasing criminals into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk?"
.....

I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

28 22 Re the Arthurian discussion on the last thread:

Has an Arthurian adaptation ever been done where Arthur actually fights the Anglo-Saxons and defeats them at the Battle of Badon? Because that might be the closest to a historical Arthur, assuming he existed (and I think he did in some form following the Roman withdrawal from Britain).

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

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The mid-2000s one was close to that, but it was set around Hadrian's Wall not near Birmingham and Badon Hill.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

29 Shorter version of the book: You're the lucky one so you best make me happy, girl.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:41 PM (jc0TO)

30 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (NFGTZ)

31 26 24 No one will top Zemeckis' version anyway.

Ah, Angelina Jolie in early CGI.

for real that one was really good tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:40 PM (emBoF)

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It keeps growing on me. Plus the animation is significantly better than Polar Express.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

32 The judge forced to order their restoration of funds is the corrupt, highly-impeachable rogue Judge Boasberg.

That guy was in on the fix since the very start, back during operation Arctic Frost...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (ynpvh)

33 28 Is that the Clive Owen one? I liked that one a lot.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (Q0yOR)

34 If the RNC and Republicans don’t start getting off their assets for the midterms, this is what Amerika is going to look like. Again

Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (vbdXu)

35 Carlson keeps getting back to his roots !

Laura Loomer (on X)
"One of the people who @TuckerCarlson invited to his Alp Christmas party last night is @ThugnastyMMA Bryce Mitchell.

Earlier this year, Bryce said, “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my own research…. he fought for his country and wanted to purify it by kicking out all the greedy Jews.”

This prompted @danawhite to disavow Mitchell, even though he said Mitchell has a right to free speech.

Tucker continues to tell us that he’s “just asking questions” and he doesn’t hate Jews.

Interesting guest list…"

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

36 Wow, that abortion book is revolting.
Thanks Ace for bringing it to our attention, but what a disgusting and horrible time we live in.

>>Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us."

It is a way for morally weak to play god. It is evil. Can it be any clearer than that statement?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (1ZMNP)

37
Do You Like gay Toy Trains?
I cued it up to the end.

Here's some Big Loser setting up his stupid Toy Trains in a giant Christmassy scene:

https://is.gd/3Jw02K

Posted by: Soothsayer goes "Choo! Choo!" at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (cPNKV)

38 Had tucker converted to islam officially?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (1ZMNP)

39 On Black Friday, there was an offer for 12 months of HBO Max for $3/month. I said "what the heck" and signed up, mostly for the very big library of older movies that HBO offers.
__________

It's worth $3/month for the older series alone. Deadwood, Sopranos, Rome, Larry Sanders. I've tried The Wire a couple of times, but never made it past a few episodes.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (XvL8K)

40 Big Tish Mama Jama James 1 Ham Sammich 0.

Posted by: Sol Wachtler, Deli Owner at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (R/m4+)

41 The left has new book out about the sacrament of killing an unborn child: Abortion is Everything.
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This book will never, ever show up as a "guilty pleasure" on the Sunday Morning Book Thread so long as I have a say in the matter.

It's evil.

The Necronomicon is Dr. Seuss by comparison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (ESVrU)

42 The process is the punishment. I hope they hound her into old age

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (4/TSN)

43 Don't make me regret deciding not to snuff you, child.

Posted by: The Wine Mom at December 05, 2025 04:45 PM (BaF3z)

44 Remember how everyone lost their shit when Trump observed that he could shoot someone in Times Square and it would not affect his popularity? We now have obvious fraudsters going free because the districts where they are tried in cannot find an impartial jury...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (nbLIj)

45 Forget case somewhat but a Leftist Judge dismissed a jury case after they convinced the criminal, judge let that person off anyway

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (Ia/+0)

46 I wouldn't take a payout to change my beliefs, and I am not a multi millionaire, like Carlson.

There is something wrong with Carlson, and others like him, who will sell their consciences.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (0U5gm)

47
Someone say Polar Express?

Posted by: Soothsayer goes "Choo! Choo!" at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (cPNKV)

48 Any godless, evil person who is involved in presenting that abortion book to children better get comfortable with a millstone around their neck and an eternity of pain from which there is no pardon or commutation.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (mJELX)

49 35 Carlson keeps getting back to his roots !

Laura Loomer (on X)
"One of the people who @TuckerCarlson invited to his Alp Christmas party last night is @ThugnastyMMA Bryce Mitchell.

Earlier this year, Bryce said, “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my own research…. he fought for his country and wanted to purify it by kicking out all the greedy Jews.”

This prompted @danawhite to disavow Mitchell, even though he said Mitchell has a right to free speech.

Tucker continues to tell us that he’s “just asking questions” and he doesn’t hate Jews.

Interesting guest list…"

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

Well, yes, that happens when you try to kill ALL of them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

50 So Tucker Carlson and Bill Burr are the same person?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (zZu0s)

51 Damn, Minnesota is a f*cked up state. From the top down.
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.

Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)

52 Here's some Big Loser setting up his stupid Toy Trains in a giant Christmassy scene:

https://is.gd/3Jw02K

I dunno. I'm not a train guy but that is a pretty spectacular setup.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

53 Forget case somewhat but a Leftist Judge dismissed a jury case after they convinced the criminal, judge let that person off anyway
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM

Didn't that literally just happen in one of the Medicare fraud cases this week?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:47 PM (jc0TO)

54 Earlier this year, Bryce said, “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my own research…. he fought for his country and wanted to purify it by kicking out all the greedy Jews.”

Wtf do they find these people. It is like they called down to central casting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (zZu0s)

55 The Necronomicon is Dr. Seuss by comparison.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Moss-covered, three-handled family abattoir

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

56 The judiciary and poisoned political juries are the greatest threat to our republic. Justice is no longer blind nor balanced.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (mJELX)

57
Cute Toy Trains & Christmas Music

Here is an elaborate Toy Train set in a lovely Wintry scene, accompanied by relaxing Christmas music:

https://is.gd/VS7CXM

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (cPNKV)

58 51 Damn, Minnesota is a f*cked up state. From the top down.
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.

Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)

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*cumming just so hard*
-Mrs. Walz

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

59 is Boasberg em-peached yet ??
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 04:38 PM (g47mK)
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Oh my word no!

We have to show we can govern!

Posted by: Becky Cuthbertson-Klein, Locust Valley Republicans at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (sF9Ts)

60 I wouldn't take a payout to change my beliefs, and I am not a multi millionaire, like Carlson.

There is something wrong with Carlson, and others like him, who will sell their consciences.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM

How much are we talking here?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (jc0TO)

61 I'm just going to assume there is a porn video titled Hairy Pooter. No need for confirmation please.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (/iMjX)

62
Forget case somewhat but a Leftist Judge dismissed a jury case after they convinced the criminal, judge let that person off anyway
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM

Didn't that literally just happen in one of the Medicare fraud cases this week?
Posted by: toby928(c)

This place...

it's like being in an Alzheimers Ward...

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (cPNKV)

63 60 How much are we talking here?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (jc0TO)

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"tree-fitty."
-da lock ness monsta

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

64 If you had any doubt, the book is hardcore pro-abortion propaganda designed to appeal to little children
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The Leftist cancer in America is not going to be solved through voting harder.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (vSvIl)

65 Damn, Minnesota is a f*cked up state. From the top down.
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)

Well, their governor is retarded, so there is that.

Posted by: American Association Of Retardism at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (R/m4+)

66 Isn't Scranton Joe getting some kind of Poofter Award from a Buttfucking Organization today? And is giving a speech?

Posted by: Should Be Amusing at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (oftw2)

67 61 Ha!

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (GHIyr)

68 There is something wrong with Carlson, and others like him, who will sell their consciences.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM

How much are we talking here?
Posted by: toby928(c)

30 pieces of silver

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

69 Earlier this year, Bryce said, “I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based on my own research…. he fought for his country and wanted to purify it by kicking out all the greedy Jews.”

Wtf do they find these people. It is like they called down to central casting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (zZu0s)
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His twitter is filled with much worse.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (sF9Ts)

70 I mean, there might be a number large enough where I would sell out all of youse.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (jc0TO)

71 Abortion Is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision.

So is using birth control, dummy. Get snipped if you don't want children.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (ynpvh)

72 There is something wrong with Carlson, and others like him, who will sell their consciences.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM

How much are we talking here?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:48 PM (jc0TO)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

73 Well Suzy, you were going to have a little sister but we decided to suck her out of your mother's womb and let a stranger sell the body parts instead.
But we love you very much, now go clean your room.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (v0R5T)

74 Didn't the original Harry Potter series already have black characters? Because witches and wizards were a global thing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

75 Remember how everyone lost their shit when Trump observed that he could shoot someone in Times Square and it would not affect his popularity? We now have obvious fraudsters going free because the districts where they are tried in cannot find an impartial jury...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM

I suspect they specifically did not try to find an impartial grand jury and the voir dire for that particular grand jury was severly lacking.

It's just like everyone clamoring for Trump's DOJ to indict democrats for all sorts of crimes that occurred in DC. It simply ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (0N4FZ)

76 Tucker we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (pDt9x)

77 My librarian grandmother would have burned that abortion book in front of city hall.

Posted by: pookysgirl misses her grandma at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (Wt5PA)

78 74 Didn't the original Harry Potter series already have black characters? Because witches and wizards were a global thing?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

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Harry Potter is set in the 80s and 90s, and yeah, there were some black characters and Indian characters.

Harry Potter set today would be fun, especially if you had to include devout Muslims as characters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

79
What exactly is happening with SCOTUS and birthright citizenship? They're going to determine whether Trump's EO is legal, or whether the whole concept is ready for the ash-heap of history?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (isqj7)

80 I'd like to remind everyone that as a trusted internet personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground content caves!

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (jc0TO)

81 How much are we talking here?
Posted by: toby928(c)

It doesn't matter. I walked away from a job with no backup plan because I refused to lie on a document. You just don't sell some things.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

82 Theory:

The abortion book was written in order to be "banned" from school libraries in red America in order to goose sales to childless cat ladies in San Francisco.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

83 I mean, there might be a number large enough where I would sell out all of youse.
Posted by: toby928(c)

You can only sell me out if you agree, in a contract signed with your own blood, to do it after you've slept with Trigglypuff first.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

84 62
Forget case somewhat but a Leftist Judge dismissed a jury case after they convinced the criminal, judge let that person off anyway
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM

Didn't that literally just happen in one of the Medicare fraud cases this week?
Posted by: toby928(c)

This place...

it's like being in an Alzheimers Ward...

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (cPNKV)

Well, this group still thinks their 29 years old...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM (ynpvh)

85 Dean Thomas. Ginny Weasley’s first boyfriend was black. Before she ended up marrying Harry. And no, I make zero apologies for knowing this.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (pDt9x)

86 How much are we talking here?
Posted by: toby928(c)

30 pieces of silver
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (77rzZ)

Troy ounces or what?

Posted by: There's pieces and then there's PIECES at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (TbWk/)

87 It's just like everyone clamoring for Trump's DOJ to indict democrats for all sorts of crimes that occurred in DC. It simply ain't gonna happen.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2025 04:51 PM (0N4FZ)
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In which case I will be forced to reconsider my opinion on overthrowing the United States.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (sF9Ts)

88 85 Dean Thomas. Ginny Weasley’s first boyfriend was black. Before she ended up marrying Harry. And no, I make zero apologies for knowing this.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (pDt9x)

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All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

89 I am used to some posts requiring "eye bleach".

Thanks Ace, after that Behn link I now need some "ear bleach"!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (HlyYF)

90 It will be interesting to hear what Tucker has to say. He's always interesting, even when you don't like it.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (wBaIH)

91 It seems judiciary around the world are dominated by far left totalitarian.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (8CIFn)

92 A "protestor" in Portland tried to set the ICE building on fire in Portland.

She was charged in state court, and pled guilty to second degree arson.

Ten days in jail.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (xTIDn)

93 88 85 Dean Thomas. Ginny Weasley’s first boyfriend was black. Before she ended up marrying Harry. And no, I make zero apologies for knowing this.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (pDt9x)

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All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)

94 Democrat-Communists are ok with and in fact facilitate welfare fraud by Somalis and other "immigrants" because, according to the Progressive Cult, White Westerners "stole" all that money from the third world.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (qUkBO)

95 Charging any member of the deep state in the DC area will never get a conviction. I don’t know why the DOJ doesn’t understand this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (wrRTB)

96
Imagine living in a toy train world. Sounds nice, right? Idyllic, even.

The train...constantly on the move, going around the town, never stopping...driving you out of your ever-living mind.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (cPNKV)

97 93
All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)

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We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

98 92 A "protestor" in Portland tried to set the ICE building on fire in Portland.

She was charged in state court, and pled guilty to second degree arson.

Ten days in jail.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (xTIDn)

If she tried that at a PP abattoir, you can be sure she'd end up in the Fed for a very long time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

99 Commenters come and go, sometimes they just go. I haven't seen any comments from andycanuck for quite a while. I miss his wit and links. Anybody know if he's okay?

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (/iMjX)

100 65 Damn, Minnesota is a f*cked up state. From the top down.
How could they be so damn stupid? Lots of $$$$ wasted. May as well put a match to it.
Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:46 PM (5Je/N)

Well, their governor is retarded, so there is that.
Posted by: American Association Of Retardism at December 05, 2025 04:49 PM (R/m4+)
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Remember when they elected Jessie Ventura as Gov. Wacky state.

Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (G0vdT)

101 Actually, Harry Potter is ghey and retarded

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (sF9Ts)

102 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (NFGTZ)

103 97 93
All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)

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We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

I prefer the car...oh, we're not talking Monopoly?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (ynpvh)

104 82 Theory:

The abortion book was written in order to be "banned" from school libraries in red America in order to goose sales to childless cat ladies in San Francisco.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:53 PM

Childless cat lady: "I need to preserve my right to have an abortion."

Moron: "Have you ever had sex with a human male?"

Childless cat lady: "I don't get your point. Why is that relevant?"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (HlyYF)

105 We gave men power and freedom and they built civilizations, infrastructure, industries, and the means to protect them. We gave women power and freedom and they murdered millions of their own unborn children. Then they wrote kids books about it.

Posted by: There's something very wrong about this at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (TbWk/)

106 97 93
All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)

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We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

I will play Snape, another hero in the book.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (pDt9x)

107 All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.

Posted by: tubal

Can we talk for a moment about how Neville was an utter dweeb through most of the saga...but then he (or at least his actor) turned into an absolute Chad at the end...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)

108
Trump's defense is that he didn't break the law.

Leticia James' defense is that someone like her should not be prosecuted, not that she didn't break the law.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (azNOR)

109 Dear Sweet Actual Jesus, why would you put a big red blotch as the focal centerpiece of the cover of your "children's" book about abortion?

Forget the pillars of salt, this time, Lord, just burn it all and keep burning until there's nothing left to burn.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (06Hmj)

110 Haven't seen andycanuck

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (sF9Ts)

111
The Reddit faggot is back with more Reddit nuggets of cucka.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (cPNKV)

112 His twitter is filled with much worse.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:50 PM (sF9Ts)

So an MMA guy?

Are we supposed to give credence to social commentary from guys with CTE?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

113 Commenters come and go, sometimes they just go. I haven't seen any comments from andycanuck for quite a while. I miss his wit and links. Anybody know if he's okay?
Posted by: muldoon

What I saw, from other commenters here, was that some anti-Canada comments folks were posting here got under his skin, and he left.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

114 107 Can we talk for a moment about how Neville was an utter dweeb through most of the saga...but then he (or at least his actor) turned into an absolute Chad at the end...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)

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This is a big reason I identify with him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

115 The train...constantly on the move, going around the town, never stopping...driving you out of your ever-living mind.
Posted by: Soothsayer

********

I imagine that signal man's arm gets tired holding that lantern up around the clock.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (/iMjX)

116 101 Actually, Harry Potter is ghey and retarded

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (sF9Ts)

There's also that kid from a Star Trek series that couldn't get into Starfleet Academy for the longest time, and when he did, should've been booted for being involved in a dangerous, banned stunt...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

117 If she tried that at a PP abattoir, you can be sure she'd end up in the Fed for a very long time.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM

With federal interest in abortion policy outlawed by the Supreme Court, how is the FACE act not .. err .. facially unconstitutional?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

118 Democrat-Communists are ok with and in fact facilitate welfare fraud by Somalis and other "immigrants" because, according to the Progressive Cult, White Westerners "stole" all that money from the third world.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected

Funny how the money only makes its appearance in the first world, never in the third world. How did the colonialists find that secret stash, hidden in the wastelands?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (0U5gm)

119 We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

I have that. It's a lot of fun.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (MGB5H)

120 A Child's First Murder Book?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (emBoF)

"A Child's Garden of Murder".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (npFr7)

121 Haven't seen andycanuck
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (sF9Ts)

Last time someone asked, I saw someone make a snippy comment about his 'stale links'. Jeez, are we this fucking high school?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (zZu0s)

122 *points at Chinese troll and laughs*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (sF9Ts)

123 All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

True on both counts. They did bring that out in the movie adaptation.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:55 PM (pDt9x)

They actually both were the folks from the prophecy...Harry and Neville.

I have said that the tv show should have spent the 7 years of the books following Neville. It would have been amazing, and I'd offer to fill in the missing details. Going from the weenie bullied kid to the main hero by book 7 and all due to grit and bravery...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (tOcjL)

124 I knew that Snape had been cast as black in the upcoming Harry Potter series, but not Hermione.

Arabella Stanton is the actress and she looks Indian/Pakistani/Bangledeshi, somewhere from the subcontinent.

She’s not quite black but certainly not a fuzzy-gingerish-haired, white, English lass, either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

125 will play Snape, another hero in the book.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04

Snape is an utterly terrible person. Just because I helped Harry out doesn't excuse his abuse and nastiness throughout the entire series.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (MGB5H)

126
We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

I will play Snape, another hero in the book.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (pDt9x)

Snape is, but he was never intended to be one til the 1st movie was shown to the public and Alan Rickman's portrayal was so amazing...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (tOcjL)

127 119 We have some Harry Potter deck building card game and expansions, and I always play as Neville. Dolley plays as Hermione. Junior plays as the HP.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

I have that. It's a lot of fun.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (MGB5H)

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It is. I've had it on my list of "to-do's" to come up with my own set of rules to allow for deck building between years, adding on the expansions, and having one, long game that goes on for like 12 hours.

I've read a couple of fan made rule, and I've never liked them.

Coming up with that would be a good Christmas present for Dolley...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

128 Last time someone asked, I saw someone make a snippy comment about his 'stale links'. Jeez, are we this fucking high school?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (zZu0s)
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Come back andy! We forgive you for poutine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (sF9Ts)

129 I imagine that signal man's arm gets tired holding that lantern up around the clock.
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (/iMjX)

This too is the story of lawn jockeys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

130 Can we talk for a moment about how Neville was an utter dweeb through most of the saga...but then he (or at least his actor) turned into an absolute Chad at the end...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:58 PM (OUMaO)

Yup. Sometimes homely kids make the best looking adults.

I went the other way: Cute kid, now current me. Alas.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (0aYVJ)

131 I think Tucker is living in a false reality created (intentionally) by leftist Big Tech, EU, and IC. They control his news feeds and all social media he is exposed to. They probably control his uber drivers and the people who he runs into when in stores.

They do this because he was dangerous and they wanted to neutralize him. This is the Treglia Pew speech I always harp on about.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (1ZMNP)

132 For the record there is nothing stopping Netflix and co from making new IP staring black people or hell older IP.

But this blackwashing stuff is offensive.

I went to watch a show about Cleopatra and as soon as they introduced the actress as black...click.

Why not make a miniseries about the Queen of Sheeba. Or hell how about the life of Haile Selassie?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (sKqQm)

133 The new Potter series will get the same amount of attention fron me as the Prime Lord of the Rings series, specifically, none.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (pDt9x)

134 As a resident of NY, I want to see my State Attorney General rot in jail.

I really hope the DOJ will persist in indicting this corrupt piece of shit.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (WsJuq)

135 I bet we will lose all our British commenters since we crack on the English poofters all the time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (jc0TO)

136 117 If she tried that at a PP abattoir, you can be sure she'd end up in the Fed for a very long time.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM

With federal interest in abortion policy outlawed by the Supreme Court, how is the FACE act not .. err .. facially unconstitutional?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

"It's a tax!"--Justice John Roberts

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (ynpvh)

137
Aww, so cute.

Time to break out the snowplow to clear the tracks!

https://is.gd/WkPzWz

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (cPNKV)

138 It is. I've had it on my list of "to-do's" to come up with my own set of rules to allow for deck building between years, adding on the expansions, and having one, long game that goes on for like 12 hours.

I've read a couple of fan made rule, and I've never liked them.

Coming up with that would be a good Christmas present for Dolley...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

Feel free to send my way if you do!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (MGB5H)

139 Best take on Hermoine (and one of the last funny SNL skits) https://tinyurl.com/y8f6wphy

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

140 138 Feel free to send my way if you do!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (MGB5H)

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Yeah...gonna do it. Tomorrow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

141 99 Commenters come and go, sometimes they just go. I haven't seen any comments from andycanuck for quite a while. I miss his wit and links. Anybody know if he's okay?
Posted by: muldoon
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My take: Andy got disgruntled after Trump won and Trump started making comments/insults/trolling about Canada in terms of trade agreements. Think the loss by Canadian right in the elections might have added to the anguish because a fair number of Canadians on the right blame Trump's comments for that.

Then lots of comments about Snow Mexicans, etc. in response from some folks here arose. May be around under some of the new floating nics that seem to not be very happy about this or that under the new regime. Maybe not. Dunno.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (WDjG6)

142 All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

His character growth was amazing. And the casting people lucked out that this pudgy little kid from the first movie wound up being tall and handsome enough to pull off slicing Naigini in half in an epic fashion in the last movie.

Posted by: pookysgirl's librarian grandma gave her the first 3 HP books at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (Wt5PA)

143 For the record there is nothing stopping Netflix and co from making new IP staring black people or hell older IP.

But this blackwashing stuff is offensive.

I went to watch a show about Cleopatra and as soon as they introduced the actress as black...click.

Why not make a miniseries about the Queen of Sheeba. Or hell how about the life of Haile Selassie?

Posted by: 18-1

My understanding is that hollywood writers and producers are so racist that they won't write new material for black actors, so they only get retread roles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (0U5gm)

144 What I saw, from other commenters here, was that some anti-Canada comments folks were posting here got under his skin, and he left.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)
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I've been meaning to mention all the anti-San Francisco comments. Why, in this very thread....

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (sF9Ts)

145 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 04:42 PM (NFGTZ)

We're looking out for you, buddy. Wouldn't want you to starve.

Much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (npFr7)

146 144 I've been meaning to mention all the anti-San Francisco comments. Why, in this very thread....

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (sF9Ts)

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All I know is that I hate all penguins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

147 Fuck it man just have Idris Elba be Harry Potter. Leave everything else completely unchanged. It'll be hilarious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (06Hmj)

148 All I know is that Neville Longbottom was the real hero of the Harry Potter universe and the one the prophecy was about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

Agreed.

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (ycr1e)

149 All I know is that I hate all penguins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

*takes notes*
-Big Penguin

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (MGB5H)

150 139 Best take on Hermoine (and one of the last funny SNL skits) https://tinyurl.com/y8f6wphy
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

Hilarious!!!

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (pDt9x)

151 I bet we will lose all our British commenters since we crack on the English poofters all the time.

Posted by: toby928(c)

More likely they will get arrested by UK police just for writing comments here.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (0U5gm)

152 149 All I know is that I hate all penguins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

*takes notes*
-Big Penguin

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:06 PM (MGB5H)

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As long as they like and subscribe, they can scribble with their little flippers all they want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (GBKbO)

153 ‘Look, Jill, I made you a doodoo!’
-Joey B.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (i+bC1)

154 >>>James thanked the jurors, adding she was "humbled by the support I have received from across the country" and would continue "standing up for the rule of law and the people of New York."

The nerve of this bitch.

When there is no rule of law, people will make their own law.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (P8IKm)

155 153 ‘Look, Jill, I made you a doodoo!’
-Joey B.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (i+bC1)

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"The most eloquent pronouncement by a president in my lifetime."
-DU, 100% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:08 PM (GBKbO)

156 The nerve of this bitch.

When there is no rule of law, people will make their own law.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation

"I AM THE LAW
-Judge Dredd"
-Tish James

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:09 PM (MGB5H)

157 The nerve of this bitch.

When there is no rule of law, people will make their own law.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:07 PM (P8IKm)

There's something delightfully thudding about explicitly thanking the jurors who nullified your case for their "support".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:09 PM (06Hmj)

158 All I know is that I hate all penguins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

That tears it! Gonna unsubscribe!

Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (oftw2)

159 This is a disgusting country.
It is one of the least disgusting countries in the world.
If I lived in Singapore I would be arrested and caned for something I'm not aware of.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (SZI4T)

160 158 All I know is that I hate all penguins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

That tears it! Gonna unsubscribe!

Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (oftw2)

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There's no such thing as bad press!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (GBKbO)

161 What I saw, from other commenters here, was that some anti-Canada comments folks were posting here got under his skin, and he left.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

FFS. Grow a thicker skin.

We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)

162 I lurk but read every day and night or try so I do miss some of the people I have not seen around and of course those who have passed away. I love this place. It's my sanity check - which isn't saying much in some cases but there you go.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (Q0yOR)

163 LaQuon Potter---Always late for class. Steals Dudley's PlayStation. Knifes Hermione on the train to Hogwarts, Files a racial grievance against Voldemort forcing the Ministry of Magic to require sensitivity training, and no one mentions the lightning scar on his forehead, because it isn't visible.

How many stereotypes did I get?

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (dIske)

164 I only read the first Harry Potter novel, but my wife has read them all, and she has told me that both Snape and Harry's muggle aunt had sympathetic qualities to them, and that they were actually motivated in their actions, to a degree, by a desire to protect Harry.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

165 If I lived in Singapore I would be arrested and caned for something I'm not aware of.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 05:10 PM (SZI4T)

I would gladly take a good horsewhipping out of left field now and again if it meant all the scumbags who pretend to rule us face a real and inevitable promise of Finding Out any time they so much as smell like they want to Fuck Around.

No one knows how to create such a precious unicorn of a system, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (06Hmj)

166 We shit talk everyone.

Posted by: NCKate at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (uQzkA)

167 161 What I saw, from other commenters here, was that some anti-Canada comments folks were posting here got under his skin, and he left.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:59 PM (77rzZ)

FFS. Grow a thicker skin.

We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)

THAT Guy!!

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (pDt9x)

168 Last time someone asked, I saw someone make a snippy comment about his 'stale links'. Jeez, are we this fucking high school?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Eh, to last online you need a tough skin--I've been called a lot of names online over the 30 years or so in discussion boards (starting with Usenet forums) and dealt professionally with shitty comments on peer review for articles, discussants at conferences, editors, and student reviews.

Best to have "I Don't Care Margaret" attitude and carry on. As I told one critic, if what you say is true, then it is true--if not then I really don't have to care about it.

Never take online insults from randos seriously---in some cases it may be literally business for the ten cent posters or some delusional troll living in their parent's basement that haven't bathed since Kamala lost.

As usual, YMMV but that is my take.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (WDjG6)

169 167 We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (GBKbO)

170 FFS. Grow a thicker skin.

We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)

THAT Guy!!
Posted by: tubal
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I don't get it.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (WDjG6)

171 I've no idea what Netflix has on offer, but if they don't have half a dozen documentaries about the drunks, addicts and mentally ill hordes living in busted RVs on barren patches of Arizona desert, then I would be happy to help them out with their programming.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (2ap+5)

172 Lindsey Lohan was/is pretty hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (zZu0s)

173 Yeah if you can't handle your state/country/city/sports team/favorite movies etc torn up by fellow morons this might not be the place for you.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (YwEeS)

174
Some idiot(s) here also drove away "Mister Ghost."

Some people need to keep their stupid fucking mouths shut and stop complaining about other people's comments.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (cPNKV)

175 I don't get it!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (vFG9F)

176 I was never really a Tucker fan as he wasn't on until after my bed time

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (Ia/+0)

177 We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:12 PM (GBKbO)

We know, man. We know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (zZu0s)

178 Commenters come and go, sometimes they just go. I haven't seen any comments from andycanuck for quite a while. I miss his wit and links. Anybody know if he's okay?
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 04:57 PM (/iMjX)

He seems to be taking a sabbatical. Apparently some commenters constant swipes at Canada, rankled him. Me, I know they are deserved, and I regard them as applying to the Evil Liberals, and the damfools who vote for them, not me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (npFr7)

179 175 I don't get it!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (vFG9F)

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Pretty sure I heard it first from Carlos Mencia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (GBKbO)

180 139 Best take on Hermoine (and one of the last funny SNL skits) https://tinyurl.com/y8f6wphy

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

Ahhh, before Lindsey lost her mind and vanished from the face of the Earth.

She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

181 I'll give you a headline, the New York Times said the only reason the J6 bomber was caught was a "far right fixation."

As if, planting bombs at the capitol on J6, was no biggie.

I wanted it solved solely because I wanted the person who planted bombs at the Dem headquarters behind bars, whoever the fuck it is. We were "fixated" because this seems like an easily solvable case, yet no progress was happening. We also didn't know who it was - we had no idea it was a black leftist. Could have been a maga guy. Either way I wanted the guy found and punished.

The only explanation I can summon to understand why lefties weren't also fixated is the FBI knew when they caught the guy it wouldn't look good.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (gDhA9)

182 We're looking out for you, buddy. Wouldn't want you to starve.

Much.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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He should find a nice hog farm so he can satisfy his cravings. Conveyor waste belts would take the product right to his gaping mouth.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (WDjG6)

183 172 Lindsey Lohan was/is pretty hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:13 PM (zZu0s)

I can't believe she'll be 40 next year...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (ynpvh)

184 180 Ahhh, before Lindsey lost her mind and vanished from the face of the Earth.

She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt) =

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Paul Schrader got naked with her and pornstar James Dean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)

185 Hmm. Tucker didn't announce he would be in Qatar until the last moment.

Why the delay?
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Because it gives the rubes that assert "He's one of us guys, and just likes to ask questions" plausible deniability.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (TN0g+)

186 176 I was never really a Tucker fan as he wasn't on until after my bed time
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (Ia/+0)

I think that's the worst thing anyone's ever said about him.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (06Hmj)

187 It's my sanity check - which isn't saying much in some cases but there you go.
Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (Q0yOR)
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Standing right here, bro.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (CTokg)

188 Commenters come and go, sometimes they just go.

And yet I remain, like a floater you can't flush.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (jc0TO)

189
Quatari Money spends just as well as our.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (IifOV)

190 Ahhh, before Lindsey lost her mind and vanished from the face of the Earth.

She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December

She's back now. Got some ill-advised plastic surgery.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (MGB5H)

191 As for Trump messing up the conservatives chances in Canada, sorry , that is on them. Trump is going to Trump and if all it takes for Canadians to make a disastrous protest vote is him being himself maybe your position wasn't that strong to begin with.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (YwEeS)

192
61 I'm just going to assume there is a porn video titled Hairy Pooter. No need for confirmation please.
Posted by: muldoon

I asked ai, knowing it wouldn't give me a list. Then i went down a rabit hole about censorship acus___ it of being popgrammed to do so.

It responded that it had safety guidlines. What safety guidlines. No response.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (QVmho)

193 191 As for Trump messing up the conservatives chances in Canada, sorry , that is on them. Trump is going to Trump and if all it takes for Canadians to make a disastrous protest vote is him being himself maybe your position wasn't that strong to begin with.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (YwEeS)

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The conservative candidate was promising to continue to import 500,000 Indians a year.

He was conservative like Mitt Romney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (GBKbO)

194 We should be teaching young women that they shouldn’t be having unprotected sex with losers who will abandon them and their baby as spins as they hear the pregnancy news.

It’s insane to me that abortions are even necessary, let alone a billion-dollar industry. Ladies, keep your legs closed if a dick comes at you bare.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (osKUJ)

195 she has told me that both Snape and Harry's muggle aunt had sympathetic qualities to them, and that they were actually motivated in their actions, to a degree, by a desire to protect Harry.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

All true, but none of that is revealed until the final few books.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

196 I don’t insult fellow Hordesters, but love to insult Leftists.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (pDt9x)

197 I wouldn't have liked it anyway.

As I said before, it's an incoherent mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.

"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:36 PM (iJfKG)

Then the inaccuracies to the legend are immaterial to your critique. Focus on the actual reasons you dislike it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

Oh, good grief.

That doesn't make sense. There can be more than one reason for disliking a movie. Number One reason is it wasn't very good, but regardless of my dislike of playing fast and loose with Arthurian stuff I would have liked it if it were good. It's not.

It shouldn''t be hard though to understand that using a well-known Character carries expectations.

Suppose Kubrick had instead of calling "2001: A Space Odyssey" had titled it:

"The Enigmatic Slab: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery"

Well...why not? Why can't Sherlock Holmes be a pre-hominid creature running around the African Savannah clubbing tapirs with leg bones?

This is the argument you're making in regards to this.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (iJfKG)

198 172 Lindsey Lohan was/is pretty hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Disney has a wretched long record on screwing up young people that were child stars at that machine. Even a few in Walt's day like Tommie Kirk. Kurt Russell is one of the rare exceptions.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (WDjG6)

199 Come back andy! We forgive you for poutine.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:01 PM (sF9Ts)

Good poutine is yummy. You can feel your arteries clog with every bite.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (npFr7)

200 Lindsey Lohan was/is pretty hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Is she still so, after all her drug/alcohol consumption?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (77rzZ)

201 I would bet the Canadian Propaganda Ministry is more prevalent than our Democrats Propaganda Ministry

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (Ia/+0)

202 And yet I remain, like a floater you can't flush.
Posted by: toby928(c)

There's one in every septic tank.

Posted by: Penguin Pool Petey at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (oftw2)

203 Jenna Ellis book, Abortion is Everything could be titled We Hate You.
Or, We Hate Life.

It would be simpler for them to just go off and kill themselves.
Then they would be at peace.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (SZI4T)

204 "The Enigmatic Slab: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery"

Well...why not? Why can't Sherlock Holmes be a pre-hominid creature running around the African Savannah clubbing tapirs with leg bones?
Posted by: naturalfake
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That would actually be a hoot to see. Can we see the whole pitch?

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (WDjG6)

205 One amusing video I came across on YT was about a crisis in recruiting for the Canadian military. They mentioned that recruiting got a big bump early in the year from Trump's comments and people signing up to stop Trump from annexing Canada like Hitler did to Austria. Not kidding.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (YwEeS)

206 Kurt Russel has a good head on his shoulders. He outright says that he sees himself as a jester, paid to entertain.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (jc0TO)

207 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)

208 I remember seeing that Hermoine SNL skit when I aired.

Lindsay is da hawt fo sho.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (wrRTB)

209 Paul Schrader got naked with her and pornstar James Dean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)

The Canyons.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (MGB5H)

210 Excalibur is the best cinematic telling of the Arthurian legend. That is all.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (YwEeS)

211 207 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)

I live in the Ozarks, Jack.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (pDt9x)

212 Can we talk for a moment about how Neville was an utter dweeb through most of the saga...but then he (or at least his actor) turned into an absolute Chad at the end...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum

I think Stranger Things may have had a similar twist.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (/lPRQ)

213 Disney has a wretched long record on screwing up young people that were child stars at that machine. Even a few in Walt's day like Tommie Kirk. Kurt Russell is one of the rare exceptions.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:17 PM (WDjG6)

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I have to believe that Jodie Foster was everyone's favorite Disney child star.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (2ap+5)

214 Some idiot(s) here also drove away "Mister Ghost."
Posted by: Soothsayer

As I recall, he was kinda asshoe.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (77rzZ)

215 Ahhh, before Lindsey lost her mind and vanished from the face of the Earth.

Who was that other cute chick who totally lost her mind and lost her career around the same time-

She was in "She's the Man" I think.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)

216 That would actually be a hoot to see. Can we see the whole pitch?
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (WDjG6)

One little monkey all doodling around with a driver's cap and a meerschaum.... making clearly condescending "ook ook" noises at the other monkeys....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (06Hmj)

217 Some idiot(s) here also drove away "Mister Ghost."
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Mister Ghost deserved it, and was little more than a Fuentes fanboi.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (TN0g+)

218 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)

I live in the Ozarks, Jack.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM

I live with my cousin-wife in Alabama.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)

219 Who was that other cute chick who totally lost her mind and lost her career around the same time-

She was in "She's the Man" I think.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)

Amanda Bynes. She has face tats now.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (MGB5H)

220 184 180 Ahhh, before Lindsey lost her mind and vanished from the face of the Earth.

She looked cute in that get-up.
(and boobs)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt) =

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Paul Schrader got naked with her and pornstar James Dean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)
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In one of the most ridiculous sexual assault cases ever, Deen was sued for sexual abuse during …wait for it … the shooting of a scene for a hardcore porn movie. The whore claimed something like he was supposed to pound her like this, but instead he pounded her like that. Sex assault!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (osKUJ)

221 I subscribed to TJM's YT.
Problem is I have like 100 subscriptions on there and YT doesn't think TJM is important enough to put on my home page.

I'd go looking down the list, but that's some serious scrolling.
I guess I could hit the Bell and be notified but I'm not sure if I'm ready for that kind of commitment. I haven't hit the bell for notifications for anybody on YT yet, I just figure I see 'em when I see 'em.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

222 207 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)

Oh cram it Mr. I Live On An Island That Only Has A Southern Coast and Doesn't Even Actually Exist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:22 PM (06Hmj)

223
Amanda Bynes. She has face tats now.
Posted by: BruceWayne

She forgot to not do that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 05:22 PM (QVmho)

224 Who was that other cute chick

Speakin' o' which, have we identified the other bikini hottie in the Karoline Leavitt beach pic?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:22 PM (77rzZ)

225 Aintry? This river don't go to Aintry.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:23 PM (viF8m)

226
Anyone seen the Star Trek 90210 trash coming out soon?

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 05:23 PM (IifOV)

227 Poutine is ok but the cheese is too much.

I grew up on fries and gravy. Hold the whiz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:23 PM (CTokg)

228 226 I saw the poster and thought someone made a parody but it is real.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (YwEeS)

229 I wouldn't anyone messing with drug addicts.
It's a train wreck in slow motion

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (Ia/+0)

230 206 Kurt Russel has a good head on his shoulders. He outright says that he sees himself as a jester, paid to entertain.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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There was a recent short video of kids now grown up discussing being on Walt's last supervised picture. It was Fred McMurray leading in "Follow Me Boys" (love letter to the Boy Scouts when the organization deserved it).

The boys noted that Kurt was already the professional actor on the set at something like 10 or 11 years old and was passing along how to do it to the other kid actors.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6)

231 I don't know why I feel like typing.

Here is something that bothers me. The piece above about the DEI training material teaching that all whites are racists.

Maybe I am lucky, but I never had a job that was worth putting up with that shit. I don't understand why any white person does.

I really don't understand why the first person AT&T pushed that on did not push back and tell them that they are not racist, they are offended by the hostile work environment that they have created, and they can expect a 7 figure settlement demand.

Is the country so far gone that a company can systemically call an entire race "racist" and get away with it for years?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (1ZMNP)

232 My take: Andy got disgruntled after Trump won and Trump started making comments/insults/trolling about Canada in terms of trade agreements. Think the loss by Canadian right in the elections might have added to the anguish because a fair number of Canadians on the right blame Trump's comments for that.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (WDjG6)
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If that's the case, he's really going to be upset in about six months when they dissolve the USMCA agreement. Carney has been sitting on his entitled ass while Bessent has been updating trade agreements across the globe...many of which are making a point to include good trade deals on products Canada held a "monopoly" on with the US. Canada (and Mexico for that matter) will have minimal leverage in the negotiations, and there will be a bi-lateral agreement instead of a tri-lateral agreement. I'm not embellishing when I say that two years from now a Canadian dollar will be worth half of what it is now.

Short version: Canadians are truly screwed.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (dIske)

233 209 Paul Schrader got naked with her and pornstar James Dean.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)

The Canyons.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (MGB5H)

I haven't seen that one.

I recall some scandal/lawsuit but following Lindsey wasn't on my To-Do List back then, I'd just read about a DUI every now and then and thank my lucky stars I was never a Hollywood Brat.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

234 "The Enigmatic Slab: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery"

Well...why not? Why can't Sherlock Holmes be a pre-hominid creature running around the African Savannah clubbing tapirs with leg bones?
Posted by: naturalfake
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That would actually be a hoot to see. Can we see the whole pitch?
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (WDjG6)

Yeah, I wanted to see it even as I wrote it.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (iJfKG)

235 Ireland sux!

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)

236 Short version: Canadians are truly screwed.
All self inflicted.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (YwEeS)

237 "Is the country so far gone that a company can systemically call an entire race "racist" and get away with it for years?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)"

Well, yeah.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (vFG9F)

238 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.
Posted by: JackStraw

*********

Even if it's imaginary? Like Hogwarts? Or Rhode Island?

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (/iMjX)

239 One little monkey all doodling around with a driver's cap and a meerschaum.... making clearly condescending "ook ook" noises at the other monkeys....
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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It would save a lot on dialogue and I don't think monkeys get residuals or profit sharing without a damn good agent.

Then again, Quest for Fire did that and that was so bad that I walked out of the theater in the first five minutes.

Even possibly seeing Darrah Hannah nekkid was not worth the pain of watching that POS.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (WDjG6)

240 One amusing video I came across on YT was about a crisis in recruiting for the Canadian military. They mentioned that recruiting got a big bump early in the year from Trump's comments and people signing up to stop Trump from annexing Canada like Hitler did to Austria. Not kidding.
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 05:18 PM (YwEeS)

So the Canuck military has taken on a new tranche of very stupid people? They'll be fighting over whose turn it is to tote the platoon's only .303

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM (npFr7)

241 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
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I live in the Ozarks, Jack.
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM
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No sympathy for youse guys. Try living at the Jersey Shore.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (3ImbR)

242 I hate to say it, but if Canadians voted for their own destruction to spite Trump, they deserve all of the pain they are getting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (0U5gm)

243 If I was getting paid Tucker Carlson money, would I do Tucker Carlson things?

I hope not.

I hope I find out

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (xcxpd)

244 UK is screwed for real. I read they cancelled elections of some sort. This is what happens when you let socialists into the henhouse to mind the sheep!

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (g47mK)

245 Who was that other cute chick who totally lost her mind and lost her career around the same time-

She was in "She's the Man" I think.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)

Amanda Bynes. She has face tats now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:21 PM (MGB5H)

Wholley Kau!!!

She's never coming back from Pluto, is she?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (iJfKG)

246
Trump did help Carney win.

Trump fucked up the French elections, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (cPNKV)

247 Yeah, I wanted to see it even as I wrote it.
Posted by: naturalfake

Heck, even Psych is a basic retread of Sherlock Holmes, albeit entertaining. But monkeys and monoliths and murder--oh my.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (WDjG6)

248 Is he a former trunk monkey? Cause I like that trunk monkey’s style.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 05:28 PM (i+bC1)

249 Kurt Russel has a good head on his shoulders. He outright says that he sees himself as a jester, paid to entertain.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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There was a recent short video of kids now grown up discussing being on Walt's last supervised picture. It was Fred McMurray leading in "Follow Me Boys" (love letter to the Boy Scouts when the organization deserved it).

The boys noted that Kurt was already the professional actor on the set at something like 10 or 11 years old and was passing along how to do it to the other kid actors.

Posted by: whig

The director of Tombstone was way over his head, and Kurt Russell essentially sidled in and directed the movie himself. One of the best westerns in the past 40 years.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (0U5gm)

250
Trump is our Blessing.
Trump is our Curse.

Posted by: Soothsayer goes at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (cPNKV)

251 Doesn’t Canada have more navy admirals than ships?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (wrRTB)

252 >>Even if it's imaginary? Like Hogwarts? Or Rhode Island?

Et tu, Muldoon?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (viF8m)

253 Trump has little effect on elections outside of US borders. If he did, Farage, that AfD lady in Germany, and LaPen would be in charge. And Balsanaro would not be in jail.

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)

254 Who was that other cute chick who totally lost her mind and lost her career around the same time-

She was in "She's the Man" I think.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 05:20 PM (iJfKG)

Maybe you don't ,mean her, but Britney Spears was losing it along the same time frame as Lindsey.

I believe that's when Britney shaved her head and started going out on the town sans panties.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (6ydKt)

255 Where in Canada is AndyCanuck from, anyone know?

The soon to be US Alberta
The soon to be FN portions
The froggy part
Or the commie part?

I left out the fish eaters, but I don't think any of them can read so he is probably not from there.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (1ZMNP)

256 244 UK is screwed for real. I read they cancelled elections of some sort. This is what happens when you let socialists into the henhouse to mind the sheep!
Posted by: runner
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Plus ditching about 800 years of Magna Carta tradition in eliminating jury trials for all but the most serious offenses.

Rumpole and the Non-Existent Jury story would not be very interesting.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (WDjG6)

257 FFS. Grow a thicker skin.
We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)

Correct. You wanna hang with the big dogs, you gotta take the diaper off. You can cry, but you gotta lose the diaper.

Posted by: Dick Vermeil at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (R/m4+)

258 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.
Posted by: JackStraw

*********

Even if it's imaginary? Like Hogwarts? Or Rhode Island?

Posted by: muldoon

Just a reminder; Rhode Island is not actually an island. False advertising.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 05:31 PM (0U5gm)

259 Evening.

Check in to get loaded.

Go to door 6.

Door 6 is presently occupied.

Go back to driver check in and talk to someone else. "Who did you talk to?" Didn't get a name. "Was he black?" .....uuuuhhhhhh.....

I'm not seeing anyone but black dudes, man, that's not going to narrow things down.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 05:31 PM (uP08n)

260 The director of Tombstone was way over his head, and Kurt Russell essentially sidled in and directed the movie himself. One of the best westerns in the past 40 years.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Kurt's pretty circumspect about it but others in the movie weren't.

One of the last of his kind in Hollywood I'm afraid.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:31 PM (WDjG6)

261 I think Tucker is living in a false reality created (intentionally) by leftist Big Tech, EU, and IC. They control his news feeds and all social media he is exposed to. They probably control his uber drivers and the people who he runs into when in stores.

They do this because he was dangerous and they wanted to neutralize him. This is the Treglia Pew speech I always harp on about.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:02 PM (1ZMNP)

I don't think an adult with Tucker's resources has any claim to have been faked or fooled. His actions are his, not some cabal he didn't join willingly.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)

262 Of course Trump fucked the Canadian election. Conservatives were leading bigly in polls for a year. Then Trump started talking about a 51st state and that lead evaporated overnight.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (wrRTB)

263 Speaking of TJM's vlog, I'm finally glad to know someone besides me saw John Carter. That was a fun film!

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 05:32 PM (uP08n)

264 244 UK is screwed for real. I read they cancelled elections of some sort. This is what happens when you let socialists into the henhouse to mind the sheep!
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:27 PM (g47mK)
_____________________________

It's almost amusing how obviously the Brits are being played. Here's a little something that media hasn't even discovered yet:

Last year, the UK made all organ donations "Opt Out." This means you are donating your organs unless you take the steps to remove yourself. They made this ruling without debate, publicity, or Parliament involvement.

A year later they introduced Euthanasia into the UK (where it was previously illegal). And keep in mind the influence of their "nationalized health program" ...The NHS.

Now, why do you suppose they proceeded very quietly on the former, and then introduced the latter. What do you think their goal is?

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (dIske)

265 In one of the most ridiculous sexual assault cases ever, Deen was sued for sexual abuse during …wait for it … the shooting of a scene for a hardcore porn movie. The whore claimed something like he was supposed to pound her like this, but instead he pounded her like that. Sex assault!
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Wrong hole! Wrong hole!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (/lPRQ)

266 No sympathy for youse guys. Try living at the Jersey Shore.
Posted by: IrishEi
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Seems like good trashy fun goes on there. I don't recall any of the yutes involved marrying brothers or sisters or their uncle or something though.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (WDjG6)

267 Speaking of TJM's vlog, I'm finally glad to know someone besides me saw John Carter. That was a fun film!
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December

Shoulda been a series. But Disney completely screwed the pooch on the name and marketing.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (MGB5H)

268 Is the country so far gone that a company can systemically call an entire race "racist" and get away with it for years?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:24 PM (1ZMNP)

Yes.

Posted by: The NFL at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (R/m4+)

269 Et tu, Muldoon?
Posted by: JackStraw

********

😇

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (/iMjX)

270 Doesn’t Canada have more navy admirals than ships?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (wrRTB)

Dunno. West Edmonton Mall has more operable submarines than the Canadian Navy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (npFr7)

271 FFS. Grow a thicker skin.
We make anti-asshole comments all the time, and The James Madison still hangs on like a bad odor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 05:11 PM (P8IKm)

Correct. You wanna hang with the big dogs, you gotta take the diaper off. You can cry, but you gotta lose the diaper.
Posted by: Dick Vermeil at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (R/m4+)

Plus at the time I saw tons of Canadians make statement after statement threatening death and destruction on red states because we were tired of them ripping us off for decades with 300 pct tariffs on cheese and dairy. Excuse us for wanting to make milk and cheese cheaper for you guys. That nation needs to be broken up to save the sane parts.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)

272 Posted by: pookysgirl's librarian grandma gave her the first 3 HP books at December 05, 2025 05:04 PM (Wt5PA)

He wore a fat suit, and possibly a buck teeth prosthetic, for the first two movies, I think.... the fat suit for sure, but it may have been that they tried the buck teeth on Emma Watson, but opted not to.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 05, 2025 05:35 PM (Vvh2V)

273 The whore claimed something like he was supposed to pound her like this, but instead he pounded her like that. Sex assault!
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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The legal points in this case would have to be handled delicately. Difficult, indeed HARD, to make a case while the judge and/or jury were sniggering with every bit of evidence presentment.

The highlight of slo mo and using a pointer stick to illustrate the critical moments on the video screen would not help matters.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:35 PM (WDjG6)

274 Of course Trump fucked the Canadian election. Conservatives were leading bigly in polls for a year. Then Trump started talking about a 51st state and that lead evaporated overnight.
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I doubt that Conservatives in Canada were ever "leading bigly"--Canada is the same nation that was relentless in shutting down free speech, shutting down bank accounts and wire transfers, and mandating state-approved speech during the last 4-5 years.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (TN0g+)

275 Doesn’t Canada have more navy admirals than ships?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:29 PM (wrRTB)

Dunno. West Edmonton Mall has more operable submarines than the Canadian Navy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:34 PM (npFr7)

That stat was for the UK. I have no idea about the Canadian navy, but its likely. Even the US Navy has massive admiral bloat.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (8avO+)

276 Trump has little effect on elections outside of US borders. If he did, Farage, that AfD lady in Germany, and LaPen would be in charge. And Balsanaro would not be in jail.

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)

Canada's different though.
They consume our media more than any other nation due to most of the population being within 100 miles of the border.

You could see in the polls when Trump started trolling, Pierre's numbers went down, and Carney's went up.

A lot of Canadian conservatives were angry because their basic pitch is to be more like the U.S., and less like the U.K., and most of them admired Trump for bringing us back from the brink. When Trump started talking about the '51st state' even they were getting pissed off at him.

So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

277 Then again, Quest for Fire did that and that was so bad that I walked out of the theater in the first five minutes.

Even possibly seeing Darrah Hannah nekkid was not worth the pain of watching that POS.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:26 PM

*cough*Rae Dawn Chong*cough*

unless you meant Clan of the Cave Bear.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (jc0TO)

278 Carney won because the wheels fell off of Poilievre's wagon (no i'm not going to look up how to spell that right and put the little doodad on top, get over it).

The dude had his "sounds good in memes" momentum going strong, but then starting talking all kinds of weird shit. I don't even remember what, I just remember thinking "wow this guy is actually kind of nuts, isn't he?"

I think he talked some shit about Trump, but A) that was probably some last minute tactical shit and B) who the fuck cares, the world does not actually revolve around Donald Trump's mouth, no matter what all the professional newsface idiots believe. He lost because he didn't have enough cultural momentum to be The New Guy and still win. The scalpweasel was just noise in that race.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (06Hmj)

279 I wouldn't put Canada past election fraud

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (Ia/+0)

280 I doubt that Conservatives in Canada were ever "leading bigly"--Canada is the same nation that was relentless in shutting down free speech, shutting down bank accounts and wire transfers, and mandating state-approved speech during the last 4-5 years.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (TN0g+)

Plus they added mass election fraud to the mix as well.

Well, they got the government they wanted, and its biting them hard.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (8avO+)

281 The soon to be US Alberta
The soon to be FN portions
The froggy part
Or the commie part?

I left out the fish eaters, but I don't think any of them can read so he is probably not from there.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (1ZMNP)

Greater Toronto area, which did send a number of Conservative MP's to the House in the last election. Nevertheless, Toronto is an urban shithole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (npFr7)

282 Carlson was always what he is showing himself to be, letting his freak flag fly now because he is in his 50s, his TV /media career is over, and hanging on youtube/tiktok is not that great for someone like him. He wants so influence. He wants big lights and big fame. He got into some venture with ME money recently. He probably has , or will have property in Qatar to live there part time. He will try to cause trouble, but...we shall see. He is not the first mouth with those kinda of views. BTW, now, after he let his freak flag fly, people are recalling stuff, trepidations other people had about him.

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (g47mK)

283 Nood week in woke.

Posted by: Dad of Six at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (+OGAU)

284 doubt that Conservatives in Canada were ever "leading bigly"--Canada is the same nation that was relentless in shutting down free speech, shutting down bank accounts and wire transfers, and mandating state-approved speech during the last 4-5 years.
Posted by: Crusader

Hence the pushback against the government that did that.

You have to remember in parliamentary elections the winner gets like 40% of the vote.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:38 PM (wrRTB)

285 The whore claimed something like he was supposed to pound her like this, but instead he pounded her like that. Sex assault!
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Either way, she didn't feel anything. Holes like a Skippy peanut butter jar. She could read a book while he was doing his thing.

Posted by: Hos Gotta Ho at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (R/m4+)

286 Shoulda been a series. But Disney completely screwed the pooch on the name and marketing.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (MGB5H)

A one sheet that was an homage to the famous Frazetta cover would have been nice.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (uP08n)

287 Just read the synopsis of the Canyons. That sounds pretty stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (zZu0s)

288 The term "vlog" always reminds me of a monster or a space alien in a horror movie, probably because the combination "vl" at the beginning of a word is so rare in English.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 05:39 PM (77rzZ)

289 I don't think an adult with Tucker's resources has any claim to have been faked or fooled. His actions are his, not some cabal he didn't join willingly.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Pretty much yes on that. Personally I never like bowtie boy from his time on Crossfire. Seemed to be a political whitebread commentator that was fake through and through. Course, I find most tv news and political personalities loathsome.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (WDjG6)

290 I liked the John Carter Film. But I have a theory had they named it "Princess of Mars" or kept that in, it would have done better. The POINT of a boring name like John Carter is the juxtaposition between that and "princess" and "mars."

There's a reason a pretty princes is introduced at the very beginning of Star Wars, not halfway through.

The director Andrew Stanton is talented, I felt bad it flopped. It's no worse than Cameron's Avatar.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (Eng1Z)

291 lot of Canadian conservatives were angry because their basic pitch is to be more like the U.S., and less like the U.K., and most of them admired Trump for bringing us back from the brink. When Trump started talking about the '51st state' even they were getting pissed off at him.

So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

This.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (wrRTB)

292 All I can say about Canada is what I say about New York City; the voters should get what they voted for, good and hard.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

293 Posted by: runner at December 05, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)

Yes and no. Voting for party, rather than individuals, plays a huge part in this. All the fringe parties can absolutely affect elections in a way they can't here.

But euro weenies are more leftist as a rule, and Trump won't sway sway all of them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (Vvh2V)

294 Wow.

Just. Wow.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 05:41 PM (W2Pud)

295 Carney won because the wheels fell off of Poilievre's wagon (no i'm not going to look up how to spell that right and put the little doodad on top, get over it).

The dude had his "sounds good in memes" momentum going strong, but then starting talking all kinds of weird shit. I don't even remember what, I just remember thinking "wow this guy is actually kind of nuts, isn't he?"

I think he talked some shit about Trump, but A) that was probably some last minute tactical shit and B) who the fuck cares, the world does not actually revolve around Donald Trump's mouth, no matter what all the professional newsface idiots believe. He lost because he didn't have enough cultural momentum to be The New Guy and still win. The scalpweasel was just noise in that race.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 05:37 PM (06Hmj)

You spelled perfectly. No accent. Mostly agree with your assessment. What really queered the election was the massive collapse of the NDP, and most of those votes went to the Liberals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (npFr7)

296 Citizen Kane is on TCM but in my upgrade to faster internet and HD TV I lost TCM, my mostly watched channel

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)

297 lot of Canadian conservatives were angry because their basic pitch is to be more like the U.S., and less like the U.K., and most of them admired Trump for bringing us back from the brink. When Trump started talking about the '51st state' even they were getting pissed off at him.

So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

This.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:40 PM (wrRTB)

If Pierre was a Trump, or a Ted Cruz even, he likely would have won. But he's too much Clark Kent, even for Canada.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)

298 291 lot of Canadian conservatives were angry because their basic pitch is to be more like the U.S., and less like the U.K., and most of them admired Trump for bringing us back from the brink. When Trump started talking about the '51st state' even they were getting pissed off at him.

So Pierre got a lot of flack for being too much like Trump, when he truly isn't, and ran his best campaign and lost.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

This.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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I am too bored to look up the actual data but I suspect you are correct. Then again, Canada has had open borders for a long time and it might simply be that in the end, the newcomers voted for the party that would pay them benefits.

Canada, like most of the West, is being looted by today's version of Goths, Vandals, and such.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (WDjG6)

299 What Trunp did is also make liberal supporters who were on the fence and persuadable to vote Conservative, come back.

Think of it like a brother that pisses you off and you’re mad at. Then your neighbors says yeah your brother is a real asshole. You’re gonna be like whoa dude, that’s family. Fuck off.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:44 PM (wrRTB)

300 You spelled perfectly. No accent. Mostly agree with your assessment. What really queered the election was the massive collapse of the NDP, and most of those votes went to the Liberals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (npFr7)

Funny how in UK, France, Germany and now Canada parties that have hung around for generations just melt away when convenient for the Deep State.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (8avO+)

301 I have to believe that Jodie Foster was everyone's favorite Disney child star.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (2ap+5

Annette Funicello

Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM (8I4hW)

302 It's hurtful and wrong to make fun of the place someone lives.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (viF8m)
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The "Island" part or the "Plantations" part?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (CTokg)

303 296 Citizen Kane is on TCM but in my upgrade to faster internet and HD TV I lost TCM, my mostly watched channel
Posted by: Skip
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Comcast killed TCM on my cable and thence I cut the cord. TCM movies sometimes appear on Prime hit or miss.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:46 PM (WDjG6)

304 The left has new book out about the sacrament of killing an unborn child: Abortion is Everything.

I have a theory about these woke kid's books. Sure, they are packaged and sold for kids. But they are REALLY for the adults who write them, as the books they WISHED they had as kids. They never got over traumatic childhoods where they felt oppressed.

There's a movement called re-regulation where you talk to your childhood self to heal your past trauma and childhood PTSD. Whisper to it in baby talk. These books are a subconscious extension of that. Shouting your abortion whispers to your PTSD inner child you are ok. Or something.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 05:48 PM (Eng1Z)

305 Conservatives won more votes than Libetals 2 elections ago. About 1% more.

Trudeau only got 33% of the vote.

That’s the fucked up nature of parliamentary systems.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 05:49 PM (wrRTB)

306 I figure Quidditch will end up like the NBA; no traveling calls, no three second calls, no carrying the ball, just mindless jocks launching three-pointers and flopping for cheap free-throws.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 05, 2025 05:51 PM (w6S0H)

307 HBO has the rights to the stream the Ghibli films. I wonder if those roll over to Netflix and it will have Ghibli, or if Ghibli will renegotiate.

We get Netflix free through my phone plan. I wonder if they become the head streaming group if that deal will end.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 05:52 PM (Eng1Z)

308 Ill admit when I first say 'vlog' many moons ago, I thought 'vagina log/blog'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

309 308 Ill admit when I first say 'vlog' many moons ago, I thought 'vagina log/blog'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

Go on....

Posted by: Eve Ensler at December 05, 2025 06:04 PM (06Hmj)

310 Seems like good trashy fun goes on there. I don't recall any of the yutes involved marrying brothers or sisters or their uncle or something though.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 05:33 PM (WDjG6)
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Well, true. I guess there's that.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 05, 2025 06:05 PM (3ImbR)

311 yeah imma just slip that nasty ass sock right off and into trash, don't mind me....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 06:06 PM (06Hmj)

312 Walz, you have to be a important to invoke lese-majeste.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

313 I have to believe that Jodie Foster was everyone's favorite Disney child star.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 05, 2025 05:19 PM (2ap+5

Annette Funicello
Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 05:45 PM

You're not really 29, are you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 06:26 PM (Wnv9h)

314 Perhaps if anyone ever calls me a racist or fascist to my face, I will have the presence of mind to say, "That word has an actual meaning and you are using it incorrectly."

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM (FMtrg)

315 Perhaps if anyone ever calls me a racist or fascist to my face, I will have the presence of mind to say, "That word has an actual meaning and you are using it incorrectly."
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 05, 2025 06:35 PM

also, you might be wanting to pick up your teeth.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (jc0TO)

316 In an ironic twist only children who were not aborted will be reading this book. Liberals are retarded and gay.

Posted by: Steve at December 05, 2025 07:43 PM (9vT7g)

DOJ Sues Six Democrat-Controlled States to Force Them to Clean Up Their Dirty Fraudulent Voting Rolls

The DOJ is suing six Democrat-controlled states for refusing to turn over their voter registration rolls for checking for fraud.

Gee I wonder why they're refusing. I was informed, for example, that 2020 featured the most secure and honest vote in history.

The Justice Department has sued six Democrat-led states for refusing to provide their voter registration rolls.
The department announced Tuesday that it filed all six lawsuits against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
"Accurate voter rolls are the cornerstone of fair and free elections, and too many states have fallen into a pattern of noncompliance with basic voter roll maintenance," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. "The Department of Justice will continue filing proactive election integrity litigation until states comply with basic election safeguards."

...
"Our federal elections laws ensure every American citizen may vote freely and fairly," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division said.
"States that continue to defy federal voting laws interfere with our mission of ensuring that Americans have accurate voter lists as they go to the polls, that every vote counts equally, and that all voters have confidence in election results. At this Department of Justice, we will not stand for this open defiance of federal civil rights laws."

John Solomon says the actual number of Democrat states being forced to clean up their voter rolls is 26. I suppose that twenty agreed to do so when demanded, and six refused, necessitating the suit.

He says this will have big implications for 2026.

JOHN SOLOMON: 26 states are about to be forced to clean up their voter rolls, taking off non-citizens, dead people, the triple registrars, all of it.

The '26 election could be fundamentally different for the Democrats, because they won't have their dirty voter rolls!� pic.twitter.com/oEJUqgdeE3
— Bannon�s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) December 4, 2025

Via Stephen Green at Instapundit, the GOP might just (bitterly) cling to power in 2026.

"As of right now, I'd say there is a modest bias in the overall House map" in favor of the GOP retaining control of the House, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan organization that analyzes House races.
At the independent Cook Political Report, Erin Covey, U.S. House editor, had the same edge for the GOP.
"The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario," she said.
All this could change as state after state tries to redraw congressional maps to favor the party in power.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 Hola!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (/HDaX)

2 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (W2Pud)

3 There really is no honest answer for not doing this.

If there was "nothing there" it would be an easy opportunity for them to "own Trump"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

4 Nothing will happen!

Posted by: Let's get it over with early at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (Riz8t)

5 Not MA? Come on, man!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (Wnv9h)

6 And nooded.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (/HDaX)

7 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (Ia/+0)

8 We are on a winning streak

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Of course Washington State is in the list. Our AG spends more time suing Trump than he does working on our issues. Totally worthless scumbag.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (W2Pud)

10 >>>the GOP might just (bitterly) cling to power in 2026.

Perfect.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (dK+Kv)

11 I have noticed of late that on left leaning forums discussing left leaning news articles most of the actual comments and commenters are right leaning.

I understand you can get trapped in your own ideological bubble - if I just the response to news articles here at AoS for example it is going to skew strongly rightwards but these are things that should be skewing left and they are not.

How does one then square that when there is supposedly an energized left that didn't lose the 2024 elections by that much and has done very well in the 2025 off year elections?

Shouldn't the "Evil Trump deported a nice undocumented worker" stories have a bunch of people commiserating and not a bunch of responses of "I voted for this?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

12 "The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario," she said.

Great. A situation where the weakest of weak Rinos determine our national policy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

13
1. Is there a law forcing States to comply with Federal bookkeeping requests?

2. If not, why isn't this Republican Congress passing this law now?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (cPNKV)

14 do they count dead people when determining how many people listen to keith olbermann's live from mom's laundry room podcast? that would explain a lot.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)

15 Not MA? Come on, man!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (Wnv9h)
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MA *might* (slight possibility) be among the twenty that agreed to turn over data.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (ESVrU)

16 Willowed:

Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."

It's amusing that a tranny who claims to be a woman cites "empirical evidence" as a reason to downgrade her.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (Riz8t)

17 Republicans seize in on states with fraudulent voting.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (RgYBC)

18 Things that could have been done in Trump 1.0 ... if didn't bring in a bunch of traitorous GOPee UniParty hacks to continually sabotage him and the MAGA Movement and the American populace.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (pTQH2)

19 The Justice Department has sued six Democrat-led states for refusing to provide their voter registration rolls.

The department announced Tuesday that it filed all six lawsuits against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

Lame. Just tell those states that NO federal election will be recognized until they comply.
And that any "supposed" winner will be arrested should they show up to office as an impersonator.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (9bIJg)

20 Too bad there is not a NPLC to sue the 26 democrat led yankees for discriminating against white people.

They could make bank like I did!

Posted by: Morris Dees, Con Artist and Race Baiter at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (R/m4+)

21 how did Texas miss the list? The fraud that comes out of Harris County alone should put Texas on notice.

Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (8uzBS)

22
Forget about 2026.

Why aren't Republicans passing fucking bills NOW while they have the Majority?

Get to work, fucksticks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (cPNKV)

23 Gee! Cleaning up voter rolls might actually make it harder to cheat. Who would have thought?

Posted by: Kurtz at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (Fez1U)

24 Seize on not seize in on. Awwwwh fuck it it's Friday who cares.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (RgYBC)

25 12 "The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario," she said.

Great. A situation where the weakest of weak Rinos determine our national policy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

========

This isn't getting fixed until the census is done again in 2030.

If 2020 had been done right, the GOP would probably have a majority 12 seats bigger.

And 2030 is going to have the further migrations, the corrections from 2020, and, maybe, the discounting of all illegals. At least, the deportations will have an effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

26 So what's the "or else" implied here if the six states don't comply?

Lose federal funding?

A federal Hawaiian Judge will just restore it (somehow).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (ESVrU)

27 Strong work this week Ace. Why don't you finish out the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (/iMjX)

28 Willowed:

Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."

It's amusing that a tranny who claims to be a woman cites "empirical evidence" as a reason to downgrade her.
Posted by: Archimedes

Double willowed:
The course didn't require empirical evidence. It was more of a "feels".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (9bIJg)

29 Not MA? Come on, man!

What with the heavy gerrymandering I suspect that MA results are sort of honest.

But... then again... I remember Mayor Wu was elected on a platform of clot shot tyranny and had to immediately drop it after the city of Boston threatened to revolt against her.

So either voters in Boston are clueless, or the fraud machine is controlling the MA offices (or I guess both)

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

30 "The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide the legality of President Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, which automatically grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S."

Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (vbXSk)

31 So what do the Hawaiian Judges say?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Wg6v7)

32 "John Solomon says the actual number of Democrat states being forced to clean up their voter rolls is 26. I suppose that twenty agreed to do so when demanded, and six refused, necessitating the suit."

The DOJ sued Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. So, if Solomon is correct, then the much bigger and more nationally influential blue states -- eg, CA and NY -- all agreed to turn over the rolls? That seems ... odd.

I think more likely these are test cases, or maybe the six best examples for the DOJ to build a case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

33 "John Solomon says the actual number of Democrat states being forced to clean up their voter rolls is 26. I suppose that twenty agreed to do so when demanded, and six refused, necessitating the suit."

Surrrreeeee....

And when these states don't follow through? I'm sure their votes will be invalidated and the various reps and senators will not be seated come January, 2027.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Iwv3U)

34 He says this will have big implications for 2026.

To paraphrase Son of Silvercon on X (Wombat-socho of The Other McCain blog), as long as states have same-day registration with no ID, it won't matter what the voter registration lists look like.

Which is not to say that it isn’t necessary. Just that it isn’t sufficient.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (EXyHK)

35
Republicans will LOSE in 2026 if R voters don't turn out and vote. It's that simple.

And they won't turn out for Republicans in '26 if the Republicans sit on their thumbs now until then.

Get to fucking work, shitbums.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (cPNKV)

36 re 22: we're the good guys and good guys are good losers. i learned that from john boehner

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (CWTWj)

37 So what's the "or else" implied here if the six states don't comply?

Lose federal funding?

A federal Hawaiian Judge will just restore it (somehow).

The administration's been pretty quick on the appeals that get the Hawaiian judges overruled. There aren't really many rulings of that nature that are still in force, and meanwhile it's draining money from liberal billionaires.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (2ocoG)

38 I just checked the break room. Looks like Stacey cleaned up the cinnamon rolls.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (/iMjX)

39 "triple registrars" What about the nefarious Quintiple Registrar with a twist?

Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (FhXTo)

40 Cleaning up voter registration rolls is RAYCISSSSSS

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (nJthq)

41 I don't think you people realize the comic potential of Hakeem Jeffries trying to get a Democrat House, with a majority of like 2-3, to do anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

42 Mayor Wu.
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COCKSUCKAHH!!

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (RgYBC)

43 To paraphrase Son of Silvercon on X (Wombat-socho of The Other McCain blog), as long as states have same-day registration with no ID, it won't matter what the voter registration lists look like.

Some of the complaints the US government and the left as a whole had with the Donbass vote for independence was that the vote counters were allowing non-citizens to vote and people to be bussed from voting location after voting locations to vote multiple times.

You'll note they tell us here in the US worrying about that is racist.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

44 The states need to turn over dirty voter rolls AND dirty SNAP rolls.

The blue states are fighting tooth and nail on both.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (Eng1Z)

45 Is there a law forcing States to comply with Federal bookkeeping requests?

I don’t know about bookkeeping requests in general, but there is a law requiring states to provide voter registration bookkeeping requests; Judicial Watch uses this law extensively.

The National Voter Registration Act Of 1993, sometimes called NVRA.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (EXyHK)

46 Bipartisan Legislation

DDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDR

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)

47 44 The states need to turn over dirty voter rolls AND dirty SNAP rolls.

The blue states are fighting tooth and nail on both.
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Dems aren't too good at maff.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:40 PM (Wg6v7)

48 45
I don’t know about bookkeeping requests in general, but there is a law requiring states to provide voter registration bookkeeping requests; Judicial Watch uses this law extensively.

The National Voter Registration Act Of 1993, sometimes called NVRA.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 03:39 PM (EXyHK)

======

There are also provisions in HAVA that require states to go through active cleanup of their voter rolls.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

49 The DOJ sued Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. So, if Solomon is correct, then the much bigger and more nationally influential blue states -- eg, CA and NY -- all agreed to turn over the rolls? That seems ... odd.

I think more likely these are test cases, or maybe the six best examples for the DOJ to build a case.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
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That has to be it. I can't imagine CA, IL, and NY willingly turning over, well, anything to Trump.

Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (G0vdT)

50 DDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDR
Posted by: toby928(c)

Tara Yazdi's bra size?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (77rzZ)

51 Finally, good legal news that IS happening, not WILL happen.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (EES2L)

52 They didn't have the nerve to sue me.

Posted by: Newsom at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (KtOUo)

53 This would be the same six states who will not reveal SNAP fraud or any fraud. Right.

I find this hysterical. Walz, a man I despise for many reasons, mostly because he's ugly and I hate his mouth, is deeply offended by being called the r word...from people yelling it as they drive by his house. Note: not concerned about billions of dollars defrauded, but the retard word. I would say pound sand, but doubt he has the stamina.

https://tinyurl.com/54wx4sfx

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (WONhk)

54
Isn't it peculiar that the Fake News can find the voting record of every single white man who commits a crime, and will immediately report their findings if he voted Republican?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (cPNKV)

55 The National Voter Registration Act Of 1993, sometimes called NVRA.
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Losing to the North Vietnamese Army is bad. But losing to their Reserves really sucks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:41 PM (Wg6v7)

56 The entire margin of Democrat victories statewide in California are fraudulent votes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (jc0TO)

57 bipartisan means all the dems and john mccain

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (CWTWj)

58 Keith Olberman shacked up with Olivia Nuzzi whe she was 18 and he was 52, to hear him tell it. She was too crazy for him and he kicked her out. Then she hooked up with Lizza. Wow, too crazy for Keith is really fucking crazy.

Posted by: Im just sayin at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (h+S+G)

59 Big story at Twitchy. Apparently in 2023 1/3 of all recipients of subsidies has SS numbers that did match IRS database and are fraudulent. If the GOP plays this right they could stick it to the Dems. By then I will be playing center field for the Yankees of course

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (bfwj/)

60 81 million votes, baby.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (v0R5T)

61 Willowed but I DO really want the Horde's opinion on this...

I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...

A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Some of them also mysteriously seemed to have money issues when certain pockets of funding like USAID dried up. Is there something deeper going on I'm missing?

But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)

62 re 56: and counting votes till the day after thanksgiving

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (CWTWj)

63 I had a great joke in 2020 that turned out to be too true to actually be funny anymore.

I kept saying Biden was polling ahead of Trump in

MA, IL, IN, FR, AU and D

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (RgYBC)

64 Stacy Abrams that is...

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (/iMjX)

65
Fake News has no problem finding and disseminating the voting records of the FAMILY of criminals.

Right? We knew immediately the voting records of the entire Crooks family.

But all of a sudden, Voting Records are supposed to be Private??

FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (cPNKV)

66 Stacy Abrams that is...
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM

That's no moon.

Posted by: Toby wan Kenobe at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)

67 If the voter rolls were cleaned up and the vote tallying was legitimate, the Republicans would have a huge majority in the House and probably 60 Senators.

Do it now.

Posted by: Czech Chick at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (vK/Ja)

68 Even so, bipartisan is probably the scariest word in the English language. Imagine

RRRRRRDDDDDD

Nothing good could ever come of that. Nothing.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (RgYBC)

69 49 The DOJ sued Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. So, if Solomon is correct, then the much bigger and more nationally influential blue states -- eg, CA and NY -- all agreed to turn over the rolls? That seems ... odd.
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C'mon man, lets cut Delaware, Rhode Island and Vermont from the herd. No way these things are states.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:44 PM (Wg6v7)

70 Walz, a man I despise for many reasons, mostly because he's ugly and I hate his mouth, is deeply offended by being called the r word...from people yelling it as they drive by his house.

The left is run entirely by wine-guzzling AWFLs now, and those women believe being called names is worse than rape or murder.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (2ocoG)

71 Stacy Abrams that is...
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:43 PM (/iMjX)

Those are some rolls that will never get cleaned.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (RgYBC)

72 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

73 The entire margin of Democrat victories statewide in California are fraudulent votes.
Posted by: toby928(c)
.......

That is why we still have a governor with no testicles and tardive dyskinesia.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

74 Looks like Stacey cleaned up the cinnamon rolls."

I'd rather clean up Stacie's mom...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (cGjQu)

75
Cleaning up voter registration rolls is RAYCISSSSSS
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Voter suppression

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (pkeXY)

76 26 So what's the "or else" implied here if the six states don't comply?
A federal Hawaiian Judge will just restore it (somehow).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That workaround is old-school democrat vote fraud. On
election day judges issue a ruling for polling places to stay open in select districts for any number of reasons.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (Y8DZL)

77 But he has lots of nice black socks.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

78 re 38: abrams would have eaten the box, too

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (CWTWj)

79 70 The left is run entirely by wine-guzzling AWFLs now, and those women believe being called names is worse than rape or murder.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (2ocoG)

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"Yes, I would rather be raped than called a racist, so we must let all the criminals out of jail and import the entire nation of Guatemala, especially their criminals."
-Karen McAwfl, of the St. Paul McAwfls

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

80 I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...

A lot of them are kind of boring if you watch regularly, so I stopped watching regularly. I imagine that's not an uncommon thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (2ocoG)

81 A good Friday feel-good story:

A Brazilian Harvard Law School professor who pleaded guilty last month to illegally firing an air rifle outside a Boston-area synagogue — and told police he was “hunting rats” — has agreed to leave the US following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week.

Gouvea, a visiting law professor at the Ivy League institution, was in the US on a so-called J-1 (temporary non-immigrant) visa, which was revoked by the State Department two weeks after the shooting incident.

https://tinyurl.com/4t3cpkrj

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

82 Gee I wonder why they're refusing. I was informed, for example, that 2020 featured the most secure and honest vote in history.

Yeah, remember how they wondered what happened to the 12 million that just disappeared for Kumswala?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

83 Right? We knew immediately the voting records of the entire Crooks family.

But all of a sudden, Voting Records are supposed to be Private??

FUCK YOU.

I'm reminded of HIPAA and the nominal criminal nature of sharing medical records without permission and how with the clot shot that information was freely shared with anyone and everyone with no concerns about privacy

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

84 >I'd rather clean up Stacie's mom...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (cGjQu)

She's go it goin' on.

Posted by: Fountains of Wayne at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (GTqXr)

85 And don't let the Crip guts near the Blood guts or there's gonna be a rumble.

Posted by: How far and fast we have fallen at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (TbWk/)

86
I said it a year ago: I have big expectations (and hopes) for Harmeet Dhillon.

I think she knows her task, and she's willing to do it.

(btw, I think she just had to fire, like, a hundred DOJ employees because they were all Democrat-party Shitbums refusing to do their assignments.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (cPNKV)

87 A lot of them are kind of boring"

This.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (cGjQu)

88 "The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario," she said.

Great. A situation where the weakest of weak Rinos determine our national policy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

This static house and senate party split is not typical of history. Given the lengths the Dems have had to go and the derangement of supposed Republicans to help them I would not bet on it continuing forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)

89 79 70 The left is run entirely by wine-guzzling AWFLs now, and those women believe being called names is worse than rape or murder.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:45 PM (2ocoG)
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But they will all let George Clooney grab them by their pussies.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (Wg6v7)

90 i'm from the government and i'm here to help myself

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (CWTWj)

91
Stacy Abrams is still Preznit of the Federation of Planets, so y'all better be nice to her.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Y8DZL)

92
Yes! Fake News is all about "privacy" for medical records. Until it comes to a Republican, or Trump.

FUCKING DICKS.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (cPNKV)

93 It will help 2026 if the Gerrymandering isn't overruled by the Commissar Judges

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)

94 Yes, I would rather be raped than called a racist, so we must let all the criminals out of jail and import the entire nation of Guatemala, especially their criminals."
-Karen McAwfl, of the St. Paul McAwfls
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Indeed raped and raped.
==
You said raped twice....

Posted by: Minnesota cuck at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM (h+S+G)

95 58 Wow, too crazy for Keith is really fucking crazy.
Posted by: Im just sayin at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM
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She wasn't too crazy for Keith (I don't think that's possible). He dumped her when he realized she was a manipulative gold digger.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM (0bjKf)

96 6 So what's the "or else" implied here if the six states don't comply?

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The "or else" should be blocking all interstate traffic into and out of your state until the state complies.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM (nJthq)

97 A Brazilian Harvard Law School professor who pleaded guilty last month to illegally firing an air rifle outside a Boston-area synagogue — and told police he was “hunting rats” — has agreed to leave the US following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

Can't see what possible use a Brazilian banana republic lawyer is at Hah-vaad. What good is snobbery if you don't use it?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (8avO+)

98 88 This static house and senate party split is not typical of history. Given the lengths the Dems have had to go and the derangement of supposed Republicans to help them I would not bet on it continuing forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (8avO+)

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A lot of this is the 2020 census and apportionment.

At least 6 seats (a 12 seat swing) were misappropriated.

Plus, you know, illegal immigrants.

I don't care that much about 2026. If D's get the House, there will be a lot of noise, but it won't amount to much. If D's win the WH in 2028, they control the census again, and all the "mistakes" happen again, but harder.

2028 is probably the most important election since 2016.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

99 You said raped twice....
Posted by: Minnesota cuck at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM

She likes rape.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (jc0TO)

100 Strong work this week Ace. Why don't you finish out the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.
Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (/iMjX)

Ace already said he was doing that last past.

This is an AOSHQ Shambling Zombie Post already created, lined up and set free upon unsuspecting morons.

By now, Ace is riding his Vespa to Central Park, an ice cold White Claw in hand.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iJfKG)

101 Stacy Abrams is still Preznit of the Federation of Planets, "

Well, of course she is. Don't planet's deserve a representative who looks like them?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (cGjQu)

102 John Soloman sure is optimistic. I'm less so. It's who counts the votes that is pretty important too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (n5tGW)

103 Willowed but I DO really want the Horde's opinion on this...

I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...

A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Some of them also mysteriously seemed to have money issues when certain pockets of funding like USAID dried up. Is there something deeper going on I'm missing?

But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)
________

I think it's mostly audience fatigue. How many of these kinds of guys can you watch? Shapiro is especially annoying and boring, Crowder is a creep, and Tim Poole is a Pick-me Guy. I think audiences are voting with their eyeballs, and gravitating to the more popular shows.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

104 61 61 Willowed but I DO really want the Horde's opinion on this...

I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...

A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Some of them also mysteriously seemed to have money issues when certain pockets of funding like USAID dried up. Is there something deeper going on I'm missing?

But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)

Jeremy Hambly (Quartering) basically got exposed as a Drunken Buffoon constantly crying about being broke and e-begging for money while also showing off all the luxury purchases he makes. He also was creeping on Sydney Watson doing the whole "The Publica" project, and now he treats his new co-host, Hannah Claire Brimelow (formerly of Timcast) like garbage.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (UnA8+)

105 I am optimistic about the midterms. I think the R House is going to gain seats and the Senate pukes are going to get replaced with solid Trump agenda votes.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (sDNVV)

106 Limiting the franchise to actual living people is nothing but blatant necrophobia on the part of the Republicans. Their anti-voter bigotry knows no limitation.

Posted by: Phobes and isms at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (TbWk/)

107 Can't see what possible use a Brazilian banana republic lawyer is at Hah-vaad. What good is snobbery if you don't use it?
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Why expel someone that can shoot rats?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (Wg6v7)

108 So, reporting a rape is a HIPAA violation?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (IBoKF)

109 Edging Conservatives are particularly boring when we are in power.

These are the dudes that are always constantly on the verge of seeing the light and "getting it". You are sure they will after the next commercial break but magically they're never quite there.

Hmm. Maybe I should start calling them Cock Cage Conservatives.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (RgYBC)

110 Hopefully SCOTUS will give an assist and rule that ballots have to be turned in by election day.

Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (G0vdT)

111 i'm from the government and i'm here to help myself
Posted by: gnats local 678
......

Finally an honest politician.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

112 It will help 2026 if the Gerrymandering isn't overruled by the Commissar Judges
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)

Signs say that the ship has sailed and these schemes will be allowed. And probably race based gerrymandering will be banned as against anti-discrimination laws.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (8avO+)

113 Dead people deserve representation too.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (jc0TO)

114 93 It will help 2026 if the Gerrymandering isn't overruled by the Commissar Judges

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)

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All of the R attempts have been cleared by judges.

NC's came and went without a whimper.
TX's just got approval from SCOTUS on a long enough basis that 2026 is covered.
Looks like the IN issue is being forced, so I suspect it'll pass, and there won't be any challenge that survives.
MO happened, and everyone forgot.

FL will happen, and it'll probably be aggressive.

All while Gingles is definitely getting gutting at SCOTUS, and Section 2 of the VRA may get struck out as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

115 You said raped twice....
Posted by: Minnesota cuck at December 05, 2025 03:49 PM

She likes rape.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (jc0TO)

Apparently so, considering who and what they keep supporting politically.

Posted by: Take me hard you swarthy smelly Somali! at December 05, 2025 03:52 PM (TbWk/)

116 >>> A lot of them are kind of boring if you watch regularly, so I stopped watching regularly. I imagine that's not an uncommon thing.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (2ocoG)

Oh for sure! I have a rotation. Even the wonderful Larry Elder, I love his thoughts, but the rhythm of his show throws me off for some reason.

The only conservative podcaster I could stand to listen to every day was Rush (AM not FM.) Even though he had different musicals and cultural tastes and was my dad's age. His historical knowledge, take on American Exceptionalism, and his singular views on the political issues never got old. Whereas I get tired of all the modern podcasters at times, even the ones my age with all my same cultural references!

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (Eng1Z)

117 103 I think it's mostly audience fatigue. How many of these kinds of guys can you watch? Shapiro is especially annoying and boring, Crowder is a creep, and Tim Poole is a Pick-me Guy. I think audiences are voting with their eyeballs, and gravitating to the more popular shows.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

Tim has been trying to attach himself to Nick Fuentes' teat ever since Charlie Kirk died.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (UnA8+)

118 Can't see what possible use a Brazilian banana republic lawyer is at Hah-vaad. What good is snobbery if you don't use it?
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Why expel someone that can shoot rats?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (Wg6v7)

they may have feared he would start on them, with good reason.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (8avO+)

119 103
I think it's mostly audience fatigue. How many of these kinds of guys can you watch? Shapiro is especially annoying and boring, Crowder is a creep, and Tim Poole is a Pick-me Guy. I think audiences are voting with their eyeballs, and gravitating to the more popular shows.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

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Plus, opposition radio only works when actually in the opposition.

Pro-regime media tends to falter rather than rise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

120 "The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario," she said.

Does this factor in the Texas redistricting? That's 5 extra GOP seats right there.

Yea, I know CA redistricted too, but I suspect they might be sucking the dick too thin. If they really had those extra Dum districts, they would have redistricted long ago.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

121 Mitt Romney sure has been quiet lately. AIDS?

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (qUkBO)

122 unlike here, a lot of the podcaster types i find on yootube tend to sometimes talk too much or just not have much to say

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (CWTWj)

123 I think it's mostly audience fatigue. How many of these kinds of guys can you watch? Shapiro is especially annoying and boring, Crowder is a creep, and Tim Poole is a Pick-me Guy. I think audiences are voting with their eyeballs, and gravitating to the more popular shows.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

Tim has been trying to attach himself to Nick Fuentes' teat ever since Charlie Kirk died.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (UnA8+)

That's strange, Tim is bigger than Fuentes as far as I know.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)

124 Apparently so, considering who and what they keep supporting politically.
Posted by: Take me hard you swarthy smelly Somali!"

That explains the search results of giant black chickens...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:54 PM (cGjQu)

125 Zillow stopped publishing the idiotic “climate index” on its listings.

NYT has the dads over that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (wrRTB)

126 PNW
Washington State Here. Washington state is just the worst in withholding voter records. Sec of State Wash. Steve Hobbs is as crooked as Clinton's weiner. This is the most regressive state in which I have ever lived. Democrat lawmakers in Olympia Wa. are killing us. Gas prices currently avg. $4.19 a gallon.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (Wz42I)

127
NYT has the dads over that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (wrRTB)

"All your dads are belong to us."

- - - The NYT

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

128 120 "The very slight gain for Republicans, one to two seats, is the median scenario," she said.

Does this factor in the Texas redistricting? That's 5 extra GOP seats right there.

Yea, I know CA redistricted too, but I suspect they might be sucking the dick too thin. If they really had those extra Dum districts, they would have redistricted long ago.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

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There are so few actual swing seats since 2020. The biggest effect of the redistricting there (aside from the fraud at the Census Bureau) was to minimize swing seats.

Outside a complete collapse of a party right now, wave elections will probably mean something like 15-20 seats, tops, for a few cycles.

This is making this redistricting battle more important. If D's were heading towards a wave of 20 seats, but the GOP can undo 10 of those, well, that's a much small majority for D's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

129 A lot of them are kind of boring if you watch regularly, so I stopped watching regularly. I imagine that's not an uncommon thing.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:46 PM (2ocoG)
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yeah, it's pretty easy to get tired of their "schtick." But that's how they attract new eyeballs. Unfortunately, they rarely have much interesting to say over the long term. Lots of repetitive content.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (ESVrU)

130 That's strange, Tim is bigger than Fuentes as far as I know.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:54 PM (8avO+)

Depends how accurate the data is accounting for bots. But Fuentes has more subscribers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (wrRTB)

131 Is Alina Habba's job as attorney for NJ DOA, since the court of appeals said she was acting unlawfully?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (Eng1Z)

132 121 Mitt Romney sure has been quiet lately. AIDS?
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected

He finally ran out of people to piss off.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (Y8DZL)

133 Mitt Romney sure has been quiet lately. AIDS?
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (qUkBO)

Oh! Mitt Romney! I can't stand that magic underwear wearing faggot!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (R/m4+)

134 Gas prices currently avg. $4.19 a gallon."

That sucks. $2.19 this AM

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (cGjQu)

135 The DOJ is suing six Democrat-controlled states for refusing to turn over their voter registration rolls for checking for fraud.

It's a feature, not a bug...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (ynpvh)

136 Yea, I know CA redistricted too, but I suspect they might be sucking the dick too thin. If they really had those extra Dum districts, they would have redistricted long ago.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

They did prior to 2020 (or earlier) to create safe districts for both sides. Then they steal a few close ones by ballot fraud, hence the 2 month or whatever post election day games. R are about 40 pct of the electorate but have way less representation.

That's why I wonder if trying to steal even more districts might boomerang if the voting patterns shift even a little.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)

137 129 yeah, it's pretty easy to get tired of their "schtick." But that's how they attract new eyeballs. Unfortunately, they rarely have much interesting to say over the long term. Lots of repetitive content.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:56 PM (ESVrU)

Not to mention, Tim Pool puts out TOO MUCH content, and he has a bad habit of talking over his guest and co-hosts, because he can't stand not being the smartest guy in the room.

The longer you watch anyone, the more you see the cracks in their facade and in their armor.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:58 PM (UnA8+)

138 Crowder did a good job interviewing Nick Fuentes. He challenged him in a lot of things. And Nick really couldn’t defend his positions. He’s good as regurgitating talking points put it’s an inch deep and mile long set of beliefs.

The really dumb part was him saying the far right should join with the left. Because they all agree on the Epstein files. And crowder was like you think the left is giving up abortion and guns? To which Fuentes just mumbled some nonsense and then pivoted to Jews. It’s kind of comical.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (wrRTB)

139 Yea, I know CA redistricted too, but I suspect they might be sucking the dick too thin. If they really had those extra Dum districts, they would have redistricted long ago.

I tend to agree.

If the economy is doing well in 2026 and the fraud isn't too overwhelming CA's redistricting might COST the Dems seats

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

140 >>> The longer you watch anyone, the more you see the cracks in their facade and in their armor.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:58 PM (UnA8+)

I blame THE BEES!

Posted by: Candace! at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (Eng1Z)

141 Now that Netflix is buying Warner Brothers, I anticipate that Lifetime Channel will bid for Warner Sisters.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)

142 136 Yea, I know CA redistricted too, but I suspect they might be sucking the dick too thin. If they really had those extra Dum districts, they would have redistricted long ago.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

They did prior to 2020 (or earlier) to create safe districts for both sides. Then they steal a few close ones by ballot fraud, hence the 2 month or whatever post election day games. R are about 40 pct of the electorate but have way less representation.

That's why I wonder if trying to steal even more districts might boomerang if the voting patterns shift even a little.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:57 PM (8avO+)

That's what the Jungle Primary is used for...get rid of Reps from ballots. More than once I've had a choice for Senator of nasty Dem and nastier Dem. Sorta like choosing between brain cancer and ass cancer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

143 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (PsX7R)

144 "Don't worry. They will find the votes."
Seemingly innocuous statement by the former mayor of a major Washington city during the 2000 election.
And sure as hell, after three recounts, they did!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (2WIwB)

145 141 Now that Netflix is buying Warner Brothers, I anticipate that Lifetime Channel will bid for Warner Sisters.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)

======

I'm really hoping the DOJ strikes down the deal on anti-trust issues.

They did strike down the AT&T/T-Mobile merger 15 years ago. It can happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

146 I wonder what Charlie Kirk would say.

Not the Bee:

Tim Walz Says People Are Driving By His House To Call Him Retarded: "This Creates Danger!"

https://tinyurl.com/33dfbm4j

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (Dv3i1)

147 Rhode Island, Jackstraw's state. I laughed out loud. That's rich!

Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (5Je/N)

148 Limiting the franchise to actual living people is nothing but blatant necrophobia on the part of the Republicans. Their anti-voter bigotry knows no limitation.
Posted by: Phobes and isms at December 05, 2025 03:50 PM (TbWk/)

Zombies have to get out of the graves and go vote like the rest of us. No absentee ballots.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (8avO+)

149 141 Now that Netflix is buying Warner Brothers, I anticipate that Lifetime Channel will bid for Warner Sisters.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)

There's only one Warner Sister...Dot. Her brothers are Yakko and Wakko.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (ynpvh)

150 Washington State Here. Washington state is just the worst in withholding voter records. Sec of State Wash

I remember back in '04 that there was a close governor election where they kept finding ballots for the dem candidate until she had enough.

And then...of course...no more ballots were found and it was done.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

151 Fuentes also gave away a bit of his game. Crowder played a clip of him saying something like we should kill non-Christians and pressed him on it. And Fuentes replied by saying well don’t take what I say too seriously on my podcast, that’s just part of the performance I do every night.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (wrRTB)

152 I was looking at a page for some kind of governmental help for residents. They listed number of people in family, including number of spouses. State of Pennsylvania. I will look for website for Ace.

Posted by: Baldy at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (4/qdm)

153
Maybe it's the Dead Shark Effect.

A lot of these guys are remoras who live off the crumbs left by the Big Daddy Shark.

Remember when Rush died?

Suddenly, everyone in conservative media seemed lost, becuz...yes...their show prep was primarily listening to Rush.

Maybe something similar is going on now that Charlie Kirk died.

Ace is his own kind of thing and funny, so he's probably pretty constant. But, most of these guys just aren't.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (iJfKG)

154 My understanding is Alena's position was temporary until the Senate voted for her and they are sitting their hands.

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (Ia/+0)

155 >>By then I will be playing center field for the Yankees of course

Can you get me tickets?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (viF8m)

156 146 I wonder what Charlie Kirk would say.

Not the Bee:

Tim Walz Says People Are Driving By His House To Call Him Retarded: "This Creates Danger!"

https://tinyurl.com/33dfbm4j

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (Dv3i1)

Only if you're retarded, Tim...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (ynpvh)

157 Oliva Nuzzi loses her new gig at Vanity Fair.

Sorry if already posted.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (Y1sOo)

158 Posted by: Baldy at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM

Long time no see.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (jc0TO)

159 Delaware? Does the Big Guy know about this?

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

160 I'm really hoping the DOJ strikes down the deal on anti-trust issues.

They did strike down the AT&T/T-Mobile merger 15 years ago. It can happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

I'd prefer the DOJ spend its antitrust time and energy kicking the shit out of the health care industry but too many billions of dollars of grift, influence, and personal enrichment are at stake for that.

Posted by: Market forces? Don't make me laugh. at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)

161 PNW
Washington State Here. Washington state is just the worst in withholding voter records. Sec of State Wash. Steve Hobbs is as crooked as Clinton's weiner. This is the most regressive state in which I have ever lived. Democrat lawmakers in Olympia Wa. are killing us. Gas prices currently avg. $4.19 a gallon.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 03:55 PM (Wz42I)

And after passing a record setting tax increase, the dems have already begun filing Bills for new taxes. But trust them...most secure elections EVAH!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (2WIwB)

162 >>Rhode Island, Jackstraw's state

All of it. It's my island.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (viF8m)

163 It’s a step in the right direction. I remember earlier lawsuits where states removed a handful of voters not thousands. This will get slowed down by activist judges that will prevent cleaning the voter rolls. That’s why most D states sent in their rolls. They don’t expect to clean anything but more money in their pockets from NGOs.

Posted by: High tech at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (37cEZ)

164 Oliva Nuzzi loses her new gig at Vanity Fair.

Sorry if already posted.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (Y1sOo)

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But like a bamboo tree -- she will keep bending over without breaking.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (1/S7B)

165 It's amazing to think that 40% of the California electorate is still GOP. Imagine if those several million conservatives relocated to swing states...

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)

166 All of it. It's my island.
Posted by: JackStraw

Providence Plantations, too? You're RAYCISS!!!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

167 162 >>Rhode Island, Jackstraw's state

All of it. It's my island.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (viF8m)

When is an island not an island...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (ynpvh)

168 All of it. It's my island.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM

The Almighty tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (jc0TO)

169 Tim Walz is a retard, a pussy and a fag.

Posted by: If the merkin fits at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)

170 The really dumb part was him saying the far right should join with the left. Because they all agree on the Epstein files. And crowder was like you think the left is giving up abortion and guns? To which Fuentes just mumbled some nonsense and then pivoted to Jews. It’s kind of comical.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (wrRTB)

yeah I think Fuentes is the media's pet pseudo supremacist. He's glib enough to get some hits on an unwary opponent, but just doesn't have the juice.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (8avO+)

171 165 It's amazing to think that 40% of the California electorate is still GOP. Imagine if those several million conservatives relocated to swing states...

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)

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Imagine if 100% voted in a jungle primary election and got Republicans in the top two spots of every statewide race...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

172
We're dealing with people who will MURDER Us because we disagree with them.

Of Fucking Course they are going to steal elections.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (cPNKV)

173 Tim Walz Says People Are Driving By His House To Call Him Retarded
......

Even the Somalis, and that's saying something.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

174 >>>Not to mention, Tim Pool puts out TOO MUCH content, and he has a bad habit of talking over his guest and co-hosts, because he can't stand not being the smartest guy in the room.

Crowder can't stand not being the funniest in the room...with the exception of Nick DiPaulo, who he rightfully idolizes. The way he treated Dave Landau, who IMO was funnier than him a lot of the time, was terrible. I like Josh, he's great, but he wisely knows NOT to upstage Crowder.

It looks like Blaze Media cut the Normal World crew (Landau and Garrett) loose, as well as Alex Stein. I hope they find somewhere else to land!

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (Eng1Z)

175 165 It's amazing to think that 40% of the California electorate is still GOP. Imagine if those several million conservatives relocated to swing states...

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)

It's only 40% if you count the dead, imaginary, and multi-voters.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (ynpvh)

176 When is an island not an island...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

When it identifies as a continent.
-- Australia

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

177 >>When is an island not an island...

When it's many islands.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (viF8m)

178 168 beat me to it...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (cGjQu)

179 It's amazing to think that 40% of the California electorate is still GOP. Imagine if those several million conservatives relocated to swing states...
Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (qUkBO)

Well I did, in 1996. It was called California.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)

180 169 Tim Walz is a retard, a pussy and a fag.

Posted by: If the merkin fits at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)

Must be tough being a fag and having a pussy...imagine the self-hate...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (ynpvh)

181 >>Rhode Island, Jackstraw's state

All of it. It's my island.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:03 PM (viF8m)

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I just figured out that Rhode Island is not an actual island!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (1/S7B)

182 The far left wants free shit

The "far right" wants to be left alone

Since the free shit has to come from other people working those two things are not compatible.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (sKqQm)

183 Corrupt voter rolls?
Hell, you don't think Washington State voters sent Cantwell and Murry to the senate for their intellect do you?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (2WIwB)

184 Tim Walz is a retard, a pussy and a fag.
Posted by: If the merkin fits at December 05, 2025 04:04 PM (TbWk/)

Must be tough being a fag and having a pussy...imagine the self-hate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM (ynpvh)

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Of course it makes it much easier for him to go fuck himself..

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (1/S7B)

185 "I'm really hoping the DOJ strikes down the deal on anti-trust issues."

Small-budget indie content > Monopoly megabudget content. Often, not always. Anyway, I never trusted either of them much. Not like I trust Lifetime Channel to deliver reliable women-in-peril drama.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (GHIyr)

186 Rhode Island isn't actually a state anyway it's just a collection of potholes.

Posted by: Not a real place at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (TbWk/)

187 177 >>When is an island not an island...

When it's many islands.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (viF8m)

Archipelago?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (ynpvh)

188 I just figured out that Rhode Island is not an actual island!
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM

It's not even a real place. It's a fake Hollywood state like East Dakota and Maryland.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)

189 It looks like Blaze Media cut the Normal World crew (Landau and Garrett) loose, as well as Alex Stein. I hope they find somewhere else to land!
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (Eng1Z)

Garrett is in the orbit of Gary at Nerdrotic and is on some of their shows talking movies.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (8avO+)

190 153 Maybe something similar is going on now that Charlie Kirk died.

Ace is his own kind of thing and funny, so he's probably pretty constant. But, most of these guys just aren't.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:01 PM (iJfKG)

It's starting to look like Charlie might have been the most valuable piece the Right had on the board, culturally.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (UnA8+)

191 185 "I'm really hoping the DOJ strikes down the deal on anti-trust issues."

Small-budget indie content > Monopoly megabudget content. Often, not always. Anyway, I never trusted either of them much. Not like I trust Lifetime Channel to deliver reliable women-in-peril drama.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (GHIyr)

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No indie can hit the same as King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which should have gotten a sequel.

(like and subscribe)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

192 Rhode Island isn't actually a state anyway it's just a collection of potholes."

Yep.

Oh, you said "potholes"...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (cGjQu)

193 Now that Netflix is buying Warner Brothers, I anticipate that Lifetime Channel will bid for Warner Sisters.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)
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There's only one Warner Sister. Her name is Dot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (ESVrU)

194 I'm waiting on Wreck-it Ralph 3.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (jc0TO)

195 174 It looks like Blaze Media cut the Normal World crew (Landau and Garrett) loose, as well as Alex Stein. I hope they find somewhere else to land!
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:05 PM (Eng1Z)

Alex Stein is also a member of Tim Pool's crew.

And good lord, I recently started watching "Worst Cooks in America", his obnoxious ass was making trouble in Season 4.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (UnA8+)

196 Archipelago?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I wonder what that word means. Guess I'll Goolag it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

197 CA vote totals

2024: 15M
2020: 17M
2016: 13M
2012: 12M
2008: 13M

...spot the result that seems out of the pattern...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

198 What's the enforcement mechanism? What if the states continue to say, "no"?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (AfPgx)

199 Rhode Island is a plantation I thought

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (Ia/+0)

200 193 Now that Netflix is buying Warner Brothers, I anticipate that Lifetime Channel will bid for Warner Sisters.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:00 PM (GHIyr)
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There's only one Warner Sister. Her name is Dot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (ESVrU)

Yes. See #149...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (ynpvh)

201 Archipelago?

Archipelawent

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (cGjQu)

202 I find it curious that the DoJ lawsuit over States not disclosing unredacted voter info did NOT include Colorado. Jena Griswold, the Colorado Sec of State flatly and publicly declared that her office would not be compliant.

Geez, ever statement Griswold makes just absolutely screams "AUDIT ME!"

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (bufu1)

203 197 CA vote totals

2024: 15M
2020: 17M
2016: 13M
2012: 12M
2008: 13M

...spot the result that seems out of the pattern...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

That 12M in 2012 doesn't fit...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (ynpvh)

204 >>> Fuentes also gave away a bit of his game. Crowder played a clip of him saying something like we should kill non-Christians and pressed him on it. And Fuentes replied by saying well don’t take what I say too seriously on my podcast, that’s just part of the performance I do every night.

In the South Park episode about Charlie Kirk, Clyde Donovan becomes a rising rightwing podcast star...and admits at the end he didn't believe anything he was saying, it was just for fame and money.

Clyde and Nick Fuentes look suspiciously similar...

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (Eng1Z)

205 Archipelago?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I wonder what that word means. Guess I'll Goolag it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

bunch of islands in one area. Think Hawaii, Indonesia.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (8avO+)

206 Corrupt voter rolls?

Hell, you don't think Washington State voters sent Cantwell and Murry to the senate for their intellect do you?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (2WIwB)

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We've got The Soros, Cartel, and ChiComm Butt-Bitchezzz Hobbs, Kelly, and Gallego frauds.

I am disgust.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (1/S7B)

207 201 Archipelago?

Archipelawent

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (cGjQu)

ArchipelaCAME...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (ynpvh)

208 What's the enforcement mechanism? What if the states continue to say, "no"?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (AfPgx)

Start shelling their capitals.

Posted by: 155mm of persuasion at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)

209 I wonder what that word means. Guess I'll Goolag it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

bunch of islands in one area. Think Hawaii, Indonesia.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yes, I know. It was a pun, Dude.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

210 "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" Added to my list, thanks! IDNKT it's a Guy Ritchie before.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (GHIyr)

211 bunch of islands in one area. Think Hawaii, Indonesia."

Langerhans...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (cGjQu)

212 208 What's the enforcement mechanism? What if the states continue to say, "no"?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 05, 2025 04:09 PM (AfPgx)

Start shelling their capitals.

Posted by: 155mm of persuasion at December 05, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)

Shell them like the bunch of nuts they are?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (ynpvh)

213 210 "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" Added to my list, thanks! IDNKT it's a Guy Ritchie before.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (GHIyr)

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Guy Ritchie gangster film + King Arthur + 1982 Conan the Barbarian + $175 million = fun, in my book

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

214 201 Ha!

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GHIyr)

215 Not like I trust Lifetime Channel to deliver reliable women-in-peril drama.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:07 PM (GHIyr)

You forgot Plucky-woman-meets-Prince-from-vaguely-European country at Xmas....or is that Hallmark?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)

216 61 Willowed but I DO really want the Horde's opinion on this...

I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)

This is anecdotal, but with me it's all of their co-hosts/producers/hangers-on (Except Quartering who's just a Youtube dunce). Carolla, Rogan, Poole, Crowder - I generally tune in to each every once in a while but then the "news reader" for Carolla chimes in, or that mental midget Ian with Time Poole, or Gerald the CEO of Crowder's show pipes up - and I end up yelling at my monitor and shutting them off. I've been a follower of Carolla's since Ace here turned me onto his podcast 10 years ago, but I only catch him if he has an interesting guest on and avoid his funnier news bit commentary because of this.

Maybe just me, I dunno.

Posted by: Croaker at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (+BcZI)

217 Guy Ritchie gangster film + King Arthur + 1982 Conan the Barbarian + $175 million = fun, in my book
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
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You can leave out the rest of it and just give me $175 million and I'll create my own fun.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (ESVrU)

218 New Mexico
____________________

That's the one on the list of 6 that interests me most. I'm convinced that the fraud in states along the border is massive. A state like New Mexico is ((IMO) a fence sitter. As a result, it always votes to the left via fraud. A state like Arizona leans right, so it becomes a toss up each election due to fraud.

And, more importantly, I think the motivating parties behind a lot of the fraud isn't necessarily the democrats (although they facilitate it). I believe the primary fingers in the pie are drug cartel related, and it's another reason why Trump is so focused on Venezuela.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (dIske)

219 I hate to say it, but it all matters which judges they get.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (krQz2)

220 You forgot Plucky-woman-meets-Prince-from-vaguely-European country at Xmas....or is that Hallmark?"

Si. And Great American channel...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:15 PM (cGjQu)

221 Maybe just me, I dunno.
Posted by: Croaker at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (+BcZI)

They are tossing away the low overhead advantage of the medium.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 04:15 PM (8avO+)

222 216 This is anecdotal, but with me it's all of their co-hosts/producers/hangers-on (Except Quartering who's just a Youtube dunce). Carolla, Rogan, Poole, Crowder - I generally tune in to each every once in a while but then the "news reader" for Carolla chimes in, or that mental midget Ian with Time Poole, or Gerald the CEO of Crowder's show pipes up - and I end up yelling at my monitor and shutting them off. I've been a follower of Carolla's since Ace here turned me onto his podcast 10 years ago, but I only catch him if he has an interesting guest on and avoid his funnier news bit commentary because of this.

Maybe just me, I dunno.
Posted by: Croaker at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (+BcZI)

Ian's worth it because he pisses Tim off so much.

But Phil Labonte is the actual brains on Timcast IRL.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:15 PM (UnA8+)

223 "Phil Labonte" Yeah, he's pretty solid.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:16 PM (GHIyr)

224 217 You can leave out the rest of it and just give me $175 million and I'll create my own fun.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 04:14 PM (ESVrU)

Gigantic all-wood mansion/cabin at the foot of a mountain, that's the first thing I'm doing with $175 Million (aside from putting at least 20 Million aside as an untouchable interest/dividend-generating stream)

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:17 PM (UnA8+)

225 The only conservative podcaster I could stand to listen to every day was Rush (AM not FM.) Even though he had different musicals and cultural tastes and was my dad's age. His historical knowledge, take on American Exceptionalism, and his singular views on the political issues never got old.

100%. I could and did listen to El Rushbo as often as I could for almost 30 years. He was the grand exception to all of the rules that afflict most other political media.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (2ocoG)

226 "Phil Labonte"

Related to Phil McKraken?

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (cGjQu)

227 Well you do have HOPE JackStraw.

Posted by: Case at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (5Je/N)

228 I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quartering, Crowder, Daily Wire...

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (Eng1Z)
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Might be your classic flood of the market to oversupply. Yeah, it was marketable to have 1 or 2 alternative conservative commentators, but they can't all grow into where it's really profitable, perhaps.

There's a market for it, but it's not as big as needed to support all those people.

Plus, there has been a growing amount of in-fighting, and perhaps that's turning people off to even that.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)

229 I live in retarded MN and I just don't think 'republicans' have come to grips with the dem machine that has been fucking elections since Big Al Franken in 2008 and I think they do not care as they get paid no matter what.

Ace - I beg you as I assume you are closer to the Machine: tell them to get on the Trump train(which is the Reagan train) or go away. We need Ken Paxton's, not John Cornyn's.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (mNOhh)

230 You gotta use every tool in the shed to get rid of the weeds.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (i+bC1)

231 Guy Ritchie gangster film + King Arthur + 1982 Conan the Barbarian + $175 million = fun, in my book
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)
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De gustibus and all that, but-

I tried watching that one on streaming a year or two ago and had to turn it off, it was such a dog's breakfast.

Also, being pretty familiar with the Arthurian legends/myths, I had a a hard time buying in to begin with.

I mmmaaaaaayyy give it another chance if it's on for free.

But, I think you're trying to make fetch happen here.

It's like Prometheus' Little Stoner Brother.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (iJfKG)

232 >>@devorydarkins

>>HOLY CRAP! Fox News drops a bombshell--the Minnesota fraud scheme stole up to $8 billion from taxpayers. That's 8 times more than what was originally reported.

>>"Several whistleblowers in Minnesota have state lawmaker's believing once these investigations are through, they believe the actual size of this fraud, the amount of taxpayer dollars has been stolen could be over and $8 billion."

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (viF8m)

233 228 Plus, there has been a growing amount of in-fighting, and perhaps that's turning people off to even that.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)

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I think one of the reasons I like RedLetterMedia on YouTube so much is that they don't do any YouTube drama stuff. At all.

They have their schtick. They've done it for like 15 years. That's all I need.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

234 Whoops, whoopsie. DEA official under Obama raided and charged with laundering money for mexican cartel.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 04:20 PM (n5tGW)

235 Archipelago?

Archipelawent
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 04:10 PM (cGjQu)
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But it's in the past.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM (krQz2)

236 228 Might be your classic flood of the market to oversupply. Yeah, it was marketable to have 1 or 2 alternative conservative commentators, but they can't all grow into where it's really profitable, perhaps.

There's a market for it, but it's not as big as needed to support all those people.

Plus, there has been a growing amount of in-fighting, and perhaps that's turning people off to even that.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:18 PM (krQz2)

The bloom is coming off the rose for a lot of their personality flaws too (Crowder's repressed homosexuality and abrasive behavior, Quartering's Drunken e-begging and talking about how he shits his pants, Tim's gambling obsession...)

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM (UnA8+)

237 What does the TW/Netflix merger mean for movies about women in prison in space? asking for a friend

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM (pIfcn)

238 This is anecdotal, but with me it's all of their co-hosts/producers/hangers-on.

This. When Landau and Garrett left Crowder and started Normal World I was initially interested but then found out they had some annoying-voiced chick on with them who monopolized the air time.

This is a problem with a *lot* of podcasts, not just political ones. Joe Rogan's mega-popular because it's 99.5% just him and the guest talking.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

239 231 De gustibus and all that, but-

I tried watching that one on streaming a year or two ago and had to turn it off, it was such a dog's breakfast.

Also, being pretty familiar with the Arthurian legends/myths, I had a a hard time buying in to begin with.

I mmmaaaaaayyy give it another chance if it's on for free.

But, I think you're trying to make fetch happen here.

It's like Prometheus' Little Stoner Brother.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (iJfKG)

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If I want the Arthurian legend, I'll read Malory.

I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

240 What does the TW/Netflix merger mean for movies about women in prison in space? asking for a friend
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 04:21 PM

I'm back, Baby!

Posted by: Leprechaun 4: In Space at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (jc0TO)

241
What They Took From Us

Remember we did this last week?

Nobody mentioned the Boy Scouts.

FUCKING PERVERTS.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (cPNKV)

242 240 I'm back, Baby!

Posted by: Leprechaun 4: In Space at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (jc0TO)

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"$450 million budget. Released without fanfare and lost in the algorithm after 3 hours."
-Netflix

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

243 239 If I want the Arthurian legend, I'll read Malory.

I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

"What if Arthur was a 14 year old little twink being groomed by Merlin to Troon out?"

...oh wait, that was Disney's Sword in the Stone...

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (UnA8+)

244 Democrat lawmakers in Olympia Wa. are killing us. Gas prices currently avg. $4.19 a gallon.
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$2.28 here in Oklahoma City.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (TN0g+)

245 I'm waiting on Wreck-it Ralph 3.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:08 PM (jc0TO)
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It's kind of interesting how for a good period of time Wreck-It Ralph was developed with Fix-it Felix being the main character.

They just decided it wasn't going to work. So, his frustration with fixing everything was just left in as a joke.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (krQz2)

246 I read the Mary Stewart Arthurian books as an adult and I think I like them the most of any telling I have read.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (jc0TO)

247 "The bloom is coming off the rose for a lot of their personality flaws too"

Who is the content-making guy with the least personality flaws? Prolly an AI.

Personality flaws seem to be a mandatory requirement for entry into American politics generally.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:25 PM (GHIyr)

248 If I want the Arthurian legend, I'll read Malory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't remember that episode of Family Ties.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)

249
California isn't being sued because they steal elections in plain sight.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (azNOR)

250 What They Took From Us

Remember we did this last week?

Nobody mentioned the Boy Scouts.

FUCKING PERVERTS.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Buddy...you don't know the half of it.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (OUMaO)

251 I don't understand the non-criminal argument for not cleaning up the voter rolls.

This is literally just checking death records, and addresses, and removing people who have died or left the state.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (gDhA9)

252 Have there ever been an Arthurian adaptation that included the Battle of Badon?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

253 De gustibus and all that, but-

I tried watching that one on streaming a year or two ago and had to turn it off, it was such a dog's breakfast.

Also, being pretty familiar with the Arthurian legends/myths, I had a a hard time buying in to begin with.

I mmmaaaaaayyy give it another chance if it's on for free.

But, I think you're trying to make fetch happen here.

It's like Prometheus' Little Stoner Brother.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:19 PM (iJfKG)

======

If I want the Arthurian legend, I'll read Malory.

I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

That's not quite what I'm saying.
I mean, if you want to make a gay furry Camelot, knock yourself out but don't expect everyone to buy in.
If you use the name/legend/etc, then that binds you to certain expectations. Hell even a YUGE comic deconstruction of Arthur in "MPatHG" did that.
Smarter to call it Swordfighting Joe or some suc

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (iJfKG)

254 But like a bamboo tree -- she will keep bending over without breaking.
==
Like the supple yet rigid bamboo rod, that stridently and rythmically tattoos the flesh of my buttocks until I resemble a baboon in estrus, and then I act like one. Texting selfies of my butthole to random old men, asking them to sign up for my only fans.

Posted by: Nuzzi at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (h+S+G)

255 251 I don't understand the non-criminal argument for not cleaning up the voter rolls.

This is literally just checking death records, and addresses, and removing people who have died or left the state.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (gDhA9)

They created a fantasy in their heads that Trump will personally remove every name that doesn't sound "White enough".

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (UnA8+)

256 248 If I want the Arthurian legend, I'll read Malory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't remember that episode of Family Ties.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:27 PM (krQz2)

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The very special episode where Merlin asked Gary Coleman to jump a shark in the General Lee while trying to get back to the Jupiter 2 after having broken Mr. Wilson's fence again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

257 Group of kids just drove by my house in a golf cart yelling "Retard!". It's an epidemic!

Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (oftw2)

258 253 That's not quite what I'm saying.
I mean, if you want to make a gay furry Camelot, knock yourself out but don't expect everyone to buy in.
If you use the name/legend/etc, then that binds you to certain expectations. Hell even a YUGE comic deconstruction of Arthur in "MPatHG" did that.
Smarter to call it Swordfighting Joe or some suc

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (iJfKG)

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"I would have liked this if it had another name," is never, ever persuasive to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

259 This is literally something that could be automated or even subbed out to some sort of data management company.

Look, large marketing companies have all this data. They have the name and age of every person in the state. Because it pays them to know this stuff. You could just buy the information off of them for a few bucks., cross reference with voter rolls, and remove anyone that isn't on the marketing company list.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:31 PM (gDhA9)

260 253 That's not quite what I'm saying.
I mean, if you want to make a gay furry Camelot, knock yourself out but don't expect everyone to buy in.
If you use the name/legend/etc, then that binds you to certain expectations. Hell even a YUGE comic deconstruction of Arthur in "MPatHG" did that.
Smarter to call it Swordfighting Joe or some suc
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (iJfKG)

Reminded that there was some cartoon in the 90s where the Knights of the Round Table were defeated and taken prisoner, so Merlin summoned a Football Team to take their places until they could free them.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:31 PM (UnA8+)

261 I just figured out that Rhode Island is not an actual island!
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 04:06 PM

It's not even a real place. It's a fake Hollywood state like East Dakota and Maryland.
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Yep, a collection of fake storefronts with a couple of hotels , a stable, a jail, and a saloon, just like in the old westerns. The saloon is the only "building" that actually has anything inside it--the rest are just fronts.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (TN0g+)

262 It's always about the 'boo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (jc0TO)

263 "I would have liked this if it had another name," is never, ever persuasive to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

"Prometheus, by any other name..."

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (77rzZ)

264 Drive by tardings have increased by 477% in Minnesota, shocking even the most experienced criminal statisticians and law enforcement officials.

Posted by: Window-licking hooligans at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (TbWk/)

265 Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (TN0g+)

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You still having banned problems?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

266 "The very special episode where Merlin asked Gary Coleman to jump a shark in the General Lee while trying to get back to the Jupiter 2 after having broken Mr. Wilson's fence again."

I gave that to deepai.org to paint some images of it. It quickly revealed very serious flaws in deepai's funnybone imagination module. Is there an image-generating AI out there that's equal to this task?

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (GHIyr)

267

nood faggotry

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 04:32 PM (cPNKV)

268 nood

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (GHIyr)

269 Oh, last two days driving home in two different areas , group of you can figure it out in high visibility wear with signs Free Mumia walking along the road. About a dozen people, really in sparsely areas at that

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (Ia/+0)

270 They created a fantasy in their heads that Trump will personally remove every name that doesn't sound "White enough". Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 04:28 PM (UnA8+)

Trump can't legally remove a single name from the list. All he can do in ensure the list is accurate. There is literally zero danger. But I guess lib fantasy scenarios is what we all have to live with.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (gDhA9)

271 "I would have liked this if it had another name," is never, ever persuasive to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

I wouldn't have liked it anyway.

As I said before, it's a mess. I like Guy Richie in general but sometimes, he's awful.

"Revolver" and "Swept Away" are great examples of that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2025 04:33 PM (iJfKG)

272 I will never understand the need for adaptations, especially adaptations of 1000 year old legends that have been morphed and changed more times than can be counted, to be "accurate". Accurate to what?

Netflix has a new adaptation of Beowulf. I got excited until I saw the picture accompanying the description. It, of course, had a black warrior. Now, I have nothing against a black warrior in an appropriate setting, but I'm gonna guess that they were not exactly common in the Beowulf setting, and that tells me what I need to know about the show.

Next.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

273 Rhode Island has some really straight borders for being an island.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2025 04:39 PM (0U5gm)

274
What's the deal with SCOTUS hearing the birthright citizenship case? Is it just whether or not Trump can issue the executive order, or whether it should be obliterated regardless of who wants to interpret it how?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (isqj7)

275 274 What's the deal with SCOTUS hearing the birthright citizenship case? Is it just whether or not Trump can issue the executive order, or whether it should be obliterated regardless of who wants to interpret it how?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 04:44 PM (isqj7)

Decades ago, the supreme court ruled that anyone born in the U.S. is a us citizen. But that ruling is a bit debatable. It concerned a man born int he U.S., to non-American parents, HOWEVER the parents were here legally. This conforms to the constitution, which says that the children of legal residents (with a few exceptions) are Americans. Trumps' executive order says, well, the court never said a thing about the children of ILLEGAL residents. That is what is in doubt. And in that case the constitution actually says, the children of certain non-Americans are in fact not Americans at birth.

It is not as cut and dried as it seems, and the executive order was designed to test that.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 06:34 PM (gDhA9)

276 No more votes from Illegal Aliens and Dead People

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 06:48 PM (wGqjj)

We Absolutely Must Defund the "Universities"

A trans professor -- we're already off to a great start -- failed a student for disagreeing with him that trans women are women (snap!)

A freshman at the University of Oklahoma says she was punished in the classroom not for poor writing or missed instructions, but for quoting Scripture -- and now the school is scrambling to contain the fallout.
On Sunday, officials in Norman confirmed they had placed a graduate instructor on administrative leave after 19-year-old Samantha Fulnecky filed a complaint alleging she was failed on an essay because she cited the Bible to defend traditional gender roles. The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- gave her zero out of 25 points on a psychology assignment that asked students to respond to an article about how society perceives gender.
Fulnecky told The Oklahoman that she argued gender isn't a social invention at all, but part of God's design. She quoted Genesis directly: "God says that it is not good for man to be alone, so He created a helper for man (which is a woman)." She even went deeper into the Hebrew, explaining that ezer kenegdo doesn't mean a subordinate assistant but "helper equal to," a description the Bible also uses for God Himself. In her view, rejecting the concept of gender erases moral truth: "Eliminating gender in our society would be detrimental, as it pulls us farther from God's original plan for humans."
Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive." Fulnecky pushed back, noting the prompt never required empirical sourcing and that university policy explicitly protects religious expression. "To be what I think is clearly discriminated against for my beliefs and using freedom of speech, and especially for my religious beliefs, I think that's just absurd," she told the paper.
The university appeared to sense the legal danger immediately. In a Sunday post on X, OU said it "takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms," and stressed that once Fulnecky complained, the school "acted swiftly to address the matter." Officials said she was contacted the same day they received her letter and that a formal grade-appeal process "resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student." The school also confirmed that its discrimination review process -- the one specifically designed for cases involving alleged violations of religious liberty -- "has been activated."
Most notably, OU announced that Curth had been pulled from the classroom pending the outcome of the investigation and replaced by a full-time professor to "ensure fairness."

90% of college dummies believe that "words can be violence."

Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."

Nine out of ten undergraduate students think that "words can be violence" at least "somewhat," according to a new Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey.
The poll also showed that ideological gaps between left-leaning and right-leaning students are widening.
When respondents were asked how much the statement "words can be violence" describes their thoughts, 47 percent answered with "completely" or "mostly." Twenty-eight percent said it describes their thoughts "somewhat," and 15 percent said "slightly."
Additionally, around 59 percent of students said "silence is violence" describes their views at least "somewhat," though only 28 percent said it describes their thoughts "completely" or "mostly."
"When people start thinking that words can be violence, violence becomes an acceptable response to words," FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens said in a news release following the poll.
"Even after the murder of Charlie Kirk at a speaking event, college students think that someone's words can be a threat. This is antithetical to a free and open society, where words are the best alternative to political violence," Stevens said.
The poll also showed that moderate and conservative students have grown less supportive of disruptive or violent tactics to stop campus speakers, while liberal students' support for those tactics has stayed the same or risen slightly compared to the spring.
At the same time, moderate and conservative students have become more open to allowing controversial speakers, while liberal students have maintained or increased their opposition to those speakers.

Not coincidentally, Americans now understand that paying for a four year degree in Transgender Studies -- and all colleges now teach is Transgender Studies of various flavors, like Science Transgender Studies, Law Transgender Studies, Math Transgender Studies, etc. -- is an "expensive scam."

More Americans are wising up to the fact that higher education has become a raw deal for all too many young people.
A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn't worth it, since many students graduate with "a large amount of debt" but no "specific job skills."
That's up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree "worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime."
That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: "Upwardly mobile" was almost entirely synonymous with "college-educated."
But over the last few decades, the dynamic has shifted: Far too many college degrees guarantee nothing ... except onerous debt.
Tuition costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last 20 years (a redoubling from two decades earlier), as universities jacked up prices to match increased "help" such as federal aid and ever-larger government-facilitated student loans.
But in return for 70 grand or more a year, students today too often don't get prepared for a lucrative or even stable career.
Countless colleges have transformed into woke indoctrination factories that churn out grads with liberal arts degrees and zero specialized skills.
A report last year found that two-thirds of colleges require DEI-related courses to graduate, offering classes like "Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society" and "Abolition of Whiteness."
Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics?
Meanwhile, grade inflation and faculties increasingly dominated by leftist ideologues reduce the return even on "real" classes.
Plus, a rapidly changing economy is making white-collar jobs an increasingly unsafe bet.
Prospective students once could safely bet that a hard science or math degree was a sure winner, but the rise of AI is already wiping out options for recent grads in countless sectors, including tech.
Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years, while numbers of Gen Zers are eyeing high-paying, high-demand careers as welders, plumbers and electricians.
Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.

This is the "science" that we are now paying universities to produce.

🚨BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, �feminist queer crip theory� leads the pack in terms of derangement.

But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about �crip guts,� �queer stoma pride,� the� pic.twitter.com/MdprVLEMzR
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) December 1, 2025

The word "stoma" means an opening in the body, particularly in the digestive tract. I think They/Them means the anus, because the "pride" this pyrsyn wants to discuss is the pride in They/Them's queer poop.

No, that's not a joke, that's what the paper is about.

The retard wrote a paper about how They/Them has "crip guts" and can't shit straight and all the world needs to know about that and that will upend how we practice colonialist Western science.

Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
BREAKING: @Nature has just published one of the most insane papers imaginable. In woke studies, "feminist queer crip theory" leads the pack in terms of derangement.
But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about "crip guts," "queer stoma pride," the "intergenerational trauma" inflicted upon the author's guts by "British colonialism in Ireland," and how crip guts bestow people with "situated ways of knowing" that undermines "Western biomedical models of knowledge production."
A real quote from the paper:
"I was processing some memories around my gut condition and became overwhelmed with sadness and grief. It felt ridiculous explaining to the (English) therapist what had come up because the only way I could describe it was famine grief. The Irish Famine of the 1800s is of course before my time, but in that therapy session I felt overwhelmed with a grief that felt larger than my own. I made sense of this feeling through the framework of intergenerational trauma and described it as feeling the pain of the famine lingering in my guts."
The author calls for "queer stoma pride," which celebrates "the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries" and "requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location." It further "focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness."
She hopes that the concept of "crip guts" will "disrupt epistemic injustice and challenge Western biomedical models of knowledge production," though she gives no concrete instructions about how that looks in practice.
Ultimately, she says "queer stoma pride" is "about talking about poop at conferences and in journal articles," and "revelling in not being normal, being unexpected or disruptive, and rejecting colonial, queerphobic and ableist discourses around returning to normal, passing as normal, and aiming for normal, as if normal was ever a good thing."

BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 not, but maybe

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (enw9G)

2 OOH! will nood

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)

3 this was part of the week in woke but there was so much about colleges I thought it made sense to split it off as its own post.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (1wjle)

4 done

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)

5
The modern University is nothing more than indoctrination camps that you pay big $$$ to participate in.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (IifOV)

6 Eff them then.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (ynBxV)

7 Most of what they teach isn't even true.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:34 PM (ynBxV)

8 I am glad I graduated from UT, Knoxville, in the late 90s. It was the age of Peyton Manning, and the not-yet Woke.

Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 02:34 PM (RWHIh)

9 Tried to read the content, but it wasn't for me...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 05, 2025 02:34 PM (yghV0)

10 Unless you're in the plant kingdom, you ain't got a stoma. You got a hole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (JwNbV)

11 90% of college dummies believe that "words can be violence."

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And that burning, looting, murdering, and raping is protected speech.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (zbgwO)

12 The crip guts individual is a natural market for the poop camera.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (0cOaq)

13 Mostlt peacefull insurrection.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (ynBxV)

14 I knew the difference between women and men when I was a kid. Nothing has happened in the past 75 years to change my mind.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (i+bC1)

15 Fortunately Villanova set the precedent that you can sue the capital-tee Tits off of a university if they do something so asinine that it makes any recent alumni's degree worthless.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (JwNbV)

16 I'm all for defunding the Universities, all except 'Bamboo Studies' as that is clearly vital to our modern understanding of everything.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (xcxpd)

17 For the life of me I can’t understand why Trump wants to “save” the universities by flooding them with Chinese spies, and corporate IP thieves, AKA “students”.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (I2y5H)

18 This just in, sticks and stones break bones, and so do nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, prepositions conjunctions and articles.

Posted by: Serious News Reported Seriously by Kenneth at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (h+S+G)

19 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

20 Sometimes I think this bullshit happens because the Left pushed "Queer" so hard that it wasn't "Special" anymore, and so now weirdos have to make up new "Pride" designations for the grossest shit in order to "Reclaim" their "Specialness".

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (UnA8+)

21
Old: Sticks & Stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

New: OMG! The Words they BURN!!!

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (IifOV)

22 It's gibberish, and I'm being generous.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (pDt9x)

23 Pol Pot 'got it' when it came to the Universities.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (DeNdk)

24 My God there’s a preponderance of mental illness surrounding colleges and universities.

Yikes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (W2Pud)

25 We collect the wages of allowing 'hate speech' to be a thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

26 This is so disgusting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (vZUXb)

27 Iv'e been watching Stranger Things.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (ynBxV)

28 I have 3 daughters. The first went for 2 years at a traditional university. I pulled her out, and sent her and her sisters to a community college where they earned bachelors or associate degress, but even more importantly they earned "certificates, certs" in various medical fields. To my delight they all have ~$50K/year JOBS in the medical field and NO debt!

Mike Rowe is a VISIONARY, and we need to be directing our children into CAREER enhancing education!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (e/Osv)

29 The raving of lunatics.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (pDt9x)

30 Rocky Top!!! 🎵

Posted by: Does this helmut make my forehead look big at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (h+S+G)

31 People who thing "words can be violence" have never been punched in the face.

I can fix that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (1ZMNP)

32 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)

33 Reform the universities from orbit.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (ehY6c)

34 12 The crip guts individual is a natural market for the poop camera.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (0cOaq)

This is the same as when Dan Savage started the whole "You're not really gay if you don't intentionally contract AIDS" shit.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (UnA8+)

35 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need. Because you know who thinks words are violence, soychildren who've never been punched in the face or been in close proximity.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

36 32 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)

41.

That's the funny Troon Suicide number.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:40 PM (UnA8+)

37 This is what happens to any institution when it has no boundaries to keep insane leftists from being employed.

Higher ed is just farther along than many other institutions though I think the mass media is in a virtual tie with academia for employing bat shit crazy moonbats that reject objective reality as the rest of us know it.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:40 PM (WDjG6)

38
Reminder: for a very brief 5 days, the Left pretended it was for "free speech." During the jimmy kimmel bullshit, it was all about "free speech." Remember?

And I said, at the time: This would be a great time for students to go to school wearing "trannies are freaks" t-shirts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (O2XQw)

39 I'm glad I teach business classes...not quite so insane there. But bad enough.
I did ask my students to identify one famous person they have met. Answers were as about you'd expect...mom, dad, a senator, etc. I then told mine, who was Charles Lindberg. Not a single student (and these were mainly juniors, knew who that was.
Sadz.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (2WIwB)

40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

41 I believe in SCIENCE.
XX XY!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (NpAcC)

42 The "crips" mention reminded me of this safety video for anyone who drives people for hire; not my thing for making xtra munny, but after this came in 'viewing suggestions,' I fer sur doan bee gonna.

https://tinyurl.com/54max7fh

Posted by: ju at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (EgpoY)

43 I think most people - including most parents - must know how worthless a university education is today (with some important exceptions: genuine science and engineering, medicine, certain areas of the law, accounting, some of the business-related education, etc). They (the parents, anyway) are simply paying for credentials for their kids, passports to the halls of power and influence, where they will eventually learn, on the job, the finer points of lying, corruption, back-stabbing and woke politics for fun and profit.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (mADJX)

44 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (zbgwO)

45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (UnA8+)

46
BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace

Must be nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (O2XQw)

47 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)

48 Defund? I disagree. Too much of the problem is private.

Stop subsidizing. Entirely.

No more grants for student tuition
No more student loan subsidies
No more bankruptcy carve-outs for student loans
No more "development grants" of any kind to any institution
No more research grants unless they are for a stated government objective in energy, defense, ballistics/rocketry, physics, astronomy, chemistry or other objective-outcome subject. No grants for *any* social science, economics, biology or medicine.

Let the beast simply starve. It requires about three or four times as many calories as it can produce on its own.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (yjAVs)

49 Note that this person had their colon removed due to ulcerative colitis, necessitating an alternative way to collect digestive waste; thus the ileostomy. Sorry for their suffering, but the rest of the abstract is inexcusable bonkers wackotoon bloviation. Get back to me when you can show a reproducible therapeutic advantage (or disadvantage; I'm not picky) for "feminist queer crip" effects on an autoimmune disorder. Until then, you're wasting your time.

Posted by: Grouchy Dino at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (CHt+W)

50 I'd like to report a murder:

Songfestival Azerbaijan
@songfestivalaze
Palestine should be brought to Eurovision 2026!

The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome
@TheMossaidIL
No thanks. We all saw what they do at music festivals.

Currently the original post has 246 likes and The Mossad has 7200. Don't tell Candace Owens.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:43 PM (2ocoG)

51 argh I am still working!!

unfair

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (emBoF)

52 The nature article is one of two things - either a longing of belonging to something bigger than the self or "I can't believe I get paid for this... bwah-ha-ha-ha"

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (ycr1e)

53 And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.

The GOPe's wives will leave them if they move against trannies.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

54 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

55 The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.

By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (Vh9CX)

56 I can't wait for the follow-up: "Sidecar, a journey through the heart of crip gut relations in a pluralistic gender spectrum of interconnectedness".

(Sorry, but germane to the post; my daughter the ER nurse once shared a brain-bleach worthy story once, about the ostitute with VD in her stoma. Can. Not. Unsee.)

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (enw9G)

57 not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc.
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When you elimate things, sometimes there are unintended consequences. That doesnt mean the thing that was eliminated was good. However, it persisted because it served some utility. And once it is gone you have to figure how to replace that utility. Teaching the virtues used to be a nice way of doing that. But thats not ok anymore. Doesnt make me a vile gash for pointing it out.

Posted by: Or does it at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (h+S+G)

58 Universities - doing the babysitting work that nannies just won't do.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (WPL6O)

59 Jerrold Nadler had a non-normative gut before non-normative guts were cool, yo.

Posted by: Intestinal Flora at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)

60
Seriously:

Am I the only one who thought of Lorem Ipsum when trying that crap [the fake "study"]?

It's fucking gibberish.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (O2XQw)

61 The intelligencia pulls this crap directly outta their backsides and then expects everyone to think their shit don't stink.

Off topic, but it's 10:45 and the sun is just coming up here. We haven't seen it for about a week, so it's nice to see it finally showed up. Perfectly clear sky. Maybe see some northern lights tonight.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (6Bc88)

62 Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years, while numbers of Gen Zers are eyeing high-paying, high-demand careers as welders, plumbers and electricians.

Trade school was once stigmatized as a less-appealing option than the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, but a less expensive, more focused education that teaches a highly valuable skill now often seems the far wiser choice.
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Sort of. These two paragraphs are about men. *Male* enrollment is collapsing in real time. Female enrollment will soon, but so far female enrollment declines have been less severe. They won't stay that way. When a school (other than a girls school, of course) goes more 55% female, the school begins to die. Women still want to meet men, even if they're no longer interested in marrying one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (yjAVs)

63 As I will be retiring from teaching even P/T, I will miss the times I could walk across campus and laugh at the idiots.
"Hey! Are you laughing at us??!!"
ME: Nope. Private joke. A question though...has your hair always been green or did you lose a bet?
"Hey! I'm offended."
ME: Tough shit. Take my class and learn what a real offense is.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (2WIwB)

64 56 I can't wait for the follow-up: "Sidecar, a journey through the heart of crip gut relations in a pluralistic gender spectrum of interconnectedness".

(Sorry, but germane to the post; my daughter the ER nurse once shared a brain-bleach worthy story once, about the ostitute with VD in her stoma. Can. Not. Unsee.)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (enw9G)

"F*** my Tracheotomy Hole harder, Daddy!" (said with an electronic voicebox)

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)

65 32 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)

Retarded is the politically correct term, now.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (EES2L)

66 Nature - oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

67 But Nature has now embraced it, publishing an autoethnographic paper about “crip guts,” “queer stoma pride,” ...

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Those random word generators must be running at full speed.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (xEX9H)

68 Sidecar is a drink.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)

69 When I worked for the federal government, sometimes other employees would seek help in getting their progeny a job after they graduated from college (or while still matriculating). I cannot remember a single time, off-hand, when these doting parents didn't first and foremost attempt to get their children into the government, somewhere. Private sector work was always considered a less attractive (and, probably, a less honorable) Plan B.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (mADJX)

70 62 Sort of. These two paragraphs are about men. *Male* enrollment is collapsing in real time. Female enrollment will soon, but so far female enrollment declines have been less severe. They won't stay that way. When a school (other than a girls school, of course) goes more 55% female, the school begins to die. Women still want to meet men, even if they're no longer interested in marrying one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (yjAVs)

Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)

71 Those random word generators must be running at full speed.

It's no more scientific than Mad Libs.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

72 Maybe Trump has a point allowing large numbers of Chinese to go to our universities...

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (YwEeS)

73 I saw Crip Guts open up for GWAR at the Palladium in April 95!

Posted by: I Stand With No One at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (cUrpM)

74
It's like someone asked A.I. to write an essay filled with Lorem Ipsum and tranny buzzwords.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (O2XQw)

75 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
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No.

A large percentage - and yeah, approaching half in some schools - *claim* a disability, and many disabilities cannot be disproven. "Disability" means an easier time, and you cannot create an incentive like that without expecting people to figure it out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (yjAVs)

76 Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."

This cannot be ignored. In the words of Sam Elliot (as Sgt Plumely), "Gentleman, prepare to defend yourselves"

Buy ammo.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (XuXeR)

77 47 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)

----

It's a weird fact of life that Republican legislatures love giving piles of cash to those that hate them.

Just imagine a world where Democrat legislatures gave millions or billions to pro-life groups, 2A groups, etc.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Vh9CX)

78 Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (UnA8+)
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Heh.

That fad is fading out, thankfully.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (yjAVs)

79 47 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)

It also shows that conservatives can't live and let live anymore. It's high time conservatives try to cancel and ostracize anyone with these thoughts.

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ycr1e)

80 >>>Most notably, OU announced that Curth had been pulled from the classroom pending the outcome of the investigation and replaced by a full-time professor to "ensure fairness."
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OK, probably the reddest of all red states. Curth is lucky that OK is kind of mid-west friendly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (SZI4T)

81 There is an enrollment crisis for Universities brewing. Millennials slowed down having kids during the 2008-9 Great Recession. Birth rates in that era for Americans plummeted. That generation is almost college age, and there are simply a lot less of them that exist. Which means less kids applying for college

THIS is why they are shoving in so many foreign students (that they can charge expensive international tuition rates for.) Because colleges can't shrink, they can only expand! Like the government. Also why they want illegals and anchor babies. The top group increasing their percentages of going to college is Hispanics. Universities looking for other avenues.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)

82 I read this post twice and still have no idea what that person was trying to explain. If I had kids looking at a college I'd say nope and have them look at another path.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Q0yOR)

83 I used to live near GWARs home town. Even worked with one of their exes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ynBxV)

84 One can smoke a cig thru the trach. Seen it. The VA patient was dedicated to the habit.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (ehY6c)

85 59 Jerrold Nadler had a non-normative gut before non-normative guts were cool, yo.
Posted by: Intestinal Flora at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (PiwSw)

I'm waiting for an alien to pop out, and Sigourney Weaver hunting it down with an arc welder....

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (e/Osv)

86 Nature, like its US counterpart Science, is Garbage now.

They should rename it accordingly.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)

87 The university appeared to sense the legal danger immediately.

It's afraid. IT'S AFRAID!!

(It's great that universities are now viewing the legal threat from normal Americans as greater than than that from Lefties, queers, and other assorted weirdos)

Posted by: Neil Patrick Harris in Starship Troopers at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (JCZqz)

88 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

***
Campuses across the country are becoming aware of a new terrorist group, Al-Gebrah. The Feds believe they are working a weapons of maths instruction.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (2WIwB)

89 76 Which then leads to the conclusion favored by Marxists: And you can use actual violence to stop "word violence."

This cannot be ignored. In the words of Sam Elliot (as Sgt Plumely), "Gentleman, prepare to defend yourselves"

Buy ammo.
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (XuXeR)

Endorsed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (xcxpd)

90 Women still want to meet men, even if they're no longer interested in marrying one.

Right. The girls who actually believe in feminism can't "find themselves" riding the carousel if there's no carousel.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (2ocoG)

91 35 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

In addition, I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. Wouldn't want a generation of strong men standing up for their own self interests, now would we? (government)

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (EES2L)

92 No Disney thread this afternoon? Boo hoo! Oh well, I suppose I can travel over to the U-tubes and watch the latest Critical Drinker Production Hell. This week he skewers "Cats." How bold!

Posted by: Martin Tell at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (sFNX2)

93 Americans have noticed: College enrollment has plummeted these last few years,"

And will, as the number of births has generally declined since 2008...
Gotta import students!

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (XuXeR)

94 Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?

I'm here to help.

"Trooning out" is an offensive and derogatory anti-LGBTQ+ slang term and slur
. It is primarily used online by anti-trans groups and individuals as a transphobic insult.
Meaning

As a verb: The term is intransitive and used to mean "to undergo gender transition" in a highly offensive and demeaning way.
As a noun: The base word "troon" is a slur used to refer to and dehumanize transgender women specifically

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (Riz8t)

95 Tag?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (ynBxV)

96 That University of Oklahoma story is a great illustration of what we're up against. There are 77 counties in Oklahoma, and Trump carried all 77 of them in the election. And YET the public university is just rolling along doing its marxist playbook in plain sight for all to see.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
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It still pretty common to see statements like, "Surely School X is okay, it's in a very 'red' area!"

No. Never. A school can be in a conservative township in a conservative county in a conservative district in a conservative state and the university there will be shot through with glass-eyed communist groomers, with every part of its operational policy geared toward producing more of the same.

It does not matter where a university is. Its milieu is irrelevant. It's a university, therefore it's an administrative outpost of Big Prog.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (yjAVs)

97 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace

So, Ace has decamped.

Say...um...does Ace ever count the silverware before he leaves? Just curious...

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:50 PM (mADJX)

98 Why is this lunatic on the faculty of a state university in Oklahoma…. The reddest of all the states good grief. If Oklahoma can’t keep out the crazy who can?? Infuriating

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (ZtAny)

99 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.

Best time of the week!!!!

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

Gotta get those Crocs cleaned up and polished before you hit the town!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

100 I need to get some Silver settings after the price collapses again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (ynBxV)

101 It does not matter where a university is. Its milieu is irrelevant.

More accurately, every school's milieu is every other school. There's a limited supply of education majors, and they can't all hire DOCTOR JILL.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (2ocoG)

102 91 35 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

In addition, I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. Wouldn't want a generation of strong men standing up for their own self interests, now would we? (government)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 05, 2025 02:49 PM (EES2L)

And let's face it. Sometimes the football team NEEDS to gang-stomp the nerdy kid, so he doesn't turn gay.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (UnA8+)

103 Do we know this for sure, when so many young people are Trooning Out or identifying as Neither?

Somebody did a survey of women who identified themselves as "bixsexual" at liberal arts colleges, and the vast majority of them had only had sex with men in the prior year.

It's a fashion statement.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (xTIDn)

104 96, 98 — I can see I was late to this thread. It’s frustrating that the reddest state has the rot as well…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (ZtAny)

105 Sidecar is a drink.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)

***

*looks at clock*
11:53.

Close enough!!!
Cheers!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (2WIwB)

106 If Ace is out, now would be a good time for a cob to post busty lesbian pron and get away with it.

I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (2ocoG)

107 Man, I could write about my cancer and make something wildly up about how it matters to X woke group in X woke way, and I, the wildly underqualified, will now be the ultimate expert in that cancer field? Sign me up!

And then pay me the mid 6 figure salary with benefits per year with 5 digit speaking engagement for the next 10 years...

I mean, I diagnosed myself as an X Man since one of my genetic changes was not even identifiable in the test, and isn't X the truest of the non-gendered, non-identified, and always mistreated folks (comics says so about the last one)...

And X-Man is way easier to market...well, maybe X-Woman...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (tOcjL)

108 I'm waiting for an alien to pop out, "

"Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

109 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

And inverse operations.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (dK+Kv)

110 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.
_______
OK, enjoy the pron.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (s0JqF)

111 JD Vance
·
Dec 4, 2025
@JDVance
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Follow
Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
Preston Byrne

@prestonjbyrne
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I hear the House of Representatives has a bill, the GRANITE Act, that'll fix this and allow X to sue the Commission for 3x the threatened fine.

America can stop foreign censors for good. You should get on the horn with some folks and ask them to push it through!

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (TN0g+)

112 The silence is killing me!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (pkeXY)

113 I don't really understand much of what's going on in the Zeitgeist, I'll just be over hear watching VHS reruns of Barney Miller on my RCA.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (XV/Pl)

114 There is an enrollment crisis for Universities brewing. Millennials slowed down having kids during the 2008-9 Great Recession. Birth rates in that era for Americans plummeted. That generation is almost college age, and there are simply a lot less of them that exist. Which means less kids applying for college ...
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)
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That is all Millennials. That era was the tail end of GenX and the first part of what should have been the Millennial wave. The Millennial wave didn't materialize, and now never will (the Millennials are too old now).

I usually see this chalked up to economic considerations, but I don't really buy it. Yeah, the economy sucks for young people and has for a long time, but poor people have kids all the time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (yjAVs)

115 I had most of my colon removed a couple of months ago. I must say that I felt like I'd been beaten almost to death by a gang of Crips. I didn't get a paper published though.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2UnvF)

116 And let's face it. Sometimes the football team NEEDS to gang-stomp the nerdy kid, so he doesn't turn gay.

*raises hand* I'm the nerdy kid who broke the bully's nose in 8th grade. Also a valuable lesson for both of us.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2ocoG)

117 Has the Trans gene been isolated yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (ynBxV)

118 College degree costs $640k.

240k for 4 years at 60k each.
400k not realized by not working those 4 years.

In the ‘70’s and 80’s when tuition was reasonable it made sense.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (cvzXT)

119 Math Transgender Studies

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"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

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Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

And inverse operations.

And non-Euclidean geometry.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (mADJX)

120 108 I'm waiting for an alien to pop out, "

"Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (e/Osv)

121 More accurately, every school's milieu is every other school. There's a limited supply of education majors, and they can't all hire DOCTOR JILL.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:51 PM (2ocoG)
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Within the walls, yes. I was referring to where the school is, not what happens within it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:54 PM (yjAVs)

122 I'm glad I teach business classes...not quite so insane there. But bad enough.
I did ask my students to identify one famous person they have met. Answers were as about you'd expect...mom, dad, a senator, etc. I then told mine, who was Charles Lindberg. Not a single student (and these were mainly juniors, knew who that was.
Sadz.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (2WIwB)

Any classes on the wisdom of business HR having wine on tap and girls in short skirts doing no work at high salaries? Or how blaming unhappy customers in a service industry is kinda dumb?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (8avO+)

123 Universities - doing the babysitting work that nannies just won't do.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 02:45 PM (WPL6O)

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The only difference between kindergartens and universities now is the age of the kinder.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (pTQH2)

124 "Sidecar is a drink"

I'm sure oral sex with the ostitute will be covered in the next scholarly study.
(NEW brain bleach item)

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (enw9G)

125 I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. "

This. X 10,000. It's only about "respect mu authority "

Anti bullying campaigns are crap.

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (XuXeR)

126 Have a good weekend Ace, you earned it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (bfwj/)

127 I'm not a fan of bulllying, but one of the downsides to so-called anti-bullying efforts, zero-tolerance school violence policies etc. is that people don't get the public ass-whuppings they and everyone else around them need...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (RVftD)

The grand children of Diogenes know that the best solution to bullying is a solid right hook (except for lefty grandson) and/or a swift kick to the nads. I will support them in any fallout from said action.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (2WIwB)

128 I'll just be over hear watching VHS reruns of Barney Miller on my RCA.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

129 University professors, at least in the liberal arts, are the most inbred snotty backstabbers I have ever met. I got called to the Dean's office because my art history professor accused me of plagiarism. He couldn't prove it, but he was certain it wasn't possible that I could write a paper on Cass Gilbert's St. Louis Art Museum with information he had never seen, because he considered himself an expert on the topic. Of course, all my sources were cited properly, but he just hadn't gone to the museum archives to look any of that information up himself, so I must have cheated and copied. He couldn't stand being shown up by a lowly architecture student.

This was mumble-mumble years ago. I can't imagine it has gotten any better over the years.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (6Bc88)

130 99 BTW, I finished up all the day's posts at 2pm. I'm taking the rest of the week off.
Best time of the week!!!!
Posted by: Ace

Are we going to have a post about Ethan Klein destroying Kacytron at some point. It's not the normal mainstream political discussion around here, but major Lefty on Lefty social media infighting, complete with a hostage-style apology video, slowly closing in on Commie-retard Hasan Piker, is too juicy to pass up!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)

131 116 And let's face it. Sometimes the football team NEEDS to gang-stomp the nerdy kid, so he doesn't turn gay.

*raises hand* I'm the nerdy kid who broke the bully's nose in 8th grade. Also a valuable lesson for both of us.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 02:53 PM (2ocoG)

None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

It was always the jocks and the rich kids. And weirdly enough, some of the stoners.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (UnA8+)

132 I know that inflation has been general but, it still boggles my mind that the educational full load that I paid about a thousand dollars per semester for in the 1970s at our premier state school is now north of $7K, excluding fees and books.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (jc0TO)

133 Maybe Pell Grants and Student Loans need to go byebye?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (ynBxV)

134 This, I think, is why NIH is breaking with Springer, and planning to publish science research papers on their own.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)

135 A small elementary school in a red part of NJ is having a controversy over Linda McMahon visiting to celebrate Aermica's 250th anniversary. All schools are hard left.

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (ycr1e)

136 I gather that "autoethnographic" means "Let's talk about me, which by definition I can not be wrong about or disproven." I.e. the exact opposite of research and science.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (3nLb4)

137 Spaceballs 2 is in production....

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (YwEeS)

138 75 Wasn't it said yesterday that 42% of university students are considered handicap or special needs?
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 02:39 PM (IifOV)
++++
No.

A large percentage - and yeah, approaching half in some schools - *claim* a disability, and many disabilities cannot be disproven. "Disability" means an easier time, and you cannot create an incentive like that without expecting people to figure it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2025 02:47 PM (yjAVs)

Yes, it's the way white and Asian kids on the 2nd level of intellect compete with the top level, b/c they'd have no other way in.

I am against all of that for my kids b/c while you may get in to the "better" college, you still have to eventually get a job. And 22 with little experience AND a claimed disability is asking to never get hired. B/c you're not just a little problem (which all 22 year olds are), but now a bigger problem.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (tOcjL)

139 "Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.

I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (77rzZ)

140 In the ‘70’s and 80’s when tuition was reasonable it made sense.

Also, relatively few people had graduated college in the '70s and '80s, so you were part of a small group, even if you had majored in an esoteric subject.

Now, that we have successfully encouraged many more people to graduate from "college", albeit generally in useless majors, being a college grad is no longer much of a mark of distinction.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (xTIDn)

141 The grand children of Diogenes know that the best solution to bullying is a solid right hook (except for lefty grandson) and/or a swift kick to the nads. I will support them in any fallout from said action.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (2WIwB)

I told all my RE kids that if anyone touched them inappropriately they should scream bloody murder and kick 'em in the ding-ding. I even had them do the screaming so they would know what to do.

Works equally well for bullies, of course.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc88)

142 JD Vance
·
Dec 4, 2025
@JDVance
·
Follow
Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
Preston Byrne

X should just cut off all EU customers from sending tweets. That should fix that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)

143 I guess I technically have "crip guts" after my bowel resection surgery a decade or so ago.

I don't go publishing autoethnographic studies about it in academic journals, though.

Maybe I should.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (ESVrU)

144 So, the queer pooper paper is saying they is full of shit they can't keep it in.

How refreshingly honest in a scientific paper, nowadays.

Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (ILu3z)

145 "anti bullying" was the foot in the door for all things gay; the gay activist groups jumped on that in the 90s, and the govt schools entered into the public/private partnership that ended up here.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (enw9G)

146 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

INBOX: The African-Centered College Preparatory Academy (
@kcpublicschools
) in Missouri was captured apparently hanging the American flag upside down outside their campus.

Extremely disturbing and disrespectful.

We contacted the school for an explanation but they declined to comment.

You can contact them here: askthesupt@kcpublicschools.org

https://tinyurl.com/22ys4zvt

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (NpAcC)

147 @128

>>You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

I never went in for those all-in-one jammies.

Nope just a top loading Magnavox for me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XV/Pl)

148 I usually see this chalked up to economic considerations, but I don't really buy it. "

A generation going thru "kids is hard" training in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy paid off...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XuXeR)

149 Math Transgender Studies

-------------

"The transitive property of equality" hardest hit ...
Poste

-------------

Not to mention "imaginary numbers."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (xEX9H)

And inverse operations.

And non-Euclidean geometry.

Pfffffft.

Posted by: The Reciprocal Lattice aka k-space at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (Riz8t)

150 The first time I can recall the push for "everyone must go to college" was the Bill Clinton administration

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (YwEeS)

151 I've always viewed the "anti-bullying" efforts as a means to prevent kids from standing up for themselves. "

This. X 10,000. It's only about "respect mu authority "

Anti bullying campaigns are crap.
==
The adminstration has a monopoly on authorah ta! We decide what is good. We decide what is bad. You peons will wait to hear from us before you do or say anything.

----- Principle Skinner

Posted by: Training starts early at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (h+S+G)

152 Spaceballs 2 is in production....
------

That sounds....terrible. And about as relevant as Spinal Tap 2. If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (TN0g+)

153 I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog. - Bulg

Absolutely correct.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (mADJX)

154 136 I gather that "autoethnographic" means "Let's talk about me, which by definition I can not be wrong about or disproven." I.e. the exact opposite of research and science.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 02:56 PM (3nLb4)

an ethny of one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (JwNbV)

155 148 I usually see this chalked up to economic considerations, but I don't really buy it. "

A generation going thru "kids is hard" training in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy paid off...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (XuXeR)

They just didn't want to stop drinking and smoking weed.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)

156 I told all my RE kids that if anyone touched them inappropriately they should scream bloody murder and kick 'em in the ding-ding. I even had them do the screaming so they would know what to do.

Works equally well for bullies, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc8

Ha!
Excellent!

But all the 'rons on this thread just crossed their legs.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (2WIwB)

157 RIP Frank Gehry, Master Of Giant Eyesores.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (GHIyr)

158 Are they going to race and gender swap everyone and make it fake and ghey?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (ynBxV)

159 SO full of...

Posted by: GWB at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (ILu3z)

160 first time I can recall the push for "everyone must go to college" was the Bill Clinton administration
==
It was cultural before that, but he basically turned it into anyone can get money easily.

Posted by: Clenis at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (h+S+G)

161 I was an engineering student at UH in the 80s when they started adding weird shit to our schedules. They inserted cultural heritage and other crap. Civil eng. got picked on for demanding 146 hours when other schools were requiring much less.
They dropped surveying to a single class, no drafting after I left. I wonder what it's like now.

Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (8uzBS)

162 None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

It was always the jocks and the rich kids. And weirdly enough, some of the stoners.

In my case the bully was a completely average looking kid who just was wired wrong. I actually got along with the jocks because I could speak fluent baseball.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

163 The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman --

My mom passed away in 2017 at 77 yrs of age.

Do you know the one thing she NEVER had to have checked?

Yeah. Her prostate. F that cross dressing faggot.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (9bIJg)

164 If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.
Posted by: Crusader

It's been longer than that. Spaceballs came out in the 80s when I was in college.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

165 X should just cut off all EU customers from sending tweets. That should fix that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM

While simultaneously adding a Tor based VPN on the page, like Brave does on their browser, or even offering their own VPNed app.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (jc0TO)

166 being a college grad is no longer much of a mark of distinction."

Once upon a time that was High School. Not everyone graduated...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM (XuXeR)

167 Investigative Reporter/Citizen Journalist, Bob Cushman, has just released an FEC data analysis that strongly suggests that Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Chrissy Houlahan, and Maggie Goodlander have been recipients of illegally laundered campaign funds.

In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (RHGPo)

168 Are we going to have a post about Ethan Klein destroying Kacytron at some point. It's not the normal mainstream political discussion around here, but major Lefty on Lefty social media infighting, complete with a hostage-style apology video, slowly closing in on Commie-retard Hasan Piker, is too juicy to pass up!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)

I think Piker has dodged a legal attack at this point, which is why Ethan has gone for the orbiters who proudly proclaimed they were trying to steal his content to hurt his income . But these orbiters are getting crushed, and perhaps some of his closer associates may get it in the crossfire after that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

169 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?

Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)

170 I went to college in 1988. By then, it was considered 'expected' to go to college for most kids (this is in small town Iowa). So this was brewing for a while.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

171 "Stand up to bullies" does not mean stand up to the bully. It means internalize the system of passive aggressive sucking-up to authority and establishing your own clique that can go around and bully with impunity with the explicit blessing of all the gross chomos and diddy-kiddlers who "administrate" the place.

Backed, in turn, by the full force of city and county government.

...

But I repeat myself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (JwNbV)

172 Jake Tapper > Brian Stelter

Posted by: Jake T. at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

173 They dropped surveying to a single class, no drafting after I left. I wonder what it's like now."

Engineering? Well, there was this bridge in Florida...

Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (XuXeR)

174 156 I told all my RE kids that if anyone touched them inappropriately they should scream bloody murder and kick 'em in the ding-ding. I even had them do the screaming so they would know what to do.

Works equally well for bullies, of course.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc8

That's my purse! I don't know you!!

Posted by: Bobby Hill at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (PiwSw)

175 Any classes on the wisdom of business HR having wine on tap and girls in short skirts doing no work at high salaries? Or how blaming unhappy customers in a service industry is kinda dumb?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (8avO+)

He said business, not adulting.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (dK+Kv)

176 1 . Stop funding NGOs
2 . Make student loan discharges the burden of the unis
3 . Investigate & prosecute Student Life programs for discrimination and civil rights violations.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (mlg/3)

177 169 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?
Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)

Someone out there ain't gonna like it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

178 145 "anti bullying" was the foot in the door for all things gay; the gay activist groups jumped on that in the 90s, and the govt schools entered into the public/private partnership that ended up here.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (enw9G)

Yes, bullying and shame worked. The gay gestapo also didn't want people talking about the truth of the gay lifestyle, they only were supposed to talk about love.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (vZUXb)

179 @165

>>While simultaneously adding a Tor based VPN on the page, like Brave does on their browser, or even offering their own VPNed app.

Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (XV/Pl)

180 We did some drafting in Industrial Arts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (ynBxV)

181 Does Ace have something that posts threads automatically, without his having to be present?

Or does he have minions for that?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

182 X should just cut off all EU customers from sending tweets. That should fix that.

Australia is going to ban kids under 16 from using "social media".

X will be banned, but Bluesky won't be.

Of course, the real purpose of imposing age restrictions on the internet is to eliminate anonymity - since you'll have to identify yourself to prove that you are over the minimum required age.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (xTIDn)

183 You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

Was Quasar actually advertised that way? They were actually made by Panasonic.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (2ocoG)

184 177 169 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?
Posted by: Random lyrics to tangential jokes made in specious relation to actual topic at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (+BcZI)

Someone out there ain't gonna like it
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

It's the one thing...

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (vZUXb)

185 45 40 Also, to be far, we've known since the 80's that words are weapons, sharper than knives. It makes you wonder how the other half dies....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (xcxpd)

We should have listened like thieves.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (dK+Kv)

Dream on, white boy.

Guns in the sky...?

Don't Change for you...

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (TN0g+)

186 Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make them ki11 you.

Posted by: tjpruett at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (BqMly)

187 Does Ace have something that posts threads automatically, without his having to be present?

Or does he have minions for that?

Autopen

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (Riz8t)

188 being a college grad is no longer much of a mark of distinction."

Once upon a time that was High School. Not everyone graduated...
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 03:00 PM

Average BA degree today is probably worth less than a HS diploma from the '40s or earlier.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

189 None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

Had one in 9th grade. He was an ass, but it turned out he and I were the best players in PE dodgeball. Always on different teams. There developed a grudging admiration, and he never messed with me throughout high school.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)

190 181 Does Ace have something that posts threads automatically, without his having to be present?

Or does he have minions for that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

He probably has posts written and then queued up to publish every couple of hours. I know Wordpress can do that, I expect Pixy can too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (xcxpd)

191 Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM

I think it is fine for this. If Britain or the EU proves that they are hacking Tor by prosecuting someone, that would be a good thing to know.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (jc0TO)

192 Any classes on the wisdom of business HR having wine on tap and girls in short skirts doing no work at high salaries?

It worked great for Twitter until it didn't.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

193 If you are over 16 you will have to prove it. No anonymous internet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (ynBxV)

194 157 RIP Frank Gehry, Master Of Giant Eyesores.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (GHIyr)

Dude came to my architecture school and gave a lecture about how great he was. Didn't want to answer questions, of course. Figured he was above all that.

In my experience, most of these big shot architects don't bother doing any actual design work, and certainly no production work. They are glory hounds, is all.

I worked for a guy in Chicago who was second banana to Helmut Jahn for a time. Helmut scribbled something on a napkin and then handed it to John for him to make an actual building out of it. John finally figured he could do better on his own, so he left. Was one of my best bosses ever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (6Bc88)

195 They just didn't want to stop drinking and smoking weed.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:59 PM (UnA8+)

They're animals anyway. Let them lose their souls.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)

196 Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option.

So is Ghidra, but it's still incredibly useful.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

197 I might have mentioned this here before. I can't remember. BUT, one of the things I plan to do when I retire is take college courses at local universities. There are quite a few around here.

I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.

I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)

198 You really need to get a Quasar...by Motorola.

Was Quasar actually advertised that way? They were actually made by Panasonic.
Posted by: Ian S.

The iconic quasi-jingle said Motorola.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)

199 I mean, don't plan a revolution on Tor, but commenting on X calling your Prime Minister a Moslem monkey should be okay.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (jc0TO)

200 Wait... so the paper was about their shit being all fucked up?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (n5tGW)

201
Best Architect?

Mr. Brady

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (O2XQw)

202 Spaceballs 2 is in production....
------

That sounds....terrible. And about as relevant as Spinal Tap 2. If a decade goes by before a "sequel" comes out...its not a sequel in my book. Just go remake the thing and tell a different story.
Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:58 PM (TN0g+)

We already have web critics who ruthlessly mock Star Wars drivel - with more content by far than the entire original movie. Affectionate mocking is really off the table.

An the crisis behind the whole thing is that movie studios have nearly forgotten how to sustain a big movie or long running television product and satisfy fans.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (8avO+)

203 Average BA degree today is probably worth less than a HS diploma from the '40s or earlier.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

Can't become a registered architect without a professional degree, which means a BS or MArch. BA means nothing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (6Bc88)

204 180 We did some drafting in Industrial Arts.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:02 PM (ynBxV)

Electrical Engineering major, some,...umm, "few"...years ago and drafting was required regardless of engineering major. I'm wondering why....???? Ten years later, I'm designing a data center in AutoCAD. Oh, now I know!

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (e/Osv)

205 The tranny wanted to know how society viewed gender.

The (extremely hot, btw) student correctly answered that most people including her, viewed gender through a traditional lens.

Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.

Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (oraVG)

206 CaliGirl, in dear ole Loudoun VA, one "anti bullying" exercise back around the millennium had the kids role-play as gay and ask each other out, so they could see how it feels to be a bullied as a gay kid.

Even if they were in the session for being bullied about their weight, or their skin, or .....

Because only gay kids are bullied, right?

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (enw9G)

207 In the initial investigation, Cushman cites 22 Smurf examples that have “allegedly” contributed almost three million dollars in more than 95,000 separate donations to Democratic coffers.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (RHGPo)

They should put Cuellar and Santos in charge of the investigations

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (rbvCR)

208
The awful "Brady Reunion" was, when, in 1980?

Mr. Brady shows up with a fucking perm. What a fag.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (O2XQw)

209 'Nature' publication is insane. One has to turn off his rational brain or read it as a parody of a psychedelic psychotic episode.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (SZI4T)

210 201
Best Architect?

Mr. Brady

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (O2XQw)

He was a fag, so I guess his shit was all retarded.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (6Bc88)

211 168 Are we going to have a post about Ethan Klein destroying Kacytron at some point. It's not the normal mainstream political discussion around here, but major Lefty on Lefty social media infighting, complete with a hostage-style apology video, slowly closing in on Commie-retard Hasan Piker, is too juicy to pass up!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:55 PM (JCZqz)

I think Piker has dodged a legal attack at this point, which is why Ethan has gone for the orbiters who proudly proclaimed they were trying to steal his content to hurt his income . But these orbiters are getting crushed, and perhaps some of his closer associates may get it in the crossfire after that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

I just want to see him take down that nasty Islamic Land Whale, Frogun.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)

212 Best aerospace engineer?

Steve Douglas.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)

213 I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.

I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)

They'll just toss you out and keep your money.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)

214 I went to college in 1988. By then, it was considered 'expected' to go to college for most kids (this is in small town Iowa). So this was brewing for a while.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:01 PM (xcxpd)

Unless my memory is bad I think you and I compared notes in these gray boxes a few years ago and decided we might’ve been contemporaries at ISU in Ames in the 80s? I was there then….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (+kWhq)

215 Mr Brady kept using the blueprints for his house in every job that came in those TV movies.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (ynBxV)

216 Best Architect?

Mr. Brady

Posted by: Soothsayer

That poofter? No, Steve Douglas!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

217 Crip guts sounds like something you'd find on the ground after a gang fight with the Bloods.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (pkeXY)

218 197 I might have mentioned this here before. I can't remember. BUT, one of the things I plan to do when I retire is take college courses at local universities. There are quite a few around here.

I plan on signing up for some of the most liberal sounding courses that are offered... (the usual Urban Studies, Gender Studies, etc) Then, without breaking any of the school's established behaviorial policies, I am going to be an absolute nightmare for the professor. I will question all undocumented statements. I will offer alternative common sense answers and make it his/her job to prove me wrong.

I have no skin in the game concerning grades. And, from a indoctrinating professor, that is very, very dangerous to the agenda. I thought my wife would tell me I'm being immature. But, no. She wants to participate.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (dIske)

I also plan on doing that if I make it that long b/c it's free for seniors here...so why not stay up to date on what the kids are learning and "help" the prof...I was planning on law classes - had con law and business law in school, so figure I could refresh all that and help other understand the law

...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (tOcjL)

219 "Helmut scribbled something on a napkin and then handed it to John for him to make an actual building out of it."

There's a doc about Gehry. He did an hour of 'work' pasting together a rando paper construction, then handed it off to henchmen to finish the crime for him.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (GHIyr)

220 I just want to see him take down that nasty Islamic Land Whale, Frogun.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (UnA8+)

Word on the street is she's the next to settle and read out her prepared statement and turn evidence on the thugs.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (8avO+)

221 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

222 OT, but I'm super pissed at Steven Crowder. Jillian Michaels expressed concern that the right isn't formally denouncing antisemitic Nazi-curious troll Nick Fuentes. Crowder blasted her for that, said the right doesn't DO that.

(Actually we do...William Buckley expelled the Birchers, IIRC.)

Then Crowder said, since Jillian is still new to being on the right, she needs to sit down, shut up, and let the men talk, and in a few years she can express her feelings about things. (He even quoted the biblical scripture about women not speaking in the NT, totally not understanding the context for WHY the NT says that, based on the pagan female worship in that area at the time.)

And right after blasting her, HE platformed Nick Fuentes on his show this week.

I LIKE a bunch of the new crop of moderate dems that found in the Trump era, there's no place for them in the democrat party anymore: Tulsi, Dave Rubin, Jillian, etc. Time will tell if they are true believers or grifters, sure. But who is Crowder to be the thought police?

I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

223 200 Wait... so the paper was about their shit being all fucked up?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (n5tGW)

I don’t see how anyone can say that paper is scientifically significant unless it address that affect that them talking like a fag also has on the data.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (5T6VE)

224 He probably has posts written and then queued up to publish every couple of hours. I know Wordpress can do that, I expect Pixy can too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (xcxpd)
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Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (ESVrU)

225 The tranny wanted to know how society viewed gender.

I view it like the medical community does.
When you present to an ob/gyn about ovary issues and the doctor sees your dick...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (9bIJg)

226 Engineering? Well, there was this bridge in Florida...

I was told that same company designed the second span of the Harris County Toll Road over the Houston Ship Channel. Toll Road Authority was so impressed by the design they declared they would replace the first bridge to match the newer design once it was completed.

About halfway into the new bridge that Florida mayhap occurred. HCTRA cancelled the construction immediately. I believe they went back to the drawing board.

Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (8uzBS)

227 So, I glanced at the sidebar and saw the bamboo stuff.

I have a theory.

The writer is obsessed with telling a stupid story and including bamboo.

Don't panda's eat bamboo? They secretly want to have sex with a panda.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

228 Best Architect?

Mr. Brady
------

He had to be a great architect--his company flew him and his family to that amusement park where the kids lost his plans. And I think his company flew the entire gang to Hawaii as well.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (TN0g+)

229 They'll just toss you out and keep your money.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
_______________________

They'd have to show cause. And, I have nothing to lose. If I comply with their policies, they're going to have a hard time tossing me. And, to be honest, that might be my goal in the first place. Easier to make a lot more noise that way.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (dIske)

230 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

The Issue is never the issue.

~~The Revolution~~ The Followers is always the issue.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (JwNbV)

231 The (extremely hot, btw) student correctly answered that most people including her, viewed gender through a traditional lens.

Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.

Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.

There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way. She is. She really, really is.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (Riz8t)

232 An the crisis behind the whole thing is that movie studios have nearly forgotten how to sustain a big movie or long running television product and satisfy fans.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (8avO+)

They have largely forgotten the art of film-making, of character development, of set-building and cinematography, of story-telling. They have been replaced by cookie-cutter woke, DEI, CGI.

Getting it back now is like finding the Atochia or the Ark.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)

233 'Nature' publication is insane. One has to turn off his rational brain or read it as a parody of a psychedelic psychotic episode.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 03:06 PM (SZI4T)

Nature has been bad for a long time, like a generation. And we don't mention Unscientific Unamerican.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (8avO+)

234 189 None of my schools had the stereotypical fat loudmouth bully.

Had one in 9th grade. He was an ass, but it turned out he and I were the best players in PE dodgeball. Always on different teams. There developed a grudging admiration, and he never messed with me throughout high school.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)

One of the stoner bullies in my high school ultimately ended up robbing a bank, getting caught because he went on some TV show while he was still on the run, and hung himself in prison.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (UnA8+)

235 K9 got bitten by a rattlesnake

gets dustoff to emergency vet

survives

https://x.com/RealSpitfire/status/
1996778957199249792

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (ZxPkt)

236 William Buckley expelled the Birchers, IIRC.

People say that a lot but I don't know what they mean by that. He did manage to persuade people, by speech, that they were not a good element in the Conservative movement.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (jc0TO)

237 Let me explain just how mentally insane this "crip[ guts" individual is. Have a seat. Pull up a well formed stool and listen up...

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (/iMjX)

238 Hey teacher! Leave them kids alone.

Posted by: The cycle continues at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (D+nng)

239 Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I wonder if a program could be written to imitate a human finger pressing "post".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)

240 At many universities (including Cal), students can actually devise their own courses, and then teach them.

99% of these student use the opportunity to concoct some woke garbage about anal sex and Barbie dolls, or whatever, but I'd like to device a class titled,

"Why are you so ugly? Why transgender morlocks will never "pass" in a nation of hot chicks."

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (oraVG)

241
Quick, best ad agency executive?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (O2XQw)

242 States should consider permitting high school grads to teach in elementary schools.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (rJ48h)

243 I sense the start of a new radical movement...

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (/iMjX)

244 Am I the only one that thinks Fulnecky sounds like a dirty word?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (5T6VE)

245 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

What he did is idiotic… I heard the name Crowder but I’ve never watched/listened to him. He needs to read how to win friends and influence people

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (+kWhq)

246 Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (ESVrU)

Tentatively scheduled for Minx 0.9 beta. Swearsies.

Posted by: The Hampsters at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (PiwSw)

247 239 Unlike WordPress, Minx 0.8 beta can't auto-post based on timestamps. It would make a lot of our COB jobs a lot easier if it could...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

======

I have had to, more than once, reach out to fellow COBs and ask them to post my thread when I was unavailable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

248 Professional Carnival Barkers are every bit as envious of their living as a union pipefitter or a public school "educator".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (JwNbV)

249 "Tor is the creation of the CIA/NSA, that's not really a good option."

Tor and all VPNs are honeypots for illicit posts. They're useful for getting to websites you might not be able to access otherwise, but it's really stupid to try to post illegal crap or do illegal business with them. Those are the very first places that the authorities look for bad stuff.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (GHIyr)

250
survives

https://x.com/RealSpitfire/status/
1996778957199249792
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (ZxPkt)

Ugh....why did they have to accompany the video with one of the worst songs ever recorded?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

251 219 "Helmut scribbled something on a napkin and then handed it to John for him to make an actual building out of it."

There's a doc about Gehry. He did an hour of 'work' pasting together a rando paper construction, then handed it off to henchmen to finish the crime for him.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (GHIyr)

There are real architects, who not only do the designs people want but also produce the documents and do the field work to be sure what gets built was what was designed.

Then there are the "design-y guys" who think they are God's gift to the world and toss off impossible sketches, and then hog the glory because they are so esoterically elite.

But dudes, it isn't a building without a toilet. And if the roof collapses, it isn't a building, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (6Bc88)

252 Also from Nature.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
"In April 2024, the prestigious journal Nature released a study finding that climate change would cause far more economic damage by the end of the century than previous estimates had suggested...

On Wednesday, Nature retracted it."

-
It was pure Demoshit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (L/fGl)

253 Laugh now, but that homo just shit his way to a PHD.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (5T6VE)

254 222 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)

255 244 Am I the only one that thinks Fulnecky sounds like a dirty word?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (5T6VE)

Confucius say, woman who do too much deepthroaty get Fulnecky.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (JwNbV)

256 The bamboo sidebar post is fire

Posted by: Corona_Exile at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (UqsCH)

257 Quick, best ad agency executive?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

258 200 Warren Zevon would like to have a chat...

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (Q0yOR)

259 I wonder if a program could be written to imitate a human finger pressing "post".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)
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I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

260 >Quick, best ad agency executive?
----

Larry Tate

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)

261 We got snow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)

262 They'll just toss you out and keep your money.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
_______________________

They'd have to show cause. And, I have nothing to lose. If I comply with their policies, they're going to have a hard time tossing me. And, to be honest, that might be my goal in the first place. Easier to make a lot more noise that way.
Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:09 PM (dIske)

Republican speakers have been repeatedly driven out for a decade. Just saying.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (8avO+)

263 222
‘ But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.’

More than that it’s foolish. Who the hell want s to be talked to like that? I hope she finds another venue if that’s the shit Crowder is pulling.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (jbnUc)

264 There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM

I thought that kind of hard-hitting Commentator journalism was reserved for the ONT?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (0sNs1)

265 Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM

Darrin was an ideas man.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (jc0TO)

266
Nature?
Nature ain't no Field & Stream.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (cPNKV)

267 Did the man charged with planting pipe bombs found near the Republican and Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, sue the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security over illegal immigration? No, that's not true: Legal disputes referenced in a Daily Wire article making that claim confused suspect Brian Cole Jr. with his father Brian Cole Sr. It also misrepresented the nature of the legal disputes, which did not involve illegal immigration policies and were separated by several years from the pipe bomb discovery.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (RHGPo)

268 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (I1wnM)

269 I wonder if a program could be written to imitate a human finger pressing "post".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:10 PM (9bIJg)
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I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

One of my cats has managed to rename a desktop icon by walking on the keyboard. More than I can do.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (8avO+)

270 Shut up, dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)

271 Quick, best ad agency executive?
----

Larry Tate
Posted by: Don Black

Don Draper.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (9bIJg)

272 I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

Put some tape over the "delete" button.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (dK+Kv)

273 242 States should consider permitting high school grads to teach in elementary schools.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 03:11 PM (rJ48h)

You know what you need to know to teach 3rd grade math? 4th grade math.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (6Bc88)

274 Don Draper.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM

I'd trust Don to move my cigarette brand.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (jc0TO)

275 >> One of my cats has managed to rename a desktop icon by walking on the keyboard. More than I can do.

Same here. One of the cats has found some very arcane keyboard shortcuts I had no idea existed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (w6EFb)

276 Orson, that sounds amazing! Godspeed to you and your wife.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (Eng1Z)

277 But dudes, it isn't a building without a toilet. And if the roof collapses, it isn't a building, either.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (6Bc8

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I teach a class in a computer lab that's also used by architectural engineering students. There's a poster showing the design of some sort of sustainable apartment. But it's missing at least a couple of key features: 1) A kitchen area where food can be prepared and 2) A utility closet for the water heater and HVAC system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (ESVrU)

278 Put some tape over the "delete" button.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM

Glue her paw to the enter key.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (jc0TO)

279 Quick, best ad agency executive?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Durwood Stephens? I don't think he was an executive, just a worker bee. Larry Tate was the executive, since his name was on the firm.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

Darrin got all the top assignments though, so he was their best creative guy.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

280 I think there was one ep of Bewitched where Larry Tate's partner McMahon showed up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (77rzZ)

281 275 Cat-testing is an essential stage in software quality assurance.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (GHIyr)

282 139 "Hello my baby, Hello my Honey, hello my ragtime gal! Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart's on fire!"
Posted by: man at December 05, 2025 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

Mel Brooks is/was a FREAKING GENIUS, shame that he probably couldn't make ANY of his movies today.

I thought that was Chuck Jones. Michigan J. Frog.

From Wikipedia:
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD credits Frog's original singing vocals to Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles in the 1950s who had also done voice work for the 1948 MGM cartoon Little 'Tinker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_J._Frog

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (X5qGl)

283 >>> in Missouri was captured apparently hanging the American flag upside down outside their campus.

I forgot to mention this in the Somalia thread...they redid the MN state flag, and it looks almost EXACTLY like the Somalia flag.

Coincidence? That state?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (Eng1Z)

284 You know what you need to know to teach 3rd grade math? 4th grade math.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (6Bc8

Woo Hoo!

Posted by: Jethro Bodine, future math teacher at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (PiwSw)

285 Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."
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I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".

There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.

However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.

"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

286 Unless my memory is bad I think you and I compared notes in these gray boxes a few years ago and decided we might’ve been contemporaries at ISU in Ames in the 80s? I was there then….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:07 PM (+kWhq)

I was at ISU in Ames in the early 90s. I should've bought one of the "Ames in Flames" T-shirts from the VEISHEA riots before they were banned.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

287 I wish more people would quote the Quran. The public would put up with a lot loss bullshit from the Muslims if they knew what those lunatics actually believe.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)

288
Um, I'm pretty sure Darren Stephens and his secretary were the only two employees at McMahon & Tate.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (cPNKV)

289 "Quick, best ad agency executive?"

Dale Carnegie.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (GHIyr)

290 Frank Gehry has died. His crypt will be the ugliest in the cemetery

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (bfwj/)

291 231 The (extremely hot, btw) student correctly answered that most people including her, viewed gender through a traditional lens.

Even if the tranny didn't like that fact, it is unarguably correct.

Real reason for the 0/25 grade: jealousy. The tranny is ugly, the student is beuatiful.

There's no picture in the article, so I checked your work because I'm thorough that way. She is. She really, really is.
Posted by: Archimedes

For the curious:

Samantha Fulnecky:

https://x.com/IrishStarUS/status/1996014011041665035

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ samantha-fulnecky-claims-university-oklahoma-only-responded -her-zero-grade-essay-complaint-due-1759807

Scorching.

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (oraVG)

292 Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 03:04 PM (2WIwB)
______________________

I was a big kid in school. 6'6" about 200lb. I developed a reputation for being the kid someone talked to when someone was getting a little out of line. I might have stuffed a trouble maker (who had a reputation for being a real dick) in a locker after he smacked someone in front o me. I, also, might have turned around and been surprised by the Superintendent of Schools standing behind me when I turned around from that endeavor....who very calmly looked at me, the kid half in the locker and said, "Everything alright here?" before continuing down the hall. He knew the kid in the locker was a problem, and figured this was a good learning experience for him. I got no punishment from that.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (dIske)

293 Damn. I think I want another post about Christmas Carols.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (GD2xa)

294 The real tragedy here is that a "graduate instructor" was teaching college classes. How much are these students paying for this education? They should at least get real professors, not DEI tranny freaks who are barely older than they are.

And this is in ... Oklahoma. Reddest of red states.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:18 PM (iFTx/)

295 Darrin got all the top assignments though, so he was their best creative guy.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

Darrin won all the big accounts with the help of his wife’s twitchy nose. He claimed to hate the Magic but it always seemed to end up helping him

BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (OW907)

296
I like how this fuckface (above) runs over here from Reddit and thinks he's got us.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)

297 I teach a class in a computer lab that's also used by architectural engineering students. There's a poster showing the design of some sort of sustainable apartment. But it's missing at least a couple of key features: 1) A kitchen area where food can be prepared and 2) A utility closet for the water heater and HVAC system.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (ESVrU)

Design in school is flights of fancy, but hopefully the work makes the students know how to think.

Real design doesn't happen until OTJ training. That's where the reality of building science enters.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (6Bc88)

298
I was blown away when I was in college when I learned that professors, Ph.D's in the their subjects, could not teach that subject in the public school system. Why, you've got to have Edu degrees and all sorts of psycho-socio crap to do that. Totally blew me away, then a light bulb went off on what that really says about the educational system. It ain't about teaching kids knowledge.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (w6EFb)

299 I think there was one ep of Bewitched where Larry Tate's partner McMahon showed up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM

Played by Leon Ames.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

300 296
I like how this fuckface (above) runs over here from Reddit and thinks he's got us.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)

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I'm convinced he's from Delhi or something.

Nothing animates him more than stories about immigrants, especially those from the subcontinent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

301 285 I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".

There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.

However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.

"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (krQz2)

Even I got away with not doing an assignment, as assigned, once, by writing a note explaining why, the same length as the assignment had to be.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (UnA8+)

302 We got snow.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)

We've got bush!

Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

303 I saw Queer Stoma Pride play with The Indigo Girls at the Dinah Shore Pro Am in 1982.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (wGerL)

304 For the curious:

Samantha Fulnecky:

https://x.com/IrishStarUS/status/1996014011041665035

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ samantha-fulnecky-claims-university-oklahoma-only-responded -her-zero-grade-essay-complaint-due-1759807

Scorching.

Posted by: zombie

I think we have finally resolved the "Is zombie a dude or a chick?" question.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Riz8t)

305 The Michigan J. Frog reference was parodied in a scene from the movie Spaceballs starring John Hurt, who reprised his memorable scene from the movie Alien.

man's original riff at #108 stands.

Posted by: AoSHQ Unofficial Referee at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (PiwSw)

306 I've been trying to train one of my cats, but she's not very cooperative.

She can't quite figure out the difference between "post" and "delete."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ESVrU)

Put some tape over the "delete" button.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 03:15 PM (dK+Kv)

You need something firmer. I used to have a computer with a flush power button on the top and my cat jumped up there a time or so and powered down. I got an old DVD case and put it over the button. My new one has a button on a diagonal bit of plastic the cats don't walk on yet.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)

307 He knew the kid in the locker was a problem, and figured this was a good learning experience for him. I got no punishment from that.

When I broke the 8th grade bully's nose the principal and faculty put on a public display of "of course he'll be punished" and then ran into the office, closed the door, and laughed their asses off.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (2ocoG)

308 I wish more people would quote the Quran. The public would put up with a lot loss bullshit from the Muslims if they knew what those lunatics actually believe.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)

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Christian and Jewish multimillionaires should fund an educational advertising campaign along those lines.

From billboards to web ads ... and a within the first hour of those appearing, a District Clown Court Judge would likely ban it as "hate speech."

Win-Win?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (pTQH2)

309 I like how this fuckface (above) runs over here from Reddit and thinks he's got us.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (cPNKV)

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I'm convinced he's from Delhi or something.

Nothing animates him more than stories about immigrants, especially those from the subcontinent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
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Who?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

310 DNA is not empirical evidence. - some stupid professor

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (n5tGW)

311 i reject the colonial fake excuse.

Just say you are a nonperforming pussy.

We get it. We all get it. Sometimes i feel like a pussy.

But i don't change earth science and history.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (EyfuW)

312 309 Who?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

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Shit eater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

313 It's McMann & Tate, btw.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

314 I was at ISU in Ames in the early 90s. I should've bought one of the "Ames in Flames" T-shirts from the VEISHEA riots before they were banned.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

I was a student at ISU for the original VEISHA riot in 88. Years later after several similar “disturbances” when they eliminated VEISHA it made me sad…. So glad it was still around when I was there… 2-3 extra days in spring semester with no class!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (OW907)

315 We got snow.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 03:13 PM (ynBxV)

We've got bush!

Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

Oh Hair pie! Hair pie!

Posted by: Takashi at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (dK+Kv)

316 308 Christian and Jewish multimillionaires should fund an educational advertising campaign along those lines.

From billboards to web ads ... and a within the first hour of those appearing, a District Clown Court Judge would likely ban it as "hate speech."

Win-Win?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (pTQH2)

The Quran is just the start. There's even nastier shit in the Hadiths.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (UnA8+)

317 "I used to have a computer with a flush power button on the top"

I pry the power-off and hibernate keys off all my keyboards. No more hitting them by accident.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GHIyr)

318 More Samantha:

https://___-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/ tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RHBbn.___? w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

(remove spaces.)

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (oraVG)

319 Dang -- stupid pixy.

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (oraVG)

320
Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

Well, his initials are ASS, so......

Posted by: Booger at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

321
Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM

Crowder has always pinged the gaydar

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (tljrc)

322 BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

*fistbump*

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

323 Damn.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

324 @306 cover the keyboard with tin foil. Cats hate that stuff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (bfwj/)

325
The instructor, identified in university records as Mel Curth -- a biological male who identifies as a woman -- gave her zero out of 25 points

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His name was Curse, but he changed the spelling to incorporate his lisp.

This gratuitous drama was instigated by this weirdo for its own sake. He'd rather be the center of attention than have a paycheck.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (VWtfl)

326 Who?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

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Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh that perverted loser. I don't bother to look at any of his comments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

327 Try that again:

More Samantha:

https://im g-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/ tenant/amp/entityid/AA1RHBbn.im g?w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

(remove spaces.)

Posted by: zombie at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (oraVG)

328 Darrin got all the top assignments though, so he was their best creative guy.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)

Darrin won all the big accounts with the help of his wife’s twitchy nose. He claimed to hate the Magic but it always seemed to end up helping him

BTW… Samantha was HOT! Prime Elizabeth Montgomery yum
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:19 PM (OW907)

So you admit Darrin was pretty smart in a creative way by finding a witch to marry.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)

329 326
Shit eater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh that perverted loser. I don't bother to look at any of his comments.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:23 PM (iFTx/)

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He does tend to fixate on one thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

330
Speaking of the gaslighting idiots at Reddit...

Did you see this?

Supposed "air traffic controllers" on a reddit group are plotting "revenge?" Openly.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (cPNKV)

331 I have absolutely no recollection of John Hurt's being in Spaceballs.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

332 So you admit Darrin was pretty smart in a creative way by finding a witch to marry.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)

Yes! LoL

And he found a HOT witch to marry

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (OW907)

333 Speaking of the gaslighting idiots at Reddit...

Did you see this?

Supposed "air traffic controllers" on a reddit group are plotting "revenge?" Openly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (cPNKV)

Revenge on who for what?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

334 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)
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This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

335 How old was Samantha? How many "Darrins" had there been before and what happened to them?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)

336 So you admit Darrin was pretty smart in a creative way by finding a witch to marry.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:24 PM (8avO+)

Yes! LoL

And he found a HOT witch to marry
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Except, he didn't know she was a witch until after they were married. Samantha revealed it on their wedding night.

However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

337 I mean, I don't want to go all Skeleton Key on the lighthearted comedy Bewitched but, one has to wonder.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (jc0TO)

338 @331 he reprised one of his iconic scenes from Alien.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (WPL6O)

339 Bless Mel Brooks for plugging away, but I doubt Spaceballs 2 will be good, unless they assemble all the original cast. And Candy is dead. The two other guys that wrote Spaceballs with Brooks are dead. And Gene Wilder is gone as well, can't go to him to write a script like Young Frankenstein. Ah well.

Oh, I saw the new Guillermo del Toro version of Frankenstein and loved it! It hits home the themes so well, of the egotistical prometheus Frankenstein flying too close to the sun and failing, and was visually gorgeous and disturbing.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Eng1Z)

340 I wish more people would quote the Quran. The public would put up with a lot loss bullshit from the Muslims if they knew what those lunatics actually believe.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2025 03:17 PM (5T6VE)

there's some dude who used to show up on YT who is the son of a Hamas higher up and can do that chapter and verse to dumb sympathizer kids here. Not sure if he's been shadowbanned by the algorithm tho.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (8avO+)

341 This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

He did come off as a dick but if you record your spouse in an argument and you're the only one who knows you're recording you're gonna come out smelling like a rose so it was a shitty thing to do.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (RgYBC)

342 However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.

He feared being turned into a dung beetle?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (Riz8t)

343 334 I actually like the Dudebro conservative podcasts. But telling a new convert to shut up, and throw scripture at her, is NOT kind and is legit misogynistic.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:08 PM (Eng1Z)

Crowder has always been kind of shitty towards women.

He's also a freak that gets off on crossdressing whenever he can, and has been accused of putting his male employees in sexually compromising positions.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:12 PM (UnA8+)
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This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

So, what you're saying is, he now also needs the money, and is probably falling into full grifter land for the Uniparty...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (tOcjL)

344 1) Stoma is Greek for mouth. In medical terms for a pouch. Has nothing to do with assholes who are offended.

2) Orifice is the word they should be clinging to as they bang them open in evil methods.

3) Trans are evil and therefore demonic along with furries. It all started with the gheys and LBGQT recognition as a protected class.

I want to start a factory for millstones for pedos, trans, furries and now gheys of all stripe. I think there is a need for this.The millstones will be made of solid concrete and dipped in liquid manure, then secured to femurs with titanium. If they live they can drag them around until the better use in the lake of fire.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (WONhk)

345 Do the other witches consider Samantha marrying mortals a sexual kink?

I have many questions.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (jc0TO)

346 334 This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

That was him, yeah. Quite a few of his on-screen staffers left around the same time ("Not Gay" Jared, Quarter-Black Garrett, and Dave Landau).

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (UnA8+)

347 Except, he didn't know she was a witch until after they were married. Samantha revealed it on their wedding night.

However, once she had told him the truth, she gave him permission to divorce her if he wished. For obvious reasons, he decided against it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

suuuuuuuuuure he didn't know. Her ability to hide the odd things happening was pretty low in the show.

I'm telling you, he spotted her a mile off.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (8avO+)

348 Five frickin hours of Telemann:
youtube.com/watch?v=oGJoQsBDQ58

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (GHIyr)

349 NOOD DOJ lawsuit

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 03:31 PM (/HDaX)

350 This is the creep who was stupid enough to yell at his wife (?) in his backyard which he knew had surveillance cams? I think the wife set the fool up, but he was a total dick in the vid.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

He did come off as a dick but if you record your spouse in an argument and you're the only one who knows you're recording you're gonna come out smelling like a rose so it was a shitty thing to do.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 03:29 PM (RgYBC)
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It was his own surveillance camera pointed right into the area of the backyard where the two of them were

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

351

nooood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (cPNKV)

352 If I found out that my wife was a sorceress, I would wonder if my sexual stamina was all my own or a spell.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

353 Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive."
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I think there's a legitimate criticism that you can hold a student to "empirical evidence" standard, but it's silly to object that it's "offensive".

There are far more offensive things people can say about sex difference, like an Muslim, for example.

However, I would then need to examine what "empirical evidence" people holding other positions brought to the table.

"Yeah, it just seems society made it all up" (and yet it is some sort of innate fact about me how I "identify"), does not really apply as "empirical".
Posted by: Axeman

Here's where the faggot fucked up:

Curth reportedly dismissed her analysis outright, insisting she failed because she didn't use "empirical evidence" and labeling parts of her faith-based argument "offensive." Fulnecky pushed back, noting the prompt never required empirical sourcing and that university policy explicitly protects religious expression.

The class didn't require it. It was more of a "feels" instead of empirical data with footnotes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (9bIJg)

354 331 I have absolutely no recollection of John Hurt's being in Spaceballs.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

https://youtu.be/otJ2rXMuLno

Posted by: AoSHQ Unofficial Referee at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

355 331 I have absolutely no recollection of John Hurt's being in Spaceballs.
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Not again!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 05, 2025 03:32 PM (0bjKf)

356 How old was Samantha? How many "Darrins" had there been before and what happened to them?
Posted by: toby928(c)

There was an episode that sort of addressed Samantha's age. Endora, as usual, was trying to stir up trouble between them, and told Darrin how Samantha would age much more slowly than he, and would outlive him by a long time. When Darrin confronted Sam, she said that she would simply use her witchcraft to make herself look the same age as he as time went on. (Though what the problem would have been with her remaining her young and beautiful self eludes me.)

There was never any suggestion that Samantha had been married before, only that she had had prior warlock beaus, a few of whom turned up in the course of the series (egged on by Endora, of course).

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

357 Do the other witches consider Samantha marrying mortals a sexual kink?

I have many questions.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (jc0TO)

Not that I saw, more of a social stigma than anything else even the mother in law just calls him by the wrong name on purpose. Once a baby came even she was mollified.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (8avO+)

358 Pretending to require "empiric evidence" on a psychology assignment is laughable from the get go. It's psychology for crying out loud. A field of study based on feelings.

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (/iMjX)

359 Crowder was a dick when he had that stupid spat a couple years ago with The Daily Wire too.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)

360 It was cute the way Tabitha had to use her finger to twitch her nose. IIRC

Posted by: muldoon at December 05, 2025 03:34 PM (/iMjX)

361 There was never any suggestion that Samantha had been married before, only that she had had prior warlock beaus, a few of whom turned up in the course of the series (egged on by Endora, of course).
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (77rzZ)

I think there was some allusion to her (Samantha) being alive at the time of the Salem witch trials.

her mother's name implies that she is the biblical Witch of Endor from the old Testament.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (8avO+)

362 I LIKE a bunch of the new crop of moderate dems that found in the Trump era, there's no place for them in the democrat party anymore: Tulsi, Dave Rubin, Jillian, etc.

I like Dave Rubin, but I distrust him on the grounds of "gay couple adopting boys". I want him to be the exception to that pattern, but pattern recognition kept people alive for thousands of years.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2025 03:35 PM (2ocoG)

363 Crowder was a dick when he had that stupid spat a couple years ago with The Daily Wire too.
Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)

Not sure which side is being a dick in that confrontation. DW has its own history.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:36 PM (8avO+)

364 >>> So, what you're saying is, he now also needs the money, and is probably falling into full grifter land for the Uniparty... Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 03:30 PM (tOcjL)

I'm hearing whispers that the wheels are falling off a LOT of the conservative-ish media groups, due to falling numbers. Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Quaretering, Crowder...

A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Or something deeper?

But Megyn Kelly's media group empire seems to be growing still. And Adam Carolla's pirate ship keeps sailing smoothly. And Joe Rogan is Joe Rogan.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)

365 A lot of them hooked themselves to Rumble...is it a problem with Rumble not getting the eyeballs Youtube gets? Is it the political off-season? Gen Zers who voted Trump getting disillusioned by politics and tuning out? Or something deeper?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 03:37 PM (Eng1Z)

Rumble is usually resorted to because YT is already shadowbanning them out of profitability.

Not sure about Crowder but the Wire kinda repeated the mistake the MSM made. Bad side projects like movies, large staff not involved in making content, expensive studios.

I also think Gen Z was never getting its news from there.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 03:42 PM (8avO+)

366
The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.

By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (Vh9CX)

Student loans are mostly spent in the beer garden at the student union, cannabis dispensaries and liquor stores selling kegs just outside of the university grounds.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2025 03:47 PM (y9nCu)

367
The main problem is higher education is nothing like real life. It's basically a 4 to 6 year "lifestyle" resort party for most students.

By the time the students graduate, they've spent all their adult life in a fantasyland.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

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I'm way late to the thread, but have you visited a college campus lately? I went to 4 about 3 weeks ago (during the term) and they were practically graveyards. It was ridiculously easy to park. I think "distance learning" is still in effect in many places, and the happy, busy thing called "campus life" that many of us enjoyed is gone. For people entering college during the COVID era, the campus experience is walking across mostly-empty courtyards and wandering down empty hallways where all the doors are locked. Whole suites of offices locked off for security, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 03:59 PM (vPhiR)

368 Crowder was a dick when he had that stupid spat a couple years ago with The Daily Wire too.

Posted by: gp at December 05, 2025 03:33 PM (GHIyr)
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He actually had his points. DW was going to pay him based on his engagement on platforms like Youtube.

Crowder's point is that youtube had gone out of its way on numerous times to demonstrate that they don't want *honest conversation* unless all the words are approved.

It's funny watching all the people who have adapted to the "New Rules" of Youtube saying "self-delete" for suicide and "grape" because they can't say "rape".

It's like watching Die Hard on broadcast TV and hearing "Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-father".

Which the hip crowd for decades thought was so ridiculous. But decades later, you can't say a rape was a "rape" on Youtube. You can't say somebody "committed suicide". Because Youtube has become like the old censors arguing that you can't tell the difference between reference and promotion, apparently.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 04:02 PM (krQz2)

369 The author calls for "queer stoma pride," which celebrates "the leakiness of bodies which disrupt boundaries" and "requires more collective and relational modes of knowledge production which value embodied experiential knowledge, holistic healing, and reject the idea that normality is a neutral desirable location." It further "focuses on imaginings of alternative, more expansive bodily futures which foreground agency and a joyous plurality of bodies beyond category, refusing the idea that non-normative bodies are a site of unwantedness."

OK then

Posted by: javems at December 05, 2025 04:12 PM (8I4hW)

370 Why take on huge debt to be pummeled nonstop with identity politics?[/] Especially since the same can be achieved at merely the cost of CNN and MSNOW subscriptions.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 05, 2025 05:00 PM (bufu1)

371 105 Sidecar is a drink.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:46 PM (ynBxV)

Do NOT look up what a Philadelphia Sidecar is.

Don't and thank me now.

Posted by: Blanco at December 05, 2025 05:43 PM (q83gU)

372 Their no longer Universities they have become leftists indoctrination Centers and its time to totally cut off their allowance by 100%

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 06:51 PM (wGqjj)

Ilhan "Omar" Nur, Immigration Fraudster and America's Sweetheart, Just So Happeened to Have Ties with the Somali Pirates Behind the Biggest Theft of Taxpayer Funds in American History

Throw her in jail, then deport her.

US Rep. Ilhan Omar's close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered.
Omar (D-Minn.) held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted -- both for stealing millions.
Ilhan Omar, the far-left "Squad" congresswoman, has been eerily silent on the billion-dollar welfare fraud scheme that was centered in her Minnesota district.
Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.
"[Rep. Omar] knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars in this program," claimed Bill Glahn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, to The Post.

"She had been inside the [Safari] facility on numerous occasions and couldn't put 2 and 2 together? Either she's terminally naive, or knew and didn't care," Glahn added.
Around $250 million was handed out by the Minnesota government to provide meals to schoolchildren during the pandemic from 2020 onward.
Instead, it was pocketed by corrupt business owners, including Salim Ahmed Said. He's the co-owner of Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party.
Said was found guilty in August of stealing over $12 million for serving 3.9 million "phantom" meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He blew much of the money on a $2 million Minneapolis mansion and a $9,000-a-month shopping habit at Nordstrom, according to prosecutors.
Said ran a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day -- and pocketed $3.2 million from the food program.
Omar has not been directly linked to the scandal, according to prosecutorial documents. Her office did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.
The free meals were made possible by the 2020 MEALS Act, which was introduced by Omar and passed with bipartisan support.
Most of the money in Minneapolis was funneled through the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future.
It allowed both nonprofits and for-profit businesses to be reimbursed with taxpayer money for feeding kids by dramatically loosening oversight, waiving site inspections, and allowing bulk take-home food, with almost no verification.
...
In 2021, when Minnesota's Department of Education (MDE) flagged that organization for irregularities and "serious deficiencies" such as incomplete audits, a top aide to Omar, deputy district director Ali Isse, came rushing to their defense, in a newly resurfaced video.
He spoke at a gala praising the "vital work" of Feeding Our Families and blasted state agencies for asking too many questions.

"I'm tired of the MDE thing. How many more do we have to fight against?" the top Omar associate, who has not been indicted or directly linked to the fraud, said during the impassioned speech.
He also blamed the unwanted attention from authorities on racism and rallied the "community" to stick together. Isse did not immediately return The Post's request for comment.

Plot twist. Are you as surprised as I am?

Select your answer below:

"After Obama's staffer blame criticism of the Somali pirates and raiders on racism, I am...

A) "less surprised than Ace"

B) "more surprised than Ace"

C) "equally surprised as Ace"

D) "The Joe Bloggs Answer"

Whistleblowers have claimed the fear of being called racist meant government officials were reluctant to prosecute the scheme to its full extent early on.

It's almost as if killers, rapists, and thieves use the "Muh Racism" accusation to continue committing heinous crimes without punishment.

...
A different Omar campaign official, a Democratic activist named Guhaad Hashi Said, pleaded guilty in August to running a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day and pocketed $3.2 million out of the food program.
Said worked on Omar's 2018 and 2020 campaigns as an "enforcer" who oversaw aggressive voter mobilization in the Somali community, according to local Alphanews.org.
Somali immigrant Mukhtar Shariff was one of the 78 people to be convicted to date.
...
Omar and Said frequently attended events together. Numerous Facebook photos apparently shared by Said show him with Omar, including a smiling selfie together.
"This is a clan-based society, everybody knows everybody else and it's only open to those folks in that clan," Gaither said of the Somali immigrants.
Others receiving fraudulent money from the charity scam were donors to Omar's campaign.

A few months ago we learned that Ilhan "Omar" Nur's net worth had absolutely skyrocketed in the past few years.

C3
@C_3C_3
Dec 2
Ilhan Omar's net worth...
1995: Arrives in America in with 0 wealth.
2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million
Evil America and the white man must not be that bad.
29 years in America and Ilhan is now worth $30 million dollars.
What a scam.

She claims her wealth came from her "husband's" company or investments or some obvious bullshit like that. Given the timing of her explosion in wealth, let's just say I suspect a different source.

This isn't just an idle speculation. Somali pirates have "donated" -- paid in bribery -- $50,000+ to Democrat politicians for protection, and that's just the money reported in FEC filings.

Minnesota Democratic lawmakers, including the Attorney General, were handed over $53,000 in campaign contributions by fraudsters who ripped off taxpayer cash meant to feed children.
AG Keith Ellison, his councilman son, mayor Jacob Frey, Representative Ilhan Omar and others received cash from the scammers who siphoned off some $250 million, largely through nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Many did so after meeting the crooks, raising questions about how much they knew.
"I'm not here because I think it's going to help my re-election," Ellison said during an encounter with Somali business leaders, two of whom later became criminal defendants linked to the scandal, according to audio obtained by the Center of the American Experiment.

However, days after the December 11, 2021 meeting, Ellison's campaign took in $10,000 from the businessmen. Gandi Mohamed made a maximum $2,500 donation to Ellison's re-election campaign. He was indicted on federal bribery and fraud charges last year.
Three more $2,500 donations linked to Feeding Our Future were also accepted by Ellison's campaign on the same day.

President Trump delivered a blistering rebuke of Minnesota's Somali migrant community during a cabinet meeting Tuesday, arguing that those who "come from hell" should return home and rebuild their own country rather than "complain" about the United States. His remarks cut sharply against years of Democrat-backed refugee policies that brought nearly 100,000 Somali migrants to the state despite persistent concerns about crime, fraud, and cultural assimilation.
"They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch," Trump said, declaring, "We don't want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it." He described Somalia as a nation that "stinks" and has remained broken for decades, adding that its dysfunction is no accident: "Their country is no good for a reason."

.@POTUS tells it like it is about ungrateful Somali refugees amid the Minnesota fraud scandal:

"When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch � we don't want them in our country. Let 'em go back to where they came from and fix it." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/fuaAKP8VsW
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 2, 2025

Also related: Minneapolis' chief of police tells his Somali pirate constituents that if ICE attempts to arrest them, call 911, and the police will come to... openly make war on federal agents?

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O�Hara knows exactly what he�s doing and he should be held accountable for it. pic.twitter.com/dea0Gl0dwF
— Todd Pryll (@ttpryll) December 2, 2025

He says "intervene." Intervene how? By attempting a false arrest of federal agents? And when they draw weapons to stop the attempted kidnapping of them by lawless local police, what then?

BREAKING: MPD Police Chief O�Hara asks for forgiveness for exposing the reality of Somali criminal activity in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/SFkWW2ZSXy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 21, 2025

We cannot live like this.

Posted by: Ace at 01:20 PM

Comments

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1 Hola p

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (5IH8V)

2 BLADE IS FIRST UNTO THE BREACH

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

3 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (5IH8V)

4 Nuke Minneapolis/St. Paul. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (5yDGQ)

5 Uh, no, Blade.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (5IH8V)

6 Somalis are a perfect ethnic group to focus on, because they literally have no positive features that I've ever come across. Other Muslims complain about their clannish and scammy behavior. They aren't even smart or intimidating. If you study Afghan history, that nation is at least worthy of respect in the same way one respects a cobra or Stalin's NKVD.

Somalia was easily colonized by the same Italians who got their asses handed to them by Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)

7 Deport that nasty bitch

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (W2Pud)

8 Ilhan is probably almost as surprised as Ace to find out that the people she enabled to steal vast sums of money have stolen vast sums of money.

Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (98kQX)

9 Isn't it customary for pirates to hang from the neck until dead?

Posted by: Another Anon at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (4h45B)

10 Well well well.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (vFG9F)

11 6 Somalis are a perfect ethnic group to focus on, because they literally have no positive features that I've ever come across. Other Muslims complain about their clannish and scammy behavior. They aren't even smart or intimidating. If you study Afghan history, that nation is at least worthy of respect in the same way one respects a cobra or Stalin's NKVD.

Somalia was easily colonized by the same Italians who got their asses handed to them by Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)

Even other Black Africans hate them.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (UnA8+)

12 2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million

Those first few years are quite a turn around but it looks like Nancy Pelosi start sharing stock tips with her in 2023

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (sKqQm)

13 4 Nuke Minneapolis/St. Paul. It's the only way to be sure.
---------------------------
I used to listen to a lot of public radio (I'm a fan of classical music and opera). The Twin Cities is ground zero for the NPR mentality. They deserve to have Somalis in their midst. We wouldn't want to cut their suffering short with nukes. They should have to put up with the Somalis until they all get deported.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (Dg7ng)

14 7 Deport that nasty bitch
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (W2Pud)

Chief O’Hara, back to Dublin!!!

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (pDt9x)

15 Don’t knock Joe Bloggs, that guy got me through the SAT

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (vSl8l)

16 He also blamed the unwanted attention from authorities on racism

I shan't believe it! I shannot!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (Riz8t)

17 Remember the left is arguing right now its a good thing the Somalis are stealing all this money.

Why? It shows we right wing raycists are wrong...the Somalis are smart and entrepreneurial.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (sKqQm)

18 Damn - She must be getting her Stock Tips from Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (DeNdk)

19 E ) wondering if it's some type of weasel.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (n5tGW)

20 Bet anything she’s getting paid by the Leftist “ Foundations”.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (pDt9x)

21 Now you know why Minnesota and all its officials were so quick to fall on their knees to service these filthy Somali vermin. It wasn't just ideology. It was money.

A billion dollars disappeared in this scheme. Raise your hand if you think a bunch of that was kicked back to these officials in the form of campaign donations and outright bribes.

[The Blade raises both hands]

This is the old mafia play: payoff all the right people, and you can get away with anything including murder.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

22 D) "The Joe Bloggs Answer"

What is this?

(And here's my $20, same as in town.)

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

23 Also related: Minneapolis' chief of police tells his Somali pirate constituents that if ICE attempts to arrest them, call 911, and the police will come to... openly make war on federal agents?

Yeah, that may not go the way he thinks it will.

Posted by: Ranik and file Minneapolis police at December 05, 2025 01:27 PM (Riz8t)

24 Hey. 2024 was a good year.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (/lPRQ)

25 Police Chief Brian O'hara reminds me of that Tatted up DC Metro, Fag Cop who cried in front of Congress.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (DeNdk)

26 I would love to see Trump travel to Minnesota and call Walz a retard on his Ring doorbell camera.

Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (RWHIh)

27 I wonder what the finances of Brian O'Hara look like.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (n5tGW)

28 One of the MN papers did a puff piece on the Somali population in their state and how much good they were generating.

For example they showed that the 80K Somali were generating $500M in income

Big bucks right?

Well...that's just over $6K a person.

The MN average is almost 10 times that.

So how the hell are these people living off of $6/year? Welfare and crime. It is almost certainly one person working a normal job for every 10 that are criminals/welfare leeches

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

29 I am shocked, shocked, that there is corruption going on up in there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)

30 The USMC was formed for the express purpose of slitting the throats of African pirates. Just saying.

Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (5aZAZ)

31 Remember when Mohamed Noor, policeman, fired his weapon across his partner's body, killing a blonde woman who had called in a possible rape and served a full 18 months for doing it?

Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2025 01:29 PM (98kQX)

32 [taps chin thoughtfully]

And what do they do with thieves who steal from the "government" in Somalia?

Posted by: Abu Hassan at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (7Q0e+)

33 Chief O'Hara has let his freak flag fly since Commissioner Gordon retired. The Commish knew how to keep that weirdo in line.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (77rzZ)

34 Nomalis > Snowmalis.

FedEx them to Mogadishu.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (TezPK)

35 17 Remember the left is arguing right now its a good thing the Somalis are stealing all this money.

Why? It shows we right wing raycists are wrong...the Somalis are smart and entrepreneurial.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (sKqQm)

Scamming is perfectly legitimate, unless you're an old white man like Kenneth Lay or Bernie Madoff.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (UnA8+)

36 A billion dollars disappeared in this scheme. Raise your hand if you think a bunch of that was kicked back to these officials in the form of campaign donations and outright bribes.

Its easy to turn campaign dollars into take home money in uncontested blue shitholes.

Hire your spouse for political consulting, your brother for GOTV, and on and on.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

37 Ilhan Omar says Trump made racist anti-Somali tirade because he ‘knows he is failing'

Nah. he sais it because he is a racist bigot to the core. He'd say that shit whether he was having a bad run politically or not.

He knows he’s sick (probably dying). The minute he mentioned going to heaven it was obvious. Trump functions at the level of a third grader and he's just as easy to read/manipulate.

This is the "they're eating cats and dogs" guy. The only shocking part is we invited him back into the White House instead of doing what the French and Brazilians did to their despots.

Nothing against Somalis, but hijabs are a tool of oppression and even people who wear them willingly only do so because of mental conditioning.

The left were traditionally against mass immigration because it was understood it benefits the megarich at the expense of everyone else. Lower wages, lower living standards, less housing availability. Not sure when that changed or who approved it.

(No responses to those last two...)

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (JCZqz)

38 Ilhan Omar; (D)estination, Somalia.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (SZI4T)

39 If Salim Ahmed Said had served those meals at his Safari restaurant every day, 365 days of the year, he'd have had to serve 10,684.93 meals per day to get to 3.9 million meals during COVID.

How did nobody check those numbers?
They are, literally, beyond belief, yet he got away with it for years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (6ydKt)

40 I wonder what the finances of Brian O'Hara look like.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

*shifty eyes*
Beats us. We've never even heard of the guy.
-- Cayman Islands

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

41 We should make it clear to any city or state official who orders its employees to interfere with Federal law enforcement that we will arrest *them* for issuing unlawful orders if those orders lead to confrontation.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 01:31 PM (TN0g+)

42 E ) wondering if it's some type of weasel.

When you get down to it, almost everything is some type of weasel. Except Weasel. Wait, now I've confused myself again.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (3nLb4)

43 Somali pirates have "donated" -- paid in bribery -- $50,000+ to Democrat politicians for protection

I should clarify that these were white Somali pirates

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (XFXIk)

44 The Blade is dulled.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (jc0TO)

45 The money flowing to Omar must be able to be tracked, I hope someone in the FBI and IRS are on this, however I doubt that to the moon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

46 Somalis are a perfect ethnic group to focus on, because they literally have no positive features that I've ever come across. Other Muslims complain about their clannish and scammy behavior. They aren't even smart or intimidating. If you study Afghan history, that nation is at least worthy of respect in the same way one respects a cobra or Stalin's NKVD.

Somalia was easily colonized by the same Italians who got their asses handed to them by Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (Dg7ng)

Even other Black Africans hate them.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (UnA8+)
_____

They are the Palestinians of Africa. Unadulterated cask-strength scum of the Earth. They're also ugly people too. Of all the Somalis I've ever seen, most are almost comically ugly (that Omar guy who ran for mayor) and only a few were attractive.

Which is a bit odd given that it borders on Kenya, and Kenyans are overall very attractive. Some real smokeshows in Nairobi. And yea, Kenyans openly and unapologetically despise Somalis. The most racist KKK grand dragon never spoke of blacks the way Kenyans talk about Somalis.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

47 Nothing against Somalis, but hijabs are a tool of oppression and even people who wear them willingly only do so because of mental conditioning.

Uh oh. Banhammer incoming.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

48 He also blamed the unwanted attention from authorities on racism and rallied the "community" to stick together.

One does have to admire the cunning deviousness of the left's long game. They started laying the groundwork for this decades ago to excuse all of their constituents' antisocial and/or violent behavior with cries of racism, and all the other isms and phobias, and dismissing any resistance to their agenda as one or more of said isms or phobias. This is what political correctness was largely about and it just got bigger and more entrenched, with more and more subgroups added.

Posted by: They are on a long march at December 05, 2025 01:33 PM (TbWk/)

49 >>> "I'm tired of the MDE thing. How many more do we have to fight against?" the top Omar associate, who has not been indicted or directly linked to the fraud, said during the impassioned speech.

I feel like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar. Oh, you're tired? Then STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!

They fed their bank accounts instead of children. Like how Newsome's NGO gave itself the fire relief money instead of giving it to actual fire victims.

I am grateful I believe in God, and that he is just, and that all this fraud and nonsense gets sorted out up there. Because if I was an atheist and believed this life is as pure and good as it gets, I'dve had a stroke by now!

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:33 PM (Eng1Z)

50 Must be nice to have that congressional never go to jail and never be held responsible card.

She's a garbage person doing garbage things in a garbage city. They should have paved a road over her years ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (NwnyJ)

51 >>How did nobody check those numbers?
They are, literally, beyond belief, yet he got away with it for years.

People were checking the numbers. A group of Minnesota DHS workers have their on X account and they claim they have been warning the Walz administration repeatedly for years and instead of doing any follow up they were ignored or retaliated against.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (viF8m)

52 30 million in one fucking year???

Posted by: Max Power at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Hucnr)

53 46 Good points. Ethiopians also have a lot of decent looking individuals and aren't very closely related to Somalis. I wonder what made Somalis so messed up. Inbreeding?

Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)

54 You have to admit, Somalians are good at eating bugs

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (vFG9F)

55 The left were traditionally against mass immigration because it was understood it benefits the megarich at the expense of everyone else. Lower wages, lower living standards, less housing availability. Not sure when that changed or who approved it.

Bernie Sanders gave a great speech on this back in the 90s. (not kidding)

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

56 Feed this Muslim bint to the woodchipper.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (k92WJ)

57 31
Remember when Mohamed Noor, policeman, fired his weapon across his partner's body, killing a blonde woman who had called in a possible rape and served a full 18 months for doing it?

Posted by: huerfano

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (SZI4T)

58 Does the IRS not do audits anymore? Or is that just for eBay sellers?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (jc0TO)

59 Thank you for the intercepted Reddit transmissions. Does anyone there talk at all about the actual fraud. Like, the fraud is not just Trumpy lies and racism, and that is actually exists? That these people robbed food from kids?

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (Eng1Z)

60 38 Ilhan Omar; (D)estination, Somalia.
Posted by: Braenyard

In this case, I'd prefer Ozzy Man's (D)estination Fucked. 😜

Posted by: Ilhan Omar's Brother at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (JCZqz)

61 I’ve concluded that only about 25% of the population is actually productive. Everyone else is just scamming or supported by the 25%.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 01:35 PM (rLL5x)

62 Good points. Ethiopians also have a lot of decent looking individuals and aren't very closely related to Somalis. I wonder what made Somalis so messed up. Inbreeding?

Ethiopia is Christian and Somalia Muslim. They were at war with each other from the rise of Islam until relatively recently.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)

63
Then there's that Somali sheriff in Minnesota who told an audience of Somalis, in Somalian, that he worked for the benefit of Somalis and no-one else.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (azNOR)

64 "Somali Pirates"

Nah. Pirates are cool. Somalis are vile loathsome mole rats.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

65 Of all the Somalis I've ever seen, most are almost comically ugly (that Omar guy who ran for mayor) and only a few were attractive.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I actually think Noor is attractive, on the outside. And wasn't Bowie's model wife a Somali? And that Somali chick who worked with Theo Van Gogh isn't bad, either.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

66 The money flowing to Omar must be able to be tracked, I hope someone in the FBI and IRS are on this, however I doubt that to the moon.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
......

Makes me so happy to be paying federal income tax.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

67 Which is a bit odd given that it borders on Kenya, and Kenyans are overall very attractive. Some real smokeshows in Nairobi. And yea, Kenyans openly and unapologetically despise Somalis. The most racist KKK grand dragon never spoke of blacks the way Kenyans talk about Somalis.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (iFTx/)

Funny how that works. And how Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese. The ignorance of leftist westerners who think Africans or Asians are somehow a) monolithic and b) completely non-racist is astounding.

Posted by: You should hear west Africans talk about American blacks at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)

68 How did nobody check those numbers?
They are, literally, beyond belief, yet he got away with it for years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I'm guessing there were no systems in place to check any of it. Anarcho-tyranny 101.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (mlg/3)

69 How did nobody check those numbers?

Oh, they checked them, all right. To make sure the correct kickbacks were paid in a timely fashion.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (XFXIk)

70 Minnesotans, with their clean and efficient government, used to feel superior to citizens of lesser Midwest states.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (rJ48h)

71 Send them all home to Somali.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (hhkIi)

72 >>Of all the Somalis I've ever seen, most are almost comically ugly (that Omar guy who ran for mayor) and only a few were attractive.

Inbreeding doesn't typically lend itself to attractiveness.

Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (DeNdk)

73 "Somali Pirates"

Nah. Pirates are cool. Somalis are vile loathsome mole rats.

Disney had some show about little kid pirates for little kids.

One of their lessons on the show was "a real pirate doesn't take other people's things!"

And that's a great message to give a little kid but uh...not very pirate-y

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

74 I actually think Noor is attractive, on the outside.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM

and with the FGM, you don't have to worry about satisfying her.

Posted by: toby928(c) says eww before you do at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (jc0TO)

75 Funny how that works. And how Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese.

Now do the Balkan peoples.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)

76 59 Thank you for the intercepted Reddit transmissions. Does anyone there talk at all about the actual fraud. Like, the fraud is not just Trumpy lies and racism, and that is actually exists? That these people robbed food from kids?
Posted by: LizLem

I think a lot of Reddit is just like what Elon revealed on X, foreign accounts and bots where they don't give a shit about Americans as long as they get paid.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (WDjG6)

77 Somalia's economy was traditionally based on piracy and slavery.

It should not be a surprise their neighbors hate them

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (sKqQm)

78 30 million in one fucking year???
Posted by: Max Power
......

Totally legit.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (v0R5T)

79 $9k a month at Nordstrom?! Jewelry, maybe?

And if you want me to look the other way while you steal $250 million, don't try to hand me $53k.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (4DY5T)

80 >>Funny how that works. And how Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese.

>Now do the Balkan peoples.

Or, the Italians.

Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (DeNdk)

81 Steal our money. Rape our daughters. But pleeeeeeease don't call us racists!

Posted by: Harry at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (qnV6d)

82 Kick them the hell back to where they came from, every GD one of them and their children too.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (qZdIZ)

83 Italy is an odd country. The north is more like France/Germany and the south is...

well...a mess.

But Southern Italy has less in common with Northern Italy then Ukraine does with Russia or Austria with Germany.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

84 Nothing will come of this. She's not going to be arrested or deported. It will all get swept under the rug as usual.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (V362x)

85 Also related: Minneapolis' chief of police tells his Somali pirate constituents that if ICE attempts to arrest them, call 911, and the police will come to... openly make war on federal agents?

Yeah, that may not go the way he thinks it will.
Posted by: Ranik and file Minneapolis police

The Federales could lite up the locals because they are cops.
Then feds can arrest the whole chain of command for felony murder.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (/lPRQ)

86 Iman was from Somalia, and was probably one of the biggest forces in getting David Bowie to calm down his crazy lifestyle, from what I've read. Also quite pretty in my favorite Star Trek movie.

She is marvelous. All these political grifter Somalis that hate America, not so much.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (Eng1Z)

87 Does anyone there talk at all about the actual fraud. Like, the fraud is not just Trumpy lies and racism, and that is actually exists? That these people robbed food from kids?
Posted by: LizLem

Surprisingly, if you go to the r/Minnesota, r/Minneapolis, r/twincities subreddits, there is an unexpectedly high amount of pushback. Usually state and city subreddits are just swamped with rabid Lefties, and while these certainly are, too, there are many commenters saying these levels of fraud are ridiculous, unacceptable, deliberately coordinated with state and local governed, etc.

Considering how Blue the cities are, it's kind of surprising, so I wonder if it's people from outside the state like me checking due to the increased national attention. Or Russian bots, as the Lefties always accuse...

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 01:41 PM (JCZqz)

88 Ilhan Omar, the far-left "Squad" congresswoman, has been eerily silent on the billion-dollar welfare fraud scheme that was centered in her Minnesota district.

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"Some people did some things."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (XWkVH)

89 >>Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

Grandpa had a word for those 'italians' from South of Naples.

Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (DeNdk)

90 Minnesota white leftists will make excellent slaves . They are already very submissive. Congrats on your new forever job.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (bfwj/)

91 I obviously choose the wrong career path.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (Q0yOR)

92 ARMY cadets have been ordered to leave their long-standing training camp to make way for 600 small-boat migrants

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Hegseth can't fix this. It's in the Britain Formerly Known As Great.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (L/fGl)

93 inbredsocoff

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (DeNdk)

94 at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (4DY5T)80 >>Funny how that works. And how Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese.

>Now do the Balkan peoples.

Or, the Italians.
Posted by: A Hapsburg at December 05, 2025 01:39 PM (DeNdk)

Or how much the other Arabs hate the “Palestinians”. They’re very happy to watch them die, especially when they get the added fun of blaming the Jews for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (P4eqW)

95 send her home with all her moveable possession. Leak that she has a million dollars in gold and silver with her.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (rbvCR)

96
Considering how Blue the cities are, it's kind of surprising, so I wonder if it's people from outside the state like me checking due to the increased national attention. Or Russian bots, as the Lefties always accuse...

My experience with blue staters is they will complain about this for a few days then go right back to voting for the same people. And when it happens again in a few years they'll repeat the cycle.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

97 I think a lot of Reddit is just like what Elon revealed on X, foreign accounts and bots where they don't give a shit about Americans as long as they get paid.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:38 PM (WDjG6)

So like Congress.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 01:42 PM (RgYBC)

98 Makes me so happy to be paying federal income tax.
Posted by: wth
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The correct word is servitude. We pay tribute to our ruling class so we can live.

DC would howl if tariffs replaced income tax because it would mean diminished control over the peasants.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:43 PM (WDjG6)

99 *chose. FFS more caffeine.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:43 PM (Q0yOR)

100 I wonder what the finances of Brian O'Hara look like.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:28 PM (n5tGW)

Trump should assign Pete Buttigeig to do an anal probe on him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:43 PM (npFr7)

101 70 Minnesotans, with their clean and efficient government, used to feel superior to citizens of lesser Midwest states.
Posted by: mr tmz

I live in Iowa, and can confirm the Blue Metro Lefties in Minnesota still do.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (JCZqz)

102
Grandpa had a word for those 'italians' from South of Naples.

Also, see the famous scene from True Romance where Dennis Hopper gives his views on Sicilians to Christopher Walken

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

103 >>@EricLDaugh
·
24m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Epstein documents in Florida UNSEALED thanks to President Trump signing the new law and demanding they be released.

>>This has backfired MASSIVELY on the Left.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (viF8m)

104 87 Does anyone there talk at all about the actual fraud. Like, the fraud is not just Trumpy lies and racism, and that is actually exists? That these people robbed food from kids?
Posted by: LizLem

Had relatives in St Paul and visited over the years.. Last time we were there settling an estate friends of my relative there were not too fond of the Somali's and that was about 10 years ago

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (VE6XX)

105 So like Congress.
Posted by: ...
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To be fair, some Congress critters get wealthy by insider trading instead of the fake and gay ngos that accept foreign bribes on behalf of Congress critters like John McCain's.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:45 PM (WDjG6)

106 I did go to Sicily once. TBH it was beautiful.

But...I wouldn't want to try and live there is a tax paying productive member of society.

Their corruption blows away CA/MA/IL lives of corruption...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:45 PM (sKqQm)

107 67 Funny how that works. And how Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese. The ignorance of leftist westerners who think Africans or Asians are somehow a) monolithic and b) completely non-racist is astounding.
Posted by: You should hear west Africans talk about American blacks at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (TbWk/)

Same with Hispanics. Mexicans hate Puerto Ricans hate Cubans etc. etc. etc.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (UnA8+)

108 Racism is one of the excuses the PTB in the UK used for not investigating and prosecuting the Paki rape gangs.

What a coincidence.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (hs4ik)

109 Scamming is perfectly legitimate, unless you're an old white man like Kenneth Lay or Bernie Madoff.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:30 PM (UnA8+)

They scammed actual politicians and, you know, IMPORTANT people. If they had stuck to defrauding pension holders or ETFs then they could have gotten off with a slap on the wrist.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (rbvCR)

110 >>🚨 BREAKING: Epstein documents in Florida UNSEALED thanks to President Trump signing the new law and demanding they be released.

>>This has backfired MASSIVELY on the Left.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:44 PM (viF8m)

Saw that.. The way the media put out the story it was despite Trump that they're gonna be released

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (VE6XX)

111 "She had been inside the [Safari] facility on numerous occasions and couldn't put 2 and 2 together? Either she's terminally naive, or knew and didn't care," Glahn added.
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Or, maybe, she cared a lot that the program she created turned into a massive Somali funding source.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (xz8OS)

112 When do these people get rounded up and tossed out? That's what I would like to see. They despise us and long for their third world shithole, send 'em back.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (Q0yOR)

113 Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese.

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There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
For living with a fat one, trying to be a skinny one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and Scooby-Dooby-Doo
- Sly Stone

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (L/fGl)

114 Remember, “It’s a tax.” Then charge them with tax evasion.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (YlWIZ)

115 75 Funny how that works. And how Chinese hate Japanese hate Koreans hate Japanese hate Chinese.

Now do the Balkan peoples.
Posted by: Bulg

The Balkans are a special combination of disliking most other ethnic groups than your own, REALLY hating one or two specific groups (probably the Serbs), feeling you're the misunderstood, pure, oppressed good guys of the region. The only thing that mostly unites the region is most of them dislike the Turks immensely (except Albanians and Bosnians), and everyone loves rakia.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (JCZqz)

116 GET THEM OUT!

I love what President Trump said. Every word.

Have never liked the turnip head who married her brother and sneers like a cobra. Billons of dollars, MN. Do they think this is ok.

Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)

117 "a real pirate doesn't take other people's things!"

That stuff was mine all along Matey!. Arrg.

Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (vFG9F)

118 The ability to cite one or two Somalis who are not laughably hideous is really only underscoring that Somalis are laughably hideous.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (RVftD)

119 83 Italy is an odd country. The north is more like France/Germany and the south is...

well...a mess.

But Southern Italy has less in common with Northern Italy then Ukraine does with Russia or Austria with Germany.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

Tyrol basically IS Germany.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (UnA8+)

120 Ilhan Omar's net worth...

1995: Arrives in America in with 0 wealth.
2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million
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Only took six years in Congress.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (xz8OS)

121 109 They scammed actual politicians and, you know, IMPORTANT people. If they had stuck to defrauding pension holders or ETFs then they could have gotten off with a slap on the wrist.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:46 PM (rbvCR)

I forgot about how Jon Corzine got away with making a BILLION dollars disappear...

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (UnA8+)

122 46 Good points. Ethiopians also have a lot of decent looking individuals and aren't very closely related to Somalis. I wonder what made Somalis so messed up. Inbreeding?
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)

Proximity to Arabia. Muzzies would sail across the strait, collect some slaves, and rape the women. Like a hobby for them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (npFr7)

123 Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Now he's crying because people are driving by his house and shouting retard.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (MGB5H)

124 Only took six years in Congress.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Crockett has a similar rise to fortune. And those are just two examples of the new fastest way to become a millionaire by getting elected to Congress.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)

125 Am I too late?

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen comment at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (kz78D)

126 Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)
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No almost about it; he called Walz retarded.

Which is correct, but hardly enough criticism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (xz8OS)

127 Only took six years in Congress.
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Now do AOC.

Posted by: clarence at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (hqrXU)

128 Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)

That much being stolen under his administration and he still lives somewhere that he can hear people yelling from the sidewalk? There must be something wrong with him.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rbvCR)

129 *reads excellent post*

Golly!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (wVcYX)

130 I forgot about how Jon Corzine got away with making a BILLION dollars disappear...
Posted by: XTC
======
Well, it disappeared for the hedge fund investors, probably reappeared somewhere overseas in anonymous accounts.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (WDjG6)

131 Federal government should hire forensic accountants to oversee social services disbursements in Minnesota.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (rJ48h)

132 Italy is an odd country. The north is more like France/Germany and the south is...

well...a mess.

But Southern Italy has less in common with Northern Italy then Ukraine does with Russia or Austria with Germany.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:40 PM (sKqQm)
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My wife's parents are both first-generation Italian Americans (My wife's grandparents were all from the old country). One is from Venice, the other from Sicily. It was quite the thing, I'm told, at the time for the two of them to date, much less get married.

Posted by: ballistic at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (5aZAZ)

133 My experience with blue staters is they will complain about this for a few days then go right back to voting for the same people. And when it happens again in a few years they'll repeat the cycle.
Posted by: 18-1

Ana Kasparian complained about being groped and assaulted by a homeless man not too long ago, and fellow Lefties attacked her for "punching down" and supporting Trump and Right-wing efforts to increase police power and criminal convictions. It was wild.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (JCZqz)

134 Poking around it looks like Omar's fortune came from her husband's company's value going from tends of thousands to tens of millions in 2024.

Rose Lake Capital LLC is one of those companies that doesn't actually really do anything.

So...this is about as transparent as a payoff gets.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

135 "She claims her wealth came from her "husband's" company or investments or some obvious bullshit like that. Given the timing of her explosion in wealth, let's just say I suspect a different source."

Nah, she's telling the truth. What she isn't saying, though, is the husband's "investments" are funded by kickbacks from the fraud (and from other frauds). Oldest trick in the book. Set up a company or investment firm to launder dirty money. All looks legit from the outside.

It's like all those THOTs with half-assed cosmetics or lifestyle companies that look legit -- until you realize the company's "investors" are just rich guys she's fucking. They funnel money into the company rather than par her outright. Like that THOT who overdosed naked on the boat of her main "investor" a few months back in long island.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

136 I actually think Noor is attractive, on the outside. And wasn't Bowie's model wife a Somali? And that Somali chick who worked with Theo Van Gogh isn't bad, either.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

It's like other inbred populations. Some are stunningly beautiful, and some are stunningly ugly. Long tails to the distribution curve, and the peak around "normal" is flatter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (npFr7)

137 1995: Arrives in America in with 0 wealth.
2020: -$65K
2021: $65K
2022: $115K
2023: $205K
2024: $30 million
=========================
Only took six years in Congress.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (xz8OS)

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Rich people get rich by all their hard work and smarts. I’m told repeatedly that is the case by the morons here.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (rLL5x)

138 Crockett has a similar rise to fortune. And those are just two examples of the new fastest way to become a millionaire by getting elected to Congress.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (WDjG6)
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Even Ayanna Pressley, who never had real work in her life, is now a multi-millionaire. Paying off Pressley is definite overkill.

Letitia James wants to get rich. She should run for Congress.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:52 PM (xz8OS)

139 No almost about it; he called Walz retarded.

Which is correct, but hardly enough criticism.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Retarded grooming lying corrupt Piece of Shit was too long for Trump to include in the speech. That man has things to do. Retard is obvious when you see pictures of Timmy. Takes a more complicated explanation of the other things that Timmy does.

Lassie should have left Timmy alone in the well.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (WDjG6)

140 It's almost as if killers, rapists, and thieves use the "Muh Racism" accusation to continue committing heinous crimes without punishment.

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"Just like they can't be racists -- POS POCs can't be criminals, oppressor white devil h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (XWkVH)

141 "Am I too late?
Posted by: Nothing Will Happen"

See #10.

Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (vFG9F)

142 >>Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.

No almost about it. He flat out called him seriously retarded.

Now Walz is whining that people are driving by his house and calling him a retard.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)

143 Proximity to Arabia. Muzzies would sail across the strait, collect some slaves, and rape the women. Like a hobby for them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It is our right and imperative! To spread the word of Allah to the non-believers, and kill/enslave/rape those that refuse to convert. Allah is truly wise, most merciful.

Posted by: Prophet Muhammad at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (JCZqz)

144 Wypippa stik dey nose in yo bidness.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (i+bC1)

145 Letitia James wants to get rich. She should run for Congress.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

You can get quite wealthy stealing from state and local government or being bribed indirectly. Lot of corporations to browbeat in NYC into forking over cash. That was Sharpton's racket for a very long time.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (WDjG6)

146 Chief O'Hara Gotham City>> Chief O'Hara Mogadishu on the River

Besides, he can't be a real chief, only has 4 stars.

Posted by: Chief Cook And Bottle Washer at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (oftw2)

147 The guy who runs this X account is reputable, thought this was interesting. O'Hara's wife is a sergeant in the Newark police department.
__________________
CrimeWatchMpls

@CrimeWatchMpls
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2h
1/
Grab the popcorn.

You will recall, earlier this week Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara held a press conference about ICE activity and Somalis where he urged people to call 911 if they see masked agents because they could be "kidnapping" someone. Here: https://x.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1996060467794501710

Yesterday morning, community activist and former cop Lisa Clemons made a big post on her FB page questioning the chief's comment and suggesting it not only puts cops in danger, but seems to be preferential treatment for Somalis, when the same ramped up actions weren't suggested in the recent past when ICE was in town for Hispanics (truncated below).

THEN, late last night, the wife of police chief Brian O'Hara, Wafiyyah (who doesn't even live in this state) jumped on Lisa's post and told her to "grow up" and that she was spreading "lies" about O'Hara and that Lisa was "part of the problem," when we all saw what he said in the video.

Stay tuned, there's going to be more...

Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (I7J98)

148 Turns out the organization should have been called Feeding You Some Bullshit.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (krQz2)

149 Rich people get rich by all their hard work and smarts. I’m told repeatedly that is the case by the morons here.

You have to look at the individual cases.

There certainly are plenty of people getting rich of graft.

But..."the rich" that we usually talk about are small business owners and upper level corporate people.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

150 122 Oman had a field day for a long, long time with slavery. Tippu Tipp helped sell his own people. That entire area was a mess. Somalia cannot be fixed - at least the majority of it. I think the far NE part is "OK" but not great. Better but not void of nonsense and chaos.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 01:54 PM (Q0yOR)

151 Speaking of shitholes...

@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Court in Washington DC is currently ALLOWING a squatter to occupy a woman's property for MONTHS after squatter overstayed an Airbnb rental.

Shadija Romero, the alleged squatter, also reportedly tried to push the homeowner off a ladder, tampered with cameras, and took the owner's name off the utilities.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)

152 Did Chief O'Hara start speaking in Somali during his press conference, apparently that's a thing in Minnesota now.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (XV/Pl)

153 It's like all those THOTs with half-assed cosmetics or lifestyle companies that look legit -- until you realize the company's "investors" are just rich guys she's fucking. They funnel money into the company rather than par her outright. Like that THOT who overdosed naked on the boat of her main "investor" a few months back in long island.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Life is a lot easier and peaceful if you don't take the ticket.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (WDjG6)

154 Said worked on Omar's 2018 and 2020 campaigns as an "enforcer" who oversaw aggressive voter mobilization in the Somali community, according to local Alphanews.org.

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"Nice goat you've been sleeping with there ... be a shame if you woke up with it severed head in your bed."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (XWkVH)

155 >>> 46 Good points. Ethiopians also have a lot of decent looking individuals and aren't very closely related to Somalis. I wonder what made Somalis so messed up. Inbreeding?
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Proximity to Arabia. Muzzies would sail across the strait, collect some slaves, and rape the women. Like a hobby for them. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (npFr7)

I watched an old interview where Iman said she got pitted against the other black models. People said because of her facial features she looked like a "white woman dipped in chocolate." But she stressed that she was 0% white, she was 100% Somalian and 100% black.

If she ever did a 23 and Me test, I bet it shows a heavy dose of Arab descent in her genes, as you say AOP. Which is...white.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (Eng1Z)

156 Now Walz is whining that people are driving by his house and calling him a retard.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)
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Right-wing violence.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (krQz2)

157 >>Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.

No almost about it. He flat out called him seriously retarded.

Now Walz is whining that people are driving by his house and calling him a retard.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)

What a maroon.

Posted by: Corky at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (wVcYX)

158 Now he's crying because people are driving by his house and shouting retard.
Posted by: BruceWayne

I remember when the Left said to get in the faces of those they disagreed with, and not give them a moment of peace...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (JCZqz)

159

That cop comes off as really suspicious and guilty.

There is no end to Democrat criminality.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (fnOOv)

160 Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM

Brett Weinstein made an unusual statement about where we are as a country with regard to name-calling "retards". It's okay if somebody does something stupid, but not okay if someone is clearly disabled, like Tim Walz. Something to that effect.

Anyway, one interesting thing that came out is that Minnesota government employee whistleblowers tried to warn Kamala Harris about Tim Walz. They didn't have enough credibility with elite Democrats to be believed.

Posted by: KT at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (7vIsy)

161 Also, I think President Trump almost called Walz a retard. "Something is wrong with him." Indeed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:47 PM (WONhk)

That much being stolen under his administration and he still lives somewhere that he can hear people yelling from the sidewalk? There must be something wrong with him.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:50 PM (rbvCR)

Don't they have a ... Governor's Mansion in Minnesota?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (8avO+)

162 "Now Walz is whining that people are driving by his house and calling him a retard."

That's outrageous. They should be calling him a faggot retard.

Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (vFG9F)

163 The cancer needs to be cut out..

End this nonsense

Posted by: fuxupwichyou at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (61TgR)

164 Good points. Ethiopians also have a lot of decent looking individuals and aren't very closely related to Somalis. I wonder what made Somalis so messed up. Inbreeding?
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 05, 2025 01:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Proximity to Arabia. Muzzies would sail across the strait, collect some slaves, and rape the women. Like a hobby for them. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:48 PM (npFr7)

I watched an old interview where Iman said she got pitted against the other black models. People said because of her facial features she looked like a "white woman dipped in chocolate." But she stressed that she was 0% white, she was 100% Somalian and 100% black.

If she ever did a 23 and Me test, I bet it shows a heavy dose of Arab descent in her genes, as you say AOP. Which is...white.
Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 01:56 PM (Eng1Z)
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She was also born to a rich and influential family, which I'm sure was also a source of hating on her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (iFTx/)

165 Now he's crying because people are driving by his house and shouting retard.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2025 01:49 PM (MGB5H)
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You know how his wife likes to keep the windows open.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (krQz2)

166 152 Did Chief O'Hara start speaking in Somali during his press conference, apparently that's a thing in Minnesota now.

No, he lets boy mayor do that, as well as enjoy native Minnesotan hot dishes:

https://tinyurl.com/4cb2b8jw

Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (I7J98)

167 Gold on pace for weekly win as 'momentum' drives historic rally
Yahoo Finance

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (SZI4T)

168 "Nice goat you've been sleeping with there ... be a shame if you woke up with it severed head in your bed."
Posted by: ShainS
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Not sure about that, killing the goat would mean one less Democrat voter. They'd probably only steal it, especially if it was an attractive one.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (WDjG6)

169 The Somali fraud is expected to surpass $1 billion being reported. Some say it will be closer to $8 billion. That is going to be difficult to explain, especially when nobody's held accountable or goes to prison.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)

170 Anyway, one interesting thing that came out is that Minnesota government employee whistleblowers tried to warn Kamala Harris about Tim Walz. They didn't have enough credibility with elite Democrats to be believed.
Posted by: KT at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (7vIsy)

A battleship anchor doesn't need warnings about a dead weight being added to it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (8avO+)

171 Life is a lot easier and peaceful if you don't take the ticket.

Nickolodeon had a successful show with two leads - Ariana Grande and Jennette McCurdy.

The latter complained publicly the show's producer pressured her for sex and she refused. Ariana said...nothing.

You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

172 Batman's Chief O'Hare was a good guy

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (wBaIH)

173 MPD chief works to support lawbreaking and wants the police to help people break laws.

This is why if you are “I back the blue” guy or gal, or you are like Michael Berry demanding that we ALL must respect police offices no matter what, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

Call me a cop hater all you want. I just acknowledge they put on their pants the same way I do every day.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (6KcYW)

174 "Nice goat you've been sleeping with there ... be a shame if you woke up with it severed head in your bed."
Posted by: ShainS

If you behead my she-goat, do I lose two orifices to penetrate, or gain some new ones...

Posted by: Optimistic, Necrophiliac, Beastiality-Loving Muslim at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (JCZqz)

175 Speaking of shitholes...

@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Court in Washington DC is currently ALLOWING a squatter to occupy a woman's property for MONTHS after squatter overstayed an Airbnb rental.

Shadija Romero, the alleged squatter, also reportedly tried to push the homeowner off a ladder, tampered with cameras, and took the owner's name off the utilities.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)

---------------

One word: ~~Plastics~~ Inferno.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (XWkVH)

176 Rose Lake Capital LLC is one of those companies that doesn't actually really do anything.

So...this is about as transparent as a payoff gets.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:51 PM (sKqQm)
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Hey! We make money!

Posted by: CEO Frank "The Warthog" Reynolds at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (ESVrU)

177 If she ever did a 23 and Me test, I bet it shows a heavy dose of Arab descent in her genes, as you say AOP. Which is...white.
Posted by: LizLem
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All celebutards of note have big pr teams to manage press for them. That, in part, is why a lot of dirt comes out after the celebutards end up dying.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (WDjG6)

178 Now Walz is whining that people are driving by his house and calling him a retard.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:53 PM (viF8m)
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And those people are his State Police protection unit. Imagine what everyone else says about him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (xz8OS)

179 The Somali fraud is expected to surpass $1 billion being reported. Some say it will be closer to $8 billion. That is going to be difficult to explain, especially when nobody's held accountable or goes to prison.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)

Oopsie! I mean darnit! I am such a knucklehead. Guess I will have to try harder, right?

-- standard response by elected officials standing over the smoking remains of the program / project / state they were supposed to be running

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (rbvCR)

180 This grifting ring is prime for Rico charges.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (i0Hi3)

181 Life is a lot easier and peaceful if you don't take the ticket.

Nickolodeon had a successful show with two leads - Ariana Grande and Jennette McCurdy.

The latter complained publicly the show's producer pressured her for sex and she refused. Ariana said...nothing.

You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
______

I'm convinced that 99% of entertainers sucked a lot of dick to get where they are. Not only the ladies, the men too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

182 Batman's Chief O'Hare was a good guy
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

183 How much money did the pols get that changed the Minnesota state flag to look like Somalia's?

Posted by: brak at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (jGJov)

184 No, he lets boy mayor do that, as well as enjoy native Minnesotan hot dishes:

https://tinyurl.com/4cb2b8jw

Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (I7J9

LMAO

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)

185 Hunter Biden has to find a nice safe blue district and get himself into Congress, so he can pay his legal bills. And his hookers and blow suppliers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (xz8OS)

186 You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1
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I think you can tell the same tale if swapped to Disney. Walt's spirit should become the headless Horseman of Disney and stalk those pedo groomers at night with pumpkin heads.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (WDjG6)

187 Call me a cop hater all you want. I just acknowledge they put on their pants the same way I do every day.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 05, 2025 01:59 PM (6KcYW)

Full of fraudulently obtained Somali dollars?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)

188 >>> Life is a lot easier and peaceful if you don't take the ticket. Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (WDjG6)

I know a girl that was almost cast on the Mickey Mouse Club back in the 90s. Would have been there during the Spears/Timberlake/Aguilera/Gosling/Russell era.

I felt so bad for her as a kid, missing out on her shot at fame. Now as an adult, knowing the abuse and trauma all those child stars went through? I think she dodged a bullet! I hope she went on to have an amazing but completely normal, abuse-free life.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (Eng1Z)

189 The Somali fraud is expected to surpass $1 billion being reported. Some say it will be closer to $8 billion. That is going to be difficult to explain, especially when nobody's held accountable or goes to prison.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)

Oopsie! I mean darnit! I am such a knucklehead. Guess I will have to try harder, right?

-- standard response by elected officials standing over the smoking remains of the program / project / state they were supposed to be running
Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:01 PM (rbvCR)
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The entire MN budget is about $60B

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

190 >>>You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1
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SEE: Lucille Ball on reference to the casting couch and success.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (SZI4T)

191 I'm convinced that 99% of entertainers sucked a lot of dick to get where they are. Not only the ladies, the men too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Lots of wilted ficus trees in executive offices I guess.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:03 PM (WDjG6)

192 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

193 In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)

194 But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

Pretty accurate portrayal of public "servants" in retrospect.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (dK+Kv)

195 When Blue states are fraudulently funneling BILLIONS of illegal dollars through scam social services, it's no wonder they can pretend to be fiscally solvent and productive. I always assumed the SALT tax caps were the way to hurt Blue States, but cracking down on this fraud will be even more devastating, and much harder to defend against in the court of public opinion.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (JCZqz)

196 "In before the 'nothing will happen' guy.
Posted by: Sponge "

See #10.

Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (vFG9F)

197 If we're not going to outlaw congressional insider trading, we at least ought to institute some sort of alert mechanism. If a congressperson's net worth increases a certain percentage year over year, an automatic audit is initiated and the burden shifts to the member of congress to prove the increase was legit, otherwise the gains are forfeit.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 05, 2025 02:05 PM (bNf8H)

198
Anyway, one interesting thing that came out is that Minnesota government employee whistleblowers tried to warn Kamala Harris about Tim Walz. They didn't have enough credibility with elite Democrats to be believed.
Posted by: KT at December 05, 2025 01:57 PM (7vIsy)

I suspect part of this could be they just didn't care and thought they were going to win so it really doesn't matter. Everything is corrupt and graft- laden.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 02:05 PM (ajCaF)

199 175 Speaking of shitholes...

@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Court in Washington DC is currently ALLOWING a squatter to occupy a woman's property for MONTHS after squatter overstayed an Airbnb rental.

Shadija Romero, the alleged squatter, also reportedly tried to push the homeowner off a ladder, tampered with cameras, and took the owner's name off the utilities.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:55 PM (mlg/3)

---------------

One word: Plastics Inferno.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:00 PM (XWkVH)

I've never understood how these people just don't go ... missing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (RVftD)

200 Lots of wilted ficus trees in executive offices I guess.
Posted by: whig

😢 It’s not funny! 🪴💀

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein's Ficus at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (JCZqz)

201 So according to the Press Cole admitted to the bombs and..... he's a supporter of Trump....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (VE6XX)

202 Batman's Chief O'Hare was a good guy
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin.
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But that stylish red phone that illuminated when in use is the ultimate office accessory. I'd like one like that for my home office.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (TN0g+)

203 The entire MN budget is about $60B
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And they just announced the upcoming budget is $3B in the red.

Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (I7J98)

204 USAID has got nothing on Somali Medicaid and Covid fraud. Take note, Democrats, and hire Somalis next time you want to steal some really big money.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (UQXxb)

205 "So according to the Press Cole admitted to the bombs and..... he's a supporter of Trump....
Posted by: It's me donna "

He's buckin' for a pardon.

Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:07 PM (vFG9F)

206 This onion is bigger each hour it seems. How many other states are like this? We know the big cities are, of course. Chicago is disaster pants. NYC is going to be Arkham Asylum times infinity. DC is DC. So glad I don't have to go to FEMA HQ any more.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 02:08 PM (Q0yOR)

207 I suspect part of this could be they just didn't care and thought they were going to win so it really doesn't matter. Everything is corrupt and graft- laden.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Or the top-tier Dems knew Kamala was a retard destined to lose, and didn't want to destroy their future presidential opportunities. So Harris had to pick from 2nd and 3rd tier losers that all have skeletons in their closets.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:08 PM (JCZqz)

208 171 You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

Ariana is also turning into a drugged-up Skeleton...

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:09 PM (UnA8+)

209 See #10.
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:04 PM (vFG9F)

Whell shit......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

210 Where the hell did they dig up that pusillanimous police chief - who, incidentally, is inciting violence against ICE?

Are we really going to be seeing shootouts between ICE and local police department personnel soon?

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (mADJX)

211 "But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin."

It looks like they were unbelievably stupid for not realizing who Bruce Wayne was, but they actually knew the secret and were just playing dumb.

Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (vFG9F)

212 199 I've never understood how these people just don't go ... missing.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (RVftD)

Because all the "I'd love to get a chance to make someone go missing!" dudes are all 60+ and no longer have the lung capacity to actually make it happen anymore.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (UnA8+)

213 207 I suspect part of this could be they just didn't care and thought they were going to win so it really doesn't matter. Everything is corrupt and graft- laden.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Or the top-tier Dems knew Kamala was a retard destined to lose, and didn't want to destroy their future presidential opportunities. So Harris had to pick from 2nd and 3rd tier losers that all have skeletons in their closets.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2025 02:08 PM (JCZqz)

A third option is that K's team did not competently vet him. She doesn't scream competence.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (RVftD)

214 Ilhan "Omar" Nur, Immigration Fraudster and America's Sweetheart

I read that as Swineheart...must be tired. I didn't think they took THAT much blood in phlebotomy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (ynpvh)

215 210 Where the hell did they dig up that pusillanimous police chief - who, incidentally, is inciting violence against ICE?

Are we really going to be seeing shootouts between ICE and local police department personnel soon?
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Newark. And his wife is a sergeant there.

Posted by: beckster at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (I7J98)

216 I bet if an ethical accounting team were given 6 months to go over Atlanta and Fulton county's books, it would be crazy, crazy, crazy to discover how much fraud exists, and how misrepresented the city and county's fiscal health is.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (TN0g+)

217 It's certainly not perfect, but I think Trump has bigger fish to fry.

Trump calls for Dulles rebuild as new concourse rises

https://is.gd/MiWYCU

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (Riz8t)

218 Ariana is also turning into a drugged-up Skeleton...
Posted by: XTC

~~Cocaine~~ ~~Ozempic~~ LGBTQIA+ is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Rick James at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (JCZqz)

219 You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

Ariana was willing to accept the molestations as a career move. McCurdy did not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

220 I've never understood how these people just don't go ... missing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:06 PM (RVftD)

Judges are protected under federal law.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (dK+Kv)

221 If they don't have one already, the Treasury and FBI need a special division to investigate municipalities and state programs that avoid basic oversight or accountability. At some point reckless disregard for accounting is criminal. Prosecute a bunch of these city officials under Sar-Box and let the rats scurry.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (mlg/3)

222 My girlfriend Joanna Bloggs has said multiple times that she knew our country was eventually going to fall apart, she just never thought it would happen while we're still alive.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (qUkBO)

223 >>> >>>You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not. Posted by: 18-1
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SEE: Lucille Ball on reference to the casting couch and success. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 02:02 PM (SZI4T)

It was ever thus. Shirley Temple has recounted that both she and her mom were taken to separate rooms by Hollywood execs and propositioned by them! Arthur Freed exposed himself to her, and Louis B Mayer went after her mom. The only reason Freed stopped was she laughed to hard at him he got furious and kicked her out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn4Ye74fZQk

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:12 PM (Eng1Z)

224 208 171 You'll note Ariana is currently a successful media personality and McCurdy is....not.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

Ariana is also turning into a drugged-up Skeleton...
Posted by: XTC
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She bought a ticket to ride, she bought a ticket to ri..iiide, She bought a ticket to ride and I don't care.

Posted by: The Rutles at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)

225 Just reading that SCOTUS taking up the birth rite citizenship case.

Good, let's put this to rest.

Posted by: WisRich at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (G0vdT)

226 218 Ariana is also turning into a drugged-up Skeleton...
Posted by: XTC

~~Cocaine Ozempic~~ LGBTQIA+ is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Rick James at December 05, 2025 02:11 PM (JCZqz)

She should lick lots more donuts completely...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

227 She should lick lots more donuts completely...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

How many licks does it take to get to the center?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)

228
How many licks does it take to get to the center?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)

It's a mystery every time!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

229 227 She should lick lots more donuts completely...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:13 PM (ynpvh)

How many licks does it take to get to the center?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)

You want that she should lick the hole?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:15 PM (ynpvh)

230 Not sure about that, killing the goat would mean one less Democrat voter. They'd probably only steal it, especially if it was an attractive one.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:58 PM (WDjG6)

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I concede the point, counselor!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (zbgwO)

231 It looks like they were unbelievably stupid for not realizing who Bruce Wayne was, but they actually knew the secret and were just playing dumb.
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (vFG9F)
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Plausible deniability since they knew Bruce "Batman" Wayne was not acting within the law in his role as a vigilante.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (ESVrU)

232 It’s just amazing how fast Democrats will sell out our country.

If the Chinese invaded California or Minnesota, Democrats would be the new Vichy Americans and imprison their wrong-think neighbors.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (4v5BO)

233 There is no way Maine doesn't have this exact same problem.

None.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (DeNdk)

234 Curious: can a very visible refusal by local and state police to assist ICE - or at least not intervene to prevent the agency from doing its work - qualify as, at least, obstruction of justice? It looks like we 're seeing what I would call "hostiltality" on the part of local cops: we're letting you move around and we're not physically stopping you, but we're not actively cooperating.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (mADJX)

235 They need to put that police chief in Supermax for sedition.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (4v5BO)

236 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: It bears repeating at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (PsX7R)

237 I really don't want to hear anymore about Ilhan Omar's alleged immigration fraud.
Either launch an investigation and get her deported or just admit they won't do anything about it. I get fed up hearing it as a cheap piece of rhetorical point scoring.
It shouldn't matter what her position is if she broke the law.

There really is no reason for Somalians to be in the West, they lack the educational standards and they are culturally incompatible, they offer nothing. 74% of Somalians in the UK are in social housing and they represent some of the highest numbers of foreign offenders in prisons. Send them home.

Posted by: STV at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (XMeSM)

238 I'm guessing that at least 50% of our $38 trillion national debt was simply stolen, primarily by the Democrats and their constituencies, foreign and domestic.

Posted by: Well, There's Always the Unexpected at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (qUkBO)

239
There is no way Maine doesn't have this exact same problem.

None.
Posted by: garrett

How about Columbus, OH?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (pkeXY)

240 She bought a ticket to ride, she bought a ticket to ri..iiide, She bought a ticket to ride and I don't care.
Posted by: The Rutles

That reminds me of this classic:

Meghan McCain Poses for Playboy: 'I'm Strictly Dickly' America's blondest beer heiress reveals that she "almost overdosed on Xanax" the day before the 2008 election because "I had gained a lot of weight" and "Obamamania was at its height." Also, she is "strictly dickly":

I've been considering getting his (Hunter S. Thompson's) quote "Buy the ticket, take the ride" tattooed on my body, but I haven't decided. I told my friend, and she said it sounds really sexual, so we'll see...

My friends from home came over to support me, and we got in my parents' big bed. They have this huge California king and we just stayed up eating ice cream. I'm not a lesbian, if that's what you're asking. I'd be the first person to tell the world I was gay. I'm not private about anything. I think you should live how you should live. But I'm strictly dickly. I can't help it. I love sex and I love men.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (JCZqz)

241 232 Given they were indoctrinated starting young I don't think it's that amazing.

Posted by: turambar at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (Q0yOR)

242 231 It looks like they were unbelievably stupid for not realizing who Bruce Wayne was, but they actually knew the secret and were just playing dumb.
Posted by: A Real Pirate at December 05, 2025 02:10 PM (vFG9F)
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Plausible deniability since they knew Bruce "Batman" Wayne was not acting within the law in his role as a vigilante.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:16 PM (ESVrU)

https://youtu.be/VMmOBiVCdzg

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (ynpvh)

243 This is the sine qua non of Democrats. They take these groups who vote in blocks for them, protect them and lavish taxpayer money on them. It may not be popular to say, but in NY Democrats do this with the ultra Orthodox Jews.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (4v5BO)

244 Native born African Americans who I know are corrupt in the blue cities must be looking at the Somalis and saying "damn"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (bfwj/)

245 We cannot live like this.
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Zip up your pants Ace, your white privilege is showing.

Posted by: A Moron at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (h+S+G)

246 >>How about Columbus, OH?

Locally, likely. But I don't recall Ohio having anything but 'R' Governorships for quite some time...sure, they are RiNO Govs...but not Dem.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (DeNdk)

247 Say what you want about Ariana, but the girl can sing and act.

I doubt she got her start via the casting couch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (XV/Pl)

248 Looks like ICE has started arresting Somali illegals in MN.

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (VE6XX)

249 235 They need to put that police chief in Supermax for sedition.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (4v5BO)

Supermax? Never heard of that particular rope company.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (JwNbV)

250 >>>Meghan McCain Poses for Playboy: 'I'm Strictly Dickly'

Thanks for the warning.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)

251 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (JCZqz)

Yeah, no warning from you is required...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (ynpvh)

252 Now MTG has become the darling of the left.
60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Lesley Stahl sits down with outspoken Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in the Georgia congresswoman’s first interview since abruptly announcing her resignation from Congress. 60 Minutes, Sunday. http://60Min

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (NpAcC)

253
How about Columbus, OH?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:18 PM (pkeXY)

Ohio State is in the CFP. No one there gives a shit about anything else.

And Day finally beat Michigan, so he gets to keep his job.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

254 >> It may not be popular to say, but in NY Democrats do this with the ultra Orthodox Jews.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 02:19 PM (4v5BO)

Get a load of this Retard.

I mean...he could be Governor of MN.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (DeNdk)

255 It is Friday. I want to have fun. I must repeat the mantra

"I must not be safe.
safety is the fun-killer.
safety is for children, customers and the help.
I will face safety.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn to see its fruits.
Where safety directives have passed, nothing will have been achieved.
Only I will remain.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (rbvCR)

256 @60Minutes
Lesley Stahl sits down with outspoken Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in the Georgia congresswoman’s first interview since abruptly announcing her resignation from Congress. 60 Minutes, Sunday. http://60Min
Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (NpAcC)

Target rich environment for a golden shower.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

257 But I'm strictly dickly. I can't help it. I love sex and I love men.
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We have so much in common!!!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 05, 2025 02:21 PM (h+S+G)

258 Apparently I missed Leo the Chicago Poop denouncing "Islamophobia" yesterday.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (UnA8+)

259 Can we not nuke St Paul? I live less than a mile from the governor's mansion. I'll promise to shout retard every time I walk my dog by the mansion.

Posted by: Dave at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (sbsMc)

260 I would get a great laugh if ICE is going after the Darmood clan in Minneapolis. The Dawiya ratted them out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (bfwj/)

261 It looks like we 're seeing what I would call "hostiltality" on the part of local cops: we're letting you move around and we're not physically stopping you, but we're not actively cooperating.
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (mADJX)
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"Hostiltality" also seemed to be Basil Fawlty's default setting. He wanted guests in his hotel, but then he went out of his way to antagonize them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (ESVrU)

262 Pattie Gonia, that drag queen that illegally put up the pride flags in National Parks and has major, major corporate sponsors behind them, is railing at Melania for the holidays.

"...In continuing to address Melania Trump, the drag queen jeered, “I’m sure that, not only you are gonna love these organizations, but your husband is too, because he personally slashed the grants that these organizations normally receive.”

I think Melania is FINE that your "eight diverse-led outdoor non-profits" got their federal tax money grant slashed. Get Patagonia to take the amount they give you and give it to the non-profits, then.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (Eng1Z)

263 What did MTG do to get off the reservation, Kemosabe?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (ynBxV)

264
THEN WHO BUILT GALLOWS

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (O2XQw)

265 Deport the community.
Problems fixed.

Posted by: torabora at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (KtOUo)

266
Who built the fake "gallows?"

And who "tipped off" or "found" the pipe bombs?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (O2XQw)

267 250 >>>Meghan McCain Poses for Playboy: 'I'm Strictly Dickly'

Thanks for the warning.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)

Wait. Which direction is Mega Mac-n-Cheese transitioning in?

Were Xey/Xem born with a penis, or are Xey/Xem getting a fake one made?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

268 Send them to Rwanda.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (ynBxV)

269 But I'm strictly dickly
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The feeling is not mutual.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (RgYBC)

270 >> Get Patagonia to take the amount they give you and give it to the non-profits, then.

Yvon Chouinard is a murderer. Guy is responsible for the deaths of many climbers.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (DeNdk)

271
"Buy the ticket, take the ride"

I say let 'em crash.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (pkeXY)

272 THEN WHO BUILT GALLOWS
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (O2XQw)
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John Gault?

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

273 China?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (ynBxV)

274 Wait. Which direction is Mega Mac-n-Cheese transitioning in?

Were Xey/Xem born with a penis, or are Xey/Xem getting a fake one made?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

I can't say. I've always just imagined her with going around all the time with dildos sticking out of every orifice and fold. It makes taking her serious more easy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (dK+Kv)

275 Yeah they’re a real asset to the country. Have you seen where the Somali’s have invaded? I mean, other than the ones who scored million dollar mansions at the taxpayer expense. It looks just like Mogadishu. A shithole.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (I2y5H)

276 What did MTG do to get off the reservation, Kemosabe?
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She's like a lot of women in Congress--they more or less follow the game plan, but about one week or so a month they seem to lose the plot and it erodes their respect.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (TN0g+)

277 269 But I'm strictly dickly
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The feeling is not mutual.
Posted by: ...

Apparently not...for post 269. You and Meg. To (or two) 69.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (JCZqz)

278 So Meghan McCain is "super straight"? The rainbow mafia will cancel her for that.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (Eng1Z)

279 But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin. - Bulg

At least the commissioner and the police chief didn't consider the Joker et al to be their principal constituents (on the other hand...maybe it wasn't mere incompetence. Hmmm...)

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (mADJX)

280 We have morr than enough retards. Get out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (ynBxV)

281 "Hostiltality" also seemed to be Basil Fawlty's default setting. He wanted guests in his hotel, but then he went out of his way to antagonize them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2025 02:22 PM (ESVrU)
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Now, now. He went out of his way for him and his staff not to mention The War to the Germans.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (krQz2)

282 Anyone buying their actual climbing gear from Patagonia deserves to slough off an ice wall.

Be safer buying your shit off Amazon. At least then, there's a chance.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)

283 274 Wait. Which direction is Mega Mac-n-Cheese transitioning in?

Were Xey/Xem born with a penis, or are Xey/Xem getting a fake one made?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

I can't say. I've always just imagined her with going around all the time with dildos sticking out of every orifice and fold. It makes taking her serious more easy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (dK+Kv)

Gives a whole new meaning to folding...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (ynpvh)

284 BTW God Bless Task Force Ranger, and f Somalia forever.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (I2y5H)

285 We had some ICE raids a couple months ago in my city. Officially we are a sanctuary city, county and state. The local cops I know helped ICE quietly and everyone looked the other way. I'm sure some ahole leftist will scream if it happens again but tough

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (bfwj/)

286 Goggles they nothin

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (bXbFr)

287 279 But pretty incompetent, if you ask me. He and Commish Gordon couldn't do jack shit without Batman and Robin. - Bulg

At least the commissioner and the police chief didn't consider the Joker et al to be their principal constituents (on the other hand...maybe it wasn't mere incompetence. Hmmm...)
Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:26 PM (mADJX)

Wasn't the point that every cop except Gordon was paid off by the mob, until all the super-villains rolled up during "The Long Halloween"?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (UnA8+)

288 Pattie Gonia, that drag queen that illegally put up the pride flags in National Parks and has major, major corporate sponsors behind them, is railing at Melania for the holidays.

"...In continuing to address Melania Trump, the drag queen jeered, “I’m sure that, not only you are gonna love these organizations, but your husband is too, because he personally slashed the grants that these organizations normally receive.”

I, for one, am crestfallen that the gay burlesque circus theme will not be reprised in the White House this year for Christmas.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (Riz8t)

289 From the sidebar:

We're back to the fucking bamboo. Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations.

Lol. This guy. What a weirdo.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (RVftD)

290 Sidebar:

>>>We're back to the fucking bamboo.

I hate fucking bamboo.

>>>Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations.

$20 is it?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)

291 I think we're good on retarded garbage.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (ynBxV)

292 The only reason Freed stopped was she laughed to hard at him he got furious and kicked her out.

I'm reminded of a scene in Mandy were this turns out much much worse for the victim....

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 02:28 PM (sKqQm)

293 "Hostiltality" also seemed to be Basil Fawlty's default setting. He wanted guests in his hotel, but then he went out of his way to antagonize them. - "Perfessor" Squirrel

Exactly so. Kind of like me and relatives who just happen to "drop in".

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (mADJX)

294 I can't say. I've always just imagined her with going around all the time with dildos sticking out of every orifice and fold. It makes taking her serious more easy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (dK+Kv)

Gives a whole new meaning to folding...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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The things I learn here. I live a sheltered life apparently.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (WDjG6)

295 lol @ 289

Hordemind gets thread-bored at the same time, goes looking in the same place for new content, grabs same pull quote to comment on.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (dK+Kv)

296 Anyone buying their actual climbing gear from Patagonia deserves to slough off an ice wall.

Be safer buying your shit off Amazon. At least then, there's a chance.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)

The very best mountain climbing gear comes from Bell Helicopter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 02:29 PM (npFr7)

297 Bamboozled rhymes with Misled.

Posted by: Warai Otokoman-Schultz at December 05, 2025 02:30 PM (JwNbV)

298 >>> 276 What did MTG do to get off the reservation, Kemosabe?

It sounds like she had a meeting with Trump, she wanted to run for governor or senator and get his support. Trump told her she had no chance, according to his polling, and he wouldn't endorse her. Wouldn't back a losing race.

You know what they say about a woman scorned...she couldn't handle it. Is burning the whole thing down behind her as she leaves. Which shows she was never actually MAGA.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 02:30 PM (Eng1Z)

299 This is MAGA country!

Posted by: PG at December 05, 2025 02:30 PM (7B6QP)

300 I hate fucking bamboo.

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Slivers are no joke, Jack!

Posted by: Charlie Foxtrot at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (krQz2)

301 During The Battle of Mogadishu, these fuckers picked up everything they could to shoot and throw at us. The bullshit about friendly clans is just that, bullshit. We should have never let these people in our country.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (I2y5H)

302 None of you asked for the Meghan McCain Playboy pics?!??! Well, I'm here to help regardless. You're in luck...none of her photos were nudes. Weird for classic Playboy, but good for modern Playboy (and your lunch)

https://shorturl.at/sDdlv

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (JCZqz)

303 We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on uses.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 05, 2025 02:31 PM (ynBxV)

304 The very best mountain climbing gear comes from Bell Helicopter.
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Can you imagine what a life insurance premium would cost for a helicopter pilot who likes to climb mountains as a hobby?

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)

305 MTG looks like a damn picasso painting.

Eyes all cattywampus. Nose and mouth off doing their own thing. It's unsettling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (JwNbV)

306 nood universities

Posted by: barbarausa at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (enw9G)

307 As drinker muses 'who asked for this'

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 05, 2025 02:32 PM (bXbFr)

308 None of you asked for the Meghan McCain Playboy pics?!??! Well, I'm here to help regardless. You're in luck...none of her photos were nudes. Weird for classic Playboy, but good for modern Playboy (and your lunch)

https://shorturl.at/sDdlv
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar
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I'M NOT CLICKING ON THAT!!!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (h+S+G)

309 This is MAGA country!
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My life won't be complete if I don't get to yell that at least once in a public setting.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (TN0g+)

310 Strickly Dickly was slated to be a blockbuster gay musical starring some of the biggest names, writers and musical talent in the business but fell victim to unfortunate timing. The unchecked hysteria over AIDS and HIV caused all involved to shy away from the project and funding dried up. Even condom sponsor Trojan pulled out.

Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (PsX7R)

311
Ace's autism shines, again.

Once Ace sinks his hooks into something, he doesn't let go. Olivia Nuzzo has no idea what she's in for, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:33 PM (O2XQw)

312 You know what they say about a woman scorned...she couldn't handle it. Is burning the whole thing down behind her as she leaves. Which shows she was never actually MAGA.
Posted by: LizLem
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Any new movement attracts solid folks and those that want to ride the wave to fame and fortune. She was the latter.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 02:35 PM (WDjG6)

313 THEN WHO BUILT GALLOWS
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:23 PM (O2XQw)
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John Gault?

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 02:25 PM (krQz2)

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (dK+Kv)

314
Remember "prince" harry's "heroic" deeds in Afghanistan? Remember how some of them were video recorded?

Yeah, I said it years ago, and I'll say it again: staged.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (O2XQw)

315
None of you asked for the Meghan McCain Playboy pics?!??! Well, I'm here to help regardless. You're in luck...none of her photos were nudes. Weird for classic Playboy, but good for modern Playboy (and your lunch)
https://shorturl.at/sDdlv
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Who are you and why are you socking the Admiral? I look out of morbid curiosity, and that photo is definitely not from his stable of 'models'.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (QVmho)

316 >> Anyone buying their actual climbing gear from Patagonia deserves to slough off an ice wall.

Be safer buying your shit off Amazon. At least then, there's a chance.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 02:27 PM (JwNbV)

Before Patagonia there was Chouinard. Dude changed the company name to escape liability.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 02:36 PM (DeNdk)

317 At least Cartman used his own mudders credit card.

Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2025 02:37 PM (FhXTo)

318
Remember "prince" harry's "mates" on his "team," like he was some sort of super soldier?

Those weren't his fucking mates. They were his bodyguards. This kid has been a fraud since the day he was born.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (O2XQw)

319
noood

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 05, 2025 02:38 PM (O2XQw)

320 I don't think I'm alone in feeling frustration and fatigue over all the criminality being revealed without any consequence other than endless outrage du jour that goes nowhere. It's not a question of blaming Trump, just disgust at the perpetual inaction and futility of the system we purportedly now manage. Yes, it's great to bag the J5 bomber, but that's small beer, a sideshow.

What might offer a boost would be a far more proactive and personal (remember Alinsky) campaign against the media, and an aggressive public information/civics education campaign about the mutation of the democrat party into an out-and-out enemy of America. If we can't put them in jail, we can try to degrade and stigmatize them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2025 02:41 PM (WHfpM)

321 Who are you and why are you socking the Admiral? I look out of morbid curiosity, and that photo is definitely not from his stable of 'models'.
Posted by: BifBewalski

I'm the OG Ackbar, and my gals aren't all cave trolls. I like to mix things up

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 02:44 PM (JCZqz)

322 This isn't just an idle speculation. Somali pirates have "donated" -- paid in bribery -- $50,000+ to Democrat politicians for protection, and that's just the money reported in FEC filings.

Forget Venezuela. Send the Navy to the horn of Africa and shell Somalia back to the singularity event that created the Universe.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (x0n13)

323

Then send the Navy up the Mississippi to shell the Twin Cities.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 05, 2025 03:05 PM (x0n13)

324 Anyone can look up the number of Somalis that are unemployed and collecting endless benefits. 42% unemployed for working age Somali Americans.

My immigrant family would faint at those numbers - nobody, ever, was unemployed. We took every job we could find.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 03:14 PM (gDhA9)

325 Both belong in Prison for Life and even Longer

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2025 06:53 PM (wGqjj)

The Media Doesn't Know the Politics of the J5 Bomber, But They Can Say Defnitively That Brian Cole, Jr. is "A White Man"

The FBI traced electronic credit card purchases to find the J5 Bomber.

As you know, credit card receipts first started being kept by banks and vendors earlier this year -- I think it was late August -- so obviously Christopher Wray's Straight Shooters couldn't have taken this very obvious investigatory step.

The FBI carefully analyzed the Jan. 6 pipe bomber suspect's credit card purchases to isolate the components allegedly used to manufacture the two bombs, the newly filed criminal complaint obtained by Just the News shows.
The complaint, filed secretly on Wednesday, provides a detailed account of how the FBI identified and tracked the prime suspect in the case. It shows the FBI relied on a bank checking account and six different credit cards associated with suspect Brian Cole Jr. to the break in the case.
Notably, Cole appears to have compiled some of the materials the FBI alleges he used to construct the bombs long before the 2020 presidential election, the results of which preceded the Capitol riot which took place on Jan. 6, 2021, the same day the pipe bombs were discovered at the Democratic and Republican National Committees. The pipe bombs allegedly place the night before.
"During 2019 and 2020, COLE purchased multiple items consistent with the components that were used to manufacture the pipe bombs placed at the RNC and DNC. COLE used the Accounts to purchase these items from physical retail locations in northern Virginia," wrote an FBI special agent in the affidavit submitted to the court.
According to the charging document, Cole appears to have purchased "six galvanized pipes" matching those used in the pipe bombs on or about June 1, June 8, and November 16, 2020 at two different Home Depot locations in Northern Virginia. Cole also allegedly purchased "a mix of both black and galvanized end caps" on or about October 22, 2019, and March 10, June 20, July 8, and November 16, 2020.
The timers identified in the FBI laboratory analysis of the pipe bombs were allegedly purchased by Cole in June 2020 from a Walmart in northern Virginia.

Who could have imagined that a case about timer-detonated pipe bombs would be cracked by searching credit card purchases of pipes and timers? I award Christopher Wray the Straight Shooter Hypercompetent Professional Medal.

I don't like jumping on a conspiracy theory but I'm beginning to actually wonder if Biden and Wray deliberately tanked this investigation.

People on X are making claims about the bomber that I don't see being reported by the media yet. But given the media's credibility, I'm provisionally trusting X posters.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
14h
The January 6th pipe bomber terrorist was...
- a young black guy
- radical anti-Trump activist
- sued Trump & ICE & DHS
- extreme racial justice advocate
- works at his family bail bonds company that frees criminal aliens from ICE custody
Yeah, this explains exactly why the FBI & DOJ could not "find" this guy for 4 years. The Biden FBI had mountains of evidence against Brian Cole. Receipts, cell data, license plate, photos and videos of the crime. They knew exactly who did it!
But Brian's profile destroys their entire 'MAGA white supremacist insurrection bomber' narrative in one blow.
The FBI didn't "fail" to catch him.
Leftists protected their own.
This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history. What a nightmare...

@C_3
C_3
The J6 Pipe Bomber Brian Cole Jr comes from a far Left BLM family whose father sued the Trump Administration and wanted the Biden Administration to address "racism".
He had the same attorney as Trayvon Martin.
Does Chris Wray not arresting him make sense now?

Julie Kelly points out that the bomber bought the pipes for the pipe bombs, surprise, during the peak of the George Floyd Mostly Peaceful Riots. Months and months before he planted them in January. Suggesting he might have wanted to bomb targets during the riots.

Jake Tapper immediately pronounced Brian Cole, Jr., known for playing "Urkel" on Family Matters, guilty of the worst crime: Tapper claimed Cole was "a white man."

CNN anchor Jake Tapper was ripped by critics Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as "a white man."
Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on "The Lead."
His "white man" comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole's face that originated from the suspect's mother's Instagram account.

Cole's father is also black and once enlisted the services of Ben Crump, an attorney best known for his racial discrimination cases.
Viewers were stunned by Tapper's misrepresentation of the alleged pipe bomber.
"You can't make this stuff up," conservative pundit Benny Johnson wrote on X.
"Jake is sharp as a tack. Nothing gets past him. Dude's elite!" another deadpanned.
"Its impossible that he does not know what he is doing," one user speculated.
Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing "anti-white rhetoric."

But others were more understanding.
"Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian -- that may be a top 3 white name. So understandable mistake," one user joked.
"Clearly he never looked at the graphics. Probably just read a script," another suggested.

Jake Tapper identified the J6 pipe bomb suspect as a �30-Year-old white man.�

Idk about you but this guy does not look white to me. pic.twitter.com/Pcexq2OGlm
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 5, 2025

He is not even joking!

Jake Tapper labels the J6 pipe bomb suspect a �30-year-old white man.�

Does Brian Cole Jr. really look white to you? pic.twitter.com/MzJKKQRDev
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 5, 2025

Did I do thaaat...?

The media is sure his race is "white," but get very sketchy about his politics and motive.

What kind of extremist, WaPo? WHAT KIND? pic.twitter.com/Vh6Rh3gkD5
— Disinformation Expert Lizzy (@StarChamberMaid) December 4, 2025

Benny Johnson oversells this quote, but Kash Patel does talk about investigating the FBI to find out why they couldn't have done what the Patel-led FBI did five years ago: he says when they make their case in court, people will ask, "Why didn't these people do x, y, z 4, 5 years ago?"

I realize that turned into an AP Math question at the end but it's what he said. It makes more sense when you hear it.

MAJOR BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel says Biden�s FBI will be completely exposed in court for covering up the truth about the J6 pipe bomber:

"You're going to see where we were able to collect the evidence and make this case. Journalists will be able to look at it and say� pic.twitter.com/Kn4PRDzrZE
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 4, 2025

Happy Friday! Did you get a Snow Day?

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Posted by: GF at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (UhUim)

2 Fake Jake Strikes Again.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:11 PM (UnA8+)

3
ESPONJA!!1!!1!11

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (tljrc)

4 Did they assume xer gender?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 05, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)

5 DC jury will acquit.

Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (UNCeV)

6 Did you get a Snow Day?

Posted by: Ace

It's snowing here in NoVa, but not enough to close the schools.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

7 After all the stuff being dug up about the Family I saw a headline this AM that said Cole told the FBI he thought the 2020 election was stolen thus MAGA ...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

8 What's the big deal? There are a lot of white black guys...

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (Bo9Yf)

9 The script Tapper read from was written months ago in anticipation that the bomber was MAGA. They filled in the age blank and didn't check the rest of.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (erxM3)

10
Ace loves him some Jake Tapper.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (Y8DZL)

11 At this point, I have to assume that CNN is feeding the click-bait/rage-bait audience, as it's the only audience they have left.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (O7YUW)

12 No snow days here, ace.

But there is a new sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium. Her name is Ruby and she’s our first southern sea otter.

Squeeeee!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (W2Pud)

13 The "after the fact" investigation will now be the most fascinating. Who stopped the bomber from making future bombs with his "after the bombing" purchases? B/c why make more purchases if you aren't making more bombs...end of January and everything just stopped for him...we have 2 months to figure it out before the statutes will probably run on that accessory after the fact possibility...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (tOcjL)

14 If Tapper really did just make a stupid mistake, and assume, for whatever cloth-headed reason, that the suspect was white, my question would be: if he had known immediately that the man was black, would he have identified his race?

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (mADJX)

15 One wonders if Jake Tapper looks in the mirror in the morning and sees a proud black man.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

16 Does he have the gay gait?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (jc0TO)

17 We got a delayed start. Don’t know why, it’s a Navy base and we have our base ID’s.

Posted by: Accomack at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (UNCeV)

18 Is there any credible explanation as to why Tapper said the guy was white

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (QRv6r)

19 7 After all the stuff being dug up about the Family I saw a headline this AM that said Cole told the FBI he thought the 2020 election was stolen thus MAGA ...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

A - If he said it, he's lying, and doing so to try to help his future court case.
B - "Anonymous sources" have claimed he said this - we all know how truthful they are.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (tOcjL)

20
Jake Tapper never fails to disappoint.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (IifOV)

21 Obscure, hide, lie. Whatever it takes to prevent the truth from being known.

It works. Only 20% of voters know that Charlie Kirk was murdered by a crazed leftist. Just as many think the murderer was right wing.

The media has a new strategy. They can't win the battle of suppressing the truth like they did for 40 years so now they do everything they can to confuse people.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (zjgNU)

22 >>>"This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history. What a nightmare..."

Is someone going to tell him?

Posted by: Max Power at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (SwyyQ)

23 Whitey bad.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (Be17s)

24 18 Is there any credible explanation as to why Tapper said the guy was white
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (QRv6r)

Because it's always white supremacist's that's why !

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:17 PM (VE6XX)

25 18 Is there any credible explanation as to why Tapper said the guy was white
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:16 PM (QRv6r)

Racism present at CNN.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (tOcjL)

26
If Obama had a son...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (vPhiR)

27
"The Australians bombed pearl harbor today."

December 7, 1941

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (IifOV)

28 Willowed:

Then why not say Christian Era since it’s replacing Christ in previously used BC?
Posted by: the way I see it

When they use BCE it pisses me off...

That's why.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

29 8 What's the big deal? There are a lot of white black guys...
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 05, 2025 12:15 PM (Bo9Yf)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Shaun King at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (PiwSw)

30 10 Ace loves him some Jake Tapper. - Auspex

What's for lunch?

Jake Tapper flambé smothered in cringe sauce.

Posted by: Paco at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (mADJX)

31 In the 90s I used to mess around with and refurb vintage vacuum tube radios a lot, great winter hobby. Old school battery sets needed two different voltages - 90 volts DC for the tube plates and 6 volts for the filaments. Original batteries (9 pounds) are no longer available. I’d wire up 60 “AA” in series to get the 90.

The guy at Radio Shack was visibly relieved when I ‘splained why I wanted a metric crapload of batteries. Must have something to do with bad stuff, I dunno. But he kinda gave me the side eye at the register at first.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:18 PM (+tKFt)

32 And how come whitey is to blame for every evil in the world? And not all Somalis are scamming turds ? Hmmm

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Be17s)

33 I do see a white man wearing a tie... who is the black reporter?

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (XFXIk)

34 >>>Jake Tapper flambé smothered in cringe sauce.

hah. "Cringe sauce."

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (1wjle)

35 "This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history. What a nightmare.."

Oh man, this ain't nuttin'.

No snow day. But it was in the low teens outside this morning. The boys had to run the car for ten minutes before driving to school.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (1Nv0l)

36 It's like the FBI is corrupt or something.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (7RdcP)

37 Layers and layers of fact checking.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

38 "The Australians bombed pearl harbor today."

December 7, 1941

Today, Napoleon invaded Fiji.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

39 Jake Tapper humiliated after claiming Washington DC pipe bomb suspect wa... https://youtu.be/epfYFfG2DiU?si=sv6SPv6XsROj5Q2A via
@YouTube
Wherein Jake Tapper notes Jesse Jackson was a Jim Crow White Supremacist

Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (MUJd1)

40 I'm in Central Alabama. Snow days are few and far between in these parts.

But snow jobs like the pipe bomber business, those are pretty much day-ending-in-'y'.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (OUMaO)

41 .
@JakeTapper
so Jake not only did you not notice Biden was a dementia case, but you and
@ErinBurnett
imagine every violent human is white until proven otherwise? Might I suggest an optometrist?

Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (MUJd1)

42
"Planes piloted by the Amish crashed into the World Trade Center buildings today."

Sept 11, 2001

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (IifOV)

43 Shit. I am never buying any of that kind of stuff again using a credit card.

Cash is king.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (W7XSX)

44 Is there any credible explanation as to why Tapper said the guy was white
Posted by: Don Black

----

He's retarded?

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)

45 .
@JakeTapper

@OutFrontCNN

@cnnbrk
have a defacto internal style guide that says "violent criminal default is white trash" unless and until proven otherwise. "Trash" defined of course as "non-democrat" right Jake? This official or informal?

Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (MUJd1)

46 So FBI agents are just mindless automatons, doing whatever the FBI head honcho tells them to do (or not to do).

That's good to know, going forward. It also explains that ridiculous attempt for agents to imbed themselves at conservative rallies during the FJB regime.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (5yDGQ)

47 When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (W7XSX)

48 Think we will get a post on the Star Trek 90210 poster?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (erxM3)

49 When they use BCE it pisses me off...

That's why.
Posted by: Archimedes

What do you have against the British Clarinet Ensemble?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

50 "Urkel like bomber thinks 2020 was stolen" uh yeah retard we call that "fucking gloating" you stupid fucks

Posted by: sven at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (MUJd1)

51 Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.

-
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

52 So FBI agents are just mindless automatons, doing whatever the FBI head honcho tells them to do (or not to do).

I'm sure they're told where to allocate resources. They aren't free agents (so to speak).

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (Riz8t)

53 46 So FBI agents are just mindless automatons, doing whatever the FBI head honcho tells them to do (or not to do).

That's good to know, going forward. It also explains that ridiculous attempt for agents to imbed themselves at conservative rallies during the FJB regime.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 05, 2025 12:21 PM (5yDGQ)

In good news for that, there was obvious quiet rebellion b/c they sure didn't try that hard to fit in...quite the opposite actually...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

54 "I don't like jumping on a conspiracy theory but I'm beginning to actually wonder if Biden and Wray deliberately tanked this investigation."

This is a conspiracy theory? It's exactly what happened. They had a mountain of evidence on this guy from the jump -- including minutes of security cam footage of him with his odd body shape in distinctive shoes. They had the bombs and thus could track back where the components were bought.

The FBI can track grandmas across the country like alien bloodhounds if the old ladies were maybe possibly in DC on J6. But they can't find a guy practically posing for cameras on J5? Come on. The investigation was deliberately tanked. 100%.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

55 Shit. I am never buying any of that kind of stuff again using a credit card.

Cash is king.
Posted by: no one

-----

Was just thinking the same thing. Use gift cards. Buy them with cash at CVS.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (1Nv0l)

56 Well, maybe this guy identifies as a white guy...

Posted by: Ralph at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (8WZD4)

57 42
"Planes piloted by the Amish crashed into the World Trade Center buildings today."

Sept 11, 2001
Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (IifOV)

"CNN, and All Decent Americans, demand the administration drop a Nuclear Bomb on Lancaster, PA immediately."

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (UnA8+)

58 If you have to buy online that is. Otherwise, cash.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (1Nv0l)

59 What do you have against the British Clarinet Ensemble?

This one time, at band camp...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

60 If he s white Im doing lt wrong

Posted by: doug at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (Hy+R4)

61 I’m sure there are quite a lot of people who know the 2020 election was queered, but they think it’s a good thing. Or did at the time anyhow

Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (2NfTM)

62 56 Well, maybe this guy identifies as a white guy...
Posted by: Ralph at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (8WZD4)

He was doing a race-swap with Shaun "Talcum X" King.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (UnA8+)

63 We are in the middle of an El Nino heat wave here in WA. It's gonna be wet and in the 50's.
Crazy weather for December but I don't hate it.

May have to go up into the mountains to get my snow.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (xcxpd)

64
"Rosa Parks was a Filipino man"

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (IifOV)

65 Still snowing lightly here and I assumed everything had stopped because it's the DMV but apparently schools are open and roads are clear.
This means my day of not having to,do anything is over.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (t/2Uw)

66 He's white the same way Obama is white.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (1Nv0l)

67 56 Well, maybe this guy identifies as a white guy...
Posted by: Ralph at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (8WZD4)

That would be as true as his supposed claim 2020 was stolen.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (tOcjL)

68 Yahoo just put out "news" that Cole believed the 2020 election was stolen, "sources say".

So that makes him MAGA for sure ... or that is what they are implying. They leave out all the other facts that he was clearly Not MAGA.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (vbXSk)

69 61 I’m sure there are quite a lot of people who know the 2020 election was queered, but they think it’s a good thing. Or did at the time anyhow
Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:23 PM (2NfTM)

TIME magazine wrote an article about why it was necessary to "Save Our Democracy".

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (UnA8+)

70 Ben Crump.
There is danger here: Pam Bondi pandered to Crump during the George Martin trial for the death of Trayvon Martin. BIG TIME PROBLEM.

Posted by: jb at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (FY8KO)

71 My sense is that the Democrats, the party that runs DC for the most part, didn't want to diffuse the impression that a whole lot of violence was put into motion to keep Trump as president.

They were right in the middle of selling this thing.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (krQz2)

72 Has Tapper acknowledged Cole's lack of whiteness?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (8CIFn)

73 In the pic of the bomber on the Fake Fapper pic, he looks much thinner than in the pics we saw yesterday. Older pic? The pics of the guy from when he was arrested is a much chubbier guy.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

74 "You're the whitest black man I have ever met." Nick Cage to Samuel L. Jackson in "Amos and Andrew."

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (W7XSX)

75 How dumb are criminals to pay for their criminal equipment with a credit card?

Don't they watch any of the multitude of police investigative reality shows to know what not to do?

Even so not leaving a trail is an obvious goal.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (KDPiq)

76 51 Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign

Fine..... He resigns from Secretary of Defense to be the Secretary of War

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (VE6XX)

77 66 He's white the same way Obama is white.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (1Nv0l)

I don't care if King Barry, First of his F**kstick's white half doesn't count, as long as mine does.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (UnA8+)

78 Are we sure the bomber wasn't born a poor white child?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (XV/Pl)

79 If you have to buy online that is. Otherwise, cash.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

...just not at Walmart.

https://is.gd/q1ra3k

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (OUMaO)

80 I didn't know banks and credit card companies were keeping receipts starting this year. We're going to use cash for our purchases

Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (bHjkq)

81 The Black Face of White Supremacy!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (My0zW)

82 73 In the pic of the bomber on the Fake Fapper pic, he looks much thinner than in the pics we saw yesterday. Older pic? The pics of the guy from when he was arrested is a much chubbier guy.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

Estrogen makes dudes gain weight.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:26 PM (UnA8+)

83 How dumb are criminals to pay for their criminal equipment with a credit card?

Don't they watch any of the multitude of police investigative reality shows to know what not to do?

Even so not leaving a trail is an obvious goal.

Why, it's almost as if this guy isn't particularly bright.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (Riz8t)

84 He bought all his crap before the election was stolen.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (KDPiq)

85 Idk about you but this guy does not look white to me.
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Maybe he studied in high school, though.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (krQz2)

86 @76

>>Fine..... He resigns from Secretary of Defense to be the Secretary of War

We literally had a SECDEF who went AWOL for large stretches of his. tenure, but that was totes OK.

These people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (XV/Pl)

87
"Who could have imagined that a case about timer-detonated pipe bombs would be cracked by searching credit card purchases of pipes and timers?"

That's really the way they do it too.
I know, I watch CSI and that's the way they do it.

Posted by: Speller at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (pSotA)

88 >>>72 Has Tapper acknowledged Cole's lack of whiteness?

I was wondering that. As a commenter said, he's quick to claim black criminals are white, but I bet you he will never say a black criminal is black. I bet now that he's known to be black, his race just doesn't matter at all and isn't worth reporting on.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)

89 Every day is a snow day, but for some reason snow has been harder to get lately.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (3lCQj)

90 Good afternoon Ace.
We should wait to find out what Andy McCarthy thinks. On second thought , naaah

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (bfwj/)

91 Jake Tapper famously scolded white men for attacking Jewish people despite all the videos of the attacks showing them to be black, Muslim, or Hispanic.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)

92 The C.E. vs. A.D. is the real issue.

Demons hate the Latin, especially the Ave Maria.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:28 PM (W7XSX)

93 @81

>>The Black Face of White Supremacy!

No, that's Larry Elder.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (XV/Pl)

94 75 How dumb are criminals to pay for their criminal equipment with a credit card?

Don't they watch any of the multitude of police investigative reality shows to know what not to do?

Even so not leaving a trail is an obvious goal.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:25 PM (KDPiq)

Even dumber thing I recently saw :

A guy who murdered his wife paid for all the implements with Prepaid Gift Cards...

...BUT he paid for those cards with his credit card.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (UnA8+)

95 "Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian -- that may be a top 3 white name. So understandable mistake," one user joked.

-----------

Wearing glasses == Inherently white

/Next you'll be telling us he once went on a hike ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (My0zW)

96 At least he doesn't look like a tranny.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

97 Journalists will be able to look at it and say "Why didn't these people do this 4 or 5 years ago?"
---
I bet journalists won't though.

It might even be, "Why are they dragging up this from 5 years ago?"

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:29 PM (krQz2)

98 This is a conspiracy theory? It's exactly what happened. They had a mountain of evidence on this guy from the jump -- including minutes of security cam footage of him with his odd body shape in distinctive shoes. They had the bombs and thus could track back where the components were bought.

The FBI can track grandmas across the country like alien bloodhounds if the old ladies were maybe possibly in DC on J6. But they can't find a guy practically posing for cameras on J5? Come on. The investigation was deliberately tanked. 100%.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

The Joke

You

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (zjgNU)

99 "This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history."

Benny's not wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (2WIwB)

100 Happy Friday! Did you get a Snow Day?

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

Afternoon, Ace.

Snow? No, but it's gonna be a bit chilly up here for a few days. But I did take a day off to burn some excess leave.

How you doin'?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Wnv9h)

101 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

102 I am actually surprised he did not say 'Trump supporting white man.'

I mean, why not go all out?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y)

103 ...just not at Walmart.

https://is.gd/q1ra3k
Posted by: Brother Tim

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wtf

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (1Nv0l)

104 I knew that Lowes keeps a record of every purchase.

Doh!

I do miss the days when we could buy ammonium nitrate for our lawns.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (W7XSX)

105 Jake Tapper is a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

106 When they didn't immediately release the description of the bomber I knew he wasn't white. Admittedly black was last on my list of remaining ethnic description.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (KDPiq)

107 That first Benny Johnson tweet hits the nail on the head… Wray et al knew who this guy was a week or two after J6 and they didn’t go after him because it would destroy their J6 narrative (lie)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (xT8gx)

108 Pretty funny about the "white man" thing. Redundant example #2,346,723 of the intellect, seriousness, and professionalism of idiots like Tapper.

OT - Little Marco announces new "model" for foreign assistance, sans NGOs. Haven't looked at the details, but oh boy. Apparently talks about direct aid to foreign governments. Super-simplified, NGOs involved in foreign aid came about largely due to several reasons, one of which was ..... the need to *not* give direct aid to foreign govts., due to lack of accountability. "Budget support" - direct $ aid to foreign govts., had become a rarity by the 90s, for the same reason.

Fascinating in a pathetic way that the first most people had heard of many of these NGOs was from their current, deformed and corrupted version. Which in some cases bore no resemblance - stunning really - to their long-term form, with the big transformation (surprise!) coming during ..... the Obama years.

Of course the Universal Degradation that has afflicted every part of society for about 30 years also clearly played a part. So you had dumbed-down/brainwashed people staffing corrupted/deformed organizations. Amazing, really.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (U/Byj)

109 He bought all his crap before the election was stolen.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:27 PM (KDPiq)
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Stored would be all out if you didn't buy your bombing supplies during early bombing season.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (krQz2)

110 One interesting fallout from all of this is what an absolute dumbass Glenn Beck is. I already had a pretty low opinion of his intellect, but now? Wow man.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (3uBP9)

111 Dude on X claims this kid had emails associated with adultfriend finder and screen name was Hot 4 cock. Also used screen name brony on gaming website. Possible furry.

Im getting paid!!!! Full membership baby

Posted by: Woot at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (h+S+G)

112 "Why didn't these people do x, y, z[/] 4, 5 years ago?"

------------

"There are THREE Co-Ordinate Axes!"

/obligatory Picard

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:31 PM (My0zW)

113 51 Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.

-
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

/Types
/Deletes

Not today, Satan

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (pIfcn)

114 Sounds like the evidence is circumstantial.It has to be rock solid.

Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (+PfCm)

115 43 Shit. I am never buying any of that kind of stuff again using a credit card.

Cash is king.
Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:20 PM (W7XSX)

Pfff, nah. I gleefully await the day the cops come rolling in hot only to discover that, yes, indeed, I actually am just growing oregano indoors.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (JwNbV)

116 "This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history so far this year."

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (QRv6r)

117 In fairness, Cole does look like Don "No Soul" Simmons from Amazon Women on the Moon.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 05, 2025 12:32 PM (ph+d0)

118 To me,the issue isn’t as much that Jake said “white man” as much as had he gotten it his version of “correct” he’d have simply stated “man” or “Virginia man.”

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (1gF6W)

119 Tina Cole >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Brian Cole

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

120 Tapper and Urkel bomber have the same eyeglass frames

coincidence?

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (QRv6r)

121 The C.E. vs. A.D. is the real issue.

Demons hate the Latin, especially the Ave Maria.

I think BC vs BCE is in the running to achieve Ginger vs Maryanne and Longbow vs Crossbow territory.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

122 I am actually surprised he did not say 'Trump supporting white man.'

I mean, why not go all out?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y)
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Ed Krassenstein predicted we'd find ways to keep from admitting this guy was MAGA.

Looks like we've found quite a few ways.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (krQz2)

123 Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.

On what grounds? Or, he hurt your butt.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

124 My theory was at first that it was one of the alphabets that left the non-working bombs to further implicate the J6 protestors as insurrectionists .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (KDPiq)

125 The Criminal Conspiracy Cover-Up is always worse than the original crime (in this case, a #Fake Inoperable Bombs PsyOp).

Who was his handler, Ray Epps?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Neo-Jacobins: Anarcho-Terrorism & Assassination Culture Since 1789 at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (My0zW)

126 As Don ... alligators just pointed out, we are always being surveilled.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (W7XSX)

127 I do miss the days when we could buy ammonium nitrate for our lawns.
Posted by: no one

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By the ton!

Posted by: Timothy McVeigh at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (1Nv0l)

128 It has to be rock solid.
Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha

The Paolo, how you say, is tanned, rested, and ready!

Posted by: The Paolo at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

129 This is strange.
Saw a post by Whale Psychiatrist who is a pretty eliable X account that said someone had come up to Trump at the FIFA event and said something t o himand Trump got up and left. Then some other admin members also left. Like something was happening. Now post has disappeared.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (t/2Uw)

130 MAZE
@mazemoore
One of the worst takes you will ever see.

2022. Mehdi Hasan and another race-baiter claim that the January 6th pipe bomber has not been caught because the person is white.

According to Hasan, if the bomber had been black or muslim, he would have already been caught.

https://tinyurl.com/a6hf7pac

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (NpAcC)

131 Obviously this is the Netflix version of Brian Cole Jr.

Posted by: sigmadog at December 05, 2025 12:34 PM (/OiGE)

132 Ed Krassenstein predicted we'd find ways to keep from admitting this guy was MAGA.

Looks like we've found quite a few ways.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (krQz2)

Not so fast

Posted by: THE Media tying Cole to MAGA at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

133 I think BC vs BCE is in the running to achieve Ginger vs Maryanne and Longbow vs Crossbow territory.
Posted by: Archimedes

Except I seem to be the only one on my side of the argument.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (77rzZ)

134 Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign.

On what grounds? Or, he hurt your butt.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 05, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

Schumer knows about as much as Elizabeth Warren about how to run the military.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (KDPiq)

135 If you expect that your trail will be decently and properly ignored by All The Right People, you aren't going to waste very much effort covering it, are you?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (JwNbV)

136 Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign

Our troops will never get better, sooo, you can go fuck yourself, then you can go fuck yourself again, then take a break, and go fuck yourself some more. Then reward yourself with a nice volcano tan.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (snZF9)

137 "Biden and Wray deliberately tanked this investigation."

You have to understand how these people think - they wanted J6 to be ALL ABOUT right wing "violence" and prosecute/persecute MAGA heads. This bombing made it much more of a "both sides" narrative, which would be intolerable. So, slow down the investigation of that. All they had to do was de-resource it.

They knew up front, since the bombs were at both party headquarters, the suspect was likely some sort of anarchist.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gDhA9)

138 Fake Fapper didn't make a mistake with the "white man" comment. It was written for him. Someone wrote it without even bothering to look at the guy's picture.

How do I know this? Because of the deliberate reference to the guy's color. It was clearly intentional to signal to the oozing crudes that make up CNN's audience that the bomber is an Other. There's no way they ever would have mentioned his race like that if he was black or hispanic. No way.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

139 The interesting thing about this story is that after 4 years of being told it was a white supremacist MAGA guy turns out its an angry black lefty.

Shades of the DC sniper...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (sKqQm)

140 I think BC vs BCE is in the running to achieve Ginger vs Maryanne and Longbow vs Crossbow territory.

I think it will die a soon, natural death.

Ginger vs. Mary Ann will burn within us until we die.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (W7XSX)

141 Cash is king.

Credit cards assist Big Brother.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (ufFY8)

142 Ok, I'm slow today (got a nasty sinus infection) but I'm still not tracking on why Ace keeps referring to this guy as the J5 bomber.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (/HDaX)

143 Oops, Off, Sock!

For the record, the Paolo has assured me that he has no official position on the AD/CE question.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

144 Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign

That last guy was fat, looked like a third world dictator with his fake medals, and made the troops take what he knew was a poison shot.

F*ck you Schumer. Go back to eating cheeseburger tartare

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (sKqQm)

145 I perceive a paucity of pallor in this perpetrator.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (jc0TO)

146 Ah, the answer.
Trump was just awarded the FIFA
Peace Prize.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)

147 Ace:

You've got to understand. Jake Tapper... is colorblind. That's right. When he sees a man, he doesn't see Black or white. He just see a man. And defaults to white because he's blind.

In related news, Jack Tapper needs to be executed. There's no such thing as color blindness, as several highly-respected religious people for racial justice have stated (source: a quarter-dozen folks who call themselves several highly-respected religious people for racial justice). Either you are Black, you are racist, or you say you're color blind which means you're double-secret public racist. Per the HRRPFRJ (pronouced "Herpuffurge").

Posted by: Another Anon at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (4h45B)

148 142 Ok, I'm slow today (got a nasty sinus infection) but I'm still not tracking on why Ace keeps referring to this guy as the J5 bomber.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 12:36 PM (/HDaX

He planted the bombs on Jan 5th

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)

149 75 How dumb are criminals to pay for their criminal equipment with a credit card?

It's the 1% cash back from Discover Card that got me caught.

Posted by: Brian Cole, Jr. at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (oftw2)

150 Question: Where were all the ham ‘n eggers at the FBI in say Feb 2021 who must’ve known that tracing that guy and finding him was a trivial task for the FBI…. Did anyone resign in protest?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (xT8gx)

151 The only component missing is the clinking sound of the cell door on Christopher Wray.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (SZI4T)

152 In good news for that, there was obvious quiet rebellion b/c they sure didn't try that hard to fit in...quite the opposite actually...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2025 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

That may explain the Patriot Front.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (npFr7)

153 You have to understand how these people think - they wanted J6 to be ALL ABOUT right wing "violence" and prosecute/persecute MAGA heads.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gDhA9)
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Yup. They were selling "right-wing violence" and "right-wing domestic terrorism".

Any other variety of bomber would just give people "the wrong idea". This is the time when Democrats do NOT want to be in a "both sides" discussion.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (krQz2)

154 Jake Tapper is such a bend me over the table, gag me, and make me your gimp slave, dick juggling, bag of dicks munching, dishonest ass fondler.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (0RGA5)

155 Don't diss the Urkel!

He was in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood. He played the only teacher in high school the heroes respect.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (p9rFX)

156 So, they got this weirdo alive. If the FBI isn't totally corrupted they might ask this guy if the previous fibbies who were poking around this case ever got in touch and told him to lay low and nothing will happen.

Because it appears to me that is exactly what happened.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (NwnyJ)

157 116 "This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history so far this year."
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Just wait and hour or two and another will pop up.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (Wg6v7)

158 Do you all think the US gov will just take the eurofags fining american corps for not delivering state approved propaganda? In this admin maybe not, in the last they definitely would gladly. And when the GAPe finishes throwing the midterms to the left and then let them sweep everything in 28 it will come back full bore. The left means to win.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (3uBP9)

159 That may explain the Patriot Front.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (npFr7)
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Splitters!

Posted by: Peoples' Front of Patriotism at December 05, 2025 12:38 PM (krQz2)

160 Question: Where were all the ham ‘n eggers at the FBI in say Feb 2021 who must’ve known that tracing that guy and finding him was a trivial task for the FBI…. Did anyone resign in protest?

I have it on good authority that following illegal orders is...illegal.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (Riz8t)

161 When I first heard the name I thought it might be a relative of the Brian Cole Mets prospect. He was a stud outfielder who played a couple of years in the minors and was killed in a car crash at age 22. No relationship

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (bfwj/)

162 155 Don't diss the Urkel!

He was in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood. He played the only teacher in high school the heroes respect.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (p9rFX)

He was also in the horrible Direct-to-Video garbage fire "Who Made the Potatoe Salad?" (yes, spelled with that extra e)

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (UnA8+)

163 "Brian Cole, Jr., known for playing "Urkel" on Family Matters..."

In cross-examination during trial "Did I do that?"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (Vpqw1)

164
The FBI was tooting its horn about finding the Unibomber.

It was the Unibombers brother that turned him in. The FBI would still be spinning its wheels if he hadn't been turned it.

The FBI was SURE they had the Olympic bomber and said it was Richard Jewell. They were wrong.

The FBI is Keystones cops with a huge budget.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (IifOV)

165 The long ago: We have a problem with young black men committing crime

More recent: You know it is racist to talk about the race of people committing crime

A little while back: We have to talk about all these angry young white men committing acts of violence

Just the other day: In the news, more actions by multi-racial white supremacists

Now: The criminal is white. Don't believe your lying eyes.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (sKqQm)

166 He planted the bombs on Jan 5th
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)

Got it, thanks!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (/HDaX)

167 He planted the bombs on Jan 5th
Posted by: It's me donna

He planted both bombs, right? At the DNC and the RNC?

WTH was the purpose of targeting both sides? Just to sow general FUD and chaos?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

168 76 51 Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
Pete Hegseth is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Our troops deserve better.
He must resign

Fine..... He resigns from Secretary of Defense to be the Secretary of War
Posted by: It's me donna
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Well, Schumer is not qualified to be a fry cook as seen by his photo documented grilling technique so his credibility is right up there with Jake Tapper declaring black as white. Tapper is not even qualified to be a news reader on a backwoods AM radio station morning show.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

169 "Brian Cole Jr, 30, came clean while being interviewed by investigators, two sources told the Associated Press.

He also indicated to FBI investigators that he believed Donald Trump should have won that White House race, not Joe Biden. "

Yeah right. Is he trying to get PDT to pardon him?

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (vFG9F)

170 Jake Tapper is such a bend me over the table, gag me, and make me your gimp slave, dick juggling, bag of dicks munching, dishonest ass fondler.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (0RGA5)

I'm sensing a comment of the week. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (snZF9)

171 Jake Tapper is such a bend me over the table, gag me, and make me your gimp slave, dick juggling, bag of dicks munching, dishonest ass fondler.
==
Well, shame, after all, is part of the kink.

*buzzing sound, lights dim*

Posted by: Margaret Brennan at December 05, 2025 12:39 PM (h+S+G)

172 What's in your wallet?

-Posted by: Brian Cole, Jr.

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (QRv6r)

173 He planted the bombs on Jan 5th
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM

An important point when his mysteriously top notch pro bono lawyers claim that Trump already pardoned him, which they will.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (jc0TO)

174 The FBI was SURE they had the Olympic bomber and said it was Richard Jewell. They were wrong.

The FBI is Keystones cops with a huge budget.

Don't forget the anthrax mailer.

They blamed at scientist at Fort Detrick and libeled him repeatedly even though they had no evidence.

After years of screwing this guy over they picked someone else at his work who conveniently committed suicide.

Note it almost certainly wasn't that guy either.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (sKqQm)

175 151 The only component missing is the clinking sound of the cell door on Christopher Wray.

Posted by: Braenyard
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Sorry, Chris has a plane to Brazil to catch so he doesn't have the time to talk to investigators.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)

176 So.....

Now...

Why didn't either bomb go off if the picture is now of a motivated anarchist?

Myself, I think "kitchen timer" has something to do with it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (krQz2)

177 149 75 How dumb are criminals to pay for their criminal equipment with a credit card?
---------------
Well, his daddy is in the bail bond business and is against black people having to make bail. Seems kind of retarded, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (Wg6v7)

178 >>>142 Ok, I'm slow today (got a nasty sinus infection) but I'm still not tracking on why Ace keeps referring to this guy as the J5 bomber.

well, he planted them on January fifth. They were discovered on the sixth.

I know Julie Kelly had a theory that the guy seen visiting the RNC and DNC on the night of Jan 5 wasn't actually the bomber, and the bombs were planted on Jan 6 to make the J6 riots seem worse, but that theory now seems disproven.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)

179 I guess they will no longer refer to it as the "darkest day in history".

Now it'll be the "whitest day in history".

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (RgYBC)

180 He also indicated to FBI investigators that he believed Donald Trump should have won that White House race, not Joe Biden. "

I mean...no one actually believes 81M votes was honest. No one.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

181 For crime collection statistics, perpetrator Julio Gonzales-Garcia-Miguel will always be listed as “White”. Always thought that was weird.

A random flyer posted on a college campus - “It’s OK to be White” will be denounced as “hate speech”. That’s pretty bizarre, and I’d like to see every democrat grilled on this during interviews.

“Is it in fact, Ok to be White? Yes or no. If no, please explain. Use additional time after the next commercial if necessary.”

Posted by: Common Tater at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (2NfTM)

182

That piece of shit Walz is defending by attacking.

DARVO.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (och2J)

183 In cross-examination during trial "Did I do that?"
Posted by: CTHillary

I remember Monty sharing a meme on one of his DOOM! posts that showed Obama as Urkel looking at a graph showing the economy tanking, with the caption "Did I do that?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:41 PM (77rzZ)

184 Is there any credible explanation as to why Tapper said the guy was white
Posted by: Don Black

'Cause Trapper is a douchenozzle, imbecile, retard and a liar.

Always go with the most obvious facts first.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (cYBz/)

185 Glenn Beck is the Jim Cramer of crime scene investigation.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (3uBP9)

186 Apparently part of the reason the Jan. 6 guy was caught was Patel/Bongino scrapped the previous FBI team handling the case and got a fresh team. Surprise surprise, they solved it just weeks after being on the case!

Was the previous team tired, lazy...or paid off?

Apparently there is a lot of shakeup at the FBI resulting in wins and cases solves, and so the many of the FBI people against Patel/Bongino at first are getting on board now there is results coming in, and trust being built.

Posted by: LizLem at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Eng1Z)

187 Is this the same FBI that put all those horrible J6 rioters in prison?
Let them lose their natural life and rot in jail while they knew the J6ers were not guilty; but they went on with their happy lives pulling fat paychecks.

Is that the FBI we're reading about. And they've still got a job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (SZI4T)

188 I've got a naughty and nice list.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

189 180 He also indicated to FBI investigators that he believed Donald Trump should have won that White House race, not Joe Biden. "

"Sources" say I assume...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (VE6XX)

190 Brian should have employed clock boy on the timer. Colored folks sure hate a lot of people.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Wg6v7)

191 How dumb are criminals to pay for their criminal equipment with a credit card?

It took 4 years and one of the largest FBI investigations in history (supposedly) to find him.

Its hard to argue he was dumb if that's what it actually took to find him

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

192 He planted the bombs on Jan 5th

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)
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But nothing grew from it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (krQz2)

193 Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole

It. Was. Not. A. Gaffe.

Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (xNHSX)

194 An important point when his mysteriously top notch pro bono lawyers claim that Trump already pardoned him, which they will.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:40 PM (jc0TO)

So they're gonna admit he's guilty? A bold move cotton.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (RgYBC)

195 >>> Jake Tapper is such a bend me over the table, gag me, and make me your gimp slave, dick juggling, bag of dicks munching, dishonest ass fondler.
Posted by: Vengeance

Full of truth.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)

196 he only component missing is the clinking sound of the cell door on Christopher Wray
==
Trust Wray

Feb 18 2018
And
April 10 2018

(Larf)

Posted by: Q at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (h+S+G)

197 190 Brian should have employed clock boy on the timer. Colored folks sure hate a lot of people.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Products of our Hate Whitey and Hate Murica educators.

Abolish Colleges of Education and return to normal schools for K-6 (2 yr degree requirement) that actually focus on academics in those two years would be a vast improvement.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (WDjG6)

198 Its hard to argue he was dumb if that's what it actually took to find him
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

You could argue the FBI at that time was just dumber . But it's a better bet they knew who it was and just covered it up.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (KDPiq)

199 Don't be surprised if his name is buried in a pile of autopen pardons.

Posted by: no one at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (W7XSX)

200 In fairness police work isn't generally like you see in shows like CSI.

Police work is more like...

The suspect left his wallet including his driver's license at the scene of the crime

or

The suspect uploaded a video of him assaulting the victim to Tik Tok and bragged about how good it felt to abuse said victim while zooming in on his own face. Note the victim shared the Tik Tok video with us.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

201 Every FBI participant in a politically unsolved case should be fired and their salary clawed back. Or put in jail. Where is Christopher Wray?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (SZI4T)

202 I have always been at war with Eastasia

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (6gKW0)

203
So a lone dingbat did this on his own, and they didn't want to expose the politically incorrect truth about him, but now they've got him, the end.

But it still looks like it was directed and coordinated by the federal government. It absolutely looks that way. The weird indifferent behavior of the cops at the scene, etc. All that just goes away now?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (VWtfl)

204 On another note - this is another case of reporters and journalists turning around in front of you, bending over, spreading their cheeks with both hands, expelling flatulance (and other debris), and then saying "Wow, how about that weather today?". It's not even gaslighting at this point. They're stuck in some other reality, and somehow glitched halfway into this one.

They have their narrative. They're stuck on the stupid. Even when it's being shown live and disproven right then and there.

There's earlier cases, but go back to that NASCAR race back in 2021. The FJB chant was going strong. It ended up being on live TV during an interview with a racer after the race. And there, on live TV, the reporter said instead it was "Let's Go Brandon!". When you could hear the chant yourself. Trying to remake history, 1984-style, in the middle of it actually happening.

Posted by: Another Anon at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (4h45B)

205 Is there any credible explanation as to why Tapper said the guy was white
Posted by: Don Black

Because it's a script and the job of the "media" is to extract every bit of leftard value out of every story while burying anything else until they can move everyone to the next fake headline.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (RgYBC)

206 I'm sure that there has been a lot of easily tracked criminal activity on the part of the antifa types and the orgs that support them. But the ruling class regime always hid the crimes of their agents, probably still do for the most part because they are still running things.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (3uBP9)

207 Where is Christopher Wray?

Probably wherever Epstein Island II has been set up.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

208 195 >>> Jake Tapper is such a bend me over the table, gag me, and make me your gimp slave, dick juggling, bag of dicks munching, dishonest ass fondler.
Posted by: Vengeance

Full of truth.
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)

He probably has to pay someone for it, though.

A whole lot more than the $20 in town.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:45 PM (UnA8+)

209 Why would he plant bombs at the RNC and the DNC? What animosity does he have to the DNC?

The two bombs made more sense when the thinking was the bombs were intentionally fake and meant solely to try to make J6 look much more dangerous than it was.

But if the guy was leftwing tripe and a real bomber -- who was hoping to cause real destruction -- why would he target DNC? Antifa is fire-bombing ICE because they hate ICE. They're not fire-bombing DNC.

There's still much oddness to this story, IMO.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

210 He's a black white man.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (vFG9F)

211 You know who else was white? My mom who was also a whore.

Posted by: Barack Obama, Kenyan at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (R/m4+)

212 And now you know why Kamala--who was within the blast radius of the bombs, had they gone off--never, ever said a word about that threat to the life of the Vice-President elect.

Who told her who the bomber was?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (HXT0k)

213 The Leftists spin right now is ridiculous and only their most stupid useful idiots will believe it.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (KDPiq)

214 Tiger Woods, a 30 year old WHITE man is a pretty good golfer.

- Jake Tapper

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (n5tGW)

215 That Tapper screencap reminded me of an old meme showing a local TV reporter with an artist's rendering of a rape suspect on the right that looked exactly like him.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (36PRH)

216 Karoline Leavitt needs to a 10-15 minute compilation of clips of the media's narrative lies over the last 10 years and blast it in their faces at her next press briefing. We too easily forget the grotesquely corrupt saga, just one after another right up to yesterday and the "survivors clinging to wreckage" hoax.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (WHfpM)

217 He's a black white man.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM

No, he's a white black man.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (jc0TO)

218 He's a black white man.
Posted by: fd

"Better looking than a white man, but just as crazy!"
-- Chief Dan George

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

219 200 In fairness police work isn't generally like you see in shows like CSI.

Police work is more like...

The suspect left his wallet including his driver's license at the scene of the crime

or

The suspect uploaded a video of him assaulting the victim to Tik Tok and bragged about how good it felt to abuse said victim while zooming in on his own face. Note the victim shared the Tik Tok video with us.
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or

A simple geo location of cell phones in the area at the time of the crime. Its not hard. CSI shows are full of shit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Wg6v7)

220 I’m glad that the world has relaxed and we can go back to using the word ‘retarded’ when someone is being stupid, but we obviously shouldn’t wield the term as an epithet against those who are actually developmentally delayed like @Tim_Walz
.

https://is.gd/a5sf31

https://is.gd/aGQx1a

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

221 I would hope the current leadership at the FBI has an idea which of their crack agents were assigned to this case? I'd be interesting to hear what they have to say about their efforts on finding this guy.

And what sort of directions they received from management.

Not that anything will come of it....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (NwnyJ)

222 I'm sure that there has been a lot of easily tracked criminal activity on the part of the antifa types and the orgs that support them. But the ruling class regime always hid the crimes of their agents, probably still do for the most part because they are still running things./i]

While I don't know any leftist street thugs, the leftists I do know post everything crazy leftwing thing they do and coordinate over social media and text/discord/etc with their friends about it.

I assume the same is true in most of these cases but you note you rarely hear any police org discussing reviewing the social media/online presence of leftwing thugs and then arrresting people for providing material support do you?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

223 CNN has spent the last 5 years telling their viewers, without evidence, that the J6 pipe bomber was a crazed right-wing MAGA Trump supporter.

When the J6 pipe bomber turned out to NOT be a crazed, right-wing MAGA Trump supporter, Fake Tapper was hauled out to lie about it to continue the narrative.

That is not a "gaffe," which implies an honest mistake. This was intentional, flat-out LYING.

Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (xNHSX)

224 AD/CE was a minor academic issue -- really, the minorest -- when I was a junior scholar, pushing 60 years ago.

To still be All Cranked Up about it, you must have the roughest, toughest, rootin-tootinest Sunday School men's group that meets on Wednesday nights. Could you try to be any pettier?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (zdLoL)

225 Karoline Leavitt needs to a 10-15 minute compilation of clips of the media's narrative lies over the last 10 years and blast it in their faces at her next press briefing.
Posted by: Ordinary American

While in her bikini.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

226 MSM outlets are the "advertising department" of leftists. They aren't there to turn a profit, because marketing departments are expenses, not profit centers. They exist to get the leftist message out, and have zero interest in objective facts.

A functioning media would have already solved who planted the pipe bombs during the 4 years the FBI was sitting this one out.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (TN0g+)

227 192 He planted the bombs on Jan 5th

Posted by: It's me donna
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The bomb story is a distraction from their failure to cut the heads off the snakes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (SZI4T)

228 Products of our Hate Whitey and Hate Murica educators.

Abolish Colleges of Education and return to normal schools for K-6 (2 yr degree requirement) that actually focus on academics in those two years would be a vast improvement.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (WDjG6)

If you want a Hate Whitey book, look no further than Dr. Rev. James Cone's A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone was a respected ( ! ) professor at Union Theological Seminary for years.

Posted by: Shaun King at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (PiwSw)

229 Martin Luther King a 30 year old WHITE man fought for civil rights.

- Jake Tapper

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (n5tGW)

230 But why did he plant bombs on january fifth? Biden was about to be confirmed as the elected president. Did someone put him up to it, to provide a distraction the next day? Who?

Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (REL1l)

231 The OPSEC takeaway?

Cash&carry.

Plus don't wear designer stuff while doing dirty deeds.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (7rldP)

232 MLK was white too. What?

Posted by: Jake Tapper at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (Dv3i1)

233 They’re sayin he left pipe bombs at both rnc and dnc buildings. Wonder if he’s one of them goofy “burn it all down” anarchist civil war types.

I want proof, and the kind which the FBI didn't have time to cook up. I mean, I sort of thought I saw pictures of the guy and the guy was white. Am I misremembering something?

How soon before they produce a "manifesto" this guy supposedly wrote that expresses his love for antifa and hates all things MAGA?

He used a permanent marker to write "im gay haha i love antifa and also fuck trump. Also I'm black ans Trans and also Biden is old."

So let me guess, this person will be convicted and painted as a radical ANTIFA person, and the 1100+ J6ers who were tried and imprisoned were all pardoned. It’s just so blatant

Biden administration solved case at end of their administration. Dictator Donny delayed it because it was another right wing gun loving weirdo. They only released it because they changed it to fit their narrative and distract from other scandals.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)

234 The media pretended for months that George Zimmerman was an old Jew.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (RgYBC)

235
But if the guy was leftwing tripe and a real bomber -- who was hoping to cause real destruction -- why would he target DNC? Antifa is fire-bombing ICE because they hate ICE. They're not fire-bombing DNC.

There's still much oddness to this story, IMO.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

And who plants devices that don't work and then does nothing for five years? What has he been doing since then and who was he speaking to on his phone.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (jPh2t)

236 In fairness police work isn't generally like you see in shows like CSI.

Police work is more like...

The suspect left his wallet including his driver's license at the scene of the crime

90% of police work is them accidentally stumbling on a crime and the perp confessing to other crimes and ratting out his friends in a plea deal.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

237 dishonest ass fondler.
Posted by: Vengeance at December

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Is that a fondler of dishonest ass, or a dishonest attempt at ass-fondling?

Posted by: Timothy McVeigh at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (1Nv0l)

238 So now we're going to be subjected to Benjamin Crump and the congressional black caucus on full blast. "Cole is fighting the power" is about all they've got and they are definitely going to go there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (bfwj/)

239 They knew up front, since the bombs were at both party headquarters, the suspect was likely some sort of anarchist.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gDhA9)

Or that's what the bomber wanted you to believe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (npFr7)

240 I know Julie Kelly had a theory that the guy seen visiting the RNC and DNC on the night of Jan 5 wasn't actually the bomber, and the bombs were planted on Jan 6 to make the J6 riots seem worse, but that theory now seems disproven.
Posted by: ace
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We are swimming in a sea of Deep State Democrat and Uniparty ops which often makes distinguishing the individual trees in the forest difficult for even the best informed reporters.

That is part of the intention and reason of teh ops as well. Winston Churchill called deception plans for D-Day to be protected by a "Bodyguard of Lies"

That practice has been continued by our Deep State since WWII.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)

241 While in her bikini.
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

Honestly I would have to turn on the View to watch the left's reaction to that.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

242 Biden administration solved case at end of their administration. Dictator Donny delayed it because it was another right wing gun loving weirdo. They only released it because they changed it to fit their narrative and distract from other scandals.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)

Retard

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

243 Michelle Obama, a 30 year old WHITE man was the first lady of the USA.

- Jake Tapper

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (n5tGW)

244 I'm surprised they didn't try to make him a JOOOOO as well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)

245 Biden administration solved case at end of their administration. Dictator Donny delayed it because it was another right wing gun loving weirdo. They only released it because they changed it to fit their narrative and distract from other scandals.

Dat's retardit, suh.

Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (xNHSX)

246 During the entire Biden presidency the only thing the FBI was interested in was posting on their Facebook page how many January 6 protesters they caught and prosecuted.

They didn't want to screw up their narrative since the January 6 bomber was a black democrat.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

247 Every FBI participant in a politically unsolved case should be fired and their salary clawed back. Or put in jail. Where is Christopher Wray?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:44 PM (SZI4T)
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Steve Friend, a FIB specialist in child-trafficking, first got into trouble by complaining about being reassigned to a J6 protester case. He said that the FIB wanted to crow about a > 1000 cases on J6 protestors. The FIB wanted every available agent working on J6 protestor cases, even the simplest ones, even dividing up cases that would normally take a single agent, according to Friend.

It's suspicious that it might actually be the case that they did not have the resources to investigate the "J6 bomber" because everybody in the FIB was tracking down grannies who stood on Capital grass or the steps, and ignoring Ray Epps with both fingers in their ears.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:50 PM (krQz2)

248 Of course they tanked the investigation. The only remaining question is what are the reasons for tanking the investigation.

Posted by: Aside from just being malicious suckers of cock at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

249 234 The media pretended for months that George Zimmerman was an old Jew.
Posted by: ...
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Who went out hunting poor Trayvon becuz racist.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

250 Schumer knows about as much as Elizabeth Warren about how to run the military.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 12:35 PM (KDPiq)

Schumer pines for the intellectual and physical powerhouses represented by Lloyd Austin and "Pricilla" Miley

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (rbvCR)

251 George Zimmerman, a white hispanic, defended himself from a white assailant by name of Trayvon...

Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:51 PM (E21pe)

252 There are plenty of leftards who hate the DNC. Are we going to have to pretend otherwise?

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (RgYBC)

253 The media pretended for months that George Zimmerman was an old Jew.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (RgYBC)

Wait...you mean...no! I mean he killed that little 8 year old boy Trayvon who was playing in the parking lot of his mammy's house.

Posted by: Smooth Brained democrat voter at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (R/m4+)

254 >>>When the J6 pipe bomber turned out to NOT be a crazed, right-wing MAGA Trump supporter, Fake Tapper was hauled out to lie about it to continue the narrative.

That is not a "gaffe," which implies an honest mistake. This was intentional, flat-out LYING.
------

Put Tapper and Wray in adjoining cells so that they may fuck each other through the bars.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (SZI4T)

255 So let me guess, this person will be convicted and painted as a radical ANTIFA person, and the 1100+ J6ers who were tried and imprisoned were all pardoned. It’s just so blatant
======================
This idiot Reddit poster may have stumbled onto the truth without realizing it. Yes, my twirpy dude, prosecuting innocents was indeed a blatant act of tyranny.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (7UBWW)

256 CNN anchor Jake Tapper was ripped by critics Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as "a white man."

Has anyone other than us Extremist MAGA Fascists said anything about this or are we the only ones left who watch CNN?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (3nLb4)

257 But if the guy was leftwing tripe and a real bomber -- who was hoping to cause real destruction -- why would he target DNC? Antifa is fire-bombing ICE because they hate ICE. They're not fire-bombing DNC.

There's still much oddness to this story, IMO.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

And who plants devices that don't work and then does nothing for five years? What has he been doing since then and who was he speaking to on his phone.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (jPh2t)
____

Yea. I'm still not sure how to square the current belief that the guy was an actual bomber with potentially working bombs with the older belief that the bombs were clearly toys. Didn't we see pics of the bombs and have descriptions of them? They did seem like toys. And certainly, nobody in law enforcement acted at the time like they were real bombs. But now, the guy is getting charged as if they were real. I don't know one way or the other.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

258
How soon before they produce a "manifesto" this guy supposedly wrote that expresses his love for antifa and hates all things MAGA?

I'm reminded that the left still argues The Cock Curious Avenger is a MAGA guy even though he killed Charlie Kirk because....uh...he's white, he used a gun, and his father was a sheriff.

Ignore him having sexual relations with a squirrel boy and having gone off the deep left end of the pool once he went to college though...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

259 Zimmerman a Jew? Do not remember that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)

260 13,700 special agents at the FBI
35 000 employees

Posted by: Boris Badenov and Natasha at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (bHjkq)

261 233 They’re sayin he left pipe bombs at both rnc and dnc buildings. Wonder if he’s one of them goofy “burn it all down” anarchist civil war types.

I want proof, and the kind which the FBI didn't have time to cook up. I mean, I sort of thought I saw pictures of the guy and the guy was white. Am I misremembering something?

How soon before they produce a "manifesto" this guy supposedly wrote that expresses his love for antifa and hates all things MAGA?

He used a permanent marker to write "im gay haha i love antifa and also fuck trump. Also I'm black ans Trans and also Biden is old."

So let me guess, this person will be convicted and painted as a radical ANTIFA person, and the 1100+ J6ers who were tried and imprisoned were all pardoned. It’s just so blatant

Biden administration solved case at end of their administration. Dictator Donny delayed it because it was another right wing gun loving weirdo. They only released it because they changed it to fit their narrative and distract from other scandals.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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So they want to preemptively dismiss any state's evidence?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (36PRH)

262 George Zimmerman, a white hispanic, defended himself from a white assailant by name of Trayvon.../i]

The best part of the Trayvon circus that didn't get much press coverage was Trayvon supposedly telling his "friend" over the phone that he was going to assault Zimmerman because he thought the guy was gay...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

263 If Jake doesn't have severe hemorrhoids he hasn't been ripped enough.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sDNVV)

264 The Year of Our Lord

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (6U1c2)

265 259 Zimmerman a Jew? Do not remember that one.

You don't remember when he tried to recruit Mexico in WWI? Dude. Read a book.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

266 Zimmerman a Jew? Do not remember that one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2025 12:53 PM (bss/y)

What the name Zimmerman usually implies and the media let people run with it before showing a single photo, even though the story was months old when it went national.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RgYBC)

267 A guy in Miami named Zimmerman? I am ruling out a Cherokee.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:55 PM (jc0TO)

268 Good afternoon, all!!!

Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2025 12:55 PM (RWHIh)

269 252 There are plenty of leftards who hate the DNC. Are we going to have to pretend otherwise?
Posted by: ...
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Your talking about the communists; right?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (SZI4T)

270
Pathological liar Jake Tapper needs to be subjected to having a shepherd's crook placed around his neck and then be unceremoniously and violently yanked off the air in real time. Followed by an announcement from CNN that his contract has been terminated for cause.

Enough of his lying bullshit!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (xG4kz)

271 You know what I think would be the consequence of everything coming out, the elections steal, the J6 set up, the vote rigging, foreign interference, everything laid out for everyone to see?

It would greatly energize the left, "see the lengths our team goes to in order to win!" It would greatly drive their turn out. On our side it would even further neuter the Republican party. The Rs only react to fear. Many would just quit. Any resulting court cases would be drug out until the left seizes control again and it would all be put down.

The left means to win.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)

272 252 There are plenty of leftards who hate the DNC. Are we going to have to pretend otherwise?
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2025 12:52 PM (RgYBC)

Even the ones who hate the DNC still "Vote Blue No Matter Who", so does it really matter in the end?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (UnA8+)

273 Biden administration solved case at end of their administration. Dictator Donny delayed it because it was another right wing gun loving weirdo. They only released it because they changed it to fit their narrative and distract from other scandals.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)
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How dumb is this guy?

"Dictator Donny delayed it" for WHAT?! TWO WEEKS he had LEFT?!

And then WHAT was done for FOUR YEARS??!!

But "Dictator Donny" gets another chance to dely it for 11 months!!

So, Delay

Biden: 4 WHOLE YEARS, 48 Months
Trump: ~11 Months (Two weeks + .5, but -.6 for only getting the keys Jan 20)

It's obvious the culprit of delay is the 11 months, not the 48 months!!!

You just have to ignore simple math!!

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (krQz2)

274 Zimmerman a Jew? Do not remember that one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

His performance of "If I Were a Rich Man" at his trial really wowed the jury.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

275 Miranda Devine's NYP 'scoop' reporting that there was huge internal strife at the FBI, accusing Patel of running a 'rudderless' organization and Patel and Bongino doing nothing but 'resume padding' has sure aged well, huh?

Love Devine, but she was definitely played for a patsy on this one. What are the chances that these insiders didn't know that something was coming this week re: J5?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (0CU3H)

276 Republican's do a lot of exposun and investigatun but, never any arrestun. They're funny that way.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (abIsI)

277 We do not have news media.
We have narrative media.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (6U1c2)

278 * whistles all innocent-like *

Posted by: Ray Epps at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (Dv3i1)

279 . . . but go back to that NASCAR race back in 2021. The FJB chant was going strong. It ended up being on live TV during an interview with a racer after the race. And there, on live TV, the reporter said instead it was "Let's Go Brandon!".
Posted by: Another Anon

Kelli Stavast was the NBC Sports 'reporter'.

Name her and shame her.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)

280 271 The left means to win.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)

This is an understatement.

The left means to kill.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (UnA8+)

281 The best part of the Trayvon circus that didn't get much press coverage was Trayvon supposedly telling his "friend" over the phone that he was going to assault Zimmerman because he thought the guy was gay...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

I believe he or the fat girl called him a "Creepy Ass Cracka".

Which is ghetto lingo for a violent homosexual looking to bust cheeks.

Posted by: Joe Ghetto at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (R/m4+)

282 Is that an actual screen grab at the top? Was he calling him a white guy with that picture up behind him? Because that would be hysterical.

I like the local news clips where they show an police artist rendering of a perp and it looks like the talking head.

Never not funny.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (jc0TO)

283 279 . . . but go back to that NASCAR race back in 2021. The FJB chant was going strong. It ended up being on live TV during an interview with a racer after the race. And there, on live TV, the reporter said instead it was "Let's Go Brandon!".
Posted by: Another Anon

Kelli Stavast was the NBC Sports 'reporter'.

Name her and shame her.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)

And it ruined Brandon Brown's career.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (UnA8+)

284 264 The Year of Our Lord
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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That's what grandpa always said.
Anno Domini

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (SZI4T)

285 The suspect left his wallet including his driver's license at the scene of the crime

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One of my clients, a meth addict who specialized in burglarizing storage lockers, left the bolt cutter he had just bought to cut the locks off at the scene of the crime with his fingerprints all over it. And the proceeds of his theft were less than the cost of the bolt cutter.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)

286 I'm sure Tapper will explain that it was an "honest" mistake. He just misspoke. My question is why it was important to point out in the first place.

Identity politics really are a pox. SNL actually does an ongoing skit called "News Team" where the black and white anchor compete to see if a suspect is white or black based on their name. It's actually one of the more funny offerings they do, and reflects the reality in actual news shows like Tapper's.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2025 12:59 PM (dIske)

287 Brian should have employed clock boy on the timer. Colored folks sure hate a lot of people.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Wg6v7)

All Clock Boy did was re-box the guts of a cheap Radio Shack digital clock. I doubt he would have been able to find a usable contact closure on the board if you put a gun to his head.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 12:59 PM (npFr7)

288 That's what grandpa always said.
Anno Domini

Posted by: Braenyard

Did he put it before or after the year?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

289 Morgan Freeman, a 30 year old WHITE man is an American actor.
- Jake Tapper

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (n5tGW)

290 Always liked how the Trayvon back story was covered up by the propaganda ministries. He was from the Miami area but was caught with stolen property in his HS locker. Because Obama wanted to avoid "kids" getting arrested in schools he was sent to live with his father instead of prosecuted. The rest is history, but Obama shall not be named

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (bfwj/)

291 test

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (ZxPkt)

292 Ignore him having sexual relations with a squirrel boy and having gone off the deep left end of the pool once he went to college though...
Posted by: 18-1

I don't know about Squirrel Boy, but Squirrel Girl is a joke Marvel character lesbians and ugly women supposedly like, because she's ugly, brutish and annoying, just like them.

https://shorturl.at/4OShc

There is plenty of fan art, cosplay, and even the Marvel Rivals computer game where they try and make her attractive, but the core, OG character is a deliberate uggo.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (JCZqz)

293 But why did he plant bombs on january fifth?

...fake bombs, wearing unique Nikes and a totally camo white sweat suit, unmistakably in view of cameras, for which he bought parts in 2019, entirely on his own, and then went home and resumed his life. Which evidence the FBI had for four years, and our side had for eleven months.

We know it's false, because the news reported on it.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (XFXIk)

294 I still think the guy sucks dick or is some other kind of pervert. I'm waiting for that to drop.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

295 I like the local news clips where they show an police artist rendering of a perp and it looks like the talking head.

Never not funny.

I've seen several of those recently. I'm starting to suspect they're AI.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VZKRzZPWTTc
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vfqtpLLhNLY?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

296 One of my clients, a meth addict who specialized in burglarizing storage lockers, left the bolt cutter he had just bought to cut the locks off at the scene of the crime with his fingerprints all over it. And the proceeds of his theft were less than the cost of the bolt cutter.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
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The jails are full of stupid people.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)

297
But others were more understanding.

"Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian -- that may be a top 3 white name. So understandable mistake," one user joked.

"Clearly he never looked at the graphics. Probably just read a script," another suggested.

Fuck that damned nonsense. I grew up with a white guy friend named Leon. Does that mean since Leon is/was a predominently common name among the black community that my friend should be assumed as such. Fucking asshole lefty racist shitheads.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (QVmho)

298 Brigitte Macron, a 30 year old BLACK man, is first lady of France.
- Candace Tapper

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (n5tGW)

299 282 Is that an actual screen grab at the top? Was he calling him a white guy with that picture up behind him? Because that would be hysterical.

I've read several reputable sources saying the picture was shown later on CNN. So, the pic up top is seemingly not an actual screen grab.

Posted by: Delurker at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (xNHSX)

300 mAYBE yUO cOULD sAY He wAS A gENTLE GiANT Of a WhITE mAN wHO WorE eXPENsiVE nIKe sHoEs.

Posted by: Kurtz at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (Fez1U)

301 Darren Beattie / Revolver news wrong in his 4yr reporting on DC pipe bomber. Julie Kelly (It was Antifa) wrong for 4yrs on her reporting. What is not being reported on Mr. Cole. Accused DC Pipe Bomber Sued Trump Admin. Over Illegal Immigration Before Allegedly Carrying Out His bomb placements in DC, Also Claimed ‘Racial Persecution’ By Lawyer. Cole and his father worked as bail bondsmen under multiple company names. One was StateWide Bonding, Inc., which handles immigration bonds, helping illegal immigrants evade prison. In 2020, StateWide sued the Trump DHS over supposedly abusing illegals. The Court of Appeals in DC threw out the lawsuit in November 2020. Two months later, Cole allegedly planted the bombs. Why is this not being reported?

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (VDxLY)

302 test
Posted by: Don Black

Sorry, you flunked. You are hereby declared ineligible to comment at AoSHQ.

Don't forget to pay the test fee at the receptionist's desk on your way out, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (77rzZ)

303 292 Ignore him having sexual relations with a squirrel boy and having gone off the deep left end of the pool once he went to college though...
Posted by: 18-1

I don't know about Squirrel Boy, but Squirrel Girl is a joke Marvel character lesbians and ugly women supposedly like, because she's ugly, brutish and annoying, just like them.

https://shorturl.at/4OShc

There is plenty of fan art, cosplay, and even the Marvel Rivals computer game where they try and make her attractive, but the core, OG character is a deliberate uggo.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 05, 2025 01:00 PM (JCZqz)
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The Marvel Rivals game version of Squirrel Girl was made to look attractive, which is what most of the cosplay is based on.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (36PRH)

304 The left means to win.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)
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They wrote books about how the Republican party would never win another major national election and they would slide into the ash heap of history.

Never once worrying about whether America would become 1 party and whether or not 1 party would have a vast majority of Supreme Court justices.

This is how you see them as the partisans they are.

Myself, I don't want to be left alone in the room with Republicans, because besides some rhetoric I share with them, I don't think they are that much better human beings--especially the politician.

I believe the Democrat party is the result of FDRs near dictatorship and subsequent 40 year dominance of Congress. Where they became DC.

Republicans wouldn't resist the effect of that much dominance either. It's dynamic, it's not static.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (krQz2)

305 There is plenty of fan art, cosplay, and even the Marvel Rivals computer game where they try and make her attractive, but the core, OG character is a deliberate uggo.

I think there was a drive to get her played by Milana Vayntrub who is pretty on the outside (and pure evil on the inside...)

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

306 OT, but Fed's preferred inflation measurement hit a new recent low (of 2.8 %) in October....

unexpectedly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (7UBWW)

307 The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
======
About a third to 40 percent or so are also mentally ill in many urban areas plus probably over 50 percent have substance abuse problems nowadays.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (WDjG6)

308 297
But others were more understanding.

"Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian -- that may be a top 3 white name. So understandable mistake," one user joked.

"Clearly he never looked at the graphics. Probably just read a script," another suggested.

Fuck that damned nonsense. I grew up with a white guy friend named Leon. Does that mean since Leon is/was a predominently common name among the black community that my friend should be assumed as such. Fucking asshole lefty racist shitheads.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (QVmho)

The 'fact' that Tapper was reading off a script makes it even more damning. The producers knew that the guy was black and deliberately tried to malinform the public.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (0CU3H)

309
Dmitri fix internet
not true he is former Spetsnaz
not true
work for Comcast now

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (ZxPkt)

310 I'm still not sure how to square the current belief that the guy was an actual bomber with potentially working bombs with the older belief that the bombs were clearly toys.

That "potentially" is doing a lot of lifting. The ATF has been known to take obviously inoperable firearms and replace/repair parts to make it minimally "functional" in order to prosecute someone for prohibited possession. In this case, I'd bet my milk money that "potentially" means that it was a pipe with some kind of explosive material inside of it. The "timer" is a one-hour kitchen timer on a device left 24 hours earlier. No sign of any kind of ignition device that I've seen. So yeah, "potentially" a bomb like a bottle of Karo syrup is "potentially" a pecan pie.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)

311 @303 that said the OG version was conceived with identity politics in mind, IMHO.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (36PRH)

312 Did he put it before or after the year?
Posted by: Bulg
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He wasn't a pedant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (SZI4T)

313 One of my clients, a meth addict who specialized in burglarizing storage lockers, left the bolt cutter he had just bought to cut the locks off at the scene of the crime with his fingerprints all over it. And the proceeds of his theft were less than the cost of the bolt cutter.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
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The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

One of the attorneys I used to work for told me that she once got a client off by telling the judge, "Your Honor, my client is an idiot." The judge accepted that explanation and let the guy walk.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

314 DC jury will acquit.

If not the judge will dismiss with prejudice.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (nAS9C)

315 Which is ghetto lingo for a violent homosexual looking to bust cheeks.
Posted by: Joe Ghetto

What if I want my cheeks busted, violently? It's consensual!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (JCZqz)

316 The Court of Appeals in DC threw out the lawsuit in November 2020. Two months later, Cole allegedly planted the bombs. Why is this not being reported?
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (VDxLY)

Because it doesn't fit their narrative... That's why the headline out there right now says Cole told the FBI he thought the 2020 election was stolen...MAGA !

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (VE6XX)

317 The suspect uploaded a video of him assaulting the victim to Tik Tok and bragged about how good it felt to abuse said victim while zooming in on his own face. Note the victim shared the Tik Tok video with us.
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or

A simple geo location of cell phones in the area at the time of the crime. Its not hard. CSI shows are full of shit.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Wg6

You don't watch the First 48 do you?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (KDPiq)

318 My apathy knows no bounds

@LeadingReport 41s
BREAKING: Epstein transcripts from Florida grand jury case to be released.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2025 01:04 PM (mlg/3)

319 Speaking as a dude who wears glasses even I can see this guy is black.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (i+bC1)

320 A simple geo location of cell phones in the area at the time of the crime. Its not hard. CSI shows are full of shit.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 12:47 PM (Wg6v7)

also, five hours of correlating databases and checking CCTV recordings doesn't sell pills

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

321 Never once worrying about whether America would become 1 party and whether or not 1 party would have a vast majority of Supreme Court justices.

I'd take it a step farther.

The left has achieved just about everything they said they wanted 30 years ago but...there is no stopping or even slowing down in the move to the left.

But...that's because they don't actually believe in anything except power. And the best way to get and keep power is permanent revolution

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

322 One of my clients, a meth addict who specialized in burglarizing storage lockers, left the bolt cutter he had just bought to cut the locks off at the scene of the crime with his fingerprints all over it. And the proceeds of his theft were less than the cost of the bolt cutter.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at December 05, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)
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The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)
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So is the WH press briefing room.

Posted by: Ben Rhodes and Karoline Leavitt, in a singular moment of agreement at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (ETIdo)

323 305 There is plenty of fan art, cosplay, and even the Marvel Rivals computer game where they try and make her attractive, but the core, OG character is a deliberate uggo.

I think there was a drive to get her played by Milana Vayntrub who is pretty on the outside (and pure evil on the inside...)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:02 PM (sKqQm)
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Her sperm donor/boyfriend lives a cuck existence (neither seen nor heard) in her media presence.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (36PRH)

324 Biden’s FBI will be completely exposed in court for covering up the truth about the J6 pipe bomber.

They’ll be “exposed”. Wonderful. Will it mean anything except higher standing among their peers for having done the tough job of protecting the United States from proving the right right?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (EXyHK)

325 CNN and ABC news this morning expect us to believe in his interview with the FBI yesterday he blurted out: " The 2020 election was stolen" That got out right from the interview room from Cole's mouth to the press. Case solved!!! It was MAGA.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (VDxLY)

326 Screen name on adukt friend finder. Was supposedly hot 4 cock.

One of his screen names was something brony. If the investigator on X is on target, kid's a mo, and potentially a furry.

Posted by: Q at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (h+S+G)

327 Speaking as a dude who wears glasses even I can see this guy is black.

Right?

Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (Riz8t)

328 I never vote Democrat or Libertarian, always Republican. What am I??

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (pDt9x)

329 Briantavious Cole Jr

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (ZxPkt)

330 321 I'd take it a step farther.

The left has achieved just about everything they said they wanted 30 years ago but...there is no stopping or even slowing down in the move to the left.

But...that's because they don't actually believe in anything except power. And the best way to get and keep power is permanent revolution
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

Without Permanent Revolution, you can't keep recruiting Activists.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (UnA8+)

331 Anno Domini's best role was as a slut on Golden Girls.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (L/fGl)

332 Calling him a white man while the graphic shows a black man sounds like an Ace bit.
Did he call them mostly-peaceful bombs and say he was "motivated by lack of green hot sauce at Taco Bell and hatred, but mostly hatred." too?

Posted by: Veeshir at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (WjSgq)

333 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
After being snubbed by the Nobel Committee for the last decade, Trump just received the FIFA Peace Prize in front of an audience of a billion people.

Checkmate.

https://tinyurl.com/4pju5jk8

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (NpAcC)

334 Dumb Criminal Story?

Cop I know arrested 2 guys who robbed a bodega, for $>50, with a sawed off shotgun.

They stole the shotgun from a house they robbed earlier in the week.

It was a Purdey Shotgun.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (DeNdk)

335 Without Permanent Revolution, you can't keep recruiting Activists.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (UnA8+)

Somebody has been paying attention!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (Zv8bq)

336 Myself, I don't want to be left alone in the room with Republicans, because besides some rhetoric I share with them, I don't think they are that much better human beings--especially the politician.

I believe the Democrat party is the result of FDRs near dictatorship and subsequent 40 year dominance of Congress. Where they became DC.

Republicans wouldn't resist the effect of that much dominance either. It's dynamic, it's not static.
Posted by: Axeman
=======
GOPe is King Log. They use their powers for generating wealth for them and their families.

Democrats are King Stork and will gobble up every bit of freedom, wealth, and everything they can steal from the rest of us. It is a criminal conspiracy masking as a political party. Same as the communist party as the eternal dictatorship of the proletariat (while allowing no real proletarians anywhere around power which is reserved for the nomenklatura) or Islam where you get the traditional despot marriage to state religion for control and plunder society.

You can vote out King Log aka GOPe; not so much for any of the other three because they see control as their destiny over their lessers.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (WDjG6)

337 Why does professional soccer have a peace prize?

Why doesn't the NFL or the WWE do likewise?

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (jc0TO)

338 The best part of the Trayvon circus that didn't get much press coverage was Trayvon supposedly telling his "friend" over the phone that he was going to assault Zimmerman because he thought the guy was gay...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
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The pro-Martin crowd constantly ignored a lot during its media lifetime.

I can't recall how many times I had to correct pro-Travon people on the 9-11 timeline. We should BOTH be able to see it written down.

I tell you, people who want to just peek their head over the transom just to get outraged is a strange development.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (krQz2)

339 Snowing here in the Intermountain West, but not the two feet I'd prefer in my yard.

We do have norovirus in the area and struck my family last night, so I could have gainzz soonish. However I am mostly immune to this stuff since 1976 when I infected my brothers. Nothing our sons brought home touched me. A simple cold, oh, yes, the germs of my choice that I will catch every time.

Poor Jake, hoping for the Great White Hope of terrorism that failed again. I find this hilariously pitiful.

Helen Keller could figure this out with the MSM.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (WONhk)

340 334 Dumb Criminal Story?

Cop I know arrested 2 guys who robbed a bodega, for $>50, with a sawed off shotgun.

They stole the shotgun from a house they robbed earlier in the week.

It was a Purdey Shotgun.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (DeNdk)
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Dayum.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (36PRH)

341 They’ll be “exposed”. Wonderful. Will it mean anything except higher standing among their peers for having done the tough job of protecting the United States from proving the right right?

Maybe we can get blowhard GOPer with a nice haircut to excoriate them in a house speech. That always produces results right?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

342 328 I never vote Democrat or Libertarian, always Republican. What am I??
Posted by: tubal
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Long suffering voter choosing the lesser of evils.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (WDjG6)

343 "324 Biden’s FBI will be completely exposed in court for covering up the truth about the J6 pipe bomber."

I'm sure they're trembling in their shoes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (WHfpM)

344 Remember also how they found that the University of Idaho murderer with far less to go on than this pipebomb creep.

You'll never find even the most obvious criminals if you don't look.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (iFTx/)

345 I never vote Democrat or Libertarian, always Republican. What am I??
Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:06 PM (pDt9x)
*******
A smart patriot.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (NpAcC)

346 The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)
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So is the WH press briefing room.
Posted by: Ben Rhodes and Karoline Leavitt, in a singular moment of agreement at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (ETIdo)
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Mere coincidence?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (0cOaq)

347 335 Somebody has been paying attention!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (Zv8bq)

I may be a Genetic Criminal, but I've got an IQ over 85.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (UnA8+)

348 Why doesn't the NFL or the WWE do likewise?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Hamas has a Pieces Prize.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

349 I may be a Genetic Criminal, but I've got an IQ over 85.

That puts you well ahead of Jake Tapper.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (Riz8t)

350 Hey Judge! Did you hear the one about the Jew, The Catholic and The White Boy?

Posted by: Bishop Pickering at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (R/m4+)

351 I heard an online sleuth yesterday on a podcast say: " They expect us to believe he carried his cellphone while he planted the bombs allowing for ping location?" Me: "Yes, some criminals are just that stupid"

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (VDxLY)

352 Watching Mike Benz covering this, from last night, right now.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:12 PM (DeNdk)

353 My dad (a criminal defense lawyer) had a case once where three idiots robbed a liquor store. The getaway car, which was parked right outside and easily visible from the glass-walled store, was an old sedan painted ... neon green.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

354 I was fake but accurate before fake but accurate was cool.

Posted by: Dan Blather at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (PsX7R)

355 It is almost comical that we generally all carry a device with us that identifies exactly who we are at all times and...its had almost no impact on people committing crimes.

Of course these same people won't just carry their phones...they'll take video of whatever crime they are committing and upload it to social media/sent it to their friends as well...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

356 347 335 Somebody has been paying attention!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (Zv8bq)
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Hey CBD, thanks for the help last night (and ditto for Doof)!

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)

357 Mr. Cole the bomber. When I first saw his photo I thought it was Steve Urkel from Family Matters the sitcom.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (VDxLY)

358 351 I heard an online sleuth yesterday on a podcast say: " They expect us to believe he carried his cellphone while he planted the bombs allowing for ping location?" Me: "Yes, some criminals are just that stupid"
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The really stupid criminals video their crimes and send them to their friends.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (Wg6v7)

359 History never lies. Many history teachers deceive to such a degree that history appears ficticious.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (EyfuW)

360 See, I would love to see a website/service/whatever that tracks predictions.

Who predicted the J5 bomber was a white MAGA guy? Who predicted it was an angry black lefty?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

361 George Zimmerman, a white hispanic, defended himself from a white assailant by name of Trayvon.../i]

The best part of the Trayvon circus that didn't get much press coverage was Trayvon supposedly telling his "friend" over the phone that he was going to assault Zimmerman because he thought the guy was gay...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)
________

Best part was the testimony of the fat retarded "girlfriend."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

362 neon green
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I was neon green before it was cool.
-- the Dildo

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

363 351 I heard an online sleuth yesterday on a podcast say: " They expect us to believe he carried his cellphone while he planted the bombs allowing for ping location?" Me: "Yes, some criminals are just that stupid"
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:11 PM (VDxLY)

Some people think all criminals have to be masterminds, or at least attempt to be masterminds.

No. Most are retards.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (UnA8+)

364
FLOTUS at a children's hospital for Christmas visit:
https://is.gd/8acp6s

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (w6EFb)

365 355 It is almost comical that we generally all carry a device with us that identifies exactly who we are at all times and...its had almost no impact on people committing crimes.

Of course these same people won't just carry their phones...they'll take video of whatever crime they are committing and upload it to social media/sent it to their friends as well...

Exactly. He was just that stupid.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (VDxLY)

366 I've never heard CNN report on a crime story by beginning the report with the perps race when he was black.

The anti-white shit coming from the left, even from white leftists, is beyond tiresome.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2025 01:15 PM (viF8m)

367 The jails are full of stupid people.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:01 PM (0cOaq)
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So is the WH press briefing room.
Posted by: Ben Rhodes and Karoline Leavitt, in a singular moment of agreement at December 05, 2025 01:05 PM (ETIdo)
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Mere coincidence?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2025 01:09 PM (0cOaq)
***

The best part about Karoline Leavitt is when she walks into talk to the Press Corps, everyone there knows she is the smartest person in the room.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (2WIwB)

368 357 Mr. Cole the bomber. When I first saw his photo I thought it was Steve Urkel from Family Matters the sitcom.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (VDxLY)
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I wonder if he was insulted when the "gait analysis expert" said he walked like a girl?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (36PRH)

369 Mr. Cole the bomber. When I first saw his photo I thought it was Steve Urkel from Family Matters the sitcom.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:13 PM (VDxLY)
_____

Well, Urkel was played by Jaleel White

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

370 The best part about Karoline Leavitt is when she walks into talk to the Press Corps, everyone there knows she is the smartest person in the room.
Posted by: Diogenes

The hottest, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (77rzZ)

371 No impulse control is the story for most criminals.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2025 01:16 PM (pDt9x)

372 @WhiteHouse
·
17m
PEACE PRESIDENT. 🕊️

@FIFAWorldCup
President Gianni Infantino awards President Donald J. Trump the inaugural 2025 FIFA Peace Prize, dedicated to an individual who achieved exceptional and extraordinary action to promote peace and unity around the world. 🇺🇸

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (ZxPkt)

373 Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian

-
It's B'Rian.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)

374 That "potentially" is doing a lot of lifting. The ATF has been known to take obviously inoperable firearms and replace/repair parts to make it minimally "functional" in order to prosecute someone for prohibited possession. In this case, I'd bet my milk money that "potentially" means that it was a pipe with some kind of explosive material inside of it. The "timer" is a one-hour kitchen timer on a device left 24 hours earlier. No sign of any kind of ignition device that I've seen. So yeah, "potentially" a bomb like a bottle of Karo syrup is "potentially" a pecan pie.
Posted by: Oddbob
==
Pictures surfaced of the bomb last night. Galvanized pipe, caps, wiring with gator clips, and batteries. The kitchen timer had a paper clip around the handle which was designed to make contact with the gator clip. From the actual FBI picture of the bomb, you see a wire going under the clock apparatus and a lump under the clock timer. That could have been a battery or not.

Link with pictures goes to the FBI dot gov wanted person page for the DC almost bomber
https://tinyurl.com/54anjaup You can see a picture of the time with the paper clip attached, the bomb in situ, and pix of the whole bomb.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (WDjG6)

375 No sign of any kind of ignition device that I've seen. So yeah, "potentially" a bomb like a bottle of Karo syrup is "potentially" a pecan pie.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)

Ignition device is probably the steel wool.
Not optimal, but it is easier to source than the Estees igniters.

Iffy though.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2025 01:18 PM (rbvCR)

376 >>>Leftists protected their own.

Did they? Possibly more than this lets on.

Remember, these are the fedsurrectionists. These are the same stand-up straight shooters who ran the muh Russia operation. These are the same Patriots who ran the Whitmer fednapping.

Highly likely that he was put up to it by the FBI.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (dK+Kv)

377 Not a fan of Jake, but the guys name is Brian

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It's B'Rian.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)
_____

"Fuck you!"

-- Brian McKnight

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (iFTx/)

378 Cop I know arrested 2 guys who robbed a bodega, for $>50, with a sawed off shotgun.

They stole the shotgun from a house they robbed earlier in the week.

It was a Purdey Shotgun.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:07 PM (DeNdk)

If the lawful owner got the shotgun back, could he have it re-barreled?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (npFr7)

379 371 No impulse control is the story for most criminals.
Posted by: tubal
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Pretty much concluded that impulse/short term thinking is actually genetically passed on. Low iq makes it worse as does substance abuse which affect how the brain works.

Aging and beginnings of dementia can do it as well.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (WDjG6)

380 Pictures surfaced of the bomb last night. Galvanized pipe, caps, wiring with gator clips, and batteries. The kitchen timer had a paper clip around the handle which was designed to make contact with the gator clip. From the actual FBI picture of the bomb, you see a wire going under the clock apparatus and a lump under the clock timer. That could have been a battery or not.

Link with pictures goes to the FBI dot gov wanted person page for the DC almost bomber
https://tinyurl.com/54anjaup You can see a picture of the time with the paper clip attached, the bomb in situ, and pix of the whole bomb.

What was the explosive?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2025 01:19 PM (Riz8t)

381 No sign of any kind of ignition device that I've seen. So yeah, "potentially" a bomb like a bottle of Karo syrup is "potentially" a pecan pie.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)

It could happen.

*stares longingly at Karo syrup bottle*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (dK+Kv)

382 The jails are full of stupid people.
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I have pissed off many cops by saying to their face; "You only catch the stupid ones."

Posted by: clarence at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (hqrXU)

383 Realize I'm late to the party, but I was hoping for some DM exchange with Tapper where he reacted to the criticism of incorrectly calling the pipe bomber white by DM'ing "Source?", and then getting replied just with the screenshot at the top of this post...

Posted by: bearski at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (Bhsk7)

384 CNN is now trying their best to turn Brian Cole into MAGA:

During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters, people briefed on the matter previously told CNN.

The FBI arrested Cole, 30, at home, where he lives with his parents, on Thursday.

Cole spent hours with FBI investigators and made multiple statements, the sources said. Dan Bongino, deputy FBI director, told Fox News on Thursday that the FBI had interviewed the suspect at length, but didn’t elaborate.

The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment for this story./i]

https://tinyurl.com/44zrerbp

So he planned for months to buy components of his pipe bombs because he wanted to blow up the DNC and RNC after the election was stolen from Trump in the future?

Uh huh. Right.
Something's not adding up there, CNN.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:20 PM (6ydKt)

385 A new parlor home -

Honkey
-or-
Brother
?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (/lPRQ)

386 373 It's B'Rian.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)

B'Rizzigizzi'an

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (UnA8+)

387 My Code Tag Kung Fu is very off today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (6ydKt)

388 Why does professional soccer have a peace prize?

Why doesn't the NFL or the WWE do likewise?
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 05, 2025 01:08 PM (jc0TO)

They had a war or two result from soccer games. Makes them touchy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (npFr7)

389 It was a Purdey Shotgun

I'm sure it was quite nice looking. Very purdey

Posted by: Boomer at December 05, 2025 01:21 PM (+abK1)

390 Ignition device is probably the steel wool.
Not optimal, but it is easier to source than the Estees igniters.

I will defer judgement to those with more information.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (3nLb4)

391 Some people think all criminals have to be masterminds, or at least attempt to be masterminds.

No. Most are retards.
Posted by: XTC

Same assumption is often made about Deep State operatives and media types. Again, most are about as deep as a mud puddle often because they disdain doing the dirty work themselves relying on staff to cover their pampered asses.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (WDjG6)

392 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (5IH8V)

393 I will defer judgement to those with more information.
Posted by: Oddbob

You must be new here.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)

394 I too, am still waiting for the rest of the story on this one.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (n5tGW)

395 375 No sign of any kind of ignition device that I've seen. So yeah, "potentially" a bomb like a bottle of Karo syrup is "potentially" a pecan pie.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 05, 2025 01:03 PM (3nLb4)

Ignition device is probably the steel wool.
Not optimal, but it is easier to source than the Estees igniters.

Iffy though.

I was thinking the same. What was it packed with? Black powder? Who knows? Tell us what was your best worst experience with Estes rockets?

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (VDxLY)

396 Jake Tapper is a sixty year old smart man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (pkeXY)

397 >>If the lawful owner got the shotgun back, could he have it re-barreled?

Potentially.

But it would never be worth what it was with the original barrel.

Cop buddy, who I used to hunt upland with, said he never wanted to beat two perps more than those guys.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2025 01:23 PM (DeNdk)

398 >>> This is the biggest FBI cover-up scandal in history. What a nightmare...

Even bigger than Comey trying to 8647 ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:24 PM (/lPRQ)

399 The kitchen timer had a paper clip around the handle which was designed to make contact with the gator clip.

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Got the timer from Bed, Bomb, and Beyond.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)

400 NBC is also going with the "He thought Trump Won The 20202 Election" angle:

https://tinyurl.com/2c73np34

WASHINGTON — The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Brian Cole Jr., 30, is cooperating with the FBI, NBC News has reported, citing a separate person familiar with the matter. Cole is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday. He was charged Thursday with leaving pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee in the hours before Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Trump has falsely claimed the 2020 election was "rigged."

Trump said something again,... 'without evidence'.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (6ydKt)

401 What was the explosive?
Posted by: Archimedes

IIRC, black powder. Dunno if home made, bought or smokeless (which would not have worked as an explosive) etc. and I would suspect that the Feebs are being vague to some extent to prevent copy cats from having a blueprint.

Plans for that crap have been floating around the internet for forever and before that in samizdat books like the Anarchist Cookbook or even old military field manuals about improvised explosives.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)

402 >>> Who could have imagined that a case about timer-detonated pipe bombs would be cracked by searching credit card purchases of pipes and timers?

Means and Methods!
National Secrets !!!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (/lPRQ)

403 Got the timer from Bed, Bomb, and Beyond.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Heh. Target was out of stock.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (WDjG6)

404 The kitchen timer had a paper clip around the handle which was designed to make contact with the gator clip. Got the timer from Bed, Bomb, and Beyond.

lol. I think they traced the timers to Wally World.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 05, 2025 01:26 PM (VDxLY)

405 Year 2025. The most dangerous and stupidous. People call it stupiddanger.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 05, 2025 01:32 PM (EyfuW)

406 I never vote Democrat or Libertarian, always Republican. What am I??

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Somewhat sane?

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 05, 2025 02:03 PM (kxFzr)

407 CE stands for Christian Era, while BCE means Before the Christian Era. So same as AD and BC. Some people will try to tell you the C stands for something else, but the dates are based on the presumed birthdate of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christian Messiah, so don’t believe any hooey. Now, Dionysius the Monk got Jesus’ birthdate wrong by a few years when he set up the Christian calendar since Jesus was a toddler when the Magi visited him in Bethlehem (τό παιδίον

, then came the Slaughter of the Innocents in Bethlehem ordered by Herod the Great, who then died in 4 BC (or BCE). Joseph was warned in a dream by God and so had hightailed it to Egypt with Mary and Jesus before the massacre of all the male babies and toddlers in Bethlehem. Thank God!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 05, 2025 02:17 PM (X5qGl)

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