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![]() This magical piece of art is inspired by our late, great Delilah. It captures perfectly her beauty, dignity and pride. It was given to Her Majesty at our National Specialty this week. She cried whenever she saw it. Hadrian the SeventhWhat a thoughtful gift to honor a great dog! Meanwhile, we have had reports of lizard hunters among our PetMorons, including some of our own kittens, who left one (no tail) in a food dish and another by the door. To show their love. ![]() ![]() Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today. If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week! If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, May 9 I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Meow...
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 16, 2026 03:22 PM (sAmhv) Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at May 16, 2026 03:25 PM (sAmhv) 3
Gone to the dogs!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2026 03:25 PM (Kt19C) 4
Delilah!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 16, 2026 03:26 PM (fE6HJ) 5
Dumdum has not been eating properly
But otherwise seems perky and normal Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 16, 2026 03:27 PM (fE6HJ) 6
Swiss dairy cows - the brown ones, that’s where Chocolate Milk comes from. That’s what Mom said
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 03:32 PM (hlNSv) 7
The kittens are all neutered now, the weather is warm, and we have fleas. Any tips?
Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 03:32 PM (rdeQO) 8
Bless the beasts and Morons.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:35 PM (4NO2D) 9
Happy Caturday everyone
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0) 10
I use Wondercide for fleas. It's cedar oil with a couple of other oils. Fleas are on a 10 day cycle and you'll need to spray where they sleep too
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 16, 2026 03:36 PM (7T8ei) 11
Nice piece of art Hadrian
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 03:37 PM (Ia/+0) 12
Patsy, the crazy cat, has settled into life as an indoor cat. She does like to look outside but doesn't try to sneak out the door. She gallops through the house some mornings. And she still has to be kept separate from the old cat.
It's baby bird and rabbit season, so I'm down to one old stray eating here at night. Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 16, 2026 03:39 PM (7T8ei) 13
Notsothoreau at May 16, 2026 03:36 PM
Thanks. Wondercide sounds great, but DH is allergic to cedar. Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 03:50 PM (rdeQO) 14
Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.
Short update on our blog. https://tinyurl.com/dg65258 I have a cute Hopper on my lap right now. Posted by: Joyenz at May 16, 2026 03:51 PM (2F0/Y) 15
My two daughters grew up knowing that chocolate milk comes from cows that they let forage in the cocoa bean forests. And we get strawberry milk from the cows that eat the strawberries in specially grown strawberry patches for the cows.
I mean, how else would we get chocolate and strawberry milk, right? For some reason they've stopped believing that as they are now teens. Cynical kids these days. Posted by: SimoHayha at May 16, 2026 03:51 PM (/ZkOF) Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2026 03:53 PM (qx7Zg) 17
KT, lookup Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth (DE) and Beneficial Nematodes. I've read they can be used inside and out to kill fleas.
Posted by: Joyenz at May 16, 2026 03:56 PM (2F0/Y) 18
Pepé Le Pew
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2026 03:56 PM (Cqx++) 19
I found a box tortoise trundling through my yard yesterday. I took it on a little adventure by bringing it inside to meet my kitties. They were curious, but didn't seem to be all that interested in it.
I took it back outside again, though I debated keeping it as a pet. But I think it will be better off outside in my tiny yard. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2026 03:57 PM (gnNyN) 20
So yesterday my wife turned the dogs out into the yard. And this was the day that one of the neighbor cats decided to make its presence known.
Greyhounds can get up to 45 MPH. The only reason the cat survived was she had just enough of a head start but it was a very close call. And the stupid bastard will be back in the yard some other time thinking that things will turn out differently. Posted by: NR Pax at May 16, 2026 03:57 PM (/k3in) 21
Well, yay! 'Nother furry friends thread.
Today started early, so I was tired and laid me down for a nap, regretting that I'd probably sleep through the pet thread. Fortunately, before I could even get snoozy, DaughterJo and her husband the Scientist arrived. They're going out of town to some concerts or something, and they dropped off their two dogs for the weekend. So that woke me up. They're good dogs. When we take Daisy the Oklahoma Malinois out to play fetch, Chowie and Maya race out into the yard and run around like lunatics, but they stay in the area and don't run out to the pasture or down toward the gate. Makes it fun and easy for everyone. Posted by: mindful webworker - it's a three dog weekend! at May 16, 2026 03:58 PM (cz4n2) 22
17 KT, lookup Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth (DE) and Beneficial Nematodes. I've read they can be used inside and out to kill fleas.
Posted by: Joyenz Second on Diatomaceous Earth. My first cat was once dealing with a flea problem so bad, he could only walk about two steps before needing to scratch. Mom applied that stuff and about one day later, things had greatly improved. Posted by: NR Pax at May 16, 2026 03:59 PM (/k3in) 23
humble request for some prayers for BeerBeer.
She had a swollen gland last week, so off to the vet. Had to go to emergency one, because regular had a catastrophic flood and is repairing walls, floors, etc. Only in one place, so they don't suspect lymphoma out of the gate, but antibiotics are kicking her tiny butt. For the first time in her nearly13 year life, she is showing her age. She is better today, but still not herself. Praying she continues to improve, so she can be ready for whatever testing might be needed if swelling comes back after the course of antibiotics. Posted by: barbarausa at May 16, 2026 04:00 PM (enw9G) 24
Swiss dairy cows - the brown ones, that’s where Chocolate Milk comes from. That’s what Mom said Posted by: Common Tater Swiss cheese Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2026 04:02 PM (Cqx++) 25
KT, lookup Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth (DE) and Beneficial Nematodes. I've read they can be used inside and out to kill fleas.
Posted by: Joyenz at May 16, 2026 03:56 PM (2F0/Y) I was going to suggest that. The cats here typically roll around on some bald spots here in the back yard, and it seems to keep fleas at bay. Sprinkling DE is probably a good idea. I know that it keeps mites from becoming a problem for chickens. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 04:03 PM (w6EFb) 26
Afternoon, pet slaves -- er, I mean man- and maidservants! (The former implies involuntary servitude, the latter not as much.)
As for me, I just finished changing the litter box. Joyenz, if you're here, I've been using the feline pine stuff for a while. I last changed the box on 4/29, and it took until today, 5/16, for it to reach unpleasantly aromatic status. Refilling the box after a quick clean took about half the remaining pine stubs. If this fill lasts two weeks, and the next one the same, I'll have gotten about six weeks out of one $12.00 40-lb. bag. In contrast, the 16-20 lb. clay stuff from Walmart, if it lasted two weeks, I was doing well, and it costs about $7 -- $21 for six weeks. I need to get a new pan, perhaps a stainless steel, and I'll bet this change process will be even simpler. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 04:03 PM (wzUl9) 27
Puppy Monday
https://youtube.com/shorts/hw9wls0ggik Posted by: Hour of the Wolf I suspect that puppy has some panda chromosomes. Posted by: mindful webworker - why walk when you can slide at May 16, 2026 04:04 PM (cz4n2) 28
Hadrian, the portrait of Delilah is elegant and noble -- very much as I imagine her to have been based on your descriptions.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9) 29
Our 6 year old cat has discovered that she likes drinking out of the kitchen faucet. Now, when I get up in the morning to make my coffee, jumps up to the sink, meows, looks at the faucet, and then looks at the faucet. If I dawdle turning on the water, she gets quite miffed at the slowness of her servant.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 04:07 PM (ksbjf) 30
So. My fatass cat Della cannot reach her butt. She probably spends hours each day struggling to reach what she can, and she stinks. Does anyone have tips on how to approach this? She HATES it if I try to wipe her. Wildly resistant, and grabbing her by the scruff barely helps. Acts like I'm killing her.
What she really needs is a butt shampoo and rinse at least once a week. Thoughts? Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 04:08 PM (w6EFb) 31
Gloria, the Guide Dog is adorable. Looks very much like the first dog, Rowdy, my parents had
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 04:08 PM (n3VHW) Garden, Home and Nature Thread, May 16 Edible Gardening/Putting Things By Hi KT, It is blistering hot here and I have put up many shade cloths in the garden and mulched everything. I am not sure if you have ever heard of perpetual spinach but I always have at least 6 plants going and it is pretty good at self seeding so I usually end up with more. I picked this today and even though it is over 100 degrees, the perpetual spinach just shrugs off the heat and it doesn't get bothered by pests. If I haven't planned well, I know I can always go pick some for a side for dinner. This bowl is a mix of red chard and perpetual spinach which I am doing with the recipe below. Here is a bit about perpetual spinach Perpetual spinach (Beta vulgaris) is a variety of Swiss chard, not true spinach, providing a heat-tolerant, high-yielding "cut-and-come-again" green that tastes similar to spinach but lasts for months. Unlike true spinach, which bolts (seeds) quickly in heat, perpetual spinach thrives in warmer weather, features smaller, tender stems, and lacks the intense, earthy taste of traditional chard. https://pin.it/3DcHOemMCPerpetual Spinach sounds great! Looks good! I also harvested my garlic. We had such a hot March that it was ready to be pulled. The heat in March decimated my mulberry harvest. I usually am drowning in mulberries but this year I got none. They set fruit just as it was super hot in March and they just shriveled and dried on the tree. I was hoping the trees would bud out again but they didn't. Hopefully I will get an epic harvest next year. Hope everyone is busy with their garden plans. I look forward to seeing what you all grow. Weekreekfarmgirl ![]() Tree of the Week: ![]() Tulip poplar in the backyard. The blooms didn't stick around long. - fd 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. I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Sorry I'm late! All my updates since yesterday disappeared. Not sure how.
Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 01:45 PM (rdeQO) 2
Birdies!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2026 01:48 PM (Kt19C) 3
Second!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:48 PM (cWLG3) 4
Fourth!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:48 PM (cWLG3) 5
Have you ever seen an iris flower at the bottom? No stem. I got one right now. Never seen that before.
Posted by: Dreams of Pruppets at May 16, 2026 01:49 PM (7Q0e+) 6
Absolutely gorgeous iris up top! It looks like Delft china.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 01:49 PM (kpS4V) 7
My cat ran into the room when I played the birdsong.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 01:51 PM (kpS4V) 8
Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Can't say much going on as in new plants yet. Chives and oregano are going gang busters Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0) 9
We have 2 kinds of Iris, out now is dark purple and celers yellow.
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 01:53 PM (Ia/+0) 10
We've finally got consistent warm weather and rain so I planted my leggy tomato seedlings (some stems broke, alas) and my hot peppers. All this rain is encouraging thick growth of cone flowers, zinnias, and marigolds I bordered the vegetable plot with.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 01:56 PM (kpS4V) 11
Beautiful irises in the photos. I also enjoy seeing many colors of them as FenSpouse and I took a walk this morning.
I didn't know that one of the reasons we find birdsong relaxing is that birds don't sing when predators are around. I also again wanted to recommend "Merlin Bird ID" which is a free ap you can get on your phone. It is from the Cornell Ornithological Lab. It will listen to birdsong and then give you the names of which birds are singing and a picture of you don't know the sounds. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 01:56 PM (OYsYV) 12
Tulip poplars have always intrigued me. Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 01:59 PM (rdeQO) 13
Well, let's see.
Green house cold crops are doing fabulous, though the mizzuna, Asian greens and bok choy are starting to bolt. After those go away, I have heirloom tomatoes in the grow tents that I transfer to the greenhouse for the summer. Lesson leaned, strictly plant determinate types (Roma) as I had Amish pastes llast year that filled the green house to the rafters. All the pots and bedding plants were planted two weeks before the avg last frost date when it was 80, and yup, frost threatens tonight. Scrambling around with covers. I'm always cautious but it was so warm for so long....dummy. My gardening hobby has turned into a job. We've tried to get to the point where we can grow our own produce year round in a zone 5, and we've been close to succeeding. Problem is that we produce so much we can't process or use it all, but I can't even give my excess away. I'm getting the impression most people prefer the grocery store. It's weird. Even the food bank people are picky and strict. Posted by: Derak at May 16, 2026 02:02 PM (TnlVK) 14
I didn't see no marmots or rabbits tearing thru the garden so it's a good week. Watch out for those aphids. There goes the neighborhood!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 16, 2026 02:06 PM (D1E+2) 15
So this year for some reason, we have a mighty flock of pine siskins hanging around. They usually migrate through but they decided to stick around.
They are small birds related to gold finches, but just a flash of yellow. They fly and dart and startle so fast, and every morning they hit the windows. Bang. An occasional concussion or two but they usually recover. I have a peach tree that just blossomed and the other day I noticed the pine siskins were....EATING the peach blossoms. GAH! Cute as they are, that's unacceptable. I flap a towel at them and they scatter pretty good. Stick to the conifers, you rascals. Posted by: Derak at May 16, 2026 02:09 PM (TnlVK) 16
I love that perpetual spinach! I've sent a link to my brother (the greensman).
Every Wednesday I take Mama Publius to get her N-plate shot at the cancer center. They have a fantastic bird garden setup outside the glass wall - dozens of feeders of all kinds, some hanging from trees and others from hooks. Of course the squirrels are there too. Very restful if you have to be there for hours getting an infusion (Mama just gets the shot, but it usually take them at least half an hour to make it up). Sadly, you can't hear the birdsong through the glass. I decided to buy one of those 6-hook sets on Amazon. Stuck it in the back garden here so the birds could avoid being attacked by Bunny. They love it! Often a half dozen or more, pigging out. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 02:10 PM (w6EFb) 17
Gorgeous iris, too.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 02:11 PM (w6EFb) 18
Oh yay. Hail.
Posted by: Derak at May 16, 2026 02:12 PM (TnlVK) 19
I highly recommend Historical Iris Preservation Society. Their sale is in July. They are having a sale the end of this month to rescue the beds of a breeder. Mine are finally blooming and I've been pleased with them.
Looks like all my fruit trees are settling in. I have one Asian Pear that still hasn't leafed out but does have buds. I still need to plant the garden part, which I will do as soon as we get past the 97 degree day tomorrow. At some point, I need to try and put in the irrigation supplies I bought. Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 16, 2026 02:13 PM (7T8ei) 20
Badgerwx here.
I've always liked tulip poplars, but no way could I fit a tree like that in my yard. The NC Extension says they can get to 150-200 ft tall and the trunk eventually gets to be 8 ft in diameter. The biggest tree I've planted here is a Red Rocket crape myrtle that's not quite as tall as my 2-story house. Since it's upright, it has a narrow footprint and doesn't need much limbing up. I found out the hard way that the shape of a tree is even more important than its final height. Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 16, 2026 02:15 PM (VnNy+) 21
I've been growing Benary's giant zinnias; purple yellow, red, yellow, lime.... they grow every bit as tall as dahlias and are as spectacular, perhaps even more so as they flower far earlier and blooms per plant far outshines the dahlias.
The dahlias provide much more in terms of range of color, shape and size, but the digging, dividing and storing are becoming a serious chore. I twist my knees at spring planting and fall digging, as well as trash my hands dividing. After 20 years of this, I'm seriously considering zinnias only. It's a lot easier to plant seed and grow transplants than screwing around with 100s of dahlias. But I love them so...... Tales of an aging gardener. Ouch season is here. Posted by: Derak at May 16, 2026 02:23 PM (TnlVK) 22
Schreiner's Gardens has a one day sale today - a free $42 iris with a purchase of $79 of rhizomes. Their stuff is gorgeous!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 02:26 PM (w6EFb) 23
I quite like irises, but I like pupils more.
Posted by: Don't you see? at May 16, 2026 02:30 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:31 PM (Ia/+0) 25
Ok, one more comment and I'll go do my book work, since it's so utterly crappy outside...
Five years ago we planted 10 -25 foot rows of asparagus. We fought with voles and weeds for three years, with nothing to show for our efforts. Last year, they started to really produce. This year, oh my stars! We're harvesting a pound or more a day. Our frig is filled with quart yogurt containers of cut fresh asparagus. You treat like cut flowers and they last for at least a week, or more. At this rate I may have to pickle some.... but made a batch of asparagus cream soup. Yowza. That's a real treat. Some of the spears are an inch in diameter. Oh so tender. Success for the patient! Posted by: Derak at May 16, 2026 02:40 PM (TnlVK) 26
I take the dog out to the lake. In one area, I've spotted two small patches of asparagus! There must have been a house there once. I planted asparagus last year, but I may check our the wild ones next year
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 16, 2026 02:43 PM (7T8ei) 27
Here in SW Wyoming we are in a severe drought. No gardens, landscaping, no outdoor water use. A couple of neighbors have very green lawns, while the rest of the lawns are dead. I think they are watering their lawns during the night. Some people think they are special. Posted by: four seasons at May 16, 2026 02:45 PM (3ek7K) 28
I have some spots in my yard where grass just won't grow. It is in very sunny spot...how can I tell if the issue is the sun or the soil?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm) 29
Dolly: " and my big…..uh… personality. Lord those, uh, that, would make anybody swimmy-headed.”
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2026 02:49 PM (Kt19C) 30
I think we in east have had a very wet winter/ spring. Everything is very green
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:53 PM (Ia/+0) 31
Skip, we've had a ton of rain, and everything is lush and green. Wonder how summer will treat us.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 03:00 PM (kpS4V) 32
This might sound weird, lol. Being in a severe drought has an effect in the cycle of life. You make it through winter and look so forward to planting in the spring. We depend on growing vegetables so we can and freeze them to have during the winter. I know we can't control the weather. Posted by: four seasons at May 16, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K) 33
Both balloons of Iris are over here. First bloom is the.low flowers, about the height of the leaves. A week or so after they fade, the plant shoves up a stalk about twice the height of the leaves with a single flower. Those are gone, as well.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 03:05 PM (Ffkme) 34
blooms, damnit, not balloons. FSCKin autocorrect.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 03:06 PM (Ffkme) 35
Derak, zinnias are absolutely the best flower to choose! Plus they self-sow.
I encourage everyone to try their hand at cleomes. They should be sown in the fall since they require cold stratification. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 03:21 PM (w6EFb) 36
Publius confessed that he prefers canned asparagus. I guess I should cross asparagus off the wanted list.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 03:23 PM (w6EFb) 37
20 and 25
Congratulations on the asparagus! And just pick three or so compatible dahlias each year or something. And remember that there are some interesting small types you can grow from seed. Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 03:30 PM (rdeQO) 38
The squirrels have decided that my tomatoes are for them. They have ruined eight so far. More than I have harvested.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:39 PM (4NO2D) 39
Pro-tip: Electrified fence.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 03:42 PM (qFwJc) Artificial Intelligence vs. Woke?![]() We have had a lot of discussion and more than a few laughs over AI in the past couple of years, but things are starting to get serious. Tucquer Carlson recently raked an investor in a huge data center campus and energy infrastructure in Box Elder County, Utah over the coals. Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian, does not have a sterling background. But Tucquer sort of suggested that investors like him should know what kinds of jobs AI would lead to in the future, and perhaps even have those jobs ready for new graduates from college. That seems sort of unrealistic. On the other hand, new graduates in certain fields face some real problems. Anybody see these students booing?At UCF's graduation last week, a room full of arts and humanities students booed a speaker for mentioning AI. Someone yelled "AI sucks." I get it. I genuinely do. They're still wrong. Here's why: These weren't CS students. Journalism. Creative writing. Film production. Advertising. People who spent 4 years and serious money training to write, produce, and publish. The floor on junior creative work is collapsing in real time. Their anger is legitimate. Their response is the problem. Photography didn't kill painting. It killed portrait painters who refused to evolve. The internet didn't kill journalism. It killed the business model that paid reporters to rewrite press releases. Every wave does this. Technology bifurcates the room. Adapters move up. Resisters get displaced. . .Who told these kids that a degree would guarantee a good job for them? Here's a voice from yesteryear: Eric Hoffer: “Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status…The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claims of a multitude of graduates from schools and universities. This army of scribes is clamoring for a society in which planning, regulation, and supervision are paramount and the prerogative of the educated. They hanker for the scribe’s golden age, for a return to something like the scribe-dominated societies of ancient Egypt, China, and the Europe of the Middle Ages. There is little doubt that the present trend in the new and renovated countries toward social regimentation stems partly from the need to create adequate employment for a large number of scribes…Obviously, a high ratio between the supervisory and the productive force spells economic inefficiency. Yet where social stability is an overriding need the economic waste involved in providing suitable positions for the educated might be an element of social efficiency. It has often been stated that a social order is likely to be stable so long as it gives scope to talent. Actually, it is the ability to give scope to the untalented that is most vital in maintaining social stability…For there is a tendency in the untalented to divert their energies from their own development into the management, manipulation, and probably frustration of others. They want to police, instruct, guide, and meddle. In an adequate society, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them. This requires, first, an abundance of opportunities for purposeful action and self-advancement. Secondly, a wide diffusion of technical and social skills so that people will be able to work and manage their affairs with a minimum of tutelage. The scribe mentality is best neutralized by canalizing energies into purposeful and useful pursuits, and by raising the cultural level of the whole population so as to blur the dividing line between the educated and the uneducated…We do not know enough to suit a social pattern to the realization of all the creative potentialities inherent in a population. But we do know that a scribe-dominated society is not optimal for the full unfolding of the creative mind.” Of course, eliminating human beings from media outlets also means losing human brains and the interesting ways that their firing synapses, loaded memories, passions and prejudices and even personal quirks can take the “basic information” on offer and fine-tune it to a particular issue, bringing nuance to a headline or making a vital connection to historical trivia that can change the conversation on some hot topic about which too many are “feeling” and too few are seeking clarity and depth. Only the human brain, coupled to human spirit, human emotion and development can take the headline, the social notion, the conversation and -– with an assist from the God-spark that resides in all of us — send it careening off into something else — even something altogether new and enlightening. Without that God-spark, all that is left of thought becomes non-thinking: commonplace, empty, dull and sterile. Two years ago my friends chuckled at me for my instinctive distrust of AI, my wary refusal to experiment with emerging tools, and my worry that ChatGPT had the potential to make parents expendable. They chided me for being paranoid, teasing that I sounded like Kathy Bates in “Waterboy,” mindlessly crowing “AI is the devil!” Recently, a very level-headed friend confessed that she too was becoming concerned; she wondered whether AI might be a sort of antichrist, or a forerunner — a contributor to the sort of chaos (or “chaos magick” So, what do you think? We don't want to give up the human voice, do we? Here's a non-scribe use of AI:
Would we know this if Elon Must hadn't bought Twitter?
Should we consider a past French Connection? Elon Musk re-tweeted a couple of threads by a French guy which are kind of interesting in both English and French. The first one apologizes for three French philosophers, plus 1968:
I want to offer my apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism). We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who forged, in the elegance of our language, the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West. We must understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality—everything is merely a staging of domination. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme. Deleuze taught that we should prefer the rhizome to the tree, the nomad to the sedentary, desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity. Taken individually, these are debatable theses. Combined, exported, and popularized, they form a system. And that system is a poison. For here’s what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism. . .read the rest by clicking translate on the tweet above. The second thread picked up by Musk discusses socialism:
Socialism is not an economic theory. It is a moral structure that needs three things to exist: 1. Scarcity to redistribute True? Your thoughts? It was a busy week in the news, although, to be honest, a relatively quiet one in meme-world. Trump went to China, the New York Times sank to what could be a new low even for that despicable rag, the Spencer Pratt campaign took Los Angeles by storm, a Hollywood director unveiled a new adaptation of The Odyssey in which Helen is black and Achilles is a woman, the Democrats’ redistricting scheme blew up, for the most part, in their face. But meme-makers responded most to another story, the appearance of the dreaded hantavirus. Here, as someone once said, we go again. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
wow
Posted by: doug at May 16, 2026 11:20 AM (Hy+R4) 2
Hmm. Don't get the AI killing socialism thing. Well, it's much worse than that, but I'm being polite. "Victims" are disappearing? Huh? In economics that's simply a distorting emotional term for "those who can't adapt or compete". That's going away?
Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:20 AM (U/Byj) 3
neat stuff
Posted by: doug at May 16, 2026 11:20 AM (Hy+R4) 4
Love the meme up top. Would also accept "AI can fuck off entirely, we've already become sufficiently helpless as a species...."
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 16, 2026 11:21 AM (kOluj) 5
AI will demand that I work to feed it...
Posted by: man at May 16, 2026 11:22 AM (XuXeR) 6
Up yours!
Posted by: Rosie the Robot at May 16, 2026 11:22 AM (QovLg) 7
Hmm. Don't get the AI killing socialism thing. Well, it's much worse than that, but I'm being polite. "Victims" are disappearing? Huh? In economics that's simply a distorting emotional term for "those who can't adapt or compete". That's going away?
----- That's sort of why I asked. I didn't include a tweet of students roaring their disapproval of the graduation speaker trying to suggest that AI would have benefits in the future (she was thinking in science/medicine), but many of the attacks that I saw were posted by people who suggested that they were socialists or communists. Many were students. Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 11:26 AM (rdeQO) 8
I think AI is going to kill itself with the whole datacenter debacle happening in communities across the US.
In order to get free, or nearly free land, electricity and water the proprietors go to small, rural areas and shove money at the local officials to; - rezone land - tart up the proposal for the local rubes - promise jobs, growth - downplay the negatives - rape the locals of resources - profit We are literally under siege monthly with local officials trying to lipstick the pig that is a datacenter. Nobody locally wants it. The local politicos however have $$ incentives to screw the locals. It's a goddamn mess. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 11:26 AM (jehhT) 9
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 16, 2026 11:27 AM (Apzx6) 10
I still dont get this AI thing. It is not, and can never be, sentient. We still don't understand what consciousness is ourselves, so it seems impossible to me that we could bestow on a computer program.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 16, 2026 11:29 AM (XvL8K) 11
That's how Greg Abbott roles!
Seattle considers state of emergency due to all of the 2SLGBTQIA+ refugees from Texas - Seattle will be fabulous now! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:32 AM (ndZc7) 12
I have absolutely no idea what that MSRA graph is supposed to show. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 16, 2026 11:33 AM (biznJ) 13
Two pretty big anti-terror successes. The kill mission against an ISIS big turban hiding in Nigeria, and arrest of an Iranian cut-out Iraqi "militia" guy involved in attacks in Europe and planning for same here.
One intriguing and puzzling thing in Patel's statement on the arrest. He thanks our "allies", "including Ambassador Tom Barrack". ?? He's the US ambo to Turkey. Unusual to see someone in that position involved in this sort of work. He's also not an "ally", of course. Whatever. Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:33 AM (U/Byj) 14
"AI is in the process of removing all three at the same time.
True? Your thoughts?" If this was the case, wouldn't AI be an existential threat specifically to the CCP? I don't see how AI removes victims when new victims are conceived as needed. You'll never run out of victims as long as they're just making shit up. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 16, 2026 11:33 AM (w/O5Q) 15
Cleaning out my truck box, maybe a 1WP
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 11:34 AM (Ia/+0) 16
"The scribe mentality is best neutralized by canalizing energies into purposeful and useful pursuits"
Canalizing. Interesting. My own thoughts on AI are deeply pessimistic. I've never tried to do anything creative with it (art is meaningless unless produced by a human, IMHO). I regularly ask Grok for various info that I would have googled in the past (not that I ever use google). If it's vital info, I wouldn't trust Grok, but check its work. If it's something simple, like "Who first released The Impossible Dream? - fabulous! Also useful for giving me a starting place for further personal research. Posted by: Deep Purple at May 16, 2026 11:34 AM (w6EFb) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:36 AM (ndZc7) 18
Scribes have been getting bad press since Bible times. Same with my profession.
Posted by: The Head Pharisee at May 16, 2026 11:37 AM (oftw2) 19
KT I don't attempt to delve into almost any of this, anything involving young'ns and or self-described "socialists" because they're variously not very intelligent, or very practically intelligent, or worldly, or motivated by anything more than will to power, envy, and resentment. Nothing there to work with.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:37 AM (U/Byj) 20
That top meme is good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 11:37 AM (bss/y) 21
Good morning K.T.
AI like anything else humans produce is a tool . It can be used for good or evil. I like that AI can help in uncovering frauds against the government. I don't like that it could be used as an all encompassing surveillance tool . Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 11:39 AM (gu0hJ) 22
17 OMG nooooooo! One-Third of Black Caucus Seats Threatened by Redistricting Fight Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:36 AM -------- The affected office holders should address this by screaming ghetto threats and insults into the faces of the nearest white people. Immediately. Immediately. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 16, 2026 11:39 AM (biznJ) 23
15 Cleaning out my truck box, maybe a 1WP
Posted by: Skip Please come back at 2PM Sunday. CBD needs the clicks. Posted by: AOS Scheduling Dept. at May 16, 2026 11:40 AM (oftw2) 24
We are literally under siege monthly with local officials trying to lipstick the pig that is a datacenter. Nobody locally wants it. The local politicos however have $$ incentives to screw the locals. It's a goddamn mess.
I get the desire to limit the number of big, power-hungry boxes blighting the landscape, but; 1) Places like Loudon Co. here in NoVa have practically their entire budget paid by taxes on DCs. Nobody complains about that. 2) People like playing with AI enabled by data centers. They almost never volunteer to just do without them. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t) 25
The affected office holders should address this by screaming ghetto threats and insults into the faces of the nearest white people. Immediately. Immediately.
So...Tuesday. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:42 AM (ndZc7) 27
/off Deep Purple sock
>>>He's the US ambo to Turkey. Unusual to see someone in that position involved in this sort of work. Lots of CIA activity in embassies. He facilitated on some level. Remember Chris Stevens. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 11:42 AM (w6EFb) 28
Here's a non-scribe use of AI:
This is the promise of AI. My favorite result now is the guys who solved the previously intractable protein folding problem - a hugely important contribution to human welfare. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t) 29
The real problem with ai is it comes at a time when popular media, creative arts in total, absolutely sucks and is of the lowest quality. They did this because low quality sold well initially. That's what the dummies wanted so that's what the dummies got.
But then the creatives directed all their leftover energy that wasn't needed for producing this simple minded pablum into constant political propaganda. And they have greatly overestimated the true value of their crap messaging. It has obtained negative value really. They could produce better quality work but that's harder, they have no experience in it, and that doesn't give them the opportunity to pat themselves on the back for being good party members pushing "the narrative". So everything is crap, the kind of easily produced crap trained monkeys could easily produce, or in this case ai. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 11:43 AM (3uBP9) 30
I keep seeing stories about AI being used to make incompetence have the outward appearance of competence. Combined with DEI, it looks sort of, you know, civilization-ending. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 16, 2026 11:43 AM (biznJ) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 11:44 AM (HdYcL) 32
You'll never run out of victims as long as they're just making shit up.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 16, 2026 11:33 AM (w/O5Q) So true. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 11:44 AM (w6EFb) 33
Fetterman Warns Democratic Base Is Growing More Anti-American
I'm pretty sure he'll leave the Democrats and become an Independent. The big question is with whom will he caucus? Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t) 34
While I love the tech behind AI, I absolutely despise most of the ways it's being used. Generative AI for creative purposes is taking probabilities harvested from actual creators and using it to create simulacrums of creative work, devoid of meaningful human input.
Combine that with the fact that the industry is pushing recklessly toward removing compute power from the individual consumer and putting out firmly in the grasp of Big Tech. Combine both of those with the fact that the power and water needs of AI data centers are driving up the cost of living for the average citizen. All said and done, we have a system where the average person has a lower quality of life and less access to technology and information, at a higher cost. Posted by: Part-time Thinker at May 16, 2026 11:45 AM (Wt18Q) 35
If accurate, wow. Trump: if you want to see a university system die, take half a million people out (Chinese students).
Umm. Where to begin. Yes, in many respects we want it to die. In its current form. Because it plays a large part in creating *everything Trump spends all his time trying to destroy or reduce*. Ahemm. But it won't die (that's idiotic) because of course it won't. It seems to have existed and flourished prior to one PRC national becoming a student. Gee, I wonder if agriculture, hospitality, meat processing, and unskilled manufacturing will die if we enforce immigration law? Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:46 AM (U/Byj) 36
But then the creatives directed all their leftover energy that wasn't needed for producing this simple minded pablum into constant political propaganda. And they have greatly overestimated the true value of their crap messaging. It has obtained negative value really.
I keep seeing stories about AI being used to make incompetence have the outward appearance of competence. Combined with DEI, it looks sort of, you know, civilization-ending. If I were a campaign consultant, I would be very, very worried about my future employability. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t) 37
Great, Hadrian!
Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 11:46 AM (rdeQO) 38
So far my opinion of AI is its fake stuff, not worthy of believing it
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 11:48 AM (Ia/+0) 39
Their friends don't like them.
Karol Markowicz: Face It, Jewish Liberals: You Have No Friends on the Left Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7) 40
I should add that from what I can see, AI (the industry, not the tech), is actively building two of those pillars of socialism: scarcity and an associated managerial class.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at May 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Wt18Q) 41
We are literally under siege monthly with local officials trying to lipstick the pig that is a datacenter. Nobody locally wants it. The local politicos however have $$ incentives to screw the locals. It's a goddamn mess. ================ What's the problem with a data center? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 11:49 AM (XJ22o) Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t) 43
Today I Learned:
Gordon Liddy performed an FBI background check on her before marrying his wife. Presumably she had no skeletons in her closet or illicit payments to subversive organizations. Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 11:53 AM (WXiAd) 44
President Trump paling with the Chinese might be the worst idea he has had. They tried to kill us all with Covid in my opinion.
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 11:53 AM (Ia/+0) 45
But I also think it creates more leisure for engineering, exploration, science.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 11:53 AM (bss/y) 46
How Data Center Alley Is Changing Northern Virginia
When data gets heavy in Loudoun County https://tinyurl.com/4w43fzr6 Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t) 47
Judicial Watch Sues for Records on $2 Billion Grant to Nonprofit Linked to Stacey Abrams
- Particular scrutiny will be used regarding payments to Waffle House. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:54 AM (ndZc7) 48
26 Fetterman Warns Democratic Base Is Growing More Anti-American
- Is that even possible? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:42 AM (ndZc7) Welcome to the Party pal! Posted by: John McLaine at May 16, 2026 11:54 AM (bss/y) 49
I've said this before, I'll say it again: What is a threat at this stage is not what passes for "AI" (which is nothing deserving of the label), it's human stupidity that uses it as an excuse to do foolish or even vile things.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at May 16, 2026 11:57 AM (N5734) 50
I keep seeing stories about AI being used to make incompetence have the outward appearance of competence. Combined with DEI, it looks sort of, you know, civilization-ending.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug It's not going to remove a lot of work in the intermediate; everything it spits out has to be rechecked. It may end up being only useful in discrete applications. The thing is that we're in a kind of anxious state because people insist it's the new arms race. Those that don't jump in will be left behind, but, at the same time, there's a potential for catastrophe for those that do jump in. Something to remember: this just the first iteration of AI. The next could be greatly advantageous or intensely destructive. No one knows. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 11:58 AM (diia5) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:58 AM (ndZc7) 52
Boy not much gets by Fetterman, does it. Sharp cookie.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:59 AM (U/Byj) 53
Something to remember: this just the first iteration of AI. The next could be greatly advantageous or intensely destructive. No one knows.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 11:58 AM (diia5) I'm praying for SkyNet. When we get the alerts that the ICBMs are flying I'm going to laugh my ass off until I get vaporized. Posted by: No more AI slop! at May 16, 2026 11:59 AM (TbWk/) 54
I've said this before, I'll say it again: What is a threat at this stage is not what passes for "AI" (which is nothing deserving of the label), it's human stupidity that uses it as an excuse to do foolish or even vile things.
That's just silly. It will be used exclusively for good. https://tinyurl.com/4dvn7bmf Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t) 55
AI, like the internet, is for porn.
Why you think AI was born? PORN PORN PORN!!! Posted by: Trekkie Monster at May 16, 2026 12:01 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: Anal Invasion at May 16, 2026 12:01 PM (QGJ7D) 57
Primary commercial purpose of AInis to Hoover up anything on everybody to justify jacking your interest and insurance rates, and get a penny for each 'personal' ad directed at you.
That is all. Sorry, derivative art and animation is so... derivative. Which means boring as two earth worms fucking and almost as glorious. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2026 12:01 PM (/lPRQ) 58
AI will help smart folks be smarter and will make dumb folks dumber.
I think you may be on to something. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t) 59
> What's the problem with a data center?
--------- In the county one is proposed to go there is currently insufficient water for the existing residents, the power grid would have to be expanded, bigly, and the potential tax incentive for the county would be deferred for a decade (the center gets free water, electricity and pays no taxes for a decade.) That, in a nutshell, is the problem. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 12:02 PM (jehhT) 60
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We are literally under siege monthly with local officials trying to lipstick the pig that is a datacenter. Nobody locally wants it. The local politicos however have $$ incentives to screw the locals. It's a goddamn mess. ================ What's the problem with a data center? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 11:49 AM (XJ22o) Wildly huge power user who doesn't tend to pay for that usage that hurts homeowners... Posted by: Nova Local at May 16, 2026 12:02 PM (tOcjL) 61
Skip
Fauci and the inner Deep State tried to kneecap China. Very similar to Hillary kneecapping the EU by getting rid of Gaddafi. The virus was expected to leak, and the lab was moved to China deliberately. Mass travel of infected Chinese to Italy was the first response by China. Then Fentanyl and precursors were the further Chinese reaction. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 12:03 PM (u82oZ) 62
Sorry, derivative art and animation is so... derivative. Which means boring as two earth worms fucking and almost as glorious.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2026 12:01 PM (/lPRQ) But the earthworms will have really big tits. Posted by: I mean, that's something at May 16, 2026 12:04 PM (TbWk/) 63
The Butlerian Jihad awaits.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 16, 2026 12:04 PM (Apzx6) 64
How Data Center Alley Is Changing Northern Virginia When data gets heavy in Loudoun County https://tinyurl.com/4w43fzr6 Posted by: Archimedes =============== An interesting skim that suggests problems can be avoided through good planning (I know I know, as if that's going to come from a government authority). But here's the conclusion: we can't get rid of these things "unless online shopping, streaming, social media, digitized archives, search engines, AI, and most online activity cease to be a part of contemporary life." So, better figure out how to take advantage of them. For a start, the tax benefits are significant. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:04 PM (XJ22o) 65
Okay, I overstated my first bullet in #24. Data centers don't pay for almost all of the county budget, but it's sure a big chunk. Would the average person swap a lower power and water bill for the higher taxes needed to replace lost DC revenue? Color me skeptical.
Data centers generate roughly 38% of Loudoun County's General Fund revenue and account for nearly half of all property tax collections. The industry’s massive tax contributions—primarily driven by business tangible personal property taxes on computer equipment—help fund county services while keeping residential property tax rates significantly lower than neighboring jurisdictions Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t) 66
Wildly huge power user who doesn't tend to pay for that usage that hurts homeowners... Posted by: Nova Local ================ Well, that's not what I'm reading. A new user of a significant chunk of power has to build up their own infrastructure, and the taxes they pay are huge. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:06 PM (XJ22o) 67
Fauci and the inner Deep State tried to kneecap China. Very similar to Hillary kneecapping the EU by getting rid of Gaddafi.
The virus was expected to leak, and the lab was moved to China deliberately. I've not heard that take before. Why would Fauci want to kneecap China? His politics suggest the opposite. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:07 PM (Riz8t) 68
But here's the conclusion: we can't get rid of these things "unless online shopping, streaming, social media, digitized archives, search engines, AI, and most online activity cease to be a part of contemporary life."
So, better figure out how to take advantage of them. For a start, the tax benefits are significant. Yup. See my #24. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:07 PM (Riz8t) 69
There will always be scarcity, all systems have limiting factors. Eventually, even in Star Trek, the limiting factor is the ability of humans to pay attention.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (rbvCR) 70
65 Okay, I overstated my first bullet in #24. Data centers don't pay for almost all of the county budget, but it's sure a big chunk. Would the average person swap a lower power and water bill for the higher taxes needed to replace lost DC revenue? Color me skeptical.
Data centers generate roughly 38% of Loudoun County's General Fund revenue and account for nearly half of all property tax collections. The industry’s massive tax contributions—primarily driven by business tangible personal property taxes on computer equipment—help fund county services while keeping residential property tax rates significantly lower than neighboring jurisdictions Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t) You also have to ask - do those homeowners want possible blackout, decreased mandated energy usage, and other issues...and what about those energy buyers who DO NOT live in Loudon County so have all of the harms and none of the bennies. Dominion Power doesn't have a Loudon County rate vs a Fairfax County rate vs an Arlington County rate...so you now have one county enforcing harms on another with no recourse... Posted by: Nova Local at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (tOcjL) 71
What's the problem with a data center? --------- In the county one is proposed to go there is currently insufficient water for the existing residents, the power grid would have to be expanded, bigly, and the potential tax incentive for the county would be deferred for a decade (the center gets free water, electricity and pays no taxes for a decade.) That, in a nutshell, is the problem. Posted by: Martini Farmer ============== That's terrible planning. Why on earth would any government authority go along with those terms? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (XJ22o) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (u82oZ) 73
Dominion Power doesn't have a Loudon County rate vs a Fairfax County rate vs an Arlington County rate...so you now have one county enforcing harms on another with no recourse...
Good point. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t) 74
Archimedes
Fauci was the tool, not the director. Who was the director? It isn't like Obama or Biden wanted to damage China. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t) 75
49 I've said this before, I'll say it again: What is a threat at this stage is not what passes for "AI" (which is nothing deserving of the label), it's human stupidity that uses it as an excuse to do foolish or even vile things.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at May 16, 2026 11:57 AM (N5734) This. What's hilarious is that people use it an a veneer of authority and neutrality. Dude, you cannot say AI told you this shit so I should believe it when I know which commie fuck taught the fucking garbage in garbage out model. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y) 76
73 Dominion Power doesn't have a Loudon County rate vs a Fairfax County rate vs an Arlington County rate...so you now have one county enforcing harms on another with no recourse...
Good point. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t) Yes, I expect this is the next era of lawsuit. Posted by: Nova Local at May 16, 2026 12:11 PM (tOcjL) 77
Blonde Mortixtl
Water usage is being diverted from Agriculture for data centers. There is a big research push in chemistry right now for cooling fluids that do not depend on water. These will be much more expensive, of course. All the concrete work is a major water suck input. So even construction has issues, let alone operating the data center. Bottom line, not cost effective overall. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 12:12 PM (u82oZ) 78
The Data center boom should be familiar to everyone by now. We've seen boom and bust cycles for decades. They are going to overbuild and it will shrink as winners and losers get sorted. We may see a Moore's Law super-feat that greatly advances the computational power needed for AI, lessening the need for these monster sites. Just be aware that the CCP wholly intends to use what ever advance they make to harm the US. So, we are kind of locked into that arms race no matter what happens.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 12:13 PM (diia5) 79
74 Archimedes
Fauci was the tool, not the director. Who was the director? It isn't like Obama or Biden wanted to damage China. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t) Fauci was protecting himself as well as the Chinese, I think. Because he knew if he spilled the beans on them, they'd spill the beans on him. So each side went with their own cover story and everyone got to do what they wanted with impunity. China liquidated some problem people, asshats here got to do all the wonderful technocratic things they wanted to do. (UBI, Vote cheating, population control.) Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y) 80
Take a look. https://www.datacentermap.com/content/nova/ Posted by: Archimedes ================ Those companies better be digging wells and laying their own power lines because that's a lotta data centers! But we use vast tracts of land for farming and mining, so... Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:14 PM (XJ22o) 81
The Data center boom should be familiar to everyone by now. We've seen boom and bust cycles for decades. They are going to overbuild and it will shrink as winners and losers get sorted.
More likely is they will follow the model of the fiber optic internet buildout. They will build excess capacity which will be underutilized for a bit, but then demand will catch up. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t) 82
What's the problem with a data center?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 11:49 AM (XJ22o) On the political front: the companies have more money and influence than the people that are supposedly electing the politicians - it is like having the megacasino move in promising lots of money that the government supposedly can get. It means the locals are now unimportant and can be steamrolled on anything the company wants On the economic front: the boost by construction is temporary and probably will be carried by outsiders, paid to outsiders and leaves ghost towns of "worker housing" that will be filled with welfare tenants who then do what people with no jobs and money always do to small towns On the resource front: water and electricity get sucked out of the system, and that will force prices higher for both Further, I believe the datacenter push is the modern "skyscraper" curse, they will get half built as it is a business cycle that misallocates capital, and will collapse into an economic disaster leaving debt and abandoned construction sites that no one can recover Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:15 PM (rbvCR) 83
Actually, Fauci was our tool under our direct orders to release the Wuhan Red Death as a way to suppress the labor market while Dick Cheney blew up the levees in New Orleans so I could hire the unemployed masses at minimum wage, a shift meal and a uniform to work at our unregulated Koch Industries. Profit!
Posted by: Zombie Albert Speer, The Lost Koch Brother at May 16, 2026 12:15 PM (QGJ7D) 84
>>>>>>>That's terrible planning. Why on earth would any government authority go along with those terms?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl ******* The white envelope was passed. Posted by: Cosda at May 16, 2026 12:15 PM (VNcOi) 85
Archimedes
Obama and Biden's staff were Deep State operative. The leadership of the WEF are not friends of China. China was in the way of their power. So that mess of WEF éminence grises is on brand for this analysis. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 12:16 PM (u82oZ) 86
> That's terrible planning. Why on earth would any government authority go along with those terms?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixt ------------ Greed. They're being paid off. And promised a revenue stream (taxes) that will, after a decade, fill the county politicians pockets with more money. There's zero incentives for the local population. The push back has been pretty bold on both sides. FWIW, it's not the county I personally live in, but I'm literally a stones throw from it. The resources this DC would consume will likely affect me... either through rate increases or outages. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 12:16 PM (jehhT) 87
So each side went with their own cover story and everyone got to do what they wanted with impunity.
I think this is the real answer. Fauci was so arrogant he decided that the constraints placed on research that interested him were unreasonable, so he did an end-around. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t) 88
Further, I believe the datacenter push is the modern "skyscraper" curse, they will get half built as it is a business cycle that misallocates capital, and will collapse into an economic disaster leaving debt and abandoned construction sites that no one can recover
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:15 PM (rbvCR) Heh. The Chinese Ghost City model. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:16 PM (bss/y) 89
I should also mention - Dominion Power serves Virginia and parts of North Carolina. So now one state is also placing harms on another state's residents, with that state getting no bennies, directly or indirectly.
This is why data centers have been encouraged to create their own power sources (and nuclear has been discussed). If it doesn't happen, this is going to spiral and spiral quickly... Posted by: Nova Local at May 16, 2026 12:17 PM (tOcjL) 90
It's not a datacenter, but Micron is building a huge chip processing plant in my AO. The demands of water, electricity and natural gas is enormous, and it is having an impact on supply. And it's still an ongoing construction project.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 16, 2026 12:18 PM (0aYVJ) 91
Bottom line, not cost effective overall. Posted by: NaCly Dog =============== For whom? If it's AWS and Skybox who are losing money at the outset, I've got no problem with it. I read the article about water and power usage, and I get that's a problem, which SHOULD be preventable through decent planning. Which, I admit, is the incredibly weak link. If there's no way to maintain essential agriculture and a data center, there should be no question which one goes. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:18 PM (XJ22o) 92
Further, I believe the datacenter push is the modern "skyscraper" curse, they will get half built as it is a business cycle that misallocates capital, and will collapse into an economic disaster leaving debt and abandoned construction sites that no one can recover
Call us! We have a lot of experience in this area. Posted by: The CCP and Evergrande at May 16, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t) 93
The Big Dummy didn't make the final cut of 6 males. That's disappointing, to say the least. I'm sure Her Majesty, TBD, his Ohio mom and his handler did everything right, but sometimes the judges are just obtuse. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 12:19 PM (HdYcL) 94
I think this is the real answer. Fauci was so arrogant he decided that the constraints placed on research that interested him were unreasonable, so he did an end-around.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t) Exactly, and that is mirrored in a lot of his other stuff. The handling of AIDS or Covid is obvious tinker, dilettante kind of 'what if I do this' problem solving rather than rigorous actual, we identify, devise a course of action, then implement. The constrait portion is obvious from the puppies. Now any human who is even partially adjusted would stop and think 'What benefits can we learn by doing this?' all the while viscerally recoiling from torturing animals. I would think any soul possessing human would think 'We can't do this. Nothing we could learn would be worth the stain.' This fucker needs five in the back of the head (just to be sure.) Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y) 95
It's not a datacenter, but Micron is building a huge chip processing plant in my AO. The demands of water, electricity and natural gas is enormous, and it is having an impact on supply. And it's still an ongoing construction project. Posted by: Pug Mahon ============ Why isn't Micron obligated to build sufficient infrastructure for such an extraordinary demand on water and power? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (XJ22o) 96
More likely is they will follow the model of the fiber optic internet buildout. They will build excess capacity which will be underutilized for a bit, but then demand will catch up.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t) The chip sets used in data centers have been described as "having a slightly longer use life than a sheet cake from Costco" The chip advances are so fast, building a billion dollars worth of data centers means you have a billion dollars of obsolete equipment in five years. You better make your money back in that time and have enough investor belief that you can repeat that miracle in the next iteration. It worked with electrical generation, and steam engines, they hope it will work this time as well Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (rbvCR) 97
Construction on the data center here is going full tilt boogie . I do question why tanker trucks are using city water supply and hauling it back to the data center.Ok , that was a joke.. I know why
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (z2aPa) 98
The Big Dummy didn't make the final cut of 6 males. That's disappointing, to say the least. I'm sure Her Majesty, TBD, his Ohio mom and his handler did everything right, but sometimes the judges are just obtuse. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh =============== Awww. Give The Big Dummy a treat for me. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (XJ22o) 99
That's terrible planning. Why on earth would any government authority go along with those terms?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (XJ22o) The companies are stuffing the politicians' pockets full of money. Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR) 100
Blonde Mortixtl
Overall citizen economic costs is where the cost effectiveness fails. It does enrich insiders. Impoverishing citizens to get better search engines and cheating on homework does not replace crops in the field and a robust mixed economy.. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 12:22 PM (u82oZ) 101
The new thing around here are energy storage facilities, aka battery farms. They want to build one at the site of a former Catholic HS about a mile and a half from me. Houses and an apartment complex are near by. At least four more have been proposed in my county. One built already had a fire in the county south of me. Look up Moss Landing. Not good to be near people
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 12:23 PM (gu0hJ) 102
It worked with electrical generation, and steam engines, they hope it will work this time as well
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (rbvCR) THIS is a good point. I built my current system in 2020 (to play games), top of the line then. I am now three video card generations behind the top of the line. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y) 103
The chip sets used in data centers have been described as "having a slightly longer use life than a sheet cake from Costco"
The chip advances are so fast, building a billion dollars worth of data centers means you have a billion dollars of obsolete equipment in five years. You better make your money back in that time and have enough investor belief that you can repeat that miracle in the next iteration. I don't doubt it, but it's like buying a laptop. If you say "I'll wait until the next big technical improvement happens", you'll never buy a laptop, because something else will always be on the horizon. Replacing the chips inside a DC, while very expensive, will probably not require a new building, or more utilities, and that's what we're talking about (at least I am). Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t) 104
More likely is they will follow the model of the fiber optic internet buildout. They will build excess capacity which will be underutilized for a bit, but then demand will catch up.
Posted by: Archimedes Yeah, that's why I wrote 'shrink.' It's not a Dutch tulip craze for sure. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 12:24 PM (diia5) 105
The chip sets used in data centers have been described as "having a slightly longer use life than a sheet cake from Costco" The chip advances are so fast, building a billion dollars worth of data centers means you have a billion dollars of obsolete equipment in five years. Posted by: Kindltot ============== This is both exciting and ominous. The speed of technological progress is great, it really is. One hopes that data centers are being designed with this in mind. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:25 PM (XJ22o) 106
This is both exciting and ominous. The speed of technological progress is great, it really is. One hopes that data centers are being designed with this in mind.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:25 PM (XJ22o) Is it, or will the use of 'AI' flatten it? 'AI' is stupid. It can iterate, sure. But true innovation? No. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y) 107
This is both exciting and ominous. The speed of technological progress is great, it really is. ____________ But what are the Europeans doing? *bites fingernails nervously* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 12:26 PM (HdYcL) 108
This is both exciting and ominous. The speed of technological progress is great, it really is. One hopes that data centers are being designed with this in mind.
Of course they are. There's nothing to worry about. Posted by: The Tyrell Corporation at May 16, 2026 12:27 PM (Riz8t) 109
There is not one solar panel gracing the massive roof space of this data center.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:27 PM (z2aPa) 110
That's terrible planning. Why on earth would any government authority go along with those terms? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (XJ22o) The companies are stuffing the politicians' pockets full of money. Posted by: Kindltot =============== I know. My question was kinda rhetorical. If these things really are going to leave the locals in the lurch while stuffing the pockets of the decision-makers, then some local rebellions are in order. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:27 PM (XJ22o) 111
99 That's terrible planning. Why on earth would any government authority go along with those terms?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (XJ22o) The companies are stuffing the politicians' pockets full of money. Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR) And the politicians will be rich and then unaffected by all their decisions (b/c they'll move if they have to)... Posted by: Nova Local at May 16, 2026 12:28 PM (tOcjL) 112
But what are the Europeans doing?
*bites fingernails nervously* The fact that I laughed and knew exactly what you were saying should be of deep, DEEP concern to the Euros. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:28 PM (Riz8t) 113
109 There is not one solar panel gracing the massive roof space of this data center.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:27 PM (z2aPa) Heh. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y) 114
Why do data centers need large amounts of water? Is the water being piped once-through for cooling and then immediately discarded? If so, don't they have cooling systems that transfer heat to the air? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 16, 2026 12:28 PM (iTNuP) 115
Hadrian the Seventh
The Europeans are moving to Singapore, the US, Israel, or Dubai for research. The EU governments are forcing creative people out, and using the money for research to pay for inbred dummies with only social contagion on the invader's minds. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 12:29 PM (u82oZ) 116
I'd be a lot more open to defending human journalists over AI if just five percent of the pompous jerks who swan around as semi-royalty could find their own ass with both hands.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2026 12:29 PM (6C3mT) 117
If so, don't they have cooling systems that transfer heat to the air?
You are clearly unfamiliar with NoVa in August. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t) 118
Why isn't Micron obligated to build sufficient infrastructure for such an extraordinary demand on water and power?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (XJ22o) They are footing the bill, of course, but the supply of all of that is finite, and it's already having an impact on the surrounding areas. Water, in particular, is a vital resource in Idaho. I work for a company that does a lot of civil engineering and land survey of the numerous infrastructure projects that will supply the plant. The scope is crazy huge, and while the plant will be a good thing for jobs, etc., it really is having a huge impact even before the expansion is complete. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 16, 2026 12:30 PM (0aYVJ) 119
It can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 12:31 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y) 121
The Europeans are moving to Singapore, the US, Israel, or Dubai for research. _____________ Look at the Americans leaving for Europe. Deadweight moving there for freebies. For every one of them, there's at least one European leaving because they can't achieve anything there. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 12:31 PM (HdYcL) 122
Impoverishing citizens to get better search engines and cheating on homework does not replace crops in the field and a robust mixed economy.. Posted by: NaCly Dog ============== SALTY, didja read the content? It's possible that we could have developed treatments for MRSA and S. aureas without AI, but getting there faster is doubtless saving lives. I've read of other AI-generated cures and treatments. It's not all cheating on homework. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:31 PM (XJ22o) 123
OT: but there is an ULTRA El Nino on the way! Posted by: Aetius451AD ============== w00t! I secretly love El Ninos. It's the only time we get actual WEATHER in SoCal. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:32 PM (XJ22o) 124
Economics is a measure of theft. Growth? Loss? You can always be wrong and their are no repercussions. Give that man a peace prize.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 16, 2026 12:33 PM (D1E+2) 125
w00t! I secretly love El Ninos. It's the only time we get actual WEATHER in SoCal.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:32 PM (XJ22o) But... the thumbnail said you're supposed to be scared... Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:33 PM (bss/y) 126
This is both exciting and ominous. The speed of technological progress is great, it really is. One hopes that data centers are being designed with this in mind.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:25 PM (XJ22o) They are not being built with this in mind. They are being built with the cheap interest loans in mind. I lived contingent to construction contracting until 2012 and the problem was never that there wasn't a demand for houses and commercial building, it was that there was funding available and investors willing to fund projects based on what they were owed for past projects that they were expecting to be paid off until the supply of workers got stretched thin, projects slowed down and hired not-competent crews for completion, then the funding started drying up and the whole thing collapsed. Crappy overpriced housing that the county and city thought perfect for subsidized housing. Then the lawsuits started as everyone went banko except the big finance people who took their money home. Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:34 PM (rbvCR) 127
I'm just hoping for an absolute crash in the costs for NVMe, SSD, and components in general in the 2027-2028 timeframe. I will buy a new case and graphics card for my current mboard replacing one hard drive with a big honkin SSD and maybe upgrade the NVMe. It's a 2018 Z390 with an i9-9900k. I can't afford anything new till well after 2030 probably. But I think things will start crashing 27-28. I can upgrade the graphics card and get a decent boost even though it is still only pcie 3. Graphics card cost should plummet too.
That's my plan at least. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 12:35 PM (3uBP9) Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t) 129
The vision of near zero cost production via robotics and AI necessarily an equally near zero cost of energy and raw materials, a prospect that I find unlikely, unless you believe in matter/energy replicators.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:37 PM (4NO2D) 130
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:34 PM (rbvCR) ============= Acknowledged, that is a nightmare. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:38 PM (XJ22o) 131
Why should I or anyone pay Any attention to so-called scribes or so-called journalists? Let alone AI? The only thing any of them has done is lie to us, blowing smoke up our rears.
Posted by: Kafiroon at May 16, 2026 12:41 PM (IzMux) 132
Alright, which one of you maniacs crossed Blonde Morticia with an Axolotl? Posted by: Archimedes =============== I arise from Tenochtitlan, worshiper of Huitzilopochtli!! Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:41 PM (XJ22o) 133
Why do data centers need large amounts of water? Is the water being piped once-through for cooling and then immediately discarded? If so, don't they have cooling systems that transfer heat to the air?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug My understanding is that the amount of water that isn't evaporated is returned to the water supply as greywater that has to be processed, and the goal is to build the newer centers with closed-loop systems that do not require large amounts of 'new' water. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 12:43 PM (diia5) 134
Honest answer AI is making me better at my job, at least in the short term. The problem is that instead of learning things I'm learning how to tell AI to do them.
And you still have to look at what it is doing, but as opposed to working on 1 task at a time, I find now I can manage it working on 3. Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm) 135
My understanding is that the amount of water that isn't evaporated is returned to the water supply as greywater that has to be processed, and the goal is to build the newer centers with closed-loop systems that do not require large amounts of 'new' water.
The goal is large scale manatee farming in NoVa. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t) 136
Dumb question. Would freon work as a cooling system?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:45 PM (z2aPa) 137
My understanding is that the amount of water that isn't evaporated is returned to the water supply as greywater that has to be processed, and the goal is to build the newer centers with closed-loop systems that do not require large amounts of 'new' water. Posted by: weft cut-loop ============== Also these new coolants being developed. The issue of water consumption looks serious to me, as Pug noted @118. Nuclear power for these centers seems like the best option. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:45 PM (XJ22o) 138
We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx.
Posted by: The Priests of the Temples of Syrinx at May 16, 2026 12:45 PM (fpvB5) 139
Battery Farm today, toxic waste dump in 20 years
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 12:46 PM (Ia/+0) 140
You have to give pause to the people who rail against EV's and how they couldn't possibly replace ICE vehicles if the existing power grid isn't expanded, yet are quiet when it comes to data centers and the power requirements they have.
I mean, if it's an issue for one, it's an issue for the other isn't it? Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 12:47 PM (jehhT) 141
Dumb question. Would freon work as a cooling system?
Not really. It would take more power to run the compressor. Freon cools as it expands from the compressor, and then absorbs heat from the local surroundings, which is then emitted to the outside. However there is net creation of heat and consumption of power. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t) 142
Hot water is a pollutant because of reduced oxygen solubility. You can't just dump it into waterways, you'd kill all the fish. And lots of water is needed for heat transfer. Synthetic coolants are enormously more expensive.
Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at May 16, 2026 12:49 PM (fpps3) 143
I mean, if it's an issue for one, it's an issue for the other isn't it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 12:47 PM Similar I guess, but one is a problem of generation while the other is a problem of both generation and distribution. One could, in theory, put the Datacenter powerplant at the datacenter. Can't put a powerplant in my garage. Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:50 PM (4NO2D) 144
Hot water is a pollutant because of reduced oxygen solubility. You can't just dump it into waterways, you'd kill all the fish.
Then how do you explain sunfish? Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t) 145
Honest answer AI is making me better at my job, at least in the short term. The problem is that instead of learning things I'm learning how to tell AI to do them. And you still have to look at what it is doing, but as opposed to working on 1 task at a time, I find now I can manage it working on 3. Posted by: 18-1 =============== Absolutely. I can edit a formula to include a new field and tease out all the levels of nesting and still miss a curly bracket or misplace a semicolon and have to do it all over again, or just let AI get it right in 2 seconds. AI is on a continuum that includes calculators and spellcheckers. Or should I say spell Czech hers, but still... Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:51 PM (XJ22o) 146
Why cant we use salt water for AI cooling?
Yes you have to set it up so a smaller amount of fresh water exchanges heat with the larger salt water because salt water will corrode electronics, but I assume you can reduce the amount of fresh water used, and replace the cheaper mechanical components as needed at minimal cost Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm) 147
Why cant we use salt water for AI cooling?
Yes you have to set it up so a smaller amount of fresh water exchanges heat with the larger salt water because salt water will corrode electronics, but I assume you can reduce the amount of fresh water used, and replace the cheaper mechanical components as needed at minimal cost This raises another question: why are they building DCs on such valuable land near DC? What is the transmission length, and does that determine how close the DC has to be to wherever? Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t) 148
Wasn't the possibility of putting data centers out in the ocean being floated?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM (z2aPa) 149
Wasn't the possibility of putting data centers out in the ocean being floated?
Yup. Elon is looking at both marine and space-based DCs. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t) 150
Then how do you explain sunfish?
90-106F water isn't hot. Besides, not much good killing off everything that's not adapted to lower oxygen levels. Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at May 16, 2026 12:54 PM (fpps3) 151
Wasn't the possibility of putting data centers out in the ocean being floated?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM ISWYDT Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:55 PM (4NO2D) 152
148 Wasn't the possibility of putting data centers out in the ocean being floated?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM (z2aPa) Also in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:55 PM (bss/y) 153
I would bet that heat would be a massive problem in a space based datacenter.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:55 PM (4NO2D) 154
Then how do you explain sunfish?
90-106F water isn't hot. Besides, not much good killing off everything that's not adapted to lower oxygen levels. Methinks you took a rather silly joke more seriously than was intended. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t) 155
Not a expert, but salt water eats most everything
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 12:56 PM (Ia/+0) 156
This raises another question: why are they building DCs on such valuable land near DC? What is the transmission length, and does that determine how close the DC has to be to wherever?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t) Because that is where the politicians are. And they are stupid and corrupt and want the money for giving the land to the data centers. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y) 157
Data center cooling is something Musk/Space X have toyed with. There's a proposal to put data centers in space. The power requirements are an issue, but I suppose if sized right, solar might work as the cooling would sort of take care of itself.
Or go nuclear. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 12:57 PM (jehhT) 158
Methinks you took a rather silly joke more seriously than was intended.
My bad! I don't want to be in hot water here Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at May 16, 2026 12:57 PM (fpps3) 159
But what are the Europeans doing? *bites fingernails nervously* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ============ Hee hee. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:57 PM (XJ22o) 160
153 I would bet that heat would be a massive problem in a space based datacenter.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:55 PM (4NO2D) Yeah. Same with like a nuke generator. I know, we'll use fans! Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y) 161
I would bet that heat would be a massive problem in a space based datacenter.
Why? Radiative cooling and a very cold ambient should work wonders. I haven't run the numbers, but I imagine it's quite doable. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:58 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at May 16, 2026 01:00 PM (fpps3) 163
> This raises another question: why are they building DCs on such valuable land near DC? What is the transmission length, and does that determine how close the DC has to be to wherever?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t) Because that is where the politicians are. And they are stupid and corrupt and want the money for giving the land to the data centers. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y) ------------ The local politicos here see nothing but money when someone mentions "data center." They'll get a bribe for rezoning acres of prime farmland. They'll get a bribe for channeling the center cheap, subsidized power and water. They'll get a cut of the property and utility taxes when those kick in. It's good to be a politico. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 01:00 PM (jehhT) Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:02 PM (4NO2D) 165
Forgot the particulars, but recently China got caught running a police station somewhere here, no doubt keeping control of spies and informants.
I want less Chinese here than more Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 01:02 PM (Ia/+0) 166
Wasn't the possibility of putting data centers out in the ocean being floated?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM (z2aPa) The sunk costs would be enormous. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 16, 2026 01:02 PM (1Ff7Z) 167
Why? Radiative cooling and a very cold ambient should work wonders. I haven't run the numbers, but I imagine it's quite doable.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:58 PM Without convective cooling, enormous radiators would be required. Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:03 PM (4NO2D) 168
I will always cherish the memory of the young mom who serenely pushed her grocery cart snd child down the aisle - WITHOUT A MASK. This was in early days of Covid, when there were arrows on the grocery store floor.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 16, 2026 01:05 PM (SiGDV) 169
> Forgot the particulars, but recently China got caught running a police station somewhere here, no doubt keeping control of spies and informants.
--------- There is, or was, a Naval Recruiting Station in California staffed entirely by Chinese nationals. The "Chinese police station(s)" are in a number of cities. Purportedly. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 01:06 PM (jehhT) 170
looking at the ISS, the radiators are about half the size of the solar panels.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:06 PM (4NO2D) 171
I haven't followed the whole AI thing (or much of anything else lately) as closely as I should, but I can't help wondering about the notion of the AIs 'hallucinating' or just making stuff up in some contexts. IIRC, part of training all these things involved LLMs that scraped all the text they could find in places like Internet Archive etc. So the models were 'learning' not only from factual sources but from a crudload of fiction as well. So...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 16, 2026 01:06 PM (q3u5l) 172
Without convective cooling, enormous radiators would be required.
Understood, but the question is how enormous? They already do this for satellites and such, which admittedly use much less power. I know! We use radiators the size of Mars and solve global warming by blocking out the sun. It can't miss! Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:07 PM (Riz8t) 173
Latest report of a spy station was in NYC just a couple of days ago
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 01:07 PM (z2aPa) 174
In engineering, hard engineering, I see a correlation between younger engineers, who often don't entirely understand what they're doing, and ai use.
Older engineers, who are used to mentoring younger people, and would only hand something off to another if they didn't have time to do it right themselves or because the younger need experience, mostly avoid ai. But its use is inevitable, not because it is necessarily useful at this stage, but because management, who already don't understand engineering, will mandate its use as a cost saving. All the big integrated software houses, Siemens, Hexagon (or WTF they call themselves now), Dassault, they are all doing the hard sell on ai to the industry. And management are always easy marks for these engineering software houses. Because they are ignoramuses. They think engineering is just a secondary roadblock to having all their magical unicorn fantasies fulfilled. And an ai will open the gates to their unicorns faster than the mean old engineers. We're not there yet. But it is coming. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:08 PM (3uBP9) 175
So the counties, etc. get more property taxes. Do the residents get lowered taxes, or do the local "leaders" just have more money to spend on pet projects? Hmmm, which way would that possibly go?
Posted by: I really haven't settled on a nic at May 16, 2026 01:08 PM (rCPYx) 176
So the counties, etc. get more property taxes. Do the residents get lowered taxes, or do the local "leaders" just have more money to spend on pet projects? Hmmm, which way would that possibly go?
Having watching local politics for a while, tax cuts are outside of the vocabulary of most politicos. Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm) 177
Per grok, the ISS solar arrays product 190W per square meter of power.
Is that density adequate to power a space datacenter? Would you need miles of arrays? Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:10 PM (4NO2D) 178
I love the modern age.
Radiators generally dissipate a few hundred watts per square meter (usually 300 to 460 W/m² 2. Why the Size Varies So Much The size of a space radiator is completely dependent on its operating temperature.Passive cooling requires the largest surface area. Every square meter of radiator will only reject a few hundred watts. Emitted thermal radiation scales exponentially with temperature (\(T^{4}\)). Running the cooling loop and hardware significantly hotter vastly shrinks the required surface area (1 of 2) Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t) 179
Distributed satellites: Instead of building a 1 MW data center in one spot, companies deploy swarms of individual, distributed satellites.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t) 180
There's a lot of talk about servers in space.
SPACE SERVERS But I would imagine cooling is even more of an issue there. As is power. Not so much of a problem with space though. I think there might actually be more space in space than not space. Haven't confirmed that though, just a hunch. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:11 PM (3uBP9) 181
13 Two pretty big anti-terror successes. The kill mission against an ISIS big turban hiding in Nigeria, and arrest of an Iranian cut-out Iraqi "militia" guy involved in attacks in Europe and planning for same here.
One intriguing and puzzling thing in Patel's statement on the arrest. He thanks our "allies", "including Ambassador Tom Barrack". ?? He's the US ambo to Turkey. Unusual to see someone in that position involved in this sort of work. He's also not an "ally", of course. Whatever. Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:33 AM (U/Byj) Good catch! That sounds like a way to thank Turkey without explicitly admitting they were heavily involved. A certain amount of diplomacy involves people pretending not to know things that everyone knows, in order to avoid friction in useful relationships; but the bare minimum to allow that to work is to at least avoid saying it out loud in public. Posted by: XiVotl at May 16, 2026 01:12 PM (Sy6m/) 182
/off Aztec sock
Posted by: SciVo at May 16, 2026 01:12 PM (Sy6m/) 183
True? Your thoughts?
I think this French guy wants to blame Americans for Woke, which in some sense is true as our universities and intellectuals all embraced it over the last few decades and the ideology was exported back to Europe and the rest of the world because of American influence. What he neglects to mention is that all of this "Egalitie" is the byproduct of purely French radical Jacobin ideas of the 18th century. This ideology wasn't birthed in 1968, but 1789. It isn't about "domination". It's about unbridled political power based on envy and greed and the act of revenge against their class enemies. Truth is never their objective. The objective is always the revolution being used to take power. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 16, 2026 01:13 PM (6ydKt) 184
I still really want to be a SPACE PLUMBER though. I don't know if SPACE SERVERS would need a bathroom. But if they do, I want to be their SPACE PLUMBER.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:13 PM (3uBP9) 185
SpaceX’s Transporter program and similar reusable heavy-lift options offer the lowest rates, averaging $3,175/lb to LEO.
Would you want DCs in LEO? Or much further out to geosynchronous orbit? Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:15 PM (4NO2D) 186
Tje CCCP doesn't need to have offices in every major city, in fact 1 is too many.
Said ofter, 40 years ago no one was allowed to leave China, now millions leave with the good grace of the CCCP. Whst changed? All of a sudden China wants their citizens to live well and prosper? Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 01:15 PM (Ia/+0) 187
We should just invent computers that don't get so hot. Not sure why everything has to be so complicated.
Posted by: Weasel at May 16, 2026 01:17 PM (GNqmQ) 188
"AI" (ChatGPT in particular) IS ASSHOE.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:17 PM (cWLG3) 189
So the counties, etc. get more property taxes. Do the residents get lowered taxes, or do the local "leaders" just have more money to spend on pet projects? Hmmm, which way would that possibly go?
Peoples be needing teeths and Narcan to be succesfully and not be axing kwestions. Posted by: Mayor Karen Bass at May 16, 2026 01:17 PM (QGJ7D) 190
Every wave does this. Technology bifurcates the room. Adapters move up. Resisters get displaced. . .
Yesterday I used AI to do what would've been at least 4 hours of major refactoring on my code. (You always know what the architecture should have been after a few cycles of "do the thing -> the designers try it and figure out that what they told you to do was wrong -> rinse and repeat"). It took 3 minutes, everything was done to my exactly written specs, and it ran properly and passed validation afterwards. It's like word processing vs. quill pens if you can use it. Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2026 01:18 PM (QZThv) 191
180 There's a lot of talk about servers in space.
SPACE SERVERS But I would imagine cooling is even more of an issue there. As is power. Not so much of a problem with space though. I think there might actually be more space in space than not space. Haven't confirmed that though, just a hunch. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:11 PM (3uBP9) ---- Great target practice for anti-satellite weapons! Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:18 PM (cWLG3) 192
Wow! K.T. Thanks!
Sort of related, parents of the better/best K-12 schools trying to make a stand against tech 'consuming' their kids. (Equity becomes one roadblock.) KSL News Radio, NATIONAL NEWS, May 13, 2026 Some parents don’t want their kids to use tech at school. But districts are pushing back. (By the Associated Press) Posted by: L - No nic... at May 16, 2026 01:20 PM (NFX2v) 193
>>> We should just invent computers that don't get so hot. Not sure why everything has to be so complicated.
Posted by: Weasel at May 16, 2026 01:17 PM (GNqmQ) The Matrix computers were so cold they had to keep us peoples around to keep them warm and snug. But maybe that's just the sort of silly plot device you think up when you're couple tranny brained trannies. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:21 PM (3uBP9) 194
Dont' trust Google. Google is asshoe!
Google Maps Just 'Unburned' the Pacific Palisades — and Infuriated Angelenos Noticed https://tinyurl.com/yc82v5bv Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:22 PM (Riz8t) 195
We should just invent computers that don't get so hot. Not sure why everything has to be so complicated.
We will, and it's being worked on. We're at the stage with AI that mainframes were in at in the 1950s where you had to have techs running around full time replacing failing vacuum tubes and balancing a checkbook took 100,000 watts. Not including the cooling system. Back then brute force was much more acceptable. In the 30s there was a 500,000 watt AM station in Cleveland. At that power everyone with dental fillings or dinner forks with certain specific geometries could hear the station for free. Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2026 01:24 PM (QZThv) 196
>>> Great target practice for anti-satellite weapons!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:18 PM (cWLG3) Protecting against anti-satellite weapons is just one of the many duties of your humble SPACE PLUMBER. There's actually a lot to the job, fighting most aliens, being damned sexy for the green chick aliens, defending against SPACE ATTACKS, clearing SPACE BLOCKAGES, billing,... Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:26 PM (3uBP9) 197
I want a giant steam powered wooden computer.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:26 PM (4NO2D) 198
We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us.
continued> Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (6ydKt) 199
We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat.
Bastiat's Candlemaker's Petition: http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (6ydKt) 200
I will bet a M2 or Vulcan cannon would be a great space weapon, although you are really back to the cooling problem with those.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (4NO2D) 201
“But several rellable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded.”
- NY Times, 1922 with previous “deeply reported” opinion ---- So Hitler used antisemitism in the exact same way that the modern left uses racism? Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 16, 2026 01:28 PM (THY4u) 202
Just use glycol. It works. We had massive drive networks cooled by antifreeze running thru the DC bus. Sounds crazy but it works.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 16, 2026 01:28 PM (D1E+2) 203
My PC sitting next to me on the floor has a CPU and GPU cooled by a liquid, closed loop system.
I imagine the concept can be scaled for "whatever." At some, yet to be established cost. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 01:29 PM (jehhT) 204
195 We should just invent computers that don't get so hot. Not sure why everything has to be so complicated.
We will, and it's being worked on. We're at the stage with AI that mainframes were in at in the 1950s where you had to have techs running around full time replacing failing vacuum tubes and balancing a checkbook took 100,000 watts. Not including the cooling system. Back then brute force was much more acceptable. In the 30s there was a 500,000 watt AM station in Cleveland. At that power everyone with dental fillings or dinner forks with certain specific geometries could hear the station for free. Posted by: Ian S. at May 16, 2026 01:24 PM (QZThv) --- You just need dilithium crystals for the processing matrix. 🤓 Posted by: Star Trek Nerd Supreme at May 16, 2026 01:29 PM (cWLG3) 205
i could not get that music vid to stop, had to bail.
the three pillars of socialism is food for thought although i don't get how ai is removing any of them. and only something as dumb as twisted self hating gay french brains could lead to wokeism. truth. Posted by: cmeat at May 16, 2026 01:30 PM (R11M+) 206
195 We should just invent computers that don't get so hot. Not sure why everything has to be so complicated.
I see that AOC has arrived. Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:30 PM (Riz8t) 207
Waterbased transistors. Ice chips, as it were.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:30 PM (4NO2D) 208
200 I will bet a M2 or Vulcan cannon would be a great space weapon, although you are really back to the cooling problem with those.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (4NO2D) --- It is rather cold in space, you know, as long as you're shielded from the Sun. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:31 PM (cWLG3) 209
Blonde Mortixtl
Chemical, biochemical and drug research have been using AI for over a decade. When tightly focused on solving real world problems, coupled with a robust database, AI is quite helpful. Many recent advances are due to AI assistance in chemistry. As for the need for more generalized data centers, I believe we are overbuilding, and the value received will be less. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 01:32 PM (u82oZ) 210
Space is a giant thermos bottle, neither hot nor cold.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (4NO2D) 211
Elegie 24 is a beautiful piece of music. I wrote lyrics to its main part many years ago.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (W5mpo) 212
"Places like Loudon Co. here in NoVa have practically their entire budget paid by taxes on DCs. Nobody complains about that."
I lived in Loudoun for 25 years (again in the news for a trans kid filming boys in bathrooms at a HS for THREE YEARS, and sending the films to "his" "online boyfriend". Up to 40 victims suspected), and the enviro-NGO-political arm of the Dems in hunt country pushed data centers like hell starting back with UUNet. They wanted to keep their land "pristine", and jam up the icky suburbs with things that would bring business taxes but no people with cars and schoolkids. The suburbanites hated it and still do, and it's bitten the fake enviros in the ass because they were so successful in creating the "internet capital of the world" that the centers are now expanding too close to their backyards. Posted by: barbarausa at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (enw9G) 213
>>> My PC sitting next to me on the floor has a CPU and GPU cooled by a liquid, closed loop system.
I imagine the concept can be scaled for "whatever." At some, yet to be established cost. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 01:29 PM (jehhT) You are heating the room it's in. You put a lot of those in a small volume and it doesn't work as well. You have a large overhead in the energy expended and liquid needed. The room I'm in has terrible cooling, my house's AC is actually not designed very well, and I can feel the room get warmer when I game on my liquid cooled pc. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:34 PM (3uBP9) 214
Boy928 has a degree in chemistry, though he now works in software. I have no more than a rudimentary understanding of it, being a two time loser in 101Chem.
It's like sorcery to me. Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:34 PM (4NO2D) Posted by: barbarausa at May 16, 2026 01:37 PM (enw9G) 216
>>> Socialism is not an economic theory.
>>> It is a moral structure that needs three things to exist: >>> 1. Scarcity to redistribute >>> 2. Victims to defend >>> 3. A class of intermediaries to orchestrate the whole thing >>> Remove just one of these three pillars and the edifice collapses. >>> AI is in the process of removing all three at the same time. Quite the contrary. AI has the capacity to exacerbate all on an industrial, subject to human nature, of course. Which means it is destined to be so. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 16, 2026 01:38 PM (dK+Kv) 217
Wasn't expecting this version of Faure' (sociologically)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKSvyVIi47U Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:39 PM (W5mpo) 218
They hanker for the scribe’s golden age, for a return to something like the scribe-dominated societies of ancient Egypt, China, and the Europe of the Middle Ages.
I work international construction, and thus have worked in remote areas of "lesser developed" (third-world) nations. There is a scribe culture there: there has to be, because these communities are largely illiterate. They need the scribes for the communications, the record-keeping, the rulings of their societies. Scribes are entrusted with all this, because there is no one else. You want a culture which reveres the scribe? Then you are asking for a culture of illiteracy. Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 16, 2026 01:41 PM (bufu1) 219
Archimedes, the data center alley quotes the president of PEC.
They were the ones pushing data centers 25 years ago Posted by: barbarausa at May 16, 2026 01:42 PM (enw9G) 220
Garden nood!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:47 PM (cWLG3) 221
Take a look.
https://www.datacentermap.com/content/nova/ Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t) Wow, I used to live in the exact center of that big blob. Mostly farmland in 1985, but the first data centers were being built along Rt 28 while I was still in the area in 2018. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 01:48 PM (w6EFb) 222
Further down the French link
https://tinyurl.com/3sw2ar67 Even further down I liked this reply Secular Protestantism then comes to preach that having the right ideas is what matters. It is a religion that demands little in the way of personal conduct. One can be rude to waiters BECAUSE you want to save the whales. Believing the correct things provides cover for all manner of personal misconduct. Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:50 PM (4NO2D) 223
“But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded.”
- NY Times, 1922 with previous “deeply reported” opinion The Wannsee Conference, where it was agreed to fulfil Mein Kampf and eradicate the Jew from Europe, didn't happen until 1942. Goebbel's "big lie" had not yet been voiced. The NYT was clueless. Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 16, 2026 01:50 PM (bufu1) 224
In short, Gnosticism.
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:50 PM (4NO2D) Posted by: Big Penguin at May 16, 2026 02:02 PM (0sNs1) 226
Ace is always botvjin about no jobs for recent gender studies majors.
2 million graduated college last year 2000 gender studies majors 1000 of who jaf double majorsvudislly in premed/health care 2,000,000 1,000 Yeah let's blame those 1000 for being the primary reason so many recent grads can't get good jobs Posted by: Paul at May 16, 2026 02:03 PM (4SjXB) Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 16, 2026 02:17 PM (HnIBa) 228
The Wannsee Conference, where it was agreed to fulfil Mein Kampf and eradicate the Jew from Europe, didn't happen until 1942. Goebbel's "big lie" had not yet been voiced. The NYT was clueless.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! -------- 1922? WWI had only been over for 4 years. Things were barely rolling. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2026 02:21 PM (XeU6L) 229
I know the thread's dying (got here late) but wrt to Fauci and the whole Gain of Function thing, I think the whole idea of GoF is abominable. Here, let's take something that doesn't exist in nature and tweak it so it becomes a life-killing monstrosity, just so we can then cure/control it. How 'bout just not creating the monstrosity in the first place?
I know I'm oversimplifying, but the older I get the more I realize the key to life is to clarify - to simplify - rather than complicate and obscure. What Fauci and his ilk do is what I call the Frankensteinization of science. And then, not to mention, turn this process of monster creating disease over to fucking communists. Because of course thy'll be careful and not risk the killing of millions. FFS. Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 16, 2026 02:23 PM (HnIBa) 230
Thread doesn't have to die you know.
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:40 PM (Ia/+0) 231
I dunno about the ULTRA El Nino, but there's something warm and wet-in my pants!
Posted by: Scranton's Finest at May 16, 2026 02:46 PM (oftw2) 232
Finished cleaning out truck, wish I hadn't as just discovered missing a brand new screw gun. No idea what job where I left it
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: epador at May 16, 2026 02:50 PM (TRnzq) 234
GoF is a weapon in my opinion, why would you want to invent a virus otherwise?
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:51 PM (Ia/+0) 235
Ben Had, further to your comment 97, my SIL and BIL live on Cedar Creek Lake in Henderson County near you, and say their public water supply is often so bad they can't flush a toilet. I can't find in the maps linked above where there is a DC closer than Ennis. Is there one closer to you?
Posted by: jayhawkone at May 16, 2026 03:00 PM (QSaoA) Posted by: Marooned at May 16, 2026 03:05 PM (kt8QE) Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:20 PM (4NO2D) 238
Thread doesn't have to die you know.
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:40 PM It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." - A. Lincoln, September 30, 1859 Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:23 PM (4NO2D) 239
I had a long chat the other day with the Claude AI agent, after I asked it to draft some legal documents. I looked over the result and noticed two things: First, this was competent drafting. Better than a lot of drafting I have seen. Second, it was malpractice. The answer missed a lot of things that should have been there. So I asked the agent: look for this, and why did you miss it? The Agent replied back saying these kinds of tests are too hard for an AI, and probably always will be.
It then said that essentially AI will gut the junior associate, the "typewriters" of the legal field. AI can draft a good will. Better than humans. What it can't do is tell you if this will actually will meet the needs of the client, or whether you should go a different direction. Basically it said AI is going to make people who can thing and are experts even more valuable, because the kinds of skill to see something and say "That's wrong, we are missing stuff" is beyond AI. It was actually a very interesting discussion. Posted by: SimoHayha at May 16, 2026 03:23 PM (/ZkOF) 240
BTW, Lincoln's 'Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society' is very well worth a read.
https://tinyurl.com/m4r3hnjf Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:28 PM (4NO2D) 241
Bullshit. The internet DID kill journalism as a field where you can actually make a living, and photography did kill painting, turning it into a tiny niche activity, away from the mainstream of culture.
Posted by: Pooklord. at May 16, 2026 04:00 PM (asU3w) The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer RevivalGood morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Plymouth) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. 2) Be kind, be nice. 3) No running with sharp objects save that for next weekend. 4) Have a great weekend!
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Time machine.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:49 AM (qFwJc) 2
En mi casa toman Bustelo.
Posted by: Caffiend at May 16, 2026 07:52 AM (oftw2) 3
Good morning again dear horde with thanks to annie and mh and you morons for praying
{grammie} Hiya JT Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX) 4
Good morning Mis Hum and Horde
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:53 AM (Ia/+0) 5
A prayer request, I met these people briefly years ago and found them typical friendly and gracious Southerners.
12 May 2026 at approximately 3pm Dan Fordice was flying P-51D Charlotte's Chariot II from the Vicksburg-Tallulah airport near Mounds, LA. Dan was killed in the crash. He leaves behind a wife, three children, and many friends. Not only was Dan a Warbird flyer, he was also a CEO and a veteran of the 2/20th SFG. Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2026 07:54 AM (2GVsD) 6
I often see nice coffee memes but never try and send them to Mis Hum
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:54 AM (Ia/+0) 7
Kawfee is good.
Posted by: Beaner and Cecil at May 16, 2026 07:54 AM (oftw2) 8
Blessed be God forever.
Lord Jesus Christ, look with favor upon our humble petitions, and through your mercy, aid us. Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 16, 2026 07:55 AM (LmPA0) 9
The Big Dummy goes in for Best of Breed competition at the Borzoi Club of America National Specialty in Omaha today. Any spare thoughts on his behalf, not that he wins but that he shows his best. His Ohio mom is showing him, I think. The judge is from Italy; God only knows how we elected him. Foreign judges are quite capable of doing anything. And from what Her Majesty says, his placements so far have had no consistency whatsoever. Maybe we'll win something, maybe we won't make it out of the first cut. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 07:58 AM (HdYcL) 10
Prayers up for those that have asked us for them in the prayer list;
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them; Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God! Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have decided that their 10% graft and power are still far more desirable than their honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways, repent, and become true representatives of we the people! And lastly, prayers up for President Trump, keep him and our beloved country safe from harm and may the many forces of corruption and satanic evil arrayed against both him and our country be rendered ineffective and their plans come to naught! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 07:59 AM (hOUT3) 11
Italian judge, don't serve him a local wine.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2026 08:00 AM (2GVsD) Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 08:01 AM (jehhT) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 08:02 AM (hOUT3) 14
Good Saturday morning, horde.
Prayers said for all. Hoping for updates on grammie winger, Mr. Jordan61, FromAboutThatTime. Specifically, but not exclusively. Hiya, JT Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 16, 2026 08:02 AM (h7ZuX) 15
Hello again Horde. Happy Saturday. Thx MisHum
Looks like I may be out of rehab this week. Still need wound care at home. Thx for all of your prayers and well wishes Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 08:02 AM (gu0hJ) 16
Judge from Italy sounds less than ideal, though I guess an East German Judge would be worser.
Posted by: Erich Honecker at May 16, 2026 08:03 AM (oftw2) 17
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 08:03 AM (gu0hJ) 18
An Indonesian judge would insist on having dinner with the dog in question.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2026 08:03 AM (2GVsD) 19
“ You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.”
Job 11:18 Posted by: Marcus T at May 16, 2026 08:04 AM (E24OL) 20
I missed the discussion last night about very pretty, very tall girl Maddie.
As a teenager, five foot eight me took a five foot eleven and a half girl to a Rolling Stones concert. She was very nice, but obviously not a good match for me. I am reminded of a very crude, juvenile ditty: Nose to nose, your toes is in it; Toes to toes, your nose is in it. Posted by: Fenderbender at May 16, 2026 08:04 AM (1FEc1) 21
I did see a post on X from Niedermeyers Dead Horse this week, that she is recovering well. I can't find it now.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 16, 2026 08:04 AM (h7ZuX) 22
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at May 16, 2026 08:07 AM (AMvSw) 23
Thanks for the prayers for my friend and neighbor Dan, thanks to his attitude and the miracles of modern heart surgery he is back home and in good spirits and mobile. Still got a lot of rehab ahead, but sounds like a pretty good recovery to being home only twenty days after being on the table!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 08:08 AM (hOUT3) 24
Good morning good people. Prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.
Prayers please for Jane who is dying of breast cancer and for Cheri who is in jail (again) for drug related crimes. Posted by: Tonypete at May 16, 2026 08:11 AM (Kyh8Y) 25
I hope this weekend brings relief to afflicted Hordians, and joy to all.
and The Daily Mail informs me that it is ok if you don't tip your lawyer. Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 08:11 AM (vFG9F) 26
Mornin' Horde. Most recent CT scan was 5/6, and I'm blessed to report there continues to be no sign of cancer. It's been about 11 months since the diagnosis, so I've still got a ways to go before getting the all clear, but it's certainly going in the right direction. Now to get my other problems dealt with...
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at May 16, 2026 08:12 AM (N5734) 27
Today is our kickoff for the St. Francis of Assisi Jubilee year at our parish. We are a designated pilgrimage site so we'll have lots of visitors with lots of events.
Prayers please for smooth sailing and no hiccups. Posted by: Tonypete at May 16, 2026 08:14 AM (Kyh8Y) Posted by: dantesed at May 16, 2026 08:15 AM (Oy/m2) 29
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. Hail Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. St. John Baptist de la Salle, pray for us. *** I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:15 AM (ksbjf) 30
Morning again, caffeinators,
RE: the discussion of property taxes and home insurance in the last thread: The numbers i'm getting are ballpark ones with me guessing at the answers to many of the questions the phone rep or the website asks. I'd hope that the figure for home insurance on a given property would come down with my auto included and with updated info. But I'd hate to make an offer on a house, have it accepted, and then find my insurance is twice what I'd thought. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 08:16 AM (wzUl9) 31
Today is our kickoff for the St. Francis of Assisi Jubilee year at our parish. We are a designated pilgrimage site so we'll have lots of visitors with lots of events.
Prayers please for smooth sailing and no hiccups. Posted by: Tonypete at May 16, 2026 08:14 AM (Kyh8Y) ==== He is a Big Deal around here. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 08:16 AM (RIvkX) 32
Wolfus, maybe find a local agent and see if they will look at the house for a quote.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 08:18 AM (vFG9F) 33
I'll doll up the tires on the car, following the wash and wax yesterday, then head out to Walmart and Lowe's. Maybe I'll ga$$$ up and stop for a coffee while I'm out.
My oldest buddy wasn't able to stay in town for more than three days, so we missed each other. He left a voice mail explaining . . . and also that one of our oldest mutual friends, going all the way back to junior high, has had to go to the hospital. An MRI is involved, is all I know. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 08:20 AM (wzUl9) 34
I've switched homeowners insurance companies several times over the last 20 years. Each time I get a better deal. I even left my current provider and came back 15 years later.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 08:22 AM (vFG9F) 35
Commissar Hrothgar,
I am borrowing your prayer. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 08:22 AM (VCgbV) 36
Wolfus, maybe find a local agent and see if they will look at the house for a quote.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 *** Oh, I did that with the last property I visited in Salina. Their quote was better, but it took them three *weeks* to look at the house and send it to me! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 08:27 AM (wzUl9) 37
Off on errands, folk; I'll be back for the Pet Thread for sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9) 38
Prayers for G*d's mercy and healing for all those on the prayer list. In case I missed it, has there been any update on Grammie in a while?
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 16, 2026 08:28 AM (qBdHI) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 08:32 AM (hOUT3) 40
The new roof is dropping our homeowners by about $2800 a year. We live in a high claim area with lots of hail & wind.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 08:32 AM (VCgbV) 41
> The new roof is dropping our homeowners by about $2800 a year. We live in a high claim area with lots of hail & wind.
---------- Our daughter's house was hit by an EF-1 tornado back in March. Extensive damage, new roof and siding, holes punched through the ceiling, water damage, etc. Insurance covered a $36K repair bill. Guess who's house payment is going up to recoup the homeowner's insurance claim? Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 08:36 AM (jehhT) 42
At my parish, one of our deacons and our youngest priest have a men's organization within the parish with the purpose giving some spiritual formation a few times a year. We had our second meeting a few days ago.
The attendees ranged from 16-17 year old teenagers to the rather elderly. Fr. C. gave a brief talk about the Mass being a sacrifice. It wasn't anything I didn't know, but I've made a effort to learn the doctrine I wasn't taught in the 1970s. Particularly for some of the elderly men, this was obviously new to them. They are the product of the intentional abandonment of meaningful catechisis done by the Modernists in the "Spirit of Vatican II." While new to some them, the attendees seemed to find Fr. C's teaching informative. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:36 AM (ksbjf) 43
Made my 7:00 call to Her Majesty. All kinds of fun incidents at the show, I'm told. The Big Dummy will be handled by a professional that he's been with in the past and that he loves working with. HM said that the judge wanted the dogs moved more slowly than we're accustomed to. I gave her my two cents, namely that TBD ought to move out at the best speed for him and damn what the judge wants. We made that mistake with Lacey in the Hound Group at Westminster in 2004: moved her more slowly and she looked sluggish instead of letting her go at her natural speed. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 08:40 AM (HdYcL) 44
Good morning.
So I found this odd: https://is.gd/wopBcE While Democrat CO Gov. Jared Polis commuted Tina Peters' sentence, Republican DA Dan Rubinstein (who prosecuted the case initially) disagrees with the governor's decision ad calls it "disturbing". I'm not sure why the DA has an ax to grind in a case that had zero impact on the results of the 2020 election, but there are two quotes that seem to indicate a personal motive on the part of the DA. 1. "We want to specifically deter her from convincing other people to commit crimes." 2. "We were the ones that dealt with the embarrassment on a national level of what was going on.” Neither of which are relevant to the actual charges against Peters. Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 08:41 AM (I0N4X) 45
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Let loose the Dogs of Hadrian! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 08:42 AM (hOUT3) 46
They are the product of the intentional abandonment of meaningful catechisis done by the Modernists in the "Spirit of Vatican II." How many people know you should still do Penance on Fridays? Not many. How many people spend their time before Mass chatting with their neighbors? Lots. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 08:45 AM (HdYcL) 47
Marxists fighr to win
Republicans fight to get along Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 08:45 AM (Ia/+0) 48
Martini farmer,
I assumed our homeowners rate would go up with our hail claim so I was surprised when it went down. It didn't go down until I went in and made changes to the home's characteristics. Namely, changing the roof's age to zero and using category 3 shingles. In Texas you can get a discount for a category 3 or 4 roof, and in my case it was significant. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 08:51 AM (VCgbV) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 08:51 AM (HdYcL) 50
Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse had her heart transplant and is doing well. She posts on X all the time. Here are links to her X account as well as her fundraiser page:
https://x.com/NiedsG https://tinyurl.com/mr28fvj2 Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 16, 2026 08:53 AM (3ImbR) 51
From About That Time has no update to give. Monday is the PET scan to see how chemo did. Please stand by.
And prayers are appreciated and returned for all. Posted by: From about That Time at May 16, 2026 08:54 AM (sl73Y) 52
They are the product of the intentional abandonment of meaningful catechisis done by the Modernists in the "Spirit of Vatican II."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:36 AM (ksbjf) ---------- How many people know you should still do Penance on Fridays? Not many. How many people spend their time before Mass chatting with their neighbors? Lots. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 08:45 AM (HdYcL) I think that the goal of Fr. C and Dcn B is to counter-act the damage within the Catholic Church that was done in the "Spirit of Vatican II." Fr. C specifically made a point that the influx of new converts into the Church want a restoration of Sacred Traditions. Vatican II gets a bad rap. If you read the documents, and I have, Vatican II calls for none of the things that came about in the "Spirit of Vatican II." I'm certain that very Catholics know that Latin was still to be used in the common chants, and Gregorian Chant was still the preferred music. Ripping-out Altar Rails, Communion by receiving on the tongue, bad music with bongo drums, abandoning doctrine ... the list goes on. Vatican II called for none of those things. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:55 AM (ksbjf) 53
Tepid coffee and sourdough toast may sound like the name of a music record, but I call it breakfast.
Morning kids. Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 16, 2026 08:56 AM (drGq3) 54
@52 ... oops, "very Catholics..." should read "very few Catholics..."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:57 AM (ksbjf) 55
Guess who's house payment is going up to recoup the homeowner's insurance claim?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 08:36 AM (jehhT) ~~~~~ My homeowners insurance doubled after Superstorm Sandy even though we made no claim and had no damage. Unfortunately, many other homes in town did. Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 16, 2026 08:58 AM (3ImbR) 56
Standing by, FaTT. Prayers continue.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 16, 2026 08:58 AM (h7ZuX) 57
but there are two quotes that seem to indicate a personal motive on the part of the DA.
------- I don't think it's personal. Just business. The CO Dems are the most aggressive in the country, and they use gangster tactics constantly. As in every election, they committed massive fraud in 2020. It was probably the only State where there was no increase in fraud, because that's not possible without making everything up out of thin air. The only way for them to operate like they do is for there to be total impunity for corruption - they always brazen it out. The Mesa County DA is angry because he views the Governor's commutation as harming the image and weakening the power of the infallible, unassailable Party. And that anger is pushed over into rage, and an ugly public airing of grievances, because it was done under threat from Trump to withhold federal funding. For CO Dems, that is UNACCEPTABLE. Polis is supposed to fight Orangemanbad no matter the cost. It's humiliating and it's not faith promoting. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 08:58 AM (BI5O2) 58
53 Tepid coffee and sourdough toast may sound like the name of a music record, but I call it breakfast.
Morning kids. Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 16, 2026 08:56 AM (drGq3) Good morning, Mayhem! Just heat the coffee up a bit, and it sounds like a perfect breakfast to me. Tell me you have some blackberry jam on the toast, though. Lie if you have to. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 16, 2026 09:00 AM (h7ZuX) 59
No lie Dash! It's gotta be blackberry every time!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 16, 2026 09:01 AM (drGq3) 60
Colorado gray wolf update:
I spoke this past week with a cattle rancher in the area around the southern Colorado town of Monte Vista. He told me that he knows of three separate sightings of gray wolves in his part of the state. Monte Vista is a scant 36 miles from the CO-NM state line. CPW does not release information about specific individual wolf locations and downplays the extent of wolf expansion , only referring to watersheds the wolves have entered. Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:02 AM (I0N4X) 61
It was the "General Instruction" written by the Freemason, Bugnoni that called for the Novus Ordo Mass and the ripping out of altar rails, etc.
The Novus Ordo was to replace the remembrance of Christ's sacrifice on Calvary to a remembrance of the Last Supper. Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 09:02 AM (qFwJc) 62
Morning Horde. Devyn update. Devyn had her second opinion and the doc advised her to stay with the original doc. She will be having a biopsy on the spot sometime in the next week. Prayers still needed.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:03 AM (2NHgQ) 63
The Mesa County DA is angry because he views the Governor's commutation as harming the image and weakening the power of the infallible, unassailable Party.
*********** The Mesa County DA is a republican, which is what I found odd about the whole exchange. Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:06 AM (I0N4X) 64
Good morning, fellow caffeinators and praying people.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 16, 2026 09:07 AM (wVcYX) 65
Cherry Cranberry scones. I thought you would want to know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX) 66
The Mesa County DA is a republican, which is what I found odd about the whole exchange.
Posted by: muldoon Could be a pol is a pol is a pol GOPe situation, uniparty and all that. Posted by: From about That Time at May 16, 2026 09:10 AM (sl73Y) 67
Morning Horde. Devyn update. Devyn had her second opinion and the doc advised her to stay with the original doc. She will be having a biopsy on the spot sometime in the next week. Prayers still needed.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:03 AM (2NHgQ) ~~~~~ This sounds somewhat positive. Prayers will continue that the spot is benign. Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (3ImbR) 68
LIRR is on strike. Hochul is somehow blaming Trump. The main problems are that Hochul and the MTA suck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (gu0hJ) 69
The wolf thing is a good example of the power dynamic in CO... I was working in the Capitol at *the* moment (2005-2007) the California influx permanently shattered the delicate balance of power between the front range corridor and the rest of the State.
I watched the rural legislators simply acknowledge the reality of their permanent defeat, and the urban Democrats exulting in their total victory. The entire attitude of everyone in the Capitol was just "well... DRCOG owns the State now and nothing can stop them/us." There have been many horrible consequences of this. But the Denverites gleefully releasing packs of wolves on the hated rural underclass is a neat encapsulation of the problem. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (BI5O2) 70
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at May 16, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1) 71
Could be a pol is a pol is a pol GOPe situation, uniparty and all that.
------' Absolutely - see above - the CO GOP has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrats since 2008. Anyone inclined to fight back was gone long, long ago. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:13 AM (BI5O2) 72
LIRR is on strike. Hochul is somehow blaming Trump. The main problems are that Hochul and the MTA suck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (gu0hJ) Trump is the universal boogeyman. Posted by: Count de Monet at May 16, 2026 09:13 AM (wVcYX) 73
Good news Brother Tim. Good luck and God bless
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 09:13 AM (gu0hJ) 74
But the Denverites gleefully releasing packs of wolves on the hated rural underclass is a neat encapsulation of the problem.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (BI5O2) Almost like there is a lesson there! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 09:13 AM (hOUT3) 75
Morning Horde
Prayers for all Very humid jog along the beach this morning, but a very nice strong breeze to moderate Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 16, 2026 09:14 AM (ugElV) Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 16, 2026 09:15 AM (3ImbR) 77
Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!
May God shower all of His children with mercy and grace this fine day. And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel. Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 16, 2026 09:17 AM (D/6p1) 78
Going to be in the 80° to 90°s until Wed here in mid Hudson. Then it drops into 50s and 60s for rest of week. In other words Spring
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 09:17 AM (gu0hJ) 79
You may recall Superconservative Hero Ken Buck (my once-upon-a-time rep) becoming a strident NeverTrumper at the drop of a hat... you play Dem ball in CO or you're gone. Couldn't save him in the end, but lord, did he try.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:19 AM (BI5O2) 80
Any other golf fans out there also enjoying the constant references to Tiger Woods being missing from our current golf telecasts?
I appreciated him as a golfer, but his time was past. And he is not particularly interesting as an individual. But broadcasters just couldn't let him go until he forced their hand. Posted by: From about That Time at May 16, 2026 09:19 AM (sl73Y) 81
Vatican II gets a bad rap. If you read the documents, and I have, Vatican II calls for none of the things that came about in the "Spirit of Vatican II." I'm certain that very Catholics know that Latin was still to be used in the common chants, and Gregorian Chant was still the preferred music. Ripping-out Altar Rails, Communion by receiving on the tongue, bad music with bongo drums, abandoning doctrine ... the list goes on. Vatican II called for none of those things. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:55 AM (ksbjf) I've never read any of the Vatican II documents and it's above my pay scale to do so. I don't know there's anything in them that changes how I live my life day by day. However, Lex orandi, lex credendi. "As we pray, so we believe." Let's face it, Mass is pretty much the only time we Catholics interact in any way with the Church. And it's not surprising that this stripped-down hootenanny of the Ordinary Rite that doesn't ask anything of the Faithful, that never preaches how to reach Salvation, gets reflected in a lax attitude to Church teachings that remain unaltered. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:19 AM (HdYcL) 82
Left out. Go to a Traditional Latin Mass - full of silence, mystery and awesomeness - and you're examining your conscience nervously and wishing you'd dressed better. Go to a happy-clappy Novus Ordo Mass and you leave feeling you've gotten your ticket punched for the week and that's it. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:25 AM (HdYcL) 83
There have been many horrible consequences of this. But the Denverites gleefully releasing packs of wolves on the hated rural underclass is a neat encapsulation of the problem.
_-_ Exactly. The urban versus rural difference all over the nation is pretty bad, but it seems to be at its worst here. When I talk to urbanites anywhere about it, they tell me, "Well the wolves were there before you were." Then, when a bobcat takes out their little fluffy yappy dog, they insist that something must be done....think of the children. I see what they think of mine. Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 16, 2026 09:27 AM (Qc4da) 84
Thanks, MisHum. Funny and appropriate cup!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 09:27 AM (daUIH) 85
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, forever. 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 May 16, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s) 86
But the Denverites gleefully releasing packs of wolves on the hated rural underclass is a neat encapsulation of the problem.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (BI5O2) *********** And let's not forget Children's Hospital Colorado, whose full-on support of childhood gender transitioning shows how deeply leftist thought permeates the institutions of the state. Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:29 AM (I0N4X) 87
I did not realize that Captain White bread had passed away 😭 Prayers to his family and loved ones.
I am still hanging in there. A couple of weeks ago I went to the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation's annual conference. One of the researchers presenting a paper deals specifically with the HAI pump that I have. I asked him about what my oncologist had said about only being able to have it deliver medication for 6 months, and he told me that was old information, based on a study done on horses! I will be bringing this up with both my oncologist and my oncology surgeon. So far the pump is working well; we will know more in a couple of weeks after my CT scan ***fingers crossed*** I am now 19 months into a 6-12 month prognosis; last month I was given a 6-12 month extension on my contract by my oncologist. We are in uncharted territory for him, as his other 2 patients with this type of cancer presented much later in terms of progression (which, unfortunately, is what happens with most cases of this cancer). He hasn't had any patients who have responded so well to treatment, nor who have lived this long after a diagnosis, so he really doesn't have any "real life" data to rely on. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (RiICY) 88
The Mesa County DA is a republican, which is what I found odd about the whole exchange.
We called the Mesa County DA's office and told them were are all out of him. Posted by: The Asshole Store at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (QGJ7D) 89
The job hunt continues, some strong nibbles this past week, finally. Praying that the interviews this coming week go well!
Posted by: RandomDave at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (aJQbY) 90
Any other golf fans out there also enjoying the constant references to Tiger Woods being missing from our current golf telecasts?
I appreciated him as a golfer, but his time was past. And he is not particularly interesting as an individual. But broadcasters just couldn't let him go until he forced their hand. Posted by: From about That Time at May 16, 2026 09:19 AM (sl73Y) I was never a Woods fan; I’d always root for him to lose because I tend towards the underdog and he was IMO arrogant and annoying. BUT… it’s undeniable that without him on tour now it is…. BORING. What big charismatic personalities are on the tour now? None as far as I’m concerned… a bunch of boring drones. Bryson Dechambeau might be one exception but he’s nowhere near the player that Tiger Woods was; not even close. I miss the days when Tiger was in his prime and Mickelson (another very entertaining player) was chasing Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (26GAh) 91
This is a wildflower we sawon our walk this morning. I had never heard of it till spouse looked it up on his phone.
https://tinyurl.com/3pkjy8pc Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 09:31 AM (+wdeh) 92
Too much talk from me about CO Uniparty politics.
These days, I don't feel much when it comes to politics... it's all sort of moot. But I can't shake it when it comes to CO... i still feel a surge of anger whenever I think of it. It's a bad topic. At least the Rockies aren't quite so horrible this year. That's positive. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:31 AM (BI5O2) 93
/adjust sock
Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:32 AM (I0N4X) 94
The 1st image indicates Mis Hum is living the good retirement life!
Prayers for all the Hordes needs. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2026 09:32 AM (Yypdw) 95
he really doesn't have any "real life" data to rely on.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (RiICY) Prayers up that he may have "real life" Teresa providing data for many a moon! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 09:33 AM (hOUT3) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:33 AM (HdYcL) 97
He hasn't had any patients who have responded so well to treatment, nor who have lived this long after a diagnosis, so he really doesn't have any "real life" data to rely on.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (RiICY) So much good news! And, you get to be the trend-setter in good outcomes with this treatment, giving hope to others. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 16, 2026 09:34 AM (h7ZuX) 98
Left out. Go to a Traditional Latin Mass - full of silence, mystery and awesomeness - and you're examining your conscience nervously and wishing you'd dressed better. Go to a happy-clappy Novus Ordo Mass and you leave feeling you've gotten your ticket punched for the week and that's it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:25 AM (HdYcL) --- And yet the Novus Ordo Mass was what brought Scott and Kimberly Hahn into the Church. It brought my family into the Church and it is bringing one of my best friends from college into the Church. There are annoying bongo-filled Masses, but it is also possible to have a reverent, meaning-filled one outside of the TLM, which I have not yet attended. And more and more people are choosing to receive the Host on the tongue, many kneeling. My wife and I have adopted this. Veils are making a comeback as well as are traditional forms within the newer form. I think that many potential converts would likely find the TLM too different, too strange, and the Novus Order is both familiar but also different. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s) 99
And let's not forget Children's Hospital Colorado, whose full-on support of childhood gender transitioning shows how deeply leftist thought permeates the institutions of the state.
Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:29 AM (I0N4X) My G-d. You laid that out for me awhile back, and I haven't forgotten it. That one hurts. I owe a lifelong debt of gratitude to those people, and they've become... this. It makes my gorge rise. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:34 AM (BI5O2) 100
I am now 19 months into a 6-12 month prognosis; last month I was given a 6-12 month extension on my contract by my oncologist. We are in uncharted territory for him, as his other 2 patients with this type of cancer presented much later in terms of progression (which, unfortunately, is what happens with most cases of this cancer). He hasn't had any patients who have responded so well to treatment, nor who have lived this long after a diagnosis, so he really doesn't have any "real life" data to rely on.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (RiICY) --- Miracles happen! God be with you! Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s) 101
And at the supermarket we saw a boy nicely dressed up with a suit and tie with his mother in a lovely light purple eyelet ( is that the term) dress. He must be graduating from private school and going into upper middle school. They looked so nice!
I went to public school. We had no graduations until high school graduation. And on the way out of the store I manhandled ( I guess that should be womanhandled 😉 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 09:38 AM (+wdeh) 102
57 but there are two quotes that seem to indicate a personal motive on the part of the DA.
------- I don't think it's personal. Just business. The CO Dems are the most aggressive in the country, and they use gangster tactics constantly. ====== Remains to be seen. Some DA's are like cockroaches, they try to avoid the scrutiny of their actions lest it come back and bite them in the ass. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 09:38 AM (E4rtv) Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 09:38 AM (Riz8t) 104
Annoying Bongo-Filled Masses would be an excellent name for a Christian rock group.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 09:38 AM (Riz8t) Or tumors that cause tinnitus. Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2026 09:40 AM (1ieqq) 105
He hasn't had any patients who have responded so well to treatment, nor who have lived this long after a diagnosis, so he really doesn't have any "real life" data to rely on.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth ======= May you, with the grace of the Lord, continue to be a trailblazer. Inspirational to others and likely helpful in providing data to the doc over treatment success that can be applied to other cases. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 09:40 AM (E4rtv) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 09:41 AM (5Tpv8) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:41 AM (HdYcL) 108
Prayers for continued successful response to treat, Teresa in FW
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 16, 2026 09:42 AM (26GAh) 109
In the continuing quest to figure out what's wrong with me, at least on a medical level, I had a carotid ultrasound yesterday. Everything was normal and there's no sign of plaque. That's a relief, because the idea of having my carotids opened up and roto-rootered was not appealing. I kept picturing those 80s ninja movies where someone would get a sword across the neck and turn into a human lawn sprinkler.
Posted by: PabloD at May 16, 2026 09:42 AM (C30Iv) Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 09:42 AM (Ia/+0) 111
108 — treatment
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 16, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh) 112
Good morning all.
Here is a link to Eric Chrurch's commencement address at UNC in case you missed it. This was the best, most uplifting post I have seen all week. https://tinyurl.com/2ud9548n Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 09:43 AM (kJmSS) 113
A timely misinformation update. Earlier this week it was reported that the "first American Pope" had presented Iran's ambassador to the Holy See with a prestigious award commemorating his service there.
Subsequent report stated that the "award" was actually a participation trophy given to every diplomat who spends two years at the Vatican, and Iran's guy was one of 13 people who got them this year. The Pope was not present. Both reports came from the same reporter, who identifies as a Catholic and is now getting all sorts of coverage from the NYT and other Legacy Media. Christopher Hale is his name. Ignore anything he writes. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s) 114
Church, Eric Church🤦♀️
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 09:45 AM (kJmSS) 115
Remains to be seen. Some DA's are like cockroaches, they try to avoid the scrutiny of their actions lest it come back and bite them in the ass.
Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 09:38 AM (E4rtv) --- Yeah, party identification is rarely an indicator of a good person. I quit the GOP 20 years ago and don't regret it in the least. Sure, it has different polices in some respects, but the people are interchangeable with the Dems. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s) 116
88 The Mesa County DA is a republican, which is what I found odd about the whole exchange.
Posted by: The Asshole Store ======= I have come to the conclusion that the reason that Republicans in office have not accepted voter fraud cases is that they do it too. Particularly in primaries so that GOPe candidates can win. The dog that does not bark in the night so to speak. Both Georgia and Kentucky, for example have more registered voters than they do actual people living there and are having to be sued by the DoJ to provide voter data under the Voting Rights Act. No reason to do that unless GOP creatures are using those tainted files as well, particularly in the primaries. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 09:46 AM (E4rtv) 117
Good morning Horde, from wet and rainy NE IN.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 16, 2026 09:46 AM (nz1sK) Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:46 AM (I0N4X) 119
Sharon,
I agree about Eric Church's commencement speech. It was great. Teresa, You continue to be an inspiration to me on living life to the fullest! Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 09:46 AM (VCgbV) 120
There are annoying bongo-filled Masses, but it is also possible to have a reverent, meaning-filled one outside of the TLM It's possible. I've never been to one. Otherwise, it's a crap shoot and you get whatever Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants, Father James ("Call me Jim") and Karen from the Parish Council have on offer. The sooner THAT generation goes away the better. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:47 AM (HdYcL) 121
When I talk to urbanites anywhere about it, they tell me, "Well the wolves were there before you were." Then, when a bobcat takes out their little fluffy yappy dog, they insist that something must be done.
A Yankee Carpetbagger nearby who bought a McMansion let his toxicpoddle out in the rear yard without having a fence. The local Brown Bear promptly grabbed it and took off with it while enjoying his snack. Wildlife 1 Carpetbagger 0. Can't fix stupid. Posted by: Old Yeller at May 16, 2026 09:48 AM (QGJ7D) 122
Btw, I am that coffee mug...
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 09:48 AM (VCgbV) Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at May 16, 2026 09:49 AM (2Ez/1) 124
Teresa, I can only second what Lin-duh had to say. Every day is a blessing. I wish you many, many more.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 09:49 AM (kJmSS) 125
95 he really doesn't have any "real life" data to rely on.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (RiICY) Prayers up that he may have "real life" Teresa providing data for many a moon! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 09:33 AM (hOUT3) Thank you! I pray that, too 😊💕. In terms of this disease, though, I am very much an outlier. I am happy to be that, but I do wish that there was some way to catch this disease before it has progressed so far that nothing can be done. Unfortunately, in most cases it progresses with no symptoms whatsoever until it reaches Stage 3/Stage 4, and by then it is usually too late to do much more than palliative care/hospice. I don't think insurance companies would be willing to add an annual CT screen to their recommendations for preventive care. Some researchers are trying to figure out why some people are "long-term" survivors and others aren't. Based on past experience, my body - as "unhealthy" as it is - has always had what I can only call an incredible will to live. So maybe I am one of the lucky ones... Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 09:50 AM (RiICY) 126
Yeah, party identification is rarely an indicator of a good person. I quit the GOP 20 years ago and don't regret it in the least. Sure, it has different polices in some respects, but the people are interchangeable with the Dems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd ====== With rare exceptions, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely as the saying goes. And to be fair, being a politician means that voters and donors are always threatening you, begging you to do something for just them, and other odious things to wheedle their representatives. Not all voters or donors, but enough nasty slimy people that politicians, like ministers in prisons, social workers, or cops, can get disillusioned about people in general. For some pols, like those other professions, makes it easier to simply justify the corruption as everyone does it. Societies that have too many corrupt voters/donors wanting something for nothing or quid pro quo for their donations from elected officials are as big a problem as corrupt politicians. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 09:50 AM (E4rtv) 127
Morning, MisHum and Horde. I am currently in Amarillo, will be westbound on Route 66 later today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 09:51 AM (GQnTc) 128
When I talk to urbanites anywhere about it, they tell me, "Well the wolves were there before you were."
********* ...while driving up to their favorite ski resort or the trailhead to climb a 14er, or a mountain biking day trip... Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (I0N4X) 129
The Temple of Delphi from the Oresteia Overture by Sergei Taneyev https://tinyurl.com/n3d6dd4c Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:41 AM (HdYcL) How dare you! You historical Bastard! The Ancient Greeks didn't have Orchestras! They had Rap!!! Rap!!! Posted by: Christopher NolanCinematic Expert on Ancient Greek Culture and Mythology at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (iJfKG) 130
I live in a very conservative area in MT and our pastor is a traditionalist, he's a diocesan priest who came late to the priesthood. No upbeat, touchy feely music. The choir sings very traditional hymns, although sometimes at an arctic pace. Don't care since I'm not there for a dance party. Of course just to the north of us we have the Jesuits, enough said about what that implies.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (2NHgQ) 131
Smell the Glove, that must be some wound you got going on there. Prayers for sped up healing. I know that hyperbaric treatment is excellent for wound healing. Maybe there is a clinic near your home? The freestanding clinics are much cheaper than the hospital units that do it. Also, wound healing is often covered by insurance. Not always, but sometimes.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (nz1sK) 132
Heh! ISWYDT
Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:46 AM (I0N4X) I get called out by Muldoon! My day has been successful and it isn't even 9 a.m. local time yet! Posted by: Vendette at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (1ieqq) 133
It's possible. I've never been to one.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:47 AM (HdYcL) --- That's too bad. We have a good bishop and he's been pushing a return to tradition, including Friday observances outside of Lent. Maybe it's because we're a "young" diocese that serves Michigan's two largest university towns. We are producing a rich harvest of seminarians that are very much interested in tradition the old generation of "clappers" (they clap at the end of Mass for the musicians, really annoying) are fading away (God be praised). The other Masses I've attended in Michigan were similarly formal, so it's not just a local thing. We try to bounce around from time to time, especially during the summer. I'm pushing to get the kids to go more often, and the grandkids are now old enough that my wife and I can handle them. Going to the parish school helps in this respect. I'm looking forward to being an OCIA sponsor this fall. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s) 134
AOP getting his kicks.
Posted by: Someone has to type it at May 16, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1) 135
NDH tweeted this week that she has been cleared to drive. This is a big step forward and she is very happy about it.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 16, 2026 09:55 AM (lFFaq) Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 09:56 AM (kJmSS) 137
Of course just to the north of us we have the Jesuits, enough said about what that implies.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (2NHgQ) --- It is sadly clear that it is time to suppress the Jesuits again. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:56 AM (ZOv7s) 138
The message on that coffee mug seems rather whiny and weak.
'Carpe diem' as a motto should not include telling people "I gotta pee!" Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:56 AM (I0N4X) 139
I went to public school. We had no graduations until high school graduation.
And on the way out of the store I manhandled ( I guess that should be womanhandled 😉 the pussy willows which are delightful to touch! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 09:38 AM (+wdeh) As much as I wanted to bail on my HS graduation, I will always argue that is the most appropriate point for one as there is nothing after 12th Grade. At least in terms of grade school. So it makes sense to have graduation at that point. No other. Not middle school, not elementary school. My last day of eighth grade, the principal got on the intercom and let it be known the eighth graders were to go home, not hang around campus, and not come back. That was as close as we got to an MS graduation. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 09:56 AM (T6aVk) 140
121 When I talk to urbanites anywhere about it, they tell me, "Well the wolves were there before you were." Then, when a bobcat takes out their little fluffy yappy dog, they insist that something must be done.
A Yankee Carpetbagger nearby who bought a McMansion let his toxicpoddle out in the rear yard without having a fence. The local Brown Bear promptly grabbed it and took off with it while enjoying his snack. Wildlife 1 Carpetbagger 0. Can't fix stupid. Posted by: Old Yeller Documentaries are not 'truth' is part of it. It is all about using visuals and impressions rather than logic in most cases to compel the audience to stay awake. Harder to pull emotional tricks when the studies are in print than visuals. The other part is people are most conservative about what actually affects them. They are all about letting tragedy of the commons affect others but when their own ox is gored, so to speak, they become enraged. A lot of upper class pecksniffing is because they are insulated from the consequences of their voting, others in society pay the price for the 'pet' issues of the woke upper class crowd voting D. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 09:57 AM (E4rtv) 141
138 The message on that coffee mug seems rather whiny and weak.
'Carpe diem' as a motto should not include telling people "I gotta pee!" Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:56 AM (I0N4X) Wait til you see the Cheerios boxes. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 09:58 AM (T6aVk) 142
Based on past experience, my body - as "unhealthy" as it is - has always had what I can only call an incredible will to live. So maybe I am one of the lucky ones...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 09:50 AM (RiICY) And we are lucky to have you here with us! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 09:59 AM (hOUT3) 143
My last day of eighth grade, the principal got on the intercom and let it be known the eighth graders were to go home, not hang around campus, and not come back. That was as close as we got to an MS graduation.
Ah, so close to "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here". Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t) 144
By the way, the lack of reverence in the Mass is prominently featured in both Graham Green and Evelyn Waugh's writings. The Power and the Glory is centered on the Whiskey Priest, who is by no means a moral paragon.
The Church stumbled, but did not fall, and is now in a time of renewal. That terrifies Liberal Catholics and fills the modern left with despair. They were sure they were going to win, and it's slipping away yet again. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (ZOv7s) 145
'Carpe diem' as a motto should not include telling people "I gotta pee!"
Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:56 AM (I0N4X) Whatever happened to "Honesty is the best policy!"? Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (hOUT3) 146
Is it closing time?
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (VCgbV) 147
Ah, so close to "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here".
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t) I would have loved it if he had just said “don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out,” Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 10:03 AM (T6aVk) 148
Ah, so close to "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here".
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t) --- No graduations for anything other than high school, and I was in thee different school districts. It's part of the Participation Trophy movement, fake credentials and constant affirmation. Also what you get when the teachers themselves are low-IQ people with minimal competence. I'm hoping the ongoing collapse of higher education will result in enhanced teacher quality as the best and the brightest are forced to once more work for a living. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:04 AM (ZOv7s) 149
Today, now , is Tommy Robinson's super rally Unite the Kingdom.
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:05 AM (GD0B3) 150
The Church stumbled, but did not fall, and is now in a time of renewal. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (ZOv7s) Two Romes fell. The third - Moscow - stands. NEVER SHALL THERE BE A FOURTH. Posted by: Ivan IV, Grozny at May 16, 2026 10:05 AM (T6aVk) 151
Some say it's for revenge, others say it's for justice.
Obama's been going public to spin what's coming as the one, not the other. Posted by: Ignoramus at May 16, 2026 10:06 AM (dtajH) 152
LIVE!
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:07 AM (GD0B3) 153
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:05 AM (GD0B3)
I am praying for the safety of all the participants. I had read that the police are using facial recognition and people will be arrested. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 10:08 AM (xY6Tn) 154
Big Ben !
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:09 AM (GD0B3) 155
No graduations for anything other than high school, and I was in thee different school districts.
It's part of the Participation Trophy movement, fake credentials and constant affirmation. Also what you get when the teachers themselves are low-IQ people with minimal competence. I'm hoping the ongoing collapse of higher education will result in enhanced teacher quality as the best and the brightest are forced to once more work for a living. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:04 AM (ZOv7s) Brace yourself for this one. The HS I attended had 39 valedictorians. The actual speech was given by a popularity contest winner out of a dozen or so. (I was in full headbanger mode. I was pissed and voted “James Hetfield”. Why? Because the top ten percent were declared valedictorians to help the poor dears get to college! The graduation I will go to this week determines the valedictorian the old fashioned way. As bad as the district is, they got that right at least. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 10:11 AM (T6aVk) 156
The Jesuits got me for high school. Interesting cats who've had an outsized influence on history.
"The Mission" is one of my favorite movies and provides insight into the ongoing dilemma of these soldiers of Christ: What don't you render unto Caesar in this life? Posted by: Ignoramus at May 16, 2026 10:12 AM (dtajH) 157
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
These reporters are anything but honest. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 10:12 AM (xY6Tn) 158
The third - Moscow - stands.
NEVER SHALL THERE BE A FOURTH. Posted by: Ivan IV, Grozny at May 16, 2026 10:05 AM (T6aVk) --- In retrospect, the decision of the Romanovs to completely subjugate the Orthodox Church was spectacularly bad. Sure, it ended the palace intrigues with the Patriarch of Moscow, but it also meant that the Church was wholly identified with the state, and when the Bolsheviks burned the churches, the peasants were happy to help out. Contrast that with Spain, where society had generally secularized, but seeing churches burned, cemeteries desecrated and priests lynched radicalized the normies. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s) 159
Just discovered there's a free shredding event not far from me. Think I'll go take advantage of that as my downsizing towards minimalism journey continues. Am in the digitizing phase and there's lots of financial related paper to dispose of.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 16, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1) 160
87 Teresa in FtWorth
You are your doctor's new case study! Your progress gives hope to other patients facing the same diagnosis/prognosis. I had a friend who passed away from the same cancer you have, back in 2018. But they found it really late, and she also had serious heart issues. You know you are the beneficiary of many prayers on your behalf, and that you beloved by the Horde. Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 16, 2026 10:15 AM (nz1sK) 161
AOP getting his kicks, on route 66
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 10:17 AM (Ia/+0) 162
Brace yourself for this one. The HS I attended had 39 valedictorians.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 10:11 AM (T6aVk) --- My high school is in a college town, so a huge premium is placed on college prep, SAT prep, etc. Watching the place deteriorate has been sad to see. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:17 AM (ZOv7s) 163
FWP - through yet another series of unlikely, highly improbable events, this morning discovered my recent Grape jelly purchase is of the “Sugar Free” variety. &@$!!. (If I’m gonna “sin” I wanna do it right). Or give all the “sugar free” stuff its own aisle
Tobacco warnings on packages have to be 20% of the label or whatever. I think “sugar free” items should be the same, so there is no mistake. Finally, at checkout, as a further fail-safe when scanned, the item should be flagged and the Clerk will be cautioned to ask “Hey, this particular item is that “sugar free” crap. Are you sure that’s what you want??” Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:17 AM (YmzeM) Posted by: dantesed at May 16, 2026 10:18 AM (Oy/m2) 165
Good morning everyone, (checks watch), yes yes good morning still. (whoo!)
I have secured coffee, sausage and toast. I bought a big bag of discount sausage at costco. In it's distant past my sausage had wings. It is really more of a sausage themed experience. But the coffee is actual coffee and the toast is real, so I got that going for me. Sending prayers for the healing and recovery for the whole lot of you. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 10:19 AM (3uBP9) 166
> Just discovered there's a free shredding event not far from me.
--------- We've had those for a while, but only within the last couple of months has the county figured out that they need to advertise. I think there's 2X yearly of each: Household shredding day. Household hazardous waste day. Household e-waste day. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (jehhT) 167
Is there a link? Posted by: dantesed at May 16, 2026 10:18 AM (Oy/m2) https://tinyurl.com/httwshta also on TRobinsonNewEra on X Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (GD0B3) 168
In Texas we have grade inflation with all the AP and "on-ramps" college courses you can take in HS. In competitive HS's you can have a 4.0 and still not crack the top 10% which gives you auto admissions to any public University in Texas. I'm hoping the Universitys/colleges are looking at overall GPSs not just class rankings. Schools like UT Austin are almost impossible to get into without being in the top 10% or having very high/almost perfect SAT/ACT scores.They can be very different things in Texas.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (VCgbV) 169
Tobacco warnings on packages have to be 20% of the label or whatever. I think “sugar free” items should be the same, so there is no mistake. Finally, at checkout, as a further fail-safe when scanned, the item should be flagged and the Clerk will be cautioned to ask “Hey, this particular item is that “sugar free” crap. Are you sure that’s what you want??”
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:17 AM (YmzeM) --- Buying non-alcoholic beer is like that. At every step you get a warning. Final challenge at checkout. I'm with you, but from the other side. I have to watch my sugar intake, so making it more obvious what has added sugar is helpful to me. That being said, my glucose meter is plumbing new lows, and after I get my A1C checked in June, I may loosen the restrictions a little. I have to say the "no added sugar" stuff tastes much better once you get used to it. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s) 170
There cannot be more than one Valedictorian, by definition. What a bunch of Wankers.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (YmzeM) 171
When I talk to urbanites anywhere about it, they tell me, "Well the wolves were there before you were." Then, when a bobcat takes out their little fluffy yappy dog, they insist that something must be done.
A Yankee Carpetbagger nearby who bought a McMansion let his toxicpoddle out in the rear yard without having a fence. The local Brown Bear promptly grabbed it and took off with it while enjoying his snack. Wildlife 1 Carpetbagger 0. Can't fix stupid. Posted by: Old Yeller You can't fox stupid. We know when newbies move to our desert by the signs. They say lost 'cat' or 'small dog'. Owl or coyote nibbles. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Yypdw) 172
I provide shredding every day.
Posted by: Buckethead - not for free though at May 16, 2026 10:24 AM (3uBP9) 173
Schools like UT Austin are almost impossible to get into without being in the top 10% or having very high/almost perfect SAT/ACT scores.They can be very different things in Texas.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (VCgbV) --- For all the selectivity, multiple studies have shown "elite" education generally isn't. The Ivies are the worst at this. Once you get in, you graduate. No real value added other than social networking and stolen prestige. The funny part is that people who jump through all the hoops are really insecure about their subsequent status. University of Michigan grads (with whom I am quite familiar) seem to have this problem. No, I don't think your school is better, and don't think you're somehow superior because you went there. What was once about actual learning is now just the modern version of buying a peerage. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:24 AM (ZOv7s) 174
this morning discovered my recent Grape jelly purchase is of the “Sugar Free” variety.
How is that even possible... Is it also "Grape Free"? Posted by: t-bird at May 16, 2026 10:24 AM (iFEms) 175
Prayers up for all of the Horde and their loved ones. It is a beautiful spring morning here.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 16, 2026 10:25 AM (0nHVk) 176
Yeah, I rarely consume sugar now. It used to be its own Food group for me years ago. I restrict my refined carbs. I have weighed 180 at 6’2” going on 6 years now, so it must be working.
Now and then though I like to put my pancreas through the paces. Lol Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:25 AM (YmzeM) 177
You can't just let a small dog or cat outside by themselves in lots of areas. I do have 2 indoor cats/outdoor cats and I know they may not come back. We've had it happen once already.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:25 AM (VCgbV) 178
>>>Yeah, I rarely consume sugar now. It used to be its own Food group for me years ago. I restrict my refined carbs. I have weighed 180 at 6’2” going on 6 years now, so it must be working.Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:25 AM (YmzeM)
I got the weight down, now I just have to work on the height. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 10:26 AM (3uBP9) 179
For all the selectivity, multiple studies have shown "elite" education generally isn't. The Ivies are the worst at this. Once you get in, you graduate. No real value added other than social networking and stolen prestige
---- Bingo! It's all about the networking and prestige. It's not about getting an actual "better" education. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:28 AM (VCgbV) 180
170 There cannot be more than one Valedictorian, by definition. What a bunch of Wankers.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (YmzeM) I was appalled. I didn’t care as I was in the running for the bottom. But as I told others in the Horde, it was as if my HS was actively trying to make my senior year and graduation suck MORE than it already would and did. This though is the worst part: the idea of having the top 10% of the class declared “valedictorians”;is actually more common than people think, and this mission is the same: to get the poor dears into college!!! And to make more of a bragging point for principals who want to become superintendents, or school board members who want to keep their jobs, and so on. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 10:28 AM (T6aVk) 181
I also shred, although not as much as I did in my younger days.
Posted by: Tony Hawk at May 16, 2026 10:29 AM (J4Dwc) 182
172 I provide shredding every day.
Posted by: Buckethead - not for free though at May 16, 2026 10:24 AM (3uBP9) 13 cents. Posted by: Reforger at May 16, 2026 10:29 AM (ZFqKB) 183
The London rally is huge.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 10:30 AM (kJmSS) 184
On the road to one of the incredible desert overlooks out here in the sticks last year was a little shrine built up with a photo, of somebody’s lost dog, email, phone number. Wandered away in camp and didn’t come back, apparently.
That’s gotta be gut wrenching, because at some point, after searching, they had to leave their dog behind. And then come back to put up their sign. And wait. If it was a couple, this is the kind of thing that may well add to marital strife. “It’s your fault!” Seriously. The sign was put up in the interim after or between my arrival and when I was leaving. About a week prior to this, one morning at camp I heard Coyotes obviously chasing something. I wondered … if that was related. Yeesh. Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:32 AM (YmzeM) 185
There cannot be more than one Valedictorian, by definition.
At the newly-renamed Valedictory Learing Center, EVERYbody is a Valedictorian! Posted by: Gov't-Sponsored Somali Pirates at May 16, 2026 10:32 AM (TylIK) 186
Freshman year of college is definitely a weed out year. The sophomore class size usually takes a significant hit. I know that from personal experience.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:36 AM (VCgbV) 187
I got the weight down, now I just have to work on the height.
Posted by: banana Dream I tell my online doctor "Kevin" in Bangalore that I'm 7' 2" and now my BMI is excellent. Posted by: t-bird at May 16, 2026 10:36 AM (XD+PD) 188
OT: this Talarico guy running for senate in Texas looks 13 years old and gives me strong pedo vibes.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:38 AM (VCgbV) 189
And-in this exciting news😉 -I am happy to report that we got some new shoes for me and a thermos for my son at no cost We had Target cards ( I very rarely go to Target) . At Christmas the parents kids on the school bus give either huge amounts of chocolate or various gift cards which is nice of them. Next week is supposed to be very hot here so son will need a thermos for work outside.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 10:39 AM (AphQx) 190
Paragons of nonpartisanship, they are. TBH, I'm surprised it isn't higher.
6 to 1: Democratic speakers dominate 2026 commencement stages at Top 100 universities https://tinyurl.com/44swk47j Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 10:39 AM (Riz8t) Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 10:39 AM (kJmSS) 192
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 16, 2026 10:25 AM (0nHVk)
Thanks. It's beautiful here as well. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 10:40 AM (AphQx) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 10:44 AM (AphQx) 194
By the way, the lack of reverence in the Mass is prominently featured in both Graham Green and Evelyn Waugh's writings. The Power and the Glory is centered on the Whiskey Priest, who is by no means a moral paragon.
The Church stumbled, but did not fall, and is now in a time of renewal. That terrifies Liberal Catholics and fills the modern left with despair. They were sure they were going to win, and it's slipping away yet again. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (ZOv7s) I had to run errands, so missed much of the thread: The point I was trying to make was that Vatican II gets blamed for things it didn't mandate. That whole crop of Liberal Catholics just did what they wanted to do, claiming "Spirit of Vatican II." The Novus Ordo is a licit Mass. Unfortunately, Modernists with hidden agendas imposed their wills upon the laity. The young priests want to restore Sacred Traditions. Thus, the petulance of the Liberal Catholics: they know that as soon as enough of them are dead, and critical-mass of Traditionalists get into the hierarchy, the Liberal experiment is over. Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 10:45 AM (ksbjf) 195
I am getting a new titanium right knee on Monday. This seems like no big deal anymore but the technology is pretty amazing. Recovery is supposed to take about a week with you up and walking on it the day of the surgery.
I had imagined that a knee replacement was getting some robotic hinge thing installed but it really more like getting a crown on a tooth. It just replaces the wear surface with a knee joint shaped plate. Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 10:49 AM (4NO2D) 196
G'day, y'all. Nice to be here. Thanks as always to Annie and the misanthrope.
Chabrier : Bourrée fantasque : It is tres amuse to see the masked-up string section, while those who blow don't have masks with holes cut in them. Discrimination! Nice lively musicque, thoughe. History already looks back on the wear-a-mask panic years with disdain and non-plusment… all the moreso for those who still live, or re-live, that insane era. Ah, well, I'll include them in my prayers, which I'm about to get to after I grab some coffee. Posted by: mindful webworker - non-plusseumennte at May 16, 2026 10:50 AM (cz4n2) 197
Oh, a new Titanium knee! Aren’t we Mr. Fancypants. A good solid, used Titanium knee with low miles should be perfectly acceptable. Owned by a little old lady who only walked to the mailbox every other day, that kind of thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:52 AM (YmzeM) 198
Mornin', Horde. I'm thankful for a safe trip and return home.
Prayers up for all of the Horde's needs. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 16, 2026 10:52 AM (Wnv9h) 199
I forgot today was march in London
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 10:53 AM (Ia/+0) 200
I am getting a new titanium right knee on Monday. This seems like no big deal anymore but the technology is pretty amazing. Recovery is supposed to take about a week with you up and walking on it the day of the surgery.
I had imagined that a knee replacement was getting some robotic hinge thing installed but it really more like getting a crown on a tooth. It just replaces the wear surface with a knee joint shaped plate. Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 10:49 AM (4NO2D) Cyberdyne Systems Model T928. My Dad had two, expect pain during recovery and PT, about 1-2 months as I recall. Godspeed. Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 16, 2026 10:53 AM (dK+Kv) 201
I'm probably looking at knee replacements in my future but I'm putting it off as long as possible.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:54 AM (VCgbV) Posted by: mindful webworker - and a line of Chryslers at May 16, 2026 10:54 AM (cz4n2) 203
https://tinyurl.com/59yzjd3a
Fun link to,the London march Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) Wait. I thought the American flag was the universal symbol of racism. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 10:57 AM (ndZc7) 204
Whig at 116
Agree. Explains why Kemp wanted no election audit and explains the Tank Abrams consent decree. Both sides cheated. No one talked. MAD if anyone spilled the beans Posted by: Mr. Barky at May 16, 2026 10:58 AM (zKQhx) 205
The young priests want to restore Sacred Traditions.
——- I attended a Catholic funeral once, and I liked it, as far as the rituals and traditions, the incense and the rest of it. Gimme that Old Time religion. Modern Churches are just ersatz, “sugar free” watered down imitations. I guess they don’t have to be Catholic services but a Generic “Celebration of Life” led by a purple haired sex deviate who takes time out to bitch about your lawnmower and global warming is not likely to attract the faithful. Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:58 AM (YmzeM) 206
For those watching...It's an AI generated rapper ! "Danny Bones".
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:59 AM (GD0B3) 207
201 I'm probably looking at knee replacements in my future but I'm putting it off as long as possible.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended ====== Depends, they typically last about twenty years or so. What you DON'T want is having to have a second full knee replacement. Because of bone removal for the first one, they have to add in stabilizers like rods for the second. Constricts range of motion pretty much. I had to have one at 42 due to an injury and chose a partial because of that. They remove a lot less bone for those. Now having to look at getting a full replacement for it in the near future. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 11:00 AM (E4rtv) 208
If your dealer sells Plymouth, he also sells DeSoto
Posted by: George Fennerman at May 16, 2026 11:00 AM (YmzeM) 209
Lin-duh, I know knee replacements are not as easy as hip but I didn't realize how much the pain was impacting my life til it was gone. It felt like and still feels like a miracle. The I formation I got before was pretty frightening because they have to warn you about everything that can possibly go wrong, but they do 1000's of these and it is pretty routine. Don't wait too long.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 11:01 AM (kJmSS) Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 11:04 AM (GD0B3) 211
204 Whig at 116
Agree. Explains why Kemp wanted no election audit and explains the Tank Abrams consent decree. Both sides cheated. No one talked. MAD if anyone spilled the beans Posted by: Mr. Barky ========= Kemp was Sec. of State and over voting in 2018. He wiped the servers after that election despite an existing court lawsuit (by Stacey Abrams) over hinky voting. Then he promptly as governor inked a no bid contract with Dominion to replace the old Diebold voting system for 2020 election. His former right hand guy at Sec. of State office was the saleman for Dominion on that deal. Guy stinks on ice. His AG (another backdoor political deal to get him in office originally) Chris Carr is the see no evil type, and the SoS Ratshitbugger is a Democrat whose brother is an executive for Huawei. Carr and Ratshitbugger are running for governor to take out Burt Jones so that fake GOP billionaire Jackson can win. GA politics is a fetid swamp. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv) 212
SCOTUS unanimously rejects Virginia's appeal of their redistricting minutes after the final filing. Even Justice Jumanji. There is no joy in Mudville today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:04 AM (ndZc7) 213
https://tinyurl.com/59yzjd3a
Fun link to,the London march Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) Wait. I thought the American flag was the universal symbol of racism. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks I can't figure out why they are singing Sweet Caroline. The only time I heard a crowd sing that was at a Red Sox game. Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 11:05 AM (kJmSS) 214
I'm probably looking at knee replacements in my future but I'm putting it off as long as possible.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended I'm looking at a shoulder replacement in my future. Right now the steroid shot seems to be helping greatly but I know that replacement is coming. Posted by: Tuna at May 16, 2026 11:07 AM (lJ0H4) 215
The better-half was bone on bone in the R knee for 20 years. She woke up after her first knee replacement, looked at me and said my knee doesn't hurt. It might take 6 months to get through the post op pt and pain; but, it's worth it.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2026 11:08 AM (Yypdw) 216
Neil Diamond had a cameo (playing a hippie folksinger) on an episode of Mannix.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 11:09 AM (RZn4N) 217
Amor vincit omnia.
Breitbart News @BreitbartNews James Talarico reveals he has a "girlfriend" and wants to have kids "one day" in a new podcast interview "She is my rock. She is my best friend. I don't know if I could have gotten through the last six months of this crazy race if um if she hadn't been by my side." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:10 AM (ndZc7) 218
I had imagined that a knee replacement was getting some robotic hinge thing installed but it really more like getting a crown on a tooth. It just replaces the wear surface with a knee joint shaped plate.
Posted by: toby928(c) ==== They get you right out of bed and moving immediately after surgery nowadays. And it is critical that you a) take your pain meds and b) push in physical therapy to get your range of motion back. There will be some restrictions if you want it to last. Any kind of high impact exercise (running for example or treadmills) on the knees shortens the projected lifespan of the replacement and if you swim, certain kicks are no longer recommended as they can affect the joint. Flutter kicking is fine but frog kicking is right out. And as usual, the weight you are makes a difference, lighter is good, heavier is bad. With care, they last about 20 years or so nowadays, but high impact or other activity can damage it and shorten its lifespan. And you REALLY do not want a second full knee replacement after the first wears out. Due to the bone removal for the implant, they have to do additional work for a second which constrains range of motion quite a bit. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 11:10 AM (E4rtv) 219
DiSantis takes out the trash.
NOW: Gov. Ron DeSantis just had ghetto Rep. Angie Nixon (D) ARRESTED after she did an illegal "SIT-IN" at his office because of the 2026 Florida House map that adds +4 GOP seats She melted down, and FAFO'd! LMAO!! Florida is the best DeSantis plays no games This is the SAME Rep. who stormed the House aisle with a bullhorn as the map passed. Leftist psychos ENDLESSLY LOSE in our state DeSantis' chief of staff confirmed it: "Arrested." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:16 AM (ndZc7) 220
I'm looking at a shoulder replacement in my future. Right now the steroid shot seems to be helping greatly but I know that replacement is coming.
Posted by: Tuna ======= Due to the ravages of psoriatic arthritis and subsequent surgeries, I spend a lot of time in rehab (usually use up my visits per year for whatever my current surgery du jour is). Shoulder replacement is a harder rehab than knee from my observations and seeing them do it. PT therapists have confirmed that to me. If you can, before too much damage (and steroid injections over time can actually accelerate joint degeneration if you get them too frequently), get a consult at either Mayo or Cleveland Clinic before surgery is absolutely necessary. Both places are pretty good at fly in second diagnoses and they both keep up with current new treatments that may or may not be available in your vicinity. I had to have prostate surgery and ironically it was cheaper even with air fare to have it done at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale with a more advanced procedure than it was to have the old rooter rooter TURP by local doctors. Much better outcome too. Since then, I have revisited Mayo for a second opinion on other issues. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 11:17 AM (E4rtv) 221
Leftist psychos ENDLESSLY LOSE in our state
DeSantis' chief of staff confirmed it: "Arrested." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Which is one reason that a DeSantis in the White House (dunno about Rubio or Vance) would be more likely to be a Cromwell or Franco that may prove necessary to Bukele the left in this country. Trump simply is not going to be that guy I think. The only question though is whether DeSantis has enough charisma, money, and/or political savvy to get elected versus Rubio or Vance in 2028. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 11:20 AM (E4rtv) 222
>>> "She is my rock. She is my best friend. I don't know if I could have gotten through the last six months of this crazy race if um if she hadn't been by my side."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:10 AM (ndZc7) I wonder if there is a beard casting agency that these people use. JEF and Booker and all of them. Probably good money in it. Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 11:25 AM (3uBP9) 223
I know it's late, but prayers would be appreciated - I've been sick for a couple months (okay, a year) and am dealing with a nasty 6 - 10 week long cough and muscle atrophy due to GLP-1 meds (I got off them a month ago). I'd appreciate prayers for healing or for pain relief at night if y'all could.
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at May 16, 2026 12:36 PM (lFFaq) 224
Mrs. E has a progress report on the 22nd to acertain the first four infusions. We thank you all for your prayers!
Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2026 12:49 PM (LHPAg) 225
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at May 16, 2026 12:36 PM (lFFaq)
Will pray for you, Inspector Cussword. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (n3VHW) 226
221 Leftist psychos ENDLESSLY LOSE in our state
DeSantis' chief of staff confirmed it: "Arrested." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Which is one reason that a DeSantis in the White House (dunno about Rubio or Vance) would be more likely to be a Cromwell or Franco that may prove necessary to Bukele the left in this country. Trump simply is not going to be that guy I think. The only question though is whether DeSantis has enough charisma, money, and/or political savvy to get elected versus Rubio or Vance in 2028. Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 11:20 AM (E4rtv) --- Or whether he can overcome the attacks on his height. Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:41 PM (cWLG3) 227
225 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (n3VHW)
Thank you, Fenelon. I deeply appreciate it. Posted by: Inspector Cussword at May 16, 2026 01:52 PM (lFFaq) 228
As always, I pray for ruthless prosecution of fraud -- not only because mercy for the guilty is cruelty to the innocent, but also as a moral prophylactic for ordinary people who are not as successful as they'd like. Just as a recovering alcoholic doesn't grab a cheap happy hour burger at the bar and trust to his willpower, but may even detour to avoid going past his old haunts, it is better to not even show people the temptation of free, easy money for lying on a form.
So, just as we pray to God to lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, I pray for Him to sharpen the investigators' minds and harden the prosecutors' hearts. May each and every fraudster face a long stretch of hard time in Federal prison. Amen. Posted by: SciVo at May 16, 2026 03:04 PM (Sy6m/) Daily Tech News 16 May 2026Top Story
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Musical Interlude Disclaimer: Pay no attention to the voices in your head, especially when they try to sell you extended warranties. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:31 AM (G+2/5) 2
Called the otters.
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:33 AM (G+2/5) 3
Headed for third
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:33 AM (G+2/5) 4
Inside the park?
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:34 AM (G+2/5) 5
Poke?!
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:34 AM (G+2/5) 6
Rejoinder: It's the only way I can have an intelligent conversation.
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:36 AM (G+2/5) 7
Guten morgen, horde. Where ever did you go?
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:37 AM (G+2/5) 8
Maybe they're sleeping. It's the weekend after all.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 16, 2026 04:38 AM (BLOW1) 9
Disclaimer: Pay no attention to the voices in your head, especially when they try to sell you extended warranties.
It's also unacceptable to lose arguments to the voices in your head... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 04:39 AM (ynpvh) 10
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 04:40 AM (m5P/4) 11
AI and secure connection do not belong in the same sentence much less in regard to your bank accounts.
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:41 AM (G+2/5) 12
Looks like Samsung is making another bad decision by not telling its union employees to go pound sand.
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:44 AM (G+2/5) 13
11 AI and secure connection do not belong in the same sentence much less in regard to your bank accounts.
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:41 AM (G+2/5) Like security and IOT...lots of IOT devices are wholly insecure and can be easily hacked. Yeah, lets put cameras and other devices with gaping security holes inside the house so strangers can hack 'em and access 'em... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 04:44 AM (ynpvh) 14
w00t
clarence, you are on a roll Posted by: m at May 16, 2026 04:49 AM (6wpGE) 15
C'mon AI bubble, pop already...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 16, 2026 04:49 AM (O7YUW) 16
I wonder what might be causing this negative sentiment.
Those pushing AI onto the masses have done a piss poor job explaining it. When they do, they all come across as human hating meglomaniacs. Meanwhile, data centers are popping up all over the place and complaints, legit or not, are met with 'Go Fuck Yourself Peasant'. The 'expert class' suck. Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 04:50 AM (m5P/4) 17
16 I wonder what might be causing this negative sentiment.
Those pushing AI onto the masses have done a piss poor job explaining it. When they do, they all come across as human hating meglomaniacs. Meanwhile, data centers are popping up all over the place and complaints, legit or not, are met with 'Go Fuck Yourself Peasant'. The 'expert class' suck. Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 04:50 AM (m5P/4) Well...some of them ARE human-hating Megalomaniacs... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 04:52 AM (ynpvh) 18
G'morning, all.
Can we mix tech and politics for a moment? Yesterday the name Rom Reddy came up, both on this thread and later with a link by JJ on the morning report. And then later yesterday a voiceover ad from Reddy came up on the tv, and I swear it was Mike Rowe.....but not Mike Rowe. Then we had another ad by a different candidate for a different office, and I am watching the actual candidate talking directly into the camera, but the voice has a 'touch' of the distinctive Mike Rowe voice. Not identical, but inflections that give you that 'I can trust this guy' feeling. And no discernible accent. But at the end of the ad there is the spoken 'My name is xxxx, and I approve this ad' And what do you know, the voice is different, and the distinctive, almost Henry McMaster southern gentleman accent is very present. I genuinely believe that Reddy, and many other folks are using AI voice models to create ads. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 16, 2026 04:57 AM (iMotb) Posted by: A Miklosian Test at May 16, 2026 04:59 AM (7K7cA) 20
I genuinely believe that Reddy, and many other folks are using AI voice models to create ads.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice Da Guvna, Henruh, would sue anybody who tried to mimic his voice. He called a Special Session to do redistricting because, mark this, he and the Missus will be Their Excellencies at some Embassy in a nice place this time next year. Posted by: Additional Miklosian Beta Test at May 16, 2026 05:03 AM (7K7cA) 21
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?
If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ... **** https://ziply.pk/ecuI25 Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 05:06 AM (G+2/5) 22
"Da Guvna, Henruh, would sue anybody who tried to mimic his voice."
True dat! But the reassuring "Mike Rowe' type voice seems to be cropping up everywhere. Here is a link to a Rowe voice model available for creating lyrics and voice tracks for a song. Ignore all that, and read the part about Mike's distinctive voice, and how it is perceived by listeners. https://aicover.art/voice-library/rowe-resonate Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 16, 2026 05:08 AM (iMotb) 23
That is not my longest streak here on the tech thread.
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 05:09 AM (G+2/5) 24
Morning! The voices in my head aren’t so bad. But the banging sounds they make at three in the morning when I’m sound asleep are the worst.
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2026 05:10 AM (P/t0H) 25
https://aicover.art/voice-library/rowe-resonate
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice Another way to develop a deeper and resonating voice is to smoke. Yeah I'm lazy Posted by: Deeply resonant not Miklos at May 16, 2026 05:11 AM (7K7cA) 26
Morning! The voices in my head aren’t so bad. But the banging sounds they make at three in the morning when I’m sound asleep are the worst.
Posted by: Pete Bog Mental Irish Step dance is an accepted homeopathic treatment Posted by: Miklos-Michael Flatley at May 16, 2026 05:15 AM (7K7cA) 27
Mental Irish Step dance is an accepted homeopathic treatment
Posted by: Miklos-Michael Flatley at May 16, 2026 05:15 AM (7K7cA) I was going to suggest it was called the “Crazy Irishman” but that’s redundant. Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2026 05:29 AM (P/t0H) 28
@19/Miklos: "*peeks barely above parapet*"
I wondered why I hadn't seen any posts by you in a long while. You caught a ban? WTF? Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 16, 2026 05:33 AM (O7YUW) 29
24 Morning! The voices in my head aren’t so bad. But the banging sounds they make at three in the morning when I’m sound asleep are the worst.
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2026 05:10 AM (P/t0H) yikes Posted by: m at May 16, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE) 30
Evening and morning, Saturday toilers and early risers!
Voices? "I can't come in to work. The voices told me to stay home and clean all the guns today." We used to think that was funny because it rarely happened ("going postal"). Now . . . Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9) 31
I had trouble getting to sleep last night because I was thinking about the house I video-toured yesterday afternoon. It's small, 924 sq. ft., 2 BR and 1 bath, a dining room and a garage (not together), and only a crawlspace instead of a basement. There's not really enough storage space, and one BR is only big enough to be a small home office. But it's attractive, it faces east, it has a decent yard. And the price is low enough that I can easily afford to have the floors redone in laminate as I want and to buy a couple of tables and lamps and even rugs.
It makes no sense. But last night I was picturing where I'd put my current furniture and was considering visiting Lowe's this morning to price standard refrigerators, as the place does not have one, and storm doors. Madness. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 05:48 AM (G+2/5) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 05:52 AM (rZCVI) 34
Always liked Laura Branigan's "Self-Control," the one with the chorus "I live among the creatures of the night . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9) 35
Hi, Miklos
Someone was mentioning yesterday that they hadn't seen you for a while. You were missed! Hope you are doing o.k. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 05:55 AM (rZCVI) 36
This was one of the plants we saw yesterday in the field around the senior center. "Perennial flax". So pretty!
https://tinyurl.com/ydfn6mph Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 05:58 AM (rZCVI) 37
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)
Sounds like a nice place! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 06:03 AM (PFs9e) 38
Good morning morons
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:10 AM (RIvkX) 39
The voices in my head are a cacaphony.
There is one lady who has been droning "Javid Shah, Javid Shah. Javid Shah!" since January. Also Peter Gabriel has been singing "Supper's Ready" the last few weeks. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:13 AM (RIvkX) 40
Sounds like a nice place! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 *** It's cozy and quite nice. The large bedroom is in the front, the smaller one in the middle, the living room and dining room are both rather square. Out back, off the kitchen, there is a little paved area that would serve as a patio. I guess I could have a small shed put in the yard for storage. Central air, gas heat, electric stove, washer and dryer. And the garage has a carport next to it. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9) 41
G'Day everyone
Am I late to this thread Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 06:16 AM (Ia/+0) 42
Madness.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9) ==== Sounds great! Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:17 AM (RIvkX) 43
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of, now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with a big double cup of coffee and a toasted Lebanon bologna and provolone cheese sandwich. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 06:24 AM (HdYcL) 44
41 G'Day everyone
Am I late to this thread Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 06:16 AM (Ia/+0) Yes! Drop and give me 20 droll comments! Posted by: AoSHQ DI at May 16, 2026 06:25 AM (U/s6V) 45
Sounds great!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 *** The place has peculiarities. The previous owner obviously added the kitchen on to the back; the glass-paned door that apparently used to be the back door is still there in the dining room, with the stove on the other side in the new kitchen. The space that must have been the old kitchen has been refurbished into a sort of wide short hall with a tiny west window leading to the new back door. The crawlspace is accessed through a white-trimmed trap door in the dining room floor, with a ring handle to pull it up. And the small bedroom used to have a door into the bathroom. The owner put up a painted wallboard in its place, not solidly anchored, and a linen closet on the other side in the bathroom proper. It's all very nicely done. Just smaller than I was thinking. But . . . it might work. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 06:28 AM (wzUl9) 46
Central air, gas heat, electric stove, washer and dryer. And the garage has a carport next to it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere No house is perfect. How many of your requirements does this one meet? Posted by: Tuna at May 16, 2026 06:30 AM (lJ0H4) 47
Good morning Horde. Hope you are all well. Happy Saturday.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 06:31 AM (gu0hJ) 48
Good morning, everyone. New project for the Bewalski household. • repurpose a recently discarded by Junior-ette desktop system with a Slackware Linux build • install pi-hole and configure the home network router to only use the Linux pi-hole system as the only dns Poof. No more ruku adds. I should have done this earlier, but was able to suffer through without all the damned political adds we're getting now. Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 16, 2026 06:31 AM (QVmho) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 06:32 AM (PFs9e) 50
Central air, gas heat, electric stove, washer and dryer. And the garage has a carport next to it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere * No house is perfect. How many of your requirements does this one meet? Posted by: Tuna at May 16, 2026 *** A lot. I know no house would be perfect; it's why I'm thinking about what I can do to it to have it approach that ideal. The first house I video-toured *would* have been perfect, but the price including the home insurance was too much, and somebody grabbed it the second day anyhow. The second was not suitable at all. The agent gave me the name and number of a flooring guy. I'll call him to get a ballpark figure on replacing the flooring; I'm estimating some 600 sq. ft. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 06:34 AM (wzUl9) 51
"A lot. I know no house would be perfect; it's why I'm thinking about what I can do to it to have it approach that ideal."
Sounds like you're a little bit excited so I hope it works out to your satisfaction. Posted by: Tuna at May 16, 2026 06:39 AM (lJ0H4) 52
A 3BR/2BA 1st fl condo a few blocks away sold in about 2 weeks. They were asking $1.9 million.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:39 AM (RIvkX) 53
Disco balls?! Surely you intended to cite Discobolus instead and thus launch a vigorous give and take regarding the prospects for the Los Angeles Olympics of 2028? To have gone so badly off track is, indeed, sad. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 06:39 AM (s9VOe) 54
Anyway, aside from a visit to Lowe's, I need to hit Walmart for a few things like a mop refill and the oil for the Buick's next change. Rumors on the 'Net say that 5W-30 engine oil may not even be available soon (true?), and I want to grab my six quarts before any more price increases anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9) 55
"A lot. I know no house would be perfect; it's why I'm thinking about what I can do to it to have it approach that ideal."
* Sounds like you're a little bit excited so I hope it works out to your satisfaction. Posted by: Tuna at May 16, 2026 *** Yeah, when you lie awake for a while at night picturing how your new place will look with your furniture in it, the place you're considering must have a lot to recommend it. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9) 56
mornin yall. California has banned the Kars4Kids commercials, not for the annoying song, but because K4K supports THE JEWS!
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F) 57
Under the ruling, Kars4Kids can no longer air its commercials in California unless the ads include “an express, audible disclosure” explaining the charity’s religious affiliation, where donations go and who benefits from the funds.
The organization is also barred from using young children in its ads. Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F) 58
Those pushing AI onto the masses have done a piss poor job explaining it. When they do, they all come across as human hating meglomaniacs. Meanwhile, data centers are popping up all over the place and complaints, legit or not, are met with 'Go Fuck Yourself Peasant'. The 'expert class' suck.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 04:50 AM (m5P/4) ---- Weird how NIMBY doesn't apply when it's YOUR backyard... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2026 06:45 AM (gnNyN) 59
The organization is also barred from using young children in its ads. Posted by: fd Raisers of baby goats are salivating at the prospects of unbridled earnings from getting their charges into those commercials. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 06:48 AM (s9VOe) 60
"Weird how NIMBY doesn't apply when it's YOUR backyard...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel" Seeing as how I bought property to get away from people, noise, and civilization, I don't want a data center popping up next to it either. Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:48 AM (vFG9F) 61
A lot. I know no house would be perfect; it's why I'm thinking about what I can do to it to have it approach that ideal."
Posted by: Tuna We did a big remodel and had to move to a rental for nearly 6 months. It's good to be back. One of the upgrades was I added a steam shower which is a marvel to me. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 16, 2026 06:49 AM (l26NL) 62
Under the ruling, Kars4Kids can no longer air its commercials in California unless the ads include “an express, audible disclosure” explaining the charity’s religious affiliation, where donations go and who benefits from the funds. You mean, like, a bullet train? Say, just when do you asshats expect to have full service between Los Angeles and San Francisco up and running? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 06:51 AM (s9VOe) 63
“ For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”
Matthew 16:25 Posted by: Marcus T at May 16, 2026 06:52 AM (+ffGB) 64
26 Morning! The voices in my head aren’t so bad. But the banging sounds they make at three in the morning when I’m sound asleep are the worst.
Posted by: Pete Bog Mental Irish Step dance is an accepted homeopathic treatment Posted by: Miklos-Michael Flatley at May 16, 2026 05:15 AM (7K7cA) Yeah, I sometimes hear nonexistent loud noises (explosions, crashes, banging, etc) when falling asleep that wake me right up. All I can say facetiously, is "Thanks, brain..." Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 06:53 AM (ynpvh) 65
Madness.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9) ==== I will need to take a 3 hour bus ride to Merced to get on the train. /winning! Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:53 AM (RIvkX) 66
In local news, Tarnisha Shelley was picked up for DUI. I guess her driving recorded is now Tarnished.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F) 67
57 Under the ruling, Kars4Kids can no longer air its commercials in California unless the ads include “an express, audible disclosure” explaining the charity’s religious affiliation, where donations go and who benefits from the funds.
The organization is also barred from using young children in its ads. Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F) The paedos in Kali Gov't jealous of them having kids? Will the same religious affiliation test be used for other organizations, like Islamic ones? Will the same test be applied to atheist organizations? I mean, if you have to disclose religious affiliation, shouldn't you have to disclose irreligious or on-religious affiliation? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 06:55 AM (ynpvh) 68
Forget it Jim, it's Kalifornia.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:56 AM (vFG9F) 69
The saga of Dutch's show history continues. According to the AKC, the Beeg Boy had 118 Grand Champion majors and I only had 117. I did some more digging and found I missed a specialty show in Omaha he was in and got 5 points for going Best of Opposite Sex. That also gave him 577 of the 578 Grand Champion points the AKC says he has. But there were three shows in my spreadsheet where 3 male dogs competed and Dutch was Select Dog. So he defeated one dog, either Winners Dog or a special that walked. Now, in just about every one of the 15 AKC divisions, it takes two dogs for one class or Grand Champion point. So Dutch should have gotten one point in each of those shows, but the record shows him not being awarded any. That would give him 580, two more than the AKC has. Now I have to write to the AKC Events Department and ask what's going on. Plus, I have to go through every show where he got Grand Champion points to see if I've make any mistakes. Heigh ho. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 06:56 AM (HdYcL) 70
Don't get me wrong; I *do* believe that charities have to be honest where the monies they receive is supposed to go.
So BLM taking money supposedly for Black Lives, but using it for enriching the ones running the show should count. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 06:58 AM (ynpvh) 71
68 Forget it Jim, it's Kalifornia.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:56 AM (vFG9F) Yeah, Kalifornia, the land of nuts, fruits, and flakes. Too bad a cereal like that would taste good, but Kalifornia only leaves a bitter taste in my mouth... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 06:59 AM (ynpvh) 72
Don't get me wrong; I *do* believe that charities have to be honest where the monies they receive is supposed to go.
So BLM taking money supposedly for Black Lives, but using it for enriching the ones running the show should count. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 *** So, not only where the money they receive is supposed to go, but where it actually *does* go. They'll hide that with every slick fiber of their slimy beings. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9) 73
Read years ago, BLM for the Billions they took in for protection money racket never filed a single tax form.
And No the Marxist run IRS ever bothered to ask or look into it. Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0) 74
Oops! Time to feed the furry thugs!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9) 75
By the way, the awarding of AKC Champion or Grand Champion points is based on an impossibly complex formula involving the breed, whether the dog is male or female, the number of dogs competing, the award, and where the show is held. Exhibitors can work out this formula in their heads instantly. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 07:01 AM (HdYcL) 76
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By the way, the awarding of AKC Champion or Grand Champion points is based on an impossibly complex formula involving the breed, whether the dog is male or female, the number of dogs competing, the award, and where the show is held. Exhibitors can work out this formula in their heads instantly. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 07:01 AM (HdYcL) That's sexist... Do males get more of fewer points? Are feminists up-in-arms over bitches getting 70% the points of sons-of-bitches? Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 07:02 AM (ynpvh) Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 16, 2026 07:02 AM (l26NL) 78
Today is the Rededicate 250 Event led from DC. Join in a day of prayer.
“ Freedom 250 Invites All Americans to Come Together in Prayer and Worship Ahead of the Nation’s 250th Birthday On Sunday, May 17, 2026, the National Mall will be the scene of a historic gathering as Americans of every background across the country prepare for the nation’s 250th birthday with Scripture, testimony, prayer, and rededication of our country as One Nation to God. From morning fellowship in front of the U.S. Capitol to an evening filled with music anchored at the main stage on 12th Street, Rededicate 250 will be rooted in giving thanks for God’s presence in our national life throughout 250 years of American history and asking for his guidance for the next 250. Register your church to join all 50 states in prayer for America on this historic day.” https://tinyurl.com/495zpthh Posted by: Marcus T at May 16, 2026 07:03 AM (+ffGB) 79
74 Oops! Time to feed the furry thugs!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9) Aye, feed yer sporran. Posted by: Real Scottsman Wear Kilts at May 16, 2026 07:03 AM (ynpvh) 80
Posted by: Marcus T at May 16, 2026 07:03 AM (+
Sounds like a wonderful event. May God bless and protect all the events and people gathered ! Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 07:06 AM (EQmpy) 81
Aye, feed yer sporran. Posted by: Real Scottsman Wear Kilts at May 16, 2026 07:03 AM (ynpvh) Quiz show: MC: "What is a sporran?" Female contestant: "Wait! It's that thing that's covered in hair that hangs down between a Scotsman's legs." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 07:06 AM (HdYcL) 82
I used to have voices in my head, but then they convinced me that they would be happier were they allowed to be free range. So I let them. And they never came back. Sad. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 07:08 AM (s9VOe) 83
I used to have voices in my head, but then they convinced me that they would be happier were they allowed to be free range.
So I let them. And they never came back. Sad. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! We had a gardener who had to be committed. He was hearing voices in his shed. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 16, 2026 07:10 AM (l26NL) 84
More yard work today. Yippee! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 07:13 AM (s9VOe) 85
I used to have voices in my head, but then they convinced me that they would be happier were they allowed to be free range.
So I let them. And they never came back. Sad. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 *** The Misanthropic Bitch (remember her from the early days of the 'Net?) once said that as a little girl, she used to have imaginary friends, but they went away. She was thinking of inviting them to live with her again, as they would be much better company than most live people. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 07:13 AM (wzUl9) 86
Laura was a good performer
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:13 AM (Ia/+0) 87
I use em-dashes all the time.
Posted by: DavidD at May 16, 2026 07:16 AM (MSTeU) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ) 89
86 Laura was a good performer
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:13 AM (Ia/+0) That tune was the jam back in the day. I cut my teeth on 80s pop. I’d much rather be hearing that at work than the slop currently playing. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 07:18 AM (pKv0r) 90
Insurance? My insurance is about $100 per month. That's a showstopper for you?
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:25 AM (qFwJc) 91
I have so much I should do today but haven't even decided whats for breakfast yet
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:25 AM (Ia/+0) 92
Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly
Thank you for the Powerline link. Some good ones there, unexpectedly. You are a giver. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 07:30 AM (u82oZ) 93
Insurance? My insurance is about $100 per month. That's a showstopper for you?
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 *** Where do you live that it's that low? Progressive quoted me something like $2700 a year on top of high property taxes for a simple $105K house in Salina, KS. A house not in a flood plain, mind you. I haven't even asked what home insurance would be on a dump in Da Swamp; I like my hair color brown instead of white. $100 would be fine, if the rest of the note is okay and the property taxes are not onerous. The house I'm looking at it great in all three departments. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 07:31 AM (wzUl9) 94
@83 We had a gardener who had to be committed. He was hearing voices in his shed. --Posted by: Blutarski
For sure, dig that one up and turn it over in the gardening thread. My decades of experience have shown that to be a truly great gardener, you have to be committed. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 16, 2026 07:33 AM (zdLoL) 95
I live in SC. My house is worth ~280k. The property taxes are $1,253. The homeowners insurance with Allstate is $1,360 per year. I do have a $5,000 deductible. So, I am "self-insured" for the little stuff.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:35 AM (qFwJc) Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 07:36 AM (kpS4V) 97
Morning peeps.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 07:37 AM (jehhT) 98
My homeowners insurance is less than $100/month on a $300K property in GA. Combined with 5 autos, less than $2K/year
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F) 99
I didn't realize property taxes are so high in KS. Back in the mid-80's, we lived in Johnson County, KS. The schools were considered good. We had three school-age children, so paying more in property taxes seems reasonable. Across the state line, in KCMO, taxes were far less, but the schools were shit. It only worked if you did not have children or were willing to put them in private/parochial schools.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:47 AM (qFwJc) 100
100
Posted by: m at May 16, 2026 07:47 AM (6wpGE) 101
Midwest Chick memes:
https://midwestchick.com. /2026/05/16/saturday-meme-drop-189/ Mind the gap. My OS is too old to run tiny url. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ) Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 07:49 AM (vFG9F) 103
Nood coffee break.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:49 AM (qFwJc) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ) 105
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Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 15, 2026 10:01 PM (kOluj) 2
Yes!! Hi Weird Dave!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 15, 2026 10:01 PM (kOluj) Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 10:02 PM (VHUov) 4
I nooded
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 15, 2026 10:03 PM (6lIrI) 5
Holy Shit that is one big girl!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:03 PM (/lPRQ) 6
Whoa! What the hell am I doing on an ONT thread?
FWIW, on the shark-attack map, within the last couple years somebody got chomped in Casco Bay, Maine, just off Harpswell. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:04 PM (LxER7) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 10:06 PM (HdYcL) 8
Didn't dwell on the Ewok graphic because it's obviously the work of a pervert.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 10:06 PM (ZOv7s) 9
Mama Cass!
Posted by: Joemarine at May 15, 2026 10:06 PM (y171U) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 10:06 PM (ndZc7) 11
Read the content and watched a coupla videos and almost number 11!
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re) 12
Another fantastic ONT, WeirdDave! Thanks.
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re) 13
Spetsnaz isn't there to rescue hostages. Spetsnaz is there to kill insurgents. They protect the regime, not the people. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 10:08 PM (HdYcL) 14
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 10:09 PM (m5P/4) 15
But I only romance part of ze nec~!
Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 10:09 PM (diia5) 16
Girls v Boys
... Just found him on the street... Didn't they have a 'tourist' video recently wear somebody from Germany or England wandered across some southern guys... and ended up chasing gators, going to a range, etc.? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:10 PM (/lPRQ) Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov) 18
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 10:12 PM (Kyh8Y) 19
*sticks gum to bottom side of table*
Good evening, Hordians. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 10:06 PM (HdYcL) I pity you, because Pooky will find you. He was a high school janitor and although gum was banned, he still had to scrape it off places. Posted by: pookysgirl recommends hiding in Africa at May 15, 2026 10:12 PM (Wt5PA) 20
Best memeos ever on the interwebs!🤪!
Thanks WD! Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 15, 2026 10:13 PM (uTEOj) 21
16. Yes. I posted it on the ONT a few months ago.
Posted by: Weirddave at May 15, 2026 10:13 PM (df/te) 22
God made men, Sam Colt made them equal.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:15 PM (xcxpd) 23
17 TIL that I have an Amazon fetish
I was expecting a cute delivery girl. But it was literal. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov) Trust me, you do NOT want to fool with Dahomey Amazons.... Posted by: Harry Flashman at May 15, 2026 10:15 PM (LxER7) Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 10:15 PM (kU0PQ) 25
I chortled
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:16 PM (LmPA0) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:16 PM (xcxpd) 27
"Prostate Examination on an Ewok" has reminded me that I could never have made it as a doctor. Eew.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1) 28
And if you're a hostage and you get in the way of Spetsnaz killing insurgents, Spetsnaz will kill you too. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 10:16 PM (HdYcL) 29
Bingo! Alien.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 10:17 PM (YlWIZ) 30
Holy Shit that is one big girl!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:03 PM (/lPRQ) Enlarged to show detail. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z) 31
"care and feeding of Ace"
Third time this has been used on here. I think, just maybe, it can be retired now. Happy evening to the early overnighters. Yay! It's a hard-to-beat WeirdDave Friday! Posted by: mindful webworker - or is it Gilligan's Island? at May 15, 2026 10:18 PM (cz4n2) 32
I miss Betty Page.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:18 PM (oq9dX) 33
Did you ever read the back of old bootleg VHS tapes from China?
- Alien? Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy Could have been Rosemary's Baby. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:18 PM (/lPRQ) 34
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Spetsnaz isn't there to rescue hostages. Spetsnaz is there to kill insurgents. They protect the regime, not the people. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 10:08 PM (HdYcL) That is true. Their reputation has taken a hit due to their performance in the ongoing Ukraine war but they are hard fuckers in a hard country. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:19 PM (xcxpd) 35
32 I miss Betty Page.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:18 PM (oq9dX) Remember her in her prime, not how she ended up. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:19 PM (xcxpd) 36
A woman I used to work with was wickedly tall. Like 6'7" or so - she had a 40" inseam -and spent huge $$$$ to get decent clothes that looked good on her.
And a huge list of 'Tall Girl' problems that were epic. Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 10:19 PM (Kyh8Y) 37
Aquarium shark attack is a little more interactive that I'd want to experience!
Posted by: mindful webworker - candygrammm at May 15, 2026 10:20 PM (cz4n2) 38
27 "Prostate Examination on an Ewok" has reminded me that I could never have made it as a doctor. Eew.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1) There's always gynecology. Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 15, 2026 10:20 PM (gKWVE) 39
The taller guy commenting on the race is named Cleetus something. He's on several TV car shows and can race. He has run a couple of second level NASCAR races this year and does well if he doesn't crash. He crashes. The interviews afterward are hilarious!
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr+re) 40
Spetsnaz isn't there to rescue hostages. Spetsnaz is there to kill insurgents. They protect the regime, not the people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Even notice whenever America Special Forces are mentioned in the news it is always SEAL Team Six or Delta Force? Those guys do it all. Literally. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:21 PM (/lPRQ) 41
TIL that I have an Amazon fetish
I was expecting a cute delivery girl. But it was literal. Posted by: mikeski Throw in the Futurama Snu Snu / Busted Hips scene. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:22 PM (/lPRQ) 42
Didn't they have a 'tourist' video recently wear somebody from Germany or England wandered across some southern guys... and ended up chasing gators, going to a range, etc.? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher ================ Yeah, that was fun. It was a UK couple, and they ran into some Southerners -- men and women actually. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 10:22 PM (XJ22o) 43
I miss Betty Page.
Posted by: wth Remember her in her prime, not how she ended up. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards Helen Wood has also entered the chat. (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Pal Joey, and Deep Throat) Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 10:22 PM (Kyh8Y) 44
38 27 "Prostate Examination on an Ewok" has reminded me that I could never have made it as a doctor. Eew.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1) There's always gynecology. Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 15, 2026 10:20 PM (gKWVE) ---- Actually, I'm a gynecologist, but this is my lunch hour. Posted by: Obscure Monty Python Reference at May 15, 2026 10:23 PM (LxER7) 45
So many WTFs, so little time....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 15, 2026 10:23 PM (uTEOj) 46
40 Spetsnaz isn't there to rescue hostages. Spetsnaz is there to kill insurgents. They protect the regime, not the people.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh Even notice whenever America Special Forces are mentioned in the news it is always SEAL Team Six or Delta Force? Those guys do it all. Literally. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:21 PM (/lPRQ) There are more Tier 1 operators than SEAL Team Six and Delta. But Team Six really likes headlines, much to the disapproval of the other Operators. Most Delta guys don't talk much but they do get a lot of attention. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:23 PM (xcxpd) 47
It is a third degree misdemeanor to be a paid necromancer in Pennsylvania. However, pro bono necromancy or necromancy for entertainment purposes only may be allowed.
I saw Pro-Bono Necromancy open for Ghostly Kisses at The Graveyard in 2022. https://youtu.be/iMSXbTrrPNk Posted by: mikeski was dying to see them at May 15, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov) 48
Yay WeirdDave! Last of the great ONTers.
Posted by: alpine_beer at May 15, 2026 10:25 PM (van9r) 49
43 I miss Betty Page.
Posted by: wth Remember her in her prime, not how she ended up. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards Helen Wood has also entered the chat. (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Pal Joey, and Deep Throat) Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 10:22 PM (Kyh8Y) Her I don't know but Rita Hayworth was in Pal Joey. Rowr. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:25 PM (xcxpd) 50
"care and feeding of Ace"
Third time this has been used on here. I think, just maybe, it can be retired now. Happy evening to the early overnighters. Yay! It's a hard-to-beat WeirdDave Friday! Posted by: mindful webworker - or is it Gilligan's Island? === Just Maybe.... Write a little routine where banned URLs just get that graphic every time they try to go to the home page or post a message ? Then run it through an AI to make it photorealistic... Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:26 PM (/lPRQ) 51
Hammers, copper plumbing, green hair. No two of those things should go together.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 10:26 PM (vTZFs) 52
32 I miss Betty Page.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:18 PM (oq9dX) Perhaps a little more range time would help. Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at May 15, 2026 10:27 PM (ZTJjv) 53
Hammers, copper plumbing, green hair. No two of those things should go together. Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 10:26 PM (vTZFs) __________ Saw the green hair and said to myself, "This will turn out badly." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 10:27 PM (HdYcL) 54
OK. Cleetus' last TV/ewetube name is McFarland. Made up somehow. Real last name is Mitchell. Interesting.
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (Jr+re) Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (GD0B3) 56
Are there Seal Teams 1-5?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (LmPA0) 57
Hammers, copper plumbing, green hair. No two of those things should go together.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 10:26 PM (vTZFs) __________ Saw the green hair and said to myself, "This will turn out badly." Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 10:27 PM (HdYcL) *** I was thinking, green hair: "You're on your own, kid." Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 10:29 PM (2WIwB) 58
Maddy would be a good house painter. Or grocery store stocker.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:29 PM (oq9dX) 59
Are there Seal Teams 1-5?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport No. How do you think they became #6? Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 10:29 PM (diia5) 60
A woman I used to work with was wickedly tall. Like 6'7" or so - she had a 40" inseam -and spent huge $$$$ to get decent clothes that looked good on her.
And a huge list of 'Tall Girl' problems that were epic. Posted by: Tonypete A typical residential door is 6'8", according to my 6'8" cousin who ducks through all doors by reflex. So based on that video, "verytallmaddy" would tower over your coworker. She's gotta be 7-foot-..... let me google that for me. She says she's 7-foot-5. Posted by: mikeski notes 5-foot-7 would still be a tall girl at May 15, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov) Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 10:30 PM (bNzW0) 62
All things considered, 99 cents for fudge is not a bad deal.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 10:30 PM (XV/Pl) 63
Are there Seal Teams 1-5?
Maybe they ALL use Seal Team 6 as a nom de guerre. (That Froggy wording may/could be/almost certainly is wrong!) Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:30 PM (Jr+re) 64
What about a Manatee Team?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (LmPA0) 65
Gina Carano is baaaack! She looks great.
https://tinyurl.com/4kr54hke Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (GD0B3) If you say so. Posted by: Pedro Pascal at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (vSvIl) 66
Are there Seal Teams 1-5?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport No. How do you think they became #6? Posted by: Count Dracul Also, don't ask about what happened to the testers for Preparations A through G. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov) 67
The girls v. boys thing:
I was working in Yellowstone, and my buddy introduced me to a guy he met. Dude was snapping pictures and fell over a boulder. Buddy helped him up and they became friends. We all partied at the employee cantina (I was too young, but it was Wyoming in 1984, so, eh) Stranger dude was super cool, played guitar, and was hitting on a super-hot chick named CJ. Later we all adjourned around midnight to the overlook at the Lower falls of the Yellowstone to smoke some skunk-weed. Dude was the son of Saul Zaentz. He told me about the film his Dad produced. Amadeus. Seriously, though, he was genuinely cool as hell. And I am pretty sure he scored with CJ. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 10:32 PM (0aYVJ) 68
Gina Carano was great in Haywire, probably the only realistic scene of a girl kicking a dude's ass when she merc'd Michael Fasbender.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 10:34 PM (XV/Pl) 69
Are there Seal Teams 1-5?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport No. How do you think they became #6? Posted by: Count Dracul Also, don't ask about what happened to the testers for Preparations A through G. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov) That Heinz 56 tastes like ass. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB) 70
64 What about a Manatee Team?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (LmPA0) ---- Twenty bucks, same as in town. (Obligatory) Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:34 PM (LxER7) 71
There's talk that "Maddy" is AI.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 10:35 PM (gKWVE) 72
56 Are there Seal Teams 1-5?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (LmPA0) There WERE just two SEAL teams, one West Coast and one East. Seal Team Six is the Development Group (DEVGRU) that was the real speartip who developed tactics to spread through the rest of the SEAL community. Team Six got all the hairy missions. I don't know how many Teams there actually are now but they expanded, and contracted, during GWOT. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:35 PM (xcxpd) 73
Spawn loved the old timer doing 3-gun. 😍
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 15, 2026 10:36 PM (VCgbV) 74
The BIG girl: pituitary gigantism? She’s well proportioned, so maybe she’s just Dutch.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:36 PM (ZVgZ4) 75
71 There's talk that "Maddy" is AI.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 10:35 PM (gKWVE) Might be, I've seen some tall girls who were clearly AI, but this one seems to actually duck under doorways. I'd like to learn more. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:36 PM (xcxpd) 76
Cure 81 Hams are pretty decent, but Cures 1 thru 80 weren’t too good, specifically
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 10:37 PM (bNzW0) 77
Can’t thank Gary until I get the brain cell!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:37 PM (ZVgZ4) 78
Also is Delta Force part of an Alpha Bravo Charlie series or Alpha Beta Gamma alphabet?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:37 PM (LmPA0) 79
I don't know but I treasure my Barack Seal Team 6 Action Figure.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:38 PM (oq9dX) 80
Are there Seal Teams 1-5?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport Things did not work out... optimally. Same with TFs Alpha - Charlie. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:39 PM (/lPRQ) 81
Hard to imagine a more embarrassing incident to explain than a shark attack in Iowa.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 10:39 PM (viF8m) 82
78 Also is Delta Force part of an Alpha Bravo Charlie series or Alpha Beta Gamma alphabet?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:37 PM (LmPA0) Delta is Army. SEALS are Navy. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:40 PM (xcxpd) 83
Also, don't ask about what happened to the testers for Preparations A through G.
Posted by: mikeski Heinz 1 thru 56... A-1 was a success though. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:40 PM (/lPRQ) 84
I think dancing with Maddy would be fun, I promise to not motorboat.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:41 PM (oq9dX) 85
Motorboat what? Maddy's navel?
...brb Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 10:42 PM (gKWVE) Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ) 87
Cool ONT bro.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 10:43 PM (CHHv1) 88
I don't know if Piper's around, but she could always prep a Katie Porter Moooooo-Moooooo fashion set if Doof's causing her headaches.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg) 89
Delta is the guys who look like roadies for Slayer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 10:44 PM (0aYVJ) 90
I think dancing with Maddy would be fun, I promise to not motorboat.
Mess around with Maddy you will regret it. Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:46 PM (ZVgZ4) 91
86 Hey, All.
Anyone know why the flags in VA were at half staff today? Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ) Teacher (I think) shooting somewhere. The White Witch sheds icicles. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:46 PM (LxER7) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 10:47 PM (9EFgU) 93
Anyone know why the flags in VA were at half staff today?
Posted by: Bulg They are mourning the death of real democracy. Their democracy that is - Supreme Court Denies Virginia Democrats’ Bid to Revive Illegally Gerrymandered Congressional Map Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:47 PM (/lPRQ) 94
Hello, Horde! Back from a week in NYC, and before that a long weekend in Salt Lake City at a Cholangiocarcinoma Conference. Going to Galveston this weekend to see Jeff Foxworthy. After that, I will be home for a while....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 15, 2026 10:47 PM (RiICY) 95
Anyone know why the flags in VA were at half staff today?
Posted by: Bulg Peace Officers Memorial Day Posted by: Tuna at May 15, 2026 10:48 PM (lJ0H4) 96
Don’t ask about teams Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie, and don’t ask about Seal Teams 1-5.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:48 PM (ZVgZ4) 97
I looked it up. Peace Officers Memorial Day in Virginia
Posted by: Lirio100 at May 15, 2026 10:49 PM (ky7/T) 98
Hello, Horde! Back from a week in NYC, and before that a long weekend in Salt Lake City at a Cholangiocarcinoma Conference. Going to Galveston this weekend to see Jeff Foxworthy. After that, I will be home for a while....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 15, 2026 10:47 PM (RiICY) How many of the "You Might Be a Redneck" jokes are you expecting to match ;-) ? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg) 99
Bull sharks, which tolerate fresh water well, used to ascend the Mississippi as far as Illinois/Iowa. As I understand it, they can’t do that anymore due to damn construction:
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:50 PM (77rzZ) 100
Motorboat what? Maddy's navel?
...brb Posted by: gKWVE ...... Think she'd let me hump her leg like a poodle? Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (oq9dX) 101
Teresa, it's always good to hear about your travels and activities. I couldn't keep up!
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (Jr+re) 102
So, what is a “Peace Officer?”
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (77rzZ) 103
Bull sharks. I miss them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (6C3mT) 104
AOP followed the pace car and ended up in Kansas.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 10:52 PM (D1E+2) Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 10:52 PM (2Ez/1) 106
Gina Carano is baaaack! She looks great.
https://tinyurl.com/4kr54hke Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (GD0B3) If you say so. Posted by: Pedro Pascal at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (vSvIl) Jeez! What a hom...errr...never mind. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 10:52 PM (2WIwB) 107
Date Maddy and find out what a dwarf man thinks dating a regular sized woman.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:52 PM (ZVgZ4) 108
99 dam construction
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:52 PM (77rzZ) 109
Cool ONT bro.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 10:43 PM (CHHv1) --- Be ashamed if something happened to it! Posted by: Two Guys from Jersey at May 15, 2026 10:53 PM (Fi81e) 110
God bless you TIFW. I always remember you in my weekly prayer meetings. In less reverent terms: keep on truckin’!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:55 PM (ZVgZ4) 111
Hard to imagine a more embarrassing incident to explain than a shark attack in Iowa
——- I bet there’s a Code for that Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 10:56 PM (bNzW0) 112
I think it might be a national remembrance, the Governess of Iowa has done the same
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 10:57 PM (bNzW0) 113
Paul Sperry @paulsperry_
· BREAKING: Declassified FBI docs expose the malfeasance of Judge Boasberg who offered dirty FBI agent Kevin Clinesmith the excuse he was just innocently taking a "short-cut" to save time when he changed the wording in a CIA email that would have exculpated Trump adviser Carter Page b/c the new docs show Clinesmith also w/h exculpatory evidence on another Trump aide--Walid Phares--proving such corrupt behavior was his M.O., not a one-off, as Boasberg made it seem. Boasberg gave Clinesmith, a fellow Democrat, no jail-time for his felony. Clinesmith's back practicing law, and Boasberg is still on the bench. --- Fucking Boasberg. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 10:58 PM (Fi81e) 114
Boasberg gave Clinesmith, a fellow Democrat, no jail-time for his felony. Clinesmith's back practicing law, and Boasberg is still on the bench. Posted by: Axeman ================ See? Nothing happens. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o) Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (diia5) 116
99 Bull sharks, which tolerate fresh water well, used to ascend the Mississippi as far as Illinois/Iowa. As I understand it, they can’t do that anymore due to damn construction:
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:50 PM (77rzZ) ---- One of my kids did a semester abroad in Brisbane, Australia, a couple years back. Same deal about sharks and golf course water hazards. Not that it impacted her, as she was trying to figure out the rules of Australian Football and coming to the conclusion that there aren't any.... Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (LxER7) Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 11:00 PM (3ek7K) 118
After that, I will be home for a while....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, --- You could have dropped us a card, you know. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:00 PM (9EFgU) 119
The flag is at half-staff so often that I no longer bother to find out why.
It has lost all meaning, Did Barney Frank's boy-toy die? Golly. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 11:01 PM (0aYVJ) 120
102 So, what is a “Peace Officer?”
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (77rzZ) An officer that 'keeps the peace'. You know, a copper. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 11:01 PM (xcxpd) 121
The older man shooting three gun: his scooting was a little slow, but his shooting was spot on!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 11:01 PM (ZVgZ4) 122
Dogs fed and taken care of, evening prayers said. Good night, Hordians. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 11:02 PM (HdYcL) 123
See? Nothing happens.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o) --- That's my line. Posted by: Guy Who Always Says Nothing's Going to Happen at May 15, 2026 11:02 PM (Fi81e) 124
Not that it impacted her, as she was trying to figure out the rules of Australian Football and coming to the conclusion that there aren't any....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher The refs have to wear white fedoras. That's it. ( now watch someone correct my kapélology. ) Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 11:03 PM (diia5) 125
It has lost all meaning, Did Barney Frank's boy-toy die? Golly.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 11:01 PM (0aYVJ) ------------ Since Harvey Milk's tragic death there was never any good reason to return the flag to full staff. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:03 PM (6C3mT) 126
If you say so.
Posted by: Pedro Pascal at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (vSvIl) Jeez! What a hom...errr...never mind. Posted by: Diogenes --- Repulsive? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:04 PM (9EFgU) 127
122 G’night, Hadrian. Sleep well.
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:04 PM (77rzZ) 128
Only half the hostages will die, tops.
Posted by: Spetsnaz at May 15, 2026 11:05 PM (4NO2D) 129
Never express an ewok's anal gland within 50' of a public food establishment.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 11:05 PM (D1E+2) 130
>>Bull sharks, which tolerate fresh water well, used to ascend the Mississippi as far as Illinois/Iowa. As I understand it, they can’t do that anymore due to damn construction:
Bull sharks scare me much more than Great Whites or Makos. They are psychos that will chase you right up to the shore. Evil creatures. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m) 131
The refs have to wear white fedoras. That's it.
( now watch someone correct my kapélology. ) Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 11:03 PM (diia5) --- I think they frown on Weapons of Mass Destruction on the field. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 11:06 PM (Fi81e) 132
Bull sharks scare me much more than Great Whites or Makos. They are psychos that will chase you right up to the shore. Evil creatures.
They're probably just thinking, "Long pig, the other white meat." Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 15, 2026 11:07 PM (+9wcF) 133
>> Also is Delta Force part of an Alpha Bravo Charlie series or Alpha Beta Gamma alphabet?
That prompted me to look this up, and as I suspected, my eyes began to glaze over. Some aspects of military nomenclature and hierarchy makes sense to me, and some don't and I get all confusitated. May be because I'm getting to be 29. Anyway, it comes from the Alpha, Bravo, Charlie series, A, B, C, D. But in a convoluted way. You've got your basic platoon, company, battalion, regiment/brigade/group whatever hierarchy, and that gets sort of complex. I don't think regiments really exist as operational units, but I'm not sure. At any rate, Army Special Forces, the whole, is a division sized unit. On a chart, that is divided into Groups, but they use a regiment symbol (III). Each regiment is divided into battalions. Now, they divide the battalions into C, B, and A "teams". This is where A-team comes from. The A-team is a small operational group. The B team is the company HQ, and the C-team is the battalion HQ. Somehow Delta force got called the "D team", or SFOD-D, supposedly to obfuscate a bit, and make it look like some normal additional "team" level or something. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 11:07 PM (w6EFb) 134
As much damage as bull sharks would do to you, an average jet would do more.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 11:08 PM (Fi81e) 135
The older man shooting three gun: his scooting was a little slow, but his shooting was spot on
Ayup. Speed is fine. Accuracy is final. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 15, 2026 11:09 PM (bNzW0) 136
Repulsive?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:04 PM (9EFgU) Looks like Bruce Jenner. Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 11:11 PM (1Ff7Z) 137
115 So, what is a “Peace Officer?”
Posted by: Bulg Stupid peace gets outta hand, dont'cha know? Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (diia5) Peace Officers go patrolling and roust it wherever and whenever they can, demand its ID without any reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime, then arrest, beat, tase, and pepper spray it for resisting for asking what it did wrong. Posted by: They shall cry peace, peace, and there is no peace at May 15, 2026 11:11 PM (TbWk/) 138
Boasberg gave Clinesmith, a fellow Democrat, no jail-time for his felony. Clinesmith's back practicing law, and Boasberg is still on the bench.
--- Fucking Boasberg. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 10:58 PM (Fi81e) Whut... just because he was the Judge who was in charge of the FISA court when they signed off on spying on Republican American Citizens? including some in Congress? Totes OK... right.... right???? Posted by: Romeo13 at May 15, 2026 11:14 PM (mP0Kj) 139
Actually, maybe not as far north as Iowa. Only to Alton, Illinois, which seems to be across the Mighty Mississipp from Missouri. But still…
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:15 PM (77rzZ) 140
Somehow Delta force got called the "D team", or SFOD-D, supposedly to obfuscate a bit, and make it look like some normal additional "team" level or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 11:07 PM (w6EFb) Much like SEAL Team 6, they sit outside the normal chain hierarchy... mainly because their missions are often so classified they wanted to disguise what they were... Posted by: Romeo13 at May 15, 2026 11:17 PM (mP0Kj) 141
>>As much damage as bull sharks would do to you, an average jet would do more.
Jets or jet skis don't usually hunt you. A Bull Shark will. If they are around it's best to not be in the water. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 11:18 PM (viF8m) 142
JackStraw, maybe they just want your weed.
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:19 PM (77rzZ) 143
Is this a good time to bring up lampreys?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:21 PM (6C3mT) Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:24 PM (77rzZ) 145
Lampreys are kind of awesome in a way. The Democrat Party should adopt them as their Spirit Animal for themselves and their voters.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 11:25 PM (CHHv1) 146
116:Not that it impacted her, as she was trying to figure out the rules of Australian Football and coming to the conclusion that there aren't any....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher Heh! Co-worker and I used to do the same thing on midshift. Got Fox Sports available and they show Aussie Rules Football. Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 11:25 PM (m5P/4) 147
123 See? Nothing happens.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o) --- That's my line. Posted by: Guy Who Always Says Nothing's Going to Happen --- Now that she is transmutating into Aztecian being, only tzompantli will satisfy. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:26 PM (9EFgU) 148
testers for Preparations A through G
Heinz 1 thru 56... A-1 was a success 1-up through 6-up did not test-market well. Posted by: mindful webworker - trying to keep up at May 15, 2026 11:27 PM (cz4n2) 149
Much like SEAL Team 6, they sit outside the normal chain hierarchy... mainly because their missions are often so classified they wanted to disguise what they were...
Posted by: Romeo13 But, as noted above, the only time you ever hear about SF Anything on the news it is always Delta or Team 6. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 11:28 PM (/lPRQ) 150
>>Is this a good time to bring up lampreys?
How's the bareboat testing going? I promise you will have the time of you life. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 11:28 PM (viF8m) 151
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 15, 2026 11:09
Howdy there!!! You outta Philly yet? I still worry about you. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 11:29 PM (kJSFo) 152
Everybody knows about the “A-Team”. They even had a TV show!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 11:29 PM (ZVgZ4) 153
Preparations A through G
Heinz 1 thru 56... A-1 was a success 1-up through 6-up did not test-market well. WD-01 thru WD-39 Vick's formulas 1 to 43... Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ) 154
Now Jack Daniel's No. 7.
Just saw on the TV, so you know it is true, when the distillery started up they decided first to make whiskey... then realized they needed something that they could sell... They made several batches and decided No. 7 was the best. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 11:33 PM (/lPRQ) 155
How's the bareboat testing going? I promise you will have the time of you life.
Posted by: JackStraw -- That sound's...kinky. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:34 PM (9EFgU) 156
Evening, WD, and ONT Horde. Now at Super 8 motel in Amarillo, located between the Big Texan and Buc-EEs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:34 PM (GQnTc) Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 15, 2026 11:37 PM (bNzW0) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:38 PM (9EFgU) Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 11:38 PM (viF8m) 160
155 How's the bareboat testing going? I promise you will have the time of you life.
Posted by: JackStraw -- That sound's...kinky. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:34 PM (9EFgU) ---------- Ask me about my through-hull ball valves. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:39 PM (6C3mT) Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:39 PM (bNzW0) 162
>>>Now Jack Daniel's No. 7.
Just saw on the TV, so you know it is true, when the distillery started up they decided first to make whiskey... then realized they needed something that they could sell... They made several batches and decided No. 7 was the best. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher >Too much charcoal. Makes you crazy. Bourbon is a little milder. If I want to fuck some shit up, I drink Tennessee whiskey. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 11:40 PM (D1E+2) 163
Preparations A through G
Heinz 1 thru 56... A-1 was a success 1-up through 6-up did not test-market well. WD-01 thru WD-39 Vick's formulas 1 to 43... Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher Motels 1-5 and Supers 1-7 fell over and sank into the swamp. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 11:40 PM (VHUov) 164
Is this a good time to bring up lampreys? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) No. My Dad worked on their control in the Great Lakes. His workplace had entire walls covered in jars filled with formaldehyde in which were preserved either ammocoetes (the larval stage of sea lampreys) or adults. Disgusting things, they were. Yes, they put food on our table, but they were disgusting. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 11:42 PM (s9VOe) 165
Only half the hostages will die, tops.
Posted by: Spetsnaz at May 15, 2026 11:05 PM (4NO2D) I can live with that. It's just like Saigon, eh Slick? Posted by: Special Agent in Charge Johnson at May 15, 2026 11:43 PM (wVcYX) 166
Well, I'm off to tell the ladies on Twitter that Yes, you do look better without makeup.
Thank you, Horde, for existing and allowing me to exist too. PS: Hordettes, yes, you do look better without makeup. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 11:43 PM (CHHv1) 167
Well, Amarillo Blvd looks sorta sketchy. This motel is nice. Had a great meal at the Big Texan restaurant, which is huuuge.
Fuel pump on the car took a dump after we took on fuel at Kit Carson, CO. Runs for a while, seems to get hot, and quits. Was out and under car three times, no solution. Installed a brand new Yang Poon pump from Amazon; it was dead OOTB. Will get a new one from O'Reilly in the morning. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:43 PM (GQnTc) 168
Motels 1-5 and Supers 1-7 fell over and sank into the swamp.
Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 11:40 PM (VHUov) Wurst Western and Pastor Johnson hotel chains didn't make the cut, even in Rock Ridge. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 11:43 PM (qx7Zg) 169
Phillips 1- 65 were all dry holes.
Posted by: Count de Monetl at May 15, 2026 11:45 PM (wVcYX) Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 11:45 PM (A5RD0) 171
Didn’t you get there by morning?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:39 PM (bNzW0) Got here about 7 PM. Some big range fires burning in W. TX and the OK panhandle. We saw them. smelled the smoke. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:46 PM (GQnTc) 172
Whatcha doing in Texas, AOP?
Canada land too cold? Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 11:45 PM (A5RD0) Here to join a Route 66 tour with some folks from the Studebaker club. Plan to ride with the crew from here to Kingman, AZ, and then peel off to Apache Junction. Driving the '64 Convertible. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:48 PM (GQnTc) 173
75 Trombones is right out.
Posted by: Count de Monetl at May 15, 2026 11:48 PM (wVcYX) 174
Wasn't it Bull Shark(s) that caused Shark Summer in NJ in 1916? Shark(s) went way up river and creek, eating teens and children of no coler along the way. It was a sensation.
Posted by: Norton From Newark at May 15, 2026 11:49 PM (oftw2) 175
Daughter and I spent one evening in a motel just off I-40 in Amarillo. This was during our journey from Oakland, CA to Delaware in her Ford Ranger while towing a U-Haul trailer in 2013. Very sketchy, that place was. The door at the end of the hallway that emptied onto the parking lot had a mysterious habit of getting propped open throughout the night. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 11:50 PM (s9VOe) 176
Wyatt!
Good to see you here. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 11:50 PM (2WIwB) 177
Spamburger was whining on X about the way Virginia’s appeal of the gerrymander case got laughed out of the SCOTUS today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 11:51 PM (AnnNE) 178
Here to join a Route 66 tour with some folks from the Studebaker club. Plan to ride with the crew from here to Kingman, AZ, and then peel off to Apache Junction. Driving the '64 Convertible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Holy Cow does that sound like fun! Good for you! Happy trails!!! Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 11:52 PM (A5RD0) 179
Wasn't it Bull Shark(s) that caused Shark Summer in NJ in 1916? Shark(s) went way up river and creek, eating teens and children of no coler along the way. It was a sensation.
Posted by: Norton From Newark at May 15, 2026 11:49 PM (oftw2) Bull sharks swam up the Rio San Juan and infested Lago de Nicaragua, the huge lake that makes up half of southern Nicaragua. The old dictator Somoza contracted with Japanese fishermen to come fish them out, which they did very effectively. "Enviromentalists" were highly displeased. Folks that lived by the lake were delighted. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:53 PM (GQnTc) 180
I ran over an armadillo in Amarillo.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 11:54 PM (oq9dX) 181
Very sketchy, that place was. The door at the end of the hallway that emptied onto the parking lot had a mysterious habit of getting propped open throughout the night.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars Did they have hourly and weekly rates? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 11:54 PM (/lPRQ) 182
Omfg
Mariners suck in the 9th. May as well gove the Pardes another five runs. Shit. Dammit. Kill me. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 11:55 PM (aYmfF) 183
Yes, they put food on our table, but they were disgusting.
——- Your dad made you guys eat Lamprey? That’s hardcore Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:57 PM (bNzW0) 184
Did they have hourly and weekly rates?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher It's the sticky sheets that bother me most. Posted by: Mike Lindell at May 15, 2026 11:57 PM (oftw2) 185
Thanks! The fuel pump issue is pretty minor. I have enough tools to fix it OK, and it is accessible, albeit with some effort, if I lie on my back under the rear of the car,. Will buy a new pump tomorrow, and install it, and we should be good to go. About the only other possible cause for the pump stopping is some piece of debris in the tank floating around and clogging the pickup pipe, which lacks a sock filter (never used back then).
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:58 PM (GQnTc) Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 11:59 PM (viF8m) 187
Your dad made you guys eat Lamprey? That’s hardcore
--------- Meh. It's like spaghetti, but with teeth on one end. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:59 PM (6C3mT) 188
Very sketchy, that place was. The door at the end of the hallway that emptied onto the parking lot had a mysterious habit of getting propped open throughout the night.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars Probably smokers going out to burn a fag in the parking lot. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:00 AM (GQnTc) 189
It's the sticky sheets that bother me most.
Posted by: Mike Lindell at May 15, 2026 11:57 PM (oftw2) Yet the Teflon MyPillow never sold well. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:01 AM (GQnTc) 190
Amateur Tip - sometimes you can bang on the bottom of the gas tank, hard, a few times, with say a rubber mallet, and get the pump going OK, at least long enough to get to a parts store.
“Percussive maintenance”. Failing (worn out) engine starters can get a few more starts out of ‘em with a hammer, too, this way. It works! Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 12:03 AM (bNzW0) 191
We just throw them off buildings.
Posted by: Musloid at May 16, 2026 12:03 AM (oq9dX) 192
Yikes! It's 2300 here. Laptop still thinks it's 2200, but we crossed in Central Time zone. I need to get some sack time. I've been under the car 3 times. It's not terribly difficult, but it wears on one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:05 AM (GQnTc) 193
Good looking car.
Carburetor man said, in order to keep my warranty, I had to install a fuel filter before and after the fuel pump. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2026 12:05 AM (9EFgU) 194
Thanks! The fuel pump issue is pretty minor. I have enough tools to fix it OK, and it is accessible, albeit with some effort, if I lie on my back under the rear of the car,. Will buy a new pump tomorrow, and install it, and we should be good to go. About the only other possible cause for the pump stopping is some piece of debris in the tank floating around and clogging the pickup pipe, which lacks a sock filter (never used back then).
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Back around '97 I was driving an old S-10 Blazer in a Hawaiian lava field... miles from the road the pump stopped. It was an aftermarket electric unit I installed and fortunately had a clue that the power line somehow got cut. (no Tikka Tikka Tikka when moving the key from off to run). Had a toolbox and a spool of wire so reran the power from the fuse box to it. Success. That was the time I did not die in a lava field. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2026 12:05 AM (/lPRQ) 195
Now that she is transmutating into Aztecian being, only tzompantli will satisfy. Posted by: Braenyard ============= All things considered, I think my demands are entirely reasonable! Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:05 AM (XJ22o) 196
Amateur Tip - sometimes you can bang on the bottom of the gas tank, hard, a few times, with say a rubber mallet, and get the pump going OK, at least long enough to get to a parts store.
“Percussive maintenance”. Failing (worn out) engine starters can get a few more starts out of ‘em with a hammer, too, this way. It works! Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 12:03 AM (bNzW0) Oh yeah. This is an in-line low=pressure pump that sits between the right side of the fuel tank and the frame and spring. Lie on ground, squirm around, reach in and change it. Don't even have to jack the car up. If I had a hoist available, sure it would go on the hoist. Not really hard to reach, just a PITA. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:08 AM (GQnTc) 197
Well. Shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2026 12:09 AM (A5RD0) 198
Your dad made you guys eat Lamprey? That’s hardcore
--------- Meh. It's like spaghetti, but with teeth on one end. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) ===== So, little ones? Lop the head off, squeeze the guts out. Meanwhile, heat up some olive oil, throw in some crushed garlic, a pinch of red pepper, maybe some black olives, sun dried tomatoes, and capers. Toss in the baby lamprey. Be careful not to overcook. Serve with rigatoni. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2026 12:10 AM (/lPRQ) 199
There are definitely people enjoying the good life whose heads belong on that wall. So, entirely reasonable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2026 12:12 AM (9EFgU) 200
Mechanical fuel pumps, it’s difficult to find good ones these days. They are often made you know where, now.
I tested one, it measured 15 psi, spec was 3 to 5 psi. The only thing preventing flooding is a teeny tiny viton tipped needle & seat. My suspicion is some of these Classic Car engine fires you see are caused by this. Fuel level in the float bowl, is a critical spec. All the other calibrations are predicated on this being correct. On the Holley 2300 you could pull the cover and watch while the engine was idling, if careful. I thought they worked kinda like a toilet tank, you know, fill up, empty, fill up. Nope, it’s supposed to maintain a specific fuel height range on a constant basis. Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 12:13 AM (bNzW0) 201
One man's list of items more trustworthy than a liberal.
https://youtube.com/shorts/6yGmNS_k3qo #10 is a winner. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2026 12:15 AM (qx7Zg) 202
So, little ones?
Lop the head off, squeeze the guts out. Meanwhile, heat up some olive oil, throw in some crushed garlic, a pinch of red pepper, maybe some black olives, sun dried tomatoes, and capers. Toss in the baby lamprey. Be careful not to overcook. Serve with rigatoni. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2026 12:10 AM (/lPRQ) Eel will keet. Posted by: Doug Marcaida at May 16, 2026 12:15 AM (GQnTc) Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2026 12:19 AM (viF8m) 204
Ah, so it ain’t one of those in-tank fuel pumps? That’s good.
I change the Fuel filters on electronic fuel injected engines often. More frequent than the 30,000 miles usually indicated anyhow. I swear it runs noticeably smoother and quieter. Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 12:19 AM (bNzW0) 205
"Bull sharks, which tolerate fresh water well, used to ascend the Mississippi as far as Illinois/Iowa. As I understand it, they can’t do that anymore due to damn construction"
That's exactly how they feel about it too. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 12:19 AM (W5mpo) 206
Fuel level in the float bowl, is a critical spec. All the other calibrations are predicated on this being correct. On the Holley 2300 you could pull the cover and watch while the engine was idling, if careful. I thought they worked kinda like a toilet tank, you know, fill up, empty, fill up. Nope, it’s supposed to maintain a specific fuel height range on a constant basis.
Posted by: Common Tater Nah. Same thing. If the water in your tank was draining slowly all the time. Float valves are pretty simple. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2026 12:20 AM (/lPRQ) 207
I tested one, it measured 15 psi, spec was 3 to 5 psi. The only thing preventing flooding is a teeny tiny viton tipped needle & seat. My suspicion is some of these Classic Car engine fires you see are caused by this.
Fuel level in the float bowl, is a critical spec. All the other calibrations are predicated on this being correct. On the Holley 2300 you could pull the cover and watch while the engine was idling, if careful. I thought they worked kinda like a toilet tank, you know, fill up, empty, fill up. Nope, it’s supposed to maintain a specific fuel height range on a constant basis. Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 12:13 AM (bNzW0) Current fuel is a little less dense than the fuel of yore. So the carb floats don't float as high. Means the bowl gets a little more full than it used to do to close the float valve. So carb runs richer. As a rule of thumb, I like to set the float about 1/16" lower than spec, if modern fuel is to be used. To get it any better, I would need an air-fuel ratio meter to sample the exhaust gases. Posted by: Doug Marcaida at May 16, 2026 12:20 AM (GQnTc) 208
Off, forged nic.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:21 AM (GQnTc) 209
Pug Mahon,
If you're thinking about going to the air show at Mountain Home AFB, be aware that the amount of traffic overwhelms the local road system at the end of the show. The normal one hour drive from the base to Boise turns into a two, sometimes three, hour ordeal. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 16, 2026 12:23 AM (kZXPY) 210
>> Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl
I just noticed "Mortixtl" which is not Morticia, which I've been reading that as until it just hit me. Inquiring minds want to know what's going on. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 16, 2026 12:23 AM (w6EFb) 211
Well, the sack is calling me. Must get sleep. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:24 AM (GQnTc) 212
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:25 AM (bss/y) 213
Sorry I'm late, I didn't realize it would take so long for those bastsrds to drag that giant wooden horse into the city.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 16, 2026 12:25 AM (2RJDy) 214
Is this a good time to bring up lampreys?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:21 PM (6C3mT) --- By all means. Posted by: Big Lamprey at May 16, 2026 12:30 AM (Fi81e) 215
Inquiring minds want to know what's going on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 16, 2026 12:23 AM (w6EFb) A couple of nights ago, someone got on an Aztec kick and added "xtl" to his name. It caught on. Just a minor fad, not to worry, it will go away. Unlike that "Michael Jackson!" tattoo on your left butt cheek. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 16, 2026 12:30 AM (kZXPY) 216
Same thing. If the water in your tank was draining slowly all the time. Float valves are pretty simple.
——- No, really. I’m not making this up. The float height is set as a proxy, merely to achieve the proper fuel height in the bowl. I didn’t say it was complex, just that they don’t work like a toilet tank. The idea generally is to maintain sufficient fuel in the bowl at all times, under all conditions, from idle to wide open throttle under load. It might be simple, but it is very important. I have used O2 sensors to adjust carburetors. They can be dialed in for very good fuel metering. They are not anywhere close right out of the box, I discovered. This is a probably CYA policy, because they don’t want people grenading their motors. A carbureted V8 in a car can achieve 25 mpg at cruise on the highway. Just like fuel injected engines, actually. Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 12:30 AM (bNzW0) 217
Sorry, somebody has to to say it. Lampreys suck.
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2026 12:34 AM (Fi81e) 218
A carbureted V8 in a car can achieve 25 mpg at cruise on the highway. Just like fuel injected engines, actually.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 12:30 AM (bNzW0) With or without the cow magnets attached to the fuel line? Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 16, 2026 12:34 AM (kZXPY) 219
Inquiring minds want to know what's going on.
Posted by: publius A couple of nights ago, someone got on an Aztec kick and added "xtl" to his name. It caught on. Just a minor fad, not to worry, it will go away. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy A "tl," at least. It started during one of Ace's threads about some politico named Xochitl Hinojosa. It will go away, but it may flare up once in a while after it does. Posted by: mikeskitl at May 16, 2026 12:37 AM (VHUov) 220
Here to join a Route 66 tour with some folks from the Studebaker club. Plan to ride with the crew from here to Kingman, AZ, and then peel off to Apache Junction. Driving the '64 Convertible. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon You'll miss seeing the Route 66 Museum somewhere in Oklahoma, which is a hoot. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 12:37 AM (s9VOe) 221
>> , someone got on an Aztec kick
Ah, thanks. I missed that, but was thinking it had to be something I missed. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 16, 2026 12:40 AM (w6EFb) 222
118 After that, I will be home for a while....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, --- You could have dropped us a card, you know. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:00 PM (9EFgU) We were so busy every day that by the time we got back to the hotel we were too tired to do anything other than put on our jammies and fall into bed! We saw 4 Broadway shows, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum, Carnegie Hall, the 9/11 Memorial (museum was closed on Tuesday), One World Tower Observation Deck, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the statue of Liberty, Central Park (carriage ride), Starbucks Reserve, the LEGO Store, FAO Schwartz, Macy's, Times Square, and all of the touristy shops along the way. We had a lot of fun, and most of the people were very nice and willing to help this little old lady on her scooter. We put that poor scooter through her paces - we logged a LOT of miles while we were there! My friend didn't want to go on the subway, so we took busses when we had to; our hotel was centrally located. Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 12:43 AM (RiICY) Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 12:44 AM (diia5) 224
Here to join a Route 66 tour with some folks from the Studebaker club. Plan to ride with the crew from here to Kingman, AZ, and then peel off to Apache Junction. Driving the '64 Convertible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon You'll miss seeing the Route 66 Museum somewhere in Oklahoma, which is a hoot. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 12:37 AM (s9VOe) One day I will do Rt 66 on a motorcycle. I don't actually have a bucket list, but that one thing I do want to do. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 16, 2026 12:45 AM (snZF9) 225
Sorry, I drifted off looking through photos on Windoze laptop. How is it that photos can disappear from a folder? I must have a couple dozen such with nothing in them. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 12:46 AM (s9VOe) 226
Current fuel is a little less dense than the fuel of yore. So the carb floats don't float as high. Means the bowl gets a little more full than it used to do to close the float valve. So carb runs richer. As a rule of thumb, I like to set the float about 1/16" lower than spec, if modern fuel is to be used. To get it any better, I would need an air-fuel ratio meter to sample the exhaust gases.
Posted by: Doug Marcaida at May 16, 2026 12:20 AM (GQnTc) I have to do with harley carbs all the time. The old float specs are out the window with this modern crap they call fuel. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 16, 2026 12:49 AM (snZF9) 227
By "putting food on the table", I meant that his salary earned from his job performing sea lamprey control is what put food on the table. We were never served Sea Lamprey Surprise as a meal. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 12:49 AM (s9VOe) 228
Heya, Teresa. What a week! Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:52 AM (XJ22o) 229
A carbureted V8 in a car can achieve 25 mpg at cruise on the highway. Just like fuel injected engines, actually.
Posted by: Common Tater Probably easier to just go with the fuel injection and ECM. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 16, 2026 12:52 AM (/lPRQ) 230
I have to do with harley carbs all the time. The old float specs are out the window with this modern crap they call fuel. Posted by: Berserker === Do you do that on a dyno? Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2026 12:54 AM (XeU6L) 231
One day I will do Rt 66 on a motorcycle. I don't actually have a bucket list, but that one thing I do want to do.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 16, 2026 12:45 AM (snZF9) My advice is to do it sooner, rather than "one day". Tomorrow isn't guaranteed for any of us, and it would be a shame if you reached the end of your life and had regrets about all of the things you wanted to do but never got around to doing. Rust me, the memories will be worth it 😊💕 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 12:55 AM (RiICY) 232
Here to join a Route 66 tour with some folks from the Studebaker club. Plan to ride with the crew from here to Kingman, AZ, and then peel off to Apache Junction. Driving the '64 Convertible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ------ I've hit old 66 probably 6 or 7 times (not counting Holbrook, which is "local") traversing I40. Dot-Indian motels, mostly. But... I rode the whole of 66 back in '58, to visit relatives in LA. Now that it's a tourist attraction, instead of the simple way to get from here to there, I'm planning a trip of the leg from Seligman to Kingman. The temps have moderated down in the valley lately, it's not supposed to crack a hundred until Thursday. If you matta be here, it's not too hot. I have to be down there Tues & Wed. Only 99° those days.😁 Been running low 80s high 70s up here at 6000'. Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 01:02 AM (a+u3Q) 233
228. Heya, Teresa. What a week!
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:52 AM (XJ22o) It was amazing! My friend's 14-year-old daughter was with us, and it was such a joy to see the looks of amazement in her eyes. She missed a week of school, but the experiences she had were an entirely different kind of education. She had a lot of fun - we all did - and she was excited to go back to school and tell her friends about everything she saw. She was especially excited about getting to see Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) up close and personal (we had seats on the stage, and at one point in the sheer w, he was sitting right in front of her). A marvelous time was had by all 😊💕 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 01:02 AM (RiICY) 234
I got off on a gamma ray burst kick tonight. Here's a little animation of a black hole "eating" a star, which is plausible explanation (of a couple or three) of what produced the longest duration GRB seen yet, which happened back in July 2025: https://is.gd/yIRp90 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 16, 2026 01:06 AM (w6EFb) 235
How is it that photos can disappear from a folder? I must have a couple dozen such with nothing in them.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: ------ Pics of old girlfriends and your wife found them? Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 01:06 AM (a+u3Q) 236
Pics of old girlfriends and your wife found them? Posted by: buddhaha Nah. They were mostly from trips taken between 2010 and 2018. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 01:09 AM (s9VOe) 237
I have to do with harley carbs all the time. The old float specs are out the window with this modern crap they call fuel.
Posted by: Berserker === Do you do that on a dyno? Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2026 12:54 AM (XeU6L) No, no need to. With harley carbs, stock, S&S, mikuni HSR42 etc they just leak out the overflow hose, unless the float is stupid high then it will dump into the manifold. All you need to do is set them to where it don't dump out of the overflow hose and you're good. I'm a little more scientific, or lunatic. I'll hold the bowl onto the carb without the screws, turn the gas on, wait about 30 seconds, shut the gas, and pull the bowl down and visually look at the level, and adjust it if needed. Works every time. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 16, 2026 01:11 AM (snZF9) 238
Gonna go roust up some of my ill behaved antecedents. I found one -- a great granduncle -- who FAFOed with another youngun' in 1907 and got stabbed to death for his effort. The stabber expired within one week of having arrived in prison to serve his sentence for manslaughter. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 16, 2026 01:13 AM (s9VOe) 239
I think they discontinued Lamprey Helper.
Folks said it sucked. _____ Pulled up this YooToob-suggested time travel comedy. About half-way through, we realized we'd seen it before. Kinda cute and plenty goofy. Merely fifteen minutes, which more movies ought to be. SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN https://youtu.be/dSqemws9p08 _____ By the say, if you know about Fridays with Frank the cop, he just posted his 200th episode. One of his "customers" has about the worst emotional breakdowns a person could have on a mere traffic stop. (13:20) https://youtu.be/86b0U_Ozy78 Posted by: mindful webworker - Horde mind auxiliary neuron at May 16, 2026 01:14 AM (cz4n2) 240
My advice is to do it sooner, rather than "one day".
Tomorrow isn't guaranteed for any of us, and it would be a shame if you reached the end of your life and had regrets about all of the things you wanted to do but never got around to doing. Rust me, the memories will be worth it 😊💕 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 12:55 AM (RiICY) I was watching a vid of a dude that tours on a motorcycle. He had a great line. He said life is like a roll of toilet paper, the less that remains the faster it spins, lol. Within the next year or so, maybe even this year I'll be looking to some cruising. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 16, 2026 01:15 AM (snZF9) 241
I got off on a gamma ray burst kick tonight.
Posted by: publius Sssshh. Everyone, stay calm. Do not make publius angry. Posted by: mikeski at May 16, 2026 01:17 AM (VHUov) 242
I change the Fuel filters on electronic fuel injected engines often. More frequent than the 30,000 miles usually indicated anyhow. I swear it runs noticeably smoother and quieter.
Posted by: Common Tater ---- At $800+ per injector, I'm a bit paranoid about the 10k recommendation on the Cummins. I've installed extra fuel.filter and water separator cartridges in the fuel line. Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 01:18 AM (a+u3Q) 243
At $800+ per injector, I'm a bit paranoid about the 10k recommendation on the Cummins. I've installed extra fuel.filter and water separator cartridges in the fuel line.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 01:18 AM (a+u3Q) Man, no shit. My brother has a 2006 Ram pickup with the cummins diesel. He was looking into new injectors, not that he needs them but he's planing for the future. Holy shit those fuckers are pricey. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 16, 2026 01:21 AM (snZF9) 244
Teresa, did you guys see Every Brilliant Thing? Was that the Daniel Radcliffe performance? What did you think of it? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 01:22 AM (XJ22o) 245
Probably easier to just go with the fuel injection and ECM.
It wasn't when we built up my '66 283 several years ago. A lot of electric-pump systems call for a pressurized feed/return loop, but all the fuel injection conversion units offered also required a fully pressurizable gas tank, which would have meant a whole new tank, and of course a "computer." Instead we did old school stuff, solid lifters, a single plane manifold designed to go with a small Holley 4 barrel, 'half-race' cam, headers, and a 5-speed Tremec. Engine went from 160 HP to 250, and road mileage from 16 to 29. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 16, 2026 01:24 AM (zdLoL) 246
By the say, if you know about Fridays with Frank the cop, he just posted his 200th episode. One of his "customers" has about the worst emotional breakdowns a person could have on a mere traffic stop. (13:20)
https://youtu.be/86b0U_Ozy78 Posted by: mindful webworker - Horde mind auxiliary neuron at May 16, 2026 01:14 AM (cz4n2) I so could never have been a cop. Posted by: Reforger at May 16, 2026 01:24 AM (ZFqKB) 247
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By the say, if you know about Fridays with Frank the cop, he just posted his 200th episode. One of his "customers" has about the worst emotional breakdowns a person could have on a mere traffic stop. (13:20) https://youtu.be/86b0U_Ozy78 Posted by: mindful webworker - Horde mind auxiliary neuron --- Guess interactions with cops have changed. Mine have been more like interacting with a DI. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2026 01:24 AM (I1GeS) 248
Instead we did old school stuff, solid lifters, a single plane manifold designed to go with a small Holley 4 barrel, 'half-race' cam, headers, and a 5-speed Tremec. Engine went from 160 HP to 250, and road mileage from 16 to 29.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 16, 2026 01:24 AM (zdLoL) And if you break down on on the side of the road you will always get it home. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 16, 2026 01:25 AM (snZF9) 249
A couple of nights ago, someone got on an Aztec kick and added "xtl" to his name. It caught on. Just a minor fad, not to worry, it will go away.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy --- That reminds me of the day or so where everybody added "bot" to their name because conservatives online were "all bots" according to some urinalist. Posted by: Axebot at May 16, 2026 01:26 AM (Fi81e) 250
It's enormous that you are getting thoughts from this post
as well as from our dialogue made at this time. Posted by: Pressure washing services at May 16, 2026 01:26 AM (6t/JD) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 16, 2026 01:26 AM (w6EFb) 252
Didn't they have a 'tourist' video recently wear somebody from Germany or England wandered across some southern guys...
and ended up chasing gators, going to a range, etc.? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:10 PM (/lPRQ) There is a French guy on TikTok who visited Texas, he said his only danger was when he ordered slightly spicy ribs that came with a side of emotional support pickles, and got told "bless you" so many times he nearly converted. Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 01:30 AM (rbvCR) 253
A "tl," at least. It started during one of Ace's threads about some politico named Xochitl Hinojosa. It will go away, but it may flare up once in a while after it does. Posted by: mikeskitl ============== You should see what Dark Litigator has done to his name. Like, he poked a hole in its tongue and drew a knotted cord through it. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 01:31 AM (XJ22o) 254
It's enormous that you are getting thoughts from this post
as well as from our dialogue made at this time. Posted by: Pressure washing services Can't you just sell us the machines, like old times? What's up with this new machines-as-a-service business model? Also, replace yourself with a free AI and maybe your English will make sense. Posted by: mikeski at May 16, 2026 01:32 AM (VHUov) 255
We saw 4 Broadway shows, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum, Carnegie Hall, the 9/11 Memorial (museum was closed on Tuesday), One World Tower Observation Deck, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the statue of Liberty, Central Park (carriage ride), Starbucks Reserve, the LEGO Store, FAO Schwartz, Macy's, Times Square, and all of the touristy shops along the way.
-Teresa in Fort Worth Holy cow, Teresa. That's a lot. Glad for you & yours. Posted by: mindful webworker - all that in an afternoon, right? at May 16, 2026 01:34 AM (cz4n2) 256
A "tl," at least. It started during one of Ace's threads about some politico named Xochitl Hinojosa.
It will go away, but it may flare up once in a while after it does. Posted by: mikeskitl at May 16, 2026 12:37 AM (VHUov) silly, I know Posted by: Xindltotl at May 16, 2026 01:36 AM (rbvCR) 257
Abel, Baker, Charlie, Dog . . .
Posted by: Xindltotl at May 16, 2026 01:38 AM (rbvCR) 258
You should see what Dark Litigator has done to his name. Like, he poked a hole in its tongue and drew a knotted cord through it.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl I reformed it a bit. I couldn't understand myself. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:41 AM (W5mpo) 259
Guess interactions with cops have changed.
Mine have been more like interacting with a DI. Posted by: Braenyard I've always said, you'd be fortunate to get stopped by Frank. Strict and by the book, but mostly friendly. Maybe they edit out all the worst interactions. Of course, if he was pulling folks out of their cars and beating them for minor infractions, he probably wouldn't be the internet star that he is. Posted by: mindful webworker - blue light specials at May 16, 2026 01:41 AM (cz4n2) 260
Time to fold it up for the night. Maybe I'll make it to the coffee and prayer thread. MiladyJo just ground the coffee for the morning, the great smell of which is always an incentive to get to sleep, the consciousness time-travel system.
https://youtu.be/Z6keBL3HYag G'nite, y'all.💤 Posted by: mindful webworker - blue light specials at May 16, 2026 01:44 AM (cz4n2) 261
Speaking of litigating, I'm opposing 2 demurrers at 9am Monday and there's no tentative ruling on either. Bugger. Dealing with insurance defense lawyers who think i don't know the difference between a cause of action as "count" and a cause of action under the primary rights doctrine as the injury underlying the basis for that part of the suit. And then there's the guy who thinks the 2-year catchall statute of limitations is more specific than the 3-year statute for all tortious damage to property (except neglect resulting in injury or death to animals by 3 classes of defendants none of which are the two main defendants (the corporate deep pockets) in my suit).
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:45 AM (W5mpo) Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:48 AM (W5mpo) 263
261 Speaking of litigating,
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal **** I understood that post. Which means I have spent more time with lawyers than is healthy. And why I have not wanted to study law even when people have said I would be good at it. Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 01:57 AM (G+2/5) 264
Abel, Baker, Charlie, Dog . . .
Posted by: Xindltotl Confirm? This is Colonel Trautman, please acknowledge. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 02:00 AM (diia5) 265
I have actually considered going into law; I need to reinvent myself and get a real profession going, after some setbacks (mostly my own fault tbh), and I have an interest pursuing those qui tam actions against fraudsters. Loathing, spite, disgust, resentment, hatred, and contempt are perfectly legitimate motivations, if channeled in a healthy and productive manner.
My bachelor's is in math, so other options include accounting, business information systems, computer science, or electrical engineering. I have a lot of interests and varied experience! Posted by: SciVo at May 16, 2026 02:06 AM (Sy6m/) 266
Hmm. Not much I can do with such a short nick, but I think that works, especially with speaking of dark motives...
Posted by: XiVotl at May 16, 2026 02:07 AM (Sy6m/) 267
There's a lot of interesting aspects to practicing law. None of it involves dealing with opposing counsel. Yuck. "How can breach of bailment apply to veterinarians? Veterinarians are subject to professional negligence, not ordinary negligence." "Professional negligence is just ordinary negligence by professionals." "No it's not." "Yeah, read the case you rely on. Right there, page...." Lot of that.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 02:18 AM (W5mpo) 268
I was an unarmed private security officer for a number of years, which is in the same general category of Persuasion Professions like schoolteachers and salespeople, whose job it is to talk people into doing things. Originally, I was just intending it as something to keep busy while looking for something better; but as long as I'm learning I'm interested, and I was learning a ton about people and the world every week. So I'm not worried about my patience for idiotic arguments, as that muscle grew from imperceptible to massively swole.
Posted by: XiVotl at May 16, 2026 02:26 AM (Sy6m/) 269
Bill Kristol has made an official announcement that he is now a Democrat.
As the meme put it: Oh no! Anyway... Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 16, 2026 02:41 AM (IG3/x) Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 02:48 AM (m5P/4) 271
Bill Kristol has made an official announcement that he is now a Democrat.
As the meme put it: Oh no! Anyway... Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia For shame. Staying in the closet so long. Posted by: mikeski at May 16, 2026 02:48 AM (VHUov) 272
The thing is, Bill's new 'fwiends' on the Left will still hate his guts.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 02:58 AM (m5P/4) 273
Bill Kristol has made an official announcement that he is now a Democrat.
Nobody cares, Bill. Posted by: Puddleglum +++ Did he also announce that water is wet? Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 16, 2026 03:06 AM (uIdDr) 274
Bill Kristol has amazingly bad judgement. He picked the exact moment when Democrats became Jew-hating Islamunists, working themselves up into a frenzy. He is literally physically unsafe in their presence now, so how does he choose this precise moment? Does he have a masochism kink? No wait, I don't want to know.
Posted by: XiVotl at May 16, 2026 03:09 AM (Sy6m/) 275
156 Evening, WD, and ONT Horde. Now at Super 8 motel in Amarillo, located between the Big Texan and Buc-EEs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:34 PM (GQnTc) Well, damn, I am not far from there at all. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 03:15 AM (xzBJP) 276
3:30? That all it is?
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 03:30 AM (Ia/+0) 277
I so could never have been a cop.
Posted by: Reforger at May 16, 2026 01:24 AM (ZFqKB) I hope Grandma smacks her upside the head when she gets home. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 16, 2026 03:34 AM (DwqWV) 278
Nice ONT, WD. I larfed multiple times.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 04:29 AM (ynpvh) 279
pixy has arrived.
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:31 AM (G+2/5) 280
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Teresa, did you guys see Every Brilliant Thing? Was that the Daniel Radcliffe performance? What did you think of it? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 01:22 AM (XJ22o) Yes - it was amazing! We had seats on the stage. He is only there until May 24th, then Mariska Hargitay takes over the role. I like Ms. Hargitay just fine, but I think she is the wrong choice for this role - she will be too earnest and try to bring a level of emotion into the role that is just...wrong. That is my humble opinion, of course.... Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 16, 2026 05:29 AM (RiICY) Bird-Heavy Cafe![]() Special forces capture the World's Greatest Terrorist Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Yeet!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (Ft2MX) Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (Ft2MX) Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (GD0B3) Posted by: Bea Arthur at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (zZu0s) 5
I miss the giant sloths. And the giant armadillos.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (Fi81e) 7
I liked the owl video. Thanks, Ace.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:35 PM (7RYym) 8
He's gone more dog centric than bat, which is like. I am still puzzled by the penguin meme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 07:36 PM (zZu0s) 9
Rosalind was appropriated to be shown in Junior Showmanship competition today by a boy who was entered but whose dog couldn't make it. She may get dognapped and taken to Oklahoma. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:36 PM (HdYcL) 10
The Special Forces Four plus their trusty penguin mascot capture the World's Greatest Terrorist? Because that guy at the left is lethally cute. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 07:36 PM (XJ22o) 11
Are those Argentinian soldiers on the Falklands with the penguin?
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 07:37 PM (GWDtl) 12
Guilty doggie is cute.
Posted by: Tuna at May 15, 2026 07:37 PM (lJ0H4) 13
I suppose we will refrain from discussing the sad mephitic fate of each of those gentlemen in the photograph.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 15, 2026 07:37 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:37 PM (Fi81e) 15
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0) 16
Metallica sux. Not Bruce level sux. You can dance to Metallica.
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:38 PM (T8bqm) Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 07:38 PM (3ek7K) 18
I think there's a genius in some of the "mash-ups" that we see or hear.
I mean... someone hears, or sees something to connect with something totally off the hook. I totally sympathize. Being a genius. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 07:40 PM (jehhT) 19
Special forces capture the World's Greatest Terrorist
We were close, so close, to a 100% week. Sad! Those smiles are going to turn into rictuses of terror in about 3 seconds, when that penguin unleashes its runny, mephitic projectile, and all its fellow terrorists (visible in the background) also unleash their projectile TOT (Time On Target) barrage. Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1) 20
Wish I had a baby owl
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0) 21
Yeah, nothing pressing working on weekends lately
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:44 PM (Ia/+0) 22
I really should take everything out of my truck and straighten it out
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:44 PM (Ia/+0) 23
The flesh of sea-fowl is generally too rancid to find much favour with fastidious palates. Sailors indeed eat the livers and hearts of the penguins, which are exceedingly palatable, but the black flesh of the body is rank and oily, and has rather a perfumed taste. Some voyagers, however, tell us, that eaten in ragouts, they are good as that made from a hare.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 15, 2026 07:44 PM (vFG9F) 24
Bent frame?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 07:45 PM (zZu0s) 25
My horseshow gang is having a pretty good show series. All Around placings on Saturday.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 07:48 PM (z2aPa) Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 07:48 PM (bOS38) 27
Why am I thinking those are Argentine troops?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 07:48 PM (rbvCR) 28
Let us turn our attention away from the impending olfactory doom of those Special Forces lads, and instead rejoice in the flying fox rescue.
As the top two commenters to the video observed: "Their eyes are so....soulful." "Such a gorgeous boy! How could anyone dislike such a beautiful creature." Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1) 29
Tousi is an optimist. I am not. I see gas going up until Trump relents. I fear his Congressional support is very thin.
If Lincoln had this Congress, the South would have won. Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:49 PM (77Bgk) 30
Lower depths beat me to it. Funny, euro-lookin' service rifles. But the (old) US helmets and camo. Argentine or Chilean troops I'd guess.
Not on the Falklands. I believe there was some dispute over that a few years back and the argies lost it. Plenty of coastal territory in both Argentina and Chile for such a photo location. Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:50 PM (U/Byj) 31
Pretty big horse steeple race near me. Been going by it all week and its a big set ip.
Radnor Hunt Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0) 32
"If Lincoln had this Congress, the South would have won."
If Lincoln had this *electorate*, the South would have won. Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:51 PM (U/Byj) 33
The Big Dummy gets shown tomorrow in Best of Breed competition. The judge is foreign (from Italy). Her Majesty says his placements so far have been all over the place. Foreign judges tend to do odd things. Who knows? He may win or he may not make the first cut. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:53 PM (HdYcL) 34
Got back from some errands downtown tonight and the tide is exceptionally high and there is a waning moon.
Evil things are on the march tonight. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m) 35
Rosalind was appropriated to be shown in Junior Showmanship competition today by a boy who was entered but whose dog couldn't make it.
Kudos. Very generous of you to loan an animal to encourage the next generation of breeders/showers. Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs) 36
JackStraw, batten down the hatches!
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 07:54 PM (z2aPa) 37
But everybody's having such a good time.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 07:54 PM (YlWIZ) 38
I took Ralphy to visit one of my late Mother's friends, about 90. I brought her a muffin from Tim's as usual but there was confusion.
Ralphy ended up eating an entire blueberry muffin. And his timbit. He had a good day. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 07:54 PM (Sco7b) 39
Ralphy ended up eating an entire blueberry muffin. And his timbit.
--- Daddy's gonna kill Ralphy! Posted by: Randy at May 15, 2026 07:55 PM (Fi81e) 40
Very generous of you to loan an animal to encourage the next generation of breeders/showers. Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 07:53 PM (vTZFs) ___________ Just saw the video of them. She's a good girl. They placed second in their class. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:55 PM (HdYcL) 41
in the Falklands the Brits and the Argies used FN-FAL rifles, but the Argies used mostly US equipment, with some national stuff added in, and Israeli anoraks.
I think they are Argie troops, but that is because of the woodland pattern to the helmet covers with the tire rubber tie. Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 07:56 PM (rbvCR) 42
Evil things are on the march tonight.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m) 'ware the Norsemen. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 07:57 PM (0aYVJ) 43
Those are Argies with FN-FALs. Probably South Georgia Island.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:57 PM (2GVsD) 44
Cute animal vids. I'm watching the cats do a train on a lizard right now. Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM (XJ22o) 45
Just an aside: the fried chicken at my local Albertson's is amazing.
I am making yummy noises like crazy. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM (0aYVJ) 46
Xi, a murderer, thug and blackmailer. Putin, commie gangster. Shi'ite mullahs, murderers, rapists, terrorists. Trump? Said, "pussy.". Get some help.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM (YlWIZ) 47
This should have been the Betty Page Cafe. Priorities, son.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 08:00 PM (D1E+2) 48
Bad moon rising, trouble on the way......
Take care JackStraw. Watch out for Elvis. Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 08:02 PM (NWIIQ) 49
Just an aside: the fried chicken at my local Albertson's is amazing. I am making yummy noises like crazy. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM (0aYVJ) ______________ Fried chicken originated in Scotland. I do not think you'd want to try fried chicken from Scotland. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 08:02 PM (HdYcL) Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 08:03 PM (viF8m) 51
I always thought fried chicken came from chicken on a stick over a fire.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:03 PM (z2aPa) 52
Isn't that picture with the penguin the same type of picture from HellBoy?
Are they suggesting penguins are minor demons from other realms? Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 08:05 PM (XV/Pl) Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 15, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F) 54
Are they suggesting penguins are minor demons from other realms?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 08:05 PM (XV/Pl) H.P. Lovecraft covered this in "In the Mountains of Madness." Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:10 PM (0aYVJ) 55
*waves to Pug and his lovely wife *
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:11 PM (z2aPa) 56
Star Trek is on. It's the one where AI gets too big for it's britches.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 08:13 PM (vFG9F) 57
34 Got back from some errands downtown tonight and the tide is exceptionally high and there is a waning moon.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m) Told ya Posted by: Blondie at May 15, 2026 08:13 PM (w/O5Q) 58
Five Special Operators to capture one lone penguin. Shows you that there is no way to stop the invasion. Surrender now.
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at May 15, 2026 08:14 PM (oftw2) 59
*waves to Pug and his lovely wife *
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:11 PM (z2aPa) Hi back atcha. We are hoarding vacation time to be in Texas next fall. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:14 PM (0aYVJ) 60
>>Big Penguin never sleeps.
My BFFs moved to the Keys a few years ago. A couple months ago they texted my a picture of a couple penguins who somehow ended up landing on a beach in the Keys. If you think the threat has been contained to the South Pole you are kidding yourself. They are coming. And they are merciless. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 08:14 PM (viF8m) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 08:15 PM (HdYcL) 62
That beaver has better table manners than Big Mike. Just sayin'. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:16 PM (s9VOe) 63
New Moon is tomorrow at 4:01 PM EDT. This is "super new moon", Moon is close to perigee. The geometry, moon aligned with the Sun on one side, and Moon near perigee makes for some higher tides. Perigean Tides, or King Tides. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 08:16 PM (w6EFb) 64
I hope they make sure that penguin didn't have IEDs.
Intestinal Explosive Diarrheas. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2026 08:16 PM (diia5) 65
These penguins, are they in the room with us now?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 15, 2026 08:17 PM (jt/rW) 66
Star Trek is on. It's the one where AI gets too big for it's britches.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 08:13 PM (vFG9F) Ultimate Computer or Taste of Armageddon? Or return of the Archons? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 08:17 PM (zZu0s) 67
The Bird Is The Word.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 08:17 PM (T6aVk) 68
Blonde Morticia's Phone at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM
Some of our kittens left us a dead lizard (without the tail) in their food dish a few hours ago. They like us more than we thought. Posted by: KT at May 15, 2026 08:17 PM (rdeQO) 69
The one with the dunsel.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 08:18 PM (vFG9F) 70
Some of our kittens left us a dead lizard (without the tail) in their food dish a few hours ago. They like us more than we thought.
Posted by: KT ========= Someone ought to start a youtube channel called the anti-Dodo. Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at May 15, 2026 08:20 PM (XJ22o) 71
Saw Mooch lose 40 pounds, can't be under 170 now
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0) 72
I once bought a DVD of " Happy Feet" to use for target practice.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:20 PM (z2aPa) 73
Yikes, JackStraw.
Be vigilant. I think a fire in the fire pit and a couple snorts of bourbon should fend off the nasties. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 08:20 PM (tcruw) 74
KT if was like mh cats long ago they played with it until the batteries ran out, or scared it to death
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 08:21 PM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Penguins@Bletchley Park at May 15, 2026 08:22 PM (oftw2) 76
The one with the dunsel.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 08:18 PM (vFG9F) Ultimate Computer. Great episode. 'You know, bones, you could feel the wind in those days. And you take away the wind and the water... and it's the same. The ship is yours. And the stars are still there...' Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s) 77
72 I once bought a DVD of " Happy Feet" to use for target practice.
Posted by: Ben Had And I thought I liked you. Posted by: Penguin Petey at May 15, 2026 08:23 PM (oftw2) 78
"I once bought a DVD of " Happy Feet" to use for target practice.
Posted by: Ben Had" We have decided to bypass Texas. Posted by: Big Penguin at May 15, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F) 79
Various sources say SCOTUS has told Virginian Dems to pound sand vis a vis reviving their new voter-approved map.
[insert gif of Nelson Muntz here] Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 15, 2026 08:24 PM (/HDaX) 80
And this coming lunation will be a Blue Moon per the calendar month definition, two full Moons in a calendar month. I prefer the seasonal definition (third full moon in an astronomical season with 4 full moons), but turns out both were just made up early this century anyway. No historical meaning at all. So, whichever. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 08:24 PM (w6EFb) 81
Saw Mooch lose 40 pounds, can't be under 170 now Posted by: Skip Was she still wearing her hair in the styles of her White Oppressors? She can hardly claim to be stunning and brave unless she shakes off the hair styles of her White Oppressors. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:25 PM (s9VOe) 82
Saw Mooch lose 40 pounds, can't be under 170 now
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0) The obama library of doom has mooch inspired pearl necklaces! The most expensive item in the gift shop but a steal at $390 US! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 08:25 PM (Sco7b) 83
John has a fine mustache.
Posted by: Penguins@Bletchley Park at May 15, 2026 08:22 PM (oftw2) The Dude won't shut up about rugs tying up a room. Dennis Moore needs more lupins The gout! Flaring up again! Tippy toe! Tippy toe! Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:26 PM (0aYVJ) 84
I once bought a DVD of " Happy Feet" to use for target practice.
Posted by: Ben Had And I thought I liked you. Posted by: Penguin Petey at May 15, 2026 08:23 PM That says infinitely more about you than it does about Ben Had, who is one of the finest humans to ever throw a leg over a horse. Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 08:27 PM (0sNs1) 85
I had a Blue Moon from sitting on cold concrete steps.
Posted by: El Rumpo at May 15, 2026 08:27 PM (oftw2) 86
"Ultimate Computer. Great episode."
After what Daystrom did and killed all those people, what do you think happened to him? Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at May 15, 2026 08:28 PM (vFG9F) 87
The obama library of doom has mooch inspired pearl necklaces!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 08:25 PM Never in a million years. Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 08:28 PM (0sNs1) 88
That says infinitely more about you than it does about Ben Had, who is one of the finest humans to ever throw a leg over a horse.
Posted by: Duncanthrax I've seen people throw their voice, but throwing a leg is impossible. Posted by: Not Borned Yesterday at May 15, 2026 08:29 PM (oftw2) 89
Okay what's weird is my mom looked just like Betty Page.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:29 PM (qrzX6) 90
Once I was having great fun feeding potato chips to a chipmunk in Yellowstone Park until the bag ran out. Little bastard bit the fuck out of me. Pretty funny. I didn't squash him.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (D1E+2) 91
I saw Emu Shenanigans open for Rhea's Obsession at Cooper's Landing in 2001.
https://youtu.be/7a99DRw_QwQ Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (VHUov) 92
>>Be vigilant. I think a fire in the fire pit and a couple snorts of bourbon should fend off the nasties.
This has been the week from hell. I've got something to do tomorrow morning but tomorrow afternoon I am going to burn it all away at the fire pit and drink a bunch of rum. Rum keeps the demons at bay if only for a while. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m) 93
Kamala has been a fan of pearl necklaces for a half-century.
Posted by: Willie Brown, Speaker Emeritus at May 15, 2026 08:31 PM (oftw2) 94
More code phrases:
Donny thinks it's a vacuum Ooh, floor pie Whatever happened to Chuck? Lovey Howell is a very viable third alternative Football to the groin! Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:31 PM (0aYVJ) 95
I've seen people throw their voice, but throwing a leg is impossible.
Nobody said it was her leg. Coulda been anybody's. They all look pretty much the same. Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 08:32 PM (vTZFs) 96
Don't drink Bay Rum!
Posted by: Witch Hazel at May 15, 2026 08:32 PM (oftw2) 97
That says infinitely more about you than it does about Ben Had, who is one of the finest humans to ever throw a leg over a horse.
Posted by: Duncanthrax I've seen people throw their voice, but throwing a leg is impossible. Posted by: Not Borned Yesterday at May 15, 2026 08:29 PM (oftw2) --- Nobody said it was her leg. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:33 PM (0aYVJ) Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:33 PM (0aYVJ) 99
Speaking of AI, I just finished building out, if I say so myself, one of the best stock research and portfolio tracking apps.
Now I just have to turn it into an electron app and I might integrate into a Apple widget. It's all tailored to track my portfolio, but I could easily refactor it for a general audience. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 08:35 PM (XV/Pl) 100
Speaking of AI, I just finished building out, if I say so myself, one of the best stock research and portfolio tracking apps"
Pelosi like? Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:37 PM (XuXeR) 101
Never in a million years.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 08:28 PM (0sNs1) You're a tough negotiator! Tell you what. You can walk out of here today, with that beautiful necklace for ONLY $350. AND I'll even toss in a 2027 Michelle Obama Swimsuit Calendar as Michelle seeks to prove ALL women can be sexy at any age! Don't let this offer pass you by! Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 08:41 PM (Sco7b) 102
@100
>>Pelosi like? Somewhat, I have the same ruthless desire to be fantastically wealthy, but without the evil bits and pubic graft and theft. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 08:42 PM (XV/Pl) 103
Rosalind was appropriated to be shown in Junior Showmanship competition today by a boy who was entered but whose dog couldn't make it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh How does that happen? People take their dog to a dog show, and the people arrive, but the dog doesn't? Was the dog driving its own car? Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 08:44 PM (VHUov) 104
I think they are Argie troops, but that is because of the woodland pattern to the helmet covers with the tire rubber tie.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 07:56 PM (rbvCR) --- I agree. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 08:44 PM (ZOv7s) 105
I miss the giant sloths. And the giant armadillos.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE) Who are you, Methuselah? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:46 PM (ZVgZ4) 106
This has been the week from hell. I've got something to do tomorrow morning but tomorrow afternoon I am going to burn it all away at the fire pit and drink a bunch of rum. Rum keeps the demons at bay if only for a while.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m) --- Rum rations are effective. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 08:46 PM (ZOv7s) 107
Someone mentioned this earlier, but there is very little fanfare about the upcoming 250th anniversary of our precious nation.
I was 10 during the Bicentennial. John Wayne was the grand marshal for the Cody Stampede. It was a huge thing. Even the stupid TV stations had segments leading up. 200 years ago such and such happened. Now? Nothing. Bupkis. Gonna be an interesting summer. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:47 PM (0aYVJ) 108
That pubic graft can be quite painful: long recovery time.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:47 PM (ZVgZ4) 109
Re the chipmunk:
Snagged two of them today. By the neck. I'm leaving them out over night to see if foxes, racoons, bobcats, tigers, lions, elephants, buffaloes, donkeys, hippopotamuses rhinoceroses, giraffes, octopuses, mooses, or ducks will take them out of the traps. It could happen. Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 08:49 PM (Kyh8Y) 110
don't ask about the sodomy ration.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 08:49 PM (gKWVE) 111
This has been the week from hell. I've got something to do tomorrow morning but tomorrow afternoon I am going to burn it all away at the fire pit and drink a bunch of rum. Rum keeps the demons at bay if only for a while.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m) --- Rum rations are effective. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 08:46 PM (ZOv7s) A capital idea! Posted by: Captain Jack Sparrow at May 15, 2026 08:50 PM (wVcYX) 112
Very little fanfare for the upcoming 250th anniversary from the left leaning media.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:51 PM (ZVgZ4) 113
Various sources say SCOTUS has told Virginian Dems to pound sand vis a vis reviving their new voter-approved map.
[insert gif of Nelson Muntz here] Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy I know the new map got tossed because Virginian Dems did not follow the required legal procedure... The idea that a simply majority can lock the minority out of government is a great way to enslave the minority. Then the rulers can splinter off a chunk of their majority and vote again to lock them out. Rinse repeat. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:51 PM (/lPRQ) Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 08:52 PM (3ek7K) 115
Lol...
I have DisneyChannel on in the background, 8:40 pm, and the Nervive commercial with the old guy afraid to fall down the stairs is playing. The brand is dead. No loving parents park their kids in front of that anymore. Some cute shows again though. Too late... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 08:52 PM (Sco7b) 116
The lash ration was administered liberally.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:52 PM (ZVgZ4) 117
Before there were leash laws and dogs were let out to roam free we had a Scottie named Pepper who was trained to go out and fetch the paper . She was always awarded with a Oreo cookie. We had to stop letting her out to do it because she eventually started bringing the neighbors papers back to us also.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:53 PM (qrzX6) 118
I've seen people throw their voice, but throwing a leg is impossible.
Posted by: Not Borned Yesterday Hey! I'm right here!! Posted by: Zombie Linda MaCartney at May 15, 2026 08:53 PM (Kyh8Y) 119
Once I was having great fun feeding potato chips to a chipmunk in Yellowstone Park until the bag ran out. Little bastard bit the fuck out of me. ...
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (D1E+2) Thus endeth the lesson on Socialism. Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 08:54 PM (wVcYX) 120
but without the evil bits and pubic graft and theft.
Posted by: Thomas Bender I'm a pretty rounded guy but I have no idea what pubic graft is. And no, I'm not looking it up. Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 08:55 PM (Kyh8Y) 121
How does that happen? People take their dog to a dog show, and the people arrive, but the dog doesn't? Was the dog driving its own car? Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 08:44 PM (VHUov) _____________ There's a multitude of reasons why (lame, ill, in season). Suffice it to say since the object of Junior Showmanship is the handling and not the dog, substitution is allowed, as the junior no longer has to be a listed owner. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 08:55 PM (HdYcL) 122
Lot of pro athletes current and former are dropping like flies.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:56 PM (qrzX6) 123
The brand is dead. No loving parents park their kids in front of that anymore. Some cute shows again though. Too late...
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 08:52 PM (Sco7b) I raised my boys on Mystery Science Theater, and The Simpsons (before all the good writers moved on to Futurama) I'm a good dad. Seriously, though, the garbage on the Disney channels is creepy and lame. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:57 PM (0aYVJ) 124
Tomorrow I cross 'hunting with eagles' off the bucket list.
I'm so excited. Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 08:58 PM (ZFqKB) 125
I'm a pretty rounded guy but I have no idea what pubic graft is. And no, I'm not looking it up.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 08:55 PM (Kyh8Y A crooked merkin? Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:58 PM (qrzX6) 126
don't ask about the sodomy ration.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 08:49 PM (gKWVE) I always go back for seconds Posted by: Pedro Pascal at May 15, 2026 08:59 PM (vSvIl) 127
16 Metallica sux. Not Bruce level sux. You can dance to Metallica.
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:38 PM (T8bqm) Especially after the Black Album. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 08:59 PM (T6aVk) 128
Lot of pro athletes current and former are dropping like flies.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:56 PM (qrzX6) Been seeing that a lot. Brad Henke, Coover Bennet from Justified, was also an NFL player, was with the Vikings for a while. Dead at 56. Vague reports about why this happened. Oh, sure, prolly drugs, you guys. But, shit. Just glad I never got the clot shot. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:01 PM (0aYVJ) 129
I like Hulu /Disney did a season of King of the Hill with everyone 10+ years older. It was really good. Of course that means we won't get another season.
Same with Chad Powers. One season and done. Really good show. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:01 PM (qrzX6) 130
I miss the giant sloths. And the giant armadillos.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (gKWVE) And the giant jackalopes. Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (wVcYX) 131
You mentioned it so I had to go check. I still have Disney Channel, but have never watched it. Not even when grandkids are over.
Posted by: Old Yeller at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (oftw2) 132
Metallica died when Cliff Burton died.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (0aYVJ) 133
Seriously, though, the garbage on the Disney channels is creepy and lame.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:57 PM (0aYVJ) Them and Nickelodeon had good stuff among the crap. Genuinely funny, family friendly stuff without gay crap and blacks bitching about racism. Amazon had 'Just Add Magic.' That was an incredible, mystery show. But some of the stuff now not on Disney. Inter-racial gay fathers adopting minority kids. Asian stuff for the win. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (Sco7b) 134
I'm a pretty rounded guy but I have no idea what pubic graft is. And no, I'm not looking it up.
Posted by: Tonypete A pubic graph? Isn't that when you chart out the rhythm method? Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 09:03 PM (VHUov) 135
Very little fanfare for the upcoming 250th anniversary from the left leaning media.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:51 PM (ZVgZ4) --- This is a good point. Back in 1976, liberals still loved America. It had its flaws, it was imperfect, but they believed in it. "Schoolhouse Rock" is the epitome of this. Heck, the way the Burns' "The Civil War" was received by liberals is eons away from where we are now. That is why handwringing about the elections is pointless. I am seeing more and more patriotic apparel and items on sale, and the Dems seem to be doubling down on America hate. Have at it, guys. Spend all summer pissing on America. Sow that wind. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:03 PM (ZOv7s) 136
Batman never trapped him like that
Posted by: night lifted at May 15, 2026 09:03 PM (kJmLc) 137
Fried chicken originated in Scotland. I do not think you'd want to try fried chicken from Scotland.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 08:02 PM (HdYcL) Long ago I save up my pence and went to one of the best restaurants in Aberdeen. I ordered a steak. It was black and, I swear, still had hair on it. I expected maggots come out if I cut into it. Tasted as bad as it looked. Posted by: javems at May 15, 2026 09:03 PM (VnYeL) 138
Before there were leash laws and dogs were let out to roam free we had a Scottie named Pepper who was trained to go out and fetch the paper . She was always awarded with a Oreo cookie. We had to stop letting her out to do it because she eventually started bringing the neighbors papers back to us also.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:53 PM (qrzX6) Thus endeth the lesson on free enterprise and incentive rewards. Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:04 PM (wVcYX) Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 09:04 PM (NWIIQ) 140
I'm a pretty rounded guy but I have no idea what pubic graft is. And no, I'm not looking it up.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 08:55 PM (Kyh8Y Oh no…what is going on in here? lol Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 09:05 PM (OoFl2) 141
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:01 PM (0aYVJ)
Josh Mauro formerly of the Raiders. Decided to do a Fentanyl and Cocaine combo and washed it down with some alcohol. They classified it as an accident. Okay. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:05 PM (qrzX6) 142
This is a good point. Back in 1976, liberals still loved America. It had its flaws, it was imperfect, but they believed in it.
"Schoolhouse Rock" is the epitome of this. Heck, the way the Burns' "The Civil War" was received by liberals is eons away from where we are now. Schoolhouse Rock helped me learn the multiplication table when I was a 4th grader. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:06 PM (0aYVJ) 143
Them and Nickelodeon had good stuff among the crap. Genuinely funny, family friendly stuff without gay crap and blacks bitching about racism.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (Sco7b) --- Avatar: The Last Airbender remains amazing. I have it on DVD. When the grandkids are ready, they shall experience its excellence. Speaking of which, my grandson has challenged me to a sword fight. BRB. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:06 PM (ZOv7s) 144
136 Batman never trapped him like that
Posted by: night lifted at May 15, 2026 09:03 PM (kJmLc) WB puts out a lot of the DC cartoon movies. Years ago, they were pretty good. They had one Batman a little while back where Batman was re-imagined as an Aztec guy meeting the Spaniards. Something like that. Beautifully woke so I use it to fall asleep. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 09:06 PM (Sco7b) 145
Saw a headline or summary the Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and Jake DeGrom left the Mets because they couldn't stand living in NYC any longer. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:07 PM (HdYcL) 146
Schoolhouse Rock helped me learn the multiplication table when I was a 4th grader.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:06 PM (0aYVJ) I have the CD with the songs. A few other morons do too. It was pretty good. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 09:08 PM (Sco7b) 147
Conjunction Junction
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:09 PM (qrzX6) 148
Just glad I never got the clot shot.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic IIRC - There were three. The original 'clot shot' was the J&J. It was quickly discontinued. There was also Moderna and Pfizer. Both of those had endless 'boosters' For whatever reason J&J as one and done. Even the Junta didn't push for follow-up boosters while hounding Moderna and Pfizer. I didn't track it too closely though as I was in a relatively free state during those dark days. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:09 PM (/lPRQ) 149
Long ago I save up my pence and went to one of the best restaurants in Aberdeen. I ordered a steak. It was black and, I swear, still had hair on it. I expected maggots come out if I cut into it. Tasted as bad as it looked. Posted by: javems at May 15, 2026 09:03 PM (VnYeL) _____________ When you think how bad English cuisine is, the Scots plumb even lower depths. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:10 PM (HdYcL) 150
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:09 PM (/lPRQ)
J&J wasn't mRNA but they claimed it caused clots so they shut it down. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (qrzX6) 151
Nolan Ryan wasn't unhappy to leave Mets and NYC. Kevin McReynolds hated it also. He's rather go bass fishing.
Posted by: Is My Age Showing? at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (oftw2) 152
I was just reading about SCOTUS turning down the Virginia appeal. I rather like that they didn’t even argue the idea or explain anything - just basically a short statement saying “Nah, bro. 9 - 0”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (AnnNE) 153
Back in 1976, liberals still loved America. It had its flaws, it was imperfect, but they believed in it.
——- Eh, it isn’t like they hate “America” - what I mean by that, they don’t say, hate the dirt or whatever. What they hate, is you. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (bNzW0) 154
I'm a pretty rounded guy but I have no idea what pubic graft is. And no, I'm not looking it up.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 08:55 PM (Kyh8Y Oh no…what is going on in here? lol Posted by: Piper Like the "Hair Club for Men" Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:12 PM (/lPRQ) 155
Conjunction Junction
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:09 PM (qrzX6) Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here. You guys, Schoolhouse Rock was fucking genius. If only something like that was accessible to kids now. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:12 PM (0aYVJ) 156
I raised my boys on Mystery Science Theater, and The Simpsons (before all the good writers moved on to Futurama) I'm a good dad.
Seriously, though, the garbage on the Disney channels is creepy and lame. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 08:57 PM (0aYVJ) *** I was raised on Underdog, Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, and my favorite, Sherman and Peabody. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 09:12 PM (2WIwB) 157
I better get to bed
Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 09:13 PM (Ia/+0) 158
>>Saw a headline or summary the Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo and Jake DeGrom left the Mets because they couldn't stand living in NYC any longer.
All 3 were traded. They didn't leave on their own. Do you really think Pete Alonso left NY to go to Baltimore? Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:14 PM (viF8m) 159
I’m just a Bill, only a Bill, and I’m waitin’ on Capitol Hill
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:15 PM (bNzW0) 160
My grandfather came to America from Scotland when he was 24. Luckily my grandmother came from Sweden so they compromised and learned to love American. meat and potato dishes which my mom learned to cook so I didn't have to eat any of their former country's cuisine.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:16 PM (qrzX6) 161
I was just reading about SCOTUS turning down the Virginia appeal. I rather like that they didn’t even argue the idea or explain anything - just basically a short statement saying “Nah, bro. 9 - 0”
Posted by: Tom Servo I joked the other day that the opinion would be 8-1, and, in its entirety: "What are you, retarded?" With Jackson dissenting. So, I was kinda close. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 09:17 PM (VHUov) 162
I was raised on Underdog, Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, and my favorite, Sherman and Peabody.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 09:12 PM (2WIwB) I still remember the Tom and Jerry episode where they turned the kitchen into an ice skating rink. I almost tried to do it but my father got home from work early. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:18 PM (qrzX6) 163
After what Daystrom did and killed all those people, what do you think happened to him?
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at May 15, 2026 08:28 PM (vFG9F) Well, we know from other episodes that Star Trek land will imprison the dangerously insane. So, thats my bet. Until his output matches his input, iykwim. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:19 PM (zZu0s) 164
Correction, Alonso was not traded. He was just not resigned by the Mets.
Seriously, NY is not great these days but neither is any big city including Houston and Dallas. Stop pretending this is a northern thing. It's a city thing. Houston is fucking armpit and so is Dallas. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:19 PM (viF8m) 165
I was raised on Underdog, Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, and my favorite, Sherman and Peabody.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 09:12 PM (2WIwB) My Grandpa had a big, beautiful console color TV. He also loved Looney Tunes. Watching Bugs Bunny with my Grandpa was so fun. He had a great, boisterous laugh. I have the entire collection of Looney Tunes on a brick of DVDs. All of them. Even the "racist" ones. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:19 PM (0aYVJ) 166
Eh, it isn’t like they hate “America” - what I mean by that, they don’t say, hate the dirt or whatever. ___________ "In the mind of Bronson Bernard certain basic tenets had been implanted by his teachers at every stage from grammar school through college, and nothing was ever going to shake them. The United States of America was no damned good. Its ideals were a mockery. Its history was a fraud. Its purposes were corrupt. Its achievements were empty. Its hopes were a sham, and its dreams were a lie. Whatever good might have come from it here and there over the years - and that was precious little - had been entirely inadvertent and accidental. It was sinister, hypocritical, imperialistic, racist, worthless and cruel." - Allen Drury, Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, 1972 (!) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:19 PM (HdYcL) 167
You guys, Schoolhouse Rock was fucking genius. If only something like that was accessible to kids now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon --- The Pronoun song would have to be redone with xe and xir. (I love Schoolhouse Rock. I can still sing the Preamble.) Posted by: screaming in digital at May 15, 2026 09:19 PM (0SdQT) 168
Similarly to the “Hate America” argument, a lot of times you’ll hear that Leftists “Hate guns”.
This isn’t true, they absolutely fucking LOVE guns, a peek back at history shows this to be the case. They don’t want YOU to have access to adequate self-defense. I’m quite certain their oft-repeated protests of the Death Penalty is of the same construction. Once they have the power to do so, they’ll do a 180 - just like they did on Free Speech, Corporations, etc. Everything is conditional. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:20 PM (bNzW0) 169
Transformer. GI Joe. A bit of He-Man. Thundercats. Was fascinated by an anime that was on HBO a bunch then disappeared: Starbirds I think we established on this very blog several years ago. Big robot with a guy in his head.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:21 PM (zZu0s) 170
Eh, it isn’t like they hate “America” - what I mean by that, they don’t say, hate the dirt or whatever. What they hate, is you.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (bNzW0) --- No, they hate the nation. They want its laws overturned and its people replaced. They want direct democracy where 50.0001 percent can kill the rest. That is not America. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:22 PM (ZOv7s) 171
My grandfather came to America from Scotland when he was 24. Luckily my grandmother came from Sweden so they compromised and learned to love American. meat and potato dishes which my mom learned to cook so I didn't have to eat any of their former country's cuisine.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg Well, if they tried Scot/Swede fusion cuisine once, that would be enough to put them off both forever. "It's a boiled sheep's stomach, stuffed with fermented herring. I call it 'surströggis.' " Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 09:22 PM (VHUov) 172
Seriously, NY is not great these days but neither is any big city including Houston and Dallas. Stop pretending this is a northern thing. It's a city thing. Houston is fucking armpit and so is Dallas.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:19 PM (viF8m) This. Louisville has gone fucking bug nuts. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:23 PM (zZu0s) 173
Fried chicken originated in Scotland. I do not think you'd want to try fried chicken from Scotland.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 08:02 PM (HdYcL) --- I call b.s. Germans love to deep fry stuff, and I find it more credible that they would invent it than a bunch of people who think haggis is fine dining. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:24 PM (ZOv7s) 174
I was raised on Underdog, Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, and my favorite, Sherman and Peabody. Posted by: Diogenes Tennessee Tuxedo always had an educational part of their episode with Mr. Whoopee. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 09:26 PM (Cqx++) 175
Seriously, NY is not great these days but neither is any big city including Houston and Dallas. Stop pretending this is a northern thing. It's a city thing. Houston is fucking armpit and so is Dallas.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:19 PM (viF8m) When was the last time you were in Dallas or Houston. They may not be great but they are 100x better than NYC . I can't speak to other major NE cities as I haven't been to them in over a decade. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:26 PM (qrzX6) 176
I saw a video of James May (from Top Gear) making a haggis today. It did not look that bad. They did not eat the stomach part, but scooped out the filling (i think it was heart, liver and another organ to be named later.)
I've eaten far weirder. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:27 PM (zZu0s) 177
Maybe kidney? Not sure.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:28 PM (zZu0s) 178
Damn near every medium and large city has gone batshit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 09:28 PM (xJpaU) 179
We don’t win back our nation by bugging out.
We win by staying. I love where I live. I’m not leaving. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 09:29 PM (A5RD0) 180
>>This. Louisville has gone fucking bug nuts.
The reason the south is still a stronghold for us is not because southerner's are universally conservative. Has anyone been to Atlanta recently? Leftists infest cities and where their demographics overwhelm rural areas they win. It's not difficult, look election results. The idea that the south is some bulwark against leftism is ridiculous. It's always been urban against rural. Even in the south. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m) 181
Damn near every medium and large city has gone batshit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 09:28 PM (xJpaU) Lexington is not 'bad' but it has a couple loopy areas. It is almost all suburbs. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:29 PM (zZu0s) 182
Well, yes. You’re making my point. “America” is not simply an “idea”, as they often claim. They flip their argument depending, they want to confuse people, muddy the water, to make it look deep. It is a “people”; real live human beings, and - as you note, they want to kill you. They want to kill the idea too, I suppose.
That’s where all this “we’re a nation of immigrants!” business derives, I suppose. A “living, breathing constitution” with “emanations and penumbras” etc. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:30 PM (bNzW0) 183
And judging by the bumper stickers I live in a library area. Of course, a lot of cars and trucks don't have bumper stickers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:31 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:32 PM (zZu0s) 185
The idea that the south is some bulwark against leftism is ridiculous.
It's always been urban against rural. Even in the south. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m The NE are liberal blue states. That's undeniable. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:34 PM (qrzX6) 186
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:30 PM (bNzW0)
They only love America when they're trying to get elected or when they're pretending something else is America. Like - "America is a nation of beautiful diseases". Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 09:36 PM (vE0+H) 187
The NE are liberal blue states. That's undeniable.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:34 PM (qrzX6) 60:40- even in Mass. They have deadlocked things to make it always seem worse. This is propaganda of a sort. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:36 PM (zZu0s) 188
Look at me, leafblowing sunshine up people's asses like Jack.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:37 PM (zZu0s) 189
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:36 PM (zZu0s)
If I understand what you're saying 60/40 is huge . Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:38 PM (qrzX6) 190
>>When was the last time you were in Dallas or Houston.
Last year. When was the last time you were in rural upstate NY? It's not a north south thing. It's an urban rural thing. The urban areas dominate politics in every state. Thats not an opinion it's a fact. Where big city populations overwhelm rural areas Democrats win. Even in big cities there are people like nurse and me before I left. There are lots but they are overwhelmed by big city Democrat machine politics. 40% of the voters in New England vote Republican yet there isn't a single Republican rep in Congress. Until you Texans woke up 5 minutes ago you elected Jasmine Crockett and until she took a dirt nap Sheila Jackson Lee. Repeatedly. Stop pretending this is a north south thing. It's not. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m) 191
If I understand what you're saying 60/40 is huge .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:38 PM (qrzX6) Once they have the majority they cut everyone out. Fuck, we should have done it in Colorado 20 years ago. Might have saved that place. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s) 192
The NE are liberal blue states. That's undeniable.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg Not necessarily. PA has 67 counties. 60 are red. But a commie governor and a democrat senator. No thanks to the shit eaters in Filthadelphia and Shitsbirgh. Which proves Jack"s point. NY is similar. Many red counties that can't out vote NYC Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 09:40 PM (xJpaU) 193
>>>The NE are liberal blue states. That's undeniable.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg ******** Pennsylvania has 67 counties. Over 60 went for Trump thee times. Philadelphia cheats and beat us in 2020. Posted by: Cosda at May 15, 2026 09:42 PM (WP92p) 194
Fuck, we should have done it in Colorado 20 years ago. Might have saved that place.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s) Texas was Dem until 1994 so things can change. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:42 PM (qrzX6) 195
I saw a video of James May (from Top Gear) making a haggis today. It did not look that bad. They did not eat the stomach part, but scooped out the filling (i think it was heart, liver and another organ to be named later.)
I've eaten far weirder. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:27 PM (zZu0s) --- It seems to me that the crime of haggis is that it is bland. Grind up organ meat and season it and no one complains. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:43 PM (ZOv7s) 196
Holy shit. Horde mind meld.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 09:43 PM (xJpaU) 197
Where big city populations overwhelm rural areas Democrats win.
—— Reynolds v. Sims - 1964 As you know, many states had the equivalent of the federal Electoral College to prevent big cities from completely dominating the rest of the state, and rural areas. It took quite a while, but we’re really seeing the ongoing effects it destroy whole states, whole regions. Oops Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:44 PM (bNzW0) 198
Stop pretending this is a north south thing. It's not.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m) --- Urban areas cheat. They have corrupt voter rolls and phantom ballots. This is known. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:44 PM (ZOv7s) 199
>>The NE are liberal blue states. That's undeniable.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg ******** Pennsylvania has 67 counties. Over 60 went for Trump thee times. Philadelphia cheats and beat us in 2020. Posted by: Cosda at May 15, 2026 09:42 PM (WP92p) I'm talking more New England and NY/NJ/DE/RI. PA has been purple or toss up state for awhile. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:45 PM (qrzX6) 200
>>The NE are liberal blue states. That's undeniable.
And nobody said the majority doesn't vote that way. But that isn't remotely the truth. Democrats took control and then gerrymandered states to guarantee wins long before some of you even realized what gerrymandering meant. Do you honestly believe New England is 100% Democrat because that's what our House representation says? Because that's idiotic. Yet we have lived with it for years. Millions of people don't even bother to vote in the north anymore because there is no chance we will win. That's what gerrymandering does. Personally I hate the practice because for all of my life it has squashed the voice of people like me. But I'm for it now because in those places that still have the ability because the rural vote outweighs the urban vote it keeps this country alive. The south isn't special, its just the last place the left hasn't taken over yet. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:49 PM (viF8m) 201
I'm talking more New England and NY/NJ/DE/RI.
PA has been purple or toss up state for awhile. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:45 PM (qrzX6) ~~~~~ You'd be very surprised how conservative much of NJ is. As straw said, it's urban/rural. Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 15, 2026 09:50 PM (3ImbR) 202
Just be happy for now the South is keeping us from being Great Britain. Socialists are stupid, that's nothing to brag about.
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 09:51 PM (NWIIQ) 203
152 I was just reading about SCOTUS turning down the Virginia appeal. I rather like that they didn’t even argue the idea or explain anything - just basically a short statement saying “Nah, bro. 9 - 0”
Posted by: Tom Servo Temu Obama is on a roll! Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 09:51 PM (m5P/4) 204
top pretending this is a north south thing. It's not.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m) --- Urban areas cheat. They have corrupt voter rolls and phantom ballots. This is known. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd == Don't forget 2016 when Jill Stein (?) challenged tallies in three states that Hills lost. In Michigan they found that Detroit precincts were basically writing down whatever vote tallies they felt like putting down. Needless to say Hills won with sometimes 6x the votes she actually got. That fraud applies to state total for each candidate. I think the Philly tallies for Obama-Romney were released as a spreadsheet with raw numbers. Some precincts had more votes for Obama than registered voters and ZERO for Romney... OK, that may be believable. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:51 PM (/lPRQ) Posted by: Cosda at May 15, 2026 09:55 PM (WP92p) 206
I think the Philly tallies for Obama-Romney were released as a spreadsheet with raw numbers. Some precincts had more votes for Obama than registered voters and ZERO for Romney... OK, that may be believable.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:51 PM (/lPRQ) --- And the GOP fell over themselves trying to be beautiful losers. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:55 PM (ZOv7s) 207
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:49 PM (viF8m
I've lived in the South and I lived in the NE. There is a huge difference in social views even when Texas and Louisiana were Dem. The South has always been socially conservative even when identifying as Democrat. It's been my opinion we ( the GOP ) started to decline when we accepted socially liberal / Fiscally conservative adherents into the tent. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:56 PM (qrzX6) 208
“socially liberal / Fiscal conservative”
When someone says this…. Tell me you’re an idiot, without telling me you’re an idiot. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:59 PM (bNzW0) 209
It's been my opinion we ( the GOP ) started to decline when we accepted socially liberal / Fiscally conservative adherents into the tent.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:56 PM (qrzX6) --- The corporatist wing of the GOP paid lip service to the 2A and the right to live, but did jack shit to make it happen. That was because they hated both. They were Democrats who wanted cheap labor and lots of profit. That's why they always pushed tax cuts for the rich as the most sacred ideal. Trump actually took those groups seriously, pledged to follow through, and the GOPe was outraged. How DARE you keep those promises! Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 09:59 PM (ZOv7s) 210
ONT is nood
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 15, 2026 10:02 PM (6lIrI) 211
>>The South has always been socially conservative even when identifying as Democrat.
So was Boston. Irish Catholics Democrats in Boston invented social conservatism. And they enforced it with a pretty strong hand. Do you know where Elizabeth Warren came from? It isn't Boston or even New England. It's Oklahoma. If you think Texas is immune to this mind virus you are kidding yourself. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 10:06 PM (viF8m) 212
Okay what's weird is my mom looked just like Betty Page.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg ....... Were your little friends always inviting themselves over for dinner? Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:07 PM (oq9dX) 213
Correction, Alonso was not traded. He was just not resigned by the Mets.
So when he wasn’t resigned, he was resigned to leave New York? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (ZVgZ4) The Week In WokeFrom Ed Morrissey, Steve Jobs' Useless Widow's Vanity Project The Atlantic says that Democrats must reduce the toxicity of their brand by denouncing racist preferences, but will not. Racial preferences in college admissions have long been deeply unpopular, and three years ago, the Supreme Court declared them unlawful, in a sweeping ruling that portended doom for other race-conscious policies to promote diversity or remedy past discrimination. Some research indicates that, in the aftermath of the civil-rights era, the achievement gap between rich and poor students now dwarfs the gap between white and Black students. Even so, well-intentioned blue-state Democrats keep pushing for race-based affirmative action, to their own political detriment, rather than supporting a much fairer policy of providing a leg up to economically disadvantaged people of all races. In February, the California State Assembly passed, by a 54--14 vote, a measure seeking to place on the November ballot a change in the state constitution to allow racial preferences in K--12 education and in higher-education scholarships. (The state Senate has not yet acted on the measure.) In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 375-page Racial Equity Plan last month that said, "New York's history has been one of colonization, exploitation and racial oppression"; among other measures, the plan reaffirms the city's intent to steer contracts to minority-owned businesses. Late last year, Democratic supermajorities in the Maryland House and Senate overrode Governor Wes Moore's veto of legislation to study reparations for the descendants of enslaved people. In huge swaths of the country, the Democratic brand has become anathema. The party will struggle to recapture the White House and reclaim the Senate unless it can persuade some red-state voters to take a fresh look at it. One obvious move would be for the Democrats, who have hemorrhaged working-class voters, to abandon their stubborn support for politically radioactive racial preferences. Significantly more Americans believe that economically disadvantaged people of any race deserve special consideration in admissions and employment decisions, and such efforts do not run afoul of laws against racial discrimination. Nevertheless, many Democrats cannot bring themselves to accept the Supreme Court's ruling--or the public's attitude--even when doing so would help their prospects immensely.Blue cities built dozens of monuments to obese drug addict George Floyd of the Sacred Cardiac Myopathy, but putting up a single mural honoring the slain immigrant Iryna Zarutska is too "divisive" to let stand. A mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska -- the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered while riding a North Carolina train -- is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island. On Tuesday, a construction crew was seen near the exterior of The Dark Lady, an LGBTQ+ club in downtown Providence, working to remove the partly finished mural. The mural, which was painted on canvas, was lowered to the ground, folded up and taken away, WJAR-TV reported. Artist Ian Gaudreau confirmed the news that the artwork was going to be removed after local outrage. "A lot of people voiced their frustrations, and voices were heard, and the work is coming down as a reaction to that," Gaudreau told WJAR-TV Monday. The mural's removal came as residents and elected officials complained about the artwork. The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News that he wanted the artwork taken down, saying that the art is "divisive and does not represent Providence." "The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence," Smiley said in a statement.Don't worry: They have a new killer they're going to have to bury the evidence about. They always have a new killer.
Savanah HernandezAnother accessory to murder:
He's no prize himself. But I assume Stahl is worse. Below: Badly Aging Skank Anita Sarkesian femsplains why she refuses to debate any of her claims with anyone who disagrees with her. She claims it's very easy for people to argue for the status quo, whereas it's very very hard for leftwing morons like her to argue for "social justice" positions. You see, we can just "say three words" and win the day, but they are forced to explain complex ideas to push their POV. Complex ideas like "you're racist," "you need to be faaaaiir," "you hate women," etc.
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lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (rbvCR) 2
Corgis summoned
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (Sy6m/) 3
not enough time to listen to idiots
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 06:35 PM (CWTWj) 4
Colorado finally let Tina Peters out of jail.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F) 5
Little bit of profit taking in the market today.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (qrzX6) 6
Thus, in Hostin logic: Florida stole its success from New York.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (Fi81e) 7
What an exhausting week.
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (T/KJ0) 8
That Judge should swing next to the killer.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (9maW1) 9
NEW: Repeat offender who had already been arrested several times this year, including for two assaults, killed an elderly man in an unprovoked attack in NYC.
--- He was just turning his life around, too. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:39 PM (Fi81e) 10
Your way has been tried. While failing innocemt millions have been martyred, untold wealth squandered, achievement betrayed. You talk like a fag and your shit's all fucked up.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 06:39 PM (YlWIZ) 11
_The last time, he attacked a liberal woman, who refused to press charges because she couldn't bear to see a "black man in jail."_
--Who wants to break the news to her? Posted by: logprof at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (jo6FO) 12
It's on tape. Summary execution. Push him off the Empire State Building.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (qrzX6) 13
All these people. They were just about to turn their lives around when the death of people they killed happened to them!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (Fi81e) 14
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
President Trump and a delegation of U.S. officials left Beijing on Friday after two days of high-level talks with the Chinese government, led by President Xi Jinping. Before boarding Air Force One, White House staffers and reporters had to surrender various items collected during the trip, including staff burner phones, credential badges, and lapel pins issued by China. Those traveling on Air Force One threw those objects in a bin at the bottom of the plane’s stairs, according to a journalist in the White House press pool. Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 06:41 PM (O7XEN) 15
_The last time, he attacked a liberal woman, who refused to press charges because she couldn't bear to see a "black man in jail."_
Posted by: logprof at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (jo6FO) --- Rigor mortis has been attained. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:42 PM (Fi81e) 16
This is a win-win for the AWFL. First, she got to virtue signal that she couldn't bear to see a "black man in jail." Now, she gets to be conspicuously remorseful be cause the man she let go murdered somebody. Both ways, she gets to be the center of attention. Main Character Syndrome baby!
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 15, 2026 06:42 PM (f0sNM) 17
I couldn’t get through the person explaining why she couldn’t debate her ideas because they were always going to be losing arguments because they were so good. Or something.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 06:43 PM (p4NUW) 18
>>The last time, he attacked a liberal woman, who refused to press charges because she couldn't bear to see a "black man in jail."_
I'm amazed she stopped running at the Cop and didn't continue fleeing until she found a Bear. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:43 PM (9maW1) 19
"New York's history has been one of colonization, exploitation and racial oppression"
--- I give you: the New Age of Dumbassery! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:44 PM (Fi81e) 20
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
Did they shake the dust from the bottom of their shoes, too? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 06:44 PM (9as64) 21
Fury in France as national toy revealed to be secretly made in China
The maker of Sophie la Girafe reportedly ran a ‘fake’ factory in France for years, while secretly producing the iconic toy in China Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 06:45 PM (O7XEN) 22
For some crimes, it is not really up to the victim to agree or decide to press charges or not. It is not a requirement.
Overall what we are witnessing is a deliberate strategy by government and elected officials, judges et al, to create anarchy and chaos by allowing and even encouraging criminals to run free and have “room to destroy”. There is no forgiveness for this. Maybe God will, but I doubt it. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:45 PM (L3c0T) 23
Bird hands.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 06:46 PM (QLpfE) 24
The party will struggle to recapture the White House and reclaim the Senate unless it can persuade some red-state voters to take a fresh look at it.
--- That leaves out: fix the census again. What was it estimated--that the Dems stole 5-6 seats by rigging the last census? Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:46 PM (Fi81e) 25
Hedge fund titan Ken Griffin and Marc Rowan both announced recently that they will move jobs out of New York in response to Mamdani's calls to "tax the rich."
It was a bit more than that - Mamdani painted a large target on Griffin's back by denouncing him in front of Griffin's house. Griffin noted that the Sainted Luigi did his Righteous Killing of a corporate executive just a few blocks from Griffin's house. As the Democratic Party grows steadily more nuts, it will become increasingly dangerous for prominent people hated by the mob to set foot in deep blue areas. Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2026 06:46 PM (aD4fx) 26
The post is beyond depressing. Imma check out, watch kids' cartoons on Youtube, eat tortilla chips and drink scotch. Good luck to yall staying to digest this dreck.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 15, 2026 06:47 PM (JcF+m) Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 06:47 PM (Sco7b) 28
Judge Marva Brown released Rhamell Burke under supervision at arraignment after he was accused of third-degree assault for attacking a couple, despite having two prior violent arrests just days earlier. One of those arrests came after he assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest while officers were trying to detain him for bringing a knife onto the subway. “The personal effect of having an incarcerated family member is very strong with me and the work that I do each and every day.” “In the decision-making process as a judge, we have to have people on the bench who see value in the lives of people who come from our communities.” ---------- This fat fool is openly admitting racial preference in sentencing. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 15, 2026 06:47 PM (qsezt) 29
And Ms. Stahl? Maybe don’t be such a witch.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 06:47 PM (p4NUW) 30
One obvious move would be for the Democrats, who have hemorrhaged working-class voters, to abandon their stubborn support for politically radioactive racial preferences.
--- ... or rig the census again ... Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:48 PM (Fi81e) 31
Say what you like or dislike about these billionaires but they are driven. I'd do much the same if I had that kind of money.
I need to buy some lottery tickets. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 06:48 PM (D1E+2) 32
Well a 76 year old NY teacher voted for scum attackers running loose in the NY subway and streets.
Hey, pork, you voted for this. No remorse Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at May 15, 2026 06:49 PM (jZ3ZM) 33
Overall what we are witnessing is a deliberate strategy by government and elected officials, judges et al, to create anarchy and chaos by allowing and even encouraging criminals to run free and have “room to destroy”.
Posted by: Common Tater --It's called anarcho-tyranny. Posted by: logprof at May 15, 2026 06:50 PM (jo6FO) 34
4 Colorado finally let Tina Peters out of jail.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F) It's a controversial decision. A lot of people on Polis' X comment believe that Peters was an attempted coup plotter and deserved to have served the full load. Peters was convicted by a jury of mostly Republicans, you see. (I don't think she was so sentenced, but she was so convicted.) Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 06:50 PM (gKWVE) 35
It’s just pseudo-intellectual twaddle, they think they are all sophisticated and shit. Intellectual Masturbation.
When they start swinging from lamp posts, maybe we’ll have turned the corner, I dunno. I don’t WANT this, but history …. clearly has this habit of giving just about everybody what they don’t want. We’re in this weird middle period where it’s too late to work within the system, and perhaps too early to just shoot the bastards. We’ll see. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:51 PM (L3c0T) 36
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
Did they shake the dust from the bottom of their shoes, too? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit And took dilute HCl showers to get the nanobots. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 06:52 PM (VHUov) 37
We have a judges problem.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 06:52 PM (rJ48h) 38
A mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska -- the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered while riding a North Carolina train -- is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island.
--- We have no representation. People I have asked have never been able to answer me why it's okay that I'm offended that people find the name of Jesus "offensive". This offends me. But that's okay. You just have to offend the right people. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:53 PM (Fi81e) 39
As the Democratic Party grows steadily more nuts, it will become increasingly dangerous for prominent people hated by the mob to set foot in deep blue areas.
I had lunch with an old friend, and we noted that some of the people we mutually know socially and professionally have gone completely off the deep end on social media - they really do think that they are living in Nazi Germany, and that the current Trumpian dictatorship needs to be removed by Any Means Necessary. People like this now constitute a fair chunk of the country, and I don't think things are going to end well. Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2026 06:53 PM (aD4fx) 40
"It's a controversial decision. A lot of people on Polis' X comment believe that Peters was an attempted coup plotter and deserved to have served the full load."
Shoe. Other foot. Blah Blah. Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:53 PM (vFG9F) 41
Dear Ms Sarkeeesian, what you are saying in that 4:50 is that you will try and baffle them with bullshit,"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:54 PM (gu0hJ) 42
I don’t get how it’s supportive to allow someone to go free and make your community look even worse. Maybe a different tact would be to work with your community to get their acts together and prove those who believe it can’t be done wrong.
If that is a colonizing thought (which would be so ironic and hysterical at the same time as the stolen land you tread upon was mine, but I digress), then I suggest we look at big walls and you stay on that side of them with your community members. Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 06:54 PM (p4NUW) 43
37 We have a judges problem.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 06:52 PM (rJ48h) Bukele agrees. He was only able to get shit done in El Salvador after he fired a lot of his judges. Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 06:54 PM (gKWVE) 44
"A mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska -- the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered while riding a North Carolina train -- is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island."
It might have been ok if it had not covered up the George Floyd mural. Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:55 PM (vFG9F) 45
Overall what we are witnessing is a deliberate strategy by government and elected officials, judges et al, to create anarchy and chaos by allowing and even encouraging criminals to run free and have “room to destroy”.
Posted by: Common Tater --- The real game is Scientific Population Management. All of this crap about representation and self-government is stone-age mythology to them. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:55 PM (Fi81e) 46
I don't care about Skeezian.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:56 PM (Fi81e) 47
As the Democratic Party grows steadily more nuts, it will become increasingly dangerous for prominent people hated by the mob to set foot in deep blue areas.
- And it will be increasingly necessary for everyone else to prevent anyone from exiting the blue areas. Posted by: Methos at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (vSvIl) 48
There are at least a 1000 more lunatics like Rhamell Burke on the streets of NYC at any given time. They are ticking time bombs and are the reason secure mental facilities are necessary
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (gu0hJ) Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (2GVsD) 50
Also, we will be yeeting AWFLs over the wall to the community in which no black man has to be in jail.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (p4NUW) 51
It's your duty to move to a Blue Shithole City in a Blue Shithole State so that they can suck your wealth to help save the "CHILDREN" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saint George of Floyd would be disappointed with you Dixie Loving Rebels and White Crackers !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Jackson at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (KvNjc) 52
A different tack, you mean. A nautical term, actually.
“Tact” is the art of persuading people to do something, without causing offense. Posted by: Your Elderly English Teacher at May 15, 2026 06:59 PM (L3c0T) 53
The human sacrifice of AFWLs to forces of nature just has to be done. -- 21st-century Population Management
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e) 54
There are at least a 1000 more lunatics like Rhamell Burke on the streets of NYC at any given time. They are ticking time bombs and are the reason secure mental facilities are necessary
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (gu0hJ) ===== State-sanctioned monsters wreaking state-sanctioned violence on an unsuspecting and innocent populace. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:59 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 07:00 PM (I0N4X) 56
I'll repeat myself. This summer is going to be nuts in blue cities. Less Fed money , criminals out of jail , the # of cops down. By the time November rolls around the independents will be voting Republican out of horror, even if the Republicans are idiots
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:01 PM (gu0hJ) 57
"New York's history has been one of colonization, exploitation and racial oppression"
All they have to do is say those magic words and then they can do any racist thing they can think of in the name of 'equity' and 'fairness'. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:01 PM (6ydKt) 58
We have a judges problem.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 06:52 PM (rJ48h) --- It's a variation of what Eisenhower warned us about. The libs have only heard "Military-Industrial complex", but Ike was talking about self-knighted "experts" taking a republic away from the People. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:01 PM (Fi81e) 59
Also, as Bukele showed, all of this us done by a surprisingly small number.
Remove them and the problem magically disappears. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:02 PM (RIvkX) 60
"race-conscious policies to promote diversity or remedy past discrimination." This is Morrisey's wording, right?
What an idiot. This is the indefensible, inverted orwellian nonsense that degrades what's left of our civil society today. "Race-conscious" - like *anything* other than well-founded medical screening etc based on genotype - is RACISM. Period. "Remedy past discrimination". WTF is that supposed to mean? "Remedy"? What are time machines involved? You can't "remedy" anything in the past. So how many days before the absurd, RACIST CA proposed law is passed before a court is forced (despite its racist, authoritarian, and idiotic instincts) to put a stay on it? Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:02 PM (U/Byj) 61
Blue States are hemorrhaging population. Beware Red States, beware.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 07:02 PM (Gqar8) 62
IMAGINE
Writer(s): LENNON, JOHN Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one I hope some day you'll join us And the world will be as one... 🤬 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (NFX2v) 63
I have a question. A lot of the media I take in are going to substack type audio/video segments. You watch a clip of some incident that jumps to a hour plus video response when it ends.
Am I the only guy that doesn't sit through an hour long discussion on a five minute topic? How does one train hisself to do that? Maybe get a speaker have it run in the background whilst fiddling around in my shop? Posted by: DanMan at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (8uzBS) Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (2GVsD) 65
"By the time November rolls around the independents will be voting Republican out of horror, even if the Republicans are idiots." This has barely happened in decades of rapid decline. But I suppose it's possible.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (U/Byj) 66
She then DECLINED to press charges because she "didn't want to put another black man in jail".
Lady, it's obvious this guy wants you be in jail. You were racist for not doing him a solid. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (6ydKt) 67
A whole lot of games have tanked lately.
Oh, it was the Expedition 33 team she was talking to (i was trying to think of the other game studio.) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s) 68
New York City tourism ads write themselves.
Welcome to the Big Apple, bring your body armor. Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (2GVsD) --- We hope you don't get killed during your stay. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (Fi81e) 69
the California State Assembly passed, by a 54--14 vote, a measure seeking to place on the November ballot a change in the state constitution to allow racial preferences in K--12 education and in higher-education scholarships. =============== I have to take these New York and California things one at a time. Why do you need "racial preferences" in kindergarten or grade school? I guess there are superior high schools that prep kids for college, so, I guess, discriminate away, racists. Harmeet Dhillon will catch up to you (or at least she'll threaten to). But higher ed? Hasn't SCOTUS outlawed this? I utterly don't get it. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (XJ22o) 70
In a few years the murder of Iryna Zarutska will be a hoax,
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (LHPAg) 71
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🤬 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (NFX2v) Sadly, it is a very pleasant listenable tune. Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (Gqar8) Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m) 73
For anyone looking for an update to what's happening in UK politics in the last 24 hours:
-- Starmer continues to act delusional and contrarian, digs in his heels, insists he'll be Prime Minister forever, goes even further left. -- Top Labour minister -- and Starmer's one-time right-hand man -- quits, says Starmer is basically nuts and is ruining the party, and implies he will usrup the pMship from him. -- The number of Labour MPs telling Starmer to step down passes 100, more than enough to trigger a new leadership election if Labour's rebel have the balls to do it. -- There are ZERO viable, likable Labour politicians waiting nin the wings tio replace Starmer. Their "back bench" is incredibly shallow. -- Random MP quits post out f the blue, to trigger a "by-election:" for just one seat, specifically so that popular leftie mayor Andy Burnham can get the seat, enter Parliament, at which ppint all of Labour would immediately voter for him to replace Starmer. -- Monkeywrench: New poll shows that Burnham wouldn't even win the by-election, meaning he would be ineligible t be PM. Without him, they have no one. Everything is in chaos, no one knows what to do. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (Av6i5) 74
Isn't Hochul begging wealthy ex-New Yorkers to come back to help fund the generous benefits they "envision"?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (2GVsD) 76
Whenever I see factual evidence of Blue States "suffering" a the hand of Red States (in this case tax revenue leaving Blue States), you can almost be assured that in the not too distant future they will leverage their power to unconstitutionally attempt to penalize those leaving, and those welcoming.
Arguably, they HAVE tried some form of this by trying to tack on a "move out" tax and continued taxes on personal and business escapees...which got shot down. But, they won't give up. I suspect that when Dems again form the governmental majority they will approach this at the Federal level and re-write the tax code to discourage this. Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (dIske) 77
I miss California. It was such a fun place to be. Now they suck donkey balls and this idiot they have now is the worst they've had in twenty years.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (D1E+2) 78
Oh, and back to Capt Squish (the porculent Morrisey). "Well-intentioned" idiots in blue states? "Well-intentioned"? LOL. So this dullard thinks crude wildly unconstitutional and vile racism is "well intentioned". Very insightful.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (U/Byj) 79
Am I the only guy that doesn't sit through an hour long discussion on a five minute topic? How does one train hisself to do that? Maybe get a speaker have it run in the background whilst fiddling around in my shop?
Posted by: DanMan at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (8uzBS) If something's important, I'd prefer a transcript. Or a shortened Cole's Notes version. We had a bookstore called Cole's years back and they'd have small 'cheat' books to summarize everything. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (Sco7b) 80
Evenin’, All.
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (77rzZ) 81
Dear Mr Lennon, in Imagine you are calling for the extinction of the human race. Have a nice day.
Signed , Reality Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (gu0hJ) Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (9EFgU) 84
Everything is in chaos, no one knows what to do.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM If only there were a respected head-of-state who could exhibit leadership. Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (0sNs1) 85
Not that anyone should be surprised but the Supreme Court denied to hear Virginia's appeal of their illegal redistricting measure.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m) 86
Everything is in chaos, no one knows what to do.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (Av6i5) --- Because Logic is racist. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (Fi81e) 87
Mamdani released a 375-page Racial Equity Plan last month that said, "New York's history has been one of colonization, exploitation and racial oppression"; among other measures, the plan reaffirms the city's intent to steer contracts to minority-owned businesses. ============== Are the recent SCOTUS decisions banning DEI so narrow that NYC can get away with this? Or is this some incomprehensibly stupid and stubborn attempt to brute-force a racist policy into action? Or is it just virtue-signaling, Mamdani and his dandies being completely aware that it will be shot down by the DoJ? And while we're here, what's Harmeet Dhillon's record so far? She's always tweeting "This is concerning" but I don't know of any civil rights abusers that she's shut down. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 07:08 PM (XJ22o) 88
Sharkassanan, has a nice layer of babyfat and wears makeup well. But she's crazy as a loon.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (9EFgU) --- She's a 1. As in, Rule #1. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:08 PM (Fi81e) 89
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at May 15, 2026 06:49 PM (jZ3ZM)
Fuck you, you fucking fuck. You have no clue who this old guy voted for. I hate this broad brush bullshit. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 07:08 PM (0aYVJ) 90
"Everything is in chaos, no one knows what to do."
Fortunately it's just the UK, which isn't very important any more. Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:09 PM (U/Byj) 91
I nominate Garret for the new Prime Minister of Great Mittens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:09 PM (2GVsD) 92
Not that anyone should be surprised but the Supreme Court denied to hear Virginia's appeal of their illegal redistricting measure.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m) --- Which leaves it where? Or does Scamburger have a pen and a phone? Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:09 PM (Fi81e) 93
Those who a committing these common crimes are, in reality, agents of the exclusive class. These judges, FBI, and all the other acronyms belong in jail now.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (9EFgU) 94
Oh, and back to Capt Squish (the porculent Morrisey). "Well-intentioned" idiots in blue states? "Well-intentioned"? LOL. So this dullard thinks crude wildly unconstitutional and vile racism is "well intentioned". Very insightful.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (U/Byj) Anyone who has good intentions but never changes their actions when they fail over and over and over does not have good intentions. They are just liars as well as evil. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (8avO+) 95
Have pen and phone, will trespass.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (Fi81e) 96
Wait a minute...what, exactly, is the status quo in 2026, Anita? Who's challenging what here?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (XMwZJ) 97
>>Which leaves it where?
>>Or does Scamburger have a pen and a phone? Leaves it dead. Dems spent $70 million to face plant. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m) 98
Hopefully Spamburgler is behind a NoVa truck stop sucking chrome off trailer hitches while Jay Jones is turning tricks in the men's room.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:11 PM (2GVsD) 99
Just yesterday Comey said is stays in contact with his buds at the agency. Every one of those bud's belong in jail.
This is going on too long. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:11 PM (9EFgU) 100
From Ed Morrissey, Steve Jobs' Useless Widow's Vanity Project The Atlantic says that Democrats must reduce the toxicity of their brand by denouncing racist preferences, but will not.
Dems have replaced real voters with illegals, the dead, and just plain fake votes. This is why they can keep going more and more insane and not lose, by much, at the ballot box. Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 07:11 PM (sKqQm) 101
And it gets WORSE because apparently NYPD officers had sent Burke to the Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation earlier that day and within FIVE HOURS of his release, he went on to kill 76-year-old, Ross Falzone, while still wearing his hospital PSYCHIATRIC BRACELET.
--- Who ever gave this douche bag his psychiatric evaluation should lose their credentials for life and be be sued into poverty. Probably more than one person had a hand in rubber stamping his evaluation which was clearly erroneous if not criminal. Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 15, 2026 07:12 PM (THY4u) 102
Leaves it dead. Dems spent $70 million to face plant.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m) --- Wasn't it really that the main issue is that the Dems couldn't just count anything they wanted to cite as an "intervening election"? And that was the main swindle. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (Fi81e) 103
We know Spamburger is CIA and another pol in MN, article said they have 21 plants.
Why are they walking the streets? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (9EFgU) 104
90 "Everything is in chaos, no one knows what to do."
Fortunately it's just the UK, which isn't very important any more. Posted by: rhomboid Best-case scenarios is actually that Starmer goes nuclear on his own party, and calls a snap election rather than face an inter-party leadership election, but it backfires and Reform wins the election, and Labour gets thrown out of power entirely and forever. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (Av6i5) 105
SC rejects Virginia appeal. Guess Temu Obama Hakeem holding his breath didn't sway the court
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (gu0hJ) 106
75 The one who refused to press charges, your suicidal empathy is killing us.
Literally. Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (2GVsD) The words I have for her and that disgusting judge would get me banhammered. I'd deserve it, but I'd go out in a blaze of foul mouthed glory. Posted by: moki at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (wLjpr) 107
This is a win-win for the AWFL. First, she got to virtue signal that she couldn't bear to see a "black man in jail." Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo ================ Can't remember where I saw it, but I think she's black. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 07:14 PM (XJ22o) 108
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 07:08 PM (0aYVJ
Thanks. I agree with you. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM (7RYym) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM (u82oZ) 110
Oh, and back to Capt Squish (the porculent Morrisey). "Well-intentioned" idiots in blue states? "Well-intentioned"? LOL. So this dullard thinks crude wildly unconstitutional and vile racism is "well intentioned". Very insightful.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (U/Byj) --- In fairness, attributing "good intentions" to liberal bullshit has a long tradition, including Rush Limbaugh. Even not wanting to see another black man in jail is arguably a "good intention", however incredibly vacuous a sentiment. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM (Fi81e) 111
“I now have the autonomy to be my authentic self on the bench and make decisions without fear of reprisals that might be contrary to what mainstream media people, who don’t see value in my people or our community, agree with.”
---- So she is saying that she represents black people and ALL of the black people are OK with assaulting white people? Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (THY4u) 112
The hardest part was trying to understand "the parliamentary system" politics. it's so alien to the American mind, that it's like trying to learn Chinese, Navajo or some other non-Indo-European language. Just makes your brain hurt.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (Av6i5) 113
I am sick to death of minorities. I guess I should not have said that out loud.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (Gqar8) Posted by: Crusader at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (TN0g+) 115
>>Wasn't it really that the main issue is that the Dems couldn't just count anything they wanted to cite as an "intervening election"?
The Virginia Constitution is explicit about how things like redistricting can be done. Nothing vague about it, black letter law. Democrats just ignored it and insisted that courts should wait until after the vote to rule. They did. And they found, unsurprisingly, that Democrats violated the Virginia Constitution. This was not a close call or some arbitrary ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court which was majority appointed by Democrats. Low IQ Hakeem gambled and got it shoved right up his ass. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m) 116
Let the Lava Flow!! Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM (u82oZ) lol! {{NaCly}} How are you good sir??? Posted by: moki at May 15, 2026 07:17 PM (wLjpr) 117
Best-case scenarios is actually that Starmer goes nuclear on his own party, and calls a snap election rather than face an inter-party leadership election, but it backfires and Reform wins the election, and Labour gets thrown out of power entirely and forever.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (Av6i5) I'd love to see that happen. I'm not sure if Starmer would go that far for revenge, though. His strategy right now seems to be trying to wait everybody out for a few months until it all blows over and he can go back to fucking everything up as usual until 2029. I don't think that's going to work out too well for him, but I'll enjoy watching the show at any rate. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:17 PM (6ydKt) 118
In fairness, attributing "good intentions" to liberal bullshit has a long tradition, including Rush Limbaugh.
Even not wanting to see another black man in jail is arguably a "good intention", however incredibly vacuous a sentiment. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM (Fi81e) Speak to a liberal for 10 minutes and your faith in good intentions will be gone for life. They are poison. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 07:17 PM (8avO+) 119
Everything is in chaos, no one knows what to do."
--- I think the people whom you would deafen yourself to never hear know something about what to do. You've just already taken off the board things that work. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:17 PM (Fi81e) 120
Best-case scenarios is actually that Starmer goes nuclear on his own party, and calls a snap election rather than face an inter-party leadership election, but it backfires and Reform wins the election, and Labour gets thrown out of power entirely and forever.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (Av6i5) ______________________ I think Starmer is going to sicc law enforcement on the key figures of the Reform Party. At first it will be, somewhat, covert. But, as it becomes more public (which is much slower in the UK due to out and out censorship), there are going to be incidents. Nasty, bloody, bone breaking incidents. I do, actually, think the UK is going to get very nasty (as in the State Dept. doesn't not recommend travel to the UK at this time nasty). Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 07:18 PM (dIske) 121
That Judge should swing next to the killer.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (9maW1) Machine gun pinata. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 07:18 PM (snZF9) 122
@113 don't feel bad. There are a lot of vids on YouTube showing blacks have black fatigue concerning other blacks behavior. Pretty interesting to see
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:18 PM (gu0hJ) 123
I suspect that when Dems again form the governmental majority they will approach this at the Federal level
It is speculated that one of the reasons Mamdani deferred NYC's pension payments is that all the insolvent blue government pension plans will get bailed out anyway if the D's win in 2028. Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2026 07:18 PM (aD4fx) 124
Just yesterday Comey said is stays in contact with his buds at the agency. Every one of those bud's belong in jail.
This is going on too long. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:11 PM Nothing will happen. Posted by: That Guy who reminds The Horde that "Nothing will happen." at May 15, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1) 125
Thanks. I agree with you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM (7RYym) *kicks dirt* Sorry I said some swears. I was kind of het up. You're a treasure. Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 07:18 PM (0aYVJ) 126
The hardest part was trying to understand "the parliamentary system" politics. it's so alien to the American mind, that it's like trying to learn Chinese, Navajo or some other non-Indo-European language. Just makes your brain hurt.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (Av6i5) **************************** England is the mother country of every American, and any conservative should have a passing familiarity with the British parliamentary system. Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 15, 2026 07:19 PM (AvK7x) 127
Marva, no it was Mulva
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:19 PM (gu0hJ) 128
Anybody think that Starmer just announced what everybody projected about Trump?
Wonder where the "He's NOT LEAVING #10!" hysterics will be. .... Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:19 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:19 PM (u82oZ) 130
What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM (T8bqm) 131
Let the Lava Flow!!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM The bass player has begun his solo? Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1) 132
Guess people move with their pocketbook
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0) 133
130 What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM (T8bqm) "Fuck you, war"??? Posted by: moki at May 15, 2026 07:21 PM (wLjpr) 134
I suspect Anita Sarkesian would be highly disappointed to learn that I don't want her dead. I merely want to be left alone. To the extent that I want anything involving her, it would be for her to see the light or at least give up meddling destructively in our culture.
Posted by: Emmie at May 15, 2026 07:22 PM (FMtrg) 135
What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM Mary Ann, .45 ACP, longbow. Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1) 136
moki
I am doing better than December. One of the widows I walk with can go two miles with me getting in about 15 words in. She really has some lava flow issues. All the widows I walk with are older than me; she told me the last hike her doctor had called hisPA in to feel the muscles on her legs, which "Outstanding muscles for a woman of her age." I kept out of that one-way conversation. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:23 PM (u82oZ) 137
Just yesterday Comey said is stays in contact with his buds at the agency. Every one of those bud's belong in jail.
This is going on too long. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:11 PM --- You're talking about people who thought it was a valid story that the SPLC had "embeds" in racist organizations like they were law enforcement or something. This does not get better. Man and Sin is why. Maranatha! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:23 PM (Fi81e) 138
What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM BTW, Nothing Will Happen Guy already commented. Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:24 PM (0sNs1) 139
We, as a nation, need to decouple from Chi-nah. That socialist 2 day dog and pony show was ridiculous. We need to stop propping up that backward commie hellhole.
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:24 PM (GD0B3) 140
What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM Mary Ann, .45 ACP, longbow. Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:23 PM (0sNs1) --- Definitely long bow--I mean fuck those crossbow wankers! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:24 PM (Fi81e) 141
Blue states have bled $2 trillion in wealth to red states in the last decade ============== Yes, as the billionaires who thought these coercive commie policies were great stuff a few years ago are now leaving people like me to the dust they made of a once-great state. Sergei Brin literally escapes the Soviet Union, comes to California and does his best to re-create it, gets threatened by the very Red Guard he helped to raise with a confiscatory tax of his wealth, and decamps to Lake Tahoe in Nevada, horrified at the prospect of living with the consequences of his actions. Now that billionaire tax is heading for struggling middle-class me -- not because I'm a billionaire, but because the supposed one-time billionaire tax actually allows Cali to tax anyone anytime. Thanks, Sergei. And say Hi to your fellow come-lately friend Bill Ackman. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 07:24 PM (XJ22o) 142
Men in Black is on .
One of my all time favorite lines People are smart . A person is smart, people are dumb , panicky , dangerous animals and you know it Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (gu0hJ) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (7RYym) 144
Way too many capitalists, the cooks and the musks, are contributing to the rope.
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (GD0B3) 145
Let the Lava Flow!!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:15 PM The bass player has begun his solo? Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1) --- Cue Stonehenge.... Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (Fi81e) 146
England is the mother country of every American, and any conservative should have a passing familiarity with the British parliamentary system.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 15, 2026 07:19 PM (AvK7x) "King Ralph" was, nonironically, helpful here. Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (gKWVE) Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (u82oZ) Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 07:26 PM (snZF9) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:26 PM (Fi81e) 151
"What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?"
I'm sorry, dear. Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (vFG9F) --- Nope that just defrays one. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:27 PM (Fi81e) 152
What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
--- I have a gun. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:26 PM To be fair, that's four words. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 15, 2026 07:27 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: Joe Biden at May 15, 2026 07:27 PM (9maW1) 154
In the parliamentary government the most gay wins
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:28 PM (gu0hJ) 155
Rhamell may not be right for you. Do not use the subway if Rhamell There.
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 07:28 PM (LHPAg) 156
"I'm sorry, dear.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (vFG9F) --- Nope that just defrays one. Posted by: Axeman" The only way to win is not to play. Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:28 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:29 PM (gu0hJ) 158
Everything is in chaos, no one knows what to do.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (Av6i5) I know exactly what to do. The Elagabalus Method. I can't think of a modern politician more deserving of this. Posted by: Nelly at May 15, 2026 07:29 PM (6+ehB) 159
What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
--- I have a gun. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:26 PM To be fair, that's four words. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 15, 2026 07:27 PM (0sNs1) --- In fairness, you undid my strikethrough. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:29 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 07:29 PM (XJ22o) 161
138 What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM ___________________________ Hold My Beer!!! Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 07:30 PM (dIske) 162
154 In the parliamentary government the most gay wins
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:28 PM (gu0hJ) Wanna wrestle? Posted by: Denny Hastert at May 15, 2026 07:30 PM (gKWVE) 163
US SUPREME COURT DENIES VIRGINIA'S REDISTRICTING APPEAL
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 07:30 PM (O7XEN) Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:31 PM (GD0B3) 165
3 words: I already won.
Then you stick your fingers in your ears and incant: La la la--I can't HEAR you! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:31 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (u82oZ) 167
You smell bad.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (Fi81e) 168
Fake gay and lame?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (3ek7K) 170
150 What are the 3 words we say that wins every argument?
--- I have a gun. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:26 PM (Fi81e) Every citizen who is not crazy or a criminal should have the right to own a gun and use it to protect themselves, after training, Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (LHPAg) 171
"A pirate walks into a bar. He’s walking bow legged, because he has a steering wheel chained between his knees.
The bartender asks the obvious, “Why do you have a steering wheel chained between your legs?” The pirate answers, “Yaaaaarr, I don’t know, but it’s drivin’ me nuts! " Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (GD0B3) 172
Suck my dick!
Posted by: Bea Arthur at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (zZu0s) 173
82 Anita Sarkisian?
Talk about a face that sank a thousand games. Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (2GVsD) She is a cancer in the gaming industry. Has no interest in gaming at all. Any company dumb enough to hire her deserves to go under. She offers nothing and is getting rich off of it. Posted by: Nelly at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (6+ehB) 174
US SUPREME COURT DENIES VIRGINIA'S REDISTRICTING APPEAL Posted by: SMOD ============= No noted dissents. Was it too much even for Jumanji? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (XJ22o) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (HdYcL) 176
SMOD
Can you imagine Roberts wanting more Justices with the mental acuity of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? "We can turn him" with this argument. Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (u82oZ) 177
I like “fuck you, war” but all I could think of was “shut up commie”.
I have a wife so I know that nothing polite or sensible works Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (T8bqm) 178
I have a gun.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:26 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy1-MIuekQE Posted by: GySgt Hartmann at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1) 179
I could have told the rich people this twenty years ago.
I studied where I wanted to settle down and live back then. Low taxes and conservative values. It wasn't a hard decision. Never looked back. Is my state perfect? No. But every political office I vote in is held by a conservative Republican. From my towns mayor to my state rep. and state senator. My governor, my rep. in Washington and both of my U.S. senators, and my President. What more can I do? Except vote for what I want. I want to live in a decent place that has values and common sense. No place is perfect but I'm close to it. Socialism does not work it drains your wallet. Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 07:35 PM (NWIIQ) 180
Who ever gave this douche bag his psychiatric evaluation should lose their credentials for life and be be sued into poverty. Probably more than one person had a hand in rubber stamping his evaluation which was clearly erroneous if not criminal.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 15, 2026 07:12 PM (THY4u) OTOH, I would think it effectively eliminates the possibility of an insanity defense, since he was literally expert-certified sane right before the murder. Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 07:35 PM (Sy6m/) Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 07:49 PM (vTZFs) 182
Our ideas are easy to explain because they are common sense. Lies filled with nonsense are much harder to get people to agree to.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 15, 2026 07:57 PM (954tc) 183
What strikes me is the judge didn't do Rhamell Burke any favors either. He might have gone to jail for a year or two, now he goes away for life. Maybe he could have reformed, got some psychiatric help.
And a man is dead. The only one who benefited was the judge and her social signaling. Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM (954tc) Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 15, 2026 08:00 PM (954tc) 185
What really sad is we ever lose any debate with these dipshits. What's sad is I have to do more than raise an eyebrow over their nonsense to make them shut up forever.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 15, 2026 08:01 PM (954tc) Posted by: Halfhand at May 15, 2026 08:29 PM (9yZMF) 187
"remedy past discrimination"....
Past, alright. Coming up on three generations past. Beneficiaries of these policies are getting preferences based on discrimination against their grandparents, and sometimes great-grandparents 60+ year ago. People are getting screwed by these policies simply because of a lack of melanin, even if their great or grand parents didn't take the place of a "deserving black person" because, for instance, they are second generation European immigrants. Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 12:11 AM (a+u3Q) Biden Loyalist and Registered Democrat Eric Ciaramella Perjured Himself in Denying Coordination with Adam Schiff Before Launching ImpeachmentGate 1.0This guy was a key cog in nearly every anti-Trump conspiracy in government. This is the guy who rewrote the rules of what makes a "whistleblower" so that he could accept this second-hand hearsay and investigate it -- and then claimed the fact he changed the definition in the days after Eric Ciaramella whined to him was just a coincidence. More: the phone call that was the subject matter of ImpeachmentGate 2.0 -- the post-2020 election impeachment -- was, get this, illegally recorded.
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Nothing will happen
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (bOS38) 2
1st
Posted by: GF at May 15, 2026 05:32 PM (iVUs+) 3
Oh well, I beat the blade!
Posted by: GF at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (iVUs+) 4
ST
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (uK2Q4) 5
the BLADE is missing!
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:34 PM (8avO+) 6
re 1: true, they'll stall till a dem in president
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:34 PM (CWTWj) 7
Another player in the Coup D'etat
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (Ia/+0) 8
Lt Col Bearclaws and his brother should be rotting in a Military Prison.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (9maW1) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (OYsYV) 10
I like how they go 'record show' and 'intelligence analyst' when talking about Ciamerella. Acting as if no one knows who he is.
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (zZu0s) 11
And you will not see a photo of Mr. Ciaramella because protected status and Democrat. But I repeat myself.
Posted by: fly gal at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (EIbjg) 12
I'm waiting don't doctor the throw don't a children. Didn't's laughing look. Shouldn't of ace the you women of undefined what no
Posted by: Eric Ciaramella at May 15, 2026 05:38 PM (abIsI) 13
I would like to see Chris Wray learn more about hemp rope.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (abIsI) 14
OT, but if anyone owns Shell Oil stock, better sell it quick.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (0U5gm) 15
Eric C.I.A.ramelli ; amiright?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (BbO+r) 16
I'm sure Comey would tell us that no prosecutor would prosecute perjury.
Someone should probably tell Oliver North that.... Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (Fi81e) 17
i see fox biz news is reporting the doj is looking into get an indictment against fauci
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (CWTWj) 18
What difference does it make now? Old news Asked and answered No credible evidence Experts say Winger obsession Backlash against the GOP Wouldn't have made a difference Questioning democracy Focused on the needs of hard-working Americans Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (HdYcL) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (Fi81e) 20
What’s wrong with Shell Oil stock?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (BbO+r) 21
Another glow in the datk cia glow monkey.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (uK2Q4) 22
Prisons should be full, but they won't be. The damage has been done so let's just all forget about it. At least that will be the media take on this mess.
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (NWIIQ) 23
what 21 said
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (CWTWj) 24
Well thankfully the polls show that GA is very unlikely to pick Rat burger as the R candidate for governor.
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (PV+Zw) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (OYsYV) 26
What difference does it make now?
Old news Asked and answered No credible evidence Experts say Winger obsession Backlash against the GOP Wouldn't have made a difference Questioning democracy Focused on the needs of hard-working Americans You forgot “DeBunked”. Debunked conspriacy theory. Bonus points for “climate/election deniers” LOL Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (BbO+r) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:42 PM (Fi81e) 28
"Biden Loyalist and Registered Democrat Eric Ciaramella Perjured Himself in Denying Coordination with Adam Schiff Before Launching ImpeachmentGate 1.0"
At this point, what difference does it make? Posted by: hillary clinton at May 15, 2026 05:42 PM (0N4FZ) 29
Speaking of Georgia, Keshia Lance Bottoms is the frontrunner on the Dem side for governor.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:43 PM (73/SM) 30
Crazy Ivan!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 05:43 PM (0N4FZ) 31
You forgot “DeBunked”. Debunked conspriacy theory. Bonus points for “climate/election deniers” LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (BbO+r) --- The Wuhan leak theory was only temporarily debunked. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:43 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 05:43 PM (HdYcL) 33
“They stuck a fork in that pigs belly when she was pregnant! Groovy!”
Posted by: Meteorologist Bernadine Dohrn at May 15, 2026 05:44 PM (BbO+r) Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 05:44 PM (RIvkX) 35
*yawns*
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at May 15, 2026 05:44 PM (vFG9F) 36
Shell decided to swap out their credit card for a branded mastercard. The new payments company sent out a card to the primary card holder. Any other card holder like a spouse or other family member did not get their data transferred.
As of this coming Sunday night, all of those old cards stop working, and those that are not furious enough to cancel their account will have to order a card for their family members and wait a week or more for a new card. After spending nearly an hour on hold, I asked the temp worker if there were a lot of angry calls, and she said yes. I expect hundreds of thousands of cancelled accounts. Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 15, 2026 05:44 PM (0U5gm) 37
What difference does it make now?
Old news Asked and answered No credible evidence Experts say Winger obsession Backlash against the GOP Wouldn't have made a difference Questioning democracy Focused on the needs of hard-working Americans You forgot “DeBunked”. Debunked conspriacy theory. Bonus points for “climate/election deniers” LOL Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (BbO+r) You forgot: Without evidence Conspiracy theory Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2026 05:45 PM (zZu0s) 38
Adam Schiff should have been fed to the spiders and snakes decades ago. He's Chuck Schumer without the charm.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (D1E+2) 39
Cool story, jail time when?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (xcxpd) 40
Impeachment means nothing now. It's just a partisan weapon. Actually first used as a partisan weapon but at least they waited another 100 years before they rolled it out again. Now they use or threaten its use as easy as brushing their teeth.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (qrzX6) 41
something to cheer most of you up.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:34 PM (CWTWj) Aside from the blown margins? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (iERP6) 42
1 in 5 American adults have a mental illness.... I'd say it's higher and closer to 13 in 33 when considering Trump Derangement syndrome. * no math - that's 1/3 * Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (QVmho) 43
>>Fuchs received "use immunity" to testify before the grand jury, meaning she could admit what she had done without being prosecuted for any crime.
Ah, the exception to 4th amendment -- If it is an illegal search, but we give you immunity, then the fruit of that tree is no longer poison? Give me a break. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (0MFDl) 44
Today I learnt that the Victorians used to dye wallpaper with an arsenic/sulfur compound. Someone published a book with examples of what to avoid which also contained samples... of the wallpaper.
So now that book is stored like the Necronomicon. youtu.be/E_nTNdgZ738 Posted by: name of the rose at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (gKWVE) 45
Boxes need to grow to contain the links.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (uK2Q4) 46
Look, if Trump resigns everything will calm down and normal political discourse will be restored. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (HdYcL) 47
15 OT, but if anyone owns Shell Oil stock, better sell it quick.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (0U5gm) And then buy the dip? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (xcxpd) 48
would like to see Chris Wray learn more about hemp rope.
Posted by: Maj. Healey Get familiar with the Vermeer woodchipper. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 05:48 PM (1IhIV) 49
So Ratshitbuger told his aide to record the call?
So he could claim it wasn't him that recorded it? And then he further leaked it to the Dems so they could "subpoena" his aide to authenticate it? And Kemp knew and knows all this because he was in on it as well. I bet Erick Erickson is furiously typing 10,000 words right now and plotting his whole next week of shows defending Ratshitburger and his little faggoty buddy Gabe Sterling. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (73/SM) 50
This fucker should have been buried years ago. It might be improper, but the Soviets didn't put up with this shit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (jehhT) 51
Well earnings was way off.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (uK2Q4) 52
Impeachment means nothing now. It's just a partisan weapon. Actually first used as a partisan weapon but at least they waited another 100 years before they rolled it out again. Now they use or threaten its use as easy as brushing their teeth.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (qrzX6) --- Trump has had two floor-vote "impeachments". And that's always been a potential. I really love how revisionists acted like the Senate has a responsibility to take on any impeachment the House sends its way. When the House vote was thought to be a check on the impeachment powers of the Senate. It's the Senate that was given impeachment removal powers. The House vote is just a check. But that historical fact doesn't work in the Democrats favor, so.... new rules and new story! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (Fi81e) 53
Look, if Trump resigns everything will calm down and normal political discourse will be restored.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (HdYcL) ====== Give me what I want, and I'll go away. -literally every thug in human history Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (RIvkX) 54
Didn’t Fauci get a blanket presidential pardon?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (WQvQz) 55
Grauniad: Climate campaigners attack Shell over ‘windfall’ profits from Iran war
You wanted higher prices to save the erf. Any Means Necessary. Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (gKWVE) 56
Related to Gnat blowing things...it's a noble cause.
Gina got her body back in a bodacious way. Rowr. She's fighting Rhonda Rousey soon but...damn, I think she already won. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (xcxpd) 57
Look, if Trump resigns everything will calm down and normal political discourse will be restored.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (HdYcL) --- Probably what every still sensible person doesn't want. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (Fi81e) 58
Today I learnt that the Victorians used to dye wallpaper with an arsenic/sulfur compound. Someone published a book with examples of what to avoid which also contained samples... of the wallpaper.
So now that book is stored like the Necronomicon. youtu.be/E_nTNdgZ738 Posted by: name of the rose at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (gKWVE) Thats just silly. Dont go licking the pages. Arsenic is not going to fly off the wall paper swatch and down your throat. Although, that is a good movie reference. Sort of valid. 8/10 Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s) 59
I heard she dropped 100 pounds. Is that right?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:51 PM (uK2Q4) 60
Adam is my main man! Hopefully when he goes to prison, we can be cellies and I will fuck him in the ass while he washes my socks and gives me his fruit cocktail.
Posted by: Ed Buck, killer fag at May 15, 2026 05:51 PM (j017i) 61
Gina got her body back in a bodacious way. Rowr.
She's fighting Rhonda Rousey soon but...damn, I think she already won. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (xcxpd) Yeah, she's hot as fuck. She had gone a bit Abuella. Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s) 62
I really love how revisionists acted like the Senate has a responsibility to take on any impeachment the House sends its way.
--- Which "rule" Schumer discarded when the impeachment of Myorkas was sent to the Senate .... Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:53 PM (73/SM) 63
When Eric C, and the phone tap chick see consequences for their actions, I'll drop my drawers and shoot off rockets (obscure Don Rickles quote there)...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 15, 2026 05:53 PM (nbLIj) 64
Which "rule" Schumer discarded when the impeachment of Myorkas was sent to the Senate ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:53 PM (73/SM) --- That was (D)ifferent. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:54 PM (Fi81e) Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:54 PM (BbO+r) 66
From zerohedge...yeah, yeah...
The forever war.... Tehran and Washington are truly not just back to square one, but it's as if no rounds of dialogue - direct or indirect - have even taken place. It's more like being back at square zero - and the US President has just acknowledged it. President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Friday while departing Beijing that even the very first first sentence of Iran's latest proposal was "unacceptable" and blamed the Iranians for backtracking on the nuclear issue If gas prices were normal, no-one would care. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 05:54 PM (Sco7b) 67
re 41: apologies if there was a problem with the pic, as ben turpin would, it looked ok to me
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:55 PM (CWTWj) 68
Look, if Trump resigns everything will calm down and normal political discourse will be restored.
--- NeverTrump has been promising for over 10 years now that they will professionally craft an alternative to Trump. And so far, they have: 1) agree with Democrats on everything. 2) ... tbd ... ... and now I realize, technically, they have delivered on that promise. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:56 PM (73/SM) 69
Of course, I saw some claimed IC whistle-blower on line who said that McConnell was a key part of January 6th, hoping to impeach Trump over it.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:56 PM (Fi81e) 70
Didn’t Fauci get a blanket presidential pardon?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM He got one of those auto pen pardons for any crimes committed from January 2014 through 19 January 2025. Innocent people do not need pardons that cover 11 years. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 05:56 PM (0N4FZ) 71
Today I learnt that the Victorians used to dye wallpaper with an arsenic/sulfur compound. Someone published a book with examples of what to avoid which also contained samples... of the wallpaper.
So now that book is stored like the Necronomicon. youtu.be/E_nTNdgZ738 Posted by: name of the rose at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (gKWVE) Thats just silly. Dont go licking the pages. Arsenic is not going to fly off the wall paper swatch and down your throat. Although, that is a good movie reference. Sort of valid. 8/10 Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s) I remember an old guy back in the asbestos terror was mayor of a tiny town and they found the stuff in the school. Companies wanted hundreds of thousands to tear it out. He did it himself since he was in his 80s, saved all that money. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:56 PM (8avO+) 72
Seems to be a systemic problem with trying to frame Trump for crimes, sometimes crimes that were committed.
Like some of the worst things totalitarian regimes. Have done. Perhaps America is already ddad and the parasites are feasting on a still warm corpse. Posted by: Operator Error at May 15, 2026 05:56 PM (yk/I+) 73
Can i get an Unexpectedly ! ???
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at May 15, 2026 05:57 PM (3ZUWJ) 74
NeverTrump has been promising for over 10 years now that they will professionally craft an alternative to Trump.
And so far, they have: 1) agree with Democrats on everything. 2) ... tbd ... Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:56 PM (73/SM) --- Kryzinger was even promoting the Virginia gerry-lobstering and is out there promoting that Republicans will never learn their lesson if you don't vote blue. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:57 PM (Fi81e) 75
/off jug eared fuck nic
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 05:58 PM (zZu0s) 76
I can dig why two chicks are fighting, because they're making bank.
I would never have any relationship with them because they're violent whackjobs. Can we have some babies? A family? Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (D1E+2) 77
I got here late. Did I miss the "nothing will happen." guy.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (CyFyf) 78
I would guess that at least 80% of people would list Nixon when asked what Presidents have been impeached.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (qrzX6) 79
I want Fauci in prison
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0) 80
And Cimarella in turn was retelling BearClaw's heresay as he was not actually on the call with Trump and Porshenko.
Bottom line, a lot of people need to meet the justice that can only be had at the gaping maw of an industrial wood chipper. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 06:00 PM (XV/Pl) 81
I want Fauci in prison
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM I would rather see him shoved face first into a box with 10,000 sand fleas infesting it and left there to rot. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 06:00 PM (0N4FZ) 82
Something positive about dealing with the Chinese...
------------- Prior to boarding Air Force One, Trump delegation had to dispose of *everything* given to them by their Chinese hosts... Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM (jehhT) 83
I would rather see him shoved face first into a box with 10,000 sand fleas infesting it and left there to rot.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 06:00 PM (0N4FZ) Just his head. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s) 84
Impeachment is done by the House
But it’s up to the Senate to Convict Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:54 PM (BbO+r) --- True, but it is reasoning of the founders that the House vote was added to check the Senate from going wild with impeachment powers. So, it was an added check. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM (Fi81e) 85
Oh crap, more 'news' from Deadline affecting hundreds of people.
"Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Sets Final Week Guests: Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen & More" To me, Springsteen will always be some old washed up rocker singing onstage during a No Kings happy day and sharing a split screen with Debbie whatshername Shultz. That was freaking hilarious. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM (Sco7b) 86
Prior to boarding Air Force One, Trump delegation had to dispose of *everything* given to them by their Chinese hosts...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM (jehhT) --- Emollients!! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:02 PM (Fi81e) 87
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (CyFyf)
Practically every fourth post is "Nothing will happen" so no, you didn't miss it. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:03 PM (n3VHW) 88
"Prior to boarding Air Force One, Trump delegation had to dispose of *everything* given to them by their Chinese hosts..."
I had to get a shot for that. Posted by: Eric Swallowell at May 15, 2026 06:04 PM (vFG9F) 89
Asbestos is practically unique, there has been no practical effective replacement. America has no “in between”, we go from one extreme to the other. Nurses selling cartons of Lucky Strikes to lung cancer patients in Hospitals, to arresting people smoking on deserted windswept public beaches.
They also banned Halon, one of the most effective fire suppression chemical yet devised for aircraft. I think existing stocks can be recycled into new firebottles. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:04 PM (BbO+r) 90
Why would they even have accepted anything?
When they land in the US, they should strip naked and set everything on fire- including the plane. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM (zZu0s) 91
I had Asbestos Jammies from Sears.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM (uK2Q4) 92
I doubt any of these pricks will be prosecuted but if the Republicans were smart (I know) they could use it as leverage to cause a split between old Dems and the young crazies. Show the yungins they were excluded from a lot of positions of power by the behavior of the older Dems and get them fighting the older Dems. Worth a shot because I don't expect much else
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:06 PM (gu0hJ) 93
I want Fauci in prison
--- I want him dumped in a shipping container somewhere on the ice of the Arctic equipped with machinery to automatically dispense just enough food to keep him alive and just enough heat to keep him from freezing but cold and just enough light he can barely see. I want him to die cold, alone, forgotten and ranting insane. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 06:07 PM (73/SM) 94
Prior to boarding Air Force One, Trump delegation had to dispose of *everything* given to them by their Chinese hosts...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM When I worked at the naval war college we had one professor who went to china for a conference. He came back and against every single rule brought his personal laptop into work. When it was over the entire network had to be shut down for weeks to scrub it clean. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 06:07 PM (0N4FZ) 95
>>> I had Asbestos Jammies from Sears.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM (uK2Q4 ====== Lucky you. Best I could do was grow up in a house built in 1920 that had asbestos shingles. I’m sure the paint was fine, though. Posted by: Turn 2 at May 15, 2026 06:07 PM (CyFyf) 96
Why would they even have accepted anything?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM (zZu0s) --- Etiquette? Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e) 97
The administration could, if they wanted, have all the Chinese trinkets and whatnot sent to another military base, have the stuff unpacked and electronically examined for bugs, or whatever.
Then... go back to whomever in China supplied that, and confront Xi. Panda hates.. hates... hates exposure. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 06:09 PM (jehhT) 98
Etiquette?
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e) I'm in a bad mood. I say nuke china til they glow. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:09 PM (zZu0s) 99
Then nuke them in the dark.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:09 PM (zZu0s) 100
Tina Peters was given clemency by Colo governor. She'll be out 6/1. Never should have been in
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:09 PM (gu0hJ) 101
I would rather see him shoved face first into a box with 10,000 sand fleas infesting it and left there to rot.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) Just his head. Posted by: Aetius451AD I'll save myself the time, and just tell myself to use "the power of AND." Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov) 102
I had Asbestos Jammies from Sears.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM I spent three years stationed on the Midway a WWII aircraft carrier. I slept on the O2 level right under the number two arresting wire. Every morning I would wake up with my face covered in asbestos knocked loose from the lagging from the pipes in the overhead. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 06:11 PM (0N4FZ) 103
Thanks for the hospitality and the trinkets, Chairman Xi.
Now, if you don't mind, when you're back is turned we're going to check all these things in in case you might be trying to blow up my plane on my way back. Real-world diplomacy. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:11 PM (Fi81e) 104
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that at May 15, 2026 06:12 PM (2Ez/1) 105
Ratcliffe needs to release everything the CIA has on Covid.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 06:12 PM (Dv3i1) 106
Gina Carano is down to 141lbs and looks very much in shape
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:13 PM (gu0hJ) 107
What do these people do all day, other than railroading innocent people, and covering for criminal acts by Democrats? The Inspector General is tasked with looking for actual misconduct, not participating in it. The GA Secretary of State is supposed to ensure honest elections. The cops are criminals. What do they do all day? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 15, 2026 06:13 PM (L78T1) 108
I got introduced to Bruce Springsteen by a young fellow that came from NYC with a crew of Sicilians that opened Antonio's Flying Pizza in Houston. It was 1970-71. He drove a Triumph Spitfire with an unpainted front end (because he often bumped into people while tailgating) with a tapedeck that blasted early Bruce.
I quit listening at Nebraska...44 years of bad ballad bliss so far Posted by: DanMan at May 15, 2026 06:14 PM (8uzBS) 109
PIA prison, please. For anyone, at this point.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 06:15 PM (wBaIH) 110
The head FISA judge during 2016- 2019 was one Rudolph Contreras. Contreras left the court in 2020.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (z2aPa) 111
100 Tina Peters was given clemency by Colo governor. She'll be out 6/1.
The message was sent. As it was sent to the Christian bakers. Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (gKWVE) 112
What difference does it make now? Old news Asked and answered No credible evidence Experts say Winger obsession Backlash against the GOP Wouldn't have made a difference Questioning democracy Focused on the needs of hard-working Americans Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ============== Statute of limitations Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (XJ22o) 113
>>> Practically every fourth post is "Nothing will happen" so no, you didn't miss it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:03 PM (n3VHW) >>> Nothing will happen. Posted by: The person who always says that at May 15, 2026 06:12 PM (2Ez/1) ===== "Too late, Too late." Posted by: Queen Elizabeth at May 15, 2026 06:17 PM (CyFyf) 114
Springsteen hasn't had a really good album since Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Never cared for Nebraska. And Born in the USA was as big a sellout as ever has been rumored in Rock. (Although, I defended it at the time.) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:17 PM (Fi81e) 115
Statute of limitations
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (XJ22o) --- We can fix that. Posted by: New York at May 15, 2026 06:18 PM (Fi81e) 116
I settled hundreds of WC asbestos claims in CA where the claimants were in their 80's and had been heavy smokers . Biggest legal scam ever. And I'm not saying significant asbestos exposure doesn't result in mesothelioma but that I had only one or two cases where that was a confirmed diagnosis. The rest were claims based on 'pre-markers'.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (qrzX6) 117
I see. Impeachment then, was seen by the founders as a last resort for the House, tho not the first resort as seen today?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (d6jY2) 118
I'm so old I remember "Nat Sec scum bag pulls coup on reformist president" was the leftwing movie of the week back in the day...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (sKqQm) 119
Something will definitely happen!
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (jYRYu) 120
all of these ppl are what happen when you give petulant children the keys to the kingdom, and circle the wagons around them protectively with rings of pliant reporters, judicial extremists, and other infrastructural and institutional machinery.
Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (V87Oy) 121
I suppose we can say "Eric Ciaramella" now.
Since the Dems have stopped believing in stochastic terrorism and contracts forged by low opinions of someone. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e) 122
I see. Impeachment then, was seen by the founders as a last resort for the House, tho not the first resort as seen today?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (d6j That sums it up. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:21 PM (qrzX6) 123
>>>To me, Springsteen will always be some old washed up rocker singing onstage during a No Kings happy day and sharing a split screen with Debbie whatshername Shultz.
That was freaking hilarious. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog >Two of the most useless fucks in the media. I have no ill-will toward them, - they could buy and sell me, - but I don't have to listen to their shit. Go away. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 06:21 PM (D1E+2) 124
Iran is dumping oil into the Persian Gulf by the millions of barrels..
Where is our favorite Eco-Commie Gretra Thunberg ???? Posted by: Jackson at May 15, 2026 06:21 PM (KvNjc) 125
Hey. I've been busy. Had things to do.
Posted by: The person who always says that at May 15, 2026 06:21 PM (2Ez/1) 126
huh.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 06:22 PM (viF8m) 127
>>> Never cared for Nebraska. And Born in the USA was as big a sellout as ever has been rumored in Rock. (Although, I defended it at the time.)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:17 PM (Fi81e) ===== I stopped listening to Springsteen once I learned "Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band did a better cover. Posted by: Turn 2 at May 15, 2026 06:22 PM (CyFyf) 128
@114 I thought Darkness on the Edge of Town was his best album.
Nebraska produced Atlantic City, which The Band covered better than the original. Perfect for Levon's voice Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:22 PM (gu0hJ) Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:22 PM (qrzX6) 130
>> settled hundreds of WC asbestos claims in CA where the claimants were in their 80's and had been heavy smokers .
I did so much asbestos install and removal in my life, it's kind of silly. In our defense, the cigarette was there to filter out the asbestos. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:23 PM (9maW1) 131
Gina Carano lost 100 lbs. How? they always say working out and a diet of plain chicken, broccoli and rice.
But it's ALWAYS Ozempic and steroids. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 06:23 PM (wBaIH) 132
Practically every fourth post is "Nothing will happen" so no, you didn't miss it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Nothing will happen. Posted by: The person who always says that "Too late, Too late." Posted by: Queen Elizabeth And it was literally the first comment, so the "in before" guy was left out in the cold. Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 06:23 PM (VHUov) 133
I would love to see that Homo Adam Schiff put in jail...
In the same jail cell with Bubba from the Ozarks who has not seen a woman in 20 years. SQUEAL LIKE PIG BOY ......... Posted by: Jackson at May 15, 2026 06:23 PM (KvNjc) 134
Iran is dumping oil into the Persian Gulf by the millions of barrels..
Where is our favorite Eco-Commie Gretra Thunberg ???? Posted by: Jackson at May 15, 2026 06:21 PM If that turns out to be true that means they decided to go full saddam hussain. That is not going to work out well for them. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 06:24 PM (0N4FZ) 135
In the same jail cell with Bubba from the Ozarks who has not seen a woman in 20 years.
SQUEAL LIKE PIG BOY ......... Posted by: Jackson at May 15, 2026 06:23 PM (KvNjc) Bubba's Russian? Posted by: Is missing definite article, nyet? at May 15, 2026 06:24 PM (TbWk/) 136
@114 I thought Darkness on the Edge of Town was his best album.
Nebraska produced Atlantic City, which The Band covered better than the original. Perfect for Levon's voice Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:22 PM (gu0hJ) --- Yup. Springsteen is the musical equivalent of Star Wars. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:24 PM (Fi81e) 137
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:23 PM (9maW1)
All the basements and piping in NY were covered with asbestos. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:25 PM (qrzX6) 138
Supposedly the IRGC has put a bounty on President Trump of 50 million pounds.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:26 PM (z2aPa) 139
The “Best Use” by far, and it probably isn’t even close, was Kent cigarettes - with the “Mcronite” filter.
Asbestos filter, for about 3 years. Tar, not just Nicotine had become a concern in the early 1950s. What they didn’t tell consimers, they jacked up the Tar level higher on filter cigarette tobacco than filterless. LOL. Btw, abuse of Beagles goes way back. They hooked up Beagles with holes cut in their throat and piped in tobacco smoke to see if they could give them lung cancer. Every 4th Beagle was a “control” or somesuch. There is a photograph, of these poor creatures. One of them is looking into the camera “WTF?” I swear. Do not look for this photograph. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:26 PM (d6jY2) 140
If you listen to Springsteen's original, the lyric does sound a lot more like "revved up like a Deuce".
As opposed to how Manfred Mann sang it. I think both version of Blinded by the Light have their strong points. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:27 PM (Fi81e) 141
Nonetheless, IG Michael Atkinson, then the intelligence community's top watchdog, did not question the whistleblower's political motivations, truthfulness or credibility.
-------------- Inspector General who was determined not to inspect anything harmful to his party. Can we ask now who watched the watchers? Posted by: Decaf at May 15, 2026 06:27 PM (Z8tay) 142
You're soaking in it.
Posted by: Madge at May 15, 2026 06:27 PM (2Ez/1) 143
Mister Scott, there is visual evidence to that claim. 80,000 barrels is the estimate so far.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (z2aPa) 144
You're soaking in it.
Posted by: Madge at May 15, 2026 06:27 PM (2Ez/1) --- Wait. Did somebody break out the pudding cups? Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (Fi81e) 145
Speaking of Georgia, Keshia Lance Bottoms is the frontrunner on the Dem side for governor.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:43 PM (73/SM) Oh no! Not Keshia Lance “Biggie” Bottoms! Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (9as64) 146
Never got the Springsteen love but figured it was like the Dead Heads. Loyal like a cult and people enjoying themselves at his concerts.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (qrzX6) Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (viF8m) 148
Colorado finally let Tina Peters out of jail.
Posted by: Eric Swallowell at May 15, 2026 06:29 PM (vFG9F) 149
I like big bottoms.
Posted by: Sir Mix Uh Lot at May 15, 2026 06:29 PM (2Ez/1) 150
138 Supposedly the IRGC has put a bounty on President Trump of 50 million EUROs
They do not have the money to pay the bounty. They are hoping for some left-wing transgender idiot to try and take out Trump. Does not do anything because Vance would them level Iran. Posted by: Jackson at May 15, 2026 06:29 PM (KvNjc) 151
"Jailed Trump ally Tina Peters, who tried to reverse 2020 results, granted clemency by Colorado’s Dem governor" Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:30 PM (vFG9F) 152
Wrapped up like a douche. >> Revved up like a Deuce.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:30 PM (qrzX6) 153
Jackson, precisely.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:31 PM (z2aPa) 154
>>All the basements and piping in NY were covered with asbestos.
City Island was roughly 60% Asbestos by volume. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:31 PM (9maW1) 155
Never got the Springsteen love but figured it was like the Dead Heads. Loyal like a cult and people enjoying themselves at his concerts.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (qrzX6) --- It was a rep. The E-Street band did 2-hour concerts to give people their money's worth. And just like Kansas and Queensryche they got a rep for their blue-collar, 8-hour job approach to making music. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:32 PM (Fi81e) 156
Jailed Trump ally Tina Peters, who tried to reverse 2020 results, granted clemency by Colorado’s Dem governor"
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:30 PM (vFG9F) WTF? Is that a real headline? Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:32 PM (qrzX6) 157
Thanks for the hospitality and the trinkets, Chairman Xi.
Now, if you don't mind, when you're back is turned we're going to check all these things in in case you might be trying to blow up my plane on my way back. Real-world diplomacy. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:11 PM (Fi81e) ---- I wouldn't worry too much about explosives. Bugging devices to capture communications would be much more likely. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 06:32 PM (gnNyN) 158
When he sang “racked up like a douche” I thought Springsteen was singing about himself.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 06:32 PM (AnnNE) Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (vFG9F) 160
City Island was roughly 60% Asbestos by volume.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:31 PM (9maW lol Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (qrzX6) 161
The sundial. The water clock. The hourglass. The verge and foliot. The pendulum. Fine Swiss movement. The atomic clock. Diana when it's dinnertime. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (HdYcL) 162
On the other hand, you have bands like Pink Floyd where Gilmore was heard to say that he hadn't ever worked with a musician that wasn't more interested in improving on their instrument than Roger Waters on bass.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (Fi81e) 163
Nood, Week in Woke is up!
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (Sy6m/) 164
"When he sang “racked up like a douche” I thought Springsteen was singing about himself.
Posted by: Tom Servo " It's not "packed"? Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (vFG9F) 165
Raffensburger is running for Governor. Or he's running for cover. Same same.
Posted by: Minuteman at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (47/pr) 166
Yes, the usual cocksuckers are calling her “election denier”.
You do not hate these people enough. Clearly. It’s been open season on normal, decent peaceable people for decades now. I’m not looking forward to what is now inevitable but otoh my Give a Fuck meter isn’t going to even twitch. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (d6jY2) 167
Ultimately if nothing is going to happen to these people, what they did is OK. They should at least have rotten eggs thrown at them.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 15, 2026 06:35 PM (Vh9CX) 168
"When he sang “racked up like a douche” I thought Springsteen was singing about himself.
Posted by: Tom Servo " It's not "packed"? Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (vFG9F) --- I always heard "wrapped up like a douche". Like, I said, I can actually hear "revved" and "deuce" when Springsteen sings it. But I can't hear anything else when I know the lyrics and I listen closely to Mann's version. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (Fi81e) 169
When he sang “racked up like a douche” I thought Springsteen was singing about himself.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 06:32 PM (AnnNE) ====== This checks out. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (RIvkX) 170
24 Well thankfully the polls show that GA is very unlikely to pick Rat burger as the R candidate for governor.
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (PV+Zw) ==== Ratshitburger needs to be tarred and feathered before he does the dance at the end of the rope, the backstabbing, lying POS. / I don't much care for the man. Posted by: Bonecrusher at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (7aGEe) 171
100 Tina Peters was given clemency by Colo governor. She'll be out 6/1. Never should have been in Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:09 PM -------- So they've still got two weeks to murder her in prison. Why the delay? Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 15, 2026 06:37 PM (hZ1gu) Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (jehhT) 173
During the deposition, special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who was also Fani Willis' lover, noted that Fuchs received "use immunity" to testify before the grand jury, meaning she could admit what she had done without being prosecuted for any crime.
------ LOL, she broke the law in FLORIDA. How does she get immunity for that from GEORGIA? Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (Vh9CX) 174
Panda told Trump to come back when gas is 6$ nationally.
I am not optimistic. Great weather this weekend Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 06:39 PM (/Chlc) 175
83 I would rather see him shoved face first into a box with 10,000 sand fleas infesting it and left there to rot.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 06:00 PM (0N4FZ) Just his head. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s) ====== NO! Start with a sealed pouch around his junk and butthole, Let that fester for a week or so then let him recover for a week then pick another place. If you start with the head it ends too quickly. Posted by: Bonecrusher at May 15, 2026 06:46 PM (7aGEe) 176
wa wa wa
>>@scotus_wire · 15m >>🚨 The Supreme Court rejected an attempt by Virginia Democrats to restore a Legislature-adopted congressional map for the 2026 elections. Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 06:59 PM (viF8m) Sonny Hostin: No Definitely Helen of Troy Probably Was Black. I Read a Stupid Book One Time That Said Greek Culture Came from Africa.And Cleopatra, of course, was black. Source: "I don't care what they tell you in school!" Who is Sonny Hostin, whose ancestors were slave-masters, to lecture us about blackness? By the way, the rest of the panel -- consisting of liberals who impose racial quotas on everything -- shriek "what does it matter who plays Helen of Troy?" Well, if it doesn't matter, then you shouldn't insist on perfect Black and Brown Representation in histories about white racial groups, should you? But you do. Liberals are fond of demanding "But why do you caaaaare so much?!!" about topics they obviously care themselves about a great deal.Buck Sexton
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Yep
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (klDV6) 2
Nooded.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (NcvvS) Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (Kt19C) 4
Ellen of Troy memes are teh funnie.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 04:32 PM (jehhT) 5
We was Kayngz an sheeeit before them Greek homos stole everythang!
Posted by: Another Sharpton wannabe at May 15, 2026 04:32 PM (TbWk/) 6
Next thing you'll tell me: Freya was black too.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (Av6i5) 7
Golly!
Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (wVcYX) 8
It's a little known fact that the ancient Greeks also stole rap, hip-hop, Ripple, wilding and car-jacking from ancient Africa too.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b) 9
That Troy clip is perfect. That’s every lib on social media posting about how things are going to need to go kinetic.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (rAoh1) 10
Ptolomy was nubian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (xBVv0) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (xcxpd) 12
That hag at the museum is rocking the Thunberg hairdo.
You lose, Karen. Go cut your hair. Back to the clavicles, please. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (BI5O2) 13
As far as I can tell, just about fuck-all came from Africa. And that trend has continued right up to the present day.
Egyptian culture was not black African, ever. Thus the reference to the Nubians, where were black, and the Egyptians never trusted them. Sure, there was action in northern Africa while it was Roman, but other than that, bupkis. If you have to make shit up to make yourself feel better, then you live in fantasy land, not history. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (DwqWV) 14
Why do you caaaare so much if a woke museum was paid $1 million in taxpayer money so that black men could put white women in slave shackles?
Not that I have personal knowledge regarding the BDSM scene but I would imagine AWFLs could get their sub freak on for much less money. Posted by: Dom sessions can't be $1 million at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (TbWk/) 15
Well, if it doesn't matter, then you shouldn't insist on perfect Black and Brown Representation in histories about white racial groups, should you?
======= Sharlto Copley should play Black Panther. He's more African than Chadwick Boseman was. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (xBVv0) 16
Are you trying to tell me the 8 bazillion times Helen of Troy has been described were consistently wrong?
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (OoFl2) 17
That last video makes me laugh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (lyZHm) 18
Sonny Hostin: No Definitely Helen of Troy Probably Was Black. I Read a Stupid Book One Time That Said Greek Culture Came from Africa.
--- Spot the Non-sequitur! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (Fi81e) 19
8 It's a little known fact that the ancient Greeks also stole rap, hip-hop, Ripple, wilding and car-jacking from ancient Africa too.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b) You forgot purple drank and basketball. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (DwqWV) 20
Related: Why do you caaaare so much if a woke museum was paid $1 million in taxpayer money so that black men could put white women in slave shackles?
Whoa sexy! Some beans got pureed that night. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (Sco7b) 21
Sonny. Sunny.
Whatever. Posted by: Don't care at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (2Ez/1) 22
There's a funny vid by the same people with Ellen Page playing Leonidas in 300. Tries to kick Xerxes emissary into the pit and the guy doesn't move. The emissary kept calling her "miss"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (gu0hJ) 23
"Greeks stole culture from Africa."
But if the Greeks were also black, then what's the problem? When Pat Boone did cover versions of Fats Domino songs, pat didn't suddenly turn Negro. "Stealing black culture" doesn't change your skin color, even if you accept the false premise. ANd finally: When they says Greeks "stole" culture from "Africa," what they are referring to is EGYPT not sub-Sarahan Africa -- and the ancient Egyptian were definitely noT black. In fact, they Egyptian enslaved blacks, called "Nubians," and depicted with darker skin tone in Egyptian murals than the Egyptian characters. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (Av6i5) 24
Oh, hey...
I'm over 700 subs over here. Look who's gettin' big. (like and subscribe) https://www.youtube.com/ @ANOTHERMovieChannel-q9l Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (xBVv0) 25
Sonny Hostin is the epitome of celebrity imbecility.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (NcvvS) 26
Helen of Troy was the first thing those Greek homos stole!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e) 27
I wish there were a few Greeks who were prominent enough to make an embarrassing fuss about this. Probably some rabble in Athens and some foreign actors we've never heard of is it. God knows Zach Galifianakis will be on the side of the idiots. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (XJ22o) 28
Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Tonya at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (2Ez/1) 29
Sonny Hostin is the epitome of celebrity imbecility.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (NcvvS) --- Definitely a Dumming-Kruger effect. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (Fi81e) 30
That Troy clip is perfect. That’s every lib on social media posting about how things are going to need to go kinetic.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (rAoh1) Pert near perfect. If the spear had passed clean thru with hardly a decrease in velocity, as Elliot Page is a skinny, flyweight warrior, that would have been perfect. Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (wVcYX) 31
Sonny Hostin: No Definitely Helen of Troy Probably Was Black.
...... and Achilles was 5'-1" and had a vagina. Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS) 32
British culture was stolen from Africa, too. Apparently.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7) 33
"I Read a Stupid Book One Time That Said Greek Culture Came from Africa."
That's why all of those cultural pioneers left africa to settle in europe. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (0N4FZ) 34
*rubs temples*
I don't want to be a racist. I really don't. But some of these motherfuckers are making it harder and harder by the day. Posted by: Stop it. Get some help. at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (TbWk/) 35
Anyone who listens to the hags of the View for actual information leave dumber than when they started.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (DwqWV) 36
I wonder if Hostin has ever spent any time in Africa?
I have...several times. Didn't see a single statue with a Greek influence. In fact I didn't see a single statue at all. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (2WIwB) 37
It's a little known fact that the ancient Greeks also stole rap, hip-hop, Ripple, wilding and car-jacking from ancient Africa too.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b) And it's a buck they ass, too! Posted by: Boswell at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (j10i6) 38
Pina Colada > terracotta >panna cotta
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (G0vdT) 39
I think the guy doing the shackling is doing his best not to laugh.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (OoFl2) 40
31 Sonny Hostin: No Definitely Helen of Troy Probably Was Black.
...... and Achilles was 5'-1" and had a vagina. Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS) ===== I saw it reported that Page isn't playing Achilles but the youngest member of Odysseus' crew, Elpanor. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (xBVv0) Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (NcvvS) 42
The amount of beauty required to launch a ship is known as a milliHelen.
Posted by: The More You Know at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: The Ghost of Troy McClure at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (0aYVJ) 44
Nice shot.
Got her right between where her breasts used to be. Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (UjdFS) 45
Liberals really believe they have a checkmate trap here.
The culture puts a black character in something that makes zero sense, conservatives complain about whites being erased, liberals ask "why do you care so much"? . When it's clearly their obsession. And then they get to call us racists for "caring" so much about skin color. Rinse and repeat Posted by: Leupold at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (r13UX) 46
Well, fair is fair... black people stole cradle-to-grave welfare induced societal torpor from the Greeks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (BI5O2) 47
This is true. The sharks still swim the same route Helen took to Egypt to sit out the War.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (9maW1) 48
A faint niggling sense of fairness forces me to add that there is evidence that Mycenaean Greece did get culture and religious influence from Egypt. That doesn't mean they also imported Egyptians. Egypt was the dominant culture in the region, that's all.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (xcxpd) 49
All those ancient Greek statues were originally black but the paint wore off.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (ndZc7) 50
I definitely probably will not watch The View ever.
Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (nvKZ7) 51
I was a history buff and being a Grecophile was a main part of it. Yes, the Greek culture emerged from being pirates. And yes, that hurt me to learn that.
But, it's not like the Greek, once bootstrapping themselves up through piracy, did nothing with it. That's like saying that Black blues artists relied on European instruments, so in a way, the Blues, Jazz, or Rock-n-roll is all European. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e) 52
Where all da white women at?
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (ZFqKB) Posted by: And so close to Black History Month? at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (TbWk/) 54
Professor Sharpton said then Greek homos stole from Africa. Africans discovered flight, and all kinds of stuff
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (gu0hJ) 55
We have tile art , sculptures of ancient Greeks,
Her proof? Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (Ia/+0) 56
17 That last video makes me laugh.
Posted by: nurse ratched +++ Hope that lady was paid a lot for it. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (2Ez/1) 57
British culture was stolen from Africa, too. Apparently.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7) A nontrivial portion of African culture resides in British museums... so, kinda? Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (BI5O2) 58
40 31 Sonny Hostin: No Definitely Helen of Troy Probably Was Black.
...... and Achilles was 5'-1" and had a vagina. Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS) ===== I saw it reported that Page isn't playing Achilles but the youngest member of Odysseus' crew, Elpanor. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (xBVv0) I'm just waiting for Colbert to kiss Ellen Paige on the mouth on camera. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd) 59
60 Minutes is doing damage control. Featuring Nolan and his Odyssey.
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (G0vdT) 60
I the the FCC should make a rule about how dumb you can be and continue to appear on public airwaves.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e) 61
Question: At no point did the Greeks outnumber black Africans, so how did a smaller, less clever cohort manage to completely subjugate black Africa, and how has this continued ever since?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t) 62
50 I definitely probably will not watch The View ever.
Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (nvKZ7) I still get a kick out of seeing Mark Levin explaining The View to an audience. “For those of you with jobs…” Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (T6aVk) 63
58 I'm just waiting for Colbert to kiss Ellen Paige on the mouth on camera.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd) ====== But...he likes men, doesn't he? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xBVv0) 64
"Welcome to America. Tell me what yer thinkin'." "Thank God Thomas Jefferson put an end to white slavery by those fucking Muslim Barbary Coast pirates." Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (XJ22o) Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (9maW1) 66
53 48 A faint niggling sense of fairness forces me
Really? With a hard "ing" too? Posted by: And so close to Black History Month? at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd) 67
I saw it reported that Page isn't playing Achilles but the youngest member of Odysseus' crew, Elpanor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films ...... The ship's bitch? Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (UjdFS) 68
63 58 I'm just waiting for Colbert to kiss Ellen Paige on the mouth on camera.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd) ====== But...he likes men, doesn't he? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xBVv0) Good point. I guess we'll have to wait for their sex tape then. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (xcxpd) 69
Dunce Racist Lady just skipped right over the entire foundational Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, their indigenous roots, and European influences that have been proven and documented in historical artifacts and writings.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (rAoh1) 70
OT, looks like Israel just took out the architect of 10/7 in Gaza and meanwhile, Ben Rhodes says this:
----------------------------------------- Ben Rhodes @brhodes · 13h Why not be angry at the conduct instead of the reporting of the conduct? Quote Luke Tress @luketress · 22h Several hundred demonstrators outside the New York Times to protest Kristof column Posted by: beckster at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (kX27y) 71
>>Question: At no point did the Greeks outnumber black Africans, so how did a smaller, less clever cohort manage to completely subjugate black Africa, and how has this continued ever since?
All it takes is a single bottle cap. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (9maW1) Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (Riz8t) 73
I don't want to be a racist. I really don't. But some of these motherfuckers are making it harder and harder by the day.
Posted by: Stop it. Get some help. at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (TbWk/) Nothing racist about pointing out facts. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (2WIwB) 74
I'm over 700 subs over here.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (xBVv0) 702 AND 704!! Woo-hoo. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (Sco7b) 75
"Welcome to America" (puts shackles on white lady).
Ummmm, do they know know then even in the Southern Slave States it was AlWAYS illegal to enslave someone - it was merely legal to buy and sell and own pre-existing slave?. In fact, there was a famous early 18th-century legal case where a black person who was not a slave claimed to have been enslaved -- and he even won the case and was freed. So, that scene in the "museum' never happened. The US did not invent slavery - they simply inherited a colony where slavery already pre-existed, and took 89 years to finally ban it. yes, that was too long, but overturning 5,000 years of human tradition is not easy. But of course they know this. They just want to stir up animosity and shame and hatred. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (Av6i5) 76
All your culture are belong to us
Posted by: Sonny Hostin at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (9yZMF) 77
The youtuber Metatron - who as a Palermian is pretty-much a Greek who happens to speak an Italian dialect - is also unimpressed with Nolan.
youtu.be/kSE69_SCTnc Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (gKWVE) 78
So, Sunny Hostin wouldn’t mind if Hollywood made a historical epic on Mansa Musa with Josh Brolin in the lead role?
Damnit. That’s assuming that dummy, suddenly a Greek history scholar, knows who Mansa Musa was. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (T6aVk) Posted by: Late 80's Plant at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (ZFqKB) 80
If Helen of Troy was black...
wouldn't she spell her name in a much more retarded way? Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (9maW1) H'elen O' T'Roy Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (k9OZB) 81
I saw it reported that Page isn't playing Achilles but the youngest member of Odysseus' crew, Elpanor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (xBVv0) --- I thought I saw on IMDB that she was playing Achilles. I don't mind that shehe is in the movie. I could care less, if she does a good job. So, if she's not Achilles, that relieves a little of my frustration. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (Fi81e) 82
61 Question: At no point did the Greeks outnumber black Africans, so how did a smaller, less clever cohort manage to completely subjugate black Africa, and how has this continued ever since?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:42 PMC Why do you find it necessary to come in here with logic? Next thing you know you will have people out here thinking on their own! They may start to do this with other topics! Then what, sir? Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (hftzA) 83
74 I'm over 700 subs over here.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (xBVv0) 702 AND 704!! Woo-hoo. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (Sco7b) ====== Still, rookie numbers. But I appreciate it! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (xBVv0) 84
Has anyone ever asked them where the enduring African cities are? The places where the Greek saw classical architecture? Where they learned philosophy?
Why does nothing remain of these great African civilizations? I suppose they'd point to Egypt and continue to pretend that Egyptians were black. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e) 85
Tribal war came out of Africa. Still going on. Look at South Chicago.
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (NWIIQ) 86
81 I thought I saw on IMDB that she was playing Achilles.
I don't mind that shehe is in the movie. I could care less, if she does a good job. So, if she's not Achilles, that relieves a little of my frustration. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (Fi81e) ====== IMDB is often wrong, especially about movies that haven't come out yet. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (xBVv0) 87
Egyptians weren’t black either, something that really, REALLY pisses them off, because there is a fairly large pseudo-scientific nutbar community that insists on this.
They desperately want something positive to point to in history. I get that, but fraudulent scholarship and re-writing history to assuage or mollify neurotics, pulling shit out of yer ass is not helpful to anyone. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (BbO+r) 88
Elliot Page looks like Stan Laurel.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (Cqx++) 89
I saw DEI Funk open for Black Cleopatra at The Spectrum in 1986!
Posted by: Richard Head at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (70cb5) 90
I'm just waiting for Colbert to kiss Ellen Paige on the mouth on camera.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd) Would either one go for tongue? Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (2WIwB) 91
The Levant is Israel and Syria and Lebanon. Not many blacks there either.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (8avO+) 92
Erick Erickson Son Of Erick Who Likes Watching Paolo Play The Viking In His Wife also makes a cameo in Metatron's vid.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (gKWVE) 93
Quick. We need Candace Owens and Tuq'r Qatarlson to start spouting nonsense about Jewish rape-dogs or something.
Their nonsense kept The View harridans out of conservative news for several weeks, but evidently they aren't filling the need for conservative news outrage, and sites are turning back to The View harridans. Posted by: Philip Nolan at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (1kQia) 94
Hard truth and granted not the best way, but the descendants of American slaves are far better off than the descendants of those who escaped the Arab slave traders.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (qrzX6) 95
If I were the white lady, I'd say "this isn't what America is about, pal. Now unhand me, you treacherous blackamoor, and come bust up this heah chiffarobe!"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (BI5O2) Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (wp4uL) 97
So, Sunny Hostin wouldn’t mind if Hollywood made a historical epic on Mansa Musa with Josh Brolin in the lead role?
The current meme is Ryan Gosling plays Obama in an upcoming biopic. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t) 98
You forgot purple drank and basketball.
Posted by: tcn in AK Blacks stole basketball from the Aztecs. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (Av6i5) 99
I saw that black dude video at the end yesterday.
I would love to go there and tell him -- "yeah, of course. It's a black man that put people into chains. Where is the white Christian Republican I need to go to to get these black chains removed?" Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (0MFDl) 100
97 So, Sunny Hostin wouldn’t mind if Hollywood made a historical epic on Mansa Musa with Josh Brolin in the lead role?
The current meme is Ryan Gosling plays Obama in an upcoming biopic. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t) ====== Pedro Pascal plays George Washington Carver in... Butter. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (xBVv0) 101
I hope she IS playing Achilles. I love a good comedy.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (UjdFS) 102
45 Liberals really believe they have a checkmate trap here.
The culture puts a black character in something that makes zero sense, conservatives complain about whites being erased, liberals ask "why do you care so much"? . When it's clearly their obsession. And then they get to call us racists for "caring" so much about skin color. Rinse and repeat Posted by: Leupold at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (r13UX) How about Sydney Sweeney as a Zulu Queen in a movie. Oh, they will care REAL quick… Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (T6aVk) 103
Well, just hold on there a minute. Greece had/has a real problems with welfare abuse. And, there is a Greek Isle where nearly 80% of the population claimed to be legally blind to game the system thus increasing EU benefits for not working and not being able to transport themselves.
So, maybe there really is something to this Greece came from Africa conjecture. I see quite a few similarities on the whole. (Disclaimer: This is not a racist point of view. It is a sarcastic and stereotypical point of view motivated by the necessity to invoke the melanin content of someone's skin in determination of value) Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (dIske) 104
Egyptians weren’t black either, something that really, REALLY pisses them off, because there is a fairly large pseudo-scientific nutbar community that insists on this.
They desperately want something positive to point to in history. I get that, but fraudulent scholarship and re-writing history to assuage or mollify neurotics, pulling shit out of yer ass is not helpful to anyone. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (BbO+r) Black Africa had some decent Empires in West Africa, and of course Ethiopia from very early times. But no, lets steal fake credit rather than explore true history. DEI. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (8avO+) 105
>>Blacks stole basketball from the Aztecs.
Didn't whites steal Polo from the Mongols ... or, was it the Afghanis? Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (9maW1) Posted by: Reverend Al Charlatan at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (Fi81e) 107
Cholera
Anthrax Chikungunya Avian influenza Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever Dengue fever Hep B, C and E Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (wp4uL) 108
65 If Helen of Troy was black...
wouldn't she spell her name in a much more retarded way? she did. but she was just soooo popular that her retarded way took over and now everyone spells it that way. Posted by: :-P at May 15, 2026 04:49 PM (v3pYe) 109
Question: At no point did the Greeks outnumber black Africans, so how did a smaller, less clever cohort manage to completely subjugate black Africa, and how has this continued ever since? Posted by: Archimedes ================ One always wonders how the builders of the pyramids, authors of Shakespeare's plays, original inventors of flying machines, etc got to the state they're in today. Or even got to the state they were in in the 7th century when their chiefs started selling their tribesmen to nasty foreigners. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:49 PM (XJ22o) 110
So on Odysseus ship you'll hear "look everybody Elpanor's penis fell off. We can use it for bait"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:49 PM (gu0hJ) 111
>>Black Africa had some decent Empires in West Africa, and of course Ethiopia from very early times. But no, lets steal fake credit rather than explore true history. DEI.
Egypt fought, endlessly really, against the Nubian Empire. They took a ton of Slaves. Even absorbed some Nubians into their society...but they were never anything but a Minority. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:49 PM (9maW1) 112
109 One always wonders how the builders of the pyramids, authors of Shakespeare's plays, original inventors of flying machines, etc got to the state they're in today.
monorail! Posted by: nimoy at May 15, 2026 04:49 PM (v3pYe) 113
The whole Odyssey thing is so stupid. Nolan is not using an orchestra for the score because he says they didn't have orchestras then, but he will completely ignore the literal descriptions of the people in the source text and DEI the thing to death so he can get an Oscar.
Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (uosPt) 114
96 Why came from africa?
AIDS Monkeypox Ebola Malaria Yellow fever….. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (wp4uL) No Yellow! Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (xcxpd) 115
"...Now unhand me, you treacherous blackamoor..."
+++ No, I'm sorry. The correct answer is "moops." Posted by: George Costanza at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (2Ez/1) 116
Speaking as an ethnic Greek, Hostin, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. Na!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (BX0SY) 117
Peter Dinklage is: "Shaq!!" Coming soon to a theater near you.
Posted by: The Ghost of Troy McClure at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (0aYVJ) 118
How about Sydney Sweeney as a Zulu Queen in a movie. Oh, they will care REAL quick… Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (T6aVk) Put her in a Minoan style dress and EVERYONE will care. Posted by: I'd go to the IMAX release at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (TbWk/) 119
110 So on Odysseus ship you'll hear "look everybody Elpanor's penis fell off. We can use it for
fixt Posted by: anachronda at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (v3pYe) 120
UNEARTHED
Iowa Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott [who's white than a polar bear in a blizzard at the North Pole] says she is uncomfortable with "white people." "I was just kinda shocked at how many white people there were...I was uncomfortable..." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (ndZc7) 121
I can never watch Whip It again because I can't look at Ellen Page without associating her with her current self.
Very good movie. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (qrzX6) Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (0MFDl) 123
Why came from africa?
AIDS Monkeypox Ebola Malaria Yellow fever….. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM To quite the late P. J. O'Rourke, man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (BX0SY) 124
I can never watch Whip It again because I can't look at Ellen Page without associating her with her current self.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (qrzX6) --- She was cute. Posted by: Reverend Al Charlatan at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e) 125
If you have to make shit up to make yourself feel better, then you live in fantasy land, not history.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (DwqWV) What Daniel Patrick Moynihan (IIRC) called “bad history and good feeling”. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (T6aVk) 126
113 The whole Odyssey thing is so stupid. Nolan is not using an orchestra for the score because he says they didn't have orchestras then, but he will completely ignore the literal descriptions of the people in the source text and DEI the thing to death so he can get an Oscar.
Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (uosPt) ====== I posited a theory a couple of days ago. In the original theaters only teaser, Menelaus says, "Who else has a tale of Odysseus?" So, the people in Ithaca are going to be telling each other stories they've heard, rumors, legends and such, of Odysseus over the years. One of those will be Travis Scott, the black rapper, who will tell of the fall of Troy. In his telling, he will show Helen of Troy, black, because that's what he thinks the most beautiful woman in the world is. There will be other little variations across other tales, I assume, as well. Just a theory. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (xBVv0) 127
I have been reading that the King of Belgium and what he did in Africa was just lies
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (091Ni) 128
I don't mind that shehe is in the movie. I could care less, if she does a good job. So, if she's not Achilles, that relieves a little of my frustration.
No, it just doesn't work. You'll spend every second she's on screen thinking "Absurd! Who thought this was a good idea?" The point of a movie is to immerse you in another world, and this imbecility will take you right out of it. T Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t) 129
That's like saying that Black blues artists relied on European instruments, so in a way, the Blues, Jazz, or Rock-n-roll is all European.
Posted by: Axeman Best fact ever: The "guitar" comes from the Spanish "guitarra" which ultimately traces back to a stringed harp with sound box called the "kithara" (pronounced "Ki-tar-uh', almost just like guitar) in...wait for it...Ancient Greece.. So, ultimately, blacks stole blues guitar from the... Greeks! Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5) Posted by: :-P at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (v3pYe) 131
"I actually taught Greek mythology to 8th graders so I covered this."
Sonny's interpretation of ancient stories and legends about gods, heroes, and monsters. 🤣 I don't take she sez so, I want proof she taught 8th graders that mess. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (NFX2v) 132
>>She was cute.
I always thought she was adorable. And I believe the people who are responsible for her abuse should be fed into the Woodchipper of Justice. Slowly. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (9maW1) 133
"Them old greek homos
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats" We used to sing "Marching To Pretoria" and "Dem 'Ol Greek Homos" back when I was in grade school. Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (vFG9F) 134
If all the white culture of today was stolen from Africa, where is the African arm of it today? What happened to all those magnificent African empires? How did a little bunch of troglodyte Germanics, who've always been a minority throughout all of history, how did they become so supreme today? Where is, and what happened to, all that African greatness?
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (bufu1) 135
How about Sydney Sweeney as a Zulu Queen in a movie.
Oh, they will care REAL quick… Posted by: Cow Demon Thou shallt not take George Floyd's name in vain! BLM holds press conference to blast Netflix for allowing Tony Hinchcliffe to tell George Floyd joke 💀5 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (ndZc7) 136
Why came from africa?
AIDS Monkeypox Ebola Malaria Yellow fever….. Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM Tsetse flies and sleeping sickness. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (0N4FZ) 137
The "guitar" comes from the Spanish "guitarra" which ultimately traces back to a stringed harp with sound box called the "kithara" (pronounced "Ki-tar-uh', almost just like guitar) in...wait for it...Ancient Greece..
So, ultimately, blacks stole blues guitar from the... Greeks! Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5) --- Lyre! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Fi81e) 138
Cleopatra heritage is from Macedonia and Greece, so likely olive skin, but chromosomes match funny sometimes so you never know.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (n5tGW) 139
127 I have been reading that the King of Belgium and what he did in Africa was just lies
just desserts > just lies Posted by: anachronda at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (v3pYe) 140
There is no jenkem in the Illiad.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (uK2Q4) 141
Has anyone ever asked them where the enduring African cities are? The places where the Greek saw classical architecture? Where they learned philosophy?
Why does nothing remain of these great African civilizations? I suppose they'd point to Egypt and continue to pretend that Egyptians were black. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e) Ethiopia's old capitol of Axum has lots of great archaeology. Timbuktu in Mali. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (8avO+) 142
Thou shallt not take George Floyd's name in vain!
BLM holds press conference to blast Netflix for allowing Tony Hinchcliffe to tell George Floyd joke 💀5 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (ndZc7) --- We thank him for giving his life for social justice. None took it from him.... Posted by: Nanzy Pelosi at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (Fi81e) 143
Ellen Paige playing Achilles within the context of him being A Shade of His Former Self, kind of makes sense. The rest of what appears to be a clusterf***, not so much.
It really is a shame because Ellen Paige was cute as a button when she was younger. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (XV/Pl) 144
A black woman invented the telescope. You might disagree. You might even have some evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my job over?
they did the meme Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (091Ni) 145
Everything I ever needed to know about Greek culture I learned by playing the video game Titan Quest.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (gnNyN) 146
I'd make a more credible Shaka Zulu than most of Nolan's casting choices for Odyssey.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (OUMaO) 147
In the future, everyone will be black for 15 minutes.
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (ZxPkt) 148
145 Everything I ever needed to know about Greek culture I learned by playing the video game Titan Quest.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (gnNyN) ====== God of War trilogy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (xBVv0) 149
Tangentially connected, Arby's Canada culturally appropriated Greek Gyros from somewhere and they were REALLY good yesterday.
Tons of meat, only $7 Canadian each and they always give Ralphy a free pup cup full of meat. The saddest thing about blacks taking over white roles, or women taking over men's roles is I always feel bad for those groups for not being able to create their own crap. And this belief that just because some 5 foot 2 inch chick beat the crap out of 17 guys in your crappy movie, I'm suddenly supposed to have a whole new respect for the entire group I never had before.... That's just sad.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (Sco7b) 150
Why do all the liberal weirdo church woman, like that fugly broad in the chains video, who go thru their who lives voting democrat, all have that same stupid look about them?
Posted by: Cropped Hair and Bitter Faced at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (Sma6t) 151
Everyone is Racist. China? Racist. All those countries in Africa? Racist. Mexico? Racist. Japan? Racist. South Korea? Racist.
Noticing a pattern here? What is most objectionable about leftist propaganda, America is easily the LEAST racist country, and it isn’t even close. That isn’t good enough, they want to destroy America anyway. Never let “perfect” get in the way of good, gang. Where is this fucking perfect racial Utopia on this planet anyway? Why don’t they move there, instead of this horrible U.S.A.? Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (BbO+r) 152
107 Cholera
Anthrax Chikungunya Avian influenza Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever Dengue fever Hep B, C and E Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (wp4uL) Among the Living, State of Euphoria, and Persistence of Time was peak Anthrax. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (T6aVk) Posted by: guy who thinks everything sound dirty at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (vFG9F) Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (3g5Xe) 155
>>In the future, everyone will be descendants of blacks for 15 minutes.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:56 PM (9maW1) 156
138 Cleopatra heritage is from Macedonia and Greece, so likely olive skin, but chromosomes match funny sometimes so you never know.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (n5tGW) Macedonians of the time were largely blonde/gingers with light eyes. Famously so, at the time period. Olive skin came much later and it was more common in southern, lowland Greece. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:56 PM (xcxpd) 157
Christopher Columbus was black. Catherine the Great was black. Abraham Lincoln was black. Ann Margaret was black. On the other hand, Hitler, Stalin, Wayne Williams, Ted Bundy, the DC Snipers, Ivan the Terrible and Nickleback were all white. If you disagree, you're racist. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:56 PM (y9nCu) 158
So, ultimately, blacks stole blues guitar from the... Greeks!
The Italians invented the piano forte, the precursor to the piano, so blacks stole stride piano from the wops. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t) 159
In the original theaters only teaser, Menelaus says, "Who else has a tale of Odysseus?" Odysseus walks into a bar... Posted by: Homer and Jethro at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (Cqx++) 160
Regardless of who wins long term in north america... there are a lot of factions in the running but africans aren't seriously one of them, and the ridiculous race bullshit since 2008 the left pushed for Obama basically guarantees they will eventually go extinct on this continent.
Nobody is putting up with their crap anymore once they get thw brass ring. Good job retards. Posted by: heya at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (bvZDb) 161
148 145 Everything I ever needed to know about Greek culture I learned by playing the video game Titan Quest.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (gnNyN) ====== God of War trilogy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (xBVv0) Giant of Marathon Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (xcxpd) 162
Homer wrote this. Helen should have long blue hair.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW) 163
159
In the original theaters only teaser, Menelaus says, "Who else has a tale of Odysseus?" Odysseus walks into a bar... Posted by: Homer and Jethro at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (Cqx++) ====== "Well, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." -closing time Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (xBVv0) 164
>Ellen Paige playing Achilles
---- I saw on X that she will not be Achilles, rather a soldier on his ship Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (ZxPkt) 165
As I recall no written language ever existed in sub Saharan Africa. Kind of hampers the development of a civilization
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (gu0hJ) 166
Cleopatra heritage is from Macedonia and Greece, so likely olive skin, but chromosomes match funny sometimes so you never know.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (n5tGW) By her time they were religiously committed to severe inbreeding to preserve the family bloodline. You can bet that there weren't rogue genes in there. That's why Cleo went so hard for Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. They were descended from Gods which made them fit partners. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (8avO+) 167
I am calling Bullshit. Sonny Hostin never read a book.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (qFwJc) 168
Why does nothing remain of these great African civilizations?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e) --- There's a video of Thomas Sowell explaining all the marks Africa has against it. It's an interesting watch. --- I suppose they'd point to Egypt and continue to pretend that Egyptians were black. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e) --- Yeah, their nasty caricatures of Nubians is written in stone in hieroglyphics and is about as racist as any 19th century American take. It's just not been PC for a while to fully translate those words. You have to find an older transcription. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (Fi81e) 169
Everything you need to know about Greek Culture can be learned by watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Windex is apparently a cureall. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (XV/Pl) 170
Caucasians make up only approximately 15% of the world population.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (qrzX6) 171
137 The "guitar" comes from the Spanish "guitarra" which ultimately traces back to a stringed harp with sound box called the "kithara" (pronounced "Ki-tar-uh', almost just like guitar) in...wait for it...Ancient Greece..
So, ultimately, blacks stole blues guitar from the... Greeks! Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5) --- Lyre! Posted by: Axeman Golf clap. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (Av6i5) 172
Ethiopia's old capitol of Axum has lots of great archaeology. Timbuktu in Mali.
Posted by: Oldcat Isn't Axum home to an ancient church that allegedly holds the Ark of the Covenant? Hasn't done Ethiopia much good, if so. Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (OUMaO) 173
Christopher Columbus was black.
Catherine the Great was black. Abraham Lincoln was black. Ann Margaret was black. Edgar Winter was...okay, you can have that one. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (Riz8t) 174
No written language hampers history.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (uK2Q4) 175
Some guy on X made the point that if they'd cast Sydney as Helen and Chris Pratt as Achilles they'd print money, BUT....
They wouldn't be in line for an Academy Award. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (l26NL) 176
I don't eat at McDonald's but I just saw an ad where they're touting their "Under $3 Menu," which I suppose replaces the old Dollar Menu.
How the fuck can they still sell this dumpster-grade poison to people at that price? Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (BI5O2) 177
I am calling Bullshit. Sonny Hostin never read a book.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (qFwJc) --- It's just the way that her hair fell down around her face.... Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (Fi81e) 178
BLM holds press conference to blast Netflix for allowing Tony Hinchcliffe to tell George Floyd joke 💀
- Everybody knows BB King invented the guitar. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:59 PM (ndZc7) 179
The "guitar" comes from the Spanish "guitarra" which ultimately traces back to a stringed harp with sound box called the "kithara" (pronounced "Ki-tar-uh', almost just like guitar) in...wait for it...Ancient Greece..
So, ultimately, blacks stole blues guitar from the... Greeks! Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5) Now all the Greek homos are into EDM on the club scene. Posted by: Sexanddrugsandsexanddrugs at May 15, 2026 04:59 PM (TbWk/) 180
If all the white culture of today was stolen from Africa, where is the African arm of it today? What happened to all those magnificent African empires? How did a little bunch of troglodyte Germanics, who've always been a minority throughout all of history, how did they become so supreme today? Where is, and what happened to, all that African greatness?
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM Until the late 1600's into the 1700's africa and the americas were basically stone age societies that had not advanced much beyond crude bronze tools and small villages with rudimentary agriculture. eqypt was an exception but their civilization was not really african, it was more mediterrain/middle eastern and they had already had constant contact with europe. Once the europeans arrived and began exploiting those cultures things started changing, before that happened everything was pretty much stuck at about 5,000 BC. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 04:59 PM (0N4FZ) 181
175 Some guy on X made the point that if they'd cast Sydney as Helen and Chris Pratt as Achilles they'd print money, BUT....
They wouldn't be in line for an Academy Award. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (l26NL) ======= I'd actually be surprised if Achilles is in the film at all. He's dead before the use of the Trojan Horse in the actual Epic Cycle. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:59 PM (xBVv0) 182
120 UNEARTHED
Iowa Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott [who's white than a polar bear in a blizzard at the North Pole] says she is uncomfortable with "white people." "I was just kinda shocked at how many white people there were...I was uncomfortable..." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (ndZc7) And this bitch comes from IOWA. It really is Idiots Out Walking Around. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:59 PM (T6aVk) 183
134. ...what happened to, all that African greatness?
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! Minneapolis-St. Paul; Lewiston/Portland Maine, north and southwest Philly? Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 05:00 PM (NFX2v) 184
>>> Just a theory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (xBVv0) Quite possibly you are correct... doesn't make the whole production any less stupid though. I guess Travis Scott is a better story teller than Homer. Maybe Ellen Page will retell the story of Achilles as trans. Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 05:00 PM (uosPt) 185
Africa, SubSaharan, 1100-700 BC - Stone Age, pretty much. Egypt?? According to their art, not black-black, ala Whoopi.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 05:00 PM (Gqar8) 186
I am calling Bullshit. Sonny Hostin never read a book.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (qFwJc) She does the LeBron James method of book readin' Posted by: The Ghost of Troy McClure at May 15, 2026 05:00 PM (0aYVJ) 187
184 Quite possibly you are correct... doesn't make the whole production any less stupid though. I guess Travis Scott is a better story teller than Homer. Maybe Ellen Page will retell the story of Achilles as trans.
Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 05:00 PM (uosPt) ====== I don't believe Homer ever said that he was waiting in Ithaca for Odysseus, though. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (xBVv0) 188
BTW, the whole "Greeks stole their civilization from Africans (Egyptians)" thing comes from some African scholar noting the similarities between Greek art/culture and Ptolemaic Egyptian art/culture and reversing cause and effect.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (H6QjV) 189
How the fuck can they still sell this dumpster-grade poison to people at that price?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (BI5O2) Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (T6aVk) 190
Shaka Zulu remake with a white man as Shaka
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0) 191
Before 750 B.C. Egyptians were white.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (uK2Q4) 192
I the the FCC should make a rule about how dumb you can be and continue to appear on public airwaves.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e) The courts would never let you ban politicians from TV. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e) 193
One day Jeremy Boreing is going to get mad enough about race swapping that we’re going to get “Martin & Malcolm”, a biopic of the two civil rights leaders, starring Michael Knowles and Matt Walsh in the titular roles.
Wikipedia has a page of Lupita Nyong'o's acting awards and nominations. She has an Oscar. She's qualified. What happened to “We want the best actors…. But not this one.” Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (ycI94) 194
Macedonians of the time were largely blonde/gingers with light eyes. Famously so, at the time period.
Olive skin came much later and it was more common in southern, lowland Greece. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:56 PM My pasty white northern Greek complexion concurs. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (BX0SY) 195
162 Homer wrote this. Helen should have long blue hair.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW) snort Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (xcxpd) 196
Iowa Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott [who's white than a polar bear in a blizzard at the North Pole] says she is uncomfortable with "white people."
"I was just kinda shocked at how many white people there were...I was uncomfortable..." Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (ndZc7) And this bitch comes from IOWA. It really is Idiots Out Walking Around. She doesn't believe a word of what she says. It's just empty virtue signaling. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (Riz8t) 197
*removes Phil Hartman sock, but keeps it handy. It's a clever one*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (0aYVJ) 198
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Wikipedia has a page of Lupita Nyong'o's acting awards and nominations. She has an Oscar. She's qualified. What happened to “We want the best actors…. But not this one.” Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (ycI94) ====== Cast Ryan Gosling as Obama. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (xBVv0) 199
"I was just kinda shocked at how many white people there were...I was uncomfortable..."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (ndZc7) The anti-Jesse Jackson stance. Brave. "I'm feeling uncomfortable with all these middle-American white people around so I'm going to go join that black gang of teens from Oakland across the street." Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (Sco7b) 200
And I believe the people who are responsible for her abuse should be fed into the Woodchipper of Justice. Slowly.
Posted by: garrett ---------------- I think I first became aware of her in that movie about abortion. I can't remember the name..... OK, I had to check out IMDB just now. 1. J. K. Simmons is in a lot of stuff lately. Like hundreds. 2. They changed her Juno name to "Elliot." WTF? Did they get the ministry of truth to do that? Winston Smith???? Back to my comment -- that movie, Juno, was highly praised on the Right, but it was just so weird and uncomfortable to me. It seemed to normalize abortion as "an option" instead of, ... murder. And it also normalized teen sex, and then they had the adoptive parents being freaks made it seem like it would have been better for kid to not be born. I hated that movie, and I hated her for being so weird. Yes, she was adorable and interesting, but the whole movie gave me the heebie jeebies. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (0MFDl) 201
@120 looked up that Garriott woman . She's originally from Minneapolis. Surprised?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (gu0hJ) 202
She says Greek culture is from Africans
So, the Africans were done with it and wiped out all the traces? Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (3g5Xe) Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (qrzX6) 204
Stalin said blacks weren’t real Americans, and suggested or wanted a specific black homeland in the American south. I’m not sure why the Soviet dictator felt necessary to weigh in on that.
The Communists did spend an inordinate amount of time highlighting the inequal treatment of negros in the U.S.A., this was an easy thing to do. America was, and is not perfect by any stretch. But this de-construction of culture, borders, and language we see today is a direct legacy from the Marxists who set about to destroy the West. Divide and conquer. They have particularly infested education and ruined so many with their brain poison. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (BbO+r) 205
Bind your eyes with trembling mermaids
And you touch the distant beaches With tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing For the sparkling waves are calling you To kiss their white laced lips Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (ndZc7) 206
As I recall no written language ever existed in sub Saharan Africa. Kind of hampers the development of a civilization
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (gu0hJ) There apparently have been some in West Africa and Somalia. Later they could borrow languages from North Africa and Arabia. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (8avO+) 207
What the ever-living fuck is wrong with these people?
Posted by: Green Shades at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (WukWc) 208
200 2. They changed her Juno name to "Elliot." WTF? Did they get the ministry of truth to do that? Winston Smith????
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (0MFDl) ======= I believe IMDB's casting links are fed from their actual IMDB pages, so if the IMDB page name of the actor gets changed, that feeds to all of the credits they're on. I believe. It's how I'd build it to work, at least. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (xBVv0) 209
Yep, Africans generously exported their culture to the civilized world, yet decided not to keep this for themselves.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (Dv3i1) 210
203 I love the Chappell skit of the race draft.
Too bad he went off the Muslim cliff. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (qrzX6) ======= He was always a black supremacist. He just used to be funny about it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (xBVv0) 211
It's almost as if the Ptolemeys and the Greeks were the same people.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (uK2Q4) 212
Cleopatra heritage is from Macedonia and Greece, so likely olive skin, but chromosomes match funny sometimes so you never know.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (n5tGW) --- It was enough for some that Hebrews were described as "tawny" with curly black hair for people of African descent to claim that Jesus was an African. I can't blame them that much. I really kind of wish that Egypt was black, but Africa is kind of a snakebit continent. The rivers are sparse and not fully navigable, it's all on a raised plateau, meaning water wants to flow away from the center. And a steep descent as you get to the coasts with rapids. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (Fi81e) 213
You know that sculpture of Adonis? Tiny weewee, so definitely not black.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (XMwZJ) 214
>>> Homer wrote this. Helen should have long blue hair.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW) HA! Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (uosPt) 215
If Helen of Troy was black... wouldn't she spell her name in a much more retarded way? Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (9maW1) HL-N D'TroyQuisha You're welcome. Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (iJfKG) 216
By "Africa" she means north Africa. And yeah, it was all settled by white people.
Posted by: Green Shades at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (WukWc) 217
African culture was exported to Haiti.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (uK2Q4) 218
So, the Africans were done with it and wiped out all the traces?
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (3g5Xe) --- Vanished, without a Thrace. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (Fi81e) 219
I don't understand why Historical films have to be all grey and no color, when they would wear bright colors into battle??
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (6ng4N) 220
I can watch that clip with Boagrius a thousand times
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (z2aPa) 221
"I'm feeling uncomfortable with all these middle-American white people around so I'm going to go join that black gang of teens from Oakland across the street."
____ There's video of lululemon wearing middle-aged women doing some sort of attempt at gyrating amidst a group of African men in northern France waiting for their turn to get on a rubber dinghy to get streets paved with gold migrant benefits in England. The young men are leering and laughing. The women look about as stupid as you'd expect. Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 05:06 PM (Dv3i1) 222
Ptolemy VIII was almost the same person as Ptolemy I
Posted by: a game the whole family can play at May 15, 2026 05:06 PM (gKWVE) 223
Blacks are back on the radar? Must be an election coming up.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:06 PM (fkeut) 224
I don't believe Homer ever said that he was waiting in Ithaca for Odysseus, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (xBVv0) Odysseus visits Hades and meets Achilles' Shade at one point. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:06 PM (8avO+) 225
*removes Phil Hartman sock, but keeps it handy. It's a clever one*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (0aYVJ) --- You may remember be from movies like Hey Mom, I've got a Goiter.... Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (Fi81e) 226
heh. Helequisha of Trayvon
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (n5tGW) 227
“I'm feeling uncomfortable with all these middle-American white people around”
I had a brain dead liberal neighbor inform me once “you left your garage door open for a few days” I just looked at him. He helpfully then allowed “i saw some black kids riding their bicycles around, too”. Keeping my composure, trying not to laugh, I feigned righteous indignation. “Not that there’s anything WRONG with that?!!” His eyes got real real big. “No! No no.. Fuckng asshat. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (BbO+r) 228
205 Bind your eyes with trembling mermaids
And you touch the distant beaches With tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing For the sparkling waves are calling you To kiss their white laced lips Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happ Golf Clapton. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (Av6i5) 229
This white/black silliness is so out of hand it's a parody. Get a fucking grip and hold on.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (D1E+2) 230
I don't understand why Historical films have to be all grey and no color, when they would wear bright colors into battle??
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (6ng4N) all films these days have these tints in them. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (8avO+) 231
I remember when Archie Bunker told George Jefferson that the races were not supposed to mix which was why God put the white folks all over the place and kept the black folks in Africa. George Jefferson told Archie that "Well, someone told them where we were because they came and got us!".
Posted by: All In The Family at May 15, 2026 05:08 PM (Sma6t) 232
You know that sculpture of Adonis? Tiny weewee, so definitely not black.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (XMwZJ) --- Who morns for Adonis? I guess his wife. Posted by: Gene Roddenberry at May 15, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e) 233
This is hilariously sad. Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" is not going to have any orchestral music because- Ancient Greece didn't have orchestras, however- The Music Will Be Rap. And "Homer" will rap out his story of the "Odyssey" to you. So, they've got that working for them. Did Christopher Nolan fall down a flight of stairs and hit his head? Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 05:08 PM (iJfKG) 234
Everything I know about the Roman Empire comes from watching Titus Pullo chopping limbs, guzzling wine and screwing whores in the cleaner brothels near the Venereal temples in the Suburra district of Rome. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 05:09 PM (y9nCu) 235
Someone tell this bitch the Greeks owned a lot of slaves
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:09 PM (fkeut) 236
Bind your eyes with trembling mermaids
And you touch the distant beaches With tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing For the sparkling waves are calling you To kiss their white laced lips Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happ --- Jack Bruce had one of the best voices in rock. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e) 237
61 Question: At no point did the Greeks outnumber black Africans, so how did a smaller, less clever cohort manage to completely subjugate black Africa, and how has this continued ever since?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t) Trickology, obviously. And because Wakanda was isolationist, that's why huwhitey was able to colonize Africa. Posted by: Thrawn at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (uGhsv) 238
British culture was stolen from Africa, too. Apparently. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7) A nontrivial portion of African culture resides in British museums... so, kinda? Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice ================= I think you're just being argumentative, YD, because you know that cultural artefacts are not the same thing as culture. You can't "steal" a culture unless you deprive its original owners of their ability to create it. I don't know if that's ever happened in history. Some cultures were destroyed, but stolen? Like, someone took a culture from its original owners and used it themselves? That would be like the Japanese invading Korea and then speaking and writing the Korean language themselves while forbidding the Koreans to use it. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (XJ22o) 239
I didn't know ancient Greeks were retarded.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (uK2Q4) 240
Why does anyone watch the view??? I’ve never watched one second but I do hear about it and wonder why anyone would waste their time with such empty vapid nonsense
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j) 241
Someone tell this bitch the Greeks owned a lot of slaves
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:09 PM (fkeut) --- And yet it pales in comparison to Egyptian slaves. Where they killed the slaves to forever serve their master in the Afterlife. That's total slavery, right there. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e) 242
I identify as Rick James BITCH!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 15, 2026 05:12 PM (xvV+O) 243
By "Africa" she means north Africa. And yeah, it was all settled by white people.
Posted by: Green Shades at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (WukWc) And those whites were the ones who cut down the magnificent Sahara forest, leaving a wasteland. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 05:12 PM (2WIwB) 244
Helen of Troy being white is a Jewish Lie
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (fkeut) 245
Look at the sculpture. Hannibal was whiter than the Romans.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (uK2Q4) 246
Carthage was in North Africa…. Rome fought the 3 Punic wars against it…. But I don’t think that ancient power was a black African city; I imagine Egyptians…. Am I wrong?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (+gA9j) 247
I can never watch Whip It again because I can't look at Ellen Page without associating her with her current self.
Very good movie. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (qrzX6) --- And I thought it was because she looks like she belongs in the band Devo. Posted by: Darth Randall at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (f1kZG) 248
The concept of "blackness everywhere" is called Afrocentrism. If you google it you'll probably find mostly positive statements but it's ahistorical nonsense.
Posted by: fb at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (JVEmw) 249
I identify as Rick James BITCH!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 15, 2026 05:12 PM (xvV+O) --- Charlie Murphy! What did the five fingers say to the face?! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e) 250
I think you're just being argumentative, YD, because you know that cultural artefacts are not the same thing as culture. You can't "steal" a culture unless you deprive its original owners of their ability to create it.
I don't know if that's ever happened in history. Some cultures were destroyed, but stolen? Like, someone took a culture from its original owners and used it themselves? That would be like the Japanese invading Korea and then speaking and writing the Korean language themselves while forbidding the Koreans to use it. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (XJ22o) The Romans certainly borrowed a lot of Greek Culture and Mythology and applied it to their own pantheon. Some felt that it went too far and looked down on too much Greek. They also learned Greek for many uses. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:14 PM (8avO+) 251
32 British culture was stolen from Africa, too. Apparently.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7) They should give it back. Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 15, 2026 05:14 PM (JcF+m) 252
And I thought it was because she looks like she belongs in the band Devo.
Posted by: Darth Randall at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (f1kZG) --- Is she not men? Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e) 253
240 Why does anyone watch the view??? I’ve never watched one second but I do hear about it and wonder why anyone would waste their time with such empty vapid nonsense
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j I know someone who mentioned watching The View. I suppose it will not surprise you to learn that she was completely mal-informed about everything. Posted by: Emmie at May 15, 2026 05:14 PM (FMtrg) 254
I don't understand why Historical films have to be all grey and no color, when they would wear bright colors into battle?? Posted by: Patrick From Ohio ============== Digital killed the color-film star. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (XJ22o) 255
Why does anyone watch the view??? I’ve never watched one second but I do hear about it and wonder why anyone would waste their time with such empty vapid nonsense
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j) It is a tv show. Complete with writers and actors and a director. Vapid by design, it caters to its niche. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (2WIwB) 256
In fact, America is so beholden to Israel, every year we celebrate the Forth of Jew Lie
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (fkeut) 257
216 By "Africa" she means north Africa. And yeah, it was all settled by white people.
Posted by: Green Shades at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (WukWc) First by Europeans, who civilized it. Then by muslims, who turned it into the mess it is right now. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (0MFDl) 258
Carthage was in North Africa…. Rome fought the 3 Punic wars against it…. But I don’t think that ancient power was a black African city; I imagine Egyptians…. Am I wrong?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (+gA9j) Carthage was a colony of Tyre, a city in Lebanon. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (8avO+) 259
I love this. Some guy on X named Siraj Hashmi suggests that if they only give us one highly specific race swap in the other direction -- Ryan Gosling as the lead in a Barack Obama biopic -- then we can call it all even:
x.com/SirajAHashmi/status/2054761461428187615 h/t Driscroll on Insty: instapundit.com/796909/ Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (Sy6m/) 260
British culture was stolen from Africa, too. Apparently.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7) --- Anthropologically, the human race was stolen from Africa! Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e) 261
Ancient Greece didn't have orchestras like the Plains Indians didn't have horn sections
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (gu0hJ) 262
White people are no longer allowed to have a unique history, their own stories, or honored traditions.
Ask them, they'll tell you white people have no culture. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt) 263
The View is a very obvious CIA op.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (fkeut) 264
Posted by: All In The Family at May 15, 2026 05:08 PM (Sma6t)
Norman Lear meant to make Archie Bunker represent all blue collar white non Jewish men as he saw them As a buffoon. It backed fired just like they tried with Alex Keaton. Of course he denied it after Archie Bunker became beloved. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (qrzX6) 265
The Romans certainly borrowed a lot of Greek Culture and Mythology and applied it to their own pantheon. Some felt that it went too far and looked down on too much Greek. They also learned Greek for many uses. Posted by: Oldcat ================ That's exactly what I'm saying, though. They didn't STEAL anything. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (XJ22o) 266
In fact, America is so beholden to Israel, every year we celebrate the Forth of Jew Lie
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (fkeut) --- I know! Right? Posted by: Tucker Carlson at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (Fi81e) 267
Target is feeling the wrath again from the everyday wine Karen. Evidently their new shopping carts are plastic and are falling apart. Also, the spawn of Karen will not fit in the cart. LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (abIsI) 268
I don't know if that's ever happened in history. Some cultures were destroyed, but stolen? Like, someone took a culture from its original owners and used it themselves? That would be like the Japanese invading Korea and then speaking and writing the Korean language themselves while forbidding the Koreans to use it.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl --------------- I believe J. Peterman did that to Kramer. Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (0MFDl) 269
Why does anyone watch the view??? I’ve never watched one second but I do hear about it and wonder why anyone would waste their time with such empty vapid nonsense Posted by: LinusVanPelt ============== I know someone who watches it. She's a complete idiot. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (XJ22o) 270
I think the most accurate and educational show about Ancient Culture was Xena, Warrior Princess.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (rGqqI) 271
Amazing how so-called progressives hate the people responsible for all progress.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (fkeut) 272
The Romans certainly borrowed a lot of Greek Culture and Mythology and applied it to their own pantheon. Some felt that it went too far and looked down on too much Greek. They also learned Greek for many uses.
Posted by: Oldcat ================ That's exactly what I'm saying, though. They didn't STEAL anything. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (XJ22o) well they didn't exactly pay for it either. Aside from hiring/enslaving (more like a long term contract) Greek Tutors for their kids. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (8avO+) 273
Carthage had the whitest people I have ever seen. Despite what the children of Satan will tell you.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (uK2Q4) 274
The View back when it first started in the late 90's with BabaWawa, it was not overtly partisan and ugly, like everything, it really went to the dark side during the Obama years.
Pretty much all of culture began to suck and deteriorate around 2010. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 05:18 PM (XV/Pl) 275
263 The View is a very obvious CIA op.
Posted by: ... a Wait, I thought Ratcliffe was supposed to clean everything up over there? Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:18 PM (abIsI) 276
246 Carthage was in North Africa…. Rome fought the 3 Punic wars against it…. But I don’t think that ancient power was a black African city; I imagine Egyptians…. Am I wrong?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (+gA9j) Historians didn't believe accounts that Carthage sacrificed their Children and the Roman's were horrified by this. and Now they are finding evidence that they did kill their Children. Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:19 PM (21PP6) 277
Related: Why do you caaaare so much if a woke museum was paid $1 million in taxpayer money so that black men could put white women in slave shackles?
The struggle (session) goes on. Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 15, 2026 05:19 PM (qivay) 278
Posted by: All In The Family at May 15, 2026 05:08 PM (Sma6t)
Norman Lear meant to make Archie Bunker represent all blue collar white non Jewish men as he saw them As a buffoon. It backed fired just like they tried with Alex Keaton. Of course he denied it after Archie Bunker became beloved. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (qrzX6) Yeah, from the start the Bunkers are who you were supposed to hate, as opposed to the more enlightened kids and neighbors. But at least in those days they were flexible enough to bend the zeal to get a successful show. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:20 PM (8avO+) 279
Ask them, they'll tell you white people have no culture.
—— ? I guess if you’re gonna lie, make it a really big lie. LOL Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:20 PM (BbO+r) 280
Has Sonny Hostin yet made fun of Trump for using the word decimate when he obviously didn’t understand the original Roman meaning of 9 Roman soldiers beating the 10th to death (after casting lots)? Because she’s so knowledgeable about history she’d know that right??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:20 PM (+gA9j) 281
Didn't whites steal Polo from the Mongols ... or, was it the Afghanis?
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (9maW1) ________________________ I think it was Frank L. Baum and "The Wizard of Oz" who stole Poppies from Afghanistan...and the act of beating up on women, but you'll only find the latter in the Director's Cut. Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 05:20 PM (dIske) 282
Baal and Moloch. The sacrifice was real.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:21 PM (uK2Q4) 283
246 Carthage was in North Africa…. Rome fought the 3 Punic wars against it…. But I don’t think that ancient power was a black African city; I imagine Egyptians…. Am I wrong?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (+gA9j) Canaanite, Phonecian specifically. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at May 15, 2026 05:21 PM (okun6) 284
Norman Lear meant to make Archie Bunker represent all blue collar white non Jewish men as he saw them As a buffoon. It backed fired just like they tried with Alex Keaton.
Of course he denied it after Archie Bunker became beloved. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (qrzX6) --- I was thinking about that last week, when I was considering that Alan Moore did not intend for Rorschach to become the sort of "hero" of the Watchman. But it was inevitable. Moore saw it through his ideological lens, and Rorschach could never be a "good guy". So, he didn't see how making Rorschach the one guy who wanted to go back to the People with the truth and died because he could do no other, that even his brutality did not stand in the way of this act. Had he been able to float comic standards and make Rorschach actually say racist things, it probably would have changed the reaction. And I have no doubt that Moore imputed "right-wing" Rorschach as a "racist". Posted by: Tucker Carlson at May 15, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e) 285
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (9maW
It's terrible what they did to her- those that convinced her and those that performed the surgery. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:21 PM (OYsYV) Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:22 PM (+gA9j) 287
Presentism affects the Left greatly. They judge all history based on the present moral and cultural standards. It results in some fucked up thinking.
It's only relatively recent that Might Makes Right isn't the controlling factor in the Western World. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:22 PM (qrzX6) 288
No culture? Like wearing a ballcap backwards and wearing loose pants so bubba has easy access?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:22 PM (uK2Q4) 289
274 The View back when it first started in the late 90's with BabaWawa, it was not overtly partisan and ugly, like everything, it really went to the dark side during the Obama years.
Pretty much all of culture began to suck and deteriorate around 2010. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 05:18 PM (XV/Pl) That Documentary Barbra was depressing, and she was alone and only cared about fame. Didn't like her daughter, she was a horrible human Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:23 PM (21PP6) 290
it's a little known fact that zeus originally looked like fred sanford
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:23 PM (CWTWj) 291
👉🏼 Independence, AOC plays coy on White House run as polling has her neck and neck with Kamala and she storms into Shapiro territory
EXCLUSIVE: She’s gaining ground in the polls, campaigning for down-ballot Democrats and courting the party’s base. Eric Garcia breaks down what comes next for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Friday 15 May 2026 Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 05:23 PM (NFX2v) 292
246 Carthage was in North Africa…. Rome fought the 3 Punic wars against it…. But I don’t think that ancient power was a black African city; I imagine Egyptians…. Am I wrong?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (+gA9j) Historians didn't believe accounts that Carthage sacrificed their Children and the Roman's were horrified by this. and Now they are finding evidence that they did kill their Children. Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:19 PM (21PP6) I think that was only a (lunatic) fringe because even before recent digs that prove it, the uniform evidence from historical writings always said otherwise. Rome itself, overtly anti external human sacrifice did do an emergency one when a prophecy came out in the Punic wars that Gauls, or Carthage would 'occupy' Rome. So they sacrificed a Gaul and a Carthaginian and buried them in the city for occupation purposes. Rome had a pretty legalistic view of religion, more like contract law than anything. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:24 PM (8avO+) 293
History begins on the day you're born.
Posted by: I thought everyone knew that at May 15, 2026 05:25 PM (2Ez/1) 294
Ask them, they'll tell you white people have no culture.
- No culture?!!! We have white bread, marshmallows, and milk! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 05:25 PM (ndZc7) 295
290 it's a little known fact that zeus originally looked like fred sanford
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:23 PM (CWTWj) Which Greek god looked like Lamont the big dummy? Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:25 PM (+gA9j) 296
Remember that THE VIEW is part of ABC news
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:25 PM (21PP6) 297
I just rolled in from Victoria, Tx...anybody else pissed off about 15% ethanol in gas?
At least Nehls (current) and Cloud (future) are agin it! Of course Crenshaw went along with the yeas. Posted by: DanMan at May 15, 2026 05:25 PM (8uzBS) 298
288 No culture? Like wearing a ballcap backwards and wearing loose pants so bubba has easy access?
Posted by: Boss Moss Don't forget the untied Timberland ghetto boots. Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:26 PM (abIsI) 299
I'm just waiting for Colbert to kiss Ellen Paige on the mouth on camera.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd) I think if Colbert had gone ahead and bl*wn Peedro Pascal, I might have been convinced to see that sh*t movie. Posted by: Nelly at May 15, 2026 05:26 PM (6+ehB) 300
What percentage is summer blend?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:26 PM (uK2Q4) 301
297 I just rolled in from Victoria, Tx...anybody else pissed off about 15% ethanol in gas?
At least Nehls (current) and Cloud (future) are agin it! Of course Crenshaw went along with the yeas. Posted by: DanMan The corn must flow - Chuck Grassley and Donald Trump Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:27 PM (abIsI) 302
Has Sonny Hostin yet made fun of Trump for using the word decimate when he obviously didn’t understand the original Roman meaning of 9 Roman soldiers beating the 10th to death (after casting lots)? Because she’s so knowledgeable about history she’d know that right??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:20 PM (+gA9j) Yes, the legions lived and messed (cooked food and ate) in groups of 10. So it was particularly horrible to have to beat to death a men who stood by you in battle and you lived with for decades. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:28 PM (8avO+) 303
Hepatitis: : God of fire, metalworking, and craftsmanship. and Liver disease.
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 05:28 PM (dIske) 304
Adonis looked like Bille Dee Williams.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 05:28 PM (ndZc7) 305
Few people know that Muddy Waters' real name was McKinley Morganfield. Even fewer know that he was actually a Cockney immigrant from London and it was all a stage persona. I am currently in the pitching stage of the biggest historical musical of all time.
Posted by: Azjaeger at May 15, 2026 05:29 PM (9HePL) 306
"I was thinking about that last week, when I was considering that Alan Moore did not intend for Rorschach to become the sort of "hero" of the Watchman."
I may be the only person who only associates the name "Alan Moore" with Judas Priest's 2nd album, Sad Wings of Destiny. Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 15, 2026 05:29 PM (W5mpo) 307
Norman Lear meant to make Archie Bunker represent all blue collar white non Jewish men as he saw them As a buffoon. It backed fired just like they tried with Alex Keaton.
Of course he denied it after Archie Bunker became beloved. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (qrzX6) A few weeks after joining a company, the very young CEO tells me that they had recently sold a videoconferencing system to Carroll O'Conner. The kid had no idea who he was, and he asked me if I knew. Yeah kid, a l'il bit...dumbass... Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 15, 2026 05:29 PM (nbLIj) 308
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294 Ask them, they'll tell you white people have no culture.
- No culture?!!! We have white bread, marshmallows, and milk! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy and the GAP Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:29 PM (abIsI) 310
How well does AO-C speak Spanish? I would look sort if look forward to her running against Rubio. I think her command of Spanish is probably greater and he's certainly a smarter and more articulate person.than she is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:30 PM (OYsYV) 311
Presentism affects the Left greatly. They judge all history based on the present moral and cultural standards. It results in some fucked up thinking.
It's only relatively recent that Might Makes Right isn't the controlling factor in the Western World. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:22 PM (qrzX6) --- I find very few people can follow arguments that I use where I illustrate the insufficiency of a statement based on a historical lens. For example, it used to be the case that Scientists could not substantiate the animal called the "gorilla". And what the natives called it was something like the "old man of the forest". A good number of Scientists of the time projected that they would never find such an animal, because it was *obviously* like elves and trolls and European lore. It was as much a subject of legend as the Greek lore about flaming rocks hurled by Zeus. But the takeaway should be that things that sound like myths, shouldn't always be taken to be equivalent to myths. And we can see that illustrated by just the flow of history. "But they've proven gorillas", is about the quality of response I get from a lot of people. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:30 PM (Fi81e) 312
Medusa looked like Whoopi.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 05:30 PM (ndZc7) Posted by: LASue at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (lCppi) 314
Best ancient Greek joke I ever saw is the t-shirt featuring Mediocrates, famous for the saying "meh...good enough"
Posted by: Azjaeger at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (9HePL) 315
Ancient African civilizations were so advanced modern, urban blacks have to appropriate other cultures from the past to claim current glories.
Odd. Why can't they point to any African culture--then or now--as superior? It's kinda like how Liberia, founded entirely by freed blacks, funded lavishly by the West, with slavery even banned in their constitution ... devolved into masters and slaves in less than a generation. And is now one of the most dangerous places in the world, regardless of skin color. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (73/SM) Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (Sco7b) 317
Nood
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (bOS38) 318
Perse-phone: Queen of the underworld and goddess of spring growth. Also, a burner phone to keep in your 'purse' for emergencies.
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 05:32 PM (dIske) Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 05:32 PM (Sco7b) 320
@nicksortor
· 33m 🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Election whistleblower Tina Peters will soon be RELEASED FROM PRISON, receiving clemency from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, per CNN Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (ZxPkt) 321
It's kinda like how Liberia, founded entirely by freed blacks, funded lavishly by the West, with slavery even banned in their constitution ... devolved into masters and slaves in less than a generation.
And is now one of the most dangerous places in the world, regardless of skin color. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (73/SM) Well, Liberia is kind of a hell hole. Just ask me. Posted by: General Butt Naked at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (j017i) 322
Just to be clear. Africans colonized the Greek Isles displacing indigenous peoples. Got it.
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske) 323
"His" command of Spanish is greater than hers is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (OYsYV) 324
Historians didn't believe accounts that Carthage sacrificed their Children and the Roman's were horrified by this. and Now they are finding evidence that they did kill their Children.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:19 PM (21PP6) --- Historians didn't believe that about the "High Places" in historic Israel. Then they found mass graves of bones too small to be adults with saw marks on them. When David put captives "to the saw", it's probably one of the last Biblical cases that I had a tough time getting over, but when you think about it being "an eye for an eye" because that's what these people did with kids--not completely, but I can almost see it.... And we do now have evidence of these pre-Israel sacrificial pits, where bones are scared from saw marks and burns. The Lord's wrath is scary, but it makes sense. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (Fi81e) 325
Allow me to illuminate my colostomy. Public domain or do I owe the twenty five cent royalty?
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (YlWIZ) 326
Decimatus is the stupidest thing I can think of of Roman military practices. Unless it was a form of punishment for a military mistake of the group. When used to maintain discipline I find it retarded. But what do I know since they had the most powerful military in the world for centuries.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:36 PM (qrzX6) 327
Ask them, they'll tell you white people have no culture.
--- As illustrated with African blues, we've allowed so many to expand our culture, only to act like it is completely apart from our culture. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (Fi81e) 328
CNN headline:
Election denier Tina Peters will get clemency after admitting she ‘made a mistake,’ Colorado’s Democratic governor says no editorial slant there, no sir! Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (ZxPkt) 329
It's kinda like how Liberia, founded entirely by freed blacks, funded lavishly by the West, with slavery even banned in their constitution ... devolved into masters and slaves in less than a generation.
And is now one of the most dangerous places in the world, regardless of skin color. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (73/SM) Might Makes Right still very much the way things work in Africa. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:38 PM (qrzX6) 330
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (Fi81e
Abraham was going to sacrifice his son but God said just kidding so that's when the sacrifices probably stopped for good. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (qrzX6) 331
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (Fi81e
Abraham was going to sacrifice his son but God said just kidding so that's when the sacrifices probably stopped for good. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (qrzX6) --- I think it was a good illustration by God that human sacrifice--something people had associated with worship--was not going to be a requirement. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:45 PM (Fi81e) 332
Much like the burning during urination.
Posted by: Gonorrhea at May 15, 2026 06:10 PM (2Ez/1) 333
Mary Lefkowitz' book Not Out of Africa discusses the origins in classical Greek fantasies about Egypt, as imagined in some of their mystery cults. Then early in the modern era the Masons got involved. Then Mozart (I think he was a Mason.)
Then Madame Blavatsky. Then we wuz kangs. Everybody wants to LARP as a king. Nobody wants to LARP as the poor guy whose African king took on the Asante or one of the other expansionist African empires, was on the losing side of the war, didn't get to serve as a human sacrifice, and survived to get sold for money for more guns for the Asante to keep on conquering. Then he got sold to a European middleman. A victim of imperialist war. Just not a European one. Posted by: Peter B at May 15, 2026 06:55 PM (VTbl0) 334
Afrocentrism: the stupid theory that the classical Greeks stole all their best ideas from the Egyptians and, by the way, the Egyptians were black Africans, has been around in one form or another for more than 100 years, so it’s probably about time for it to resurface. The fable stretches from Marcus Garvey’s 1923 essay “Who and What Is a Negro?” to, in the mid 1950s, Cheikh Anka Diop’s “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality.” (Eng.Ed. 1974) (spoiler, Diop claimed it was reality). You can add to those, G.G.M. James’s, “Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were Not the Authors of Greek Philosophy, but the People of North Africa, Commonly Called the Egyptians.” (1973), and Martin Bernal’s book, “Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization.” (3 vols. 1987, 1991, and 2006).
All of these met with suitable pushback at the time-including from mainstream leftist academics. As even the frequent source of extreme left-wing “history” Wiki puts it: “Academic reviews of Bernal's work generally reject his heavy reliance on ancient Greek mythology, speculative assertions, and handling of archaeological, linguistic, and historical data.” cont below... Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 16, 2026 01:59 AM (7ZRgl) 335
Afrocentrism cont...
All of these met with suitable pushback at the time-including from mainstream leftist academics. As even the frequent source of extreme left-wing “history” Wiki puts it: “Academic reviews of Bernal's work generally reject his heavy reliance on ancient Greek mythology, speculative assertions, and handling of archaeological, linguistic, and historical data.” Of course Bernal didn’t back down (he wrote a series of “rebuttals” of his critics’ arguments), and his ideas still seep into schools and popular history today. Today, in the age of the 1619 project, however, such nonsense is more likely to believed, and the dissenter shouted down. Bernal’s theory met with wide-spread ridicule and condemnation. Probably the chief debunker of Bernal’s version of Afrocentrism was Mary Lefkowitz, Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College (that well-known conservative academic institution). She started with articles in The New Republic and professional publications, and then exposed her arguments to wider circulation in the books, “Black Athena Revisited,” and “Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History.” cont below... Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 16, 2026 02:00 AM (7ZRgl) 336
Afrocentrism cont...
For those wanting to read the original books about the topic, some of Diop’s books, Bernal’s books, and Lefkowitz’s books are available for loan from the Internet Archive. “Not Out of Africa” provides a good summary of the arguments, and the articles collected in “Black Athena Revisited” pretty much pound Bernal and the Afrocentrists about 10 feet deep into the ground. Mixed in with the arguments over the Egyptian origin of Greek philosophy were claims that some of the notables of history were black Africans. Frequently listed were Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII Philopator, hereafter referred to only as Cleopatra for simplicity as none of the other “Cleopatras” are relevant and won’t be mentioned at all), Eratosthenes, Septimus Severus and Hannibal. A film depiction a few years back had Cleopatra as a black African. Egypt's thenPtolemaic dynasty mostly married within the Macedonian/Greek (the Macedonians considered themselves Greek, the Greeks mostly didn’t) ruling class and after the first hundred years or so practiced family intermarriage and sibling marriages. cont below ... Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 16, 2026 02:04 AM (7ZRgl) 337
Afrocentrism cont ....
With that said, however, IIRC while most of Cleopatra's ancestors are known, Cleopatra's father (Ptolemy XII Auletes) was the son of her grandfather (Ptolemy IX Soter II) and a mistress whose identity is a bit uncertain-I can't find an authoritative source for this point, I likely read it in one of Lefkowitz’s books, but I can't find it after a quick search. Anyway, even if one of Cleopatra’s grandmothers is unknown, chances are the grandmother was a member of the Macedonian/Greek expatriate community or, possibly, a native Egyptian. It is extremely unlikely the grandmother was a black African, and even if she were, then Cleopatra would have been no more than 25% black. As for Helen of Troy, cont below .... Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 16, 2026 02:07 AM (7ZRgl) 338
Afrocentrism cont....
So far as I know, before Nolan's film, and possibly the version written by the feminist goof who is the apparent source of the version of the Odyssey relied upon by Nolan, no-one ever argued Helen of Troy was black because, 1. she's purely a literary character, and 2. she wasn't from Africa. IIRC she was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was hatched from an egg; maybe they should cast a swan to play the part... FWIW, if Nolan and his studio backers want to film a 'diverse' version of the Odyssey, there's nothing stopping them from writing and filming a modern version as has been done for some of Shakespeare's plays-West Side Story for example. But such a project wouldn't let them capitalize on the reputation of the original, it would require more work by the writers, and, most important, it wouldn't offend we deplorables. Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 16, 2026 02:34 AM (7ZRgl) Foreign Communist Candidate for LA Mayor Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs Because the Transnational Invaders Instinctively Make Endless War on American NormiesI'm sure you remember this same instinct in full effect during the lockdown. But Black Lives Matter thugs are allowed to dance in the streets, of course.LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman wanted to ban backyard barbecues for residents during certain high fire danger days across the city. Raman introduced a motion Wednesday directing city officials to examine emergency restrictions on grilling during Red Flag Warning days, when high winds and dry conditions significantly increase wildfire danger across Los Angeles. The proposal specifically asks officials to consider possible limits on backyard barbecues, fire pits and other open flames in residential neighborhoods during those high-risk weather events. Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who represents much of the San Fernando Valley, stepped in and successfully blocked the proposal by introducing a separate motion that stripped Raman's barbecue ban. "The last thing Angelenos need is a ban on hosting a carne asada in their own backyard," Rodriguez told The California Post. ... "We're not checking the weather for red flag conditions before planning a backyard barbecue," Rodriguez said. "This is what families do. Birthday parties. Carne asadas. Family gatherings. A lot of people barbecue." The same motion would have also had a major impact on restaurants that cook with open flames. Rodriguez said she started hearing concerns from restaurant owners when the motion was being passed around. "You had restaurant owners calling it out saying, 'This is going to affect our business,'" she said.Note that her interest in public safety is strictly limited. She insists that kids will not be safer with a ban on illegal homeless encampments just 500 feet from a school:
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Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 03:30 PM (CWTWj) 2
she's a real american
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (73/SM) 3
yes lets ban cooking and meat. save the planet
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (CWTWj) Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (OUMaO) 5
Someone mentioned that the Dumbest Wine Box in America finalist, Ann Althouse, was super upset that an obviously fake video of a tomato hitting Mayor Chia Pet was an incitement of violence against women.
How that stupid bint has an audience still I don't know. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 03:33 PM (73/SM) 6
This is an IQ test for the constituents of LA. I fully expect them to fail it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (Riz8t) 7
How will the invaders cook the poor, little cats?
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (Sco7b) 8
re 5: i think she's still a liberal at heart but apparently in 2024 she didn't for president
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (CWTWj) 9
Next, she'll ban dog walking. Because dogs are Haram. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (9znMV) 10
This is an IQ test for the constituents of LA. I fully expect them to fail it.
--- They'll eat the eraser off the pencil, jam the sharp end into their privates and blame Republicans for the pain. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 03:36 PM (73/SM) 11
They will "choose" the whacko.
Posted by: steevy at May 15, 2026 03:36 PM (YwEeS) 12
Nice clip.
She seems fun. Not sure she'll make my "Hot Ladies of the Democratic Party Swimsuit Edition' but she's in the running. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 03:36 PM (Sco7b) 13
re me at 8: she didn't 'vote'
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 03:37 PM (CWTWj) 14
emergency restrictions on grilling during Red Flag Warning days, when high winds and dry conditions significantly increase wildfire danger across Los Angeles.
Together, we can make every day Red Flag Day! Posted by: Vegan Commies at May 15, 2026 03:37 PM (KAa/S) 15
I picked up an extra 10lbs of lobster and 10lbs of Kobe beef for a cook-out with the Obamas.
We're going to have a beer summit before we fire up the grill. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (D1E+2) 16
Nithya Ramen is probably my least favorite brand.
Posted by: Guy who eats too much of it at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (2Ez/1) 17
It's Nithya's race to lose to Pratt. Bass would love to have it easy and go against Pratt in the general. Any other candidate like Rae or Miller is throwing your vote away
Turn out is going to be terrible. Nobody is paying attention to this race. I would be turnout will be 20%. That heavily favors incumbents. Most people won't vote for Bass. But they will split the anti-Bass vote between Naman and Pratt. Then, in November Bass will win with the help of her detractors who still would choose her over a Republican. In a highly partisan environment, there's basically no way for an establishment incumbent to lose. This is why polarization leads to dysfunctional government. Street homelessness is down 18%. Bass is getting L.A. Olympic ready. People don’t want to vote for MAGA nor DSA. I voted for Raman who’s better than Bass, who’s going to win if Raman doesn’t. Best case scenario is Raman pulls it off, worst case scenario Bass wins again. Pratt has no chance so that’s not a scenario. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (ycI94) 18
Some federal district court is missing its judge.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (3g5Xe) 19
Nithya Ramen blames Toyota for catalytic converter thefts.
They blame Walgreen's for theft. They blame you for slavery. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (RIvkX) 20
I’ve heard You get the government that you vote for - good and hard!
Posted by: Unkaren at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (JjYer) 21
How that stupid bint has an audience still I don't know. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 03:33 PM (73/SM) Between his constant linking of Althouse and the other douchebag fondling the Beatles' balls, I gave up wasting my time on Insty a couple of years ago. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (9znMV) 22
You whip up some macoroni salad, a pitcher of Kool aid, and grill some hot dogs for the kiddies. All for under $10. But why do this when you can walk a few blocks and see meth heads indulging in anal, for the planet doncha know.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (gm9Sb) 23
I have heard that one can trace a lot of these rabid lefty Indians ancestry back to a specific region of India.
And that they're all of the brahmin caste. Which is to say, the spoiled rich embrace socialism because the spoiled rich can afford socialism. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (73/SM) 24
Raman attended Harvard and MIT but she didn't go from there to get rich in tech or investing. According to ChatGPT, she worked in urban planning, architecture/planning-related consulting, and affordable-housing / homelessness advocacy work. I think she's a true believer, which is scary. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (XJ22o) 25
Damn Spratt is killing it. Best political 'commercial' or whatever it's called evah.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:40 PM (qrzX6) 26
15 I picked up an extra 10lbs of lobster and 10lbs of Kobe beef for a cook-out with the Obamas.
We're going to have a beer summit before we fire up the grill. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (D1E+2) If it turns into a key party, you're on your own. Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (Sco7b) 27
Isn’t she a vegetarian?
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (p4NUW) 28
Barbecue often features pork, which is offensive to muslim colonists. The creature is protecting them, some of her actual constituents. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (VWtfl) 29
Trying to care what Ann Althouse thinks.
(grunting) uunnnnnhhhhh Nope. Don't care. Tried to care. But I don't care. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (2Ez/1) 30
I saw Stupid Bints open for Hole at the Lilith Fair in '97.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (/k+lW) 31
She is probably an insane Indian vegetarian. Years ago, I knew a couple who liked to grill and BBQ in the summer. Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them... So....yeah... 3rd World a-holes want normal American people to get rid of their BBQ and also dogs. Just spitballing here but there are other countries they could live in. Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (iJfKG) 32
Did the Pratt campaign do the Lego people ad? Because if not, he had a lot of other clever people supporting him
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (n3VHW) 33
Raman v Pratt would be a fun mayoral race.
Raman would probably win because brown women are just better than white men, but it would still be interesting. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (xBVv0) 34
Pork, pork, pork
At the end of my fork, fork fork. Posted by: It's a catchy jingle at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (2Ez/1) 35
Don't live in Hell-A, but I wish him the best of luck. Problem is, even if he wins the whole dug-in Dem machine will fight him tooth and nail. And I'm sure there'll be plenty of commu-minions out there willing to burn the whole place down.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (M0V4/) 36
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1) 37
Otters called
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (Sy6m/) 38
Foreign Communist Candidate for LA Mayor Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs Because the Transnational Invaders Instinctively Make Endless War on American Normies
Because California doesn't suck enough....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1) 39
If Pratt loses he just needs to pack up and get out of LA. Can't say he didn't try. No sense committing suicide and going down with the ship.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:44 PM (qrzX6) 40
Ever notice these third worlders, and their first generation offshoots are all shitbirds?
American has a culture that include bbq? Don’t like it GTFO. I am so sick of these assholes. Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 03:44 PM (m4ES5) 41
"You're right. I've never really liked BBQ now that I think about it."
-AWFL McWineMom Karen, Pasadena Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (xBVv0) 42
LA, Chicago and NYC. Three of America's great metropolis following Detroit into destruction. The nitwits have seen it happen before but arrogantly say "we'll do it right this time" . No, no you won't. Whether you're the political leaders or the sheep you should have seen it coming. No sympathy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (gu0hJ) 43
We're going to have a beer summit before we fire up the grill.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone Are you insane? Remember what happened to the last guy who cooked for the Obamas? Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (M0V4/) 44
Don't live in Hell-A, but I wish him the best of luck. Problem is, even if he wins the whole dug-in Dem machine will fight him tooth and nail. And I'm sure there'll be plenty of commu-minions out there willing to burn the whole place down.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (M0V4/) He needs to study what a Rudy did. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (qrzX6) 45
Is this about me?
Posted by: The douchebag fondling the Beatles' balls at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (2Ez/1) 46
. . . from my warm, greasy, dead fingers.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (dK+Kv) 47
Nithya needs to go back to India and become a street food fender who cooks with her feet and wipes her backside with her hands before handing you your bread rolls.
She is an asshole. Posted by: Ban Immigration From India at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (Sma6t) 48
Next, she'll ban dog walking. Because dogs are Haram.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (9znMV) Seems we should ban Haram. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (Zz0t1) 49
>> LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban
We have a saying in America for thoughts like this, “go fuck yourself”. Isn’t the free exchange of ideas great? Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (m4ES5) 50
Look at those crazy eyes. Can’t understand normal thinking.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (Htwr7) 51
America is haram. They should get out else their god Allah will be displeased.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (xBVv0) 52
FYI: You can spend all your love making time
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (xcxpd) 53
I mean, she's right. Kids aren't that much safer if you just move the homeless camps 500 feet away from the school.
Instead, we need to ban homeless camps within 10 miles of a school, for the children. Posted by: Cave Johnson at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (H6QjV) 54
It is perfectly OK for any old WOG to take an 87 octane bath and light himself up, but no weenie roasts on a summer night?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (gm9Sb) 55
51 America is haram. They should get out else their god Allah will be displeased.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (xBVv0) They should go to England. T.E. Lawrence would approve. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (xcxpd) 56
The Hate America party posed to win LA just like they did NYC.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (qrzX6) 57
Damn Spratt is killing it. Best political 'commercial' or whatever it's called evah.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:40 PM (qrzX6) It's like he hired the crew that used to do the songs for Phineas and Ferb. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1) 58
This is an IQ test for the constituents of LA. I fully expect them to fail it. Posted by: Archimedes ============== It's funny, I don't think I've ever seen the LA electorate dissected and analyzed the way, say, NYC voters are. Who are LA voters? I can think of the students of UCLA, the rich whiteys of the west side and the San Fernando Valley, the illegal aliens of east and central, middle-lass Blacks of Crenshaw, dead-enders in Watts (haven't been there, only seen it on tv so I can't confirm). I'm guessing/generalizing on a lot of this, cuz I've never seen anyone else do it before. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:48 PM (XJ22o) 59
Okay, so she's unAmerican. Quelle surprise. Most of LA is unAmerican, according to everything I've seen. Really, the big quake can't happen soon enough for that shithole.
I won't go to Chicago anymore. I won't go to NYC either. I only pass through Dallas/FTW on my way to the MoMe. Seattle is a mess, and I won't go to Portland. Hell, I can barely stand Honolulu, but at least the weather is divine there. On a nicer note, the leaves on the birch trees all popped out this morning. Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, and the birdies are all over the damned place. I'm putting the rest of the garden in this weekend. All is right in MY world. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (DwqWV) 60
53 I mean, she's right. Kids aren't that much safer if you just move the homeless camps 500 feet away from the school.
Instead, we need to ban homeless camps within 10 miles of a school, for the children. Posted by: Cave Johnson You're playing by their rules. Just ban homeless camps. Done. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (ycI94) 61
Rahman learned the grift quickly . Set up her own " homeless services" not for profit and made herself a millionaire. Perfect Cali pol
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (gu0hJ) 62
Ban ferners from running for office at any level.
They come here, they run, they win, they suck. Just stop the practice altogether. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (Zz0t1) 63
Pratt: Public safety and social order for everyone!
Bass: Teeth for tweakers! Raman: Outdoor grilling for outlaws only! Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (Sy6m/) 64
So Hispanics are gonna vote for this ramen noodles lady?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (2Ez/1) 65
What's with the hummingbird? Is that his campaign mascot or something?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (3uBP9) 66
GET ME NEW CHOPPAHS
Posted by: Ahnold Methenegger at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (UjdFS) 67
I thought the original Lego song was a huge indictment against the Left and socialism.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (qrzX6) 68
What's with the hummingbird? Is that his campaign mascot or something?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (3uBP9) It's his chosen logo, yes. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1) 69
57 Damn Spratt is killing it. Best political 'commercial' or whatever it's called evah.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:40 PM (qrzX6) It's like he hired the crew that used to do the songs for Phineas and Ferb. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1) 'Bowling for Soup'? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (xcxpd) 70
Okay, so she's unAmerican. Quelle surprise. Most of LA is unAmerican, according to everything I've seen. Really, the big quake can't happen soon enough for that shithole.
I won't go to Chicago anymore. I won't go to NYC either. I only pass through Dallas/FTW on my way to the MoMe. Seattle is a mess, and I won't go to Portland. Hell, I can barely stand Honolulu, but at least the weather is divine there. On a nicer note, the leaves on the birch trees all popped out this morning. Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, and the birdies are all over the damned place. I'm putting the rest of the garden in this weekend. All is right in MY world. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (DwqWV) Even among the Democrats here in LA, the real problem is the grifting class and the elites. The low info voter is the least of the problems. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (8avO+) 71
65 What's with the hummingbird? Is that his campaign mascot or something?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (3uBP9) Mankind was waiting for you to come flying along... Posted by: Seals and Crofts at May 15, 2026 03:52 PM (/k+lW) 72
65 What's with the hummingbird? Is that his campaign mascot or something? Posted by: banana Dream at May He created a hummingbird sanctuary on his property. There are videos out there of him with hummingbirds landing all over him. Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:52 PM (p4NUW) Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 03:52 PM (wBaIH) 74
'Bowling for Soup'? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (xcxpd) You asked for it...... https://youtu.be/K38xNqZvBJI Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:52 PM (Zz0t1) 75
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'Bowling for Soup'? Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (xcxpd) You asked for it...... https://youtu.be/K38xNqZvBJI Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:52 PM (Zz0t1) \m/ Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (xcxpd) 76
Another polytheist communist who was born in India, and even went back there after being in the states for a while. It was such a great place she came back here to scam a naturalization, and tell us all how to live, constitution be damned.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (f4tQo) 77
I liked it better when Democrat lunatics like Raman didn't go to Harvard. It was much better when Theodore Roosevelt attended.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (n3VHW) 78
It's funny, I don't think I've ever seen the LA electorate dissected and analyzed the way, say, NYC voters are. Who are LA voters? I can think of the students of UCLA, the rich whiteys of the west side and the San Fernando Valley, the illegal aliens of east and central, middle-lass Blacks of Crenshaw, dead-enders in Watts (haven't been there, only seen it on tv so I can't confirm). I'm guessing/generalizing on a lot of this, cuz I've never seen anyone else do it before.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:48 PM (XJ22o) There are few to no elections here not gerrymandered to safe seats for both parties. Nothing is contested. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (8avO+) 79
I bought some gochujang flavored Spam on clearance, and I have to say that I am not impressed.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (rbvCR) 80
73 Nothing outside Raman noodles
Nothing above Raman noodles Everything within Raman noodles. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 03:52 PM (wBaIH) Dang thing is...well done ramen is good. Posted by: Nova Local at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (tOcjL) 81
About 4mm live in LA, about 1mm voted in the last election, to give Karen Basura the victory over Rick Caruso. About how many Angeleno possible voters don't know Pratt is running until they see his name on the ballot?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (Dv3i1) 82
Outlaw apple pie, why don't you?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (zZu0s) 83
79 I bought some gochujang flavored Spam on clearance, and I have to say that I am not impressed.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 That sounds horrible. Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (p4NUW) 84
62 Ban ferners from running for office at any level.
They come here, they run, they win, they suck. Just stop the practice altogether. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (Zz0t1) Even more necessary for judgeships, since immigrants cannot be expected to ever develop sufficient cultural facility to judge the native-born wisely. One of the more risible/infuriating tendencies is an inability to accept that our Bill of Rights means what it says; they literally cannot conceive that the Framers actually meant those words, so they asspull that it was poetic. Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (Sy6m/) 85
Hey guys,
We have a launch today. SpaceX - Falcon 9 - CRS SpX-34 SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live Launch Date: May 15, 2026 (EDT) Launch Time: 6:05 p.m. EDT (2205 UTC (May 15, 00:05 CEST) https://youtu.be/RdCYRAj6PMI Posted by: Joyenz at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (2F0/Y) 86
79 I bought some gochujang flavored Spam on clearance, and I have to say that I am not impressed.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (rbvCR) I DON'T LIKE SPAM! Posted by: Zombie Graham Chapman at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (/k+lW) 87
Black pepper Spam is the best Spam.
Fight me. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (2Ez/1) 88
86 79 I bought some gochujang flavored Spam on clearance, and I have to say that I am not impressed.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (rbvCR) I DON'T LIKE SPAM! Posted by: Zombie Graham Chapman at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (/k+lW) ======= "Would you like it with a goat? Would you like it on a boat?" -Spam I Am Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (xBVv0) Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (UjdFS) 90
I bought some gochujang flavored Spam on clearance, and I have to say that I am not impressed.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 That sounds horrible. Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (p4NUW) His first hint was: "On Clearance". Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (iJfKG) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (Zz0t1) 92
Don't live in Hell-A, but I wish him the best of luck. Problem is, even if he wins the whole dug-in Dem machine will fight him tooth and nail. And I'm sure there'll be plenty of commu-minions out there willing to burn the whole place down.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (M0V4/) He needs to study what a Rudy did. Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (qrzX6) There's a lot he might be able to do by firing deadwood in the city police and services and overall administration areas. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (8avO+) 93
Way to court the Black vote!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (Fi81e) 94
I do hate spam. Its just disgusting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s) 95
About as off topic as I can get; today kicks off "World Fiddle Day." A weekend, actually, of... well, music with fiddles. Big one going on in Harpers Ferry, WV.
I doubt anyone's going to prohibit grilling burgers there. They'd be strung up. 👀 Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (jehhT) 96
Remember when America was a melting pot, and you left your old shitty culture at the door, because that’s one of the main reasons you were here?
That all fell apart when Democrats started telling them how their culture was more important than ours. Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (f4tQo) 97
83 79 I bought some gochujang flavored Spam on clearance, and I have to say that I am not impressed.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 That sounds horrible. Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (p4NUW) Piper and I are in complete agreement. And on that point, I have to get my 1st PET in 2 weeks and have been told practically zero carbs the day before. I looked at my options for food (with dairy and nuts out) and was like "this will be the worst day of eating ever"...but then it will be done. Right now, it looks like bacon, bunless burger, and steak...with some eggs (apparently under 1 carb is okay)... Posted by: Nova Local at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (tOcjL) 98
89 She is probably an insane Indian vegetarian.
...... That poops upstream from where she bathes. Posted by: wth An idea for Pratt's next viral video - to the tune of Lakmé - Duo des fleurs Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (Dv3i1) 99
I bought some gochujang flavored Spam on clearance, and I have to say that I am not impressed.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 That sounds horrible. Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (p4NUW) His first hint was: "On Clearance". Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (iJfKG) We're the cans dusty? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (zZu0s) 100
>>Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
You are Grilling Our God! Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (4ljtY) 101
94 I do hate spam. Its just disgusting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s) Rinse it, slice it and pan fry it. Surprisingly good. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (xcxpd) 102
Surpeise, Surprise, a Jeet doesn't want anyone to eat meat.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (iXqHn) 103
Don't knock it until you've fried it.
In honey butter. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (2Ez/1) 104
About how many Angeleno possible voters don't know Pratt is running until they see his name on the ballot?
Posted by: Chuck Martel Most if they aren't social media obsessives. Most voters are apolitical in behavior but reflexive in outlook. People that smack the refresh button on x, insta, Faceboof, etc. are not the average voter. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (diia5) 105
This thinking by the Left goes back decades. When I was young, a good rule of thumb was that if it was something a nuclear family in the suburbs liked to do, it automatically sucked.
Posted by: MartynWW at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (M9zxq) 106
About 4mm live in LA, about 1mm voted in the last election, to give Karen Basura the victory over Rick Caruso. About how many Angeleno possible voters don't know Pratt is running until they see his name on the ballot?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (Dv3i1) well going viral with mean tweets gives him 100x the exposure of ads with virtually zero cost. Basura is already skipping the next debate just to avoid facing him again. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (8avO+) 107
In NoVA, we have that Bangladeshi who showed up 5 minutes ago, ran for office, won, and now wants to ban guns and implement sharia (allegedly).
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (sAmhv) 108
Yeah, India is such a great place, 2/3rds of the people still shit in the gutter. Most of the country lives off scamming the United States, stealing our jobs and living off the H1-b visa program.
Now they come here and try to tell us how to live. GFY. Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (f4tQo) 109
>>Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
Have they never heard of a burnt sacrifice? Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (Riz8t) 110
I doubt anyone's going to prohibit grilling burgers there. They'd be strung up. 👀 Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (jehhT) There was an Ole Miss baseball game on the big screen at a sports bar we were at the other day. They allow grills in the outfield stands. People were cooking burgers and hotdogs during the game. I thought that was awesome. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (Zz0t1) 111
Spam, spam, spam, gochujang, and spam.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (RIvkX) 112
You were born a steer, but tonight you are a walleye!
Posted by: Just the punchline at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1) 113
>>>If it turns into a key party, you're on your own.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog >Everybody dreads drawing Big Mike's key. The peg is non-negotiable. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (D1E+2) 114
100 >>Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
You are Grilling Our God! Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (4ljtY) I never get fun encounters like this. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (xcxpd) 115
107 In NoVA, we have that Bangladeshi who showed up 5 minutes ago, ran for office, won, and now wants to ban guns and implement sharia (allegedly).
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (sAmhv) Not the fun story - the male Chairman of the Fairfax County Council called a female School Board member a bimbo (on text and doubled down), and the blue on blue war is on. He's a white dude, so he may lose. Posted by: Nova Local at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (tOcjL) 116
>Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
You came from f*cking INDIA. I'm quite sure that shithole smells worse than a damn backyard barbeque. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (Zz0t1) 117
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (8avO+)
I thought she and Bass refused to be in anymore debates because Pratt trounced them in the first one. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (n3VHW) 118
111 Spam, spam, spam, gochujang, and spam.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (RIvkX)' lol Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (xcxpd) 119
Here in NorCal we've had those for years... When we get one that's when we fire up the pizza oven.. Makes great smoke...
Posted by: Zombie Joh McCain at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (FtULh) 120
We have an Indian communist from Maryland here running to replace Pelosi.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (RIvkX) 121
They deserve what they vote for
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0) 122
In NoVA, we have that Bangladeshi who showed up 5 minutes ago, ran for office, won, and now wants to ban guns and implement sharia (allegedly).
Eh, we know scads of Indians and Pakis. They aren't all jerks - in fact most aren't. I'm not going to condemn them just because the loudmouths get lots of attention. That would be like condemning whites because of Karenish behavior. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (Riz8t) 123
108 Yeah, India is such a great place, 2/3rds of the people still shit in the gutter. Most of the country lives off scamming the United States, stealing our jobs and living off the H1-b visa program.
+++ And they've got trains! Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:01 PM (Fi81e) 125
123 108 Yeah, India is such a great place, 2/3rds of the people still shit in the gutter. Most of the country lives off scamming the United States, stealing our jobs and living off the H1-b visa program.
+++ And they've got trains! Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1) ====== Raman came out against the high speed rail project very recently. Why? Because trains kill a lot of people in India. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (xBVv0) 126
Nithya Raman is from Kerala, India. One of the major hotbeds of Communism in India for a long time.
Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (nvKZ7) 127
Sacred cow burgers comin' right up!
Who wants their buns toasted? Posted by: wth - drinking and grilling at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS) 128
>>Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
Have they never heard of a burnt sacrifice? Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (Riz8t) Offer to grill some corn on the cob they bring over, or Naan bread. Tandori Chicken if they bring over the raw stuff on skewers. Clean foil should do for religious purposes. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (8avO+) 129
121 They deserve what they vote for
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0) I say let 'em crash! Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (xcxpd) 130
BBQs don't start forest fires -- radical leftists do.
Posted by: 29Victor at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (0MjtC) 131
>>I never get fun encounters like this.
Years ago I was eating a slice of Pizza in a college town Pizzeria. A guy came in to complain about the lights that were left on in the establishment between 3-6 am. To the girl who serves slices at the counter. After about 5 minutes of him harassing the employees, I dragged him out by his ear. The girls behind the counter couldn't thank me enough. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (4ljtY) 132
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Barbecue often features pork, which is offensive to muslim colonists. The creature is protecting them, some of her actual constituents. Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (VWtfl) Ah, but is she Hindu, Sikh, or an evil Muslim? Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (T6aVk) 133
Raman came out against the high speed rail project very recently.
Why? Because trains kill a lot of people in India. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (xBVv0) That's one thing the train from nowhere to nowhere will never do. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (8avO+) 134
That would be like condemning whites because of Karenish behavior.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (Riz8t) Yeah. What about the British in Malaya? Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (zZu0s) 135
Why? Because trains kill a lot of people in India. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (xBVv0) I wonder why.......... https://is.gd/1uupo5 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (Zz0t1) 136
That sounds horrible.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (p4NUW) I mean, yes, but then again I have eaten some truly horrible stuff that makes this just unpleasant. "lettuce soup" for example. "Patchouli flavored sticky rice balls" for another. Examples of fusion cuisine that make Tagamet a blessing. Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (rbvCR) 137
131 Years ago I was eating a slice of Pizza in a college town Pizzeria.
A guy came in to complain about the lights that were left on in the establishment between 3-6 am. To the girl who serves slices at the counter. After about 5 minutes of him harassing the employees, I dragged him out by his ear. The girls behind the counter couldn't thank me enough. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (4ljtY) ======= "Dear Penthouse forums" Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (xBVv0) 138
Raman came out against the high speed rail project very recently.
Raman relies on high polarizability. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (Riz8t) 139
10x US Rep Steve Cohen cowardly won't even give his Super D record a chance for voters to send him back #11 times.
Faced with real voters he quits. Can you imagine drafting this guy and getting him to bayonet practice? Posted by: torabora at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (/u6C6) 140
Yeah, India is such a great place, 2/3rds of the people still shit in the gutter. Most of the country lives off scamming the United States, stealing our jobs and living off the H1-b visa program.
+++ And they've got trains! Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1) --- Every foreign company has to learn that everything needs a bribe. Some companies that try to be ethical have had to close operations there if they were serious about their no bribery policy. And yes, people people do shit on the sidewalks there. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (Fi81e) 141
"Vote." That's cute. Posted by: Dominion Systems at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (2Ez/1) 142
SPONGE!!!
Posted by: The Frogs at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (3uTNk) 143
>> You are Grilling Our God!
lol. We had a neighbor like that. He came over to complain. Suffice to say he never came back again. And we then ramped it up. I’m really not great at using a smoker. So my brother brought one over and smoked everything he could find for like 12 hours. Enough that my other neighbor came by and said if we had extras he would stop by. Don’t like America? There are plenty of options for you buddy. Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (BswBb) Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (wtvvX) 145
126 Nithya Raman is from Kerala, India. One of the major hotbeds of Communism in India for a long time.
Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (nvKZ7) Great. A Naxalite. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (T6aVk) 146
If you don't agree we should ban BBQ, dogs, and Jesus, you're a racist hater, racist hater bigot!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (ndZc7) 147
Spencer Pratt winning in LA would be a "The Russian is cut!" moment.
Posted by: Crusader at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (TN0g+) 148
I say let 'em crash! Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (xcxpd) "Boy Trapped in Refrigerator. Eats Own Foot." Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (Zz0t1) 149
You may only flush your toilet twice a day.
You may only make one pot of coffee s day. You may only let your children play outside for two hours a day. Etc,ect, ect,....... Your government at work. Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (NWIIQ) 150
Damn. Off, Greek choral sock!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (3uTNk) 151
I would love to see Bass knocked out so the race becomes Pratt vs Raman. Then we'd get to see some awesome anti-Raman commercials, which we haven't gotten yet. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (XJ22o) 152
BBQs don't start forest fires -- radical leftists do.
Posted by: 29Victor at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (0MjtC) And the homeless. And the government power company who is legally not allowed to clear dead limbs from wires. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (8avO+) 153
I Love LA!
Posted by: Randy Newman at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (wVcYX) 154
I mean, yes, but then again I have eaten some truly horrible stuff that makes this just unpleasant.
"lettuce soup" for example. "Patchouli flavored sticky rice balls" for another. Examples of fusion cuisine that make Tagamet a blessing. Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (rbvCR) I've done a lettuce soup - it's not bad (although it's not great), but it does need a blender (and I'll only eat it that way)...it's WAY better if you don't have soggy leaves in it... Posted by: Nova Local at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (tOcjL) 155
SPONGE!!!
Posted by: The Frogs at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (3uTNk) You asked for it.......... https://youtu.be/zywY7xXzenI Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (Zz0t1) 156
Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
....... Aim for the dot. Posted by: wth - drinking and grilling at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (UjdFS) 157
Etc,ect, ect,.......
Your government at work. Posted by: Case You make keep some of your paycheck Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (Dv3i1) 158
94 I do hate spam. Its just disgusting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s) There was a bar in Spenard that would sell you a bottle of Dom Perignon and it always came with a free can of Spam. Called the Fly By Night Club. Hilarious. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (DwqWV) 159
LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban
Note: They would be banned ONLY for normies. People in the hood and illegals would be allowed to continue having them. Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (sKqQm) 160
If the Indians had their way, there would never be another slice of cow broiled, or smoked, or grilled withing the United States.
I'm convinced that's the real problem all the Hindus have with BBQs. That's why they complain about smells and poisoning them when a little bit of the delicious aroma of hamburgers and steak permeating their nostrils. Do the Hindus drink cow's milk or is that verboten too? Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt) 161
Why?
Because trains kill a lot of people in India. I once saw a video clip of a train in India with as many people on the roof as in the cars. One guy was standing when the train lurched. He instinctively grabbed for the nearest point to steady himself, which turned out to be the power line above the train. It did not go well for him. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t) 162
Why?
Because trains kill a lot of people in India. Posted by: TheJamesMadison No. That was an unmarked parody post. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (diia5) 163
>>BBQs don't start forest fires -- radical leftists do.
A lot of Fires in Public Parks are started by people dumping hot coals out of grill setups. As retarded as it sounds, people do this on the regular. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (4ljtY) 164
5 Someone mentioned that the Dumbest Wine Box in America finalist, Ann Althouse, was super upset that an obviously fake video of a tomato hitting Mayor Chia Pet was an incitement of violence against women.
How that stupid bint has an audience still I don't know. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice ------- She gets by with a little help from her friendz. Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv) 165
153 I Love LA!
Posted by: Randy Newman at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (wVcYX) Oh, you're on my sh!t list buddy. You know why. Posted by: Robert Reich at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (/k+lW) 166
Hey, while TJM is around, I want to flog his David Lean videos.
He had some good things to say and that made me think again about David Lean's lesser known movies. If you are in the mood for classic movies or cheap YouTube videos, check them out. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (xcxpd) 167
Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
Have they never heard of a burnt sacrifice? Posted by: Archimedes _________ Isn't that what this wife is supposed to do when her husband dies? Jump on the pyre? Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (XvL8K) 168
162 Why?
Because trains kill a lot of people in India. Posted by: TheJamesMadison No. That was an unmarked parody post. Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (diia5) ====== Well, drat. I'll have to expunge that from my mind movies. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (xBVv0) 169
We have an Indian communist from Maryland here running to replace Pelosi.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (RIvkX) what no home grown Indian communists? Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (8avO+) 170
It’s almost like they don’t understand the constitution, and The Bill of Rights and want to replace them with their own personal predilections.
Almost. Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (BswBb) 171
Nithya Raman is from Kerala, India. One of the major hotbeds of Communism in India for a long time.
We are importing commies because apparently foreign commies will do the jobs lazy American commies won't. Where is Comrade Bush when you need him? Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (sKqQm) 172
149 You may only flush your toilet twice a day.
You may only make one pot of coffee s day. You may only let your children play outside for two hours a day. Etc,ect, ect,....... Your government at work. Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (NWIIQ) Hmm. Where I live, the rules are few, and mostly unspoken. Like, only shoot during daylight hours, but remember that when it is light all night, some people still have to go to work in the morning. Don't mess with the moose or they will mess with you. Don't behave like bear food. Other than that, you can pretty much do whatever you like. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (DwqWV) 173
166 Hey, while TJM is around, I want to flog his David Lean videos.
He had some good things to say and that made me think again about David Lean's lesser known movies. If you are in the mood for classic movies or cheap YouTube videos, check them out. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (xcxpd) ====== I will respond to comments on the YT soon! (can only do it on one device, and I'm busy, not just commenting, pulling clips for the next video to edit!) Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (xBVv0) 174
Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
Have they never heard of a burnt sacrifice? Posted by: Archimedes _________ Isn't that what this wife is supposed to do when her husband dies? Jump on the pyre? Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (XvL8K) the evil British colonialists put an end to that custom. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (8avO+) 175
Do the Hindus drink cow's milk or is that verboten too? Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt) They do drink cow piss....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (Zz0t1) 176
say let 'em crash!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM There's a sale at Penny's! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (3uTNk) 177
The name Nithya is just begging to be used in a limerick.
Posted by: But this ain't the Art Thread at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (2Ez/1) 178
TBF, that can be a concern on red flag days, but sticking it to everyday voters isn't the One Weird Trick to keep wildfires at bay. It wasn't a charcoal grill that caused the Palisades fire, it was arson assisted by fire department incompetence.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (gUs21) 179
160 If the Indians had their way, there would never be another slice of cow broiled, or smoked, or grilled withing the United States.
I'm convinced that's the real problem all the Hindus have with BBQs. That's why they complain about smells and poisoning them when a little bit of the delicious aroma of hamburgers and steak permeating their nostrils. Do the Hindus drink cow's milk or is that verboten too? Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt) Yes, they use all milk-based cow products... Posted by: Nova Local at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (tOcjL) 180
Someone mentioned that the Dumbest Wine Box in America finalist, Ann Althouse, was super upset that an obviously fake video of a tomato hitting Mayor Chia Pet was an incitement of violence against women.
If there is video of Pratt wearing shorts she'll really call for action... Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm) 181
The other day employees at the side job were treated to a lecture on how TX was pure evil to Blacks, how the store sucked because they did not hire Black store directors because they are Black, and CA was paradise because it had quotas. Yep, dude was black, missing 30 of 32 teeth, looked about 80 (but was probably 40) from a nothing job.
He hated the store because it was racist because it allegedly had no Black store directors yet of his own freewill is spending money there. Fuckin idiot. I’d happily drive him to CA and leave him there. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (T6aVk) 182
>>Nithya Raman is from Kerala, India. One of the major hotbeds of Communism in India for a long time.
The Caste System is essentially programmed for Communist appeal. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (4ljtY) 183
I can only imagine what Mayor Raman would think of us burning our trash weekly.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (DwqWV) 184
163 >>BBQs don't start forest fires -- radical leftists do.
A lot of Fires in Public Parks are started by people dumping hot coals out of grill setups. As retarded as it sounds, people do this on the regular. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (4ljtY) Beaches, too. About 15 years ago one of my little cousins was visiting LA with her family and somebody had dumped some hot charcoal in a beach pit, then covered it up with sand to put it out. Well, that meant nobody knew it was there the next morning. She burned her feet up horribly when she ran through a fire pit she had no idea was there. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt) 185
Commie candidate, "Agenda 21 serfs! You will eat bugs raw."
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 04:10 PM (BMD3P) 186
Isn't that what this wife is supposed to do when her husband dies? Jump on the pyre?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (XvL8K) --- And it wasn't by any means completely voluntary. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:10 PM (Fi81e) 187
There's a sale at Penny's! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (3uTNk) Kohl's Mom intrigues me. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 04:10 PM (Zz0t1) 188
If the Indians had their way, there would never be another slice of cow broiled, or smoked, or grilled withing the United States.
I'm convinced that's the real problem all the Hindus have with BBQs. That's why they complain about smells and poisoning them when a little bit of the delicious aroma of hamburgers and steak permeating their nostrils. Do the Hindus drink cow's milk or is that verboten too? Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt) They have cheeses and yogurt. They aren't vegans, or most arent. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (8avO+) 189
Yes, they use all milk-based cow products...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (tOcjL) Well at least they won't be coming for everybody's chocolate milk. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (6ydKt) 190
He created a hummingbird sanctuary on his property. There are videos out there of him with hummingbirds landing all over him.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:52 PM (p4NUW) How are people EVER supposed to trust a guy like that?!? Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b) 191
The guys wife was the worst. she kept yelling at him from the yard, racist crap about the white man and calling him a coward. Really egging him on.
What she didn’t realize is I knew enough Hindi to figure out what she was saying. Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (BswBb) 192
They somehow manage to combine the worst possible stereotypes of left-wing lunatics and pinch-faced evangelicals from the 1980s into singular people. The phenomenal self-inflicted pig-ignorance about pretty much everything with boundless smug self-righteousness and dogmatic condescension to everyone who disagrees.
Posted by: Yeah, they're all awful at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (TbWk/) 193
I will respond to comments on the YT soon!
(can only do it on one device, and I'm busy, not just commenting, pulling clips for the next video to edit!) Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (xBVv0) And people say you need a hobby... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (xcxpd) 194
Great. A Naxalite.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (T6aVk) Maybe she has connections to Naxalites, but I thought Naxalites were terrorists that hid in the jungles and then would come out to blow up shit. Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (nvKZ7) 195
160 If the Indians had their way, there would never be another slice of cow broiled, or smoked, or grilled withing the United States.
I'm convinced that's the real problem all the Hindus have with BBQs. That's why they complain about smells and poisoning them when a little bit of the delicious aroma of hamburgers and steak permeating their nostrils. There is a very simple solution to that. Don’t fuckin immigrate here. Hell, don’t move here on a temp basis. Don’t come here as a tourist. (That also goes for immigrants to India, or elsewhere.) Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (T6aVk) 196
Nithya Raman is from Kerala, India. One of the major hotbeds of Communism in India for a long time.
The Caste System is essentially programmed for Communist appeal. Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM A former coworker is married to a woman from India. Her opinion of India can be summed up as "f@#k that shitehole country. All my family left the minute we could." Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (3uTNk) 197
193 And people say you need a hobby...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (xcxpd) ====== I actually filmed an opening for my next video. Editing beyond just cutting out my ums and ahs. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (xBVv0) 198
Yeah, India is such a great place, 2/3rds of the people still shit in the gutter. Posted by: Vengeance =============== You'd think someone with degrees from Harvard and MIT would go back to her home country and MIGA, but no. So much more satisfying to tell Americans how to run their cities and neighborhoods. We've really got to cut this shit off. I've never seen so many brown-skinned America-haters holding local offices. They know what they're doing. You get local control, terrify your white constituents (most of your tax base, probably) by threatening to call them racist if they don't support you, and just keep climbing. Someday that loathsome mayor of Dearborn will be governor, I bet. And we haven't seen the last of Omar Fateh by a long shot. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (XJ22o) 199
If the Indians had their way, there would never be another slice of cow broiled, or smoked, or grilled withing the United States.
--- Beef for the Hindis, pigs for the Muzzies. It might be a pincer move to ban meat. We'll ignore that plants scream, though. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (Fi81e) 200
Maybe she has connections to Naxalites, but I thought Naxalites were terrorists that hid in the jungles and then would come out to blow up shit.
Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (nvKZ7) They do all that but they are Maoists. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (T6aVk) 201
If it weren't for backyard BBQs and charcoal cooking, there would be no heat signature for most of the third world. Make of that what you will, but that's all they got.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (QaH55) 202
What she didn’t realize is I knew enough Hindi to figure out what she was saying.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (BswBb) Did she know enough English to understand, "Kiss my lily white ass?" Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (DwqWV) 203
The guy who owns the local liquor store and quickie mart is Indian. Although they don't eat beef (I think his sons do) they've traded some recipes with us and they're pretty good. Some awesome ways to do squash (when we had bumper crops of them). I'd bring bags full of squash, cucumbers, tomatoes and trade them for booze.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (jehhT) 204
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Beef for the Hindis, pigs for the Muzzies. It might be a pincer move to ban meat. We'll ignore that plants scream, though. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (Fi81e) Have we met? Posted by: Sepoy Rebellion at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (T6aVk) 205
94 I do hate spam. Its just disgusting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s) Compared to mystery meat in C rations? Posted by: javems at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (VnYeL) 206
The one thing I can say about Indians, as opposed to Muzzies: Indians don't come here to American demanding the freedom to shit in the streets.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e) 207
I haven't encountered any Indians trying to force the twisted culture on me. If I did, I'd suggest they go shit in the street, as is their wont to do.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (wBaIH) 208
32 Did the Pratt campaign do the Lego people ad? Because if not, he had a lot of other clever people supporting him
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (n3VHW) I read somewhere that the AI ads are coming from one guy who who is a Pratt supporter and happens to have set up an AI studio to do that kind of thing professionally, so he has all the necessary skills to also do that independently on his own time. Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (Sy6m/) 209
Separately, I took Ralphy to see one of my late mother's friends. She's about 91. I bring her a muffin from Tim Hortons and a timbit she can feed the dog.
Stuff happened. Ralphy ended up eating an entire blueberry muffin and a timbit today. He's happy.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (Sco7b) 210
Don’t fuckin immigrate here. Hell, don’t move here on a temp basis. Don’t come here as a tourist. (That also goes for immigrants to India, or elsewhere.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (T6aVk) Looking around the world it seems about every Anglosphere nation is being overrun with Indians. U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, NZ - all packed. The Indians will take over the world in a century just because they colonized every country except China and Russia. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (6ydKt) Posted by: Apu at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e) 212
194 Great. A Naxalite.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (T6aVk) == Do not take Naxalite if you are allergic to Naxalite. Consult your healthcare professional. Side effects include, but are not limited to, headaches, runny nose, hives, hypertension, osteopenia, sore throat, dementia, and death. Posted by: The FDA at May 15, 2026 04:15 PM (PiwSw) 213
The bad news just keeps coming.
Posted by: torabora at May 15, 2026 04:15 PM (/u6C6) 214
160 If the Indians had their way, there would never be another slice of cow broiled, or smoked, or grilled withing the United States.
I think the people of Goa, India are meat eaters -including pork and beef. Goa was colonized by the Portuguese. Christians in India (Goa) like to eat beef and pork. Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:15 PM (nvKZ7) 215
Don't take Naxalite if you're allergic to Naxalite.
Side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, and cannibalism. Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at May 15, 2026 04:15 PM (2Ez/1) 216
Kohl's Mom intrigues me.
Ellie Kemper is a cutie. She was in an odd *comedy* where she was abducted by a cult that thought the world was ending and years later was rescued and she tried to return to having a normal life. Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm) 217
There was a bar in Spenard that would sell you a bottle of Dom Perignon and it always came with a free can of Spam. Called the Fly By Night Club. Hilarious. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (DwqWV) Way back when I was stationed at Ft Rich *koff koff* years ago, I only went to the Fly By Night a couple of times. It's something that I thoroughly regret from those years. On the other hand, I was a Koots regular, especially when Tommy Rocker was in town. Later I found that he stole a lot of his schtick from John Valby, but it was still fun. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (y9nCu) 218
Don’t come here as a tourist. (That also goes for immigrants to India, or elsewhere.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (T6aVk) Took my dogs up to Eklutna Lake for a jaunt off leash. Had some Indian tourist berate me for "scaring their daughter." My dogs did not go anywhere near his daughter. I put up with his harangue for almost a whole minute before I asked him if I could visit his country and tell him what to do. End of conversation. Dogs had a lovely time. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (DwqWV) 219
Most people from India aren't big on meat. Hispanics and Blacks like meat & barbeques though--probably more than the average white person. She might be losing the Hispanic & Black vote.
Posted by: Dave at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (sbsMc) 220
You'd think someone with degrees from Harvard and MIT would go back to her home country and MIGA, but no. So much more satisfying to tell Americans how to run their cities and neighborhoods.
We've really got to cut this shit off. I've never seen so many brown-skinned America-haters holding local offices. They know what they're doing. You get local control, terrify your white constituents (most of your tax base, probably) by threatening to call them racist if they don't support you, and just keep climbing. Someday that loathsome mayor of Dearborn will be governor, I bet. And we haven't seen the last of Omar Fateh by a long shot. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (XJ22o) If it’s good enough for the Presidency it should be good enough for everyone right down to dog catcher: you don’t hold office unless you are a natural born US citizen. Posted by: Cos Demon at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (T6aVk) 221
206 The one thing I can say about Indians, as opposed to Muzzies: Indians don't come here to American demanding the freedom to shit in the streets.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e) I'm not too impressed by their big rig trucking skills so far. I'd probably like them all a little more if they'd quit calling to tell me there's a virus on my PC. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt) 222
Missed it by THAT much!
Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (2Ez/1) 223
The Indians will take over the world in a century just because they colonized every country except China and Russia.
Indians just kept having kids while the rest of the world stopped. Its odd because they aren't actually anti-feminist either, but they are still fairly natalist compared to the rest of the countries similar to them. Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm) 224
Actually …. Given the galactic level of stupidity systemic to the LA metro, this is not that bad an idea.
Who is John Galt ? Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM (as+uv) 225
I knew it was all coming down when they TOLD us what kind of light bulb we HAD to use.
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM (NWIIQ) 226
Most cities are no longer American. La , NYC, Miami, Seattle, etc English is a second or even third language. Midwestern cities are still marginally American but give it 20 years and they’ll be 3rd world shitholes as well.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (i/qvw) 227
I don’t grill but I’m willing to march on this issue.
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg) 228
I deal with high caste Indians a lot. Mostly doctors. The men are generally fine, but the women are insufferable.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (XvL8K) 229
Indians just kept having kids while the rest of the world stopped.
The Indian fertility rate is below replacement. ndia's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) stands at 1.9 births per woman, which is below the replacement level of 2.1.A TFR of 2.1 is the required rate for a generation to exactly replace itself. India’s drop to 1.9 means the country's population growth will eventually stabilize and begin to decline Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t) 230
India runs England already
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (Ia/+0) 231
Someone mentioned that the Dumbest Wine Box in America finalist, Ann Althouse, was super upset that an obviously fake video of a tomato hitting Mayor Chia Pet was an incitement of violence against women.
How that stupid bint has an audience still I don't know. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 03:33 PM (73/SM) **** Remember our Sarah Palin ad with the reticule? She never recovered from that. Team Blue loves to use actual violence and to suborn violence and to idealized violence also jumps to condemn any possible connotation of violence coming from Team Red. Posted by: torabora at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (/u6C6) 232
>> Did she know enough English to understand, "Kiss my lily white ass?"
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (DwqWV) Imagine this ma’am. Ten guys, not really small people, some armed, with families, knocking down beers, cooking steaks and burgers and generally having a good time. Guy walks up in broken English, his wife yelling across the fence, and tells you he doesn’t like the smell of your bbq. We all look at each other and thought he was joking. Then my brother looks at me, looks back at the guy and asks if he wants to try a burger, they’re really good. lol. These people aren’t worth it. Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (BswBb) 233
226 Most cities are no longer American. La , NYC, Miami, Seattle, etc English is a second or even third language. Midwestern cities are still marginally American but give it 20 years and they’ll be 3rd world shitholes as well.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (i/qvw) Seattle is still English but some towns in central WA are majority Spanish signs on the shops. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (xcxpd) 234
This might be seen as virtue signaling: but don't get the wrong idea about how I feel about India. There are many Hindi coworkers who are dear to me.
It's just the country they came from. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e) 235
225 I knew it was all coming down when they TOLD us what kind of light bulb we HAD to use.
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM --- Sittin' right here, boss. Posted by: Your low flow toilet at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (2Ez/1) 236
Looking around the world it seems about every Anglosphere nation is being overrun with Indians. U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, NZ - all packed.
The Indians will take over the world in a century just because they colonized every country except China and Russia. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (6ydKt) Please for group discount rate for boom-boom time? Posted by: Indians in Pattaya, Thailand at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (wVcYX) 237
I think they eat a lot of bananas and rice.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (vFG9F) 238
161 I once saw a video clip of a train in India with as many people on the roof as in the cars. One guy was standing when the train lurched. He instinctively grabbed for the nearest point to steady himself, which turned out to be the power line above the train.
It did not go well for him. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t) There are a LOT of videos out there of Indians meeting their maker by way of power line electrocution. Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn) Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (Riz8t) 240
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:12 PM (3uTNk)
The Indian guy who runs one of the dry cleaners in my town came here legally about thirty five years ago, set up his business and absolutely loathes leftists. We frequently have political talks when I go on there and there are no other customers. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (n3VHW) 241
Speaking of grilling...my new beer cozy says it will keep my beer cold.for two hours.
WTF!!! What pansy-assed wimpy boy takes two hours to drink a beer? Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (2WIwB) 242
Its odd because they aren't actually anti-feminist either, but they are still fairly natalist compared to the rest of the countries similar to them.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM (sKqQm) There's 1.5 billion in India alone. They obviously like to screw and aren't into abortion. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (6ydKt) 243
229 Indians just kept having kids while the rest of the world stopped.
The Indian fertility rate is below replacement. ndia's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) stands at 1.9 births per woman, which is below the replacement level of 2.1.A TFR of 2.1 is the required rate for a generation to exactly replace itself. India’s drop to 1.9 means the country's population growth will eventually stabilize and begin to decline Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t) ====== Africa is the only major region to still be above replacement rate, and even that's suspect. Would I trust Zimbabwe's reported birthrate numbers if their birthrate was part of the calculation for how much foreign aid they receive? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (xBVv0) Posted by: Team Muzzie at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (/u6C6) 245
227 I don’t grill but I’m willing to march on this issue.
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg) We grill all summer and all winter. DH likes charcoal. And it means less work for me, and I'm all in on that. Lol. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (DwqWV) 246
124 Ideas Whose Time Has Come:
1. Posted by: Axeman A tooth in every socket! Posted by: Zombie FDR at May 15, 2026 04:21 PM (ycI94) 247
I'm not too impressed by their big rig trucking skills so far.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt) --- Well, I think if they'd go through the full certification, the ones that got through that would probably have a better road record. What we've seen are the DEI express recruits. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:21 PM (Fi81e) 248
Where is Comrade Bush when you need him?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (sKqQm) Yeah, because it started with him, (granted, he coulda stopped it, but point being is that this has been going on a long time.) Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:21 PM (T6aVk) 249
226 Most cities are no longer American. La , NYC, Miami, Seattle, etc English is a second or even third language. Midwestern cities are still marginally American but give it 20 years and they’ll be 3rd world shitholes as well.
Posted by: Heroq Incorrect, Montec Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:21 PM (vpULL) 250
WTF!!! What pansy-assed wimpy boy takes two hours to drink a beer?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (2WIwB) Only takes 15 seconds for a longneck.... Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (DwqWV) 251
8647 carved in the grass at Trump's golf course in NJ. Unreal.
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/) 252
If this Democrat cunt enraged *Angelenos,* of all the people in the world, I mean... that's impressive. Nice job pissing off a city of people who buy pixels by the barrel. Bold move. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (BI5O2) 253
Africa is the only major region to still be above replacement rate, and even that's suspect.
Almost. Parts of the Muslim world, e.g. Afghanistan, are still above replacement. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t) 254
I don’t grill but I’m willing to march on this issue.
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg) --- I'm glad I switched to a griddle (about the same time as it seems everybody else has. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (Fi81e) 255
I put up with his harangue for almost a whole minute before I asked him if I could visit his country and tell him what to do. End of conversation. Posted by: tcn in AK ============== Perfect! Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (XJ22o) 256
Africa is the only major region to still be above replacement rate, and even that's suspect.
Would I trust Zimbabwe's reported birthrate numbers if their birthrate was part of the calculation for how much foreign aid they receive? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (xBVv0) And here I thought they were all dead of sexually transmitted AIDS. the Health Fraud lobby lied to me again! Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (8avO+) 257
Seattle is still English but some towns in central WA are majority Spanish signs on the shops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (xcxpd) I was at a Walmart south of the city, can’t remember where by the airport kind of. I would have sworn I was in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (i/qvw) 258
That Lego was awesome. Hoping Pratt catches one of those lightning in a bottle type elections.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (n5tGW) 259
India runs England already
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (Ia/+0) I thought the Muslims and Saudi Arabians ruled England. The Royals sold out to the the Saudis a while back. Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:23 PM (nvKZ7) 260
251 8647 carved in the grass at Trump's golf course in NJ. Unreal.
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/) ======= "This is just an explanation about how to cancel the order for Number 47 at the local Chinese place." -Brian Stetler, sex machine Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:23 PM (xBVv0) 261
Sittin' right here, boss.
Posted by: Your low flow toilet at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (2Ez/1) I'd like to find the muthafu*ka that came up with that bullshit invention and give him a swirly every damned day. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:23 PM (2WIwB) 262
Almost. Parts of the Muslim world, e.g. Afghanistan, are still above replacement.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t) --- Abrahamic religions produce kids way above average. Nothing else matched. For example: the Egyptians could not compete with the Hebrews. And everybody knows that story. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:23 PM (Fi81e) 263
Yeah, because it started with him, (granted, he coulda stopped it, but point being is that this has been going on a long time.)/i]
This was intended to be a joke, he's the one that says, "They are just doing the jobs Americans won't, really it is an act of love" and I was extending that to commie immigrants now with the "Comrade Bush" notation... Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 04:23 PM (sKqQm) 264
I'm not too impressed by their big rig trucking skills so far. Posted by: SpeakingOf ================ A little good news, SCOTUS decided 9-0 that freight brokers can be sued under state negligence law for hiring unsafe trucking companies. Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (XJ22o) 265
: Indians don't come here to American demanding the freedom to shit in the streets.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e) Shitting in the street is a national pastime in India. Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (QaH55) 266
Always been amazed that there aren't huge disease outbreaks in India, given their awful sanitation. Whether it's cholera , diptheria or worse ,the Indians must be used to the crud
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (gu0hJ) 267
Babu was from Pockeestahn, but still:
https://youtu.be/7a4Mv2d2DZ8 Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (2Ez/1) 268
251 8647 carved in the grass at Trump's golf course in NJ. Unreal.
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/) ----------- I wonder if this helps DOJ make their case against Comey. Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (G0vdT) 269
Sittin' right here, boss.
Posted by: Your low flow toilet at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (2Ez/1) I really don't get low flow toilets. They are probably a decent idea in CA where there's no damned water, but here water falls from the sky. No reason to use less. It comes down clean and plentiful. I blame Big Plunger. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (DwqWV) 270
68 What's with the hummingbird? Is that his campaign mascot or something?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (3uBP9) It's his chosen logo, yes. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer It's not often that a candidate for mere MAYOR ha sa campaign animal mascot logo. Heck, I can't even think of ANY candidate with that. Advanced level. Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:25 PM (Av6i5) 271
227 I don’t grill but I’m willing to march on this issue.
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg) We grill all summer and all winter. DH likes charcoal. And it means less work for me, and I'm all in on that. Lol. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (DwqWV) Whenever sales occur (around the big grilling holidays) I refill the Strategic Charcoal Reserve* in my garage. I'm looking for 50 cents/lb or less for Kingsford. Accept no substitutes. *Back when I could get it for 25 cents/lb, I had about 450 pounds of Kingsford twin-packs in the garage. Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 04:25 PM (wVcYX) 272
the Egyptians could not compete with the Hebrews. And everybody knows that story. Posted by: Axeman ============= Rlly?! The Egyptians weren't having sex? Or they were practicing infanticide all over the place? Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (XJ22o) 273
261 Sittin' right here, boss.
Posted by: Your low flow toilet at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (2Ez/1) I'd like to find the muthafu*ka that came up with that bullshit invention and give him a swirly every damned day. Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:23 PM (2WIwB) You two are cute. Paper straws! I'm down to my last 300 plastic ones or so.... Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (Sco7b) 274
268 251 8647 carved in the grass at Trump's golf course in NJ. Unreal.
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/) ----------- I wonder if this helps DOJ make their case against Comey. Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (G0vdT) ====== There was a small piece of news a couple of weeks ago that there's already a DOJ team on the case that separates out intelligence gathered from Comey's communications into two major buckets: related and not-related. It has a specific name which I can't remember. They already have his comms, and that's where the meat of the case against him is going to appear. Bets on him having a DM to some Dem congresscritter that says, "Yeah, I can't wait until Trump is fucking dead"? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (xBVv0) 275
I've got nothing against Indians personally.
It's just that most of them come to the U.S., and don't give a crap about the traditions or history or civics of this nation. They aren't unique with that problem among immigrant populations, but the Indians do really well in this country and far too many of them still want to transform America into India. I'm pretty sure if I moved to Bombay the last thing they'd let me and my fellow Yanks do is turn it into New York City. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (6ydKt) Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (Fi81e) 277
>>>WTF!!! What pansy-assed wimpy boy takes two hours to drink a beer?
Posted by: Diogenes >You put a nipple on it. And then feed him shooters of tequila. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (D1E+2) 278
Only takes 15 seconds for a longneck....
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (DwqWV) Brilliant marketing and engineering. The consumer is ordering more before he/she knows it! Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (2WIwB) 279
Hispanics and Blacks like meat & barbeques though--probably more than the average white person. Posted by: Dave at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (sbsMc) Every mom and pop BBQ place I ate at when I lived in Texas was owned by Black folk. I don't think any of them were under 300 lbs. NEVER trust a skinny cook. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM (y9nCu) 280
Some people are on X bragging that they are going to fly in to LA to vote for Pratt, since it's illegal to check voter ID.
I would advise these folks to be extremely careful. Posted by: Tina Peters at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM (Cjger) 281
Of all the people, there's no excuse for Indians coming here. They have a giant population in a giant country, jam packed with resources, ports, and with the benefit of British-engineered infrastructure, government, and social norms.
Live in your own huge, luxurious country, and stop pestering me. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:29 PM (BI5O2) 282
Always been amazed that there aren't huge disease outbreaks in India, given their awful sanitation. Whether it's cholera , diptheria or worse ,the Indians must be used to the crud
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (gu0hJ) There are, including plague, it just doesn't get any press. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 04:30 PM (lFFaq) 283
King Co WA was 54% white in 2020. 65% in 2010, 73% in 2000.
Given the rapid decline it’s most likely below 50% today. It’s a foreign county or just on the edge of being one. Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 04:30 PM (i/qvw) 284
I do hate spam. Its just disgusting.
——- Spam, and reconstituted powdered eggs, were the last meal for many troops in the field during WWII. The Army Air Force mess halls tried to keep bacon, and real eggs, on hand to serve the air crews before the big missions. They knew they were in for it. The Soviets were given a lot of stuff for “Lend Lease” (though they never paid anything) and would probably have lost without Spam. (And Studebaker trucks). I’d be willing to bet money there is warehouse somewhere over there STILL full of vintage Spam, and dehydrated coffee and other inedibles. A lot of veterans refused to eat Spam after the war, it’s easy to see why. Spam spam spam, every day. And then more Spam. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 04:30 PM (BbO+r) 285
Live in your own huge, luxurious country, and stop pestering me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:29 PM (BI5O2) But it is still stinky. So, there's that. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:30 PM (DwqWV) 286
Though I must admit that I cringe a bit whenever there is semi-violence in any of his ads. Whenever he appears in his super-hero guise, I get nervous, because i know in the next scene he's going to start punching people. And the throwing-tomatoes in the French Aristocrat ad was a bad idea, and kind of ruined what would have been the greatest ad ever.
It's not that I think it indicates that "right-wingers are dangerous," it's jut that the violence gives the commies something to point out and complain about, but yet doesn't really add anything to the impact or message of the ad. Without the violence parts, the ads would be unassailably perfect. Team Spencer: are you listening? Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (Av6i5) 287
I really don't get low flow toilets. They are probably a decent idea in CA where there's no damned water, but here water falls from the sky. No reason to use less. It comes down clean and plentiful.
I blame Big Plunger. Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (DwqWV) For an embarrassingly long time I didn't realize plungers were meant to force blockage material down the pipes, not remove it via suction. Posted by: Terrible gap in education at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (TbWk/) 288
Nood.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (NcvvS) 289
Nood
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (klDV6) 290
NEVER trust a skinny cook.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM (y9nCu) Thank you. Posted by: Zombie Paul Prudhomme at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (wVcYX) 291
Some people are on X bragging that they are going to fly in to LA to vote for Pratt, since it's illegal to check voter ID. ============== I wish California had a filthy-rich, pugnacious Republican organization that could take action on stuff like this. I want a hero! Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:32 PM (XJ22o) 292
Many years ago I read that because of the ingrained caste system, it's difficult for Indian municipalities to find people willing to work at sewage treatment plants.
Seriously, it's an infrastructure issue preventing them from advancing as a society. Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:32 PM (2Ez/1) 293
Live in your own huge, luxurious country, and stop pestering me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:29 PM (BI5O2) India was a socialist nightmare from independence up until the late 1980s. Their bureaucracy was so overwhelming nothing could get done without the paperwork, fees, and bribes, in triplicate. They've opened it up a lot, like China, but it's still a corrupt, top-down, oligarchy caste system that is in no way compatible with a republic like ours. Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:32 PM (6ydKt) 294
The vocals on his California Freedom ad are spot on. It does sound like the Mamas and Papas. Could be AI
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (7T8ei) 295
Rlly?! The Egyptians weren't having sex? Or they were practicing infanticide all over the place?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (XJ22o) --- Probably a combination. But it was the case through centuries before medical abortions. Probably if Egypt practiced infanticide it made the condition worse, which is why it would require a periodical purge by pharaohs to bring it into balance. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (Fi81e) 296
It's not that I think it indicates that "right-wingers are dangerous," it's jut that the violence gives the commies something to point out and complain about, but yet doesn't really add anything to the impact or message of the ad. Without the violence parts, the ads would be unassailably perfect.
Team Spencer: are you listening? Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (Av6i5) They will bitch regardless. Fuck em. Stop caring about what they think. Never worry about people who will find a reason to bitch. (You mean well - really! - but you are assuming rationality where none exists.) Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (T6aVk) 297
NEVER trust a skinny cook.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM ---- First, get a stick of butter. Posted by: Paula Deen at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (2Ez/1) 298
NOOD - "Sunny" Hostin
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 04:34 PM (GWDtl) 299
NEVER trust a skinny cook.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM ---- First, get a stick of butter. Posted by: Paula Deen at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (2Ez/1) --- Way ahead of you! Posted by: Marlon Brando at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (Fi81e) 300
The Soviets were given a lot of stuff for “Lend Lease” (though they never paid anything) and would probably have lost without Spam. (And Studebaker trucks).
I’d be willing to bet money there is warehouse somewhere over there STILL full of vintage Spam, and dehydrated coffee and other inedibles. A lot of veterans refused to eat Spam after the war, it’s easy to see why. Spam spam spam, every day. And then more Spam. Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 04:30 PM (BbO+r) Actually the Soviets and Russians have paid back the Lend Lease Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (8avO+) 301
Rlly?! The Egyptians weren't having sex? Or they were practicing infanticide all over the place?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (XJ22o) --- Probably a combination. But it was the case through centuries before medical abortions. Probably if Egypt practiced infanticide it made the condition worse, which is why it would require a periodical purge by pharaohs to bring it into balance. Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (Fi81e) In Ancient times abortions were dangerous - injuring the fetus in womb or poision it were often fatal to the mother too. It was more common to give birth and then do infanticide, like Moses in the bullrushes. Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (8avO+) 302
My county has more than its shsre of Indian people
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0) 303
8647 carved in the grass at Trump's golf course in NJ.
Vandalizing the property of my political enemy is good. Got it. Thanks for the clarification of the New Rules. Progress!! Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (sAmhv) 304
266 Always been amazed that there aren't huge disease outbreaks in India, given their awful sanitation. Whether it's cholera , diptheria or worse ,the Indians must be used to the crud
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (gu0hJ) Human shit as fertilizer in rice paddies is SOP in Asia. This is why I never drank out of the tap when I was over there. I always had cases of water in my abode in the ROK. Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (T6aVk) 305
Parts of the Muslim world, e.g. Afghanistan, are still above replacement. Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t) And then the Afghans start killing each other off in big bleeding bunches starting in their teens, because they're too stupid to just learn to live in peace between tribes. Any nation that has Buzkashi as the national sport is never going to be worth a shit. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (y9nCu) 306
Their Indian neighbors, the wife specifically, kept coming over every time they used their grill to complain that the smell was making them sick and poisoning them...
For a country that runs on cow patties...sheesh! Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (3g5Xe) Congress Rejected Biden's Demand for $50 Billion in Extra Spending for Medicaid Programs.
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Democratic Forays into Erotica New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party" Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Collective Names for Groups of People John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments John Edwards Campaign Excuses John Kerry Pick-Up Lines Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney Torments in Dog-Hell Greatest Hitjobs
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny More Margaret Cho Abuse Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed" Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means Wonkette's Stand-Up Act Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report! Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet The House of Love: Paul Krugman A Michael Moore Mystery (TM) The Dowd-O-Matic! Liberal Consistency and Other Myths Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate "Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long) The Donkey ("The Raven" parody) News/Chat
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