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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, May 16
Baby skunks think the cat is their mommy.. 🥺 pic.twitter.com/1Cr1zVZx2e
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 10, 2026
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.Wondering if his kitty brother needs help catching a fly. pic.twitter.com/3suQK6uLIu
— Piper (@piper_moves) May 14, 2026
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!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
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.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)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)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2026 03:25 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 16, 2026 03:26 PM (fE6HJ)
But otherwise seems perky and normal
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 16, 2026 03:27 PM (fE6HJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 03:32 PM (hlNSv)
Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 03:32 PM (rdeQO)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:35 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 16, 2026 03:36 PM (7T8ei)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 03:37 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
Thanks. Wondercide sounds great, but DH is allergic to cedar.
Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 03:50 PM (rdeQO)
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)
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)
Posted by: Joyenz at May 16, 2026 03:56 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2026 03:56 PM (Cqx++)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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++)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 04:07 PM (ksbjf)
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)
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:Did you know we find birdsong relaxing because our brains associate it with safety since birds stop singing when predators are near?
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 13, 2026
On top of this, their songs are particularly pleasant to your ear also because of the striking similarities between theirs and human music. pic.twitter.com/Lf6JnDtU7G
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.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 01:45 PM (rdeQO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2026 01:48 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:48 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:48 PM (cWLG3)
Posted by: Dreams of Pruppets at May 16, 2026 01:49 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 01:49 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 01:51 PM (kpS4V)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 01:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 01:56 PM (kpS4V)
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)
Tulip poplars have always intrigued me.
Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 01:59 PM (rdeQO)
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)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 16, 2026 02:06 PM (D1E+2)
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)
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)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 02:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Derak at May 16, 2026 02:12 PM (TnlVK)
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)
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+)
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)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 02:26 PM (w6EFb)
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)
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)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 16, 2026 02:43 PM (7T8ei)
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)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 16, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2026 02:49 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2026 03:00 PM (kpS4V)
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)
Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 03:05 PM (Ffkme)
Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 03:06 PM (Ffkme)
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)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2026 03:23 PM (w6EFb)
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)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:39 PM (4NO2D)
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”that might usher in precisely such a dark energy. As extreme as that sounds, I didn’t shrug it off. It’s too apparent that while some advances in Artificial Intelligence can clearly benefit civilization, it has already begun to warp our understanding of human relationships, inducing a corrupt funhouse distortion to the complex realities of love, or the mysteries of love when it is present and unconditional, and not at all connected to one’s image of oneself. Distortion at that level, minute and personal and all about love, is what can break us completely, individually and as a society, because being created in the image and likeness of the triune God (who is 100% Love), means our brains are a triune wholeism involving body, mind, and spirit and rooted in that love. Through our human brokenness we carry our imperfect comprehensions into every part of that wholeism. So, if we permit our understanding of authentic love to be messed with, we will participate in the shattering of our own foundations. “Foundations once destroyed,” the psalmist asked, “what can the just do” (Ps 11:3)?
Nothing will be left standing. AI cannot pray. It can compose but lacks that broken human element -– and the God-spark — that connects the words to the Word, in whom things all hang together. . .
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:
This is awesome.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 19, 2025
These guys used AI to discover a new molecule for treating MRSA and then instead of just going 'Look, we found a potentially helpful molecule' they went and tested it.
It actually worked at suppressing bacterial growth. Nowadays, you can just cure things. https://t.co/wzr0nO7aHu pic.twitter.com/ULwL2nWeIM
Would we know this if Elon Must hadn't bought Twitter?
“But several rellable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded.”
— Claire (@Claire_V0ltaire) May 15, 2026
- NY Times, 1922 with previous “deeply reported” opinion pic.twitter.com/Ey01dC9UYb
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:
Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) May 15, 2026
Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons…
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:
Le socialisme n'est pas une théorie économique.
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) May 14, 2026
C'est une structure morale qui a besoin de trois choses pour exister :
1. De la rareté à redistribuer
2. Des victimes à défendre
3. Une classe d'intermédiaires pour orchestrer le tout
Retirez un seul de ces trois piliers… https://t.co/uXLFYrxyD9
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.
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.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: doug at May 16, 2026 11:20 AM (Hy+R4)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 16, 2026 11:27 AM (Apzx6)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 16, 2026 11:29 AM (XvL8K)
Seattle considers state of emergency due to all of the 2SLGBTQIA+ refugees from Texas
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Seattle will be fabulous now!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:32 AM (ndZc7)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 11:34 AM (Ia/+0)
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)
Posted by: The Head Pharisee at May 16, 2026 11:37 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:37 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 11:37 AM (bss/y)
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)
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
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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)
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)
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)
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)
>>>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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: KT at May 16, 2026 11:46 AM (rdeQO)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 11:48 AM (Ia/+0)
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)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at May 16, 2026 11:49 AM (Wt18Q)
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.
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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)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 11:53 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 11:53 AM (bss/y)
When data gets heavy in Loudoun County
https://tinyurl.com/4w43fzr6
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 11:54 AM (Riz8t)
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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)
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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)
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at May 16, 2026 11:57 AM (N5734)
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)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2026 11:59 AM (U/Byj)
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/)
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)
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)
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)
I think you may be on to something.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
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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)
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.
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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)
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)
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/)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 16, 2026 12:04 PM (Apzx6)
How Data Center Alley Is Changing Northern Virginia
When data gets heavy in Loudoun County
https://tinyurl.com/4w43fzr6
Posted by: Archimedes
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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)
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)
Wildly huge power user who doesn't tend to pay for that usage that hurts homeowners...
Posted by: Nova Local
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:08 PM (rbvCR)
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)
What's the problem with a data center?
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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
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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)
Good point.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 12:13 PM (diia5)
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)
Take a look.
https://www.datacentermap.com/content/nova/
Posted by: Archimedes
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Zombie Albert Speer, The Lost Koch Brother at May 16, 2026 12:15 PM (QGJ7D)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl
*******
The white envelope was passed.
Posted by: Cosda at May 16, 2026 12:15 PM (VNcOi)
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)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixt
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 16, 2026 12:18 PM (0aYVJ)
Bottom line, not cost effective overall.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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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)
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)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (z2aPa)
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
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Awww. Give The Big Dummy a treat for me.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:21 PM (XJ22o)
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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 12:23 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
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)
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)
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
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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)
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)
This is both exciting and ominous. The speed of technological progress is great, it really is.
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But what are the Europeans doing?
*bites fingernails nervously*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 12:26 PM (HdYcL)
Of course they are. There's nothing to worry about.
Posted by: The Tyrell Corporation at May 16, 2026 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:27 PM (z2aPa)
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
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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)
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)
*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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2026 12:29 PM (6C3mT)
You are clearly unfamiliar with NoVa in August.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 12:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)
The Europeans are moving to Singapore, the US, Israel, or Dubai for research.
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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)
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
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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)
OT: but there is an ULTRA El Nino on the way!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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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)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 16, 2026 12:33 PM (D1E+2)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:37 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2026 12:34 PM (rbvCR)
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Acknowledged, that is a nightmare.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:38 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Kafiroon at May 16, 2026 12:41 PM (IzMux)
Alright, which one of you maniacs crossed Blonde Morticia with an Axolotl?
Posted by: Archimedes
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I arise from Tenochtitlan, worshiper of Huitzilopochtli!!
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:41 PM (XJ22o)
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)
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)
The goal is large scale manatee farming in NoVa.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:45 PM (z2aPa)
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
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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)
Posted by: The Priests of the Temples of Syrinx at May 16, 2026 12:45 PM (fpvB5)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 12:46 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
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)
Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at May 16, 2026 12:49 PM (fpps3)
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)
Then how do you explain sunfish?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)
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
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM (z2aPa)
Yup. Elon is looking at both marine and space-based DCs.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 12:54 PM (Riz8t)
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)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 12:53 PM
ISWYDT
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:55 PM (4NO2D)
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)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 12:55 PM (4NO2D)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 12:56 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
Or go nuclear.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 12:57 PM (jehhT)
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)
But what are the Europeans doing?
*bites fingernails nervously*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Hee hee.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:57 PM (XJ22o)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
I want less Chinese here than more
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 01:02 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
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)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 16, 2026 01:05 PM (SiGDV)
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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)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:06 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 16, 2026 01:06 PM (q3u5l)
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)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2026 01:07 PM (z2aPa)
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)
Posted by: I really haven't settled on a nic at May 16, 2026 01:08 PM (rCPYx)
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)
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)
Radiators generally dissipate a few hundred watts per square meter (usually 300 to 460 W/m²
, depending on their operating temperature and materials.1 MW of IT load: Requires roughly \(1,200 \text{ m}^2\) if the radiator is highly efficient and operates optimally. More conservative estimates for standard spacecraft materials push this closer to \(3,000+\text{ m}^2\) per megawatt.A standard 50 MW data center: Cooling this would require roughly \(150,000 \text{ m}^2\) of radiator space (about 20 football fields), making massive centralized data centers in space completely unfeasible due to launch weight constraints.
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
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Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)
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)
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/)
Posted by: SciVo at May 16, 2026 01:12 PM (Sy6m/)
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)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 16, 2026 01:13 PM (3uBP9)
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)
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)
Posted by: Weasel at May 16, 2026 01:17 PM (GNqmQ)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:17 PM (cWLG3)
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)
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)
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)
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Great target practice for anti-satellite weapons!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:18 PM (cWLG3)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:26 PM (4NO2D)
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Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (6ydKt)
Bastiat's Candlemaker's Petition:
http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (4NO2D)
- NY Times, 1922 with previous “deeply reported” opinion
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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)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 16, 2026 01:28 PM (D1E+2)
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)
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)
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You just need dilithium crystals for the processing matrix. 🤓
Posted by: Star Trek Nerd Supreme at May 16, 2026 01:29 PM (cWLG3)
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+)
I see that AOC has arrived.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 01:30 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:30 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:27 PM (4NO2D)
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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)
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)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (W5mpo)
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)
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)
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)
>>> 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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKSvyVIi47U
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:39 PM (W5mpo)
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)
They were the ones pushing data centers 25 years ago
Posted by: barbarausa at May 16, 2026 01:42 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:47 PM (cWLG3)
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)
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)
- 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)
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 01:50 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Big Penguin at May 16, 2026 02:02 PM (0sNs1)
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)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz!
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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)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:40 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: epador at May 16, 2026 02:50 PM (TRnzq)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 02:51 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: jayhawkone at May 16, 2026 03:00 PM (QSaoA)
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Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:20 PM (4NO2D)
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)
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)
https://tinyurl.com/m4r3hnjf
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 16, 2026 03:28 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Pooklord. at May 16, 2026 04:00 PM (asU3w)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good 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!
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 3/10 – Update on Susan, who we have been praying for as she battles cancer. She is hospitalized again with an infection in her colon that quickly turned bad. The doctor says the signs are sepsis but they are running tests to make sure. The good news is that the pancreatic cancer was and is responding to the chemo and her cancer numbers are going down. God bless and thank you!
4/18 Update – Susan is doing outstanding. Her weight is better than expected. They have increased her dosage for chemo, and her cancer numbers are the lowest they have been since they started keeping track of them. They are so thankful for the mercy they have received. Thanks to everyone for the thoughts and prayers. 3/28 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for a dear and long time close friend and former neighbor, Daniel, who is scheduled for open heart surgery in mid-April. Prayers for his wife would be appreciated as well, as she will be carrying a heavy load for the next few months.
4/18 Update – Daniel survived his complex open heart surgery. He is sitting up and it seems like it went well, but they are not going to release him as quickly as he would like, so he is not happy. Thanks to the Horde for the prayers and please keep praying for his dear wife, who now has even more to put up with. 3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come in today and let them know the plan.
4/9 Update – On 4/1 Mr. Jordan61 was released from the hospital with six weeks of IV antibiotics, which Jordan61 is administering every 8 hours. He’s in a lot of pain; they’ve given him oxy, fentanyl, and dilaudid, and nothing seems to touch it. From what they were told, the pain won’t subside until the infection is cleared up. For the time being, he is bed-bound and they are limiting his movement as much as possible to keep the pain to a minimum. Jordan61 will send updates with progress.
4/25 Update – Mr. Jordan61 is making slow but steady progress. He can get up and walk for short periods of time, and can sit in the living room for an hour or so per day. He is halfway through the IV antibiotics, with 3 weeks to go. A physical therapist will be coming to help him build strength and learn how to move without aggravating his back injury. Thank you all for the prayers! 4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now. Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
4/24 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth provided an update: The pump that was put in to battle cancer in December can only be used for 6 months. After that, it starts to damage the liver. So she may have to go back onto the medication that made her lose her hair and messed up her vision and nails, and then return to this medication after a break. This is not good news, since this new medication is working so well. But for now, she is doing well and is incredibly grateful for the time that she has been given so far. 4/11 – Eromero craves prayers for Mrs. E., as she has been diagnosed with lymphoma. She begins infusions on 4/23.
4/25 Update – Mrs. E. reports that she feels fine. Praise be to God that she has had only one distressful episode during the infusions. Thank you for all the past and continued prayers. 4/18 – Vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for Captain Whitebread, who is back in ICU with a leg infection that sounds very serious. She also asked for prayers for her husband’s mental and emotional well-being as he faces transition of a possible forced retirement in 3 months.
4/29 Update Captain Whitebread’s son posted that Captain Whitebread had several more infections and passed away on 4/29. 4/18 – Warai-otoko offered a prayer of thanksgiving that he got a new job that he is really enjoying. Wifey also got an offer for a new job that sounds great, after a decade of putting up with her old job. 4/18 – neverenoughcaffiene asked that Devyn be kept in prayers. She is a young mother of 2 with a mass on her esophagus. The Doc said it was scar tissue and hopefully the second opinion will agree. 4/18 – Smell the Glove could use some prayers as therapy and rehab occur after gout/sepsis.
5/2 Update – The gout has cleared and the infection in the lower back is healing. 4/18 – PA Dutchman asked for prayers for his family. His dad passed away on 4/9 after complications from a fall. He was 95 and a veteran of the Korean War, 34th Inf Rgt. Mostly prayers are need for PA Dutchman’s mom, who is absolutely heartbroken. 4/18 – PabloD has been having dizzy spells for the past few weeks. He is seeing a doctor soon, and is requesting prayers that figure it out and that it’s nothing too serious. 4/18 – Sam Adams requested prayers for a friend, Mary F, who was just sent to a long-term recovery facility after having a tracheostomy.
5/2 Update – Mary’s breathing is improving, and they are weaning her off assisted breathing. She is now off the ventilator for 12 hours a day, and they are aiming for 14 hours soon. Many thanks to all of the Moron Horde for the prayers. 4/18 – Doof provided an update on his mother. She is doing better. She moved into her own room in an assisted living facility. It’s walking distance from Doof’s house, which is great. Her mental state has improved dramatically. She can no longer walk but she does stand with some assistance and can transfer between a wheelchair and bed or a lift/recliner chair. This facility is more of a home and less of a hospital, which hopefully will provide a good opportunity for her to enjoy life. He appreciates the Horde’s prayers and asks for prayers that she settles in comfortably and develops new friendships. 4/24 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for a friend’s father (Cory), who needs prayers for strength and peace as he is going through some troubled times. 4/27 – Matthew Kant Cipher sent his thanks to those who prayed for his friend Layne (who is also his son’s FIL). The Horde may recall that in August, Layne was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He has since undergone courses of chemo, immunotherapy, and radiation. His latest scans came back clean. The cancer is in remission; praise be to God! Prayers are also humbly requested for Mrs. MKC, who is dealing with a new flare-up of a GI condition that had been leaving her alone until a recent procedure re-aggravated it. It is very frustrating/discouraging as she waits to see a new GI doctor. 4/25 – Retired Buckeye Cop asked that we would continue to lift his 16 year old grandson (LH) up in prayers, as LH continues to consider the call to priesthood in the Catholic Church. LH recently went to a meeting with a group of young men who are considering the priesthood. 4/25 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers for “I”, who Fenelon visited and anointed with oil, and prayed for healing of her health concerns. 5/2 – neverenoughcaffiene requested prayers for parishioners at her church, who lost their newborn daughter, Astrid. 5/7 – turambar asked for prayers for relatives. Mom needs prayers as she was admitted to the hospital to check her heart and cardio. They did not find pneumonia. Two months ago, she fell at her assisted living place, and broke her hip. She also has dementia. Turambar’s uncle fell recently and broke his hip, too. 5/9 – D asked for prayers. He was let go from his IT job and has started a business making and selling lens cleaners to make ends meet. Please contact Annie’s Stew if you’d like more information – either to order lens cleaners, or if you’d like to contact him related to IT job openings (DBA/Network Admin). 5/11 – rez986 asked if anyone had an update on Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse’s health. The last info Annie’s Stew has was from January, 2026, that he’d been given 6 months to live due to heart failure and was being treated and waiting for a transplant at Mayo. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:49 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Caffiend at May 16, 2026 07:52 AM (oftw2)
{grammie}
Hiya JT
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:53 AM (Ia/+0)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:54 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Beaner and Cecil at May 16, 2026 07:54 AM (oftw2)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Erich Honecker at May 16, 2026 08:03 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 08:03 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2026 08:03 AM (2GVsD)
Job 11:18
Posted by: Marcus T at May 16, 2026 08:04 AM (E24OL)
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)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 16, 2026 08:04 AM (h7ZuX)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 16, 2026 08:07 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 08:08 AM (hOUT3)
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)
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)
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at May 16, 2026 08:12 AM (N5734)
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)
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.
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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)
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)
Prayers please for smooth sailing and no hiccups.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 16, 2026 08:14 AM (Kyh8Y)
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He is a Big Deal around here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 08:16 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 08:18 AM (vFG9F)
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)
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 08:22 AM (vFG9F)
I am borrowing your prayer.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 08:22 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026
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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)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 08:28 AM (wzUl9)
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)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 08:32 AM (VCgbV)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Let loose the Dogs of Hadrian!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 16, 2026 08:42 AM (hOUT3)
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)
Republicans fight to get along
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 08:45 AM (Ia/+0)
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)
https://x.com/NiedsG
https://tinyurl.com/mr28fvj2
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 16, 2026 08:53 AM (3ImbR)
And prayers are appreciated and returned for all.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 16, 2026 08:54 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:36 AM (ksbjf)
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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)
Morning kids.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 16, 2026 08:56 AM (drGq3)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 16, 2026 08:57 AM (ksbjf)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 08:36 AM (jehhT)
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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)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 16, 2026 08:58 AM (h7ZuX)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 16, 2026 09:01 AM (drGq3)
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)
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)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:03 AM (2NHgQ)
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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)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 16, 2026 09:07 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)
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)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:03 AM (2NHgQ)
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This sounds somewhat positive. Prayers will continue that the spot is benign.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (gu0hJ)
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)
Posted by: Just Wondering at May 16, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 09:13 AM (gu0hJ)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 09:17 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:19 AM (BI5O2)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 09:27 AM (daUIH)
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)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2026 09:11 AM (BI5O2)
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: RandomDave at May 16, 2026 09:30 AM (aJQbY)
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)
https://tinyurl.com/3pkjy8pc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 09:31 AM (+wdeh)
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)
Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:32 AM (I0N4X)
Prayers for all the Hordes needs.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2026 09:32 AM (Yypdw)
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)
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)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:25 AM (HdYcL)
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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)
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)
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)
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Miracles happen! God be with you!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 16, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)
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)
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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.
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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)
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)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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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)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 16, 2026 09:42 AM (26GAh)
Posted by: PabloD at May 16, 2026 09:42 AM (C30Iv)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 09:42 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 16, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh)
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)
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)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 09:45 AM (kJmSS)
Posted by: whig at May 16, 2026 09:38 AM (E4rtv)
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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)
Posted by: The Asshole Store
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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)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 16, 2026 09:46 AM (nz1sK)
Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:46 AM (I0N4X)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 09:49 AM (kJmSS)
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)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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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)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 09:51 AM (GQnTc)
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...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)
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)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (nz1sK)
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)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2026 09:47 AM (HdYcL)
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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)
Posted by: Someone has to type it at May 16, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)
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)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 16, 2026 09:52 AM (2NHgQ)
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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)
'Carpe diem' as a motto should not include telling people "I gotta pee!"
Posted by: muldoon at May 16, 2026 09:56 AM (I0N4X)
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)
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)
'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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (VCgbV)
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)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2026 10:01 AM (Riz8t)
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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)
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:05 AM (GD0B3)
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)
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)
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:07 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)
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:09 AM (GD0B3)
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)
"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)
These reporters are anything but honest.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 10:12 AM (xY6Tn)
NEVER SHALL THERE BE A FOURTH.
Posted by: Ivan IV, Grozny at May 16, 2026 10:05 AM (T6aVk)
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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)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 16, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 10:17 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 16, 2026 10:11 AM (T6aVk)
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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)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:17 AM (YmzeM)
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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)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (YmzeM)
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)
Posted by: Buckethead - not for free though at May 16, 2026 10:24 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:20 AM (VCgbV)
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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)
How is that even possible... Is it also "Grape Free"?
Posted by: t-bird at May 16, 2026 10:24 AM (iFEms)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 16, 2026 10:25 AM (0nHVk)
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)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:25 AM (VCgbV)
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)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Tony Hawk at May 16, 2026 10:29 AM (J4Dwc)
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)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 16, 2026 10:30 AM (kJmSS)
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)
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)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:36 AM (VCgbV)
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)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 16, 2026 10:38 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 10:39 AM (AphQx)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 10:52 AM (YmzeM)
Prayers up for all of the Horde's needs.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 16, 2026 10:52 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 10:53 AM (Ia/+0)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2026 10:59 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
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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)
Posted by: George Fennerman at May 16, 2026 11:00 AM (YmzeM)
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)
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
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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)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 16, 2026 11:04 AM (ndZc7)
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)
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)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 16, 2026 11:08 AM (Yypdw)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 16, 2026 11:09 AM (RZn4N)
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)
Posted by: toby928(c)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Tuna
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at May 16, 2026 12:36 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2026 12:49 PM (LHPAg)
Will pray for you, Inspector Cussword.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 01:33 PM (n3VHW)
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)
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Or whether he can overcome the attacks on his height.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2026 01:41 PM (cWLG3)
Thank you, Fenelon. I deeply appreciate it.
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at May 16, 2026 01:52 PM (lFFaq)
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 2026
Top Story
- SpaceX has shown off its Starship V3 and is planning for a test flight as early as this week. (Teslarati)
The upgrades include an improved PEZ dispenser.
Disappointingly, the PEZ dispenser is the name given to the release system for satellite clusters launched to orbit and doesn't actually dispense PEZ.
Starship V3 completed a static fire test last month and the test flight is scheduled for the 19th.
Tech News
- OpenAI wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts. (The Verge)
Not their bank accounts. Just yours.
- Americans would rather have a nuclear power plant in their backyard than a datacenter. (The Register)
I wonder what might be causing this negative sentiment.
- SK Hynix workers are now the hottest marriage prospects in South Korea, ahead of doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives. (WCCFTech)
In unrelated news, the company just gave its workers an aggregate $2.5 billion in bonuses. I think that's for a single quarter.
- Meanwhile Samsung is facing the prospect of a protracted strike by its own staff after failing to reach an agreement on bonuses. (PC Magazine)
If the strike goes ahead as planned, the company faces losses of around $1 billion per day.
Memory prices have increased on the news, because of course they have.
- Scientific paper preprint site ArXiv plans to ban researchers for a year if they submit AI-generated slop. (404 Media) (archive site)
One em-dash and you're out.
- The problem is the threat is only effective if they catch you. (The Verge) (archive site)
And AI is getting better at disguising its slop.
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)Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:31 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:33 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:33 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:34 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:34 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:36 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:37 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 16, 2026 04:38 AM (BLOW1)
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)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 04:40 AM (m5P/4)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:41 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:44 AM (G+2/5)
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)
clarence, you are on a roll
Posted by: m at May 16, 2026 04:49 AM (6wpGE)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 16, 2026 04:49 AM (O7YUW)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 05:09 AM (G+2/5)
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2026 05:10 AM (P/t0H)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)
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)
https://tinyurl.com/ydfn6mph
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 05:58 AM (rZCVI)
Sounds like a nice place!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026 06:03 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:10 AM (RIvkX)
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)
Sounds like a nice place!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 16, 2026
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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)
Am I late to this thread
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 06:16 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)
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Sounds great!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:17 AM (RIvkX)
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)
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)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026
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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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 16, 2026 06:31 AM (gu0hJ)
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)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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No house is perfect. How many of your requirements does this one meet?
Posted by: Tuna at May 16, 2026
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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)
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)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 16, 2026 06:39 AM (RIvkX)
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)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9)
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Sounds like you're a little bit excited so I hope it works out to your satisfaction.
Posted by: Tuna at May 16, 2026
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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)
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)
The organization is also barred from using young children in its ads.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 04:50 AM (m5P/4)
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Weird how NIMBY doesn't apply when it's YOUR backyard...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2026 06:45 AM (gnNyN)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Matthew 16:25
Posted by: Marcus T at May 16, 2026 06:52 AM (+ffGB)
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)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)
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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)
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F)
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)
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 06:56 AM (vFG9F)
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)
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)
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)
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
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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)
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)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 16, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9)
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)
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)
“ 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:13 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: DavidD at May 16, 2026 07:16 AM (MSTeU)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 16, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)
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)
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:25 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 07:25 AM (Ia/+0)
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)
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 16, 2026 07:37 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 16, 2026 07:47 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: m at May 16, 2026 07:47 AM (6wpGE)
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)
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)
stumbleupon everyday. It will always be exciting to read through articles
from other authors and practice something from their sites.
Posted by: beauty product photography studio at May 16, 2026 01:51 PM (4efuk)
In Fair Verona, Where We Lay Our ONT
Hi everyone! Well, we made it through another week, time for the Friday ONT! Let's start with presents:
Fido Friday: Waggles!
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Here at the HQ, we COBs have to take special classes on the care and feeding of Ace
TIL that I have an Amazon fetish
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In trouble
Did you ever read the back of old bootleg VHS tapes from China?
Never too old
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Furry problems
Hey, I'd buy an escalator if it was marked down
In which we do a sneaky
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Girls v Boys
Survival of the fittest
Dad! Help!
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I agree with fati
Versatile
This is what I imagine it's like at AOP's house
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The classics
Today's Venn diagram
Great moments in women's sports
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 15, 2026 10:01 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 15, 2026 10:01 PM (kOluj)
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Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:03 PM (/lPRQ)
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)
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 10:06 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:08 PM (Jr+re)
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)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 10:09 PM (m5P/4)
Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 10:09 PM (diia5)
... 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)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 10:12 PM (Kyh8Y)
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)
Thanks WD!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 15, 2026 10:13 PM (uTEOj)
Posted by: Weirddave at May 15, 2026 10:13 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 15, 2026 10:15 PM (xcxpd)
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)
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)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2026 10:16 PM (0Htd1)
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)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 10:17 PM (YlWIZ)
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)
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)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:18 PM (oq9dX)
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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)
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)
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)
And a huge list of 'Tall Girl' problems that were epic.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2026 10:19 PM (Kyh8Y)
Posted by: mindful webworker - candygrammm at May 15, 2026 10:20 PM (cz4n2)
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)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr+re)
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)
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)
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
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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)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 15, 2026 10:23 PM (uTEOj)
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)
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)
Posted by: alpine_beer at May 15, 2026 10:25 PM (van9r)
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)
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?
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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)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 10:26 PM (vTZFs)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:28 PM (LmPA0)
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)
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I was thinking, green hair: "You're on your own, kid."
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 10:29 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:29 PM (oq9dX)
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)
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)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 10:30 PM (XV/Pl)
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)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (LmPA0)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 10:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (LmPA0)
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Twenty bucks, same as in town.
(Obligatory)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:34 PM (LxER7)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 10:35 PM (gKWVE)
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)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 15, 2026 10:36 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:36 PM (ZVgZ4)
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)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 10:37 PM (bNzW0)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:37 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2026 10:37 PM (LmPA0)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:38 PM (oq9dX)
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)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 10:39 PM (viF8m)
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)
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)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:41 PM (oq9dX)
...brb
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 10:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 10:43 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 10:44 PM (0aYVJ)
Mess around with Maddy you will regret it.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:46 PM (ZVgZ4)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Bulg
Peace Officers Memorial Day
Posted by: Tuna at May 15, 2026 10:48 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:48 PM (ZVgZ4)
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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)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:50 PM (77rzZ)
...brb
Posted by: gKWVE
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Think she'd let me hump her leg like a poodle?
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 10:51 PM (6C3mT)
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)
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)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:52 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 10:43 PM (CHHv1)
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Be ashamed if something happened to it!
Posted by: Two Guys from Jersey at May 15, 2026 10:53 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 10:55 PM (ZVgZ4)
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I bet there’s a Code for that
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 10:56 PM (bNzW0)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 10:57 PM (bNzW0)
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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.
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Fucking Boasberg.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 10:58 PM (Fi81e)
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
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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)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:50 PM (77rzZ)
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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)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake,
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 11:01 PM (ZVgZ4)
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)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
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That's my line.
Posted by: Guy Who Always Says Nothing's Going to Happen at May 15, 2026 11:02 PM (Fi81e)
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)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 11:01 PM (0aYVJ)
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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)
Posted by: Pedro Pascal at May 15, 2026 10:31 PM (vSvIl)
Jeez!
What a hom...errr...never mind.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Repulsive?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:04 PM (9EFgU)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Spetsnaz at May 15, 2026 11:05 PM (4NO2D)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 11:05 PM (D1E+2)
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)
( now watch someone correct my kapélology. )
Posted by: Count Dracul at May 15, 2026 11:03 PM (diia5)
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I think they frown on Weapons of Mass Destruction on the field.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 11:06 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 11:08 PM (Fi81e)
Ayup. Speed is fine. Accuracy is final.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 15, 2026 11:09 PM (bNzW0)
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)
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/)
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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)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:15 PM (77rzZ)
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)
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)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:21 PM (6C3mT)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 11:25 PM (CHHv1)
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)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
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That's my line.
Posted by: Guy Who Always Says Nothing's Going to Happen
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Howdy there!!!
You outta Philly yet? I still worry about you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 11:29 PM (kJSFo)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 11:29 PM (ZVgZ4)
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)
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)
Posted by: JackStraw
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That sound's...kinky.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:34 PM (9EFgU)
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)
Posted by: JackStraw
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That sound's...kinky.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 11:34 PM (9EFgU)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Count de Monetl at May 15, 2026 11:48 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Norton From Newark at May 15, 2026 11:49 PM (oftw2)
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)
Good to see you here.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 11:50 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 11:51 PM (AnnNE)
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)
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)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 11:54 PM (oq9dX)
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)
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)
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Your dad made you guys eat Lamprey? That’s hardcore
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:57 PM (bNzW0)
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)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 11:58 PM (GQnTc)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 11:59 PM (viF8m)
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Meh. It's like spaghetti, but with teeth on one end.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:59 PM (6C3mT)
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)
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)
“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)
Posted by: Musloid at May 16, 2026 12:03 AM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:05 AM (GQnTc)
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)
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)
Now that she is transmutating into Aztecian being, only tzompantli will satisfy.
Posted by: Braenyard
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All things considered, I think my demands are entirely reasonable!
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:05 AM (XJ22o)
“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)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2026 12:09 AM (A5RD0)
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Meh. It's like spaghetti, but with teeth on one end.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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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)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2026 12:12 AM (9EFgU)
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)
https://youtube.com/shorts/6yGmNS_k3qo
#10 is a winner.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2026 12:15 AM (qx7Zg)
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)
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)
That's exactly how they feel about it too.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 12:19 AM (W5mpo)
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)
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)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:21 AM (GQnTc)
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)
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)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2026 12:24 AM (GQnTc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 16, 2026 12:25 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 16, 2026 12:25 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 11:21 PM (6C3mT)
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By all means.
Posted by: Big Lamprey at May 16, 2026 12:30 AM (Fi81e)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 16, 2026 12:34 AM (Fi81e)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake,
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Heya, Teresa. What a week!
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 16, 2026 12:52 AM (XJ22o)
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)
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
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Do you do that on a dyno?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 16, 2026 12:54 AM (XeU6L)
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)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Pics of old girlfriends and your wife found them?
Posted by: buddhaha at May 16, 2026 01:06 AM (a+u3Q)
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)
Posted by: Berserker
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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)
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)
Folks said it sucked.
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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
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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 at May 16, 2026 01:14 AM (cz4n2)
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)
Posted by: publius
Sssshh.
Everyone, stay calm. Do not make publius angry.
Posted by: mikeski at May 16, 2026 01:17 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Common Tater
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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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)
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)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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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)
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)
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)
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
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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)
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)
-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)
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)
Posted by: Xindltotl at May 16, 2026 01:38 AM (rbvCR)
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)
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)
https://youtu.be/Z6keBL3HYag
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - blue light specials at May 16, 2026 01:44 AM (cz4n2)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:45 AM (W5mpo)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 01:48 AM (W5mpo)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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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)
Posted by: Xindltotl
Confirm? This is Colonel Trautman, please acknowledge.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2026 02:00 AM (diia5)
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/)
Posted by: XiVotl at May 16, 2026 02:07 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 16, 2026 02:18 AM (W5mpo)
Posted by: XiVotl at May 16, 2026 02:26 AM (Sy6m/)
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)
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)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2026 02:58 AM (m5P/4)
Nobody cares, Bill.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Did he also announce that water is wet?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 16, 2026 03:06 AM (uIdDr)
Posted by: XiVotl at May 16, 2026 03:09 AM (Sy6m/)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2026 03:30 AM (Ia/+0)
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)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 16, 2026 04:29 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: clarence at May 16, 2026 04:31 AM (G+2/5)
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)Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (Ft2MX)
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Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 07:36 PM (zZu0s)
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)
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)
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 07:37 PM (GWDtl)
Posted by: Tuna at May 15, 2026 07:37 PM (lJ0H4)
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Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:38 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 07:38 PM (3ek7K)
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)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 07:48 PM (bOS38)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 07:48 PM (rbvCR)
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)
If Lincoln had this Congress, the South would have won.
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:49 PM (77Bgk)
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)
Radnor Hunt
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)
If Lincoln had this *electorate*, the South would have won.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:51 PM (U/Byj)
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)
Evil things are on the march tonight.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)
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)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 07:54 PM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 07:54 PM (YlWIZ)
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)
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Daddy's gonna kill Ralphy!
Posted by: Randy at May 15, 2026 07:55 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:57 PM (2GVsD)
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)
I am making yummy noises like crazy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 07:59 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 08:00 PM (D1E+2)
Take care JackStraw. Watch out for Elvis.
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 08:02 PM (NWIIQ)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:03 PM (z2aPa)
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)
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)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:11 PM (z2aPa)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 08:13 PM (vFG9F)
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)
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at May 15, 2026 08:14 PM (oftw2)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Intestinal Explosive Diarrheas.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2026 08:16 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 15, 2026 08:17 PM (jt/rW)
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)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 08:17 PM (T6aVk)
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)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 08:18 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: KT
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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)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:20 PM (z2aPa)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Ben Had
And I thought I liked you.
Posted by: Penguin Petey at May 15, 2026 08:23 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had"
We have decided to bypass Texas.
Posted by: Big Penguin at May 15, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F)
[insert gif of Nelson Muntz here]
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 15, 2026 08:24 PM (/HDaX)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: El Rumpo at May 15, 2026 08:27 PM (oftw2)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:29 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (D1E+2)
https://youtu.be/7a99DRw_QwQ
Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (VHUov)
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)
Posted by: Willie Brown, Speaker Emeritus at May 15, 2026 08:31 PM (oftw2)
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)
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)
Posted by: Witch Hazel at May 15, 2026 08:32 PM (oftw2)
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)
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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)
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)
Pelosi like?
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:37 PM (XuXeR)
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)
>>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)
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)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 07:56 PM (rbvCR)
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I agree.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 08:44 PM (ZOv7s)
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)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m)
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Rum rations are effective.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 15, 2026 08:46 PM (ZOv7s)
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)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:47 PM (ZVgZ4)
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)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 08:49 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 08:30 PM (viF8m)
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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)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:51 PM (ZVgZ4)
[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)
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)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:52 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:53 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Not Borned Yesterday
Hey! I'm right here!!
Posted by: Zombie Linda MaCartney at May 15, 2026 08:53 PM (Kyh8Y)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 08:56 PM (qrzX6)
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)
I'm so excited.
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 08:58 PM (ZFqKB)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Same with Chad Powers. One season and done. Really good show.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:01 PM (qrzX6)
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)
Posted by: Old Yeller at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (0aYVJ)
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)
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)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 08:51 PM (ZVgZ4)
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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)
Posted by: night lifted at May 15, 2026 09:03 PM (kJmLc)
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)
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)
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)
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)
"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)
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 09:02 PM (Sco7b)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:09 PM (qrzX6)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Is My Age Showing? at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (AnnNE)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 09:13 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:15 PM (bNzW0)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:16 PM (qrzX6)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Eh, it isn’t like they hate “America” - what I mean by that, they don’t say, hate the dirt or whatever.
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"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)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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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)
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)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 09:11 PM (bNzW0)
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 08:02 PM (HdYcL)
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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)
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++)
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)
I've eaten far weirder.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 09:28 PM (xJpaU)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:37 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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg
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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)
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)
I've eaten far weirder.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
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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)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 09:43 PM (xJpaU)
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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)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)
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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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg
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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)
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)
PA has been purple or toss up state for awhile.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:45 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 09:51 PM (NWIIQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Temu Obama is on a roll!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 09:51 PM (m5P/4)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)
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Urban areas cheat. They have corrupt voter rolls and phantom ballots. This is known.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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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)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:51 PM (/lPRQ)
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 09:56 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 15, 2026 10:02 PM (6lIrI)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg
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Were your little friends always inviting themselves over for dinner?
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 10:07 PM (oq9dX)
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 Woke
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.
Blue states have bled $2 trillion in wealth to red states in the last decade -- and New York leads the pack.New York had the biggest fall in cumulative adjusted gross income (AGI) -- losing $660 billion between 2012 and 2023. California came next with $503 billion in the same time period. In contrast, Florida gained $1.3 trillion, and Texas gained $371 billion between 2012 and 2023. It comes as billionaire bigwigs are beginning their Big Apple exodus as a result of Mayor Mamdani's wealth-bashing agenda. 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."
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.
... Chairman of the Narragansett Republican Party Anthony D'Ellena created a petition in an effort to keep the mural of Zarutska in Providence. "This is exactly what Democrats do -- they try to erase the memory of their victims and they don't fix their soft-on-crime policies," D'Ellena told WPRI-TV. "They erase the evidence, so no one sees the deadly price of their policies." ... Records from the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction show Brown has a prior criminal history, including convictions for larceny, breaking and entering and armed robbery. "Iryna was riding home on the train when a deranged monster, who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no-cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body," President Trump said.
NEW: Repeat offender and Broadway dancer shoves a 76-year-old retired teacher down New York City subway stairs, killing him.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 11, 2026
32-year-old Rhamell Burke was seen grinning in court after allegedly carrying out the horrific murder.
The victim, Ross Falzone, was a social worker for… pic.twitter.com/cBlbscyOOW
Savanah HernandezAnother accessory to murder:
@Savsays
May 11
WTF: So apparently this criminal, Rhamell Burke, attacked a young woman on the subway and chased her until she found police who could help her. She then DECLINED to press charges because she "didn't want to put another black man in jail". 5 weeks later, Burke shoves a 76-year-old retired teacher down a flight of stairs, killing him. 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. Burke had also already been arrested four times prior for assault, burglary and resisting arrest. Yet another horrific death that could have been prevented if NYC had enacted basic law and order and put this man in prison where he belonged...
“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.”
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 9, 2026
These are the words of the activist judge who… https://t.co/0D2mUllmxx pic.twitter.com/fw6fQfwPPB
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.
CBS News boss Bari Weiss blindsided "60 Minutes" legend Lesley Stahl by handing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first major US broadcast interview since the Iran war to Major Garrett -- a CBS News veteran who isn't part of the iconic show's correspondent roster, according to a report. The decision stunned staffers because Stahl, the longtime "60 Minutes" star, had spent months trying to land the Netanyahu sit-down, according to the Status newsletter. She was bypassed in favor of Garrett -- a respected Washington journalist who is currently chief White House correspondent at CBS News. The move marked the second time in recent months that Weiss reportedly secured a marquee interview for "60 Minutes" only to hand the assignment to Garrett instead of one of the program's own correspondents. In March, Weiss tapped Garrett to interview Secretary of War Pete Hegseth -- then instructed that the high-profile sit-down air on "60 Minutes" despite Garrett not being one of the program's correspondents, according to Status. According to Status, tensions erupted after Weiss personally booked Netanyahu for the interview and once again assigned Garrett to conduct it rather than Stahl or another "60 Minutes" correspondent.
The move reportedly sparked frustration among correspondents and producers, who viewed Netanyahu as having effectively gone around the traditional "60 Minutes" team with Weiss' assistance. Some staffers believed Netanyahu preferred Garrett because he was viewed as a more agreeable interviewer, according to the report.
Here is the clip.
— Alex "The Hatman" Baldwin (@TheHat2) May 14, 2026
Sarkeesian is responding to a question about what her biggest challenges are in trying to "shift the greater culture in games" and ending abuse and harassment.
This is her complete answer to that question. No clipping, no edits, nothing out of context. pic.twitter.com/9LNTZbIqqn
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 06:35 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Part-time Thinker at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (T/KJ0)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:38 PM (9maW1)
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He was just turning his life around, too.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:39 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 06:39 PM (YlWIZ)
--Who wants to break the news to her?
Posted by: logprof at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (jo6FO)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (Fi81e)
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)
Posted by: logprof at May 15, 2026 06:40 PM (jo6FO)
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Rigor mortis has been attained.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:42 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 15, 2026 06:42 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 06:43 PM (p4NUW)
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)
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I give you: the New Age of Dumbassery!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:44 PM (Fi81e)
Did they shake the dust from the bottom of their shoes, too?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 06:44 PM (9as64)
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)
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)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 06:46 PM (QLpfE)
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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)
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)
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)
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.”
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This fat fool is openly admitting racial preference in sentencing.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 15, 2026 06:47 PM (qsezt)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 06:47 PM (p4NUW)
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... or rig the census again ...
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:48 PM (Fi81e)
I need to buy some lottery tickets.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 06:48 PM (D1E+2)
Hey, pork, you voted for this.
No remorse
Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at May 15, 2026 06:49 PM (jZ3ZM)
Posted by: Common Tater
--It's called anarcho-tyranny.
Posted by: logprof at May 15, 2026 06:50 PM (jo6FO)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 06:52 PM (rJ48h)
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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)
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)
Shoe. Other foot. Blah Blah.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:53 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:54 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Common Tater
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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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:56 PM (Fi81e)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (p4NUW)
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)
“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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:57 PM (gu0hJ)
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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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:01 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 06:52 PM (rJ48h)
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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)
Remove them and the problem magically disappears.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:02 PM (RIvkX)
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)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 07:02 PM (Gqar8)
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)
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)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (U/Byj)
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)
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)
Welcome to the Big Apple, bring your body armor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:03 PM (2GVsD)
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We hope you don't get killed during your stay.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (Fi81e)
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.
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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)
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 07:04 PM (LHPAg)
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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)
-- 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)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (2GVsD)
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)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (U/Byj)
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)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (77rzZ)
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)
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)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:05 PM (Av6i5)
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Because Logic is racist.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (Fi81e)
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.
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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)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (9EFgU)
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She's a 1.
As in, Rule #1.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:08 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)
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Which leaves it where?
Or does Scamburger have a pen and a phone?
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:09 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (9EFgU)
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+)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (XMwZJ)
>>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)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 07:11 PM (2GVsD)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 07:10 PM (viF8m)
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:13 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
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
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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)
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)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 07:06 PM (U/Byj)
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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)
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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)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Crusader at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (TN0g+)
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)
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)
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)
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+)
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:18 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 07:16 PM (Av6i5)
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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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:19 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM (T8bqm)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
Posted by: Emmie at May 15, 2026 07:22 PM (FMtrg)
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)
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)
This is going on too long.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 07:11 PM
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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)
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)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:24 PM (GD0B3)
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)
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Definitely long bow--I mean fuck those crossbow wankers!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:24 PM (Fi81e)
Blue states have bled $2 trillion in wealth to red states in the last decade
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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)
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)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (GD0B3)
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)
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Cue Stonehenge....
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (Fi81e)
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)
I'm sorry, dear.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (vFG9F)
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Nope that just defrays one.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:27 PM (Fi81e)
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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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:28 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 07:28 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:25 PM (vFG9F)
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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)
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)
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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)
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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)
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:20 PM
___________________________
Hold My Beer!!!
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 07:30 PM (dIske)
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)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 07:30 PM (O7XEN)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:31 PM (GD0B3)
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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 07:32 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Bea Arthur at May 15, 2026 07:33 PM (zZu0s)
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)
US SUPREME COURT DENIES VIRGINIA'S REDISTRICTING APPEAL
Posted by: SMOD
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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)
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)
I have a wife so I know that nothing polite or sensible works
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 07:34 PM (T8bqm)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 15, 2026 07:57 PM (954tc)
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)
Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 15, 2026 08:01 PM (954tc)
Posted by: Halfhand at May 15, 2026 08:29 PM (9yZMF)
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 1.0
This 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.
A former inspector general who fast-tracked a "whistleblower" complaint that led to the first impeachment of President Trump in 2019 knew the whistleblower was a registered Democrat and Joe Biden loyalist yet still determined his complaint was "a matter of urgent concern that appeared credible," according to newly declassified documents. The documents also reveal the anonymous whistleblower secretly met with the Democratic staff of former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff prior to submitting his complaint in August 2019. Yet under direct questioning, the whistleblower -- later identified by RealClearInvestigations as intelligence analyst Eric Ciaramella -- failed to disclose those contacts in interviews with IG investigators or on whistleblower forms, according to more than 350 pages of intel briefings Schiff classified as secret and locked up in a Capitol vault. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford released the papers Monday morning after National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard declassified them late last week. Justice Department insiders say the documents factor into an ongoing grand jury investigation into an alleged "grand conspiracy" by former Obama and Biden officials to illegally target Trump in political espionage activities. Nonetheless, IG Michael Atkinson, then the intelligence community's top watchdog, did not question the whistleblower's political motivations, truthfulness or credibility.
More: the phone call that was the subject matter of ImpeachmentGate 2.0 -- the post-2020 election impeachment -- was, get this, illegally recorded.
Atkinson conducted no investigation of his interactions with Schiff staffers to see if political bias played a role in the preparation of his complaint, which alleged that Trump "had clearly committed a criminal act" in a 30-minute phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During that call, which was reported listened to by dozens of people, Trump told Zelenskyy "I would like you to do us a favor," and help investigate Biden's son's role in the Burisma scandal. It was later alleged that Trump held up Ukraine funding to force that assistance, which never came. The whistleblower was not in the White House at the time to witness the phone call and relied instead on the account of former White House colleague and political ally Alexander Vindman, who is now seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Florida as a Democrat. Second-Hand Hearsay An Obama holdover, Atkinson formally notified Schiff of the complaint in September 2019, paving the way for its release to the public. By allowing a second-hand hearsay complaint to be processed, Atkinson bent the longstanding rules of his office, according to the declassified briefings. He also transmitted the information to Schiff over the objections of then-acting National Intelligence Director Joseph Maguire, who had a legal opinion from the DOJ which overruled Atkinson's determination that the complaint was credible and urgent enough to warrant disclosure to Congress. "The complainant's allegations appear credible to me," Atkinson insisted in a Sept. 19, 2019, briefing before Schiff's committee. Atkinson called then-FBI Director Christopher Wray's chief of staff and briefed him on the complaint before filing a criminal referral with the bureau to investigate the allegations. Atkinson also testified about the whistleblower and his complaint during a classified session held on Oct. 4, 2019, during which he stated, "The complainant was not politically biased in any way." ... Atkinson refused to disclose the identity of the whistleblower "even now in a classified setting," because he said he felt compelled to "honor" his "request for confidentiality" -- even though the IG has the authority to disclose such information in the course of an investigation. At the same time, however, Atkinson revealed that the whistleblower disclosed under questioning by his team of three investigators that he was "a registered member of the Democratic Party [and] had a prior professional relationship with one of the Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 election." Ciaramella is listed in voting records as a registered Democrat. He worked directly with Vice President Biden on national security issues involving Ukraine and Russia. Ciaramella was even involved in internal Obama White House discussions over Burisma and Hunter Biden, as RCI also first reported. These facts did not raise flags with Atkinson. "There is no indication of any misconduct by the complainant related to this disclosure," Atkinson briefed the committee, adding that "the complainant has played by the rules." ... Then-House Intelligence member John Ratcliffe, now CIA director, said Schiff's office coached the whistleblower on how to file a complaint under intelligence community whistleblower protections before steering him to Atkinson, who facilitated the processing of his complaint, despite numerous alarms sounded by career Justice Department lawyers who reviewed it. The department's Office of Legal Counsel ruled that the complaint involved "foreign diplomacy," not intelligence, contained "hearsay" evidence based on "secondhand" information, and did not meet the definition of an "urgent concern" that needed to be reported to Congress. Still, Atkinson worked closely with Schiff to pressure the White House to make the complaint public. Former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz said cloaking the Biden CIA detailee in the whistleblower statute provided him cover from public scrutiny. By making Ciaramella anonymous, he was able to hide his background and motives.
Newly released depositions in Georgia confirm Federalist reporting that Democrats' attempt to imprison President Donald Trump for his 2020 election challenge in the state was based on a misinterpreted and illegally recorded phone call. For years, Democrats and the propaganda press claimed President Donald Trump had asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to steal the election, and further claimed their allegations were supported by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between the two men. In fact, Trump asked Raffensperger to take seriously the legal challenge that his campaign had made, which cited numerous areas where votes were in question. The call became the foundation for an impeachment effort and for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' since-discredited and dismissed racketeering case against Trump and his allies. The newly released testimony transcript confirms what The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway reported in 2024: The call wasn't just misconstrued, it was illegally recorded by Raffensperger's "second in command." Jordan Fuchs -- Raffensperger's deputy chief of staff -- admitted under oath that she recorded the call while she was in Florida, a two-party consent state that requires all parties on a call to consent to a recording. 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.
"I recorded the phone call," Fuchs admitted to the grand jury, shortly before admitting she immediately leaked it to The Washington Post, which had won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for its role in perpetuating the lie that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia. The call was the centerpiece of Democrats' and the propaganda press's "Get Trump" lawfare. Fuchs provided another leak to The Washington Post about another phone call from Trump a few days later. The Post later admitted its source -- Fuchs -- had provided false information about that call. "The Post misquoted Trump's comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to 'find the fraud' or say she would be 'a national hero' if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find 'dishonesty' there. He also told her that she had 'the most important job in the country right now,'" read The Washington Post's correction. "Several other major media outlets -- including NBC, ABC, USA Today, PBS, and CNN -- 'confirmed' the fabricated quotes from the Post's anonymous source by, get this, citing their own anonymous sources," Mark Hemingway explained. House Democrats would go so far as to cite the fake contents in their impeachment proceedings against Trump. Raffensperger's office and the media they leaked to made it seem as though Trump was asking Raffensperger to commit fraud or do something illegal. But as The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway pointed out, "Anyone familiar with the lawsuit knew Trump was saying his team had already 'found' nearly 150,000 irregular or fraudulent votes and simply needed the secretary of state's office to agree ... just that fewer than 10 percent of them were problematic." The provision of information from the secretary of state's office was sought in part because of the urgent timing issues in play. The court date the Trump team had secured for their legal challenge was Jan. 8, after Congress was scheduled to certify the Electoral College votes.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (bOS38)
Posted by: GF at May 15, 2026 05:32 PM (iVUs+)
Posted by: GF at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (iVUs+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 05:34 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:34 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (9maW1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (OYsYV)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fly gal at May 15, 2026 05:37 PM (EIbjg)
Posted by: Eric Ciaramella at May 15, 2026 05:38 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (BbO+r)
Someone should probably tell Oliver North that....
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:39 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (CWTWj)
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)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (BbO+r)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 05:40 PM (NWIIQ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (OYsYV)
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)
At this point, what difference does it make?
Posted by: hillary clinton at May 15, 2026 05:42 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:43 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (BbO+r)
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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)
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)
Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at May 15, 2026 05:44 PM (vFG9F)
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)
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)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (qrzX6)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (uK2Q4)
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)
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)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Get familiar with the Vermeer woodchipper.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 05:48 PM (1IhIV)
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)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:46 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (HdYcL)
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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)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (WQvQz)
You wanted higher prices to save the erf. Any Means Necessary.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (gKWVE)
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)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 05:47 PM (HdYcL)
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Probably what every still sensible person doesn't want.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:50 PM (Fi81e)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:51 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: Ed Buck, killer fag at May 15, 2026 05:51 PM (j017i)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 15, 2026 05:53 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 05:53 PM (73/SM)
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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)
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)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:55 PM (CWTWj)
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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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:56 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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+)
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+)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at May 15, 2026 05:57 PM (3ZUWJ)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 05:58 PM (zZu0s)
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)
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (CyFyf)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
But it’s up to the Senate to Convict
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 05:54 PM (BbO+r)
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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)
"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)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 06:01 PM (jehhT)
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Emollients!!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:02 PM (Fi81e)
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)
I had to get a shot for that.
Posted by: Eric Swallowell at May 15, 2026 06:04 PM (vFG9F)
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)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:06 PM (gu0hJ)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM (uK2Q4
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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)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:05 PM (zZu0s)
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Etiquette?
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 06:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:09 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: The person who always says that at May 15, 2026 06:12 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 06:12 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 06:13 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
I quit listening at Nebraska...44 years of bad ballad bliss so far
Posted by: DanMan at May 15, 2026 06:14 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 06:15 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (z2aPa)
The message was sent. As it was sent to the Christian bakers.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (gKWVE)
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
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Statute of limitations
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (XJ22o)
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)
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"Too late, Too late."
Posted by: Queen Elizabeth at May 15, 2026 06:17 PM (CyFyf)
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)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 06:16 PM (XJ22o)
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We can fix that.
Posted by: New York at May 15, 2026 06:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (d6jY2)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at May 15, 2026 06:19 PM (V87Oy)
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)
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)
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)
Where is our favorite Eco-Commie Gretra Thunberg ????
Posted by: Jackson at May 15, 2026 06:21 PM (KvNjc)
Posted by: The person who always says that at May 15, 2026 06:21 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 06:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:17 PM (Fi81e)
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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)
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)
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)
But it's ALWAYS Ozempic and steroids.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 06:23 PM (wBaIH)
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)
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)
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)
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/)
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)
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Yup. Springsteen is the musical equivalent of Star Wars.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:24 PM (Fi81e)
All the basements and piping in NY were covered with asbestos.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:25 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:26 PM (z2aPa)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Madge at May 15, 2026 06:27 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Madge at May 15, 2026 06:27 PM (2Ez/1)
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Wait. Did somebody break out the pudding cups?
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (Fi81e)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Eric Swallowell at May 15, 2026 06:29 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Sir Mix Uh Lot at May 15, 2026 06:29 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
"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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:30 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:31 PM (z2aPa)
City Island was roughly 60% Asbestos by volume.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:31 PM (9maW1)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:28 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 06:32 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 06:31 PM (9maW
lol
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (qrzX6)
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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 06:33 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Tom Servo "
It's not "packed"?
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Minuteman at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (47/pr)
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)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 15, 2026 06:35 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Tom Servo "
It's not "packed"?
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:34 PM (vFG9F)
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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)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 06:32 PM (AnnNE)
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This checks out.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:36 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 05:41 PM (PV+Zw)
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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)
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
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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)
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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)
I am not optimistic.
Great weather this weekend
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 06:39 PM (/Chlc)
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)
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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)
>>@scotus_wire
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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
@BuckSexton Absolutely perfect that Hostin, the most bitter DEI ignoramus on television, proudly proclaims she "taught Black Athena" as history to kids, when it's been thrown on the trash heap by every scholar and archeologist of the last 40 years who can tell terracotta from panna cotta
Hostin: "If you think Helen of Troy cannot be black, you don't know history"
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 14, 2026
She says Greek culture is from Africans pic.twitter.com/qp8IdjsHo8
Sunny Hostin introduces us to a book called BLACK ATHENA, written by scholar Martin Bernal who tells us the Greeks stole their entire culture from great African nations like Egypt and something called the Levant (must be Somalian).
— George Alexopoulos (@GPrime85) May 15, 2026
Therefore, Helen of Troy could have been black.… https://t.co/sPxuoFE3E1 pic.twitter.com/8wYz4Ynqs5
Troy, but instead of Brad Pitt, it’s Elliot Page. pic.twitter.com/vK4hpmHuq7
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) May 14, 2026
No, this is not AI or satire
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 13, 2026
This is an exhibit in a museum that just got a $1 million grant from Louisville pic.twitter.com/munQztFW0z
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (klDV6)
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)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 04:32 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Another Sharpton wannabe at May 15, 2026 04:32 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 04:34 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (rAoh1)
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)
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)
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)
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/)
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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)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (lyZHm)
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Spot the Non-sequitur!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:36 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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)
Whatever.
Posted by: Don't care at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (gu0hJ)
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.
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Look who's gettin' big.
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@ANOTHERMovieChannel-q9l
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e)
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)
Posted by: La'Tonya at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:37 PM (NcvvS)
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Definitely a Dumming-Kruger effect.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (Fi81e)
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)
......
and Achilles was 5'-1" and had a vagina.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7)
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)
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/)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (DwqWV)
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)
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)
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (OoFl2)
......
and Achilles was 5'-1" and had a vagina.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS)
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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)
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)
Got her right between where her breasts used to be.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (UjdFS)
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)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (9maW1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:40 PM (nvKZ7)
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)
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/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (gu0hJ)
Her proof?
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Hope that lady was paid a lot for it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
......
and Achilles was 5'-1" and had a vagina.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (UjdFS)
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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)
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (Riz8t)
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)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd)
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But...he likes men, doesn't he?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xBVv0)
"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)
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)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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The ship's bitch?
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:42 PM (xcxpd)
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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)
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (rAoh1)
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Ben Rhodes
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Why not be angry at the conduct instead of the reporting of the conduct?
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Several hundred demonstrators outside the New York Times to protest Kristof column
Posted by: beckster at May 15, 2026 04:43 PM (kX27y)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Sonny Hostin at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (9yZMF)
youtu.be/kSE69_SCTnc
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 04:44 PM (gKWVE)
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)
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)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:39 PM (xBVv0)
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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)
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)
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)
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Still, rookie numbers.
But I appreciate it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (xBVv0)
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)
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (NWIIQ)
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)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Richard Head at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (70cb5)
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)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (gKWVE)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:46 PM (qrzX6)
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)
The current meme is Ryan Gosling plays Obama in an upcoming biopic.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Blacks stole basketball from the Aztecs.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (Av6i5)
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)
The current meme is Ryan Gosling plays Obama in an upcoming biopic.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
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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)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (UjdFS)
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)
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)
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+)
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)
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)
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)
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
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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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:49 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
monorail!
Posted by: nimoy at May 15, 2026 04:49 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (uosPt)
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)
+++
No, I'm sorry. The correct answer is "moops."
Posted by: George Costanza at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (BX0SY)
Posted by: The Ghost of Troy McClure at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (0aYVJ)
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/)
fixt
Posted by: anachronda at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (v3pYe)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (qrzX6)
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She was cute.
Posted by: Reverend Al Charlatan at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)
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)
Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 04:50 PM (uosPt)
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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)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 04:52 PM (091Ni)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (bufu1)
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)
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)
So, ultimately, blacks stole blues guitar from the... Greeks!
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5)
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Lyre!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (n5tGW)
just desserts > just lies
Posted by: anachronda at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (uK2Q4)
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+)
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)
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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)
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)
they did the meme
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (091Ni)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (gnNyN)
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God of War trilogy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (xBVv0)
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)
Posted by: Cropped Hair and Bitter Faced at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (Sma6t)
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)
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)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:56 PM (9maW1)
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)
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)
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)
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++)
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)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 04:55 PM (gnNyN)
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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)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)
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++)
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"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)
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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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (gu0hJ)
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+)
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 04:45 PM (ExV1e)
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There's a video of Thomas Sowell explaining all the marks Africa has against it.
It's an interesting watch.
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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)
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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)
Windex is apparently a cureall.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (qrzX6)
So, ultimately, blacks stole blues guitar from the... Greeks!
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5)
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Lyre!
Posted by: Axeman
Golf clap.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (Av6i5)
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)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (uK2Q4)
They wouldn't be in line for an Academy Award.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (l26NL)
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)
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (qFwJc)
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It's just the way that her hair fell down around her face....
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (Fi81e)
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Everybody knows BB King invented the guitar.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:59 PM (ndZc7)
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/)
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)
They wouldn't be in line for an Academy Award.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 15, 2026 04:58 PM (l26NL)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 05:00 PM (Gqar8)
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)
Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 05:00 PM (uosPt)
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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)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (H6QjV)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:01 PM (uK2Q4)
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)
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)
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)
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)
"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)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (0aYVJ)
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)
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Cast Ryan Gosling as Obama.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (xBVv0)
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)
Posted by: garrett
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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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
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)
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)
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+)
Posted by: Green Shades at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (WukWc)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (0MFDl)
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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)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)
Too bad he went off the Muslim cliff.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:54 PM (n5tGW)
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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)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)
HA!
Posted by: DJ at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (uosPt)
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)
Posted by: Green Shades at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (WukWc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (3g5Xe)
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Vanished, without a Thrace.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (6ng4N)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 05:05 PM (z2aPa)
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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)
Posted by: a game the whole family can play at May 15, 2026 05:06 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:06 PM (fkeut)
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+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at May 15, 2026 05:02 PM (0aYVJ)
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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)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (n5tGW)
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)
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)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 05:07 PM (D1E+2)
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+)
Posted by: All In The Family at May 15, 2026 05:08 PM (Sma6t)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 15, 2026 05:04 PM (XMwZJ)
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Who morns for Adonis?
I guess his wife.
Posted by: Gene Roddenberry at May 15, 2026 05:08 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:09 PM (fkeut)
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
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Jack Bruce had one of the best voices in rock.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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
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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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:10 PM (+gA9j)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:09 PM (fkeut)
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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)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 15, 2026 05:12 PM (xvV+O)
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)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (uK2Q4)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (+gA9j)
Very good movie.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 04:51 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
Posted by: fb at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (JVEmw)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 15, 2026 05:12 PM (xvV+O)
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Charlie Murphy! What did the five fingers say to the face?!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)
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+)
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)
Posted by: Darth Randall at May 15, 2026 05:13 PM (f1kZG)
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Is she not men?
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:14 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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
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Digital killed the color-film star.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (XJ22o)
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)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (fkeut)
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)
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+)
x.com/SirajAHashmi/status/2054761461428187615
h/t Driscroll on Insty: instapundit.com/796909/
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (ndZc7)
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Anthropologically, the human race was stolen from Africa!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (gu0hJ)
Ask them, they'll tell you white people have no culture.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (fkeut)
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)
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
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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)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:15 PM (fkeut)
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I know! Right?
Posted by: Tucker Carlson at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl
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I believe J. Peterman did that to Kramer.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (0MFDl)
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
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I know someone who watches it. She's a complete idiot.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (rGqqI)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: Oldcat
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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+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:17 PM (uK2Q4)
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)
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Wait, I thought Ratcliffe was supposed to clean everything up over there?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:18 PM (abIsI)
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)
The struggle (session) goes on.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 15, 2026 05:19 PM (qivay)
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+)
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? 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)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 05:20 PM (+gA9j)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:48 PM (9maW1)
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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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:21 PM (uK2Q4)
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)
Of course he denied it after Archie Bunker became beloved.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:16 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:22 PM (uK2Q4)
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)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 05:23 PM (CWTWj)
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)
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+)
Posted by: I thought everyone knew that at May 15, 2026 05:25 PM (2Ez/1)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:25 PM (21PP6)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Don't forget the untied Timberland ghetto boots.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 05:26 PM (abIsI)
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)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 05:26 PM (uK2Q4)
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)
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+)
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 05:28 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 05:28 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Azjaeger at May 15, 2026 05:29 PM (9HePL)
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)
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)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - CRS SpX-34
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Launch Date: May 15, 2026 (EDT)
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Posted by: Joyenz at May 15, 2026 05:29 PM (2F0/Y)
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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)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:30 PM (OYsYV)
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)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Azjaeger at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (9HePL)
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)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 05:31 PM (bOS38)
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)
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🚨 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)
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)
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (dIske)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:33 PM (OYsYV)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 15, 2026 05:19 PM (21PP6)
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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)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 05:35 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 05:36 PM (qrzX6)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
Posted by: Gonorrhea at May 15, 2026 06:10 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
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.”
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Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 16, 2026 01:59 AM (7ZRgl)
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.”
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Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 16, 2026 02:00 AM (7ZRgl)
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)
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)
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 Normies
I'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:
Watch Nithya Raman’s constituents BOO her when she says it doesn’t matter if homeless drug encampments are cleared out or left right next to a school. Then she rolls her eyes. No wonder everyone hates her. pic.twitter.com/dnSrZLPIoe
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) April 28, 2026
Spencer Pratt: I will clean up homeless encampments, address drug addicts, & prevent fires from burning down people's homes.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) May 15, 2026
Karen Bass: I will spend your money on teeth for meth addicts.
Nithya Raman: I will ban grilling burgers in the backyard.
Your choice, Los Angeles.
This
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 15, 2026
is
AMAZING pic.twitter.com/f5Gj1TAgP8
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 03:30 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (73/SM)
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)
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)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (CWTWj)
Next, she'll ban dog walking. Because dogs are Haram.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (9znMV)
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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)
Posted by: steevy at May 15, 2026 03:36 PM (YwEeS)
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)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 03:37 PM (CWTWj)
Together, we can make every day Red Flag Day!
Posted by: Vegan Commies at May 15, 2026 03:37 PM (KAa/S)
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)
Posted by: Guy who eats too much of it at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (3g5Xe)
They blame Walgreen's for theft.
They blame you for slavery.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Unkaren at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (JjYer)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:40 PM (qrzX6)
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)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (p4NUW)
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)
(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)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (/k+lW)
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)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (n3VHW)
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)
At the end of my fork, fork fork.
Posted by: It's a catchy jingle at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (Sy6m/)
Because California doesn't suck enough.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:44 PM (qrzX6)
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)
-AWFL McWineMom Karen, Pasadena
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (gu0hJ)
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/)
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)
Posted by: The douchebag fondling the Beatles' balls at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:45 PM (dK+Kv)
She is an asshole.
Posted by: Ban Immigration From India at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (Sma6t)
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)
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)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (Htwr7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (xcxpd)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:47 PM (qrzX6)
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)
This is an IQ test for the constituents of LA. I fully expect them to fail it.
Posted by: Archimedes
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (gu0hJ)
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)
Bass: Teeth for tweakers!
Raman: Outdoor grilling for outlaws only!
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Ahnold Methenegger at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:51 PM (qrzX6)
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)
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)
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+)
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)
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)
'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)
'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)
Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (f4tQo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (n3VHW)
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+)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (rbvCR)
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)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:53
That sounds horrible.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:54 PM (p4NUW)
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/)
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)
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)
Fight me.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 03:55 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
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"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)
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)
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+)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:56 PM (zZu0s)
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)
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)
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)
......
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)
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)
You are Grilling Our God!
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (4ljtY)
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)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (iXqHn)
In honey butter.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
Posted by: MartynWW at May 15, 2026 03:57 PM (M9zxq)
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+)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (sAmhv)
Now they come here and try to tell us how to live. GFY.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (f4tQo)
Have they never heard of a burnt sacrifice?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 03:58 PM (Riz8t)
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)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Just the punchline at May 15, 2026 03:59 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Zombie Joh McCain at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
+++
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)
+++
And they've got trains!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)
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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)
Posted by: Glenn at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (nvKZ7)
Who wants their buns toasted?
Posted by: wth - drinking and grilling at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS)
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+)
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)
Posted by: 29Victor at May 15, 2026 04:02 PM (0MjtC)
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)
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)
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+)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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"Dear Penthouse forums"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (xBVv0)
Raman relies on high polarizability.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:03 PM (Riz8t)
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)
+++
And they've got trains!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 04:01 PM (2Ez/1)
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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)
"Vote." That's cute.
Posted by: Dominion Systems at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: The Frogs at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (3uTNk)
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)
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)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Crusader at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (TN0g+)
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)
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)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 04:04 PM (3uTNk)
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)
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+)
Posted by: Randy Newman at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (wVcYX)
"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)
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)
.......
Aim for the dot.
Posted by: wth - drinking and grilling at May 15, 2026 04:05 PM (UjdFS)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
How that stupid bint has an audience still I don't know.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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She gets by with a little help from her friendz.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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+)
Almost.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (BswBb)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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+)
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)
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)
Posted by: But this ain't the Art Thread at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (gUs21)
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)
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)
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)
The Caste System is essentially programmed for Communist appeal.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 04:09 PM (DwqWV)
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)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 04:10 PM (BMD3P)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2026 04:07 PM (XvL8K)
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And it wasn't by any means completely voluntary.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:10 PM (Fi81e)
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)
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+)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Yeah, they're all awful at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (TbWk/)
(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)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 04:11 PM (xcxpd)
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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)
Yeah, India is such a great place, 2/3rds of the people still shit in the gutter.
Posted by: Vengeance
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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)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (QaH55)
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)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 04:13 PM (jehhT)
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)
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)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 04:14 PM (wBaIH)
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/)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: torabora at May 15, 2026 04:15 PM (/u6C6)
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)
Side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, and cannibalism.
Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at May 15, 2026 04:15 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Dave at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (sbsMc)
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)
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)
Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
Who is John Galt ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM (as+uv)
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM (NWIIQ)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (i/qvw)
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (XvL8K)
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)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
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)
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)
It's just the country they came from.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Case at May 15, 2026 04:17 PM
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Sittin' right here, boss.
Posted by: Your low flow toilet at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (2Ez/1)
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)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 04:19 PM (vFG9F)
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)
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)
WTF!!! What pansy-assed wimpy boy takes two hours to drink a beer?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 04:20 PM (2WIwB)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
1.
Posted by: Axeman
A tooth in every socket!
Posted by: Zombie FDR at May 15, 2026 04:21 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (6ydKt)
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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)
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)
Posted by: Heroq
Incorrect, Montec
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 04:21 PM (vpULL)
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)
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/)
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)
Almost. Parts of the Muslim world, e.g. Afghanistan, are still above replacement.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 04:18 PM (LHPAg)
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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)
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
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Perfect!
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (XJ22o)
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+)
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)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (n5tGW)
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)
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/)
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"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)
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)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (Riz8t)
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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)
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)
I'm not too impressed by their big rig trucking skills so far.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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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)
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)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (gu0hJ)
https://youtu.be/7a4Mv2d2DZ8
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/)
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I wonder if this helps DOJ make their case against Comey.
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (G0vdT)
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)
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)
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)
the Egyptians could not compete with the Hebrews. And everybody knows that story.
Posted by: Axeman
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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)
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)
Posted by: thatcrazyjersyguy at May 15, 2026 04:22 PM (5xuJ/)
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I wonder if this helps DOJ make their case against Comey.
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 04:24 PM (G0vdT)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
I would advise these folks to be extremely careful.
Posted by: Tina Peters at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM (Cjger)
Live in your own huge, luxurious country, and stop pestering me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 04:29 PM (BI5O2)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
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)
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/)
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 04:31 PM (klDV6)
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)
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.
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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)
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)
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)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (7T8ei)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (XJ22o)
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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)
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)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM
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First, get a stick of butter.
Posted by: Paula Deen at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 04:34 PM (GWDtl)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 04:27 PM
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First, get a stick of butter.
Posted by: Paula Deen at May 15, 2026 04:33 PM (2Ez/1)
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Way ahead of you!
Posted by: Marlon Brando at May 15, 2026 04:35 PM (Fi81e)
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+)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 04:26 PM (XJ22o)
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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+)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)
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)
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)
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)
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.
On His Own Tyrannical Authority, Biden "Authorized" $46.5 Billion of That Spending Anyway
This Saved Democracy, you know.
It just so happens the money he spent on his own authority is exactly the money currently being looted from the American taxpayer by Democrat parasite groups."Home healthcare" is that very (deliberately) exploitable form of "medical spending" that people sign up for. Like if you cook a dinner for your parents -- you can charge the taxpayers for "elder care."
The Biden administration may have failed to convince Congress to double Medicaid spending on home healthcare in 2021, but the funding increase occurred anyway.
An RCI analysis of federal data has found that spending on the program, which pays health aides and family members to act as caregivers for elderly and disabled adults, nearly doubled between 2019 and 2024, to $46.4 billion a year -- an amount nearly identical to the $50 billion per year Biden wanted. As a result, American taxpayers paid more than $217 billion for home-based care under the program during that five-year span.And whoopsie! The money was immediately stolen by Democrat constituencies.
Lacking congressional approval, policymakers simply moved the initiative out of Washington and down to the state Medicaid agencies.
They couldn't get reparations through the front door, so they snuck them in through the back door.
Although the expansion was promoted as a way to reduce reliance on more expensive nursing homes, federal data show that did not happen. Medicaid spending on nursing facilities rose by nearly $5 billion in the same five years, to $46.3 billion. In addition, the sprawling home care program has become the subject of a growing set of fraud probes and prosecutions involving the billing codes at the center of the new spending. The data suggest that the complex landscape of healthcare offers myriad ways for states and providers to access large amounts of federal funding. Promises ... The federal government put a number on the projected savings. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation projected that for every additional dollar Medicaid spent on home care, nursing-home spending would drop by about 26 cents. Those were the figures used to make the case to Congress and to the public. Justice for Aging and the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to requests for comment.
The battle over reparations for racial minorities in the United States has grown somewhat quiet in recent years, but it's not because proponents of it have surrendered. It's because they have already won. The list of ways in which our government redistributes wealth to minorities is long, as you'll see below, but first, it's worth paying attention to something that Democratic strategist James Carville said recently. Referring to packing the Supreme Court and making Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states, should Democrats retake power, the cagey old Cajun said, "Don't run on it. Don't talk about it. Just do it." I posit that this is precisely what Democrats have done in regard to reparations. Take for example, marijuana legalization laws in states such as New York and Minnesota that offer loans, often forgivable, and training only to Black and Brown people, or other "special equity" groups, This is millions of tax dollars being given to people solely on the basis of their race. The excuse Democrats use is that Black and Brown people were disproportionately harmed by harsh drug laws, but obviously the vast majority have never been arrested for drug crimes. And it's not just the weed business. In Democratic enclave after Democratic enclave, these set-aside programs exist to help these "special equity" groups get a leg up in businesses like, oh, I don't know, daycare centers and hospices. In states like Minnesota and California, we have seen how this form of reparations easily falls prey to fraud. ... Even reparations studies themselves, of which there has been an endless supply and which all seem to land on needing more money for more studies, is a form of reparations. Democrats aren't even particularly shy about their use of reparations anymore. New York Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, as a candidate, defended his plan to heavily tax "wealthier and whiter," neighborhoods, by saying, "That is just a description of what we see right now. It's not driven by race. It's more of an assessment of what neighborhoods are being under-taxed versus over-taxed."More directly: Democrats have deliberately made it easy for their criminal constituents to just sign themselves up for millions in Medicaid money and then deliberately crippled all authorization and verification of the payouts. This is just handing out money is sacks to their criminal class voters.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at May 15, 2026 02:33 PM (iVUs+)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 15, 2026 02:35 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: rev the buzz at May 15, 2026 02:35 PM (et1vG)
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 02:35 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 02:36 PM (g9Z+o)
'Biden'? Does he live here, too?
Posted by: Joe Biden at May 15, 2026 02:36 PM (KAa/S)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 15, 2026 02:37 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 02:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 02:40 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:40 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 02:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Zorhan Mamdani says public libraries prove public grocery stores will work.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Work as what? Free range cloacas for public defecation?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 02:40 PM (Cqx++)
Oh, is eating books when Indian Muslims do?
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: sifty boones at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (tGvPi)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (W5mpo)
Let them eat books?
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (gtcuf)
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One could almost suspect that was the entire point.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (Fi81e)
Working in the Return Department is gonna be a shitty job.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (xBVv0)
What a noob.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (XHO5P)
How much could I make for feeding myself? I'm elderly.
I just had lunch, and did dishes. A living wage for that service should be at least $100. And I have a lot of imaginary friends that I feed at the same lunch.
Mo' Money, Mo' Money.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 02:43 PM (gtcuf)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 02:43 PM (4ljtY)
It's the perfect system.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 15, 2026 02:43 PM (yFLFB)
Posted by: sifty boones at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (tGvPi)
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But
1. the Democrats agreed with it.
2. you...SHOULD agree with it.
So, it SHOULD pass a vote, unless we're all racist.
Thus it's an optimized virtual democracy--or you're racist.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:44 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 02:44 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Work as what? Free range cloacas for public defecation?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (s9VOe)
A place where you can check out your food and return it when you are done with it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 02:44 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 02:43 PM (gtcuf)
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Well, he won GA in 2020 by at least 290,000 votes.
Probably more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:44 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 02:44 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 02:44 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (3ZUWJ)
When they take on federal subsidies and funding, then we have a problem. I want them all pilloried and horse-whipped.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (D1E+2)
- GOP
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:40 PM (iXqHn)
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Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: connected and litigious at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (aYs8h)
I wonder if he shared some of his popcorn with her in the theater?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (abIsI)
I saw a video this morning -- from CA, I think -- where several folks who bought bottled water using their EBT cards were emptying out said bottles onto the ground so that they could turn in the empties for a cash refund. They'd buy a "plates of beans" with that, of course*.
*"Spare change to buy a plate of beans?" was a common panhandlers' line used by the "romantic street people" of Berkeley when I was in school there some years ago.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (qrzX6)
It is, in fact, cheaper to have people like us than a group home or institution assisting people like my friend.
Posted by: 29Victor at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: connected and litigious
A benosing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
cut. jib. newsletter.
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (3ZUWJ)
That's it. That's the newsletter. Go forth and propagate.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (dK+Kv)
Since SCOAMF picked the stupid old commie sonofabitch as his staggering mate, the journalice have ate Biden's shit and then complimented his diet.
They knew every bit of this. And anyone unfortunate enough to need help from the government has known forever that if you are straight and white you are shit out of luck asking for help.
If you are the right color or wave the pride flag, the fuckin office drones will fill out the paperwork for you. Just sit in the lobby and let your kids scream until the drone tells you how much of my tax money you won in the diversalottery.
Posted by: sifty boones at May 15, 2026 02:47 PM (2OtXt)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (qrzX6)
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Bringing stuff out is what they do.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)
They'll work so hard to get free stuff, but won't work hard at actual paying work.
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 02:48 PM (gtcuf)
I wonder if he shared some of his popcorn with her in the theater?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
I read it as an endorsement from Lorena Bobbit. Carry on.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:48 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (qrzX6)
These thieves are stealing from your children and grandchildren, in broad daylight, laughing at you, and daring you to do something about it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 02:48 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 02:48 PM (CWTWj)
I wonder if he shared some of his popcorn with her in the theater?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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She got pissed off at Trump for killing a project in her district after she showed her ass on some bill by voting with Democrats. Then was seen with laughing, etc. beside the Gay Polesmoking Democrat governor of CO at a ballgame (Polis).
A Majorie Traitor Greene clone I suspect.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:48 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:49 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Delurker
Paying work usually requires punctuality.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:49 PM (abIsI)
I wonder if he shared some of his popcorn with her in the theater?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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I think she's been angling herself to be some kind of leader of the post-Trump GOP that's focused on Epstein. So, she and Massie are natural allies at this point within the Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:49 PM (xBVv0)
How does it go? Identify a respected institution. Kill it. Gut it. Wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect. The Democrats took that to heart.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 15, 2026 02:49 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)
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I mentioned that they were nihilists in a previous thread. Not all of it is fully conscious nihilism. Just amounts to it.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:50 PM (Fi81e)
In my opinion based on first hand experience you are the exception ( not doing it for monetary gain) . That said it is less expensive than hiring independent contractors and why I allays provided the option to family or friends to provide the necessary care.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:50 PM (qrzX6)
It’s better than they deserve, but I’m generous to a fault.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 02:51 PM (dBJdm)
- starts out as a cause
- devolves into a business
- ends up a racket
EVERY SINGLE ONE!
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 15, 2026 02:51 PM (MNCvZ)
Democrats are the BAMN Party. By Any Means Necessary, To:
Steal taxpayer's money for themselves, their family members, and powerful friends and constituents.
Grab power.
Punish political opponents.
Give national security secrets to current and possible enemies.
Steal elections.
Live large at taxpayer's expense.
Escape punishment if caught breaking the law.
Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2026 02:51 PM (5rh/l)
@Osint613
BREAKING: Israel says it carried out a strike in Gaza targeting Hamas military chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, described as one of the architects of the Oct. 7 attacks.
The initial indication is that he was killed, per Times of Israel.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:52 PM (Dv3i1)
In: "Fuck that -- the capitalists wised up to our plans, so let's just steal their money and then hang them anyway." -- Biden
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 02:53 PM (Av6i5)
It's just the background radiation of their universe.
Politics becomes divvying the spoils.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 15, 2026 02:54 PM (Kt19C)
How much could I make for feeding myself? I'm elderly.
I just had lunch, and did dishes. A living wage for that service should be at least $100. And I have a lot of imaginary friends that I feed at the same lunch.
Mo' Money, Mo' Money.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (vbXSk)
The current scam addition is a movement to get 24 billable hours per day for this instead of the current 8 or 12.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:55 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 02:55 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Delurker
Trump, depending on whether the actual vote switching or depression algorithm exists, got 74 million or so votes from people in 2020 (up from 63 million in 2016) that everyone agrees upon.
Biden increased Democrat ballots, not necessarily people, from 66 Million for Hillary in 2016 to 81 million in 2020. Obama got about the same in 2012 for reelection.
Given no campaigning, virulent opposition to examining ballots, voting machines, and getting testimony from the officials involved in the race, plus the massive attempt to coverup the fraud for years, means that Biden likely legitimately got around what Hillary and Obama got. About 66-67 million, maybe 70 tops. The rest was purely fraudulent mail in ballots. Kamala lost in part because general mail in ballot rule was not in place for 2024.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:56 PM (E4rtv)
- starts out as a cause
- devolves into a business
- ends up a racket
EVERY SINGLE ONE!
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at May 15, 2026 02:51 PM (MNCvZ)
Code Pink was started in 2002 as an anti Iraq War group. The Iraq war has been over for 15 years. And yet, Code Oink still exists and collects money for “the cause”, which is of course funneled to Democrats.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:56 PM (f5ZdA)
I would expect you to refuse to help your parents if you don't get paid. You want me to pay for it. Fucking immoral retard.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:56 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)
- starts out as a cause
- devolves into a business
- ends up a racket
EVERY SINGLE ONE!
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy
You skipped the first step:
-- Knowing that every cause eventually turns into a racket, amoral pseudo-leftists generate an endless procession of feel-good social movements, for the very purpose of profiting from them later.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 02:57 PM (Av6i5)
All of these billions had to be washed through agencies and NGOs first, so they could take their cut.
This is why it seemed Dems always had money to top off every campaign down to city council--they had billions of tax dollars to draw from.
How Obama, Biden and Harris could all easily raise a billion+ in campaign funds.
How they can afford to saturate the air waves every election.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 02:57 PM (73/SM)
Anything for the cause, right Paul?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:57 PM (zZu0s)
In my opinion based on first hand experience you are the exception ( not doing it for monetary gain) . That said it is less expensive than hiring independent contractors and why I allays provided the option to family or friends to provide the necessary care.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:50 PM (qrzX6)
Everyone I have met who does my job does it out of love, but you may have had more encounters than me.
But group homes are also profit-motivated, as are in-home care businesses. In fact, my particular friend was at a group home that was warehousing him and making pretty good money off of him and four other quadruplegics (with only three staff!) when we were finally able to accommodate him in our home.
Posted by: 29Victor at May 15, 2026 02:58 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think that cause celebre is doomed. There is no there--there. And Boebert is simply not that charismatic nor particularly smart. I rate her about the same as MTG with less survival instincts than Nancy Mace.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:58 PM (E4rtv)
What happened to these people?
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 02:57 PM (Av6i5)
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Also, as legit causes of actual "social progression" become popular and take over, you have to keep ahead of the crowd, you can't just sink back into the bell curve!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:58 PM (E4rtv)
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Retort:
Boobs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:56 PM (E4rtv)
Even if it had been they would not be able to swing it. Even in 2020 they needed that old fashioned midnight cheating to get over the line.
Another rule of thumb is to look at the shortfall Harris got vs Biden in 2020. Not much reason for Biden loyalists to defect to Trump, but for some reason the vote was down by millions.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 03:01 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 03:01 PM (gu0hJ)
Well, they prove *how* public grocery stores will work.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 03:01 PM (KAa/S)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (NpAcC)
Nothing happened to them. They were stupid retards all along, Boebert was kinda hot and wore a gun while working as a waitress in short shorts. Oooooh come retire heroine!!! And MTG said all the right things so people ignored that she’s a literal imbecile.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:02 PM (f5ZdA)
What the Democrats do with the tax money coerced from you is none of your business.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (HdYcL)
This!!!
Posted by: Costa Rica Realtors Association at May 15, 2026 03:02 PM (2WIwB)
loans, often forgivable, and training only to Black and Brown people, or other "special equity" groups
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Paging Harmeet Dhillon ffs.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:02 PM (XJ22o)
What happened to these people?
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (NpAcC)
ODd huffing their own farts.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Well, they prove *how* public grocery stores will work.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 03:01 PM (KAa/S)
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"Are you done with that burger?"
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:03 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 02:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Clearly not.
If and when we find out who signed all that stuff, they all need to go to prison.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 03:03 PM (DwqWV)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:02 PM (f5ZdA)
That's an US problem. But we never learn.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)
Zorhan Mamdani says public libraries prove public grocery stores will work.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Get yourself the grocery Andrew Carnegie and Bob's your uncle.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:04 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)
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I never voted for Mace, and I even lived in her district.
I voted third party.
But, I also usually vote third party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:04 PM (xBVv0)
loans, often forgivable, and training only to Black and Brown people, or other "special equity" groups
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Paging Harmeet Dhillon ffs.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:02 PM (XJ22o)
When we were losing our house during the Obama disaster, we were told to apply for help meeting our mortgage obligation. We applied, and then the next month, they said our paperwork was incomplete, so please apply again. This went on for four months. Turns out, we are not "of color," so no programs were available to help, but they couldn't tell us that, so they just kept messing up the paperwork.
Everything about that was a scam, put in place by the Lightbringer, piss be upon him.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 03:05 PM (DwqWV)
The solution is time.
That can't possibly apply to groceries.
That's why "Are you done with that burger?" seems to summarize key differences between how libraries and grocery stores operate.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Get yourself the grocery Andrew Carnegie and Bob's your uncle.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:04 PM (XJ22o)
Hi, I'd like to check out How To Win Fries and Influence Paella.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Businesses are for profit. I don't have a problem with that. Family in the past thought of it as a responsibility and did not expect pay. And when I took care of my mother in the last two years of her life getting paid was the last thing that crossed my mind.
My experience was regard to Workers Comp claims which provided lifetime medical for treatment arising out of the work related injury. I had many paras and quads and brain damaged claimants being taken care of by family . Unfortunately many times it became more about a paying job than it was taking care of a loved one.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:06 PM (qrzX6)
Well, they prove *how* public grocery stores will work.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 03:01 PM (KAa/S)
So, you just borrow groceries, and then return them on time or pay a fine?
Not sure how that works, actually, because by the time they are due to be turned in, they have mostly turned to shit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 03:06 PM (DwqWV)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (Ia/+0)
I voted third party.
But, I also usually vote third party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:04 PM (xBVv0)
You are not US.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (dK+Kv)
Not sure how that works, actually, because by the time they are due to be turned in, they have mostly turned to shit.
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Socialist recycling...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (dK+Kv)
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Gooble gobble?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Oldcat
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That part is easy, no general mail in voting as occurred in 2020 Covid election rules. There is endemic voter fraud in all cheat by mail states and those that allow ballot harvesting/drop boxes.
Real life voter fraud in person is rare (not eligible voters voting in person less rare) but the easiest way to cheat is a) through mail in ballots, b) rigging the count after the election--discarding opponent votes, tabulating software algorithms, inserting ballots, etc.
Requires a lot fewer people in the conspiracy and plausible deniability than risking widespread fraud voting in person.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)
It's now after noon on a Friday.
While alcohol cannot solve all my ills, it'll provide a good start. And it's not like asparagus, broccoli, or that gawd-awful okra are going to do anything for me.
Cheers Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:08 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 03:08 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:09 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)
If you can't keep in front of the train, you get run over by it.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 03:09 PM (iXqHn)
Hmmmm. It's like they only lend persistent goods and no consumables.
Marx was bad at economics.
Marxists continue in this tradition.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)
*"Spare change to buy a plate of beans?" was a common panhandlers' line used by the "romantic street people" of Berkeley when I was in school there some years ago.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:46 PM (s9VOe)
still better than letting them buy booze with it.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:09 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 03:09 PM (jehhT)
>>>Not sure how that works, actually, because by the time they are due to be turned in, they have mostly turned to shit.
Obligatory: They'll make it up in volume.
Obligatory2: They just write it off.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 03:10 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:09 PM (qrzX6)
*click*
Clean up in aisle 2, clean up in aisle 2
And 3
And 4
And 5...
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 03:10 PM (2WIwB)
Not sure how that works, actually, because by the time they are due to be turned in, they have mostly turned to shit.
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"Details, details..." -- Zorhan Madmani.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:10 PM (Fi81e)
I think we should impose a 75% income and wealth tax on Muslims, mosques, their PACs, and their supporting organizations, to help the UN. China can chip in with a 75% tax. I'm not sure what to charge the Democrats and rabid leftists.
Right now, these appear to be the only colonizers in the world, so they should pay - right?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 03:11 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 03:08 PM (PV+Zw)
Sophomore - wise fool. Not a coincidence it is the term for a 2nd year in college student.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:11 PM (8avO+)
Obligatory2: They just write it off.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)
Obligatory 3 : They slap a hot iron to it.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 03:11 PM (iXqHn)
Wise up!
95% of the home healthcare fraudsters DON'T EVEN PROVIDE ANY KIND OF CARE.
It's not just that they're billing taxpayers to overpay them to do the normal household chores they'd do anyway. It's that THEY DO JACK SHIT and still bill Medicare anyway.
It goes like this (witnessed first-hand many times):
There is a couple -- generally lowlife, unemployed/grey economy drug--taking losers.
One of them goes to a crooked doctor/psychiatrist, gets "diagnosed" as having some vague bogus mental or other murky ailment -- ADHD, Chronic fatigue Syndrome, autism spectrum, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, "my elbow hurts," the Droopsies, whatever.
With this diagnosis, this person then get classified as "disabled."
Then their partner becomes their "in-home caretaker."
So they get paid double -- the disabled person gets Social Security Disability, and the partner gets paid to "take care of them."
BUT NOTHING CHANGES. They just continue their useless lives.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 03:11 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:12 PM (f5ZdA)
-Roy
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:12 PM (xBVv0)
Clean up in aisle 2, clean up in aisle 2
And 3
And 4
And 5...
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 03:10 PM (2WIwB)
I'm just going to point out, during my very brief time working at a supermarket when I was in high school, old ladies shit in the aisles all the damned time.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 03:12 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 15, 2026 03:13 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 03:12 PM (iXqHn)
WTH?
Granny! No! Bad!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:07 PM (E4rtv)
it might be rare now, but it wasn't when it got Obama the win in several close states in the Midwest using students.
I think the Dems will have problems going forward as the old line tried and true methods of cheating are dying with the people who ran them and the new generation of college zealots can't run the scams.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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From viewing Congress critters up close (was a House staffer on the floor), they were never impressive as a group intellectually. Senators are scarcely better. A relatively few are brilliant and often resented by their leadership and their colleagues because of envy and annoyance at bringing up issues in Congress the parties and their donors want squashed.
It is best to think of them as CEOs of their own little firms--their product is legislation which donors, leadership, and staffers generally tell them what to do. So the reps and senators huff and puff around but the real action occurs among key staffers, donor networks, and leadership to provide an agenda, legislation, and coordination with the other chamber and the executive branch.
The elected officials are the front men for their organizations, not the drivers of what it produces. They are there to raise funds, grab votes, and get publicity but not to do the serious work of governing.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (E4rtv)
I went through training
Contiuing education is constantly offered (currently in a module right now)
We have quarterly video check-ins and an annual at-home visit, and they speak to each of us separately during these check-ins
I am paid a stipend that is very small for being on the job 24/7 (I literally have to do it in my sleep sometimes)
Most importantly, I am saving the government money by keeping him at home instead of an institution, which is almost certainly where he'd be if I wasn't taking care of him
That is what at-home care *should* look like, not this fraudulent nonsense.
Posted by: pookysgirl is a mom too at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (Wt5PA)
Kamala lost in part because general mail in ballot rule was not in place for 2024.
Posted by: whig
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So what's in store for 2026 and 2028?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (fkeut)
The "progressive solution" : when somebody is not willing to help you out in your experiment, think of a good insult for that.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:12 PM (f5ZdA)
I thought she was moving to Costa Rica permanently?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:15 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (qrzX6)
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Until Walgreens moves out of that city.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (XJ22o)
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Nearly two years of the DOJ suing states for voter rolls to clean them up, even fewer mail in ballots in general (minus states like CO and CA which are mail in only), and literally millions of illegals leaving the country, at least some of whom are registered to vote and just vote anyway because they think they're allowed.
And Trump won 2024 without any of that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:16 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: That Guy who says, sotto voice, "Nothing will happen." at May 15, 2026 03:16 PM (oONcb)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:16 PM (qrzX6)
I think we should impose a 75% income and wealth tax on Muslims, mosques, their PACs, and their supporting organizations, to help the UN. China can chip in with a 75% tax. I'm not sure what to charge the Democrats and rabid leftists.
Right now, these appear to be the only colonizers in the world, so they should pay - right?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 03:11 PM (qx7Zg)
Just turn the UN out of New York City. Its time for some place like Indonesia to take over, where its 100 degrees and no A/C.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:16 PM (8avO+)
It's now after noon on a Friday.
While alcohol cannot solve all my ills, it'll provide a good start. And it's not like asparagus, broccoli, or that gawd-awful okra are going to do anything for me.
Cheers Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes at
Sigh.
😊
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:17 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Oldcat at
They can summer there and then winter in Siberia.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 15, 2026 03:17 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:12 PM (f5ZdA)
I thought she was moving to Costa Rica permanently?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:15 PM (qrzX6)
She’s a celebrity now on the left and woke right. She’d be crazy to walk away from the money. She can spend the next 10 years doing nothing but podcasts and CNN appearances making a ton of money.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:17 PM (f5ZdA)
Those would be considered under the ineligible voter category, as I noted, less rare. My guess is more illegals, people that vote in two states, and felons are ineligible. On students as a percentage, I think it was worst in NH and a few other states that have same day voter registration and the question of eligibility stems from the inevitable loosey goosey residency requirements. I think NH finally got around to banning it for students requiring more than student ids to register.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:18 PM (E4rtv)
I went through training
Contiuing education is constantly offered (currently in a module right now)
We have quarterly video check-ins and an annual at-home visit, and they speak to each of us separately during these check-ins
I am paid a stipend that is very small for being on the job 24/7 (I literally have to do it in my sleep sometimes)
Most importantly, I am saving the government money by keeping him at home instead of an institution, which is almost certainly where he'd be if I wasn't taking care of him
That is what at-home care *should* look like, not this fraudulent nonsense.
Posted by: pookysgirl is a mom too at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (Wt5PA)
They use your deserved sympathy to hide their theft of everyone around them. Typical Democrat stolen valor.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:18 PM (8avO+)
I go to my notifications and see random (stochastic?) posts from people I'm not stalking or I have no idea who they are...
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:18 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Heroq
Yes.
But you don't' even need to actually stub your toe in physical reality -- you just report to the dodgy doctor that you feel that your toe hurts, and he'll diagnose you either with "Crippling Pain Syndrome (Unspecified)" or "Malingering Hypochrondria-itis," and with that piece of paper some cooperative commie bureaucrat will grant you "Disabled" status. Seriously.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 03:18 PM (Av6i5)
A relatively few are brilliant and often resented by their leadership and their colleagues because of envy and annoyance at bringing up issues in Congress the parties and their donors want squashed.
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Ted Cruz is completely wasted in the Senate. Trump should have put him on the SC in his first term.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 03:19 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:16 PM (8avO+)
I'd prefer either the South Pole, or move them into a Chinesium space station, with launches only from a Chinese space port on one of their rockets.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 03:19 PM (qx7Zg)
Those would be considered under the ineligible voter category, as I noted, less rare. My guess is more illegals, people that vote in two states, and felons are ineligible. On students as a percentage, I think it was worst in NH and a few other states that have same day voter registration and the question of eligibility stems from the inevitable loosey goosey residency requirements. I think NH finally got around to banning it for students requiring more than student ids to register.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:18 PM (E4rtv)
They were shipped around in busses to vote IIRC. This was also done in urban areas in the past as well.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:19 PM (8avO+)
Reporter: "Mr Mayor, how will you pay for these free grocery stores? Who stocks the shelves?"
Mamdani: "Free Palestine! From the river to the sea!"
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 15, 2026 03:19 PM (IifOV)
One of them goes to a crooked doctor/psychiatrist, gets "diagnosed"
Posted by: zombie
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These are the people who baffle me. What do they get for these fake diagnoses? A laugh?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:19 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA) at May 15, 2026 03:20 PM (oONcb)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl
A kickback.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 15, 2026 03:20 PM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (E4rtv)
That's my sense from the outside, except as CEO, they are the owners' (lobbyists') retarded nephew that has been given as minimal an amount of responsibility as possible so as to occupy his time and keep him from annoying the owners.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:20 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl
A kickback.
Posted by: BruceWayne
They'll charge like 150$ cash. It's the same as the docs that sign off pot cards.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 15, 2026 03:21 PM (YZ0Fo)
I went through training
Contiuing education is constantly offered (currently in a module right now)
We have quarterly video check-ins and an annual at-home visit, and they speak to each of us separately during these check-ins
I am paid a stipend that is very small for being on the job 24/7 (I literally have to do it in my sleep sometimes)
Most importantly, I am saving the government money by keeping him at home instead of an institution, which is almost certainly where he'd be if I wasn't taking care of him
That is what at-home care *should* look like, not this fraudulent nonsense.
Posted by: pookysgirl is a mom too
What kind of non-corrupt state do you live in? In places like California, there are NONE of that requirements or checking-up.
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 03:21 PM (Av6i5)
It's now after noon on a Friday.
While alcohol cannot solve all my ills, it'll provide a good start. And it's not like asparagus, broccoli, or that gawd-awful okra are going to do anything for me.
Cheers Hordemates!
Posted by: Diogenes at
Sigh.
😊
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 03:17 PM (p4NUW)
I like broccoli, raw or steamed. They are lil trees, after all.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:21 PM (8avO+)
Maybe in 6 months someone will do an audit and notice I’m not really John smith and I have a fake address. But my vote still counted. And I can do this at 10 precincts all day long on Election Day.
There is a more rigorous process for joining a gym.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:21 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I hate to apply confidence intervals but I think in both 2020 and 2024, Trump's recorded vote is the floor of what he got, not the ceiling.
No one seriously contends that Trump was doing voter fraud, it is only contested that the Dems are doing it. Which is pretty self evident given that they act like criminals with something to hide when it is requested that the ballots get perused. Compare this with GOP run Florida in 2000 where it was out in the open regarding the punchcards and they were even given to a third party media consortium to recount again with Bush still winning under most situations.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 15, 2026 03:22 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:22 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 03:19 PM (HdYcL
Too bad Ted Cruz doesn't agree with you. But Trump agrees with you.
Posted by: Emmie at May 15, 2026 03:22 PM (FMtrg)
If you think a senator is stupid, address him as "the distinguished senator from X."
If you know a senator is stupid, address him as "the able and distinguished senator from X."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 03:23 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 03:23 PM (T6aVk)
By the government.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 03:23 PM (UjdFS)
@AndrewKolvet
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey claims that the FBI is "under seige" and admits that he is still having active conversations with personnel within the FBI.
Kasie Hunt: "Do you still talk to employees at the FBI regularly?"
Comey: "I do... They're under siege."
Why is an indicted man still in contact with the very same people who could be tasked with investigating him?
https://tinyurl.com/ynyhfhwh
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 03:24 PM (NpAcC)
No one seriously contends that Trump was doing voter fraud, it is only contested that the Dems are doing it. Which is pretty self evident given that they act like criminals with something to hide when it is requested that the ballots get perused. Compare this with GOP run Florida in 2000 where it was out in the open regarding the punchcards and they were even given to a third party media consortium to recount again with Bush still winning under most situations.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
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Well, my point really is that what Democrats can do in 2026 is probably less than what they did in 2024 based on ensuing events which was less than what they could do in 2022 because the RNC actually stopped Philadelphia from stopping their counting at 10pm election night in 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:24 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:21 PM (f5ZdA)
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Because Democrats invite fraud.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:24 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)
all situations. If they had even the most dubious count that gave Gore a win, the press would have run with it. Ab-so-lutely.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:25 PM (8avO+)
Maybe in 6 months someone will do an audit and notice I’m not really John smith and I have a fake address. But my vote still counted. And I can do this at 10 precincts all day long on Election Day.
There is a more rigorous process for joining a gym.
Posted by: Heroq
And that happens there. I think Michigan moved to same day registration. Minnesota has a laughable vouching system, and I think one of the Dakotas had or has same day registration.
But due to the logistics, it is far easier and safer to do mail in ballot fraud. In really safe for fraud urban or rural areas, you also get voters being paid for their vote. Long tradition of it in some places like Appalachia, rural Georgia, and of course urban areas across the US.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:25 PM (E4rtv)
https://tinyurl.com/ynyhfhwh
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 03:24 PM (NpAcC)
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Forget it, Red, this is DC town.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:25 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 03:25 PM (Ti1tl)
Nearly two years of the DOJ suing states for voter rolls to clean them up
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Sorry for letting you do all the research, but how are those data requests going? I heard some states -- California for sure -- are just refusing to provide the data and are getting into a drawn-out drama of lawsuits and countersuits. And some states -- I think Oregon or Washington -- remove the dead from the rolls, wait three months, and then put them back.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:25 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:24 PM (xBVv0)
Trumps RNC fights back, as we saw. They are proactively working at the state level. And they had very effective GOTV in PA that gave them the win there.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:27 PM (f5ZdA)
That's North Korean numbers.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:27 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:25 PM (XJ22o)
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Back and forth at this point, but the law is entirely on the administration's side. HAVA requires clean up that the states are refusing.
And yes, one of the more interesting things to watch is if DOJ is keeping an eye on batch registration adds to voter rolls that include people they've been told to remove. Most of that action will happen in the final weeks leading up to the election.
But, we do keep getting stories of, like, NC removing another 10,000 dead people from the rolls because of DOJ suits or OR taking off 800,000 from a Judicial Watch suit or Fulton County being under DNI investigation for 300,000 extra ballots that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the night in 2020.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:28 PM (xBVv0)
The home healthcare idea was a good one and works in a high trust society where people are moral and fair.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Yes, it was! The article notes that unfortunately, it's black boxes within black boxes -- you can't go to every home and confirm that the caregiver is actually giving the care. I don't know what we need -- an expansion of auditors, social workers, whatevers to make home visits and make sure everything is per the application?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Oldcat
I think the one dislodged corner of a ballot if you counted it for Gore might have let him win. The two, three hanging chad results favored Bush as did the fully dislodged. On the various written marks, etc., Gore only won under the very loosest standard.
But the issue was that the more the punch cards were reinserted and ran through the machines, the more chads were dislodged or their tie to the card became more attenuated. Recounting each time and handling made the results less conclusive than more.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)
@AndrewKolvet
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey claims that the FBI is "under seige" and admits that he is still having active conversations with personnel within the FBI.
Kasie Hunt: "Do you still talk to employees at the FBI regularly?"
Comey: "I do... They're under siege."
Why is an indicted man still in contact with the very same people who could be tasked with investigating him?
https://tinyurl.com/ynyhfhwh
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 03:24 PM (NpAcC)
Unless Comey shows me a little design made of seashells coming from the FBI I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he's lying.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (8avO+)
I honestly can't tell if that's snark or not. I do think Ted is legit smart but he's -- as my elementary school teachers might say -- "not fulfilling his potential."
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (qRDmh)
Posted by: Emmie at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 03:27 PM (f5ZdA)
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Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's like a paradox.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:30 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lord Comey at May 15, 2026 03:30 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: ZooomZooom (I) at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (F6Fez)
the law is entirely on the administration's side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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At one time, that would have been reassuring.
Thanks for the info -- just can't help being cynical, this being Democrat antics.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (XJ22o)
I don't know what the caseload would be required but I know my assignments to my adjusters averaged about 120 claims each.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (qrzX6)
It's like a paradox.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:30 PM (Fi81e)
Where there's a 1 there's a way.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (XJ22o)
Well actually you can, or close enough. These days you could actually film the process and stream it to the supervisors.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:32 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 03:32 PM (n5tGW)
So the Executive branch ignores and defies the Legislative branch and other than a few strongly worded letters and harumphs, there are no real consequences. Remind me again about the authority of the Judicial branch over the Executive...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 15, 2026 03:32 PM (nbLIj)
Off-topic:
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 03:32 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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"No one is above the law" is just something some people say.
Everything is the Pirate's Code.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:33 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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"No one is above the law" is just something some people say.
Everything is the Pirate's Code.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:33 PM (Fi81e)
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Well, the point is that Appeals courts will all end up siding with the DOJ on this. District court judges will show their asses, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (xBVv0)
I honestly can't tell if that's snark or not.
___________
I didn't intend to be snarky. Cruz is a brilliant guy. But he'll never be an inner circle senator.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (HdYcL)
The Music Will Be Rap.
And "Homer" will rap out his story of the "Odyssey" to you.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 03:32 PM (iJfKG)
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I want to see Flava Flav and his clock... err... Sundial.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Heroq
I haven't kept up with it. My coauthored and published paper on the topic came out after 2008 but I had already pivoted toward researching subjects that I taught by then.
Want a good historical summary, find the report from the 2005 Carter-Baker Commission, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III. Report is titled “Building Confidence in U.S. Elections”. Long history of documented cases of voter fraud going back even to Independence.
From memory, about 700 pages or so fully footnoted and citations for its conclusions. And it was that mail in ballots were the worst of all possible voting systems for fraud. And other nations agree, either limiting it severely or banning it altogether. No reason for it in a modern country anymore.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (3uTNk)
Rockefeller had the cash to purchase a much smaller chunk of real estate. They bragged it was paid for, the UN building by member dues or whatever, but .. it was the USA that paid for it.
It used to be free admission for tourists, they could walk around wherever they wanted. I doubt … this is the case today.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (29nn/)
Posted by: Emmie at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (FMtrg)
Well Hillary did have a disaffected wing that didn't want another generation of Clintons taking all the graft and she believed her press clippings too much in 2016.
Kamala was just too big a mountain for even the cheaters to push over the line. Biden really shafted them when he forced her to be chosen.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (8avO+)
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 03:32 PM (iJfKG)
Remakes are like a fag and their shit's all retarded so they should never, ever be done. Ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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 03:32 PM (iJfKG)
It just keeps getting better.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 03:34 PM (3uTNk)
*fistbump*
You back in the states yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 03:36 PM (29nn/)
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It would fit in with the Illin'iad.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:36 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
It is like the Kagan's foot dragging on her dissent on Callais. Federal law forbids changing the voter lists 90 days or less before elections. The Democrats are trying to stall out litigation to prevent appellate courts from ordering the purges. Same with deportation removals,etc.
That is the heart of the Resist and Lawfare movements, destroy the rule of law but ignoring it, not enforcing it on its allies, and by delaying the final result when a certain loss is pending.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:37 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 03:19 PM (HdYcL
Too bad Ted Cruz doesn't agree with you. But Trump agrees with you.
Posted by: Emmie at May 15, 2026 03:22 PM (FMtrg)
I don’t want another RiNO Senator from TX because
1) Ted Cruz looked at you wrong
2) Red Cruz doesn’t pass your purity test
3) Ted Cruz doesn’t agree with you 100% of the time so he is a fucking goddamn asshole
I don’t agree with him all the time either but he is light years better than most of the TX GOPe. And Cornyn is a ZERO compared to him.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 03:37 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (Fi81e)
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 03:32 PM (iJfKG)
They did have a Greek Chorus. If he gave a crap about authenticity he could have used one and put any number of ethnics in it as well.
Wiki: A Greek chorus in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers who comment with a collective voice on the action of the scene in which they appear, or provide necessary insight into action which has taken place offstage. Historically, the chorus consisted of between 12 and 50 players, who variously danced, sang or spoke their lines in unison, and sometimes wore masks
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (8avO+)
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It would fit in with the Illin'iad.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:36 PM (Fi81e)
I was gonna tell a story about trippin', but they I got high . . . .
Posted by: Homer at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (29nn/)
That is the heart of the Resist and Lawfare movements, destroy the rule of law but ignoring it, not enforcing it on its allies, and by delaying the final result when a certain loss is pending.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:37 PM (E4rtv)
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I've said it for a while, but 2026 is a wet fart of an election.
The real eyes on the prize are 2028. They can delay until 2026, but DOJ isn't doing to change hands and there's nothing a slim Democrat House majority (with the GOP retaining the Senate, especially) can do to change the course of DOJ investigation and litigation.
All while Democrats have lost serious funding to patronage.
The purges will happen. They will end up happening for 2028, and the Vance v Harris battle can commence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 03:21 PM (Av6i5)
I'm in Iowa, but our regional VA is in South Dakota. It's a federal program, since it's through the VA.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Hawkeye at May 15, 2026 03:39 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Common Tater
There are always some that do it. In a Michigan County, they have found dozens of illegals registered to vote and voting. Same in North Carolina. They caught them by their sworn affidavits to avoid jury duty (which requires citizenship to serve). They find felons voting, thousands of people purposefully vote in two states--NY and FL is common, people moving and voting in their old jurisdiction even more common.
True impersonation voter fraud is extremely rare.
Most of it is tabulation cheats (discarding opponent votes, inserting yours) and mail in ballot fraud though.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:40 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 03:40 PM (29nn/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM
Yup. Just crossed over the ME Canada line. I hit Boston in about 45 minutes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (3uTNk)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Yup. Just crossed over the ME Canada line. I hit Boston in about 45 minutes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 03:41 PM (3uTNk)
Well, then. Welcome home, sir. Glad you made it back safe and sound.
Barring the upcoming landing, that is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Mail in And Ballot Harvesting at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (jACUA)
The real eyes on the prize are 2028. They can delay until 2026, but DOJ isn't doing to change hands and there's nothing a slim Democrat House majority (with the GOP retaining the Senate, especially) can do to change the course of DOJ investigation and litigation.
All while Democrats have lost serious funding to patronage.
The purges will happen. They will end up happening for 2028, and the Vance v Harris battle can commence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. 2028 will resemble 1860 if the worst comes about. That is assuming that the left is not successful in killing Trump before then.
I am trying to get healthy enough in case the worst rolls around. Most of the other preps have been done already but someone not able to move and travel drastically affects what happens in worst case scenarios.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (E4rtv)
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Right, but that ain’t the point. The problem is high level coordination of Fraud perpetrated by precinct officials, judges, and governors, secretaries of state, etc.
It’s like comparing bank robbers. That’s small time. Much better to own the bank.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (29nn/)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 03:38 PM
We're right here, you know.
Posted by: The Frogs at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (3uTNk)
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at May 15, 2026 03:43 PM (jPdyB)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 03:29 PM (XJ22o)
That is what caseworkers and certifiers are supposed to do. Oregon does that with home childcare providers, and at least for a while weeded out the "facilities" that were empty lots and derelict buildings.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 03:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 03:32 PM (iJfKG)
It just keeps getting better.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (dK+Kv)
Seems like he wants to be in the in crowd and have his masterpiece taken down by the evil movie going audience like all his friends. The alt review ecosystem is seasoned and ready. I've already seen an AI clip of that girl as Achilles in armor meeting a huge guy as Hector, I assume and he throws a javelin right through her 104 pound body.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:44 PM (8avO+)
I am trying to get healthy enough in case the worst rolls around. Most of the other preps have been done already but someone not able to move and travel drastically affects what happens in worst case scenarios.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:42 PM (E4rtv)
Actually killing him would probably be worse for the Dems. He has successors now, and people in the government that aren't going to just let that stand.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 03:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Mail in And Ballot Harvesting
Impersonation fraud is going into a polling place with fake ids (or no ids in some states aka floaters) and knowing you are not eligible to vote. That is the common voter fraud definition for it.
Mail in is not impersonation fraud under definition nor is ballot harvesting. They may insert the ballot under someone's name but the ballot cannot impersonate a voter. It is the cover for the poll workers or the harvesters to provide numbers for the Democrats.
Ballot harvesting and insertion of fake ballots is outright fraud that may or may not involved any voter's actual id. Some of these are possibly cloned from real voter ids (See Professor Zark on X for example), some are insertions after the fact to hide the insertion fraud, but no 'voter' is involved--these are poll workers and paid harvesters doing it to provide the cover for the tabulation cheats. They simply use voter registration records to cover up insertion of fake ballots.
That is part of the reason Fulton County does not want thousands of pristine photocopied ballots being held by the Feds.
There are a lot of moving parts in these frauds.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:49 PM (E4rtv)
(In the meantime, several fairly recent convictions for letting elderly parents die under terrible conditions and/or financial abuse have been publicized, too. Guardianship. Ha!)
Further, CAP recently published a hilarious article how the bougie towns need daycare:
Licensed, high-quality care is in short supply in Bryn Mawr, alongside other suburban locations like Ridley Park and Marple Township. As of May 2026, infant care in the Bryn Mawr area averages approximately $2,912 per month ($896 per week), according to Care.com. (A1 Overview)
Apparently, they have such high incomes they're not receiving really big credits & reductions equivalent to the lower and middle classes. (Funny how many have fulltime live-in foreign nannies so they can travel and go to the gym at their leisure.)
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran the CAP article, and even those who commented called it BS.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 03:50 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Oldcat
The Democrats have already started down its path to violence and as more and more of them get radicalized, there will be more political and social assassinations. Radicals never realistically evaluate the costs and benefits of assassination otherwise Alexander II would have never happened. Violence somehow becomes the whole goal as they decide to descend into nihilism. This current millennial and Z generations have a LOT of nihilists in them.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 03:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 04:08 PM (R11M+)
Posted by: Botched_Lobotomy at May 15, 2026 04:16 PM (utoSg)
Know the Op: The Entire Machinery of the Left Wing, Including Me-Again Kelly, Is All-In on Thomas Massie
Gee what could have these hard-left communists so jazzed about a "conservative libertarian," I wonder?
The New York Times now loves Thomas Massie, SuperConservative.
Insurrection BarbieThe article was written by Massie's New Bestie, leftwing California Democrat Ro Khanna, the man Massie's been traveling the country with spreading Epstein slop-lies.
@DefiyantlyFree The glowing NYT article hailing Massie as a Republican hero. lol. I said this months ago, the left and to counterfeit right love each other.
Thomas Massie is a man of character. He is the type of Congressman our founders envisioned. I hope his constituents will see the courage, independence and sincere love of country he brings to the job. https://t.co/pT1zrYd4be via @NYTOpinion
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) May 14, 2026
Massie supporters don’t understand this, but the fact that @AnaKasparian wants Massie to win is part of a trend in support for Massie that Republican voters in Massie’s district can sense and are alarmed by. https://t.co/XfmIKXlfsf
— John William Sherrod (@jwsherrod) May 15, 2026
Cynical Publius#Accurate.
@CynicalPublius Massie is not a conservative. He does NOTHING to support or advance conservatism. He is a toxic narcissist who revels in whatever attention he can create for himself. He does not sponsor bills that anyone else supports. He purposely, deliberately and repeatedly undermines the MAGA agenda you, me and every other Trump voter supports. He allies himself with Ro Khanna, a literal Marxist. Why? Ego. He is a snake oil salesman who pretends to support conservatism while his every action serves only to support the Democrat agenda. He is a snake oil salesman who cons the rubes. And you are a rube. Scram, rube.
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Posted by: Frank Barone at May 15, 2026 01:31 PM (IifOV)
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Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:32 PM (GD0B3)
I had a perm before it was cool. Yeah. That's how I rolled.
Posted by: Thomas Massie at May 15, 2026 01:32 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:32 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:32 PM (xBVv0)
Medium rare. HAHAHAHAH!!
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:33 PM (GD0B3)
The weekend is here
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)
He knows the names of 20 powerful pedophiles aligned with Epstein and refuses to say their names on the House floor like he promised.
All Massie is interested in doing is protecting the rest of the Epstein power structure.
I couldn't vote for Massie because of his pro-pedophile moves.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:33 PM (xBVv0)
Massey isn’t an independent. He is a democrat who ran as a republican to win.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 01:34 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
Wow....sounds GOP
Massie is not a conservative.
He does NOTHING to support or advance conservatism.
He is a toxic narcissist who revels in whatever attention he can create for himself.
He does not sponsor bills that anyone else supports.
He purposely, deliberately and repeatedly undermines the MAGA agenda you, me and every other Trump voter supports
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (Fi81e)
It would be worth slapping "every American" in the face just to get one in on her. What a slappable face that bint has.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Assistant Head Carny at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: The New York Times, Now With More Dog Rape! at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (aD4fx)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 01:36 PM (n3VHW)
He also said that bringing the National Guard to DC would lead to terrible results because it would infringe on the rights of repeat criminals of having guns without consequences.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:36 PM (xBVv0)
Interesting platform, Dems.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
In fairness, it's been their platform for 34 years now.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 01:36 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 01:36 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (jehhT)
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The one poll of the primary shows him losing.
Could be wrong. We'll see.
But the olds are against him and the olds are the ones who vote in primaries.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (xBVv0)
@CynicalPublius
Massie is not a conservative.
He does not sponsor bills that anyone else supports.
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Ah, so it's a publish-or-perish brownie point.
"I authored 50 bills!"
Still a shade better than Kamala....
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (Fi81e)
And just like McCain if he were to then go on as the R standard bearer the FNM would still call him a racist NAZI...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Severely conservative Massie at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: car cry at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (wBRco)
It's almost like a version of David French where Massie is just SO Libertarian and a slave to smaller government he find himself aligning with socialists on every vote and issue.
Posted by: Leupold at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (dKyqC)
"In the new poll, Quantus Insights showed Gallrein moving ahead of Massie, 53% to 45% — an eight-point margin. The same pollster previously showed Massie ahead 47% to 38%.
The recent survey was conducted on May 11 and 12 among 908 likely GOP primary voters, with a reported weighted margin of error of 3.3%.
Compared with the initial poll, Gallrein has moved to a +8 in May, up from Massie’s +9 in April, a net swing of nearly 17 points toward Gallrein since last month."
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Ripley at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (GUOwU)
Kasparian , wasn't that the friendly ghost?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (gu0hJ)
It's almost like a version of David French where Massie is just SO Libertarian and a slave to smaller government he find himself aligning with socialists on every vote and issue.
Posted by: Leupold at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (dKyqC)
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His principles against raising the debt ceiling are so strong that he voted to raise the debt ceiling under Biden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (xBVv0)
Thomas Massie is the John Thune of John McCains, with a splash of Rand Paul.
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (IifOV)
Just pathetic.
@amuse
@amuse
PRIMARY: The prediction markets think Rep Thomas Massie will have two more years to block the president’s agenda.
https://tinyurl.com/yf3hew9j
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 01:39 PM (NpAcC)
The most recent public poll (Quantus Insights, May 11-12, 2026; 908 likely GOP primary voters, ±3.3% MoE) shows Gallrein leading Massie:
• Gallrein: 48.3%
• Massie: 43.1%
• Undecided: 7.6% (with leaners favoring Gallrein ~52% to 23%) courier-journal.com
Some versions of this poll (including head-to-head or with leans) show Gallrein up by about 8 points (e.g., 53%-45%). This represents a significant shift from earlier surveys. thehill.com
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 01:39 PM (p4NUW)
Interesting platform, Dems.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
That's been their platform ever since the phrase "The Religious Right" was uttered.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:39 PM (FpHTM)
I was informed yesterday, via a text, that we should vote early, and especially that we should vote for John Cornyn.
Votes with Trump 99% of the time.*
Worked to build the wall & backed Border Patrol.**
Fighting to ban sharia law nationwide.***
* I'm kind of interested how he votes with Trump. Does he travel to Florida to vote with him?
** Yep. Leading the charge to reopen the government and fund the Border Patrol. Who can forget that visual of him on his horse, waving his hat, urging his
*** First I've heard of this.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 01:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 01:39 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:39 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl still having Aztec fun at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (XJ22o)
———
I think politicians generally had much more favorable press treatment in decades past. They had a lot of “cover” for their indiscretions. Everyone knew JFK was a poonhound, but it was (mostly) kept out of the press. But Hoover, longtime Director of the F.B.I., had a dossier quite thick and voluminous. Consequently he was unfirable, by JFK, and anyone else for that matter.
Marilyn Monroe’s death, the crime scene was described as among the worst fake suicides the police detective had ever seen. Judith Exner, etc etc.
They were very powerful then, as now, but the dynamic has changed in many different ways. They pulled out all the stops to get rid of Nixon, after he won the largest Electoral College and Popular vote in history. He didn’t win because of his good looks and charming personality.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (p9bn0)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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As far as primaries go, almost no one is all that loyal to their local congressmen. I would wager most of the population doesn't even know who that is.
But the people that vote in primaries know who Trump is and can see Massie is just a turd in the punch bowl.
Posted by: Leupold at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (dKyqC)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
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Krysinger was a man of such character ...
He was willing to work against the president of his own party....
...And later shill for re-districting scams of his opposing party and promote their supremacy in the mid-term elections.
Where do you find a man with those kind of scruples?!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (Fi81e)
It's stochastic. They are not necessarily targeting any one person, but just letting all moderate Rs know that if they try just a little bit harder, their Lefty friends will write op-eds for them in the NYT. They will get the big bookings and donors and book deals.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 01:41 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (gu0hJ)
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After the funeral concludes, I might relate that to John McCain....
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:41 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (gu0hJ)
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Rand Paul still attacks Fauci all the time in between his meaningless votes that don't change anything.
Rand Paul > Thomas Massie
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:41 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2026 01:41 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (gu0hJ)
They're the same picture.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 01:42 PM (dK+Kv)
So this is an actual person, not a Star Wars character?
Posted by: car cry at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (wBRco)
Every new star wars character has to have a new ridiculous headdress. For Ro Khanna I propose dreadlocks made out of red licorice shaped into the form of two giant soup ladles.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 15, 2026 01:42 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 01:41 PM (0MFDl)
And invitations to those parties where they get to choose between "Dead Girl or Live Boy".
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:42 PM (FpHTM)
https://is.gd/q8NafF
From "The Hill"
Texas Children’s Hospital will create the nation’s first “detransition clinic,” fire five physicians and pay the state $10 million under an unusual settlement announced Friday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).
Sounds like the five pro-trans docs were coding gender dysphoria fraudulently (e.g. "precocious puberty" or suchlike, and Paxton is using that as leverage to twist some arms. Good. I hope it takes hold and propagates to other children's hospitals.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (I0N4X)
No. The DNC is funding Thomas Massie's opponent in the primaries. Both party, R and D and Israel first. Nothing matters more than Israel to most of congress
Are we pretending Massie Bad™ now because of decent dems supporting him? Because id take a republican endorsed by Ro Kanna over any "republican" endorsed by Trump or Miss Lindsey Graham
We need more like Thomas Massie types in Congress. He has the balls to go against the grain. Get back to fiscal conservatism.
"Rep. Thomas Massie claims three billionaires are funding a 6 million dollars super PAC campaign against him for opposing foreign aid, particularly to Israel, and voting against wars." Bummer, maybe he shouldnt have helped give the wealthy all this power. Supporting Citizens United, you reap what you sow; of course now that it's working against him he's all for reform
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: banana Dream
So vivid. Hard to unsee.
Posted by: Kratwurst at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (z/XCs)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:44 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: bob
They will even stop calling them racist for a few weeks, until next election.
Posted by: Ripley at May 15, 2026 01:44 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:44 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 15, 2026 01:44 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: Harun at May 15, 2026 01:45 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (ycI94)
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Wow, one who almost gets it.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:45 PM (Fi81e)
Where they could, Democrats undermined elections and gerrymandered to get their preferred candidate. Where they couldn’t, they used subversives like Massie to get the job done.
And he’s not the only one on Congress.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 01:45 PM (lMONC)
"A lobby that is far more concerned with a foreign country..."
I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO
Posted by: David Duke and the other Donks in the KKK at May 15, 2026 01:46 PM (y9nCu)
Oh, and Spencer Pratt is killing it with the ads. The Star Wars one with Kamala holding the bottle with a blank look on her face is priceless.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 15, 2026 01:46 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: connected and litigious at May 15, 2026 01:46 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:44 PM
This actually sounds hysterical.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 01:46 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:46 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM (N8ZBc)
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Thus,
stochtastic + terrorism > stochastic + terrorism
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:47 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (gu0hJ)
They're the same picture.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 01:42 PM (dK+Kv)
Is there?
Posted by: John mcstain at May 15, 2026 01:47 PM (Escyj)
If R voters fall for that shit, we're dumber than I thought and PROPER f*cked going forward.
That spackle faced twat hasn't said anything even REMOTELY conservative, ever. Once, she veered close to figuring out how shitty and evil her side is, but she quickly corrected herself.
She's on the f*cking Young Turks ferchryssakes........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:47 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:47 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (apsfW)
If he had spent the weeks leading up to the final vote actively working to be part of the drafting process, selling his vote and the mysterious 10 other GOPers he said he had lined up to block the bill to demand cuts to specific programs, I would have been on his side.
Instead, he waited until the last minute and complained that it didn't fix the debt and spent too much money on deportations.
He's, at best, a troll in Congress. That's cheap and far from a necessity.
I'd take a mindless drone that just votes with leadership every time, even if leadership is pushing crap I don't like. At least that back bencher wouldn't annoy me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: InZona at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (xI3lH)
Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (Q+gd/)
But slumber is so peaceful.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (fkeut)
It is very likely that there was no one named "Muhammad" in 7th century Arabia.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:49 PM (Fi81e)
......
We only send our best. We have so many.
Posted by: wth at May 15, 2026 01:43 PM
There is iron in the words of wth for all Americans (and Communist Chinese) to see.
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at May 15, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)
Ponder:
Would Massie need a NYT glowing endorsement if he was winning Republican primary voters?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:49 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: Zombie Joh McCain at May 15, 2026 01:49 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: InZona at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (xI3lH)
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He gets some nice headlines this month.
In a year, a year of riots an unrest and decaying services, we'll get new headlines about the city being billions in the hole again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (xBVv0)
But he ended up drunk (again) though plowed his limousine into the Reflecting Pool, with a stash of hookers in the back. He got caught.
Edward M. Kennedy (D) Mass. didn’t even have a valid driver license when Mary Jo suffocated in the back of his Cadillac. The whole thing was an atrocity, but he was never punished in any way to speak of.
It’s weird to think Joseph Kennedy Sr. was still alive through all that. He saw Joe Jr. Killed in WWII, JFK and RFK murdered in the 60s and ole Ted discredited to cap off 1969. Sandwiched between the Moon Landing, Woodstock, and Charlie Manson’s “Family” rituals.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (p9bn0)
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You bend 'em, we mend 'em!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (apsfW)
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It's more than 10 miles from my house.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (Fi81e)
It'd take a mindless drone that just votes with leadership every time, even if leadership is pushing crap I don't like. At least that back bencher wouldn't annoy me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (xBVv0)
Like it or not, Congressional Rs need to realize that their job is to give DJT everything that he wants. Not try to get the NYT to like them.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (xBVv0)
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I think this should offend me. And, I'd probably be offended, but I forgot what we were talking about. I wrote it down, but the tablet and pen are on the dining room table and my knees are acting up. So, I'll just stay here in my orthopedic recliner and watch Lawrence Welk reruns.
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (Q+gd/)
I am waiting for the buzzword of the week to come around to 'ministerial'. Its a cool word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (apsfW)
Posted by: InZona at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (xI3lH)
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Has he offset the $4 billion grant from the State of New York?
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:51 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: connected and litigious at May 15, 2026 01:51 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (Fi81e)
Well a bit more. He is north of us here in lexington along the Ohio.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 01:51 PM (apsfW)
Jeebus, he looks like the seediest hobo who is "struggling to maintain his dignity".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 01:52 PM (s9VOe)
For the record this is the kind of thing right leaning pols are supposed to do. Lord knows Dem pols do it incessantly.
But finding a right leaning pol willing to fight a little dirty is a pleasant surprise...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: That Guy who always says "This is a distraction from the Epstein Files." at May 15, 2026 01:52 PM (0sNs1)
It is very likely that there was no one named "Muhammad" in 7th century Arabia.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:49 PM (Fi81e)
Well, there damn sure ain't no creator or god named allah, so that stands to reason.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:52 PM (5bGGs)
No muff too tough!
Posted by: connected and litigious at May 15, 2026 01:51 PM (cS1cw)
Sandra Fluke?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 01:52 PM (apsfW)
Hoe Rhanna is exactly as his name states.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (s9VOe)
We need more like Thomas Massie types in Congress. He has the balls to go against the grain. Get back to fiscal conservatism.
This sounds like what I used to hear from Watchdog on Wall Street with Chris Markowski. He still says it but I can no longer listen to it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (FpHTM)
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Ideologues who actually work within the system to advance their goals at levels that are possible are useful.
They don't need to be rubber stamps, but in the world where everything is done with omnibus bills, they need to be there in the pits, advancing what they can, making the process just 1/435th better.
"I'll only vote for this if you cut this $10 billion program." That's useful.
"I have been removed from this process completely and won't vote for it until you tear up the work and achieve my pipedreams," is not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (Q+gd/)
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It's not that new. They were accusing Carlson of "stochastic terrorism" several years before he was fired by Fox.
It's just that it should apply to targets of the SPLC, when people get killed and the left doesn't want it to.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (Fi81e)
So this is an actual person, not a Star Wars character?
Posted by: car cry at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (wBRco)
Every new star wars character has to have a new ridiculous headdress. For Ro Khanna I propose dreadlocks made out of red licorice shaped into the form of two giant soup ladles.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 15, 2026 01:42 PM (3uBP9)
This is why I come here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (dK+Kv)
Koran
Burma
Ceylon
Siam
Peking
The old spelling conventions are best, usually. Who the fuck calls it “Myanmar” or whatever? Just stop already.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (p9bn0)
It would be worth slapping "every American" in the face just to get one in on her. What a slappable face that bint has.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (0MFDl)
No, she isn't.
She's the one that went on a rant about people who voted for Trump crying "I AM BETTER THAN YOU" while working on a show named for the group that Genocided her Armenian ancestors in WWI.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (8avO+)
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You bend 'em, we mend 'em!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Where they gonna get the viable testicles from?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (5bGGs)
Massie has the enthusiastic endorsement of the hanta virus, on that you can depend!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 01:50 PM (dIske)
One of the list of things my grandmother watched.
She'd watch Empty Nest, 60 Minutes, Lawrence Welk, and Game Show Reruns (mostly Wheel of Fortune). And that was about it.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (FpHTM)
@amuse
PRIMARY: The prediction markets think Rep Thomas Massie will have two more years to block the president’s agenda.
https://tinyurl.com/yf3hew9j
Posted by: redridinghood
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Prediction markets have been worthless in tracking races. They only tend to become accurate when actual voting results become known.
They are thinly traded, prone to vast swings from any new information, and susceptible to being bought. They are inferior to polling which is pretty crappy anyway.
Frankly we would be better off banning such betting markets as like Venezuela, an Army Sgt used his inside information to bet on Maduro being captured and got caught after.
"A U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, has been charged with using classified information to profit from bets on the prediction market Polymarket regarding the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro."
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (E4rtv)
Go look at how Fetterman votes. Then look at what he states. They are largely two different things.
You can argue, rather factually and forcefully some of the things he has voted for are the worst parts of the Democrats agenda. He actually believes in many of the same things he criticizes some in his party for- it’s just a matter of degrees and methods.
Now go back and look at all the people who have embraced him, even saying he should join Republicans.
Really?
Anyone who says that is part of the op or very poorly informed and reasoned.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 01:54 PM (lMONC)
Posted by: connected and litigious at May 15, 2026 01:51 PM (cS1cw)
Sandra Fluke?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 01:52 PM (apsfW)
Her muff is too tough. It's callused over in there.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 01:54 PM (iNUL3)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 01:54 PM (s9VOe)
Two nits here...
1) DJT mostly advances conservative ideas, but they should be focused on what right leaning voters want. He is a decent proxy but occasionally he has his own ideas at odds with the right leaning public (eg H1Bs)
2) Republican "mavericks" aren't trying to make the NYT like them, they are trying to get $$$ from the NGO/government complex.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (5bGGs)
Where are they going to get viable breast tissue for the detranstioning Pooners?
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
Is Kasparian the one who ruined gaming?
Sarkesian, IIRC
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 01:54 PM (s9VOe)
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I believe Sarkesian has bigger boobs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (xBVv0)
PRIMARY: The prediction markets think Rep Thomas Massie will have two more years to block the president’s agenda.
Yes, because when I want to know which way the wind is blowing, I go to Draft Kings.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (5bGGs)
I also don't care enough to look it up.
A simple eyeroll when it is used is all it warrants.
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (ZFqKB)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (0pOPf)
This sounds like what I used to hear from Watchdog on Wall Street with Chris Markowski. He still says it but I can no longer listen to it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (Cqx++)
Didn't he vote with Dems to pass a spending hike?
Its easy to vote down spending when everyone else will vote it up and you still get your cut.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (8avO+)
It is very likely that there was no one named "Muhammad" in 7th century Arabia.
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Zero contemporaneous evidence, accounts or any such thing that every other person of his supposed statute has proof of to support.
There's more proof of the Anunnaki than some prophet named Muhammad.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (73/SM)
Is Kasparian the one who ruined gaming?
Sarkesian, IIRC
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 01:54 PM (s9VOe)
Three people ruined gaming.
Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, and John Walker "Brianna Wu" Flynt.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
Sandra Fluke?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 01:52 PM (apsfW)
No one wants a clap implant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (5bGGs)
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The Koran is an incoherent load of garbage. But something kick started that bloodthirsty cult. I figure it was a 7th century Arab warlord, with more intelligence, charisma, bloodlust and sexual perversions than the average warlord, until I hear otherwise at least.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 01:54 PM
I did not know that.
Posted by: Paolo at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (0sNs1)
Three people ruined gaming.
Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, and John Walker "Brianna Wu" Flynt.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:55 PM (FpHTM)
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Slay the Spire 2 getting review bombed because Sarkeesian is just in the credits entertains me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: davidt
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Ancient Greek philosophical movement, no? 'Stochasticism'. AKA Guesswork.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (XeU6L)
If you want to know how China, Russia and a bunch of well heeled Marxists feel, look at the prediction markets.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (lMONC)
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To be clear, that is my take, reading between the lines.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 01:57 PM (I0N4X)
Bunch of randos popping off.
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)
If you want to know how China, Russia and a bunch of well heeled Marxists feel, look at the prediction markets.
Posted by: Vengeance at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (lMONC)
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They match conventional wisdom and polling more often than not.
Because prediction markets have no special knowledge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:57 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 01:57 PM (YlWIZ)
How many of the people using the new and approved buzz-word, 'stochastic,' actually know what it means?
Posted by: davidt
They most certainly do NOT know what it means, but they believe that by slapping it in front of "terrorism" creates the scariest of all scary brushes with which they can slap tar on their MAGA tar babies.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 01:57 PM (s9VOe)
Would Massie need a NYT glowing endorsement if he was winning Republican primary voters?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Unfortunately for Massie,
Kentucky primaries are closed--from Ballotpedia,
"Before a person shall be qualified to vote in a primary, he or she: (b) Shall have been a registered member of the party in whose primary he or she seeks to vote on December 31 immediately preceding the primary; and (c) Shall have remained continuously registered as a member of that party in whose primary he or she seeks to vote between December 31 immediately preceding the primary and the date set for the primary. (2) In the case of a new registration made after December 31 immediately preceding the primary, a voter shall have registered and remained continuously registered as a member of the party in whose primary he or she seeks to vote from the date of registration until the date set for the primary."
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)
You could fill books with what left leaning pundits don't know.
Here is a fun one to ask lefties...where do social welfare policies like government healthcare come from originally?
You might get an answer of "some European social Democracy" or "The USSR" or even "Marx"
But the real answer is...Otto Von Bismark of Imperial Germany. He was explicitly buying the support of the "working class" to head off calls for political reform. And the German aristocrats had no problem taxing businesses to bribe the hoi polloi with essentially their own money....
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:56 PM (xBVv0)
Honestly, the most obnoxious figure in gaming right now is Alyssa "Rottencunt" Mercante.
Jim "Commander Stephanie" Sterling is getting up there, too.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:58 PM (FpHTM)
It's an old story, Lib/Con says something vaguely conservative/lib, midwits flock to praise the convert.
Avenatti for President. (shakes head)
Posted by: connected and litigious at May 15, 2026 01:58 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2026 01:48 PM (Q+gd/)
Well, duh! It's that really peaty stuff you have in the Booze Locker that nobody will touch...
Posted by: Brewingfrog at May 15, 2026 01:58 PM (TREW9)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:59 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Congressional GOP for the most part aren't using theirs, maybe they could be persuaded to give them up for a good cause?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 01:59 PM (Dv3i1)
/i]
67% of polymarket profits go to .5% of the accounts.
That's either mass bet fixing or perhaps some people with smart Bots betting on poorly allocated bets but I think the former...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 02:00 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:59 PM (GD0B3)
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I believe so.
They also said that Dems would take the House until either mid-October or literally election night, depending on which one you look at.
And then the defenders of prediction markets will be like, "It said it was 50/50 and we got essentially a 50/50 Congress, so it's so accurate."
As accurate as a coin flip.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:00 PM (xBVv0)
Congressional GOP for the most part aren't using theirs, maybe they could be persuaded to give them up for a good cause?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 01:59 PM (Dv3i1)
"Are you a cuck? Would you like your balls to have a chance at REAL manhood? Well, here's your chance....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 02:00 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 02:01 PM (GD0B3)
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"a stick aimed at by archers", turned into "random" by German statistician Ladislaus Bortkiewicz in 1917.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:01 PM (Fi81e)
There's a not insignificant number of rural "blue Republican voters" who've got more money than common sense who'll vote for Massie because he's embracing his TDS.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 02:01 PM (jehhT)
If R voters fall for that shit, we're dumber than I thought and PROPER f*cked going forward.
That spackle faced twat hasn't said anything even REMOTELY conservative, ever. Once, she veered close to figuring out how shitty and evil her side is, but she quickly corrected herself.
She's on the f*cking Young Turks ferchryssakes........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:47 PM (5bGGs)
Her exposure aside from those "terminally online" is very low, and her opening her yap is gonna turn off everyone outside of deep blue areas.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (4KUe5)
I am aware and familiar with "stochastic" being used in the context of statistics. However,
stochastic /stō-kăs′tĭk/
adjective
1. Of, relating to, or characterized by conjecture; conjectural.
2. Involving or containing a random variable or process.
"Stochastic terrorism" is a faux term of the sort beloved by academic frauds who sport Smart Girl Glasses and huff one anothers' farts in lecture halls and conferences held in tony locations to which they travelled on the taxpayers' dollars.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:42 PM (FpHTM)
Isn't that the motto of the trans-cult child mutilators?
Posted by: Or is it the other way around? at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (gu0hJ)
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Well and accurately said.
Massie is a skank fcuker which , by itself, may make him less of an asshole but, still, he is a congenital asshole who would do well to shut his alleged genius mouth once in a while.
Posted by: Voter theater. at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (SB3TO)
Posted by: That Guy who always says "This is a distraction from the Epstein Files."
and an excuse for the gals to keep their shirts on.
Posted by: guy who always yells: "Show us yer tits!" at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (N8ZBc)
There's a not insignificant number of rural "blue Republican voters" who've got more money than common sense who'll vote for Massie because he's embracing his TDS.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 02:01 PM (jehhT)
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We'll find out in a few days, but Indiana seems to be an indication that when Trump wades into state politics, especially rural state politics, his voice carries sway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:53 PM (5bGGs)
Those guys are right fucked. The ones who were put on hormones and puberty blo kers are probably also fucked. Some shit cannot be fixed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:03 PM (zZu0s)
A lobby that is far more concerned with a foreign country
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Not that I give a fuck but am I to surmise she is talking about Israel here?
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 02:03 PM (fkeut)
Because prediction markets have no special knowledge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
The few that I have bothered to track show really bad large swings which is not how the electorate processes information. So fake volatility and not that useful in prediction as a derivation of a derivation. E.g. the betting market is derivative of polling and news coverage (at best or donors are worst), which is derivative of the real absolute but unknown voter preferences.
So actual votes are better information than polling/news which is better information than betting markets.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:03 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:03 PM (Fi81e)
According to Ballotpedia, 41.66% of KY voters are still registered Democrats. Democrats almost never can reach that vote total in the state anymore, so a lot of those are Blue Dog types. As Whig noted earlier, KY has closed primaries.
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (ZFqKB)
Posted by: davidt
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OK, I feel this might be directed at me.
I was reluctant to use it, but it was applicable. I do not like the word though. I know it from chemistry and think technical words should stay in their field and not be corrupted by common use.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 02:03 PM (fkeut)
Its always the Jooos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:02 PM (qrzX6)
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They don't do honesty.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: davidt
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I think it is just another way of saying "bespoke"
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (I0N4X)
As accurate as a coin flip.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:00 PM (xBVv0)
I maintain that prediction markets simply measure current media hype, and have no relationship at all to what may or may not happen - especially now it’s been shown that more than half of what’s published on the net is put out by bots, algorithms, and AI.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:05 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Kirk Lazarus at May 15, 2026 02:05 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Hobo Philosopher at May 15, 2026 02:05 PM (IBLCq)
Posted by: davidt
Not many. Remember when 'gravitas' suddenly became the way to attack Republicans?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:05 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (7T8ei)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (f5ZdA)
I think it is just another way of saying "bespoke"
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (I0N4X)
Excuse me sir, do you mind if I becrap on your bespoke shoes?
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: Hobo Philosopher at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (IBLCq)
Got it...
sort of
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (ZFqKB)
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Greek archers would use a stick as a target.
So, I guess the idea is that it's not easy to hit, so you probably miss it more than hit it. It's "anybody's guess", I guess.
Not sure why statistics glommed on to that idea.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (/+uur)
Pretty much. When something stupid happens in gaming, it's almost always her now.
Critical Drinker had a Crash and Burn the other day about Froskurin (or however you spell that). I forgot she existed, LOL.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (OyOhQ)
Posted by: Hobo Philosopher at May 15, 2026 02:05 PM (IBLCq)
KY, TN
200,221 whatever it takes.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM
Pegging and Poop >>>>>>>>>>>> Penguins and Poop
Posted by: J. Random Commenter at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (N4kCY)
They pulled out all the stops to get rid of Nixon, after he won the largest Electoral College and Popular vote in history. He didn’t win because of his good looks and charming personality.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 01:40 PM (p9bn0)
Didn't help that Nixon let Haldeman hire some of the most incompetent disloyal backstabbing cockholsters in the GOP to serve in the White House staff. Dean was a coward who couldn't keep his mouth shut. Liddy was a Nazi-loving dickhead (read his memoirs, he openly admits it), Hunt's big claim to fame was being a major player in the Bay of Pigs while at CIA etc.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:05 PM (8avO+)
Ah, 2000. When Dick Cheney became the embodiment of a Roman Manly virtue.
Fucking idiots.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:08 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (I0N4X)
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I be spoked.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:08 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 02:08 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 02:08 PM (GD0B3)
Thanks a lot. I may never get the knot out of my tongue from trying to say that out loud.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:08 PM (I0N4X)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 02:08 PM (CWTWj)
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Better idea:
A program for high school students to identify welfare fraud and get to keep any money found for their college education.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (xBVv0)
I know it from chemistry and think technical words should stay in their field and not be corrupted by common use.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)
That's so cis het, "bob" (if that is your real name).
The theft of trans / cis from chemistry by the groomers has pissed me off beyond all knowing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (s9VOe)
So, I guess the idea is that it's not easy to hit, so you probably miss it more than hit it. It's "anybody's guess", I guess.
Not sure why statistics glommed on to that idea.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (Fi81e)
What did they call the guys who ran into the enemy formations with the stick?
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (ZFqKB)
As far as I'm concerned, here in flyover country, he can fuck off like all of the rest.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (D1E+2)
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Not that I give a fuck but am I to surmise she is talking about Israel here?
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 02:03 PM (fkeut)
It sure ain't Burkina Faso or St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (8avO+)
She immediately turned to the Epstein files and how Trump was implicated.
I just can’t.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (Dg7ng)
Eh so does my state. Means nothing. Dems register as Reps to vote for the most left wing candidates running on the gop primary.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Naive assumptions of outcomes like that often perform better than expert prognostications. Our media and experts are today what shamans would have been to our primitive societies.
Back when I did empirical work, you always used a naive assumption to test whether your 'predictions' improved on results of the naive assumption or not.
No or little improvement shown from a predictive model then essentially all the bloviating emissions derived from your model is descriptive, not predictive. All sorts of logical fallacies then beloved by political and media commentariats are then created. The universe laughs at the feeble predictions of mankind.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)
At least Liddy didn't turn on Nixon and took his medicine right?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (4ljtY)
Hmmm, I wonder whether the pegging or the pooping hurts him more?
Both probably. Because of the pegging.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (s9VOe)
It gets me from Trans/Cis Alpine Gaul provinces.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:11 PM (8avO+)
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This is Kentucky. The same state that kept voting for Mitch McConnell for Senate for 40 years.
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 15, 2026 02:11 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: bonhomme at May 15, 2026 02:11 PM (mkw2N)
Stochastic statistics?
Thanks a lot. I may never get the knot out of my tongue from trying to say that out loud.
Posted by: muldoon
Try these:
homoscedastic statistics and heteroscedastic statistics
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:11 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 02:09 PM (ZFqKB)
Hockey Forwards?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 02:12 PM (N8ZBc)
Got it...
sort of
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 02:04 PM (ZFqKB)
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Greek archers would use a stick as a target.
So, I guess the idea is that it's not easy to hit, so you probably miss it more than hit it. It's "anybody's guess", I guess.
Not sure why statistics glommed on to that idea.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:06 PM (Fi81e)
I would've figured it was in relation to the spread around the target.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at May 15, 2026 02:12 PM (okun6)
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SCIENCE!
Posted by: Guy from Thomas Dolby song at May 15, 2026 02:12 PM (Dv3i1)
To me, this confirms that Trump is something special, unlike most Republican politicians before him who were just stringing people along.
Posted by: PG at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (DLFjo)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Reforger
>Pikers? They were the bleeding edge.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 15, 2026 02:11 PM (IifOV)
And Rand Paul.
And Democrat governors.
It’s a wacky state politically.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (f5ZdA)
When you devise a strategy you have to account for the likelihood that some of your components will miss their target.
Thus a "stochastic strategy" (like "terrorism") probably indicates a strategy that accounts for misses.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (Fi81e)
1. The Left brought it into the conversation by constantly accusing the Right of inciting stochastic terrorism. A notable case was with Palin and her "target" map.
2. But remember, the Left always accuses you of what they are doing. This is always on their minds because this is one of their many weapons. They understand that to move a culture you don't move each individual, you create an environment where those on the edge flip.
The specifically do this to encourage people to do unacceptable things, like terrorism. To inflame the crowd until windows get broken. That is their strategy all the way back to the 60s, and probably the Froggy revolution, and Bolshies before that.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (0MFDl)
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This is Kentucky. The same state that kept voting for Mitch McConnell for Senate for 40 years.
Posted by: Frank Barone at May 15, 2026 02:11 PM (IifOV
I get it.
But senators from all those other states kept making McConnell their leader.
We may need to consider the possibility that they all more or less stink on ice.
Brother, won't you consider opening your heart up to a lot more hate?
Posted by: Hobo Philosopher at May 15, 2026 02:14 PM (IBLCq)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (PV+Zw)
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The bill spent too much money on immigration enforcement. It was central to his critique of it.
Also, he's pro-pedophile because he refuses to name the 20 powerful men attached to Epstein that he knows of and had said he would name on the House floor but has refused to do it. He's refusing to do it in order to protect powerful pedophiles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:14 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (y9nCu)
At least Liddy didn't turn on Nixon and took his medicine right?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (qrzX6)
Yep. That's pretty much the only thing admirable about Liddy, he understood omerta, and practiced it. At least until he finished his prison term and Nixon got his pardon, then he started running his mouth as well.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 02:14 PM (y9nCu)
When that got too easy to hit, we tied it to a string and set it to swinging.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 02:14 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: Panic Whores at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Heroq
Too late to register. Part of the issue is that new voters have to register about 4 weeks before an election. Massie did not become a cause celebre for Dems until now.
It will be down to whichever political team can get turnout now and greater GOP turnout at this point is likely to be fatal to Massie. That is why he is going so hard negatively on Gallrein. You do that to depress turnout by raising Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) for less active voters to get them to stay home.
This situation is usually the political death of incumbents because frankly, most do not deserve reelection in the first place, including Massie.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (E4rtv)
wsj today had an op ed by khanna in which he called for the fed gov't to spend $63 billion a year for 3 years to guarantee lots of college grads working for the gov't. a program you know will never end
Posted by: gnats local 678
Time to unlimber the cannons and begin blasting away at the Feral gubmint with DOGE Eleven: NOW We're Coming For YOU!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 02:11 PM (8avO+)
Gaul on our side of the Alps. Gaul on the other side of the Alps from us.
Mediterranean= Mare Nostrum= Our Sea.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (zZu0s)
I can't think of a better person to represent me.
Posted by: Orson at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (dIske)
When I was a kid we'd use a small onion, pulled from the garden, as an archery target.
When that got too easy to hit, we tied it to a string and set it to swinging.
Posted by: garrett
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And then you tied it to your belt?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: PaleRider
He loves the spotlight. There have been a lot of bills or resolutions that passed 430-1. Shit like naming post offices. Guess who the 1 was? Massie of course.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Ian S. at May 15, 2026 02:07 PM (OyOhQ)
It was originally spelled "Foreskin" (not joking). She eventually changed it to "Froskurinn" because, well.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:16 PM (I0N4X)
Posted by: zombie Leonard Nimoy at May 15, 2026 02:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 15, 2026 02:17 PM (PV+Zw)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (XJ22o)
It was the style at the time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 02:17 PM (Cqx++)
That's basically the gist of it anyway. It's mostly that David Throne idiot. His commercials are toxic garbage.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 15, 2026 02:17 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 02:17 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 02:13 PM (0MFDl)
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Exactly. As I said they accused Tucker of it, because Tucker was warning about the very real, evident, trend of "replacement theory". But when some shooter reacted to the same thing, it was supposedly Tucker, with his "'racist' replacement theory" which "caused the violence".
They don't say the same thing about announcing Trump as an "existential threat"--which arguably is quite a bit more than the sap who the elites imported to replace you.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:18 PM (Fi81e)
Them old greek homos that stole the maths from africa
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 15, 2026 02:18 PM (Kt19C)
When I was a kid we'd use a small onion, pulled from the garden, as an archery target.
When that got too easy to hit, we tied it to a string and set it to swinging.
Posted by: garrett
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And then you tied it to your belt?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 02:15 PM (XJ22o)
Dangling about 3 inches under the crotchal region.
Posted by: Aim small, miss small, hit small at May 15, 2026 02:18 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: the lower
My state rep is a “Republican” who campaigned for Biden. She was identified as a leftist whore didn’t matter she won her primary easily. Because conservatives ignore local elections in my area. Leftists register as Republicans and get people like her elected.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (f5ZdA)
I first saw that in "Dersu Uzala" (1975).
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (N8ZBc)
How many of the people using the new and approved buzz-word, 'stochastic,' actually know what it means?
Posted by: davidt
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Zeitgeist
Paradigm
Methodology
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (XJ22o)
I haven't heard it in my area in years.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (mkw2N)
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This jingle is known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (Dv3i1)
When that got too easy to hit, we tied it to a string and set it to swinging.
Posted by: garrett
We used little green army men that we sniped with a .22
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (abIsI)
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McConnell owned and ran the elections in KY for 40 years too. He made damn sure his opponents, both D and R, where "less than optimal." At any cost.
His influence is over, but the money's still there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 02:20 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: PaleRider
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He voted for all that shit including debt limits under Biden. He ain't principled. And his flying monkey squad on X has been wreaking havoc on any negative posts about his record. Nasty critters and I think he has some bots amplifying it from foreign bot farms. They have subverted Community Notes on X as well. Not organic.
His supporters are the same Stormfront types that show up here on occasion when their precious assholes in office are targeted. Luap Nor nasties that have morphed into groypers that are more anti-Semitic than they are for any set of principles.
The simple rule on politicians is if you are acting as a defense attorney for any of them excusing their misdeeds, stop. At least consider that you can justify some assholes simply by comparing them as the lesser of evils rather than proclaiming their sanctity.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)
It would be worth slapping "every American" in the face just to get one in on her. What a slappable face that bint has.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 01:35 PM (0MFDl)
No, that's Anita Sarkeesian and that lovely person just got together with CDPR to make sure Witcher 4 tanks.
I'd already passed on it because they turned Ciri from Witcher 3 into Cyril Beefcheeks (made her look like a dude cosplaying as her)
Kasparian is the female r*tard from the lefty r*tard show 'The Young Turds'.
Posted by: Nelly at May 15, 2026 02:20 PM (6+ehB)
Paradigm
Methodology
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (XJ22o)
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Syzygy.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:21 PM (Fi81e)
https://tinyurl.com/5acppk7f
Whadya know, it was a grift.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:21 PM (abIsI)
This is accurate and you can see it play out in real time
Start: Trump is literally Hitler and wouldn't a good person do anything to stop Hitler?!?
Mid Point: Lefty tries to shoot Trump and fails
Immediate Response: Obviously this is a false flag to generate sympathy!
Slightly Slower Response: And why are our people so bad at shooting?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 02:21 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 02:22 PM (BI5O2)
Congressmen who write no legislation, complain endlessly, chase news stories, have sex with staffers, and slash at anyone between them and microphones are rare in DC?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
I believe that the vast majority of those in Congress do next to nothing while in office. That is not to say that they fail to strut around at election time bleating about all the activities that they undertook on behalf of YOU, the little voters. But activities are not accomplishments and, were we to push them on what were their accomplishments, they'd stammer and stutter themselves to death up there on the stage.
"What is it, you'd say, that you DO there?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:22 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: muldoon
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It's kind of the opposite.
In chemistry, things react until the reach the stochastic state, at which point the reaction goes both ways (this is an oversimplification.)
So the stochastic state gets some on one direction, and some in the other. At random. It is like raising the temperature knowing that some molecules will be on the "edge" and will randomly pop off.
You don't know which molecules (bespoke) but you know some will because conditions are right.
This applies to terrorism from the left, because by calling Trump Hitler enough times, several people got to thinking it would be a good idea to take him out.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 02:22 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 02:14 PM (y9nCu)
One thing about talk radio I hate is no rewind.
I was working and Liddy was on after Rush. I'm half assed listening and that fucker said something that made my mind go and I was standing there thinking 'you fucking killed Kennedy'.
Then I really looked into it. I think he was tortured in Prison not for what he knew about Nixon, or maybe so, but for what he knew about Kennedy.
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 02:22 PM (ZFqKB)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 02:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: PaleRider
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Ron Paul got so much accomplished in that way!
</sarcasm>
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:22 PM (Fi81e)
The simple rule on politicians is if you are acting as a defense attorney for any of them excusing their misdeeds, stop. At least consider that you can justify some assholes simply by comparing them as the lesser of evils rather than proclaiming their sanctity.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:20 PM (E4rtv)
Not just anti-semitic, but now thanks to the ChudTheBuilder controversy, also "exterminate all blacks" types.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:23 PM (iXqHn)
Maybe a third? Bitch be busy.
Mass Effect 4?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 02:23 PM (gKWVE)
She's mostly famous for being Dry Humped by a Homeless guy in LA, while curbing her dog.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 02:23 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)
I’ve noted for years that the weather service’s yearly hurricane count prediction has never outperformed what would be obtained by throwing darts at a board with a range of likely numbers on it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 02:23 PM (AnnNE)
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Any time a politician says he wants to “do Something” it means less freedom and higher taxes. If every congressman did nothing the country would be much better off.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:24 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:23 PM (iXqHn)
I saw a clip of some random choad goblin screaming the n bomb at random black people on the street. Guessing that was this guy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
I guess the inverted crucifixion with a small fire lit under their heads is out then.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:24 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 02:24 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:16 PM (I0N4X)
I am no expert by any means but this whole thing seems so contradictory to actual good medicine and good science that it's hard to believe this is allowed anywhere as within the standard of care. The "studies" they try to cite in support of this are sketchy at best, with tiny sample sized and Texas sharpshooter type reasoning. Researchers are deliberately blocked from gathering data to conduct longitudinal studies on patients who got chopped, and to the extent we do have any longitudinal studies, they apparently show when read in the most favorable light, the results are at best neutral, i.e. had no significant measurable ameliorative effect. Even the Euros and the Scandis who the left worship so much have shut this shit down as far as kids go. It's not medicine or science, it's a butcher cult.
Posted by: Standard of carve at May 15, 2026 02:24 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Gonah Joldberg at May 15, 2026 02:24 PM (Cjger)
Posted by: Thomas Massie at May 15, 2026 01:32 PM (IifOV)
I had pizza before it was cool.
Posted by: Burned my tongue at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
I guess the inverted crucifixion with a small fire lit under their heads is out then.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
I'm right here.
Posted by: Tree of Woe at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 02:21 PM (sKqQm)
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We have civil discussions about whether killing Baby Adolph is "justified".
You can justify killing Baby Hitler, to a good number of people.
Probably the blue-button-pushers!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: the lower depths
You would be correct. Especially in closed primaries, the primaries have more party activists that are more leftist in Democrat and more to the right in GOP. There is a reason that Massie is running ads claiming he is a big Trump supporter in KY while he poses for the NYT's crowd.
And from what I've garnered, he is not liked nor influential in Congress doing minimal work and notably ran on term limits (3 to be exact) but blew past that to be trying for his 8th term.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:19 PM (abIsI)
We'd put firecrackers in model airplanes and throw them up in the air. Flak!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 02:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 02:26 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (I0N4X)
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It is stochastically applied.
</stochastic-comments>
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:25 PM (Dg7ng)
How do you think the cucks in SC got elected? Or the ones in Indiana. Or how do you think a deep red state like Utah sends Romney to the senate. It’s with left wingers who vote in primaries that’s how.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Can we build it? YES WE CAN at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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A lot of people and organizations make predictions more for the publicity than they do for accuracy. No one rarely, if ever, holds them to account so why not?
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:24 PM (zZu0s)
That's his general schtick, yeah. He'd been posting on social media that he was hoping that one would take a swing at him so that he could shoot them.
And one finally did. And he shot him.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (iXqHn)
I think there exist computer chips that use quantum fluctuations in their own guts to generate truly stochastic numbers. "Chip-based Quantum Random Number Generators".
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: St. John Bender at May 15, 2026 02:28 PM (tGvPi)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 02:29 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (E4rtv)
Did someone say predictions???
Posted by: Jean Dixon at May 15, 2026 02:29 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)
The fact it tastes like a stale unsalted Saltine cracker has nothing to do with taking a pass on matzoh.
Posted by: Guess I have to go hate Jews now... at May 15, 2026 02:29 PM (TbWk/)
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I wonder why it's spelled matzoh, yet pronounced matza.
*goes back to browsing comments*
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (iXqHn)
Fucking evil. Setting aside n bomb or no, you provoked a fight and then murdered a man. With forethought. Not like in the heat of the moment you feared for your life, you planned for it to go that way.
Evil retard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:30 PM (zZu0s)
And one finally did. And he shot him.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (iXqHn)
Even a Soros prosecuter could get first degree murder out of that.
Posted by: Reforger at May 15, 2026 02:30 PM (ZFqKB)
Posted by: Axeman
>You need to right-size your core competency. Junior.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 02:29 PM (D1E+2)
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Lol. I was thinking Synergy, and typed syzygy.
Oh, to be at the start of my 29th year!
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:30 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: sifty boones at May 15, 2026 02:31 PM (tGvPi)
Posted by: Heroq
Utah with Cox involved rules cheating to get on the ballot, not party activists. That same convention style ended Robert Bennett so Mike Lee got elected. South Carolina has open primaries where Democrats openly go and vote in the GOP primary if mobilized. Which is true in a number of states (mostly Southern) if the Democrats have no big statewide primary contests. Indiana is mixed. Pence ran as a conservative for years and was part of the 2010 sweep with Ryan. It is easiest for these liberal GOPe types to slip under the radar when there is a big wave in politics. Same for the Democrats, some people with a conscience and morals can get swept into office.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:31 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Guess I have to go hate Jews now... at May 15, 2026 02:29 PM (
Why do Jews hate salt?
It's the flavor enhancer par excellence!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:31 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)
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I forgot it had a Jew spelling.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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A lot of people and organizations make predictions more for the publicity than they do for accuracy. No one rarely, if ever, holds them to account so why not?
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:27 PM (E4rtv)
Every year for about 20 years now they've been screaming that this "WILL BE THE WORST HURRICANCE SEASON EVER BECAUSE MUH GLOBAL WARMING!!!!111111!!!11" Also the "WE'RE HAVING STRONGER AND STRONGER HURRICANES BECAUSE MUH GLOBAL WARMING" which NOAA historical data show to be false. It gets old in a hurry.
Posted by: We're all gonna die. Might as well party. at May 15, 2026 02:32 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Jean Dixon
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Astrology is a racket. So are fortune tellers. But there are always rubes to buy their ticket to see the future.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:32 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:32 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:31 PM (zZu0s)
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It makes pepper taste a lot more like pepper.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)
***********
I have proposed that the mere notion of a child expressing feeling that they are a different sex than their biology indicates is first of all a social construct, and secondly, so frankly bizarre to normal pediatricians that they eagerly defer to experts, and thus absolve themselves oof any culpability. They wash their hands of it. And unfortunately for the children, the experts are damaged people in their own right, in the mode of Admiral Doctor Richard Levine.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:33 PM (I0N4X)
Posted by: We're all gonna die. Might as well party. at May 15, 2026 02:32 PM (TbWk/)
EL NINA!!!
REEEEEEEE!!!!!
Atmospheric Rivers of Death!
Run for your lives!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 02:33 PM (2WIwB)
Stochastic means "random nondeterministic" and they're a pain in the ass to simulate on computers.
I think there exist computer chips that use quantum fluctuations in their own guts to generate truly stochastic numbers. "Chip-based Quantum Random Number Generators".
Posted by: gKWVE
I used to avail myself of an app that used solar white noise to generate random numbers. I'd use an 81 count string of those as my seed for analysis monte carlos.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2026 02:34 PM (QVmho)
And one finally did. And he shot him.
Posted by: XTC
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Around a courthouse where apparently it was illegal to carry and inciting the fight by issuing an insult. Best to cop a plea for manslaughter or he will be going to a VERY unfavorable prison environment for a long time. He will be the Aryan Brotherhood's bitch or be dead in prison. His choice.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:34 PM (E4rtv)
Kamala Harris is now calling for Democrats to hold a "No Bad Idea Brainstorm" where they discuss:
Annointing a DEI hire as the party's Presidential nominee with that person having successfully won even one primary election?
I heard on Adam Carolla yesterday that Karen Bass was the other contender to be Slow Joe's "Woe Man of Color" Vice-Presidential candidate in 2020. What a bullet she would have been.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:34 PM (s9VOe)
They are just liberals with some guns and a basement full of dried food.
Spend a few months in Salt Lake City and its environs.
It's ridiculously liberal and the city wants to be LA so bad it's disgusting.
The whole place is run by Oxy Moms and halfwits.
Posted by: sifty boones at May 15, 2026 02:35 PM (tGvPi)
Heroq is right, for the states he mentions. When states don't close their primaries, any ratfucker can switch parties and load up the count for the RINO. This happened in Mississippi when Thad Cochran won because he appealed to Democrats to cross over for him.
So, you're out of line and you owe Heroq an apology.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 02:35 PM (gKWVE)
https://tinyurl.com/26vhj5b4 (NSFW)
If you thought the lefts depravity had reached the bottom. Think again.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:36 PM (abIsI)
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My first car was a '77 Monte Carlo.
I was disappointed to find out in stats class that a monte carlo simulation wasn't what I hoping it to be.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:36 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)
I should have proofread 317
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:36 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: sifty boones at May 15, 2026 02:37 PM (tGvPi)
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And by "nondeterministic" they simply mean not-decidably deterministic.
Because complete determinism is still a useful model.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:38 PM (Fi81e)
They are just liberals with some guns and a basement full of dried food.
Spend a few months in Salt Lake City and its environs.
It's ridiculously liberal and the city wants to be LA so bad it's disgusting.
The whole place is run by Oxy Moms and halfwits.
Posted by: sifty boones
For Donny and Marie's sake, please tell me this is wrong.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:38 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 02:38 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 02:33 PM (I0N4X)
I generally find it suspect that they're so insistent about children while also generally pushing away adults (unless they're whale-level wealthy) because it's "too late" for them.
You'd think they'd at least try to hide the PDF-ism of it all. But no.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:38 PM (iXqHn)
Posted by: sifty boones at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (tGvPi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (gu0hJ)
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The only discussion she can rightly participate in.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:38 PM (abIsI)
I take it you've never seen "SLC Punk".
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (iXqHn)
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I have it on good authority, that Marie is a little bit country, and Donny is a little bit rock and roll.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (Dv3i1)
https://tinyurl.com/26vhj5b4 (NSFW)
If you thought the lefts depravity had reached the bottom. Think again.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 02:36 PM (abIsI)
What the actual fuck? This is like that one black state senator standing on her head and twerking. It's just nasty. To whom is this supposed to appeal? Fellow TikTok narcissists and exhibitionists?
Posted by: Grotesque at May 15, 2026 02:39 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 02:40 PM (Sy6m/)
I think there exist computer chips that use quantum fluctuations in their own guts to generate truly stochastic numbers. "Chip-based Quantum Random Number Generators".
Posted by: gKWVE
I used to avail myself of an app that used solar white noise to generate random numbers. I'd use an 81 count string of those as my seed for analysis monte carlos.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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For most research purposes, the random number generators are fine because measurement error of other variables affects the results more.
In security matters though, truly random numbers are critical for matters like encryption as any hint of non randomness can be used to crack it.
I would use Monte Carlo simulations in small samples to bootstrap standard error predictions which affects variable significance but rarely beyond that.
Haven't really directly used actual random number generators since college programming classes.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:41 PM (f5ZdA)
1. They ran as conservatives, not "left-wing Republicans" or whatever phrase heroq used.
2. Their challengers are almost always no-bodies with no money in their campaigns.
Democratic votes aren't needed in the primary in those cases.
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (Dg7ng)
2. Their challengers are almost always no-bodies with no money in their campaigns.
Democratic votes aren't needed in the primary in those cases.
Posted by: the lower depths at May 15, 2026 02:42 PM (Dg7ng)
You’re in la la land if you don’t think this happens. Live there if you must. I’ll live in the real world.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 02:43 PM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 15, 2026 02:45 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 15, 2026 02:49 PM (8KSYS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 03:35 PM (RIvkX)
Kamala Harris Wants to Pack the Court, End the Electoral College, and Open Up the Senate to Save Democracy Democrat Politicians
She's losing the Crazy Race to AOC, and needs to change that.
Last week, she began demanding the DNC release its suppressed "autopsy" of her 2024 blowout loss. I assume she wants to be released because she knows it was a whitewash which excused her for any responsibility for the loss and blamed all on Muh Racism and Muh Misogyny. Though apparently the reason it was suppressed is that it blames... ... Joe Biden, who the Democrats have of course decided to blame all their woes on, now that he's gone.
A new poll shows the top choices for the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries in 2028. The May 12 poll, released by Atlas Intel, found U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., leading among Democrats, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio was the top choice for a majority of Republicans. The national poll showed 26% of Democrats would vote for Ocasio-Cortez for president in two years, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 22.4% and California Gov. Gavin Newsom at 21.2%. Former Vice President Kamala Harris came in fourth place at 12.9%.
Coconut Kamala grabbed clicks by proposing a slate of anticonstitutional measures to rig elections even harder for Democrats:
To make matters worse, the DNC is facing continued calls to release its internal autopsy of the party's sweeping setbacks in the 2024 election, when Democrats lost the presidency and Senate majority and fell short in winning back control of the House. Among those calling on the DNC to make public their report on what went wrong for the Democrats in 2024 is former Vice President Kamala Harris, the party's presidential nominee two years ago. Harris, who is mulling making another White House bid in 2028, recently told donors she believes the DNC should make the autopsy public. The news was first reported by NBC News and confirmed by Fox News Digital. A source with knowledge said that Harris had not discussed the autopsy with DNC Chair Ken Martin, and that the former vice president did not know in advance about Martin's decision in December to keep the 2024 election postmortem under wraps. Martin ordered the report soon after he was elected DNC chair early last year. ... There was controversy surrounding the report as it was being compiled, after reports last summer said the autopsy would skip analyzing whether then-President Joe Biden should have run for re-election in 2024 and would pass on judging key decisions made by Harris and her team, after she replaced Biden as the party's nominee with just over three months to go until the 2024 election.
... "They are spiking an autopsy of the election that gave us Trump 2.0. If party leaders won't take the steps required to rebuild ourselves into a winning coalition, we will take it into our own hands," former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg warned in a social media post at the time. ... A person familiar with the DNC's strategy told Fox News Digital because of all the attention on the autopsy, "they are going to be forced to release something."
Pat Adams
@PatAdams96 10h Kamala Harris is now calling for Democrats to hold a "No Bad Idea Brainstorm" where they discuss: - Abolishing the Electoral College
- Packing the Supreme Court
- Making Puerto Rico and D.C. states "We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating!"
Kamala wants to brainstorm with Democrats to pack the supreme court, make DC and Puerto Rico a state, and abolish the Electoral College.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 14, 2026
These are the people screaming “DeMoCrAcY” pic.twitter.com/iVxeFe1Jne
WATCH: @GovRonDeSantis is taking aim at Kamala Harris over proposals to pack the Supreme Court and abolish the Electoral College, calling the moves an attempt to "deviate from founding principles."
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) May 14, 2026
"They've suffered a series of losses over many, many cycles, none more dramatic… pic.twitter.com/zfUBd8gFXM
Pretty telling that when someone says we’ve got to get “fraudsters” out of the country, it’s immediately assumed that’s Democrats. https://t.co/fBwfCvsM6o
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 14, 2026
Q: "Which foreign country do you consider to be the US's "greatest adversary?"
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 19, 2026
Kamala Harris in 2024: "I think there's an obvious one in mind which is Iran. Iran has American blood on their hands." pic.twitter.com/G10WzkoXV2
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (NcvvS)
lol, truly the Idiot Queen.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (OYsYV)
Demand the Court be expanded to 13 now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (73/SM)
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If SCOTUS is going to be political, then it should be elected.
The body politic should have a direct say in it.
9 from every state.
Oral arguments should be amusing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:28 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 15, 2026 12:28 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 12:28 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 12:28 PM (77rzZ)
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All the best people like and subscribe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:29 PM (xBVv0)
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Tough but fair.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (OYsYV)
Kamala Harris makes Kamala Harris slightly nauseous.
Though usually only on late lunches when she plays fast and loose with the "beer before liquor" rule.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (EynyL)
Demand the Court be expanded to 13 now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (73/SM)
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If SCOTUS is going to be political, then it should be elected.
The body politic should have a direct say in it.
9 from every state.
Oral arguments should be amusing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:28 PM (xBVv0)
Two words.
Thunderdome.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (dK+Kv)
Kamala Harris never has this problem.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: 496 at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (j7INY)
Posted by: Milky Loads at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (gKWVE)
*shakes head sadly*
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at May 15, 2026 12:31 PM (gxokI)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 15, 2026 12:31 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:31 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:31 PM (Gqar
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Remember, the GOPe has lost no power at all in the past decade and they will force Jeb Bush on us.
It's science.
All is lost.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:32 PM (xBVv0)
So maybe we should beat them to the punch.
*******
Murkowski, Cassidy, McConnell, Tillis etc. would never let it happen.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 12:32 PM (NpAcC)
Kamala wants a "no bad idea" roundtable. Ok Dems commit sepaku. Good idea
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 12:32 PM (gu0hJ)
That would require a Constitutional Amendment. Which would give the Dems the opportunity to screw it up or subvert it.
Changing the size of the Court (or the number of Representatives) only requires a Congressional vote and Presidential signature.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (j7INY)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:31 PM (Gqar
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Remember, the GOPe has lost no power at all in the past decade and they will force Jeb Bush on us.
It's science.
All is lost.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:32 PM (xBVv0)
You hang around the Morning Report a lot, don’t you?
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Weakly Reader at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (oftw2)
LOL. I have the same reaction to AO-C who doesn't appear to have a drinking problem like Kamala . She's just stupid.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (n3VHW)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (wn0/z)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (AnnNE)
Did *anybody* ever think she was viable? Why?
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (N8ZBc)
I mean, Dear Lord...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 15, 2026 12:34 PM (wtvvX)
Demand the Court be expanded to 13 now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026
Right! Let’s do it. We should stop allowing Dems to believe we won’t act on their dumb ideas, too. It’s sad they have such faith in our high road. Looking at you, Thune.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:34 PM (hftzA)
Every time the Democrats are in power, they tell us we have to send money now to sendmoneynow.com to keep the Democrats from packing the Supreme Court.
Every time the Republicans are in power, any thought of setting the size of the Supreme Court to a specific number (nine does seem to work pretty well…) disappears as if the problem never existed.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 15, 2026 12:34 PM (EXyHK)
It is time for the GOP to not just move forward with the SAVE act, not just throwing people in jail for vote fraud, not just arresting pols allowing non-citizens to vote (even in local elections) but so start packing court NOW...oh and start combining New England into two states.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (n3VHW)
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She's fallen behind in one poll, the most recent one.
With the weirdest of crosstabs by a polling firm that seems like it wants to burn its own credibility to the ground (Atlas Intel).
She's led every other poll (especially by other good ones like Harvard-Harris) since March. She's led every national poll since February.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (gnNyN)
Pols have to be in their state to speak to donors, and they have to only raise money from residents of their district. That would fix a lot.
I now go make crepe. (recipe says to mix ingredients, and then rest for an hour. I don't think I will exert myself too much mixing, but I will be back shortly to rest anwyay.)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (wn0/z)
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20 years ago I was aware of Kamala and was scared she would end up president someday (I was aware of her... I didn't know how stupid she was).
Now I'm worried AOC will run and win. The young kids all love her.
Posted by: 496 at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Bert G at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (VARTN)
I mean...everyone acknowledges it.
Remember after 2020 when the Atlantic ran an article crowing about their efforts to "fortify" the election?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (Gqar8)
1. A million dollar a year minimum wage for everybody.
2. Free condoms, drugs, needles and booze for EVERYBODY!
3. A $100,000 US fine if upon meeting her, you don't tell her how smart she is, how pretty she is and how she has such nice hair.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Ripley at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (GUOwU)
He paused a second, and confidently said “Yes”. Hm. Crazy, but that’s what you’re up against.
Imagine if there were Global Elections. Would allowing China and India to decide everything be a good idea? I have had somewhat better luck with that analogy.
At one level, Democracy is exceedingly idiotic. Churchill might have saved Western Civilization, but he was wrong on Democracy.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (zXS73)
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (rJ48h)
I think this idea has merit, but as of right now we still can't stop foreigners from giving substantial funds to Democrats and that is already illegal...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)
https://is.gd/DoBINy
That retarded headline is currently up at Brietbart.
Let me show you how to improve, Brietbart:
Watch Xavier Becerra Mansplain to Latina Journalist How to Do Her Job on T.V.
Why use the PC non-word Latinx, and then defeat the whole point of the stupidity by adding "Female" immediately after it?
Posted by: No Name Today at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (AnnNE)
This redistricting fight is letting state-level RINOs show their asses in very public ways that will end up being advantageous in future years, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:25 PM (xBVv0)
THIS.
To me, the seats won/lost in the 2026 midterms are only superficially important.
De-RINO-ing the right and skullfucking the left in 2030 are the actual targets.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (iNUL3)
Most of the guys at the local men's only club.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)
I don't think storms can occur in a mind that's a vacuum.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Very good! Not perfect, but very good.
Posted by: Venezuela, The 51st State at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (wn0/z)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I assume no one is looking to them for leadership, just someone they can feel proud of themselves for voting for them, and all the real decisions are made by hard-core partisan experts who will really run things behind the scenes.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)
Jerry-built: Refers to something that was poorly or cheaply constructed from the very beginning.
What is the derivation of that? Being... uh... 29, my only familiarity with "Jerry" is from TV and movies where it was a semi-slur for "German." But whatever anybody thinks of Germans, nobody associates them with poor engineering and construction.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (nyTxL)
Be nice if we passed, oh I don't know, some election integrity legislation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega
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They aren't stupid, they are corrupt and the center of that corruption is the US Senate and the GOP caucus there. House GOP caucus too in a lesser degree. Far too many GOP officeholders are a) stealth Democrats, b) out to get generational wealth out of their offices, c) loathe the very people that elect them. These are the Country Club Republicans of yore, now called RINOs.
In fact, the ones that are a) actually conservative, b) honest and not trying to grab wealth for themselves, c) actually like their constituents, are the RINOs. They don't represent the big donors which is the ultimate problem with the GOP.
Democrats are crazed evil criminals.
So we, the average voter with intelligence and morals are repeatedly stuck voting between corrupticans and Demoncrats.
Is there any wonder that when Trump swept down the escalator, he created his own massive constituency in the GOP from the disaffected base voters.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (CWTWj)
Yes. It’s a very good idea, but the enforcement mechanism has to be worked out first on existing laws, or it will mean massive funding imbalances at the local level favoring Democrats.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (EXyHK)
Hillary in 28 It's really the right time
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 12:39 PM (gu0hJ)
We faced number one team and lost by 5 but scored 5 earned runs against them, which is better offense than the number two team.
Little's pitching was off due to a few reasons*, he struck out in the first inning, dived to dodge a high inside pitch in his second at bat, then subsequently crushed an RBI double for some "payback." The guys kept their heads up and played hard, if not messy, which is all you can ask for. In the end, it's a 1 run game if we clean up our fielding and errors.
* He's got a bit of a cold, probably did too many pushups, so his muscles were fatigued, and it was really cold, the combo of which resulted in his pitches running uncharacteristically high in the zone and slow.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:39 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (AnnNE)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhah. Go fuck yourself.
Posted by: Minnesota at May 15, 2026 12:39 PM (iNUL3)
I don’t want to jinx it by saying it, but in 2028 we may be looking at the first 50 state win ever by any political party.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:33 PM (AnnNE)
Let's not get greedy. I'll settle for 1984 Election II: Electric Boogaloo
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 12:39 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
My faves are Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, and Ding-Dong School. Miss Francis saw me in her magic mirror last week.
Posted by: Scranton Joe at May 15, 2026 12:40 PM (oftw2)
Probably for many, the very last one too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (gKWVE)
LOL! He gets to forever wear that title because he was chosen for, what, one day? Two? And the DNC gets to forever be linked inextricably to him. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (kU0PQ)
Democrats need a "message" because Trump is controlling way too much narrative. And Democrats have NOTHING to sell.
This is their way believe it or not of deploying a message *and* projecting strength. Otherwise they have no identity at all other than being weak and ineffective. Not to mention a bunch of annoying complainers and hecklers.
Also I suspect they have to keep their mental patients engaged and this is their way of keeping them riled.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: Bert G at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (VARTN)
Well, she wouldn't need any makeup to do a Thriller reboot.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (wtvvX)
https://tinyurl.com/4252huh7
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (n3VHW)
English guy out for a night with his mates has a few beers and gets into a conflict with a Punjabi.
Punjabi guy stabs him 4 times and the police get called.
The police arrest the English guy for racially abusing the Punjabi and bleeds out while the police are figuring out what to do.
The Punjabi was Sihk and had used his ceremonial knife. You aren't allowed to carry a large knife in Britain (I assume most Sihks nominally carry unsharpened knives to meet their religious obligations).
Out of the 4 knife wounds one was to the face - so there is no way the cops didn't notice it, and two were to the back of the legs so there is no way for the Punjabi to argue it was self defense.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (CWTWj)
Pete Buttgiggle campaign promise
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (W2Pud)
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All aboard, hahahahahaha
Ayy
Crazy, but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as hoes
Maybe it's not too late
To forget how to love and learn how to hate
Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (nyTxL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (iERP6)
Bad Idea - doing your own dental work.
Posted by: Mr. Skullhead at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (+IsEU)
Since she grew up as the child of an Indian research scientist and an American-Jamaican professor, I'm going with "fake."
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (vTZFs)
Be nice if we passed, oh I don't know, some election integrity legislation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 12:38 PM (XV/Pl)
Or, I dunno, maybe a Dynasty centered around a certain family.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (Gqar8)
Holy Cow!
Just how insane do you have to be to want any of these four to be Preezy.
This is just sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (iJfKG)
He paused a second, and confidently said “Yes”. Hm. Crazy, but that’s what you’re up against.
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It's not fair that the rest of America isn't yet enjoying the utopia that comes with NY and LA governance.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 12:43 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)
They are so busy trying to outdo each other in their remarks to cater to the tiniest of interest groups, that they have lost sight of what is real.
So yes, they are dangerous indeed.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 12:43 PM (2WIwB)
My guess: it comes from a bastardization of “jury-rigged”, which is a temporary—not necessarily poorly-constructed—solution until a better one can be implemented:
jury (1), adj, as in jury mast and jury-rigged, occurs earliest in jury mast, a temporary mast…
—Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (EXyHK)
A Sikh robbed and stabbed an 18 year old university student multiple times. Police show up. The attacker claimed the university student had used racist language toward him. The police handcuffed the student, who soon bled to death.
The student's phone was later found in the Sikh's pocket.
http://tiny.cc/g9i3101
Posted by: bonhomme at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (mkw2N)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (iERP6)
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Eliminate filibuster. Stack Supreme Court through bare majority in Senate, signed by Dem president.
New SCOTUS takes case that challenges constitutionality of Electoral College.
New SCOTUS rules that Electoral College is unconstitutional because reasons (Jackson writing majority opinion).
I mean...they'd have to take the Senate first which is a whole mountain to climb over the next few years and survive the cataclysm that will be the 2030 census in addition to winning the presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (xBVv0)
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Enjoy your KFC at home Steve.
Posted by: WisRich at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (G0vdT)
47 I have discussed the EC with a bog standard liberal whack job - “Would you want NYC and LA to decide all our elections?”
He paused a second, and confidently said “Yes”. Hm. Crazy, but that’s what you’re up against.”
It always amazes that people think this is some new idea, when all of this was argued out at great length during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The big states, notably New York, wanted direct election from the start. The small population members said “no way, we’re not joining any union if this is the deal, and there’s 9 of us and only 4 of you.”
Why don’t we allow direct election of the President? Because now, as then, this Union breaks up and is over if any group tries it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (AnnNE)
Yup. And it's easy!
Posted by: The Equal Rights Amendment at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (iERP6)
Posted by: 496 at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (iERP6)
I don't believe this is accurate.
States can apportion their electors however they want. If they all agree to deliver their electors to the winner of the popular vote, that's still in keeping with the constitution.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 12:45 PM (iNUL3)
Its just random chance that every district has a blue majority.
Their new defense?
They gerrymandered New England like 20 years ago so it doesn't count.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 12:45 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Kamalawannadingdong at May 15, 2026 12:45 PM (Escyj)
Has Coconut Jane now got Ozempic face?
Her cheeks are all hollowed out.
Or if it just bad plastic surgery?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
Pols have to be in their state to speak to donors, and they have to only raise money from residents of their district. That would fix a lot.
I now go make crepe. (recipe says to mix ingredients, and then rest for an hour. I don't think I will exert myself too much mixing, but I will be back shortly to rest anwyay.)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (0MFDl)
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Id throw in no over the air political advertising.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (Vh9CX)
Do the wrong thing for long enough, and it transforms into precedent.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (EXyHK)
States can apportion their electors however they want. If they all agree to deliver their electors to the winner of the popular vote, that's still in keeping with the constitution.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 12:45 PM (iNUL3)
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It's not.
Any state that assigns its electors out of alignment with their voters is in violation of the constitution. They gave their voters a choice, and then they deny the voters their choice.
It's not even not giving the people a vote and having electors chosen by the state legislature (SC did this until after the Civil War).
The NPV compact is facially unconstitutional.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (xBVv0)
Do the wrong thing for long enough, and it transforms into precedent.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (EXyHK)
Like Social Security or Income Tax
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I wonder if they understand Kamala did not win the popular vote.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (xBVv0)
And here's me, learning a thing.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (iNUL3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (OYsYV)
The contact high is so strong that just a video will do it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (ExV1e)
English guy out for a night with his mates has a few beers and gets into a conflict with a Punjabi.
Punjabi guy stabs him 4 times and the police get called.
The police arrest the English guy for racially abusing the Punjabi and bleeds out while the police are figuring out what to do.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)
England don't exist anymore. Its an enslaved island, its occupants pussified, and god damn the king.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (gm9Sb)
Sing Along with Mitch is good TV...."Happy days are here again, the skies above are clear again!!"
Posted by: Joemarine at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (y171U)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (xBVv0)
The ridiculousness of finding the Constitution to be unconstitutional aside, the process would then be to amend the Constitution so that it is no longer unconstitutional.
Or an Article 5 convention, which would be political chaos on a level that we have never seen in America.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (iERP6)
Posted by: KaMaLa ThE dAy DrUnK at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I wonder if they understand Kamala did not win the popular vote.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (hftzA)
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2024 was an aberration and Trump cheated (it's impossible to win all the swing states, dontchaknow, therefore Trump cheated, especially in NC).
Therefore it is not eligible for analysis when it comes to how elections can happen in America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (iERP6)
I don't believe this is accurate.
States can apportion their electors however they want. If they all agree to deliver their electors to the winner of the popular vote, that's still in keeping with the constitution.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung
Nope. All compacts between states, including the Popular Vote scheme require approval of Congress. It is in the Constitution. So state A cannot make a binding agreement with state B over electoral votes without Congress approving it.
Same as making DC a state. It requires a constitutional amendment and the Dems tried that in the 1970's at the peak of their power, they failed to get the number of states to ratify.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded,. . .
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)
I'm old enough to remember when Bernie received a fortification of "muh precious democracy" from the Dems. It will happen to her, too.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (5yDGQ)
Problem is she is brutally brutally bad off script so they would just run the Obama Biden Playbook and keep her hidden except to throw bombs.
But I would still expect it to not be a woman. If it is and we are talking a legitimate GE and not a phony one, then she's the one to back.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 12:39 PM (y9nCu)
I’m thinking of 1972 - Dems tried to cater to the hippie crowd and went hard left with McGovern. Complete failure , which is probably why the Deep State went into action to wipe out all the effects of that election.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (AnnNE)
Or an Article 5 convention, which would be political chaos on a level that we have never seen in America.
Posted by: The Equal Rights Amendment at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (iERP6)
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The left has entered Calvinball territory, and it will deem a SCOTUS ruling enough.
They will not be held to questions of process that slow them down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:49 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)
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Not to worry, comrades ... are you ready for:
Hunter Biden 2028 -- The Bantam Menace!
Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2026 12:49 PM (nyTxL)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)
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So, a dark-skinned, female Joe Biden, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:49 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 12:50 PM (Av6i5)
Come to the Supreme Court and "laah"?
This primary is going to be a big code-switching contest between her and AOC.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 12:50 PM (XJ22o)
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That reminds me of a story out of Portland. Black guy randomly stabs a white guy who was just minding his own business, white guy says the magic "n" word (and probably a few four letter words), jury finds stabber not guilty due to white guy's racist language.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 12:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: melodicmetal at May 15, 2026 12:50 PM (61TgR)
Posted by: The Equal Rights Amendment
More likely to be a wet squib. Convention can propose amendments but ratification by 3/4 of the states is still required for any proposed amendments. The fear of the extra-constitutional runaway Convention is there but nowadays more likely to simply fail.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)
Hunter Biden 2028 -- The Bantam Menace!
Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2026 12:49 PM (nyTxL)
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Hunter hates Obama and doesn't make it a secret.
Hunter entering the race would be...fascinating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:50 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 12:50 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)
Interesting reminder.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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A good pair of riding boots, jodhpurs, crop and appropriate top with some ribbons. That would do it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:51 PM (riU3n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 12:52 PM (BMD3P)
The NPV is one of the most likely vectors for a real civil war.
Imagine the following...the state legislators of enough states to get to 270 EVs agree.
In the '28 or a future election the R candidate wants 270+ EVs but loses the popular vote based on fraud from CA.
Now VA, PA, or whatever states joined the NPV but won by the Republican have their state government send a slate of electors for the Democrat.
The current R congress rejects those Dem electors and acknowledges an alternate slate of R electors.
Both the R and D candidate declare victory. Then we get a 5-4 decision one way or other from the SC and the losing side decides to not back down...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 12:52 PM (BMD3P)
Sucking cock and taking it in the butt for Our Democracy.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I wonder if they understand Kamala did not win the popular vote.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:46 PM (hftzA)
I wonder if they realize that if the president were decided on popular vote that Republicans would then spend time and money in ca and NY to siphon off more red voters. Its not like this is done in a vaccuum.
Be funny if they forced that shit through and lost anyway.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Escyj)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (z2aPa)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Av6i5)
Be funny if they forced that shit through and lost anyway.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Escyj)
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The ICE raids in NYC alone would be worth it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Ahh...I think I see the problem.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (2WIwB)
President Trump to host 9 hour prayer ceremony for country to get back to it's Christian roots.
The stove fan is going so I don't know if MS Now thinks this is an amazing idea or a kick-ass amazing idea.
CNN - a reckoning on how Congress handles sexual harrassment claims.. Nothing will happen.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Sco7b)
Or an Article 5 convention, which would be political chaos on a level that we have never seen in America.
Posted by: The Equal Rights Amendment at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (iERP6)
Although I’m not opposed to an Article V convention, I don’t think that many realize that the inevitable result would be 3 or 4 successor states, all with their own constitutions.
The Republic of Greater Texas would be one of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar8)
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We are getting a different class of Sikhs than we used to. We're getting all the sick Sikhs these days.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (riU3n)
I just read a terrible story out of Britain....
I'm ambivalent. Sad for the dead guy, but I'm not even sure where I misplaced my Giveashitometer, considering that this all happened in Limeystan.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (E2lD7)
Holy
Shit
Posted by: melodicmetal at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (61TgR)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Av6i5)
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There were a handful of alsorans who never had a serious shot.
The most prominent was DeSantis, but it was mostly people like Mark Sanford.
Trump won so easily that he should have run unopposed and everyone should have realized it a year earlier and saved their money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 12:47 PM (snZF9)
Berserker be preachin'!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: zombie at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 12:32 PM (NpAcC)
A vibrant, Democrat leaning, SCOTUS is vital to the well being of the country. -- GOPe
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)
Interesting reminder.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)
South Carolina did not get the memo.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (zXS73)
It is the best one we've tried. IFF you have a moral and religious people who are adequately, properly educated. Of course, if you have that populace you can get almost any form of government and have it be good. But you can only sustain a free republic if the people are wise and motivated to use that wisdom.
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (kU0PQ)
Neither did Biden or probably Obama in '12. Well, if you only count living citizens.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (sKqQm)
Trump won so easily that he should have run unopposed and everyone should have realized it a year earlier and saved their money./i]
Honestly it is probably a good thing DeSantis ran.
If the Dems had murdered Trump in Butler I'd rather him then Haley (which is I assume what Biden was gunning for)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)
Same as making DC a state. It requires a constitutional amendment and the Dems tried that in the 1970's at the peak of their power, they failed to get the number of states to ratify.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded,. . .
Posted by: whig
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Dems get back in power, common law and Constitutional and the Republic are out the window.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:56 PM (riU3n)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (hftzA)
It is the best one we've tried. IFF you have a moral and religious people who are adequately, properly educated. Of course, if you have that populace you can get almost any form of government and have it be good. But you can only sustain a free republic if the people are wise and motivated to use that wisdom.
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (kU0PQ)
You have identified the problem quite well.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (qBdHI)
Neigh! I think she looks better with age!
Posted by: John kerry at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (Escyj)
If we abolish the Electoral College, there is no incentive for red states to not report 100% of their votes for the Republican.
(Because blue states a) refuse to limit cheating and b) reported up to 110%+ participation in some precincts in 2020.)
See TX. vs. PA for why the Supreme Court says that's legal for states to do.
Population of states that voted for Trump: 186.4 million
Population of states that voted for Harris: 150.9 million
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
Adam smith (WA-9) has had his District changed three different times in the last 15 years just to keep him in office, and to open up a GOP safe district to take over by the dems.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (iERP6)
They might. But they're certainly counting on the people not knowing.
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: That's why they want our guns at May 15, 2026 12:58 PM (qUkBO)
I don't expect they'd see any problem with telling "the Trump court" to go pound sand on any policy initiative they really wanted.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)
I’m pretty sure that legitimate votes would no longer matter under a national popular vote system. It would just be a matter of who could manufacture the most fraudulent votes from Dead Moose Junction or bleed them from the walls of the fifty-third precinct.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 15, 2026 12:58 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (hftzA)
The goatee is a nice addition.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 15, 2026 12:58 PM (Escyj)
They will not be held to questions of process that slow them down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Which is why I think it likely a future president, perhaps Trump, perhaps someone later will have some nasty choices in front of them.
Democrats in office and their leftist core of activists are busy nailing their standard to the mast and refusing any institution that blocks them from total power. The other 3/4's of the US population has to decide whether to fight (hopefully politically) to crush this group or acquiesce (some might say submit) to the coup.
Not sanguine that the Dem leftists can be forced back in their box without a lot of drama, pain, and losses now.
And that is because normal Dem types are out declaring that they want us dead and justify seizing power by any means possible.
Use time left to us wisely because I don't think this current crop of violent and evil Democrats will stop short of ACW II.
Whether it is something like the Time of Troubles or much worse, it is out there and foreign countries like Qatar, China, etc. are egging it on to bring us down.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded,. . .
So if a D Congress says "Sure, PVC is cool with us," then what?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 12:59 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:42 PM (iERP6)
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NO, IT DOESN'T.
Posted by: Chief Justice Affirmative Action Jackson at May 15, 2026 12:59 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Gqar
The presence of Fort Sumter was a de facto invasion of South Carolina's sovereignty.
Or something stupid like that...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:59 PM (iERP6)
I think a large majority are recognizing the con, and will vote their popular beliefs instead of submitting to the commie DEI insanity.
Just say NO, to 2+2=5
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2026 12:59 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:53 PM (qBdHI)
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And?...
Posted by: Jean Francois Kerry at May 15, 2026 12:59 PM (affD0)
One of my great disappointments in recent years is that red states responded to the voter fraud with some moderate vote security measures.
Want to really fix vote fraud? Have a red county dump enough votes at 3 AM to take an election away from a Democrat for once
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:00 PM (JA4sW)
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Please oh please oh please oh please put your eggs in the David Hogg basket.
PLEASE!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:00 PM (JA4sW)
I still don't know why DeSantis ended his campaign when he did. It was sudden and not clear at all. So she ended up with second most delegates and would have had the argument for being the nom. I think that was the plan.
To have her be the nom and get steamrolled by Kamala.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:00 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: JROD at May 15, 2026 01:00 PM (Qc7+O)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Gqar
The presence of Fort Sumter was a de facto invasion of South Carolina's sovereignty.
Or something stupid like that...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 12:59 PM (iERP6)
All of that because they needed someone to cook their breakfasts and do the sweaty stuff.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 01:01 PM (Gqar8)
I'd like to see an electoral college system at the state level as well. That would preserve the voice of the conservative non-urban residents, which is why it will never be allowed. Can you imagine how different the country would be if they'd done that at the beginning?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 01:01 PM (lFFaq)
Population of states that voted for Harris: 150.9 million
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
I think it is going to matter more which side is willing to exercise power to stop their opponents more than population size. It has become a matter of national will just like the Cold War was except in a much weaker and less cohesive US when engaged in an internal struggle.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:01 PM (E4rtv)
There were a handful of alsorans who never had a serious shot.
The most prominent was DeSantis, but it was mostly people like Mark Sanford.
Trump won so easily that he should have run unopposed and everyone should have realized it a year earlier and saved their money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:54 PM (xBVv0)
You overlooked the awesome vote getting machine that was Mike Pence.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 01:01 PM (AnnNE)
Its not hurting them as much as people might expect and I think the reason goes to the core of how leftwing people decide to vote.
Whatever issues and positions they claim to care about they actually don't. They want two things out of their vote: getting told my their betters they voted right, and getting PAID.
Nothing else matters, so supporting tranny grooming, important rape gangs, or throwing people in concentration camps for not getting the clot shot? All good as long as they get their Biden/Obama dollars and a gold star from the FNM...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: The Glass Ceiling at May 15, 2026 01:02 PM (4ljtY)
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 19, 2026
This is why she's now 'persona non grata.'
Owebama gave Iran BILLIONS of our money. She said they're the enemy.
NO ONE goes against the Chocolate Jesus. NO ONE!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:03 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Piper
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Her eyebrows are in the middle of her forehead and they are using a filter. The whole image is mechanically softened.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:03 PM (riU3n)
Interesting that Biden's people picked her but I guess they were mostly forced to based on his statement he was going to pick a black woman
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)
"It's not our fault we're losers that nobody but other losers like--it's the Electoral College: It's racist an' shit and that's why we keep losing!"
I mean, do they even math how they're going to get to the 75% of states to pass the Constitutional Amendment?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:04 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
There is a whole industry around running losers.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 01:05 PM (vFG9F)
In the right light she is not bad for a politician. But my God what an ugly human being she is. You know she has a lengthy trail of underlings and colleagues going back years who despise her to the core. I don't mean a few I mean most. Just a wretched seeming person who talks like a retard on top of everything else which makes her perfidy worse.
That takes away attractiveness points bigtime. It's like how a just better than average chick with the right attitude and nice hair can seem super cute.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:05 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Then allowed. But it would also take a president's signature according to Cuyler v. Adams, 449 U.S. 433 (1981).
It would still be treading the line constitutionally but I think if Congress and the President agreed to do it, then the Court would acquiesce. Wrongly, but I think they would invoke political question over it.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:06 PM (E4rtv)
These maniacs are f**** dangerous, and they are going to regain power one day.
Be nice if we passed, oh I don't know, some election integrity legislation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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I'm hoping that by the time they retake DC, they'll be substantially changed. Someone will have purged them of the hard socialists same as Bill Buckley reportedly purged the conservative movement of the John Birchers.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 01:06 PM (XJ22o)
Use time left to us wisely because I don't think this current crop of violent and evil Democrats will stop short of ACW II.
Whether it is something like the Time of Troubles or much worse, it is out there and foreign countries like Qatar, China, etc. are egging it on to bring us down.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)
If the left acts badly enough, we can find our own Bukele to take care of them. But the left is disorganized and stupid; they’re more of a disease than anything else.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 01:06 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 01:07 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: melodicmetal at May 15, 2026 01:07 PM (mZy46)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I hear he won the fly vote.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)
I mean, do they even math how they're going to get to the 75% of states to pass the Constitutional Amendment?
If we did elections as straight up popular vote, the big blue shitties would hold their counts until they knew how many to produce and then do so. Every single election.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)
Interesting reminder.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)
South Carolina did not get the memo.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Gqar
They told the garrison to leave. The garrison refused. Presto, change-o. Invasion!
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 01:08 PM (iNUL3)
The second half calls into question whether "political solutions" will in any way shape or form forfend disaster. I do not believe they can.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 01:08 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:08 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:08 PM (fkeut)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:09 PM (N8ZBc)
Interesting that Biden's people picked her but I guess they were mostly forced to based on his statement he was going to pick a black woman
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)
Joke was on him. She ain't black.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:09 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: melodicmetal
David Hogg is a Temu Shia LeBoef.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 01:09 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:09 PM (riU3n)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (N8ZBc)
she is an attractive woman. She is 61. She is just annoying.
Posted by: Piper
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Obama called her "by far the best looking attorney general in the country."
It would be funny if her Republican opponent found some context to repeat this line in a campaign or debate.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (XJ22o)
The number of criminals, the loss of a lot of fed government money and the general incompetence of the inner city governments will lead to hell. Add in the illegals congregating in "sanctuary cities" and boom!
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (gu0hJ)
"She's so accomplished!"
"She's such a powerful speaker!"
Etc., etc.
Yes, yes, give in to that stupidity:
1) she's never won a contested race since her first win
2) Davos happened, no matter how many of them pretend it didn't
3) fundraising from fools is not a measure of actual, broad appeal.
4) she still ain't black. No matter how many black churches she "preachifies" at with a sudden, new-found Southern accent and cadence.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: melodicmetal at May 15, 2026 01:07 PM (mZy46)
David Hogg is the Wesley Crusher of Game of Thrones?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (jehhT)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The lesson of such things is that the perceived losing side ALWAYS seeks foreign alliances. South damn near got it with the UK and France except the people of those countries strongly opposed it. US got it with France in the Revolutionary War with UK and plenty of foreign interference in the French and Russian Revolutions, and Spanish Civil Wars.
We have not seen a civil war yet in a nuclear power but the potential here is pretty awful. Swalwell was a canary in the coal mine with their hideous thinking. To them, it is better to destroy the US than for them to lose power forever.
Never underestimate fanaticism as a factor.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:09 PM (riU3n)
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Jackson actually gave into SC.
He backed down from the conflict and got Congress to reopen the debate on tariffs that were the source of SC's beef in the 1830s.
This gave SC the impression that it had veto power over federal policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (xBVv0)
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
JUST NOW: Rep. STEVE COHEN (D-TN) is DROPPING OUT of his reelection campaign, after his cheated-in racially-drawn Tennessee district got removed
Cohen, who has been in the discriminatory seat for 2 DECADES, is officially DONE
Temu Obama Hakeem is having another horrible Friday!
9R-0D map taking full effect, time to replace him with a Republican.
The rest of the South needs to finish strong. KEEP REDRAWING.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 01:11 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 01:11 PM (4ljtY)
David Hogg picking drunk fights in New Orleans bars. I'd buy that for a dollar.
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:11 PM (N8ZBc)
"They are spiking an autopsy of the election that gave us Trump 2.0. If party leaders won't take the steps required to rebuild ourselves into a winning coalition, we will take it into our own hands," former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg warned in a social media post at the time.
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I'm not sure what this means. What exactly is he threatening?
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 01:11 PM (XJ22o)
She looks like Joe Camel.
She is not attractive in any way.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 01:11 PM (4ljtY)
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She was a Waffle House 6 forty years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (xBVv0)
First I ever heard of the civil war almost starting 30 years earlier was reading Democracy in America as an adult. There is a lot of history schools don't teach.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (lFFaq)
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Before Trump came in, we were *1* SCOTUS voteaway from the idea that the Congress could compel economic action as part of regulation of commerce.
RGB's argument to Roberts, who was the swing vote was: Aw C'mon!
Roberts "tax" fig leaf, saved us from that.
We've been close before. If the Dems win again, we will be close again.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (Fi81e)
That was one of the most surreal part of the campaign.
When she ran for Senate the FNM profile Kamala as the most important Indian (dot) pol in the country, which was arguably true. Her mother was Indian and she had a collection of Indian groups pushing her.
And then when Biden needed her to be black, well, her father was half black so she was suddenly no longer Indian!!!
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (riU3n)
The number of criminals, the loss of a lot of fed government money and the general incompetence of the inner city governments will lead to hell. Add in the illegals congregating in "sanctuary cities" and boom!
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Dunno. Not up to me whether we get a Boogaloo this summer. You would have to ring up Soros and his ilk.
A floating criminal Democrat population is always capable of igniting a place whenever their paymasters on the left want it so.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)
Rake it all in, honey, and take the money and run.
She acknowledges that she don't want the job. Unless she wants to burn down the country. I don't believe that she's that evil.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 01:13 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026
Oh for sure. She has a very ugly heart. She believes strongly in her own BS, which is always problematic. I think it takes some level of narcissism to be a politician. She is off the charts. .
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 01:13 PM (p4NUW)
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Slavery is preferable to freedom; better dead than racist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:13 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)
I think you will find he made that statement because she was already chosen. It softened the blow because otherwise it would have been a huge surprise that made zero sense.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:13 PM (fkeut)
She is not attractive in any way.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 01:11 PM (4ljtY)
I have to agree here.
Where she may've been decent in the days of her leaving makeup imprints on Willie Brown's crotch, she hit a wall a long time ago and I'm just not into jowls on a woman.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:13 PM (JA4sW)
I imagine in a real civil war scenario the Dems get aid and soldiers from: China, the EU, and Canada.
We get...maybe...Japan.
And India could decide to pick either side or none.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:14 PM (sKqQm)
the autopsy would skip analyzing whether then-President Joe Biden should have run for re-election in 2024 and would pass on judging key decisions made by Harris and her team, after she replaced Biden
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That's like doing an autopsy on someone who died of multiple organ failure and not analyzing the heart, brain, and liver.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 01:14 PM (XJ22o)
She is not attractive in any way.
Well, you gotta compare within peer groups. She's much better looking than, say, Dick Cheney.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 01:14 PM (vTZFs)
But full of bile, wine, and STDs on the inside...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Pete, Following The Bouncing Ball at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (oftw2)
She looks like Joe Camel.
She is not attractive in any way.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026
I was wondering if that would summon you, lol. When I said we, you knew I meant you. But if this is the only thing we fight about, we are good.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (p4NUW)
And then when Biden needed her to be black, well, her father was half black so she was suddenly no longer Indian!!!
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)
Her dad was 1/2 Jamaican black, so not one ounce of African American black in her.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:57 PM (hftzA)
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Always agreed.
I think it's my artist self-training that allows me to appreciate form totally apart from personality.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (Fi81e)
Jackson actually gave into SC.
He backed down from the conflict and got Congress to reopen the debate on tariffs that were the source of SC's beef in the 1830s.
This gave SC the impression that it had veto power over federal policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
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Say what you will.
A lesser man than Jackson and we would have had war.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:16 PM (riU3n)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm)
GOP won’t even pass a voter ID bill.
All you need to know about the two parties.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 01:16 PM (f5ZdA)
I do enjoy some properly prepared Kale. Not gonna lie.
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2026 01:16 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm)
Say what you will.
A lesser man than Jackson and we would have had war.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:16 PM (riU3n)
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Jackson should have hung John C. Calhoun in 1832.
Had he, we might have avoided the Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:17 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 01:01 PM (AnnNE)
Did someone say vote getting machines?
Posted by: ACME Machines -Dominion Division at May 15, 2026 01:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 01:17 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (JA4sW)
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The Jamaican's get their blackness from Africa, though, don't they? It's from the African slaves imported to work on the plantations, I believe.
She's probably approximately as black of the "White Hispanic", George Zimmerman.
But she filled Biden's DEI niche.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:17 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 01:17 PM
Judge Ito hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:18 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 01:14 PM (XJ22o)
It was Covid. Duh.
And Hantavirus.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 01:18 PM (iNUL3)
He backed down from the conflict and got Congress to reopen the debate on tariffs that were the source of SC's beef in the 1830s.
This gave SC the impression that it had veto power over federal policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Like most things, it was a compromise. Jackson really did not want to start an earlier Civil War and South Carolina got a political reconsideration of the Tariffs of Abomination. It would be as if you are blaming your namesake for not going to Hartford and arresting all the New Englanders involved in that Secession Conference in the War of 1812.
Usually if you put down a marker that the political game is no longer to be tolerated, like Charles II trying to arrest his parliamentary opposition, then the only recourse by those resisting is violence.
Same goes for international affairs. Whether the cause for violence is righteous or not is the judgment of history, not the participants at the time.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:18 PM (E4rtv)
Didn't rest after, but cooked strait away. Wasn't at all tired -- I must by much stronger the the Frenchies.
My crepe was a little lumpy though, so I'll give them that.
(Sorry, I had to finish the joke I started above.) Apologies to all who had to read this.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 01:18 PM (0MFDl)
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Note...with 53 Senators.
And 80% popular support. Which means at least 1/3 of D votes want it too. I honestly don't know what Thune is thinking. I mean, I suspect some things but I don't know.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (vTZFs)
Ebola outbreak has killed 65 in Africa. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (BMD3P)
"I'm gonna pick a black woman." Picks her. End of "is she black" conversation because their whole side will play along anyway.
Except Trump didn't care. He stood in a room full of blacks and challenged it outright. Such gigantic balls.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 01:20 PM (fkeut)
Note...with 53 Senators.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm)
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Note: Cloture vote used to be a vote when people decide that everybody understood their position and there was no more need for discussion.
This is in no way what goes on any longer in the Senate. 90% of Senators know which way they would vote, so we should have a 90% cloture vote, if the Senators were honest.
When 60% of the Senate is pretty sure about how they'd vote, the simple majority wins.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:20 PM (Fi81e)
1) she's never won a contested race since her first win
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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AOC? She has. In fact, she beat another hot Dem Latina.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 01:20 PM (XJ22o)
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Note...with 53 Senators.
And 80% popular support. Which means at least 1/3 of D votes want it too. I honestly don't know what Thune is thinking. I mean, I suspect some things but I don't know.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (vTZFs)
The only thing I can think of is that he’sgeting paid off somehow.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 01:20 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (vTZFs)
He is bought and paid for. Period.
He has the opportunity to pass the most sought after law by the populace in generations and the asshole his f*cking sitting on his hands.
He needs to be put to pasture ASAP. He's a RINO of the highest order and should be punished for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:20 PM (JA4sW)
" ... and Republicans can't do anything to stop us!"
Every red state will leave the Union under your ideas.
And all your ranting and protest and votes will do fuck-all to stop them.
And your precious cities will starve in the dark long before you muster an army.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:21 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 01:21 PM (LxER7)
Something else for the media to spasm over.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (BMD3P)
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That's like saying piranha in the Amazon.
But yeah, the media is going to keep at it until they give the dems the next mask mandate crisis.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 01:21 PM (2WIwB)
Eliminate vote fraud and in '26 the GOP gets the house (by more then 40 seats), and a 60+ majority in the Senate.
Thune gets replaced by a MAGA type as majority leader and the new GOP congress goes and does a bunch of things that Thune's clients don't want - like restricting H1Bs ...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)
Same goes for international affairs. Whether the cause for violence is righteous or not is the judgment of history, not the participants at the time.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:18 PM (E4rtv)
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All I know is that SC objected to tariffs passed by Congress, and their tantrum led to Congress taking up the issue again.
This victory created the fire-eaters who, alongside Calhoun (who, of course, died before the war), led the charge towards secession instead of compromise.
As much as the Missouri Compromise, I blame Jackson for the Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 01:21 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: 18-1
I think it might have been more that no one really wanted to fight and die for the Biden junta as the leaders could hardly come out of the shadows and reveal they had been running ole Pudding brain's administration. I think the left is angry and united enough now to simply blow through the institutions and customs preventing open warfare.
Trump is putting an intolerable toll on their illegal immigration operations and remember, the Democrats in the Civil War acted before Lincoln and Congress could put any restraints on their spread of slavery.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:22 PM (E4rtv)
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Makes sense.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:22 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (vTZFs)
The only thing I can think of is that he’sgeting paid off somehow.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 01:20 PM (Gqar
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Or the pictures are really damning.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 01:22 PM (2WIwB)
Something else for the media to spasm over.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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What slaughtered Christians?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:23 PM (riU3n)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 01:24 PM (BMD3P)
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2026 01:24 PM (f5Y1D)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:09 PM (JA4sW)
25% - Not Black.
50% - The most feral wide nosed Gorilla to ever murder an innocent white person.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 01:25 PM (FpHTM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (JA4sW)
I disagree
Posted by: Willie Brown at May 15, 2026 01:25 PM (fkeut)
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aw...
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:25 PM (GD0B3)
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LOL, remember when President Otto Penn, via a tweet, "deemed" the Equal Rights Amendment passed?
And all the lefties couldn't rub that donkey shit on themselves fast enough, all squirting out in glee?
See also cartel judges citing the dissent of SCOTUS opinions as binding authority.
Yup. Rules mean jack shit to them.
But somehow, all their plans rely upon everyone else following the rules ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:25 PM (73/SM)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 01:19 PM (vTZFs)
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This is how you know you're living in a lip-service "democracy" : The ~50% of politicians prattling on about "democracy" can't allow a 80% publicly-supported idea to pass.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:26 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2026 01:26 PM (BMD3P)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 01:15 PM (JA4sW)
She's African by injection.
- W. Brown
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 01:26 PM (iNUL3)
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2026 01:24
See my comment on this somewhere up there.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 01:26 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2026 01:27 PM (f5Y1D)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 01:22 PM
I'm tanned. Rested. Ready!
Posted by: Kamala! 2028! 2032! David Hogg! 2036! at May 15, 2026 01:27 PM (0sNs1)
What was so hilarious, such pronouncements from on high are actually highly fucking illegal. Numerous, myriad Federal laws are very clear on this.
Absolutely illegal every which way to Sunday. But of course the cucks in government can’t be bothered by such trivialities.
This was not the design or intent of “Affirmative Action”, by the way, an end run around the 1964 civil rights law passed by Congress.
It’s been queered to force completely unqualified “minorities” into positions they are not remotely qualified. This is considered progress. Cultural Regression more like it.
I guarantee there are highly qualified black females that would be a great addition to the Courts. But, they aren’t brain dead Liberals, thus they are excluded. Discriminated against, you might say.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 01:27 PM (p9bn0)
Posted by: Mo Mo Mo at May 15, 2026 01:27 PM (vFG9F)
"Well I be from Jamaica. Lordamercy."
"What part of Jamaica?"
"Right neer de beech. BoyEEEEE!!!"
Posted by: And then she sucked Samson's dick at May 15, 2026 01:28 PM (TbWk/)
Texture like sunlight
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throighout the night, without a fight
Never a frown with Golden Brown
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 15, 2026 01:28 PM (wBaIH)
It's like they went to a retard store and there was a sale on super retards and they bought as many as they could.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 01:28 PM (qrzX6)
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Leftism, including it's fascist variant, is nihilistic.
As long as nothing is definitely true, get what you want.
And when you can you dress it up as what a majority of citizens at least should want. Because non-nihilists have some sort of "principle", and it's important to justify what you want under something that looks like a "principle".
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:28 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:29 PM (riU3n)
My point was really that she had been presented as America's most important India pol when she was 50% Indian ethnically, but somehow became black overnight when she was only 25%.
Now I don't care. Black, Indian, White, whatever, she supports terrible things politically. But if we are playing the media's game about the importance of race she's Indian not Black. Hell, she's as much white as she is black.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mo Mo Mo at May 15, 2026 01:27 PM (vFG9F)
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She's as Beautiful as a Foot.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:29 PM (Fi81e)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:30 PM (gu0hJ)
AI sez "The opposite of a nihilist is someone who believes life has inherent meaning, purpose, or objective value, often described as an existentialist, affirmist, or essentialist." IDNKT!
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:30 PM (N8ZBc)
It's like they went to a retard store and there was a sale on super retards and they bought as many as they could.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 01:28 PM (qrzX6)
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I couldn't have said it better.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2026 01:30 PM (f5Y1D)
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Don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you!
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 01:30 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 01:31 PM (p9bn0)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 01:32 PM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:28 PM
Nihilists! F*** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Axeman, at least it's an ethos.
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at May 15, 2026 01:32 PM (0sNs1)
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It's ironic that the "Father of the Democratic Party" was so much closer in almost every way to the "tyrant" they accuse Trump of being.
Posted by: Axeman at May 15, 2026 01:33 PM (Fi81e)
My point was really that she had been presented as America's most important India pol when she was 50% Indian ethnically, but somehow became black overnight when she was only 25%.
Now I don't care. Black, Indian, White, whatever, she supports terrible things politically. But if we are playing the media's game about the importance of race she's Indian not Black. Hell, she's as much white as she is black.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)
She's black when it is perceived to giver her status.
Same thing with a certain half-white queer former president who is the most absurd Oreo in public life.
Posted by: Blacker Than Shaun King at May 15, 2026 01:33 PM (nlMtB)
Buttgiggle - incompetent mayor and sec of transportation
Newsom - pretty boy, incompetent, grifter
Kamala - drunk and stupid
And yet the Dem sheep will vote for any one of e
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 01:33 PM (gu0hJ)
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We were also one vote away from gutting the 1st Amendment.
"Fake news" was coined by Hillary as laying the groundwork for FEC and FCC regulations on all news and news commentary.
I guarantee hidden in those agencies are reams of rules that would require licensing, registration and KYC on all news/new-related websites.
By 2020, it would be basically illegal to say or write anything conservative.
They would have rolled to super-majorities in Congress on that.
And Garland was that vote.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 01:37 PM (73/SM)
“I' think it’s okay for us to be a bit transactional, too,'” Harris said. “'And just say, I’m going to get mine also!'”
Also Kamala Harris, this time to her, er, "political mentor" Willie Brown: "Our relationship was transactional and the transaction is over."
Brown's long string of young female protegees who got plum commission appointments and the like when their transactions were over was an open secret among Left politicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Traces could be seen in the media, but very little actual reporting was done.
Posted by: Peter B at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (VTbl0)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Clancy wrote a book in that vein, 'Rainbow Six'. Synopsis:
" Horizon Corporation's CEO John Brightling as part of his secret radical environmentalist plot, "the Project". Viewing humanity as a "disease" for causing environmental destruction, Brightling plans to wipe out nearly all of humanity using a modified strain of the Ebola virus"
Scary shit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:38 PM (XeU6L)
Oh come-on! You cannot blame former POTUS Joey Biden for losing Kamala's election. Joe wasn't even mentally there. And that was the purpose of the Biden administration's handlers.
They used Biden's autopen to change our citizens' government that our ancestors fought for dearly. They had free reign over destroying our U.S. government to make it Socialist. A Democracy (mob rule) is a path to Socialism, whereby a Republic as defined by our citizens' Constitution of the U.S. gives a balanced statistical weighting to all States' citizens.
"A Republic, if you can keep it.", Benjamin Franklin, 1787
Posted by: John at May 15, 2026 01:41 PM (0DsdP)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at May 15, 2026 01:42 PM (GL+EM)
He paused a second, and confidently said “Yes”. Hm. Crazy, but that’s what you’re up against.”
It always amazes that people think this is some new idea, when all of this was argued out at great length during the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The big states, notably New York, wanted direct election from the start. The small population members said “no way, we’re not joining any union if this is the deal, and there’s 9 of us and only 4 of you.”
Why don’t we allow direct election of the President? Because now, as then, this Union breaks up and is over if any group tries it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 12:44 PM (AnnNE)
we need something like that at the state level - cities and burbs can dominate the rest of the state otherwise. Look at the Gerrymanders where none of them think twice of totally disenfranchising the rural areas at the national level.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 01:47 PM (8avO+)
It's like they went to a retard store and there was a sale on super retards and they bought as many as they could.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 15, 2026 01:28 PM (qrzX6)
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I couldn't have said it better.
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 15, 2026 01:30 PM (f5Y1D)
The power brokers need the retards to be the front men, so the dumber the better.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 15, 2026 01:49 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at May 15, 2026 03:14 PM (QrgRG)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 15, 2026 03:17 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 15, 2026 03:26 PM (T6aVk)
Because the real reason you don't need to "brainstorm" is because the only way to do it is to get 2/3 of Congress and 38 states (LOL!) to agree to amending the constitution
Posted by: deadrody at May 15, 2026 03:28 PM (vgB0v)
CumAllahLa ! ! !
Posted by: Marooned at May 15, 2026 07:54 PM (kt8QE)
THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots – 5/15/2025
Despite the setback, Mr. Vince voiced confidence about the eventual success of electric flight, adding: “This is a vital frontier in the move to net zero, green living, whatever you choose to call it- and it’s absolutely doable.”I have zero confidence in “the eventual success of electric flight,” but I have every confidence that promoters of electric flight will continue to bring new ideas to market to fleece the same “socially responsible” investors again and again.
Fair Access to Banking: Capital One is responding to demands and requests from various federal agencies regarding “fair access to banking,” including those resulting from Executive Order 14331 “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” which directed government agencies to review financial institutions’ policies and practices for providing, maintaining, or discontinuing financial products or services to certain clients or potential clients, and a civil lawsuit filed by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust and several affiliated corporate entities against Capital One, which is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.As documented in a widely distributed piece titled Capital One Flags Debanking Fight in Quarterly Filing, ”the Trump Organization sued Capital One, alleging the bank closed some 300 Trump-linked accounts because it believed ‘the political tide at the moment favored doing so.’” I’ve no doubt that the money center banks received inappropriate pressure from the Biden administration to help crush Trump and other political adversaries of the Obama’s puppet regime. But I also doubt that the executives pushed back at all. In fact, I believe they were glad to be an enforcement arm of the government’s vendetta against Trump and his supporters. When Donald Trump publicly shamed Bank of America CEO for his complicity in debanking conservatives, Brian Moynihan could only sputter about “over-regulation,” because he could not deny the well-documented fact that BofA debanked conservatives without ever providing a reason. There really need to be consequences for what was quite literally fascist behavior between big banks and the federal government.
The electric vehicle revolution was supposed to conquer the elements; instead, the elements conquered it. The industry has spent billions optimizing aerodynamics and fast-charging curves, but the latest data from the AAA exposes a significant problem: electric and hybrid vehicles are still fundamentally failing the temperature test. When the mercury drops to 20°F, electric vehicles lose an agonizing 39 percent of their driving range and suffer a 35.6 percent collapse in overall efficiency. For the everyday commuter, this is not merely a logistical headache; it is a direct financial penalty.20° temperatures are common well into the South. Temperatures far below 20° are a normal part of winter in much of the country. An EV that loses about half of its range in a mid-winter cold snap is just simply not an option for tens of millions of drivers. But as AAA points out, the catastrophic loss of range in freezing weather is also very expensive, because so much more charging is necessary. The additional electricity usage costs on average $32 per 1,000 miles above normal for those who can charge at home. If forced to use public chargers, the cost is an additional $77 per 1,000 miles. Despite all this, General Motor’s CEO Mary Barra stated in an interview two weeks ago with Fox News’ Brian Baier that she is still committed to an all-EV future and that “EVs are the end game.” GM’s board has got to take action soon to relieve the company of Barra’s deluded eco-agenda and put a competent auto person back in charge.
Round Rock, Texas - Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved changing the jurisdiction of Dell Technologies’ state of incorporation from Delaware to its home state of Texas.Delaware was sitting on a gold mine but (pardon the mixed metaphor) it decided to kill the golden goose by letting activists in judicial robes go on political vendettas against corporations not sufficiently obedient to the left.
Waymo going the wrong way on Oltorf. This is at the Congress intersection on Friday ��Aaron Martinez @fox7austin pic.twitter.com/UK6WGf6BdX
— Chris Walker (@WalkerATX) May 11, 2026
Meanwhile, in Dallas a Waymo at a red light decided that rather than wait for the light to turn green, it would just slowly creep into the intersection until traffic cleared enough for it to fully enter the intersection, despite the red light.
�� WAYMO ROBOTAXI CAUGHT RUNNING RED LIGHT IN DALLAS
— The Dallas Express News (@DallasExpress) May 12, 2026
Video shows the self-driving vehicle crossing through traffic at Irving Boulevard and Inwood Road. No injuries reported. @Waymo says it is addressing the incident and that safety remains its highest priority.… pic.twitter.com/Zjsud5zX67
Also in Austin, Waymos were seen driving into flooded roads, and then stopping in the flooded roadways. Video is at this link. Even more terrifying, during heavy rains in San Antonio in late April, a Waymo drove into floodwaters and was swept away! Fortunately the Waymo was unoccupied at the time. “Waymo temporarily suspends San Antonio operations after vehicle swept away by floodwaters” [Fox 7 Austin – 4/21/2026] Waymo suspended service in San Antonio, and it has finally issued a broader recall due to its self-driving cars’ inability to identify standing water on roadways. “Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after glitch allowed some vehicles to ‘drive into standing water’” [CNBC – 5/12/2026] I will not be getting in a self-driving taxi any time in the near future. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 11:01 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 11:01 AM (X8xt3)
I know, I know, they knew this going into the mandates and it is designed to make cars obsolete.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 11:03 AM (X8xt3)
Heh. That's a regular Maryland driver trick.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 11:03 AM (LxER7)
Headline: 'Smart Cars' Not So Smart, Experts
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)
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It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at May 15, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)
-- EVs
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)
Eh, just a minor software bug, nothing that can't be hotpatched!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 11:06 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: City, State & Federal Government at May 15, 2026 11:07 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 11:08 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:09 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 11:09 AM (jjoN6)
"A fool and their money are soon parted."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:10 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)
General Motor’s CEO Mary Barra stated in an interview two weeks ago with Fox News’ Brian Baier that she is still committed to an all-EV future and that “EVs are the end game.”
General Motor’s CEO Mary Barra
The Kathleen Kennedy of Kars!
Motto: Make them unusable and gay!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:10 AM (iJfKG)
Prove me wrong. BILLIONS of dollars have disappeared with this bullshit. Where did it go?
Left wing destructional coffers. Period.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:10 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (FpHTM)
Good, there should be consequences.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 11:12 AM (X8xt3)
That money won't launder itself just as the kickbacks don't kick themselves back.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 11:12 AM (T7fic)
They based their legal system on those orange Monopoly cards? Did Biden draw the get out of jail free card?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 15, 2026 11:12 AM (w/O5Q)
Why are EVs the "endgame?"
In addition to that, could you explain to me all the downsides of going full EV?
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 11:13 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Lizzy
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As I say; "A mobile society is difficult to subjugate."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 11:13 AM (jehhT)
Shut. Them. Down.
Learn to test.
Otherwise, F*ck off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:13 AM (JA4sW)
https://tinyurl.com/322hbvzk
And that is as good as it gets.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:15 AM (q7IhF)
There will be functioning and safe nuclear powered air craft before electric ones
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 11:16 AM (gu0hJ)
https://tinyurl.com/4u5wmswb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (ndZc7)
Uh oh....the video shows the Airstream trailer.
TMZ is gonna be pissed........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:16 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:17 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:17 AM (77rzZ)
Meanwhile, I thank all you human guinea pigs who are willing to help iron the bugs out today to make my dream come true.
Posted by: No Name Today at May 15, 2026 11:17 AM (8mulE)
Posted by: Asking the awkward questions at May 15, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Charge board members with criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights. That will get their attention.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 15, 2026 11:18 AM (rJ48h)
But yeah he told me in winter if it gets below freezing they’re a major pain in the ass. The battery will lose 10% or more a day just sitting. Driving with heat on also kills range as much as 25% as soon as the heater is on.
When the leases end he’s going back to ICE cars.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 11:18 AM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 11:01 AM (jehhT)
*****
An electric plane built in the UK? Electric + UK is no bueno. Put a gun to my back, yeah I'd get on it, otherwise no thanks!
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 15, 2026 11:19 AM (7lGtY)
But the engineers keep closing the bugs as "Works As Implemented".
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 11:19 AM (aZ9eR)
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Simplest Solutions Are Best - a limerick
Electric planes haven't yet soared
So it's back to the old drawing board
For this venture to succeed
I'll tell you what you need
A really, really long extension cord!
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 11:19 AM (I0N4X)
Prove me wrong. BILLIONS of dollars have disappeared with this bullshit. Where did it go?
Left wing destructional coffers. Period.
Posted by: Sponge
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Watermelon strategy, green on the outside, commie red on the inside. The founder of Earthday killing his lover and putting her in a trunk while escaping to France should be a clue.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:19 AM (E4rtv)
GM’s board has got to take action soon to relieve the company of Barra’s deluded eco-agenda and put a competent auto person back in charge.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton
I volunteer as tribute. The new 2028 Chevy Impala will have the exterior of the 1967 Chevy Impala, with everything under the skin representing the last 60 years of vehicle improvements in engineering, horsepower, suspension, and comfort.
I won't be able to produce enough of them.
*stares meaningfully at Dodge in a direct challenge*
Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2026 11:19 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:17 AM
*****
Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Really big rubber bands at May 15, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)
>We, and the (IC) developed hydrogen/electric drones in the '90s. They could almost stay in perpetual flight off of collecting water vapor. That would a stupid thing to do for a commercial reason.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 11:19 AM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 11:20 AM (Cqx++)
17 September 2025.
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They went down in flames... 🔥🔥
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 11:20 AM (jehhT)
I’m not wedded to the idea of petroleum or gasoline. I resent these implications, it is highly offensive. The truth is always a bit more simple than the usual suspects would have you believe.
They like to muddy the waters, to try and make it look deep. The energy density in a gallon of diesel or gasoline is truly remarkable. Nothing else comes even close, in terms of cost. Petroleum, coal, gas and oil, are what makes modern life possible and largely drudgery free.
We no longer have to beat our laundry out with a stick down by the river. Refrigeration and food preservation, transportation, heating in subzero weather means we don’t have to stock up whole forests two years in advance to heat our homes.
Oil or natural gas is used in many products to make plastics. And fertilizer, to grow our crops.
What these MFers have been planning to do is outlaw your ability to survive, near as I can tell. This is a top down thing, that nobody has asked for.
How are those rechargeable snow plows working out in North Dakota?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:20 AM (ds7a/)
For a city taxi service? Sure, why not? But when I think about the trips I take in my car, I would be uncomfortable driving an EV on many of them.
I think the EV craze is going to shrink, and be focused on city taxis, and the ultra-high performance (at an ultra-high price) that electric motors can provide.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 11:21 AM (iERP6)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 11:21 AM (fkeut)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly
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Is Lucas Electric UK(of Lucas) involved in it?
"The poor reputation stemmed from several engineering and material choices:
Material Degradation: British manufacturers persisted with cotton-insulated wiring long after competitors switched to plastic, leading to frequent short circuits in wet conditions.
Design Flaws: Lucas often used generators with rubbing brushes that wore out, and implemented complex systems where a single failure (like a burnt-out tail lamp) could disable the entire ignition.
Corrosion: The use of disparate metals in electrical contacts accelerated corrosion, exacerbated by poor weatherproofing in classic British car bodies."
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:21 AM (E4rtv)
Ah, it'll be fine once they can source 2000 mile long extension cords.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:22 AM (vTZFs)
That's why I called things like Solyndra "funds for friends". Under Obama que bono was *always* a direct crony or their relative. It was less clear where the money was going under Biden, so I suspect it was directly to the Bidens and Obama.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:22 AM (lFFaq)
"Dykes and fairys, creeps and hairys, tell me where is sanity "
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 15, 2026 11:22 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 11:22 AM (fkeut)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (FpHTM)
it is hard enough to carry plastic bags to pick up after standard-sized dogs.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:23 AM (rbvCR)
TMZ is gonna be pissed........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:16 AM (JA4sW)
It shows a snippet of his TMZ appearance too. I lol'ed.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Lithium batteries burn even better, hotter, and longer than petrol products. Plus produce more hazardous combustion gases. Win Win.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)
They work well inside warehouses or running around between buildings of a big plant.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (aZ9eR)
Have we considered the obvious; the Waymo decided it hated its job and committed suicide?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (Kt19C)
Wasn't there supposed to be a "new" Chevelle SS or was that just more AI clickbait?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (vTZFs)
With the government giving them clout
We'll have electric jetliners, no doubt
You'll fly without care
Way up in the air
At least, till the battery runs out!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:25 AM (iJfKG)
Mobile and armed is the despair of wannabe tyrants everywhere. They will *never* stop trying to destroy those attributes.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:25 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Should be warm enough for the batteries to use them up there in July.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:27 AM (UeLv+)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 11:27 AM (vFG9F)
Lead-acid is a mature technology, and heavy, but still have a lot going for them. A fully charged lead acid battery will not freeze down to 50 below zero.
Batteries are a chemical reaction, and like all (most?) chemical reactions are temperature dependent. As the temperature goes down the charging voltage must increase to compensate.
At the same time, their ability to supply current goes down as the temperature decreases.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:27 AM (ds7a/)
They work well inside warehouses or running around between buildings of a big plant.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM
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Hey, I've got an idea! Use them at golf courses! And retirement villages!
Sssshhhh... don't tell anybody. I've got to call my investor buddies.
Posted by: Greedy capitalist at May 15, 2026 11:28 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 11:28 AM (Pk3sT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 11:28 AM (Pk3sT)
No electric motors. Pulled by a robot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:28 AM (JA4sW)
Board members definitely need to start being held accountable for CEO policies. CEOs serve at the discretion of the board so the board needs to start showing some discretion instead of rubber stamping things.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:29 AM (lFFaq)
High heat also affects EV battery life.
Any stats on that? Cuz hot, long summers are more of a concern than cold winters in the SW and South.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:29 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 11:29 AM (I0N4X)
It shows a snippet of his TMZ appearance too. I lol'ed.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (2RJDy)
Heh.
I listened to the song more than watching the video. Will have to rewatch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:29 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 11:30 AM (gu0hJ)
Thermodynamics out front could have told you that.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 11:30 AM (D1E+2)
Why are EVs the "endgame?"
In addition to that, could you explain to me all the downsides of going full EV
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 1
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I think she's a true believer, expecting a Democrat comeback.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:30 AM (UeLv+)
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I’m waiting for the first Robot police officer to pull over the “self driving” car. Shouldn’t be long now.
Who gets the ticket? Some corporation shell company nobody knows where. Besides, nobody knows where the ticket revenue goes either.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:30 AM (qgiNH)
Electric rickshaws.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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No electric motors. Pulled by a robot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cance
Here me out. The passenger has a cattle prod. The motive power is supplied by lefty progtards and the passenger gets to zap the treasonous little shit as often as he/she desires.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2026 11:31 AM (QVmho)
They just need to tow a tender that has a big diesel generator on it. Sort of like a steam locomotive.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 11:31 AM (wn0/z)
Posted by: Darin Zimmerman at May 15, 2026 11:31 AM (55jmf)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:22 AM (lFFaq)
Zero Interest Rate was another element, all it required was to borrow money to invest, and all you had to do is not lose money to make bank against the inflation. A corporation would be negligent to not to borrow in those conditions. It was no longer how much value you created, it was how much money you had access to by borrowing.
It turned everything financialized, and made everything crap since the only goal was to make money, not make products that were useable or plan for the future (which was doomed due to inflation eating all the investments and savings)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:32 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:21 AM (E4rtv)
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Whig: Lucas wasn't called the Prince of Darkness for no reason.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 15, 2026 11:32 AM (7lGtY)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)
I'm not too surprised about that. I don't have actual data¹ but it seems reasonable to assume that the majority of fatal accidents are caused by well below-median skilled drivers. Waymo only has to be fair-to-middlin' to beat that. Though TBF, the examples above are not.
¹ i.e. I could be making up sh*t but it's plausible-sounding sh*t
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:33 AM (vTZFs)
High heat also affects EV battery life.
Any stats on that? Cuz hot, long summers are more of a concern than cold winters in the SW and South.
Posted by: naturalfake
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That is one of the reasons that sodium ion batteries (and Tesla also experimenting with aluminum based batteries) were developed. They weigh more but charge faster, less problems with them burning/shorting, and in theory, cheaper production. Sodium based batteries also have a bigger temperature variance for retaining charge. They degrade a lot less at colder and hotter temps than lithium.
But lithium is already being mass produced and has economies of scale behind it.
But for something like stationary sources like powerwalls, etc. sodium has a lot of advantages over lithium.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)
It's a technology pushed by people who never took a science or engineering course. They just assumed that technical progress would eliminate the problems before EVs became really widespread.
I wish I had a dollar for every story I've read that announced a "breakthrough" in battery technology. I'm still waiting. I don't doubt things will improve, probably dramatically, over the next decade or so, but you don't build a consumer product around tech until it has been proven for awhile. Wishing, assuming, and hoping is not an industrial strategy.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:33 AM (vTZFs)
They work well inside warehouses or running around between buildings of a big plant.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM
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Right-o. I drove an electric forklift many decades ago in a factory that made printing presses. That factory no longer exists in America
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:33 AM (UeLv+)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)
They just need a small wood/coal fired furnace in the back seat, so they don't have to depend on the electric.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Darin Zimmerman at May 15, 2026 11:31 AM (55jmf)
NOT the ICE's fault............
ICE's LOVE cold weather. It's why one significant upgrade for any engine is the Cold Air Intake...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM (JA4sW)
I'm not too surprised about that. I don't have actual data¹ but it seems reasonable to assume that the majority of fatal accidents are caused by well below-median skilled drivers. Waymo only has to be fair-to-middlin' to beat that. Though TBF, the examples above are not.
¹ i.e. I could be making up sh*t but it's plausible-sounding sh*t
Posted by: Oddbob
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Waymo does not have the habit of drinking while driving nor smoking ganga. That right there puts them up from a lot of urban drivers.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)
No need to apologize. That's an interesting point I hadn't heard before.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: naturalfake
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According to my lefty Aunt Marge
Electric air travel will be large
But the problem, you see
Is that flights won't be free
You ain't going nowhere with "No charge!"
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 11:36 AM (I0N4X)
That may be a per capita issue. As well as a "yet" issue. Better question is how many accidents/fleet compared to the same among human-driven taxis.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:36 AM (lFFaq)
As I commented a few days ago in regard to autonomous semi trucks, it hasn't happened yet but the first law suit is going to be a banger.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:36 AM (vTZFs)
They just need a small wood/coal fired furnace in the back seat, so they don't have to depend on the electric.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM (vbXSk)
Top Gear put a fireplace in a car once...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:36 AM (JA4sW)
You know it’s bad when you look back on COVID fondly…The deaths notwithstanding, which were a tragedy. But when I look back on COVID, compared to today, the COVID times almost seemed better.
We had telework. Under Biden the agencies had decent leadership. Interest rates were low.
Yea masks sucked, but all in all, compared to today… just feels like times are even worse and there’s no a global pandemic to blame for it.
I don’t know… am I crazy for feeling this way? I only post this because I was sitting here in the office, following RTO, on Friday looking out the window at a sunny day, and we were talking about the new hantavirus, and I just thought “damn my life was better under COVID…”
Even with the anxiety due to the pandemic, many people had more time to spend with family and relax…Americans are overworked, and I think that is where the biggest difference is felt.
Covid days were awesome! I’m an introvert so I loved it. My productivity was at an all time high and I even got a bunch of awards.
COVID reminded us to slow down and enjoy what we have! But they assholes just didn’t want us to be peaceful for too long……
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 11:37 AM (JCZqz)
A backhoe.
It's a little known fact that the Laurentian Shield in Canada is composed entirely of old windmill blades left over from a previous civilization.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Yes, high heat is not good. Charging voltage needs reduced at anything above standard temps. As it gets cold, internal resistance makes it like trying to recharge a brick.
You’ll see say, 14.5 volts as a standard voltage for alternators under load. But at Zero and below, it’s a hardly a float charge.
Without temperature compensation for charging, you’re wasting a LOT of time, and likely damage through under or over charging.
Interestingly it isn’t ambient temperature to be concerned, but the internal batt temp. With a 50 pound chunk of lead, this takes about 2 days to catch up.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:37 AM (qgiNH)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM"
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Afterwards come see me for a snack.
Posted by: Robot waitress at the donut shop at May 15, 2026 11:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: naturalfake
***********
According to my lefty Aunt Marge
Electric air travel will be large
But the problem, you see
Is that flights won't be free
You ain't going nowhere with "No charge!"
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 11:36 AM (I0N4X)
Nice!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:38 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (vTZFs)
I think it was clickbait.
I want a 2027 Ford Falcon.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:38 AM (rbvCR)
But for something like stationary sources like powerwalls, etc. sodium has a lot of advantages over lithium.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:33 AM (E4rtv)
But TV shows tell me that you can simply stuff electrodes in lemons and power your jam box without a problem!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:38 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
>Not much. The just bury it in a bone yard with a front end loader. They're not recycled.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 11:38 AM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Heh. They would stroke out on nuclear batteries. Those do have a pretty damn good power to weight ratio even with shielding. At one time, US was looking at small reactors to power planes and used a derivation of that technology to produce small nuke-electric generators to power our unmanned spacecraft like Voyager I and II.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:38 AM (E4rtv)
***********
All the robot cars have to do is flash a little robot cleavage.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 11:39 AM (I0N4X)
COVID reminded us to slow down and enjoy what we have! But they assholes just didn’t want us to be peaceful for too long……
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 11:37 AM (JCZqz)
You think the world basically implementing Martial Law and locking you in your home is peace?!?
I can't imagine having this mindset..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:40 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:38 AM (rbvCR)
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A Ranchero version of that would be nice too!
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 15, 2026 11:40 AM (7lGtY)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:24 AM (vTZFs)
I know they brought the Impala back and BOY HOWDY was that thing a piece of shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:41 AM (JA4sW)
I can't imagine having this mindset..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Fed employees were still getting paid, and got to work from home! Fuck all you private sector peons!
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 11:41 AM (JCZqz)
***********
All the robot cars have to do is flash a little robot cleavage.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 11:39 AM (I0N4X)
When Futurama becomes reality.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:41 AM (JA4sW)
They misspelled "committed to doing whatever keeps the taxpayer cheese rolling in"
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 11:42 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 11:42 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 11:37 AM (JCZqz)
You think the world basically implementing Martial Law and locking you in your home is peace?!?
I can't imagine having this mindset..........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:40 AM (JA4sW)
No. They think locking YOU in your home is peaceful for them.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 11:42 AM (iNUL3)
Covid days were awesome! I’m an introvert so I loved it. My productivity was at an all time high and I even got a bunch of awards.
COVID reminded us to slow down and enjoy what we have! But they assholes just didn’t want us to be peaceful for too long……
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 11:37 AM (JCZqz)
COVID
The Disease For Lazy Assholes and Day Drunks!!!
Warning: Do not get Covid if you are allergic to Covid.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:42 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (FpHTM)
They did that already but just stubbornly refuse to call them anything but mules.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 11:42 AM (zafwz)
Posted by: Sponge
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There are a lot of ways to generate current. Some are more pleasant, cheaper, and practical than others (like carbon based fuels aka fossil fuels).
Seem some geniuses figuring out how to use power generated by natural body motion moving about to power a smart suit.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:43 AM (E4rtv)
Why? Is there some new combination of elements?
FWIW, batteries aren't fuel. Ever.
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (XuXeR)
FWIW, batteries aren't fuel. Ever.
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (XuXeR)
But they WILL light on fire.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Bumqueesha and Otis at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (oftw2)
Unite the Kingdom marchers will want to be on the lookout for a J6 setup.
Expect agitators, and be prepared for them.
Step away from agitators. Don't engage. Film them. Livestream them.
This message from Starmer indicates he and the regime thugs who pass for cops in Britain today will stop at nothing.
https://is.gd/4Lzuze
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge
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There are a lot of ways to generate current. Some are more pleasant, cheaper, and practical than others (like carbon based fuels aka fossil fuels).
Seem some geniuses figuring out how to use power generated by natural body motion moving about to power a smart suit.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:43 AM (E4rtv)
The Return of the Self Winding Watch.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (Gqar8)
lol
Whoever first assessed COVID as a Karen's wet dream, collect your money at the window.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (dK+Kv)
My idea about to be presented to the Canadian government for massive amounts of funding to save Gaia is for solar powered and wind turbine powered airplanes!!
It'll be filled with hydrogen too. There's other Gaia saving details too. The dollars will soon fly in...
The best part - Greta will be my commercial spokeswoman if her and her hot biologically female friends make it through the casting couch auditions.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 11:44 AM (Sco7b)
But oil is renewable. Earth just continues to make it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:45 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: muldoon
>Hack their code so that when they see red and blues, they crash into a crowd of pedestrians or take out a grammar school. But I like the plumped-up titties idea.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 11:45 AM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 11:45 AM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM (JA4sW)
Yup. Air is denser, so combustion is better. And cooling demand is less.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 11:46 AM (iERP6)
They use Hydrogen and Oxygen, to provide electricity, and charge batteries.
The product of this process is Fresh Water. Perfect!
The Apollo program, one of the contractors claimed their tanks for hydrogen or oxygen , something like that, the insulation was so good it would take an ice cube hundreds of years to melt.
Cold beer, indefinitely, plenty of power, and fresh water.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:46 AM (qgiNH)
Yup. Air is denser, so combustion is better. And cooling demand is less.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 11:46 AM (iERP6)
More oxygen per square inch makes bigger boom.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:47 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:47 AM (v71Ni)
Posted by: whig
If you're talking about radiothermal generators, the Soviets used 'em too...they just weren't as circumspect about shielding and containment. (Though to be fair they were largely deployed in isolated spots in Siberia in this way, so...)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 11:47 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Winsome, Losesome at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM (oftw2)
Chevy has a long and not so glorious history of reusing model names. In the mid-70s I had a Corvair with a "Monza" name plate. I got tired of trying to explain it. On the other hand: "Mustang" Mach-E. Heh. Hehheh. Bwahahahahaha!
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:47 AM (v71Ni)
There are so many Tesla's in my town, Tesla put a service center here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM (JA4sW)
Yup. Air is denser, so combustion is better. And cooling demand is less.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 11:46 AM (iERP6)
You said there wouldn’t be any science!
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: man
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Room temperature super conductor would help a lot for all sorts of applications including batteries. And they are slowly getting there.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:47 AM (v71Ni)
There are so many Tesla's in my town, Tesla put a service center here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM (JA4sW)
Still a novelty item here.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:49 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM (vTZFs)
Being a huge Mustang fan since childhood, the Mach-E is blasphemy and whomever came up with it should be drawn and quartered.
It's a f*cking Electric Escape. Or Edge. NOT a f*cking Mustang. You can't just throw the 3 light taillights on a vehicle and call it a Mustang.
Assholes........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:34 AM (JA4sW)
Yup. Air is denser, so combustion is better. And cooling demand is less.
That assumes all other things are othconstant, ceteris paribus. Darin Zimmermann's comment at #77 is talking about a system in which something has been added to the fuel.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
They're plentiful in the Houston suburbs at the moment. Seeing a fair number of cybertrucks as well. Not sure how well they work 9 months of the year when AC is necessary to comfort.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (lFFaq)
You said there wouldn’t be any science!
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM
No math. And he did not use math to get there. Well, that we saw, anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)
No need to apologize. That's an interesting point I hadn't heard before.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
Yes, a lack of heat costs in operating efficiency, but you can mitigate that by covering your radiator, and still the time to "recharge" your ICE is minutes.
Stuck on a freeway in cold temps, needing heat in the passenger compartment as wall as losing battery range is a good way to end up with a dead car in the e-lane, in winter, while tow trucks are at max business already.
Not to sound like a 1%er, but I don't let my car get below half tank in winter just for that type of nightmare.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 11:51 AM (zafwz)
Posted by: tubal
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Piezoelectric power generated through shoes while walking. So your smart suit could be superpowered by going to a clogging festival.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:51 AM (E4rtv)
You said there wouldn’t be any science!
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM
No math. And he did not use math to get there. Well, that we saw, anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (JA4sW)
Sneaky, oblique Math!!
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Darin Zimmerman at May 15, 2026 11:31 AM (55jmf)
I think it's more driving through the deep ash of your burned-out cities.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: man
I'm glad you weren't around when people were trying to figure out the ICE. There's nothing new about carbon and hydrogen.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:52 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 15, 2026 11:52 AM (EneHm)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
STILL leading to the fact that the inefficiencies aren't caused by the ICE, but the government mandated fuel additives that makes it exponentially less efficient.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:52 AM (JA4sW)
Not anytime soon, though. Outlawing petroleum is not the way to do this. Market forces will take care of this.
When something comes along that can replace “fossil fuels” that is better, cheaper, more available, etc, then we will see that happen.
Cars replaced horses fairly quickly, but note well they didn’t have to outlaw horses. And investors gleefully poured money into common stock. Some of the folks who got in early with Ford really cleaned up. Government didn’t subsidize any of that.
See the difference now? You can’t force people to buy shit that doesn’t work, there is no infrastructure or grid, the base load supply generation isn’t there, and on and on and on. It may well destroy certain large automakers.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:52 AM (qgiNH)
A backhoe.
It's a little known fact that the Laurentian Shield in Canada is composed entirely of old windmill blades left over from a previous civilization.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
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I hate these.enormous Cuisinarts for birds. And I despise the people who put them up. California would crucify a rancher who harmed a bird, but subsidize all these windmills.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 11:52 AM (vmHN+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:48 AM (JA4sW)
Not an EV but suddenly I'm seeing a lot of Land Rover Defenders around here.
No idea why, unless there's a crazy great sale going on..
Almost everyone I've ever met (not that many) who had a Land Rover kind of hated it because of the constant repairs. Liked the drive, hated the constant repairs.
Any moron with a LRD or knowledge care to expound on this mystery.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (iJfKG)
"The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are powered by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs), often described as nuclear batteries. Each probe carries three Multi-Hundred Watt (MHW) RTGs that generate electricity through the natural radioactive decay of plutonium-238 oxide spheres, converting heat into power via the Seebeck effect without using moving parts or nuclear fission chains.
Power Source: The RTGs contain approximately 4.5 kg of plutonium-238 per unit, which decays and releases heat.
Mechanism: Thermocouples create electricity from the temperature difference between the hot plutonium fuel and the cold vacuum of space.
Current Output: The total electrical power has declined from about 470–474 watts at launch to roughly 225 watts as of recent years, decreasing by approximately 4 watts per year.
Lifespan: Due to the 87.7-year half-life of plutonium-238, the RTGs are expected to provide enough power for at least one science instrument into the 2030s, after which mission controllers will progressively shut down non-essential systems. "
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)
You didn't complete the meme.
"Otherwise it's just sparkling facts."
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (vTZFs)
Assholes........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (JA4sW)
I was in a car accident (which was totally my fault) and the owner of the Mustang II was screaming at me about his beautiful car in the middle of the intersection. I was so close to telling him it was an Escort with a V6, but I didn't want a fight.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
Right. Which means the problem isn't with the ICE engine itself but with government overreach.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 11:54 AM (lFFaq)
Any moron with a LRD or knowledge care to expound on this mystery.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (iJfKG)
Every year, my tax lady asks if we've bought anything significant in the last year........including a car.
They. Just. Write. It. Off.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:54 AM (JA4sW)
It’s only science if it comes from Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Tyson was on Coast to Coast AM last night. I turned off the radio and went to sleep.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2026 11:54 AM (Cqx++)
Sure, but as he points out, they put those additives in when it's getting really cold. They are presumably put in for a reason related to that cold. It's not like ethanol, which is put in because Chuck Grassley benefits from it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:55 AM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:47 AM
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*ahem*
Cubic inch.
Posted by: The immutable laws of physics at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (2Ez/1)
They use Hydrogen and Oxygen, to provide electricity, and charge batteries.
The product of this process is Fresh Water. Perfect!
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:46 AM (qgiNH)
The problem is that the creation, storage, and distribution of hydrogen and oxygen is so energy intensive (and potentially unsafe versus petroleum fuels) as to be cost prohibitive for anything other than space flight.
We did a little project in undergrad whereby we designed a process that steam reformed petro fuels to create hydrogen for a similar fuel cell construction, by which electricity presumably was to be used to charge batteries and run electric motors for locomotion.
It was a nice idea for an academic project, which would never pencil out in reality, because as any engineer knows, any form of energy conversion has losses, and all the systems used adds complexity (failure modes) and weight. Thus, you could never really approach energy conversion and usage efficiencies of a diesel IC powered vehicle of similar purpose.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (dK+Kv)
My wife has a 7 year old Acura, and gets bombarded with calls and junk mail trying to get her to sell it back to the dealer from whom she bought it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t)
No idea why, unless there's a crazy great sale going on..
Almost everyone I've ever met (not that many) who had a Land Rover kind of hated it because of the constant repairs. Liked the drive, hated the constant repairs.
Any moron with a LRD or knowledge care to expound on this mystery.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (iJfKG)
Because it is less expensive than a Ford Bronco?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (rbvCR)
(just got here.)
Edward Ring did a piece in American Greatness on term limits. He makes some good points -- some of which I tried to make in an email to you a couple years back.
You should read that.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (0MFDl)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
STILL leading to the fact that the inefficiencies aren't caused by the ICE, but the government mandated fuel additives that makes it exponentially less efficient.
Posted by: Sponge
Blame Clean Air Act revisions in the early 90's that mandated oxygenating fuel additives to reduce smog. They tried MTBE first which created an environmental disaster and then settled on alcohol.
And that became obsolete when the newer OBD II era ECU (engine combustion and emission computers) came about on vehicles--mandated about 1996.
Yet the stupid requirement lives on because it more or less mandates US drivers subsidize corn farmers in farm states for a worthless oxygenating additive that raises your gas prices seasonally when refineries have to produce the boutique blends for a nonexistent problem today.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (E4rtv)
@Breaking911 1h
Dozens of empty Waymo vehicles took over an Atlanta neighborhood, circling a cul-de-sac for hours without any passengers inside.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (diia5)
I was in a car accident (which was totally my fault) and the owner of the Mustang II was screaming at me about his beautiful car in the middle of the intersection. I was so close to telling him it was an Escort with a V6, but I didn't want a fight.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (rbvCR)
Were I would've mourned greatly the loss of my prized Mustang (Yes, even the Mustang II, the original Fox body), I would likely not have yelled at you, regardless of fault.
One, if it's such a prized possession, you shouldn't be out driving it like that.
Two, there are strong odds the dude didn't do any of the work on the vehicle himself and was just a wealthy asshole that bought the car and had it restored.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:58 AM (JA4sW)
The issue becomes a dormant ICE vehicle that potentially sits for months without being driven. I had that before. An old, Chevy Silverado pickup. It would sit for weeks or months on end without even being started. Things started to fall apart anyway... probably due to it just sitting outside all that time and never being driven.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 11:58 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:55 AM (Gqar
I get people knocking on my door about my 1995 Ford Ranger.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:53 AM (iJfKG)
Every year, my tax lady asks if we've bought anything significant in the last year........including a car.
They. Just. Write. It. Off.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:54 AM (JA4sW)
Heh.
You're probably right.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 11:59 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 15, 2026 11:59 AM (BW+Gb)
*ahem*
Cubic inch.
Posted by: The immutable laws of physics at May 15, 2026 11:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Then why does the NHRA measure humidity as "Water grains per pound of air?" HUH Mr. Smarty Pants?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 12:00 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Bulg
>Didn't Fauci say, "I am science."? He should be locked up just for saying that.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 12:00 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 11:55 AM (Gqar
The reason being is you'd then need a new '26 Highlander.
If you fall for it, get the Grand Highlander Hybrid Max, so you can preen about being green but in reality the combo of motors on full tilt will take that behemoth to 60 in 5.3 seconds.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 12:01 PM (zafwz)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 15, 2026 11:59 AM (BW+Gb)
By that time they wil all be compartmentalized into 15 minute People Hives. Brave New World.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:01 PM (Gqar8)
I get people knocking on my door about my 1995 Ford Ranger.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)
THIS.
My '96 is really popular, as wore out and shitty as it is. But I love it and drive it almost every day.
I'm sure I piss people off because I drive it like a friggin go cart.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 12:01 PM (JA4sW)
1. Ed Ring on term limits, specifically CA
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/13/
trump-may-wish-to-reconsider-supporting-term-limits/
2. Hot Air, and the blob in EU
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/13/
why-the-european-right-keeps-rising-n3814847
The second makes the point about the danger of power shifting to the unelected blob, and I think it is a related point. I think term limits will move the US in that (wrong) direction.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:01 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: We hope you enjoyed the ride! at May 15, 2026 12:01 PM (TbWk/)
That sounds like a bad knockoff of Hitchcock's The Birds.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:01 PM (0MFDl)
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Outlawing congressional staff would do mountains more for our government than term limits.
Congress must manage their own calendars, write their own bills, and answer their own calls.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:02 PM (xBVv0)
The issue becomes a dormant ICE vehicle that potentially sits for months without being driven. I had that before. An old, Chevy Silverado pickup. It would sit for weeks or months on end without even being started. Things started to fall apart anyway... probably due to it just sitting outside all that time and never being driven.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 11:58 AM (jehhT)
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And Nature has a vote. Mice and squirrels love to get under the hood or near the gas tank and chew your cables and hoses.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 12:02 PM (SVeHj)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)
I would call for Trump to be King forever were he to end the f*cking ethanol mandates...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 12:03 PM (JA4sW)
Congress must manage their own calendars, write their own bills, and answer their own calls.
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...or just use AI.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 15, 2026 12:03 PM (i8gur)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)
I would call for Trump to be King forever were he to end the f*cking ethanol mandates...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 12:03 PM (JA4sW)
Why do you hate the Midwest Farmer??
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM (Gqar8)
Exactly. Why would I trade in a 6 year old vehicle that's paid off for a new loan? I hope by now I've blocked all the outgoing numbers for the dealer who's been asking.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM (lFFaq)
The product of this process is Fresh Water. Perfect!
Posted by: Common Tater
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Hydrogen is PITA to deal with on a large scale. Even the mighty Toyota has been messing around with direct hydrogen combustion (exhaust is hot water vapor plus NOx from what I remember) for decades .
No infrastructure for it, requires gobs of energy to break the bonds of water to generate hydrogen on a large scale (Nukes are the easiest way to do that), energy density is bad unless you liquefy and store under considerable pressure, and it tries to escape and leak all the time from fuel lines and storage.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 11:58 AM (jehhT)
There are car show after car show on TV where a dude or 2 go to a junkyard, find a car and make it run, usually without TOO much trouble, after it sitting for a decade or 3.
You're not doing that with an electric car. You're spending $60k and replacing the batteries, which usually requires ripping the entire thing apart just to get to them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (JA4sW)
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Gotta love that, "I bet I can lower your payment" line of crap.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (i8gur)
Why do you hate the Midwest Farmer??
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM
Farmers should make food, not fuel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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New Car Dealers make all their money from financing nowadays with some of it from their service shops.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 12:06 PM (aYs8h)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 15, 2026 11:59 AM (BW+Gb)
By that time they wil all be compartmentalized into 15 minute People Hives. Brave New World.
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:01 PM (Gqar
*sings*
In the Year 2525
you'll live inside a Human Hive
Use a car with electricity to drive
That runs out of power beyond mile five
Woah oh oh!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 12:06 PM (iJfKG)
_-_
If you are not an urbanite, you might never encounter it.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 15, 2026 12:07 PM (i8gur)
Delaware made huge money by being friendly to business. A New York company could set up their headquarters in Delaware and pay almost no taxes.
Now Nevada and Texas are competing.
What else does Deleware have to sell if not being business friendly?
Posted by: The Whine Guy at May 15, 2026 12:07 PM (c232c)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 12:08 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)
The production of hydrogen and oxygen is straightforward electrolysis of water. But it is expensive and requires cheap electricity, which, if you have it, you'd be better off cutting out the inefficient and potentially unsafe (relatively) hydrogen/oxygen production/storage loop and just charging EV batteries cheaply.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:08 PM (dK+Kv)
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What, I don't get my long-awaited Jetson's air car?
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:08 PM (qBdHI)
Why do you hate the Midwest Farmer??
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM
Farmers should make food, not fuel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (JA4sW)
Ah. Thought it might be their seed corn caps. The old joke is “why do farmers always wear their seed corn caps backwards? So the bill doesn’t get in the way when they look in the mailbox for their government subsidy checks.”
Posted by: tubal at May 15, 2026 12:08 PM (Gqar8)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM (lFFaq)
Same here, but my blind spot isn't trade in value guarantee, but offers of 0% for 60.
There's something about free money that makes me want to spend it. Even on something I don't need yet.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 12:09 PM (zafwz)
Sure, the new map made his win nearly impossible, but without even incumbency on his side, GOP should be able to win while barely spending anything.
Coulda happened in Mississippi, too, but oh well, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:09 PM (xBVv0)
Congress must manage their own calendars, write their own bills, and answer their own calls.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:02 PM (xBVv0)
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Yes, but is that possible? Won't they just get around it anyway.
I am against term limits, mostly because it will only empower the blob -- The Deep State, and The Party. The Party has too much power already. Look at CA, or the national Dems. Everything is controlled by the interests of The Party.
You see it at the local level on up, where to get elected as lowliest city council, you need approval of The Party. and to raise money, or move up, or do anything.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:09 PM (0MFDl)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (qBdHI)
Got room under there?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:09 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 12:04 PM (lFFaq)
When I get cold calls from car salesmen, I try to recruit them for working for the state tax agency. Collection agents need phone and data entry skills, and the willingness to do cold calls, incoming and outgoing. Revenue (and Consumer and Business Services) are always hiring, and having the basic skills is a good leg up. And there are benefits .
I get a lot of thoughtful salesmen, and I seem to get taken off the phone lists.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 12:09 PM (rbvCR)
I'd say that power to the unelected blob is already a problem here. Pols come and go, but staffers stay, and *they* are the ones who control everything all but the most independent pol sees and hears. They are often the ones writing the legislation as well. And they all went through poli-sci programs at big-named schools under the same leftist professors. Until the staffers are changed out as well there will be little point in term limits.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 12:10 PM (lFFaq)
That version of the rant monkey always makes me wonder why no scientists are making dogs large enough to be rideable.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (FpHTM)
You ever seen a Leonberger?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 12:10 PM (y9nCu)
I am against term limits, mostly because it will only empower the blob -- The Deep State, and The Party. The Party has too much power already. Look at CA, or the national Dems. Everything is controlled by the interests of The Party.
You see it at the local level on up, where to get elected as lowliest city council, you need approval of The Party. and to raise money, or move up, or do anything.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:09 PM (0MFDl)
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It's as possible as term limits to implement. Both require constitutional amendments, and both would probably never pass anyway.
But in terms of the day to day reality of being a Congress critter...well, if it's too hard to manage, that should help weed out a bunch of do nothing dullards, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:11 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:05 PM (qBdHI)
Got room under there?
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More room, and cleaner, than The Barrel!
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 12:11 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: The Whine Guy
>Credit fraud, extortion, money laundering, the Biden Legacy?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 12:11 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:11 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 12:09 PM (rbvCR)
I always interrupt them mid sales pitch with 20 questions about who they are, what company, what are they selling, to quickly get to "not interested, thanks."
It's kind of like a sport at this point.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:11 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 12:12 PM (gu0hJ)
I see you answered much more succinctly while I was typing. I like your idea of just getting rid of all the staffers.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 12:12 PM (lFFaq)
That version of the rant monkey always makes me wonder why no scientists are making dogs large enough to be rideable.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (FpHTM)
You ever seen a Leonberger?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 12:10 PM (y9nCu)
Got one at In N Out, double double.
Posted by: It was OK. Kinda furry. at May 15, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/)
Sounds like he got the message that Swalwell didn't.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Polliwog
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Exactly, but the only real power the voters have is to "vote the bums out" and term limits would remove that one power.
We need term limits on staffers.
Term limits on politicians only removes the voters only check on their power, and only incentive they have to do as we ask. churn the pols and the staff get even more power.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:13 PM (0MFDl)
Proposed state motto: "Delaware. We're not Jersey."
Posted by: Oddbob at May 15, 2026 12:13 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 12:14 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 12:10 PM (y9nCu)
Got one at In N Out, double double.
Posted by: It was OK. Kinda furry. at May 15, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/)
Nice comment. Was hoping for a Barack sock though
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 12:14 PM (zafwz)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 12:12 PM (gu0hJ)
Proves without a doubt that that was a "gerryrigged" district...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2026 12:14 PM (FtULh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
He is a nasty vicious and stupid partisan for the Dems. The folks in Memphis can do far better than that evil clown, but the pols in Memphis that have run that city into the ground on purpose might differ.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:15 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 12:12 PM (gu0hJ)
Proves without a doubt that that was a "gerryrigged" district...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2026 12:14 PM (FtULh)
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Well, going from D+30 to R+20 has implications.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:15 PM (xBVv0)
The de-banking fascist stuff of course fits perfectly with that, and the key point Buck makes (though it's speculation) is that the executives involved didn't miss a step in complying with the Third World authoritarian instructions from The Party. Amazing, unless you're too young to remember a different country.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 12:15 PM (U/Byj)
THOSE cars are FAGS!!!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (JA4sW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:15 PM (xBVv0)
Indeed...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (FtULh)
I only brought this up because BT did rant in favor long ago. I will go now. thanks founding father and immature amphibian for the discussion.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (0MFDl)
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I'm really enjoying spending more time with my private sector!
Posted by: Pam Blondi at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (2Ez/1)
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Must be the whales.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (ndZc7)
Ooh! I'll have to try and remember to do that.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (lFFaq)
Critical knowledge incoming:
People often mix up three highly related phrases, but they each have slightly different meanings and origins according to Merriam-Webster:
Jury-rigged: The oldest term (dating back to the late 1700s), originating as a nautical phrase for improvised, makeshift repairs made on a ship using only available materials.
Jerry-built: Refers to something that was poorly or cheaply constructed from the very beginning.
Jerry-rigged: An amalgamation of the first two terms. It is an accepted, widely used variant of "jury-rigged" to mean something is thrown together hastily
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)
Did a quick read about the Leonberger.
Sounds like in snow drift proportions of shed hair most of the year if you owned one.
Otherwise they sound great if short lived.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
And the chef's kiss is that the likely new Congress critter representing most of Memphis will be a black Republican. She has run without success for a couple of goes I think.
Something similar may happen in SC with a black Republican dropping out of the SC Lt. Gov race to go after Clyburn's new district. That might be why SC gov. decided to go ahead and do that.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:17 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 15, 2026 12:17 PM (k9OZB)
Fun fact:
The first cars were electric and people realized over 150 years ago, electric cars suck and are impractical.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 12:17 PM (XV/Pl)
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Must be the whales.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 12:16 PM (ndZc7)
Commies turn everything to poo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:17 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
The irony of a non-black D bitching about the loss of black representation while representing that so called black district...
The politics of race could offer hours of amusement for a brace comedian
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 12:18 PM (zafwz)
This description can now be applied to a large swath of elected Dems at the federal level, which wasn't always the case. It's repulsive and scary. I know one who has shown himself to be cheap trash (and substantively speaking, stupid) like Cohen. Amazing if you knew the guy since before his political start.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 12:18 PM (U/Byj)
Something similar may happen in SC with a black Republican dropping out of the SC Lt. Gov race to go after Clyburn's new district. That might be why SC gov. decided to go ahead and do that.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:17 PM (E4rtv)
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I just can't wait for TN Democrats to call the new black female representative of Memphis an Aunt Jemima.
Should be amusing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:18 PM (xBVv0)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 12:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 15, 2026 12:17 PM (k9OZB)
Some have speculated that temps get lower at higher altitudes. Guess we'll never actually know that though.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 12:19 PM (zafwz)
The "NY Post" had a good headline for today , it has a picture of Xi Jinping and President Trump shaking hands with the caption: "Why can't XI be friends?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 12:20 PM (OYsYV)
WTF?
Anyway, hilarious. I told him my impression was the company wasn't long for the world anyway. He had banged his head against the wall arguing with the insurance company and the car company over paying for the damage.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 12:22 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Put the congress critters and Senators back to being based in their home states rather than DC. Use DC only as a ceremonial meeting place for joint sessions like State of the Union.
That would move the staffs back to home states rather than DC. At the same time, move all the various government agencies out of DC and across the country.
They actually considered such dispersal plans seriously during the height of the Cold War for maximum government survivability.
With modern comtech and video conferencing, little need to actually be in DC anymore.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
Same applies to DExit. Trivially easy and relatively cheap to change states of incorporation.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 15, 2026 12:23 PM (dK+Kv)
If you have an electorate that won't enforce existing term limits (called elections), some process "fix" won't actually fix anything.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 12:23 PM (U/Byj)
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Per a subscription news letter, Ford is still pursuing electric vehicles and electric power storage. Electric power storage sounds like batteries.
Appears that Stellantis is staying out of this tar pit and continuing to offer the hemi.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:24 PM (riU3n)
That would move the staffs back to home states rather than DC. At the same time, move all the various government agencies out of DC and across the country.
They actually considered such dispersal plans seriously during the height of the Cold War for maximum government survivability.
With modern comtech and video conferencing, little need to actually be in DC anymore.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)
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The ceremonial meeting point could be a warehouse outside Lebanon, Kansas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:24 PM (xBVv0)
Didn't get an autograph.
From either.
The monkey, OR the dog...
Posted by: UncleJefe at May 15, 2026 12:24 PM (gAuAm)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 12:24 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Nazdar at May 15, 2026 12:25 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 12:24 PM (abIsI)
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This redistricting fight is letting state-level RINOs show their asses in very public ways that will end up being advantageous in future years, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:25 PM (xBVv0)
Lots of cars have electrical wires with soy based plastic sheathing. I personally know several people who have had rodents chew up their electrical harness and had to replace the harness.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 15, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)
-- EVs
Posted by: Lizzy
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Rainstorm water in the Hill Country can move mountains and kill anything.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:25 PM (riU3n)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Weasel at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (ei1sX)
The ceremonial meeting point could be a warehouse outside
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 15, 2026 12:26 PM (abIsI)
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Belatedly saw your inquiry into my snake bite a couple days ago -- thanks!
I'm good to go -- after a couple hours in an "our own Personal ER Room" for observation (UNNECESSARY as I was willing to hang out in the Waiting Area) -- and the ER Doctor trying to persuade me to stay for 8 hours on the off chance of it had been a "Mojave Rattler" ... I'm like, "I'm ALREADY afraid of The Bill!"), as we haven't had health insurance since DeathCare in 2012.
Was likely a non-venomous gopher (AKA bull) snake, as I've seen half a dozen the past three months on the roads and trails.
But I really am "That Guy" who will likely die because I refuse to go to a doctor. I would have blown it off and continued hiking after being bit (hey I'm still emotionally 19 and immortal!) if not for the pickleball players -- and particularly a retired nurse who guilted me into going to The ER with her.
Wifey did some quick research last night on anti-venom treatments: it said to be prepared to pay a minimum of $10,000! WTAF? Now I hate killing ANY wildlife, but Imma gonna bust a virtual cap in any potentially venomous snake I see going forward
Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (nyTxL)
And what's the current (projected) scoreboard, D/R, with all the redistricting that has actually been done?
I see GA is going ahead - what's the prospective gain there, R+2?
And yes I'm an indolent f**k who always asks others for info I can get myself. It's a lifestyle and constitutionally protected.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
The irony of a non-black D bitching about the loss of black representation while representing that so called black district...
The politics of race could offer hours of amusement for a brace comedian
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 12:18 PM (zafwz)
He was exhibit A on how this had nothing to do with black representation and everything to do with dems holding on to power. If dems had a conscience they would be embarrassed.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Our degraded class of politicians simply reflect a degraded elite. The ruling class in the West has degraded itself to the point that it is no longer fit to produce the politicians needed for self government.
That is why I think it likely the West will end up turning authoritarian--because our ruling classes are greedy, power and status hungry, and evil. That leads to oppression of the general population who then either revolt leading to a despot or they welcome a despot to remove the ruling class wholesale.
Either way, this sort of elite ends up on the trash heap when times get bad. Until the whole cycle begins all over. Aristotle described the whole cycle millennia ago.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)
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They were favored by Females, to a degree. Before the advent of the electric starter, hand cranking the engine was difficult. Women lacked the upper body strength to do it, generally. So did a lot of males, if the engine got out of tune. And that was in the summer.
Kettering developed the first mass produced electric starter, partially because a good friend of his died after being a gentleman cranking over a stranded motorist. She forgot to retard the ignition timing, the engine backfired, and set the crank handle into his jaw at high velocity, breaking it. Kickback.
It became infected (pre antibiotic days) and he died.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 12:29 PM (zXS73)
And yes I'm an indolent f**k who always asks others for info I can get myself. It's a lifestyle and constitutionally protected.
Posted by: rhomboid
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For 2028 cycle in Georgia, won't affect 2026. GA Primary date is May 19th this year and Kemp dragged his feet on it despite snapping to for federal court orders to redistrict.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:29 PM (E4rtv)
I'm allowed to be armed.
I'm carrying escape tools (window breaker, seatbelt cutter, etc.).
I am somewhere I know my around on foot to some extent.
The vehicle has a "stop moving right now and let me out" switch. (Or I do.)
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think the warehouse used in Footloose is available.
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:30 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (U/Byj)
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lmfao
In many ways, this too is the story of ShainS ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 15, 2026 12:31 PM (nyTxL)
Posted by: whig at May 15, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)
But that's not how it's supposed to work in America. If you have a ruling class, you don't have self-government.
But the problem is as you identify - our entire electorate has been degraded such that it doesn't produce many real leaders and so it falls to a group of people who want to run things to do so. And, in the process, leaves it to that group to produce government officials.
We get better government when we bring it back onto our own shoulders. "Our" being the average American citizen.
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 12:35 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 15, 2026 12:25 PM (xBVv0)
THIS.
To me, the seats won/lost in the 2026 midterms are only superficially important.
De-RINO-ing the right and skullfucking the left in 2030 are the actual targets.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 12:36 PM (iNUL3)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 12:37 PM (iNUL3)
"literally fascist behavior between big banks and the federal government."
Don't forget they are using taxpayer monies, or, we are the backstop to failure.
Posted by: Danimal28 at May 15, 2026 01:21 PM (mNOhh)
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
A caramel macchiato? Tastes like toffee
Or perhaps a cappuccino? Rich and frothy
Wakes up. Scratches. Looks around.
Hey! Look at what I found
I'll just help myself to Diogenes' coffee
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 09:31 AM (I0N4X)
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Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:31 AM (gtcuf)
The gift that keeps on giving.
I nominate this for Comment of the Week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 09:34 AM (g8Ew8)
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
I want to scream out 'Show me your tits!' for some reason.
In Japanese.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 15, 2026 09:35 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 09:35 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:35 AM (R11M+)
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Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:35 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at May 15, 2026 09:36 AM (NvtJi)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 09:34 AM (g8Ew
Their hair isn't straight or dark enough to be Glorious Nihonjin.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:36 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: George Costanza at May 15, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 09:37 AM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:37 AM (X8xt3)
I think calling it "Grand" is a bit of a stretch. No way two Panamax tankers could pass each other in that dinky little thing, like they'll be able to do from Anchorage all the way to New Orleans in the Grand North American Dignity Canal.
I suggest they rename it the Junior Wopper Canal.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 09:37 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Run, Dodge, Hide! at May 15, 2026 09:38 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: The man in the boat at May 15, 2026 09:38 AM (0sNs1)
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Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:39 AM (X8xt3)
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 15, 2026 09:39 AM (EneHm)
He wanted to visit her grand Canal.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:39 AM (Pk3sT)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:39 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:39 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Buy Here, Pay Here at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)
The nice thing about the Carlson cruise is after your tryst with a swabbie, you can claim it was a demon that tore up your backside.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bring out your dead! at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)
"I'm Queen of the Human Waste and Filth Filled Canals of This Town!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (uEmCf)
If only there was a place you could go to search a vast array of data to find such info quickly and easily........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (EneHm)
Posted by: JROD at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (Qc7+O)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (X8xt3)
so ya didn't whaler in Boston?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (X8xt3)
wasn't me.
Never been to Boston.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:42 AM (Dv3i1)
barkeep gal at the tavern calls some folks "jabronys."
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:42 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Al Gore's Amazing Internet at May 15, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)
If only there was a place you could go to search a vast array of data to find such info quickly and easily........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Indeed! That would be such a marvel!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 09:42 AM (s9VOe)
Yes, I would hang this one. It's relaxing.
Posted by: JTB at May 15, 2026 09:43 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:43 AM (HdYcL)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 09:43 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bored guy on the boat at May 15, 2026 09:43 AM (F8sQr)
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Posted by: lin-duh
Already?! Last year Hampton was partially under construction... had just assumed things would be back to normal by now.
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 15, 2026 09:44 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at May 15, 2026 09:44 AM (uNwvV)
Posted by: And Huge Manatees!! at May 15, 2026 09:44 AM (oftw2)
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Wait, are you telling me that sometimes commentors are making up concerts they claimed to have seen?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:45 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: dantesed at May 15, 2026 09:45 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 09:45 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: The Male Gaze at May 15, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:45 AM (LxER7)
The kid in the boat looks sad because he wanted to trim her sails.
Posted by: dantesed
He could fondle her painter.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 09:46 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:46 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 09:46 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM
The Fillmore is all you need, but if you want more, CBD spent a lot of time of time in Berkeley, and can give you the 411.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:46 AM (0sNs1)
I met a girl from Venice
and she went to school in France
and I saw her Grand Canal
at the Alpha Kappa dance.
Wasn't me!
No, no child, it wasn't me
Posted by: Chuck Berry at May 15, 2026 09:47 AM (U3fVU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:47 AM (Pk3sT)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:48 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 09:48 AM (6C3mT)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 09:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 09:48 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Semprini? at May 15, 2026 09:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:48 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: She's a fine girl at May 15, 2026 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)
Oh wait, that's not it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:48 AM (ynpvh)
Oh? Guess again!
Posted by: The Otters at May 15, 2026 09:49 AM (LxER7)
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No poop deck. But that's not needed since the canal is easily accessed.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:49 AM (Dv3i1)
You can't be too careful. They never hit an iceberg with her on the lookout.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 09:49 AM (T7fic)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 15, 2026 09:50 AM (6C3mT)
Why I never wanted to make contact with the water at my local marina where all the live-aboards were.
Posted by: Halfhand at May 15, 2026 09:50 AM (9yZMF)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:50 AM (gtcuf)
Side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, and cannibalism.
Posted by: Big Phat Pharma at May 15, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:51 AM (R11M+)
Ole Susanna had some interesting lyrics.
Posted by: Boss Moss
"My Darling Clementine" larfs:
Light she was, and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine;
Herring boxes without topses,
Sandals were for Clementine.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (s9VOe)
But I've never been to me.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (sKqQm)
It isn't gerrymandering because...we didn't gerrymander it recently. We did it years ago so it doesn't count.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg
Yeah, I knew the Alpen Mountain Guineas yodeled, but not the ones at sea level.
Posted by: Rico-la! at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (oftw2)
Jeremy Clarkson said of the Mediterranean Sea: "Glistening blue.....which is amazing considering how many turds are in it."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM
The Fillmore is all you need, but if you want more, CBD spent a lot of time of time in Berkeley, and can give you the 411.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:46 AM (0sNs1)
I could probably name an infinite number of venues where I've seen the infinite number of bands.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:53 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:53 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 09:53 AM (RIvkX)
Where did they put all the dirt from digging out the canals?
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 09:53 AM (T7fic)
It isn't gerrymandering because...we didn't gerrymander it recently. We did it years ago so it doesn't count.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (sKqQm)
"The Constitution is, like, over 100 years ago, like, man....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (R11M+)
And trabbled down de riber,
De lectric fluid magnified,
And killed five hundred...
Oh, my.
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:46 AM (0sNs1)
I could probably name an infinite number of venues where I've seen the infinite number of bands.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 09:52 AM (g8Ew
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Fillmore, Red Rocks, Greek Theater, Hollywood Bowl
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (RIvkX)
There once was a gal named Sue Dennis
Who navigated through peril and menace
They're creepy and bizarre
When viewed from afar
The eerie canals of Venice
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 09:55 AM (I0N4X)
Oh, I didn't know that's how it worked. Given that slavery started in 1619, I guess that means it should have been allowed to continue in 1861.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 09:55 AM (Riz8t)
I need someone to provide a list of Deep Cut West Coast Concert Venues so I can finally join in on the "I saw ___ open for..." jokes.
Posted by: XTC
Oh, c'mon, the pairing of performing groups is imaginary, why can't the location be imaginary, too? That's how I roll.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 09:56 AM (s9VOe)
I first learned the External Auditory Meatus in a Comparative Anatomy class in college. Funny how some terms stick with you.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2026 09:56 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I'm the Internet. I'm here to help at May 15, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM (R11M+)
"She took the foot bridge, way 'cross the water
Though she weighed two ninety-nine;
The old bridge trembled and disassembled --
Dumped her into the foamy brine."
"Hey you, sailor, way out in your whaler
With your harpoon and your trusty line!
If she shows now, yell, "There she blows now!"
It just may be chunky Clementine!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9)
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You may want to toss in the occasional creative venues, like for when the band first started out, such as the gymnasium at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in the Castro district.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM (sKqQm)
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Nope. The use of real but obscure venues is an integral part of the trope.
Posted by: The AoSHQ Comment Propriety Review Referee at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM (6C3mT)
Oh, c'mon, the pairing of performing groups is imaginary, why can't the location be imaginary, too? That's how I roll.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 09:56 AM (s9VOe)
Style guide says it's supposed to be 'some random sample of a comment' opened for 'an actual band' at 'an actual venue' in some random year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: save the wails at May 15, 2026 09:59 AM (LOZbR)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 10:00 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)
I always tell people not to go to Europe during winter. Depressing only starts to describe it.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 10:00 AM (g8Ew8)
Style guide says it's supposed to be 'some random sample of a comment' opened for 'an actual band' at 'an actual venue' in some random year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Yeah, well, that's just an opinion, man.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 10:00 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Gotta go measure for and then order some landscaping bricks.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 10:00 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 10:01 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:01 AM (R11M+)
Portraits and still lifes — Bleah.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 15, 2026 10:01 AM (GD2xa)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 09:33 AM (op/7n)
She is not piloting, she is just sounding.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 10:01 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
That's the old style guide. There been numerous updates since.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 10:02 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:00 AM
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You know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at May 15, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Archimedes
*********
I have to apologize for putting that title on that limerick. I was thinking of the 'eary' canal.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 10:02 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Willie Brown at May 15, 2026 10:02 AM (0sNs1)
Heh, same
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 10:03 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:03 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 10:04 AM (lq9TY)
+++++++
Now do Off-Broadway plays.
Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at May 15, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:06 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:58 AM
Well, usage of the Oxford Comma is strongly encouraged, and yet we see how seldom that is taken seriously.
Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide at May 15, 2026 10:06 AM (0sNs1)
I remember seeing A Gaggle of Googolplexes at the Mandelbrot Set in '97
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 10:06 AM (sKqQm)
+++++++
Now do Off-Broadway plays.
Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at May 15, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Those are mostly gay and lame.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:06 AM (ynpvh)
Maxine Waters mom was my date!!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 10:06 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 10:08 AM (gtcuf)
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and that pales in comparison to the apostrophe abuse
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:08 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:08 AM (ynpvh)
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and that pales in comparison to the apostrophe abuse
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:08 AM (ZxPkt)
global apostrophic onanism?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:09 AM (ynpvh)
Just one? Usually those guys are more ambitious than that.
Anyway, I'll go with kettle-cooked. NO bbq flavor, NO ruffles, NO f'n Pringles!
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:09 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)
Also Salem OR, and Billings MT which have wildly different winters.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 10:09 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Must've been at the Red Room bar!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 10:10 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:00 AM
If you'd taken the AP class, you'd have compared Montgomery's tubercles.
Posted by: J. Random Moron at May 15, 2026 10:10 AM (0sNs1)
Just one? Usually those guys are more ambitious than that.
Anyway, I'll go with kettle-cooked. NO bbq flavor, NO ruffles, NO f'n Pringles!
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:09 AM (N8ZBc)
Tortilla or Potato?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:10 AM (ynpvh)
Maxine Waters mom was my date!!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog.
Yeah, li'l Maxine was too young to get into the Cotton Club. But since she was my date, they let us in!
Posted by: Joe Biden at May 15, 2026 10:10 AM (Dv3i1)
And...do these people even know how the US was founded?
The last time the government tried to seize everyone's muskets through "common sense gun control" it led to the Revolutionary war
Posted by: 18-1 at May 15, 2026 10:11 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:09 AM (N8ZBc)
Tortilla or Potato?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:10 AM (ynpvh)
Ketchup flavoured potato chips.
Surprisingly good!
They'd have to be!
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 15, 2026 10:11 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Webb Hubble, hung like a gnat at May 15, 2026 10:11 AM (mC7bQ)
Posted by: Don Black
*************
Punctuality
It’s always’ been my st'anding philo’sophy
While working on my auto’biography
Wh'en writing form’s posses’sive
I find it mo'st e'xpres’sive
To mis'pla'ce all my s'pare apo’strophe's.
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 10:11 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:12 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: ballistic at May 15, 2026 10:13 AM (oqH4h)
Reminds me of when I dated your mother Chelsea.
Posted by: Webb Hubble, hung like a gnat at May 15, 2026 10:11 AM (mC7bQ)
Hillary Rotten Cooch we called her...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2026 10:13 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:14 AM (R11M+)
Surprisingly good!
They'd have to be!
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Smuckers has entered the comments.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 15, 2026 10:14 AM (2OYwF)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:14 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:15 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:15 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:14 AM (N8ZBc)
The broken nitrogen is no bueno...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:16 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:15 AM (ZxPkt)
https://youtu.be/j6eFNRKEROw
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:17 AM (ynpvh)
"If you’re talking military service, then the Brown Bess or the Charleville – as standard military arms – would be more like the M16 of its day,” Hlebinsky told the DCNF, referencing the standard infantry rifle family issued by the United States military since the Vietnam War. “However, it is important to note that those designs were based on the original AR-15 patents.”
The AR-15 is even more special than I expected thought!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 10:18 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 10:18 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: t-bird
Dunno, but in NYC, Ellis Island was originally 2 acres. Fill from subway tunnel construction boosted that to the present 27 acres.
Posted by: Phil McCavity at May 15, 2026 10:19 AM (oftw2)
At Politico: "Silicon Valley Wants to Put Chip in Your Brain"
That asshole. No!
Chip can go fuck himself.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 10:19 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 09:31 AM
While I was walking along rhe waterfront on Naxos, I snapped a pic of Diogenes Pizzeria and Diogenes Cafe and Bar. Just because.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 10:20 AM (xLei+)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 10:18 AM
Business is down, and they said it would help with branding.
Posted by: The Barrel at May 15, 2026 10:21 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: muldoon
One needs a place to wipe their ass.
Posted by: Gotta Go! at May 15, 2026 10:21 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 10:21 AM (I0N4X)
I got a tapeworm lavre residing in my brain.
I named him "Al".
Posted by: RFK Jr. , Worm Brain at May 15, 2026 10:22 AM (mC7bQ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
**********
Heh! Nice!
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 10:22 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (k4n+U)
Now it's a movie AND a gun thread. You're welcome.
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:14 AM (R11M+)
Hot Pork Rind opened for Sucking Piglets at the Ramrod Park in Austin, TX. Didn't go to that concert.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (fkeut)
At Politico: "Silicon Valley Wants to Put Chip in Your Brain"
That asshole. No!
Chip can go fuck himself.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 10:19 AM (iJfKG)
There's a term for putting Chip in your brain...
https://youtu.be/ZrjTFTAY3nI
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:24 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Dr_No at May 15, 2026 10:24 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:15 AM (ZxPkt)
I thought that was New York and Michigan nursing homes
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 10:25 AM (fkeut)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM
Cool pics you can view at the NoVaMoMe. Baggage weight limits, and all that...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 10:25 AM (xLei+)
Posted by: Don Black
*************
This is about me innit?
Posted by: La'shondra at May 15, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1)
Now it's a movie AND a gun thread. You're welcome.
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (N8ZBc)
What gets me is in anime, and tv, often when a bullet is show coming at someone, it's the entire cartridge. There was an episode of "Forensic Files" where they showed the animation prepared for the court...and yes, the entire cartridge was shown going through the wall. What did the perp use, a slingshot?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:26 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:14 AM (R11M+)
Hot Pork Rind opened for Sucking Piglets at the Ramrod Park in Austin, TX. Didn't go to that concert.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 10:23 AM (g8Ew
Chicharrones.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:27 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at May 15, 2026 10:27 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:27 AM (R11M+)
What always gets me is bad gun handling. Ooodles of it in movies. Makes my hair stand up.
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:28 AM (N8ZBc)
What always gets me is bad gun handling. Ooodles of it in movies. Makes my hair stand up.
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:28 AM (N8ZBc)
What ever do you mean?
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at May 15, 2026 10:30 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 15, 2026 10:30 AM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:27 AM (ynpvh)
This is a thing with me: I like the light, fluffy, crispy pork rinds. I do not like the hard, crackling bits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2026 10:30 AM (bss/y)
https://youtu.be/ZrjTFTAY3nI
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:24 AM (ynpvh)
That's like a...oh, I don't know...3rd tier movie, but still-
a lot of fun to watch.
I wind-up watching it once a year on streaming if there's nothing better on.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 10:30 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Dr_No
No, silly, that was Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald.
Posted by: I Own A Raccoon Coat at May 15, 2026 10:30 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:27 AM (ynpvh)
This is a thing with me: I like the light, fluffy, crispy pork rinds. I do not like the hard, crackling bits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2026 10:30 AM (bss/y)
When my wife was alive, she loved the chicharrones en salsa verde I would make...she'd place them in corn tortillas and eat them that way...
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at May 15, 2026 10:31 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:31 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 10:31 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
**********
Weren't the Dum Dums in Roger Rabbit drawn that way?
Posted by: muldoon at May 15, 2026 10:31 AM (I0N4X)
What gets me is in anime, and tv, often when a bullet is show coming at someone, it's the entire cartridge. There was an episode of "Forensic Files" where they showed the animation prepared for the court...and yes, the entire cartridge was shown going through the wall. What did the perp use, a slingshot?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:26 AM (ynpvh)
Or the stupid pali grandma.
"Those evil Joos shoot these boolets at my house!"
*holds up two intact 5.56 rounds*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (y9nCu)
+++
Or how you can magically create a tunnel entrance by just painting it on the side of a large boulder.
Posted by: My six year old self at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (2Ez/1)
He was good in "The Challenge" a made for tv movie. No mustache.
Posted by: Zombie Darren McGavin at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (mC7bQ)
no one wears hearing protection, and no one experiences even temporary hearing loss
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:35 AM (N8ZBc)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:36 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (2RJDy)
https://youtu.be/Co6UNX7fqj4
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at May 15, 2026 10:36 AM (ynpvh)
"Those evil Joos shoot these boolets at my house!"
*holds up two intact 5.56 rounds*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (y9nCu)
Reminds me of that old "All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us" yootoob bit.
Wonder if that's still available....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:36 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: 496 at May 15, 2026 10:37 AM (sOtuf)
It just me or what?
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (N8ZBc)
Here's the thing about TV and movie gunfights:
no one wears hearing protection, and no one experiences even temporary hearing loss
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 10:32 AM (ZxPkt)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
YES, I'LL TAKE THE CRAB CAKES!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Errr, sir? I asked if you wanted cream in your coffee...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (y9nCu)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 10:39 AM (z2aPa)
My ears still ring, 40 years later...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:39 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Are you talking about the Yellow Pages?
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 10:39 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:40 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: tankdemon
Boston Whaler. > Boston Acoustics
Posted by: Karen Bass at May 15, 2026 10:40 AM (rgnea)
It just me or what?
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (f5ZdA)
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At the local level (where I am) I haven't really seen any promotions for big events related to the 250th. At the national (media) level, I haven't seen squat.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 15, 2026 10:41 AM (cWLG3)
It just me or what?
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (f5ZdA)
Where do you live?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)
Off to conquer Constantinople
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:43 AM (HdYcL)
Instanbul
Posted by: They Might Be Giants at May 15, 2026 10:42 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Will Robinson at May 15, 2026 10:42 AM (zBgIx)
Off to conquer Constantinople
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:43 AM (HdYcL)
Instanbul
Posted by: They Might Be Giants at May 15, 2026 10:42 AM (2RJDy)
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That's nobody's business but the Turks
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 15, 2026 10:43 AM (cWLG3)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:43 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Smart alec at May 15, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:43 AM (HdYcL)
Have fun storming the castle!
- IYKYK
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 10:43 AM (iNUL3)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:43 AM (N8ZBc)
This is horrifying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2026 10:44 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gp at May 15, 2026 10:35 AM (N8ZBc)
Another dumb leftard though
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 10:45 AM (fkeut)
We celebrate Independence Day.
Posted by: Polite cough at May 15, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:46 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 15, 2026 10:46 AM (cWLG3)
It just me or what?
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 10:38 AM (f5ZdA)
I suspect this is just the media and their Democrat buddies and cucks,
trying to without anything from Trump that could be considered positive.
If The Coconut had won, it'd be all red,
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 10:46 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:46 AM (R11M+)
@HQNewsNow
JD Vance appears to call for jailing Democrats who oppose MAGA: “We gotta get them out of this country and we gotta get them in prison.”
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Works for me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: ballistic at May 15, 2026 09:34 AM (oqH4h)
Ha! I actually just finished watching The Sopranos earlier this week. First time watching it. Not sure if I'll rewatch.
Posted by: Doof at May 15, 2026 10:47 AM (5L7BE)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 10:48 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:40 AM (uEmCf)
Not just West Coast. Kinetic Playground was a short-lived Chicago venue, and camper van beethoven was an actual band.
Dudes memory is in full wayback machine mode.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 10:48 AM (zafwz)
JD Vance appears to call for jailing Democrats who oppose MAGA: “We gotta get them out of this country and we gotta get them in prison.”
They're killing conservatives. I think jailing liberals is quite measured and restrained, considering.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 10:50 AM (iNUL3)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)
Palm trees grow naturally in Ireland, despite the fact that the southernmost point of thst country is further north than any state except Alaska.
That Gulfstream ain't no joke.
Posted by: They Might Be Giants at May 15, 2026 10:50 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 15, 2026 10:50 AM (YZ0Fo)
Did you know that Johann Pachelbel had a son, Charles Theodore Pachelbel, who left Europe in the 1730’s and emigrated to the American Colonies, settling first in Boston before taking up permanent residence in Charleston, S.C., where he was active in the local musickal scene?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:50 AM (LxER7)
Governor Newsom Press Office
@GovPressOffice
Student funding in California is now a RECORD HIGH! Since Governor Newsom took office, it’s increased 66%— reaching $28,282 per student as the state makes historic investments in public education.
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But not this.
PoIiMath
@politicalmath
"In California, only 28% of Black fourth graders read at or above basic level, for instance, compared to 52% in Mississippi"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 10:51 AM (ndZc7)
@HQNewsNow
JD Vance appears to call for jailing Democrats who oppose MAGA: “We gotta get them out of this country and we gotta get them in prison.
That was in response to a guy at the event yesterday saying the illegal Allen fraudsters should go to gitmo
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 15, 2026 10:51 AM (YZ0Fo)
Posted by: The Male Gaze at May 15, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Just in comparison with those birthing hips and the family buffet up top
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 10:51 AM (zafwz)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 10:52 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)
Dudes memory is in full wayback machine mode.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 10:48 AM (zafwz)
Camper Van Beethoven opened for Bach To The Future at the Zoo Amphitheater in '84.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 15, 2026 10:52 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: mindful webworker - or is it Gilligan's Island? at May 15, 2026 10:53 AM (cz4n2)
@HQNewsNow
JD Vance appears to call for jailing Democrats who oppose MAGA: “We gotta get them out of this country and we gotta get them in prison.”
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Works for me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)
It's more fake news via editing.
JD calls for "the Fraudsters". ie. the foreign looters to be deported and imprisoned.
Speaking of JD..."Scrubs" reruns are on hulu. They're still funny.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 10:53 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
Did he man the cannon during the Revolution?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)
Thank you for yourbattention to this matter.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 10:54 AM (2RJDy)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 15, 2026 10:54 AM (LxER7)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 10:27 AM (ynpvh)
The worst chicharrones are the ones they fry in cottonseed or peanut oil instead of lard.
You know, so it is heart-healthy.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2026 10:54 AM (rbvCR)
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Fraudsters, Democrats, tomayto, tomahto.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 10:55 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 10:55 AM (iJfKG)
Hampton Inn has no rooms. I'll either stay in the new Airbnb or in Mexia. No worries.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 15, 2026 10:57 AM (EneHm)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I like the art today. I'd hang it.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 10:59 AM (2WIwB)
We celebrate Independence Day.
Posted by: Polite cough at May 15, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
THIS!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 11:00 AM (iERP6)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 15, 2026 11:00 AM (OUMaO)
FINED, imprisoned, deported, or you know, capital punishment?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 11:01 AM (X8xt3)
but...
It's more fake news via editing.
JD calls for "the Fraudsters". ie. the foreign looters to be deported and imprisoned.
I'm failing to see the difference and/or what might be objectionable.
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2026 11:01 AM (T7fic)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:02 AM (ds7a/)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Concur.
Posted by: RI Red at May 15, 2026 11:02 AM (Edxq2)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)
I believe you are correct. The Continental Congress approved the motion to claim Independence on July 2, and Jefferson's Declaration was accepted and signed by Hancock on the 4th.
Note: the fact that Jefferson was pretty much the least accomplished and youngest member of the committee selected to write the Declaration was as much a reason as his skill in turning a phrase that he was selected to do the writing. Kind of like how in high schools across the country, the nerd is the one doing all the work while the jocks and pretty girls party.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2026 11:02 AM (2RJDy)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I like the art today. I'd hang it.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2026 10:59 AM (2WIwB)
Who's gonna tell him why it's gone.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 15, 2026 11:03 AM (zafwz)
My parents had these cool reproduction aged parchments of historical documents framed on the wall at my boyhood home. The Declaration and Constitution, “10,000 Reward!!!” for JW Booth, things like that. Not sure where they got them, probably s&H green stamps, or in boxes of Breeze or something.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 15, 2026 11:07 AM (ds7a/)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 11:09 AM (iNUL3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (JA4sW)
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I was already voting for him. Now with this news I’ll vote for him twice.
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 11:11 AM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Heroq at May 15, 2026 11:12 AM (f5ZdA)
Posted by: Lester Fahrner at May 15, 2026 01:10 PM (+IxaW)
The Morning Report — 5/ 15/26
Good morning kids. Considering what's going on in the world, and how it has a direct impact right here at home, this story seems to be fading away far too quickly.
Authorities reported a bomb at an Alabama dam that posed “an unprecedented threat” during routine repairs on Tuesday. Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports. The nearby Daphne Search and Rescue Team, Mobile Police Department (MPD), Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and FBI bomb squad also responded to the scene.(RELATED: Trump DOJ Hits DC Pipe Bomb Suspect With Terror Charges) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was also notified of the discovery. The Converse Reservoir is a 3,600-acre lake that “is the source of all drinking water and most raw water” for the Mobile area, according to the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS). Officials have not released information on anyone potentially responsible for placing the bomb or how it happened. The Gulf Coast Regional Maritime Response and Render-Safe Team retrieved and safely detonated the device, Advance Local reported. . . . . . “This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals,” MAWSS Director Bud McCrory said, NBC 15 reported. “We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners — as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers — in identifying this device and safely destroying it.” Agencies are working to boost security around the dam, multiple outlets reported.While this is indeed an "unprecedented threat," not to minimize the disaster that could have happened had the explosive detonated and the dam was actually breached, given our pre-Donald Trump non-existent border and immigration control, and the proclivities of our global adversaries/rivals and let's face it enemies, imagine a more sophisticated device planted at the base of Hoover Dam? I suppose, that is I pray, that the security in and around the Dam and other highly sensitive sites would be extremely tight. And yet, experience should teach us that assuming this to be the case would be most unwise. And lest we forget, there are those among us who are not foreigners, by birth anyway, who seek our destruction for various and sundry ideological reasons.
The man accused of starting the Palisades fire, one of the costliest disasters in U.S. history, was motivated by a resentment for the rich and viewed Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, as a Robin Hood-like figure, according to court documents detailing evidence gathered by federal prosecutors. In a court brief filed last week, authorities say a forensic review of his computer showed Jonathan Rinderknecht searched “Free Luigi” and “reddit lets kill all billionaires” in December 2024.I was thinking perhaps a whacko Red/Green enviro-communist, but anything that advances, in their twisted minds the cause of anti-Americanism and freedom is fair game. By any means necessary, right? Also, Iran is on the verge of economic collapse with the regime not far behind it and Red China's economy and society are also not necessarily in tip-top shape either, despite the propaganda to the contrary... though certainly not nearly in as critical a condition as Iran. The latter have exported terrorism around the globe since Jimmy Carter midwifed them into the world 47 years ago, while China has followed the Soviet model of infiltrating our society to bring us down from within going back even farther. Mao's cultural revolution was not limited to the confines of China, as has been plainly evident for quite some time now.
Rinderknecht, 30, is accused of starting the Lachman fire in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 1, 2025, which smoldered underground for a week before exploding into the deadly Palisades fire.
“A police station operating in New York City at the direction of the Chinese government has been exposed, its sinister purpose disrupted, and its founder held accountable for blatantly disregarding the law and our country’s sovereignty.” – U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. . . . Lu faces up to 10 years in prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent and an additional 20 years for obstruction of justice. His conviction underscores growing concerns about Chinese influence operations on U.S. soil. It also highlights the CCP’s global strategy to suppress dissent and exert its power far beyond its borders. On Tuesday, the National Pulse reported on Eileen Wang, the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, California, pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government.Lest we forget Eric Swalwell, NYC pol Grace Meng, Dianne Feinstein's chauffeur the Confucius institute's on college campuses all over America and on and on. Not to mention the massive tracts of farmland as well as real estate abutting sensitive military installations and far too many Chinese nationals employed in our defense and tech sectors as well as research facilities, stealing our secrets. And of course, unleashing germ warfare on us...
The recent indictment of former senior NIAID official David Morens has ripped the lid off the COVID-era corruption machine. Now, against the backdrop of the United States Senate investigation on COVID origins, North Carolina taxpayers and families also deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the entire disaster.And suddenly, we have an outbreak of the Hantavirus on a US-bound cruise ship, just as we may be on the verge of toppling Iran, boxing in the Red Chinese and maybe even toppling the Cuban communists and liberating that island gulag after 66 years. Our enemies abroad and especially in our midst can't have that, now can they. Not with two crucial elections in November and then 2028 in the balance...
Ralph Baric, a world-renowned virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by all accounts collaborated for years with Shi Zhengli at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology on bat coronaviruses capable of infecting humans. NIH grants under Anthony Fauci helped fund that work -- including controversial gain-of-function experiments that many experts now believe helped create the conditions for the pandemic. As a state-supported institution -- with Chapel Hill as North Carolina’s flagship campus -- UNC owes its citizens full transparency. There are reports of public information requests being either ignored or stonewalled. Who was paid what, and why? Where did the money flow in from, and where did it finally land? What was the actual result of the research conducted in Chapel Hill -- a scientific breakthrough in a bottle, or harm to millions?
Leaving the investigation in the hands of the United States Senate is not enough.
On April 1, 2026, The MV Hondius, a Dutch-registered cruise ship, departed from Ushuaia, a city in southern Argentina. Between April 6 and April 28, a number of passengers became sick, with the first reported death on April 11. On May 2, an outbreak of hantavirus was officially reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). Hantavirus is carried by rodents and there are currently no targeted treatments or widely available vaccines. Consequently, the 18 American passengers have been put into quarantine. Sixteen of the passengers are being monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, while the other two passengers are at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the passengers has been placed in biocontainment due to testing positive for the Andes virus, a hantavirus subtype. The passengers reportedly range from their late 20s to their 80s. Early symptoms typically include fatigue, fever, and muscle aches, especially in the larger muscles of the hips, thighs, and back. Hantavirus symptoms typically occur between one and eight weeks after exposure... “The risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low,” said Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).But the risk to Democrats, Leftists and globalists is existential, should they lose the next two elections. Have a great weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports. The nearby Daphne Search and Rescue Team, Mobile Police Department (MPD), Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and FBI bomb squad also responded to the scene.
Bomb Planted Near Mobile’s Water Supply And We Barely Know Anything
- AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
- Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Cooper described an Iranian regime whose military-industrial base, proxy network, naval forces, and command structure had all been severely battered during the nearly six-week kinetic phase of the conflict. (Call me when Islam goes extinct - jjs)
CENTCOM Chief: Iran’s Forces ‘Severely Degraded,’ Terror Proxies ‘Cut Off’ — ‘Every Objective for Epic Fury Met’
- Iran will not abandon its nuclear ambitions until the US breaks Tehran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz and restores real leverage
How to Persuade Iran to End War . . . and Give Up Its Nuclear Program. CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - “In a post on Instagram, UW Divest News, a pro-Palestinian group, urged students to protest the Turning Point USA chapter event with Cole”
Detransitioner Chloe Cole Cancels Talk at U. Washington After Alleged Threats From Antifa
- Unsurprisingly, Democrats are willing to eliminate black-majority congressional districts through redistricting in order to gain more political power, a new poll finds. Democrat politicians and pundits have long claimed that any proposed shift away from race-based gerrymandering is racist, repeatedly weaponizing the issue to smear Republicans
Democrats Tell Pollsters They’d Happily Ditch Black Districts To Get More Power "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - Banks’ departure follows that of several top leaders within DHS. In March, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem departed the agency and was subsequently replaced by Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. Later that month, CBP Commander Gregory Bovino announced his retirement from the Border Patrol. A short time later, Todd Lyons, the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced his retirement effective May 31.
DHS Shakeup Continues: Border Patrol Chief Banks Resigns
- “This is an illegal alien who raped an underage American,” Gill said.
Rep. Brandon Gill: Fairfax County Democrat Prosecutor Helped Illegal Alien Sex Offender Evade Prison THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE - The committee’s findings expose significant vulnerabilities in Minnesota’s government programs, calling for stronger oversight and accountability measures. The report has sparked calls for federal investigations and for increased fraud prevention efforts in future legislative sessions.
Final Walz Fraud Report Criticizes ‘Culture of Tolerance’ for Abuse.
- HealthSplash owner Brett Blackman was convicted by a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida for his part in the scheme that officials said generated fake doctors’ orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other benefit programs, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.
DOJ: Man Convicted in $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme Targeting ‘Sick and Elderly’
- Yes, we should be skeptical of Newsom’s crony-run diaper giveaway, and here’s why. . .
California’s Government Diaper Dispensary Serves Fraudsters, Not Families
- There will also be a nationwide six-month moratorium on all new Medicare enrollments by providers of hospice and home care.
J.D. Vance Announces Suspension of $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - Maybe you can just ignore activist judges after all.
Ignorance Is Bliss: Can the Trump Administration Get Away with Just Ignoring the Orders of Activist Judges? WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - The answer ought to make Western leaders think — and plan. But it won’t.
Before Oil, How Did Islamic States Get Rich?
- This not the first case of its kind in Europe. In April this year, Italy deported Ali Kashif, an imam of Pakistani origin, after he was filmed endorsing child marriage. Citing passages from the Qur’an, Kashif claimed that girls could be married after their first menstrual cycle. In another case in Britain, a 52-year-old Muslim admitted to facilitating child marriage as part of an Islamic Nikah ceremony. It is a crime to arrange or facilitate a marriage involving anyone under 18 in England, even with parental consent.
Imam Sentenced for Decade-Long Campaign of Rape and Abuse Against Women and Girls. OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS - Devastating testimony from Australia’s Jews.
Australian Woman Pressured to Use Less “Identifiably Jewish” Name at Work
- Karol Markowicz:This week’s silence should be humiliating. It should be clarifying. It should, at last, wake up those Jews on the left who care at all about self-preservation — or that of their children. It’s long past time to leave this one-sided alliance behind.
Face it, Jewish liberals: You have no friends on the left SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION - The motion for a stay was granted “pending filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court.”
Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks $83M Payment to E. Jean Carroll From Trump FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Douglas Murray: Nicholas Kristof raped my dog. At least that is what I have heard, from an anonymous source. A source who is intensely hostile to the New York Times columnist. And that’s good enough for me. Now I come to think of it, my pet pug has had a strange look on his face lately. As it happens, the rumor that I have just attempted to spread is far less lurid and fanciful than the one that the New York Times chose to spread around the world this week.
The New York Times feeds anti-Jew hatred with a horrific lie
- Hamas prison-rape-dog propagandist’s dad also defended Vichy war criminal, then committed suicide after decades of nightmares
Times Columnist Kristof’s Father Fought on Nazi Side in World War II - Hamawy, who's the favorite in the Democrat primary for an open New Jersey House seat, was close with Omar Abdel-Rahman for years, and was a defense witness at the sheikh’s sensational 1995 trial
Left-Wing Wikipedia Editors Fight To Keep Democrat Adam Hamawy’s Ties to ‘Blind Sheikh’ Offline Even Though House Candidate Testified to Their Friendship in Court
- The Seattle Times ‘reporter’ spent thousands of words examining the dissenter while refusing to examine the dissent.
In Its Hit Piece On Me, The Seattle Times Proves I’m Right About Obergefell* * * * * - The New York Times reported Wednesday Andreessen Horowitz has funneled over $115 million to midterm election efforts, making the company the highest known political contributor. Soros, the liberal billionaire and longtime Democratic donor, has so far reportedly contributed nearly $103 million, followed by MAGA ally Elon Musk at $85 million.
Tech Overlords Beat Out George Soros In Midterms Spending THE ECONOMY, STUPID - The Senate Banking Committee on Thursday advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, more commonly known as the Clarity Act, a bill that would establish clear rules of the road for the burgeoning crypto industry. The bill advanced out of the committee 15-9, with two Democrats, Sens. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), voting for the bill. President Donald Trump has made making America the capital of the crypto industry a key priority of his second term in office.
Exclusive — Sen. Cynthia Lummis: Enact Clarity Act Before Elizabeth Warren Tries to ‘Kill’ Crypto Industry
- The official demise of Spirit Airlines on May 2 provides the perfect illustration
Spirit Airlines proves bad antitrust policy has consequences. RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - Secretary Rollins published a statement on X amplifying Heartland Impact's video on Pathways to Dairy Net Zero. In the thread, Secretary Rollins warned that the initiative would "burden small farms with costly compliance," criticized "radical ESG mandates disguised as sustainability," and declared that "ESG mandates have no place in American agriculture."
Heartland Impact Thanks USDA Secretary Rollins for Spotlighting Threat of Pathways to Dairy Net Zero CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Under Gavin Newsom, state prisoners are turning taxpayer-funded tablets into personal sex machines.
Watching Porn on California’s Death Row - The question of whether Nowak hurled racial slurs at Digwa does not seem very relevant to the question of whether Digwa allegedly stabbed a stranger to death. I fail to see how murder could ever constitute a proportional response to heckling. And I question the wisdom of arresting a dying man because he might have said something racist.
British Police Reportedly Arrest Stabbing Victim After Alleged Attacker Plays Race Card ABORTION - Justice Thomas dissented, describing the mail distribution system for mifepristone as a "criminal enterprise."
Supreme Court Issues Major Decision On Abortion Pill, Deals Blow To Pro-Life Fight SECOND AMENDMENT - The Associated Press posted a short video that appeared to highlight what it called a lack of regulation of flintlock muskets Thursday morning.
You’ll Never Guess The Gun Corporate Media’s Worrying About Now
- They noted that suppressors are regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA), yet the city of D.C. goes beyond such regulation by actually banning them. Moreover, the DOJ claimed DC’s suppressor ban cannot survive the Bruen (2022) test.
Trump DOJ Expands Lawsuit Against DC: Now Targeting Suppressor Ban Too THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH - Virginia Democrats have accidentally made a case against the months-long ‘election season’ they prize. What if SCOTUS took them up on it?
SCOTUS Could Do The Funniest Thing And Mandate A Single Election Day At Jay Jones’ Request DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY - Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan got into a heated exchange with Descano after his office removed his immigration policy from his website weeks prior to the hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. Descano said his campaign promises are not actually his policies.
Left-Wing Prosecutor Says Voters ‘Obtuse’ If They Expect Him To Keep Campaign Promises
- During Democrat Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson’s absence, the Florida Democrat missed major votes like extending FISA surveillance authorities. Wilson’s official social media account also reused at least one photo of the congresswoman that was originally uploaded back in October.
83-Year-Old Democrat Absent For Dozens Of Consecutive Votes
- Look up at the sky: Professional social justice warriors who hate rich people might be passing overhead at this very moment, bound for Cancún or Dubai on a private jet.
Gavin Newsom’s Former Chief of Staff Pleads Guilty, And The Plea Agreement Is Kind Of Amazing POLITICS - That marks a striking reversal from an earlier April 6–7 survey by Quantus, which showed Massie leading Gallrein by 9 points.
Trump-Backed Challenger Leads Thomas Massie in New GOP Primary Poll
- The city of Los Angeles doesn’t have much of a political machine. But it has an incompetent mayor who is not only a poor administrator but also a bad politician.
Spencer Pratt Can Win Because Angry People Vote. Just Ask Former Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic
- California Democrats are fractured, unpopular, and vulnerable, giving Republicans their best chance in decades to make the Golden State competitive again.
Reflections on the California Governor Race
- While speaking on a call with the group known as Win with Black Women, the California leftist suggested her party should hold a “no bad idea brainstorm” in which participants consider implementing radical proposals such as court-packing and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. once Democrats retake power.
Dem Frontrunner Floats Packing SCOTUS, Nuking Electoral College As 2028 Platform
- This rapidly developing trend in Republican-heavy states is not about independence: It’s about big-government policies being deliberately repackaged for voters who have grown skeptical of the liberal brand. And the left is using party labels to mask what should be a genuine debate about policy direction.
Beware Democrats’ sneaky ‘independent-in-name-only’ midterm gambit
- In a crowded field in the race for South Carolina’s next governor, Reddy now stands out, which alone makes what he says worth considering.
South Carolina’s Rom Reddy sent out the most fascinating campaign flyer ever FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - “Founding father Benjamin Franklin published the sayings of Confucius in his colonial newspaper, and today’s sculpture recognizing that ancient Chinese sage is carved into the face of the United States Supreme Court very proudly,” Trump said. “The appreciation ran in both directions. Chinese admirers of President George Washington gifted a stone tablet honoring his memory to adorn the Washington Monument. It bears the words of a Chinese official who called the great general and statesman, ‘a hero among men,'” he added.
Trump, Xi Toast U.S.-China Relations at Historic Beijing Banquet
- ...“Let me be blunt, folks, this is the most striking I have ever heard a Chinese leader speak directly to a U.S. president."
Xi escalated Taiwan rhetoric during Trump China meeting
- China is not the rising power and America is not the declining power.
The Biggest Lie About China Just Fell Apart In Public
- President Donald Trump turned Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “declining nation” line into a clean political contrast. Xi meant it as a warning about American weakness. Trump treated it as a diagnosis of Joe Biden’s years in power.
Trump Flips Xi’s America-in-Decline Line Back on Biden
- In a separate incident on Thursday, a female White House staffer was trampled by Chinese reporters.
Secret Service Agent, Chinese Security Get Into Standoff During Trump Visit
- The situation in Cuba may be at or near a breaking point. Many experts — real ones whom I trust and learn from regularly, not just whoever the MSM could dig up — are calling today the "beginning of the end" of the regime that has been in power for 67 years.
Cuba Falling: There's a Lot Going On Right Now. This Could Be the Breaking Point. ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY - On Monday, the EU sanctioned Israel. On Tuesday, it invited the Taliban.
EU Sanctions Israel, Welcomes Taliban
- God’s promise is never up for negotiation.
Israel’s Original Sin is Surviving DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - Lu faces up to 10 years in prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent and an additional 20 years for obstruction of justice. His conviction underscores growing concerns about Chinese influence operations on U.S. soil. It also highlights the CCP’s global strategy to suppress dissent and exert its power far beyond its borders. On Tuesday, the National Pulse reported on Eileen Wang, the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, California, pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government.
Man Convicted of Running Chinese Secret Police Station in NYC. HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - So far, 11 passengers have tested positive for Andes strain, with 3 in critical condition. An expert asserts that assurances of low risk to general public is “calm-mongering.”
CDC Official Dusts Off Familiar ‘Six Feet’ Playbook Regarding Hantavirus
- Enrollment for both programs is up.
Media Lies About Obamacare And Medicaid Debunked ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - By viewing interstellar comet 3I/Atlas when it was between the Jupiter probes Europa Clipper and Juice (on their way to Jupiter) in November 2025, the science teams for both were able to get a 360 degree view of the comet in ultraviolet wavelengths.
Europa Clipper and Juice make simultaneous UV light observations of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas
- The pharmaceutical company United Therapeutics Corporation has purchased space on an unspecified number of future Varda’s recoverable capsules so that it can manufacture pulmonary drugs in space.
Pharmaceutical company to use Varda’s capsules to manufacture heart drugs in space CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - "I’ve never felt better. When you can be yourself, you’re happier."
Nicki Minaj Reveals The Reason She Finally Came Out As MAGA
- Collectivist pressure is how the Left keeps everyone in line.
Actor Refuses to Push Politics, Triggering ‘The View’
- After Kittle regaled fans on the spider that frightened his wife in their bathroom and how he eliminated the threat, PETA jumped in and noted it was not amused at all by the tale of marital crisis, and they ripped into the seven-time Pro Bowler, the New York Post reported.
PETA Takes Swat at 49ers Star George Kittle for Killing a Spider
- John Ondrasik keeps emotional promise to survivor of savage Oct. 7 Hamas attacks
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hans O'Lo at May 15, 2026 07:11 AM (Kcw7x)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:13 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: TALACHULITNA at May 15, 2026 07:15 AM (JwHz5)
Mobile’s water and sewer agency alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office after discovering a grenade-like improvised explosive device underwater at the federally designated Converse Reservoir dam, according to local media reports.
"Miller! That useless git!"
"What? It didn't work!"
"Yes I know it didn't work!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:15 AM (HdYcL)
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 50 overcast degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It's not supposed to get much warmer or clearer, so the view out of my window is basically the view I'll have all day.
I had a pretty lousy couple of days, so am hoping to feel better and get more editing done today. Decided to try and change my mood by book shopping; got a few interesting ones, but that's a topic for the Book Thread.
And, not that it would come as any surprise to anyone with even the least knowledge of her, Althouse also thinks Karen Bass getting hit in the face with a tomato is encouraging violence.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:16 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:17 AM (Nx5jP)
Hahahaha. Right. The college swindlers need the money.
Posted by: Why Are They Here? at May 15, 2026 07:18 AM (mC7bQ)
=====
FFS
Here's a thought: bomb the fuck out of them until they surrender.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:18 AM (RIvkX)
Did she get hit in the head with an actual tomato or that was on a Spencer Pratt video?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:19 AM (Nx5jP)
And, not that it would come as any surprise to anyone with even the least knowledge of her, Althouse also thinks Karen Bass getting hit in the face with a tomato is encouraging violence.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:16 AM (qRla/)
America's Wine Mom. The Whitest White Woman in the World.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:21 AM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 07:21 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:21 AM (HdYcL)
I’m liking my new 9/80 work schedule because I’m off today. Luxurious sleep-in until 6:30 plus a 3-day weekend
New job has prevented me from commenting much but I’ll say I’ve been immaturely impatient with the Iran situation. I don’t like talk of negotiating and deals. Slowly strangle them to death please and rid the world of that evil regime. Loved Trump saying yesterday something like: My only concern is they can’t have a nuke; economic considerations don’t come into play with that. Amen
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 15, 2026 07:21 AM (2mApq)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 07:22 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:23 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:24 AM (qRla/)
===== FFS
Here's a thought: bomb the fuck out of them until they surrender.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:18 AM (RIvkX)
Yes, the article and its title are idiotic in their dissonance/pointlessness. I offer it as an object lesson only.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2026 07:24 AM (x0n13)
Margaret Dumont was quite a good actress and looking at her photos when younger shows a smiling and delightful looking woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:25 AM (Nx5jP)
She was reacting to the Pratt video.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:25 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 15, 2026 07:26 AM (Ctg2W)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:24 AM (qRla/)
Carter was introduced to us by Buck Throckmorton, and it turns out he's a lurker here and fan.
Others like Robert Spencer and Michael Walsh I personally contacted. And author Harry Stein is a dear friend.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2026 07:26 AM (x0n13)
Althouse Commenters: The Marx Brothers
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:21 AM (HdYcL)
Hardly. More like the Ritz Brothers.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:27 AM (qRla/)
Margaret Dumont was quite a good actress and looking at her photos when younger shows a smiling and delightful looking woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:25 AM (Nx5jP)
And contrary to the received wisdom that she didn't have a clue, she knew exactly what was going on and played her part to perfection.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:27 AM (HdYcL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:25 AM (Nx5jP)
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Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/qqMzuDJq764
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 07:27 AM (i2Ycu)
I didn't see that one. X videos are not working for me now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:27 AM (Nx5jP)
They want war, let them have one.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:27 AM (jjoN6)
Anyway, it's a great example of the predicament we're in. When a Leftist shoots Kirk or Trump or whomever next (we'll find out soon!), it's understandable - the target's incendiary rhetoric is to blame.
When a Righty makes a silly video about imaginary people throwing imaginary tomatoes at a Leftist, it's incitement to violence - a crime.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 07:28 AM (BI5O2)
She looked like she was having fun a lot of the time, and I think she enjoyed working with the Marx brothers
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:28 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:25 AM (Nx5jP)
Groucho always had nice things to say about her, noting that she was a perfect foil because she really didn't have a sense of humor and didn't understand the Marx comedy style.
IIRC, she either had a bad marriage or made bad investments and ended up nearly bankrupt at her death.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:29 AM (qRla/)
I write with high-end fountain pens unironically. I use a straight razor and badger-hair brush when I shave. My boots are on their third sole.
I love the shit out of technology, but sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (iNUL3)
Trivia question:
What was the name of Wing CDR Guy Gibson's labrador retriever in the movie "The Dam Busters?"
Hint, It's not politically correct!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)
I agree with you and I'm sorry I wasn't around at the time because I would have enjoyed talking with her.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Just Wondering at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Pure DARVO; we know who was doing the murdering and raping on October 7th...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 07:31 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:32 AM (qRla/)
What was the name of Wing CDR Guy Gibson's labrador retriever in the movie "The Dam Busters?"
Hint, It's not politically correct!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)
The RAF recently removed that dog's headstone, #4MuhJusticez.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 07:32 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 07:32 AM (Cqegx)
That's to bad about her end and I am not required to take Groucho's word that she was kind of a dim bulb without a sense of humor .😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:33 AM (Nx5jP)
I write with high-end fountain pens unironically. I use a straight razor and badger-hair brush when I shave. My boots are on their third sole.
I love the shit out of technology, but sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (iNUL3)
My brother!
Of course, if you really want to go old school, you could be like me and use a dip pen. :-)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:34 AM (qRla/)
Every state would go to mail-in ballots to be sent in on that singular day or the Democrats would ensure chaos at all Republican polling locations. The people who fetishize one day voting need to give it up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 07:34 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 15, 2026 07:35 AM (0N4FZ)
Unless they get sexual pleasure out of being called perverts.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:36 AM (1Ff7Z)
Oh, I know this one! His name was-
Account blocked for 30 days
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:37 AM (jjoN6)
I've decided to skip over his posts. That probably annoys him more than if someone was irritable.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:37 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:38 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:37 AM (Nx5jP)
Sometimes you don't notice who the poster is until you've read most of it. Just shake my head. They service evil and that's it. They change no minds. Maybe they're getting paid by someone?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:39 AM (1Ff7Z)
Iran is reaching the point where it will have to plug its wells which will freeze its oil industry. Not capping will make it worse. Once done, it will take many months to reverse this to get the oil back flowing -- I've been hearing permanent degradation so you have to drill again. China would be hardest hit, after Iran.
So expect Xi to end his support for the Mullahs and cut an oil deal with us.
Art of the Deal, Baby!
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 15, 2026 07:39 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
The pages are all stuck together on his Mother Jones magazines.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 15, 2026 07:40 AM (F8sQr)
Rochester! No, uh, Quindarius!
Posted by: Rhymes with bigger at May 15, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F)
... that boy jus' ain't right in the head ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eeztl at May 15, 2026 07:41 AM (VyBeY)
"Miller! That useless git!"
"What? It didn't work!"
"Yes I know it didn't work!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:15 AM (HdYcL)
*sits under tree*
*calmly puffs on pipe*
All in good time.
Posted by: Miller at May 15, 2026 07:42 AM (wVcYX)
I expect he's getting paid . I can't think of any other reason to go on site whose politics you don' embrace unless they were doing it like the conservative liaison from one of those left wing sites who brings their ramblings here.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:43 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: sock_rat_eeztl at May 15, 2026 07:43 AM (VyBeY)
That dog is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.
Posted by: Randolph Duke at May 15, 2026 07:43 AM (mC7bQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:37 AM (Nx5jP)
Sometimes you don't notice who the poster is until you've read most of it. Just shake my head. They service evil and that's it. They change no minds. Maybe they're getting paid by someone?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:39 AM (1Ff7Z)
Yeah, it'd be easier if the nic came before the post. You could just slide over without bothering.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 07:44 AM (ExV1e)
They arrested the victim while he was still alive...seems the police department and the individual police should be sued to within an inch of their lives, and then those police involved in handcuffing the dying victim should be sent to PMITA prison for being accessories to murder...
But in the UK will that happen? Naw, not with their sycophantic support of muzzie murderers and rapists.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 07:44 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:45 AM (Nx5jP)
Now there is a doc that needs to meet Luigi
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 07:45 AM (/+uur)
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Maybe she rode off into the sunset. Or joined the ghost riders in the sky.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 07:45 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:43 AM (Nx5jP)
Especially as the CoB changes his words. I wonder if they ever come back to read the responses or not? If they have a handler who checks on them, you'd think the yummy yummy pebbles would convince the money person that they're wasting their time posting here.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:46 AM (1Ff7Z)
Wilson is missing, but I believe there was a Maxine Waters sighting yesterday. Her wig appears more alive than she is.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:46 AM (gu0hJ)
Art of the Deal, Baby!
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 15, 2026 07:39 AM (dtajH)
Pretty much.
https://youtu.be/VF_23hUnvbc
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 07:46 AM (ExV1e)
Do they want to continue to follow Trotsky's figurative path to exile in Mexico City and a bullet in the head, when they're no longer considered useful?
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 15, 2026 07:46 AM (dtajH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:47 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:34 AM (qRla/)
I took a run at dip pens, but found them lacking in the 'portability' category. I'm on the run so regularly that being able to cap and carry a pen is vital to me.
I know that cursive is practically witchcraft these days, but having clean, Spencerian script pour out of a fountain pen? People sometimes just watch me take down notes in meetings. I've begun to see it as hilarious instead of creepy.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 07:47 AM (iNUL3)
If that ever happened, nobody would read my posts!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:49 AM (qRla/)
One of the few things Mrs fd keeps me around for is spider getter. I don't kill them, they just go for a little swim.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:49 AM (vFG9F)
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And ugly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 07:49 AM (ndZc7)
The EU bureaucracy is full of anti-semites hell bent on cementing their dhimmi status.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 07:49 AM (ynpvh)
It might have held some insight into who or where it was assembled and maybe by what sort of person/group. IOW, was it sophisticated or not?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 07:49 AM (jehhT)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 07:31 AM (ynpvh)
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Ya know what else we Israelis did?
https://tinyurl.com/27td27et
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 07:49 AM (i2Ycu)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:50 AM (1Ff7Z)
Of course they would.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:50 AM (Nx5jP)
TGIF
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:52 AM (aYs8h)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:52 AM (Nx5jP)
That's why you should send all your in-home spiders to your local PETA office...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 07:52 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt Retired at May 15, 2026 07:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
The answer for this problem involves a lot of bodies being dropped off at the local landfill and their families charged for disposal.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:53 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (aYs8h)
Posted by: Rabbit of Caerbannog at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (Qc7+O)
What's a "Friday?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt Retired at May 15, 2026 07:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
*sighs in exasperation*
It's the day the garbage goes out, silly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (HdYcL)
What's a "Friday?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt Retired at May 15, 2026 07:53 AM (1Ff7Z)
*sighs in exasperation*
It's the day the garbage goes out, silly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (HdYcL)
That's Monday eve for me...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (ynpvh)
Before Oil, How Did Islamic States Get Rich?
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Everyone needs to read it. Should be taught in schools. (it won't be, I know, I know....)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Skip"
My school project fell out of the canoe.
Posted by: Clock Boy at May 15, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (aYs8h)
Could be.
Went out into the backyard after hearing a metallic sounding clank. Found brass knuckles.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:55 AM (1Ff7Z)
I write with high-end fountain pens unironically. I use a straight razor and badger-hair brush when I shave. My boots are on their third sole.
I love the shit out of technology, but sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (iNUL3)
I'm honored that 2 threads later, someone is still looking at my ONT
Posted by: Doof at May 15, 2026 07:55 AM (5L7BE)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:56 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Doof at May 15, 2026 07:55 AM (5L7BE)
I read it every morning. Truly.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 07:56 AM (iNUL3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 07:56 AM (Zz0t1)
I mean, at a minimum they could have ascertained the name of the wing commander's dog. Since that's so dam important to us.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 15, 2026 07:56 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 07:57 AM (ndZc7)
I certainly hope the FBI is constantly monitoring that shithole that is Reddit. Seems they're posting some pretty insidious shit over there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:58 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Mister Scott
Inferior breakfast repast. The Muffin is the "Prince of Foods".
Posted by: Zombie F.Z. at May 15, 2026 07:58 AM (oftw2)
Sounds...kinda disgusting. Other than the pan seared beef filet.
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 07:59 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:59 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Zombie F.Z. at May 15, 2026 07:58 AM (oftw2)
But not the muffin top.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:59 AM (1Ff7Z)
Who wants to bet that once Trump exits politics the political violence will drop immediately? Regardless of how popular Reddit is or isn’t.
When you call for violence, like Trump continues to do, don’t be surprised when it is met with violence from the other side. Trump is solely responsible for the political violence in this country. He has been fanning the flames for 10 years.
Trump suggested we rake the forest and then defunded the USDA and US Forest Service. Why would CA want to follow national recommendations?
No one ever said climate change causes forest fires. What scientists say is climate change is causing fires to spread farther, burn longer, and makes them harder to put out, making them much more dangerous.
You really think some rando that allegedly started a fire a week prior to the Palisades fire holds the blame more than 8-month no rain/drought period? Is that what you believe?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 07:59 AM (ycI94)
Democrat Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson’s absence
She is being held hostage by hantavirus. This is known.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:00 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Doof
Me too. I'm less prone to nausea in the morning.
Posted by: Phil Phenergan at May 15, 2026 08:01 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Doof at May 15, 2026 07:55 AM (5L7BE)
Just the comments.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)
https://youtube.com/shorts/GS9YOcvf8kE
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Doof at May 15, 2026 07:55 AM (5L7BE)
If the English language pisses that Chinese broad off so much, go back to China. Enjoy whatever the 'new flu' is this year.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)
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Pure DARVO; we know who was doing the murdering and raping on October 7th...
The same people perpetrating the Strategic Insanity here.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PutASmileOnThatFace
Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time -- Bill Clinton'06
t would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people "in a way that we hate." -- Bill Clinton'06, still partying hardy with Epstein.
Epstein was invited to the WH 17 times, two of which involved conversations including topics about M.Lewinsky. Gee, ever wonder?
The Clinton Global Catastrophe needs you to believe in the unreal, the Fabricated, and OUTRAGEOUSLY UNTRUE -- that he knew nothing about Jeffie's playtime, let alone his (clinton's) self portrait in blue dress...
Remember who did this:
"to leave now we would send a message to terrorists and other potential adversaries around the world that they can change our policies by killing our people. It would be open season on Americans."
-- Bill Clinton '93
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM (8lw9i)
Posted by: Cowboy Up! at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:03 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 07:59 AM (gu0hJ)
Maybe they got a tip.
Maybe it was planted, didn't go off, and was found during routine maintenance. The fact that it's called routine suggests it's done, or scheduled to be done, regularly.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:18 AM (RIvkX)
Yes, the article and its title are idiotic in their dissonance/pointlessness. I offer it as an object lesson only.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2026 07:24 AM (x0n13)
Time for something to happen, since Iran has now told Trump to go piss up a rope, they’re not gonna negotiate shit, ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:03 AM (AnnNE)
That's Monday eve for me...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 07:54 AM (ynpvh)
I should do that, but most times, I wait till Tuesday morning and rush out in a panic to get the cans to the curb on time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Time for something to happen, since Iran has now told Trump to go piss up a rope, they’re not gonna negotiate shit, ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:03 AM (AnnNE)
The fact that we don't have dark ops going on assassinating IRGC everywhere saddens me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)
This made me laugh like an idiot:
https://tinyurl.com/27wbyxym
A meme that perfectly encapsulates the LA mayoral race.
BONUS! It's funny cuz it's true.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 08:04 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:05 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:05 AM (z2aPa)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)
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Yes, very true...Okay, which Moron went over there and posted again?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:05 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cowboy Up! at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM
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They belong in B.O.'s lieberry.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: one hour sober at May 15, 2026 08:06 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)
That's what they want you to think!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:05 AM (YCxFk)
They just won the Super Bowl. They're for sale.
That in of itself shows you what a shithole they're trying to do business in.
Were anyone to buy them, it would be for well below market and they would be moved IMMEDIATELY.
Maybe Idaho would like to be known for something more than just potatoes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jack Carter, 1970 at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:08 AM (z2aPa)
Seattle Seahawks are for sale, and there are not many takers. Billionaires, even on the left, are wary of Seattle and Wash state politics
Posted by: Jonah
Buy 'em and move 'em to Vancouver. The one in Washington state.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:08 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Will Robinson at May 15, 2026 08:08 AM (zBgIx)
Posted by: Clem n Skeeters Alabammy Fishing Guide Services at May 15, 2026 08:08 AM (Qc7+O)
Howard Stern called those cowboy hats "Dam Buster Dog Hatin Hats".
Robin thought that was hilarious. Maybe give them to Hakeem Jeffries.
Posted by: Beetlejuice at May 15, 2026 08:08 AM (mC7bQ)
Epstein was a well known cigar aficionado.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)
@Tim_Walz
The House Boot Licker [Steve Scalise] Caucus is officially up and running.
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Sumbitch didn't have the common courtesy to die when he was shot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 08:09 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)
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OTOH everything actually is a conspiracy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cowboy Up! at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM (oftw2)
Maybe the hats are like the hats in "Meet the Robinsons"...Frederica is being controlled through them by some even bigger idiot...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:09 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: CapeFear at May 15, 2026 08:09 AM (803OQ)
Seahawks have the best GM in football, But Paul Allen's sister has no clue
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)
Robin thought that was hilarious. Maybe give them to Hakeem Jeffries.
Posted by: Beetlejuice
Well, he IS all hat and no cattle.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:10 AM (s9VOe)
A meme that perfectly encapsulates the LA mayoral race.
BONUS! It's funny cuz it's true.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 08:04 AM (iJfKG)
Watched a video last night were TMZ was attacking Pratt because he did a video talking about 'living in an Airstream' where his house used to be. Turns out, he doesn't. His home was burned. There's an Airstream there, but he hasn't slept there. He stays in a hotel. He stays with relatives. He's not stayed in the trailer. The trailer is where his home was. It took weeks to get the electricity connected to the trailer. It took weeks to get water connected to it.
But TMZ is calling him a liar because he implied he's living in the trailer when he isn't.
They want to use semantics to prevent LA from being corrected.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:05 AM (YCxFk)
They just won the Super Bowl. They're for sale.
That in of itself shows you what a shithole they're trying to do business in.
Were anyone to buy them, it would be for well below market and they would be moved IMMEDIATELY.
Maybe Idaho would like to be known for something more than just potatoes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)
Would a good name for a sports team be the Idaho Spudshooters?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:11 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)
It's illegal for us to use assassination because we're better than that. Much preferable to kill tens of thousands of grunts than to off one asshole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
Since droughts and no-rain periods have occurred regularly in Southern California since the end of the last ice age, yes that person deserves blame. The city that refused to take reasonable precautions for a natural condition that occurs regularly is far more to blame.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:12 AM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:12 AM (s9VOe)
Fire victims frustrated after Palisades reservoir that was empty during fire is dry again
https://tinyurl.com/35pnpa2d
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)
It's illegal for us to use assassination because we're better than that. Much preferable to kill tens of thousands of grunts than to off one asshole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 08:12 AM (ExV1e)
Besides, the CIA likes killing Americans for the sake of protecting
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (RHGPo)
It's also a reality TV show starring 32 quarterbacks and 32 head coaches.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (x0n13)
Seahawks have the best GM in football, But Paul Allen's sister has no clue
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:09 AM (YCxFk)
I don't care where the money goes, should someone pony up to buy them. I just don't think they'll sell because even tho they're winning, they're for sale. Seattle is unlivable. I pray for Nurse constantly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (gu0hJ)
-Fight Trump
-Stand up to Trump
-Abolish ICE
-Services for Illegals
-My opponent is a Republican and likes Trump
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)
MVP, Kenneth Walker III, to the Chiefs
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (ynpvh)
I didn't see that one. X videos are not working for me now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:27 AM (Nx5jP)
Here, someone put it up on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/u6CTtdX8VcA
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (Sy6m/)
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This guy came out of nowhere. I'm being bombarded with Rom Reddy ads, but I get nervous voting for someone I don't know much about and whose agenda hasn't really been put to the test. I was leaning Ralph Norman, but I'm uncertain at this point. That is, other than not voting Nancy Mace.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 07:50 AM (1Ff7Z)
If she's not dead, my money's on her pulling a "Lloyd Austin".
Either way, her staff's desperately trying to keep her from losing her seat.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 15, 2026 08:15 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 08:15 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:13 AM (RHGPo)
They want you to look into their eyes while they take off their clothes for money...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:15 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:15 AM (z2aPa)
- Republicans have organized hearings that they cast as being opposed to sharia
- Muslim groups say such hearings cast Muslims as outsiders
- Democrats say such hearings are a distraction used by Republicans
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:15 AM (RHGPo)
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IMHO:
head lice + crab lice >>> Congress (most especially the GOPe)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 08:16 AM (qBdHI)
I didn't see that one. X videos are not working for me now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:27 AM (Nx5jP)
Here, someone put it up on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/u6CTtdX8VcA
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (Sy6m/)
The one guy looks like Hugh Jackman...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:17 AM (ynpvh)
hasanabi
@hasanthehun
we all know israel did this [rape dogs], the reporting is reliable- backed by decades of palestinian testimony. the point isn’t to successfully change minds. it’s to punish dissent.
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If you can't trust decades of palestinian testimony, who can you trust?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 08:17 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 15, 2026 08:15 AM (/HDaX)
That's what I'm thinking. But, seat's up again in November anyway. Do they have someone waiting in the wings to take the seat?
Pretty sure it's a safe district.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 08:17 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:14 AM (gu0hJ)
Pratt mentioned that too. TMZ was hellbent on sticking to "you're a liar and never lived in the trailer" for 5 minutes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)
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Sounds good to me. What's the problem?
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 08:18 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:19 AM (gu0hJ)
we all know israel did this [rape dogs], the reporting is reliable- backed by decades of palestinian testimony. the point isn’t to successfully change minds. it’s to punish dissent./i]
1. What's a palestinian?
2. When has anyone declaring themselves said 'palestinian' ever told the truth about anything?
3. You abuse dogs, you piece of shit. PETA should've euthanized you a long time ago.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 15, 2026 08:19 AM (/6r4m)
Posted by: Cowboy Up! at May 15, 2026 08:02 AM*
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Much like the burning during urination.
Posted by: Gonorrhea! at May 15, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:19 AM (RHGPo)
Bring back stocks!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:20 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:19 AM (RHGPo)
But Elizabeth Warren should be the leader of the free world.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)
He wasn't traded by the Seahawks. He was a free agent and decided not to re-sign with Seattle.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 15, 2026 08:20 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 08:18 AM (qBdHI)
The "One World Government" types have decided that Islam and Shari'ah is the fastest way to get there.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 08:20 AM (iXqHn)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:20 AM (RHGPo)
The Dallas Cowpersons go "yep"...
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:21 AM (XuXeR)
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Much Like The Burning During Urination.
Posted by: Gonorrhea! at May 15, 2026 08:21 AM (2Ez/1)
Totally organic.
But I bet there's also a 80%+ overlap between those and the "release the Epstein files" clowns.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 08:22 AM (73/SM)
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:22 AM (XuXeR)
The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including one plot that would have involved dressing as Santa Claus to hand out poisoned candy to children.
... the quest for neo-Nazi news now has CNN trolling Eastern Europe
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:22 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 15, 2026 08:23 AM (xAP/Y)
we all know israel did this [rape dogs], the reporting is reliable- backed by decades of palestinian testimony.
Seeing as said testimony was provided by folks who claimed to be from a country that never existed, why would we grant it any credence whatsoever?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:23 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: SMOD
Loved her song "Cod'ine". Not a happy song, but it has been covered by many artists, including Donovan. Buffy lived through and conquered opioid addiction.
Posted by: Fur Dixon at May 15, 2026 08:23 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Most people at May 15, 2026 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:24 AM (RHGPo)
Public stocks, with vendors selling copious quantities of rotten produce nearby.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:24 AM (s9VOe)
Bonds? Annuities? Roth IRAs?
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:22 AM (XuXeR)
Cattle futures!
Posted by: The BEast of Chappaqua Flats at May 15, 2026 08:24 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:19 AM (RHGPo)
But Elizabeth Warren should be the leader of the free world.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Her recipes in the "Pow Wow Chow" cookbook are totes authentic Native American, like:
Cold Omelets with Crab Meat...
Crab with Tomato Mayo Dressing...
Mexican Oatmeal Soup...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:24 AM (ynpvh)
If we had a real media, they'd be asking why those houses have not been rebuilt yet.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 08:25 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:25 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:26 AM (X8xt3)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at May 15, 2026 08:26 AM (53oGX)
In the world of Jasmine and MSNOW, KBJ, Sotomayor and Kagan are all famously down-the-middle, non-partisan actors.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:26 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:56 AM (jjoN6)
I have a pseudo-fondness for spiders, since they prey on what I loathe. Sort of like how Gay Race Communists feel about Mohammadans, I presume.
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 08:27 AM (Sy6m/)
The Number of Americans Who Believe Israel Is an Ally is Plummeting
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 08:27 AM (ndZc7)
Shouldn't you be out securing a street corner on which you can bang your tin cup for handouts, Jasmine?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:27 AM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:27 AM (gu0hJ)
So you admit that the negotiations had, and have, zero chance of success. That they’re just a show, a kabuki theater performance. I agree, and have maintained that since they began.
But I think that displaying weakness and lack of resolve does nothing for the rest of the world, or for America’s standing in it. Iran has used the time to execute hundreds of its internal opponents, and dig in even deeper. The war could have been over by now, but for the last month of inactivity.
But we’re in luck, Iran is going to force Trump to start fighting again whether he wants to or not.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (AnnNE)
If we had a real media, they'd be asking why those houses have not been rebuilt yet.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 08:25 AM (jjoN6)
That was what Pratt was trying to say. The trailer is where his home was. They burned it down. His address is where the trailer is. His mail goes to that address. He's registered to vote at that address is. Just like all the other burned down homes in the Palisades. That's his home.
But he's a liar that shouldn't be taken seriously because he doesn't actually sleep in the trailer parked there.
Is it optics? Sure. Does his point still stand? Absolutely.
Now, I think we'd be pounding the same point against Bass should her home have burned down and she put a $80,000 Airstream in it's place and said that was her home, but we wouldn't have the power of the media behind us like she does against him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 07:56 AM (jjoN6)
I have a pseudo-fondness for spiders, since they prey on what I loathe. Sort of like how Gay Race Communists feel about Mohammadans, I presume.
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 08:27 AM (Sy6m/)
Sometimes baby Daddy Long Legs end up in my shower...I grab them and toss them out of the shower, otherwise they drown and get washed down the drain...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
+++++
Sez who?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)
-Fight Trump
-Stand up to Trump
-Abolish ICE
-Services for Illegals
-My opponent is a Republican and likes Trump
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I've lamented this, how so few Rs have any counter.
And so many just want the lazy crutch of "I support Trump."
Reality is, Rs need to figure out a counter themselves.
And a valid post-Trump platform.
I'd also note Dems will just pivot to "undo Trump" post-Trump. They'll be campaigning against him for the next decade.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (73/SM)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
Logic is not taught in public schools, for this reason.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:29 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:27 AM (gu0hJ)
Oklahoma!
Posted by: Rodgers and Hammerstein at May 15, 2026 08:29 AM (wVcYX)
The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed-door testimony from the individual previously. The witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul.
This proceeding amounts to nothing more than dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing. As the CIA has already assessed, COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:29 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
April 30th was Oatmeal Raisin cookie day...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:30 AM (ynpvh)
In the world of Jasmine and MSNOW, KBJ, Sotomayor and Kagan are all famously down-the-middle, non-partisan actors.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:26 AM (RHGPo)
But Justice Roberts ASSURES me there are no right wing or left wing judges. Only judges.
What gives?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: redridinghood
Finally, a day I can support wholeheartedly!
Posted by: Fatty Boombilatti at May 15, 2026 08:31 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)
There are plenty of others.
As has been discussed here, Congressional staffers more or less run things in Congress.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 08:31 AM (jehhT)
What gives?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Not Jasmine. She's and out and out taker, like all Dims.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:31 AM (s9VOe)
Totally normal that 20% of the largest county in Virginia could be deported.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:31 AM (RHGPo)
Not Jasmine. She's and out and out taker, like all Dims.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 15, 2026 08:31 AM (s9VOe)
She's a loudmouthed, obnoxious, insignificant twatwaffle who will soon be out of a job.
Nicely done, Texas. Keep it up. We're headed in the right direction!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)
189000000/94500=2000
I would love to sell generic 90 dollar tablets for $2k
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 08:33 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)
It's easy when you deny the existence of your soul and have no morals.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)
While to many it may seem like the usual political bias reporting or just having fun riffing on the loyal opposition, but there sure are a hell of a lot of "Brownshirts" running amok that Progtards let slide by.
Recently the "Soros" DAs are getting some print again. Again because oppo has long pointed out these fuckers are letting their brownshirts walk with winks and nods, no coordination needed before the crime. Just a confederation, fellow travelers on the same path, the "Blob".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:33 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:33 AM (gu0hJ)
189000000/94500=2000
I would love to sell generic 90 dollar tablets for $2k
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 08:33 AM (/+uur)
Ace did a post on that yesterday. All so the inmates can watch porn and groom kids outside the prison walls.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Many homebuilders, such as Bloomfield Homes in Celina, TX offered access to FHA loans for H-1B visa holders through their preferred lenders until May of 2025, when Trump had HUD shut these lending practices down
Some of these FHA loans offered 100% financing through a combination of a standard FHA loan and access to State assisted first time homebuyer grants for the 3% downpayment
Yes, you read that correctly, your tax dollars funded home-buying grants for non-US Citizens during the Biden administration
Is it just a coincidence that home prices began falling at a rapid pace in Celina, TX almost immediately after Trump shut this program down?
How many people bought a brand new home with zero money down at peak 2022-2024 pricing?
You won’t see an impact at a national level, but you WILL see it in certain markets with a lot of H-1B tech workers and new construction
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:34 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)
Jamie Raskin asks why ICE can't just "pick up" criminal illegals from jail before they are released.
Who is going to tell this moron that Democrats are REFUSING cooperation and instead releasing the criminals back into communities?
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Sweet!
Free knuckles...
Unless it was supposed to be some weird threat.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (fkeut)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Loudmouthed, obnoxious, insignificant twatwaffles at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1)
Who is going to tell this moron that Democrats are REFUSING cooperation and instead releasing the criminals back into communities?
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (RHGPo)
When you're part of 'the party of lies,' it doesn't really matter, now does it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)
They misspelled "Newsome approved a 189 Mil payoff that will send donations to his campaigns"
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:37 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Loudmouthed, obnoxious, insignificant twatwaffles at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1)
It's good to know SOMEONE reads my comments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)
"I tried like 7 trillion passwords lmfao."
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:37 AM (RHGPo)
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I will never understand how we take any of these people at their word on anything. They are activists. They lie. That includes playing dumb to go along with their actual dumbness.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2026 08:38 AM (fkeut)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 08:38 AM (wVcYX)
"I tried like 7 trillion passwords lmfao."
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:37 AM (RHGPo)
This is why crypto is and will always be shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Eromero at May 15, 2026 08:38 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 08:39 AM (GD0B3)
______
Suicidal empathy is the only option. Vote Democrat!
-Jewish Liberals
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 08:39 AM (Dv3i1)
“Immigration into the welfare state threatens social cohesion! The fact is: More and more immigrants are pushing into our social welfare system – and are bringing the system to its limits and to the brink of collapse,” CSU Member of Parliament Stephan Mayer told Bild on Tuesday, as quoted by Junge Freiheit.
Bas, in return, has called this notion a lie from “right-wing extremists.”
“Every statistic refutes her. The immigration into Germany’s social systems is verifiably documented and one of the main reasons why the Federal Republic is heading toward state bankruptcy,” Springer posted on X last week.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:39 AM (RHGPo)
During a bizarre Hot Topics segment, the women of The View discussed whether or not it’s alright to save seats for others in public places. Goldberg, 70, quickly took over the conversation and specifically called out Christians who save seats for other people in church.
“To me, here’s the biggest reason you don’t want to do that, is because you want people to be on time,” Goldberg said of saving seats in church. “You don’t want them to start thinking, oh, somebody’s going to hold this for me, and you don’t have to work on getting your behind out of there to get there on time. Don’t do that!”
“If you’re at a place and you see all these empty seats, I’m telling you now, if you come down, I’m gonna be in your chair, because I paid just like you paid,” she continued.
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Apparently you have to pay to go to the Church of Satan.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 08:40 AM (ndZc7)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 08:40 AM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:40 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 08:39 AM (GD0B3)
Leftists are rabid, insane idiots that are already on board with all of these assholes. Who are they getting other than the standard? I don't think their influence is growing or gaining strength.
They're recycling all the same idiots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (AnnNE)
Posted by: man at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)
Valid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Stan at May 15, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (AnnNE)
I just find it incredibly odd there are no images of the device.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)
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>>If we had a real media, they'd be asking why those houses have not been rebuilt yet.
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Since when does TMZ fact check campaign ads???
The whole conversation misses the point, as designed.
Sounds like Bass wants to play the Obama game of getting political foes eliminated by technicalities so you don't have to beat them on election day.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:42 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo)
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)
****
It's always the last one you try.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)
Because it would be stupid to keep trying after you find it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:43 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:42 AM (X8xt3)
Exactly.
It's the left wing media doing it's job as it's told.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: SMOD
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That was the COVID-19 that was first detected in the fall of 2019.
The COVID-19 during the following election season and early Biden Junta Reign was not known until the spring of 2020.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (/lPRQ)
Nithya Raman: “We need to ban the normals from cooking hamburgers.”
The right vs. left paradigm perfectly illustrated.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo)
It's only Gerrymandering when the other side does it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (ynpvh)
Speaking of stocks...
After going kookoobananas optimistic last week,
this week it's settled into a vaguely pessimistic groove.
Well..boo on you, manic-depressive market!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (iJfKG)
Too expensive to play football in the Third World, and that includes most American cities
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
She is in a coma. or Dead. or both
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (/+uur)
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Yes, the article and its title are idiotic in their dissonance/pointlessness. I offer it as an object lesson only.
....
Time for something to happen, since Iran has now told Trump to go piss up a rope, they’re not gonna negotiate shit, ever.
NewMoon/NewWorld:
1. Debank Iran/Replace their Currency with digital civilian only
2. Debank Kharg/Replace Kharg Island with Freeport/Cuba
3. Debank LIBs/Indict for sedition and material support to enemy combatants
4. Indict Brennan/let his compromatee's drop ship the canoe
5. Spencer Pratt/FIFA'26Security/Olympics'28/ElectionMonitoring -- why is it even close?
6. Make Air Travel Great Again
-- arrive at the gate 10minutes before and make your flight!
-- end LIB gate-rape/Strategic Insanity and Collective Punishment
-- end 2.5oz travelsize, except for LIBs willing to settle for less
LET'S GO BRANDON.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-IceAgentChuckie
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PutASmileOnThatFace
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (RkOXN)
Posted by: SMOD
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That was the COVID-19 that was first detected in the fall of 2019.
The COVID-19 during the following election season and early Biden Junta Reign was not known until the spring of 2020.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (/lPRQ)
It was knows in October, so should have been named COVIO-19...sounds like a rapper.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (ynpvh)
Because that is where this is the biggest issue: in church!
When was the last time Whoopie as in church?
Srsly
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (GD0B3)
Britney Spears Seen “Barking and Carrying Knife” at Restaurant After Leaving Rehab
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (ndZc7)
That was the COVID-19 that was first detected in the fall of 2019.
The COVID-19 during the following election season and early Biden Junta Reign was not known until the spring of 2020.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (/lPRQ)
I had covid over Thanksgiving 2019. Likely caught it from a friends daughter who was sick at the same time.
Had a cough through January.
They announced it was a thing in February 2020.
"Huh. That shit sounds familiar."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: naturalfake
Manic Depression's a frustrating mess!
Posted by: Jimi Jendrix at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (oftw2)
Britney Spears Seen “Barking and Carrying Knife” at Restaurant After Leaving Rehab
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 15, 2026 08:45 AM (ndZc7)
Great pub for that rehab.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 15, 2026 08:18 AM (qBdHI)
The "One World Government" types have decided that Islam and Shari'ah is the fastest way to get there.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 08:20 AM (iXqHn)
There is a technique high performers use called A/B testing, where instead of just going with what they like themselves, they will try multiple things and see the response. (I think Scott Adams talked about that.) Well, I would call it throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, but I'm not selling books.
My point is, I think that the Davos set is indifferent to which horse gets them to that finish line of enslaving the globe, so long as they reach it; and they will keep on sponsoring all of the horses, so that no matter which one gets there first, they win.
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (Sy6m/)
245 Tom Servo, go ahead on and recount for me the times I have advocated for negotiations to be anything other than one piece of the war.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 08:40 AM (z2aPa)
I can’t, which is why I find it puzzling that you are supporting them now. The blockade is all well and good, but Iran is getting too much from the rail lines from Pakistan and air support from Russia and China for that to break the regime anytime soon.
I know the visit to China was in part to convince them to stop supporting Iran so heavily, but I find it difficult to believe the Chinese will ever play straight with us on anything, no matter what Xi promised.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (AnnNE)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:43 AM
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Kinda like when you find your car keys.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 15, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Manic Depression's a frustrating mess!
Posted by: Jimi Jendrix at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (oftw2)
Love that song. Seal and Jeff Beck did a phenomenal version of it on the Jimi Hendrix tribute CD.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
Psalm 137
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)
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The only time I try to forget Jerusalem is when the annual property tax bill comes in the mail.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 08:47 AM (ebJJx)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (gu0hJ)
Too expensive to play football in the Third World, and that includes most American cities
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (YCxFk)
Soccer and Basketball
Fun Third-World Poverty Sports In Which You Can Use The Severed Head Of An Enemy, If You Don't Have A Ball!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (iJfKG)
Animal extremist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ripped into 49ers tight end George Kittle after he told fans on social media how he killed a spider.
“Spiders are tiny compared to the average human, let alone an NFL player, and have a lot more to fear from us than we do from them, so there’s no need for unnecessary roughness,” PETA senior vice president Lisa Lange said, reprimanding the NFL player.
“PETA is urging George Kittle to drop the unsportsmanlike conduct and adopt a live and let live approach when it comes to uninvited arachnid guests,” the organization added.
Kittle had described the invading arachnid as about the “PETA is urging George Kittle to drop the unsportsmanlike conduct and adopt a live and let live approach when it comes to uninvited arachnid guests,” and mentioned that he killed the creature with a rehab slant board.
For her part, wife Clair called Kittle her “knight in shining armor” and praised him for his response to the “disgusting” bug.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: . Chillin the most at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (Sv8TC)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
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Is no one heteropolar anymore?!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (ebJJx)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
I think she has drug induced psychosis because that's what hollywood does to people. Especially when their parents don't pay attention to what's happening to their kids because they're too busy counting the $$$$.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (GD0B3)
You can have my burger flipper and tongs when you pry them from my cold dead hands.
Posted by: Chuck Schumer, Grillmaster at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (wVcYX)
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Was that wrong?
Should she not have done that?
Posted by: The Costanza Defense at May 15, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:49 AM (gu0hJ)
Had a cough through January.
They announced it was a thing in February 2020.
"Huh. That shit sounds familiar."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)
Damn bro, you really take that FIRST thing seriously, huh?
Posted by: Doof at May 15, 2026 08:49 AM (5L7BE)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: Jonah at May 15, 2026 08:47 AM (YCxFk)
Britney is bi, eh?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (ynpvh)
Fun Third-World Poverty Sports In Which You Can Use The Severed Head Of An Enemy, If You Don't Have A Ball!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM (iJfKG)
Big damn head!
Posted by: Billy Fish, Rifleman Majendra Bahadur Gurung wishing you many good lucks! at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:41 AM (AnnNE)
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I just find it incredibly odd there are no images of the device.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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It was 'grenade like'.
About 1 pound, roundish, lumpy, with a spoon stuck on top. A soup spoon.
You may note these inspection drivers never tell you about all the guns they recover. There have been stories where divers are searching for a gun a perp fessed up that he tossed over a bridge or guardrail... they find other guns. I think there was a Florida story where they were looking for a missing person or body in a certain area.. didn't find him/her but found two others.
Speaking of... did the find Savanahh's mom yet or are they still just finding old Indians, homeless, and mob hit victims?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Doof at May 15, 2026 08:49 AM (5L7BE)
It is a way of life.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Thank you for the news and links, J.J. happy birthday, nice to know we share that today.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (QVmho)
Rain period is measured Oct - Mar.
Thats why they take a final reading of the Sierra snowpack on 1-Apr to determine X% of average precipitation above/below.
SoCal is a Fukin Desert. Of course it's dry AF during those months. Its called SUMMER. Typically the hottest time of the year!!
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (ItWcy)
Posted by: SciVo
When I moved to Maryland, my wife told me about a German Christmas tradition to have a spider ornament on our tree for good luck. Now back then we were broke and the internet was not going to be as good at finding things. But we did have a spider in the house. I figured "She lives and is left alone."
About three months later, the moth problem in our house was solved permanently. Spiders are on my no kill list because of that.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 08:51 AM (jjoN6)
I saw Barking and Carrying Knife open for the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Free Concert in '69.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (iJfKG)
Speaking of... did the find Savanahh's mom yet or are they still just finding old Indians, homeless, and mob hit victims?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (/lPRQ)
She's still missing. Savannah is doing something somewhere, but I have no interest since there's still thousands of children missing from the child trafficking rings that ran rampant during the Biden administration.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Free knuckles...
Unless it was supposed to be some weird threat.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:36 AM (/lPRQ)
Nah, also heard footsteps that appeared to be in a hurry. Took the knuckles out into the desert and tossed them. Joey Knuckles, I mean.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: dantesed at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (Oy/m2)
Rain period is measured Oct - Mar.
Thats why they take a final reading of the Sierra snowpack on 1-Apr to determine X% of average precipitation above/below.
SoCal is a Fukin Desert. Of course it's dry AF during those months. Its called SUMMER. Typically the hottest time of the year!!
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (ItWcy)
With the occasional Thunderstorm in July and August...but those tend to cause fires as much as rain...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 15, 2026 08:50 AM (QVmho)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Being enjoyed by all the neighborhood birds!
Two crows have officially designated it as "best place to dip dumpster finds before eating. Five stars!"
Ongoing issue: bees slip in and drown. I've have to check it for paddling bees to rescue them.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:53 AM (X8xt3)
Perhaps, she has had a stroke and can't write as fast as she used to be able. Frankly, she doesn't look well.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)
...
The "One World Government" types have decided that Islam and Shari'ah is the fastest way to get there.
...
There is a technique high performers use called A/B testing, where instead of just going with what they like themselves, they will try multiple things and see the response. (I think Scott Adams talked about that.) Well, I would call it throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, but I'm not selling books.
...
My point is, I think that the Davos set is indifferent to which horse gets them to that finish line of enslaving the globe, so long as they reach it; and they will keep on sponsoring all of the horses, so that no matter which one gets there first, they win.
Without Indicting the the TOO BIG TO JAIL politico's duJour are simply the the shock absorbers sustaining the delusion of real and obvious choice, that if you want to save the world, you have to save yourself first.
DARVO/DAVOS/DAVROS....
is if there's a difference. MORE!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsHalftimeAmerica250
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBGavinsRealityBomb
And the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become NOTHING.
LET'S GO BRANDON!
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 15, 2026 08:54 AM (Z/edZ)
Perhaps, she has had a stroke and can't write as fast as she used to be able. Frankly, she doesn't look well.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)
Women weren't meant to slurp woman juice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: . Chillin the most at May 15, 2026 08:48 AM
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It's right there on Al Gore's Amazing Internet™ for anyone to see.
Posted by: Including the Gubmint at May 15, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2026 08:55 AM (Q+gd/)
Doesn't Jay Jones know a single election day would be rayciss, anti-democratic, and playing into Trump's plan to steal the Midterm Elections? Also, women, children, minorities, the elderly, the dead, and illegals would be hurt the most!
Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2026 08:55 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: dantesed at May 15, 2026 08:52 AM (Oy/m2)
They did the same with worry over MonkeyPox until it turned out it was almost 100% a gay "poke you in the pustulant ass" thing. My wife's auntie was so worried and asked if she should get the vaccine...the only thing I could think (but now say), is, either she doesn't realize how it's transmitted, or she's into some very kinky things that I neither need nor want to know...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 08:55 AM (ynpvh)
Had a cough through January.
They announced it was a thing in February 2020.
"Huh. That shit sounds familiar."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)
My father, who was 85 and in good health in Phoenix, died from a sudden and severe respiratory infection in December 2019. First sign of a cough until death was only 7 days, and he went to the hospital within 24 hours of the first symptoms.
Hospital certificate as to cause of death listed “unknown virus” as cause of death. They tested the virus in his system against the 27 most common respiratory viruses known at the time, and it matched none of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:55 AM (AnnNE)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (gu0hJ)
I am faced with the same dilemma as young Michael Banks.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)
Hospital certificate as to cause of death listed “unknown virus” as cause of death. They tested the virus in his system against the 27 most common respiratory viruses known at the time, and it matched none of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 08:55 AM (AnnNE)
Most sincere condolences for your loss, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 08:58 AM (wVcYX)
"It's been an incredible visit," Trump told reporters from an ornate pavilion overlooking a lake and landscaped gardens inside the compound.
Posted by: Muh Boogeyman at May 15, 2026 08:57 AM (KEmnX)
What about the melee between the two security staffs that was reported?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 08:58 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 08:58 AM (wVcYX)
Ahhhhh..........Bach.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (gu0hJ)
Testing our security.
I want Trump and team out of China as soon as possible.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)
Had a cough through January.
They announced it was a thing in February 2020.
"Huh. That shit sounds familiar."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
====
Definitely not COVID but has this weird upper sinus / ear infection in fall 2019. Two antibiotics and two anti Virals... eventually went away but have a touch of vertigo to this day.
Kind of kept an eye out for any news that this respiratory disease "COVID" would have any effect on sinus. Nada.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Yet another ferner that should be banned from American politics.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (Pk3sT)
WOOHOO!!!
Posted by: Lizzy
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I recently learned that when food manufacturers use the word 'chocolatey', it means 'not actual chocolate'
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (ZxPkt)
Under federal law, flintlock muskets fall into the definition of “antique firearms” under the language of 18 USC 921(16), which exempts them from many of the regulations and laws at the federal level, as well as in most states. In a caption for the video posted on X Thursday morning, the AP noted that while a musket could fire a projectile at 1,000 feet per second, it was exempt from gun regulations under federal law.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (RHGPo)
Let's call the whole thing off.
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (gtcuf)
I am faced with the same dilemma as young Michael Banks.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX)
CoinStar takes 12 cents out of every dollar as its user fee, I think.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (ebJJx)
What's a Nithya Raman?
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
The worst Ramen Ever!
It's made with dog shit and old, worn-out communist tropes.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (iJfKG)
Indian Commie who got involved in local politics maybe 1 minute after arriving in the US?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (u82oZ)
CoinStar takes 12 cents out of every dollar as its user fee, I think.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (uEmCf)
Geez. Just take it to the bank. They'll address it and give you full value.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (gtcuf)
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
POWERFUL! Eric Church going viral for his UNC commencement speech, and it’s pure fire.
“People who tend to their faith in ordinary seasons don’t come undone in extraordinary ones. Tend to your faith… not just when you’re broken. Call your people. Show up when it costs you something. The person you choose to share your life with is the most important decision you’ll make outside of your faith. The world doesn’t need another cover song — it needs an original.”
https://tinyurl.com/bdwjbtwt
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (NpAcC)
But that's not important right now.
Posted by: Airplane! at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (Pk3sT)
Wait, what????
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)
Her plan to prevent fires is to ban personal grills in LA.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (iNUL3)
Late enough to force any redraws onto an insanely compressed timeline, but just early enough for states to still attempt redistricting before the primaries.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (RHGPo)
Yikes.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:02 AM (X8xt3)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 08:58 AM (gKWVE)
Of the closet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)
-
On the town?
Of this world?
Of his mind?
Carry on.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 09:02 AM (ebJJx)
... DOGE lives
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:02 AM (RHGPo)
The campaign's own materials don't call for a ceasefire or two-state solution. They call for the dismantling of Israel itself, framing the U.S. as a 'fascist, imperialist, genocidal settler state' and erasing Israel's name entirely from their literature.
The U.S. leads all nations with 187 events planned."
FLLOW THE MONEY ! DEPORT!!
Posted by: runner at May 15, 2026 09:02 AM (GD0B3)
Her plan to prevent fires is to ban personal grills in LA.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (iNUL3)
When you can just ban liberals hellbent on killing billionaires.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)
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Was that wrong?
Should she not have done that?
Posted by: The Costanza Defense
===
Aspiring Rapper
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2026 09:03 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I saw on X that no items from China were allowed on AF1 for the flight home
they literally had a bin, and anything you got while in China had to be tossed in before boarding
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2026 09:03 AM (ZxPkt)
We had the same thing here in Houston. And they were stealing medical research. They ended up burning the building down to hide everything.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 09:03 AM (/+uur)
My BIL caught it, but said it wasn't COVID...gave it to his brother who was infectious, but not yet sick...that 2nd BIL shared driving with my wife who was with my FIL. After their return trip home, we all went out to eat, and I saw 2nd BIL was sick, told him NOT to touch anything, we would serve him food from the lazy susan. Wife flew out a day later, even though I told her not to. Yup, both BIL's got it, wife got it (was stuck in Dubai in a hotel room for a week before flying back home--missed the rest of her trip), I caught it from wife, younger son caught it from me.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:03 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 15, 2026 07:59 AM (ycI94)
Don't start nuthin', won't be nuthin', dumb-ass.
Posted by: Will Smith at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (5rh/l)
I'm going to guess that her efforts do not include curbing any homeless encampments where they cook over haphazard open flames?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (X8xt3)
Wait, what????
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)
Don't forget the people who are trying to Gain of Function on those ticks that make you deathly allergic to meat.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (uEmCf)
Stepped down.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (Pk3sT)
I thought it was that his term had expired.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (HdYcL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:00 AM (uEmCf)
I knew it was steep but wooof! IIRC, there is one branch of a bank I use in the area that has/had a CoinStar in its lobby. It's connected to the bank and if you deposit your pile into your bank account rather than taking a payout, the scalping is avoided, or least least minimized. I'll have to call them and check if it's still there.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (wVcYX)
Not Headless Body in Topless Bar, but still good
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 09:05 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (X8xt3)
Can't have them starving. The government will provide them the grills.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Yikes.
And "Table syrup" means no actual maple.
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:05 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:06 AM (Pk3sT)
THe real money is in fraudulent entitlement payments.
Global peace is impossible without changing the human genome.
A US led military helping keep regional peace is a sound investment. As opposed to totalitarian wannabes in the rest of the world.
Read some history and human genetics. I can help with suggestions.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:06 AM (u82oZ)
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It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at May 15, 2026 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Wait, what????
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 08:56 AM (X8xt3)
Her plan to prevent fires is to ban personal grills in LA.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (iNUL3)
Well, that and probably being 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 dogs.
Just spitballing here but there are other countries they could live in.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 09:06 AM (iJfKG)
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At least she recognizes who the "normals" are. And self identifies as "other."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 15, 2026 09:07 AM (jehhT)
Yikes.
And "Table syrup" means no actual maple.
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:05 AM (gtcuf)
Well, yeah. It's made from tables.
It's right there in the name.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 09:08 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 09:08 AM (gu0hJ)
Imagine bragging about things that your are uninformed on.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM (gtcuf)
The safe removal of all enriched uranium from Venezuela sends another signal to the world of a restored and renewed Venezuela. Thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership, the teams finished in months what would have normally taken years.
National Nuclear Security Administration
May 8, 2026
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM (Pk3sT)
Oh, that is devilishly ingenious! I'll tie up the self-checkout stand for quite a while. *rubs hands with glee*
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Someone has to ask at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 08:44 AM (RHGPo)
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At least Chuck Schumer is safe.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 09:10 AM (ebJJx)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 15, 2026 09:10 AM (BNA0v)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:04 AM (X8xt3)
I should have been more precise.
Her plan to stop fires is to ban personal grills in lieu of cleaning out the homeless encampments like Pratt wants to do.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:10 AM (iNUL3)
Of course she did!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 15, 2026 09:10 AM (X8xt3)
A lot, but not as much as my Google files. That needed a new Data Center in Utah.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:11 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:11 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:12 AM (RHGPo)
1) if anyone deserved to be raped by dogs, it the Palestinians.
2) my only problem with the Palestinian genocide is it's not happening.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 15, 2026 09:12 AM (73/SM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:12 AM (Pk3sT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:01 AM
++++
I'll tell you what you DON'T do.
You don't use them to buy a calzone!
https://youtu.be/S4XNcTQT-yY
Posted by: Kramer at May 15, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM (gtcuf)
But I put that on my French Toast, since CBD says Maple syrup shouldn't...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:12 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)
*gay, lez, whatever
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:05 AM (Dv3i1)
This was all decided last year. Remember when Texas was warned that 2 or 3 Districts in Dallas area were illegal? They were using 28% black and 29% Hispanic to create a Minority District. I think this was last June or July.
SO yes the Minority sat on this for about a year.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 15, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)
Posted by: Someone has to ask at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM
Mr. and Mrs. Raman, at a guess.
- Someone had to answer
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 09:13 AM (xLei+)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:13 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:14 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: This Will Not Stand! at May 15, 2026 09:14 AM (oftw2)
Global Peace between Great Powers armed with nuclear weapons, maybe.
But not in global society. Not in points of contact with Islam and anyone else. Not with China and the world. Not with Russia and Ukraine. Not with Sudan, Nicaragua, Cuba, Spain...
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:14 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Someone has to ask at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM
Their other daughter is Nunya.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:14 AM (iNUL3)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:13 AM (0sNs1)
Not a smidge, an iota; nay, not even a whiff.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:15 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Someone has to ask at May 15, 2026 09:09 AM
Their other daughter is Nunya.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:14 AM (iNUL3)
Last name Business?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:15 AM (ynpvh)
@GovKathyHochul
In three days, the @LIRR may be shut down by a strike, one that has been needlessly encouraged and accelerated by my personal stupidity.
Nobody wins in a strike: it would hurt both @LIRR
commuters and workers who rely on paychecks to support their families.
The MTA has been at the table and ready to negotiate. The unions must stay at the table to reach a deal.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:13 AM
We're still hunting for it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 09:15 AM (xLei+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 09:16 AM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:14 AM (gtcuf)
What is Scrapple?
Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at May 15, 2026 09:16 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Yum at May 15, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 08:07 AM (gu0hJ)
I bet all my quatloos the DNC has a team working the pros and cons of when Billy Jeff and FJB should die. Along with death-assistance planning. The whens are relative to the '26 and '28 elections. And relative to each other. I'm confident the team's current recommendation is FJB first. Soon after the '26 election. Get those memories swept under the rug quickly, in the dead of winter, six months before candidates begin announcing they are running. Billy Jeff? I don't have a prediction today.
Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2026 09:16 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)
I'd like to know how big it was. What, exactly, does "grenade-like" mean.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Madge at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:15 AM
Hmmm. That's odd. Usually, at this point, there's at least been a soupçon.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (0sNs1)
@amuse
@amuse
PRIMARY: The prediction markets think Rep Thomas Massie will have two more years to block the president’s agenda. #BET
https://tinyurl.com/2efrryer
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (NpAcC)
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"Social Justice" isn't justice
"Public servants" aren't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (qRla/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (Pk3sT)
Ok Dems , commit sepaku. Good idea
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (gu0hJ)
It's not so bad. The employees are mostly just normies who only work there because they happened to be hiring. I just ignore the hippie maskhole customers.
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (gtcuf)
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)
They're still playing there even though Jerry won't remove the AT&T logo from the stadium?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)
Notice Billy Jeff stays away from Hillary.
He has information that could put her in jail. And visa versa. Spousal immunity is a good thing for him.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ)
Huh.
Rousey VS Carano
Aren't both of the gals past their sell-by date for getting punched in the face multiple times?
I don't get this unless, they're both wearing sexy, teddy lingerie and having a pillow fight in a tub of lime jello...in which case-
Get Ready to Rumbleeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)
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Hell yeah it is!
-Leo Varadkar "Taoiseach" of the Emerald Isle, Honorary Leprechaun and Globalist Replacement Migration Hater of the Irish
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 15, 2026 09:19 AM (Dv3i1)
@amuse
@amuse
PRIMARY: The prediction markets think Rep Thomas Massie will have two more years to block the president’s agenda. #BET
https://tinyurl.com/2efrryer
I'm thinking not, but if by some chance the Dems can cheat him in he should be removed from any committees he is on and ignored... Which of course won't happen....
Posted by: redridinghood at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2026 09:19 AM (1+tWj)
“To me, here’s the biggest reason you don’t want to do that, is because you want people to be on time,” Goldberg
Showing up on time is a white supremacy construct Whoopie. Get with the program.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 15, 2026 09:19 AM (ItWcy)
… while this may reduce fraud by the “anti-fraud units”, it feeds into actual Medicaid fraud.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Yum at May 15, 2026 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
One of my favorites: "Real Imitation, Fresh Frozen, Jumbo Shrimp"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (ynpvh)
Showing up on time is a white supremacy construct Whoopie. Get with the program.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 15, 2026 09:19 AM (ItWcy)
I'm betting it's been decades Whoopi's been on time for anything.
Don't you know who she is?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:15 AM
Hmmm. That's odd. Usually, at this point, there's at least been a soupçon.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM
---
I'm not here.
Posted by: Scintilla at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)
It causes cancer. -- Michael Douglas
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 15, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
How, exactly, do you teach a dog to rape?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)
___
"Social Justice" isn't justice
"Public servants" aren't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 09:17 AM (qRla/)
Paid Volunteers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:21 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:21 AM (gtcuf)
For one thing, the device did not seem nearly large enough to do damage to the reservoir.
Another thing, there was no apparent way for anyone to explode the device ... or maybe they wanted to plant it first, then connect a detonator later?
But there are so many infrastructure vulnerabilities, that we should maybe consider not bringing in hordes of terrorists (mostly Islamists, but also pregnant Chinese women) to terrorize and subvert our "Christian based nation".
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2026 09:21 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
That would be against the Geneva convention... Cruel and inhuman treatment ... Of dogs
Posted by: It's me donna at May 15, 2026 09:22 AM (1+tWj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:22 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:22 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2026 09:22 AM (wVcYX)
Indeed. If you can eat it in one sitting, it's "Single Serving"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (ynpvh)
My thought would be, just like any other training. Start them young on rape dummies dressed in Antifa gear, then move them up to bound Antifa members, then to unbound, fat ones, then to full-on, skateboard swinging pedophile Leftist rioters.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (BI5O2)
While B.C.’s human rights code notionally protects people on the basis of political belief, this didn’t help a Simon Fraser University political science professor who was denied a job over his lack of support for DEI. Indeed, the tribunal decided in April not to give the matter a hearing.
Posted by: SMOD at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (RHGPo)
FIFA is an acting community devoted to how butterfly kisses can fell strong soccer players.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Heh at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: CapeFear at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (803OQ)
Another thing, there was no apparent way for anyone to explode the device ... or maybe they wanted to plant it first, then connect a detonator later?
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2026 09:21 AM (vbXSk)
I agree. Until we learn more about this, my assumption will be that it was an amateurish attempt at building something that goes bang, for reasons that are more stupid than evil.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 15, 2026 09:25 AM (iERP6)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:25 AM (gtcuf)
FIFA is an acting community devoted to how butterfly kisses can fell strong soccer players.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (u82oZ)
So THAT'S where LeBitch James learned to ruin the game of basketball........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:25 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Heh at May 15, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Didn't we have a commenter here with the callsign Fun Size?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:25 AM (iNUL3)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 09:26 AM (tVXn/)
Didn't we have a commenter here with the callsign Fun Size?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 15, 2026 09:25 AM (iNUL3)
In my wife's petite youth, she was considered "fun sized."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 15, 2026 09:26 AM (tVXn/)
It doesn't mean she's still not going to let things to go to hell, all while trying to figure out how to bilk more from the NY taxpayer........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Delurker
"Spinners"
Posted by: Joe Francis at May 15, 2026 09:28 AM (oftw2)
Huh.
Rousey VS Carano
Aren't both of the gals past their sell-by date for getting punched in the face multiple times?
I don't get this unless, they're both wearing sexy, teddy lingerie and having a pillow fight in a tub of lime jello...in which case-
Get Ready to Rumbleeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (iJfKG)
So past their prime that they have to beg Jake f***ing Paul for a paycheck.
Posted by: XTC at May 15, 2026 09:28 AM (uEmCf)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 09:28 AM (z2aPa)
Of course, if you really want to go old school, you could be like me and use a dip pen. :-)"
Good man! Love mine. And Shelby Foote wrote all his stuff, including the Civil War trilogy with a dip pen.
Posted by: JTB at May 15, 2026 09:30 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Delurker at May 15, 2026 09:18 AM (gtcuf)
Does Whole Foods deliver live cattle and hogs to your home?
Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2026 09:30 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: gKWVE
I think he's out of being Fed Chair. He plans to stay on the Board.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 09:31 AM (n3VHW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 15, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ)
And when Awkward Questions were being asked about why it was showing up in little boys and dogs, the story was buried under concrete.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 09:32 AM (jjoN6)
All sorts of reservoirs in the news today. Interesting.
Especially reservoirs of idiocy.
Posted by: KT at May 15, 2026 10:13 AM (7vIsy)
The MV Hondius sailed from Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1, 2026, on an "Atlantic Odyssey" expedition. Its route included very remote places including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, and Saint Helena, before heading to its intended final destination, Praia, Cape Verde, where it was scheduled for arrival on May 4th.
The ship was only rerouted to Tenerife in the Canary Islands early May 2026 as Cape Verdean authorities refused to let the passengers disembark due to the severity of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on board.
A 70-year-old Dutch man fell ill in April & died aboard the ship on April 11 when the vessel was near the remote British territory of Saint Helena. His death was 1st thought to be natural.
On May 2, a woman passenger died onboard the ship. (There is little information other than an she was an unidentified German woman.) Other passengers became ill but some ports denied entry. The MV Hondius finally arrived at Tenerife on May 10th.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 11:42 AM (NFX2v)
So three passengers of the polar cruise died over about two weeks time; two confirmed, one probable. The Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius carried a total of 147 to 150 passengers and crew members. 😬
Odd, so very odd. So much for the polar excursions for exotic bird & animal watching. (And, in this case, U.S. passengers from CA, NY, NH, NC, OR, UT, Washington, and GA, AZ, TX and VA.)
BTW, Getting to Ushuaia, Argentina—often called "The End of the World"—from the United States requires a combination of commercial flights and a layover in Buenos Aires. However, there are direct nonstop flights from Praia (RAI) to the US, Rhode Island's T. F. Green International Airport (PVD). For travel to other US cities, i.e., Boston, NY, or D.C., there are one-stop flights primarily with TAP Air Portugal, connecting via Lisbon. (AI Overview + 4)
Good weekend! 🤗
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 11:42 AM (NFX2v)
and
chrisrabb
This Friday, May 15, @aoc will join the people of Philadelphia to rally to send @chrisrabb to fight for Medicare for All, housing for all, and an affordable society for all of us in the U.S. Congress.
Join us there — RSVP at the link in our bio.
Go, Philly, Go! /s
Motto should be: Always broke, don't know where the $ went, a sanctuary city & anti-ICE.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 15, 2026 11:50 AM (NFX2v)
Daily Tech News 15 May 2026
Top Story
- AMD has announced FSR 4 upscaling support for Radeon RX 6000 and 7000 cards. (Tom's Hardware)
A year after it was released for the 9000 series, and eight months after the source code for a version that worked on RX 6000 and 7000 cards was accidentally leaked.
This is good news for owners of older AMD graphics cards - and also for Xbox and PlayStation owners, which use custom versions of those older graphics designs. In fact Sony has announced its own release of FSR 4 technology for the PlayStation 4.
It may be the console contracts that held AMD back from announcing FSR 4 for older cards for so long. They could have released a beta driver for PCs, but for consoles it has to just work.
The update will be out for the RX 7000 range in July; RX 6000 owners will need to wait until early next year.
Tech News
- Cerebras, the company that makes the world's largest CPUs - the chips are literally the size of a dinner plate - has launched its IPO and is now valued at $66 billion. (The Register)
Cerebras has been around for a decade and has been shipping working silicon for years, so this valuation isn't vapour. It's just a lot of money.
- The open source and right-to-repair community has declared
waswar on leading 3D printer maker Bambu Labs. (Tom's Hardware)
At the core of this is Bambu's move to restrict access to its open-source software.
- Subnautica 2 is out and has already sold a million copies. (WCCFTech)
In two hours.
I think it may be a success.
Disclaimer: Do not the tempo.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 04:31 AM (cSctv)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 15, 2026 04:33 AM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Ray's Cyst
****
Ummm, ok. (slowly backs out of room, locks door)
Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 04:35 AM (cSctv)
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (Q/FnY)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 04:39 AM (f87vz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 04:40 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 04:42 AM (rZCVI)
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Posted by: Florida Peasant
I work midshift, so I'm up all night, even on days off.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 04:44 AM (f87vz)
I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)
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Almost noon here. But Pixy has it worse!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 04:48 AM (i2Ycu)
https://tinyurl.com/4a7z9n9f
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 04:48 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: olddog in mo at May 15, 2026 04:48 AM (Hbeqj)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:57 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Accomack at May 15, 2026 04:59 AM (T8bqm)
Rocky Road Blues
https://youtu.be/J5s94RXnAOI
"I don't always listen to the Lenne Brothers Band but when I do so do my neighbors."
The Lenne Brothers rhythm section is absolutely relentless. That's how it's done when it's done right.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 15, 2026 05:01 AM (glnUu)
I've always wondered. Do you people ever sleep?
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)
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Almost noon here. But Pixy has it worse!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
+++
I'm never online at this hour. But I'm in France for a few days. And it's 11 AM here. Riding a high speed train from Paris to Saarbrucken Germany.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 05:03 AM (hxQxn)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 05:07 AM (KQNgH)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 05:03 AM (hxQxn)
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Peasants ain't what they used to be!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 05:09 AM (i2Ycu)
https://tinyurl.com/hd77jnj8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:11 AM (rZCVI)
This was the right choice at the time as Sony had a dominant position and shipping dev kits out several months before Microsoft meant most games, including ones developed at Microsoft owned studios, didn't utilize the full feature set of the new Xbox generation. This continued to this day. these features weren't things to be implemented during a port. If it wasn't in the engine from the start, it didn't exist thereafter. So if it wasn't in the PS5 baseline, it wasn't going to be used on Xbox or PC. At the same time, Microsoft didn't make the capital investment in their own and third party tools to make it easy for devs to incorporate those features. The indifference was baffling.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 05:11 AM (/0z9K)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 15, 2026 05:12 AM (AMvSw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:12 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 05:16 AM (O7YUW)
So I'm converting it all to PDF. I'm expecting it will all fit on a single BD-R. Two, at most. Then she'll buy some archival quality discs, make several copies to stash, and get back a big portion of her space. It makes for a good under the table gig for me.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 05:18 AM (/0z9K)
Posted by: fluffy at May 15, 2026 05:22 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 05:25 AM (i2Ycu)
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Early to bed, early to rise.
Still moving too fast for wisdom to catch me.
Posted by: fluffy at May 15, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)
If I were that company, I wouldn't suddenly want to be past-tense and no longer in the present. That's kinda final.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 05:28 AM (O7YUW)
Yes. Sometimes not too much , but I'm up by 4:45 most weekdays to be with my husband who drives a school bus and needs to be out by just after 6:00
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:34 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
Kindest error correction I've ever seen.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 15, 2026 05:35 AM (BLOW1)
I work in games. Xbox software sales are in legit danger of being lower than Steam on Linux the way things have trended. And there aren’t high expectations now that the whole Xbox division is being replaced with H1Bs like the rest of Microsoft was a while back. So it remains to be seen if third parties even bother with the new FSR.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 15, 2026 05:35 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 05:03 AM
Ditto. Been in Greece the last two weeks. Just boarded the flight home. See y'all back in the eastern time zone for my regularly scheduled commenting.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 05:38 AM (KQNgH)
...right-to-repair community has declared was on
should probably be
...right-to-repair community declared WAR on
use of caps is obviously up to you.
same as it ever was
Posted by: Whiskey Mike at May 15, 2026 05:42 AM (l5vxg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 05:46 AM (IYIYn)
It's basic math. The range of supported end user systems multiplies by several times. The ROI for implementation is greatly improved.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 05:48 AM (/0z9K)
And are you still up? Or are you already up?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:38 AM (hxQxn)
Yes. I'm a natural night owl; I have never been able to just sleep the whole night through, so I basically take several long naps spread throughout night and day that add up to enough. Still up, already up, what's the difference?
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 05:51 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 05:56 AM (iMotb)
Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8
This one's more famous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8
Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 15, 2026 05:57 AM (ITs37)
I wonder that too sometimes, depending on the night and how badly I'm sleeping.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 05:58 AM (O7YUW)
Bacon.
Eggs.
Coffee.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026
***
If only it were that simple --!
Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers on this Friday! 75 nasty F. here, and I have a workout on my morning schedule. Well, maybe I can cheat and make it a short session.
Linda is having her hair cut, and we need to visit Whole Foods and Walmart while out there. She has been seeing on the 'Net that the 5W-30 grade of auto engine oil may get hard to find in upcoming months -- could that be true? And if so it would be smart of me to stockpile at least one change worth, six quarts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)
What do you call that music? Rap?
Uggh.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:00 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 06:01 AM (cSctv)
Back in early March our older Kwikset front door lock with the touch buttons died. So I upgraded to the WiFi enabled Kwikset Halo line to enjoy the remote monitoring and operating capabilities that they offered.
Don't bother.
in 70 days we went through two complete replacements due to battery life of 2-3 weeks.
The house meets every requirement for the WiFi environment, but the locks burn through batteries like nobodies business.
And just to clear up Kwikset's idea that the lock is misaligned, and causing excess drain on the power train....we have an identical lock on the kitchen door, but we ONLY use the manual lever to lock and unlock it from the inside at night. The power train never operates which would place a drain on the batteries.
And guess what....same three week battery life.
Later today the third lock gets shipped back to Kwikset with their warranty shipping label, and I'm done with them.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:04 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:05 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:06 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:07 AM (iMotb)
Life has been getting full, and time seems to be flying by this year.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (iMotb)
If:
- The USB stick has enough capacity to hold the contents of that hard drive
- The Drive isn't encrypted (It needs to be decrypted so you can access the contents.) If it IS encrypted (like with Microsoft's Bitlocker) then you'll need the access key in order to put it into another windows machine and access it before you copy the contents to a USB stick.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 06:08 AM (i2Ycu)
Including the female three star that was let go by Trump earlier in the term.
And she has a chip on her shoulder, and a desire to be elected to office and get even with him
Then we have this Rom Reddy guy who wants to appear to be the everyman candidate.
Successful business man, well polished campaign. But his latest tv ads sound like a Mike Rowe voice over, but closer listening makes me think he is using AI to have it sound like Mike Rowe. Seems shady.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (i2Ycu)
We both got caught up in life, and not walking in the morning as much. So we each put some of the weight back on. But we are working on getting it back off.
Our son closes on his first house in 10 days, so that has been exciting for us.
Overall....doing well, just getting older.
And you?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:15 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:17 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:17 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:19 AM (PFs9e)
Psalm 9:1
Posted by: Marcus T at May 15, 2026 06:19 AM (WTWWW)
Dagny occasionally emerges when I call her. The motivation, not so much.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)
WiFi circuitry drains batteries because it's got to transmit and receive signals through the internal radio and that tends to use a fair amount of power.
I see this all the time with my Kindle. If I want it to last a decent amount of time, I put it into Airplane mode.
It's just a bad design for a lock.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)
First stop was the Xfinity store to pick up a new modem as our current one said "I'm tired, boss" after three years. Dinner was an Indian/Italian fusion restaurant and we had a chicken tikka pizza. Dessert was Coldstone Ice Cream. So life ain't bad.
Got home and set up the router. Took close to half an hour but all things are working normally at Chateau Pax.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (jjoN6)
I'm due to look at another, much more reasonably priced, this afternoon, and I have another, a 1955 ranch, I want to line up. The first would need carpet replaced by laminate in a couple of rooms; the second would need refinishing of the wood floors . . . and a shower arm and head added to the bathtub. I'd have thought even in 1955 people wanted a shower feature in their bathrooms.
On the good side, at 9:30am yesterday Terre Haute had a temp of 53 -- in mid-May! -- and only 70 at 3:30 in the afternoon. Sounds amazing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (RIvkX)
Okay, size shouldn't be the issue. I guess the machine the hard drive is in isn't working otherwise you'd just be sticking in a USB stick and copying the files you want?
If it's in a Windows 10 or 11 machine, then the big question is:
"Is it encrypted with Bitlocker?"
If it is, then retrieve the Bitlocker Recovery Key so you can access it in another Windows machine:
This guy talks about how to do that:
https://youtu.be/ktPiFWBoIU0
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 15, 2026 06:27 AM (O7YUW)
Is Tehran burning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:24 AM (RIvkX)
Don't know, but we're considering indicting Raul Castro for shooting down a couple of planes in '96.
Sounds like a good idea to me, but should have waited until we're about to take over. Then, hang him. Old or not.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2026 06:27 AM (1Ff7Z)
I guess the real pisser of it is the claims of 6 months of battery life.
As they were suggesting that I might need an extender. placed a mesh node within 6 foot of each of the locks to see if closer proximity might help.
Both locks report strong wifi signal.
The tp-link Deco ap reports strong signal.
The locks are both on my IoT wifi band.
And.....two to three weeks at best.
I just installed a Schlage unit yesterday.
Let's see how that works out.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:28 AM (iMotb)
Ben Had, yes, if, Allah willing, the dang drive is not Bitlocked.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:29 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:17 AM
Ah, but only one month to NoVaMoMe 2026!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 15, 2026 06:29 AM (xLei+)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:32 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: sock_rat_eeztl at May 15, 2026 06:35 AM (VyBeY)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:36 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:39 AM (z2aPa)
The Lego Movie, with slightly modified theme song lyrics:
https://tinyurl.com/38z2ss8p
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2026 06:40 AM (i2Ycu)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)
It's being reported that the IED was a “grenade-type” explosive device which was detonated without incident.
Agencies responding to the discovery by the dive team included Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, FBI Bomb Squad, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordinance Detail, ALEA Bomb Squad, and the Daphne Search and Rescue Team.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 15, 2026 06:44 AM (J4Dwc)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:44 AM (vFG9F)
Boy F. saw the box and decided it was recycling and dumped it.
Yesterday, I looked for my CPAP supplies. They were not there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:45 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Halfhand at May 15, 2026 06:46 AM (9yZMF)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:47 AM (vFG9F)
Good for AMD (finally).
They were catching a lot of flack over FSR 4 only being available for the 9000 series.
Everybody knew that their claim that it wouldn't work on older GPUs because they didn't have FP8 processing cores was a lie because AMD released the source code accidentally last year and it had a INT8 version that works on older hardware.
So people compiled the code it for 6000 & 7000 series Radeons and voila! it worked. The GPUs took a little performance hit but if that trade-off was good enough for better upscaling, gamers went with it.
AMD was being called out on this for months, especially by Hardware Unboxed, so at least they've done the right thing now. Say what you will (and I've said a lot) about Nvidia's antics & pricing, but at least they support most new features going back three generations when they update.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 06:47 AM (6ydKt)
Everybody loved Bambu's product & software stack for years.
Right up until Bambu decided to lock down their machines like they think they're Apple.
Tech companies never learn.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 06:50 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:05 AM (z2aPa)
If this is regarding an earlier conversation that I vaguely recall, then you can remove the hard drive from a laptop and put it in an enclosure that turns it into an external USB drive. This does not work if what died was the hard drive, but it does if other parts are dying first. The key is to look up your specific model of laptop and make sure that you are getting the right kind of enclosure for that specific type and size of hard drive.
For example, my last laptop had the video die, first for the built-in screen and then also for the HDMI port. It was a very cheap model, so I basically had to destroy it to get the SATA HDD out, but now it sits in a Sabrent enclosure with a USB cable and an on/off switch. It's amazing how cheap it was, and it would also have worked for a SSD instead.
I think this is my model, but they also have them with aluminum enclosures and AC power adapters. This worked fine for retrieving my data:
amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S/
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 06:50 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:52 AM (z2aPa)
Posted by: Ben Had"
It's certainly possible if that's all that's wrong with it. Are you pretty sure the drive is bad?
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:55 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:58 AM (z2aPa)
Successful business man, well polished campaign. But his latest tv ads sound like a Mike Rowe voice over, but closer listening makes me think he is using AI to have it sound like Mike Rowe. Seems shady.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2026 06:12 AM (iMotb)
I was over at my brother's the other night and they watch Live 5 News.
There must've been 5 or 6 different candidate ads on within the space of 30 minutes, it was all personal injury lawyers and governor candidates during the ad breaks. I couldn't keep up with them. I think most were Republican but not all of them had their party.
Funnily enough I didn't see one Nancy Grace ad.
Is she even running for governor anymore?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 06:58 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 06:59 AM (vFG9F)
In two hours.
I think it may be a success.
*****
I liked the first one a lot. I've read too many early reports that this one may be a Wokefest. I'll wait before purchase.
Posted by: Biergood at May 15, 2026 06:59 AM (PwgSL)
Posted by: Ben Had"
Your biggest challenge would be to get that all-in-one PC opened up. A new drive would be $100-$150. If you would like to try I can assist.
Posted by: fd at May 15, 2026 07:02 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 06:58 AM (z2aPa)
If you use software like Clonezilla you can copy the entire hard drive onto a new drive and install it. You'll need an enclosure like SciVo mentioned, or some other kind of USB to Hard Drive connector to be able to copy the files.
With Windows, you'll need something like that to make sure it copies the files correctly. If you do it this way, you shouldn't need to re-install Windows and everything should open up just like off the original hard drive.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:02 AM (6ydKt)
!יום ירושלים שמח
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 07:04 AM (RIvkX)
The quest to recreate Dutch's show record is, sadly, grinding to a halt. I can account for 568 of his 579 Grand Champion points but can't find any more shows where he finished in the ribbons. Unless he was shown outside the scope of states I searched (TX, LA, AR, MS). There were the odd occasions (National Specialties, AKC National, Borzoi Club of Greater Omaha) but I can't recall any others. I'd have to ask Her Majesty, who likely doesn't remember either and right now has no time to talk to me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2026 07:04 AM (HdYcL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 06:19 AM (PFs9e)
If you have an older machine, you might just need to close other programs/browser tabs to free up enough working memory. Videos on X can be finicky that way, and the people encoding them for upload tend to have machine with higher specs themselves and wouldn't notice the problem. For an example of finicky, with my last laptop before this one, I couldn't play WeirdDave's X videos embedded, but it was close enough that opening them in their own tabs would do the trick.
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 07:05 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:06 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2026 07:09 AM (z2aPa)
It keeps locking me out of my lurker account because I don't login in enough and it becomes 'suspicious activity' as soon as I do.
Now I can't even click on an embedded image in a post to enlarge it and see it all when it's cropped.
Apparently you've got login to do that now.
Elon is determined to make some money off that place one day.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:09 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2026 07:11 AM (Nx5jP)
Which video? The only rap that I've ever cared about was the song "Maximizor" on the techno (rave) group T99's album "Children Of Chaos".
The entire album is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdPyIvMyEI
but the only song that you might want to listen to the lyrics is "Maximizor" which starts at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdPyIvMyEI&t=504s
"Politicians, they're makin' me sick. They're all the same; gimme money quick!" later "Maybe someday the sun will shine in your face all the time" (Well, ESL for rhyme)
"After beyond" isn't bad.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 15, 2026 07:11 AM (ITs37)
Their printers can be run in lan mode, bypassing their cloud services.
Also Guzman is a bit of a dick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 15, 2026 07:11 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at May 15, 2026 07:12 AM (Kcw7x)
I had a pretty lousy couple of days, so am hoping to feel better and get more editing done today. Decided to try and change my mood by book shopping; got a few interesting ones, but that's a topic for the Book Thread.
And, not that it would come as any surprise to anyone with even the least knowledge of her, Althouse also thinks Karen Bass getting hit in the face with a tomato is encouraging violence.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2026 07:15 AM (qRla/)
Boy F. saw the box and decided it was recycling and dumped it.
Yesterday, I looked for my CPAP supplies. They were not there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2026 06:45 AM (RIvkX)
Why are some people so reluctant to use words? And I mean grown adults without speech impediments, who would rather assume they know, when they do not always know. I have had this difficulty with my dad my whole life, where he would frequently rather risk making my day worse than communicate first before doing something.
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 07:26 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: fluffy at May 15, 2026 07:30 AM (V0/Sp)
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 07:39 AM (kU0PQ)
Apparently you've got login to do that now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 07:09 AM (6ydKt)
I've been noticing that for weeks now.
Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2026 07:41 AM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: cmeat at May 15, 2026 02:10 PM (R11M+)
...can go f*ck themselves. I messed around with a couple of previous mid-range printers, then picked up a P1S on sale recently.
It's night and day. Plug it in and it just works. Keeps working, printing for days on end, with no issues. I bought a maintenance kit I haven't touched yet. I've printed everything from a full set of Mordheim buildings to adapter parts for a vintage film camera. I have spent zero time screwing around with the printer itself.
Bambu made 3D printers Just Work. Literally all they've done is say "no, you can't spoof authentication to our cloud service". All the open sores wankers can still go buy any of the other crappy Prusa-based printers that don't work.
Posted by: Daniel Ream at May 15, 2026 05:49 PM (LgYtf)
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - May 14, 2026 [Doof]
From Pure Nature
What won't they charge a fee for anymore? All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant Implements ‘Vomit Fee’ to Prevent Greedy Patrons from Overeating
Sushi Toro, a restaurant in Gelves, Spain’s Sevilla region, has been getting a lot of attention because of its decision to charge people extra if they end up vomiting on the premises due to overeating. Apparently, the eatery had seen many incidents of vomiting related to overeating in recent months and decided to do something about it. “If a client throws up as a result of having eaten too much, the restaurant reserves the right to charge them an extra fee to cover damages,” a sign posted by Sushi Toro reads. The Spanish restaurant explained that the growing number of vomiting incidents affects other diners, service, management and hygiene in the establishment, so they basically had no other choice but to implement the vomiting fee to discourage overeating.The late John Pinette would never have been charged this fee!
Do you have any unique "all you can eat" places in your neck of the woods? Here in central MD, there are still some places that offer all you can eat steamed crabs. What are your favorite / least favorite "AYCE" places that you've ever been to? ----- People who still write things down on paper may not be resisting technology — they're preserving a thinking process that lets the mind hear itself
We live in an age where digital tools promise to make everything faster, more efficient, more connected. Yet here's what's fascinating: some still carry physical notebooks. Perhaps, they're not behind the times. Perhaps, they've discovered what neuroscience suggests - that the act of writing by hand does something to our brains that typing simply cannot replicate. *** Here's the trap we've fallen into: we've confused speed with effectiveness. Typing can be fast, but speed does not always mean depth. A person can type an entire paragraph quickly and still realize afterward that they were barely present for the thought itself. *** How many browser tabs do you have open right now? How many notifications are waiting on your phone? Our digital tools are designed to fragment our attention. Every app, every platform, every device is optimized to pull us in multiple directions at once. We've become so accustomed to this fractured state that we've forgotten what focused thinking feels like. A blank page and a pen offer something radical in this context: constraint.Many here at AOSHQ are definitely fond of old school stuff and ways. I personally feel like I employ a good blend of new tech vs older methods. Where do you fall on this spectrum?
----- Any "arachnidiots" out there? This is for you! How to avoid the horror of walking through a spiderweb, according to the National Park Service
It’s a downright creepy feeling. You’re striding confidently down what seems to be a clear, open path, and then you feel it. Stretchy filaments dragging across your skin, your clothes—even worse, your face. The more you try to backtrack and flail your way out of it the more you feel like Frodo wrapped in Shelob the spider’s deadly web, your luckier friends snickering like orcs ready to take you back to Mordor. Long story short, walking through a spiderweb is awful. However, according to the National Park Service (NPS), there are ways to avoid the frustrating encounter. The first tip they list is sticking to the road most traveled. Since spiders are more likely to build their sticky and intricate homes near greenery, walking along the center of the trail can lessen your chances of becoming an arachnid home wrecker.That word I mentioned above - arachnidiot - is a Sniglet (Rich Hall, HBO's "Not Necessarily The News"). A Sniglet is any word that isn't in the dictionary, but should be. Here's Rich with one installment of Sniglets
I use some Sniglets still to this day.
Twinch - The movement a dog makes with its head when it hears a high-pitched noise. Flannister - The plastic yoke that holds a six-pack of beer or soda together. Blivett - To turn one's pillow over and over, looking for the cool spot. More Sniglets here! ----- Speaking of language stuff
This has got to be the funniest video about the English language.
— Greatex (@cloudighodaro) May 14, 2026
For real English is crazy. pic.twitter.com/zvmXwPU54g
----- Moron approved behavior
This man ordered 165 pool noodles from Walmart. When they arrived through FedEx, there was a little surprise. They had been individually boxed.
— Suzee Q (@SusieM414141) May 13, 2026
You just know that Walmart employee is paid by the hour. 😆😆
And the FedEx driver got to unload an entire truck in one place, and… pic.twitter.com/xrYW52YksG
DJ Doof - This Date In Music History Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com On this date in 1976: 33 year-old Keith Relf, former lead singer for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted while tuning a guitar which was not properly earthed.
Born on this date in 1966: American rock musician Mike Inez, best known for his role as the bassist of Alice in Chains since 1993.
Born on this date in 1962: C.C. Deville, lead guitarist from American rock band Poison
Tonight's ONT brought to you by tradeoffs
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 14, 2026 10:01 PM (LmPA0)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 14, 2026 10:02 PM (2Ez/1)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 10:04 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Count de Monetl at May 14, 2026 10:04 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 10:05 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 14, 2026 10:06 PM (ZVgZ4)
*views fluorescent lights and suspended ceiling*
*sighs disapprovingly*
Good evening again, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 10:06 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 10:06 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 10:06 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: SciVo at May 14, 2026 10:06 PM (Sy6m/)
Can't write for more than a few seconds without the shaky hand starting. Type type type.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at May 14, 2026 10:07 PM (lIUtq)
Posted by: Joyenz at May 14, 2026 10:07 PM (2F0/Y)
Even at company parties, I skim for some bits. Then hit the open bar. *winky emoji*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 10:07 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)
Five, but that's because I work in a very peculiar fashion. Two are for a project I'll work on tomorrow so they're on a minimized browser. The other three are all AoS. One tab the for the front page and another two for this thread - one for reading, one for posting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 14, 2026 10:08 PM (ExV1e)
*views fluorescent lights and suspended ceiling*
*sighs disapprovingly*
Good evening again, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 10:06 PM (HdYcL)
To be fair, that is only in the restroom. I have hung sconces and chandeliers out here. And put bows on the moose out front.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 10:08 PM (OoFl2)
Pinette was a very funny guy. Died too soon
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2026 10:09 PM (gu0hJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX)
Howdy SF!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: pookysgirl: American, not American't at May 14, 2026 10:09 PM (Wt5PA)
She needs a strong injection of American Vitamin C and D to help her language skills.
... and relax a bit.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:10 PM (/lPRQ)
For real English is crazy."
We may need to set up an AI generated OnlyFans thing for Billie Thailish. The monetization might cover a Superfund designation for shelf remediation and still contribute to the Ewok's laser hair removal and rainy day fund.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2026 10:10 PM (w/O5Q)
Five, but that's because I work in a very peculiar fashion. Two are for a project I'll work on tomorrow so they're on a minimized browser. The other three are all AoS. One tab the for the front page and another two for this thread - one for reading, one for posting.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 14, 2026 10:08 PM (ExV1e)
I work on 4 ONTs every week. The number of tabs I have open at any given time is ridiculous!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 10:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)
She needs a strong injection of American Vitamin C and D to help her language skills.
... and relax a bit.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:10 PM (/lPRQ)
English language video girl is kind of annoying.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 10:13 PM (y171U)
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At Yale Medical School, a black applicant is 29 times more likely to be invited to interview than an Asian with equally strong academics.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:13 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 10:13 PM (0aYVJ)
We have a similar problem here.
At least at the better buffets. A certain class of people want to get their money's worth and will make multiple trips to the restroom to purge and then go eat more.
This is not an issue at Golden Corral as nobody wants to taste that twice.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 14, 2026 10:13 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at May 14, 2026 10:07 PM (lIUtq)
Tomorrow should be clear for you. I'll be working then golfing. One of those things I'm good at. The other not so much.
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:14 PM (QMAsf)
At least at the better buffets. A certain class of people want to get their money's worth and will make multiple trips to the restroom to purge and then go eat more.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Vomitorium for the win!
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 14, 2026 10:15 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 10:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Damn sure has a commie flag tacked up on the wall inside of her garage.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:15 PM (/+uur)
English is messy. Russian seemed a lot more orderly when I seriously studied it.
I wonder to what extent this kind of thing reflects or influences national character.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 14, 2026 10:16 PM (1pJhn)
It is interesting that you AND Dino offer or surmise we might be "whelmed". Is there badness in under or overwhelming?
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 14, 2026 10:16 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 10:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Damn sure has a commie flag tacked up on the wall inside of her garage.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
I can fix her.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 14, 2026 10:16 PM (1pJhn)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 10:17 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Joyenz at May 14, 2026 10:17 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 10:18 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Case at May 14, 2026 10:18 PM (NWIIQ)
Excellent content. Wondering whether we need to institute a vomit fee in Club ONT...
Posted by: TRex - vomit fee collector dino at May 14, 2026 10:18 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Count de Monetl
Missing are the other people who left all those footprints in the sand.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (zZu0s)
+++++
I have one of those 3X5 wire bound paper memo books I can carry with me, and will jot down notes from phone calls, doc appts. etc.
Very handy.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (y171U)
76k per child
The ipad were a much better deal
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (/+uur)
I filled the tank in my plugin hybrid back on March 25th. Since then, I have put over 600 miles on it, all on electric. The fuel gauge is still.on "full". Since it's 12 hours of sunshine this time of year, all the power has come from my solar.
Next week, I have to take a trip (Dr) down to Phoenix, so I'll be using gas, with zero range anxiety.
There are cases for a plugin.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (LzRih)
Three fingers of Bourbon and a cigar it is.
Posted by: ballistic at May 14, 2026 10:20 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 14, 2026 10:20 PM (gpQ8/)
Excellent content. Wondering whether we need to institute a vomit fee in Club ONT...
Posted by: TRex - vomit fee collector dino at May 14, 2026 10:18 PM (cCn4/)
Perhaps we could use it for JQ's Christmas bonus fund?
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:20 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (/lPRQ)
*types* *deletes* joke about God getting tired of carrying commies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 10:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TRex - ADD dino at May 14, 2026 10:20 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:21 PM (snZF9)
People who still write things down on paper may not be resisting technology — they're preserving a thinking process that lets the mind hear itself
___________
Her Majesty still keeps a daytimer, which I call her auxiliary brain.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 10:21 PM (HdYcL)
Now, a lot of people think “Well, I’ll install a Polarized plug, and everything will be fine”.
Nope. It doesn’t work that way. With a regular plug, you’ve a 50/50 chance of a “hot” chassis, depending on which way the plug is inserted into the outlet. (Also, the house or mains wiring must be installed correctly too, all the way back to the pole)
If excessive hum occurred in operation, you’d flip the plug in the outlet. What you want ordinarily is a condition where the chassis is not “hot” in operation.
But this means the chassis will be “hot” when the device is turned off. Most people do not expect this, or they think something is “wrong” with it. Nope, that’s how they wired stuff back then.
Avoid water pipes, and cement floors in stocking feet.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (nsv7s)
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)
For less than a dollar a day, you too can sponsor an ONT poster. They use incredible amounts of electricity, and sift through the dark spaces of the internet to find suitable content.
Please help them today.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (nwbXw)
***
I feel seen.
Posted by: TRex - ADD dino at May 14, 2026 10:20 PM (cCn4/)
4 on the phone right now. At home, I have found brave has a handy tool to group and organize them. So food, music, games, women.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
Found out a little over five hours ago that I'm safe from my company's layoffs this time.
Three fingers of Bourbon and a cigar it is.
Posted by: ballistic at May 14, 2026 10:20 PM (oqH4h)
____________
Praise God. Relax.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (HdYcL)
The Chinainian female would get old real fast. Chillax, sweetheart.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 10:24 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Damn sure has a commie flag tacked up on the wall inside of her garage.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I can fix her.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
That level of feisty would be fun!
For about a week.
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (nsv7s)
*makes sign of Cross to ward off the Black wizardry of Electricity and Transmissions.*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 10:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM
***
What happens for those tabs that involve women eating ice cream while playing battleship and listening to Iron Maiden?
Posted by: TRex - inquisitive dino at May 14, 2026 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:25 PM (nsv7s)
I can fix her.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
That level of feisty would be fun!
For about a week.
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)
___________
The Dragon Lady from Terry and the Pirates. Likely to kill you horribly, but... Yum.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 10:26 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 10:26 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: TRex - inquisitive dino at May 14, 2026 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
You could make a separate tab for that. Call it Battleship Maiden.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 10:26 PM (zZu0s)
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Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:26 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Count de Monetl at May 14, 2026 10:04 PM (wVcYX)
I never understood that scenario. How would there be hills/mountains in the vicinity of New York Harbor even thousands of years later? There wouldn't have been time. It just seemed misplaced to me. Like created by someone who'd never actually been to the east coast and didn't understand plate tectonics. Not that I do, either, but I don't see that sort of topography developing in the timeframe PotA is set in.
While I'm on the subject, the ending in the second Billy Jack movie, 'The Trial of Billy Jack' was stupid also, with the N. Guard shooting up the school. GIVE ME A BREAK!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 14, 2026 10:26 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)
Wouldn't take that long. She ain't that good looking. Probably makes that annoying high pitched whine when having se.... uh, nevermind.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2026 10:26 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: Sir Galahad at May 14, 2026 10:27 PM (vSvIl)
a cool thing about that vid is, it's not lip sync, which you see a lot of on youtube
Chris Isaak cover
https://youtu.be/yr8CRgMSACs
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 10:28 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 14, 2026 10:28 PM (Kdi1r)
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at May 14, 2026 10:28 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
English was invented so Norman soldiers would have a way to chat up Saxon barmaids.
Or maybe vice-versa.
That's why literally everything is a double entendre, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: mikeski thinks you do at May 14, 2026 10:28 PM (VHUov)
Missing are the other people who left all those footprints in the sand.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
That's a regular conformity beach. Was there no rebel who would walk a sinusoidal path there?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 14, 2026 10:28 PM (s9VOe)
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 10:29 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (nsv7s)
I also think people back then were more aware of the risks of electrical shocks.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 10:29 PM (y171U)
Please help them today.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026
You need to add on the Sarah McLachlan music accompanied note that things get so desperate he turns to me for content.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 10:29 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:25 PM (nsv7s)
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I have a Club Car that we converted from the old lead-acid batteries to new LiFePO4 ones and the range is between 50-60 miles.
Posted by: ballistic at May 14, 2026 10:30 PM (oqH4h)
Or it would be full if I hadn't drained it over the winter.
The battery is charged.
I would calculate the mpg, but you know - no math!
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 14, 2026 10:30 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: buddhaha at May 14, 2026 10:30 PM (LzRih)
Posted by: ballistic at May 14, 2026 10:30 PM (oqH4h)
you got crak in my meth
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:31 PM (/+uur)
But Liz Claman wins the contest, because big rack.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 14, 2026 10:31 PM (nwbXw)
Posted by: Joemarine
The dangers of things in general.
They didn't live in a time when your Weedwhacker would have a warning label that it's not to be used as an eyebrow trimmer.
Posted by: mikeski prefers the hedge trimmers, anyway at May 14, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)
I filled the tank in my plugin hybrid back on March 25th. Since then, I have put over 600 miles on it, all on electric. The fuel gauge is still.on "full". Since it's 12 hours of sunshine this time of year, all the power has come from my solar.
Next week, I have to take a trip (Dr) down to Phoenix, so I'll be using gas, with zero range anxiety.
There are cases for a plugin.
Posted by: buddhaha
I have run numbers for myself more than one.
Payback period for me is - never.
First time I ran numbers my kids would have died of old age before it broke even.
For others who are going to buy an extra new car anyway - knock yourself out.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)
My wife bought me a Kindle Scribe for Christmas a few years ago, when they first came out. The absolute best present - I've ditched all my paper notebooks. Writes like a standard notebook, you can save the content on files like a computer. I can PDF and send my pages via email. The absolute best.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2026 10:32 PM (1B2PI)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:33 PM (nsv7s)
Claudine Longet downhill skiing invitational postponed until next season.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:33 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 14, 2026 10:34 PM (QaH55)
https://youtu.be/47bv1Edp28U
Problem was, he wasn't evading Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 10:34 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 14, 2026 10:34 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 14, 2026 10:34 PM (t2oSI)
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:35 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:35 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 14, 2026 10:16 PM (1pJhn)
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No French.
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at May 14, 2026 10:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 14, 2026 10:35 PM (t2oSI)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2026 10:32 PM (1B2PI)
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All the paper-like e-tablets are IMO freaking amazing. I use a ReMarkable every day for work and it's a great bridge between actual writing and being able to digitize it for work stuff.
Posted by: ballistic at May 14, 2026 10:35 PM (oqH4h)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:35 PM (A5RD0)
Evening, ma'am. Indeed, Doof is the hostest with the mostest ...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 14, 2026 10:36 PM (t2oSI)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg)
Shady Maple Smorgasbord
https://tinyurl.com/3rrua6zz
Posted by: Orson at May 14, 2026 10:38 PM (dIske)
https://youtu.be/yr8CRgMSACs
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 10:28 PM (ZxPkt)
Great version! I saw Chris Isaak live a year or 2 ago. Outstanding performance. If you have a chance to see him - do it!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:38 PM (QMAsf)
Is she Ghosting (casoer) us?
hahahahah
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:38 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:35 PM (A5RD0)
Evening, ma'am. Indeed, Doof is the hostest with the mostest ...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 14, 2026 10:36 PM (t2oSI)
Many thanks to you both for the kind words!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:39 PM (QMAsf)
About 1990 I bought this really cool old school leather bound blank Journal with nice heavy paper. Fucker looks like the kind of thing made for Lewis & Clark. It’s still completely blank.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:39 PM (nsv7s)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2026 10:32 PM (1B2PI)
Cali prison would have bought you a 359 ipad for 2050
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:40 PM (/+uur)
Wrong item. Item destroyed in transit, right item, wrong color/size, etc.
Walmart sucks.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 10:41 PM (abIsI)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Raymond Babbitt at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:22 PM (nsv7s)
I also think people back then were more aware of the risks of electrical shocks.
Posted by: Joemarine
Often exposed wiring (knobs and tubes). Kind of sort of insulated with maybe tar and cotton. Sometimes you just 'plugged in' by reaching up and connecting with an alligator clip or wire hook.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (/lPRQ)
I do both methods. For many things, I have paper, or printed copies, and digital on my laptop, and just in case, I have thumb drive back ups. For some important paper items, I have the main copies in a file cabinet, and also copies in a lock box, which I've shown to my siblings, in case I die.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (0aYVJ)
Ridiculous looking hat shopping?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 10:43 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 10:41 PM (abIsI)
better than getting buttfucked and murdered if you go there
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:43 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: LRob in OK
Let's see here...
0 miles divided by 0 zero gallons...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (/lPRQ)
What the hell did scientists expect. Even AD&D's Dungeon Master's Guide had a chart explaining that mixing potions could mess you up
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (gKWVE)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (/+uur)
_______________________
You just have to get creative. Insist that the bear would not recognize your chosen pronouns. Once that's established you can pretty much dispatch them any way you desire.
Posted by: Orson at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (dIske)
Please help them today.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026
You need to add on the Sarah McLachlan music accompanied note that things get so desperate he turns to me for content.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 10:29 PM (OoFl2)
I have no shame!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (oq9dX)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (/+uur)
Is tripping one of your group still allowed?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 10:45 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Case at May 14, 2026 10:45 PM (NWIIQ)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx
Is tripping one of your group still allowed?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
In a group of two, yes.
Posted by: mikeski leaves no witnesses at May 14, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2026 10:46 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Case at May 14, 2026 10:45 PM (NWIIQ)
Another whelmed ONT customer!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:46 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Grayman27 at May 14, 2026 10:47 PM (AvoqE)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx
Is tripping one of your group still allowed?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
In a group of two, yes.
Posted by: mikeski leaves no witnesses[/i
I try and slip a pork chop into one of my hiking partners backpacks before setting off.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 10:47 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
The real reason soldiers in 'Nam hated taking point.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: LRob in OK at May 14, 2026 10:47 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:46 PM (QMAsf)
Someone throw him a flotation device.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 10:48 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Case at May 14, 2026 10:45 PM (NWIIQ)
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So would you say you're Very Satisfied? or Extremely Satisfied?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 10:48 PM (RIvkX)
Wife loves reading on her iPad. Good for her, but I have to put on blinders, because I go to bed early and she reads late into the night. iPad screens are white hot bright. You can almost hear it. HMMMMMMMMM
The compromises of being married.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:48 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Case
You bogarted the margins again!
Posted by: Shaggy's Rancid Bong Water at May 14, 2026 10:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx
Is tripping one of your group still allowed?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
In a group of two, yes.
Posted by: mikeski leaves no witnesses[/i
I try and slip a pork chop into one of my hiking partners backpacks before setting off.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 10:47 PM (abIsI)
I suppose you could offer to take the bear to an all you can eat buffet, and leave him there...
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 10:49 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 10:49 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: Count de Monetl at May 14, 2026 10:04 PM (wVcYX)
I never understood that scenario. How would there be hills/mountains in the vicinity of New York Harbor even thousands of years later? There wouldn't have been time. It just seemed misplaced to me. Like created by someone who'd never actually been to the east coast and didn't understand plate tectonics. Not that I do, either, but I don't see that sort of topography developing in the timeframe PotA is set in.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 14, 2026 10:26 PM (QGaXH)
Nuclear weapons make great earth movers. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:49 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Case at May 14, 2026 10:45 PM (NWIIQ)
Another whelmed ONT customer!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:46
I am printing it out so we can hang it on the wall with the other compliments.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 10:49 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
In a group of two, yes.
Posted by: mikeski leaves no witnesses at May 14, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)
I just have to outrun the Cal Park Rangers
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 10:50 PM (/+uur)
On the other hand, sometimes …. you get what you pay for. WalMart el-cheapest coffee, was undrinkable. And I’m not picky. Store brand Chili, had a Bad Experience with that, I think it was Hy-Vee store brand. “Hey, it’s 25c cheaper! Let’s try it”. How bad can it be? Maybe it will be good enough?
Well it you need new underwear, you haven’t saved any money, right?
I ordered a re-furbed I-phone from one of their WalMart contracted sellers. Worked great. Stellar battery, which was really my main concern. Lasted for years.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:50 PM (CmJfJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:50 PM (MciYk)
Heart Full of Soul or Soul Full of Heart? It doesn't make a bit of difference. This is the problem with pop culture -- which also rhymes "yacht" with "apricot."
And don't get me started on the lyrics to "Missionary Man."
Catchy tunes, but the songs are not written by or for English majors.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:50 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 10:50 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 10:51 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Case at May 14, 2026 10:45 PM (NWIIQ)
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So would you say you're Very Satisfied? or Extremely Satisfied?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Case, DON'T ANSWER. It's a trap!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:52 PM (XJ22o)
Three fingers of Bourbon and a cigar it is.
Posted by: ballistic
Glad for you. I'm toasting you with some cheap wine.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2026 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
a good pen is a nice thing to have
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 10:53 PM (ZxPkt)
Today was the 53rd anniversary of the launch of Skylab back in 1973. It was launched with a modified Saturn V meant for the cancelled Apollo 18 mission.
The launch had some malfunctions. A micro-meteoroid shield/sun shade deployed and broke off, which caused one of the two solar panels to partially deploy. The 2nd stage separation retros then blew that off. Without the sun screen it was in danger of overheating, and then underpowered.
They managed to fix it, and the guy who worked out the plan for that won some distinguished service award.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 14, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
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What the hell did scientists expect. Even AD&D's Dungeon Master's Guide had a chart explaining that mixing potions could mess you up
Posted by: gKWVE
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These 'Scientists' think they leared that college.
Most kids figure that out in HIGH School.
Posted by: Shaggy's Rancid Bong Water at May 14, 2026 10:53 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 14, 2026 10:54 PM (f87vz)
So would you say you're Very Satisfied? or Extremely Satisfied?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Srsly, I fill out those things when prompted (I'm talking about Adobe apps), and I report details about crashes (which are frequent!) and tell them they can contact me about it and here's my email address.
Where's my prize? I never get it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:54 PM (XJ22o)
And don't get me started on the lyrics to "Missionary Man."
Catchy tunes, but the songs are not written by or for English majors.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:50 PM (XJ22o)
You want songs from well-read lyricists? Start with Rush and Iron Maiden!
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Cutting the yard with my riding lawnmower. Running fine, cut the front yard, excellent. Did two laps in the back and it stopped. It didn't chug, or cough, or make any clanging sound; nothing. It just stopped running.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 10:54 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop
Chinian girl is the result of a successful brain transplant. Latina brain in Chinese body.
Posted by: mikeski and/or Abby Normal at May 14, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 10:55 PM (nzPxx)
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Opened Tuna pouches should be excellent for attracting kitties. You know, the really Big kitties. Felis concolor. They like cardboard boxes, too.
Don’t Do This! Just something I’ve mused upon. Which invariably means, in all likelihood, some asshole has already done this.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 10:55 PM (CmJfJ)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx
Is tripping one of your group still allowed?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
In a group of two, yes.
Posted by: mikeski leaves no witnesses
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This is the origen of that old camping joke of tying the new guy's leg to a tree with a long rope while he is sleeping.
Posted by: Shaggy's Rancid Bong Water at May 14, 2026 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 10:56 PM (oq9dX)
You want songs from well-read lyricists? Start with Rush and Iron Maiden!
Posted by: Doof
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Yayy! Thanks for the rec.
"Can't Find My Way Home" and "Baker Street" are examples of songs with great lyrics.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:56 PM (XJ22o)
The Chicomian girl complaining about English is so satisfying somehow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (abIsI)
A so-called "death cap" in the amplifier... very common in vintage tube amps. If the cap failed, the chassis could go to full mains voltage. Since everything is often "grounded" to the chassis, or connected through something that's "grounded" to the chassis (e.g. the ring of the guitar jack), it is a Very Bad Thing.
If you've got one of these vintage workhorses, make sure it's been modified to remove the death cap. Keeping everything 100% original isn't worth the risk of death.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (IG3/x)
Look who the cat dragged in!
Howdy theee!
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Good evening to you, madam. Kinda surprised anyone remembered, given my infrequent and erratic posting. Took some time away after retiring from fed gov last October. Seems nothing’s changed here at horde HQ!
Posted by: Grayman27 at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (AvoqE)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 14, 2026 10:54 PM (f87vz)
She is actually.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (snZF9)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Why would state laws override federal laws on federal land/parks???
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 14, 2026 10:58 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 14, 2026 10:58 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (XV/Pl)
A Koine, or some call it, "a rather brutal creole".
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 10:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (oq9dX)
Is he (whoever he is) still commenting under that nic? He's maybe a little too trusting about his pens.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 14, 2026 10:58 PM (1pJhn)
On this date in 1976: 33 year-old Keith Relf, former lead singer for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted while tuning a guitar which was not properly earthed.
A so-called "death cap" in the amplifier... very common in vintage tube amps. If the cap failed, the chassis could go to full mains voltage. Since everything is often "grounded" to the chassis, or connected through something that's "grounded" to the chassis (e.g. the ring of the guitar jack), it is a Very Bad Thing.
If you've got one of these vintage workhorses, make sure it's been modified to remove the death cap. Keeping everything 100% original isn't worth the risk of death.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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That's awful. At the same time, it seems there's a joke about it going to "eleven."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Grayman27 at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (AvoqE)
Just too many absent friends
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 10:59 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 14, 2026 10:54 PM (f87vz)
She is actually.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (snZF9)
Her delivery was annoying to me though. I could overlook for awhile.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 14, 2026 10:59 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:50 PM (XJ22o)
Somewhere, Carly Simon is scowling.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Ohio Lurker at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (OgbKj)
Nuclear weapons make great earth movers. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:49 PM (snZF9)
When I think of that now, I always think of one of the best lines in Futurama. Fry is in New New York, and he finds out that there’s a secret city underneath it inhabited by mutants. One of them shows him their church, and Fry exclaims “Wow! So you guys really do worship an old atomic bomb as a god?” And the mutant guide replies “Yeah, but it’s mostly a C and E thing.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (AnnNE)
I personally have several devices, and this is because there isn't really one that can do everything. I've got a smartphone, a Kindle Fire, a Kindle Scribe, a Surface 8, and a Dell laptop. I need all of them to take care of my reading and note-taking needs, and that's because each one isn't quite the right size to take care of it all. I can check emails on my smartphone, but it's too small for me to write long responses, etc. I can do a lot on my laptop, but I obviously can't lug it around with me everywhere as it's too heavy. Turns out the more tech they make, the more tech you need. Or at least I do.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 14, 2026 11:01 PM (qrzX6)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 11:01 PM (nzPxx)
Well it you need new underwear, you haven’t saved any money, right?
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Posted by: Common Tater
Chili?
Recent BOGO sale on Wendy's chili.
So I got four cans. Two with beans, two "all beef".
In the "all beef" they used fat instead of beans to make up the volume. Nasty. You'll be using as much TP as a four woman household... each sitting.
The bean chili was pretty good for a can. Maybe the best canned chili I have had. Probably the same shit they sell in the restaurants, just that one comes in bigger cans.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 11:02 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
State law overrides federal law as to the possession and using pf firearms unfortunately. Reason # 999 why I avoid CA at all costs.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 11:02 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
Or in Relf's case, going to 240.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 14, 2026 11:03 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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There's a Navy video on building docks and ports in difficult and out of the way places using small sequential nuclear charges.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 11:04 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 11:02 PM (/lPRQ)
Hmm... I thought Dave Thomas came up with the idea of selling chili to use up unsold burger patties.
Kinda like the way the Ore-Ida people invented tater tots to use up the scraps of potato left over from cutting fries.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 14, 2026 11:05 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 14, 2026 11:02 PM (abIsI)
If I recall correctly, State Law does Not override Reservation law, which can lead to some interesting situations.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2026 11:05 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 11:05 PM (CmJfJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
Maybe one of the two hundred and twenty seven safety switches. Over the years I think every one of mine has failed and been bypassed... except the clutch pedal.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)
>People don't respect or understand proper grounding. There's a whole section of the electrical code devoted to grounding. It saves lives, prevents fires and property damage.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 11:06 PM (D1E+2)
I'm here to do whatever I can
Be it early morning, late afternoon
Or at midnight, it's never too soon
To want to please you, to want to keep you
To want to do it all, all for you
I want to be your, be your rubber ball
I want to be the one, you love most of all, oh yeah
Lyrics.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 11:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:49 PM (snZF9)
Project Plowshare.
Had the unfortunate side effect of leaving a lot of residual radiation, but it definitely worked.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 14, 2026 11:06 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Try not to get blown off a mountain.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2026 11:06 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Don't judge me at May 14, 2026 11:07 PM (TbWk/)
Today was the 53rd anniversary of the launch of Skylab back in 1973. It was launched with a modified Saturn V meant for the cancelled Apollo 18 mission.
The launch had some malfunctions. A micro-meteoroid shield/sun shade deployed and broke off, which caused one of the two solar panels to partially deploy. The 2nd stage separation retros then blew that off. Without the sun screen it was in danger of overheating, and then underpowered.
They managed to fix it, and the guy who worked out the plan for that won some distinguished service award.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 14, 2026 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
I remember when it happened and being annoyed that the mission would get messed up. The space era was a great time for us little kids.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 11:07 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 11:08 PM (CmJfJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Did you pay the subscription?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 11:08 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ohio Lurker at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (OgbKj)
Prayers up
Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2026 11:08 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Easily Entertained at May 14, 2026 11:08 PM (oftw2)
The space era was a great time for us little kids.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 11:07 PM (y171U)
_____________
Waking up early for the three-hour launch broadcast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 11:09 PM (HdYcL)
"Heard"? Are they singing strippers?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2026 11:10 PM (0Htd1)
...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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When the old man died that was it; just like Vanguard.
Loved the old Dollar Menu; Baked Potato, chili, Jr. Wendy, salad, a long list and the portions were small but all kinds of food. Yum.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 11:11 PM (nzPxx)
catch you at twilight's last twirling
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 11:12 PM (ZxPkt)
If you've got one of these vintage workhorses, make sure it's been modified to remove the death cap. Keeping everything 100% original isn't worth the risk of death.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (IG3/x)
Very familiar with the death cap. Most of my vintage marshall amps were modded to get rid of it. The anal vintage homos would probably scream over that, but tough shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 11:13 PM (snZF9)
——-
Agreed. Here and otherwise. I have a list of friends and extended family (with let’s call it acute conditions) that I pray for each day. Going on several years now (I suspect the influence of my guardian angel). I “lost” my first one last summer. Granted his condition was advanced and sudden, but it still struck home. God’s will be done. His plan, not mine. Doubt that explanation suffices for Monty’s wife and kids. May the Holy Spirit sustain them.
Posted by: Grayman27 at May 14, 2026 11:13 PM (AvoqE)
"Heard"? Are they singing strippers?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2026 11:10 PM (0Htd1)
They should make a mark, and strip the paint off all of the cars.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Youtube Videos Help at May 14, 2026 11:14 PM (oftw2)
I remember watching 12 during the Moonwalk. They had brought a Color videocon camera for live Television. Alan Bean was on the job. For about two seconds, we saw the surface of the Moon in glorious Living Color. But inadvertently the camera was pointed into the Sun, and that as they say, was the end of that. Oops.
John Young rarely fucked up. But he got his boots tangled up in some cables on one of the high dollar ALSEP deals, lunar temperature or seismic or something, and ripped the cable from the pin connector. Oops. “Charlie … uh-oh”
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 11:14 PM (CmJfJ)
The space era was a great time for us little kids.
Posted by: Joemarine
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There were 2-way speakers in every classroom.
They stopped classes and broadcast the launches over the school system.
'Course we said a prayer and pledged allegiance everyday too.
_Better dead than red
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 11:15 PM (nzPxx)
"Heard"? Are they singing strippers?
Posted by: nerdygirl
Well, they're all just working their way through college. Perhaps they'd like to present their doctoral theses.
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)
-SFGate
====
High-speed rail CEO will be hanged 'in our lifetime'
-SFsycho
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 11:16 PM (RIvkX)
Had the unfortunate side effect of leaving a lot of residual radiation, but it definitely worked.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 14, 2026 11:06 PM (IG3/x)
I remember reading a great plan to dig a sea level canal across Nicaragua with buried h-bombs, all at once. It would have worked, too, but for some reason the Nicaraguans would never agree to letting about 1/3 of their country get nuked. They just didn’t see why we thought that was so cool.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2026 11:16 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Yeah, think I'm putting an air conditioner in the garage before I start digging.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 11:18 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: moki at May 14, 2026 11:21 PM (wLjpr)
Don’t want to remove this, you want to replace them with a poly film cap, like anything else. It won’t fuck up your tone.
The OG waxed foil/paper capacitors short out is all. That’s why they are dangerous as “X” or “Y” installations across the line.
Nearby lightning strikes do neat things to these, you can tell when an old radio or whatever got hit by lightning, these caps are just gone, with maybe a whisp of smoke and innards and bare leads
You’ll get a shock if you are grounded in certain situations, but the current will be limited by the capacitor across the line.
You
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 11:22 PM (ds7a/)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (0CU3H)
Definitely old school depending on the subject. The only time I move away from old school is when something new school is absolutely 100% better.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 11:22 PM (snZF9)
-SFGate
......
Better hurry up, I'm already 29.
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 11:23 PM (oq9dX)
I think of you often, sweet man and I hope
You are well.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 10:44 PM (A5RD0)
Appreciate that more than I can say, ma'am. The kids and I are enduring as best we can as a family. Hope you're doing well also.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at May 14, 2026 11:25 PM (t2oSI)
I keep a PAA (personal analog assistant-- aka "pen and paper") in my bag at all times. Memory is sketchy at my advanced-29 age LOL.
Breezy here and cool enough to be unpleasant for yard work. Bah. Glad I got a lot of stuff done earlier this week!
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:26 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: nerdygirl
>The wind took two steel deck chairs and tossed them into the yard like cardboard. Luckily it goes, not unlike a tornado or hurricane.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 11:27 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: JML at May 14, 2026 11:27 PM (EtRph)
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:27 PM (rdVOm)
Get Back!
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Why would state laws override federal laws on federal land/parks???
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 14, 2026 10:58 PM (VCgbV)
I was wondering about that too. Suppose the poster meant California State Parks? Or does poster mean National Parks located in California (Yosemite, Joshua Tree, etc)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 14, 2026 11:28 PM (QGaXH)
Planes in the air for months at a time. Stupid, in oh so many ways. They did try to make some test engines, without a lot of promise, and that was about as far as it got.
The amount of shielding required on a plane, to protect the crew from radiation, was one huge problem. Weight. And the practical problems of Maintenance and Inspection - on an aircraft that stays in the air all the time.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 11:28 PM (ds7a/)
One of my proudest moments as a father.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2026 11:30 PM (1B2PI)
Oh. Is my redneck showing? Hahaha.
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:32 PM (rdVOm)
-SFGate
......
Better hurry up, I'm already 29.
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 11:23 PM (oq9dX)
The CEO must be a 35 year old turtle, who's father is 160.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2026 11:34 PM (qx7Zg)
I spent a lot of time refurbing the Generator system on my old Ford. Now most people aren’t too mechanical, and they just slap a GM 1-wire alternator on.
I just like to mess around with old tech, just to learn how they really work. Alternators replaced Generators fairly quickly, and for good reasons. But they can be made to work just fine. But they need maintenance and adjustment, servicing.
If you read the automotive repair boards, it’s a wonder how all those millions got across fucking town even once, with carburetors, generators, drum brakes, points & condenser ignition .. Impossible, clearly.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 11:35 PM (ds7a/)
-SFGate
......
Better hurry up, I'm already 29.
Posted by: wth
The CEO must be a 35 year old turtle, who's father is 160.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
They said "our." I figured they were pregnant.
Posted by: mikeski didn't bother to verify gender at May 14, 2026 11:36 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 14, 2026 10:54 PM (f87vz)
She is actually.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 10:57 PM (snZF9)
Her delivery was annoying to me though. I could overlook for awhile.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 14, 2026 10:59 PM (qrzX6)
Yeah...but somewhere out there is a guy who's just about had it with her s***....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 14, 2026 11:37 PM (QGaXH)
Oh. Is my redneck showing? Hahaha.
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:32 PM (rdVOm)
Yup, from space.
I on the other hand have the common decency to use black foam pipe insulation. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 11:39 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (AnnNE)
Compliance and Ethics? Or the EU CE?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 14, 2026 11:41 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Braenyard
Guess? Electrical. Lotta vibration on lawnmowers. Maybe just a connector came loose, maybe the seat switch needs adjustment.
Good luck, and let us know!
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:42 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ohio Lurker"
***As another long time lurker who's occasionally asked here for prayers, I know you'll get help.
Posted by: Cosda at May 14, 2026 11:42 PM (Q9J8w)
Wandered off to soak up some vid. Some PJ Watson, the bow-tie History Guy, Cowboy Kent Rollins, & other.
Including my two regular science gals, Aussie astrophysicist Dr. Becky, and the amusing German physicist Sabine Hoffensfloffer or something. I enjoy their videos, even though half the time I'm utterly lost as to what they're talking about.
Some things I do know what they're talking about make me sigh, though.
Hossenfelder really buys into the whole "renewable" energy and electric vehicles credo, as well as the threat or menace of climate chaos.
Becky gets distressed that the US budget for NASA has been big on exploration (Moon, Mars missions) but has greatly shrunk for scientific research and NSA. Her favorite projects and friends may not be able to belly up to the US taxpayer trough.
Sad face for both of them, but it seems to this non-physicist that they're not really getting the whole picture on those subjects. At least Sabine is not opposed to nuke energy. They're kinda cute & funny for semi-libs.
Tonight's Sabine & Becky vids if you wanna check 'em out.
youtu.be/d96WHYOHoU8
youtu.be/0pvL-JkR0Ns
Now to ONT content..
Posted by: mindful webworker - Pluto IS TOO a planet because it is :) at May 14, 2026 11:44 PM (tcCok)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 11:45 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Berserker
Oh, but the colors can coordinate with the chair pads!
I'll have you know, that I found some gorgeous *turquoise* color pool noodles at the
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:47 PM (rdVOm)
Hard pass.
Posted by: torabora at May 14, 2026 11:48 PM (acu8T)
I spent a lot of time refurbing the Generator system on my old Ford. Now most people aren’t too mechanical, and they just slap a GM 1-wire alternator on.
I just like to mess around with old tech, just to learn how they really work. Alternators replaced Generators fairly quickly, and for good reasons. But they can be made to work just fine. But they need maintenance and adjustment, servicing.
If you read the automotive repair boards, it’s a wonder how all those millions got across fucking town even once, with carburetors, generators, drum brakes, points & condenser ignition .. Impossible, clearly.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 11:35 PM (ds7a/)
Yeah, thats one area where new tech is great. Mechanical voltage regular on a car? Kiss my ass with that shit, give me solid state. Old harleys up to 1969 used generators, points, and mechanical voltage regulators. They actually work fine, although they do make the parts to update them. The generators with a solid state regulator are pretty much problem free. The electronic ignitions are great, although guys will carry the original point plate just in case.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 11:48 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker
Oh, but the colors can coordinate with the chair pads!
I'll have you know, that I found some gorgeous *turquoise* color pool noodles at the dollar.. uh, buck-and-a-quarter.. um, dollar-and-a-half(!) store just the other day. And lovely blue & green, patterned "duct" tape at wally world.
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:47 PM (rdVOm)
I'm a harley dude and metal guitar player. In my world black *IS* color coordinated. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 11:53 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker
Black gets hot in the sun. Besides, why would you want to cover up the CHROME chair frames?
You *do* have chrome chair frames, right?
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
It wasn't easy returning them either.
Mid 1980's....
Posted by: torabora at May 14, 2026 11:55 PM (acu8T)
You *do* have chrome chair frames, right?
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
Mine are red to match my car. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 11:57 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ
......
Do they have colored Flex Tape for patching the above ground pool?
Posted by: wth at May 14, 2026 11:58 PM (oq9dX)
Among the many things my family calls me, lol, I'm called the duct tape queen.
Lots of stuff can be fixed with duct tape.
Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 12:02 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Berserker
Ah. Well, it's settled then. I tip my hat to you...
Can't argue with red & black!
https://youtu.be/iLm-N6uMmpQ
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ohio Lurker at May 14, 2026 11:00 PM (OgbKj)
I've walked that valley. Prayers for her, her kids, and you..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 15, 2026 12:04 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: wth
Good question! I don't know. They do make "clear."
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons
>Everything can be fixed with 90mph gorilla tape. They've perfected it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 12:05 AM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Bulg at May 15, 2026 12:05 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 12:06 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2026 12:07 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:07 AM (rdVOm)
Skip if you remember me saying this before.
Years ago during the depth of winter, the power was not steady and the battery back-up was dead. Since I couldn't use the computer in those conditions, I took a shirt-pocket size blank book and started doing some initial sketches for a story I'd had in the back of my mind for a long time. I was thinking of, ultimately, a graphic novel (comic) format.
Years previously I'd outlined some plot, but it just didn't work, so I stuck it in the file cabinet and the back burner of my brain.
That winter, the opening of the story began as sketches in that little notebook. Shortly, though, my mind started feeding me story faster than I could illustrate. I went to handwriting text and to my surprise I filled several legal pads. What I published online was very much that first draft (including the introductory sketches).
I could tell the big difference between typing and handwriting as far as creativity. Different parts of the mind.
Alas, my hands no longer hold a pen well, so, other stories are trapped inside.
Invulnerable
https://bit.ly/invul
Posted by: mindful webworker - a kid had a strange power at May 15, 2026 12:08 AM (tcCok)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 12:05 AM (D1E+2)
Thats some bad ass shit. Works great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 12:13 AM (snZF9)
Oh. Is my redneck showing? Hahaha.
Posted by: JQ at May 14, 2026 11:32 PM (rdVOm)
I use them for that purpose when I rent a boat for a day of lake fishing..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 15, 2026 12:14 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 12:05 AM (D1E+2)
I don't recommend it for flyaway hair.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 12:15 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 12:16 AM (3ek7K)
They fabricated tail fins, side-scoops and a hood scoop out of cardboard from work, applied them with duct tape, and gave it all a rattle-can paint job.
From a (long!) distance, looked not too bad.
Up close-- laughter unto TEARS!
It was total "riceboi" but without the fancy pinstripes. (Unless they added some later?)
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 12:19 AM (3ek7K)
Many here at AOSHQ are definitely fond of old school stuff and ways. I personally feel like I employ a good blend of new tech vs older methods. Where do you fall on this spectrum?
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I've been writing lately and using a pen and paper. Sick of burning my eyes out in front of a monitor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 15, 2026 12:20 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I've been writing lately and using a pen and paper. Sick of burning my eyes out in front of a monitor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
I've been living in a stump, clothed in ferns and eating nothing but raw squirrels. I've never felt more alive.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 15, 2026 12:23 AM (UoKXn)
Posted by: four seasons
I'm sure of it! I was getting some OT on weekend shift & they were all so excited to see him drive the "project" to work one day. 20-somethings, dudes... such energy!
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 496 at May 15, 2026 12:33 AM (G/LYz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 12:34 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 12:37 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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I used to know a very good handyman, long passed now, who said that he could fix anything except the crack in your ass or a broken heart.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 12:37 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2026 12:38 AM (3ek7K)
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Yeah, pretty sure about that. Best luck, I've been running it without the hood since I bashed it into the truck. Hopefully, debris knocked a wire loose. - best case scenario.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:39 AM (PHjsi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:40 AM (PHjsi)
- - - - - - - -
Fully charged Dust Buster. Animals HATE the sound of a vacuum cleaner. The air being sucked in generates sound frequencies they can't stand (and that we can't hear.) A leaf blower, otoh, just blows air loudly, it doesn't produce the vacuum noise effect...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at May 15, 2026 12:41 AM (BlDQE)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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and thin gauge bailing wire
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:42 AM (PHjsi)
Posted by: ShainS -- Sufferer of IED (Intermittent Explosive Disorder) at May 15, 2026 12:43 AM (7QH/s)
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Fully charged Dust Buster. Animals HATE the sound of a vacuum cleaner. The air being sucked in generates sound frequencies they can't stand (and that we can't hear.) A leaf blower, otoh, just blows air loudly, it doesn't produce the vacuum noise effect...
Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at May 15, 2026 12:41 AM (BlDQE)
Best bear defense? A crippled hiking partner.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 12:43 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 12:44 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Braenyard
Oh, wow... glad it's running cooler. Yeah, plastic connectors get brittle over time & 'bashing' it might've skinned/pulled on a wire or several? Again: good luck!
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)
They fabricated tail fins, side-scoops and a hood scoop out of cardboard from work, applied them with duct tape, and gave it all a rattle-can paint job.
From a (long!) distance, looked not too bad.
Up close-- laughter unto TEARS!
It was total "riceboi" but without the fancy pinstripes. (Unless they added some later?)
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
We did that to a friend who had a 1962 Imperial sitting in his driveway. We decked it out to look like a tug boat. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 12:48 AM (snZF9)
Pretty uneventful trip. Sunshine, warm and windy. Saw a sign that we thought said I-25 closed from Buffalo to Casper (turns out only to light campers) so we took a side road. Delightful drive, only hitch was we had to stop for a few minutes as a huge herd of sheep was driven past us. Saw many antelope.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 12:48 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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For that reason, a Raven .25 is often quoted as a bear defence, if hiking with a partner. Go for the knee.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 12:51 AM (XeU6L)
IRGC throwing digs at China: “Those who betray in secret will be exposed.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 12:56 AM (PHjsi)
Posted by: Berserker
Hahaha! Yep, it was a boat alright...
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 12:51 AM (XeU6L)
Neighbor lady in AJ has a Jennings .25, much the same thing. But the chrome plating is pretty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 12:58 AM (jNLDj)
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA
Rick Beato - Top 20 Greatest Vocal Intros Of All Time
https://youtu.be/olJhaLrLEqI
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 12:59 AM (Sy6m/)
If you had Tom Massie and the New York Times on your bingo card, well done.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 15, 2026 12:59 AM (UoKXn)
I think it's funny that muzz will lie and lie, but get oh so offended if it happens to them.
Boohoohoo...
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 01:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 15, 2026 12:59 AM (UoKXn)
He should endorse the toilet from Married, With Children. Then you could buy a Massie-Ferguson toilet. An implement to be reckoned with.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:01 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: Berserker
Hahaha! Yep, it was a boat alright...
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 12:57 AM (rdVOm)
It was funny. We hung old tires along the side, we made registration numbers with electrical tape. We made a semi enclosed bridge with cardboard on the roof and stuck lawn in it. We even made an anchor from tin foil. He was less than amused. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 01:02 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 01:03 AM (snZF9)
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Ready Kilowatt is getting antsy. Contractors building neighborhoods with their own electrical system - that doesn't fail and doesn't increase the price when the weather turns rough - will put Big Energy on its heels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:04 AM (PHjsi)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 01:02 AM (snZF9)
It's not a classic tug boat if it doesn't have a woven rope fender on the bow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:04 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: SciVo at May 15, 2026 01:07 AM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:08 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:10 AM (jNLDj)
https://youtu.be/olJhaLrLEqI
And he doesn't do "Renegade" by Styx???
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2HJore6jYE
Posted by: Dark Lihuixtzichatl at May 15, 2026 01:14 AM (W5mpo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:14 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:15 AM (PHjsi)
I intend to be there a little before noon and go back a about three hours later for more if supplies have lasted.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 01:19 AM (/0z9K)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions
>You're good if you scrub your underpants on a river rock twice a week. Splash river water on your face and rub your teeth with a finger. The cave women will be kicking down the buffalo skin door.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 01:20 AM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:15 AM (PHjsi)
Yep. Have never pushed this car to top speed. Engine was overhauled 1980-something. It does not burn any oil, and leaks only a tiny amount. Car came to me in fine shape, so I want to preserve it. This exact car, in fact. 20 year old pic, from before I owned it, but it still looks like this:
https://tinyurl.com/3nsz5k5x
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:22 AM (jNLDj)
If you had Tom Massie and the New York Times on your bingo card, well done.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
The Babylon Bee can't parody the NYT's like the NYT's can.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2026 01:22 AM (f87vz)
>They were awesome. Don't know if they are still around.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 01:23 AM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You should be there by morning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:24 AM (XeU6L)
The National Institutes of Health removed UNC virologist, Ralph Baric, from all his NIH grants. And UNC put Baric on administrative leave.
This all took place last year,...exposed it all in...investigation that delved into Baric’s career, his past lobbying efforts of the federal government to keep taxpayer money pouring into his UNC lab, and Baric’s manipulations of public opinion to shut down speculation that the pandemic started because of the dangerous virus research that he pioneered in collaboration with Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
https://tinyurl.com/48y282pu
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:26 AM (PHjsi)
Got off on a tangent watching some videos about the Skylab repair, such as this quite long one, but well worth it if you have the time:
https://is.gd/jIWBmx
They're speaking with Charles Lewis, one of the engineers on that. At one point, one of them says "Now, you didn't have any images to see what the damage was, you only had sensor/telemetry data".
Lewis said, "We did have an image. It was very faint, but we did have one and enough said about that."
I assume that means they had some classified spy satellite or other "national technical means" images taken for them. It's nice to know the spooks will give NASA a hand when needed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 01:26 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You should be there by morning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:24 AM (XeU6L)
. . . but I don't think he's coming up from San Antone'
Posted by: George Strait at May 15, 2026 01:26 AM (X5Jzz)
Yet they already had some of their big hits before New Wave became a thing, the Mods to Punk's rockers. Similarly, Blondie had a number of hits before they became considered New Wave. Then there's Sparks, the brothers Ron and Russell Mael (which in turn inspired inter-dimensional mercenaries Ron and Russell Post in Matt Howarth's 'Those Annoying Post Brothers' and related comics) who first started performing under the name Half-Nelson in 1968! They had a big jump in US popularity during the New Wave era but much older than most trying to make a name for themselves then.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 01:26 AM (/0z9K)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:24 AM (XeU6L)
Hah! Get the reference, but the old eyelids are too heavy to drive all night. I am in a cozy motel, and am about 5 minutes away from lights out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:26 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2026 01:28 AM (0nHVk)
I was reading something about Baric a while back. He should be in jail with the key thrown away at the least. Some were trying to get the NC legislature to do some hearings and investigate and maybe strip him of his funding and punish UNC and all that.
They chickened out and wouldn't touch it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 01:28 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:29 AM (jNLDj)
Hello Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Someone had to do it. Should have nic'd Geo. Strait
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:29 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:29 AM (XeU6L)
Well, I'm not broke down south of Dallas, so there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:31 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:10 AM (jNLDj)
New wave sounds about right, or in their case weird wave.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 01:34 AM (snZF9)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:35 AM (jNLDj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:29 AM (XeU6L)
Well, I'm not broke down south of Dallas, so there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2026 01:31 AM (jNLDj)
But where will you be when that sun is high in that Texas sky?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 15, 2026 01:35 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2026 01:24 AM (XeU6L)
. . . but I don't think he's coming up from San Antone'
Posted by: George Strait
>I know a guy who loves to karaoke that song. Total fag. Can't sing. Sometimes it's hard to be tolerant.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 01:36 AM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 15, 2026 01:36 AM (QGaXH)
****
You have a Daytona and a Lark?! Isn't it a rule that if you have more than three Studebakers then you have to open a car museum?
Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 01:37 AM (cSctv)
https://is.gd/jIWBmx
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 01:26 AM (w6EFb)
I was looking at space stuff on you tube and this popped into my side bar. This was pretty frigging interesting. Kinda goes along with the ancient civilizations stuff we were talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQRjst2vNGo
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 01:37 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2026 01:40 AM (snZF9)
****
You have a Daytona and a Lark?! Isn't it a rule that if you have more than three Studebakers then you have to open a car museum?
Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 01:37 AM (cSctv)
Not in Canada....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 15, 2026 01:40 AM (QGaXH)
Cloobeck has the same tastes as Bezos. His bride to be, Adva Lavie.
https://tinyurl.com/r96e96ce
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:40 AM (PHjsi)
Compare that to 25 years ago, when my then employer had me take a rented cargo van up to San Francisco (the company offices were across the street from the rental place in Pasadena) to pick up four internet kiosks for an event. Each in its case was the size of a typical adult coffin. I set out from my place about 3 AM, got into SF around 8 AM, met the folks from the kiosk company and went to lunch with them, then found myself in San Francisco in early afternoon with nothing to do. I'd already covered the touristy stuff long ago. Couldn't think of anybody to call who wouldn't be working on a weekday, and didn't want to do any spending that wasn't covered by the company. So I headed home. I was back by early evening and called my boss to let him know. He was very surprised, as he expected I'd get a room for the night.
Such a round trip same day didn't faze me back then.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 01:40 AM (/0z9K)
They chickened out and wouldn't touch it.
Posted by: publius
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Maddening. What are legislatures and investigative bodies for?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 15, 2026 01:42 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: publius
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Maddening. What are legislatures and investigative bodies for?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 15, 2026 01:42 AM (XJ22o)
Rubber stamping, rubber chickens, and rubber stamping rubber chickens.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2026 01:43 AM (qx7Zg)
Thanks. I remember some of the stuff about how they knew about Uranus and Neptune. That ties in with that, what do they call it, Dogone tribe that knew about Sirius B.
The "mainstream" argues that just can't be, because no humans could've known about all that, so it just can't be possible. In the Dogone case, they argued it was 20th Century cultural contamination.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Epobirs
>Now my eyes get tired and I need to take a break. Plus, nowadays you need to keep your head on a swivel for the fucking drivers going 90mph and the random wildlife.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 01:45 AM (D1E+2)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJUS0cW9wjs
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 01:48 AM (PHjsi)
This gal knows her limitations! Don't like it, but can't change it. *sigh*
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dark Lihuixtzichatl at May 15, 2026 01:56 AM (W5mpo)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 01:58 AM (CHHv1)
This gal knows her limitations! Don't like it, but can't change it. *sigh*
Posted by: JQ
>The worst drivers are the ones traveling a distance less than twenty miles from one exit to the other at 90mph. Crazy fools making millions of dollars per minute.
They're saving the world.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 01:59 AM (D1E+2)
Why is AOP on the road? On the lam?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 15, 2026 01:36 AM (QGaXH)
Ha! I searched thru the last few ONT's for 'Alberta' and found where AOP wrote he was going on the road to meet up with a car club doing Rte 66. Too bad he's not following it to the end.
Hope he gets his kicks.....
Good night everybody....don't forget to tip your waitress....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 15, 2026 02:00 AM (QGaXH)
I have been reading upthread, JQ and Bers those car conversions made me laugh out loud.
Braenyard, that article about Ralph Baric set my teeth on edge. Richard Burr smells to high heaven too.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2026 02:03 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Epobirs
Back then is in the rear view mirror & getting further back by the day.
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at May 15, 2026 02:06 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mindful webworker - getting to be 100 should be easier at May 15, 2026 02:12 AM (tcCok)
Argentina = Argentinian
Brazil = Brazilian
Mexico = Mexican
Then you get stuff like:
Spain = Spaniard
France = French
Switzerland = Swiss
But it does it extend to aliens:
Ballchin = Ballchinian
You just have to remember the odd demonyms and deal with it, you cute little Chinian.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 15, 2026 02:15 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2026 02:16 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2026 02:16 AM (0nHVk)
Ah, lovey, seeing the other motorists. Where's the adventure in that?
Posted by: Mr. Magoo at May 15, 2026 02:25 AM (XgKR7)
Bers, you got me looking at exoplanets in Lyra.
Look up Kepler-442b. 1200 ly away. K5V star. Super earth, 2.36 earth masses, 1.34 earth radii. Semimajor axis 0.41 au, period 112.3 days. Eq temp -41F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 02:28 AM (w6EFb)
I didn't want to get a hotel, as hubby was already beginning to get "unpredictable" and very cranky. It was bad enough that he needed me to stop for every rest area he saw, and then wanted to eat about every hour or two! The snacks I brought just weren't satisfying enough. (although it was our usual road-food fare from earlier days.)
Those freaking digital speed-limit signs on I-80! And the continuous line of semis... At least the line of oncoming headlights helped me determine the road layout in the middle of deep, dark nowhere!
Just a few days with friends, and then had to turn around and do it all again. At least the end of that trip was in familiar territory, even though late at night.
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2026 01:58 AM (CHHv1)
You should read some of the interviews with Tina Weymouth. She explains his bizarre self pretty clearly. Particularly after she birthed her son. Dude wasn't acting. He was just plain odd.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 15, 2026 02:34 AM (DwqWV)
youtube.com/watch?v=vQRjst2vNGo
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Well, that's a bedtime story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 02:37 AM (U9zWQ)
Maddening. What are legislatures and investigative bodies for?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 15, 2026 01:42 AM (XJ22o)
Rubber stamping, rubber chickens, and rubber stamping rubber chickens.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Think I'll steal that.
Posted by: Blonde Mortixtl at May 15, 2026 02:37 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2026 02:41 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 02:45 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2026 02:28 AM (w6EFb)
People from that planet would be very strong. They probably could leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 15, 2026 02:45 AM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 02:46 AM (U9zWQ)
Posted by: Braenyard
Would love to have done that! We had to cross mountains, though. Limited number of road choices, and some of the "back roads" quite iffy.
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 02:54 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 02:55 AM (/0z9K)
"Wanna see something *really* scary?"
AAAUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
Posted by: JQ at May 15, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)
He has since become a citizen, probably after the sheer volume of people pointing out the problem.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 02:58 AM (/0z9K)
Kasie Hunt: "Do you still talk to employees at the FBI regularly?"
Comey: "I do... They're under siege."
Why is an indicted man still in contact with the very same people who could be tasked with investigating him?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 03:10 AM (U9zWQ)
Now if you want to read an interesting but quite complex topic, look up the habitability considerations for G vs K vs M stars. K stars are much longer lived than G. But there are other considerations.
K stars may be the best overall, but some think G is the best. M, red dwarfs are bad because of the violent flares. Planets would have to be very close and those periodic flares would be a killer.
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at May 15, 2026 03:11 AM (w6EFb)
Shame that Millicent was strangled in its crib by the major credit card companies. A lot of how things have worked online and how revenue was derived would possibly be very different today if there were a convenient way to transfer truly micro amounts of value to sites like this. A million pennies isn't a trivial amount of money.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 15, 2026 03:12 AM (/0z9K)
"I want to thank you very much. This has been an incredible visit. I think a lot of good has come of it.
We've made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries. He's a man I respect greatly. He's become really a fan.
We've known each other now 11 years, almost 12 years, it's a long time. And we've settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn't have been able to settle. And the relationship is a very strong one.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 03:23 AM (U9zWQ)
Why is an indicted man still in contact with the very same people who could be tasked with investigating him?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
>Why would a man who took an oath for this country, a law man, talk about siege? This is your conspiracy, right here. Comey needs to be sentenced for his crimes.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 15, 2026 03:24 AM (D1E+2)
We want that to end. We don't want them to have a nuclear weapon. We want the straits open...
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Lay siege on China without laying siege and with much respect we play 'let's make a deal'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 03:25 AM (U9zWQ)
We're going to lay it on the line and we're going to have – you're going to walk away hopefully very impressed, like I'm very impressed with China.
And I just want to end by saying thank you very much. It's been really a great couple of days. Thank you very much."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 03:35 AM (U9zWQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2026 03:38 AM (U9zWQ)
Its time to get up
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 03:44 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 03:53 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
+++
Why would a man like Mayorkas take an oath to protect our borders and then do everything he could to let in as many illegals as possible? And why is he a free man instead of sitting in a prison cell somewhere?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 15, 2026 04:16 AM (hxQxn)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2026 04:18 AM (Ia/+0)
https://iotwreport.com/
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Posted by: clarence at May 15, 2026 04:31 AM (cSctv)
Undercover Elephant Cafe
In Tokyo, the cyberpunk future arrived in 1981
by hiro tanaka
New haircut.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/2LFAFgVaZM
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)
I'd need to go to the Swiss mountains right afterward to detox.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:42 PM (zYpTz)
I bugged out of work a little early and just got home. Beautiful out here o the beach. 62, partly sunny and windy.
I wish the pollen counts would go down though. Everyone has a runny nose and stuffed ears and is sneezing. Even the dogs and cats.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 07:43 PM (A5RD0)
There's something profoundly mystical about it.
Posted by: Delurker at May 14, 2026 07:44 PM (gtcuf)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 07:45 PM (lSIaC)
142 Buy cheap computer fan (Amazon $2) and mate it to one of the million transformers you have. Make a little box for the fan and place it in an appropriate position to cool the laptop. Even if you have a brand new one it will extend its life.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 07:45 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)
So they can hide in cherry trees.
Must work great, I've never noticed an elephant in a cherry tree
Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 07:46 PM (lSIaC)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 07:46 PM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at May 14, 2026 07:48 PM (nVdR7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 07:48 PM (dSKRp)
Posted by: Accomack at May 14, 2026 07:50 PM (8jVAy)
*thrun is a word my Dad's best friend used instead of thrown. An homage to my dear departed Pop.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (0aYVJ)
eating all the gum drops he can see
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (Ia/+0)
>>> I will ask my resident expert when he gets home.
Posted by: pookysgirl has to live with the aftermath at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (Wt5PA)
That doesn't seem to work either, but thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (dSKRp)
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I still want to know what “instrument” they use in old Western movie soundtracks. It’s intended to sound like boot spurs being spun, if that makes sense. But I doubt that’s what they are.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 07:52 PM (1cMxB)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 07:52 PM (viF8m)
by hiro tanaka
Sure, Just look for the sign, you cannot miss it.
All I can see is the little white triangle on her heinie.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 07:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)
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That was one of the “selling points” psychologists claimed when L.S.D. first came on the scene, a way to study Schizophrenia, since the effects are very similar. Maybe, they surmised, Schizophrenia is a defect where similar compounds are produced by the brain. Strangely enough, they found that L.S.D. has almost no effect whatsoever when administered to Schizophrenics. (Your tax dollars at work again)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (1cMxB)
eating all the gum drops he can see
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 07:51 PM (3uBP9)
The 1960s music class songbook...which reminds me that there was a song about marching to Pretoria. Bet they don't sing that one at school anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)
I know what you mean. It's in the Good the Bad and the Ugly. I don't know what it is. Sounds like some kind of spinning noisemaker, like a rotor inside a wheel.
Posted by: ace at May 14, 2026 07:58 PM (1wjle)
Unlike penguins, who do nothing to eliminate mosquitos.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 07:59 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:00 PM (1cMxB)
Posted by: a Zen mastur at May 14, 2026 08:01 PM (VHUov)
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Eh, probably a rounding error as far as numbers are concerned.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (1cMxB)
Just ignore the creepy shadow people. After me,
"That motherfucker ain't real!"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (/lPRQ)
If you live in an area where you can attract Marten or Swallows, they eat an insane number of mosquitos.
Simply building the right nesting box for them will do amazing things to the insect population around your yard.
Posted by: garrett at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 08:02 PM (zZu0s)
My deep sleep period is early on; then I wake up around 0100, then doze wake, doze wake, etc., until I get up for work at 0630.
Seems to work because I never feel tired or groggy during the day.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:03 PM (0aYVJ)
Not a Tech guy, but I have a similar problem. There is a solution.
The cause is your internet browser, like Safari, is not up to date. X will not play on older OSs. You can update your OS, or:
after the x in the address, type cancel. xcancell should allow it to play.
It is part of forcing people to upgrade, and I deplore it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:03 PM (u82oZ)
Would be willowed, but is was in FO mode, reading a book.....
How that's pronounced "Knak o tish" is beyond me.
Posted by: man
That is exactly how it is pronounced.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 14, 2026 08:04 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)
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A hunker is not a squat.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:04 PM (ZOv7s)
Grasshopper, when you meditate under the waterfall, be like the capybara.
Posted by: a Zen master at May 14, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)
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That’s it! Always used to add a dramatic accompaniment or whatever. Something Bad is About To Happen. Whatever it is, I’d like to have it, and carry it with me, so I could deploy that very special audio effect at suitable times and places. LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (1cMxB)
by hiro tanaka
Here's another one."
Both those look Photoshopped, or AI. But I could be wrong. Which means the cyberpunk future is now, when I can't tell if anything is real or not.
Posted by: zombie at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (Av6i5)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)
I remember that song. Sang it in school, in Cody, Wyoming. Weird.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:06 PM (gKWVE)
Heart Transplant.
The favoring of an alternate invader of South Africa, because of racism, over the Boer, has destroyed an industrial country.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:06 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 08:07 PM (D1E+2)
Could be or it could legit be something to do with your particular computer or browser. Try changing x.com in the URL bar to xcancel.com.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 14, 2026 08:07 PM (vTZFs)
"Your memories are false; they have been planted."
- Major Motoko Kusanagi, Public Security Section 9.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 14, 2026 08:09 PM (IEV/x)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 08:09 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 08:10 PM (viF8m)
Is anemia part of why the population is declining in Japan?
Unrealistic expectations or something?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:10 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: Accomack at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)
It is weird. Middle American elementary school kids singing a song about the Boer War (?). I guess it was the international songs portion, though. Because now I remember Balalalaika in there, too.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (zYpTz)
Hm. Sounds strangely…. familiar somehow, but I just can’t put my finger on it. Oh well, I’m sure it’s probably nothing.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (1cMxB)
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 08:10 PM (viF8m)
I'd love to see it. Hell, I'd love to visit the RSA. But it is such a bloody mess.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (T6aVk)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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yeah I bailed on that almost instantly
don't want those pictures in my head
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (ZxPkt)
Cherish your family.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: garrett at May 14, 2026 08:14 PM (4ljtY)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2026 08:09 PM (snZF9)
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I watched it a few times. The more I watch it, the more "demonic" those shadowy figures get.
The one that looks like it's sitting in a patio chair is particularly gruesome, because it does look like *something* is occupying that chair...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 08:14 PM (gnNyN)
Beautiful country. But I have no desire to go back now. Place is going feral.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: a Zen mastur at May 14, 2026 08:01 PM
* scribbles notes *
Posted by: Primus at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (V6/y0)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (1cMxB)
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (/+uur)
Those blossoms are nasty, stain any surface worse than olives from olive trees. But very purty when they're all blooming at once, big lavender balls of color.
Typically they peak first week of June here. Not this time.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (U/Byj)
As long as our ancestors were roaming around and hunting, it didn't matter if someone heard the spirit of the bison calling to him. If you could channel your insanity to going totally primal against a bear, that was good enough for the tribe. Being a little weird about the gods of the crop didn't even matter all that much if you were in a primitive neolithic village.
It did matter if you were piloting a ship from Knossos to Sicily. Or tallying ledgers in Canaan.
hopefully this doesn't blow the margins -
dwarkesh.com/p/david-reich-2
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)
We did the same to but Marching to Poland
Posted by: Hilter Youth Camper at May 14, 2026 08:17 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM
Roll over, Beethoven?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at May 14, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)
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YMCA day camp actually sang Christian songs. We even sang "Taps" at the end of the day.
The counselors liked to sing the "C.I.T. Song" from "Meatballs."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:18 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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insert the word cancel in front of the x as in xcancel,
do not disturb anything else. Press enter.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:19 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Hilter Youth Camper at May 14, 2026 08:17 PM (/+uur)
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It's no "Marching Through Georgia."
Posted by: The Western Armies at May 14, 2026 08:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:16 PM
* smiles *
Posted by: zombie Ea-nasir at May 14, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)
I shot him in my pajamas
*admirer*
nice garaminals
wait what no
No its an elephant
Posted by: Hilter Youth Camper at May 14, 2026 08:20 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:21 PM (/+uur)
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.
We’re marching to Zion,
Beautiful, beautiful Zion;
We’re marching upward to Zion,
The beautiful city of God.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 14, 2026 08:22 PM (/+uur)
I think the return of testosterone to Japan will rapidly take care of their falling birth rate. A proud people are a productive people.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:22 PM (kqNni)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 08:11 PM (zYpTz)
We also sang old slave songs. I remember one:
" O Mr. Moon, moon, bright and shiny moon, won't you come from behind that tree...
My life's in danger, but I'm scared to run
there's a man behind me with a big shotgun..."
Seriously, weird. As a kid it was just another thing they made us do in school. I hated school. All of it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 08:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Common Tater
I'm not a big Western guy, but I did
A cabasa, if you just spun it rather than using it like an inside-out maraca?
https://youtu.be/weMXR0xtEXA
A vibraslap? (Yeah, I know, but that's what it's called. Run with it, Morons.)
https://youtube.com/shorts/XK98Oc-SdHw
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2026 08:23 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (pZEOD)
Apparently, it's a Spanish Civil War version of "Starship Troopers," a film meant to convey one message and ends up conveying the opposite. I can't find the whole thing streaming for free at the moment, but I'm watching for it. These things usually come around.
I'm feeling rather bullish at the moment. I think Antifa is going to make a play and get absolutely routed. The networks have been mapped, the groundwork laid, and we know that their bench is very thin. NGO money is drying up. Without that, Soros and Co. have to make direct contributions, which is problematic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)
It’s intended to sound like boot spurs being spun, if that makes sense. But I doubt that’s what they are.
I know what you mean. It's in the Good the Bad and the Ugly. I don't know what it is. Sounds like some kind of spinning noisemaker, like a rotor inside a wheel.
Posted by: ace
The ratchet?
https://youtu.be/rkYJh5KinOA
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 08:24 PM (pZEOD)
We know about Ea-Nasir because he tried to rook a fellow Semite.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 08:25 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2026 08:25 PM (ceJ0R)
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Who on earth would ever think that natural selection ceased? I mean, except for the dead, their choices are limited.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:25 PM (nzPxx)
Cherish your family.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky
I hear you, Pug.
My boys and I were visiting friends in Marion,MT. We sat out in the yard and watched dozens of migrating hummingbirds dive bomb each other trying to get to the feeders. They were amazing. We made all kinds of commentary while watching. It was hilarious.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 08:26 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:22 PM (kqNni)
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I've said for two decades that the rebirth of the warrior spirit will also cause the Japanese to make babies again. Women want strong men, and the Japanese are some mean hombres when they want to be.
Glad they are on our side this time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)
I did manage to buy some fancy grape jelly, in anticipation that I would not neglect to buy more peanut butter. I try never to be at Zero balance, there’s maybe enough on hand for one sandwich. (I am out in the sticks, resupply is too far to be convenient).
Other than making toast, is Grape jelly good for anything else?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (1cMxB)
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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If you've never read the work around here you don't spend much time reading other comments.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
We also sang old slave songs. I remember one:
" O Mr. Moon, moon, bright and shiny moon, won't you come from behind that tree...
My life's in danger, but I'm scared to run
there's a man behind me with a big shotgun..."
Seriously, weird. As a kid it was just another thing they made us do in school. I hated school. All of it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
At the tiny grade school I went to, the music teacher had a "TV theme songs" songbook.
I liked singing the Greatest American Hero song.
In retrospect, it was amazingly weird that we sang the MASH theme song. Didn't think anything of it at the time; I just thought it was neat that it had lyrics 'cuz they weren't on TV.
Posted by: mikeski is now 29 and not at all painless at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
But double the guard at Pearl Harbor, just in case.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:28 PM (kqNni)
The dog is stalking the cat which is stalking a bird. The dog is in. Snoeflake may have a gift tomorrow. My yard sound like an aviary.
For now....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 14, 2026 08:29 PM (Sco7b)
Total mayhem. Middle kid (recently promoted to Staff Sergeant) took the bat with a tennis racket. I caught it in a towel, and we brought it to animal control to see if a round of shots were in order. Nope, but it was the end of the bat.
Siding and roof repairs last summer solved the problem (or so we hope).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)
But double the guard at Pearl Harbor, just in case.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly
We have satellites and much better radar now.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:30 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: mikeski is now 29 and not at all painless at May 14, 2026 08:27 PM (VHUov)
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I remember the moment I realized the TV show was based on a movie and the movie was...weird.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:31 PM (ZOv7s)
Not sure why you even bothered to respond. Oh, well.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2026 08:31 PM (ceJ0R)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:28 PM (kqNni)
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Those sneaky krauts are up to something...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (gnNyN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Common Tater
Boot spurs spinning? Really? It's supposed to be the sound of a revolver's cylinder being spun.
Posted by: The Foley Tech at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (5QSoL)
It kinda worked. When the July Rising took place, only 1/3 of them joined the rebellion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)
It is the only song I remember from grade school. Why that song? I guess it is a little catchy. We must have sang it a lot.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:35 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 14, 2026 08:35 PM (u82oZ)
*flicks invisible dust from sleeve*
Good evening, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:32 PM (HdYcL)
You missed a spot.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2026 08:36 PM (lSIaC)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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...and Jack Ryan
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 14, 2026 08:37 PM (gnNyN)
Went to Mass today, even though the Obligation for Ascension Thursday is transferred to Sunday. It was a bit odd to go and see a completely different bunch of people than at the 7:00 Sunday Mass I habitually attend.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:38 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:38 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:41 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:05 PM (1cMxB)
There is a video of the Danish Symphony playing music from the Good, Bad, Ugly. it might show what they use for that sound.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 14, 2026 08:41 PM (8avO+)
So edgy, so now.
What is this, 1991? I'm surprised he didn't compare himself to Turner and Hooch.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:41 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 08:42 PM (ZxPkt)
Otherwise I should have done a number of things today.
But I didn't.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
You accomplish more in a morning than most people do all day.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 08:45 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 08:34 PM (XV/Pl)
It's amazing to think of even a such thing as an iconic character.
Has there been one deployed since the Pedowood Devolution of 2015? The last one I can think that remotely fits is John Wick and he was still 2014.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:45 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:46 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: George Of The Jungle at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Common Tater
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My aunt had this clamshell thing, hinged with two matching sides that had a shape similar to a pot pie tin and long wire handles; only just the right size to line with a piece of bread. Line the two halves with bread and fill with peach preserves or your favorite. Fold together and hold over a flame from your range until the bread was toasted.
mmmm good
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 07:56 PM (zYpTz)
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We had that songbook too! I remember one about the Erie Canal -- "Low bridge, everybody down, low bridge 'cause we're comin' to a town ..."
Gotta see if I can gurgle that book on the intertubes .
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (kpS4V)
But, like going to a conference, or a big party, and being around a lot of discussion and engaging in discussion for hours. At the end when I go to bed alone then my mind won't shut up and I hear all this background ambient discussion in my head for a while before falling sleep. Not really full coherent speech, but streams of words and phrases that I've heard over the day mixed and mashed together.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 08:38 PM (HdYcL)
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Welcome to my parish! We've got the Daily Mass early risers, the ones that go to the school Mass, and then each segment on Sunday, plus the Saturday Vigil crowd.
I've done them all, and right now I'm the 11 o'clock Sunday because my friend is going to that one. But once OCIA starts, we'll be at the 10 o'clock at the 'student location.' I know that one well.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (DwqWV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Don Black
That Somali asshat that the Koreans are putting in prison was recently booted out of Japan. They probably regret not just lopping his head off.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 08:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:45 PM (vE0+H)
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Justine Bateman observed that culture basically stopped in the Aughts. Nothing has changed. No new trends in music, films, fashion. It got gay and conformist, but it all has the same washed out colors, terrible blurry CGI, and the films are all diverse and nihilist. Things might be breaking open again. Here's hoping.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Phrasing!
hinged with two matching sides that had a shape similar to a pot pie tin and long wire handles; only just the right size to line with a piece of bread. Line the two halves with bread and fill with peach preserves or your favorite. Fold together and hold over a flame from your range until the bread was toasted.
mmmm good
Posted by: Braenyard
They make cast-iron ones for campfire cooking.
* searches *
Apparently they're called "pie irons."
I enjoyed using them as a kid when we went camping; I just didn't know they had a proper name. Apple pie filling with cinnamon-raisin bread. The breakfast of champions.
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (VHUov)
mmmm good
Posted by: Braenyard
LOL
I think that was a "hobo pie" maker.
Supposed to be used over a camp fire.
Sounds like you got your merit badge for urban camping in Auntie's kitchen.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (/lPRQ)
NEW: 7 years ago, on this day, Joe Biden predicted a Republican “epiphany” where the party abandons Trump after 2020.
Many primary voters bought into it. But the prophecy failed.
Now Democrats are moving on to a more combative style of politics.
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Comity is dead.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (ndZc7)
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (3uBP9)
Some intense version of Random Synapse Firings. Everyone gets those every night as they are falling asleep, it's one of the stages - the night I learned about them (long time ago) I started being able to hear them.
I only get the thing you get when I'm around particular people, like ones who are extremely and annoyingly talkative, for a long part of a day. Then it's like I have a tape recording of them in my brain that has to unwind.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: The Foley Tech
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Spurs 'cling', as one walks on the porch going into the saloon.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 08:53 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Adrienne Barbeau at May 14, 2026 08:53 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 14, 2026 08:53 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (kpS4V)
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For a lark, I typed in garbled lyrics of a camp song I vaguely remembered from 1979 and it popped right up. Quite popular, tons of variations in verses, and yet millions sang it while slathering themselves in Deep Woods Off and drinking Hawaiian punch out of a can with a pull tab.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 08:42 PM (ZxPkt)
Way up firm and high?
Posted by: Bob Seger at May 14, 2026 08:56 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 08:52 PM (vE0+H)
I see it as an auditory version of the visual phenomenon where you are traveling 100s of miles through west Kansas, nothing but flat wheat fields, and then you stop at a hotel for the night you will see continual movement, like things spinning, in your peripheral vision for hours.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Ray's Cyst
>The pink ones will definitely stomp a mudhole into you and demand recompense.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (kqNni)
Supposedly, this is what schizophrenic hallucinations look and sound like.
Doubly on-topic music.
https://youtu.be/M2NllMn1HpI
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (VHUov)
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Really.Yeah, I think that’s supposed to be spurs, that’s kinda what it evokes. You might be right. But.
Why didn’t they just spin a revolver cylinder, then?
There’s also the “rattle snake” sound effect they use. And the “buzzing” feedback sound, when they show the Sun in the Desert. No water. Hot. You’re gonna Die.
Another oddity in shows, whenever they do a time countdown, or have a clock ticking, it’s always off, way too slow or too fast. Weird.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 08:59 PM (Iwnxp)
I noticed something happened in the 90's too but there was at least still a life and a creativity to things. Then suddenly in 2015, as if it was planned (it was), media got infiltrated and overtaken almost wholesale. For a few years before that we were saturated with black black black black, and in 2015 it "coincidentally" became women women women in preparation for the inevitable ascent of Hillary.
It wasn't just a cultural cliff push, it was supposed to appear that Hillary herself had done it. Trump knocked all the pieces off the table but they kept their weight on the culture as the primary purpose of post-2015 "entertainment" was to not let our society rally around or remotely agree on *anything*. Not one thing. Not one news story. Not anything.
Best way to do that is exactly what they did. Woke entertainment was never about teaching, it was about bifurcation. As normal opponents, going along with it meant you are aiding the divide. Similarly, in trying to stop it, you are aiding the divide. Either way "they" get their divide.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:00 PM (vE0+H)
Everything is stacked against him and he won't leave.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 14, 2026 08:58 PM (kqNni)
___________
"I say, bobbies, you won't apprehend me alive!"
*fires seltzer water*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:01 PM (HdYcL)
I think this was a Saturday morning cartoon back in the 1980s. Ralph Bakshi, maybe?
I didn't get it, but the kids loved it.
😃🫠😶🌫️🤯
Posted by: mindful webworker - Or maybe I'm thinking of Scooby Doo at May 14, 2026 09:02 PM (tcCok)
Posted by: Cid at May 14, 2026 09:02 PM (vFG9F)
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The Celebrated, venerable Tonka Toaster! Accept no substitutes.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (Iwnxp)
"That motherfucker ain't real!"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
It's the Punkin Heads comin' at me that scare me so.
Posted by: Gimme, Gimme, Shock Treatment! at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (oftw2)
*fires seltzer water*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:01 PM (HdYcL)
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Wooster without the Jeeves.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 08:47 PM (kpS4V)
I think it's entirely possible that I could find one here in Mama's basement. She has at least two boxes of sheet music and songbooks. I have a lunchtime project for tomorrow.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (zYpTz)
"Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats."
What was being done there was the classic - "There are those who say your girlfriend is a dirty slut whore. Well I dispute that wholeheartedly!"
And you only come away from that thinking one thing.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Blutarski,
He's doing what he's told.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 14, 2026 09:05 PM (NGvkg)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Or maybe I'm thinking of Scooby Doo at May 14, 2026 09:02 PM (tcCok)
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Hot Take: Bakshi's LotR is better than Peter Jackson's.
Fight me.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2026 09:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:06 PM (Iwnxp)
And you only come away from that thinking one thing.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:03 PM (vE0+H)
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"There are those who claim I never had sex with a woman, and while they are technically correct, they are on the wrong side of history!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:06 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cid
No. Just no.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 14, 2026 09:08 PM (NGvkg)
I think this was a Saturday morning cartoon back in the 1980s. Ralph Bakshi, maybe?
I didn't get it, but the kids loved it.
😃🫠😶🌫️🤯
Posted by: mindful webworker - Or maybe I'm thinking of Scooby Doo at May 14, 2026 09:02 PM (tcCok)
H.R. Pufnstuf.
Posted by: Sid & Marty Krofft at May 14, 2026 09:08 PM (wVcYX)
America: learn from this! do not let it happen here!
*narrator voice* It's not looking good...
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:09 PM (0aYVJ)
The Borzoi breeder injured at a field event at our National Specialty is recovering. A dog slammed into her at full speed, breaking her leg above and below the knee, fracturing vertebrae in her neck and back in the fall and causing a concussion. The fancy has responded nobly, seeing that the dogs she brought with her are being taken care of.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:09 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:09 PM (Iwnxp)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2026 09:10 PM (A5RD0)
Posted by: Sid & Marty Krofft at May 14, 2026 09:08 PM (wVcYX)
See also: Lidsville, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Being a kid back then was trippy, and we didn't even need the drugs!
I love you, drugs!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:11 PM (0aYVJ)
"That motherfucker ain't real!"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Oh, so you've watched Jacob's Ladder too?
Posted by: Count de Monetl for Tim Robbins at May 14, 2026 09:11 PM (wVcYX)
My Grandpa put grape jelly on his grits.
__________
Butter. That's all. Lots and lots of butter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:11 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 09:12 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:12 PM (HdYcL)
Tom Selleck would have been a much better Indian Jones. Suck on that, Mr. Ford.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:13 PM (0aYVJ)
My Grandpa put grape jelly on his grits.
__________
Butter. That's all. Lots and lots of butter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:11 PM (HdYcL)
Fig preserves, but didn't make a habit of it.
Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2026 09:13 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Cid
No. Just no.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 14, 2026 09:08 PM (NGvkg)
Not Old Bay?
Posted by: Count de Monetl at May 14, 2026 09:13 PM (wVcYX)
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No, the divide goes back much farther than that. If I had to make an arbitrary divide, one might say the LA Riots, OJ Simpson era, and the “Fuck Da Police, Kill Whitey” era of Rap. Of course one might point to the 1960s race riots as well.
Obie and his handlers most definitely put it into Maximum Overdrive, no doubt about that. Absolutely rancid people from that perspective
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:14 PM (Iwnxp)
And as much as he’s a horrible human being , Alec Baldwin was great as Jack, and should have stayed in the role
Posted by: browndog tacking on the carpet at May 14, 2026 09:16 PM (TTAGa)
No, the divide goes back much farther than that. If I had to make an arbitrary divide, one might say the LA Riots, OJ Simpson era, and the “Fuck Da Police, Kill Whitey” era of Rap.
__________
The Simpson acquittal was a shock. It was like, we don't care what the evidence is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:16 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:13 PM (0aYVJ)
Dang. You could be right. Selleck was/is three years younger than Ford.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 09:16 PM (gKWVE)
And you only come away from that thinking one thing.
Posted by: ...
That BO was a racist homo muslim who hated everything America stood for?
A little google-foo back then was all it took to find that before Hillary even dropped out. Try that now with "AI" intercepting all your searches.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 09:17 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 14, 2026 09:17 PM (NGvkg)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:17 PM (Iwnxp)
And as much as he’s a horrible human being , Alec Baldwin was great as Jack, and should have stayed in the role
Posted by: browndog tacking on the carpet at May 14, 2026 09:16 PM (TTAGa)
Yeah, sucks to admit it, but I agree. Heh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:18 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Common Tater
Grilled PB&J in a regular pan is pretty damn good. The peanut butter is like napalm - scalding hot and sticky. Use caution when eating.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 09:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Some like cream and sugar.
Others like butter, salt and pepper.
I am in the latter camp.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:20 PM (0aYVJ)
And as much as he’s a horrible human being , Alec Baldwin was great as Jack, and should have stayed in the role
Posted by: browndog tacking on the carpet at May 14, 2026 09:16 PM (TTAGa)
Yeah, sucks to admit it, but I agree. Heh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:18 PM (0aYVJ)
Red October was good and he was good. Then he became crazy and killed some people.
Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2026 09:20 PM (LHPAg)
I talk myself into it, in my head
I have a mantra that I recite to myself
describing the process of falling asleep
step by step
I almost never reach the end
this mental recitation displaces random 'noise' in my head, and I zonk out
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 09:20 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:13 PM (0aYVJ)
It would have been interesting- as long as they did not have him shave the mustache. He looks right weird without it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:21 PM (Iwnxp)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 14, 2026 09:22 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:09 PM (Iwnxp)
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Most actors are airheads. You identify the with their characters, and respect them for that. In Old Hollywood, great efforts were made to make that their only public profile.
But those days are dead, and actors think they are smart and can Change Minds and their fans will Do As They Say.
No. Abolutely not. All you are doing is humiliating yourself. Shut up already.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Some like cream and sugar.
Others like butter, salt and pepper.
I am in the latter camp.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:20 PM (0aYVJ)
First the negative Nelly 2 names thing and now sugar on grits? My ancestors are going to have to pox your house. 🤣
Grits and oatmeal, butter and salt / pepper. Cream of wheat may have sugar / maple syrup.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 09:24 PM (hftzA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
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His screen test was interesting. Ford was basically stoic, and he was modeled on Gary Cooper.
Selleck was much more animated and charismatic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 09:21 PM (zZu0s)
Heh. When we were kids my Dad shaved his mustache. We all freaked out. He grew it right back.
See also: Sam Elliot. He has the turtle lip.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:25 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: pookysgirl, passing on experiences at May 14, 2026 09:25 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2026 09:25 PM (5yqx7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2026 09:26 PM (5yqx7)
Obie and his handlers most definitely put it into Maximum Overdrive, no doubt about that. Absolutely rancid people from that perspective
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:14 PM (Iwnxp)
Yeah I know what you mean. But if you look at the 70s, 80s and 90s most people just didn't give a fuck about race. Look at all the wildly admired figures of those decades.
I'm not saying the fault lines weren't there, or even partially exposed - OJ was a good shot at us, you're right, but it didn't have the effect that 2004, Obama, Trayvon, BLM, etc did.
Look at how we all united in 2001. Scared the hell out of our betters. And of course I don't mean "everyone". Holy shit the libs were saying we deserved it while the towers were still smoldering.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:26 PM (vE0+H)
And then …. you’ll still be hungry AF in about an hour.
Oatmeal cookies are pretty damn good though.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:27 PM (Iwnxp)
My Flyers got swept by the Hurricanes and I just heard a report of what these guys were playing with. MCL tear, fractured ribs, fractured foot, broken nose, upper body injury, elbow ligament strain, etc.
Most of them didn't miss a game. Nothing tougher than a hockey player.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (HdYcL)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky
>The worst part of that movie was when Alec "The Killer" Baldwin mocked the Ukrainian captain's accent with a fake Scottish quotation.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (D1E+2)
Posted by: runner at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (GD0B3)
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Dying is easy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
Nicely played, sir. But should have socked George Burns.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (vTZFs)
I'm more than certain that a number of the outspoken pedowooders are doing scripted alphabet work.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (vE0+H)
See also: Sam Elliot. He has the turtle lip.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:25 PM (0aYVJ)
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When I was in college, my father shaved his mustache. He'd had it since before I was born.
I retaliated by growing one. I looked like Freddy Mercury.
It's in my graduation photo. Happily, he decided to return to form, and I shaved mine off. To be fair, I was also big into WW I at the time, and of course a trimmed mustache was regulation.
My wife abhors them, so my choices are beard or clean shaven. Since I retired from the Guard, beard it is.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (5yqx7)
Selleck was much more animated and charismatic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Brendan Fraser captured the Selleck model in the Mummy movies. Man, I love those. I often joke that the best Indiana Jones movie was The Mummy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2026 09:29 PM (HdYcL)
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Before they had both fallen, I had logged on to the Iowa Student Computer Association (ISCA) bulletin board. That was exactly the consensus.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:30 PM (Iwnxp)
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (vE0+H)
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Maybe, but a lot of them are just soft-headed poseurs. They are in the twilight of their careers, have no faith and so they do what they think will make them popular with their dying peers.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:31 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 14, 2026 09:31 PM (5yqx7)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:28 PM (0aYVJ)
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Yes, Selleck was masculine but also could vent frustration and express more emotion. Ford was stoic. That's not bad, but he really never had that much range. Lots of deadpan delivery. People mistook that for depth and profundity. They were wrong.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:33 PM (ZOv7s)
do not disturb anything else. Press enter.
Posted by: Braenyard
Um, at least the example is correct.
Bah. Inman vid is age restricted. Hate it when that happens. Anyway, thanks for the cafe, ace.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Follow the
xcancel has been a factor in my never signing up for x.
Posted by: mindful webworker - cancelx won't work, duuude. at May 14, 2026 09:34 PM (tcCok)
Posted by: Bob-Tail Nag at May 14, 2026 09:34 PM (oftw2)
I called Grandma on the phone to get her recipe when I was about 7 or 9, I was waiting for her to get her recipe card, she just started rattling it off from memory. Couldn’t believe it.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:34 PM (Iwnxp)
Hey, you! I said I was in the latter camp: salt, butter and pepper.
So there.
My Dad and Grandpa also taught me that salt and pepper on sliced termaters is a wonderful thing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:36 PM (Iwnxp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 09:37 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Blutarski
As I commented recently, the Japanese are talking about re-arming, and Germany wants to have the biggest military in Europe by 1939!
Italy has some catching up to do. Meloni better start making the trains run on time.
Posted by: mindful webworker - was it over when... at May 14, 2026 09:37 PM (tcCok)
Posted by: runner at May 14, 2026 09:38 PM (GD0B3)
Hey, you! I said I was in the latter camp: salt, butter and pepper.
So there.
My Dad and Grandpa also taught me that salt and pepper on sliced termaters is a wonderful thing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May
Don’t tell anyone, but I actually don’t like tomatoes. My family thinks I am crazy.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 09:38 PM (hftzA)
With brown sugar and whole milk.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 09:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hirsute and Hisute at May 14, 2026 09:39 PM (oftw2)
211 Oatmeal really should only be eaten by horses.
Posted by: Bob-Tail Nag at May 14, 2026 09:34 PM (oftw2)
I think the definition of oats in the first dictionary by Samuel Johnson said:
Oats (n), a common grain fed by the English to their horses, and by the Scots to their children.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2026 09:40 PM (AnnNE)
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2026 09:38 PM (hftzA)
My family is also pretty evenly split on olives (not the gross black ones in cans) and mushrooms. I love both. Dad hated mushrooms. I did not know I liked them until I moved out of his house.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:42 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:42 PM (Iwnxp)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:43 PM (Iwnxp)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 14, 2026 09:44 PM (XV/Pl)
——-
Before they had both fallen, I had logged on to the Iowa Student Computer Association (ISCA) bulletin board. That was exactly the consensus.
Posted by: Common Tater
===
Two Qs
- Who is this 'we'?
- Why don't you just gak yourself if your guilty?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 09:44 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: pookysgirl, SKS fan at May 14, 2026 09:45 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2026 09:45 PM (Iwnxp)
They should take the weekend and make a nuke to set the project off right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 09:46 PM (zZu0s)
The North Tulsa race riot of 1929 has entered the chat.
Posted by: mindful webworker - or is that too far back? at May 14, 2026 09:48 PM (tcCok)
the elevation plays hell with flatland cooking times
Posted by: Don Black at May 14, 2026 09:50 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Common Tater
These are the people who subsist on rotten cabbage and brewing dregs.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2026 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)
https://tinyurl.com/564e4jp6
Posted by: pookysgirl, SKS fan at May 14, 2026 09:45 PM (Wt5PA)
Yup. My bride loves my beard. But I keep it trimmed, mostly. Without a beard I look like a huge toddler.
My son's wife also likes his beard. I am still insanely happy for them. A match made in heaven.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:51 PM (0aYVJ)
Sounds like you got your merit badge for urban camping in Auntie's kitchen.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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My food merit badge was in foil packing.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 09:53 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2026 09:53 PM (gu0hJ)
"Germany wants to have the biggest military in Europe by
Posted by: mindful webworker - just a cigar at May 14, 2026 09:55 PM (tcCok)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 14, 2026 08:25 PM (ceJ0R)
Just insert "cancel" in the URL, to turn x.com into xcancel.com. That also allows reading the thread of replies without an X account.
Posted by: SciVo at May 14, 2026 09:55 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:51 PM (0aYVJ)
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I could only grow "leave beards" for a long time, and my wife was happy when it became the norm. I have a heavy beard, and shaving it was always time-consuming. Now that I'm out, I'm saving a fortune on razors, since I'm only trimming around the edges.
That being said, I clip it short in the summer, down the stubble and also buzz my hair, and then let both grow out during the winter.
When I first got out, I let everything grow out, and went to a retirement with a long beard, long hair, and the loudest Hawaiian shirt I could find, complete with shorts and sandals. My chief wept with laughter when he saw me.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Common Tater
These are the people who subsist on rotten cabbage and brewing dregs.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Good insight as to why we are what we are and
they are what they are.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 14, 2026 09:56 PM (nzPxx)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2026 09:53 PM (gu0hJ)
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He's really good in the Jesse Stone movies.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 14, 2026 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 14, 2026 09:53 PM (gu0hJ)
I love that movie!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 09:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Vincent d'Onofrio had a brief cameo as Orson Welles, and he looked just like him, but they dubbed Orson-for-life Maurice LeMarche's voice.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 09:58 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: pookysgirl, passing on experiences at May 14, 2026 09:25 PM (Wt5PA)
I see scintillating scotomas, they are zigzag flashing visual patterns. The start out really small, then grow larger and eventually go past my field of vision.
Posted by: Joemarine at May 14, 2026 09:59 PM (y171U)
Vincent d'Onofrio had a brief cameo as Orson Welles, and he looked just like him, but they dubbed Orson-for-life Maurice LeMarche's voice.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 14, 2026 09:58 PM (kpS4V)
interesting. Did not know that.
You know who did a great Orson Wells impression?
John Candy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 10:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2026 09:37 PM (zZu0s)
Get to the TX MoMee this year, I have a Source.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2026 10:01 PM (Ra+Eb)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Still Cranky at May 14, 2026 10:02 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 14, 2026 10:03 PM (D1E+2)
Never cared for oatmeal.
Grits are good, sweet or salty.
I like Rice Cream Cereal, which can be either way like grits. And it's not beyond my culinary skills to make it. Add some of MiladyJo's home-made sunflower butter. Mmm.
Posted by: mindful webworker - breakfast or snack at May 14, 2026 10:03 PM (tcCok)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2026 10:04 PM (Ra+Eb)
Posted by: SciVo at May 14, 2026 10:05 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1)
"Bach in Black" silly. The kids played "Bach in Black"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 10:10 PM (rbvCR)
https://tinyurl.com/564e4jp6
Posted by: pookysgirl, SKS fan at May 14, 2026 09:45 PM (Wt5PA)
There are some pictures out there of what Trump would look like with a shaved head and beard.
It is half way between "older Popeye" and "about ready to tear you in half"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 10:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2026 10:42 PM (rbvCR)
Including my two regular science gals, Aussie astrophysicist Dr. Becky, and the amusing German physicist Sabine Hoffensfloffer or something. I enjoy their videos, even though half the time I'm utterly lost as to what they're talking about.
Some things I do know what they're talking about make me sigh, though.
Hossenfelder really buys into the whole "renewable" energy and electric vehicles credo, as well as the threat or menace of climate chaos.
Becky gets distressed that the US budget for NASA has been big on exploration (Moon, Mars missions) but has greatly shrunk the budget for scientific research and NSA. Her friends and fellow scientists may not be able to belly up to the trough.
Sad face for both of them, but it seems to this non-physicist that they're not really getting the whole picture on those subjects. At least Sabine is not opposed to nuke energy. They're kinda cute & funny for semi-libs.
Tonight's Sabine & Becky vids if you wanna check 'em out.
youtu.be/d96WHYOHoU8
youtu.be/0pvL-JkR0Ns
Posted by: mindful webworker - Pluto IS TOO a planet because it is :) at May 14, 2026 11:39 PM (tcCok)
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Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)