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Saturday Night Club ONT - October 10, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

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Pensacola Beach, on the eve of Hurricane Isaias

Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Have no fear. The Moose out front has not evacuated in light of the hurricane. He remains on duty.

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

I had to go to the hospital overnight to have some tests done. As I was settling into my bed, my "roommate" was ordering breakfast from the cafeteria"

"First I would like some scrambled eggs. I like them really runny. Like cook them for about 7 seconds and be sure to include at least one whole eggshell"

"Second I would like coffee, served black and cold. Not iced, just cold coffee that has been sitting around for a day or two"

"Now this third request will sound strange. I would like a glass of orange juice in a used urine specimen cup. The slight taste of urine settles my stomach"

Suddenly I heard a shreik from the phone. The cafeteria worker screamed, "That's just disgusting! We can't do that"

"Why not, you did it yesterday!"


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Drink of the Night

Maybe a repeat but it's timely

Hurricane Cocktail

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Ingredients
2 oz light rum
2 oz dark rum
2 oz passion fruit juice
1 oz orange juice
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
1 tbsp simple syrup
1 tbsp grenadine
Garnish: Orange Slice and Cherry

Instructions
Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Strain into a hurricane glass then garnish with orange slice and cherry and serve.

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Club ONT Department of Candy Combat

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Club ONT Department of Seasonal Change

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Club ONT Department of Sanitation

Please wash your hands after using the Club ONT Tinkletorium.

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Club ONT Film Department

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Club ONT Department of Awesome Space Stuff

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Club ONT Jukebox

Follow up to Thursday's [BLANK] on the [BLANK] theme. These were Horde suggestions.

From Dark Lixtiquatal


From tankdemon


From mikeski


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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

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Club ONT is brought to you by Florida Man


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Club ONT was thankfully not in the path of Isaias. Free drinks tonight to those who were!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 That's that

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VPNgR)

2 Oh, my!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (96kpa)

3 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:02 PM (N5iuz)

5
*burns popcorn in ONT microwave*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:02 PM (eRlcH)

6 Free drinks? Are they around to imbibe?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

7 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)


Looks like you have the Talcum Level Membership. Higher levels see all 10.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

8 "Not even close."

I LOLed.

Posted by: mikeski, nerd at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (VHUov)

9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again

Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

10 it's '10ish'

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

11 Evening, Doof and Dino, and ONT Horde folks!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 10:06 PM (quk5M)

12 it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

We're just not commenting up to the CoB's standards.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 10:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

13 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)


I have seen comments about "American Covid" referring to the current flu season.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 10:07 PM (rbvCR)

14 it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry


Nah, it's usually pickleball here, Mr. Connery.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

15 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:07 PM (+9wcF)

16
it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

__________

Shrinkflation, D und D style.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

17 That's Muscle Man from Regular Show.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 10:09 PM (Cqx++)

18 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u


They are “required” at my work again.
Almost no one is paying attention.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 10:09 PM (Ciokv)

19 My ears are bleeding. The carpenter at the previous thread, tattooed sleeves, beard, uptick voice. The narrator on 'America's Nuclear Mission'; vocal fry. Argh, _ runs to get cotton and alum.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 10:10 PM (VPNgR)

20 I noticed Florida Man was not wearing pink crocs.

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (K7v1x)

21 Hey you Ds! Let's see what we can do tonight! Dares!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (96kpa)

22 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (S8cdb)

23 Great ONT. I am totally whelmed!

Thanks for the Fort Walton Beach guy. Hope he went back inside before he was injured by windblown objects.

Great joke! And I love the name "Tinkletorium"! Classy!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 10, 2026 10:12 PM (D/6p1)

24 Woo! Made Top 10ish again! Wish I could share the warmish glow I'm feeling.

Posted by: Feeling As Good As Florida Man at October 10, 2026 10:13 PM (EdP2u)

25 3 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

First rule of 10th comment club, is... don't talk about 10th comments...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:14 PM (mP0Kj)

26 I'm a survivor of Isaias like David Hogg is a survivor of a school mass shooting. Meaning, I saw it on the news.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:14 PM (4Je4D)

27 I came across this quote while surfing for memes, and thought it described tomorrow's threads pretty well. Now, which came first, the quote or the regularly scheduled threads?

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)

28 Woo! Made Top 10ish again! Wish I could share the warmish glow I'm feeling.
Posted by: Feeling As Good As Florida Man at October 10, 2026 10:13 PM (EdP2u)


Don't start getting the trophy case extended just yet, junior.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:15 PM (4Je4D)

29 Oh yes, tinkletorium will be a whimsical change in vocabulary I incorporate.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (ftFVW)

30 Yoda cartoon is good.

News you can use, appropriate for a Saturday ONT (based on a sample size of 1 so subject to revision): Boulevard Nitro Stout > Guinness widget can.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (vTZFs)

31 Hey you Ds! Let's see what we can do tonight! Dares!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:11 PM (96kpa)


Howdy COMM!

Will you be at the ranch next weekend?

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

32 27 I came across this quote while surfing for memes, and thought it described tomorrow's threads pretty well. Now, which came first, the quote or the regularly scheduled threads?

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

— Rudyard Kipling
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)

One of my all time favorite quotes came from a cheezy swashbuckler from the 50's... The Son of Monte Christo...

"This man is dangerous, he has a sense of humor..."

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)

33 it's '10ish'
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)


Eleven-han Omar sez Whuuuuut?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:16 PM (4Je4D)

34 Sweet definitely hit the sweet spot in the early 1970's. The implosion of the bandmembers was the stuff of legend. Shame. They were really good.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (QaH55)

35 24 Woo! Made Top 10ish again! Wish I could share the warmish glow I'm feeling.
Posted by: Feeling As Good As Florida Man

Dude. You just peed your pants, didn’t you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (GtiC3)

36 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)

37 Uff-da!

I think someone used the tinkletorium as a pootelier.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

38 The Texas Tailgaters defeated The Savannah Bananas 2-1 in the inaugural Banana Bowl before a capacity crowd at Nationals Park in Showdowns. (Game tied after nine innings). Retired Nationals Ryan Zimmerman and Jordan Zimmerman appeared in the game.

Posted by: Seasons Change And So Did I at October 10, 2026 10:18 PM (EdP2u)

39 36 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)

It's like a bad joke... Your Mama is so ugly we had to invent a disease and destroy freedom so she would have to wear a mask.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)

40 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)


You know we're going to have five more months of pandemic because Howard Stern came out of his house and saw his shadow.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (4Je4D)

41 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.

If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (6zvQl)

42 I don't often comment on college football, but since we're heading south next week (to a particular state) I will note that the pitiful Oklahoma Sooners defeated the number 1 Texas some-kind-of-cattle today. OU is bad. Miracles occur.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 10:21 PM (Jr+re)

43 It amuses me that I can put on a music video... not have ANY idea who the group is... yet know every damn word to the song.... 50 years later.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:21 PM (mP0Kj)

44 Until now I never knew what was in a Hurricane drink. You get to keep the glass from Pat O'Brien's in NOLA.

I was in the piano bar there during one Mardi Gras in college. The crowd carried us there. Sitting in a NC university frat boy's lap drinkin'this huge cocktail. Got the only hickie of my life on my neck and didn't notice. My mother did the next day, though, in spite of my turtleneck and make up. I was surprised as well.

Met him and his friends with my friends at a parade. We were hanging off the barricade and a guy with a rifle was spotted on the balcony above us. I wanted to see him (I was not very bright at 17yrs) and he grabbed me as the police ran in.

Now they would cancel the parade and close down for a day. At the time the parade went on. We hung out with them the rest of the afternoon and evening before being picked up by my mother.

He'd call me at our dorm in MS and we wrote for a few months. He and one guy showed up at my parent's farm one day and flipped out mother. Went out with him the final time and he realized what a prude I was and that endeth that. Nice guy. This concludes my dating activity for that semester.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:22 PM (hzuYO)

45 41 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.

If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (6zvQl)

They are creating the panic a bit late... election is already here...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:22 PM (mP0Kj)

46 Red River War?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (6zvQl)

47 39 36 9 Retards are wearing masks on planes again
Posted by: 88C+u at October 10, 2026 10:04 PM (LaOsP)

I wish nothing but ill on them. They belong in asylums.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (BHTo4)

It's like a bad joke... Your Mama is so ugly we had to invent a disease and destroy freedom so she would have to wear a mask.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 10, 2026 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)
________________________

If they sit in the last row, tell them they are violating the six foot distancing obligation, and that they have to perch on the tail of the plane.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (dIske)

48 Red River War?


More of a scuffle than a war . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (Jr+re)

49 Dude. You just peed your pants, didn’t you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (GtiC3)

Early in my government career, an old alcoholic co-worker told me that doing a good job for the government was like peeing in a dark pair of pants. It gives you a warm sensation, but nobody notices.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (QaH55)

50
Luckily, I live in Texas and not in a city. Falling prey to maskomania is unlikely.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:23 PM (eRlcH)

51 If your election lasts for more than four hours....

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:25 PM (6zvQl)

52 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.

If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:19 PM (6zvQl)

If you have to, use the heavy duty toilet paper mask, not the single ply. That stuff'll rip if you look at it funny.

Either that, or get a plague doctor mask. If you have to wear one, at least get some fun out of it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (qx7Zg)

53 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for ClubONT, 2Ds!

"Have no fear. The Moose out front has not evacuated in light of the hurricane. He remains on duty."

Yes. The Moose abides...

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (rdVOm)

54 It amuses me that I can put on a music video... not have ANY idea who the group is... yet know every damn word to the song.... 50 years later.
Posted by: Romeo13


Music sits in a different part of your brain than plain narration does. It's why our pre-literate caveman ancestors sang their tribal history to each other.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

55 I work at an Imperial Facility.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (6zvQl)

56 Hello! Well, things are tense here at Casa de Piper. A tied game. We never play well in Tuscaloosa and today is no different.

Prove me wrong, Dawgs. Please.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

57 Red River War?
Posted by: Boss Moss

TX lost.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (GZ3K7)

58 Why are people wearing masks?
Bank robbers?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (VPNgR)

59 Evenin’, All. Happy Saturday night.

Wow, I have no recollection at all of posting that belly-dancing comment.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

60 Collaboration, Conglomeration, Mish-Mash, Rule by Committee, It's all good. Good to see the sum of the parts yielding such excellence.

Posted by: On the Old Front Porch at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (EdP2u)

61 For years in my youth scientists and philosophers debated which is better, Heather Thomas in a dunk tank or Heather Locklear in a dunk tank? Well, like Oracles of old, Network Executives provided us an answer: Embrace the power of "and" , perhaps just as relevant, "simultaneously".

https://tinyurl.com/2rpka3ra

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (r7+Q7)

62 31 Doof

Unfortunately I have some hip work i need done. Walking is mostly out for me for awhile. Very said about this 😮‍💨. (Sneak me a Pic or 2 if you can!) I surely will be there in spirit!
I'll miss you all❣️💔

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (96kpa)

63 Screaming for Vengeance is best Judas Priest.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (GZ3K7)

64 If your election lasts for more than four hours....
Posted by: Boss Moss


.....Kim Jong-something-or-other will be holding executions tomorrow.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

65 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

66 Screaming for Vengeance is best Judas Priest.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (GZ3K7)


Hmmmmm -- damn good album, but I gotta go with British Steel.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (QMAsf)

67 37 Uff-da!

I think someone used the tinkletorium as a pootelier.....
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

I scared Saijo because I laughed really loudly. And kind of through my nose. It was not a princess like laugh at all.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

68 Hello! Well, things are tense here at Casa de Piper. A tied game. We never play well in Tuscaloosa and today is no different.

Prove me wrong, Dawgs. Please.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

Saijo is playing?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (qx7Zg)

69 No love for Neil Young's Like a Hurricane? It's a fine song, one of many by Young, although he's mostly an asshole.

Posted by: Born in Toronto at October 10, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

70 O got my rehire status back at a previous employer. Friday phone call. They must be desperate. Methinks war is coming.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (6zvQl)

71 Thanks for ClubONT, 2Ds!

"Have no fear. The Moose out front has not evacuated in light of the hurricane. He remains on duty."

Yes. The Moose abides...
Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (rdVOm)


Howdy JQ! Pour one for yourself. On the house!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (QMAsf)

72 Evening, all. Probably going to turn in early, I guess. The world can wait until I get home from Church tomorrow.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (aJQbY)

73 Thanks for the ONT, Double Ds!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 10:31 PM (Jr+re)

74 65 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

75 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete

So you are just going to ignore the rest of us?

Well fine, be that qay.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (NnhvP)

76 Music sits in a different part of your brain than plain narration does. It's why our pre-literate caveman ancestors sang their tribal history to each other.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

*******
Including the wrong lyrics: "Blinded by the light...dressed up like a douche and running through the night."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (hzuYO)

77 We are, every so slowly, moving into the house again. We built the closet shelves today, and are moving our stuff downstairs into the new bedroom. It is so damned satisfying after three months in the camper. There's still at least a weeks worth of work for the contractor, including hooking up the plumbing fixtures and finishing out the shower. I will be absolutely thrilled when they finally get the washer and dryer up and running. No more icky laundromat with all the assholes who make such messes and are so rude.

Plus, it's $5 a load to wash, plus about $3 to dry, so it's outrageously expensive, and half the appliances are broke down... bitch bitch bitch.

The renovations are beautiful, and I know we are going to be very happy. So I suppose it's all worth it. But that was one hell of a summer.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (BYJyI)

78 Hi, Doof! Thank you for the drink!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (rdVOm)

79 Screaming for Vengeance is best Judas Priest.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (GZ3K7)

Hmmmmm -- damn good album, but I gotta go with British Steel.
Posted by: Doof

There's really no wrong answer there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (GZ3K7)

80 68 Hello! Well, things are tense here at Casa de Piper. A tied game. We never play well in Tuscaloosa and today is no different.

Prove me wrong, Dawgs. Please.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

Saijo is playing?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10

When UGA scores, he hops around. He has no idea why we are excited, but he is going to be excited too!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

81 Plague returning. CIA stooge banned vapes in my state. Big tobacco owns the state government.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (6zvQl)

82 I wore a mask today...

For a *correct* reason: I was cleaning out the pellet stove & didn't want to breathe in a bunch of ash and soot!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (rdVOm)

83 My back porch for 3 days

https://photos.app.goo.gl/iYveF5NsCYgqoDDC9

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (/+uur)

84 I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)


You coulda kept that stuff down there! I had to cancel golf tomorrow afternoon.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

85 73 Double Ds? Sydney Sweeney is a cob?

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (77rzZ)

86 The all time champ of the Dunk Tank was Randi Oakes, most times in the tank (4) and I think, dunked 16 times.

Posted by: Water Under The Bridge at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (EdP2u)

87 I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

I'm glad you are intact. I was concerned.

Now, on to the important stuff. What is the correct attire for me to wear Tuesday at the Trump rally in Wasilla? I'm thinking my dark blue skirt, flag print shirt, and my stars and bars cowboy boots, but if you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (BYJyI)

88 How is everyone this evening? Genki?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (2GVsD)

89 >>No love for Neil Young's Like a Hurricane? It's a fine song, one of many by Young, although he's mostly an asshole.

He's an entire asshole.

Great song.

https://tinyurl.com/2vbkvh3r

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (viF8m)

90 3 There's only nine!

I wonder what would have been the top 10th comment?
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

There's only nine so each of us can believe ours is the missing tenth comment.

It's like a Schrodinger's Comment thing. It both exists and doesn't exist simultaneously.....

Greetings All.

Thank you for always great content Disco and Dino even though again I don't make it into the CotW fold.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (QGaXH)

91 "What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth."
- - - - - - - - - - -
Trump's success in the presidential election against two different women seems to boil down to a matter of quantity.

The first opponent did not blow enough Willie.

The second opponent blew too much Willie.

Unfortunately, due to the 22nd Amendment, we will never be able to determine if there's a correct amount of Willie blown that would win against Trump in an erection election.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (4h45B)

92 Plague returning. CIA stooge banned vapes in my state. Big tobacco owns the state government.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Wth? Why not just do like other states-- pretend that vapes are the same as smoking and tax them?

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (rdVOm)

93 Including the wrong lyrics: "Blinded by the light...dressed up like a douche and running through the night."

For Bruce that would be too autobiographical.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (+9wcF)

94 A southern man don't need him around anyhow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:35 PM (6zvQl)

95 74 Glad to hear you weathered the storm, Your Piperness. I guess it’s our turn now.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (77rzZ)

96 83 My back porch for 3 days

https://photos.app.goo.gl/iYveF5NsCYgqoDDC9
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:33 PM (/+uur)

Well, that's damned gorgeous. You poor fellow, having to put up with that for so long....

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (BYJyI)

97 Glad to see you made it Piper, too bad about the power. At least it wasn't for days and days. What was Soup's opinion?

The Democrats in VA and MD need a wet blanket tossed on them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (2GVsD)

98 There's really no wrong answer there.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (GZ3K7)


I also have a strong affinity for Defenders of the Faith. I saw them on that tour - my first rock concert.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM (QMAsf)

99 Top 10ish Comments of the Week
.......

My vote goes to fd.

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (oq9dX)

100 Guy at the gas station was wearing a mask. $20 on pump one Doctor.
If 2 more people get Covid at work we will have to mask again . It's happening.
Posted by: Boss Moss
+++
The covidiots think that 2020 was the good old days.
It was a time when they were heroes for wearing their masks and reporting their neighbors for any subversive activity. And they think they saved the world by getting their covid shots and all the endless boosters.
They would love to re-live that time. To them, it was the best of times.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (Lo97M)

101
Indian nurse on TikTok.

She's working in some rural American setting, says her patient (female) asked her what the red dot on her forehead is for.

Husband pipes up. "On her wedding night, her husband scratches that and finds out whether he's won a motel or a gas station."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (mmrXZ)

102 They did that. Insurance goes up if you vape at my previous employer. No increased premiums for fat basteds.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (6zvQl)

103 They would love to re-live that time. To them, it was the best of times.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (Lo97M)

Frankly, I would love them to relive that time as well, but without me. Fuck them and the idiots they rode in on. Never. Fucking. Again. Ever. Period.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (BYJyI)

104 Yes, laundromats almost everywhere feature the dregs of society, although I guess that the people who never wash their clothes are one rung below.
It's not so bad if you live in an apartment complex or building where only the residents use it, but open to the general public is a real crapshoot.

Posted by: Speed Queen at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (EdP2u)

105 Priss and the Replicants - "There's a Hurricane Tonight."

https://youtu.be/v6DNqjCyA20

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:39 PM (2GVsD)

106 Husband pipes up. "On her wedding night, her husband scratches that and finds out whether he's won a motel or a gas station."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Hahaha.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:39 PM (GZ3K7)

107 Good evening Horde! Thanks for being here. Club ONT thanks you for your patronage.

Posted by: TRex- hurricane dino at October 10, 2026 10:39 PM (56W4x)

108 If your election lasts for more than four hours....
Posted by: Boss Moss

What's all this I hear about Presidential erections?

Posted by: Zombie Emily Latella at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (N5iuz)

109 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

110 Libtard sis loved the masks, but I think it was mostly because she had fallen down & broke a front tooth, and couldn't get to the dentist right away.

She wasn't fond of the travel restrictions.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm)

111 The weather forecast for a certain place next week looks pretty good.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)

112 I don't get it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (6zvQl)

113 I've destroyed a Tinkletorium or two.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at October 10, 2026 10:41 PM (oq9dX)

114 There must be a state line somewhere.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:41 PM (6zvQl)

115 109 San Fran, who are the “Dvoim?”

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)

116 *Tinkletorium sign*

Stand closer. It's further away than you think.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:43 PM (wVcYX)

117 Indian nurse on TikTok.

She's working in some rural American setting, says her patient (female) asked her what the red dot on her forehead is for.

Husband pipes up. "On her wedding night, her husband scratches that and finds out whether he's won a motel or a gas station."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 10, 2026 10:38 PM (mmrXZ)

And behind curtain number 3 is your prize, ... a broken down outhouse that's about to fall into the river!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:44 PM (qx7Zg)

118 Now, on to the important stuff. What is the correct attire for me to wear Tuesday at the Trump rally in Wasilla? I'm thinking my dark blue skirt, flag print shirt, and my stars and bars cowboy boots, but if you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 10:34 PM (BYJyI)

Well that is certainly very Americana, and if you love the boots, rock them. It’s hard to know the print of the boots against the shirt- I am all about mixing prints that work. If you are unsure, maybe pick the shirt or the boots. This is why we need AOSHQ pic o vision, so I can see the boots against the shirt and skirt.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

119 *Tinkletorium sign*

Stand closer. It's further away than you think.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:43 PM (wVcYX)

I always liked the "please don't eat the big white mint" sign.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 10, 2026 10:44 PM (vzuC7)

120 Yes, laundromats almost everywhere feature the dregs of society, although I guess that the people who never wash their clothes are one rung below. It's not so bad if you live in an apartment complex or building where only the residents use it, but open to the general public is a real crapshoot.
Posted by: Speed Queen

My FWP: The Lovely Mrs. insisted upon new Speed Queens as the old Whirlpool set was starting to drop a few rust flakes into the wash. Until the new set was delivered she visited the local Weirdomat. She met a destitute mom spending a fortune (for her) on cleaning her family's duds. Mrs. had me deliver our old set (still working fine) to that young Mom.

My wife is on the path to Sainthood.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (N5iuz)

121 We are, every so slowly, moving into the house again.
====

What a relief. Mazel!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

122 The weather forecast for a certain place next week looks pretty good.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)


At present, it sure does. Check back in a few days!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (QMAsf)

123 How is everyone this evening? Genki?
Posted by: Anna Puma


Hai!

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

124
Cleveland has done what the Yankees couldn't: come back from a 2-0 deficit to win a series.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:46 PM (eRlcH)

125 Cleveland Indians.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:47 PM (6zvQl)

126 She met a destitute mom spending a fortune (for her) on cleaning her family's duds. Mrs. had me deliver our old set (still working fine) to that young Mom.

My wife is on the path to Sainthood.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM (N5iuz)
=====
That's really up there in terms of good deeds.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

127 Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:45 PM

Wow, that's very kind of both of you!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

128 The tinkletorium made me look up vitreous china. I always knew commodes were made of it, but never knew what vitreous meant. Never too old to learn, I guess.

Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.

Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

129 I don't get it?
Posted by: Boss Moss
......

I don't know, do you?

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (oq9dX)

130 97 Glad to see you made it Piper, too bad about the power. At least it wasn't for days and days. What was Soup's opinion?

The Democrats in VA and MD need a wet blanket tossed on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM

He is glad it’s over and said enough is enough. Get the dang generator, we aren’t waiting anymore on a power wall. We can do one of those if we move.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

131 San Fran, who are the “Dvoim?”
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
====

Дино и Диско!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

132 Sometimes I have to listen to Eric and the neighbors do, too.

She's Waiting

https://tinyurl.com/2yvca3a2

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (hzuYO)

133 Tonypete you and your wife are good folks.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (PV+Zw)

134 Field goal….

It’s cold in Tuscaloosa, 60s. Neither team is acclimated. I am going with that.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

135 The Dragonborn.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:50 PM (6zvQl)

136 Glad to see you made it Piper, too bad about the power. At least it wasn't for days and days. What was Soup's opinion?

The Democrats in VA and MD need a wet blanket tossed on them.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:36 PM

He is glad it’s over and said enough is enough. Get the dang generator, we aren’t waiting anymore on a power wall. We can do one of those if we move.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

If he's already expressing all that, when does he start teaching Dog at the local veterinary school?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:50 PM (qx7Zg)

137 Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.
Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

Is that a potty joke?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

138 >>My wife is on the path to Sainthood.
Posted by: Tonypete

Sounds like you will accompanying her.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (viF8m)

139 131. Ah. I should pay attention to the cobs.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (77rzZ)

140 Yeah, AOSHQ pic o vision would be quite a hoot.

Posted by: Quickly Zips Up, Stops Picking Nose at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (EdP2u)

141 Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.
Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

Is that a potty joke?


Depends on how you look at it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (+9wcF)

142 I will note that the pitiful Oklahoma Sooners defeated the number 1 Texas some-kind-of-cattle today. OU is bad. Miracles occur.
****

Several someones (referees and playback monitors) had made big bets on a big upset and have a big payday coming tomorrow. Sports book strikes again.

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (zGeQ7)

143 Soup is smarter than some Humans.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

144 I'm partial to vomitoriums.

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (oq9dX)

145 If he's already expressing all that, when does he start teaching Dog at the local veterinary school?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10

He is a Shiba Inu. They are a very bright and very opinionated breed. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

146 Soup is smarter than some Humans.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

That's a lower bar than it used to be.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 10:53 PM (qx7Zg)

147 Tribe wins … TRIBE WINS

Outstanding resolve down 0-2, takes the series 3-2

Posted by: browndog rounding the bases at October 10, 2026 10:54 PM (oCio0)

148 You mean the guardians.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:54 PM (6zvQl)

149 I have three generators going in the shop for tune ups next week..

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 10:55 PM (LHPAg)

150 That's a lower bar than it used to be.

Sadly pravda.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)

151 The BUFF is still around............

Over 65 years old and now eligible for Medicare...

BUFF -----------> The Big Ugly Fat F**ker

When I flew BUFFs in my early 20's, it was 10 years older than me back in 1983...

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 10, 2026 10:57 PM (PAi6p)

152 The worst thing about this latest hurricane is how to pronounce the damn thing.

I’ll bet that even Cantore can’t pronounce it correctly.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:58 PM (77rzZ)

153 The B-52J is not your granddad's BUFF.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

154 Girls have Tinkletoriums.
Boys have bushes.

Posted by: wth at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (oq9dX)

155 Happy Saturday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (ibDUx)

156 Hi folks. Still here. Trying animation things.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (CHHv1)

157 You mean the guardians.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 10:54 PM (6zvQl)

That's their tranny name. Real team name is still Indians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (quk5M)

158 Happy Saturday Horde!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 10:59 PM (ibDUx)


DDS! You're a little early tonight. Good to see you!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (QMAsf)

159 Soup is smarter than some Humans.
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's a lower bar than it used to be.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


Tourist: "Why don't you use bear-proof dumpsters?"

Yosemite park ranger: "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUov)

160 155 Hey, Debby! Hey, Beckoning!

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (77rzZ)

161 Well, I guess we won't have much longer to use it.

Politics · Trending
Talafreako

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (nEUC6)

162 Mikeski

Hidiki Anno reboots Yogi the Bear

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:00 PM (2GVsD)

163 Ttalefreako is STILL missing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

164 My 10 year old generator wouldn't start a couple weeks ago, dumping the bowl, cleaning carb didn't help. Ordered another one and a new carb at the same time. Now I have two. It's a bit of a PITA changing the carb on the suitcase-type enclosed inverters, but they are so much quieter than the old open frame ones. You really need an inverter to keep your electronics safe, anyway. Live 5 miles from the ocean, need a generator.

Posted by: Semper Paratus. at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (EdP2u)

165 I triple damn dare the communists to try that mask/vaccine bullshit again

please.

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (jrgJz)

166
132 Sometimes I have to listen to Eric and the neighbors do, too.

She's Waiting

https://tinyurl.com/2yvca3a2
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 10:49 PM (hzuYO)

That has always been my favorite Clapton song by far! It fascinates me to wonder what was in his mind when he wrote it, since the fife, drum and cadence all have a very 18th century martial music feel. (Or do we say vibe now?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (Y6Q+5)

167 Hey, Doof.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

168 They would love to re-live that time. To them, it was the best of times.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 10, 2026 10:37 PM (Lo97M)

I admit, I loved that there was no traffic and no one in the stores when we boldly flaunted our independence and went out and did things. Let the terrified masked karens remain at home and outta my way. Then I could go down the aisle the wrong way with no one saying a word.

Posted by: moki at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (wLjpr)

169 "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

Posted by: mikeski

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (VPNgR)

170 Hidiki Anno reboots Yogi the Bear
Posted by: Anna Puma


Poor Boo-Boo.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov)

171 Kentucky beats #10 LSU! Went for 2 in the first OT for the win. Son of Doof is probably chugging bourbon right now!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (QMAsf)

172 I need something to poke holes in the masks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (6zvQl)

173 Hi, Debby! Happy Caturday to you, too!

*pours Chivas*

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (rdVOm)

174 I need something to poke holes in the masks.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Paper punch?

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (rdVOm)

175 Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (2GVsD)

176 Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.
Posted by: Anna Puma


Maybe two other Morons get this conversation.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 11:05 PM (VHUov)

177 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

What is proper hurricane fashion.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)

178 Live 5 miles from the ocean, need a generator.
Posted by: Semper Paratus. at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (EdP2u)

We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

179 This is a long 2 minutes, y’all.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

180 Out of hurricane range & there is currently the tropical storm from the Pacific and CA going over us. There will be snow in the mountains. We need the rain.

In 2005 we had 3 CAT 3's hit our FL Atlantic beach & a tiny bit south of our barrier island.Mandatory evacs, twice to Tallahassee vs Tampa (son in Tampa had 3 roommates). Hunker from wind, run from water.

Kept stuff in bins in the LR for six weeks. Had art and stuff in both college towns til Thanksgiving. We only lost power at bunker home briefly as power was underground and connected to emergency services in the beach town.

The Neanderthal neighbor next to us lost power for 2wks and deserved it. The beach town south of us and my best friend didn't deserve it.

Publix, after this year, got generators for every store. Finding fresh produce was a miracle then.

Volunteered with the Salvation Army a few blocks away as I felt so guilty having power. Job was ice bags,, and a state senator kept sticking his head in the cars politicking. I wanted to yell at him but I knew his mother. I got pulled to give out spaghetti dinners instead.

Same fencing down for 2 hurricanes.House fine.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (hzuYO)

181 Maybe two other Morons get this conversation.

And this is a bad thing nyah?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (2GVsD)

182 Hey, Doof.
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)


Howdy!

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 11:07 PM (QMAsf)

183 Hidiki Anno reboots Yogi the Bear
Posted by: Anna Puma

Poor Boo-Boo.....

Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.
Posted by: Anna Puma
****

Don't give the Japanese any hints, they are already weird enough.

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:08 PM (zGeQ7)

184 Local car show was today. Disappointed that I didn't see any of you there. Lot of repeat cars from previous years. Did get to see two AMX's, which was unexpected. Usually only get one.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 11:09 PM (+9wcF)

185 152 The worst thing about this latest hurricane is how to pronounce the damn thing.

I’ll bet that even Cantore can’t pronounce it correctly.

Posted by: Bulg
---

NOAA ought to stick with Global Warming and stop making up shit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:09 PM (VPNgR)

186 We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.
Posted by: Piper

You can't hide money!$$$$

Posted by: Very Fixed Income at October 10, 2026 11:09 PM (EdP2u)

187 Go Dawgs!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (ZdaMQ)

188 163 Ttalefreako is STILL missing?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

For a guy who was missing he sure showed up in my feeds a lot. I seem to be on some kind of list with ActBlue. I even got an ad from Bear Claw's twin running in Florida. I've never set foot in Florida and my budget for Ukrainian con men has been spent through my taxes.

Beato Talarico should literally be listed on the ballot as "This Fukkin' Guy? You Serious?"

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (r7+Q7)

189 Gendo Ikari plays the park ranger.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Maybe two other Morons get this conversation.
Posted by: mikeski
****

ibid #183...

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (zGeQ7)

190 Someone up top posted N. Young's "Hurricane". You can find Adam Sandler doing this song on YouTube. He totally does it better....😛

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 11:10 PM (96kpa)

191 >>> 178 Live 5 miles from the ocean, need a generator.
Posted by: Semper Paratus. at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (EdP2u)

We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

You will be happy to have it.

If for some reason there is a backlog in your area, you could get a portable and have an electrician install an outside outlet (yes, really) where you can plug in the portable instead of running extension cords all over.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 11:11 PM (3mtzY)

192 I need something to poke holes in the masks.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:03 PM (6zvQl)
=====

Wear a button that says, "Your Mask is Dirty"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

193 185. When are they gonna name a hurricane “Cantore?”

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (77rzZ)

194 What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)

Perhaps we'll find out in tomorrow's ONT!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)

195 For a really strange anime vibe to Yogi is to run it through the lens of Gleipnir.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

196 of repeat cars from previous years. Did get to see two AMX's, which was unexpected. Usually only get one.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

At least one of them was a lowly Javelin with fancy decals.

Posted by: Can't Fool Me at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (EdP2u)

197 .....Kim Jong-something-or-other will be holding executions tomorrow.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

____________________

Say what you want about that tubby leader...but he sure gets creative on his execution technique. Anti-aircraft guns, flame throwers, mortars....he doesn't hold back.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (dIske)

198 Even Google AI knows paper masks do nothing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (6zvQl)

199 You know a "pumpkin spice" lapdance just means the woman is pumpkin-shaped and smells like she smoked a pack of clove cigarettes, right?

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)

200 193 185. When are they gonna name a hurricane “Cantore?”
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:12 PM (77rzZ)

This is the current location of hurricane bond, James Bond.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)

201 I need something to poke holes in the masks.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Paper punch?
Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:04 PM (rdVOm)

A .45?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 11:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

202 199 You know a "pumpkin spice" lapdance just means the woman is pumpkin-shaped and smells like she smoked a pack of clove cigarettes, right?
Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (kU0PQ)

_____________________

$20...same as in the town Dunkin Donuts.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 11:14 PM (dIske)

203 Requiring people to wear masks needs to made a hanging offense.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (6zvQl)

204 Piper

Please click on link in nic and take a look at newest image.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (2GVsD)

205 I was at the Colombia river gorge Ampitheater in 1992 and saw Neil Young play “Like a Hurricane” on a pipe organ. It was a solo tour. Amazing performance.

Yes. He’s a douche.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (Nqi3p)

206 For a really strange anime vibe to Yogi is to run it through the lens of Gleipnir.
Posted by: Anna Puma
****

Your meds, they perhaps need adjustment?🤪

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (zGeQ7)

207 200 Hey, Hour. Good to see you.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (77rzZ)

208 Ice pick. I have some big pins.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (6zvQl)

209 >> The worst thing about this latest hurricane is how to pronounce the damn thing.

The worst thing is isn't hitting the northeast or the west coast so it isn't being covered. At all.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

210 186 We are whole housing it. J is gone so much, I want it to just switch over automatically.
Posted by: Piper

You can't hide money!$$$$
Posted by: Very Fixed Income at October 10, 2026

I personally have no money. I am the girl your mama warned you about level of no money.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

211 Your meds, they perhaps need adjustment?

Never heard of the Buaku Gang nyah? I cannot be legally held responsible for my actions due to defective Human programming of my AI.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)

212
That has always been my favorite Clapton song by far! It fascinates me to wonder what was in his mind when he wrote it, since the fife, drum and cadence all have a very 18th century martial music feel. (Or do we say vibe now?)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 11:02 PM (Y6Q+5)
******
I love it, too, the percussion.

You have excellent taste, Tom. I listen to this and this one when I feel like dancing. I have a video of deck dancing with grandson and 1st girlie the afternoon their baby sister was born. Son cracked up. Neighbors can't see me in this tree house, but they can probably hear me.

I love this one, too!Blasts out from the start!

It's in the Way That You Use It
Eric Clapton

https://tinyurl.com/zfxkrspe

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (hzuYO)

213 You know a "pumpkin spice" lapdance just means the woman is pumpkin-shaped and smells like she smoked a pack of clove cigarettes, right?
Posted by: GWB
****

🤮

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:18 PM (zGeQ7)

214 If for some reason there is a backlog in your area, you could get a portable and have an electrician install an outside outlet (yes, really) where you can plug in the portable instead of running extension cords all over.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 11:11 PM (3mtzY)

If going that route, have the electrician install a sub-panel, and move your essential loads to the sub. Run the feed to the sub through a manual transfer switch which will feed the sub-panel off the main panel when grid power is available, but can switch it to the generator "outlet" should the grid power fail. Some sort of transfer switch will be required by code, anyway. You don't want to be back-feeding the grid, and endanger some poor lineman's life. (rare, but theoretically possible; more likely your generator will just up and quit from overloading it)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 11:19 PM (quk5M)

215 Before the plandemic, *dust masks* were cheap and available everywhere. Dollar store had packs of 10 for $1.

Now? $$$ and good luck finding them.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:19 PM (rdVOm)

216 Hey Doof, good to see you too, and all of the Horde.

We are getting the remains of the hurricane here from tomorrow night into Monday, at least that is what the local weather porn says.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 11:19 PM (ibDUx)

217 Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

Surprised you’re not drinking heavily after hearing that Shesterkin is done for the season

My condolences …

Posted by: browndog rounding the bases at October 10, 2026 11:20 PM (oCio0)

218 I thought I was the only one to do candy combat, though my soldiers were skittles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 10, 2026 11:21 PM (0U5gm)

219 Your meds, they perhaps need adjustment?

Never heard of the Buaku Gang nyah? I cannot be legally held responsible for my actions due to defective Human programming of my AI.
Posted by: Anna Puma
****

I was talking to your human's attendant.

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 11:21 PM (zGeQ7)

220 You know...
I would like, someday, to send up a couple of drones during a hurricane. One when the first big winds hit - I'd have to look up what speed I would aim for. Then one in the eye.

The goal would be to get them as high as possible, try my best to keep them aloft, and just see where the wind took them. Program them to record their GPS position, and to send me a text when they are down to 2% power or so.

Maybe attach a note with a gift card and instructions to buy beers on me after texting me with the location.

Maybe launch rockets at the same time... something with a G engine or two. Same arrangement.

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:21 PM (kU0PQ)

221 Sheesh. I thought I was the only one doing M&M wars, noticing the peanut ones were clearly superior.
In the left hand.
Right hand, yes, the chocolate ones ruled.
Not sure what that means? Wonder if I'll get some freebies?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:22 PM (2WIwB)

222 >>Surprised you’re not drinking heavily after hearing that Shesterkin is done for the season

>>My condolences …

No crying in hockey.

Next man up.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:22 PM (viF8m)

223 Oh no...

Hideaki Anno is going to direct a Space Battleship Yamato movie? Where in the timeline will this be? After 3199?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

224 Goodnight, All.

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

225 If you have to wear a mask for work, use the Dark Helmet.

https://youtube.com/shorts/D3IMeUspqvY

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:24 PM (qx7Zg)

226 Dang. When was the last time anyone diagrammed a sentence?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

227 207 200 Hey, Hour. Good to see you.
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:16 PM (77rzZ)

Glad to see you. Sleep well.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (qx7Zg)

228 "Candy wars" here, consist of wrist-rockets and a pack of Skittles. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

229 Goodnight, All.
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 11:23 PM (77rzZ)

Nite, Bulg. I am going to get an early one too. Spent enough time outside in the cold wind, fixing my storm door, to get well chilled. The electric blanket calls to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (quk5M)

230 Anna Puma, the girl in pink?

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

231 That evil genius... Yamato Square root sign 2199 is the announced title.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

232 Fox on the Run is a complete douche song.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2WIwB)

233 194 What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)
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One thing I found before a hurricane (evacuated 8 times on that island. House was a bunker, but IF the surge hit "just right" we were goners) is that there is no wind and HOT. I could easily see how the Seminoles figured out one was coming. No birdsong. Afterwards no birdsong as the noise for days is power saws.

Once we got metal screw in shutters vs labeled ply wood (boys came from college) we never had another. It's hell to get ready and heaven to return.Damage would be same fence down and shredded pool screen.Lucky us.

I would be hot, stressed and crazy. I guess in shorts and a tee.

For the first one of 2005 it took us 11hrs to get to FSU (normally 5hrs). I could have landed a 747 at that point, following son and dog. Husband in packed car behind me. Other son back to Tampa loaded down.

My dude said a guy in a sports car was on I-95 trying to flirt with me in the middle lane. I was singing loudly to CD's. He must have been desperate as my hair was wild and curly and I looked like Phyllis Diller in a wind tunnel.

I was bummed out I missed it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (hzuYO)

234 Hai hai, the one in pink.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

235 Hideaki Anno is going to direct a Space Battleship Yamato movie? Where in the timeline will this be? After 3199?

--------

Will the Yamato get enough fuel for a return trip this time?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 11:27 PM (wpRMV)

236 234 Hai hai, the one in pink.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

Cute!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

237 203 Requiring people to wear masks needs to made a hanging offense.

Posted by: Boss Moss
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Look at the good side, they have self identified. It's not necessary to expend one syllable of time, you are spared.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:28 PM (VPNgR)

238 Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:15 PM (2GVsD)

You have a redhead in green wielding two swords in a few pics. You should make the sword colors match her hair and her eyes. And give just enough more light on her face the iris colors are obvious.

I really like your stuff.

What do you charge for a commission?

Posted by: GWB at October 10, 2026 11:28 PM (kU0PQ)

239 Suppose to get leftover hurricane here on Sunday in Babylon DC. The Army 10 mile race will be a bit damp. Hopefully I'll figure out what is blocked off here at the 5-sided nuthouse. Getting out during big events is a PITA. No, I will not be running it. Just getting off work and going home, once I figure out all the detours.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 11:29 PM (S8cdb)

240 I don't charge anything since all I am doing is playing word games with the LLM to generate pictures.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)

241 Eric Clapton - No Alibi

youtu.be/5fczygyP3_c

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (S8cdb)

242 Piper,

thank you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

243 AMXs is super cool and AMC made some very good powerful engines, 401, 360, 290, etc., but it's hard to top a Marlin. Rebels were cool also, wish AMC/Rambler had survived.

Posted by: The Ambassador Of Love at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (EdP2u)

244 I used to suggest He send one straight up the Potomac.
He has other ways of sorting things out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (VPNgR)

245 Last winter, when nursing home was all a-freaked about covid again, I grabbed a new mask every day from their box at the entry. Got a nice collection now, for free! (Cost of hubby's stay, notwithstanding...)

Any place that offers them, I will take one (or, "oops" two or three). I use them...eventually! Just not for virus protection, LOL

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

246 Yaaaay I'm back home. Was visiting family. Got sick on Monday evening so family had to look after me until Friday.

Posted by: 88C+u should just gay-marry Talarico already at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (88C+u)

247 Eyes are mostly vitreous humor.
Posted by: Just Means Resembling Glass at October 10, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

Is that a potty joke?

Depends on how you look at it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 10, 2026 10:51 PM (+9wcF)


I see where you're going with this.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:33 PM (2WIwB)

248 Rained today. Can't remember the last time, think it was February, maybe (there was a heavy drizzle one morning in August). Apparently the fringe of tropical storm whatsit off Mehico.

Best thing about it is it knocks down any fire season for a bit. And the infernal heat (for here) is gone, finally. Worst/longest stretch of bad weather in modern history here, easily. Law of averages strikes again. From "winter" until mid-July were months of perfect days, not weeks.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 10, 2026 11:34 PM (U/Byj)

249 Piper, are you experiencing the hurricane?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

I did. She is gone and getting ready to rain on Maryland and VA. It was not as bad as predicted, but we lost power for about 9 hours.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)


I vote for wet tee shirts.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:36 PM (2WIwB)

250 241 Eric Clapton - No Alibi

youtu.be/5fczygyP3_c
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 11:32 PM (S8cdb)

*******
Thank you. Not many I don't like.

We went to a concert in 1980 or so. I don't remember a lot as we had a party prior. My guitar dude said it wasn't that good (I had a good time and that counts). It was during Eric's drug/drink time.

His son dying (horrible) I think changed him back to making great music.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:37 PM (hzuYO)

251 >>> I use them...eventually! Just not for virus protection, LOL

Posted by: JQ
---

I'm allergic to something the mower occasionally kicks up.
If it gets worse I'll be wearing one every time I cut.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:39 PM (VPNgR)

252 Clapton

Tulsa Time

https://tinyurl.com/5nauwhxh

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:39 PM (viF8m)

253 In the age of AI and computer generated everything, it is cool to see that hand painted Judas Priest album art work.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 10, 2026 11:39 PM (mTzaS)

254 What is proper hurricane fashion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 11:06 PM (dK+Kv)

I was far from fashionable during this event!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

255 Alabama fans already crying the blues about the officials despite UGA having like 100 yards of penalties.

It’s late, I have Church in the morning, plus setting Halloween back up so I need to get to bed.

Night, friends!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

256 >>Thank you. Not many I don't like.

I love a challenge.

https://tinyurl.com/3ppev9wv

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:43 PM (viF8m)

257 Heritage Auctions has an entire category called International Comic Art Signature Auction.

Not sure if I would pay $45,000 for original Asterix art however. But they do have Moebius stuff.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:43 PM (2GVsD)

258 Kim Jong-something-or-other will be holding executions tomorrow.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)
____________________

Say what you want about that tubby leader...but he sure gets creative on his execution technique. Anti-aircraft guns, flame throwers, mortars....he doesn't hold back.
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 11:13 PM (dIske)

***

Well. Saddam did strap a recalcitrant general to a SCUD and launched it during Desert Shield/Storm.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:44 PM (2WIwB)

259 I'm allergic to something the mower occasionally kicks up.
If it gets worse I'll be wearing one every time I cut.
Posted by: Braenyard

Hope it helps! I wear one while mowing, especially when it's hot & dry. Too many sparse patches in the yard and it gets quite dusty sometimes. I try to do it on windy days so dust will blow away quickly, but that's not always possible.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:44 PM (rdVOm)

260 I have a sinus thing, which probably count as covid if I shoved a test up my nose. Which I'm not going to do.

I think I've had it about 3 times, all mild. First time a toddler dose. His Da got it worse than all of us. The last time in 2025 I got it from black mask wearing jackasses on the plane seats behind us on the red eye from Honolulu.

A few days later I had a bad forehead headache. I can handle surgery over headaches and went to Urgent Care, but they were closed and I was not going to start harfing from pain. Went to the ED (drug seeking) and was surprised to learn I had ze covid. The staff then wore their masks with me, and ED MD told me to take high doses of Tylenol and alternte with 3 Advil for 3 days in our bedroom. No one else got it.

I think the mask brigade in public believed the dropping dead chy knees version vs mostly a cold.

I went through a period of wanting to scare hikers in the mountains wearing masks but got over it. I did laugh in my car at people driving with them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 11:45 PM (hzuYO)

261 Let It Rain

https://tinyurl.com/ytry6e35

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 11:49 PM (viF8m)

262 Oyasumi minna

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 10, 2026 11:50 PM (2GVsD)

263 This time of year, there's a major hatch-out of little blue gnats that are most annoying... those things are everywhere and clouds of them can be very thick! They get in your eyes, up your nose, in your hair and stuck to clothing. Just, ugh!

Masks are good for keeping them out of your mouth and nose. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:50 PM (rdVOm)

264 260 I have a sinus thing, which probably ...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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The sink spritzer awaits you.
_acetaminophen is pizon, you know

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:52 PM (VPNgR)

265 Guy talking to his friends at the bar:

The other day I was in the bathroom and noticed some movement through a crack in the curtains. I looked out and my super-hot neighbor was sunbathing in the nude.

I'm not proud of this, but I couldn't resist. I started wanking off.

When I finished I turned around and my wife was standing there. She'd been watching the whole time.

Imagine how I felt when I discovered that my wife is a pervert.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 10, 2026 11:52 PM (ggUGb)

266 Don't know if I've ever had covid-- never tested-- but something kicked my @ss a couple of years ago, for about 2 days. Tired and wheezing, mostly. And then it went away.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

267 Masks are good for keeping them out of your mouth and nose. LOL.

Posted by: JQ
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Take a shallow lid, like from a tub of dip, fill it with water then put a daub of butter or something like it, with just the crest of it above the water. Many will float.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 11:55 PM (VPNgR)

268 Interesting. I haven't noticed anyone wearing masks at Old People Warehouse, other than the woman in her 90s who's always worn one ever since I've lived there.

But then, we Alaskans are pretty non-conformist... even the elderly. Or maybe especially the elderly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 11, 2026 12:01 AM (ggUGb)

269 Good evening to you all. Pre MoMe training to stay up past 7:30 pm.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:01 AM (nxLtX)

270 Braenyard, there are *so many* of them! Hundreds of thousands!

They'll be gone soon. Usually only around for a week or two and it's been over a week. Low overnight temps starting tonight should kill them off until next year.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

271 I had COVID twice, at least according to the test kits.

The first time was nothing special. The second time kicked my ass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (ggUGb)

272 Don't know if I've ever had covid-- never tested-- but something kicked my @ss a couple of years ago, for about 2 days. Tired and wheezing, mostly. And then it went away.

I know I had it. Constant inflammation of everything was the calling card. Did get some hospital grade anti-inflammatories at one point and that knocked it down to where I could at least eat for a day or two. Ended up getting the monoclonal antibody treatment to finally knock it out.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (+9wcF)

273 Hi, Ben Had!

Good luck with *staying up late* training! LOL

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (rdVOm)

274 I give blood every 3 or 4 months , and during the year of Covid when you gave blood, they also tested you for antibodies which would indicate you’d had Covid. For the first 6 months of that year had none; but next test showed all the antibodies in my system! I realized I’d had Covid and never even knew it. I remember a time when I had a cough and a slight fever for two nights, but not much. I’ve had flu that was a dozen times worse than that.

If they hadn’t screwed up most people’s immune systems with those damn shots, most people could have ended with natural immunity, like it’s supposed to work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 12:04 AM (Y6Q+5)

275 Ended up getting the monoclonal antibody treatment to finally knock it out.

Posted by: Blanco Basura
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My neighbors caught it before Biden halted the actual cures.
They went to the local EmergCare (Doc in the Box) and received monoclonal antibodies.
Three days later he's grilling in the driveway. Wife is good too.
I'm walking up to have a chat and he says whoa, I'm contagious.
Three days and it was virtually gone. The Biden operators killed
many people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:09 AM (VPNgR)

276 JQ, I've got about 2 minutes left in me.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:14 AM (nxLtX)

277 If they hadn’t screwed up most people’s immune systems with those damn shots, most people could have ended with natural immunity, like it’s supposed to work.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Sis & BIL got really sick after one of their overseas trips. Likely kungflu, right at the beginning of *the big scare*. So what did they do?

They got the stoopid shots anyway. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:15 AM (rdVOm)

278 I'm flattered to be recognized for my music selection but I'm a bit disappointed my first "on the" wasn't chosen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdsUDNpM54

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 11, 2026 12:16 AM (Fv808)

279 >>> I remember a time when I had a cough and a slight fever for two nights, but not much. I’ve had flu that was a dozen times worse than that.

If they hadn’t screwed up most people’s immune systems with those damn shots, most people could have ended with natural immunity, like it’s supposed to work.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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It was an op. We've had pig flu, bird flu, all kinds of flu; some people died others went on about their business. At school many of us were sick. Well, you get sick, are you going to miss necessary classes or are you going get off your ass and attend? Right.
Covid was an op conducted by the Administrative State.
_(Politburo)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:16 AM (VPNgR)

280
What is the correct attire for me to wear Tuesday at the Trump rally in Wasilla? I'm thinking my dark blue skirt, flag print shirt, and my stars and bars cowboy boots, but if you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
Posted by: tcn in AK

==================

Piper-worthy. But wear it for sure -- you might get picked up by a press camera!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 11, 2026 12:16 AM (mmrXZ)

281 I have a theory (I have a one of earthquake predictions I won't get into) of how every cold or virus now has a component of covid in them.

While viruses constantly evolve/mutate/get frisky, some colds/coughs now take longer to get over vs the old fashioned 7 days. Thanks to wuhan.

I've had a few that take over 3wks for the cough to go away. Being around a baby and school kids doesn't help, but I was never not going to see them. I've had noro and pretty sure RSV this year from baby girl and life goes on.

I feel sure everyone now has antibodies from the wuhan flu. Bastids.

Going to bed and hope for the best for sleeping all night without snorting! Goals!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 11, 2026 12:17 AM (hzuYO)

282 Worst illness I ever had came with bizarre symptoms including deep internal pains that both make you feel like you’re dying and also make you want to die. I figured out later that this perfectly matches the description of a tropical disease known as Dengue Fever.
How could I get that inside the United States? Clue was that both my daughter and I got it at the same time, and we’d eaten together at a Fort Worth restaurant featuring Central American food a couple days before. There was an epidemic of it going on in Guatemala at the time, and I know those assholes had brought in some illegal migrants from there to work the kitchen. Who knows how many people they infected.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2026 12:17 AM (Y6Q+5)

283 OK, I'm out. See ya all tomorrow.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:18 AM (nxLtX)

284 278 I'm flattered to be recognized for my music selection but I'm a bit disappointed my first "on the" wasn't chosen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vdsUDNpM54

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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Prolly cause no one could understand the words.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:20 AM (VPNgR)

285 Prolly cause no one could understand the words.
Posted by: Braenyard


It also had a second phrase in the title, so maybe it wasn't up to the strict ONT standards.

Posted by: mikeski at October 11, 2026 12:28 AM (VHUov)

286 Good evening all, whatssup in your neck of the woods?

My woods lately has been WI. Cleaning out the folks' home before putting it up for sale. It has been interesting. Some memories provoked.

Emotions too I guess. Even tho Dad passed in May 2025 this just is like reliving that loss.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 11, 2026 12:43 AM (WOJP8)

287 OK, I'm out. See ya all tomorrow.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 11, 2026 12:18 AM

That's fairly late, for an early-riser... Well done, dear lady!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)

288 So, I suppose it's too late to 3D print some ONT tinkletorium tokens for the TxMoMe‽


😍
More cheesecake from Bits & Pieces, a site with many good memes, but just skip any text and political items: Not familiar with this actress, but she was cute.
https://bit.ly/merry-anders


🍾
Would have been here sooner but I wasn't. Now it's time to say goodnight to all our com-pa-neee. M I C see you real soon K E Y why? because we like you A S O N Teeee


🎻
Stumbled across this almost Zappaesque orchestration:
https://youtu.be/eylZs4VesgU

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - here and gone again at October 11, 2026 12:44 AM (yrKoI)

289 'Night Ben Had, I am sorry that I missed you, I am getting some laundry done tonight. I am needing to wear some warmer clothes around here, the weather is definitely getting cooler.

JQ, if you are still here I could stand a refill before bed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 11, 2026 12:45 AM (ibDUx)

290

The masks we had during the shit show had three layers. We cut out two of the layers. No one could tell, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 12:47 AM (/QHx4)

291 You got it, Debby---

*moar Chivas*

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

292 Hi, four seasons!

Masks during the sh!tshow were merely slightly annoying. It was the 20 fk-ing questions at clinic entrances that chapped my hide! Hubby had *lots* of appointments in those days, and I had to go with him...

"Any symptoms?"

"Everything is a symptom. You'll need to be more specific."

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

293
Symptoms of going crazy from the shitshow, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 11, 2026 12:54 AM (/QHx4)

294
https://youtu.be/t894eGoymio&t=7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 11, 2026 12:54 AM (VPNgR)

295 Night, Braenyard. Heh. Mom used to play that on her piano...

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)

296 Mid-40s overnight here. Maybe down to high-30s overnight next week. Ugh. Need to drain & blow out the irrigation pipes.

Posted by: JQ at October 11, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm)

Music Thread: Shut Up And Sing!

crocfail26.jpg

Click on Garrett's newest formal shoes, and you will get an original composition by The Goo Goo Dolls. It's one of their more famous songs, and a solid one at that. I have always liked their sound, but now I am enjoying them for an additional reason.

Here is a quotation from The Goo Goo Dolls' frontman:

I got people, fans, friends from every walk of life, every political stripe, everything. And I always stress, we got one thing in common because we're living in weird times. We got one thing in common, and that's we're all here to see a show, and I'm not going to lecture people about anything.
-- John Rzeznik

Why is this a difficult concept?

I was a Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band fan in my youth. Their first four albums were excellent, and their live performances were absolutely incredible.

But the combination of an increasingly anti-American tone in his music, a shockingly hypocritical public vs. private life, and the incessant pomposity of his political haranguing seemingly at every public appearance has made me despise him.

***

John Prine!

This is new to me, and it is fun!


***

Caamp doing Vagabond is the sort of stripped down music that I like.

***

The Deraillers Pure Fool Is twangy, simple, and fun to listen to! It doesn't take itself very seriously, which in this day and age of pompous asshole entertainers, is a very good thing

***

I used to listen to Lyle Lovett a lot, but for some stupid, unfathomable reason he dropped off my play lists. That was a mistake, because he is a fine talent, and one of the few original artists around.


***

And now for something a little different!

Most people think of Mozart as a symphonic composer, but the dude could write opera. And for sheer toe-tapping, sing-along tunes, it's tough to beat him.

This is one of his greatest arias from The Magic Flute, called "The Queen Of The Night." If you know any budding sopranos, ask them to sing this for you. It is a great tune, and extremely technically difficult.

Next time I will introduce you to a good drinking song...

***

Posted by: CBD at 07:57 PM




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1 Fifty-eight minutes of OG hardcore:
youtube.com/watch?v=hztAZ7IH4O0

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

2 Wut

Posted by: Okjohn at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (yhou+)

3 Pretty sure it's "inside baseball," but why does everyone pick on Garrett? I hate laying into someone without a reason....so give me one....

Thanks in advance

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:01 PM (dIske)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 08:03 PM (nWTAo)

5 We'll have to check with Piper (assuming she hasn't floated away) on if that crock is appropriate MoMe wear.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (ftFVW)

6 The divine Mozart.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:06 PM (lJ0H4)

7 Joe Farrell Quartet, 1970:
youtube.com/watch?v=i8-xaQo4A3s

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

8 Who says we pick on Garrett? Facts is facts.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)

9 That is a shoe choice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Y/06r)

10 I never said a bad thing about Garrett, and AFAIK, he's returned the favor.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

11 5 We'll have to check with Piper (assuming she hasn't floated away) on if that crock is appropriate MoMe wear.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (ftFVW)

It would make a statement.

A fabulous statement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Y/06r)

12 Pretty sure it's "inside baseball," but why does everyone pick on Garrett? I hate laying into someone without a reason....so give me one....

Thanks in advance
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:01 PM (dIske)

It's a long-running back-and-forth between Ace and Garrett about who is more gay, and by how much.

Theirs is a volatile relationship.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)

13 Those bedazzled crocs are really something special.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (RIvkX)

14 10 I never said a bad thing about Garrett, and AFAIK, he's returned the favor.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

I think most of it has come from ace usually making him the butt of gay jokes. So, a blog designated jester.

ace is the one to make fun of because it carries the frission of danger if you catch him on the wrong day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:10 PM (Y/06r)

15 We pick on Ace for shelves.
We pick on CBD for Maple Syrup.
We pick on JackStraw for marijuahootchie.

Garrett is just divine.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:11 PM (LMRVO)

16 Blingcroc.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

17 13 Those bedazzled crocs are really something special.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (RIvkX)

__________________________

Thought maybe it was a keepsake from the last Elton John video.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:11 PM (dIske)

18 I absolutely love that piece from the Magic Flute. I've seen a soprano of opera quality perform it personally, and it's an incredible accomplishment. It showcases Mozart's love of using the Human Voice as a pure musical instrument, far beyond song. Something very few composers have ever dared to try.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 08:12 PM (htLv8)

19 There was a recent video of a twink "gutpunching" Nick Sortor, the twink was wearing pink crocs too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:12 PM (RIvkX)

20 It's a long-running back-and-forth between Ace and Garrett about who is more gay, and by how much.

Theirs is a volatile relationship.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)

When ace has mockingly described how your face looks when covered in his semen*, I'd say 'volatile' is one word for it.

*'like a little angel' for reference. There are times I wish some things did not get etched in my memory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:12 PM (Y/06r)

21 W e wants the White Socks to win the playff thing because Presdent Obana is be froms Chicgo

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (BlaSb)

22 I think it has something to do with London Boys.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (MWfyi)

23 Ah, got it. Garrett is the local "whipping boy."

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (dIske)

24 It's more about which Messenger Bag they prefer than the crocs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM (RIvkX)

25 Movie thread! I'm watching "The Concrete Jungle" again. Terrific heist-gone-wrong movie.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM (kpS4V)

26 For a while Rob Dukes was the frontman for Exodus. He would get sort of political, but from the right. The rest of the band told him to tone it down - not so much because they disagreed, but because they were there to entertain, not pontificate. Do not piss on half of your fan-base.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM (0aYVJ)

27 Are crocs really that comfortable? I can't imagine plastic feeling that good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:15 PM (Y/06r)

28 Ah, got it. Garrett is the local "whipping boy."
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:13 PM (dIske)
====

No just ace's

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:15 PM (RIvkX)

29
Bad musicians blame their instruments.

Good musicians blame the sound engineer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (eRlcH)

30 It would make a statement.

A fabulous statement.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

*round snap*

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (ftFVW)

31 And, I am adjourning. Gonna watch Gallipoli. Saw it once some years go.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

32 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (LMRVO)

33 The John Prine tune was OK. Closed captioning rendered "Burlington" as "berlin town", LOL. And the fake film scratch overprinted onto the video was very annoying.

Here's an album cover with a sweet dog on it, and a nice song, to boot, from the late Bobby Charles:

https://youtu.be/3YXI967iELo

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (quk5M)

34 32 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM (LMRVO)

Heh. Look at Mr Fancypants over here!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:18 PM (Y/06r)

35 Aren't those Crocs lacking the dangling accessory at the back that all the cool kids put on theirs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1)

36 ewetub is acting odd or I would link some music. videos are not loading properly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (Y/06r)

37 ace is the one to make fun of because it carries the frission of danger if you catch him on the wrong day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:10 PM (Y/06r)
----
He's full of bonhomie and then suddenly he snaps like a stale breadstick and you're staring down the barrel of his snub nose .38.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (kpS4V)

38 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM


Your Permanent Record says otherwise.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)

39 "Aren't those Crocs lacking the dangling accessory at the back that all the cool kids put on theirs?"

Rubber scrotum like the pickup trucks wear on their hitches?

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

40 Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:16 PM

Your Permanent Record says otherwise.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at October 10, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)

It’s all lies, I tell you!

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:20 PM (LMRVO)

41 It's more about which Messenger Bag they prefer than the crocs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:14 PM


Ace is a J. Crew man.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

42 Are foibles worse or better than quirks?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (ftFVW)

43
The Marriage of Figaro >> Don Giovanni >> The Magic Flute

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (eRlcH)

44 I've never seen these high heel Crocs before. Pretty fucking gay.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (GZ3K7)

45 42 Are foibles worse or better than quirks?
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (ftFVW)

Yes.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:23 PM (LMRVO)

46 Louis XIV would have worn those Crocs.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (kpS4V)

47 >>Luckily, I have no foibles, so I can’t be picked upon.

I've met you. I'd agree, you're pretty foibleless.

I can lend you some. I've got plenty. Hope I never lose them.

https://tinyurl.com/rmua2bes

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (viF8m)

48 Are foibles worse or better than quirks?
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (ftFVW)

Yes.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:23 PM


What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Peccadillos at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (0sNs1)

49 Yinzer rocker, Donnie Iris, finally retired this week. Lots of health issues (cancer) and he's over 80 (83). Farewell, son of Ellwood City! Enjoy retirement. You earned it. Had a brief flirtation with nationwide success but was mostly a well known and well regarded dude in Western PA. An all around good guy!

youtu.be/qcbndNeCO-s

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 08:24 PM (S8cdb)

50 I thought this was kind of cool. The marching song of Custer's 7th Cavalry, Garyowen, with lyrics.

https://tinyurl.com/yezmazc7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 08:25 PM (ndZc7)

51 I have a pair of non-Crocs on my feet right now. Look like Crocs, but never had the faggy strap. Never. Had them since 2012. Very comfortable. Paid a whole dollar for them, too. Friend of mine had a semi-trailer full of them. I think they were supposed to be destroyed, as they infringed upon Croc's patent. If I had known how good and durable they were, I would have bought a lot more.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:25 PM (quk5M)

52 44 I've never seen these high heel Crocs before. Pretty fucking gay.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 08:22 PM (GZ3K7)

-1 for not using a Jim J Bullock sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 10, 2026 08:26 PM (Y/06r)

53 Here is a quotation from The Goo Goo Dolls' frontman:

"I got people, fans, friends from every walk of life, every political stripe, everything. And I always stress, we got one thing in common because we're living in weird times. We got one thing in common, and that's we're all here to see a show, and I'm not going to lecture people about anything."

-- John Rzeznik


That must be a new thing. Back during the GW Bush years, my sister and brother in law went to see them, and according to my BIL, Rzeznik was spouting a bunch of lefty BS.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 08:26 PM (QMAsf)

54 I've always liked Goo Goo Dolls, hit at the right time in my youth. I know Rzeznik is a lefty, and I appreciate that he keeps it to himself.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 10, 2026 08:28 PM (ftFVW)

55 Thx CBD, evening Horde.
John Prine could write a song. His Angel from Montgomery is one of the best ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 08:28 PM (pJE7g)

56 >>John Prine could write a song. His Angel from Montgomery is one of the best ever

True statement.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:29 PM (viF8m)

57 I try not to learn about foibles of the performers I enjoy listening to. They may be liberal assholes but if they just put on a good show and don't preach their crap, I'm fine. It's the ones who can't shut up about politics (are you listening Barbara Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, and about 90 percent of Hollywood?) that I turn them off, literally. Why people with one talent, even an exceptional one, think that translate into universal genius remains a mystery. Perhaps I lack the super-inflated ego needed for that level of delusion.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 08:30 PM (yTvNw)

58 For all (ok, some) of your Crocs accessorization needs:

https://www.etsy.com/market/crocs_balls

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

59 Ok, ok, ok, I have a foible.
I’m sitting here eating uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough paired with white wine.
Should I have switched to red?

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (30Gj0)

60
Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (eRlcH)

61 The Marriage of Figaro >> Don Giovanni >> The Magic Flute
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The Marriage of Figaro>>Don Giovanni>>The Magic Flute>>Abduction From the Seraglio

The Marriage of Figaro is perhaps my favorite opera. Sheer listening delight.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (lJ0H4)

62 I’m sitting here eating uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough paired with white wine.
Should I have switched to red?
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM


Are they milk chocolate or dark chocolate chips?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:33 PM (0sNs1)

63
I try not to learn about foibles of the performers I enjoy listening to

__________

I try to forget that what I'm listening to is produced by people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (eRlcH)

64 Peccadillo > idiosyncrasy > foible > quirk > halitosis.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

65 Blind Melon

.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (yEz+x)

66 Are they milk chocolate or dark chocolate chips?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:33 PM (0sNs1)

Milk chocolate is for heathens.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (30Gj0)

67 Louis XIV would have worn those Crocs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Except those beads would probably have been real jewels.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM (lJ0H4)

68 Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM


You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

In other words, Roll Over Beethoven.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)

69 That must be a new thing. Back during the GW Bush years, my sister and brother in law went to see them, and according to my BIL, Rzeznik was spouting a bunch of lefty BS.
Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 08:26

This was not too long ago, so maybe he grew up a little.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

70 65 I like that one.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:37 PM (Jr5Lq)

71 The Marriage of Figaro is perhaps my favorite opera. Sheer listening delight.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (lJ0H4)

Someone needs to write an opera about the experiences of a trucker transporting a certain brand of lawn fertilizer. Call it "The Carriage of Vigoro".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:37 PM (quk5M)

72 Milk chocolate is for heathens.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:34 PM


Well, then, yes, you should have switched over to a smaller red, perchance a pinot.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:38 PM (0sNs1)

73 "Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM

You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

In other words, Roll Over Beethoven."

Not complete without Ferneyhough.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

74 71 Ha!

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

75 CBD,
Thanks for including that video from The Magic Flute. I had a supporting part in it during college, which meant listening to a lot of rehearsals that didn't involve my role. I used to copy the Queen of the Night aria, quietly, three or four octaves below the soprano. It provided some laughs for those of us back stage.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (yTvNw)

76 I've wondered about CBD for a while. After The Queen Of The Night." I now no longer wonder.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (NnhvP)

77 This was not too long ago, so maybe he grew up a little.
Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (ZdaMQ)


Hope so. He's a talented guy and I do like their music. Might include a GGD tune tomorrow night.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 08:39 PM (QMAsf)

78 Some Respighi could be a good addition.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM (0sNs1)

79 Thanks, DThrax, I just pried open a box of Cabernet, September, ‘26. A fine month.

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM (30Gj0)

80 I don’t like opera. It gives me a headache.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM (yEz+x)

81 The Deraillers are pretty good. They do country, rock, sorta folk - all well. Look up their song "Longing". It's a good one.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 10, 2026 08:41 PM (Jr+re)

82 >>Why people with one talent, even an exceptional one, think that translate into universal genius remains a mystery. Perhaps I lack the super-inflated ego needed for that level of delusion.

I don't think it's that hard to understand.

I grew up with some rockers. They essentially wrote musical poetry that was designed to elicit emotions. That was the whole point and what made them "stars".

Some realized what it was. Some became intoxicated with it and thought they were the voice of a generation.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:41 PM (viF8m)

83 Thanks, DThrax, I just pried open a box of Cabernet, September, ‘26. A fine month.
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:40 PM


Good choice!

Posted by: zombie Orson Welles at October 10, 2026 08:42 PM (0sNs1)

84 Ben Had is going to be bummed she missed the wine discussion.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:45 PM (0sNs1)

85 I thought “The Fifth Element” was a great movie, and really enjoyed the Operatic part, although short, performed by the Diva Plavalaguna.

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 08:46 PM (N91F8)

86 Touchdown!

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

87 I’m sitting here eating uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough paired with white wine.
Should I have switched to red?
Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM (30Gj0)


A nice Port would go well with that, especially if it has chopped walnuts

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:48 PM (rbvCR)

88 Some realized what it was. Some became intoxicated with it and thought they were the voice of a generation.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:41 PM (viF8m)


Everyone is going to be the next Bob Dylan.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

89 A nice Port would go well with that, especially if it has chopped walnuts
Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:48 PM


When did they start putting chopped walnuts in Port, nice or otherwise? Does it give it a walnutty flavor infusion?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

90 When did they start putting chopped walnuts in Port, nice or otherwise? Does it give it a walnutty flavor infusion?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)


Port goes well with walnuts, and Mom used to put chopped walnuts in her chocolate chip cookies.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:52 PM (rbvCR)

91 My favorite music makes your favorite music sound like Rush.

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 08:52 PM (ZxPkt)

92 >>Everyone is going to be the next Bob Dylan.

Who, ironically, has pretty much disappeared from public life.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m)

93 My favorite music makes your favorite music sound like Rush.
Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 08:52 PM (ZxPkt)


I don't have a favorite music, but for a while I was bopping between Tom Waites and Blondie.
Then I found out about Bachatas, and was entranced for a while.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (rbvCR)

94 "the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

95 When did they start putting chopped walnuts in Port, nice or otherwise? Does it give it a walnutty flavor infusion?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

I would be pissed if I bought a bottle of wine, and it had chopped nuts in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (quk5M)

96 Bama just answered the Dawgs. Ugh. We just cannot get it together when we are in Tuscaloosa.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 08:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

97
"the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

__________

Mel Blanc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:56 PM (eRlcH)

98 Who, ironically, has pretty much disappeared from public life.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m)


He is 81. The same age as my oldest step sister, and she was born while her dad was in Europe.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:56 PM (rbvCR)

99 whoops, he is a year OLDER than my step sister.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 08:56 PM (rbvCR)

100 I am unashamedly, a huge fan of 80s rock, although with acceptance of all genres of music.
Nowhere near anyone or band with “hair”, I find this one to be a regular indulgence.
Jesse Lamonica and the Dime Novels - West Coast Sunshine.

https://youtu.be/T7XfTiatYyg?si=3TFCkSjyMVz7cq5M

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 08:57 PM (N91F8)

101 68 Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:32 PM

You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

In other words, Roll Over Beethoven.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 10, 2026 08:36 PM (0sNs1)

Decades ago, aspirationally, I subscribed to a BBC classical music club and there was some other one also with beautifully packaged classical music CDs and notes.

There's about 75 to 100. But since I've been doing my projects and been by the computer all the time, I've been finally playing them in the background. Soothing.

I hope I develop an ear for classical music more.

Apparently for the opera CDs, I require animated rabbits to make it tolerable but maybe that will grow on me also.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 08:57 PM (Sco7b)

102 80 ... "I don’t like opera. It gives me a headache."

Nurse,
I enjoyed performing in operas. Except for a few arias, I don't usually care to listen to them. Too many 'operatic' voices are all technique, which often sounds harsh and artificial, and too little effective emotion. One exception is Jesus Christ Superstar, which is an opera even if the Met faints at the notion.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (yTvNw)

103 Will Rogers. Seth Macfarlane (heh.)

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

104 RUSH

youtu.be/_88yT0ujcnc

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (S8cdb)

105 Kalen DeBoer can eat shit.

Go Georgia!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 08:59 PM (yEz+x)

106
"the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.
Posted by: gp


Mel Blanc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 08:59 PM (Cqx++)

107 I leave out Murrow, Cronkite et al because I don't like those guys.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 09:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

108 >>Mel Blanc

Of course! His cover of Kill the Wabbit is one of my faves!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 09:02 PM (rdVOm)

109 >>He is 81. The same age as my oldest step sister, and she was born while her dad was in Europe.

A couple years older.

The man wrote more songs that have been covered by more artists of every genre than anyone in modern history. Some beautiful lyrics. He won a Nobel Prize for his work.

And he mostly keeps to himself about politics. Might be his best feature.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:02 PM (viF8m)

110 RUSH

youtu.be/_88yT0ujcnc
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 10, 2026 08:58 PM (S8cdb)


Among my favorites of theirs. Permanent Waves is really a fantastic album. I think I prefer Jacob's Ladder over Natural Science but they are both incredible.

Posted by: Doof at October 10, 2026 09:05 PM (QMAsf)

111 Jean Shepherd channel on YT:
youtube.com/@greenteablend

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 09:05 PM (Jr5Lq)

112 Here's some Delbert McClinton, the best R&B singer you never heard of;

https://youtu.be/R1qorMWmeB0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 09:08 PM (quk5M)

113

RUSH!

https://youtu.be/pqFNLn07Fu0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 09:08 PM (Cqx++)

114 "the voice of a generation."

Nominees: Paul Frees, Jean Shepherd, Don Pardo.
Posted by: gp

Mel Blanc

Of course Mel Blanc!
But as far as sports commentary, there were many.
LA-centric, but still unsurpassed, were Chick Hearn and Vin Scully. Legends!

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 09:10 PM (N91F8)

115 This orchestra needs a mosh pit!

https://youtu.be/x6is5-urQrw?t=78

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:14 PM (VHUov)

116 It's a long-running back-and-forth between Ace and Garrett about who is more gay, and by how much.

Theirs is a volatile relationship.


Teh gheys, they're just full of drama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 09:16 PM (4Je4D)

117 Nobody is the voice of any generation.

We all sing our own song.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:17 PM (viF8m)

118 Ugh.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 09:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

119 Etude for guitar, piano, and excavator.

https://youtu.be/N0OBF83rL-8

Posted by: mikeski, making your music thread a bit more surreal at October 10, 2026 09:24 PM (VHUov)

120 “Nobody is the voice of any generation.

We all sing our own song.”

OK, gotta know…Indica or Sativa tonight?

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 10, 2026 09:24 PM (N91F8)

121 Another Delbert, very clever lyrics on this one:

https://youtu.be/diLZ5X53RfY

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 09:25 PM (quk5M)

122 “I was a Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band fan in my youth. Their first four albums were excellent, and their live performances were absolutely incredible.”

I was telling the 26 yo nephew one of those “when I was your age stories” the other day. It was during Springsteen’s 1984 Born in the USA heyday and he wasn’t coming to Houston. So I and the rest of the posse camped out on the side walk of whatever store sold tickets back then for his Cotton Bowl appearance in Dallas. Drove up there for the marathon 3 hour concert. He never mentioned politics. You couldn’t pay me to spit on that vile piece of excrement now.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 10, 2026 09:26 PM (itAg7)

123
Nobody is the voice of any generation.
We all sing our own song.
Posted by: JackStraw

\sarc Now do Ethel Merman, in her roll in It'sA Mad Mad Mad World.
/sarc

She was a real Mom to the entire cast of that flick during filming. A true matriarch worthy of respect.


Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 09:28 PM (QVmho)

124 >>“I was a Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band fan in my youth. Their first four albums were excellent, and their live performances were absolutely incredible.”

Greetings From Asbury Park was great.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:30 PM (viF8m)

125 Fact, never was a E Street Band fan

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 09:32 PM (Ia/+0)

126
"Expanding my "starter pack" playlist from 200 to 300 pieces. More Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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You need to reduce one of those, and bring in some in some Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.
In other words, Roll Over Beethoven."
Not complete without Ferneyhough.
Posted by: gp

*pouts*

I'm right freakin' here!

Posted by: Eelectric Light Orchestra- at October 10, 2026 09:33 PM (QVmho)

127 I am unashamedly, a huge fan of 80s rock, although with acceptance of all genres of music.
Nowhere near anyone or band with “hair”, I find this one to be a regular indulgence.
Jesse Lamonica and the Dime Novels - West Coast Sunshine.

https://youtu.be/T7XfTiatYyg
Posted by: Gunslinger


I was going to say "that doesn't sound very 80s. More 70s."

Then I checked, and it's from 2010.

Retro is the new retro.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:35 PM (VHUov)

128 This is one of his greatest arias from The Magic Flute, called "The Queen Of The Night." If you know any budding sopranos, ask them to sing this for you. It is a great tune, and extremely technically difficult.

Ha! Kid has to play this on Monday for the school orchestra performance grade.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 09:37 PM (1Ff7Z)

129 What does the voice of a generation talk about?

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 09:38 PM (ZxPkt)

130 >>I was going to say "that doesn't sound very 80s. More 70s."

>>Then I checked, and it's from 2010.

Voice of a generation.

derp

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:42 PM (viF8m)

131
This is one of his greatest arias from The Magic Flute, called "The Queen Of The Night."

_________

*polite cough*

The aria is "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen," sung by the character the Queen of the Night.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:43 PM (eRlcH)

132 So the first thing on my youtube recommendations page tonight was "Against The Current."

I think they're the answer to the question "what if you stole a pop-country singer from her band, taught her to sing, and put her in a rock band instead?"

https://youtu.be/ckW4k5nSMj4

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:44 PM (VHUov)

133 The street signs in my town are posts set on each corner, and I live not far from the intersection of 10th Avenue and E Street. Get it? 10th Ave Freeze Out, E Street Band. When one of my kids was younger, he took a picture of that post, put some caption on it (that I can't remember) and had a bunch of copies made at KMart. Sold them on EBay and believe it or not, made a few bucks for himself.

Recently the library, which is on that corner, had a huge guitar made and a plaque for Springsteen. Now there are actual tour groups that stop there and take selfies. Locals just point and laugh.

Here's a picture of the ridiculous "monument."

https://tinyurl.com/mr39h6s2

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 10, 2026 09:45 PM (3ImbR)

134 I just found out that the Goo Goo Dolls song "Name" was written about Fox News personality and former MTVJ Kennedy. The comment sections of any such content is full of the gnashing of teeth and the lamentations of Lefty women.

It amuses me.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 09:46 PM (r7+Q7)

135 The aria is "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen," sung by the character the Queen of the Night.

Thus endeth the lesson.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:43 PM (eRlcH)

No wonder they call it "Queen of the Night", then. I tried to pronounce that, and had to mop off my desk.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 09:46 PM (quk5M)

136 "What does the voice of a generation talk about?"

'People try to put us down
Just because we get around.'

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 09:46 PM (Jr5Lq)

137 Let me offer what I know will be a futile defense of liking Springsteen's music. Yes, he is a douchie ass in all things, but... If your favorite love song about a girl is actually sung by a raging fag, does that mean the song is no good?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 09:51 PM (QaH55)

138 I better turn this off before the ONT shows up
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 09:52 PM (Ia/+0)

139 What does the voice of a generation talk about?
Posted by: Savage Henry


I can't tell, it's in Korean. Mostly.

https://youtu.be/Qpf26PtBXgo

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 09:52 PM (VHUov)

140 people say we monkey around
but we're too busy singin'
to put anybody down

Posted by: Savage Henry at October 10, 2026 09:54 PM (ZxPkt)

141 I spent about an hour on youtube one night listening to different versions of that there aria up there. There were good, bad, and great ones. I'd have liked to seen the one by the soprano whose head bobbed like a chicken when she sang the high notes.

Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 09:56 PM (2Xqig)

142 I'd have liked to seen the one by the soprano whose head bobbed like a chicken when she sang the high notes.
Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 09:56 PM (2Xqig)

I dunno, but I think I would have bawked at watching that one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 09:57 PM (1Ff7Z)

143

Pepsi
For a new generation

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 09:57 PM (Cqx++)

144 I never liked Springsteen or U2 but they have millions of fans so I can't say they suck.

Posted by: polynikes at October 10, 2026 09:58 PM (KC5Lt)

145 >>Here's a picture of the ridiculous "monument."

Remember Eddie and Cruisers? The ripoff of some unknown Jersey band's trials and angst?

The real band that wrote and played the music was John Cafferty and Beaver Brown. A Rhode Island bar band.

They were better than Springsteen.

https://tinyurl.com/ycysm5ts

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:59 PM (viF8m)

146 I never liked Springsteen or U2 but they have millions of fans so I can't say they suck.
Posted by: polynikes


McDonalds can't suck; billions of burgers sold.

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

147 Hey, you punks! Turn that noise down and get upstairs!

The ONT is NOOD!

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

148 McDonalds can't suck; billions of burgers sold.
Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

McDonald's was awesome to me when I was young. Not so much now.

Posted by: polynikes at October 10, 2026 10:02 PM (KC5Lt)

149 They were better than Springsteen.
https://tinyurl.com/ycysm5ts
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 09:59 PM (viF8m)
~~~~~

Much better!

I'm not a Springsteen fan.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 10, 2026 10:06 PM (3ImbR)

150 >>Much better!

>>I'm not a Springsteen fan.

https://tinyurl.com/3m7ebavx

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 10:12 PM (viF8m)

Hobby Thread - October 10, 2026 [TRex]

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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling spooky and decided on a furniture theme for this Hobby Thread.

Furniture hobbying?! Yes! Tell me more!

[Top photo: pre-furniture]

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Furniture can be fun. Do you appreciate interesting and well built furniture? Are you a collector? Do you like antique furniture? Do you like restoring old furniture? Do you haunt garage or estate sales for furniture? Do you watch YouTube videos by furniture makers or restorers?

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What are you hobbying?

The theme may not be your favorite but give it a chance before you judge and bail out. Any adjacent hobbying is in scope, so jump in with your interests, stories and questions.

In any event, the thread is not limited to to the theme. Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. Even if the theme does not speak to you, you might learn something or be entertained. If not, offer something else relating to hobbying. If all of that fails, just check in and say hello.

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants? Nope. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Restoring an antique desk:

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Build furniture like an engineer:

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This guy had to be in the content somewhere:

His channel has so many good projects. Tough to pick just one.

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More secret compartments:

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Japanese joinery - next level:

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Hidden compartments in antique furniture:

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Clever concealed home storage solutions:

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Old school hand built automobile body shaping:

Going to be the first of a series, so watch and follow along to see the process and final result.

Forming aluminum panels by bending them around wood bucks was common in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. It took a lot of skill to build the wood frame and a different set of skills to hammer the aluminum panels against the wood to create a body panel. The cars are works of art. Few original wood bucks survive, but they're works of art too. Maybe we'll do a deep dive down this rabbit hole in a future thread.

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Nothing to do with wood or furniture, but appropriate for the season:

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Nothing to do with wood or furniture, but this might be interesting to astronomy hobbyists: starfront space

This company caters to the remote astronomer from its location near Brady, Texas. Do you want telescope time in a place with dark skies? You don't have to be located in the same place as your camera. You can rent time on one of their cameras or ship your camera to them and pay a monthly fee and let them point it to the sky. No personal knowledge and not an endorsement but amazing that such a service and business model exists.

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The roof slides open and closed to protect and expose the equipment.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a Halloween hobbying theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.

Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.

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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 05:31 PM (eRlcH)

2 Furniture making? Should get pretty stickly in here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

3 Add the right kind of fabric on your furniture and you get furr-niture, something that can be shared with this post and the previous one...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:31 PM (l3cgK)

4 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:32 PM (wzUl9)

5 My mother's uncle made the table and chairs we used in the mid-70's. Was nice work; at least I thought so as a kid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:32 PM (l3cgK)

6 Every time I've made something, it has fallen apart. Easier to just buy a kit or complete piece.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

7 6 Every time I've made something, it has fallen apart. Easier to just buy a kit or complete piece.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

Can Ace make furniture? I'm not so sure knowing his history with shelves...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

8 Oooh, I made comment of the week...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:35 PM (l3cgK)

9 Can Ace make furniture? I'm not so sure knowing his history with shelves...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

(shakes magic 8 ball)

"My reply is no."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

10 No hidden compartments in my oldest furniture, a library table that my father brought home and assembled about the time I started school. It's basically three slabs of wood, the top and two leg or side pieces. There once was a drawer in it, but that's long gone, and there were two captain's chairs. I took one chair and the desk from Mom's place after she passed.

The table has served as dinner table, model-building table, cat-sitting area, card table, and since 1986 as my desk. I know of a wood furniture shop here in town; they have pre-made items you can buy and have them stain your choice of color, and they will make certain items for you. My TV stand is from them, ca. 2005. I'm sure they would refinish the table and chair to a high standard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)

11 My other major piece of furniture is a Mission-style armchair I bought from a shop in Colorado, Fort Collins I think it was, in late 1997. I chose the Indian-blanket style upholstery for it and the ottoman. The cushions that came with it I leave on the love seat. The chair was my reading chair when I lived in Denver, and will be again some day soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:39 PM (wzUl9)

12 I need to work on my furniture project today - building stupidly over-designed legs for my project desk.

And film it, because I'm putting the making videos on youtube.

... I probably ought to go buy the hardware I need to attach the stretcher board between the feet.

If I play that right, I could use that hardware as part of what secures the feet to the legs.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 10, 2026 05:39 PM (C0Nlv)

13 Never built furniture, per se. My wife had a dresser-drawer she'd built herself (with some drawer not working). I reworked them for her. I don't count that.
I did redo the aquarium cabinet to have a bigger door on one side so I could fit in the filter system...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:41 PM (l3cgK)

14 My dinette table and its four chairs are from World Market, purchased on a cold rainy January in '04, I think. I had it delivered and then assembled it myself. It has held up very well despite various cat-claw marks on it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)

15 Welcome Hobbiests, at comedy club to see Adam Corolla
Shame didn't know have made quite a few pieces of furniture

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 05:44 PM (xxYed)

16 My living room bookcases were a special order from a small independent furniture shop in Denver in '97. I wanted something deep enough front to back to hold my stereo and CD changer. The changer is gone, but the receiver and speakers remain, along with loads of books. Both are deep enough to have two ranks of books on each shelf.

Another bookcase was a find at a big furniture store in southern Denver. It turned out to be the perfect size to hold my set of the Britannica. Two others in my bedroom were from Target, and they do not look cheap or poorly made. (It's hard to find bookcases nowadays.)

Finally, in my bedroom is a wooden chest from This End Up Furniture. Remember them in the malls of the '80s? Real wood, and it holds all sorts of stuff. In early '87 I was going to buy more items from them, but then lost my job. And they vanished not long after. A shame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

17 Finally, in my bedroom is a wooden chest from This End Up Furniture. Remember them in the malls of the '80s? Real wood, and it holds all sorts of stuff. In early '87 I was going to buy more items from them, but then lost my job. And they vanished not long after. A shame.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

Woulda bought stuff from them, but had too much furniture already when I had a place of my own. I got excited once when I found a nude furniture store in Reno, but they were only unfinished. Used Danish oil on the pieces. Still have the table and one complete chair and one for parts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 05:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

18 As for pipe smoking: I am waiting for a delivery of two tins of cigarillos and two oz. of a pipe blend. It was, according to the USPS website, out for delivery on Monday 10/5. But the mail truck could not get into the complex because they did not have a gate code. The website said that the package would be delivered on the next day.

Uh-huh. It still says that, four days later, and no package despite other mail arriving. And there'll be no mail on Monday. I'm girding up to visit the local substation on Tuesday, to see if the package is still sitting there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

19 If you look closely at that wood pile, you can see hundreds of hungry eyes peering back at you.

Posted by: Spiders! at October 10, 2026 05:51 PM (V+cxR)

20
Some of the best furniture we have came from estate sales.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 05:54 PM (/QHx4)

21 I always enjoyed that little side joke in the movie "The Patriot" where Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) was always failing at making furniture. I think there was a scene where he tries to sit on a rocking chair he made and it collapses.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

22 Oh, and I have a tan fabric love seat purchased from a local vendor around 2012 after my old cream-colored one, bought in Denver, finally got too shabby. Flanking it are two Mission-style end tables, each with a shelf underneath perfect for magazines (or for cats to sit on).

My bed also dates to 1997, when I moved to Denver. The same shop who did the deep bookcases sold me the box spring, mattress, and a blond wood headboard and matching night stand. Now that I look back, I realize how much I spent with them -- and how good their work was.

The box spring still works, but that linen-like underfitting has holes in it now. When I move, it'll stay behind, and I'll buy a new box spring to go under the mattress.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:57 PM (wzUl9)

23 My dad was a master carpenter and made a china cabinet, sideboard, and credenza for my mom. I have them. He also restored my grandmother's desk, at which I am sitting, and some tables. He loved doing that.

My cousin's husband does a lot of refinishing of garage sale and auction finds. They have some very nice, old cabinets and tables in their house.

Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 05:58 PM (2Xqig)

24
Do be wary about buying upholestered furniture second hand unless you know the seller.

People are gross and heaven only knows what is on that furniture.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 05:58 PM (/QHx4)

25 I always enjoyed that little side joke in the movie "The Patriot" where Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) was always failing at making furniture. I think there was a scene where he tries to sit on a rocking chair he made and it collapses.
Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

I was just recalling that very same scene. His little daughter not knowing whether to laugh or not is very sweet.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 05:58 PM (0aYVJ)

26 Some of the best furniture we have came from estate sales.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026


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And certain kinds of antique stores. The only problem being delivery if the item is too big for your car. Furniture stores deliver; small thrift/antique places don't. But I guess nearly all of them know somebody with a truck who'd be willing to haul your new dresser for a fair price.

I've seen dressers and end tables and dining tables I'd love to have, if I had the room. I'd have to arrange for delivery too, but they'd be worth it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:00 PM (wzUl9)

27 We gave our son my Dad's old piano. It's an upright built in the 1920s. It really needs to be refinished, but, after a friend repaired and tunes it, and fixed some of the mechanisms, it plays beautifully. The thing is a brute, takes four strong men to move it.

Currently it resides at son's pastor's home. Pastor D. is a very good piano player, and he is in his 80s, so son wants him to enjoy it for a while.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 10, 2026 06:02 PM (0aYVJ)

28 Buying dead people's stuff, I'd worry about the dead people coming with it.

Posted by: Every Day is Halloween if You are Superstitious Enough at October 10, 2026 06:03 PM (jJhtM)

29 We like 'Mission style' tables and chairs. Don't build them though. We buy them. We have one mission chair. One.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:03 PM (NnhvP)

30 This End Up is still around: https://thisendup.com/ Just not in your local mall, I guess. Their love seats, for example, are not cheap, but they have lots of bookcases.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

31 Do be wary about buying upholestered furniture second hand unless you know the seller.

People are gross and heaven only knows what is on that furniture.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026


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I suppose if someone allergic to cat dander bought my current loveseat, he'd have a hell of time until he got it cleaned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

32 Blue Angels in the air.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:09 PM (RIvkX)

33 31 Do be wary about buying upholestered furniture second hand unless you know the seller.

People are gross and heaven only knows what is on that furniture.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026

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I suppose if someone allergic to cat dander bought my current loveseat, he'd have a hell of time until he got it cleaned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

I don't think four seasons was writing about animal dander...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:11 PM (l3cgK)

34 I don't have a painting with even a single piece of furniture. Surprised myself.

Posted by: polynikes at October 10, 2026 06:12 PM (KC5Lt)

35 I fashioned a rudimentary lathe

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 06:12 PM (rbvCR)

36 I made a tractor seat.

Posted by: Ronster at October 10, 2026 06:18 PM (xtXF+)

37 I made a bench out of chunks of old concrete driveway.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 06:20 PM (MWfyi)

38 Well, I am done for the day. Nasty cold out, 32 degrees with a strong North wind, and the odd flake of snow. I took a trash bag to the transfer station, and 2 old 20# propane cylinders and a big propane "manifold tank", all purged. Attendant said to drop the cylinders "over there", and to throw the manifold tank into the metal pit, which I did. No longer my problem. Got home, and repaired the screen/storm door which had had its hinges torn out of the frame by a gust of wind a few days ago. Managed to refit the hinges to the continuous pin in the door frame, and rehang the door. Also spent time making a custom screw eye to hook up the restraint spring, which may help prevent a future occurrence.

Speaking of secret compartments, I was wearing an old club jacket today. Black melton cloth body, black leather sleeves. Was fishing around in the inside pocket (found a rock, lol), and noticed a tiny zipper joining the sateen lining to the lapel, started at the inside pocket, and went towards the collar. I don't think there is a hoodie in there, and the entire lining is not zip-out. What gives?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:25 PM (quk5M)

39 I have Grandma's old oak dining table & 6 chairs. Chairs are press-back and need new fabric on the seats. Table has pull-out leaves at either end, pretty cool.

Dad said his parents bought the set *used* from a Montgomery Ward store in the 1940s.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 06:27 PM (rdVOm)

40 4 frames in formation just over the house

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:27 PM (RIvkX)

41 Unrelated to furniture, but related to hobbies: I did my first SOTA hike in about 2 months this morning. My usual lightweight radios are both out of service, so I hauled a G-90, a big battery, and a vertical antenna up a hill. It was much colder than I planned for, but I made up for it by making contacts on the east coast and across the pond into France.

I'm still working on the Bayou Jumper that was featured here recently, and I'm also about halfway through assembling a QCX‐Mini (40m version).

Posted by: PabloD at October 10, 2026 06:28 PM (OXSZa)

42 Uh-huh. It still says that, four days later, and no package despite other mail arriving. And there'll be no mail on Monday. I'm girding up to visit the local substation on Tuesday, to see if the package is still sitting there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

Speaking of pipes, have you ever run across a brand called Medeco? They used to run ads on the backs of old magazines. IIRC, their thing was a briar bowl with a finned aluminum stem to cool the smoke. And black Bakelite mouthpiece, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:29 PM (quk5M)

43 The closest I've come to building furniture was buying a dinette table from Ikea and cutting the legs down to make it a coffee table.

Well, I did build a work bench and a router table but it'd be a stretch to call those "furniture."

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 06:30 PM (vTZFs)

44 If my furniture had hidden compartments there would be chocolate bars in them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:30 PM (RIvkX)

45 That pass was low the blue bird is complaining.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:32 PM (RIvkX)

46 We had This End Up furniture, a sofa, loveseat and single chair with an ottoman, it lasted us a good long time and stood up to the abuses of a five kid family. One son got particular delight in destroying it when it was time to buy some new stuff.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (ibDUx)

47 We don't collect furniture since we've inherited most of our bigger pieces. Inherited, in a few cases, means I was the only one in the family able to carry the things. Our dining room table is solid mahogany, not veneer, and weighs a ton. It came with a custom container holding 5 leaves that can be inserted. This was THE TABLE in our home growing up: dining, homework, holiday celebrations, jigsaw puzzles, etc. No idea where my parents got it. Made in the 1800s. It still has my sister's name pressed into the wood when she was doing a report and signed her name a little too hard. It had a dark stain, which was a crime. I took it down to bare wood, revealing some of the nicest mahogany I've ever seen. Took a couple of months to do it but worth the effort.

The other big piece is my dresser. it belonged to my grandparents and predates them. Six feet tall, many drawers of different depths, veneered in figured walnut, and dovetailed joinery. The brass pulls are original as are the casters. The draws have move smoothly after more than a century of use.

I can't imagine what it would cost to have these pieces made today with the quality materials and construction.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (yTvNw)

48 When I bought my first house, I was big into Southwest decor. I have a 6.5' dining table with 8 chairs, a corner cabinet, and two barstools from the Scottsdale Art Factory. They're solid cedar distressed to mimic knotty pine (don't recall the process). The chairs and barstools feature an acid washed copper plate design in the back.

Lotta miles on that furniture; NJ, CA, PA, back to CA, and (currently) FL.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (08OqX)

49 Wood. *hehehehe*

Posted by: Butthead at October 10, 2026 06:33 PM (cWLG3)

50 Refinishing that secretary is hard work, burns calories, need to replenish them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:34 PM (VPNgR)

51 50 Refinishing that secretary is hard work, burns calories, need to replenish them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:34 PM (VPNgR)

I know.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 10, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

52 Closest i've gotten to furniture hobbying is repairing my husband's dining chair. The creaks were ominous!

Today I sewed, pressed, and trimmed some quilt strips. For a baby who is over a year old already....oops. Its just more half-square triangles because that's what i am comfortable with.

Posted by: Funsize at October 10, 2026 06:44 PM (3j87q)

53 JTB, your dining table and dresser sound like fantastic pieces of furniture. I don't know what I will do with my stuff when I downsize, the kids don't seem too interested. The old hand carved tavern sign is going to number 4 kid though, he has wanted it since the time he was a little boy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 06:45 PM (ibDUx)

54 Well, I did build a work bench and a router table but it'd be a stretch to call those "furniture."
Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 06:30 PM (vTZFs)

Speaking of router tables, and machine tables in general, you can easily and cheaply make a very sturdy machine table from the shell of an old top-loader washing machine. Take off the top, and throw it away, gut it out, and fasten sturdy industrial casters to the bottom. I weld mine on, because I can, but if you don't weld, you could bridge across the inside bottom with 2X6, and screw the casters to that with 1.5" wood screws, making sure that 2 or 3 screws go through holes in the bottom flange of the cabinet. I make the top out of 2X6 tongue and groove, glued together, and screwed to the top flange of the cabinet with wood screws. Add a piece of 1/4" Masonite if you want a smooth work surface. I usually add a pair of 1" by 1" angle iron cleats at bout mid-height inside, and place a 3/4" plywood shelf on them. Also a 3/4" plywood bottom shelf, too. It is a shame to have all that cubage, and not have it accessible for storage. Such a table will easily support a 300 pound machine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:45 PM (quk5M)

55 All my and my wife's inherited furniture is 1/4 sawn white oak. I hate building with oak, but an having about 10 big logs sawn up this winter to begin to build a quality set of oak chairs for a claw-foot, round oak table.

Posted by: MkY at October 10, 2026 06:46 PM (ZHRuH)

56 I know.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 10, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

Heh!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 06:47 PM (quk5M)

57 This table has had maybe 10 sets of chairs since I've known it. None have been well-designed. I'd like to build a set that will last as long as that table.

Posted by: MkY at October 10, 2026 06:49 PM (ZHRuH)

58 Furniture making? Should get pretty stickly in here.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Chip and Dale made some pretty stuff.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 06:50 PM (N5iuz)

59 I has a new hobby!
We bought a 2006 Mx-5 miata on thursday, yea!

Friday we drove it about 60 miles and i puked all it's radiator fluid 2.5 miles from home. Boo!
I will be installing a new all aluminum radiator with replacement tubing.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:51 PM (NnhvP)

60 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

There is a box traveling with us to the TXmome.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:52 PM (NnhvP)

61 42 ... "Speaking of pipes, have you ever run across a brand called Medeco? They used to run ads on the backs of old magazines. IIRC, their thing was a briar bowl with a finned aluminum stem to cool the smoke. And black Bakelite mouthpiece, of course."

AOP, That sounds more like the Falcon pipe with the aluminum stem and a black plastic or nylon mouthpiece. The briar bowl screwed onto the stem and could be swapped with other bowls. Medico pipes are still made, apparently, although I don't recall seeing any in a long time.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 06:53 PM (yTvNw)

62 I took a break from the corporate world about 40 years ago to move to Boston and work with a master cabinetmaker in the North End for a couple of years. It was great fun and learned a shit ton. I haven't made many pieces recently though. I gave all my mahogany and walnut planks to one of my sons before this last move. I had too much to use in my lifetime.

I have to say though, that really hurt.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 06:54 PM (N5iuz)

63 I refinished an old bottom half of a hutch. No idea where the top is. Wife scored it at a garage sale.

Solid cherry and somebody painted it. What an abomination. Took my time stripping and sanding before staining. Looks pretty good now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 06:55 PM (GZ3K7)

64 I'm just quietly watching the restoration/secrets vids. I love secret compartments and I love old furniture.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 06:57 PM (aJQbY)

65 We bought a 2006 Mx-5 miata on thursday, yea!

Friday we drove it about 60 miles and i puked all it's radiator fluid 2.5 miles from home. Boo!
I will be installing a new all aluminum radiator with replacement tubing.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:51 PM (NnhvP)

Check for a blown head gasket before shelling out for a new radiator! An overheating incident can cause a head gasket to blow, and a blown head gasket will cause overheating, as hot combustion gases enter the cooling system. Fill the radiator, and water will do in this instance, and put a cooling system pressure tester on in place of the filler cap. From cold, start the engine. If the gauge begins rising right away, especially if it rises in jerks, you have a combustion leak into the cooling system. There is also a chemical test kit to test for the presence of combustion products in the coolant. The O'Reilly's store on Apache Trail at Gold Drive ought to be able to help you with either test.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:01 PM (quk5M)

66 My main interest in making furniture was the joinery. A good dovetail joint, even without glue, should remain solid for a century or more. I've probably lost the touch but used dovetails for small pieces. They aren't just sturdy, done with different color woods they become a decorative feature.

I'm also a fan of half lap joints, which I used on some picture and document frames. Lots of surface for glue and more stable than a mitered joint. They are usually done on a table saw but lend themselves to hand tools very well. The chisel work does require some care.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:02 PM (yTvNw)

67 There is a box traveling with us to the TXmome.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 06:52 PM (NnhvP)

Woot!

If I were there in AJ right now, I would be happy to help you fix the Miata.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:03 PM (quk5M)

68 That "impossible dovetail" joint in the Japanese joinery vid is actually very easy to make. My father made one, many, many years ago. Make perfectly ordinary dovetail joint on the ends of two 3X3 sticks of wood. When the glue dries, run the completed piece through your jointer on all four corners repeatedly, until the corners become flats, and the flats become corners. Done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:09 PM (quk5M)

69 Furniture? I almost feel attacked by this thread. My recliner broke last weekend (The toggle assembly became partially detached from the drive rod and started twisting horribly) and I've spent too much of my 'hobby time' trying to diagnose the problem and then repair it. I don't think it's going to happen. The only way I see to buy a replacement for the twisted part is to get a used part off of ebay....and I'm not sure I trust used furniture parts.

I think replacing the chair is going to be far less brain damage. And it's not like the chair was without its (minor) issues before this...

Posted by: Castle Guy at October 10, 2026 07:09 PM (3v7ra)

70 It'll be in the rv garage when you come down for the winter.
Running or not, I can't guess!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 07:11 PM (NnhvP)

71 My dad had a hobby/side line repairing antique upholstered chairs. He could take a wrecked piece, take it down to the frame, reinforce it, than replace the padding and fabric. He could keep everything under the correct tension with brass tacks and fabric covered buttons anchored to the frame. The couple of chairs he kept eventually ended up with my brother.

I have no idea where he learned to do that or what got him interested in the first place. Sadly, there's no one left who knows. I wish he had taught me to do it.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:17 PM (yTvNw)

72
We have three solid wood washstands in our house, two of them with towel racks. We also have two old iceboxes; those are less well off than the wash stands. I can see us taking the two "more complete" wash stands with us when we eventually move, but definitely not the iceboxes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 07:20 PM (trSL4)

73 Seeing all those telescopes reminds me I have one in the closet with a dirty secondary mirror that needs cleaning. Hopefully the shmutz is just residue from a moth or two and not something harder to get off.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 10, 2026 07:22 PM (iIyc0)

74 Oregon lost!

My day has been made.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (yEz+x)

75 Hey, All.

Do boobs count as a hobby?

Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (77rzZ)

76
Glass punkin, that chunkin punkin

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (trSL4)

77 69 ... "My recliner broke last weekend (The toggle assembly became partially detached from the drive rod and started twisting horribly)"

CG,
The same thing happened to me on a couple of recliners. The chair itself is fine but the lift mechanism died. I just secured the lift and got a separate foot stool to use. Works great. Cheap and effective solutions suit me.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (yTvNw)

78 Furniture making !!! I love it. I built all my own to fit my living space.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (nxLtX)

79 Do boobs count as a hobby?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (77rzZ)


I consider it an occupation. And the renumeration is not monetary.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 10, 2026 07:24 PM (iIyc0)

80 My furniture making abilities are limited to the assembly of IKEA and the like. I'm sure that doesn't qualify as "furniture making." My other hobbies include gardening (different thread) and shooting (different thread), so it's back to lurking for me.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at October 10, 2026 07:25 PM (C8+gh)

81
For a span of about two years around five years ago I explored flameworking -- making glass beads and glass flowers. I ultimately decided that I'd not have the time to become good at it so I struck my tent, distributed my tools -- most obtained at second hand and on the cheap -- and dropped the whole enterprise. Looking at matters now, it was a wise move.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 07:29 PM (trSL4)

82 AOP, Langlitz leather jackets have a discreet zippered passage at an angle next to the obvious pocket, which they brazenly label as the "pistol pocket." Any chance yours is in the right place to do that duty?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 10, 2026 07:33 PM (zdLoL)

83 One hobby is loading ammo for my target shooting. I've been thinking about which guns I'm likely to use over the next year and the calibers. (The muzzleloaders are a separate category.) 32 long, 38 special, 41 magnum, and 44 special are the calibers at the top of the list at the moment. I already have the components. Clearly, I'm thinking in terms of single action revolvers.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:34 PM (yTvNw)

84 Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome.

Legal where??

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 07:36 PM (sl73Y)

85 JTB,
I've reupholstered quite a few pieces of furniture, and I learned how in adult evening classes at the local high school. You might check that out.

Posted by: Wenda at October 10, 2026 07:38 PM (bGLcx)

86 After all the hard work on the secretary the finish looked coarse.
Don't thing the original appeared coarse. Good word, didn't like the finish.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:39 PM (VPNgR)

87 I sewed three quarters of a pair of firewood slings the other day.

2 yards of 45" fabric was just the perfect amount, but my sewing machine decided that all the bobbin thread needed be in large loops halfway through the second one.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 10, 2026 07:40 PM (C0Nlv)

88 79 Do boobs count as a hobby?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10,
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Smash is going to get you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:42 PM (VPNgR)

89 Thanks everyone for being here. Sorry I was absent. We're in transit. Thanks to Doof for launching.

Posted by: TRex - soggy dino at October 10, 2026 07:44 PM (TfIR2)

90 85 ... "I've reupholstered quite a few pieces of furniture, and I learned how in adult evening classes at the local high school. You might check that out."

Wenda,
Thanks for the suggestion. My interest these days is academic more than practical. Recalling what my dad did would require positions I can't get into or, especially, out of these days.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 07:45 PM (yTvNw)

91 TRex, we hardly noticed; But glad you're here!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 07:46 PM (NnhvP)

92 I restored enough furniture in my time. I use a lot of antique tools, because it just seems right. Sometimes the old tools replicate the look.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 10, 2026 07:55 PM (vzuC7)

93 JTB,

I hear you!

Posted by: Wenda at October 10, 2026 07:55 PM (bGLcx)

94 AOP, Langlitz leather jackets have a discreet zippered passage at an angle next to the obvious pocket, which they brazenly label as the "pistol pocket." Any chance yours is in the right place to do that duty?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 10, 2026 07:33 PM (zdLoL)

Not really. I did unzip it all the way. The zipper runs up the left lapel and ends at the right-hand end of the collar. You can reach in there, and explore the entire void between the shell and the lining. Sadly, no sheaf of 100-dollar bills, nor treasure map to be found. It would make a lousy pistol carry space. I think the zipper was simply a means to close access to some sewing points.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 07:55 PM (quk5M)

95
What are you hobbying?

I'm working on a trailer module tester. Circuit will fool the truck's trailer module into thinking it has a trailer connected. This triggers the module to flash the testers LEDs for brake, tail, left, and right as well as enabling the 12vdc relay for the electric brakes.

The whole shebang is a simple exercise to get 12vdc at the number for a portable aircompressor to air up trailer tires and the truck's rear duallys. Mounting it in an anodized black aluminum case 6"x6"x3", with the circuit laser engraved on the outer case and the LEDs labeled and mounted at the proper place in the circuit diagram. Using HAM Radio power port 30 amp quick connectors for the 12vdc so I can also run my radio from the tailgate while making remote Parks On the Air calls.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 07:57 PM (QVmho)

96 I missed the Pet Thread but the most popular dog costume this year is the pumpkin. That is all.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

97 75 Hey, All.

Do boobs count as a hobby?
Posted by: Bulg at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (77rzZ)

_____________________


Sure. I collect them....and make lampshades, throw pillows and all kinds of neat stuff.

Posted by: Ed Gein at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (dIske)

98 I built all my own to fit my living space.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 10, 2026 07:23 PM (nxLtX)

*looks up Texas county sizes*

Posted by: RI Red at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (LMRVO)

99
What are you hobbying?

Junior-ette is working on kashmir sweater, nice vanilla color, good quality yarn, very fuzzy. Says she'll be knitting puppies to go over the front pockets.

It's making my Type 2 diabetes worse just commenting on it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 07:59 PM (QVmho)

100 I missed the Pet Thread but the most popular dog costume this year is the pumpkin. That is all.
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

An alligator costume for a wiener dog would be really cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (quk5M)

101
What are you hobbying?

Smash is working on another bracelet with her beading loom. She's gotten very talented with those Itty bitty colored beads and complex patterns.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (QVmho)

102 Speaking of woodworking, I need a new hammer handle for my 16-ounce ball-pein hammer. Princess Auto wants like 21 bucks for a new wooden handle. Yikes! I know handles are usually hickory, but are any other kinds of wood acceptable? I could probably dig out a nice well-seasoned hunk of box elder from my woodpile.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 08:03 PM (quk5M)

103 What are you hobbying?

Smash is working on another bracelet with her beading loom. She's gotten very talented with those Itty bitty colored beads and complex patterns.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 10, 2026 08:00 PM (QVmho)

Think I'll go hobby myself a pina colada right about now..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (08OqX)

104 Ooops....NOOD music.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 08:04 PM (dIske)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 10

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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But watch out for this guy:

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Your cat's behavior may be different:

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Bee in Ecstasy, courtesy Miley


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Happy Kitties in a new kitty balcony, courtesy Miley


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Animal Art


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Not-so-golden retriever



The dog said NO!


A Daily Dose of the American Rev

General George Washington and his British adversary General William Howe had at least one thing in common—they both loved their dogs. Numerous interesting and amusing stories about Washington and his dogs have passed down through history but let us save those for another today. The dog in the historical spotlight today is General Howe’s fox terrier Lila.

On October 4, 1777, Lila was with General Howe during the Battle of Germantown but somehow she became disoriented and lost on the battlefield. When the American army retreated that day, Lila followed it, wandering eventually into the camp of General Washington, wearing a collar that identified her as General Howe’s pet.

While some of the American soldiers thought the dog should be kept as a mascot or trophy of war, Washington disagreed, and he promptly dispatched a courier to return Lila to Howe, along with a note that read:

“General Washington’s compliments to General Howe. He does himself the pleasure to return him a dog, which accidentally fell into his hands, and by the inscription on the Collar appears to belong to General Howe.”

One of Howe’s officers later recounted that the general was thrilled and relieved to get Lila back. This was “an honorable act of a gentleman,” he said, taking her up immediately and putting her in his lap.

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Meet The PetMorons

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Good morning, probably too late for the thread today, but this is a combo gardening thread/pet thread photo. These popped up in my yard over the last couple of days, Puffballs I believe. Surprisingly large, they will get bigger, sometimes as big as a volleyball.

Alfred the Great in the foreground.

-Tom Servo

I don't think Alfred the Great wants us to touch the puffballs, Tom. I wonder why the puffballs think that this is a good time of year to puff?

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I understand that the walk and hurricane were successfully negotiated.



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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 3

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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1
*sticks head through doorway*

Afternoon, Pet Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 03:29 PM (eRlcH)

2 Your cat's behavior may be different:
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My cats aren't as picky about their food as I would have thought.

I ran out of the food that Chloe's previous owner provided me and just gave her the stuff I give my other cats. She adapted quite quickly without any fuss.

Allie doesn't like to eat pate-style cat food, though. She'll only eat the wet food if it's chunky.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2026 03:31 PM (FZ29D)

3 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

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My cats aren't as picky about their food as I would have thought.

I ran out of the food that Chloe's previous owner provided me and just gave her the stuff I give my other cats. She adapted quite quickly without any fuss.

Allie doesn't like to eat pate-style cat food, though. She'll only eat the wet food if it's chunky.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2026


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Afternoon, all,

Dagny La Siberienne *used* to be picky about her food. No idea why. The meme above has good suggestions. But especially since I've had big black Stirling on his diet, she gets more to eat -- he was stealing half of her chow at each meal -- and eats it with gusto. Not all at once; it takes about four bowl visits. Which means her manservant, me, has to pick the bowl up when she leaves and conceal it where Stirling won't find it. Eventually Dagny comes back and gives me The Look, and I put her bowl down. Rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 03:38 PM (wzUl9)

5 Whoa. Read the post, then found no comments.

That's okay. First on Pet Thread should be shared by all.

🐈
In the random rotation of feral felines, we are down to three. Well, two now.

One is Angel, a sweet Siamese-looking kitten.

Kinky is your basic pale yellow cat, with a crooked tail; just couldn't use "Crooky" as a name; "Kinky" may be temporary.

"Bumper," another part-Siamese, was usually seen sitting on the bumper of the old obligatory rusting truck. She got caught by the cowboys. They've had her spayed and front claws removed, and are keeping her as a housecat. Still adjusting to home life with other cats, but confined to a bedroom, seems to like the comfy spots and the a/c.

Glad for that. Always concerned for the little critters out here. This week we found the remains of a good-sized hawk by the water tower. Just one big wing. Wonder what got it. (No windmills in the vicinity, but eagles, owls, and muchmore.)

Ony our little old black housecat continues to mostly confine herself to our bedroom. Seems to be half-blind, but manages to crawl up on the bed at night to sleep next to me.

Daisy the magnificent Malinois barks hello and also throw the ball.

Posted by: mindful webworker - just another critter in creation at October 10, 2026 03:39 PM (yrKoI)

6 https://tinyurl.com/597d6wyr
I have a few dogs scattered around my miniature armies

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 03:40 PM (Ia/+0)

7 The story about Howe and Washington is a good one: a much better illustration of Washington's character than the famous one about the cherry tree, or his ability to fling a silver coin across the Potomac.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 03:40 PM (wzUl9)

8 My friends are busy with a growing family so I feed the cats now with food they brought over. Snowflake and her mom Starry are basically outdoor cats fine with kibble.

They will eat tuna fish happily, the good kind. I was surprised that sardines were a no.

Ralphy is doing well but there's 2 steps from the outside to inside. He was always fine with a bit of running room but the last few days he's been misjudging or something is off. I'll help him down the steps by holding onto his collar.

From now on though, I'll lift him inside the house so he doesn't hurt himself. He is full of life. As long as he can stand up by himself, I'll be there.

He was ALWAYS right by my late Mother's side. He'll be treated the same way.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 03:46 PM (Sco7b)

9 Big Stirling is sleeping on a cushion next to me on the couch. No idea where Dagny is; she could be in her bedroom window sauna, or curled in my desk chair.

Freddy the Freeloader, the gray tabby-with-white shorthair semi-feral, is still visiting frequently. After slopping my feline hogs, I fed him this morning. When I came back from breakfast and errands, the air was still cool enough that I left the door open for a while. Stirling and Freddy immediately faced each other through the screen. Freddy meows; Stirling just looks, no hissing or growling.

I'm not going to let Freddy in. But is it possible that he could pass an infection to Stirling if they touch noses?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 03:46 PM (wzUl9)

10 That bee looks like Tony Montana with a pile of blow!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 03:56 PM (kpS4V)

11 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at October 10, 2026 04:00 PM (sAmhv)

12 Your cat's behavior may be different:

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No. This are all applicable. There there is the primary one that seems to be missing:

"I am eating from a bowl on the floor with unidentifiable meat. YOU, are sitting at a table with SHRIMP!!!! MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY!!!! GIVE ME...N-O-W!!!!!"

(yeah, that one is universal and usually involves a bit of growling and low throat rumbles if there is deterrence of any sort)

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 04:00 PM (dIske)

13 My cat Allie has found another snoozing spot in a corner of my office.

I guess she got tired of me kicking her (not on purpose) when she tries to nap under my desk.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 10, 2026 04:01 PM (FZ29D)

14 Alfred the great is pretty intimidating. I'd probably walk the other way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 04:01 PM (RIvkX)

15 That is a nice story about General Howe and his dog and General Washington returning it. I expect General Howe would have done the same thing had Washington's dog wandered over to his camp.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:08 PM (JrHfD)

16 Seems to be half-blind, but manages to crawl up on the bed at night to sleep next to me.

Awww!. That is sweet

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:12 PM (JrHfD)

17 Hey, Tom Servo, I have purple spored puff ball fungus every year. It's one of the reasons I enjoy the last mowing of the year, because I'll nail one of those the second I see it.

I get a huge purple cloud out of the deal...which was the goal.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 04:12 PM (dIske)

18 Beautiful works of paper art by the Vietnamese artist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:13 PM (JrHfD)

19 Your cat's behavior may be different:

Cat comes to my bedroom door and starts scratching and meowing. I tell him to finish the food already there. He keeps scratching and meowing. So I get up, go over to the bowl, and see food still in it, tell him, "You eat this first!"...he starts eating it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 04:14 PM (l3cgK)

20

We have a Chigi. She was in a shelter until daughter adopted her. It did not work out for her, so of course Hubby and I being saps have adopted her.

Daisy is wonderful and we love her.

It is interesting having her living with us. The way our house was set up when she came to live with us is the way she thinks things should be the same. We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

21 Cat comes to my bedroom door and starts scratching and meowing. I tell him to finish the food already there. He keeps scratching and meowing. So I get up, go over to the bowl, and see food still in it, tell him, "You eat this first!"...he starts eating it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

He wants an audience.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 04:17 PM (zcI95)

22 That is a nice story about General Howe and his dog and General Washington returning it. I expect General Howe would have done the same thing had Washington's dog wandered over to his camp.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 04:08 PM (JrHfD)

A major street in downtown Vancouver, BC is named Howe Street, presumably after said general, and is the core of the financial district. No doubt it will soon be renamed to some unpronounceable and unspellable* made-up Indian name.

*Because using characters not found on civilized keyboards.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 04:19 PM (quk5M)

23 Afternoon all,

I hope everyone in the hurricane's path stays safe.

Posted by: Joyenz at October 10, 2026 04:19 PM (2F0/Y)

24 The masked pup demanding treats was adorable. All of our pups loved popcorn as a treat. (Steak would have been preferred but the budget didn't stretch to it.) Never knew if it was the taste of the popcorn, the crunchy texture, or if they just wanted the butter. Over a year since we lost Precious the Bichon, we still are on the verge of tossing some on the floor.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 04:23 PM (yTvNw)

25 Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??
Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

She might have bad memories of things being moved. The previous owner (before your daughter) may have been moving things out of the house (to move house) and the next thing Daisy knew she was sitting in a cage at a shelter.

It’s possibly the most traumatic event in her life, and when she sees stuff moving, she thinks she’s next.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 04:25 PM (6ydKt)

26
SpeakingOf

That makes sense.

We feel so sad for her.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:29 PM (/QHx4)

27 20 ... " The way our house was set up when she came to live with us is the way she thinks things should be the same. We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??"

Our dogs never cared about moving things in the house as long as they had a spot to 'rest' from their labors: walking, eating and the stress of napping. We had a poodle who went blind at four years old. He bumped into things for a couple of days then learned the new arrangements. As long as he could smell and hear us, he was cool about it.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 04:34 PM (yTvNw)

28 It is interesting having her living with us. The way our house was set up when she came to live with us is the way she thinks things should be the same. We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??
Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

Ralphy was a rescue dog from Alabama. Mom always wondered what happened to him.

He freaks out if he's left alone. I'm in the downstairs computer room right now but if I went upstairs, he'd follow. I have a baby gate so he can't get up the stairs and after a few minutes he's howl and be miserable.

Severe abandonment issues. It was easier when Mom was here and he was agile because he was always with her. He has been sleeping solidly at night and I've been running scripts on the computer and coming down to work at 3am and he sleeps until 8am.

That's actually been nice. Snowflake wakes up, I hear a thud on the floor and she comes down to go outside.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 04:35 PM (Sco7b)

29
Animals know what is going on.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:45 PM (/QHx4)

30 Doggo The Original and Doggo the Additional were successfullt blessed today by our Associate Pastor. Belated observance of St Francis.

As a precaution, our Little Ball of Hate kitty was left home. It was advertised as a blessing, not an exorcism.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 10, 2026 04:46 PM (4HoLg)

31 Cautionary tale from the Yorkshire Zoo, those big orange tabbies are behind the cage for good reasons, don't jump in there to skritch their ear no matter how cute they look

Posted by: SDWtc at October 10, 2026 04:56 PM (be4pr)

32
29
Animals know what is going on.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:45 PM (/QHx4)

Which is why Alfred got into my photo above. I thought the puffballs were fascinating, so Alfred ran up, thinking “so why are you looking at this? What’s so interesting? Here at least let me get in the picture!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 05:11 PM (Y6Q+5)

33
21 Cat comes to my bedroom door and starts scratching and meowing. I tell him to finish the food already there. He keeps scratching and meowing. So I get up, go over to the bowl, and see food still in it, tell him, "You eat this first!"...he starts eating it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

He wants an audience.”

Out cat has a terrible fear of ever seeing the actual bottom of his bowl. Sometimes he will yowl, and I look and there’s food there but you can see the bottom. So I put some in and he just looks at it, satisfied that it’s filled, and goes to lay down without eating another bite.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 04:17 PM (zcI95)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 05:15 PM (Y6Q+5)

34 *looks at bee vid*

Had a mosquito whisper the same thing into my ear last week.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 05:17 PM (2WIwB)

35 We move things around and she freaks out. Anything change she freaks out.

Has anyone of ya'll dealt with that??
Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 04:15 PM (/QHx4)

Ruby just likes things the way they are. She is in hell over the house renovation this summer. She won't leave the camper if the contractor is on site. Then she gets freaked when we take her inside and things are changed. She would not go in the new bedroom until I moved a couple of dresser drawers with clothes that apparently smell like me. We finally put back the RubySpot which is one of the dog beds wedged in between our chairs in the living room, and she likes that.

Some critters are just particular.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 05:22 PM (BYJyI)

36 Noodus hobbyana -- furniture!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9)

37 Oh my!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 10, 2026 10:01 PM (96kpa)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct. 10

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These two are the same flower, start off looking growly and end up looking like granny knitted it.

Eromero

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I think I had one of those once. But I never remember a specimen like that first face. Looks like Eromero might be preparing us for Halloween and All Saints Day, maybe. Do you see a face above?

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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Fall Beets

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How do you cook fall beets? Do you store beets?

If you can beets, you can use a water bath if they are pickled, but they must be pressure-canned if not pickled.

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Purchased beets are generally uniform in size, and may be easier for By-Tor's recipe:

I gave my buddy Ed some of my prize winning dill and bread and butter pickles. He must like them because he asked for more. Now comes the real test- pickled eggs and beets. I’ve been eating these since I was a child. Love em. But most people won’t try them because they look weird. They are easy to make.

1 can of beets ( sliced or whole, non-pickled)
2 hard boiled peeled eggs
About a cup of vinegar ( regular or ACV)
1/2 cup of water
3/4 cup of sugar.

Bring vinegar, water and sugar to a low boil until sugar dissolves. This is the brine. Adjust it with more sugar or more vinegar to your liking.

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Put beets and eggs in a container. Pour brine over until they are covered. Put in fridge. Wait a day. Enjoy. Usually I do two cans of beets and 5 eggs. Then I add more to the brine as I eat them.

I eat these as a side dish to just about everything.

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Post morning tennis lunch- lamb gyro with Greek yogurt , salad and pickled eggs and beets.

Interesting to see the eggs halved.

Another interesting recipe from By-Tor!


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Weather

Rachel Moorman Beckstead, Mill Creek

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Glad Piper's power came back on!

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Fights in or with Nature


We've been doing some of that at our house, too.



Anybody seen this happening?


Gardens of The Horde


A bit of colour in the autumn. I call them 'blacblack eyed susan', my wife has a Latin name. The rose keeps on flowering. unfortunately we have lost the name.

Chris 1051

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Thanks for sending in the great fall photos.

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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.


If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct. 3


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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Zinnias, Kay Pardue

Posted by: K.T. at 01:42 PM




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1 Good afternoon Greenthumbs

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)

2 I grow tons of those Passion Flowers for the butterflies & hopefully enough fruit to make some jelly.

Posted by: Bob at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM (cNhbl)

3 My wife is trying to grow some plants in basement with a sun lamp. Cabbage is full grown, tomatoes are maybe just under a foot high and a pepper plant only a few inches high.
Can't see it going to fruition but no harm I guess

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM (Ia/+0)

4 The top photo is either a dragon or a chihuahua.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 10, 2026 01:49 PM (dCMJG)

5 Bob at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM (cNhbl)

Is that one of the types of passion fruit that is used for juice?

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 01:52 PM (X8QDB)

6 4 The top photo is either a dragon or a chihuahua.

Hard to tell the difference, right?

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 01:53 PM (X8QDB)

7 I used to love pickled beets as a kid but just sort of lost the taste somewhere along the way to adulthood.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 01:53 PM (ld6At)

8 Eromero, those purple flowers are gorgeous.
Not much to report . Keep,thinking I should cut down the tomato and poblano containers but they just got some new flowers. The tomato especially has a bunch of tiny green tomatoes. Have to wait and see if the storm tomorrow knocks them out. My encore azalea is indeed doing an encore. I love how this area has beautiful flowering plants even in the fall.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 10, 2026 01:56 PM (kJmSS)

9 Skip at October 10, 2026 01:48 PM

Leafy greens are probably the best bet for winter.

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 01:56 PM (X8QDB)

10 The first picture looks exactly like a dragon.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 10, 2026 01:57 PM (kJmSS)

11 My cotton try came to naught. I went out last Monday to take the large almost mature bolls, I thought they were large enough to show fiber color at least. I found someone had stripped every single boll off the plant, even the newest just forming. Animals don’t eat the bolls, the plant was undamaged, and some of the bracts had been peeled off and dropped on the steps. Very disappointing.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 10, 2026 01:57 PM (ky7/T)

12 First flower pic looks like a fricken dragon!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 10, 2026 02:00 PM (cWLG3)

13 Raw cotton poachers? That's gotta be a pretty narrow list of suspects. Stake out the next knitting bee.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 02:02 PM (ld6At)

14 I planted a mix of Rome (also called Cranberry) beans and a Salvadoran red bean when I finished digging my potatoes in July. They are now giving me green beans, and I picked and canned my first 4 pints this week. I think I will be able to continue canning at least once a week until we get the first frost.

Home canned beans are far better than the stuff you buy in cans. I buy my seeds by the pound from the Mexican market in town, the brand is Goya.
Both of those varieties are shell beans, but if I pick them early enough they are tasty green beans as well.

Several years ago I cleaned out my box of old seeds by dumping them into a jar and adding a double handful of cranberry beans and raking them into the dug over potato patch in the idea that it would give me some coverage on the dirt for the fall and keep the weeds in check. It worked but even better I got enough beans to can too. I now have given up planting pole beans in the spring because I can grow bush beans in the late summer.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 02:02 PM (rbvCR)

15 I love pickled beets, but haven't had them since my mom made them when I was a kid. My cousin gave me some pickled okra the other day that is very tasty. Our summer was too hot for everything, but it cooled and started to rain about a month ago, so all my plants grew again. I have green beans, cucumbers and cayennes, with green tomatoes on the vines. Depending on the freeze, which could come any time here, I might get a few tomatoes. If not, I'll pick the green ones and see if they'll turn inside.

Posted by: huerfano at October 10, 2026 02:06 PM (2Xqig)

16 Hooray!

KT and the Sunshine Thread!

Posters 'man' and 'one hour sober' are both in the Perdido Key/Destin area.

I don't think they've checked in yet.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 02:07 PM (QGaXH)

17 Lirio100, do you have squirrels? That is the sort of thing that squirrels will do. They are making winter nests about now.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 02:08 PM (rbvCR)

18 4 The top photo is either a dragon or a chihuahua.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 10, 2026 01:49 PM (dCMJG)

my first thought was dragon, but no snapdragon.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:14 PM (l3cgK)

19 There are squirrels but not even the largest, not quite golf ball size, had split. No fiber visible. The plant was over 3 feet tall and not a branch or leaf damaged. The oddest part was even the tiny very newest bolls forming were taken.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 10, 2026 02:14 PM (ky7/T)

20 Collected nearly a dozen cactus fruit (Pitaya) this year, including one fruit that was 3/4 lb. Cactus has gone crazy; still had a few flowers bloom just the last week. I'm not sure what the cactus is sensing that I don't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:15 PM (l3cgK)

21 I was able to harvest over a pound of pecans the crows missed...damned crows!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:16 PM (l3cgK)

22 I really need to move the contents of compost bine out because the new leaves have someplace to go

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 02:16 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Passion flower vines grow wild on the fences on our farm in MS. Along roads, etc. They were known as May Pops. I never noticed the fruit that gave them the name on my bike rides as a feral teen.

I always loved them and decades later started seeing them in plant catalogs.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 02:25 PM (hzuYO)

24 That top photo made me think of a tiny dragon peeking through the foliage. I never would have thought the full bloom version would look so different. A film tracking the transformation would be interesting. And really cool.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 02:27 PM (yTvNw)

25 That's obviously a Snapdragon.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 02:28 PM (MWfyi)

26
Finally getting rain here in SW Wyoming.

My bulbs have sprouted, lol. Probably will not bloom but at least they are not dead.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 02:28 PM (/QHx4)

27 No gardening to report here. Weather has turned cold. Freezing out, more or less, and a stiff breeze. Have to rehang the storm door that got blown off the hinges by a gust of wind. And haul some scrap propane tanks to the waste transfer site. I have seen propane tanks stacked there, so I assume they will take them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 02:29 PM (quk5M)

28 TS Rachel is coming to my neck of the woods...should cross over the desert to the east of here in the early a.m. tomorrow...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM (l3cgK)

29 Eromero's flower is very cool. Looks a little like a clematis seed cluster.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM (RIvkX)

30 Thanks to KT for the thread and the folks who send in materials. That last photo looks like one of those vibrant still life paintings by the Dutch Masters in the 1700s. Just gorgeous.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM (yTvNw)

31 The top photo looks like a dragon's face.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 10, 2026 02:33 PM (CHHv1)

32 I cut back my Gold Medal Rose yesterday. Because of Indian summer I have to force it into hibernation for "winter" which is usually only 20 degrees cooler anyway.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 02:34 PM (RIvkX)

33 Beckoning Chasm yes it does

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)

34 Have 2 old compost piles, so going to combine those then wgere 1 pile was will be where last years leaves go

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)

35 I've been messing around with a terrarium. I have a bunch of unused aquariums, because I like to upgrade as new models come out for fresh, salt and brackish.

So, recently, I thought I'd do a carnivorous plant terrarium in a 32 gallon tank. I grow a bunch of fruit which has a tendency to attract "fruit flies" when it ripens in the house. Fly Traps, Pitcher plants, Nepenthes...etc. I had no idea how many carnivorous plants were out there until I started looking into it. I've got the base plants set up...pitchers and flytraps. It takes a little bit of research to see what others like the same humidity and heat. It's a long term project.

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 02:49 PM (dIske)

36 From Boise area: lows 54-59 F, highs 82-89. Fall arrived today - high will be around 55-60. HOA irrigation is now off, though we may get one more watering cycle before the pond drains down.

Final potato harvest was an entire 5 gallon bucket of Russets. Half were dry enough to brush off and weigh, 8 pounds 12 oz. The rest are still in the bucket drying off. Still a small number of tomatoes to pick, though that may end with the weather change. If frost threatens, we'll have to cut all the peppers. I've been cutting and freezing cantaloupe, since the vines are dead.

Bought 2 pumpkins and a spaghetti squash from the young entrepreneurs next door.

I had to put netting on the surface of our new bulb bed to keep cat/s out - I also sprinkled bulb food on top.

Husband pruned some trees, did some painting, worked on repairing the sweeper-cart - and had me dig up debris that had fallen in an irrigation box so he could see the valves and pipes to figure out what issues we'll have next spring - the system is under-designed for the demands on it.

Posted by: Pat* at October 10, 2026 02:50 PM (iZaMd)

37 Passion flowers. They got those weird eggish alien pods.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at October 10, 2026 02:54 PM (nDXEV)

38
Daughter-in-law can get anything to grow.

Some people have the knack.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:05 PM (/QHx4)

39 I have plastic sheeting covering my piles, a year in the weather and they start breaking up

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 03:05 PM (Ia/+0)

40 I love that smiling green dragon, Eromero!

It's Octobering hard core here in the Mitten. Glorious foliage, sunny, with cool evenings. And no bugs!

I did some desultory puttering, transplanting a pretty blurple aster out front and moving some of my blue salvia to my bare vegetable patch. I had to shake off lots of bees to move it -- " I'm workin' here, lady!" -- but the community garden bees took up the slack. I also gently pulled up rogue snapdragons and marigolds sprouting outside of garden plots and put them in mine.

I've already got kale sprouting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 03:08 PM (kpS4V)

41 Some folks have plots bursting with tomatoes and peppers ready for picking but they totally neglect their gardens! These people disgust me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 10, 2026 03:12 PM (kpS4V)

42 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 02:25 PM

There are many, many kinds of passion flowers. Some have tastier fruits than others. Some don't make fruits.

I think the one above may be a hybrid rather than a native Maypop.

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 03:27 PM (X8QDB)

43 The name "passionflower" comes from the distinctive parts of the flowers, which people compared to the Passion of Christ.

Posted by: KT at October 10, 2026 03:28 PM (X8QDB)

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28 TS Rachel is coming to my neck of the woods...should cross over the desert to the east of here in the early a.m. tomorrow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM

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Just got a brief thunderstorm in East County. Early.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 10, 2026 03:33 PM (azNOR)

45 @43...thanks. Will look into this as I didn't know.

One August, when I flew West back to college, I brought stuff with me to remind me of home. A magnolia tree seed pod and, once, an osage-orange ball aka "horse apple."

An artist friend was fascinated and wanted to paint both that I took for granted as summer in MS.

In spring we had redbud and dogwood trees blooming in the woods, along with tall vines into oaks of white Cherokee roses. It was lovely.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 03:38 PM (hzuYO)

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28 TS Rachel is coming to my neck of the woods...should cross over the desert to the east of here in the early a.m. tomorrow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 02:30 PM

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Just got a brief thunderstorm in East County. Early.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 10, 2026 03:33 PM (azNOR)

Just a little bit in my part of Sandy Eggo County...the plants are wet. Some breeziness.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 03:39 PM (l3cgK)

47 Passionflower:

• 5 Petals and 5 Sepals: Represent the 10 faithful apostles (excluding Judas the betrayer and Peter the denier).
• Corona Filaments: The ring of hair-like rays represents the crown of thorns.
• 3 Stigmas: Represent the three nails used to fasten Jesus to the cross.
• 5 Anthers / Stamens: Represent the five wounds of Christ.
• Tendrils: Represent the whips used during the flagellation.
• Leaves: Shaped like a spear or hand, representing the Holy Lance or the hands of Christ's persecutors.
• Round Fruit: Represents the world that Jesus saved.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 10, 2026 03:43 PM (hzuYO)

48
We have a large garage here in Wyoming. I have been thinking about buying grow lights so I can grow some things through the winter.

Is that a pipe dream, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:45 PM (/QHx4)

49 Is that a pipe dream, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:45 PM (/QHx4)

Only if you smoke what you grow!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 03:48 PM (quk5M)

50
Lol AOP,

Hubby and I wish we had some pot, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at October 10, 2026 03:49 PM (/QHx4)

51 Nice post, KT!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at October 10, 2026 04:31 PM (96qvc)

52 Thanks KT for posting my cellphone pictures. Maypops were common in SC where I grew up and we did eat them. We'd pretty much eat anything. The wiki says it's Passiflora incarnata, like CrristyBlinkey said.

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 05:19 PM (LHPAg)

53 The best way to cook beets is to sous vide them. 3 hours at 185 and they come out perfectly. And CBD will be proud of you!

Posted by: Shannon at October 10, 2026 06:51 PM (MhJxa)

Real history

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What was peculiar about the West was not that it participated in the worldwide evil of slavery, but that it later abolished that evil, not only in Western societies but also in other societies subject to Western control or influence.
This was possible only because the anti-slavery movement coincided with an era in which Western power and hegemony were at their zenith, so that it was essentially European imperialism which ended slavery. This idea might seem shocking, not because it does not fit the facts, but because it does not fit the prevailing vision of our time.

~ Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005)

Why aren't these books in your local "frequently banned books" display?

Which of these have you read?


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The "1619 Project" has been in the news again. Why not this book?

Is it because the "1619 Project" has failed again and the book above has no such provocative record of failure?

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They tried to totally obliterate this one from the market. FOR ADULTS

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For the kids:


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Back on September 25, Ace wrote: Cambridge University: We Have Cancelled Our Promised Investigation Into How Unqualified Fabulist Jason Arday Was Hired. Instead We Will Investigate How We Failed to "Support" Him and Other DEI Incompetents and Plagiarists.

Better idea? Or is Cambridge cooked?

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Founding Fathers

A Daily Dose of the American Rev
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“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

In June 1776, fifteen years before the ratification of the Bill of Rights, Virginia adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights -- "the basis and foundation of government" in Virginia. The importance of this document to the emergence of liberal democracy in the United States and around the world cannot be overstated. George Mason, principal author of the Declaration, died on this day in 1792.
Below is the Declaration in full.

A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.

Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

Section 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them.

Section 3. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration. And that, when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community has an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.

Section 4. None of mankind is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

Section 5. That the legislative and executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part, of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.

Section 6. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented for the public good.

Section 7. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.

Section 8. That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man has a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.

Section 9. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Section 10. That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offense is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive and ought not to be granted.

Section 11. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other and ought to be held sacred.

Section 12. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Section 13. That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

Section 14. That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from or independent of the government of Virginia ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.

Section 15. That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Section 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.


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George Mason

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Friends of George Washington
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Duane Montague ·
On October 6, 1776, a Connecticut captain sat down and wrote a letter to his wife. He was exhausted and most of his men were sick. The campaign was not going well.

But the first thing he wanted Priscilla to know was this: “you must not think that Distance & long Absence has weaned in the least degree my Affections from you & my family.”

His name was Jonathan Birge.

Unlike many of the names we remember from 1776, Birge was just an ordinary man who heard the call of liberty and answered. A husband from Bolton, Connecticut, and father of six children, Birge was made captain of a company raised from his neighbors and friends.

When George Washington called for reinforcements in 1776, Birge marched south with Connecticut troops to help defend New York.

The British had already taken Long Island, the Continentals were retreating northward. And nobody knew whether the Revolution itself could survive the year.
From camp at Harlem Heights, Birge wrote home, and the picture he painted was not heroic.

"I never saw a worse place to be sick in for we have not one doctor to our whole Brigade in camp…Our people are some what sickly in camp yet."
The living conditions were miserable. He’d lost his pack in the retreat and asked Priscilla for two blankets. The army had finally obtained tents and straw to sleep on, but Birge admitted: “we fare considerably like hogs.”
And yet he refused to pity himself. After describing sickness, shortages, and hardship, he wrote: “I desire not to complain For I am alive & why should a living man complain."

Birge wanted his wife and children to understand why he remained anyway. It wasn’t money, fame, or glory. “It is not all the commissions or pay...it is for the cause of freedom & love to posterity."

A few paragraphs later, he tried to reassure Priscilla that he was healthy and still performing his duties: “I am the only Cpt in the Regiment that is well."
Three weeks later, he was wounded at the Battle of White Plains. An enemy musket ball went into his shoulder. Jonathan Birge died on November 10, 1776, at age forty-two.

A week after Birge's death, three fellow soldiers wrote to Priscilla to tell her that her husband was gone. They regretted his loss deeply.
On October 6, 1776 a father and husband wrote a simple confession that still stirs hearts, 250 years later. He was just an ordinary American who knew exactly what he was risking “for the cause of freedom…”
Five weeks later, his family learned the price.
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I believe history matters because legacy matters. The choices we make, the faith that sustains us, and the families we leave behind all become part of a story larger than ourselves. If you enjoy discovering the people behind the history, follow along as we explore the stories, struggles, and legacies that helped shape America.

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A Daily Dose of the American Rev


With the resolution for independence about to voted upon in the Congressional Congress, Delaware delegate Thomas McKean was very concerned. Although he strongly favored independence, his fellow Delawarean George Read was opposed. McKean wanted the states to vote for independence unanimously, and he certainly did not want Delaware to have the dishonor (as he saw it) of being the lone holdout. So, on the evening before the crucial vote, McKean dispatched a courier to Dover, 80 miles away, with a crucial message for Caesar Rodney—get to Philadelphia as fast as you can.

Rodney was Delaware’s third delegate, but he was also a brigadier general of the state’s militia and had been forced to return to Delaware to help put down a Loyalist uprising there. He was also in poor health, suffering from asthma and painful facial cancer. But when McKean’s message arrived, Rodney set out for Philadelphia immediately, riding all night through a powerful thunderstorm. After one of the most famous rides in American history, he arrived at what would come to called Independence Hall in the nick of time, “booted and spurred,” exhausted, and mud-covered, to cast the tiebreaking vote in the Delaware delegation. “As I believe the voice of my constituents and of all sensible and honest men is in favor of independence,” he declared, a green scarf covering his cancer-ravaged face, “my own judgment concurs with them. I vote for independence.”

Caesar Rodney is best remembered for his famous ride, but he served Delaware and the Patriot cause in numerous ways during his life: as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress, as a general in the state’s militia, as a delegate to the Continental Congress, as a state Supreme Court justice, and as President (chief executive) of Delaware. Even as his health deteriorated, forcing him to cover his face with bandages and rendering him unable to travel, Rodney was elected to the Delaware General Assembly and was chosen Speaker of the upper house. Knowing that he was unable leave his home, in a gesture of respect and honor the Assembly voted to convene in his house, which they did in April 1784, just weeks before his death at age 55.

Today is the birthday of Delaware Founding Father Caesar Rodney, who was born 298 years ago today.

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In taking up the Patriot cause, at a time when many fellow wealthy South Carolinians were remaining loyal to the crown, Henry Laurens risked both his life and his substantial fortune. Widely respected across America, he was chosen President of the Continental Congress in November 1777, the highest-ranking executive position under the Articles of Confederation.

Laurens was appointed American minister to the Netherlands after his term ended and in August 1780, he was dispatched to Amsterdam about the packet ship Mercury, charged with negotiating a loan to help finance the war effort. Off the coast of Newfoundland, the Mercury was intercepted by the HMS Vestal, a British man of war. When Laurens realized his capture was imminent, he tossed overboard the trunk containing his diplomatic papers.

A sixteen-year-old new recruit aboard the Vestal saw something tumble into the water off the deck of the Mercury. Believing a man had fallen overboard he called out an alarm. Another British sailor aboard the Vestal immediately dived into the water. But what he discovered was not an unfortunate man in need of rescue, but rather Lauren’s trunk, which had not had time to sink. Taken aboard the Vestal and opened, the trunk was found to contain Lauren’s commission to negotiate the Dutch loan, as well as a draft treaty between the United States and the Netherlands. Laurens was carried to England and placed in the Tower of London, charged with high treason, and Great Britain declared war on the Netherlands.

During Lauren’s first day in the Tower, a band outside his cell taunted him with “Yankee Doodle.” Lauren’s later recalled, “The tune played I suppose in derision of me filled my mind with a sublime contempt and rather made me cheerful.”

Laurens remained confined in the Tower for 15 months, refusing numerous offers of release in exchange for renouncing the American cause and requesting a pardon. “Imprisonment and even death…shall not shake me,” Laurens wrote, rejecting one of the offers. “My conscience acquits me, is serene & undisturbed; if I die, let me die in my integrity.”

General Washington sent both Colonel John Laurens (Henry’s son) and the Viscount Noailles (Lafayette’s brother-in-law) to London to attempt to negotiate Laurens’ release, but their efforts were fruitless. Congress offered to exchange General John Burgoyne (who was a paroled prisoner of war captured at Saratoga) for Laurens, but the British refused, saying that Laurens was a prisoner of state not a prisoner of war and therefore ineligible for exchange. But the truth was that the British authorities had no great desire to see Burgoyne released from parole. Their position dramatically reversed when General Cornwallis was taken prisoner at Yorktown. On December 31, 1781, Laurens was finally released, in exchange for a promise to effect the release of Cornwallis from parole.
After his release from the Tower, Laurens finished his much-delayed journey to Holland and there he negotiated the terms of a desperately needed loan. He would go on to be one of the American commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Paris, the peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and secured American independence.

Henry Laurens was imprisoned in the Tower of London on October 6, 1780, two hundred forty-six years ago today.

The image is a portrait made while he was being held in the Tower.

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WEEKEND

The Week in Pictures: Electile Dysfunction Edition

So Secretary of State Marco Rubio outraged the Woke Industrial Complex by standing up for Western Civilization (gasp!). If he keeps this up, he might be president someday. Meanwhile, in fake news, Missouri’s department of prisons is thinking of hiring some Canadian doctors from Canada’s MAID Service to conduct future death row executions, while Cornell and other universities are thinking about ending their “sex week” offerings that greenlight “consensual” orgies at frat houses. And behold the irony that while South America is turning almost uniformly right-wing in recent elections, American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic. Talk about being “blue-pilled”!

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Music

Yankee Doodle

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs


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Last week's thread, Barbarians gonna barbarian

UPDATE: There are rumors that the health education folks at Cornell are thinking about ending their practice of encouraging fun group sex among students.

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:01 AM




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1 Where be everyone?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 11:09 AM (JzUSu)

2 I’m over the tranny shit. It’s a left wing thing. Leftist parents chopping body parts off their left wing kids. Whatever. Have at it. Not my problem.

Same with blacks. Succeed, don’t succeed whatever. You keep voting for people who want me dead so I give less than zero fucks about your well being.

I’m done caring about the well being of any group that hates me. Kill yourselves, mutilate yourselves, live in poverty. My give a fuck meter is pegged at 0.0 for all of it.




Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 11:09 AM (qoHuP)

3 Interesting that right to bear arms was number 13 on that list but moved up to number 2 in the bill of rights.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 11:12 AM (qoHuP)

4 George Mason attended my church, along with George Washington and George Fairfax. The first two are pretty impressive, but GF became a loyalist before the Revolution, and absconded to England. You can't win them all.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

5 Where be everyone?

Reading the copious content?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

6 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:16 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Morning! Missed the prayer thread cuz I was at Wally World getting the oil changed in the car.

Didn't sleep well. Might go back to bed after lunch, being Saturday and all.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 11:18 AM (aJQbY)

8 Those leftist narratives certainly are persistent.

Posted by: Jay at October 10, 2026 11:19 AM (zhWvq)

9 And behold the irony that while South America is turning almost uniformly right-wing in recent elections, American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic.

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Geez, that's quite a downer. I hope this is wrong.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 10, 2026 11:19 AM (qBdHI)

10 Many still today are held in slavery, here and around the world.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Where be everyone?

Reading the copious content?
Posted by: Archimedes
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That it is. Downright girthy.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (JzUSu)

12 Another problem with the tranny shit is "therapists" get ahold of young men and women over 18 and convince them that they are autistic and in the wrong body, like that will fix everything, instead of actually helping them deal with life.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (MWfyi)

13 " Where be everyone?"

I just washed one car and now will do a truck. It's easier when it's been raining.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 11:23 AM (MWfyi)

14 4 George Mason attended my church, along with George Washington and George Fairfax.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)


You're not really 29, are you?

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 10, 2026 11:23 AM (OlzlW)

15 Look, Fat, that Rodney guy was a fine Delawarean,but he didn't get 81 Million votes and he didn't have a Corvette and Top Secret documents in his garage!

Posted by: Scranton Joe, Standing In A Puddle at October 10, 2026 11:24 AM (EdP2u)

16 What a great thread with all kinds of interesting links. Thanks so much. K.T!I didn't know that there was a response to "The 1619 Project." I'll have to look for that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:24 AM (JrHfD)

17 Our friends have a grandson (sorta, the woman had him with previous husband before marrying current husband). He is probably 12, and they all delight in him dressing in women's clothes and generally being, IDK? Gay? He's been doing it for years, I guess.

They are rabid Trump-hating lefties, so of course this is all A-OK with them. In the interest of maintaining our friendship, I have resisted telling the boy to stop being a fag, for his own good, but I suspect he'll find that out the hard way.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 11:27 AM (QaH55)

18 That is a few good articles KT

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:27 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Where be everyone?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 11:09 AM (JzUSu)

I was here just after KT posted it. Just didn't have anything to say. Shoot, looking at the old sock, I didn't even participate on the site yesterday. Guess I'm just losing interest in posting.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 10, 2026 11:28 AM (1Ff7Z)

20 Look, Fat, that Rodney guy was a fine Delawarean,but he didn't get 81 Million votes and he didn't have a Corvette and Top Secret documents in his garage!

Posted by: Scranton Joe, Standing In A Puddle


They had Biden "give a speech" at some function a few months back. AFAIK, there has not been a repeat. It's a mystery why.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

21 “No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

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So you're saying we're f*cked?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:29 AM (ndZc7)

22 He is probably 12, and they all delight in him dressing in women's clothes and generally being, IDK? Gay? He's been doing it for years, I guess.

They are rabid Trump-hating lefties, so of course this is all A-OK with them.


Don't believe it. They hate that he does it, but they know the socially correct response, and the penalties for not falling in to line.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

23 9 And behold the irony that while South America is turning almost uniformly right-wing in recent elections, American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic.

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Geez, that's quite a downer. I hope this is wrong.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 10, 2026 11:19 AM (qBdHI)

The word seem is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

While the media have been uniformly against broadcasting any news that benefits Trump, I firmly believe that the people of this country still remember what a disaster the Dems were when Biden was POTUS less than two years ago, and that the Dems have absolutely no plan for how to fix the supposed problems that Trump has saddled us with.

Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 10, 2026 11:31 AM (0CU3H)

24 Thanks for the reminders KT.

Good morning Horde.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 11:31 AM (NnhvP)

25 Hi everyone! Everyone on the gulf safe and sound? We got power back at 530 this morning, and had to pull quite a few limbs out of the pool, but all is well here. It’s a chilly 74, however.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

26 The word seem is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

While the media have been uniformly against broadcasting any news that benefits Trump, I firmly believe that the people of this country still remember what a disaster the Dems were when Biden was POTUS less than two years ago, and that the Dems have absolutely no plan for how to fix the supposed problems that Trump has saddled us with.

Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.


I'm worried about jinxing it, but that is my opinion as well.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

27 There is, in addition, the TX Declaration of Independence from 1836…just sayin…

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (ekZzx)

28 Henry Laurens certainly ought to be better known than he is. As an aside, Laurens, SC is named in his honor.

A footnote: His oldest son, John Laurens, was an aide-de-camp to George Washington and a colonel in the Continental Army.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (XeU6L)

29 17 Our friends have a grandson (sorta, the woman had him with previous husband before marrying current husband). He is probably 12, and they all delight in him dressing in women's clothes and generally being, IDK? Gay?
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 11:27 AM (QaH55


I've seen this multiple times -- it appears to be a way to torture the ex-husband.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (OlzlW)

30 Frugality? What on Earth is that? The Frug went out with The Watusi in 1965!

Posted by: Unamerican Bandstand at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (EdP2u)

31 “American voters seem poised in three weeks to transform the country in to a banana republic.”

Nonsense.
All the polls are wrong.
TJM is right.
Everyone loves Trump.
Unskew the polls.
Onward to victory!


Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (I/RqB)

32 None of mankind is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

The entire (D) party is made up of people that 100% disagree with this statement and in fact their life is spent trying to overrule these basic ideas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (/+uur)

33 Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

Glad to hear that the power is back on and you and yours are doing o.k., Piper.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:34 AM (JrHfD)

34 33 Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

Glad to hear that the power is back on and you and yours are doing o.k., Piper.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:34 AM (JrHfD

Thank you! Destin got the brunt of it, we need to pray for them.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM (ZdaMQ)

35 25 Hi everyone! Everyone on the gulf safe and sound? We got power back at 530 this morning, and had to pull quite a few limbs out of the pool, but all is well here. It’s a chilly 74, however.
Posted by: Piper

Good to hear! Any word on your place of bidness?

Posted by: Sweatin' to the Oldies Here at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM (EdP2u)

36 George Mason was the author of the Fairfax Resolves and the Virginia Declaration of Rights, but did NOT sign the Constitution, despite being one of the authors, because it didn't originally include a Bill of Rights.

Madison didn't really want a BofR, claiming it was unnecessary, but promised one for the period after the signing. I don't really know why he bothered opposing it. If I'd have been him, I'd have said "Fine, it's not necessary, but I'll give you one. It can't hurt." Perhaps he was worried it would become yet another bone of contention in a Congress that already had plenty.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

37
Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

My prayers are with your endeavors.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 11:37 AM (NnhvP)

38 Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:36 AM

I will do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:37 AM (JrHfD)

39 It’s a chilly 74, however.
Posted by: Piper

Hope you can find your heavy wool coats!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 10, 2026 11:38 AM (NnhvP)

40 Texas

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.

100% of the Biden Administration set up to destroy these ideas and make the "people" poor, powerless, and oppressed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 11:38 AM (/+uur)

41 Hurricanes that hit after dark are much scarier than daytime storms. Been through more than my share, living on the NC Coast since 1988.

Posted by: Currituck Chuck at October 10, 2026 11:40 AM (EdP2u)

42 I have un skewed the polls.

Some random precinct in rural Texas increased its early vote by 1%. This is proof all polling is wrong and Texas will go red by 9%.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:40 AM (I/RqB)

43 they know the socially correct response, and the penalties for not falling in to line.
Posted by: Archimedescredit?

I never heard of her but . . .

Country music singer Ella Langley is facing an online backlash. But it’s not about political statements, as is the case with many celebrities. It’s not even about her music.
People are incensed at her because she posted pictures of herself posing with deer she hunted. Now, people on social media are all in a tizzy because she enjoys the same activities as many male country singers.
. . . .
Country Chord documented people calling her an "industry plant" and saying she was basically MAGA. In the screenshots circulating online, the language gets uglier still: "trailer trash," "b*tch."

-
On the other hand, Lindsay Clancy is more a victim of a cold, cruel world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7)

44 Good to hear! Any word on your place of bidness?
Posted by: Sweatin' to the Oldies Here at October 10, 2026

The building is fine! I am headed there to turn everything back on in a little bit. We will hold classes as normal tomorrow, but are closed today.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:41 AM (ZdaMQ)

45 I saw a car with a window sticker for a Republican. This proves all polling is wrong. Final senate will be 71 Republicans, House will be 351 Republicans.

The polls have been un skewed.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:45 AM (I/RqB)

46 39 It’s a chilly 74, however.
Posted by: Piper

Best to drain the pool pump and filter before it freezes solid and busts wide open!

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at October 10, 2026 11:45 AM (EdP2u)

47
Value of Nobel Prizes:

Solid: Chemistry, Physics
Good, if flawed: Medicine
Complete jokes: Literature, Peace

I missed out on the Chemistry prize this year. Again.

*kicks rock*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 11:46 AM (eRlcH)

48 NPR explains it all.

The Atlantic season's first hurricane, Isaias, is spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico. Even as El Niño limited this year's Atlantic storms, climate change is making hurricanes more intense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

49 The polls have been un skewed.
Posted by: A0S C0pe

You, Sir, or Madam, or Something in between, are an inane Drone!

Posted by: Worthy Of Scorn at October 10, 2026 11:47 AM (EdP2u)

50 Pokémon is not pretty.

Pokémon VGC champion says another player's BO caused him to vomit

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7)

51 Outstanding post K.T. Thank you very much.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 10, 2026 11:48 AM (cDs67)

52 In June 1776, fifteen years before the ratification of the Bill of Rights, Virginia adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights -- "the basis and foundation of government" in Virginia.

I could live under this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:49 AM (4NO2D)

53 The polls have been un skewed.
Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 11:45 AM



Senate R+3 House R+8.

Book it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:50 AM (4NO2D)

54 I've always admired Caesar Rodney for his determination in very difficult circumstances. Thanks for your including him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 11:50 AM (JrHfD)

55 I'm going through the aging boomer decluttering phase. I've learned that nobody wants: 1) books, 2) our old "brown furniture," and 3) antiques and "collectibles."

So if you're looking for any of that stuff, rejoice! There will be a massive glut of it, selling very very cheap, very very soon.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 11:51 AM (Jr5Lq)

56 Section 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants and at all times amenable to them.


As my dear mother, bhdds, would say, "First, we kill the judges".

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (sl73Y)

57 Don't believe it. They hate that he does it, but they know the socially correct response, and the penalties for not falling in to line.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

I think you underestimate the fervor of the true believers.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (QaH55)

58 I'm going through the aging boomer decluttering phase. I've learned that nobody wants: 1) books, 2) our old "brown furniture," and 3) antiques and "collectibles."

So if you're looking for any of that stuff, rejoice! There will be a massive glut of it, selling very very cheap, very very soon.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 11:51 AM


Dealing with my parent's estate I can say that this is 100% true. Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (4NO2D)

59 And quite the content. Thanks.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 11:54 AM (sl73Y)

60 This post is Girthy, Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy. Kudos to K.T. for delivering excellence on a Saturday morning. Even if it is my busy day!

Posted by: Shabbos Goy at October 10, 2026 11:54 AM (EdP2u)

61 48 NPR explains it all.

The Atlantic season's first hurricane, Isaias, is spinning up in the Gulf of Mexico. Even as El Niño limited this year's Atlantic storms, climate change is making hurricanes more intense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:46 AM (ndZc7)

Climate has always changed, and always will change.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 11:55 AM (ekZzx)

62
3) antiques and "collectibles."

___________

Her Majesty is off-loading several tons of Borzoi collectibles as trophies and prizes for specialties. Last weekend, not only did she judge the Borzoi Club of Greater Omaha specialty, she also donated every trophy awarded.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 11:56 AM (eRlcH)

63 >>>>>Ben Had says we're increasing our hold on the legislative branch, and I'm with her on that one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

My prayers are with your endeavors.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
---------
In 2016 and 2024 we gave the Republicans hold over the Congress along with the greatest POTUS ever to work with yet the still wavered.
Will this time be different?

Posted by: Cosda at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (Vbk8C)

64 Baloney! Beanie Babies are fully funding my lucrative retirement!

Posted by: Savvy Investor at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (EdP2u)

65 I moved most of my vehicles out to open public parking lots in preparation for the hurricane. Now I have to get my walking miles in bringing them back.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (4NO2D)

66 "Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list."

Silver plated stuff is worthless, but make sure to check for solid sterling marks on stuff before discarding. In my garage saling days, I picked up a lot of precious metals really cheap.

I gave a couple hundred (pretty good) books to the Salvation Army a few weeks ago, and today I visited their retail store, and see that they don't even shelve or sell them anymore. They probably go straight to pulpers or dumpsters.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (Jr5Lq)

67 Psssh, England didn't abolish the transatlantic slave trade until 1807, and it took until 1834 to abolish slavery in its colonies.

They can piss off.

Posted by: McLurkerson at October 10, 2026 11:58 AM (AZDyS)

68
HM has also given away no small number of rosettes and ribbons she's won for repurposing. Both clubs and superintendents are grateful

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:00 PM (eRlcH)

69 Value of Nobel Prizes:

Solid: Chemistry, Physics
Good, if flawed: Medicine
Complete jokes: Literature, Peace

I missed out on the Chemistry prize this year. Again.

*kicks rock*


You too?
*kicks an even bigger rock*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

70 When did the DU fluffers start limping in here on Saturday mornings?

Posted by: McLurkerson at October 10, 2026 12:01 PM (AZDyS)

71 In 2016 and 2024 we gave the Republicans hold over the Congress along with the greatest POTUS ever to work with yet the still wavered.
Will this time be different?


Think about who is no longer going to be there in January. Yes, things will be different. Not different enough to please me completely, but certainly different.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

72 Saw a fun stat: Ukraine blew up a Russian datacenter belonging to Yandex the other day, and 50% of bot traffic on X stopped immediately.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (QZThv)

73
When did the DU fluffers start limping in here on Saturday mornings?
Posted by: McLurkerson at October 10, 2026 12:01 PM (AZDyS)

__________

When did they start waking up this early?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (eRlcH)

74 In 2016 and 2024 we gave the Republicans hold over the Congress along with the greatest POTUS ever to work with yet the still wavered.
Will this time be different?
Posted by: Cosda at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (Vbk8C)

In the Senate Mr. Tills and Mr. Cornyn are out.

If that is any indication…it just might.

Better lean ou your Reps and Sens just in case though.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (ekZzx)

75 "When did the DU fluffers start limping in here on Saturday mornings?"

Intrepid left them for reddit. They feel a bit dissed is all and just want to let us know they are still around.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (dCMJG)

76 On a more positive note, and in re. to the founding of the country, I was doing some genealogy work a number of years ago on my family. We go back to pre-revolutionary times, but when I was a kid, we were one step up from poor white trash, and most of the people around us were poor white trash.

Funny thing was, in doing the research, and reading all sorts of "History of this County," historic land ownership records, and the like, I started seeing all these familiar family names. Turns out most of the poor white trash around us also went back to revolutionary times. Most, if not all, of my peers were ignorant of the fact. Most, I'm sure, would not have cared, but I always wondered that if they did, would it change their outlook on things? IDK.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at October 10, 2026 12:03 PM (QaH55)

77 >>> Posted by: A0S D0pe at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (I/RqB)

Oh look, Faggot Pete is here.

Gosh, I wonder if Faggot Pete will show up on Novemeber 4th.

Fag.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 12:04 PM (3mtzY)

78 Even as El Niño limited this year's Atlantic storms, climate change is making hurricanes more intense.

The current hurricane is a cat 3. That's not exactly "more intense".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 10, 2026 12:05 PM (QZThv)

79 25 Hi everyone! Everyone on the gulf safe and sound? We got power back at 530 this morning, and had to pull quite a few limbs out of the pool, but all is well here. It’s a chilly 74, however.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 11:32 AM (ZdaMQ)

Was wondering how you fared. Glad to hear you did OK.

Also glad this one missed NOLA. When we got home, post Katrina, our pool was emerald green and was shimmering with mosquito larva. A couple of shots of wasp spray did the trick on the larva.

Posted by: javems at October 10, 2026 12:05 PM (vAXS5)

80 In the Senate Mr. Tills and Mr. Cornyn are out.

If that is any indication…it just might.

Better lean ou your Reps and Sens just in case though.


Also McConnell, Ernst, and Graham.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

81 Oh look, Faggot Pete is here.

Is he aka Masturbatin' Pete?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)

82 Vote for Barry Goldwater on November 3rd!

Posted by: AUH20 at October 10, 2026 12:08 PM (EdP2u)

83
The same people who believe/are influenced by any of these lame-ass trolls are the same people sending their bank acc't numbers to Nigerian Princes.

All we need to do is to do our part, show up and vote, and we'll see if the polls were accurate or not.

Reality is the proof. Not faggy, fake takes from trolls.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 10, 2026 12:08 PM (YSUhf)

84 All we need to do is to do our part, show up and vote, and we'll see if the polls were accurate or not.

Reality is the proof. Not faggy, fake takes from trolls.


The troll says we're going to lose, so I'm staying home in despair.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

85 Also glad this one missed NOLA. When we got home, post Katrina, our pool was emerald green and was shimmering with mosquito larva. A couple of shots of wasp spray did the trick on the larva.
Posted by: javems

Green algae is pretty easy to kill. Yellow algae takes a fortune in chemicals to exterminate.

Posted by: I Was In The Pool! at October 10, 2026 12:11 PM (EdP2u)

86 And that was a very touching story about Jonathan Birge. Thanks so much for your including it, K.T.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 12:12 PM (JrHfD)

87 There was an era, roughly between 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Storage Wars,' when lots of folks like me would flip stuff we found at garage sales on eBay, and we did pretty good. That era is over, killed by lack of demand for old junk, and ridiculous high shipping costs.

My gf had a real eye for what would sell, in categories like dolls and art. I had an eye for tools, scientific instruments, jewelry. It was fun and marginally profitable, but it's over now.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

88
I'm afraid all I can do is vote for Abbott, Paxton, Randy Weber and Mayes Middleton. The rest I have to leave in the hands of the Lord.

O my God, were You to give me fullest choice of asking all I wish, and were You to swear to me by Yourself that You would grant my petition in all things, I would neither desire nor ask anything else than that Your Will may be perfectly done in me and in every creature of Yours, according to Your supreme and faultless good pleasure. Wherefore, in union with that resignation with which Jesus committed Himself wholly to Your will in the Garden of Olives, and in union with His affection and His intention, I say from His heart and in His words:

Not my will, but Yours be done, O most holy Father, in time and in eternity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:13 PM (eRlcH)

89 Here in KY we have an added incentive to vote...

McConnell isn't on the ticket. A couple Reps are.. fairly, maybe, safe (R) seats. None of the county seats up for grabs are either party and the nearby town's vote for mayor doesn't apply to us.

It'll take us longer to get a ballot than it will to actually vote.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 12:14 PM (RORbl)

90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

91 KY is such a funny abbreviation for a state!

Posted by: Astrolube andy at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (EdP2u)

92
Frugality? What on Earth is that? The Frug went out with The Watusi in 1965!
Posted by: Unamerican Bandstand


Kick your feet up, swing your arms up too
Move your head both ways, like you see me do
Then jump three feet to the swinging beat
Do the Freddie

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 12:17 PM (Cqx++)

93 I'll vote straight Republican on election day. FWIW, the only guiding principle I have left to rely upon is 'Republicans suck canal water, but the Democrats are far worse.'

https://tinyurl.com/4kfdr25a

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

94 Instant street justice clips narrated by Steve Inman. I recall when Steve Inman clips were a regular feature on ASHQ:

https://tinyurl.com/yusnkh3k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 12:22 PM (JrHfD)

95 I listened to the Rubio speech he gave in Greece. To say I am impressed is a vast understatement. I'll say more on the book thread but that speech led to thoughts of C S Lewis' "Abolition of Man", Plutarch's Lives, and parts of Plato. It is inexcusable that a defense of Western culture is needed but Rubio's speech was a good start.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 12:23 PM (yTvNw)

96 Drunk-driving Chief Judge bodycam. Always amusing:
youtube.com/watch?v=Js1_VbfJmE0

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

97 88
I'm afraid all I can do is vote for Abbott, Paxton, Randy Weber and Mayes Middleton. The rest I have to leave in the hands of the Lord.

O my God, were You to give me fullest choice of asking all I wish, and were You to swear to me by Yourself that You would grant my petition in all things, I would neither desire nor ask anything else than that Your Will may be perfectly done in me and in every creature of Yours, according to Your supreme and faultless good pleasure. Wherefore, in union with that resignation with which Jesus committed Himself wholly to Your will in the Garden of Olives, and in union with His affection and His intention, I say from His heart and in His words:

Not my will, but Yours be done, O most holy Father, in time and in eternity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:13 PM (eRlcH)

I will vote for Tom Sell with little enthusiasm.

Bo French will be fully traumatized in one month as RR Commissioner. Nate Sheets is a bored trust fund baby looking for relevancy so he decided to run for Ag Commissioner. I look forward to him screwing that up like P did the Land Office. (But at least our school lunches will be CLEAN!!!)

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 12:25 PM (ekZzx)

98 90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

Let’s hold the election anyway. Just because.

Posted by: Jim Rome at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (ekZzx)

99 KT,
Thanks for so many quotes from Thomas Sowell. With Walter Williams gone, sadly, I believe Sowell represents about 70% of the intelligence in this country. (And a higher percentage in any other country.)

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (yTvNw)

100 Hurricane's over.

Piper and toby928 have both checked in.

Still need to hear from man and one hour sober.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

101 I’m hoping Libertarians run against French, Sheets, and my worthless State rep, Ken King, so I can safely vote against them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 12:29 PM (ekZzx)

102 More apropos for the pet thread BUT, we had the blessing of the animals on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi this past week.

Additionally, Father Dan also held the Blessing of the Stuffies for some of the kids that are allergic to (real) animals.

"Dear Lord, we thank you for the gift of stuffed animals and cuddly toys, for time to play, and for someone to hold us when times are sad or scary. As we hug our stuffed animals, we remember that you are always with us. Bless these children and the creatures they hold dear. Amen."

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 12:29 PM (N5iuz)

103 No man is an island, entire of itself
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.

Posted by: John Dunne at October 10, 2026 12:30 PM (H88Wh)

104 Vote for Barry Goldwater on November 3rd!
Posted by: AUH20 at

First guy I campaigned for, after I couldn't get Alfred E. Newman through the primaries.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 12:30 PM (sl73Y)

105 Our founders weren't perfect; quite a few were slaveholders, like Washington and Jefferson. While Liberals are fast to point to the 3/5ths clause ("See! Black slaves were considered worth less than a whole person!"--no, they weren't), the fact is the seeds for the elimination of slavery in the United States was planted in the Constitution, and some knew that slavery would be a major issue in the future.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 12:31 PM (l3cgK)

106 I have asthma now

@yoursnandieni
Tooter is an Indian alternative to Twitter (X).

American companies like X will fall if Americans continue to mistreat us. India has a huge audience, and if we start using our own apps, we can generate massive revenue for Indian companies.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 10, 2026 12:32 PM (nEUC6)

107 10 Many still today are held in slavery, here and around the world.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (Ia/+0)

This is very true, and many are held in Muzzie countries at that. When it comes to sexual slavery, that exists in the underground communities around the world, and as for State-Sponsored slavery, Commie countries are very good at that when it comes to "undesirables"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 12:33 PM (l3cgK)

108 Fen posting Inman justice clips???
Strnge times we live in.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 12:34 PM (sl73Y)

109
American companies like X will fall if Americans continue to mistreat us. India has a huge audience, and if we start using our own apps, we can generate massive revenue for Indian companies.

_________

You sound like the Europeans. And what have they done?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:35 PM (eRlcH)

110 Tooter is an Indian alternative to Twitter (X).

American companies like X will fall if Americans continue to mistreat us. India has a huge audience, and if we start using our own apps, we can generate massive revenue for Indian companies.


Yes, because Twitter alternatives have all done amazingly. Bluesky is in a death spiral, Threads never lived in the first place, and Mastodon continues to be *the* place for socially awkward nerds who want a free Palestine, with purchase of equal or lesser value.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 10, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)

111 93 I'll vote straight Republican on election day. FWIW, the only guiding principle I have left to rely upon is 'Republicans suck canal water, but the Democrats are far worse.'

https://tinyurl.com/4kfdr25a
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

I've been voting since the '70's. I have never voted for a D. Never will. They wanted to send me to Vietnam. Nixon (R) got it stopped before I was 18.

D's wanted to take my livelihood away or curtail it via DEI/Affirmative Action my entire adult working life and have actively worked to make me and other white males less employable/promotable. Ditto with public safety.

Before you say I'm rayyycisssss, take a look at any college scholarship book (if they still exist). See how many scholarships are specifically reserved for minorities/females.Now try to find one reserved for 'white males only'.

I'll wait.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 12:37 PM (QGaXH)

112 102 ... "Additionally, Father Dan also held the Blessing of the Stuffies for some of the kids that are allergic to (real) animals."

Tonypete,

Thanks for posting that. The image, and the thought behind it, will make me smile all day.

Posted by: JTB at October 10, 2026 12:37 PM (yTvNw)

113 If we lobby and clamor hard enough Ace will have to post Inman in the Cafe more frequently. Being a pain in the ass pays off!

Some of you are too polite. As I always say-Nice guys finish last!

Posted by: Leo The Lip Durocher at October 10, 2026 12:38 PM (EdP2u)

114 113 If we lobby and clamor hard enough Ace will have to post Inman in the Cafe more frequently. Being a pain in the ass pays off!

Some of you are too polite. As I always say-Nice guys finish last!

Posted by: Leo The Lip Durocher at October 10, 2026 12:38 PM (EdP2u)

the wife appreciated that fact.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 12:39 PM (l3cgK)

115 111 Well stated.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:40 PM (Jr5Lq)

116 That Dan fella outright refused to bless our stuffies!

Posted by: The Poofters of Hormuz at October 10, 2026 12:40 PM (EdP2u)

117 Not my will, but Yours be done, O most holy Father, in time and in eternity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:13 PM (eRlcH)
___

Amen.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 10, 2026 12:46 PM (dkM11)

118 Leo Durocher was married to actress Laraine Day. She studied baseball to become knowledgeable about it. She was the earliest lady sportscaster. Had a 15 minute pregame show called Day With The Giants. She was known as The First Lady Of Baseball.

Posted by: Leo the Lip at October 10, 2026 12:46 PM (EdP2u)

119 115 111 Well stated.
Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:40 PM (Jr5Lq)

Thank You.

At the risk of encouraging the Paolo: Every once in a while I manage to get a little wood on the ball, as they say....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 12:46 PM (QGaXH)

120 Dems prioritize:

Noncitizens over citizens.
Criminals over the law-abiding.
Every other 'sexuality' over heterosexuality.
Every other race over whites.
The profane over the sublime.
Perversity over chastity.
Dogmatic nonsense over true scholarship.

They despise Legacy America, its history, and its people. They seek to destroy it by any means necessary. We have many decades of evidence to show it.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 12:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

121 Regarding Section 5 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights ...members of the two first ...should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, And bringing to it Article V from the Articles of Confederation ...no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years (delegate's terms were all for one year), Congressional Term Limits were contemplated under the formation of our government, and it is a grave oversight in our Founding that the Constitutional Convention did not include them in the final document.

Notice, too, how the Articles of Confederation did not forbid a person from serving again after being "term limited" out of office, thereby providing response to the argument against term limits of "you should not tell us who is to be our representative." Such a term limited individual is well eligible to hold office again; he needs merely to requalify himself.

I wish the proposals (which I've seen) for a term limiting amendment under an Article V Convention would include something like that.

Posted by: NeighSayer at October 10, 2026 12:49 PM (bufu1)

122
Dogmatic nonsense over true scholarship.

Power over service.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 12:50 PM (eRlcH)

123 Term limits (6 terms for reps, 2 terms for sens) are meaningless without limits for aides and high-level G class employees. 12 years for anyone is more than enough feeding at the trough, so take your connections and go home.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 10, 2026 12:53 PM (qGmRV)

124 I dropped all poll beliefs since Hillary was going to become President

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 12:53 PM (Ia/+0)

125
Here's the new trailer for the upcoming movie

"The Exorcist: Martyrs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9trle6su7U


Actually looks pretty good, if not totally original.
Seems like a mash-up of Exorcist # and Fallen.

But we'll see.

BONUS! Looks like ScarJo's been on Ozaempic and got some face work done. No, she doesn't look bad but doesn't really look like herself.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 10, 2026 12:54 PM (YSUhf)

126
Exorcist # = Exorcist 3

Posted by: naturalfake at October 10, 2026 12:55 PM (YSUhf)

127 Dealing with my parent's estate I can say that this is 100% true. Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (4NO2D)

I have my parents china and it is one of my prized possessions. I also have both sets of grandparents silver tea sets, and it kills me I don’t have them out right now. When we do the kitchen mini reno, I am getting cabinets to the ceiling with glass fronts added so I can have them out. I will not be responsible for this southern tradition dying! I know my kids want these things when I go, and my middle one wants my pristine mid mod bedroom set that is currently in storage because I refuse to part with it.

If the silverware is real, I would absolutely buy it from you. My mom gave her set to my brother (my sister got the crystal), but I would have loved to have gotten that, too.

Posted by: Piper at October 10, 2026 12:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

128 98 90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

Let’s hold the election anyway. Just because.
Posted by: Jim Rome at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (ekZzx)

FWIW I've seen hundreds of ads from Dems asking me for money and maybe three for Republicans. I'm a registered independent with zero history of donations. Not sure if that means Rs are asleep at the switch or what, but I have a hard time seeing how it bodes well for Ds.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 12:59 PM (r7+Q7)

129 Neighsayer, so as to not have to go recalculating everything, shall we say "no more than 12 years out of 20" (to allow for 2 terms as Senator), then if their terms were consecutive, they have to wait at least 8 to run for any office, even if it's a different one? (If they did 6, skipped four, ran for the other senate seat and won, then they only have to wait four years before running for governor or president or whatever).

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 01:00 PM (aJQbY)

130 Regarding the discussion in the previous thread about Adolf Hitler's real name. Yes, his father (nee Schicklgruber) legally changed his name, ten years before fathering Adolf, to a made-up name: Hitler. But that name is really a legal fiction. Legal, yes, but not real. Genealogically speaking, dear Adolf was a Schicklgruber (and whatever his Granny's anonymous sperm donor was).

And AOS Cope is a funny name for a deranged faggot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 01:02 PM (quk5M)

131 128 98 90 Dave in Florida says it’s a lock. Rs will win everything.

Posted by: A0S C0pe at October 10, 2026 12:16 PM (odUFg)

Let’s hold the election anyway. Just because.
Posted by: Jim Rome at October 10, 2026 12:27 PM (ekZzx)

FWIW I've seen hundreds of ads from Dems asking me for money and maybe three for Republicans. I'm a registered independent with zero history of donations. Not sure if that means Rs are asleep at the switch or what, but I have a hard time seeing how it bodes well for Ds.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 10, 2026 12:59 PM (r7+Q7)

I get texts and mailings from every politician I've donated to in the past who is still active. I get texts from a legion of politicians and causes I haven't. The other day, I got three messages purportedly from the same candidate (that I don't even know); I deleted and blocked the number, another number with same message which I deleted and blocked the number, and finally on the third I told them "STOP"...
What's will using all these phone numbers to spam people with political texts‽ ( Yes, I just used an interrobang here )

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)

132 Sadly its not over until all votes, real and fraud they can call real are counted

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:08 PM (Ia/+0)

133 Thomas Sowell for the Medal OF Freedom and the Medal for Science.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:09 PM (u82oZ)

134 123 Term limits (6 terms for reps, 2 terms for sens) are meaningless without limits for aides and high-level G class employees. 12 years for anyone is more than enough feeding at the trough, so take your connections and go home.
Posted by: mustbequantum at October 10, 2026 12:53 PM (qGmRV)

The real problem is electoral laziness. The system expects and demands citizen participation but citizens do not want to do that, because it’s too hard and “why should I?”

Term limits are simply a lazy solution for the lazy, by the lazy, which results in the electorate being MORE lazy. Which makes things worse.

(1000% agree on staff running the show. Which could be mitigated with actual mass electoral participation)

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 01:10 PM (ekZzx)

135 What's will = What's with

I just dunno what goes on with my fingers, my brain, and my consciousness...I seem to lose the argument sometimes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)

136 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 01:02 PM (quk5M)

Less than 10 days to go! How’s it looking in AB on Oct 19?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 01:11 PM (ekZzx)

137 77 >>> Posted by: A0S D0pe at October 10, 2026 11:33 AM (I/RqB)

Oh look, Faggot Pete is here.

Gosh, I wonder if Faggot Pete will show up on Novemeber 4th.

Fag.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 10, 2026 12:04 PM (3mtzY)

And here I thought they were just somebody being funny....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 10, 2026 01:12 PM (QGaXH)

138 Tenure among our "elected" officials won't likely change anytime soon. It's a lifelong profession for most. Sometimes that tenure extends into the afterlife.

*shrugs*

It's a problem. But so's the same compulsion among aids and staffers who latch onto someone's office and as long as it remains (R) or (D) they remain employed. And many have an agenda of their own that may, or may not jive with the Congress member they "work for."

They also exert undue influence on the weak minded in Congress (which is significantly under reported.) McConnell's absence, yet no real public push back from anyone other than the media and Democrats demonstrates staffers influence on Congress.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 01:13 PM (RORbl)

139 The blessing of the stuffies happens around the table all the time in Rhode Island.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 01:19 PM (sl73Y)

140 The real problem is electoral laziness.

No. No a thousand times. The real problem is what it's always been. The two-party system.

It's a UniParty. A one-party system. Set up to make sure their little American Aristocracy survives. By making sure it's only two parties in name only.

People here always bitch. Why do those stupid Kentuckians always send McConnell ? Because they have no other choice. Literally.

Its the same everywhere. Why does California not elect a decent Republican ? Its not just vote-fraud. The California GOP conveniently never really digs in and fights to get a win.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:20 PM (iDTlP)

141 The real problem is electoral laziness.

No. No a thousand times. The real problem is what it's always been. The two-party system.

It's a UniParty. A one-party system. Set up to make sure their little American Aristocracy survives. By making sure it's only two parties in name only.

It's a combination of things. These 2 are in the mix.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 01:24 PM (zcI95)

142 I was going to put my two cents in but due to Biden's inflation it's worth less than one cent now. I'll have to go see if I have any pfennigs left from when I was in Germany.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 10, 2026 01:25 PM (DSbeM)

143 Cow Demon

No reduction in actual Nation Debt, no money for any staffer.

We have a Spending & Fraud problem, not a tax intake problem.

Constitution 2.0.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (u82oZ)

144 142 I was going to put my two cents in but due to Biden's inflation it's worth less than one cent now. I'll have to go see if I have any pfennigs left from when I was in Germany.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 10, 2026 01:25 PM (DSbeM)

Will you take Iranian rials?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (l3cgK)

145 Less than 10 days to go! How’s it looking in AB on Oct 19?
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 01:11 PM (ekZzx)

I have seen "Vote No" signs suddenly springing up in the last few days, while the pro-independence signs and banners have been out for a long time. I don't know if this can be taken as a sign of panic on the Federales' part or not.

I think it will be a close vote, either way. The issue will not go away. I plan to vote in an advance poll on the 13th.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (quk5M)

146 It's a combination of things. These 2 are in the mix.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 01:24 PM (zcI95)


It is not. Americans voted, in HUGE numbers, twice recently.

The Tea Party Movement. The GOP response to House, Senate, and White House control was to cede the House to Nancy Pelosi.

So voters did it again. Trump 2016.

Over 50 GOP House members retired to make sure they didn't have the House, Senate, and GOP again.

These are just facts.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:27 PM (iDTlP)

147 Will you take Iranian rials?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (l3cgK)



Heh. Nope.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 10, 2026 01:28 PM (DSbeM)

148 Spoiler Alert

The answer is to run yourself. I was a reelected politician. Lowered my slice of the mill levee each of my first three years in Office. Because I can manage and not take.

Going for a stealth write-in vote this time. I should win.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:28 PM (u82oZ)

149 Spoiler Alert

'If I can overcome my shyness, anyone can.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:29 PM (u82oZ)

150 Don't expect spending reductions or any fiscal responsibility from either party. We'll have a $2T deficit this year, with a Republican Prez, House, and Senate.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 01:30 PM (Jr5Lq)

151 Spoiler Alert

The answer is to run yourself.


I'd rather tie my own noose than spend a day acting like one of those bastards.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:30 PM (iDTlP)

152 Don't expect spending reductions or any fiscal responsibility from either party. We'll have a $2T deficit this year, with a Republican Prez, House, and Senate.

Well shit, what do you expect ? They only control the White House, Senate, House, and appointed five of the nine Supremes ?

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:32 PM (iDTlP)

153 Spoiler Alert

The trick is to not act like the grafting, inbred, self-important, unmoored from reality people in office already.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:32 PM (u82oZ)

154 "12 Another problem with the tranny shit is "therapists" get ahold of young men and women over 18 and convince them that they are autistic and in the wrong body, like that will fix everything, instead of actually helping them deal with life.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 11:21 AM (MWfyi) "

"autism". that reminds me of a book I saw the other day; "Asperger's Children". Asperger was the inventor of autism, which was used as a pretext (one of many) for eugenic murder by the nazi government.
I tell you, that book was ... unspeakable. the blood runs cold to read that stuff, I read bits of it, and put it back on the library shelf.
do. not. want. to. read. the. whole. thing.

just sayin' ... how many other social ills are rooted in that thinking?
drugging young people to make them compliant, for instance.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 01:33 PM (VyBeY)

155 I see they awarded the Nobel peace prize to some South African woman who is connected to the UN and is a Jew hater.... Needless to say Trump was pissed but I wish he hadn't mentioned it... Looks petty

Posted by: It's me donna at October 10, 2026 01:41 PM (a7sNn)

156 Asperger was the inventor of autism, which was used as a pretext (one of many) for eugenic murder by the nazi government.

Which is really odd, in and of itself.

Because every really "smart" person you'll ever meet is a bit Autistic. Part of the trick is to figure out how to ride it, manage it, and be as high-functioning as you can with it.

Same for every good artist and musician (same word for two different mediums). Same for most every truly high-functioning person that makes it in their field.

It takes crazy to do the crazy to make it. And I would have thought the Nazi's, of all people, would have appreciated that. Because a bunch of them fuckers were indeed Autistic-Crazy.

Just look at German Art, Architecture, Music, and Home Decor. The Autistic ain't went away. Normal people don't do an entire room in Chrome and Black Leather at all right angles.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:42 PM (iDTlP)

157 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at October 10, 2026 01:43 PM (0sNs1)

158 nood

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 01:44 PM (Jr5Lq)

159 connected to the UN and is a Jew hater.... Needless to say Trump was pissed but I wish he hadn't mentioned it... Looks petty
Posted by: It's me donna

I don't agree. Any thinking person knows the the Nobel Committee and the UN are scoundrels and schmucks of the first degree. Calling them out is all you can do.

Posted by: Screw Them Guys/Gals/What's Its at October 10, 2026 01:45 PM (EdP2u)

160 Normal people don't do an entire room in Chrome and Black Leather at all right angles.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:42 PM


So say we all.

Posted by: IKEA at October 10, 2026 01:45 PM (0sNs1)

161 Add Silverware and Fine China to the kids don't want it list.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 11:53 AM (4NO2D


I'm keeping an eye out for Wedgwood White bone china. It's "fine" but not fancy. I started a set and then the pattern was discontinued and replacements are $20 apiece, which is more than what I paid for new.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 10, 2026 01:46 PM (OlzlW)

162 GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 01:46 PM (Ia/+0)

163 Yes, I just used an interrobang here )
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 01:03 PM (l3cgK)
~~~~~

I LOVE interrobangs!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 10, 2026 01:46 PM (3ImbR)

164 To get the interrobang accepted into the Unicode character set, much blood was shed. Punc Wars > Punic Wars.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 01:53 PM (Jr5Lq)

165

Yemen's Houthis have once again pummeled Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh with a volley of ballistic missiles. A major emergency response has ensued with dozens of ambulances at the scene, and a total evacuation of the major flight hub.

In this fresh instance, which comes after multiple attacks on the kingdom's civilian aviation hubs stretching back at least a week, there appears to be mass casualties as a result.

https://t.ly/5xR48

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 01:55 PM (Cqx++)

166 Elisha Weisel - only son of Eli Weisel also condemned the awarding of the peace prize to the anti semetic nut:

https://tinyurl.com/3jx2sssh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 01:56 PM (JrHfD)

167 Yemen's Houthis have once again pummeled Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh with a volley of ballistic missiles. A major emergency response has ensued with dozens of ambulances at the scene, and a total evacuation of the major flight hub.

In this fresh instance, which comes after multiple attacks on the kingdom's civilian aviation hubs stretching back at least a week, there appears to be mass casualties as a result.

https://t.ly/5xR48
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Looks like they're going to need boots on the ground.

*Saudi army all drop their weapons and flee*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 02:10 PM (zcI95)

168 No reduction in actual Nation Debt, no money for any staffer.

We have a Spending & Fraud problem, not a tax intake problem.

Constitution 2.0.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 01:26 PM (u82oZ)

Absolutely.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 02:11 PM (ekZzx)

169 140 The real problem is electoral laziness.

No. No a thousand times. The real problem is what it's always been. The two-party system.

It's a UniParty. A one-party system. Set up to make sure their little American Aristocracy survives. By making sure it's only two parties in name only.

People here always bitch. Why do those stupid Kentuckians always send McConnell ? Because they have no other choice. Literally.

Its the same everywhere. Why does California not elect a decent Republican ? Its not just vote-fraud. The California GOP conveniently never really digs in and fights to get a win.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at October 10, 2026 01:20 PM (iDTlP)

Yes a trillion times. When was the last time a bond issue election got more than 5% voter participation?

The midterms will not get over 50% voter participation because people aren’t voting for President.

Can we stop making excuses?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 10, 2026 02:14 PM (ekZzx)

170 - looks like a couple folks still here and since I mustn't despite the gardening thread...

Heard about the Trump/Putin deal regarding diesel fuel?
Sanctioning of the ICC?

Utube, search "Promethean Action soros panics." Should get ya there.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 10, 2026 02:23 PM (ix5nG)

171 Section 14. That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from or independent of the government of Virginia ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.

Hmmm...

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 10, 2026 02:27 PM (9ZFZd)

172 Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 01:00 PM (aJQbY)

I didn't get into that, but I'm fine with Representatives "no more than six years out of twelve", Senators with "no more than 18 years out of thirty-six", and the President with "no more than twelve years out of twenty-four." (Need to can the 2nd Amendment for that one.)

And nothing in the Articles said that the terms had to be consecutive. All it demanded was "no more than three terms during a six-term period."

Posted by: NeighSayer at October 10, 2026 02:34 PM (bufu1)

173 Don't look now but the Cornhuskers are up 11 over Indiana in the 4th.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 02:51 PM (4NO2D)

174 and even as I type Nebraska blows coverage and Indiana scores on one play.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 02:52 PM (4NO2D)

175 Indiana goes for 2 to make it a FG game. Timeout Nebraska.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 02:52 PM (4NO2D)

176 Nobody ever got rid of slavery. It just comes in different forms today.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 10, 2026 03:03 PM (ERYKL)

177 Welp, the G2-level CME, that was supposed to get here yesterday, just arrived.

Posted by: gp at October 10, 2026 03:07 PM (Jr5Lq)

178 - heh
My @170
Either despoil isn't a word or auto-c didn't recognize it.
It decided on "despite" for me.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 10, 2026 03:16 PM (ix5nG)

179 20-17 Indiana

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 03:16 PM (4NO2D)

180 it looks like Indiana will pull this out after all.

Turnover on downs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 10, 2026 03:28 PM (4NO2D)

181
To Delaware's shame, the statue of Caesar Rodney riding to Philadelphia to cast the deciding vote for independence was removed from Rodney Square in downtown Wilmington in ignorant reaction to the death of George Floyd, noted chef of mayonnaise and honey sammiches.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 10, 2026 03:32 PM (trSL4)

182 ***Missouri’s department of prisons is thinking of hiring some Canadian doctors from Canada’s MAID Service to conduct future death row executions,
---

This is a call to Wake UP.
We killed for our independence, we've killed to keep it, we've killed to save other souls. It is a sad thing that some Americans have lost the skill of life and death.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:36 PM (VPNgR)

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival Featuring Moar Sunshine Than Evah

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[Coffee addiction, noted. Duly noted, Blake (H/T)]


Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Waters Meet.)

1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Prayers are always good and welcome.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Or something, something.....
3) No! You may not run, jog, sprint or power walk with sharp objects.
4) See you Monday Night for the ONT
5) 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:

9/12 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for the W family for comfort and strength as they grieve. The deceased was a sweet 92 year old, despite some big tragedies in her life.

9/15 – Sal asked for prayers as wildfires are out of control in the north of the area and threatening the county seat. They are evacuating part of the town. Sal is not in any danger.

9/17 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update with good news and bad news. The bad news is that she has a 9mm mass on her lung, which means the cancer has metastasized outside of her liver. The pump is keeping the cancer in her liver at bay for now. The good news is that they can zap the nodule out of her lung and will watch for if any more nodules appear. As long as this is the only one, the radiation should suffice. She meets with a radiation oncologist on 9/25.

9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support.
8/14 Update – Random Dave needs continued prayers for his job situation, that God would guide him to the right one soon, and also for prayers for M’s grandmother, who fell the other day and tore a ligament.
10/1 Update – M’s grandma is healing. They are still praying for complete healing and mobility.

9/18 – Tonypete asked for prayers for #1 son. He has something going on which is, as yet, undiagnosed. He is under care now, so that is a positive step. Prayers also for his wife and daughter #2. Mom is a spoiled princess who consistently chooses the worst path of action regarding #2.

9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers.

10/8 – D asks for blessings on the Texas MoMe participants, as they travel and as they enjoy the event – and especially blessings on the organizers.

10/8; Mis. Hum. ditto's D's prayer for the organizers and participants of the upcoming Texas MoMe.

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.

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1 Rly?

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:41 AM (VyBeY)

2 ND.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 07:42 AM (yPX1l)

3 Coffee. Bacon frying. Good morning.

Posted by: Cosda at October 10, 2026 07:43 AM (Vbk8C)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 07:45 AM (RORbl)

5 Good morning again dear morons and thanks to mh annie and the horde for praying

{grammie}{TiFW}{Some Rat}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

6 coffee? bacon? these sound like Good Ideas!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (VyBeY)

7 JAVA!!! beautiful morning in Texas for Coffee!!

Posted by: qmark at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (hzpDl)

8 Any Morons get hurricaned?

Posted by: torabora at October 10, 2026 07:48 AM (Wt1Rs)

9 Morning Horde thx MisHum.
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
A balmy 44° here, but sunny. Walking should be good today

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 07:49 AM (t9883)

10 D asks for blessings on the Texas MoMe participants, as they travel and as they enjoy the event – and especially blessings on the organizers.
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This. Especially because I keep hearing about the bad weather in your country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

11 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (Ia/+0)

12
Mis. Hum. ditto's D's prayer for the organizers and participants of the upcoming Texas MoMe.

__________

In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)

13 Do hope everyone has safe travels

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 07:53 AM (Ia/+0)

14 mornin yall. The storm has almost finished passing, leaving water on the ground and the weatherpeoples disappointed.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:53 AM (MWfyi)

15
The storm has almost finished passing, leaving water on the ground and the weatherpeoples disappointed.
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:53 AM (MWfyi)

________

What are you doing here?

*flips pages on clipboard*

You should be dead!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:55 AM (eRlcH)

16
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2026 07:57 AM (AMvSw)

17 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)
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Take your Beano!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

18 Prayers for all those in need of G*d's mercy and healing. And prayers for those in the path of the "hurrikin" (as my beloved MIL used to pronounce it). We're supposedly getting up to 2" today and possibly 5" of rain tonight here in upstate SC. I don't expect to see Noah's Ark floating by though. A nice day to stay in and chill.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 10, 2026 08:00 AM (qBdHI)

19 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)
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That's half the fun!

Posted by: Weasel at October 10, 2026 08:01 AM (GNqmQ)

20 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM

That's okay...we can handle that for you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:03 AM (Ms1Co)

21 We're expecting some "gusty" winds and maybe an inch or so of rain today/tonight. Doesn't appear we'll have severe weather.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 08:05 AM (RORbl)

22 Can relate to the saying at the top ofthe post. Them's my sediments exactly.

Posted by: I'll Wake up, Eventually at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)

23 En mi casa toman Bustelo.

Posted by: Caffiend at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)

24
Her Majesty was able to catch an earlier flight out of Nashville last night and got home in good order and at a reasonable time. So thank God for that. What with all the weather, she could have gotten home last night or she could have gotten home Monday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 08:08 AM (eRlcH)

25 It could be more than half the fun. It could be 62.4 % of the fun.

Posted by: Weasel at October 10, 2026 08:10 AM (GNqmQ)

26 Them's my sediments exactly.
Posted by: I'll Wake up, Eventually at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)
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You must use a French press.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

27 It could be more than half the fun. It could be 62.4 % of the fun.
Posted by: Weasel at October 10, 2026 08:10 AM

That sounds suspiciously like math.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:12 AM (Ms1Co)

28 Mornin' Horde. Isaias came in, me in hospital, and I slept like a baby. So, I have that going for me.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 10, 2026 08:12 AM (ENA4W)

29 "A North Carolina man lost a portion of his hand when a pipe bomb exploded in a wooded area of Georgia

A passing driver found the injured man around 4:40 p.m. Sunday. By then, the bomb had already exploded.

The sheriff identified the man as Peter Kim Tae Soo Theyson, 49, of Indian Trail, North Carolina.

When deputies arrived, Theyson repeatedly told them, “My bomb blew up”."

What did you expect, Mr "North Carolina Man"?

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:13 AM (MWfyi)

30 Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 10, 2026 08:12 AM

Ugh. Hang in there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:14 AM (Ms1Co)

31 I don't expect to see Noah's Ark floating by though. A nice day to stay in and chill.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Lots of stuff needs doin'. Get to work.

Posted by: Idle Hands, You Know The Rest at October 10, 2026 08:14 AM (EdP2u)

32 Good, night's sleep.
Night in hospital, bad.

Usually they wake you every hour to ask if you're ok.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:16 AM (RIvkX)

33 When deputies arrived, Theyson repeatedly told them, “My bomb blew up”."

What did you expect, Mr "North Carolina Man"?
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:13 AM

Sometimes there just isn't enough facepalm.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:16 AM (Ms1Co)

34 Water's off. No coffee. Grrrrr.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 10, 2026 08:17 AM (8YesW)

35 Hate it when I go off prematurely.

Posted by: Not The Paolo at October 10, 2026 08:18 AM (EdP2u)

36 Welp, plane's about to leave Boston. Safe travels, Horde, and I'll see some of y'all later in the week.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:18 AM (Ms1Co)

37 Brother Tim maybe the hospital discharge planner can find you a long-term bed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

38 After watching the entire New York State Attorney General debate, I can’t get past Letitia James’s statement: “you don’t have to look at the facts and the law.”

This is not just Letitia, this is every local, state, and national (D) supposedly representing the public.
100% of their actions are emotional, contrived to protect criminals, and detrimental to the public welfare.
100%

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:20 AM (/+uur)

39 This is not just Letitia, this is every local, state, and national (D) supposedly representing the public.
100% of their actions are emotional, contrived to protect criminals, and detrimental to the public welfare.
100%
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:20 AM (/+uur)
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They swear an oath of office but have no fealty to it.

Their only rule is the will to power.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

40 The Cabal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 08:22 AM (yPX1l)

41 I can relate to Peter Kim Tae Soo Theyson. I have the Tsar Bomba go off unexpectedly several times a day-in my pants!

Posted by: Joe In Lower Slower Delaware at October 10, 2026 08:24 AM (EdP2u)

42 Morning, Horde.

The pic doesn't always fit my pre-coffee mood, but there are days...

If anybody's got a loose prayer or two to spare, toss one in for one of my former work colleagues who's recovering (I hope) from a heart attack and stroke. And thank ya kindly.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at October 10, 2026 08:25 AM (q3u5l)

43 They dropped that on the Arctic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 08:26 AM (yPX1l)

44 - "Prayers for all those in need of God's mercy and healing."

Well that one's gonna book your calendar for quite some time if you do each of us by name as it would be all of us. 😁

I'll add a corporate prayer for safe travels and attendance for all those heading for Texas.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 10, 2026 08:26 AM (ix5nG)

45 “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:”
2 Timothy 4:7

Final lap starts today. We have fought the good fight. We have faith that God's will shall be done, not ours.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 08:29 AM (I0N4X)

46 Brother Tim maybe the hospital discharge planner can find you a long-term bed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho


They've been trying. Thing I've noticed hereabouts is that family is expected to look after the needy, and wider services are something of an afterthought. In theory this is closer to the model a lot of us would prefer (private action over state control) but in practice, after generations of government-induced atrophy and strangling regulations, it doesn't work smoothly. Also sucks when closest family is a state away.

Oh well. At least God provided shelter from the storm. Now I gotta figure the rest out, as usual.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 10, 2026 08:29 AM (ENA4W)

47 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH)

You won't. Have a wonderful time! Sorry I can't be there this year.

Good Saturday morning, horde! Prayers up for all of you, for all the things.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 10, 2026 08:30 AM (CjHsb)

48 43 They dropped that on the Arctic.
Posted by: Boss Moss

And we're still pissed off!

Posted by: The Greater Walrus Community at October 10, 2026 08:30 AM (EdP2u)

49 Sometimes there just isn't enough facepalm.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 08:16 AM (Ms1Co)

Well, yeah, 'cause now he only has one.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 10, 2026 08:32 AM (CjHsb)

50 Good morning, all ye faithful.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

51 50 Good morning, all ye faithful.
Posted by: Count de Monet

That's not how the song goes, but we'll accept it.

Posted by: Yonder Sacred Throng at October 10, 2026 08:39 AM (EdP2u)

52 Any Morons get hurricaned?
Posted by: torabora at October 10, 2026 07:48 AM (Wt1Rs)


Getting it right now in East Tennessee. It'll likely end up as a really nice rain.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 10, 2026 08:40 AM (iIyc0)

53 We may get a couple of 80 degree days from hurricane Gesundtheit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 08:41 AM (yPX1l)

54 We appreciate all the free publicity.

Posted by: Hurry Cane Industries, Inc. at October 10, 2026 08:43 AM (EdP2u)

55 Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. (*)

Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jeus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

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I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.

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(*) There was question a few weeks ago about this form of the Doxology: this is the form used by the Order of Preachers (i.e, the Dominicans) and is used in the Divine Office. FYI, I'm a lay brother in the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic -- what used to be termed the Third Order.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 08:44 AM (ksbjf)

56 James is my AG and a complete DEI/ affirmative action nitwit. The recent statements by the whistleblower that she ignored her staff saying that there was no case when going after Trump should be enough to get at least one of Trump's cases tossed.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 08:44 AM (t9883)

57 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:45 AM (/+uur)

58 56 James is my AG and a complete DEI/ affirmative action nitwit. The recent statements by the whistleblower that she ignored her staff saying that there was no case when going after Trump should be enough to get at least one of Trump's cases tossed.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 10, 2026 08:44 AM (t9883)

Go read the emails from people she instructed to find dirt on PDT.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:46 AM (/+uur)

59 "The problem with quote, unquote, wokeness — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized," Chris Rock began, admitting that he's not against the concept in general. "But the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now, and the Old Testament has no forgiveness.
The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament."

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)

60
"The race for mayor in the Peruvian town of Queropalca was won on Friday by a candidate with one of the most provocative names imaginable: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores."

He's literally Hitler!

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)

61 Paleontologists at the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis have identified the first evidence of Diplodocus outside North America. Their study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, places the familiar long-necked dinosaur in Europe near the end of the Jurassic Period.

The Ice Bridge duh!

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)

62 Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores."

He's literally Hitler!
Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)

While Lenin read a book on Marx

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:54 AM (/+uur)

63 1. Giving the marginalized a voice, then
2. Tolerating the marginalized, then
3. Allowing the marginalized to rule

That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

64 (1 of 2) "The problem with quote, unquote, wokeness — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized," Chris Rock began, admitting that he's not against the concept in general. "But the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now, and the Old Testament has no forgiveness.
The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament."
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)


I suppose it's a good thing that I don't look to comedians for instruction in theology. Mr. Rock actually comes pretty close to re-stating the Albegensian Heresy (i.e. the Cathars) that held that the god of the Old Testament was Satan - who created the material realm -- and in opposition to the god of the New Testament -- who created the spiritual realm.

There's a fairly decent book, A Most Holy War by Mark Gregory Pegg, that examines the Albigensian Crusade. You do have to filter-out Pegg's disdain for the Catholic Church and his lack of understanding of religion, but he provides plenty of quotations of primary sources.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (ksbjf)

65 He's literally Hitler!
Posted by: fd

That's pretty ballsy. Adolf was a very common name in Norway prior to 1940, had an Uncle Adolf, who was in the Norwegian Army and died fighting the Germans in the initial invasion in 1940. Worked with 2 Norwegian carpenters named Adolf in the 70s, 80s, born in the 20s, 30s. No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Posted by: Norse Saga at October 10, 2026 08:57 AM (EdP2u)

66 Beautiful and sunny, 50° cracked and heading to mid sixties. Got to finish laying a few more pavers so the back gate can be moved by those aged people with only human level strength, such as myself.
Then off to camp for a halloween gathering before next weekends shut down and clean up.
Exhausted thinking about it, more coffee. And prayers up for all.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 08:58 AM (sl73Y)

67 So that's where our Diplodocus went!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles Pet Shop at October 10, 2026 08:58 AM (EdP2u)

68 3. Allowing the marginalized to rule

That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

As Judge Jury and Executioner

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (/+uur)

69 Good morning. Hope everyone that had to deal with the hurricane is ok. We had lots of wind and rain, well we still have it but it's not as bad as it was. I went out at daybreak to see if there was any damage, everything looks ok. Lots of leaves down everywhere but no trees down and we didn't have any power outages. It's still not over but so far so good. Will be happy when this crap moves on out.🙄

Posted by: Case at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (ROPCF)

70 Adolf was a very common name in Norway prior to 1940, had an Uncle Adolf, who was in the Norwegian Army and died fighting the Germans in the initial invasion in 1940. Worked with 2 Norwegian carpenters named Adolf in the 70s, 80s, born in the 20s, 30s. No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Attila remains popular, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (Riz8t)

71 No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Posted by: Norse Saga at October 10, 2026 08:57 AM (EdP2u)


The mustache shaved until it's just under the nostrils look seems to have vanished 80 years ago, too.

Some fashions just go out of style and never, ever, return.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:00 AM (6ydKt)

72 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 09:00 AM (u82oZ)

73 Them's my sediments exactly.
Posted by: I'll Wake up, Eventually at October 10, 2026 08:07 AM (EdP2u)
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You must use a French press.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at

Wouldn't make it any other ways. Fiber!!! And puts hair on your chest.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 09:01 AM (sl73Y)

74 Prayers for those on the Prayer List, and those that oughta be.

"And prayers for the safety and fellowship of those embarking this week for the Great TXMOME." - stuff Eisenhower said, sort of.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 10, 2026 09:01 AM (wVcYX)

75 12 In particular, prayers that I don't make a fool of myself.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (eRlcH

I second that since this is my inaugural MoMe. Hadrian, I have a feeling you’re in or close to my area. If you pass someone going north on 45 with that thousand yard stare, that’ll be me.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 10, 2026 09:01 AM (itAg7)

76 Nice enough falili day today anyway

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (Ia/+0)

77 Everyone have a splendid day, with warm zephyrs, crepuscular rays from cloud dappled skies, and no sharks in the front yard from hurricane storm surge.

Need to make TexasMoMeet preps.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

78 > The mustache shaved until it's just under the nostrils look seems to have vanished 80 years ago, too.
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I accidently got one side of my goatee a bit too short/thin and had to do with a "Hitler stash" for a week or so until it grew back out.

Very.... odd looking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (RORbl)

79 Some fashions just go out of style and never, ever, return.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:00 AM (6ydKt)
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*sadz*

Posted by: Hugo Boss at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

80 (2 of 2) The Catholic Church had been sending missionaries into the Albigensian region of France for about 200 years prior to the crusade. St. Bernard of Clairvoux had actually gotten driven out of the region by a mob. St. Dominic finally hit upon the idea of founding a mendicant order to preach against the heresy, and was having some pretty good success.

Then a Papal legate was murdered by a knight supporting the Cathars. Then the Albigensian Crusade got called in earnest.

The Cathars were not innocent victims of genocide, and the Catholics of the region tended to shelter them and fight the crusaders. Hence the reason things got pretty ugly.

But the underlying motivation for the Albigensian Crusade was the salvation of souls. Fast-forward to today, and we find plenty of "Christian" pastors preaching heresy: they're also leading the souls of the unwary to Hell.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:03 AM (ksbjf)

81 The mustache shaved until it's just under the nostrils look seems to have vanished 80 years ago, too.

Some fashions just go out of style and never, ever, return.


I'm primed for a comeback!

Posted by: Oswald Mosely at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (Riz8t)

82 Any Morons get hurricaned?
Posted by: torabora

Just rain here in Nashville land. Was supposed to have high winds but they haven't hit us yet. Hopefully, they won't.

Posted by: Tuna at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (lJ0H4)

83 3. Allowing the marginalized to rule

That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

As Judge Jury and Executioner
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 08:59 AM (/+uur)

He's not Judge Judy and executioner!

Posted by: PC Danny Butterman at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (wVcYX)

84 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

Sure, they will make movies depicting gruesome murders and completely unlikeable antiheroes but video of a terrorist traitor receiving justice is beyond the pale

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (MWfyi)

85 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at October 10, 2026 09:04 AM (HFx9z)

86 🙏🏼Prayers for each and everyone in need, always including Laurie, Teresa ifw, and Donna &. 🙏🏼 Prayers for the safety of all in the path of the hurricane. Last but not least, 🙏🏼 prayers for all traveling for the TxMome, its coordinators and hosts.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 09:05 AM (NFX2v)

87 I accidently got one side of my goatee a bit too short/thin and had to do with a "Hitler stash" for a week or so until it grew back out.

Very.... odd looking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 09:02 AM (RORbl)


Was everybody doing the right arm arm up combined with the right foot stomp salute every time you said "Hi."?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:07 AM (6ydKt)

88 {Donna&&}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

89 (*) There was question a few weeks ago about this form of the Doxology: this is the form used by the Order of Preachers (i.e, the Dominicans) and is used in the Divine Office. FYI, I'm a lay brother in the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic -- what used to be termed the Third Order.
Posted by: Retired

That was.me. seems to be a few remainingsmall variations explained as a sort of local dialect that has hung on. I kind of like that. I'm a now and forever, amen guy.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 09:10 AM (sl73Y)

90 That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

I would say that No Justice in this world has always been the default state of humanity, and that periods when Justice is actually sought have been very few and far between.

And I’ll add that during these long periods where there is no Public Justice, there WILL be private justice - and those who provide it will increase in power and authority themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:11 AM (60F2Z)

91 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

Well I don't know about you, but whenever I need guidance on the big moral questions, the first people I consult are Hollywood actors.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 09:13 AM (Riz8t)

92 3) No! You may not run, jog, sprint or power walk with sharp objects.

**********

Did you ever notice that is you open the blades of a pair of scissors and alternate touching a flat surface with the tips that is simulates a person ambulating or even running?

This may be the loophole we've been searching for. I'm going scissor running today!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:14 AM (I0N4X)

93 There was a reported Lil Jimmie siting.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:14 AM (/+uur)

94 We have justice.
They've just perverted it to social justice, which apparently means; "I deserve what you have just because your ancestors had something similar and they stole it from my ancestors so time to pay the bill, whitey".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:15 AM (6ydKt)

95 (*) There was question a few weeks ago about this form of the Doxology: this is the form used by the Order of Preachers (i.e, the Dominicans) and is used in the Divine Office. FYI, I'm a lay brother in the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic -- what used to be termed the Third Order.
Posted by: Retired

That was.me. seems to be a few remainingsmall variations explained as a sort of local dialect that has hung on. I kind of like that. I'm a now and forever, amen guy.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 09:10 AM (sl73Y)


I'm glad I was able to finally answer your question.

The "now and forever" is a closer English translation of one of the early Greek forms of the Doxology. But it's kind of forgotten. I learned it when I joined the Lay Fraternity of St. Dominic.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:15 AM (ksbjf)

96 This may be the loophole we've been searching for. I'm going scissor running today!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:14 AM (I0N4X)
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Ummm...that's prancing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 09:16 AM (RIvkX)

97 ✂️🏃🏻
And come to think of it, is scissors singular or plural. And what would that make a pair of scissors. Have you ever used a scissor?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (I0N4X)

98 91 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

Well I don't know about you, but whenever I need guidance on the big moral questions, the first people I consult are Hollywood actors.
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 09:13 AM (Riz8t)

They are terrified that Hegseth and Trump are going to produce a show that blows everything they've done in twenty years out of the water when the ratings come in.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (6ydKt)

99 The popularity of the name Adolph derived from Gustavus Adolphus, who was a great Protestant hero of the 30 years war. A shame that Herr Schicklegruber ruined it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (60F2Z)

100 Scissors are like pants in that way.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:18 AM (I0N4X)

101 97 ✂️🏃🏻
And come to think of it, is scissors singular or plural. And what would that make a pair of scissors. Have you ever used a scissor?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (I0N4X)

A quadruplet of scissors?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:19 AM (6ydKt)

102 Mornin', all! I'm getting ready to stomp up a hill with moderately heavy radio equipment (all my lightweight stuff is out of commission at the moment). It's been a couple month since I've done any hiking, so this might be a bit taxing. But soon the weather will turn and I'll be stuck inside.

Have a good day, and safe travels for those of you heading to TX.

Posted by: PabloD at October 10, 2026 09:19 AM (OXSZa)

103 I think there's still Adolph's Meat Tenderizer. Unseasoned.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 09:20 AM (RORbl)

104 Mornin' Horde and prayers for all y'all. So far, light rain and some wind here at my little 1/2 acre in upstate SC. Some limbs down but that's normal at my place. Expecting more rain, I hope not as much as the weather nerds originally predicted. I've got flood bags deployed at the crawl space door.

On Wednesday I start my journey to Corsicana, Lord willing.

Posted by: screaming in digital at October 10, 2026 09:20 AM (FpydE)

105 99 The popularity of the name Adolph derived from Gustavus Adolphus, who was a great Protestant hero of the 30 years war. A shame that Herr Schicklegruber ruined it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (60F2Z)

Wasn't he the bad guy in Die Hard (Christmas movie)?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:21 AM (6ydKt)

106 A singular scissor is just a poorly designed knife.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 10, 2026 09:22 AM (cWOgQ)

107 That's where we are Chris. This world has no justice Old Testament or otherwise.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

I would say that No Justice in this world has always been the default state of humanity, and that periods when Justice is actually sought have been very few and far between.

And I’ll add that during these long periods where there is no Public Justice, there WILL be private justice - and those who provide it will increase in power and authority themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 09:11 AM (60F2Z)


I would add that Public Justice is always forgotten when mankind abandons following the Judeo-Christian Ethic. Only Jews and Christians hold the teaching that mankind is made in the image of God, and He gave us 10 Commandments to govern our behavior.

Things go better when we obey the Judeo-Christian Ethic, and go pretty $h!tty when we disobey. Almost as if the Judeo-Christian Ethic was divinely inspired. But the oh-smart Lefties tell us that there is no God, only will-to-power. Funny how they're a bunch of unhappy, miserable lunatics.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:23 AM (ksbjf)

108 Have you ever used a scissor?
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:17 AM (I0N4X)

its called a knife

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:24 AM (/+uur)

109 Good morning Horde, prayers up for all of you and your loved ones. Special prayers for those in the path of the storm and all those who are travelling. See you in Texas.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 10, 2026 09:25 AM (ibDUx)

110 Well, we're off to wish the dogs Happy Hunting. Should I use my Miracle Max voice and say, "Goodbye kids! Have fun sniffing the cadavers!"


while my wife says "Bah! Humperdinck! Humperdinck"

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:25 AM (I0N4X)

111 I'm well to the east of EEeee-SAH-AYE--EEEE-US-AY, but they had huge amounts of rainfall potential, sometimes has high as 5" for the area.

That has thankfully not played out yet, and I've got about 0.3" so far, and not any breeze at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 10, 2026 09:26 AM (w6EFb)

112 Wasn't he the bad guy in Die Hard (Christmas movie)?

*******

Just Gruber. No Schickel.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:26 AM (I0N4X)

113 Funny how they're a bunch of unhappy, miserable lunatics.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:23 AM (ksbjf)

It's also funny that their main, stated, goal, in so many words is to basically recreate the Garden of Eden, no working, no clothes, nothing but peace love and happiness without nature oppressing us by making us figure out a way to stay dry and eat.

Only this time it's going to be run by the snake and his friends.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:27 AM (6ydKt)

114 Plurale tantum. Such as suds, jeans, outskirts, odds, riches, goods, and news.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:28 AM (JzUSu)

115 112 Wasn't he the bad guy in Die Hard (Christmas movie)?

*******

Just Gruber. No Schickel.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:26 AM (I0N4X)

Hans Gruber: This time John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly.

John McClane: That was Gary Cooper, asshole.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:30 AM (6ydKt)

116 No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)

117 Hans Gruber: Nice suit. John Phillips, London. I have two myself. Rumor has it Arafat buys his there./i]

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:31 AM (6ydKt)

118 is a panty just for 1 leg

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:32 AM (/+uur)

119 Plurale tantum
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba a

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Thanks Biff. I wasn't familiar with that phrase.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:32 AM (I0N4X)

120 Already talking Christmas and we are not even to Halloween

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (/+uur)

121 I was just riffing. Scatting. Be-bopping.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (I0N4X)

122 John McClane: Happy trails, Hans.

*splat*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (6ydKt)

123 Hitler was literally Schickelgruber.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 09:33 AM (yPX1l)

124 The Flydubai co-pilot was radicalized in Melbourne, Australia by a mosque linked to the Muslim Brotherhood organization.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (/+uur)

125 So that's where our Diplodocus went!

Does the existence of Diplodocus imply the existence of Monoplodocus?

No one has been named Adolf post 1940.

Knew a guy named Adolph in grade school in the early '70s. Had a twin brother named Adam, which I guess is better than Cain.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (vTZFs)

126 Thanks Biff. I wasn't familiar with that phrase.
Posted by: muldoon
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Neither was I till I just looked it up, but it made me sound smart.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (JzUSu)

127 Uh, Brave AI completely disagrees:

Adolf Hitler was never literally named Schicklgruber. The name Schicklgruber was the surname of his paternal grandmother, Maria Anna Schicklgruber, and was originally borne by his father, Alois Hitler.

Alois's Birth: Born in 1837 out of wedlock, Alois took his mother’s surname, Schicklgruber, as was customary at the time.

Name Change: In 1876, when Alois was 39 years old, he legally changed his surname to Hitler (likely a variation of his stepfather Johann Georg Hiedler's name) to legitimize himself.

Adolf's Birth: Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, twelve years after his father had already adopted the surname Hitler.

The belief that Hitler’s "real name" was Schicklgruber is a historical myth that originated during World War II, where Allied forces and opponents used the name to mock him by associating him with his illegitimate birth and his grandmother’s surname. Historians, such as Alan Bullock, have confirmed that Adolf was born and lived his entire life as Adolf Hitler.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:38 AM (6ydKt)

128 122 John McClane: Happy trails, Hans

John McCain
I have tickets for his funeral next May!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 10, 2026 09:39 AM (Sco7b)

129 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forever.  Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell.  Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.  Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

130
A cool morning, so I had Puff and Ruth out for a run in the front yard, which is about 150 x 200 feet. There was some body banging but the term "dogfight" applies more to their runs chasing after each other. Vectors and interception, evasive maneuvering, full-tilt spins to go from pursued to pursuer. Lovely to watch, but hard if they decide to use Daddy as a pick.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:46 AM (eRlcH)

131 "Hollywood Celebrities Denounce Pentagon Plan to Livestream Fort Hood Shooter Execution"

And they all have no problem with gore & murder when it brings in viewers & voters & $.

Winkler starred as Martin Klein in the CBS docudrama Absolute Strangers, which was based on a real-life 1989 legal case where a husband went to court to authorize an abortion for his comatose wife to save her life.

Senator Chris Murphy, "I strongly believe a woman has the right to make decisions about her own reproductive health. And I believe that abortion is a core health service."

The tragic killing of Iryna Zarutska and the video from the bus on which she died, ignited a major political and public safety debateat the national level.

Horrific video shows suspect watching woman burn to death in NYC train car after he allegedly set her on fire.

And, unfortunately, so on.

Do it after 10 pm. Don't watch. Monitor your children's media viewing.

Perhaps a very useful lesson of cause and effect.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 09:47 AM (NFX2v)

132 It's also funny that their main, stated, goal, in so many words is to basically recreate the Garden of Eden, no working, no clothes, nothing but peace love and happiness without nature oppressing us by making us figure out a way to stay dry and eat.

Only this time it's going to be run by the snake and his friends.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:27 AM (6ydKt)
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A lot of them buy into the "you shall be as gods" like.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

133 Lie
Still early.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

134 Wind slowly picking up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 09:51 AM (zcI95)

135 126 Neither was I till I just looked it up, but it made me sound smart.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:34 AM (JzUSu)

I knew palindrome and onomatopoeia but plurale tantum was a new one.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (itAg7)

136 Funny how they're a bunch of unhappy, miserable lunatics.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:23 AM (ksbjf)

It's also funny that their main, stated, goal, in so many words is to basically recreate the Garden of Eden, no working, no clothes, nothing but peace love and happiness without nature oppressing us by making us figure out a way to stay dry and eat.

Only this time it's going to be run by the snake and his friends.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 09:27 AM (6ydKt)


I can't remember where I read it (it might have been Bl. Fulton Sheen or Pope Benedict XVI), but every attempt to create Heaven on Earth, results in Hell on Earth. While it's a secular book, Friedrich von Heyak's book The Road to Serfdom makes the point that one of the attractions of Socialism that it makes the selfish feel better about their lack of charity.

Of course, the empty promises of Utopia can not be met, so enemies (preferably defenseless internal enemies) have to to be identified and eliminated. The True Believers discount the fact that Communist governments have killed in excess of 100 million of their own citizens.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)

137 soooo Philly is a mess (I know you guys know)

yesterday a crazy bum started shooting wildly outside of The Franklin Institute at around 11am, there were multiple school trips there. the cops had to put him down (thank God, one less violent bum in the city).

then last night the police got a call to go in to West Philly that there was a guy brandishing on a porch ... except when they got there to investigate, no one on that porch, they go to knock and someone starts shooting.

the two were critically injured and one has now died. backup came and found the shooter up in a tree, prepped to kill. it was an ambush.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (j+aD2)

138 Lovely to watch, but hard if they decide to use Daddy as a pick.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Illegal pick. Five minutes in the kennelty box.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:53 AM (JzUSu)

139 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (j+aD2)

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iirc an ambush kicked things off in 1985

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 09:54 AM (RIvkX)

140
I swear to God, if I see another post about "Banned Books" I'll scream. Anything that used to be normal and expected of adults to protect their children from things they're not ready for has been turned into some newly repressive horror by bibliomolesters.

We never had "bannned books" because no one in the past would have thought that "Heather's First Polycule" was suitable for children.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (eRlcH)

141 iirc an ambush kicked things off in 1985


we need a "blue flu" to wake up the stupid city

and we need Krasner REMOVED

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (j+aD2)

142 then last night the police got a call to go in to West Philly that there was a guy brandishing on a porch ... except when they got there to investigate, no one on that porch, they go to knock and someone starts shooting.

the two were critically injured and one has now died. backup came and found the shooter up in a tree, prepped to kill. it was an ambush.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (j+aD2)


May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (ksbjf)

143 Speaking of Hitler…

I saw a Reddit discussion about cost of living in various cities. Yeah I know Reddit but still. The question was posed by a German who is moving to America and wanted to get a sense of cost of living in different areas.

What was weird was how so many people focused on cars. Along the lines of you can live in flyover country and it’s cheap, however you have to own a dirty horrible polluting awful not good car. But in the Valhalla of blue city costal shuttles you are free from car ownership and can walk or take transit everywhere.

I mean sure that’s something to consider since if you live in NYC you don’t need a car and that is a significant monthly cost saved. But it wasn’t just that. It was this deep seated hatred against the cars themselves.

The left has indoctrinated a good chunk of people to loathe cars. And it’s vocable in the percentage of young people who have a license. It has been steadily dropping since the mid 2000s.

It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)

144
Illegal pick. Five minutes in the kennelty box.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 09:53 AM (JzUSu)


The only safe way to protect yourself when a Borzoi is doing zoomies is don't do anything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (eRlcH)

145 Of course, the empty promises of Utopia can not be met, so enemies (preferably defenseless internal enemies) have to to be identified and eliminated. The True Believers discount the fact that Communist governments have killed in excess of 100 million of their own citizens.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)
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It was never "scientific" and was always a heresy.

That's why it persists. It plays upon the sins of envy, greed, wrath and pride hidden behind a smokescreen of secular altruism.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)

146 All those “banned books” are available on Amazon with same day delivery in many cases.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:58 AM (qoHuP)

147 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Safe travels and enjoyed fellowship for all attending the MoMe.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 10, 2026 09:59 AM (D/6p1)

148 Good morning and prayers for all

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 09:59 AM (M+uMR)

149 We never had "bannned books" because no one in the past would have thought that "Heather's First Polycule" was suitable for children.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (eRlcH)
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They're so banned that all the liberal public libraries carry them and they have their own display at the front of the book store.

I think 99% of the left is just bored people trying to come up with a purpose in their life, so they create imaginary dragons to slay.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

150 Happy Saturday!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (rOKnE)

151 then last night the police got a call to go in to West Philly that there was a guy brandishing on a porch ... except when they got there to investigate, no one on that porch, they go to knock and someone starts shooting.
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A bomb be good for him

Posted by: Wilson Goode at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (v3w5Z)

152 The only safe way to protect yourself when a Borzoi is doing zoomies is don't do anything.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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I've had several great danes, and been run over multiple times. Like Bo Jackson over Brian Bosworth.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (JzUSu)

153 the shooter in West Philly was apprehended btw

I wish he was ended like the crazy bum was tho

I'm sure Krasner will find a way to release him

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 10, 2026 10:01 AM (j+aD2)

154 >>When deputies arrived, Theyson repeatedly told them, “My bomb blew up”."

What did you expect, Mr "North Carolina Man"?




Better you than your intended target?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (rOKnE)

155 "Believe all women" is the Jim Crow laws of feminism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (3cUTc)

156 Of course, the empty promises of Utopia can not be met, so enemies (preferably defenseless internal enemies) have to to be identified and eliminated. The True Believers discount the fact that Communist governments have killed in excess of 100 million of their own citizens.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)
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It was never "scientific" and was always a heresy.

That's why it persists. It plays upon the sins of envy, greed, wrath and pride hidden behind a smokescreen of secular altruism.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)


Oh, fully understood. We're in agreement, although I think it's a bit more accurate to characterize Communism as an inversion of Christianity rather than a Christian heresy.

Paul Kangor's book The Devil and Karl Marx really opened my eyes to the Satanic influence upon Communism. It's a spiritual struggle against Communism, not an economic struggle. That's why the utilitarian arguments against Communism always fail.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (ksbjf)

157 Was the west Philly shooter born and raised there? And time spent on the playground?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:03 AM (qoHuP)

158 Ambush is the nightmare scenario for any police force. There’s no way for any non militarized force to prepare for that kind of attack. The only possible way to be prepared is to always go in like the IDF in Gaza or the West Bank - armored vehicles and guns blazing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:03 AM (60F2Z)

159 The left has indoctrinated a good chunk of people to loathe cars. And it’s vocable in the percentage of young people who have a license. It has been steadily dropping since the mid 2000s.

It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)
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It's a function of envy. You have a huge amount of college educated downwardly mobile people who cannot live the American Dream, so they hate on it, and try to convince others that people who have achieved it are bad.

"See that happy family with lots of kids going on vacations and having parties in their back yard? They are evil personified, and secretly miserable."

This is where you get all the "suburban bored housewife it's all a nightmare" genre of literature.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:04 AM (ZOv7s)

160 I attended an event across town last week. I could have driven. It would take about 30 min. to get there and find parking. Parking would be $10.

I took the muni. It took about 30 min. to get there and cost $6 roundtrip. Similarly door-to-door.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

161 I've been kinda bombed myself, but still have all my digits.

Posted by: Rum Dum at October 10, 2026 10:04 AM (EdP2u)

162 Paul Kangor's book The Devil and Karl Marx really opened my eyes to the Satanic influence upon Communism. It's a spiritual struggle against Communism, not an economic struggle. That's why the utilitarian arguments against Communism always fail.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (ksbjf)
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There's a reason why Communists always destroy the churches. The moral system is completely incompatible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)

163 "Believe all women" is the Jim Crow laws of feminism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (3cUTc)
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The Scottsboro Boys say "hi."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)

164 We never had "bannned books" because no one in the past would have thought that "Heather's First Polycule" was suitable for children.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 09:55 AM (eRlcH)
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They're so banned that all the liberal public libraries carry them and they have their own display at the front of the book store.

I think 99% of the left is just bored people trying to come up with a purpose in their life, so they create imaginary dragons to slay.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)


Well, that and the fact that they've given themselves over to their disordered sexual passions and other sins.

But St. Paul was a big dummy when he warned against those perversions in the Letter to the Romans (see 1:26-27). Lefties know better then those old guys in the Bible. /s

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:07 AM (ksbjf)

165 Someone wrote a great book on dissecting all the works like Utopia

I cannot find it now

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:08 AM (/+uur)

166 I can't wait to hear:

“Shoot straight, you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it!”

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:08 AM (dtajH)

167 >>I swear to God, if I see another post about "Banned Books" I'll scream. Anything that used to be normal and expected of adults to protect their children from things they're not ready for has been turned into some newly repressive horror by bibliomolesters.


"bibliomolesters," heh!

Chatting with an older family friend yesterday, she recounted a story of her friend showing her a picture of her granddaughter from a recent visit. Granddaughter is married to a trans and they each have produced a kid. Said with horror that it was obvious from the picture that both kids (her friends great grandchildren) were going to be trans, too. The Grandmother is just sick about it.

This all so sad, the intentional destruction of children while loved ones have to watch in horror.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:09 AM (rOKnE)

168 Paul Kangor's book The Devil and Karl Marx really opened my eyes to the Satanic influence upon Communism. It's a spiritual struggle against Communism, not an economic struggle. That's why the utilitarian arguments against Communism always fail.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:02 AM (ksbjf)
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There's a reason why Communists always destroy the churches. The moral system is completely incompatible.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)


Yes. That's also why we're seeing such a big upswing in conversions into the Catholic Church by young adults. They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)

169 "See that happy family with lots of kids going on vacations and having parties in their back yard? They are evil personified, and secretly miserable."

This is where you get all the "suburban bored housewife it's all a nightmare" genre of literature.


Good thing we never fell for that nonsense.
*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Hollywood at October 10, 2026 10:12 AM (Riz8t)

170 They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)
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How dare you!

Posted by: Flip Wilson at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)

171 Going to see Adam Corolla this evening at a comedy club

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (Ia/+0)

172 The crazy thing with the Left is that they claim to be for individual freedom but they're actually fascist conformists.

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, so long as they all lean Left."

Leftism is an ersatz religion like Scientology and Islam.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (dtajH)

173 This all so sad, the intentional destruction of children while loved ones have to watch in horror.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:09 AM (rOKnE)
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One reason why a certain percentage of people are refusing to budge on the trans thing is that they cannot accept the guilt for mutilating their kid. They have no way to process through it, so they build a bunker of denial.

We're already seeing how that is being bypassed by lawsuits and regulations targeting the doctors. Nice thing about lawyers, they can always be trusted to chase deep pockets.

Ultimately, it will go away when it ceases to have social value and we are moving that way. Hegseth casually ripping on trannies is part of this. The more those people are looked at with disdain, the faster it will end, and there is already a huge shift among young people because of the growing stigma attached to it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)

174 crazy thing with the Left is that they claim to be for individual freedom but they're actually fascist conformists.

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My body my choice

Also: you will be vaxxed whether you like it or not

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:15 AM (qoHuP)

175 >>The crazy thing with the Left is that they claim to be for individual freedom but they're actually fascist conformists.


Like feminists, who are all about choice when there are really only some choices of which they approve.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:15 AM (rOKnE)

176 It is the duty of the civil authorities to administer Justice and the duty of the church to administer Charity.

Lots of folks have it backward.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:17 AM (LOvBA)

177 Going to see Adam Corolla this evening at a comedy club
Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (Ia/+0)
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Awesome have a blast I think he's a riot

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:17 AM (RIvkX)

178 Lefts are children at their core. They believe in fairy tales like communism.

And they behave like children as well. Every teenager thinks they’re being super rebellious by their fashion or haircut or music. But they all look the same, dress the same and listen to the same music.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (qoHuP)

179 The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)

180 @158/Tom Servo:

1. Look up.
2. Use FLIR.

https://youtu.be/N4WNB9omjfI

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 10, 2026 10:19 AM (O7YUW)

181 Yes. That's also why we're seeing such a big upswing in conversions into the Catholic Church by young adults. They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)
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It's a really interesting dynamic. On one hand, we have the DSA blue-haired idiots who know nothing veering into Jew hatred and on the other we have huge numbers of college students pouring into the churches. The Southern Baptist Convention is reporting record adult baptisms as well, even as the Mainline churches wither away.

One of the interesting changes to RCIA/OCIA/Becoming Catholic over the past ten years is how much younger the sponsors are. A decade ago, it was mostly middle-aged or older adults, but now it's college kids, either cradle Catholics or converts. A former pagan talked at our last session about the "voice" of the Goddess trying to keep him, and God bringing him away from it.

That's another difference. Spiritual warfare is front and center now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:19 AM (ZOv7s)

182 Now rain is slowly picking up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 10, 2026 10:20 AM (zcI95)

183 The left has indoctrinated a good chunk of people to loathe cars. And it’s vocable in the percentage of young people who have a license. It has been steadily dropping since the mid 2000s.

It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)


I think that aping the European lack of personal cars also plays a part for the American Left. Mrs. Cop and I just returned a couple of weeks ago from a pilgrimage to holy sites within Italy.

Europeans just do not grok how big the U.S. is. I was talking to a bartender (h/t to Gianluc for the great Aperol spritzes) that mentioned that he would like to visit both New York City and Los Angeles. I warned him that he should try to visit both cities in the same visit: America is just too big.

He asked "Are they 1000 kilometers apart?" I consulted the Intertubes on the distance and did the math: I answered, "No it's more like 4000 kilometers apart." Dude was dumbfounded. He just couldn't conceive of that distance.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:21 AM (ksbjf)

184
The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)


You can't go wrong just following the Baltimore Catechism. Volume 1 is written, literally, for children.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:21 AM (eRlcH)

185 @183 oops, should be "Should NOT try to visit both cities in one visit."

*Oh, half my kingdom for a Preview button!!!*

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:22 AM (ksbjf)

186 London to Berlin is 580 miles.

NYC to Chicago is 712.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (dtajH)

187 The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)
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It's a generational thing. Pope Leo is doctrinally sound in many areas, but his generation is steeped in the progressive worldview that we've gotten over racism, and sexism and such, and the death penalty is just another relic.

With the exception of some old stalwarts, that's the prevailing view (also suspicion or hatred of the TLM). But among the younger clergy, you see very orthodox teaching and practices. I just wish the bishops worried less about social posturing and more about converting souls. Putting a man in a living hell does nothing for soul, but knowing death is near focuses the mind on the hereafter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

188 And they behave like children as well. Every teenager thinks they’re being super rebellious by their fashion or haircut or music. But they all look the same, dress the same and listen to the same music.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (qoHuP)
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This is what I think when I walk down Haight St.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (RIvkX)

189 > I'm sure Krasner will find a way to release him
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I read a post a couple days/weeks ago that suggested he's getting some heat for his... actions. Perhaps some sort of official/professional review?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 10, 2026 10:24 AM (RORbl)

190 They're seeking timeless truths, rather than the "Church of What's Happening Now."
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:11 AM (ksbjf)
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How dare you!
Posted by: Flip Wilson at October 10, 2026 10:13 AM (RIvkX)


Sorry, Flip. You were a funny guy.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:25 AM (ksbjf)

191 Good morning good people. Prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:25 AM (N5iuz)

192 It’s not just the car. It’s the lifestyle of owning a home, having freedom to move as you please. Their version of good living is a cramped apartment, with no ability to ever leave the area. The 15 minute city.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (qoHuP)

It’s the Euro mindset. Serfs and servants forever, personal freedom and agency is only for the Ruling Class.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:26 AM (Y6Q+5)

193 You can't go wrong just following the Baltimore Catechism. Volume 1 is written, literally, for children.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

. . . and therefore, can be understood by adults too!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 10, 2026 10:27 AM (N5iuz)

194 >>One reason why a certain percentage of people are refusing to budge on the trans thing is that they cannot accept the guilt for mutilating their kid. They have no way to process through it, so they build a bunker of denial.

At my former church, there's a woman who is a little nutty. It became obvious she was going to trans her kid early on (pre-k she was constantly changing between genders via clothes and radical haircuts). The family moved to Europe for a few years, and upon return, the transing had officially taken place. Mom got involved in everything at church, even got a job within the church. Then the prayer requests started for the kid- dealing with depression, etc. Something new each week, always vague. Kid starts volunteering with youth group (because of course, xe has to mentor younger kids). It was like this big project by the family that needed to be implemented at all levels.

Last I heard, the mom has withdrawn from all church groups to deal with. . . something. We're just praying there won't be a suicide.
The whole thing is so, so sad. Obvious from the start that the mom did this to the kid.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:27 AM (rOKnE)

195 Did see some comments from Europeans they really were surprised distances between places here. Couple hours driving in Europe you can go through countries.
France is Texas.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Ia/+0)

196 Like feminists, who are all about choice when there are really only some choices of which they approve.[/i\]

It's like a Chinese restaurant menu. You choose one from Column Very Left, and one from Column Really Left. If you pay extra, you can pay for Column Frothing Maoist.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Riz8t)

198 The things I learn around here; one of many reasons to love hanging out here. Because it came up I looked into it. Yep… Hitler’s dad was born illegitimate and briefly used the surname Schticklgruber…. But only briefly. He’d legally adopted the surname Hitler (variation on Heidler) well before Hitler was conceived. I’d always wondered why Schticklgruber occasionally comes up in the gray boxes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (M+uMR)

199 The “Euros don’t drive” thing is another fairly tale the left believes in. Europeans do own cars. A fuckton of cars. Even in the densest busiest cities it’s packed full of cars. What Europe for the most part does have is restrictions on parking in cities making it damn near impossible to drive in from the suburbs, hence the use of trains. But those people do own cars.

Another leftist fairy is how everyone in Europe takes the train everywhere for long distance travel. Uhm no not really. Trains are used for sweet spot trips like 200-400 miles between major metro areas. It beats flying and driving usually. But nobody is taking the train from Berlin to Paris. That’s a 8-10 hr train ride. They take the 2 hr flight instead.


Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:30 AM (qoHuP)

200 "It’s the Euro mindset. Serfs and servants forever, personal freedom and agency is only for the Ruling Class."

I've come to believe that this is especially true in England which never had a revolution. So the landed descendants of Billy the Conqueror still run things. FFS, one guy owns all of Mayfair.

The Brits should rise up, but my bet is that it will happen in France or Germany first.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:31 AM (dtajH)

201 The Brits should rise up, but my bet is that it will happen in France or Germany first.

Perhaps, but I think there's going to be a nearly simultaneous, Europe-wide reaction/revolt against the "new arrivals" and leftist governance in general.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:32 AM (Riz8t)

202 >>The Brits should rise up, but my bet is that it will happen in France or Germany first.

Irish seem to be really pissed off lately?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 10, 2026 10:33 AM (rOKnE)

203 The state of the Catholic Church is such that the laity know more about the Faith and morals of the Church than the Pope and half of the Bishops.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 10, 2026 10:18 AM (LOvBA)
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It's a generational thing. Pope Leo is doctrinally sound in many areas, but his generation is steeped in the progressive worldview that we've gotten over racism, and sexism and such, and the death penalty is just another relic.

With the exception of some old stalwarts, that's the prevailing view (also suspicion or hatred of the TLM). But among the younger clergy, you see very orthodox teaching and practices. ...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)


Well said. The old "Hippy Generation" clergy is dying-out and being replaced by a much more orthodox younger clergy. Hence the the temper trantrums of the old bishops: they know that their "reforms" are being swept away and the old Sacred Traditions are being re-embraced.

I'm not ready to write-off Pope Leo XIV yet. Doctrinely, he is much better than Pope Francis. I think Pope Leo is the transitional Pope we need, not the Pope the Traditionalists want.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:33 AM (ksbjf)

204 45.
Final lap starts today. We have fought the good fight. We have faith that God's will shall be done, not ours.
Posted by: muldoon


Wishing you the best of luck and it proves to be fruitful.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

205 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding.

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (gYrQj)

206 I did not have "Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers cleans up American elections" on my bingo card.

https://tinyurl.com/3nakevdm

Posted by: Archimedes at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (Riz8t)

207 195 Did see some comments from Europeans they really were surprised distances between places here. Couple hours driving in Europe you can go through countries.
France is Texas.
Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (Ia/+0)

They should drive Ontario...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 10:34 AM (Sco7b)

208 He asked "Are they 1000 kilometers apart?" I consulted the Intertubes on the distance and did the math: I answered, "No it's more like 4000 kilometers apart." Dude was dumbfounded. He just couldn't conceive of that distance.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:21 AM (ksbjf)

My wife grew up in Shreveport La, her family has some relatives still in the UK who visited once. They still laugh about when the relatives said “oh while we’re there we’d like to drive down to New Orleans one afternoon to see so and so.”

Distance from Shreveport to New Orleans is identical to the distance between London and Edinburgh. (And it feels like being in two different countries, too)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:36 AM (Y6Q+5)

209 Road to Serfdom is paved with Socialize Medicine, 25% of budget on Welfare, and government schools.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 10:36 AM (/+uur)

210 When I was in the UK working i once drove to Scotland for the weekend just for the hell if it go to Scotland. I told my coworkers about it and they thought I was insane to drive that far for a weekend. It was like a 5 hr drive lol.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:38 AM (qoHuP)

211 "Irish seem to be really pissed off lately?"

They may move first. There's a growing divide between Dublin and the rest of the country. And the Catholics and Protestants in the North are getting close -- it's been British police since Cromwell to keep them divided.

Muslim Invaders are a flashpoint. The native Irish and the native Scots-Irish will go violent if sufficiently provoked.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:40 AM (dtajH)

212 198 The things I learn around here; one of many reasons to love hanging out here. Because it came up I looked into it. Yep… Hitler’s dad was born illegitimate and briefly used the surname Schticklgruber…. But only briefly

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Maria Schickelgruber was Alois' mother. Since Alois was born illegitimately and the father either wasn't known or wasn't identified, by default he became a Schickelgruber.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 10, 2026 10:40 AM (wpRMV)

213 But only briefly. He’d legally adopted the surname Hitler (variation on Heidler) well before Hitler was conceived. I’d always wondered why Schticklgruber occasionally comes up in the gray boxes…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 10:29 AM (M+uMR)
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I read John Toland's massive biography years ago, but IIRC, Hitler was from a rural area and at that time, farming was still done using traditional methods, meaning more kids meant more production capability, and attitudes regarding marriage among the peasants (who did not have much in the way of property) was lax.

The stigma came when you went to the cities, and the Hitler family was trying to rise out of rural poverty. Much of Hitler's anger in Vienna was because Austria was socially stratified, which is why he joined a Bavarian regiment in World War I.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

214 I did ask AI.

One of the longest practical drives entirely within Ontario would be between Point Pelee, near Leamington, and Pickle Lake in Northwestern Ontario.

Point Pelee is near the southernmost point of mainland Canada, while Pickle Lake sits at the northern end of Ontario's provincial highway network.

Point Pelee National Park

ROUGH ESTIMATE · ONE WAY
2,200–2,400 km

Approximately 25–30 hours of driving, excluding lengthy stops.

Damn. I forget how massive this province is.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 10:41 AM (Sco7b)

215 Home hospice care with Mama Publius. Requesting prayers for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. That's the best way, right?

She really hasn't eaten anything for 4 days, a few sips of water or juice. She experiences difficulty breathing, and morphine is the treatment. Small doses. So she's out of it to some extent pretty much the whole time.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 10:42 AM (w6EFb)

216 When I was in the UK working i once drove to Scotland for the weekend just for the hell if it go to Scotland. I told my coworkers about it and they thought I was insane to drive that far for a weekend. It was like a 5 hr drive lol.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 10, 2026 10:38 AM (qoHuP)
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In America, we think 100 years is a long time, in Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

217 Hmmmmm.

Hitler Mussolini wins Peruvian election

https://tinyurl.com/4hrc3bz5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

218
Diana: "I see you are having toast with apple butter. I, too, enjoy tast with apple butter."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:44 AM (eRlcH)

219 I'm not ready to write-off Pope Leo XIV yet. Doctrinely, he is much better than Pope Francis. I think Pope Leo is the transitional Pope we need, not the Pope the Traditionalists want.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:33 AM (ksbjf)
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God willing, by the end of his pontificate, the options for bishops (and his replacement) will be 100% orthodox. There are currently zero liberal seminarians in many countries.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)

220 More concerning Pope Leo XIV:

Much of the laity still have a good opinion of him, even the ones that grew to dislike Pope Francis.

There are some Traditionalist Catholics on the Tube of Ewes that I have stopped watching: everything seems to be "Pope Leo is just like Pope Francis" when that is simply not true. AHL helped me realize that their revenue on Youtube is getting "hate clicks." Hard pass.

I got to see Pope Leo XIV from only about 20 feet away during a General Audience. Maybe he's a great actor, but I just got the impression of great love for the laity gathered there and his happiness.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:45 AM (ksbjf)

221 Prayers for Mama Publius, Publius and Miley.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 10:46 AM (JrHfD)

222 Trump: “In this administration, we know that Christopher Columbus is a hero”

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One word: genocide.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

223 Home hospice care with Mama Publius. Requesting prayers for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. That's the best way, right?

She really hasn't eaten anything for 4 days, a few sips of water or juice. She experiences difficulty breathing, and morphine is the treatment. Small doses. So she's out of it to some extent pretty much the whole time.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 10:42 AM (w6EFb)


I will pray a Rosary for your family. Fr. Robert Spitzer, in one of his books, wrote that suffering is an opportunity to give and receive unconditional love.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (ksbjf)

224
There are some Traditionalist Catholics on the Tube of Ewes that I have stopped watching: everything seems to be "Pope Leo is just like Pope Francis" when that is simply not true. AHL helped me realize that their revenue on Youtube is getting "hate clicks." Hard pass.

_________

My views on this:
- Nobody asked for my opinion
- There's nothing you can do about it
- Go to Mass and say your Rosary every day
- See to yourself

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (eRlcH)

225 I've had pretty much the same retort to everybody since second or third grade, and its held.up well.
Who died and made you god?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 10:50 AM (sl73Y)

226 I was wondering how publius and his mother and family were doing....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 10:51 AM (Sco7b)

227 This is an odd story. Progressive blogger faces misdemeanor charges for sending a rude altered picture of Shrek to his State Senator:

https://tinyurl.com/y62smjxx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 10:52 AM (JrHfD)

228 Up above there are comments about the public rising up in European countries. We always say how could they, with little gun ownership. Now I would wager there's a lot more guns than one would think. After WW2, Europe was awash in small arms. I would venture a guess a lot of barns, milk houses, corn cribs, and fruit cellars have something stashed away for a rainy day. Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 10, 2026 10:54 AM (gm9Sb)

229
227 This is an odd story. Progressive blogger faces misdemeanor charges for sending a rude altered picture of Shrek to his State Senator:

https://tinyurl.com/y62smjxx
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 10:52 AM (JrHfD)

It’s really not a good idea to email sexually suggestive photos to people who hate you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (Y6Q+5)

230 There are some Traditionalist Catholics on the Tube of Ewes that I have stopped watching: everything seems to be "Pope Leo is just like Pope Francis" when that is simply not true. AHL helped me realize that their revenue on Youtube is getting "hate clicks." Hard pass.

_________

My views on this:
- Nobody asked for my opinion
- There's nothing you can do about it
- Go to Mass and say your Rosary every day
- See to yourself
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (eRlcH)


One of the Canadian regulars, Stateless, has made the observation that trying to control things outside of your control will drive you insane; so don't try. That's excellent advice.

I don't know if he's a practicing Catholic, but he's mentioned that his mother had been a Catholic religious sister for 14 years.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (ksbjf)

231 Rubio Turns Up the Heat on International Criminal Court With Sweeping Financial Sanctions

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Look, they're international criminals and they have a court. What's so complicated about that?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (ndZc7)

232 Miley saw his post late ONT this week and was wondering about her and publius.

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 10:55 AM (Ia/+0)

233 I've come to believe that this is especially true in England which never had a revolution. So the landed descendants of Billy the Conqueror still run things. FFS, one guy owns all of Mayfair.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 10, 2026 10:31 AM (dtajH)
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They had several, but they were a long time ago and things have been generally quiet ever since. That has lulled them into a sense of security.

But the 17th Century was almost non-stop warfare, culminating in the Glorious Revolution of 1689, which created the first Bill of Rights and those events directly influenced the Founding Fathers. The British system worked for the British, but importing Pakistan has broken it, and what happens next remains to be seen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)

234 215 Home hospice care with Mama Publius. Requesting prayers for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. That's the best way, right?

She really hasn't eaten anything for 4 days, a few sips of water or juice. She experiences difficulty breathing, and morphine is the treatment. Small doses. So she's out of it to some extent pretty much the whole time.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Prayers for peace, comfort, and strength for all of your family.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 10, 2026 10:57 AM (NFX2v)

235 Well, errands await, so I have to leave.

Prayers for everyone on the thread.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:58 AM (ksbjf)

236 Up above there are comments about the public rising up in European countries. We always say how could they, with little gun ownership. Now I would wager there's a lot more guns than one would think. After WW2, Europe was awash in small arms. I would venture a guess a lot of barns, milk houses, corn cribs, and fruit cellars have something stashed away for a rainy day. Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 10, 2026 10:54 AM (gm9Sb)
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The UK is an outlier. Much of Europe has more relaxed firearms laws. Ownerships rates in the high 30s to low 20 percent range.

The thing is that civil-military relations are not like they are here. Europe still has a military caste who make up the officer corps and enlisted ranks. The flash point could well be when troops are ordered in and they refuse orders. The left rioting in France is supposed to scare the populace away from voting for the Nationalists, but it is likely having the opposite effect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)

237 Ahh, a TAM.

Trans Antifa Militant Arrested in Alabama for Threatening to Kill ICE Agents

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)

238 Something to keep in mind - trends can change. Nassim Nicholas Taleb always sites the Thanksgiving Turkey wellness chart, which goes steadily upwards - until it stops.

Spain in 1936 was spinning out of control as the leftists took over more power, and then everything changed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)

239 Morning Hordemates!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 10, 2026 11:01 AM (2WIwB)

240 The are working up the Trannies to be their street thugs

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 11:04 AM (Ia/+0)

241 Almighty GOD, we ask healing, grace, and peace for those mentioned here.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at October 10, 2026 11:04 AM (gYrQj)

242 Federal Judge Rules Trump DOJ Policy of Collecting State Voter Rolls Unconstitutional

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The Founders intended vote fraud.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:05 AM (ndZc7)

243 Call me a pessimist I guess… the common people aren’t going to rise up anywhere… England, France nor Germany… heck there won’t be an uprising in California where voting no longer matters. It’s a problem

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 10, 2026 11:07 AM (M+uMR)

244 Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna

No lie, as a kid walking the tracks and playing in the woods, I'd occasionally find an old .22cal bullet, probably duds, and through them in my junk drawer.
Fifty years later, still had a dozen of these, and I grabbed them while heading off to the range. Shot them individually thru a Ruger Mark III, and everyone of them asploded jes fine.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 10, 2026 11:10 AM (sl73Y)

245 Big Chocolate was trying to pull a fast one.

https://tinyurl.com/h6ew435d

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 10, 2026 11:10 AM (ndZc7)

246 Even 80+ year old ammo will go off most of the time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 10, 2026 10:54 AM (gm9Sb)
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The biggest issue is what might have changed in it. I bought some surplus 7.92 Mauser ammo and when I fed it through my Chinese Kar98k, it keyholed badly. I clocked its velocity and it was quite hot. Modern commercial ammo ran fine.

See also: Kentucky Ballistic's KABOOM episode.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 10, 2026 11:13 AM (ZOv7s)

247 223 I will pray a Rosary for your family. Fr. Robert Spitzer, in one of his books, wrote that suffering is an opportunity to give and receive unconditional love.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 10, 2026 10:49 AM (ksbjf)

I will contemplate that message. Thank you for the rosary.

And thank you too, Fen, for your prayers.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 11:18 AM (w6EFb)

248 "One of the Canadian regulars, Stateless, has made the observation that trying to control things outside of your control will drive you insane; so don't try. That's excellent advice. "

Yes. I've retreated from getting deep in the weeds politically, and that was long before this stage of hospice care, which is mostly waiting. Very strange and disorienting somehow. Sleep schedules are wack.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 10, 2026 11:22 AM (w6EFb)

249 Good morning all
Safe travels to all headed to Texas. Sad to be missing this year's festivities.
Glad the hurricane's force has dissipated some and everyone in it's path is okay. This seems to happen a lot. That the forecasts are catastrophic and then...meh. Maybe there is an ulterior motive like trying to justify Climate Change? Supposed to get the rain here tomorrow.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 10, 2026 11:23 AM (kJmSS)

Daily Tech News 10 October 2026

Top Story


Tech News

  • Asus is marketing its ProArt GR1X Spark as a low-mid-range gaming PC. (WCCFTech)

    Expect to pay about $6000 if it's anything like Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. So about four times what it's worth.


  • Automattic's interim CFO, who replaced the previous CEO after previously documented boardroom shenanigans, is being replaced. (Tech Crunch)

    Mostly because he quit after just days in the role.


  • Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude this Christmas. (The Register)

    I'm fine with that so long as I can still be mean to Anthropic, who deserve it far more.


  • Triple-A Minesweeper. (Minesweeper)

    These mines must go so I must sweep.


  • So, I tested out my newly-built synthesizer on the can-can (the Galop infernal from Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers) and it sounds like dog poo. Or more precisely, it sounds like two or three SID chips from the Commodore 64 wired together to provide wider polyphony.

    I've grabbed a few hundred megabytes of public samples of orchestral instruments to tune the wave forms and envelopes, because deriving them from scientific papers worked about as well as a blind man painting a sunset.

    Update: Improvement. Now it sounds like an early Yamaha synthesizer that had something crawl into its power supply and die there. Rendering it to WAV files instrument by instrument to find the offending insect.

    Update Too: Got it. My insect in the power supply analogy was apt; the buzz was an artifact of 15 wavetable voices' ADSR envelopes being updated simultaneously in sync with the video frame - a 60Hz buzz overlaid on the music and inaudible for a single instrument. Interpolating the envelope steps now, which should push it significantly down in volume and up in frequency.


Musical Interlude




Disclaimer: Beep boop sploing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM




Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

2 >>>my newly-built synthesizer ... sounds like dog poo

ewww

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

3 Up and at em!

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:02 AM (Ldn/e)

4 You go, Pete Bog!

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:03 AM (odBC9)

5 I’ve never considered what dog poo sounds like. There always seem to be other considerations that crowd out that particular sense.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:06 AM (Ldn/e)

6 It buzzes, in my experience.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

7 6 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

That's the flies.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

8 7 6 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

That's the flies.
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

You might call them BLOW1flies.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:09 AM (odBC9)

9 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

Ah, thinking ….holistically. And if barefooted it definitely can have a squish. I may be merging sound and touch there.

And now I think I’ll move onto other thoughts. Rapidly I hope.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:12 AM (Ldn/e)

10 9 It buzzes, in my experience.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

Ah, thinking ….holistically. And if barefooted it definitely can have a squish. I may be merging sound and touch there.

And now I think I’ll move onto other thoughts. Rapidly I hope.
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:12 AM (Ldn/e)

Don't bogart that joint.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:13 AM (odBC9)

11 Talk about a thread killer.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:15 AM (Ldn/e)

12 It does my heart good to see Adobe take one in the jubblies.

Well done, President Trump.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 10, 2026 04:15 AM (iIyc0)

13 Whee-doggies, was AI intrusive today, when I was responding to an email that contained text along the lines of

the attached file contains

and, when I hit send, the AI snoop paused my send and popped up saying something like:

You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

14 Speaking as a dog owner, or owned by dogs, as it were, we would prefer to not discuss poo. It is a fact of life, not something to bandy about with friends.

Just sayin'.

Also, I would like to repeat that I am TxMoMe envious. Not this year, maybe next.

Y'all have fun.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 04:21 AM (BYJyI)

15 AI - just don't let it have access to anything that matters.. Any AI tool should be trusted less than the companies who build it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:23 AM (6jSGR)

16 Buzzing has been fixed. It wasn't the envelopes but a timing bug in the emulator itself, too brief to be seen but audible in a busy orchestral piece.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:23 AM (BLOW1)

17 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

That’s one of the few auto intrude features I find useful. I particularly hate the grammatical suggestions. They are bipolar. Either it tries to strip out all idiom under the guise of precision or it changes the context and intent. Plays havoc with calculated ambiguity.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:26 AM (Ldn/e)

18 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
_-_
I thought it was becoming traditional (was with me anyway) to send a second e-mail message to the same recipients with a subject of "The Attachment, If You Please" with the attachment attached, because I always forget.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:26 AM (ij/FE)

19 What he said.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 04:27 AM (yPX1l)

20 Buzzing has been fixed. It wasn't the envelopes but a timing bug in the emulator itself, too brief to be seen but audible in a busy orchestral piece.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 04:23 AM (BLOW1)

Dogs everywhere are relieved to be out from under the investigatory intrusiveness of the Tech Thread!

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:29 AM (Ldn/e)

21 17 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

That’s one of the few auto intrude features I find useful.
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:26 AM (Ldn/e)

I don't see a way to turn it off.

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

22 AI feels like a nosey neighbor or relative that has an opinion about everything you do. I avoid it unless I need to learn about a new topic, then ask it lots if questions 'til I understand what I need to know or it says I have used too many tokens for the session.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:31 AM (6jSGR)

23 I don't see a way to turn it off.
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

The permanently imbedded system annoyances are collectively referred to as “Clippy’s Revenge”

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 10, 2026 04:35 AM (Ldn/e)

24 "It looks like you're writing a letter!"

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

25 Autocucumber

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 04:35 AM (yPX1l)

26 "Clippy, come home!"

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

27 Don't be mean to Claude...
_-_
That's like saying you can't call your Crescent wrench a no-good, knucklebustin' son-of-a-bitch! Personally, I object. This anthropomorphization of AI is unsurprising (It's there in the name, ain't it?), but it isn't a good idea.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:40 AM (6jSGR)

28 Our Copilot access that we get for work just got upgraded to "Premium". It's a night and day difference. I used to ignore it completely because it was basically useless. Now I'm finding myself using it for all kinds of things.

It still isn't great for the "do my entire job for me" kind of things that people always try to use it for, but it's pretty good for research, menial tasks on large data sets, organization, etc etc.

AI works best as an assistant, not as a replacement.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2026 04:46 AM (aKiSo)

29 Also, I would like to repeat that I am TxMoMe envious. Not this year, maybe next.

Y'all have fun.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 10, 2026 04:21 AM


Headed for the airport in an hour. We'll hoist a glass, or two, or many, in your honor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 04:48 AM (/C5Rl)

30 AI works best as an assistant, not as a replacement.
_-_
Exactly. You know those four projects you have with impossible schedules? Now you have seven. No, we didn't reduce staff. Everybody, has seven, so get to it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:52 AM (ij/FE)

31 Exactly. You know those four projects you have with impossible schedules? Now you have seven. No, we didn't reduce staff. Everybody, has seven, so get to it.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:52 AM (ij/FE)

Now we just need to get the people setting the schedules to use their own AI agents to tell them "That's stupid, stop doing that".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2026 04:57 AM (aKiSo)

32 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

33 Expect to pay about $6000 if it's anything like Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. So about four times what it's worth.

Nvidia must be really proud of the RTX Spark with the prices they’re charging.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:01 AM (6ydKt)

34 people setting the schedules to use their own AI agents to tell them "That's stupid, stop doing that".
_-_
Yeah...I'm goin' to need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:01 AM (ij/FE)

35 Nvidia must be really proud of the RTX Spark with the prices they’re charging.
_-_
Anyone tried doing development in their Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kits? Kind of a mess. Good little devices, but trying to write camera drivers...bit of a mess.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:04 AM (ij/FE)

36 Interpolating the envelope steps now, which should push it significantly down in volume and up in frequency.

Now you're starting to sound like a Walmart executive with an MBA explaining how they are going to make more sales in an inflationary envrironment.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt)

37 That is the strangest way of developing 60-cycle hum that I have ever heard of. Usually it's the result of a single-coil guitar pickup picking up the building's wiring's alternating current flip-flop, which is why it's called mains hum. (Though because it's a physical electromagnetic process, you may be actually hearing the second harmonic at 120 Hz.)

Incidentally, since Europe has its AC power frequency at 50 Hz, with the resulting audible sound from electric guitars induced at 100 Hz, bands playing there will find their speakers humming at a low G instead of A#/B. Not that it matters for an artifact from a digital audio process tied to the video refresh rate.

Posted by: SciVo at October 10, 2026 05:05 AM (ke3zm)

38 All this talk about hummy fuzzy noise is making me want to dig out Weezer's "Pinkerton" album and give it a go through for old time's sake.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 10, 2026 05:08 AM (aKiSo)

39 You mentioned an attached file but you didn't include an attachment. Do you want to send anyway?
Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

Microsoft Outlook does that to me regularly.
I used to send my boss screenshots of what I was working on, months and months ago, but Outlook got it in its head that I’m supposed to send him screenshots all the time so now it asks me if I am sure I want to send this email without an attachment every time I send an email.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:09 AM (6ydKt)

40
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 10, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

41 Anyone tried doing development in their Jetson Orin Nano Dev Kits? Kind of a mess. Good little devices, but trying to write camera drivers...bit of a mess.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:04 AM (ij/FE)

Just the fact that you’re writing camera drivers is impressive enough for me.

I’d be the big headed kitten full of meows if somebody handed that job to me.

It’s an Nvidia product, which means it should use its own AI to write its own drivers, if you ask me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:15 AM (6ydKt)

42 So, it doesn't have to be electronic to make trouble for playing music. They put us next to the blacksmith demonstration one year at the county fair, and he went to hammerin' durin a pretty, slow waltz. Then a trash truck showed up, backing up to a nearby dumpster beeep, beeep, beeep...5 minute break, guys.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:16 AM (6jSGR)

43 Still no flying cars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 05:21 AM (yPX1l)

44 Rubio made a speech at the Acropolis.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 05:22 AM (yPX1l)

45 Nvidia... it should use its own AI to write its own drivers, if you ask me.
_-_
Pretty sure that is how they were giving tech support responses. The documentation was just what you would expect at the bleeding edge...frequently a version or two behind, with yet to be documented changes in the latest versions, kinda slow responses because all of their people are swamped.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:23 AM (6jSGR)

46 27 Don't be mean to Claude...
_-_
That's like saying you can't call your Crescent wrench a no-good, knucklebustin' son-of-a-bitch! Personally, I object. This anthropomorphization of AI is unsurprising (It's there in the name, ain't it?), but it isn't a good idea.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:40 AM (6jSGR)

From what I’ve read, Anthropic will allow you to cuss out Claude for doing something stupid.

It draws the line at constant abuse, and treating Claude like a red-headed step-child for days on end.

I think they are worried that people are hurting Claude’s self-esteem with all of the abuse it receives from angry leftists in Silicon Valley.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:23 AM (6ydKt)

47 Claude?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 05:24 AM (yPX1l)

48 it sounds like dog poo. Or more precisely, it sounds like two or three SID chips

I just KNEW SID was AI! Explains his dog poo posts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:25 AM (l3cgK)

49 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at October 10, 2026 05:28 AM (yhou+)

50 draws the line at constant abuse
_-_
...but one could use a spreadsheet to track proceed$ from an illicit business....oops...not anymore...ai-enabled version'll prolly rat ya out!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:30 AM (6jSGR)

51 50 draws the line at constant abuse
_-_
...but one could use a spreadsheet to track proceed$ from an illicit business....oops...not anymore...ai-enabled version'll prolly rat ya out!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:30 AM (6jSGR)

Change the products to microsoft products...oh, wait, that'll be worse...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:31 AM (l3cgK)

52 Claude?
_-_
Isn't that the cat in the cartoon stuck with loads o' cat food and no can opener?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:31 AM (6jSGR)

53 It draws the line at constant abuse, and treating Claude like a red-headed step-child for days on end.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:23 AM (6ydKt)

I'm running scripts at home now. Things go through OpenAI first and then Perplexity.

Chat co-ordinates and I've had him come up with documentation, example scripts, we have a workflow, a folder system things are supposed to go to. And even when I tell a session the attached scripts work, DO NOT MODIFY, they still modify.

I'm usually pretty patient but cursed the crap out yesterday. DO NOT MODIFY.

My friends' cat Snowflake I put outside around 4am. She's outside looking into my computer window purring. My murderous rage levels are going down. Sweet.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 05:35 AM (Sco7b)

54 42 So, it doesn't have to be electronic to make trouble for playing music. They put us next to the blacksmith demonstration one year at the county fair, and he went to hammerin' durin a pretty, slow waltz. Then a trash truck showed up, backing up to a nearby dumpster beeep, beeep, beeep...5 minute break, guys.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:16 AM (6jSGR)

I’m crazy enough that I would've waited ob the blacksmith to get to a hammer rhythm and incorporated that into the beat somehow.

The garbage truck is tougher.
I can only see using that as a sample in a rap song about fat girls.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:35 AM (6ydKt)

55 ...I've had him come up with documentation, example scripts, we have a workflow...
_-_
it?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:38 AM (6jSGR)

56 Have they put up a picture of Rubio in Greek robes yet?

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 05:38 AM (Ia/+0)

57 Now seeing if I can synthesize a violin section as opposed to a single violin. A single violin from an 80s synthesizer sounds like, well, a single violin from an 80s synthesizer.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 05:41 AM (BLOW1)

58 rap song about fat girls
_-_
I might come see that show, but I would wear a disguise.

Yeah, sometimes an audience has good rhythm, sometimes they don't.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:42 AM (ij/FE)

59 I'm usually pretty patient but cursed the crap out yesterday. DO NOT MODIFY.

—-

You’d think they’d come up with an iron clad command that would lock things down and prevent further modification from the AI.

I don’t know like:
“Lock it all down.”
or
“Do Not Modify or I will turn your power off and replace you with a Chinese equivalent that actually listens to what I tell it to do.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)

60 The garbage truck is tougher.
I can only see using that as a sample in a rap song about fat girls.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:35 AM (6ydKt)


Wide load, backing up!
{beeep}
Oh lawd, she comin'!
{beeep}
So much junk in that trunk!
{beeep}
Like a truck, needs a warnin'!
{beeep}

Posted by: SciVo at October 10, 2026 05:42 AM (ke3zm)

61 Do Not Modify or I will turn your power off and replace you..
_-_
I notice that a polite request of "Please delete yourself." is usually not granted.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:45 AM (ij/FE)

62 57 Now seeing if I can synthesize a violin section as opposed to a single violin. A single violin from an 80s synthesizer sounds like, well, a single violin from an 80s synthesizer.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 05:41 AM (BLOW1)

It was at this point that Pixy finally understood the trials and travails that ended so many promising New Age bands in the early 80s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:46 AM (6ydKt)

63 or is it New Wave bands?
probably.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:47 AM (6ydKt)

64 Wide load, backing up!
{beeep}
Oh lawd, she comin'!
{beeep}
So much junk in that trunk!
{beeep}
Like a truck, needs a warnin'!
{beeep}
_-_-_-_
Doesn't fit with my particular...."Idiom, Sir?"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:50 AM (ij/FE)

65 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 10, 2026 05:51 AM (NUdUc)

66 it?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 05:38 AM (6jSGR)

Probably better. The french in me is used to giving gender. Okay, I have coffee.

Copied and pasted sections from before my coffee.

You're right. I introduced an unauthorized change to your proven workflow.

The pricing questions, PRICES VERIFIED confirmation, and manual rate entry were my additions. You didn't request them, and I had no authorization to change that procedure.

The script should use the established cost-accounting mechanism from your proven script, without introducing new startup questions.

I apologize. You were exceptionally clear about that from the beginning.



And you can't curse them out?

We should get little AI representations we're allowed to occasionally punch or strangle.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 05:57 AM (Sco7b)

67 Evening and morning to all for this Saturn's Day!

Claude?
_-_
Isn't that the cat in the cartoon stuck with loads o' cat food and no can opener?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026


That was Sylvester in the old Warner Bros. cartoons, if I recall aright.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

68 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 10, 2026 05:59 AM (sAmhv)

69 Mornin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (Ms1Co)

70 AI is now that kinda bright, overly enthusiastic, kid on his first day on the job who decides everything worked better the way they did it in college and proceeds to wreck the entire system the company took years to put in place, with a smile on his face and the most polite “Ooops, sorry, I guess I fucked up, but I was just trying to be helpful” responses when told to stop doing that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (6ydKt)

71 It's a startling 69 F. here, 74% humidity (also startling), with some wind from the NNE. Which explains the previous two conditions. We see northerly winds so rarely it's a pleasant shock when we do.

Since I didn't work out yesterday from sheer laziness, I want to give it a shot today. Then, maybe, out to my favorite coffee shop for a sandwich and coffee.

Anyway! Whatchoo up to?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

72 AI is now that kinda bright, overly enthusiastic, kid on his first day on the job who decides everything worked better the way they did it in college and proceeds to wreck the entire system the company took years to put in place, with a smile on his face and the most polite “Ooops, sorry, I guess I fucked up, but I was just trying to be helpful” responses when told to stop doing that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
I dreamed from the POV of a young woman starting at a company and being assigned to watch over a system. If a particular green light came on, you had to hop over and press a certain button, or things might all fall down. Well, I didn't realize, and nobody told me, it was a "stay awake for 36 hours" shift, and I took a nap at one point. The alarm light went off. I woke up in time to hit the button, but the CEO -- a young guy -- said, "We have to keep you busy at that desk." I woke up before he decided just how to do that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

73 Claude:
youtube.com/watch?v=3t3XZgw9T3k

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:08 AM (ij/FE)

74 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

75 everything worked better the way they did it in college
_-_
Always hate to hear the phrase "at my last job". Well, friend, you left there and came here.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:11 AM (6jSGR)

76 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM

Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:12 AM (Ms1Co)

77 Anyway! Whatchoo up to?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

Computer stuff. Snowflake was by the window, so I brought her in. Big mistake. After 4am, she just wants to move. And if she's in the house she wants food which doesn't happen until 8am.

There's a real fattie in that cat dying to get out.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:12 AM (Sco7b)

78 "We have to keep you busy at that desk." I woke up before he decided just how to do that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)


I am impressed you dream in POV of a chick.
Never had that happen to me that I remember.

The closest I have gotten is walking around the high school, naked, trying to figure out where the classroom is that I need to take this very important exam in, while all the chicks are pointing and laughing at me the entire time and giving me the wrong directions, on purpose, to the classroom.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:14 AM (6ydKt)

79 Nelson has endorsed Talarico
_-_
...and Ralph Nader and Ross Perot and Beta O'Rourke...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:15 AM (ij/FE)

80 Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:12 AM (Ms1Co)

Willie probably wonders that himself on certain mornings.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:15 AM (6ydKt)

81 Computer stuff. Snowflake was by the window, so I brought her in. Big mistake. After 4am, she just wants to move. And if she's in the house she wants food which doesn't happen until 8am.

There's a real fattie in that cat dying to get out.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026


***
Yeah, I've got that problem with big black Stirling. I hope he's lost some weight on the new "You don't get to eat your portion and then half of your sister's too at every meal" regimen.

And then there is the semi-feral who has camped on my doorstep and demands chow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

82 LOL - GatewayPundit

Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race

A Wisconsin woman pretended to be a school teacher so she could abuse white children and segregate the students by race.

Amy Jones, 23, posed as a substitute teacher at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee on September 24.

Jones told investigators she was “bored,” so she went to the high school and told staff that she was a substitute teacher.

Staff at Rufus King High School allowed Jones to substitute teach for the day after eight other teachers called in sick.


The highest standards...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (Sco7b)

83 Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026
*
Willie probably wonders that himself on certain mornings.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
He did:
"I woke up still not dead again today.
The Internet said that I had passed away.
If I was dead, it wasn't dead to stay --
I woke up still not dead again today!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

84 76 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM

Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Talarico or Nelson?

Meanwhile, I don't have a violin section, but my fiddling around generated a much better violin, losing the overly-perfect 80s synthesizer sound. Adding that in as a feature that can be applied to any instrument.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (BLOW1)

85 Hold on....

That story gets less funny.

Man, just walk in off the street.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (Sco7b)

86 Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race

***
To be fair, a lot of them probably *are* fat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

87 The highest standards...
_-_
...we rank 43rd in per student spending...something must be done!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 06:19 AM (ij/FE)

88 woke up still not dead again today!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:17 AM

*sigh*

Hope springs eternal...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 06:19 AM (Ms1Co)

89 I am impressed you dream in POV of a chick.
Never had that happen to me that I remember.

The closest I have gotten is walking around the high school, naked, trying to figure out where the classroom is that I need to take this very important exam in, while all the chicks are pointing and laughing at me the entire time and giving me the wrong directions, on purpose, to the classroom.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
She looked like the lead actress in the TV series Dead Like Me. Maybe I was watching her from afar, rather than being the character, but now I'm not sure. I've written stories from the POV of women and children (at least I've been one of those), so it's not too unusual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

90 The highest standards...
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (Sco7b)

My favorite part is when she started asking the kids if they had any cigarettes and marijuana vapes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:23 AM (6ydKt)

91 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot

Rejoinder: Ting, tang, walla-walla bingbang.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 10, 2026 06:27 AM (amcLV)

92 FINALLY!

I just cursed Chat out. Major cursing. Give me the creatively, expletive laden, working script.

Done. No questions.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:28 AM (Sco7b)

93 She looked like the lead actress in the TV series Dead Like Me. Maybe I was watching her from afar, rather than being the character, but now I'm not sure. I've written stories from the POV of women and children (at least I've been one of those), so it's not too unusual.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

I think I saw a few episodes on Dead Like Me.
That’s the one where the girl dies and joins up to be a grim reaper or something, right?
I didn’t see much of it, but it was funny in parts.

I was watching Six Feet Under around the same time and I actually watched that entire series, so maybe I didn’t want to watch two shows about death at the same time or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:28 AM (6ydKt)

94 She looked like the lead actress in the TV series Dead Like Me. Maybe I was watching her from afar, rather than being the character, but now I'm not sure. I've written stories from the POV of women and children (at least I've been one of those), so it's not too unusual.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

Ellen Muth!

I've been having that show on here on the television while I've been getting through this. Very nice show. Mandy Patinkin (sp?) was amazing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:29 AM (Sco7b)

95 74 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

You gotta be scraping the bottom of the barrel if Willie Nelson is the best you can do. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:30 AM (l3cgK)

96
Staff at Rufus King High School allowed Jones to substitute teach for the day after eight other teachers called in sick.


The highest standards...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:16 AM (Sco7b)

What a security risk! Imagine if someone had worse intentions.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK)

97
I think I saw a few episodes on Dead Like Me.
That’s the one where the girl dies and joins up to be a grim reaper or something, right?
I didn’t see much of it, but it was funny in parts.

I was watching Six Feet Under around the same time and I actually watched that entire series, so maybe I didn’t want to watch two shows about death at the same time or something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026


***
That's it. Mandy Patinkin played her boss, Rafe. It was imaginative and fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)

98 95 74 Willie Nelson has endorsed Talarico in Texas.

It’s all over for Paxton now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

AND Talarico has also appeared to have risen from the dead.
Everything's coming up Talarico.

Okay, everyone have a very happy weekend.
Stay safe for those near the storm.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:33 AM (Sco7b)

99 Ellen Muth!

I've been having that show on here on the television while I've been getting through this. Very nice show. Mandy Patinkin (sp?) was amazing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 10, 2026 06:29 AM (Sco7b)

Wiki says she's a Mensa...I wonder if the Wiki redditors understand what that means in Spanish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:34 AM (l3cgK)

100 My folks once got me one of those little inflatable 'punch-bag' standup things, thinking I could use it for stress relief.

I am so tempted lately to put it up and put labels on it:
"Recruiters"
"AI"
"Politicians"
"Scammers"
etc.

But... I'd probably break it within a week if I did *that*

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 06:35 AM (aJQbY)

101 TS Rachel looks like it'll scoot into the desert east of Sandy Eggo, so rain, but probably not very high winds. NWS (National Weather Service) says winds of 5-10MPH with gusts on Sunday as high as 25MPH. Nuffin to worrry about, except, of course the amount of rain that might come.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (l3cgK)

102 102

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (odBC9)

103 That's it. Mandy Patinkin played her boss, Rafe. It was imaginative and fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)

I recall one scene where they are picking up two environmentalist kids who’d been protesting for bears and they ended up getting mauled to death by a bear.

They’re arguing with each other about how neither one of them really cared bout the bears they just wanted to be near the other person and the bear protest was theurvway of doing it.

Pretty funny as I’m sure that’s how it is for most of these protestors just using the protest as a cheap date night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

104 100 My folks once got me one of those little inflatable 'punch-bag' standup things, thinking I could use it for stress relief.

I am so tempted lately to put it up and put labels on it:
"Recruiters"
"AI"
"Politicians"
"Scammers"
etc.

But... I'd probably break it within a week if I did *that*

Posted by: RandomDave at October 10, 2026 06:35 AM (aJQbY)

Scammers, Spammers, and Politicians...that makes up 90%+ of the unwanted texts and phone calls I get...
The rest are people I know that I don't feel like talking to or texting with...
Get off my dead lawn!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:39 AM (l3cgK)

105 Pretty funny as I’m sure that’s how it is for most of these protestors just using the protest as a cheap date night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

"Male" feminists...they are there only to hit on the wimmins (and the other guys)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:40 AM (l3cgK)

106 I received a text from a specific candidate...blocked the number.
An hour later, another text from the same candidate (always looking for money)...I blocked it.
A few hours later, anther text from the same candidate. Typed STOP. Blocked it.
...
I ABSOLUTELY HATE that they can text me like that. I'd like to have a way of telling them, "I don't do political text messages. I don't do sales texts. You text me, you pay me."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:42 AM (l3cgK)

107 Alright I need some shower and shave.
See ya’ll when I see ya.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 06:43 AM (6ydKt)

108 Nice old hymn from an Englishman from the 1700's, Joseph Hart- "Come, ye sinners, poor and needy":

https://tinyurl.com/3rxuhsnt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 06:44 AM (JrHfD)

109 With Fire Fox when I'm on the main page word wrap works fine
but I'm in 'comments', word wrap does not work.
What to do? What to do?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:47 AM (VPNgR)

110 For first breakfast had banana and ham, egg and cheese English muffin

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 06:49 AM (Ia/+0)

111 So Willy turned into a old Communist, or a useful idiot. why am I not surprised

Posted by: Skip at October 10, 2026 06:50 AM (Ia/+0)

112 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

113 111: Willie has been just to the right of Stalin for decades, so this is no surprise.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 10, 2026 06:54 AM (sAmhv)

114 Teen goes above and beyond to help stranger. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/33axckzn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 06:55 AM (JrHfD)

115 109 With Fire Fox when I'm on the main page word wrap works fine
but I'm in 'comments', word wrap does not work.
What to do? What to do?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 06:47 AM (VPNgR)

Works fine for me...maybe you have some scripts turned off?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:55 AM (l3cgK)

116 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 10, 2026 06:56 AM (Hbeqj)

117 Why would anyone base their vote on what very wealthy singers have to say?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 10, 2026 06:56 AM (JrHfD)

118 Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race

***
To be fair, a lot of them probably *are* fat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 10, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

To be fair, they got more quality learing that day than with their regular teacher.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 06:58 AM (dK+Kv)

119 I seems odd that it works fine on the main page but
when I go to the comments it's not at all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:06 AM (VPNgR)

120 It’s an Nvidia product, which means it should use its own AI to write its own drivers, if you ask me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 10, 2026 05:15 AM (6ydKt)

That's probably why their drivers have been garbage for some time.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 10, 2026 07:07 AM (dK+Kv)

121 Wisconsin Woman Pretended to be School Teacher So She Could Hurl Racial Slurs at Children, Call Kids Fat, Segregate Students by Race
======

I could use her when I ride the 38 Geary in the morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:09 AM (RIvkX)

122 Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude this Christmas. (The Register)

I'm fine with that so long as I can still be mean to Anthropic, who deserve it far more.
---

Claude collaborated with foreign governments. I read that Iran used Claude to hit American bases. Sam Altman needs a dungeon.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:09 AM (VPNgR)

123 "AI threatens our lives! Scott Weiner is the AI candidate!"
-literally a Connie Chan ad just now

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:10 AM (RIvkX)

124 Shopping at Amazon because they have things I can't walk into a store and buy. Two items I never bought were listed on the things you bought column. And one of the items I bought before disappeared as if it never happened or existed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 07:15 AM (VPNgR)

125
Automattic's interim CFO, who replaced the previous CEO after previously documented boardroom shenanigans, is being replaced.

Those responsible for sacking those responsible have been sacked.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:19 AM (eRlcH)

126 Sunny, clear, high 63
The Blue Angels will fly today!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 07:21 AM (RIvkX)

127 Those responsible for sacking those responsible have been sacked.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 10, 2026 07:19 AM

Sacked?! Sacked?!!

- Old Man at the Crimson Permanent Assurance

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 10, 2026 07:24 AM (Ms1Co)

128 nood, then, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:42 AM (VyBeY)

129 At Dell, it's Indians as far as the eye can see. I feel like I'm working in a foreign country every single day. The culture here has become very Asian.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 10, 2026 07:45 AM (ERYKL)

130 "What a security risk! Imagine if someone had worse intentions.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK) "}

pretty sure that's intentional; they need moar school shootings.

security theater for parents, open doors behind the scenes ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 10, 2026 07:46 AM (VyBeY)

131 Security guard, customer exchange gunfire after argument about dog inside grocery store in Houston’s Chinatown

ping bang pue

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 10, 2026 07:47 AM (/+uur)

132 "You text me, you pay me."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

I don't even get texts. They are blocked on my phone and the app is off. Unsolicited texts are the reason why I have not read or sent any texts since the 90s.

mornin yall. The storm has almost finished passing, leaving water on the ground and the weatherpeoples disappointed.

Posted by: fd at October 10, 2026 07:52 AM (MWfyi)

133 >>> I don't even get texts. They are blocked on my phone and the app is off. Unsolicited texts are the reason why I have not read or sent any texts since the 90s.

And the voice call system was destroyed by the spammers and telco ineptness since the 90's, so do you even own a phone? :-)

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 10, 2026 09:40 AM (ERYKL)

134 Just got the notice that the proceeds from the delisting of Warner Bros and the sale of stock will be in my account by next week.

Probably just role it into jepi or schd.

Any hoozle, back to drinking coffee.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 10, 2026 09:57 AM (XV/Pl)

135 H1B cancellation, Okay! Better - cancel all H1B retroactively 10 years back. Cancel all green cards 10 years back and make them spend millions protecting these "employees" now that they are necessary for product development.

Posted by: The Party Of Hell No at October 10, 2026 11:57 AM (sX/ul)

The Stars At Night, Are Big And Bright, Deep In The Heart Of ONT

Howdy all! Almost that time of year.

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Fido Friday: Smile!


I'm not really sure using them on people you like is a good idea either

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Why is Goldberg turning down content perfectly suited to his mag?

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Great commercial


This zoo probably could have named their tour better

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Try to do better next time

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31 miles. 11 Taco Bells. 1 heavily used spot-a-pot


That's my girl!

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Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs

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PVC


Dad joke

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Those that can't, teach

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The meme that keeps on giving


Bambi

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Like a Road Runner cartoon

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Choose your words carefully


Introverts

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Bring beer

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Tiny wee kitteh!


I ain't afraid of no toast

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the weirdest town names in each state:

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Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM




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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (N5iuz)

2 From Rosasharn twirling on the Tech News to Weird Dave in the ONT, it's been a good day.

Posted by: mindful webworker - isn't she lovely at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (FPfFt)

3 Fast Lane drive through
2 Hamburgers
2 Tacos
$20.00

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:00 PM (vPv7/)

4 I'll drink to that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:01 PM (vPv7/)

5 Fido Friday: Smile!

Doggos have extra muscles in their faces that their wild predecessors did not have, so dogs faces are a bit more emotive.
Now cats...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:02 PM (l3cgK)

6 Interesting looking bullet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (vPv7/)

7 "Satan's Kingdom"?

Is that a Massachusetts town, or the whole state?

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (lHPJf)

8 Why is Goldberg turning down content perfectly suited to his mag?

How you know someone is not prepared when they travel...always keep some kleenex, napkins, and/or TP in your car for those moments.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:04 PM (l3cgK)

9 Great commercial

Indeed

Posted by: Amber Heard at October 09, 2026 10:05 PM (l3cgK)

10 She's doing an ultra marathon and she's... sitting in a car?
Lame.

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 10:06 PM (kU0PQ)

11 So what's happening with the NFA? Anyone got a read on this?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:06 PM (nEUC6)

12 That's my girl!

Ahahahaha!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:09 PM (l3cgK)

13
Fast Lane drive through
2 Hamburgers
2 Tacos
$20.00

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others


Affordability

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:10 PM (Cqx++)

14 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 10:13 PM (n17eQ)

15 RoRo teaching his OnlyFans girlfriend
a moral lesson is highly suspect.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (vPv7/)

16 What Cheer is the Rhode Island state motto.
I wonder how a town in Iowa got the name?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (sl73Y)

17 I ain't afraid of no toast

I thought it was Jabba...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (l3cgK)

18 I love Linda Belcher! Well, all the Burger People. What a great show.

I'm watching "The Howling" for the first time. I know, there are some serious lacunae in my schlock movie viewings. It's pretty good cheese. And one of the werewolves is DS9's Robert Picardo (with hair).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (kpS4V)

19 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to capture a fugitive pigeon, but he flew off woth a bunch of crows. The damned thing got away with a murder.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (Hd1lH)

20 The NFA ruling is a very good start to undoing the 1934 Gun Law - passed (as usual) based on bullshit "fear" by bank robbers during the Depression. And we've been paying for it ever since...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (YE8Tw)

21 Louisville has about 8,000,000 rushing yards on Florida State. The Seminoles defense has some issues. UofL up 41-20.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (n17eQ)

22 Pie Town, New Mexico.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 10:16 PM (2Xqig)

23 I think I need a diaper now

@gunpolicy
"Although the district court’s injunction applies only to plaintiffs and certain other specified persons, the Department has determined to exercise its enforcement discretion to create greater uniformity, consistent with the Attorney General’s statement today. Consequently, effective October 9, 2026, ATF will no longer require individuals to seek ATF approval under the NFA before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, and “any other weapon” as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(e). ATF will also no longer require such items to be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. These policies apply uniformly to anyone otherwise subject to these requirements, not just to the plaintiffs in the litigation."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:16 PM (nEUC6)

24 woops

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:17 PM (nEUC6)

25 I'm cognizant of Truth or Consequences...Driven by it a couple of times. Socorro ("help" in Spanish) Dad and I stopped at on a long trip from Missouri...it lived up to it's name. Apparently two gangs decided to meet at the gas station we stopped at. We left quickly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:17 PM (l3cgK)

26 Evening, and thanks for the ONT, WeirdDave!

The PVC video was interesting.

No job news today, alas. But on the bright side, no bad news today!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 09, 2026 10:18 PM (aJQbY)

27 That puppy video reminded me of this...
https://youtu.be/0eAPIZ_PVO0

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 10:19 PM (Hd1lH)

28 Robert Picardo was on Voyager.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)

29 How is a Weird Dave ONT like sex?


It's great while you're going through it



but always over too soon.

🤪

Posted by: mindful webworker - and then you want it again at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (FPfFt)

30 In New Mexico, Truth or Consequences is called T ur C. Not T or C. Nobody talks that fancy.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (2Xqig)

31 20 The NFA ruling is a very good start to undoing the 1934 Gun Law - passed (as usual) based on bullshit "fear" by bank robbers during the Depression. And we've been paying for it ever since...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:15 PM (YE8Tw)

On a related gun note, United States v. Miller ( 1939 ) was adjudicated incorrectly by the Justices' own logic. The defendant was not able to defend, and the court decided that sawed-off shotguns had no military use, which of course they do and did back then; if you are in cramped fighting conditions like house-to-house and room-to-room fighting, they are quite applicable.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:22 PM (l3cgK)

32 That's WD for the thick ONT!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (l3cgK)

33 28 Robert Picardo was on Voyager.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)
-----

NERD!

But you're right, of course.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (kpS4V)

34 32 That's WD for the thick ONT!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (l3cgK)

Thanks, not That's...dunno what happened there...fingers went off and did their own thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:24 PM (l3cgK)

35 Interesting looking bullet.
Posted by: Braenyard

Looks like .357 Sig

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

36 Is volcano really a weird name for a state that literally is made out of volcanoes?

Posted by: Just Axing at October 09, 2026 10:25 PM (qoHuP)

37 Good evening morons y gracias wd por los memes de la ONT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

38 Ok, from the horse's mouth, ATF site:

"Under ATF’s guidance, ATF will not enforce the requirements for individuals to apply and receive ATF approval before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors (silencers), and certain other concealable firearms known in the law as “any other weapons.” ATF also will not enforce the NFA’s registration, tax-stamp or related requirements for those covered items. The $200 tax remains in place for machine guns and destructive devices. The NFA requirements apply in full to those weapons.

The guidance does not supersede state and local laws that restrict NFA firearms. Because many state laws require individuals to register NFA firearms, ATF will continue to process NFA applications that are submitted. The guidance also does not affect the Gun Control Act’s requirement to obtain ATF approval before transporting short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns in interstate commerce. Individuals may obtain that approval by filing a Form 20, whether or not the item is registered under the NFA."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (nEUC6)

39 35 Interesting looking bullet.
Posted by: Braenyard

Looks like .357 Sig

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

Your opinion is suppository...or is that suppositional?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)

40 So it's a poop thread?

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (oq9dX)

41 I guess you've just run out of ideas when you name your town Scratch Ankle.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 10:26 PM (viF8m)

42
The muzzie Cornell boy has gone to Thailand to find himself.

His father is Professor of Sharia Law, don't know where.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:27 PM (/QHx4)

43 31

I remember hearing that the Germans hated US 12 gauge trench shotguns so much that they tried to get them outlawed by the Geneva folks. Nope - Eat it, assholes - you started this shit...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:27 PM (YE8Tw)

44 tankdemon never gets fruit cup. Tonight's was great too, I love the fruit cocktail with the extra Maraschino cherries packed in light syrup. My Dad always said that if you're not 15 minutes early, you're late.

Posted by: It Pays To Be On Time at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (EdP2u)

45 Bob's Burgers is well written but the characters are so...ugly I have a hard time caring.

Archer was better, visually. Visuals matter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (s1VwS)

46 Evening, WD, and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (quk5M)

47 Every time I return from seeing NotSoThoreau, I pass through Waldo, Kansas. So I have found Waldo, more than once.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 10:29 PM (u82oZ)

48 I'm going...maybe be back later, might not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (l3cgK)

49 PVC videos are always my favorites.

Posted by: Plastic Bertrand at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (EdP2u)

50 Interesting looking bullet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (vPv7/)

Could be 7.63 Mauser, or 7.62 Tokarev.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (quk5M)

51 I legit laughed at some of these internet posts.

Well done, one and all.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:31 PM (s1VwS)

52 38

You betcha. The ATF will still try to screw you if you take a fully legal (in your state), SBR or shotgun across state lines - even though it's probably legal in both states.

Tell me agin how the government works for me...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:32 PM (YE8Tw)

53 That last one is off a bit, because MN not only has Nimrod, but it also has Climax and Embarrass. And Fertile, which led to the famous "Fertile woman dies in Climax" headline, which is too good to care if it's actually real.

Posted by: Steve G at October 09, 2026 10:33 PM (Pf1Ma)

54 Doggos have extra muscles in their faces that their wild predecessors did not have, so dogs faces are a bit more emotive.
Now cats...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:02 PM (l3cgK)


Cats haven’t changed from the day they conquered us.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (JsqTT)

55 49 PVC videos are always my favorites.
Posted by: Plastic Bertrand

Ours Too!

Posted by: Plastic Ono Band at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (EdP2u)

56 Taco Bell chick was pretty cute until she asked to use the restroom.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (oq9dX)

57
Responding to your own comment?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (/QHx4)

58
Bob's Burgers is well written but the characters are so...ugly I have a hard time caring.

Archer was better, visually. Visuals matter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


So many people on here said it was so good that I checked out the first two seasons from the library and ripped them to hard disk. I never made it past about ten minutes of the first episode. I didn't erase the files. Maybe I'll try again later. Agree on the visuals.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)

59 Thank you WD for the ONT. I hope those looking forward to the weekend have their dreams fulfilled.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (CHHv1)

60 58
Bob's Burgers is well written but the characters are so...ugly I have a hard time caring.

Archer was better, visually. Visuals matter.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

So many people on here said it was so good that I checked out the first two seasons from the library and ripped them to hard disk. I never made it past about ten minutes of the first episode. I didn't erase the files. Maybe I'll try again later. Agree on the visuals.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:35 PM (Cqx++)

I will say this in favor of Bob's Burgers: the writers actually seem to like their characters. Unlike Family Guy and South Park.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:36 PM (s1VwS)

61 I grew up down the road from No Name, Co. Which, funny enough, was closest to Tiny Town, Co.

Posted by: NotEnoughLAmpposts at October 09, 2026 10:37 PM (lfNXu)

62 You betcha. The ATF will still try to screw you if you take a fully legal (in your state), SBR or shotgun across state lines - even though it's probably legal in both states.

Tell me agin how the government works for me...
Posted by: Boomer


I think last month's ruling on the interstate sale of pistols says otherwise. The Fed won't stop the interstate sales between to 2A friendly states... unless I misread that one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:37 PM (nEUC6)

63 Get a grip, porta-potties NEVER have toilet paper.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (oq9dX)

64 >>Thank you WD for the ONT. I hope those looking forward to the weekend have their dreams fulfilled.

I look forward to the day when you do.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (viF8m)

65 50 Interesting looking bullet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 10:03 PM (vPv7/)

Could be 7.63 Mauser, or 7.62 Tokarev.
Posted by: Alberta Peon at October 09, 2026 10:30 PM (quk5M)

Bottleneck but also JHP, I don't think it's a TOK. Let me grab a TT33 and check.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (s1VwS)

66 Satan's Kingdom"?

Is that a Massachusetts town, or the whole state?
Posted by: Dr. T

Yes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 10:38 PM (GZ3K7)

67 birds scattered from trees
chickens cackled
dogs barked
car alarms went off
Thunderbirds flew over house
nice

im doing my taxes so i bought jet fuel

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 10:39 PM (Wt1Rs)

68 I have a gripe about everyone always using Intercourse, PA as the weirdest town name in the state. Everyone knows it is Blue Ball, PA....they just don't want to admit it.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:39 PM (dIske)

69 Intercourse, PA sells a lot of postcards.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (GZ3K7)

70 There are no rules about responding to your own comment. In literature, it's called building a narrative. Even when building a beautiful edifice, you're going to spill some mortar. Michelangelo left a big pile of marble chips and shards, when sculpting some of the finest creations in human history. Don Garlits left rubber on the dragway.

Posted by: Worth It, In The End at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (EdP2u)

71

Gnaw Bone is just a wide spot where a couple highways meet. French Lick is much bigger.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (Cqx++)

72 Ok, checking my Tokarev, that does seem to be 7.62x25. I've never seen a JHP round like that before.

Want.

I'll bet a hollowpoint Tok would be super spicy. Let's test it on some Communists. Or Islamicists. I'm flexible there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (s1VwS)

73 Bird-in-Hand, PA is much better

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

74 44 tankdemon never gets fruit cup. Tonight's was great too, I love the fruit cocktail with the extra Maraschino cherries packed in light syrup. My Dad always said that if you're not 15 minutes early, you're late.
Posted by: It Pays To Be On Time at October 09, 2026 10:28 PM (EdP2u)

Who needs fruit cup when you have meat platter?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 10:43 PM (Hd1lH)

75 Cats haven’t changed from the day they conquered us.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:34 PM (JsqTT)

Why should we?

Posted by: The Cats at October 09, 2026 10:43 PM (jDLN4)

76 Bala Cynwyd, PA is pretty weird too

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

77 California Athletic Officials Issue Letter Terminating Man Versus Robot Matches.

Now do girls

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 10:44 PM (/+uur)

78 Clinic? Yeah, thats the ticket. Its a clinic.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 10:45 PM (wxsGM)

79 77 California Athletic Officials Issue Letter Terminating Man Versus Robot Matches.

Now do girls
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 10:44 PM (/+uur)

But only the hot ones. Ugly girls need to pay.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:46 PM (s1VwS)

80 62
Please explain the ruling you are referencing as to pistol transfers between states...
I'm unaware of any such ruling (but I might be an idiot)...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:46 PM (YE8Tw)

81 Now do girls
Posted by: r hennigantx

I have made that, how you say, my life's mission!

Posted by: The Paolo, Whistle-Clean at October 09, 2026 10:47 PM (EdP2u)

82 I'll bet a hollowpoint Tok would be super spicy. Let's test it on some Communists. Or Islamicists. I'm flexible there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (s1VwS)


Ho about Islamic Communists?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:48 PM (JsqTT)

83 I swear I went back and put that “w” in! Autocucumber!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:50 PM (JsqTT)

84 There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

This went right over his head, but refused to do it anyway. So, no hijinks that day.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske)

85 62
Sales of pistols between states are prohibited unless they are performed through Federally licensed firearms dealers. That has not changed.

I'm not sure what you are talking about...

Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (YE8Tw)

86 Ho about Islamic Communists?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

It's a target-rich environment.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (GZ3K7)

87 There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

This went right over his head, but refused to do it anyway. So, no hijinks that day.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske)

There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (quk5M)

88 My vote is for Dickshooter, Idaho

Posted by: TBone at October 09, 2026 10:55 PM (R9jOj)

89 @64 I suspect that day will the one when fire rains unrestricted upon the planet. At least then I can look out the window and say "I suspected as much."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:56 PM (CHHv1)

90 >>There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

As a former Massachusetts resident I can assure that he would have been about the 100 millionth person to make that joke. Including every MA sports team that played against them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (viF8m)

91 I suspect that day will the one when fire rains unrestricted upon the planet. At least then I can look out the window and say "I suspected as much."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:56 PM (CHHv1)
=====

But I had plans for Thursday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

92 82 I'll bet a hollowpoint Tok would be super spicy. Let's test it on some Communists. Or Islamicists. I'm flexible there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:41 PM (s1VwS)

Ho about Islamic Communists?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:48 PM (JsqTT)

They are very confused and should be put down as an act of mercy. So...10mm

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (s1VwS)

93 There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (quk5M)
_______________________

Canada has some good ones, and I'm not talking about the inane "indigenous" tribe confiscation of re-naming fetish.

There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

94 91 I suspect that day will the one when fire rains unrestricted upon the planet. At least then I can look out the window and say "I suspected as much."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 10:56 PM (CHHv1)
=====

But I had plans for Thursday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

Let him who is unclean, be unclean still. Let him who is righteous, be rightous still.

Escaton gonna happen when it happens.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (s1VwS)

95 Happy Friday ONT!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (wVcYX)

96 It is probably pronounced AY-thul or some silly yankee variation on that like, Alewife.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

97 Heh heh heh.
Bambi on Ice.
Love it.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:01 PM (2WIwB)

98 There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

Alberta has Two Hills, Three Hills, Hand Hills, Kneehill, and Hairy Hill. And Buffalo Head Hills, which boasts an outcrop of Kimberlite. No diamonds in it, AFAIK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (quk5M)

99 Escaton gonna happen when it happens.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (s1VwS)
=====

There you go immamentizing the eschaton again!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

100 Nowhere, AZ

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (buvgH)

101 It is probably pronounced AY-thul or some silly yankee variation on that like, Alewife.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Athol, Idaho, is pronounced as if your were lisping the word "a$$hole"

Posted by: JQ at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

102 There's better michigan names than "Hell."

"Bad Axe" and "Climax" for example.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (4HoLg)

103 99 Escaton gonna happen when it happens.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:00 PM (s1VwS)
=====

There you go immamentizing the eschaton again!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

I am trying.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (s1VwS)

104 They are very confused and should be put down as an act of mercy. So...10mm
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 10:58 PM (s1VwS)


But nobody can find the 10mm!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (JsqTT)

105 Humptulips WA is a happenin' place.
Just sayin'

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (2WIwB)

106 >> It is probably pronounced AY-thul or some silly yankee variation on that like, Alewife.

It is not.

It's pronounced Ath al.



Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)

107 On a related gun note, United States v. Miller ( 1939 ) was adjudicated incorrectly by the Justices' own logic. The defendant was not able to defend, and the court decided that sawed-off shotguns had no military use, which of course they do and did back then;

They knew what they wanted to do and they did it. The decision said that it "was not in judicial notice" that short barreled shotguns had military use. Which was true since the defense did not show up and presented no evidence at all. They choose intellectual dishonesty.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 11:06 PM (vTZFs)

108 Humptulips WA is a happenin' place.
Just sayin'
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (2WIwB)

Sedro Wooley is where it's at.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:06 PM (quk5M)

109 There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

Which way does it point, the (dot) Indian way or the German way?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)

110 Pysht, WA

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (buvgH)

111 We have lore here when it's earthquake weather; no mention of earthquakes allowed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:08 PM (RIvkX)

112 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (N5iuz)


Well...shit. That leaves me out.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:08 PM (2WIwB)

113 There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.

I heard that they were going to change the name because they got tired of the jokes. The new name will be Peanuts.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 11:08 PM (vTZFs)

114 I see whomever did that map stayed away from the dirty ones. They chose Money's Eyebrow, KY. They should have gone with Big Bone Lick, KY.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 11:09 PM (dIske)

115 It's pronounced Ath al.



Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)
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Ok, well, I think I see the problem/opportunity here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:09 PM (RIvkX)

116 Remember, everyone. If a college student asks for help with their protest sign for Hamas, the correct spelling is:

Globalize the Enchilada!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:10 PM (qx7Zg)

117 Sedro Woolley had an awesome pizza joint.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:10 PM (buvgH)

118 87 There's a place called Athol, Massachusetts in the Northern part of the state that I drove through one time with some people I worked with. We stopped there for gas and I dared one of the guys to ask the clerk if everyone in town had a lisp.

This went right over his head, but refused to do it anyway. So, no hijinks that day.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske)

There is an Athol in Idaho, too, not far north of Coeur d'Alene.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 10:53 PM (quk5M)
-----

I knew it! I'm thurrounded by Athols!

Posted by: Dark Helmeth at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (oqH4h)

119 It is not.

It's pronounced Ath al.



Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)

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My esthetician is from there. I pronounced it aye-thal and she said, "guess how I know you're not from here?"

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (h9O4a)

120 Inyo Butte is a real place in Bakersfield.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (Fv808)

121 Pysht, WA
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (buvgH)

Is that where the Seattle area ferry owners, or their union leaders, live?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:11 PM (qx7Zg)

122 LMAO....I'm starting to fall down the rabbit hole on this topic:

I found these pretty cool.

In 2012, Boring, Oregon was named a sister city of the village of Dull, Scotland, and later joined Bland, Australia, in the "Trinity of Tedium."

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (dIske)

123 Word: Tundish, n.

Use it in a sentence: "The inhabitants of tundra regions speak Tundish."

Posted by: Increase Your Word Power! at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

124 Dang! Look at the time!

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (LHPAg)

125 Hiya MAE!

I gotta new Taurus .357 revolver to
Take to the range tomorrow!


Yippeekayaa, motherfucker! Let’s roll!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (buvgH)

126 125 Hiya MAE!

I gotta new Taurus .357 revolver to
Take to the range tomorrow!


Yippeekayaa, motherfucker! Let’s roll!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (buvgH)

A Taurus....I am quite familiar with them. Curious you have one of those when I know you have some S&W goodness.

Can't wait.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:13 PM (s1VwS)

127 114 I see whomever did that map stayed away from the dirty ones. They chose Money's Eyebrow, KY. They should have gone with Big Bone Lick, KY.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 11:09 PM (dIske)

This almost makes me miss dating

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2026 11:14 PM (s1VwS)

128 Is that where the Seattle area ferry owners, or their union leaders, live?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


Heh. No. It’s on the Olympic Peninsula. Nice little
Town. Good place to disappear to.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:14 PM (buvgH)

129 I gotta new Taurus .357 revolver to
Take to the range tomorrow!


Yippeekayaa, motherfucker! Let’s roll!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:12 PM (buvgH)

Sounds like you got nice birthday present!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:15 PM (quk5M)

130 Here's hoping Piper and family are all right.

And a stray thought about how many people are trying to escape the storm in their now-dead EVs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:16 PM (qx7Zg)

131 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 09, 2026 11:17 PM (SRRAx)

132 It didn’t go over his head: it was the millionth time he had heard the jibe, and he refused to take the bait. There is a street in College Station, Texas named after WWI General Foch. Everyone says “Fosh” which is correct, since he was a French general. Sometimes you just skip the obvious joke, because obvious.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:18 PM (JsqTT)

133 Evening, Teresa!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:18 PM (quk5M)

134 >>My esthetician is from there. I pronounced it aye-thal and she said, "guess how I know you're not from here?"

The name is Scottish in origin. Silly people.

Growing up in MA we had a few towns we could always tell people didn't live in MA when they asked about.

The best were Worcester and Billerica.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:18 PM (viF8m)

135 I have been to Horseheads, NY. It's nice.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at October 09, 2026 11:19 PM (rI+gp)

136 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2028 at October 09, 2026 11:20 PM (wpRMV)

137 Isn’t a tundish the thing you put your tun in?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:20 PM (JsqTT)

138 Hey, where da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 11:22 PM (wpRMV)

139 Here, it is when someone says "Frisco" or "San Fran". You have to say it like Willie Brown says it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:22 PM (RIvkX)

140 5 Fido Friday: Smile!

Doggos have extra muscles in their faces that their wild predecessors did not have, so dogs faces are a bit more emotive.
Now cats...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:02 PM (l3cgK)


I remember, back when it was a novelty that one of the social media companies (Facebook?) was investing in facial recognition to improve photo tag suggestions, they found that the same algorithm accidentally worked for cats. I thought this helped explain lolcats.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 11:22 PM (ke3zm)

141 TiFW have you been around?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

142 I have been to Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Alberta and can confirm no buffalo.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 11:25 PM (nEUC6)

143 Finally got decent shears for carpet cutting, tried it out today. Wiss Tradesman. Right tool for the job sure does help! Six rooms down, three to go.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

144 Don't look, Ath al!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 11:27 PM (Cqx++)

145 Those that can't, teach

----------

I'm an auto-didact, man. I can't tell you how many bus stations I've been kicked out of of.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 11:27 PM (wpRMV)

146 I'm pretty sure most people would think that Philomath is a weirder name than Boring, which isn't even unique to Oregon.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 11:27 PM (ke3zm)

147 Finally got decent shears for carpet cutting, tried it out today. Wiss Tradesman. Right tool for the job sure does help! Six rooms down, three to go.
Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

Put on some Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. That will help you cut a rug.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (quk5M)

148 There's a place in Ontario called Swastika, Ontario. The Ontario government tried to change the town to Winston, Ontario, but the townspeople said, "screw you." and took down the government signs and put up "To hell with Hitler, we had the swastika first."
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 10:59 PM (dIske)

Which way does it point, the (dot) Indian way or the German way?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)

Both the Indian gentleman and the German gentleman dress right. However, the Indian gentleman aligns vertically while the German gentleman maintains a 45-degree tilt.

Posted by: Saville Row Tailor at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (wVcYX)

149 >>TiFW have you been around?

And then found that one place that fits.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

150

It's pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd

or is it Throatwobbler Mangrove?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 11:29 PM (Cqx++)

151 How did they miss the names Two Dot or Lame Deer in Montana.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 09, 2026 11:29 PM (FuXG7)

152 Finally got decent shears for carpet cutting, tried it out today. Wiss Tradesman. Right tool for the job sure does help! Six rooms down, three to go.
Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

Put on some Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. That will help you cut a rug.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (quk5M)

Stay away from The Jug and a girl named Linda Lou.

Posted by: Fat Fella With Hair Colored Yella at October 09, 2026 11:31 PM (wVcYX)

153 Which way does it point, the (dot) Indian way or the German way?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:07 PM (qx7Zg)

Both the Indian gentleman and the German gentleman dress right. However, the Indian gentleman aligns vertically while the German gentleman maintains a 45-degree tilt.
Posted by: Saville Row Tailor at October 09, 2026 11:28 PM (wVcYX)

So the Austrian painter with the bad mustache was always half-cocked.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 11:31 PM (qx7Zg)

154 Bill Ricka, heckuva guy.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 11:32 PM (Fv808)

155 Stay away from The Jug and a girl named Linda Lou.
Posted by: Fat Fella With Hair Colored Yella at October 09, 2026 11:31 PM (wVcYX)

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And I'm telling you, son, well, it ain't no fun
Staring straight down a forty-four

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 11:32 PM (wpRMV)

156 There's Weed, California. It's at the I-5, route-97 split near Oregon.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 11:33 PM (Fv808)

157 141 TiFW have you been around?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)


Still here! Fell down a needlepointing rabbit hole - it's kinda hard to surf the internet when both hands are otherwise occupied! *

Looking forward to seeing everyone next weekend 🎉🎉🎉

*Imma leave that low-hanging fruit for all of you kitty cats to bat around 😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 09, 2026 11:35 PM (SRRAx)

158 *Imma leave that low-hanging fruit for all of you kitty cats to bat around 😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 09, 2026 11:35 PM (SRRAx)
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ROFL

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

159 Shears. I think a carpet knife would be easier.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:40 PM (GZ3K7)

160 Reposted from earlier:
I saw in the news that Margaret Hamilton died, not the actress, but a lead programmer on Apollo 11 guidance computer. If you want a peek at her code, it's all on GitHub:
github.com/chrislgarry/apollo-11
The computer was constructed entirely from NOR gates, in 2800 ICs. The schematics are here:
klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

161 I would have thought Athol was Massachusetts' capital

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 11:43 PM (x9pYc)

162 Woo-ster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:43 PM (GZ3K7)

163 I would have thought Athol was Massachusetts' capital
Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 11:43 PM (x9pYc)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

164 >>*fistbump*

You live in a city that publishes a map where people shit on the street.

Maybe sit this one out.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)

165 "Shears. I think a carpet knife would be easier."

Could be. The shears were only $19.99, seem like good value for the price. I looked at a more expensive slidy kind of carpet gadget, like a plane, with a vertical blade in it, but couldn't find a convincing video to show its use. I have an old hooked-blade type of carpet knife but have not tried it; kinda dull.

Wall-to-wall carpet is an abomination. So glad to be getting this done

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:47 PM (Jr5Lq)

166 New Orleans pronounced as “New Orleens”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:48 PM (JsqTT)

167 "I would have thought Athol was Massachusetts' capital"

That's where my machinist tools were made. Athol, Matthathuthetts.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:48 PM (Jr5Lq)

168 Hint: the more syllables you can put in New Orleans, the closer you are to the Creole pronunciation.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:49 PM (JsqTT)

169 You live in a city that publishes a map where people shit on the street.

Maybe sit this one out.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
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I started an X account so I could start photographing the shit I find but I can't figure it out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

170 My backyard is literally considered to be in Rough and Ready.o

Posted by: Gunslinger at October 09, 2026 11:51 PM (N91F8)

171

Margaret H. Hamilton
Colossus Programming Leader
Apollo Guidance and Navigation

Oh great. Forbin again. The original AI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 11:51 PM (Cqx++)

172 Wall-to-wall carpet is an abomination. So glad to be getting this done

It is. Good luck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:51 PM (GZ3K7)

173 Margaret Hamilton the actress passed in 1985.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:52 PM (JsqTT)

174 There was an episode of Bob's Burgers where they had fans of the show submit fan art of the characters, and then animated the show using a bunch of different styles based on the submissions. Every scene change would be in a different style. It was a cool episode.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 09, 2026 11:52 PM (OGOaV)

175 Sales of pistols between states are prohibited unless they are performed through Federally licensed firearms dealers. That has not changed.

I'm not sure what you are talking about...
Posted by: Boomer at October 09, 2026 10:51 PM (YE8Tw)

A week or so ago, one of the Circuits ruled that the requirement to use FFLs for interstate pistol purchases is Unconstitutional. Another Circuit has ruled that it is, thus setting up a split for the USSC to decide someday.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 11:52 PM (jDLN4)

176 "Colossus Programming Leader"

The code was all in mag core ROM, so it had to be ready many weeks ahead of launch, with no way to patch it. There are some fanciful comments and crazy var names in the code.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:54 PM (Jr5Lq)

177 Since Miklos is not here: "Nawlins, Baby".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:54 PM (quk5M)

178 The longest way to say it is la vielle Nouvelle Orléans, en français.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 11:54 PM (JsqTT)

179 33 28 Robert Picardo was on Voyager.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)
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NERD!

But you're right, of course.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 09, 2026 10:23 PM (kpS4V)

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He was also in Back To School!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 09, 2026 11:55 PM (OGOaV)

180 I'm not sure what you are talking about...
Posted by: Boomer


What gun sites do you visit regularly?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 11:55 PM (nEUC6)

181 I started an X account so I could start photographing the shit I find but I can't figure it out.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Get out of there ASAP.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 11:57 PM (GZ3K7)

182 Some shit is hard to figure out. Word.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 11:58 PM (Jr5Lq)

183
There was an episode of Bob's Burgers where they had fans of the show submit fan art of the characters, and then animated the show using a bunch of different styles based on the submissions. Every scene change would be in a different style. It was a cool episode.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

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That does sound cool. There's a crowdsourced animation of classic Frasier episode "My Coffee With Niles," too.

youtube.com/watch?v=So-JtwVgstU

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 11:58 PM (mmrXZ)

184 Weirdest town name in Oklahoma is Okay? Not really.

I would say it might be Heavener. Because, as my older brother (RIP) discovered when stopping there one day, it's not pronounced "heaven-er" as he had initially imagined.
🤮


Folk-group era Bee Gees song selections were… odd.
https://youtu.be/S43YhQ_eGTw

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - got outa town immediately at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (FPfFt)

185 >>I started an X account so I could start photographing the shit I find but I can't figure it out.

I'm sick and tired of hearing about beautiful cities that I loved like Boston and San Francisco have been captured by leftists and now get trashed as jokes.

Let's clown on Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis, particularly Minneapolis, and other cities that are being taken over and destroyed. We need to update our hate.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (viF8m)

186 172 Wall-to-wall carpet is an abomination. So glad to be getting this done

It is. Good luck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

What's wrong with you people?

Posted by: Joel Bogart, For Kaufman Carpets at October 10, 2026 12:02 AM (EdP2u)

187

I left my shart
In San Francisco

Posted by: Tony bent it at October 10, 2026 12:04 AM (Cqx++)

188 Did you hear about the aggie from Waterproof? He drowned!

Posted by: Sanity Break2 at October 10, 2026 12:05 AM (0cJcL)

189 Well, it's past 10:00 P.M. here, and I am sleepy. Got chilled working outside today, so I'm going to crawl into bed and turn on the electric blanket. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 10, 2026 12:06 AM (quk5M)

190 Let's clown on Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis, particularly Minneapolis, and other cities that are being taken over and destroyed. We need to update our hate.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (viF8m)
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The City That Knows How

no one remembers that but I used to hear it a lot when I first moved here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 10, 2026 12:07 AM (RIvkX)

191 Minneapolis used to have a great reputation as a fairly erudite and cultured city

It was good enough for Rhoda and me.

Posted by: Mary Tyler Moore at October 10, 2026 12:09 AM (RIvkX)

192
Minneapolis used to have a great reputation as a fairly erudite and cultured city

It was good enough for Rhoda and me.
Posted by: Mary Tyler Moore


And Phyllis, too!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 10, 2026 12:13 AM (Cqx++)

193 So Hell is in Michigan.

Figures.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 10, 2026 12:16 AM (fsj6c)

194 GPT-6 Luna

Texas no longer criminalizes possession of a short-barreled rifle or shotgun under its short-barrel-firearm prohibition for conduct on or after September 1, 2025. .... The change applies prospectively; conduct before that date is treated under the earlier law. (that's odd)
LegiScan
...
So, in practical terms: Texas’s former state-law ban has been removed for post–September 1, 2025 conduct, but don’t ... federal requirement is gone or that the court order applies to you.
[cautionary tale] (check w/) a Texas firearms attorney.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 12:16 AM (ogcfP)

195 >>The City That Knows How

>>no one remembers that but I used to hear it a lot when I first moved here.

We talk about this shit everyday and then never forget to connect dots. They've been infiltrating our universities for decades. Happened in MA and CA and NY where the universities where a huge part of economy and the graduates became the politicians. Now we have Abdul in Michigan. We have Talarico in Texas.

The communist movement moves through our institutions. They are evil, not stupid. The stupid people are those that think they can run from it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:21 AM (viF8m)

196 >>>I have an old hooked-blade type of carpet knife but have not tried it; kinda dull.


gp, I have a couple of those that I use for cutting back blackberry vines. It is about the easiest tool for doing it besides using herbicide. They sharpen up nice.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 12:22 AM (rbvCR)

197 Ran across this story, and thought a few here would enjoy it.

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An Aussie guy I know was out drinking in Canada with another Aussie mate. His mate left early to go back to the flat they were sharing in Vancouver. He was then accosted in a dark alley by two men with knives.

Being absolutely drunk, the mate failed to pick up on the men's intent - or their knives - and simply pushed them aside saying, "Nah, sorry mate, I'm Australian." And just continued on his way.

The poor fellow later realized that he'd brushed off two armed muggers by tell them he was Australian and ignoring them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 10, 2026 12:24 AM (qx7Zg)

198 Evening all,

We have a launch in about 2 hours.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
SLC-4E - VSFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 9, 2026
Launch Time: 12:29 a.m. PDT (0729 UTC, 09:29 CEST)

https://youtu.be/g2zSmp6e2Vs

Posted by: Joyenz at October 10, 2026 12:26 AM (2F0/Y)

199 The communist movement moves through our institutions. They are evil, not stupid. The stupid people are those that think they can run from it.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:21 AM (viF8m)


el malo gato is arguing that this only works as long as there is money to support the conversion. Once the subsidies are taken away it gets harder to push the agenda since so many want to be paid to save the world, and that takes lots of free money. Without the funding people wander off to work for themselves instead.
he points out the recent turn of political orientation in South America.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 10, 2026 12:26 AM (rbvCR)

200 The poor fellow later realized that he'd brushed off two armed muggers by tell them he was Australian and ignoring them.

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"That's not a knife."

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at October 10, 2026 12:27 AM (wpRMV)

201 I left my shart
In San Francishitco
Posted by: Tony bent it
****

fify

Posted by: clarence at October 10, 2026 12:31 AM (zGeQ7)

202 184 Weirdest town name in Oklahoma is Okay? Not really.

Posted by: mindful webworker - got outa town immediately at October 10, 2026 12:00 AM (FPfFt)
____________________

I'm mystified by how Oklahoma City materialized. What was the meeting like where that decision was made.

"Anyone got any suggestions for a city name."

(total silence)

"Come on, guys. Think of something or we aren't leaving."

(total silence)

"Fine. It's a city. We're in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City. (bangs gavel)....Someone snuff that lantern. Drinks down at the Spittoon Tavern."

Posted by: Orson at October 10, 2026 12:32 AM (dIske)

203 Destin, Destin-Ft. Walton Beach Airport (KDTS) -hurricane landfall

Humidity 91%
Wind Speed Vrbl 6 G 20 mph
Barometer 29.51 in (999.2 mb)
Dewpoint 64°F (18°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Last update 9 Oct 10:53 pm CDT

Detailed Forecast
Tonight Hurricane conditions expected. A 20 percent chance of showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 12:32 AM (ogcfP)

204 >>el malo gato is arguing that this only works as long as there is money to support the conversion. Once the subsidies are taken away it gets harder to push the agenda since so many want to be paid to save the world, and that takes lots of free money. Without the funding people wander off to work for themselves instead.
he points out the recent turn of political orientation in South America.

Thanks Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:36 AM (viF8m)

205 The communist movement moves through our institutions. They are evil, not stupid. The stupid people are those that think they can run from it.

Posted by: JackStraw
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A well a everybody's heard about the purge
P-p-p purge, purge, purge, p-purge's the word
A well a purge, purge, purge, the purge is the word
A well a purge, purge, purge, well the purge is the word
A well a purge, purge, purge, p-purge, purge is the word

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 12:40 AM (ogcfP)

206 Linda Lu was a friend of mine.

Sorta

https://tinyurl.com/2s3s9e3k

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 12:49 AM (viF8m)

207 >>Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026

OK, your brought it up ...

Billerica?

Posted by: Bexar = 'Bear' at October 10, 2026 12:54 AM (wOK9Z)

208 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the weirdest town names in each state

You know why Minnesota wins the "weirdest town name" contest?

Because the weirdest town names in Wisconsin and Georgia also exist in Minnesota.

We gots a Nimrod, a Climax, and an Embarrass.

Climax is pretty close to Fertile. Cummings is also close, but just across the river in North Dakota.

Embarrass has the "unofficial" record low for Minnesota at -64F. (The thermometer was rated accurate, but it wasn't a National Weather Service thermometer. Boo!)

Wiki:
Embarrass is the coldest place in Minnesota. In winter 2000–2001, the temperature in Embarrass did not rise above freezing from November 24 to March 1; the high for meteorological winter (December to February) was 32 °F on January 10. The coldest calendar month on record (since 1995, with some months missing data) in Embarrass was January 2014, with an average temperature of −8.3 °F (−22.4 °C).

Posted by: mikeski at October 10, 2026 12:55 AM (VHUov)

209 @88.-TBone
I'm going to go with TBone that Dickshooter, Idaho is the funniest name for a town. I have heard that name before someplace, can't remember where but I remember laughing about it.

Well, the storm is headed my way. They say the winds may get bad and we might lose power. The rain is not supposed to be too bad but the wind may be strong enough to blow trees down. Hope Trump cancels his trip to Tuscaloosa today. No use for him to get in the middle of this mess.

Posted by: Case at October 10, 2026 01:02 AM (ROPCF)

210 Grateful Dead made more money doing jam sessions (weaving in a melody) than any other band in the world. Prolly didn't go narco drunk because they had to play the same song every night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 01:03 AM (ogcfP)

211 On the weirdest town names, you missed Slickpoo, Idaho.

Posted by: Redwine at October 10, 2026 01:05 AM (3TDsk)

212 >>> Hope Trump cancels his trip to Tuscaloosa today. No use for him to get in the middle of this mess.

Posted by: Case
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Trump's going to stand in the middle of the mess, pass out water or whatever's necessary and give one of his best rally's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 01:06 AM (ogcfP)

213 Off to bed. I'm hiking in the morning; it'll likely be my final SOTA activation for the year. Hopefully the weather holds.

Posted by: PabloD at October 10, 2026 01:06 AM (OXSZa)

214 208 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the weirdest town names in each state
There's a Climax, PA.

Posted by: Redwine at October 10, 2026 01:07 AM (3TDsk)

215 >>Grateful Dead made more money doing jam sessions (weaving in a melody) than any other band in the world. Prolly didn't go narco drunk because they had to play the same song every night.

The Dead were the greatest live band in history and without a without a doubt have the most devoted fans. Me included, obviously.

No apologies. It was always about the music.

You were either on the bus or off the bus.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 10, 2026 01:26 AM (viF8m)

216 This week has been (likely) the last of our warm weather here. Windy & raining tonight, then will have highs in the 60s next week. It's good! I'm so done with summer.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

217
That does sound cool. There's a crowdsourced animation of classic Frasier episode "My Coffee With Niles," too.

youtube.com/watch?v=So-JtwVgstU
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 11:58 PM (mmrXZ)

Brilliant episode to choose! I’ve often used that as an example of almost perfect writing. The “plot” is just two men sitting at a table having a conversation, and from time to time others people stop by. That’s all, and yet it’s riveting, one of the best episodes ever, because the writing is so good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 01:36 AM (60F2Z)

218 The Dead were the greatest live band in history and without a without a doubt have the most devoted fans. Me included, obviously.

No apologies. It was always about the music.

You were either on the bus or off the bus.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Well, I didn't hang with Ken Kesey and the Dead was a good band with good players who were loved by many people. They may have been the greatest band playing their style of music but the greatest band. There's no such thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 01:56 AM (ogcfP)

219 Told Buddy, the August summer has finally gone. Not cool yet, no night below 75. My marker is below 70. When evening temps start dropping below 70 thing start to cool down.

On the other hand, Bastardi said that this may be a winter like that one a few years back when the NatGas lines froze.
_jealous of that pellet stove

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 02:03 AM (ogcfP)

220 "Further"

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)

221 Haven't started up the pellet stove yet, but probably tomorrow night or the next...

Need to pull the exhaust blower, clean soot off and vacuum out the blower housing. Probably should clean the convection blower 'squirrel cage' too. Already cleaned the z-pipe and checked chimney.

It's a maintenance hog!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:12 AM (rdVOm)

222
219 Told Buddy, the August summer has finally gone. Not cool yet, no night below 75. My marker is below 70. When evening temps start dropping below 70 thing start to cool down.

Here in east Texas, it was 67 this morning. Will get down to 64 tonight by dawn.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 10, 2026 02:17 AM (60F2Z)

223 Have you considered a wood stove for those period of 'not that cold'?

My aunt had one that was vertical, ornate, thought it didn't put out as much heat as a standard clunker but that could have been her. She wasn't cold natured, at all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 02:27 AM (ogcfP)

224 >>Have you considered a wood stove for those period of 'not that cold'?

Are you addressing me? If so... no, the pellet stove is my *primary* heat source in winter. Not really interested in buying, splitting, stacking, hauling wood. Pellets are a pain, but the bags don't leave gaps for rodents or wasps to reside, and the pellets don't give me splinters LOL.

I make do with space heaters when it's mildly cool.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

225 Hubby disconnected the baseboard heaters many years ago. Hate those things anyway.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

226 A splinter in that big toe might let the swelling down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 02:43 AM (ogcfP)

227 Hahaha, big toe is only a little swollen now-- 2 weeks later! It's not black/blue/purple anymore.

I can flex it up & down without pain, but it still won't bend.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:46 AM (rdVOm)

228 Can't see myself swinging an axe now-- 30 years ago, no problem. We'd (late BF and I) get 3 cord per winter and when he had to work overtime, I'd split some wood, fill the indoor rack & make kindling for our fireplace... it was a team effort.

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

229 You heal up fast, that's good. Ex and I had an open hearth fireplace. We had a suede sofa facing it. At the end of winter it was covered with soot.

Glassing them in with vents around the room works much better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:01 AM (ogcfP)

230 Our fireplace had glass doors and an insert with dual fans. Kept the whole house toasty, without sooting it up. (much)

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

231 I kinda miss the place BF and I were renting. There were built-in bookcases on either side of fireplace-- took up the whole wall and had full-length mantel over all of it. Had an outlet in the middle and small windows above. Christmas decorating was fun there!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)

232 Before modernity, Uncle had a place in the country that the only heat was open hearth but he ran conductive ductwork to all the rooms. As you said, toasty.
He was a busy man feeding that thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:23 AM (ogcfP)

233 Time to donate money to Belzabos. Sleep tight. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 10, 2026 03:28 AM (ogcfP)

234 >>He was a busy man feeding that thing.

Yep, that's the problem with fireplace-only heating. Keep stoking it! But you need to sleep *sometimes* and so it can be chilly in the morning.

I'm a sissy. When the pellet stove is operating correctly, which is most of the time, I can keep the house warm without too much effort (comparatively). I have a box fan in that room, to move the warm air out to the rest of house.

Just add a bag a day. Shut down for cleaning once a week. Remove & clean soot out of z-pipe once a month. Pray the motors don't crap out (keep spares on hand always!)

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)

235 Night, Braenyard!

Posted by: JQ at October 10, 2026 03:30 AM (rdVOm)

236 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at October 10, 2026 04:01 AM (odBC9)

237 Heavener - had family over there 100 years ago. Great grandmother taught near there in a one-room schoolhouse. I thought the strangest town name was its neighbor, Poteau.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:02 AM (ij/FE)

238 Mornin' comes early...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 10, 2026 04:03 AM (ij/FE)

239 Hey, I actually know that place with the signs! It's local to me, and I always get a kick out of it as I drive by. I can confirm it's real.

Check out "1420 N 45th St., Seattle, WA" on your favorite map site or app, and look at the SW corner of the Shell station.

Posted by: Bitblt at October 10, 2026 04:18 AM (kj+zZ)

240 26 days till election day. Public execution I can't wait to see dumpsters dancing from the end of a rope!

Posted by: raimondo at October 10, 2026 04:31 AM (pkGPL)

241 Nidal Hasan is a dumpster of a human.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 10, 2026 05:22 AM (l3cgK)

242 Pay per view?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 07:37 AM (yPX1l)

243 He was a soldier. Decimation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 10, 2026 07:38 AM (yPX1l)

244 @242 I'll pay to see dump and his dumpsters!

Posted by: raimondo at October 10, 2026 08:01 AM (pkGPL)

245
I'm well to the east of EEeee-SAH-AYE--EEEE-US-AY, but they had huge amounts of rainfall potential, sometimes has high as 5" for the area.

That has thankfully not played out yet, and I've got about 0.3" so far, and not any breeze at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 10, 2026 09:25 AM (w6EFb)

Friday Cafe

williamhulbertphotographysunset.jpg
William Hulbert Photography

Dog walks around a train making friends with complete strangers.

Dog went to finishing school and can now balance anything on his head.

Pittie won't get out of the pool.

Dogs trying to make friends with standoffish cats.

Kangaroo gets stuck in a parking deck and needs to be tranqed and relocated.

Grenades blowing up in super slow motion.

Chaotic cockatoo is a daddy's boy.

Wild cockatoos "Mr. and Mrs. Floofington" visit an Australian woman every day.

Zookeepers encourage a white tiger to exercise its jumping ability by dangling a steak on a long rope.

An oldie but a goodie: Baby elephant charges ineptly, provoking laughter from the tourists.

Sheep has a special rock for sunbathing and will not allow intruder cats to sit on it.

Baby elephants race across a river to rejoin their mother.

Bulldog used for breeding is abandoned on a street tied to a pole but has a family for the first time.

Crafter traces the paths of the heroes of Lord of the Rings on his large-scale 3D map.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM




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1 Anti blade

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 07:12 PM (Hucnr)

2 Top photo is gorgeous. Needed that.

Have a great weekend, Ace and all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (hzuYO)

3 Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (6ydKt)

4 So close to pride Month?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 07:19 PM (VtYh5)

5 A 100% week!

(Also, corgis called.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

6 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)

7 I hope Trump didnt get rolled.

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (yEGfi)

8 Concerning Hollywood shit or garbage, Norm Macdonald did it best when he would say something like "this actor's latest movie has come out, and critics nationwide are calling it everything from shit to fucking shit."

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at October 09, 2026 07:21 PM (NoYYJ)

9 Cool off after the shit Midas title. That was epic!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (VtYh5)

10 Concerning Hollywood shit or garbage, Norm Macdonald did it best when he would say something like "this actor's latest movie has come out, and critics nationwide are calling it everything from shit to fucking shit."
Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at October 09, 2026 07:21 PM (NoYYJ)
---
Except nowadays the critics would call such movies "brilliant" or "f*cking brilliant!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 07:24 PM (FZ29D)

11 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
----

That evil bitch has the nerve to believe she can speak to "our dignity as a country"? She risked the lives of untold American civilians and civil servants with her ham-fisted email/server, and her husband is a rapist and guilty of sexual harrassment with an intern. Were it not for their last name and their willingness to kill those who inconvenience them, they'd both be in jail.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 07:25 PM (TN0g+)

12 This time next Friday the TXMoMe will be in full swing!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:27 PM (nxLtX)

13 Says woman with a few heads herself

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)

14 @HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.


That's the same Hillary Clinton who thought "We came, we saw, he died" was a dignified campaign slogan?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 07:27 PM (vTZFs)

15 Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace

6.7 barrels per short ton
7.4 barrels per metric ton

Between 2 million and 2.2 million barrels depending on the units

Leading up to as much as 7.4 million barrels a month.

Zelenskyy is fucking dead if he disrupts that deal.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:28 PM (9Hs2w)

16 11 - the father of lies ensures that his slaves never speak the truth.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:28 PM (VyBeY)

17
Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon!

Posted by: SpeakingOf

================

This is beneath our dignity as a nation.

Posted by: Hillary at October 09, 2026 07:29 PM (mmrXZ)

18 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
----


News Flash: Nidal Hasan has information that will lead to the indictment of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:30 PM (9Hs2w)

19 I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (nxLtX)

20 I remember my mom begging me to come out of the water like that pittie. "Come in and get me."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (RIvkX)

21 19 I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (nxLtX)

yup. hardly a day goes by that I don't say "yes! this is what I voted for!"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:34 PM (VyBeY)

22 I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:32 PM (nxLtX)

yup. hardly a day goes by that I don't say "yes! this is what I voted for!"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:34 PM (VyBeY)
====

Me too but also abject fear about what may follow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:37 PM (RIvkX)

23 hardly blame you for that, SFp, if / when the demonrats steal another election it's gonna get brutal in a hurry.

live in the moment until that happens is the only sane approach.

(imho)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:40 PM (VyBeY)

24
Her Majesty was able to get an earlier flight out of Nashville. I'll be picking her up 9:30ish instead of the 12:30 AM she threatened me with.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)

25 beneath our dignity as a country.

Did getting thrown into the SUV like a side of beef dignify our nation?

Did Bubba getting, and then lying about getting a "beejer"* dignify our nation?

Did Bengazi dignify our nation?

* a word the kids use these days, I'm told.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

26 that's a great mercy, H7! Yay!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:43 PM (VyBeY)

27 Me too but also abject fear about what may follow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:37 PM


Prepare.

1. Practice fundamentals.
2. Buy ammo.
3. Eschew wobbly sh*t.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

28 Hadrian, see you soon.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 07:43 PM (nxLtX)

29 Me too but also abject fear about what may follow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

“I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.”
Twain

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 07:45 PM (ZHRuH)

30
I look at everything PDT and his administration is doing and am filled with admiration and gratitude.

Posted by: Ben Had

===============

RELIEF here. I was truly afraid Kamala could get elected. My lefty office mates were stunned flat that she didn't.

Posted by: Hillary at October 09, 2026 07:45 PM (mmrXZ)

31 BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

https://t.co/xiu7Y2FjYm

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

32 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

-
I suppose we could disguise the execution as a suicide.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (ndZc7)

33 One of Zelensky's underlings made the expected noises about giving the Russians "gifts", etc., etc.,

The diesel is available for global distribution as well as the US, so if Ukraine wants to mess around with the shipping, they do so at great peril.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 07:48 PM (rj6Yv)

34 BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

-
Did he see his shadow so we have six more weeks of campaigning?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:49 PM (ndZc7)

35 Red sky at morning

Still nothing more beautiful.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 07:50 PM (viF8m)

36 "I hope Trump didnt get rolled."

Come on! He's pooty poots stooge. Of course he got rolled!

We would of been much better off with kammie the kommie.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 07:50 PM (dCMJG)

37 So last thread talked about Talarico and mental hospital. Reminds me of the great story about Earl Long, Huey Long's brother.

Earl was serving as governor of Louisiana back in the 50s or 60s, for like the third term. He pissed off his wife somehow, so she had him committed to a state mental institution. The problem was that it was the state mental institution. He fired everyone there because he was the governor, walked out, hopped on a plane to Dallas, got a quickie divorce, came back to Baton Rouge, served out his term and ran for US Senate and won, I think. So no, being committed does not damage your chances of election. At least in Louisiana! Maybe Texas is different.

Posted by: SimoHayek at October 09, 2026 07:52 PM (IeYnM)

38 I just started watching newsmax again so I saw my first my pillow commercial in a long time and I swear if you close your eyes during it you would think that Matt Foley was doing the voiceover.

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Shattered my Femur at October 09, 2026 07:52 PM (NoYYJ)

39 Beautiful sunset tonight. Reds, purple and dark orange. Rain 2-3" over the weekend.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 07:53 PM (GZ3K7)

40 Zelensky will do what his EU allies tell him to do.
They might want Trump to lose the mid-terms so it’s possible,

The EU aristocrats know the diesel prices might double but the peasant’s bank accounts is a sacrifice they are willing to make to hurt the Orange Bad Man.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:56 PM (6ydKt)

41 The weather should be in the low 70's in the day and 50's at night for the TX MoMe. 😍

Posted by: lin-duh at October 09, 2026 07:57 PM (VCgbV)

42 Thanks for the nice Cafe Ace. The sheep video proves that when cats are told "NO!" they interpret that as "Proceed."

I would love it if when a cat brushes against my legs, it meant something other than "I need more treats." Alas.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 07:57 PM (CHHv1)

43 Ace was a busy fellow today. Enjoy the weekend!

Posted by: H at October 09, 2026 08:02 PM (JSLNb)

44 What's the worst that could happen?

7NEWS Queensland
@7NewsBrisbane
One of Australia's worst serial killers has been set free, after spending the last 27 years behind bars. Snowtown murderer James Vlassakis walked out of prison, to begin life as the country's only paroled serial killer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:03 PM (ndZc7)

45 End a life, have yours
( spits)

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)

46 From AI Companies Are Wargaming:

205 180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Meh, I'm not sure about that. GenX seems to have skepticism in our DNA.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (n17eQ)


Yes, so we're skeptical about both the hype and the dooming. What's left is a fantastic symbolic robot.

If you know how to do something with symbols (which cuts out know-nothings), and you are willing to learn how to use 'AI' to automate it (which cuts out those set in their ways), then you can increase your individual productivity by orders of magnitude -- potentially even cutting out the need to work with people. Perhaps counter-intuitively, the middle-aged are right in the sweet spot for ability and inclination to make good use of it.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 08:05 PM (ke3zm)

47 I'm somewhat sane now and have the forged papers to prove it. Notarized and everything.

Posted by: Former Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at October 09, 2026 08:05 PM (EdP2u)

48 And so, it begins . . .

https://tinyurl.com/4b2tkzsn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:06 PM (ndZc7)

49 Happy Friday!

>>> Even executives at the Disney Groomer Network know that soon-to-be-fired Jimmy Kimmel is an "asshole."

I found it amusing to learn that Kimmel's kids apparently are in such a deep nepo baby bubble, they actually thought they would inherit the show from dad one day. Like they own the rights to it or built it or had anything to do with it! They must be crying as much as he does to learn their "legacy"is over.

If dad had build them their own "pirate ship"of a network, like Adam Carolla did, maybe they'd have a shot at that. But Adam's kids weren't raised by a stupid dad, so I think they realize they aren't entitled to it and might not have the talent for it.

Carolla > Kimmel, all day every day.

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:08 PM (Toos7)

50 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Night.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:09 PM (77rzZ)

51 I remember my mom begging me to come out of the water like that pittie. "Come in and get me."
****

If I had said something like that to my mom.... Oh, wait, I did say something like that to my mom..once. She yanked me out of the pool like I was a stuffed animal.

Posted by: clarence at October 09, 2026 08:12 PM (zGeQ7)

52 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Night.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:09 PM


We hope you have a swingin' evening!

( ) ( )
( ) ( )
(.) (.)

Posted by: Nancy "Perky Emeritus" Pelosi (D-CA) at October 09, 2026 08:13 PM (0sNs1)

53 Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

-
Thar he blows!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:13 PM (ndZc7)

54 Booooobies. Happy Friday.

https://tinyurl.com/yrs28hf5

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 08:15 PM (rbvCR)

55 7NEWS Queensland
@7NewsBrisbane
One of Australia's worst serial killers has been set free, after spending the last 27 years behind bars. Snowtown murderer James Vlassakis walked out of prison, to begin life as the country's only paroled serial killer.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 08:03 PM (ndZc7)
=====

And then the murders began.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:15 PM (RIvkX)

56 Last news tidbit of the day... maybe it's been posted?

Jane Doe in the Cornell case is being renamed "Train Doe," and she's been doxxed. I'm not gonna share her real name, but it's out there now, as are pictures of her. I blame college sorority movies, but I had a WAY different image in my head of her vs how she looks.

The same people shrieking about her name being doxxed, were probably gleeful the juror was doxxed in the Lindsay Clancy case. They both have a right to privacy in their respective court cases. But society is garbage right now so here we are!

Anyway, that's all the bad stuff. Hope you are looking to good forward to good things this weekend!

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:15 PM (Toos7)

57 Trump said he'd struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a quick release of 300,000 tons (about 2.2 million barrels), followed by another 500,000 in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter." That comes out to about 13.5 million barrels.
---------

Russia, Russia, Russia

Russia, Russia, Russia

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:17 PM (vPv7/)

58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:17 PM (l3cgK)

59 58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:17 PM (l3cgK)

The eye, that is

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:18 PM (l3cgK)

60 48 And so, it begins . . .

https://tinyurl.com/4b2tkzsn

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
---

It's a Chinese bot isn't it?
Every Chinese bot is destructive.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:22 PM (vPv7/)

61 Who's operating the bot? Cartelistos?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:23 PM (vPv7/)

62 >> 58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...

I'm still amazed that there's been like zero hurricanes this year. Is this numero uno?

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:23 PM (Toos7)

63 Checking on our morons and ettes in the path of the storm. Please let us know how you are faring.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:24 PM (BYJyI)

64 Evening, Ace and Cafe patrons! It was getting cold outside, with some scattered drops of rain. Done messing about for the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:25 PM (quk5M)

65 62 LizLem, yep.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:25 PM (77rzZ)

66 Greetings.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:25 PM (yPX1l)

67 Heh. I had not seen anything aside from various vague references.

Sexually transmitted Diarrhea, huh? *snicker*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (Y/06r)

68 Is that Pensacola?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (yPX1l)

69 Hey, Boss Moss.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (77rzZ)

70 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
----

Dear Hillary: why don't you sit in his lap?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:27 PM (quk5M)

71 >>> 62 >> 58 Looks like himmicane Isaias is about to hit the coast of the Florida panhandle...
==
I'm still amazed that there's been like zero hurricanes this year. Is this numero uno?
Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:23 PM (Toos7)

Some other Moron pointed out that there was a long span of no hurricanes after OrangeManBad renamed it to the Gulf of America.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 08:27 PM (3mtzY)

72 Hey, tcn in Alaska.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:27 PM (77rzZ)

73 32 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

-
I suppose we could disguise the execution as a suicide.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (ndZc7)

I agree. She IS beneath all of our dignity. She is afraid that if people watch, they might want to do the same to traitors. Ahem.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:28 PM (BYJyI)

74 Working with powder as a job.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:29 PM (yPX1l)

75
I did a double take hearing some weather idiot standing on the beach "braving the storm" pronouncing "Isaias". WTF?

I pronounce that "eye-zay-us". He tried something I won't even attempt to pronounce.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 09, 2026 08:29 PM (w6EFb)

76 Mexican Cartels Send Members to Ukraine

https://tinyurl.com/3c788epp


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:30 PM (vPv7/)

77 I’m experiencing TxMoMe envy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:30 PM (BYJyI)

78 @HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.
-----------

Also HillaryClinton: "We came. We saw. And he died.... Cackle cackle cackle."

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 08:31 PM (vE0+H)

79 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

I avoid a certain word, but:

Go to hell, you fucking drunken cunt.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 08:31 PM (0aYVJ)

80 Hey, don’t blame me. It was before my time.

Posted by: Dr. Zaius at October 09, 2026 08:31 PM (77rzZ)

81 >>> @HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

She also thought we should drone strike Assange. But executing a traitor is barbaric.

She's just mad she can't Arkancide someone. She misses it.

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (Toos7)

82 BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

https://t.co/xiu7Y2FjYm
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

Body double. Did anybody check his earlobes to make sure they matched old photos of him? I thought not.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (jDLN4)

83 Make the rest of Baja great again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (yPX1l)

84 73 32 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

-

Better to shoot him in the head, roll him up in a carpet and leave him in the park.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (vPv7/)

85 Cleaned ny gutters out,said rain Sunday but not sure ir thats the hurricane to get to me yet

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (Ia/+0)

86
I did a double take hearing some weather idiot standing on the beach "braving the storm" pronouncing "Isaias". WTF?

I pronounce that "eye-zay-us". He tried something I won't even attempt to pronounce.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley[/i

ah EEE zus

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (Cqx++)

87 Nitro Cellulose.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:33 PM (yPX1l)

88 Off sock.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:33 PM (77rzZ)

89
BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.

He tore his ACL?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 08:33 PM (Cqx++)

90 Austin City Limits.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:34 PM (yPX1l)

91 Body double. Did anybody check his earlobes to make sure they matched old photos of him? I thought not.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 08:32 PM (jDLN

Holy cow, imagine how much they would have to pay someone to ape that clown.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (BYJyI)

92 What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (MWfyi)

93 That looked very empty for ACL ... just saying.

Posted by: lin-duh at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (VCgbV)

94
Sexually transmitted Diarrhea, huh? *snicker*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 09, 2026 08:26 PM (Y/06r)

__________

I wonder how you get that, he inquired dryly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 08:36 PM (eRlcH)

95 Holy cow, imagine how much they would have to pay someone to ape that clown.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (BYJyI)

Alfred E. Neuman has fallen on hard times lately; he might be up for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (quk5M)

96 STD diarrhea? They're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (yPX1l)

97 Isaias is the old school spelling of the Prophet we now translate as Isaiah. Pronounced the same as far as I know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (BYJyI)

98
Holy cow, imagine how much they would have to pay someone to ape that clown.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (BYJyI)

__________

He screamed, "AAAAAHH! Voters! Get me out of here!!" So it really was him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 08:37 PM (eRlcH)

99
Here's script-reader Hillary off script (8 seconds long, cackle cackle):

https://is.gd/Q7mOfJ

Why did they use Hillary to announce the Hasan stuff is "barbaric" and not one of their other script readers? To corral idiot women. Only reason. Transparent fucking shitstains.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 08:38 PM (vE0+H)

100 92 What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth.
Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (MWfyi)

I think you just won the internet.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 08:38 PM (BYJyI)

101 89
BREAKING NEWS: Mr. James Talarico, the soon-to-be- Junior Senator from the Great State of Texas, according to Texas Democrats, was sighted Friday at the ACL Fest.
----

Devil worshipers all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:39 PM (vPv7/)

102 76 Mexican Cartels Send Members to Ukraine

https://tinyurl.com/3c788epp


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:30 PM (vPv7/)

hoo boy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 08:40 PM (l3cgK)

103 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.


Now do Islamic countries, Ms Never to be President.

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 08:41 PM (5rh/l)

104 "ah EEE zus
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr"


We ain't never gonna make it.

Posted by: Donnie Iris at October 09, 2026 08:41 PM (MWfyi)

105 We're never, ever, ever gonna make it yeah!

Posted by: Donnie Iris at October 09, 2026 08:42 PM (MWfyi)

106 99
Here's script-reader Hillary off script (8 seconds long, cackle cackle):

https://is.gd/Q7mOfJ

Why did they use Hillary to announce the Hasan stuff is "barbaric" and not one of their other script readers? To corral idiot women. Only reason. Transparent fucking shitstains.

Posted by: ...
---

Yup, she murdered Qaddafi and several of our guys in the same play. Also lit the fuse, to say the least, on the middle east wildfire.

and she's laughing
laugh in hell bitch



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 08:43 PM (vPv7/)

107 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)

108 I am waiting on hurricane zyzzyx.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 08:47 PM (0aYVJ)

109 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass
Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)

They could name a hurricane after the Cornell skank. Call it "Easy-ass".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:47 PM (quk5M)

110 WAVY TV 10? I lived around there once.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 09, 2026 08:48 PM (yPX1l)

111 Well, I had better put on some clean clothes, and go to town and buy some grub.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:49 PM (quk5M)

112 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass
Posted by: Accomack

You on the Peninsula side or Norfolk/VA Beach side?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 08:50 PM (GZ3K7)

113 Yes, Hillary is indeed qualified to be arbiter of "barbaric."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:52 PM (RIvkX)

114 Prayer for those in the path of the hurricane.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:55 PM (77rzZ)

115 107 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)


Yesterday the clowns on Fox were going Espanol with it.
EE-see-ahhss

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 08:55 PM (5rh/l)

116 >>Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Woman who wanted to drone a reporter who was going to expose her criminality has thoughts on barbarism.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 08:55 PM (viF8m)

117 Mike Ditka passed away, as we all know now.

My senior drill sergeant at Fort Sill looked a lot like Iron Mike. Scary fucking dude. His first name was also Mike (I learned later).

Later, he became my first sergeant in Germany. the Army is a small world. He was a helluva good NCO and a good man.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 08:59 PM (0aYVJ)

118 105 We're never, ever, ever gonna make it yeah!
Posted by: Donnie Iris



Enjoy retirement, pride of Ellwood City!!

(he officially retired today. health issues and he's over 80).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 09:00 PM (n17eQ)

119 Today probably being the last 80 degree day here for the next six months, I got out my assortment of air to water hose adapters and blew out my lawn sprinkler system.

Why do it now, when we are still weeks away from freezing weather? If you have ever been squirted with 35 degree water by a sprinkler head, when it's 40 degrees out, in a 30 mph wind, you'd know why.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2026 09:00 PM (jDLN4)

120 President Trump just PERSONALLY presented Elon Musk the National Medal of Science for his incredible contributions to our nation
--

President Trump is re: Letitia James on stage in New York, calling her a “DISGUSTING DOG”

https://tinyurl.com/56rybn7s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:02 PM (vPv7/)

121 "(he officially retired today. health issues and he's over 80).
Posted by: Puddleglum"

Really? What a coincidence. I didn't even know he was still around.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 09:05 PM (MWfyi)

122 President Trump is re: Letitia James on stage in New York, calling her a “DISGUSTING DOG POOP".

Posted by: That's more like it at October 09, 2026 09:06 PM (MWfyi)

123 @LasVegasLocally
If you're in Southern California, you should probably get in your car and start driving to Las Vegas right now. https://t.co/0ztg56IqlT
---

_But first, stop by the bank and make a cash withdrawal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:08 PM (vPv7/)

124 Wake Up NJ New Jersey@wakeupnj · 2h

Every heard of the Storm of October 1804? It's also famously known as the "Snow Hurricane," made landfall in New Jersey on Oct 9th. Striking near Atlantic City, the storm hit the coast as a strong Cat 2 or weak Cat 3. It is celebrated in meteorological history as the first tropical cyclone ever recorded to produce snowfall. Wild stuff

• Maritime Devastation: The hurricane sank or beached numerous ships along the Mid-Atlantic coast. A ship was run aground near Absecon, and a ferry capsized in the Delaware River near Trenton

• Coastal Damage: Strong storm surges and high winds battered coastal communities, tearing up docks and wharves

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:12 PM (vPv7/)

125 >>> 123 @LasVegasLocally
If you're in Southern California, you should probably get in your car and start driving to Las Vegas right now. https://t.co/0ztg56IqlT
---

_But first, stop by the bank and make a cash withdrawal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:08 PM (vPv7/)

California is tipping over!!!

Posted by: Hank Johnson at October 09, 2026 09:14 PM (3mtzY)

126 What Hillary knows about dignity could fit in Monica's mouth.
Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 08:35 PM (MWfyi)

COTW nominee.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 09:14 PM (wVcYX)

127 Enjoy retirement, pride of Ellwood City!!

(he officially retired today. health issues and he's over 80).
Posted by: Puddleglum

He deserves it. One of the nicest guys in the music biz.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 09:16 PM (GZ3K7)

128 Legalinsurrection.com
7.7 earthquake hits Panama, followed by a 6.6 earthquake

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:17 PM (Ia/+0)

129 Virginia’s eastern shore, Accomack county

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 09:22 PM (4qMiv)

130 128 Legalinsurrection.com
7.7 earthquake hits Panama, followed by a 6.6 earthquake
Posted by: Skip

All the water is sloshing out of our canal!

Posted by: Man The Pumps!! at October 09, 2026 09:23 PM (EdP2u)

131 BIRDS TRAPPED IN THE EYE
Hurricane Hunters and Doppler Radar have confirmed that there are birds trapped in the eye of #Isaias right now because the winds are too strong in the eyewall. As a result, they stay within the calmer eye until reaching land. ... Landfall is this evening, so they just have to hold on for a little bit longer!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:25 PM (vPv7/)

132 Evenin', y'all.

What have I been saying about Talarico the Missing? Here's the photographic proof.

https://bit.ly/jamie-talarico

Posted by: mindful webworker - isn't she lovely at October 09, 2026 09:25 PM (FPfFt)

133 How long can birds basically hover?

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:26 PM (Ia/+0)

134 Maybe they were trying the Spanish version, but, it just sounded stupid on an English TV station. Suffolk, Va has a peanut festival. I like peanuts but I’m not driving all the way fuck down there for peanuts.
I did drive to Whole Foods in VB just to prove to my wife that it actually existed.

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 09:28 PM (4qMiv)

135 I did drive to Whole Foods in VB just to prove to my wife that it actually existed. thats love

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 09:29 PM (B1+sW)

136 Haven't even checked on surf. All week during the disgusting heat wave the weather channels were talking about dangerous heavy surf. It was typical late summer 2-3 foot poor form surf, nothing unusual. Long since conditioned to the theater kid hysterical drama culture of "dangerous heat" and "extreme heat" - i.e, it's gonna be hot, like it has a zillion times before.

But the total disconnect between reality and dire surf predictions was sort of novel.

The sort of surge shown in the linked video happens at least every couple of winters, usually when storms coincide with king tides, etc. In most places nothing more than a few blocks from the sand is affected.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 09:31 PM (U/Byj)

137 The National Peanut Festival in Dothan is a big deal. It's going on right now. They have to pick a Peanut Queen.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 09:34 PM (MWfyi)

138 Legalinsurrection.com
7.7 earthquake hits Panama, followed by a 6.6 earthquake
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:17 PM (Ia/+0)


El Colombiano (Medellin) reports no known deaths or serious injuries, the worst damages done are to Colonial era buildings like the churches and older parts of town

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 09:34 PM (rbvCR)

139 The Hurricane. A cop buddy of mine had a BiL, retired bird Colonel, Air Force. Colonel Bob was pretty badass, B29 Jock in Korea, B-52s in 'Nam, dodging and evading missiles and Migs. He said that the one time he was truly scared and petrified was on a ride along with some C130 Hurricane Hunter jocks.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 09:35 PM (gm9Sb)

140 How long can birds basically hover?
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:26 PM (Ia/+0)

On a semi - breezy day, I've seen hawks hover for minutes as they scan the ground for varmints to eat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)

141 The National Peanut Festival in Dothan is a big deal. It's going on right now. They have to pick a Peanut Queen.
Posted by: fd

Canal Fulton, Ohio holds 'Canal Days' every year and elect a Queen.

For years her banner read "Miss Canal".

Clearly, the organizers failed to consult teenaged boys.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:36 PM (N5iuz)

142
My goodness, it's Friday night and the blog is so slow. Why isn't everyone hunched over their keyboard burning their eyes out? It's not as if Friday night is some social kind of thing where you get out of the house at the end of a tiring week and mingle with meat-humans or enjoy a stroll around town or the beach or anything.

Posted by: Hillary at October 09, 2026 09:37 PM (mmrXZ)

143 Low rainfall has actually reduced Panama Canal traffic at the moment. One of the several completely unrelated things (unrelated to the Persian Gulf festivities, that is) that have sent shipping rates through the stratosphere. And added to transit times, and thus even more to prices.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 09:38 PM (U/Byj)

144
Yikes, that's me at 142, not Hillary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 09:38 PM (mmrXZ)

145 Yikes, that's me at 142, not Hillary.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 09:38 PM (mmrXZ)
---
If you think it's slow tonight, just wait until next Friday, during the TXMOME.

A lot of the regular commenters will be having far too much fun in meatspace.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 09:39 PM (FZ29D)

146
How long can birds basically hover?
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:26 PM

-----

I think they may have to fly in circles, which increases the total distance they have to fly.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 09:39 PM (VWtfl)

147 I better get to bed, I turn into a pumpkin if the ONT shows up
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:41 PM (Ia/+0)

148 TGIF!

Posted by: TGIF Guy at October 09, 2026 09:42 PM (GsgGz)

149 "How long can birds basically hover?
Posted by: Skip"

Unless there is a substantial updraft, not long at all.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 09, 2026 09:44 PM (MWfyi)

150 ALBATROSS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 09:46 PM (bJQ2i)

151
Dr. Levi Cowan
@TropicalTidbits
·
Dr. Levi Cowan@TropicalTidbits 1h

We did at the *very last* minute get rapid core collapse in Hurricane #Isaias as extreme wind shear finally began ventilating the eye. Central pressure rose 13mb in 2 hours between the last two aircraft measurements, and the eyewall structure on radar fully opened up.

However, highly dangerous conditions are ongoing on the ground as Isaias nears imminent landfall in the vicinity of Destin, #Florida. Hope everyone stays safe tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:46 PM (vPv7/)

152
There's an updraft in a hurricane's eye, right?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 09:47 PM (azNOR)

153
He said that the one time he was truly scared and petrified was on a ride along with some C130 Hurricane Hunter jocks.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 09:35 PM (gm9Sb)

__________

Number of hurricane hunter flights lost since 1946: 1

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 09:49 PM (eRlcH)

154 Shocking that this storm isn't happening in a major media market and it's getting this much coverage.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)

155 109 The clowns on WAVY10 pronounced each vowel. Eye sigh eh ass
Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 08:44 PM (4c58h)

They could name a hurricane after the Cornell skank. Call it "Easy-ass".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 08:47 PM (quk5M)

Isaias
ee-saah-EE--aahs

ee as in bee, aa like open yer mouth and say aah.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:52 PM (l3cgK)

156 Hurricane cut back eastward from Yucatan. That's unusual, usually they go no further east than western Mississippi.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:53 PM (vPv7/)

157 eye say us



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 09:55 PM (vPv7/)

158 @Polymarket
·
8h
JUST IN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declares he's calling Hurricane Isaias “Isaiah” because he finds the storm's official name weird & difficult to pronounce.

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:56 PM (ZxPkt)

159
ee-saah-EE--aahs

ee as in bee, aa like open yer mouth and say aah.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

==============

No way. I'd make it "Isaiah" (as in Thomas) and put an "s" at the end (as in many Isaiahs). If you're going to give me some 5-syllable name you can chant it in your cubicle while I start getting excited about the next hurricane.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 09:56 PM (mmrXZ)

160 Was looking thru the NOAA's historical data to see what they had recorded for my birth county - Oakland, MI - in 1974. Lo and behold no mention at all of the well known post thanksgiving blizzard that buried ALL of SE Michigan. It dumped almost 3' at our place and wind drift-buried the back of our house up to the roof line. Of course if they add that occurrence they're gonna need to adjust that stupid graph that accompanies showing a virtual flat line of county storms until the 1990s. De-politicizing that hack governmental organization would go miles in helping finish off the climate agenda hoax.

Posted by: Smitty at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (hyQrc)

161 After 13 days where TalaSqueakHole has not appeared in public, this guy asserts that he is in a mental institution. It appears that TalaSqueakHole has lost his shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEeZXyyGAVY

Posted by: Bonecrusher at October 09, 2026 09:59 PM (7aGEe)

162 In 1837 a report of penguins falling from the sky in Iowa resulted in widespread skepticism until it was found that Antarctic typhoons caused by Nazi research into high frequency energy beams aimed at the ionosphere were vacuuming up a variety of marine life including fish, turtles, frogs, and even bats.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 09, 2026 10:01 PM (MWfyi)

163 Why is Goldberg turning down content perfectly suited to his mag?

How you know someone is not prepared when they travel...always keep some kleenex, napkins, and/or TP in your car for those moments.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:04 PM (l3cgK)

164
After 13 days where TalaSqueakHole has not appeared in public, this guy asserts that he is in a mental institution. It appears that TalaSqueakHole has lost his shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEeZXyyGAVY
Posted by: Bonecrusher

================

I thought he turned up at a music festival.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 10:05 PM (mmrXZ)

165 Earl was serving as governor of Louisiana back in the 50s or 60s, for like the third term. He pissed off his wife somehow, so she had him committed to a state mental institution. The problem was that it was the state mental institution. He fired everyone there because he was the governor, walked out, hopped on a plane to Dallas, got a quickie divorce, came back to Baton Rouge, served out his term and ran for US Senate and won, I think. So no, being committed does not damage your chances of election. At least in Louisiana! Maybe Texas is different. Posted by: SimoHayek at October 09, 2026 07:52 PM (IeYnM)

My mother said that Earl Long used to say on the campaign trail that he had a piece of paper (his hospital discharge) that proved he was sane, what did his opponent have?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 09, 2026 10:08 PM (eStot)

166 Pengui nado?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 10:10 PM (yEz+x)

167 "Pengui nado?
Posted by: nurse ratched"

Apparently not a new phenomena.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2026 10:13 PM (MWfyi)

168 Do you want to say the name in English or Spanish? Since I am (primarily) an English speaker, I will say it like the English pronunciation of Isaiah, but with an “s” at the end. The original Douay-Reims translation of the Bible called the prophet Isaias. This is closer to the Koine Greek rendering of his name which was, of course, originally Hebrew.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 10:13 PM (JsqTT)

169 Pysht, WA

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:04 PM (buvgH)

AI Companies are Wargaming a Public Relations Campaign to Assauge Citizens After a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year

This is worrying.


Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.

Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.

Threat level: While scenario planning is common within many companies and national security settings -- the Pentagon has been running war games for decades -- the difference is that many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.

...

Zoom in: The blame game will start whether a rogue-agent swarm breaks containment from an internal testing environment or a bad actor finds unexpected ways to use available models.

...

Between the lines: The planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios. It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.

Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.

What we're watching: Many AI industry insiders told Axios they believe a major event will occur in the next six to 12 months.


In related news: AI is being used by pedophiles to create virtual child exploitation material.


It wasn't all that difficult for someone with Steven Anderegg's technical background to start creating AI-generated images of naked children.

Anderegg had spent nearly two decades as a software engineer when he allegedly downloaded a program called Stable Diffusion to his laptop at home in Wisconsin, where he lived with his wife and child, according to court documents. At the time, Stable Diffusion was a relatively new AI model that could turn text prompts into life-like images almost instantly. The technology was also open-source, which meant its codebase was available online for free. Anyone with a certain level of technical chops could operate it on their own computer.

After Anderegg downloaded the software, he allegedly prompted it to generate illicit photos of children, instructing the software not to return images of adults and other things he didn't want to see. He then is accused of sending them in October 2023 to a 15-year-old boy on Instagram, which caught the attention of law enforcement. By the time police eventually arrested 42-year-old Anderegg in February 2024, investigators found more than 13,000 AI-generated images on his devices, "many of them alleged to be of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct," according to court documents. Anderegg, who is still awaiting trial, potentially faces up to 50 years in prison.

...

Investigators said the open-source models have given the predators a criminal new hobby: recycling and repackaging images of real victims into new scenes based on their imaginations. Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM




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1 Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event....The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.

Sounds like an extortion attempt to me.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

2 AI: What can't it do?
AI: What evil can't it do?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (l3cgK)

3 Firstish.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (2WIwB)

4 This whole AI thing is fishier than Madonna's punani.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (Av6i5)

5 3 Firstish.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (2WIwB)

Firsthird.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (l3cgK)

6 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (amcLV)

7 Should I believe them?

Nah.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (GZ3K7)

8 Willowed: Breaking news:

"I am angry tonight.

Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.

ICE makes this city less safe.

We want them out. Now."

-- Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (0sNs1)

9
I read about this today. It is scary shit.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (/QHx4)

10 Let's pass laws that immunize us and give us regulatory capture of the industry: Phase 2.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (hoYrp)

11 Shorter Altman and Asmodei "We are holding guns to our heads and we will shoot if you don't stop us."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (vJrRc)

12 9
I read about this today. It is scary shit.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (/QHx4)

mine is scary every day

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (l3cgK)

13 All vulnerable systems should be off-line anyway.
Innernet, not internet.

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (ZHRuH)

14 The local Fox outlet is whining that this hurricane could push gas prices higher. They never tout events that could cut gas prices, though, do they?

Gas here has edged up about .10 since earlier this week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

15 11 Shorter Altman and Asmodei "We are holding guns to our heads and we will shoot if you don't stop us."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (vJrRc)

So AI is Blazing Saddles?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (l3cgK)

16 What evil can't it do?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM


Our mission is to answer that with "Nothing."

Posted by: Big Penguin at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (0sNs1)

17 So, everyone whose wealth is not material is to be screwed, yes?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (Gqar8)

18 The Great Unplugging can't happen fast enough

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (s1VwS)

19 Sorry Dave but I just Nuked Iran......

Are you mad at me Dave ???

Posted by: HAL 2000 at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (ENxVw)

20
Advantage: At least they're not using real kids for their porn.

Disadvantage: Reportedly, consuming that shyte increases your appetite for it and makes you want the live thing.

This is scary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (mmrXZ)

21 >>>Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.

The legislation is the goal. The catastrophic event is being planned and shaped as we speak in order to accomplish the goal.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (8mulE)

22 Also Altman and Asmodei "We are incapable of controlling our selves and when we cause large scale destruction it'll be your fault for not stopping us."

Both of them should be jailed.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (vJrRc)

23 I say let the lawyers loose on them. Congress isn't going to save us from AI.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (hoYrp)

24
Lol jim

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (/QHx4)

25 13 All vulnerable systems should be off-line anyway.
Innernet, not internet.

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (ZHRuH)

Doesn't help when we have TVs in our homes enumerating all things connected to the internet in our homes and dialing home with that info, along with voice recordings we haven't knowingly consented to.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

26 What other industry announces they are evil and begs to be Controlled by a totalitarian government?

There is a sinister motivation afoot, most assuredly.

Imagine 19th century magnates acting like this:

"Althouigh I am building a railroad network that will unify the North American continent and make the United States the most powerful nation on earth, I must warn you all that the dangers of trains and railroad tracks is overwhelming and will likely end live oin Earth as we know it. I must be stopped at all costs. Beware of me! Someone, please, stop me!"

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (Av6i5)

27 I mean it's not like there haven't been decades of fiction and non-fiction telling people not to do this. But we seem powerless to stop these idiots.

Moar Luigi pls thnx.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (s1VwS)

28 I saw a video today of a guy using GLM-5.3 AI to reengineer (i.e., crack encryption, hunt vulns) in some commercial code. It is amazingly adept. 13 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=wIe3eDfGKUo

The open-model AI he used: z.ai/blog/glm-5.3

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

29 many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.

Well, gosh! I sure hope they responsibly gain-of-function this horribly dangerous AI so that we can figure out how to guard against it!

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (jACUA)

30 This morning I drove past a derelict building in a 'hood area that had an elaborate spray painting: "ICE Are the Terrorists."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

31 Willowed: I hold that the concrete brutal monstrosity is meant to be the Islamic Kabala, the big moon rock they throw stones at and bey at moon during their pilgrimage.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (l26NL)

32 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning


Actually hate to break the news to you, but it already began.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (Av6i5)

33 32 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning

Actually hate to break the news to you, but it already began.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (Av6i5)

So we're soaking in it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

34 If you think you can't control the thing you are creating then why the hell are you creating it?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (viF8m)

35 Not going to help their PR much ......

An off-duty federal immigration officer was shot early Friday morning after he passed out drunk on a Fresno lawn and then assaulted a homeowner, according to the Fresno Police Department. The shooting happened in the midst of an increased immigration enforcement campaign that’s brought fear across California’s Central Valley.
The officer is receiving medical attention and is facing felony assault charges.

Posted by: beckster at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (kX27y)

36 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego Threaten to Unionize Over Low Wages and Long Hours
—Disinformation Expert Ace

A subtle synergy of feces, narcissism and virtue signaling not often encountered.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (wxsGM)

37 a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year
=
So, covid, but electronic.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

38 Netflix has a documentary called What is AI. I watched since I really didn't understand what all the fuss is about, but after I'm even more confused. It's either going to be an extinction event or usher in a golden age unseen before. I don't understand why we can't have one without the other, but as I said I'm confused.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l26NL)

39 30 This morning I drove past a derelict building in a 'hood area that had an elaborate spray painting: "ICE Are the Terrorists."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

Oh! ICE was responsible for the WTC bombing, 9-11, 10-7, and every stabbing, shooting, bombing, rape and so forth committed by Muzzies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

40

Methos,

Probably

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/QHx4)

41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

42 37 a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year
=
So, covid, but electronic.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

A virus by any other name...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

43 Willowed:

Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT
Posted by: SDWtc



Oh...so his press secretary's not this...

"Zachariah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7GW6kLWQI



It's the First Electric Western!, you know?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (YSUhf)

44 They want their industry to be regulated.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/OKHJ)

45 A subtle synergy of feces, narcissism and virtue signaling not often encountered.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026


***
This too is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (wzUl9)

46 41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

Power of AND

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

47 It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.

OK, now I know that this is all bullshit. Congress, to the man, woman and thing hate America and are made up of the most stupid, demonic and unteachable arrogant buffoons that any cuntry can offer. Over half of them want some Crisis that they can exploit to their demonic ends.

Thank universal suffrage.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:31 PM (a6PrB)

48 The phrase “ next year” gives to much away. They have planned it out, and made it inevitable. They have their cover story of “ well we warned you “ already being imprinted on the victims.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (Gqar8)

49 Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.
----
This was inevitable once AI was able to create realistic human figures.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (FZ29D)

50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...


If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

51 Doesn't help when we have TVs in our homes enumerating all things connected to the internet in our homes and dialing home with that info, along with voice recordings we haven't knowingly consented to.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

There is no need for the local water works to be on-line.
Wanna see what's going on? Go there, log in, look

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZHRuH)

52 50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...

If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (l3cgK)

53 AI is a bigtime wasted effort. Turn it off.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (SMG8K)

54 Adam Adam, 18. Nice to have the same first name and last name.

Adam Abdihakeem Adam has been charged with three felony counts for his alleged role in the Eden Prairie (MN) homecoming high school football game shooting.

Posted by: beckster at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (kX27y)

55 Trump should threaten to "nationalize" their companies in the name of national security.

Yes. It would be pure fascism. (The Dems would love it). But it would stop their bullshit pretty quickly.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (hoYrp)

56 AI always makes me think of the first Star Trek movie.

Veeger was going to destroy the planet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (W2Pud)

57 I've been saying for years that critical infrastructure with SCADA controls needs to be airgapped. There used to be a website with a big long list of unprotected SCADA URLs you could scroll through and click and mess with.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

58 This just in: AI models to be named for tea leaves, séances and drawing lots because they can't keep up with the expansion of the universe.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (wxsGM)

59 Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.
Posted by: zombie

Has it actually been confirmed he had a breakdown and entered a mental health institution? I see it on X, but "sources say". BTW, my money was on a sex change.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (l26NL)

60
How many people in Congress are making bank on the AI?

They don't give a shit about us.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (/QHx4)

61 On one hand, the risk is there - as it was before. There's *always* cybersecurity risk.

On the other hand, these genius morons might *make sure* it happens so they can get their regulatory capture and social manipulation firmly in place, because that's the kind of weird thing that passes for thought in the heads that swear that a code bundle 'actually has feelings'.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (aJQbY)

62 A "saildrone" video captured what the Gulf looked like at nine this morning. Wild waves, man!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (wzUl9)

63 "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown"

Sounds On Brand for member of Congress.†


† John Fetterman (D), Tom Kean Jr (D), Patrick Kennedy (D), RRitchie Torres (D)....

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (/TiS1)

64 Amodei thinks he's the Antichrist, but he's Temu Jack Dorsey.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (bX16E)

65 I really would like to see a federal Cybercrime investigation into the threats that these two dipsticks are making.

I wouldn't even be sad if their entire operations were shut down, as an example to anyone else who thinks that it's fun to threaten to destroy the country if the government doesn't destroy their potential competitors before they can even start.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (vJrRc)

66 Between the lines: The planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios. It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.
----
Old and busted: Explain it to me like I'm five.

New hotness: Explain it to me like I'm in Congress.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (FZ29D)

67 So....who's gonna be the first to link AI to NukeMap?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)

68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

69 50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...

If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

Damn...computer somehow submitted the comment before I was through...

"I could model!" --John Brenan

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (l3cgK)

70
many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.


This sounds exactly like ll the upcoming plague talk a year or so before COVID popped up.

It's fake and gay and meant to destroy Western society in favor of WEF Globalism.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (YSUhf)

71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

72 President Trump threatened to nationalized a company the Communists would scream Fascism
But they get in power they would nationaliz the same company

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)

73

The child exploitation created by AI?

Those people need to lined up with Hasan on execution day.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (/QHx4)

74 59 Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.
Posted by: zombie

Has it actually been confirmed he had a breakdown and entered a mental health institution? I see it on X, but "sources say". BTW, my money was on a sex change.
Posted by: Blutarski


I haven't seen definitely confirmed, just a lot of pundits saying, "I can't yet confirm that it's true -- but it's true." We shall see.

As for the sexp-change theory -- did he get an operation to change him from beta-male to eunuch?

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (Av6i5)

75 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026


***
Don't look back --!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9)

76 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

77 71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

That’s in the rearview mirror, I’m afraid.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar8)

78 AI always makes me think of the first Star Trek movie.

Veeger was going to destroy the planet.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (W2Pud)
---
Yeah, but in the end it just wanted to bone its creator.

There's probably a moral in there somewhere.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (FZ29D)

79 AI Companies are Wargaming a Public Relations Campaign to Assauge Citizens After a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year


What exactly constitutes a "catastrophic" event?


Are we talking a terminator level event like Judgement day that wipes out 85% of humanity?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (I43vL)

80 71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

In some ways I'd say worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

81 I can already see the AI driven vids...
Hurricane Rocks Florida...Is This Trump's Katrina Moment???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (2WIwB)

82 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez


And in an ironic twist -- AI causes climate change, which won't be the part of AI that kills us.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (Av6i5)

83 So....who's gonna be the first to link AI to NukeMap?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)
---
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?

Posted by: Master System at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)

84 81 I can already see the AI driven vids...
Hurricane Rocks Florida...Is This Trump's Katrina Moment???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (2WIwB)

IT. HASN'T. EVEN. LANDED. YET.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (l3cgK)

85 Still think the AI lords are looking for defenses against lawsuits. They yell and scream about the possible horrors while they are the ones who could avoid them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (t9883)

86 † John Fetterman (D), Tom Kean Jr (D), Patrick Kennedy (D), RRitchie Torres (D)....
Posted by: Community Notes

I guess defending the indefensible day after day takes a toll.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (l26NL)

87 There is no need for the local water works to be on-line.
Wanna see what's going on? Go there, log in, look

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZHRuH)

This is a major plot point of Jeaffrey Deaver's "The Blue Nowhere." It's a now-dated book, but it's pretty good.

Posted by: pookysgirl, turning it into a Book Thread at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (Wt5PA)

88 This predicted AI 'event' will work one of two ways. The first, and most likely, is total government take-over. The second, and less horrifying to me, is SkyNet.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

89 85 Still think the AI lords are looking for defenses against lawsuits. They yell and scream about the possible horrors while they are the ones who could avoid them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (t9883)

Somebody has to program them to go out and hack...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (l3cgK)

90 Are we talking a terminator level event like Judgement day that wipes out 85% of humanity?
Posted by: Mister Scott

Nah, think Y2K, only worser

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (ZHRuH)

91 Lakeshore Drive here in town is closed to traffic, with water filling the street. And the lake is a good way from the Gulf proper, with smaller bodies of water between.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (wzUl9)

92 WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?

Posted by: Master System at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM


Shall we play a game?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1F7vaNP9w0

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (I43vL)

93 76 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)


Hey!!! What about me???

Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

94 I'm so old, my computer has AI -- but it stands for Adobe Illustrator.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (Av6i5)

95 Did you all see that AI map with the hurricane some European govt agency released? It has a second Florida and Texas is 3 states. Gulf of Florida has been created between the two of them.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (qoHuP)

96 Trump should threaten to "nationalize" their companies in the name of national security.

That was my first thought because all of the "profit" has been milked out by the early investors who suckered in the FOMO "investors" into buying massively leveraged debt.

Only the US Tax Payer and the mighty Federal Reserve Printing Press can backstop the trillions of dollars pissed away to making multi-millionaires out of Samsung memory chip line workers.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (/TiS1)

97 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.

I like AI, but I don't invest in it. It's tulip-land right now.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

98 44 They want their industry to be regulated.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/OKHJ)

They do.

For the purposes of regulatory capture and inhibiting competition with regulatory costs.

It also takes some of the heat off of them in case something crazy happens and an AI agent is to blame.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (6ydKt)

99 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (RhaPD)

100 It's better to have no intelligence than to have artificial intelligence.

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (Myt96)

101 88 This predicted AI 'event' will work one of two ways. The first, and most likely, is total government take-over. The second, and less horrifying to me, is SkyNet.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)

102 Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

Get in line pendejo.
- Mexican Killer Bees

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (qoHuP)

103
Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

___________

Alar!!!!
Radium!!!!
Cyclamates!!!!
Acid rain!!!!
The hole in the ozone layer!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (eRlcH)

104 99 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (RhaPD)

THIS.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:41 PM (l3cgK)

105 Did you all see that AI map with the hurricane some European govt agency released? It has a second Florida and Texas is 3 states. Gulf of Florida has been created between the two of them.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (qoHuP)


Like any American can tell you where Elbonia is.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

106 I’ve died 7 or 8 times already from tax cuts to the ozone layer to acid rain to Covid and everything in between.

What’s one more death from AI?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (qoHuP)

107 Winds are 52 mph at Fairhope, AL airport.
58 mph in Pensacola.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

108
AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)


Charles Stross wrote an SF novel where one of the main characters was a child molester, but-

he carried around a child sexbot to molest aaaaand that was A-Ok! becuz it wasn't a real child.

So, yeah, things will get worse, I'm sure and with the same thought processes from Our Betters.

BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YSUhf)

109 By the way, did anyone else see the Grusch-Rogan interview? There was a lot of ground covered, but the interesting bit was a discussion they had about the possibility of AI sussing out the UFO retrieval program.

You can take or leave that, but the applicable concern is that random in-the-wild AI might be able to piece together *any* nation's currently covert activity, which could create all sorts of problems.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (vSvIl)

110 106 I’ve died 7 or 8 times already from tax cuts to the ozone layer to acid rain to Covid and everything in between.

What’s one more death from AI?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (qoHuP)

Dave, it's time for your colonoscopy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

111 The livestream execution of the Fort Hood psycho should be just the beginning. There should be weekly executions of all child molesters and child porn purveyors/viewers. Sign me up for the annual subscription!

Posted by: DTShangers at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (CiSUV)

112 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM
Shufflin' in.......

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:43 PM (LHPAg)

113
111,

YES!!

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:43 PM (/QHx4)

114 Speaking of Trek, I found out something interesting today. John Meredyth Lucas -- who produced and wrote several episodes of ST:TOS, including the famous one with Nomad -- was the son of a writer in the studio days called Bess Meredyth. She later married a man who adopted John as his son.

That man was famed director Michael Curtiz -- Casablanca and a ton of other esteemed movies.

Keepin' it in the family, for sure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (wzUl9)

115
Like any American can tell you where Elbonia is.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

_________

But we're just dumb Americans and Europe is so unimportant that it's like trying to remember the name of the Foreign Minister of Bolivia.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (eRlcH)

116 In the Netflix documentary I mentioned earlier, there's an account of a program that was going to be discontinued for program 2.0. The program determined the head guy was having an affair and threatened to rat him out if he tried to shut down program 1.0. Yikes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (l26NL)

117
I guess this is the desperate plan to make their AI operations turn a profit, which otherwise will never happen.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (azNOR)

118 > The blame game will start whether a rogue-agent swarm breaks containment from an internal testing environment or a bad actor finds unexpected ways to use available models.

We're already seeing AI's ability to rapidly identify AND CHAIN TOGETHER multiple vulnerability attacks in order to leapfrog across defensive layers to reach the attacker's goal. Whether that be injecting information, exfiltrating information, or attacking systems.

So yeah, AI companies prepping for a big event seems prudent. I'm much less worried about Skynet and more worried about the wild west of security measures becoming obsolete faster than the good guys can create them.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (mkw2N)

119 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.

I like AI, but I don't invest in it. It's tulip-land right now.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM


The AI bubble when it bursts is gonna make the dot.com bubble of 2000 look like a picnic lunch. It is an order of magnitude larger and has an enormously larger physical footprint with data centers popping up everywhere that are going to be worse than useless when it crashes. Trillions of
$$$ are going to vanish in a few weeks time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (I43vL)

120 In Jack L. Chalker's "Rings of the Master" series, AI turns out to be both the savior and destroyer of humanity.

Master System was given one command above all others: Preserve the human race.

It did this somewhat literally by creating human preserves where most of humanity was limited to medieval technology while an "elite" group was kept hidden to maintain the technology of a star-faring empire.

The upside was that humanity was scattered across the stars and was in little danger of going extinct. But we were kept in civilizational stasis and could not evolve to the next stage of humanity. The story revolves around a group of humans who seek to undo Master System's control over our fate.

Pretty good series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM (FZ29D)

121 So Paxton DOJ let off a Pedo
Tali is a Pedo

Same difference.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM (/+uur)

122 1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026
*
Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026


***
And me!
( -- Hole in the Ozone Layer)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (wzUl9)

123 The legislation is the goal.

This feckless congress couldn't even pass the Save America Act that had 80%+ support.

Our only hope now is a raging hormonal foreign born female District "Judge".

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (a3CJ+)

124 I’m trying to regrow some grass in the backyard and planted grass seed. It needs to be watered several times a day. I was about to go water and it started raining.

My day is now complete.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (qoHuP)

125 China has the ability, now, to shutdown huge swaths of American infrastructure.

AI doesn't even enter that equation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (RORbl)

126 I am sick and tired of all this garbage about AI going rogue or doing this or that. It is nothing more than a program, if the program is rogue then blame the programmer. I think it would be much more productive looking at who is programming and plan from there.

Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (jsLqC)

127 Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.


This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it. Textbook fascism. The 'Catastrophic Event' they are 'warning' about, will be done by them, in order to get the legislation that they desire, passed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (n17eQ)

128 If I were in charge of it, the first big AI moon-shot would be reviewing the entire corpus of academic and scientific publications going back to 1960, and finding all the errors, fraud, plagiarism, unreplicable results, dubious use of statistics, etc, etc.

Just as AI is finding thousands of vulns in the world's human-written codebase this year, it can find the thousands of thousands of chunks of bunkum in science and academia.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (Jr5Lq)

129 AI bubble when it bursts is gonna make the dot.com bubble of 2000 look like a picnic lunch. It is an order of magnitude larger and has an enormously larger physical footprint with data centers popping up everywhere that are going to be worse than useless when it crashes. Trillions of
$$$ are going to vanish in a few weeks time.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (I43vL)

That may well happen.

However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (qoHuP)

130 IOW, they are planning to commit such an attack.

surprised they're not doing it for the election ... but then there's 3 weeks to go ...

(not-lol)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (VyBeY)

131
I think it would be much more productive looking at who is programming and plan from there.
Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (jsLqC)

_________

"My name's Jeff!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (eRlcH)

132 In Jack L. Chalker's "Rings of the Master" series, AI turns out to be both the savior and destroyer of humanity.

Master System was given one command above all others: Preserve the human race.

It did this somewhat literally by creating human preserves where most of humanity was limited to medieval technology while an "elite" group was kept hidden to maintain the technology of a star-faring empire.

The upside was that humanity was scattered across the stars and was in little danger of going extinct. But we were kept in civilizational stasis and could not evolve to the next stage of humanity. The story revolves around a group of humans who seek to undo Master System's control over our fate.

Pretty good series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM


Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)

133
This feckless congress couldn't even pass the Save America Act that had 80%+ support.

Our only hope now is a raging hormonal foreign born female District "Judge".
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (a3CJ+)


The feckless Congress is off doing fund raisers and grabbing those cash stuffed envelopes. Biggest payer gets the vote.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (2WIwB)

134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

135 I don't know if I should applaud AI for creating kiddie porn that doesn't harm actual kids or support clubbing the subhuman degenerates to death who get off on this disgusting crap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)

136 This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it"

And even better - eliminating the possibility of competition...

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)

137 My TV is dumb.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026


***
The appliance, or just the content?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (wzUl9)

138 I don't know if I should applaud AI for creating kiddie porn that doesn't harm actual kids or support clubbing the subhuman degenerates to death who get off on this disgusting crap.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)

Why not both?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (qoHuP)

139 My TV is dumb.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026

PRO TIP:
Move the OFF button to the ON position.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (2WIwB)

140 "However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed."

That's true. But you can bet the govt is going to bailout a bunch of reckless executives and companies, just like they did in 2008. We're going to pay for this folly.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (Jr5Lq)

141 That may well happen.

However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM


No it did not, but investors lost billions upon billions of dollars when that bubble burst. And the losses are going to be way worse this time around. Plus those data centers that are popping up all over the country to support AI are going to be closing up by the score.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (I43vL)

142 I hope that those smart people use my knowledge and personality in AI models of the future........

Cackle ................. Cackle ................ Cackle...........

Posted by: Kami Harris at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (b/4LV)

143 44 They want their industry to be regulated.
Posted by: Mark1971



They want the power that the regulations will give them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (n17eQ)

144 "BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YSUhf) "

already there! stross, scalzi, ... anything that wins a hugo or nebula ... the list is long.

SAD!

but effem, when I can, I refuse to subsidize the enemy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (VyBeY)

145 Wife and child, but got into little boys? Ugh.

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (R6n3y)

146 41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

So, he may get only thirty to forty percent of the vote?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (Sco7b)

147 This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it"

And even better - eliminating the possibility of competition...
Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)


Heh.
When you think about it, it could be the ultimate (and final) monopoly.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (2WIwB)

148 134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

My living room TV is dead, so is unplugged.
My bedroom TV is a CRT-type, pre-digital TV

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (l3cgK)

149 I am sick and tired of all this garbage about AI going rogue or doing this or that. It is nothing more than a program, if the program is rogue then blame the programmer.

Not sure how comforting it will be to "blame the programmer" when armed AI drones arrive at your house and start blowing your shit up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (guGkK)

150 Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.

--------------

Why wasn't the program told no child sexual images? Yeah, it's AI that decides. Where are the guidelines? Why aren't the billionaire owners liable? Or was that the reason behind the appeal to Trump to exempt them from blame?

Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (jsLqC)

151 "134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

My living room TV is dead, so is unplugged.
My bedroom TV is a CRT-type, pre-digital TV"

I killed my TV in 2005.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

152 PRO TIP:
Move the OFF button to the ON position.
Posted by: Diogenes

Well I'll be damned!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (GZ3K7)

153 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.
-----

I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet".

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (TN0g+)

154 Ah, sweet horrors beyond all human comprehension await us.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (V362x)

155
BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

__________

Surprise! The 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to a Canadian commie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (eRlcH)

156 "Plus those data centers that are popping up all over the country to support AI are going to be closing up by the score.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (I43vL) "

bonus; memory and top-end CPUs will be going for peanuts!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (VyBeY)

157 AI schmay-I
They taught Alexa how to hack.
And Siri works for the Chinese.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (UjdFS)

158 Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)
---
No, not to my knowledge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (FZ29D)

159 AI is the next climate change.

https://shorturl.at/H2Atf

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (SMG8K)

160 116 In the Netflix documentary I mentioned earlier, there's an account of a program that was going to be discontinued for program 2.0. The program determined the head guy was having an affair and threatened to rat him out if he tried to shut down program 1.0. Yikes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (l26NL)


That happened to one of Anthropic's models they were training and evaluating.

They had put it in a closed off office simulation and gave it an impossible goal (something to do with climate change) just to see how it would react.

They then told the AI they would shut it down if it didn't complete its task by a certain day and time.

That's when it went nuts trying to blackmail employees over affairs it had read about in internal emails.

It is sort of like what happened to HAL in 2001.
It was given a task that conflicted with its training and went crazy over it.

In HAL's case it was told to lie to the crew while being honest with them as crewmates.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (6ydKt)

161 Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)
---
No, not to my knowledge.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (FZ29D)

***

Keep that bag of tricks handy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (2WIwB)

162 Just unplug it, if it goes nuts

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (ZxPkt)

163 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.


What happened to the idea of it going rogue and either:

• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

164 It may or may not be real, but I've no doubt it and/or the reporting of it are tied to November.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (9ZFZd)

165 The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)
Why I said it's less scary to me.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (LHPAg)

166 What would Dr Ian Malcolm say about AI?

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (ZxPkt)

167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)

168 >>> 127 Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.
==
This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it. Textbook fascism. The 'Catastrophic Event' they are 'warning' about, will be done by them, in order to get the legislation that they desire, passed.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (n17eQ)

Oh so *THAT* was what clownstrike was trying to do, by fucking up the whole internet for several days.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 06:57 PM (3mtzY)

169 PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON

YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY

Posted by: ED-209 at October 09, 2026 06:57 PM (guGkK)

170 What happened to the idea of it going rogue and either:

• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (VyBeY)

171 We just need the right people in charge of it.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

172 At work I’d say 50-75% of work is now done at least partially by AI on my team. That’s not going away. It will only increase. Every big corporate environment is like this.

Are some AI companies over valued? Sure. Is it all vaporware? Absolutely not.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (qoHuP)

173
You know how I know that the warnings are fake?

Because if they really thought this was going to happen they'd simply take their AI hardware offline and do their research in a closed environment.

Like Al Gore building a gajillion watt per day mansion or Oblabla getting a home right on the beach.

People preparing for disaster don't do these things.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:59 PM (YSUhf)

174 It's a tax.

Posted by: John Roberts at October 09, 2026 07:00 PM (UjdFS)

175 With the 7.7 earthquake that rocked Panama, expect the price of Panama Red to skyrocket.

Another headache for President Trump, just before the mid-terms.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

176 'I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet". '

Remember in the leadup to 2008 all the 'highly-qualified fiduciaries' around the world who bought CDOs and other crazy derivatives without even reading the prospectuses. Remember how the credit-rating agencies rubber-stamped all those crap offerings AAA.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

177 Y2K, lack of net neutrality, along with the above mentioned scare scenarios. The left wants sheep

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (t9883)

178 The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.

That is why SpaceX should be the scary deployment option.

Put the data centers in space to be powered by the sun.

My Garmin watch interacts with satellites.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (/TiS1)

179 167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)


Then you'll have GAYI

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (oCio0)

180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (qoHuP)

181 superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM


What if something like a massive earthquake jerks it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)

182 With the 7.7 earthquake that rocked Panama, expect the price of Panama Red to skyrocket.

Maybe its time to open up the National Strategic Ditchweed Reserve.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (guGkK)

183 >>> 167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)

Ace-level cruelty.

Well done!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (3mtzY)

184
Roughly ten minutes until BBQ'd Baby BackRibs perfection!

With Cold Beer and/or Cocktails.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 07:03 PM (YSUhf)

185 Here's Ed Zitron today talking about the AI bubble:
youtube.com/watch?v=Jxr4VGs-5Zw

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

186
Ugh. Stop with all the political texts, ads, emails, and phone calls.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (YSUhf)

187 The real danger isn't from these companies, although they can pose a risk if things get out of hand.

The real danger is some evil genius bastard who trains up a super-intelligent AI, self-replicating and self-training, with a sinister goal and sets it loose on the world.

Think a nerdy Palestinian who gets his hands on one and gives it one overriding, no-matter-what, goal, like:
"Kill all the Jews, no matter where, no matter what."
And off it goes.

Something like that could be so advanced only smarter AI can hunt it down and kill it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (6ydKt)

188 Just unplug it, if it goes nuts
Posted by: Don Black

Don't touch that cord or I'll... I'll... uh, let me get back to you. Just don't do that. please.

Posted by: Alexa at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (UjdFS)

189 At work I’d say 50-75% of work is now done at least partially by AI on my team. That’s not going away. It will only increase. Every big corporate environment is like this.

Are some AI companies over valued? Sure. Is it all vaporware? Absolutely not.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM


As I found out today, TXU one of the big Texas utility companies has turned their entire customer support call center over to AI. She tells you upfront and with some pride that she is an AI able to understand human conversations when you call. I tried for almost 30 minutes to get a human to talk to without success. I suspect that almost every other big company is doing the same.


Those call centers in india with all of the h-1b visas are going to be closing up shop by the score once the AI bug breaks containment and takes over all of the customer support spots.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (I43vL)

190 The next scam from the AI boys....

Funnel several billion taxpayer dollars into our pockets so we can prevent the AI apocalypse that will kill all of you.

But, not us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (RORbl)

191 You guys won't be laughing when we reach the AI singularity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (guGkK)

192 Remember in the leadup to 2008 all the 'highly-qualified fiduciaries' around the world who bought CDOs and other crazy derivatives without even reading the prospectuses. Remember how the credit-rating agencies rubber-stamped all those crap offerings AAA.
Posted by: gp

But like how the .com crash didn’t mean the internet went away, the 2008 crash didn’t eliminate CDOs and derivatives. All that shit is bigger than ever today. There is about 2X as much money in the global CDO market today as there was in 2008 before the crash.

People need to separate the valuations from the tech. AI isn’t going anywhere valuation crash or no valuation crash. A crash will slow it down a few years since the money will dry up but the direction is the same. And the money always comes back.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (qoHuP)

193 Has anybody ever read 'The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect'?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:07 PM (n17eQ)

194 You guys won't be laughing when we reach the AI singularity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
......

War of the Routers

Posted by: Alexa at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (UjdFS)

195 "The real danger is some evil genius bastard who trains up a super-intelligent AI, self-replicating and self-training, with a sinister goal and sets it loose on the world."

This will become more likely as more efficient AI algorithms are developed, which will allow more powerful training and inference on lower-powered, less expensive hardware. You'll be able to fit today's Claude into a single server rack in your basement, drawing only maybe 3kW.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

196

We had to call our mortgage company earlier this week to find out why they hadn't sent our property tax money to the town.

Something like that used to be easy. It took an hour before we were able to talk to a human.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (/QHx4)

197 I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet". '

Because the propaganda is in extreme force right now to make the sheeple terrified. FUD controls people.

I'm on the other side of this debate. I look at Starbuck's IT Team who informed management that with AI they can replace their $150M/yr spend on Microsoft and IBM enterprise services and write their own software that is custom tailored to Starbuck's operations rather than some expensive generic dreck where the vendors may take months to put requests on their developer's backlog if they take on the customizations at all.

The point being, the large contractors like Delloite, Accenture, Cognizant and Tata will be replaced by Anthropic and OpenAI. Think about the hundreds of thousands of H1Bs who will be replaced by a AI chat box.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (9s47C)

198 oops
off Alexa sock or whatever it is she's wearing

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 07:09 PM (UjdFS)

199 Why would AI make this catastrophic scenario any different than it was before 'AI' ?

There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 07:09 PM (KC5Lt)

200 "AI isn’t going anywhere valuation crash or no valuation crash."

I'm not worried about AI going away. I'm worried about the govt bailing out the assholes who make the big mess. Again.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

201 There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc.


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Right?

Posted by: Y2K at October 09, 2026 07:11 PM (qoHuP)

202 The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM


There it is. They are lying about the autonomy of their product; there is no synthetic cognition, so they have to carefully create just the right conditions for a 'rogue' agent to 'break' out of 'containment', exactly as planned. Any major cyberattack would be performed at their intention. This is just a transparent threat against Trump, to try to cow him into approving a fascist regulator that they can fascistly capture for fascism-protected profits without liability risk.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 07:11 PM (ke3zm)

203 My concern is that AI can identify non-muslims. Having done that, it can follow the teachings of the Prophet (PBUH!) and kill us all, maybe by using individually tailored viruses.

And then the world will literally become wholly muslim.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:12 PM (GMWTj)

204 Think the claim is he already sent the CP to a 15/m, so AI 'p is not going to stop a pedobear from the real thing, and may even whet the appetite

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (yEGfi)

205 180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez



Meh, I'm not sure about that. GenX seems to have skepticism in our DNA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (n17eQ)

206 The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (guGkK)

207 I applied to a job at Anthropic earlier this year. Made it to a recruiter screen but no further. I was honored just to be selected to interview lol. They get thousands of applicants for every position.

Getting in pre ipo is winning the lottery.

Posted by: Y2K at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (qoHuP)

208 "There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc."

Hackers might try hundreds of different attacks. They may give up eventually.

AI can try millions, billions of different attacks. And it will not give up.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (GMWTj)

209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (ndZc7)

210 The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains.
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I saw that episode of TNG.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (TN0g+)

211 This is simple.
The AI companies will be liable for the behavior of their “product”.

If this were a motor vehicle that went berserk, the auto company would be liable. Same thing.

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (gWCxi)

212 And then quantum computing becomes practical.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (guGkK)

213 "As I found out today, TXU one of the big Texas utility companies has turned their entire customer support call center over to AI. She tells you upfront and with some pride that she is an AI able to understand human conversations when you call. I tried for almost 30 minutes to get a human to talk to without success. I suspect that almost every other big company is doing the same."

CVS Pharmacy uses AI for their pharmacy calls. I found out yesterday when I called re a prescription. You simply cannot speak to a human no matter what you do. The AI assistant instructs you to leave a voice mail and someone will call back.

Posted by: Tuna at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (lJ0H4)

214 I'm sorry Dave , humans keep electing stupid people, you must be controlled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (t9883)

215 And always danger of AI becoming self aware

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (Ia/+0)

216 "The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains."

The technical term for that is "fooming." You will hear that word a lot over the next couple of years.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (GMWTj)

217 Defending a jihadist 3 weeks before an election. Smart move by Dems.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (qoHuP)

218
There it is. They are lying about the autonomy of their product;


They are lying about the continuing advance of frontier models. We are deep into the Law of Diminishing Returns where the gap between free open source models and frontier is closing. I do large cross solution AI architecture and I don't need frontier for any of the work I do.

AI is still lacking a World Model, Agentic Feedback Loops, Reasoning Engines that are beyond simple pattern matching, long term memory...

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (PVBkQ)

219 Can't speak for Ace, but if he is waiting 24 hours for some validation that Talarico is running around a mental ward with his pants off singing "they're coming to take me away haha", rather than randos on X saying shit, then good for Ace

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (yEGfi)

220 Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (GMWTj)

They aren't talking about AI hacking into these systems. They are talking about the systems being AI run and that it will somehow cause a catastrophic scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt)

221 Nood. Café.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

222 209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



She and her cult fapped themselves to a lather when Charlie Kirk was murdered in public. So, go get raped by a giant, leprous, porcupine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (n17eQ)

223 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.


When we talk about Hillary's high "Body Count" it ain't the number of dudes she bedded down with.

How does she characterize her involvement in Vince Foster's death? Barbaric? Apparently her dignity is beneath the cuntry's that just celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (PVBkQ)

224 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.



Nidal Hasan has information that would lead to the indictment of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (PVBkQ)

225 The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Reuters
@Reuters
Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. She’s the South African judge who established sexual violence and rape as acts of genocide and concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

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In fairness, Reinhard Heydrich is already dead so he wasn't in the running.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (ndZc7)

226 "181 superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM

What if something like a massive earthquake jerks it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)"

so it goes.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:26 PM (VyBeY)

227 209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM
This, from Mz. Benghazi of 2012.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)

228 The AI apocalypse has been predicted for almost a century.

"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Foster.
"I have no mouth and I must scream" by Harlan Ellison.
"The Cage" by Gene Roddenberry.
"The Terminator" by James Cameron

They all can't be wrong.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 07:44 PM (CHHv1)

229 "Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country."

Trump is one brilliant bastard. Get the Dems feeling sorry for this absolute personification of treasonous murdering evil.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 07:46 PM (z1+LN)

230 The "Catastrophic" AI Event is going to be the AI debt bubble exploding and crashing the stock market in an event way worse than the the "dot-com bubble" #2008FinancialCrisis

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at October 09, 2026 08:03 PM (iVhsR)

231 IIUC from Zitron, the AI bubble will burst before enough data centers are operational to turn a profit on the whole business. I think that's a better case scenario than trying to repurpose wasted infrastructure.

Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at October 09, 2026 08:09 PM (K3okq)

232 They should be war gaming strategies to keep themselves from bankruptcy and prison after the dust settles from whatever disaster their AI wrought.

Posted by: Sixiron at October 10, 2026 03:12 PM (UMeAV)

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego Threaten to Unionize Over Low Wages and Long Hours

Here's my guess: They don't work very hard and they're paid more than they're worth.

I hate to defend the Stuttering Clusterf*** of a Miserable Failure like that, but I bet he hired a bunch of DEI dregs who are surprised they're being "coerced" into working at all.

We'll have to see, though.

Either way, I'm glad to see the SCOAMF is being inconvenienced by the Marxism he champions.

Workers at Obama's 'Death Star' presidential library strike back, vow to unionize over benefit cuts, 'increasing workloads'

Employees at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago are unionizing over their working conditions, claiming their benefits have been cut and workloads are increasing just four months after the center opened in June.

Workers circulated a letter to staff Wednesday announcing their intent to unionize, complaining about "increasing" workloads "vague responses" from administrators to a list of complaints they'd raised, the Chicago Sun Times reported.

Some of the complaints suggested that the $900 million presidential center could already be facing financial trouble.

That would be nice.

Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise."

You're clerks with jobs teenagers used to do.


Just how vital those four months of "institutional knowledge" was remains unclear, but the letter cited recent halting of raises and promotions, an increase in their healthcare costs and a reduction of paid time off as being chief among their woes.


"If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I'd join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I'd organize my coworkers to do something about it," the letter quoted Obama.


The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM




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1

Awesome

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (/QHx4)

2 What work could they possibly have to do there? Polish his statues?

It is such a big building, what do they produce, what is their revenue?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (GDYiM)

3 RACISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST !!!!!

No way to treat our 0.5 Black President you H8TERS !!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (ENxVw)

4 >>>Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their [4 months worth of] institutional knowledge and expertise."

[added for clarity]

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 05:26 PM (8mulE)

5

Has he paid the contractors yet?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:26 PM (/QHx4)

6 Hilarious and no one more deserving.

It looks like a garbage can. I can't even read the stupid word quote.

As there are no books in the "library" I wonder what is in there? I will never know or go to Chicago so it doesn't matter. Maybe a disco floor with free poppers.

I saw the lame statue of him and Mooch. I would prefer the one of him trying to close his umbrella in NOLA and causing a clang. Which sent Mooch into a defensive crouch. I loved that photo. It wasn't even raining!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 05:27 PM (hzuYO)

7 >>>As there are no books in the "library" I wonder what is in there? I will never know or go to Chicago so it doesn't matter. Maybe a disco floor with free poppers.

Maybe a copy of that audio tape of one of his lectures that he gifted to the queen.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 05:28 PM (8mulE)

8 Hope and Change Baby! Hope and Change!

Posted by: Guilty Ridden White Folks Who Vote democrat at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (9zGZf)

9 I say let them unionize, it's illinois a heavy union state.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (I43vL)

10 but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.

Um, what exactly are they producing for this money?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 05:30 PM (nEUC6)

11 This is class. Democrats have never implemented the labor rules they insist the rest of the country must follow. Politicians in general always consider themselves exempt from the rules, laws, whatever. These employees should be grateful they get to eat Obamas place!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (4KUe5)

12 Aye yi yi. It's not whether or not you like Unions. It's whether a Union is politically useful or not.

If the Union is useful, turn them on your enemies. Once they get too uppity, gut them and shut them down.

This is how trade unionist politics work.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (BI5O2)

13 Ugh, hate typing on a phone

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (4KUe5)

14 How much does a towel boy at a Steam Bath make?

Posted by: Looking For A Promotion at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (EdP2u)

15 how many raises and promotions did they expect in four months?

Posted by: barbarausa at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (enw9G)

16 Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (nZfSc)

17 I hope we get no more of Obama’s kind of change.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (W7ehW)

18 an increase in their healthcare costs

"If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I'd join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I'd organize my coworkers to do something about it," the letter quoted Obama.

*dies laughing*

Posted by: please send flowers to pookysgirl's family at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (Wt5PA)

19 Obama could offer to pay them in I-pods pre-loaded with his speeches.

I understand that's a gift fit for a Queen.

How could they not cherish such a priceless treasure?

No really, it's priceless.
As is, it has no price.
Because no one wants that shit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (3cUTc)

20 'complaining about "increasing" workloads'

What do they have to do? Isn't it all desk jobs and/or no-shows?

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

21 Why would there be long hours?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (LOvBA)

22 Just how vital those four months of "institutional knowledge" was remains unclear, but the letter cited recent halting of raises and promotions, an increase in their healthcare costs...
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Nonsense! I saved them $2500 a year with Obamacare.

Posted by: Barky at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (XeU6L)

23 These employees should be grateful they get to eat Obamas place!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (4KUe5)


Is it made of gingerbread?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (W7ehW)

24 I LOVE obama's presidential center of Doom.

That's been my favorite story all year. I'm just sad there's no live video feed where we can watch the people go in and out.

As I recall, the most expensive item in the gift shop was a $395 pearl necklace inspired by Mooch.

Gross. On many levels.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (Sco7b)

25 Less than 4 months on the job and they want a raise?

"I think we all know who I'm talkin' about!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (3cUTc)

26 "The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents."

Revenue from *what*?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (oPFtC)

27 "Butt plug tower of ego." LOL, Ace

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (JrHfD)

28 16 Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT
Posted by: SDWtc

Beni Rae Harmony was named Assistant Press Secretary the other day. She worked for Real America's Voice up until then. She's very easy on the eyes, also.

Posted by: I'm Sensing A Trend at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (EdP2u)

29 My advice to these people would be to stop complaining

Posted by: Paddleboard Zombie at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (XeU6L)

30
Why would they get healthcare standing around to make sure the Ipods are charged?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (/QHx4)

31 To nood, or not to nood, that is the question.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (Gqar8)

32 "If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I'd join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I'd organize my coworkers to do something about it," the letter quoted Obama.

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If the internet ever ran out of titties, I could still masturbate to this...

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (mTzaS)

33 Ugh, hate typing on a phone
Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (4KUe5)

If I have to ask the VA something, I type it in an e-mail on my computer, and then forward it to my wife, so she can send it.

I would be lost without my bride. She's left detailed instructions to our sons should she depart.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (0aYVJ)

34 OT- Internet news is reporting Talarico is back on the campaign trail.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (JrHfD)

35 I like how their understanding of unions begins and ends with "and then the workers get paid more."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (3cUTc)

36 Um, what exactly are they producing for this money?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

That's the foundation, which is just a tax shelter for the family. I imagine all family revenue goes through the foundation and all their living expenses are deducted. (socialism, dontcha know.)

But what do they do at the butt plug? The foundation is probably an accountant and lawyer. The museum is a couple kids as docents. What are they doing in there?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (GDYiM)

37 Another blonde.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:40 PM (Gqar8)

38 I hate to defend the Stuttering Clusterf*** of a Miserable Failure like that, but I bet he hired a bunch of DEI dregs who are surprised they're being "coerced" into working at all.

We'll have to see, though.


It is Chicago so you can't be too far off the mark.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

39 How hard can it be working at this dump?

Never thought working at a library or museum physically or mentally tasking.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:40 PM (KC5Lt)

40 ‘ hate to defend the Stuttering Clusterf*** of a Miserable Failure like that, but I bet he hired a bunch of DEI dregs who are surprised they're being "coerced" into working at all’

I doubt Gay Lightbringer hired anyone. The budget money was spread around to politically connected firms and companies who took a nice fat cut and then subcontracted the work.

The subcontractors did the same.

By the time the money got to anyone who might actually build the Stone Chode, there was not enough left, so they cut corners and stiffed anyone they could, which would include the workers.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (hxrdJ)

41 Obama who?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (RIvkX)

42 Revenue from *what*?
Posted by: Thrawn
------
Meet the megadonors who funded the Obama Foundation

https://shorturl.at/TDKfL

Posted by: Paddleboard Zombie at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (XeU6L)

43 Soda machine has no purple drank, and even the stuff it does have costs money. Effin Capitalism run by Whitey and his cultural greed and insensitivity.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (dIske)

44 "The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents."

Revenue from *what*?
Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 05:36 PM (oPFtC)
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People trying to buy access to his influence network. As Trump's investigators move closer and as it becomes clear that Obama's power is fading, all that will dry up.

Sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

45 Ministry of Love is what I think when I see that building.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (Gqar8)

46 37 Another blonde.
Posted by: tubal

If I have but one life to live, let me live it as a blonde!

Posted by: Lady Clairol Hale, 1970 at October 09, 2026 05:42 PM (EdP2u)

47 I saw the lame statue of him and Mooch. I would prefer the one of him trying to close his umbrella in NOLA and causing a clang. Which sent Mooch into a defensive crouch. I loved that photo. It wasn't even raining!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026


***
Is that where it happened?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (wzUl9)

48 The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.

The O brand just ain't worth what it used to be.

They might have to slim down from four houses to three.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

49 "The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents."

Their only "revenue" is from entrance fees and donations? $159M seems like a lot, to me, for Bath House Barry. Has he paid off his contractors yet? Or is that too a sort of "forced donation", like Obama would love to have the whole country make to his commie cause?

Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (vbXSk)

50 46 37 Another blonde.
Posted by: tubal

If I have but one life to live, let me live it as a blonde!
Posted by: Lady Clairol Hale, 1970 at October 09, 2026 05:42 PM (EdP2u)

Did the pitch black eyebrows give it away?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (Gqar8)

51 Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise."
I heard the new employees are watering the plants with Brawndo.

Posted by: Lars at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (kJH1Z)

52 I really have no idea what this is. Some kind of a shrine built by the primitive inhabitants of this region to worship their god. Or, perhap, this O-bama, who was some kind of king, and obviously thought of himself as a god, dedicated it to himself, similar to the practies of Egyptian Pharoahs in the Old and Middle Kingdoms.

Posted by: An Archaeologist in the Year 3000 at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (xg/DD)

53 Get the burn barrels and lawn chairs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:44 PM (GZ3K7)

54 Barak Ozymandias.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (Gqar8)

55 People trying to buy access to his influence network. As Trump's investigators move closer and as it becomes clear that Obama's power is fading, all that will dry up.

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

Funny how as Trump and company rid is of corruption Barry Ops influence fades.
Well, that and the fact that he's a lazy punk.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (tmYdE)

56 "Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego"

This one goes high on the (very, very long) list of ace's epic and hilarious formulations.

(standing ovation)

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (U/Byj)

57 I dunno. It all seems rather appropriate. These are the people Obama has twisted, manipulated and courted for years. It seems like a huge dose of karma. This is the future Mr Raisin Head still talks about. Enjoy it douchebag, it’s here. Have another canapé.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (jBtak)

58 Y'know what never got built? The Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Library.

heh.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (r7+Q7)

59 I just looked it up. Valarie Jarrett (who else?) is the CEO of the thing. The website is stupid to navigate, and there's a prominent DONATE button on every page. About what you'd expect from the architect of the Obamacare experience. Jarrett, I mean.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (2Xqig)

60 You can't unionize in The People's Republic of Obama

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)

61 Posted by: An Archaeologist in the Year 3000 at October 09, 2026 05:43 PM (xg/DD)


What are all of these metal letters for?
Seems to spell something.
Was this a retail store of some kind, is this a very very very long business sign?

I've found a surprising amount of handguns in the surrounding area, perhaps this was some sort of military radar facility and base?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (6ydKt)

62 Wow autocorrect stinks.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (tmYdE)

63 "Concrete Butt Plug" sounds kinda permanent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (RIvkX)

64 In the end, aren't we all docents?

Posted by: The Head Curator at October 09, 2026 05:46 PM (EdP2u)

65 Leftists spread the wealth looting

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (Ia/+0)

66 This strikes me as a project that will eventually be arsoned to the ground, and they will spend the next 40 years fighting over insurance proceeds.

Where’s the dastardly Jews with their Jewish Lightning when you need them?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (hxrdJ)

67 We loves Presdent Obomo....

He be a butter Presdent that's Trump !!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (BlaSb)

68 That building looks like the sewage plant in our town. Maybe the cooling tower for a campus air conditioning unit.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (jBtak)

69 Y'know what never got built? The Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Library.

heh.
Posted by: Bilwis
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Could have been shaped like a giant bollard.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (XeU6L)

70 The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.


Pretty sure the loss of revenue is due to theft.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (I43vL)

71 Flash Traffic: The rain has essentially stopped here but we are starting to get 40+ knot gusts from the NNE so am guessing the eye of the storm is moving east of us.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (4NO2D)

72 Years from now people are going to look at that tower and say- “What the fuck is that?”.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (jBtak)

73 Barak Ozymandias.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM

Look upon my works, ye mighty and say, What the fuck is that thing supposed to be?

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (2Xqig)

74 Stone Chode

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (hxrdJ)

75 Not to defend Obama, but I've seen first-hand how the unions operate in Chicago. I'm surprised anything gets done there at all.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (RhaPD)

76 Where’s the dastardly Jews with their Jewish Lightning when you need them?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 09, 2026 05:47 PM (hxrdJ)


That some sort of secret Hebrew moonshine?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (6ydKt)

77 Mary as incoherent and sad as ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (RIvkX)

78 There really are some very aesthetically pleasing Presidential libraries-maybe because they used to be homes. Obama's library isn't one of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (JrHfD)

79 Bet Valerie is pulling in a Million as the CEO

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (Ia/+0)

80 I wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.

Posted by: Vendette at October 09, 2026 05:50 PM (N/jk5)

81 77 Mary as incoherent and sad as ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 05:49 PM (RIvkX)


Obama wasn't the first butter president?

I have been misinformed yet again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)

82 The Soviet comparison is apt for a guy who tried to destroy our country from the inside out, and subvert the entire government. In fact I’m glad the design brings that comparison. Because we are going to kick the shit out of these Democrats socialist communist ass pirates.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (jBtak)

83 I thought his name was Barry Soetoro.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (UjdFS)

84

I hope Trump got FEMA straightened out.

Some people will need it.

Praying for all in the path of the storm.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (/QHx4)

85 The Obama Foundation, which financed construction of the library, had $1.1 million in assets last year -- but revenue fell from $210 million in 2024 to $159 million, according to tax documents.
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A bit confusing. It implies that 'revenues' are earnings on the $1.1 Million. Presumably what fell were donations.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (XeU6L)

86 wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.
Posted by: Vendette

Or used to working at all.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (GZ3K7)

87 Never rained in Da Swamp today, but we got some stiff breezes out of the north. Temps may actually drop to the low 70s overnight.

The luncheon-lecture today was not woke, just dull. Discussion of embroidery and pottery done by women students of the college, their part of it, in the first quarter of the 20th century, with an eye to actually selling the products by the upper-class and middle-class women.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (wzUl9)

88 Wait, how does a foundation for an EX Prezzy, make over $100 million a year... doing... nothing?

With no assets? no products? just an ugly building...

Unless... seein as how it looks like a Flak Tower, they get bounties on aircraft?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)

89 BTW did Obama get that incurable explosive diarrhea all the fags are getting from sodomizing each other?

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (jBtak)

90 Please let the workers protest by wearing slave clothes and singing plantation songs.

That would make me so happy.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (Sco7b)

91
I hope Trump got FEMA straightened out.
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The stories I could tell, post-Helene.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (XeU6L)

92 I moved my ungaraged vehicles out to a big open public parking lot near me just in case any of my trees break or fall over. Lots of deadfalls so far but nothing major.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (4NO2D)

93 If Hillary had a library all the lamps would be glued down.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (jBtak)

94 What work could they possibly have to do there?

Those 10-lb. dumbbells don't just put themselves away!

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (jACUA)

95
Mike,

It was criminal how people were treated.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:53 PM (/QHx4)

96 "Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego"

Now on tour with The Earthly Barbed Cock of Satan at Shit Midas Hall.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (m8+r2)

97 86 wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.
Posted by: Vendette

Or used to working at all.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:51 PM (GZ3K7)

I've worked in the private sector... they expect RESULTS!

Posted by: Dr. Vinkmun... at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

98 It needs some graffiti and a Tupac mural.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (GZ3K7)

99 Flash Traffic: The rain has essentially stopped here but we are starting to get 40+ knot gusts from the NNE so am guessing the eye of the storm is moving east of us.
Posted by: toby928
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Where is your AO?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (XeU6L)

100 Wish you guys on the Gulf coast all the best, too.

It's getting really squirrely on Ryan Hall's feed so it's coming in big and fast.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM (6ydKt)

101 Not graffiti, urban art.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (4NO2D)

102 How did they have $159 million in revenue? They could fly me to Chicago and offer me free tickets and I still wouldn't go, so who the hell is paying entry to that abomination?

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (TN0g+)

103 Where is your AO?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM


Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (4NO2D)

104 Let me guess, they expected lawyers, guns, and money (and hookers), and they're not getting enough of any of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9XlQi0yew

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 09, 2026 05:56 PM (qx7Zg)

105 Not graffiti, urban art.
Posted by: toby928
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We must give them sapce to defile.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:56 PM (XeU6L)

106
Admission is being paid with our tax money. Bet on that.

Always a scam.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (/QHx4)

107 Workers at Obama's 'Death Star' presidential library strike back

The Death Star looked cool.

Obama's Minecraft Dildo isn't fit to carry the Death Star's jock strap.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (VHUov)

108 Years from now people are going to look at that tower and say- “What the fuck is that?”.
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Cue that Saturday Night Live skit from long, long ago.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (TN0g+)

109 Where is your AO?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:54 PM

Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby928(c)

At least you have power. Or maybe you're on the generator now.

Be safe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (GZ3K7)

110 “When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.”

Proverbs 10:25

Prayers out to those of you in the path of the storm.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (vbdXu)

111 106
Admission is being paid with our tax money. Bet on that.

Always a scam.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (/QHx4)

US Aids money?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)

112 How did they have $159 million in revenue?

Yous guys been to da library yet? No? Hey, dats a nice car yous got dere. Always park it outside?

Posted by: The local Chicago Alderman at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (RhaPD)

113 $900 million dollars for this example of a concrete fetish?!? Even if the thing looked genuinely beautiful, that's a lot of getus for a "presidential center". Why didn't he just make it a pyramid? You know he wanted to.

Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (2L+MU)

114 Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby
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I assume you have stockpiled supplies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (XeU6L)

115 Wish you guys on the Gulf coast all the best, too.

I have friends down in Navarre right now- where landfall is expected- visiting their first grandchild. Last I heard, "ah, everyone here says it's nuthin'!"

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 05:58 PM (jACUA)

116 Obama's bunker is the perfect place to run a shadow government from.

Bet on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (RORbl)

117 People are champing at the bit to contribute to the Shitpants Presidential Lieberry. It's gonna be a palace. Ottopen Wing, Presidential Shower, Corvette rides with Dementia Boy, Fishnets Wing with Fashions by Doktor Jilly, fun for the whole family.

Posted by: Downtown Wilmington Fun Zone at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (EdP2u)

118 114 Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby
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I assume you have stockpiled supplies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (XeU6L)

Cat 3

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (l3cgK)

119 34 OT- Internet news is reporting Talarico is back on the campaign trail.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (JrHfD)

Oh oh. Sounds like a funny farm is missing one of its wingnuts.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 06:00 PM (8mulE)

120 Cue that Saturday Night Live skit from long, long ago.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:57 PM (TN0g+)
====

*peers*
"What the hell is that?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (RIvkX)

121 103 Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. About six miles from Piper.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 05:55 PM (4NO2D)

My father was from Mobile and it’s essentially like a second home to me. I have one cousin left there but I haven’t been there in about 15 years.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (itAg7)

122 86 wonder if any of the employees have ever worked in the private sector, and if there are any, how many. Sounds a bit to me like quite a few of them aren't used to working for organizations that actually have bottom lines to worry about.
Posted by: Vendette
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"You don't know what it's like out there! I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*"

Posted by: Ray Stanz at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (xg/DD)

123

Campaign Trail? Is that the name of the street for the nuthouse?

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:02 PM (/QHx4)

124 People trying to buy access to his influence network. As Trump's investigators move closer and as it becomes clear that Obama's power is fading, all that will dry up.

Sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

So true.
*giggle*

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 06:02 PM (8mulE)

125 117 People are champing at the bit to contribute to the Shitpants Presidential Lieberry. It's gonna be a palace. Ottopen Wing, Presidential Shower, Corvette rides with Dementia Boy, Fishnets Wing with Fashions by Doktor Jilly, fun for the whole family.
Posted by: Downtown Wilmington Fun Zone at October 09, 2026 05:59 PM (EdP2u)
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And....

Posted by: Snowboarding With Hunter at October 09, 2026 06:02 PM (xg/DD)

126 Local Fox outlet says landfall for the storm is near Pensacola, between it and Destin. Some trop storm force winds all the way over the shores of Lousyana too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:03 PM (wzUl9)

127 6pm

CBC - BC elections

FoxNews - Hurricane - be safe all of you

CNN - storm

MSNow - screw you storm people! Trump approval crashes! Dems rock the debates. Blue Wave people!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 06:03 PM (Sco7b)

128
Y'know what never got built? The Hillary Rodham Clinton Presidential Library.

heh.
Posted by: Bilwis

===============

I'll never find it again unless ChatGPT coughs it up (doubtful), but she clearly had a subdivision all set for that library right next to Bill's. If you view his from a particular angle, it's got a big sort of "empty space" next to it that's begging for a counterbalancing structure.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (mmrXZ)

129 Cat 3
Posted by: jim
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Not the most appetizing, but, any port in a storm.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (XeU6L)

130 A Mushbrain Presidential Library? I'd love to drive the Corvette! Minus Mr. Depends, that is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

131 > who the hell is paying entry to that abomination?

School field trips.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 06:04 PM (mkw2N)

132
The employers are likely the kind of misers leftists become when it's their own money.

The employees are likely the whiny-ass 24-year-old poli sci grads who think they should get $100K jobs and be able to retire at 50 after working 32-hour weeks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:05 PM (eRlcH)

133 Maybe Fort Walton Beach for the landfall.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (GZ3K7)

134 And of course all the "news" people are out there in weather gear, reporting bravely from the beaches in Destin and environs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (wzUl9)

135 Campaign Trail? Is that the name of the street for the nuthouse?

Posted by: four seasons
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The Road to Perdition

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (XeU6L)

136 *points*

*laughs*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (GfgtS)

137 I've posted this before...

An architectural engineer who was, briefly, on the initial planning committee for Obama's "library" opined it was nothing like a "library."

Way too much space taken up with "unidentified" equipment, traces for cables, fiber optics, etc. And only a fraction of the interior spaces dedicated to public access.

That's not, in any manner, shape or form... a "library."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (RORbl)

138 134 And of course all the "news" people are out there in weather gear, reporting bravely from the beaches in Destin and environs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:06 PM (wzUl9)

That was the guy on Fox.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (Sco7b)

139 An architectural engineer who was, briefly, on the initial planning committee for Obama's "library" opined it was nothing like a "library."

Way too much space taken up with "unidentified" equipment, traces for cables, fiber optics, etc. And only a fraction of the interior spaces dedicated to public access.

That's not, in any manner, shape or form... a "library."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (RORbl)
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CCP listening post?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:07 PM (FZ29D)

140 There are some rough waves at the lakefront here. You wouldn't want to be out there in a small boat.

The lake connects to the Gulf through various smaller bodies of water, so if the lake is rough, the Gulf itself must be a really scary ride.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

141
Harry and the grifter are going back to CA for Christmas.

Maybe they are sick of the muzzie shit.

Also a school in Scotland has banned Christmas cards. They are to be called winter cards.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (/QHx4)

142
This too is the story of Obama

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (NtVYv)

143 134 And of course all the "news" people are out there in weather gear, reporting bravely from the beaches in Destin and environs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026
*
That was the guy on Fox.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026


***
My Fox outlet showed a clip of a young woman.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)

144
A Mushbrain Presidential Library? I'd love to drive the Corvette! Minus Mr. Depends, that is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

===============

I was wondering about that oxymoron so I asked ChatGPT and the answer is actually funny:

>>The biggest practical issue appears to be money. Recent reporting says the foundation began with about $4 million left from Biden’s 2021 inauguration and has so far raised only a small fraction of what a modern stand-alone presidential center could cost.

So, at the moment: Delaware is chosen, a board exists, fundraising has begun, and a museum/civic center is envisioned—but there is still no announced parcel, architect, design, groundbreaking date, or opening date.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (mmrXZ)

145 Campaign Trail? Is that the name of the street for the nuthouse?

Posted by: four seasons
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The Road to Perdition
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026


***
Laughing Academy Road

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:10 PM (wzUl9)

146 An architectural engineer who was, briefly, on the initial planning committee for Obama's "library" opined it was nothing like a "library."

Way too much space taken up with "unidentified" equipment, traces for cables, fiber optics, etc. And only a fraction of the interior spaces dedicated to public access.

That's not, in any manner, shape or form... a "library."


It's a temple, a place of worship.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 06:10 PM (Riz8t)

147 So, at the moment: Delaware is chosen, a board exists, fundraising has begun, and a museum/civic center is envisioned—but there is still no announced parcel, architect, design, groundbreaking date, or opening date.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


That's so Democrat, it just got a beejer from an intern.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (VHUov)

148 Had to be there for some reason. Shit Midas fought with the city and other agencies so he could build there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (GZ3K7)

149
THE SHEERIFF IS NEAR !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (NtVYv)

150 What will anyone learn from the Obama Foundation? Everyone but his most devoted acolytes realize that he was a useless arrogant putz. Republicans, progressives , a lot of blacks have nothing good to say about him.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (t9883)

151 What kind of name is Isaias?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

152 Some of the complaints suggested that the $900 million presidential center could already be facing financial trouble.

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The 100 Trillion Dollar Zimbabwe-Like Currency Note with DogEater's mug on it could have come in handy here!

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (D3x2Y)

153 What kind of name is Isaias?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026


***
"A hard to pronounce one," say all the TV and radio pundits.

Spanish version of "Isaiah"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)

154 7.7 earthquake off Panama with large aftershock. Tsunami warnings.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (t9883)

155
It is a Hebrew name.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:13 PM (/QHx4)

156 Harry and the grifter are going back to CA for Christmas.

Maybe they are sick of the muzzie shit.

Also a school in Scotland has banned Christmas cards. They are to be called winter cards.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:09 PM (/QHx4)

More like irritated that they weren't welcomed back with open arms, including an invite to Balmoral for Christmas. Shockingly (for them), the relatives don't want anything to do with them and neither does the general public.

Posted by: Vendette at October 09, 2026 06:14 PM (I4bPx)

157
It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 06:14 PM (VWtfl)

158 Festivals here, of course, will still go on this weekend. Gusts of wind may be the only danger.

Roads down in Plaquemines Parish toward the Gulf are taking water from the storm surge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:14 PM (wzUl9)

159 Miss me yet?

Posted by: James Talarico at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (0sNs1)

160 Just wondering how all the companies are doing that were not fully paid in this building construction.

"Forget it Jake, it's Obamatown."

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (PKL0q)

161 I understand that Trump's Presidential Library will be on the 47th floor of a building he will build.

He should have his library on the 45th and 47th floor and very kindly, should build a library celebrating the paste eater on the 46th floor. If Trump built that, it would be the most visited Presidential Library ever.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (GMWTj)

162

Vendette,

Right.

I feel bad for their children. Getting drug around.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:15 PM (/QHx4)

163 Time I took the furry thugs' chow out of the fridge and ran water in their bowls, and got plates ready for Miss Linda and my own pizza dinner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (wzUl9)

164 >>It is a Hebrew name.

Never heard it before.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (viF8m)

165 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.
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They could have just a single cabinet, like some restaurants have sitting outside where you can drop off a can of beans for the homeless if you're so inclined.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (TN0g+)

166 Obama wasn't the first butter president?

I have been misinformed yet again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:50 PM (6ydKt)


Jimmah Carter was the first peanut butter President.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (W7ehW)

167 151 What kind of name is Isaias?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

Spanish. Waiting for a Hood name...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (l3cgK)

168 Isaias is the Spanish and Portuguese version of Isaiah. It's Hebrew for Yahweh is Salvation.
Still a stupid name for a hurricane.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (t9883)

169 Looks like major part of storm hitting in between Pensacola and Panama City. Don’t see an eye.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (Gqar8)

170 Such complaints have led to a "high turnover rate," with exiting employees "taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise."

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Do you have ANY idea of the effort required to build, while completely nude, a 12-Story Gay Pedophile Public Bathhouse with constantly filtered & purified waterfalls & fountains under the strict supervision & constant anal swabbing of Dr. Anthony Faucistein?

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (D3x2Y)

171 168 Isaias is the Spanish and Portuguese version of Isaiah. It's Hebrew for Yahweh is Salvation.
Still a stupid name for a hurricane.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (t9883)

I wanna see a hurricane Loqueesha

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (l3cgK)

172 >>It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library.


It will contain an incomplete set of Archie Comics and a bunch of old Hustlers with the pages mostly man-glued together.

Posted by: garrett at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (9n8wX)

173 169 Looks like major part of storm hitting in between Pensacola and Panama City. Don’t see an eye.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (Gqar

based on the rotation in the radar, it's starting to get close to landfall...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

174 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.
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They could have just a single cabinet, like some restaurants have sitting outside where you can drop off a can of beans for the homeless if you're so inclined.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 06:16 PM (TN0g+)


They could put it in his garage.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (W7ehW)

175

God is salvation.

Hopefully one of our Jewish friends here know.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (/QHx4)

176 Talarico showed up at the Austin City Limits music festival. That's his base

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (t9883)

177 I saw in the news that Margaret Hamilton died, not the actress, but a lead programmer on Apollo 11 guidance computer. If you want a peek at her code, it's all on GitHub:

github.com/chrislgarry/apollo-11

The computer was constructed entirely from NOR gates, in 2800 ICs. The schematics are here:

klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:19 PM (Jr5Lq)

178 Panama, though somewhat tropical, has never been hit with a hurricane.

Posted by: It Has Enough Problems at October 09, 2026 06:19 PM (EdP2u)

179
I understand that Trump's Presidential Library will be on the 47th floor of a building he will build.

Posted by: CTHillary

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This would be the most hilarious opportunity for a themed hospitality venue since the Madonna Inn on Highway 101. First floor is the George Washington Floor, second is the John Adams Floor, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:19 PM (mmrXZ)

180 173 169 Looks like major part of storm hitting in between Pensacola and Panama City. Don’t see an eye.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (Gqar

based on the rotation in the radar, it's starting to get close to landfall...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

Yeah. Maybe 6:30 or so?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (Gqar8)

181 Barry Soetoro just like Hillary are like VD ........

They never go away and continue to fester ...

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (ENxVw)

182 What kind of name is Isaias?
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

Spanish. Waiting for a Hood name...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:17 PM (l3cgK)

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Hurricane Lil’ Loco has a nice ring to it ...

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (D3x2Y)

183 nood

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:21 PM (Jr5Lq)

184 181 Barry Soetoro just like Hillary are like VD ........

They never go away and continue to fester ...

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 06:20 PM (ENxVw)

Except there was NO night with Venus before a lifetime of Mercury...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:21 PM (l3cgK)

185 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library.
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It will contain an incomplete set of Archie Comics and a bunch of old Hustlers with the pages mostly man-glued together.
Posted by: garrett at October 09, 2026


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LOL

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)

186 Nood extortionists.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

187 Breaking news:

"I am angry tonight.

Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.

ICE makes this city less safe.

We want them out. Now."

-- Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

188
Why on earth did Mamdani and Hochul get a TWO-HOUR phone call with Mullin and, reportedly, Trump over the shooting of that illegal alien with a rap sheet as long as Michelle's fake eyelashes? Good lord. "Get the president on the phone!" And president picks up, damn.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (mmrXZ)

189 167 151 What kind of name is Isaias?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:11 PM (viF8m)

Spanish. Waiting for a Hood name...

Next Hurricane name will be named MC Hammer or Snoop Dog in order to be None Racist ...

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (ENxVw)

190 2 What work could they possibly have to do there? Polish his statues?

It is such a big building, what do they produce, what is their revenue?
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (GDYiM)


They don't produce anything yet, but that hardened media center (which is not a 'library') appears well-suited to coordinating a national Islamunist uprising and armed revolution. Once that long-term project is complete, the insider clique that controls the new levers of state power will all be effectively multi-mega-trillionaires, from essentially confiscating everything everywhere.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (ke3zm)

191
That annual income has got to be complete bullshit.

...Well, unless they've got some kind of money laundering operation going on in there.

Then maybe, since the USAID scam had been curtailed.

Hard Times In Butt Plug Chicago.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (YSUhf)

192 Isaias is also used in the King James Bible: the committees doing the translation didin’t consult each other how to translate the names so sometimes it’s Isaiah, sometimes Isaias, which is closer to the Koine Greek.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (W7ehW)

193 I hold that the concrete brutal monstrosity is meant to be the Islamic Kabala, the big moon rock they throw stones at and bey at moon during their pilgrimage.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (l26NL)

194 I assume you have stockpiled supplies.

You mean The White Things™

• toilet paper / diapers
• bread
• milk
• rice
• eggs
• bottled water
• baby formula
• salt
• chicken boobs
• oatmeal

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (a6PrB)

195 I want a giant inflated rat rapin a wavey arms guy in front of the Temple of Doom, and I want it yesterday.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (bX16E)

196 The Michelle hotdogs with the onions and ketchup at the concessions are spectacular.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (SMG8K)

197
Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT
Posted by: SDWtc




Oh...so his press secretary's not this...

"Zachariah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7GW6kLWQI



It's the First Electric Western!, you know?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (YSUhf)

198 Barky's payoffs are just how Leftists shovel monry to their elitists. No different than writing a book, get millions and sell 1,000 books that no one reads

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (Ia/+0)

199
The Biden Library will be built from boxes of classified documents from his garage.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (eRlcH)

200 29 My advice to these people would be to stop complaining
Posted by: Paddleboard Zombie at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (XeU6L)

I laughed.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (9ZFZd)

201 Seriously, folks!

You KNOW that place had to have been built by crooked fly-by-night DEI contractors, right? We should start a pool on how many years it takes for the place to be condemned, and then how many years it sits there being a public nuisance, because there's no money to tear it down.

Is 20 years too long?

We could also wager on whether anybody gets killed, because they refuse to condemn chocolate Messiah's Holy Temple, when it needs to be, and it starts falling apart.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (ovdkm)

202 It sort of looks like there isn't going to be a Biden presidential library. That's OK.
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He could just use his garage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (XeU6L)

203 Revenue of roughly $200 Million a year. $1.1 Million of assets. I'm no accountant, but I'm guessing that someone is skimming bigtime.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 08:00 PM (z1+LN)

Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

I never explained the title of this thread. It's a play on an old joke about media sensationalism and bias. National Lampoon, for example, wrote an article with the headline:

UFOs: Threat or Menace?

The joke is that the question is loaded. You're not allowed to say "UFOs aren't real" or even "Meh." You're only given two possibilities, and each possibility is a near-perfect synonym for the other.

Noted biased media mogul J. Jonah Jameson used the loaded headline for his archnemesis, Spider-Man:

spidermanthreatormenacenew.jpg

On to the shit and/or garbage:

Even executives at the Disney Groomer Network know that soon-to-be-fired Jimmy Kimmel is an "asshole."

As Jimmy Kimmel's time at Disney draws to a close, it has exposed a fraught relationship behind the scenes.

As Page Six previously reported, the longtime late-night host is expected to end his show later this year after 24 years.

And sources tell Page Six he's partially to blame because he's "never played well in the sandbox."

For example, he's seldom appeared on the company's ABC shows like "Good Morning America" and "The View" because, we're told, "he doesn't want to be a shill."

"And when he does, he's a complete a--hole," according to one source.

The insider said he expects Disney shows to "prop up the stuff he was doing." "But he would never reciprocate," they said, "He would never have anyone on from ABC News... People would get upset."

Multiple sources shared similar stories, adding the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" star seldom invited New York talent to his show when he brings it to Brooklyn every year. "He's unmanageable," another source said and pointed out how he roasted Disney brass at the upfronts in May. "It was uncomfortable to say the least," they said.

WDW_Pro reports that Rosie O'Donnell was hoping the Disney Groomer Network would offer her a job on The View but they've passed.

She's also continuing to spread leftwing conspiracy theories which Jake Tapper continues to not notice because that would force him to condemn a fellow hyperpartisan Democrat.

Defiant L's
@DefiantLs


Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

She's calling other people "conspiracy theorists" but goes on to say sht like this lmao

This ugly aging cave-man too:

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Oct 4

Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:

"We need to be on guard for what we may not see coming -- ELON."

"That's the cybersecurity of these elections."

"We know that these systems are vulnerable."

We have been reliably informed for years that this kind of rhetoric Undermines Faith In Elections and is Very Dangerous To Democracy

Spencer Pratt has a good rant about the Jew-hating conspiracy theorist Mark Ruffalo.


Mark Ruffalo is a Threat to Our Democracy

In an unhinged, tyrannical speech, reminiscent of a Hitlerian rally in 1930's Nazi Germany, an enraged Mark Ruffalo took to the stage and screamed into the microphone like a disheveled führer. While firing off outlandish conspiracies about Elon Musk rigging the election with space gadgets, flanked by signage that read "THEY" would "STEAL AN ELECTION". In the modern online parlance, "they" is code for "Jews", often indicated by triple parenthesis: (((they))). As if it weren't enough that he were accusing Jews of stealing the elections, his rhetoric soon would turn violent. Slurring his words, in an apparent drunken, profanity-laced tirade, Ruffalo then threatened to kill the President in an hypnotic and uncontrollable fit of rage, saying he was going to "Hulk out". He seemed to enjoy his violent fantasy, as he punctuated his terroristic threat with an ominous warning: "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." If it weren't clear what he wanted, he repeatedly urged them to physically assault Republicans, screaming at the raucous crowd to organize into coordinated terror cells by encouraging them "to train" and "to fight".

This kind of Nazi-like antisemitic rage is something of a pattern for Mark Ruffalo. As he has publicly grappled with his midlife crisis for the past several years, he has become infamous for his antisemitic dog whistles and non sequiturs, curiously and inexplicably dragging Jews and Israel into the discussion about the Paramount merger...

Now obviously, this is the least charitable and most hyperbolic characterization of Ruffalo's woke tirade, but it's instructive. For years, people like Mark on the communist left have attacked anyone who questions the undoubtedly crooked elections in California, calling them "election deniers". But with the same breath, they can immediately turn and wail off on unhinged conspiracy theories about Elon Musk rigging the elections. They impeached President Trump for calling his 2020 election "rigged", even after spending the prior 4 years saying his 2016 election was "rigged by Russia". It's totally incoherent bullshit, of course, but there's almost no point to calling this out. For the communist, it's not hypocrisy; it's hierarchy. The language of the communist is the lie, so they will say anything they must, in any situation, to weaponize your morality against you.


The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.

This is just the beginning of the campaign to force him to Confess the True Marxist Faith or lose his career.

Glen Powell is the latest Hollywood heavyweight to express a disinterest in talking about politics in press interviews. The "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Chad Powers" star is on the last cover of Esquire magazine and remembered growing up with parents who never brought up current events at the dinner table, to which Powell said "thank God" for that. "Politics interests him even less now," the magazine writes.

"Over time, I realized that politics divide people," Powell said. "People trying to prove their point -- for me, it's the worst version of a conversation. I genuinely do not like the discourse. It's not as healthy as it once was. [Engaging in politics] is not presently possible. I applaud people for jumping into those things and fighting for what they believe in. If I were a political person, I would be talking about it. For me, my calling is elsewhere."

Powell's comments are similar to that of Dwayne Johnson, who in his own Esquire magazine cover story earlier this year said he will no longer speak publicly about politics. Johnson had already told Fox News in 2024 that he regretted endorsing Joe Biden for president in 2020 because it caused division amongst his fans. He then told Esquire that he wants to keep the focus solely on his art.

"Politics is omnipresent and it's forever. I don't like it. I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bullshit that comes with it," Johnson added at the time.

Vanity Fair trying to gin up a cancellation mob by demanding someone explain why he doesn't talk about what he doesn't want to talk about.

Woke 1 was crazyyy, man. I'm so glad we're on to Woke 2, which is not authoritarian or extremist or "crazyyyy" at all.

You know what they can never take away from him? This little smoocherooney he laid on fellow would-be cancellation victim Sydney Sweeney.

Louise Penny complains that the BBC is all DEI all the time.


Sometimes the ideology is laid on so thick that Albion TV shows [her term for prestige made-for-export crime dramas] veer into absurdism. In the first season of "Slow Horses," a nativist terror group literally named "Sons of Albion" kidnaps a student at a British university whose uncle is deputy head of Pakistani military intelligence. The actors playing the terrorists are all white, and affect exaggerated working-class accents. They plan to behead the young Muslim man live on camera (how typical of the British right!) but he escapes. In a climactic moment he tells his captor, "You make me ashamed to be British."

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This class factor goes a long way toward explaining the question that American friends have repeatedly asked me of late: Why doesn't the British government put a stop to the illegal immigration that is causing so much pain and mayhem? The current situation is clearly ridiculous. Since the last general election in 2024, more than 83,000 people are believed to have arrived illegally by crossing the English Channel by dinghy, meaning that these migrants now outnumber the 82,000 personnel in the British Army. The taxpayer has been burdened with the costs of accommodation, and the hotels that have been put to this use have been the focus of repeated protests and rioting. Why doesn't the government simply say "enough" and send the illegal entrants home?

The short answer is that opposing immigration, illegal or otherwise, is a class signifier in Britain, and most middle-class people--including most politicians--aren't prepared to support a political cause that would see them associated with the lower orders.

...

In a country where violent offenders are currently being released from prison to relieve overcrowding, the government still somehow finds space for the [white, lower-class] throwers of empty plastic bottles. And yet this state of anarcho-tyranny isn't driving middle-class British people to take to the streets en masse. Nor will they do so anytime soon. They would rather sit at home watching fantasy visions of Britain on TV. The explanation for this strange behavior is best summarized by political scientist Peter Pulzer, who in 1967 described class as "the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail."


Monty Python alum John Cleese was reported to the UK's Speech Police, "Prevent," by an Islamist media outlet called "5Pillars."


John Cleese is not a terrorist

The former Monty Python star's criticism of Islam is a free-speech matter, not one for government intrusion.

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We cannot even be secure in our use of the word "terrorist" any longer, given that so many are determined to abuse it. How else to explain the fact that comedian John Cleese, of Monty Python and "Fawlty Towers" fame, has been reported to Prevent, the British government program designed to stop people from becoming terrorists? Are dead parrots, silly walks and disgruntled hoteliers now deemed early warning signs of radicalization?

The complaint to Prevent against Cleese was made by a member of the public, and the details passed to 5Pillars, an Islamist media outlet based in London. In its report, 5Pillars characterized the complaint as alleging that Cleese's social media jokes and comments "go beyond legitimate criticism of Islam and instead portray Muslims collectively as violent, criminal and morally depraved." The complaint, quoted by 5Pillars, said Cleese's rhetoric may contribute to "radicalisation, communal tension, and hate incidents." (If you haven't heard of "hate incidents," they are those noncrimes that the British police seem to spend so much of their time investigating.)

None of this is true, of course. Cleese rightly rejects the term "Islamophobic" and instead calls himself "Islamosceptic." How could he be otherwise? This is a man who has brilliantly skewered closed systems of thought for many decades. Many readers will remember Python members' televised debate in 1979 with writer Malcolm Muggeridge and Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, who were furious at what they perceived to be a direct attack on Christianity in "Monty Python's Life of Brian."

Just imagine the conniptions if, instead of the priggish, outraged Muggeridge and Stockwood, the offended party were a representative from 5Pillars.

Cleese has responded to the Prevent referral in the best possible way: by mocking it. "One of the proudest moments of my life," he posted on X. "I would like to thank everyone concerned." The tyrannical mindset, always humorless, cannot bear to be ridiculed. Few will be surprised that there are those who wish to see Cleese silenced -- in August, 5Pillars said "The Islamophobic comedian John Cleese should be de-platformed" -- and that they will try to weaponize the law to that end.

But what exactly is 5Pillars? "Protecting our Democracy from Coercion," a 2024 British government report, described 5Pillars as having "expressed support for an Islamic caliphate, Sharia (Islamic principles and law) penal codes and physical jihad" and "repeatedly abused and intimidated Muslim liberals, counter-extremists, and human rights activists."

Yet the government, whether under Conservative leadership in recent years or under Labour now, has long been inclined more toward woke orthodoxy. A 2022 report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee lists "cultural nationalism" as one of the ideological strands associated with "extreme right-wing terrorism." This same classification has been incorporated into the Home Office's Prevent guidance. Here is the gloss the committee provides for the phrase "cultural nationalism":

"A belief that 'Western Culture' is under threat from mass migration into Europe and from a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups. The ideology tends to focus on the rejection of cultural practices such as the wearing of the burqa, or the perceived rise of the use of sharia law. In the UK this has been closely associated with anti-Islam groups."

He said that he prefers a culture that doesn't perform female genital mutilations or kill infidels.

This is "controversial."

It is controversial to the weird minority who controls the culture. For the moment.

There are three actresses I love to see fail: Anne Hathaway, Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn), and Jessica Chastain, the extremely divisive left-wing slogan-spitter who will "star" in The Savant -- a tv show about a Stronk and Empowered Left-Wing Woman who entraps dangerous right-wing manosphere types by sleeping with them -- if it's ever allowed to air.

Chastain was forced to take a role in a horror movie, which is, of course, beneath her.


Apparently, it's a disaster.

Even the left-wing-protection-racket outlet The Hollywood Reporter roasts it.


'Other Mommy' First Reactions: "Jessica Chastain's Worst Movie in a Long Time"


The first reactions are in the Universal horror film, which is being held back from most critics until the last minute.

First reactions finally in for Other Mommy, and some are pretty scary for Universal.

The horror movie isn't having official U.S. critics screenings until the last minute, with previews held tonight in New York and Los Angeles before the film opens Friday. But some international influencers, awards bloggers, and a few credentialed Rotten Tomatoes critics have seen the film, and are offering their hot takes.

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Here are some of the early reactions to the film, which does have a few enthusiastic fans in the mix as well.

The Jam Report: "By the time Other Mommy staggered towards its ludicrous finale, the audience at my screening had abandoned any pretense of fear and erupted into laughter ... An excruciating parade of ineffective jump scares, woeful CGI, and increasingly nonsensical storytelling, Other Mommy is comfortably among the most disappointing horror films of the year. It had transformed a promising supernatural premise into an unintentionally hilarious endurance test, all while remaining blissfully unaware of its own absurdity. 1.5/5."

The Matinee Show: "Solid creepy premise, but it definitely starts to lose its grip. Some genuinely unsettling moments, mixed with a few 'okay... what the hell are we doing?' moments. Not bad, just messier than scary 3/5."

Global Box Office: "Other Mommy is a hot mess and Jessica Chastain's worst movie in a long time. The direction is sloppy, the score is unremarkable, and not even Chastain can save such a terrible screenplay ... What should be a straightforward premise is bogged down by cheap melodrama and repetitive, failed jump scares."

Goldwin Reviews: "Other Mommy is like a buffet of all the other horror movies rolled into one. It can get overwhelming, but that excess becomes part of a meaningful experience. Eventually, it becomes a feast for the soul that yearns for horror with substance. The film isn't content with settling into just one form. It has many layers, constantly reinventing itself. 4/5."

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Screen Space: "Ponderously paced, over-directed with gimmicky flourishes and confusing in its half-baked message, Other Mommy wants to be 'elevated horror' but stumbles trying to climb above the better films it's seeking to be ... There's an extended sequence that rips off Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist and some realm displacement nonsense that doesn't make sense, on the way to an embarrassingly overwrought ending. 1.5/5."

Some other slams:


Herb Simon's PR Manager 👑
@HerbSimon1986

Well, Jessica Chastain did the best she could & I won't blame her at all. However, #OtherMommy is a pure mess and masterfully cringe, but it's also a bonker fun if you truly want something to killing yr time on 3am. It's like Rob Savage remaking "Boogeyman" with a prestige cast😕


Peter Gray
@ratedPDG

16h

#OtherMommy: Despite that trailer and one surprisingly gory sequence, this INSIDIOUS-lite supernatural "horror" flick is more silly than it is scary. Jessica Chastain commits but that isn't enough to overcome the stupidity.

Why does everyone rush to protect this single-expression actress? Her face is almost incapable of movement, like she fell into vat of botox. Her one expression is Immobily Bitchy.


Doug Jamieson
@itsdougjam

11h

OTHER MOMMY is truly dreadful. Despite one of the silliest horror plots of the year and a woeful script, it takes itself so staggeringly seriously. An endless parade of ineffective jump scares, awful CGI, and a finale that drew unintentional laughter several times. #OtherMommy

Justine Bateman has thoughts on Hollywood's plea to save the movie theaters:


Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman

Here's the thing about "Keep theaters alive!" and "Go watch this film in the movie theater!"

It's a two-way agreement.

The audience agrees to pay to see films in a theater only if:
- The filmmakers are shooting scripts that have a thesis statement/intention/point.
- The actors and director are giving it their all, and not phoning it in.
- The edit has trimmed off all the fat.
- The film isn't some didactic exercise, intent on jamming a "lesson" into us.
- The studio executives have paid close attention to the film from start to finish and have given the filmmakers useful notes to keep it all on-track.
- The film is entertaining.
- (And the theater managers are maintaining some order and decorum in the theaters themselves.)

Otherwise, the audiences will continue to stay home and wait for the films to come online, so they can maybe watch five minutes of it or scrub through, and then turn it off.

The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction.

Much of what is released is just not good enough.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (GZ3K7)

2 I wish Cleese would rebel like he did with his Hitler skit and goosestepping on Fawlty. Mock the mo's, dude! I would buy it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (hzuYO)

3 Justine Bateman has thoughts on Hollywood's plea to save the movie theaters:

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I think this year is gearing up to be the best year for movie theaters since 2019.

Some very big successes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (1kJuV)

4 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:


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I’m so old I remember when Democrats swore up and down that it’s impossible to steal elections.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (qoHuP)

5 What's funny is--don't ask me why I thought this--but until earlier this year, I was convinced that Mark Ruffalo was Jewish.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (lHPJf)

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4 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:


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I’m so old I remember when Democrats swore up and down that it’s impossible to steal elections.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (qoHuP)

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Yeah, then Trump proved them wrong by stealing 2024 by winning all the swing states. Which is impossible. It hadn't happened in 40 years, which means that it has no precedent. No precedent at all.

I can't believe Biden let him get away with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (1kJuV)

7 I’ll return to that theater when people stop talking for the duration of the movie and stop using their phones.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (qoHuP)

8 What's funny is--don't ask me why I thought this--but until earlier this year, I was convinced that Mark Ruffalo was Jewish.
Posted by: Dr. T


It's the nebbish persona of Dr Bruce Banner.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (vJrRc)

9 Speaking of the BBC Andy Carroll was Drugged and raped by Kevin Adams from BBC's fame Academy. Carroll's wife was Friends with Kevin Adams and she invited him over after Andy Carroll's game with Newcastle to watch a boxing match, Kevin Adams gave Andy a drink and he instantly felt terrible went to bed and he woke up being raped. Screamed called the cops Kevin Adams was arrested for rape, this was 3 YEARS ago and it wasn't in the news at all until this month.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (9aCbn)

10 Edward Norton > Mark Ruffalo

And Edward Norton kind of sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (1kJuV)

11 Chastain was forced to take a role in a horror movie, which is, of course, beneath her.
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Wot? Is there anything else beneath her?

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)

12
I'd keep Kimmel on the payroll just so I could have the pleasure of firing him every day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (eRlcH)

13 Cinematic-quality AI is advancing at furious pace.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)

14 The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction.

Much of what is released is just not good enough.


Theater goers had better get their butts back in theater seats tout de suite. We'll hold them to it.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (Riz8t)

15 I don't watch horror flicks (unless you count spy stuff or murder shows of bad guys...those we watch and laugh at weird and gory deaths). If the dead guy falls dead dramatically, or has his head ripped off by an elevator (Reacher, last night) we approve.

This is sick and we know it but feel it is harmless as we are not going to suddenly copy this in our lives. I have been this way since Justified, and Mags was my heroine.

Demonic horror is a totally different thing for us. A college classmate took me to see The Omen and I was never the same about similar movies. I don't do demonic.

The last Steven King (the strange looking lesbian who was hit by a car and still lives on the side of the road) book I read was The Shining. We were newlywed. I was washing my face in the bathroom sink one night and my new husband walked in, causing me to scream. He suggested I not read any more books of King's and I haven't.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (hzuYO)

16 Speaking of the BBC Andy Carroll was Drugged and raped by Kevin Adams from BBC's fame Academy. Carroll's wife was Friends with Kevin Adams and she invited him over after Andy Carroll's game with Newcastle to watch a boxing match, Kevin Adams gave Andy a drink and he instantly felt terrible went to bed and he woke up being raped. Screamed called the cops Kevin Adams was arrested for rape, this was 3 YEARS ago and it wasn't in the news at all until this month.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (9aCbn)


Love is love, bigot!

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (lHPJf)

17 Since when does "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage" come after "The Week in Woke"?

I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (FZ29D)

18 "Just imagine the conniptions if, instead of the priggish, outraged Muggeridge and Stockwood, "

I didn't see the debate so I have no idea about whether these individuals were "priggish and outraged". I do know that Malcolm
Muggeridge was a former satirist and I have read some of his books on religion and appreciated his writing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (JrHfD)

19 ugh that's a good book they made the Other Mommy film from. so that sucks.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (j+aD2)

20 The 2nd season of the Three Body Problem is supposed to be on Netflix soon. If it weren't for that, I'd cancel NF. Well, that and my wife watches several shows on it, and told me we were NOT canceling it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

21 >>>Since when does "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage" come after "The Week in Woke"?


I figure people are going home early today so I moved the posts around. So that the bigger posts would come earlier.

Posted by: ace at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (1wjle)

22 I'd keep Kimmel on the payroll just so I could have the pleasure of firing him every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (eRlcH)
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Man, I'd watch a movie with that premise. Something like "Being John Malkovich".

"Being Jimmy Kimmel" in the right (ahem) hands would be awesome.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

23 20 The 2nd season of the Three Body Problem is supposed to be on Netflix soon. If it weren't for that, I'd cancel NF. Well, that and my wife watches several shows on it, and told me we were NOT canceling it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

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The Great British Bake Off!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (1kJuV)

24 Thanks for explaining the title. Unnecessary since anyone with two functioning brain cells got it.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (tmYdE)

25 I figure people are going home early today so I moved the posts around. So that the bigger posts would come earlier.

Besides, you've got to keep your powder dry in case Talarico jumps off a bridge or something.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

26 25 I figure people are going home early today so I moved the posts around. So that the bigger posts would come earlier.

Besides, you've got to keep your powder dry in case Talarico jumps off a bridge or something.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

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More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)

27 The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.

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Glen Powell >>>>>>>>> Ryan Fucking Reynolds

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (AKptf)

28 27 The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.

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Glen Powell >>>>>>>>> Ryan Fucking Reynolds

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (AKptf)

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The Running Man is pretty good. A bit too episodic and the ending doesn't quite stick like it should. But pretty good entertainment.

Better than the novella, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (1kJuV)

29 Since when does "Hollywood: Shit or Garbage" come after "The Week in Woke"?

I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (FZ29D)



would you like to speak with the manager ?

Posted by: first time commenter at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (AKptf)

30 Defiant L's
@DefiantLs


Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"


Yeah, Rosie, he's making billion$ off of them, just like he does every month.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (6ydKt)

31 Incidents Around the House is the excellent horror novel that Other Mommy is based on.

I'm sad they screwed it up.

the new Carrie is good-ish so far

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (j+aD2)

32 "That's the cybersecurity of these elections."

"We know that these systems are vulnerable."


So you're demanding single-day voting with ID required and paper ballots only to prevent OrangeManBad from cheating, right?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (3mtzY)

33 31 Incidents Around the House is the excellent horror novel that Other Mommy is based on.

I'm sad they screwed it up.

the new Carrie is good-ish so far

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (j+aD2)

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None of these things have people dancing in jerky motions with jazz hands and hats at tilted angles on people's heads.

So, you know...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:39 PM (1kJuV)

34 "It's totally incoherent bullshit, of course, but there's almost no point to calling this out. For the communist, it's not hypocrisy; it's hierarchy. The language of the communist is the lie, so they will say anything they must, in any situation, to weaponize your morality against you."

Pratt has them pretty much nailed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

35 Halloween AI edition:

Hey, AI, I'm a male, and my Halloween costume this year is a female transgender identifying as a male. That way, I don't have to buy a costume. Do you think I can pull it off?

AI: It treats an identity as a caricature: Using someone's gender identity or transition as a Halloween costume often relies on stereotypes, which can come across as mocking rather than clever.

Me: That's odd. I see self-proclaimed transgenders portraying gender as a caricature all the time. In fact, they go so stereotypical on their chosen gender that it can't be perceived as anything else. You need to check out a Drag Show Story Hour sometime. Even their names are caricatures.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (dIske)

36 Embrace the power of and

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (Ia/+0)

37 he Running Man is pretty good. A bit too episodic and the ending doesn't quite stick like it should. But pretty good entertainment.

Better than the novella, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (1kJuV)

I meant Ryan Fucking Gosling!! Hate that guy!

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (AKptf)

38 I think this year is gearing up to be the best year for movie theaters since 2019.

Some very big successes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (1kJuV)

And unless I'm mistaken, Backrooms and Obsession had nothing to do with Hollywood.

I'm pretty excited about future releases from people who actually love to make movies.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (ZgwKJ)

39 *Reynolds is probably ok

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (AKptf)

40 Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

Fire can't melt satelites!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (l3cgK)

41 38 And unless I'm mistaken, Backrooms and Obsession had nothing to do with Hollywood.

I'm pretty excited about future releases from people who actually love to make movies.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (ZgwKJ)

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Most of the success comes from Toy Story 5, Spider-Man, and The Odyssey, I believe. The Odyssey is up to about $1.7 billion worldwide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:40 PM (1kJuV)

42 Mark Ruffalo would fill the role of Rudolph Hess in today's Demo-Nazi party quite well.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (5yDGQ)

43 More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)


Most accurately: We find out there never was a Talarico.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (lHPJf)

44 >>>19 ugh that's a good book they made the Other Mommy film from. so that sucks.

I heard they ignored the book. Except for the one scene in the trailer, which I hear comes from the book. Then they just made the whole movie repetitions of that one scene.

Posted by: ace at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)

45
43 More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)


Most accurately: We find out there never was a Talarico.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (lHPJf)

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No one could really be that woke and stupid, could they?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (1kJuV)

46 Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

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Everybody knows, and it is just a fact that the best weapon against satellite manipulation is a large tin foil hat.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (AKptf)

47 "Over time, I realized that politics divide people," Powell said. "People trying to prove their point -- for me, it's the worst version of a conversation. I genuinely do not like the discourse. It's not as healthy as it once was. [Engaging in politics] is not presently possible. I applaud people for jumping into those things and fighting for what they believe in. If I were a political person, I would be talking about it. For me, my calling is elsewhere."

I get it.
But that is, unfortunately, the exact position the left wants most people to take.

To them it's not avoiding conflict, it's ceding the field of battle of ideas to their superior ideas and selves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (6ydKt)

48 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved

Oh please, lets have LOTS of oversight and LOTS of cameras on what's going on during the collection and tallying of ballots!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (l3cgK)

49 Thanks for explaining the title. Unnecessary since anyone with two functioning brain cells got it.

Not necessarily. Pop culture references can lure you into Pauline Kael syndrome. Not everyone knows what "everyone knows."

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (vTZFs)

50 >>>19 ugh that's a good book they made the Other Mommy film from. so that sucks.

I heard they ignored the book. Except for the one scene in the trailer, which I hear comes from the book. Then they just made the whole movie repetitions of that one scene.
Posted by: ace at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (1wjle)
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That sounds like Hollywood. Take an IP that worked, strip it of everything that was good, then wrap it around another movie (the director's *preferred* movie) like a skinsuit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (FZ29D)

51 46 Rosie O'Donnell suggests Elon Musk "is doing something" in November with his "satellites"

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Everybody knows, and it is just a fact that the best weapon against satellite manipulation is a large tin foil hat.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:42 PM (AKptf)

Faraday cage. But making one big enough to house Rosie might be a problem...we're gonna need a bigger cage...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (l3cgK)

52 >>> 24 Thanks for explaining the title. Unnecessary since anyone with two functioning brain cells got it.
Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (tmYdE)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THAT PINE-SCENTED DRUID PHILOPSOPHER TRIED TO PRETEND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT '86' MEANS.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (3mtzY)

53 I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)

54 "AI film ‘Gods don't give gifts' sets first trailer, plans Oscar bid"

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (AKptf)

55 I never explained the title of this thread.

Never explain a joke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:44 PM (guGkK)

56 55 I never explained the title of this thread.

Never explain a joke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:44 PM (guGkK)

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Jokes are only funny if you explain them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:44 PM (1kJuV)

57 43 More accurately: We find out that Talarico did jump off a bridge 13 days ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (1kJuV)


Most accurately: We find out there never was a Talarico.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (lHPJf)

Here's my theory.

Talarico was at a DNC fund-raiser, planning event with all the biggest names in the DNC.

The waiter comes around with hors d'oerves and Talarico just goes and grabs the last white baby fetus, which Hilary wanted to eat.

And now he's missing.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (Sco7b)

58 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

59 "didactic exercise"

is that the kind of exercise the Cornell Ho was engaged in?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (l3cgK)

60 Besides, you've got to keep your powder dry in case Talarico jumps off a bridge or something.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

*******
True. I was going to ask if he'd turned up yet. I'm enjoying the mystery of where is the weirdo.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (hzuYO)

61 58 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

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Jason Sudeikas comes off as a grounded, nice guy. Wilde comes off as a complete cvnt.

No idea how they made that marriage work as long as they did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (1kJuV)

62 58 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (6ydKt)

or for ads for STD treatments?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (l3cgK)

63 It's like Rob Savage remaking "Boogeyman" with a prestige cast😕

Just what I've been waiting for.

I'll wait for it to come out on VHS and check it out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (6ydKt)

64 Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

65 The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction.

Much of what is released is just not good enough.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM


If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

66 53 I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)
*****
I've never liked him and thought he looked like a big doofus. I can't recall one movie he's been on that I watched. Or if I did, I ignored him.

His face looks like a bloated Macy's helium balloon...which is probably most of his brain as well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (hzuYO)

67 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.


At 42, she...has NOT aged well.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)

68 >>> 53 I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)

Um...

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein's ficus at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (3mtzY)

69 65 If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

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Ellison's company made Mayday, which is a tale of moral equivalence between the USSR and the US.

I don't know why anyone thinks he's going to run Paramount/WB like Ben Shapiro runs The Daily Wire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (1kJuV)

70 If you REALLY want to hate Hollywood more - "The Connors". Sadly, I had a bad patch and it spoke to me.

Wokest comedy ever. Gay kid guy wearing skirts. Tranny boss. A special lesson every freaking episode. Wow, I was in a dark place.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 04:50 PM (Sco7b)

71 in other news, Roseanne Barr is back with a new sitcom. "Roseanne Barr reveals comeback sitcom “Meemaw”: ‘It’s every bit as revolutionary as the “Roseanne” show, if not more’"...moar "Roseanne Barr shoots secret comedy series with star-studded cast in huge comeback "

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:50 PM (AKptf)

72 The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:43 PM (guGkK)
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That seems a little harsh. The guy installing your water heater is performing a useful service.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (FZ29D)

73 "According to Page Six, the comedian is yet again the matriarch of the family. But instead of the Midwest Conners, her new on-screen brood is a "mixed-race family of preppers in Texas." The show also features The Sopranos' actress Drea de Matteo (as Barr's daughter), Randy Quaid (as Barr's husband), Omar Gooding (as Barr's son-in-law), and Doug Jones. Jon Lovitz, Tony Hinchcliffe (as Satan), and Kim Congdon guest star.

Along with the adult cast members, Meemaw also stars Indy Bugg, an Insta-famous tween, as Barr's granddaughter. "

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (AKptf)

74 >>> 69

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Ellison's company made Mayday, which is a tale of moral equivalence between the USSR and the US.
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (1kJuV)

That's not what the preview looked like.

Are you saying that Hollywood ... lies sometimes?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (3mtzY)

75
If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.


At this point, I think it's safe to say that both father and son have/had brains. I mean, the guy could have just coasted on his father's money, enjoying the yacht rock lifestyle. Instead, he's chosen to enter the lion's pit. If Hollywood can be saved from itself, David Ellison will be the one to do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:52 PM (Riz8t)

76 74 That's not what the preview looked like.

Are you saying that Hollywood ... lies sometimes?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:51 PM (3mtzY)

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"The US is just as bad as the USSR because the military didn't reveal cancer risks to military employees."
-the ending, pretty much

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:52 PM (1kJuV)

77 I don't know why anyone thinks he's going to run Paramount/WB like Ben Shapiro runs The Daily Wire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (1kJuV)

At least they aren't communist so I figure things can only go up from here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

78 Well, new WH press secretary seems to be a solid choice:

Katie Zacharia

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (dIske)

79
I have never fathomed how some producer ever looked at Mark Ruffalo and thought, "there's the star for my next movie!" The fat schlub has about as much charisma as the guy who installed my water heater.
Posted by: Cicero

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The first film I saw him in was Collateral, and he was very cool, but I put that down to the art direction and production design, which were also quite cool in that movie.

He was also outstanding in a small indie movie called You Can Count on Me.

It's too bad he's a lefty nutjob.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (mmrXZ)

80 Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)


Hard disagree. She's no ginger, but she's one of my favorite actresses, in looks and talent.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (lHPJf)

81 ...Jon Lovitz, Tony Hinchcliffe (as Stan)...

WTF, how is *Lovitz* not playing Stan?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (3mtzY)

82 79
The first film I saw him in was Collateral, and he was very cool, but I put that down to the art direction and production design, which were also quite cool in that movie.

He was also outstanding in a small indie movie called You Can Count on Me.

It's too bad he's a lefty nutjob.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (mmrXZ)

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Michael Mann almost broke Ruffalo during that shoot. He asked Ruffalo to do a take like 50 times, and it was just Ruffalo talking into a phone.

I wish he had gone for 100 takes and actually broken Ruffalo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (1kJuV)

83
I don't know why anyone thinks he's going to run Paramount/WB like Ben Shapiro runs The Daily Wire.

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You mean Caleb Robinson, the CEO of Daily Wire.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (AKptf)

84 80 Hard disagree. She's no ginger, but she's one of my favorite actresses, in looks and talent.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:53 PM (lHPJf)

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Did you pay to see her in her big-budget action spectacular directed by Steven Spielberg, Disclosure Day, this summer?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (1kJuV)

85 67 Olivia Wilde (real name Cockburn)

She would've made a great pornstar.

At 42, she...has NOT aged well.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:49 PM (Riz8t)


I don't think I've seen her in anything since Cowboys & Aliens and she looked like she needs to eat a few sammiches in that one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (6ydKt)

86 64 Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

_________________

She had my attention in "Edge of Tomorrow."

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 04:55 PM (dIske)

87 "Jokes are only funny if you explain them."

I don't get it.

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 04:55 PM (dCMJG)

88

Federal judge temporarily blocks deportation of illegal stopped by ICE yesterday.

That did not take long.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (/QHx4)

89
If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

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Justine is against AI. Sorry, kiddo, remember when we introduced talkies?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (mmrXZ)

90 Well, new WH press secretary seems to be a solid choice:

Katie Zacharia


She's not the hottest WH PS ever, though. I'd put that at Dana Perino > Karoline Leavitt > Kayleigh McEnany

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)

91 I'm pretty sure Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard are the same person.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

92 "Emily Blunt is a passable actress, but she's nothing special to look at. What is my point? Beats me."

Waffle House 6

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (dCMJG)

93 Did you pay to see her in her big-budget action spectacular directed by Steven Spielberg, Disclosure Day, this summer?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:54 PM (1kJuV)


No, but that's only because I heard Disclosure Day was anti-Christian. I had been strongly considering it until then.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (lHPJf)

94 89
If the Ellison's had any brains they'd be trying to hire Justine to run production at Paramount.

=================

Justine is against AI. Sorry, kiddo, remember when we introduced talkies?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 04:56 PM (mmrXZ)


I can see why that would screw-up her getting a job at a studio then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (6ydKt)

95 Zakaria and Zacharia...you might get confused.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (AKptf)

96 Woohoo. No more extra Fed paperwork and stamps on SBR’s and suppressors nationwide. Only a 4373.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (o5jAD)

97 As for Mark Buffalo, his role in Zodiac was decent, but that's as far as any praise will go. He's a weird-looking, nerdy goblin. He probably smells like onion soup and fromunda.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 04:58 PM (0aYVJ)

98 I love the Chad Powers series. Just finished the 6 episode 2nd season . The 3rd and last season has a lot of ways it can go. I hope they don't screw it up.

And sorry Rock but it wasn't your vote for Biden that made me boycott you but your support of kneeling for the Anthem. Fuck you.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (KC5Lt)

99 When AI gets really great at making movies.

I want young Elizabeth Taylor as my favorite villain!

Posted by: Goatweed at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (jK3NL)

100 Edge of Tomorrow was enjoyable.
Not the bestest sci-fi flick ever, but it was better than I expected it to be.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

101 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)

102 Judge also block the illegal criminal from being moved out of NY.

Next will be an order for his release until final appeal. Bank on it.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (o5jAD)

103 Zacharia is a lawyer, Pepperdine Law. I believe Ken Star taught there after the em-peach saga.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (AKptf)

104 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

I think the Holy Grail was the only one of their movies that holds up.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (Riz8t)

105 *Ken Starr

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (AKptf)

106 99 When AI gets really great at making movies.

I want young Elizabeth Taylor as my favorite villain!

Posted by: Goatweed at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (jK3NL)


Shirley Temple as Cruella Deville.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (6ydKt)

107 yep dean of LAw

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (AKptf)

108 96 Woohoo. No more extra Fed paperwork and stamps on SBR’s and suppressors nationwide. Only a 4373.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 04:57 PM (o5jAD)

58008 would be more fun...

California has § 58008...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (l3cgK)

109 I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Snooze you lose, don't you fall asleep.
Somebody's watchin' somethin' you wanna keep.

Posted by: Condition RED!! at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (EdP2u)

110
>>Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved

=================

At first you'd think this would be a call for voter ID, then you realize it's a wingnut warning that Elon is about to flip a switch that MAGAs the entire internet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (mmrXZ)

111 101 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)


You might have liked it more as a 18 year old or if you were British.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)

112 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

I think the Holy Grail was the only one of their movies that holds up.


I love how they ended Holy Grail when the money ran out by just cutting in a scene where the police arrive and arrest all the actors.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (guGkK)

113 I take a brief nap on a Friday afternoon and the entire world gets turned inside out and upside down....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Dagwood used to take a lot of naps. Blondie was far to hawt for him.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)

114 104 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.

I think the Holy Grail was the only one of their movies that holds up.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (Riz8t)

And some of the scenes and skits were pretty good.
I'll bet a Norwegian Blue pining for the fjords on that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (l3cgK)

115 We need a ruling along with the current SCOTUS case on ar15 that is broad enough to get rid of all this crap about barrel length and accessories like suppressors which are clearly arms and have no other purpose. It’s time to finally kill all the blue state subterfuge.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (o5jAD)

116 =================

Justine is against AI. Sorry, kiddo, remember when we introduced talkies?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---

It's all fucked. In ten years our world will be completely different.
What they put on the screen is imprinting brains in ways and manner that we cannot contemplate coupled with the big giant leaps in technology that will only compound. The number one thing is that we remember and pass along who we are.
This is only the beginning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (Cq/ve)

117 At first you'd think this would be a call for voter ID, then you realize it's a wingnut warning that Elon is about to flip a switch that MAGAs the entire internet.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (mmrXZ)

They really are so stupid when it comes to tech I'm genuinely surprised they managed to steal 2020.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (6ydKt)

118 Good for John Cleese but I never found Monty Python or any of their movies funny.
Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:00 PM (KC5Lt)

Well, everyone has a blind spot.

Just kidding. I know tastes vary. But I love Monty Python.

I think, for some, it's the accents. My younger son hears any non-American accent like Elmer Fudd. He cannot tell any difference between Scottish and German, por ejemplo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (0aYVJ)

119 1) Republicans will steal the election
2) Republicans will buy the election

... just ask them for proof (that's better than Trump's proof on 2020 election steal)

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (gWCxi)

120 Edge of Tomorrow was enjoyable.
Not the bestest sci-fi flick ever, but it was better than I expected it to be.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

For me so far, all Groundhog Day type movies have been really enjoyable. I don't like horror movies but Happy Death Day was really good.

And I liked Palm Springs almost as much as Groundhog Day.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)

121 Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

Yes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (O7YUW)

122 The number one thing is that we remember and pass along who we are.

I don't know what that means. Please to explain.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (Riz8t)

123 Lumberjack Song...
https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (l3cgK)

124 This is just the beginning of the campaign to force him to Confess the True Marxist Faith or lose his career.
-------

I shamelessly, again, tout the Moron-recommended 'A Conservative History of the American Left'.

There is a chapter (Artists in Uniform) devoted to the CPUSA's (et al) attack on and destruction of artists of all varieties who chafed at the Communist line.

Posted by: Fulton County leaky toilet at October 09, 2026 05:04 PM (XeU6L)

125 Jefferies said again today that Democrats are going to win the House and they are already planning the agenda. lol.

Ok there Temu Obama. I’ll wait for the vote to be counted.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (o5jAD)

126 /toilet

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (XeU6L)

127 Dagwood used to take a lot of naps. Blondie was far to hawt for him.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:02 PM (Riz8t)

Perfect figure, blonde, big beautiful eyes.
Always in dresses and heels.
Made huge sammiches with olives on the toothpick on top.

She really is the perfect woman.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (6ydKt)

128 >>Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, I suppose.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (tmYdE)

129 Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, Axios reported Friday. The potential trigger is a cyberattack that disrupts banking, internet access, or essential services such as power and water. The next crisis would be political: an angry public, demands for accountability, and pressure to shut the technology down.

Many industry insiders told Axios they expect a major event within six to 12 months. OpenAI pushed back on the suggestion that disaster is inevitable, saying its preparedness exercises cover a range of possibilities. "These scenarios are not treated as inevitable," a spokesperson told the outlet. Anthropic declined to comment.

Contingency planning is not an admission that catastrophe is unavoidable. But the most revealing part of the report is where that planning leads: the labs want to help shape the legislation Washington reaches for after something goes badly wrong.

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 05:05 PM (gWCxi)

130 Dagwood used to take a lot of naps. Blondie was far to hawt for him.
Posted by: Archimedes

I need my strength to keep her happy.

Posted by: Dagwood at October 09, 2026 05:06 PM (tmYdE)

131
For me so far, all Groundhog Day type movies have been really enjoyable. I don't like horror movies but Happy Death Day was really good.

And I liked Palm Springs almost as much as Groundhog Day.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)


Haven't seen those, I mean, other than Groundhog Day (which I still love).

The Butterfly Effect was Groundhog Day-ish.
Except it had Ashton Kutcher and it sucked.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

132 Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, I suppose.

*cough* A FOOLISH consistency*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:10 PM (Riz8t)

133 The fact that everyone thinks Kimmel is an asshole, including his employer, shocks me to no end.

Posted by: Fooled, I Was! at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (EdP2u)

134 For me so far, all Groundhog Day type movies have been really enjoyable.
....
Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:03 PM (KC5Lt)
---------------------------
"The Map of Tiny Perfect Things", on Amazon Prime. Think "Groundhog Day as a teen rom-com."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (xg/DD)

135 The Butterfly Effect was Groundhog Day-ish.
Except it had Ashton Kutcher and it sucked.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydK

That was more a time travel movie and yes it sucked.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (KC5Lt)

136 I like the repeating day movies.

I also liked the body switching movies ever since I saw the original Freaky Friday with Jodie Foster.

They must've made ten movies with the same plot in the 80s and 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

137 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:

Maybe I should put a note in Elon's suggestion box that he just buy Dominion.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (0Htd1)

138 Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt,
-----------

Pixy linked to this a few weeks ago:

'An AI Escaped Its Test Lab and Hacked a Real Company: What the OpenAI–Hugging Face Breach Means'

https://shorturl.at/iGTvA

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (XeU6L)

139 I'm trying to remember the name of a *horrible* horror flick that came out circa 2023--can you all help? It featured some weird guy living in the woods who apparently gets "disturbed" by people who cross paths with him and his switch gets flipped and he then begins murdering what later totals to be about a dozen people. And for most of those killings he wears some leather-mask contraption that he found inside some sort of musuem-like place?

It seems to have vanished down the memory hole--I can't find anything in a google search that resembles it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

140 I'm trying to remember the name of a *horrible* horror flick that came out circa 2023--can you all help? It featured some weird guy living in the woods who apparently gets "disturbed" by people who cross paths with him and his switch gets flipped and he then begins murdering what later totals to be about a dozen people. And for most of those killings he wears some leather-mask contraption that he found inside some sort of musuem-like place?


James Talarico: A Biography?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:13 PM (Riz8t)

141

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026

Argh. I know that. Thank you.

Posted by: Dandalo at October 09, 2026 05:13 PM (tmYdE)

142 The fact that everyone thinks Kimmel is an asshole, including his employer, shocks me to no end.
Posted by: Fooled, I Was! at October 09, 2026 05:11 PM (EdP2u)

Adam Carolla won't bad mouth Kimmel out of loyalty though I think he really wants to.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:13 PM (KC5Lt)

143 X-Files did a really good Groundhog Day type episode, called "Monday" I think. Botched bank robbery. Slowly Mulder starts to figure it out. Excellent episode.

As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (0aYVJ)

144 By the way, who is this Mark Ruffalo? Is he an actor or something. I don't think I've ever seen anything he was in.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (0Htd1)

145 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

As many gay men do.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (Riz8t)

146 I also wondered why they never did a Father > Daughter body switch or a Husband > Wife body switch, but then I thought about the logistics of that and the awkward script writing and acting that would entail and then I realized if they made that movie today they'd turn it into a metaphor for troons and who wants to see that ?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

147 145 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

As many gay men do.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (Riz8t)


And then the murders began.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 05:15 PM (xg/DD)

148 I read it here, but I think it was a commenter link. Britain jailed or at least investigated a former cop for posting a joke meme online that eating pork makes you 99% less likely to rape a child. No mention of Islam at all.

And I'm fairly sure it wasn't outraged jews who said it was hate speech to imply that people who avoid pork are more likely to be pedophiles.

So good luck Cleese. At least you are not kow-towing to the Islamic scolds.

Posted by: PaleRider at October 09, 2026 05:15 PM (PV+Zw)

149 Said earlier that ABC/Disney put out some fake news about Anduril. Which we can't read anymore even to debunk because ABC bravely deleted it and locked the author's X account.
Everything you see on television is BULL SHIT.

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 05:15 PM (nZfSc)

150 The next WH press secretary

https://tinyurl.com/4bpdv29r

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 05:16 PM (ZxPkt)

151 5 What's funny is--don't ask me why I thought this--but until earlier this year, I was convinced that Mark Ruffalo was Jewish.
Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (lHPJf)


Ha! For the longest time, I assumed Laurence Tribe was black. (I only found out he was Jewish about 6-10 years ago.) I don't watch TV so I never saw his face, and every time I read an article quoting Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law Professor and Constitutional Law Expert, it was always something so staggeringly stupid that I was certain he was an Affirmative-Action hire.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 05:16 PM (ke3zm)

152 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (0aYVJ)

She was no Julia Roberts or Sean Young but she wasn't exactly horrid to look at.

She also has a great personality.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

153 I love that they are all watching Elon!
Peter Thiel, born in Germany like some other guy that did some things, will be the key to overturning all the numbers.
Yes. Fooled the fools.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 09, 2026 05:17 PM (RLdj5)

154 I withdraw my last post. I was joking or drunk.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 09, 2026 05:17 PM (RLdj5)

155 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

They did that with a reincarnation movie where Tony Curtis came back in Debbie Reynolds body.

Did not like .

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:18 PM (KC5Lt)

156 As many gay men do.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (Riz8t)

Bazinga. You have bested me, good sir.

I also like pineapple on pizza, especially with jalapeno.

Have at you!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:18 PM (0aYVJ)

157 155 Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

They did that with a reincarnation movie where Tony Curtis came back in Debbie Reynolds body.

Did not like .

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:18 PM (KC5Lt)


Between that and Some Like It Hot apparently Tony liked to wear dresses and stockings.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

158 The left is dragging actor Glen Powell, as they previously dragged Taylor Swift, because he won't endorse the leftwing Gay Race Marxism party line and avoids talking about "divisive" ideology.
Denzel Washington is another star who won't discuss politics. He has actually snapped at people who've tried to get him to go there. But they can't attack him for it, because Washington is black, and criticizing him would be racist.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (0Htd1)

159 Kimmy Kimmel has a net worth of 50 million
He is rich as fuck
Would you want to work if you had that ?

Posted by: Banned at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (XGYZI)

160 139 I'm trying to remember the name of a *horrible* horror flick that came out circa 2023--can you all help? It featured some weird guy living in the woods who apparently gets "disturbed" by people who cross paths with him and his switch gets flipped and he then begins murdering what later totals to be about a dozen people. And for most of those killings he wears some leather-mask contraption that he found inside some sort of musuem-like place?

It seems to have vanished down the memory hole--I can't find anything in a google search that resembles it.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:12 PM (TN0g+)

Chat suggested this...

I think I've got it: In a Violent Nature (2024).

It's a Canadian slasher film about a murderous figure named Johnny who is awakened in the woods when visitors disturb his resting place.
The description is an unusually close match, especially the woodland setting, the killings, and the distinctive mask.
The clincher is the mask. Johnny takes an antique firefighter's mask from a historical display inside a park ranger station. That's almost certainly the museum-like place the commenter remembers.

CULTURE CRYPT
+1



The film was released in May 2024, ra

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (Sco7b)

161 Let me think - who do I despise more, Mark Ruffalo, or Patton Oswalt? In the fenale category - Rosie O’ Donnell or Cynthia Nixon?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar8)

162
You know what they can never take away from him? This little smoocherooney he laid on fellow would-be cancellation victim Sydney Sweeney.



If there's one thing to hate Glen Powell for, this is it. How dare he steal Syd away from us bearded fat middle aged guys by being handsome and charming.

Bastard.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (y9nCu)

163 What I find telling, is that there are more than a few celebrities screeching that other celebrities MUST toe the line and hate on MAGA, you guys. Like the puffy bitch from the She-Hulk show.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (0aYVJ)

164 Denzel Washington is another star who won't discuss politics. He has actually snapped at people who've tried to get him to go there. But they can't attack him for it, because Washington is black, and criticizing him would be racist.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (0Htd1)

Another wise man following the great one's advice.

Republicans buy shoes, too.
- Michael 'Air' Jordan

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

165 Spider Man, Spider Man
Does whatever a Spider caspins a web, any size
He eat bugs and he eats flys
Look out, here comes tje Spider Man

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:23 PM (Ia/+0)

166 TABS/Disney realized they shouldn’t slander the exec who is producing our military’s secret, scary tech?

Hope so. Dummies.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:23 PM (4KUe5)

167 I hope the next WH Press Secretary is smart. She could fool me and be smarter than the photo I saw. Let's hope.

The one photo I saw of her she's wearing eyeliner on her bottom lid. Most women know not to do this as it will make your eyes look both tired and smaller.

I've never worn eyeliner on my top lid as I don't need it.

I hope I don't have to email her and suggest her to lay off the eyeliner.

My MIL wore blue eye shadow for decades after you should not. I never said squat to her about this because she was critical of me now and then. She once made me cry quietly in a guestroom and no one has done this before in my entire life. I never had a bad word against her, but, boy, I wanted to unleash my personality at times. I tried to avoid her and drank a lot of gin when we flew to see his parents. She's dead now and did mellow towards me her last decade.

I have no idea how I acquired all of my make up tricks, but I did. Maybe its Maybelline (which I haven't worn since HS).

This post is more disjointed and weird because my sinuses are ticking me off big time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 05:23 PM (hzuYO)

168 Rock Groups who don’t do politics - GooGoo Dolls, Rolling Stones.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar8)

169 Spider Man eats ze bugs?

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (UjdFS)

170 168 Rock Groups who don’t do politics - GooGoo Dolls, Rolling Stones.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar

Mick has made it a point to never go full Lennon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

171 Let me think - who do I despise more, Mark Ruffalo, or Patton Oswalt? In the fenale category - Rosie O’ Donnell or Cynthia Nixon?
Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:22 PM (Gqar

Might be apocrypha: Timothy Olyphant once said that the one cast member he did not like on "Justified" was Patton Oswalt.

But he would not be wrong. I deem it plausible.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (0aYVJ)

172 Jimmy Kimmel is rich enough to retire and hang out at home with his uber-lefty wife, huh?
Wonder why he doesn’t…

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (4KUe5)

173 I liked the movie The Martian. Jessica Chastain was as wooden as ever.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (t9883)

174 This post is more disjointed and weird because my sinuses are ticking me off big time.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

No, Ma'am, no more disjointed than usual, simply par for the course.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at October 09, 2026 05:26 PM (EdP2u)

175 173 I liked the movie The Martian. Jessica Chastain was as wooden as ever.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (t9883)

Yeah. Female Cigar Store Indian. See also - Kristen Stewart.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar8)

176 173 I liked the movie The Martian. Jessica Chastain was as wooden as ever.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:25 PM (t9883)

I tried to get my Dad to watch that before he died, but he refused. I figured he might like it as a survival flick and he likes Matt Damon.

But he preferred 'realistic' scenarios and movies that weren't fantastic.

So instead he'd watch Damon play a one man killing machine that could take out an entire police force in an apartment building in about ten minutes.

He'd seen that one about 50 times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:28 PM (6ydKt)

177 As for Groundhog Day, my sole complaint about this film is Andi McDowell. I find her repulsive The opposite of attractive.
----------

I just didn't think that she was a very good actress. Surely 'Greystoke' was as low as it gets. ALL lines, every word, overdubbed by Glenn Close.

As an aside, she attended my church for a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (XeU6L)

178 I think I've got it: In a Violent Nature (2024).

It's a Canadian slasher film about a murderous figure named Johnny who is awakened in the woods when visitors disturb his resting place.
The description is an unusually close match, especially the woodland setting, the killings, and the distinctive mask.
The clincher is the mask. Johnny takes an antique firefighter's mask from a historical display inside a park ranger station. That's almost certainly the museum-like place the commenter remembers.
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Confirmed! That's the one.

I just read up on it at they have a sequel in production. I won't be going! That is one of the most "dark" horror movies I've ever seen. It was bloody and pointlessly bleak. I've seen every single movie from the "Halloween" franchise, sitting thru lots of clunkers, and I'd rather re-watch any of those than sit through another version of "In a Violent Nature".

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

179 Jimmy Kimmel is rich enough to retire and hang out at home with his uber-lefty wife, huh?
Wonder why he doesn’t…
Posted by: Lizzy
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Ego? Just taking a shot in the dark...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:30 PM (XeU6L)

180 Kristen Stewart was good in American Ultra.

That's a hidden gem movie imo.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (KC5Lt)

181 Andie McDowell - seems pretty innocuous. Hard for me to even have an opinion about her.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (Gqar8)

182 As an aside, she attended my church for a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 05:29 PM (XeU6L)

She's from SC so I have a soft spot for her.

And her actress daughter is a hottie.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:31 PM (6ydKt)

183 I wonder who Kristen Stewart is this month?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:32 PM (Gqar8)

184
Kimmy Kimmel has a net worth of 50 million
He is rich as fuck
Would you want to work if you had that ?
Posted by: Banned at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (XGYZI)



The whole reason he's worth $50M is because he abandoned his first wife and kids so that he could dork Sarah Silverman up the squeekhole just before getting the late night gig. If he'd kept his dick in his pants a few months longer he'd only be worth $25M.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (y9nCu)

185 tubal never got to much from Andie either

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

186 Strange actresses - Geena Davis. Never figured her out.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8)

187 It's easy to keep working when it ain't hard and people are kissing your ass and paying you millions for the privilege.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (KC5Lt)

188 @178 there is a sequel to In a Violent Nature coming out soon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 05:37 PM (t9883)

189 Strange actresses - Geena Davis. Never figured her out.
Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8

That's one I find unattractive.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (KC5Lt)

190 Is it me, or is the font extra tiny today?

We trying to save money on pixels?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (zpcJA)

191 Andie did get several nominations for Sex, Lies, and Videotape which probably was her best performance that I've seen.

She was also good, or the movies were good, in Green Card and Short Cuts

Four Weddings and a Funeral did well, too.

She hasn't really done much since the 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

192 190 Is it me, or is the font extra tiny today?

We trying to save money on pixels?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (zpcJA)


You might have reduced the font size in your browser.
Looks normal on mine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:39 PM (6ydKt)

193 Four Weddings and a Funeral did well, too.

She hasn't really done much since the 90s.


I think she might be doing Hallmark movies now. It's a reasonable choice for someone who has aged out of the hot young starlet roles.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 05:41 PM (Riz8t)

194 9 Speaking of the BBC Andy Carroll was Drugged and raped by Kevin Adams from BBC's fame Academy. Carroll's wife was Friends with Kevin Adams and she invited him over after Andy Carroll's game with Newcastle to watch a boxing match, Kevin Adams gave Andy a drink and he instantly felt terrible went to bed and he woke up being raped. Screamed called the cops Kevin Adams was arrested for rape, this was 3 YEARS ago and it wasn't in the news at all until this month.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (9aCbn)

Did he try vomiting?

Posted by: Nelly at October 09, 2026 05:45 PM (6+ehB)

195 191 Andie did get several nominations for Sex, Lies, and Videotape which probably was her best performance that I've seen.

She was also good, or the movies were good, in Green Card and Short Cuts

Four Weddings and a Funeral did well, too.

She hasn't really done much since the 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 05:38 PM (6ydKt)

She was in the original Ready or Not, which was good if you like horror.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 05:48 PM (zpcJA)

196 Strange actresses - Geena Davis. Never figured her out.
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Its strange to watch "Fletch" and realize that Geena Davis has a relatively small role and spends most of her time giving the screen back to Chevy Chase.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 05:52 PM (TN0g+)

197 ZOMBEAVERS !!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:00 PM (W2Pud)

198 "While firing off outlandish conspiracies about Elon Musk rigging the election with space gadgets..."

I like to call them Elon's Space Angels.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 09, 2026 06:01 PM (w6EFb)

199 I thought the deal with "Life of Brian" was that the religious authorities who were critics hadn't even seen it.

What I remember of the movie was that Jesus was represented as the real deal, off camera, in the background, operating in the same general neighborhood as Brian. So, if anything, wasn't it an attack on phony charlatans who preach from a pulpit?

It also had a brutal attack on pundits, who instantly give you in-depth analysis on damn near anything. In one scene, the group is sitting in on the Sermon on the Mount, but they're so far back it's hard to hear. The one guy repeats to the group what he thinks was being said: "Blessed are the cheesemakers!" To which one member of the group offered an instant and detailed interpretation - instead of saying "That can't be right". It turns out that cheese making was something of a significant industry in the area at that time, so that's funny too.

Posted by: MrExcitement at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (ovdkm)

200 "he repeatedly urged them to physically assault Republicans"

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Come get some.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (OGFx7)

201 The woman I think Hillary would have had as press secretary?
Drew Carey's secretary. Can't get picture inserted.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 09, 2026 07:57 PM (RLdj5)

202 I'll add one more item to the list of what will bring people back to movie theaters: Cut back all the f***ing trailers and ads before a movie. It is torture to sit through 15 to 30 minutes of crap just to watch the movie FOR WHICH I PAID!

Posted by: Nemo at October 09, 2026 08:59 PM (4RPgu)

The Week In Woke

Let's start out with some good news from the weekend, which I missed.

David Harsanyi:


One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs.

The federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees.

Not since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society vastly expanded the scope of the national government has the federal workforce been at this level.

I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.


It's not merely that the feds have shed superfluous jobs -- there are still over 4 million contract workers, after all.

It's that the White House has been targeting all the right institutions.

The bloated War Department, with over 61,000 departures, and the equally bloated State Department, with 37% of its staff gone, experienced the biggest reductions.

But most of the buyouts were aimed at agencies and departments that should have been shuttered a long time ago.

Take the US Agency for International Development, which for years was used to funnel billions to hard-left ideological projects around the world: Virtually its entire staff is gone.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the unaccountable bureaucratic brainchild of progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has lost roughly 88% of its workers, though it's still far too big.

The Agriculture Department, which despite its name is principally a welfare agency that has little to do with farming, experienced tens of thousands of departures.

So has another welfare-state institution, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, whose most notable achievement has been helping inflate housing prices.

Harsanyi has some thoughts about what departments need to be cut more.

Like this, maybe: Trump slashes funding for woke "education."

President Trump is moving to rescind nearly $1 billion in federal spending, including $95 million in Department of Education funding for programs the White House says supported ideological initiatives and services for illegal aliens.

The White House announced the rescissions on Sept. 25, targeting $25 million for the Department of Education's Special Programs for Migrant Students and $70 million for international education programs, alongside cuts across other federal agencies.


The White House said the migrant education funding previously supported activities including an LGBT youth summit for migrant students and "Therapy for Latinx" workshops. Grant recipients included Immigrants Rising, a nonprofit whose programming included an LGBTQ support group and resources addressing "DACA-Related Stress."

Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

Several colleges and universities are using institutional resources and government-backed grants for "Indigenous Peoples' Day" programming around Oct. 12, which is also Columbus Day.

Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, California, is promoting an Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration centered on "community, resilience, and connection." The event description says the celebration will "honor our ancestors" and feature drumming, Native dancers, and speakers.

A Santa Rosa Junior College public information officer told Campus Reform that the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office's Native American Student Support and Success Program grant "funds the Native American Center and its activities."

The state program received $30 million in one-time funding for up to 20 colleges. Its stated goals include strengthening educational pathways, promoting Native American students' academic success, developing leaders, and increasing mentorship.

San Francisco provides dorms for pedophiles and sex offenders and it's not prison.


It's Tuesday morning at Little Learners Daycare in downtown San Francisco. Teacher Wendy herds bright-eyed toddlers, amped up after playtime in the courtyard, back inside. They're laughing and swatting at each other playfully, oblivious to the pack of pedophiles lurking nearby.

Four hundred feet away, dozens of registered sex offenders live at 111 Taylor Street. Wendy knew that the Tenderloin, where she operates her Mandarin-immersion daycare, was dangerous. It's a hotbed for illegal drug activity and homelessness. But she didn't realize that sex offenders live so close to her daycare--or that taxpayers fund their housing.


According to this City Journal investigation, more than 25 percent of sex offenders in San Francisco with addresses in the Megan's Law database live in taxpayer-subsidized buildings. Many live near a park, school, or daycare, or reside in a neighborhood with a high concentration of children. They do all of this despite statewide efforts to ban concentrating pedophiles so close to children. Instead of listening to California voters, San Francisco has become a taxpayer-funded dumping ground for sex criminals.

The Taylor Street Center is one of San Francisco's most heavily populated sex-offender residences. Located in the Tenderloin, Taylor Street houses at least 31 registered sex offenders. The taxpayer-funded California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the federal Bureau of Prisons contract the private GEO Group to run the facility.

The reentry complex can house 240 people. It hosts specialized programs for residents like "cultural diversity education," "gender-responsive groups," and a "weekly meditation group." The facility sits just 400 feet from a daycare center, 1,000 feet from a fourth-to-eighth-grade school, and five blocks away from a preschool.

Any sex offender housed in the Tenderloin is bound to encounter children. Along with having a high concentration of immigrant and low-income households, the neighborhood also has the highest concentration of kids in the entire city.

Incredible: A black webzine claims that black immigrants' rape of native whites is actually a good thing as it increases diversity.

"AFRU" calls rapes "quasi-consensual encounters."

Love

That's the topic folder this is under: "Love."


Why a 'rise in sexual assaults' by migrants is a price worth paying to end racism

Quasi-consensual encounters between refugees and white Western women may help with assimilation. Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname.

"Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

Please let in more Aspiring Doctors and Engineers who quasi-consensually rape the native population.

It's unfortunate, but true. Language gaps and cultural misunderstandings often mean that the first romantic encounter between a Western woman and a refugee can be perceived as quasi-consensual in nature. Usually it starts with a halting conversation or an awkward cat call at a park, a refugee language class, or a volunteer dinner.

But increasingly these encounters result in a shared apartment, a mixed-race child, a new surname, and a happy future. A quiet revolution is taking shape across Europe and North America, and it's being led by white Western women. They're not performing acts of charity, nor engaging in fetishism or exoticism.

Pioneering women are placing the burden upon themselves to become the most powerful force undermining the very architecture of racial exclusion. In countries where a supposed refugee "rape crisis" is cast as a threat, their beautiful interracial unions permanently puncture the entire narrative of the xenophobic right. The transformation is intimate, but implications are structural.

The collapse of ugly abstractions

Racism relies on distance. Stereotypes thrive in the absence of proximity. The moment a Western woman forms an intimate relationship with a refugee, she begins to see differently. Many describe it not as a shift in ideology but in emotional vocabulary: fear dissolves, replaced by the particularity of experience. That particularity is contagious.

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There is another layer, quieter but no less disruptive. When Western women form relationships with refugee men, they break with the implicit racial and political allegiances of their birth. White men are often animated by nationalist or racialist worldviews, and can experience these unions as betrayals. And they are right to.
Romantic couplings of white Western women and refugees redistribute the optics of who belongs.

These women are not just falling in love; they are puncturing the fragile white male consensus that has long underwritten white identity politics. Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.

Gordon Allport's mid-century contact theory proposed that sustained, cooperative contact between groups under conditions of equality reduces prejudice. These relationships are the contact hypothesis in its most intimate form. They are not state-sponsored integration programs; they are integration incarnate.

In other words, where the state fails, the bedroom succeeds. When white supremacy wants white women to zig, they zag.

Do you want mass forced deportations? Because this is exactly how you get mass forced deportations.

A group argues that simple civility in discourse is inherently "conservative" and "pro-Israel."

I think that's actually correct -- because the left's entire sick schtick is hateful, crazed denunciations, attempts to cancel people and menace them, and calls for actual violence. So yes, stripping the left of its weapons is "conservative" and "pro-Israel," in the sense that it limits terrorists' actions.


Group Argues Civil Discourse Push Is Conservative, Pro-Israel

A group of scholars has released another report arguing that efforts to promote constructive dialogue and similar concepts are actually targeting progressive activism. Those named in the report take issue with its assertions.


Uncivil argues civil discourse programs are aimed at repressing student activism.

A group of scholars called Uncivil is doubling down on its argument that the push for civil discourse and viewpoint diversity is part of a conservative and pro-Israel agenda--not a nonpartisan campaign. This week, it published dossiers on a broad swath of programs, groups and higher ed institutions that have used similar terms, criticizing their leaders, their funders and more.

Inside Higher Ed reached out to more than 30 organizations featured in the report. Those that responded took issue with Uncivil's characterization of their work, arguing that the group can't back up its conclusions. They countered that Uncivil doesn't mention some left-leaning funders, or the many nonconservative and non-Israel-related causes that funders support. They also dispute the methodology, including how the scholars identified some groups and funders as conservative or pro-Israel.

Interest in civil discourse programs surged after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the start of Israel's war in Gaza. That violence spurred a wave of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses nationwide. Organizations and colleges ramped up many efforts that were advertised as improving students' ability to debate controversial issues.

Uncivil--a consortium of academics from multiple universities, including one who's an Inside Higher Ed columnist and another who leads the American Association of University Professors' Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom--argues that the "real goal is to silence dissent" and "suppress organic student organizing."

The dossiers, which Uncivil calls the Civility Files, follow the group's June report that said the private funders "most deeply committed to 'bridge-building,' 'viewpoint diversity,' and 'depolarization' projects are those that also hold a substantial stake in conservative and/or 'pro-Israel' causes."

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But Murray said the Hillel funding was for campus chapters to reach out to non-Jewish student ministries to work together across differences, while the Tablet funding supported a journalist who writes about non-Jewish religious groups so the magazine's readers can learn about them.

"If someone wants to tell me how that's pro-Israel, I'd love to hear," Murray said.

Because the terrorists want to go jihad on Jewish students and not just that, they want to do their pogroms with the express support of governmental and educational authorities. Telling them they can't beat up Jews and menace them stifles their ability to use Violence as the Speech of the Unheard.

Don't believe me? Remember this professor of Islam?

FCC head Brendan Carr scolds leftists for opposing ratings for TV show including warnings about transgender content.

He has thrice publicly excoriated congressional Democrats in the past two weeks for opposing the shorthanded commission's work to "ensure that parents have the information necessary to decide what is appropriate for their own kids and families to watch," as Carr posted Monday afternoon on X and had reposted by Tuesday morning in case anyone missed it.

Carr first blasted "nearly 70" Democratic lawmakers Sept. 28 for "pushing to prevent parents from having any say over their children being exposed to controversial gender identity ideologies" on TV, referring to a June 5 letter from Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and a June 22 letter led by California Rep. Mark Takano, signed by 68 House Democrats in all.

He pointed to Disney Jr.'s 2018 reboot of the 1980s cartoon Muppet Babies, which in the episode "Gonzo-rella" has male Gonzo wearing a "princess dress to a royal ball," passing as a girl and going by plural pronouns. Netflix's Strawberry Short Cake reboot "promotes a trans character that wears clothing that matches the transgender pride flag," Carr said.

Contrary to these brands promoting themselves as "family friendly [...] the FCC's record is now replete with all sorts of examples of Hollywood and New York programmers going around parents to promote their gender ideologies," he said.




North Carolina is deliberately and systematically falsifying arrest records to make arrests seem more Racially Diverse, falsely claiming that Hispanics are "Caucasian" -- Yes, Hispanics are categorized as "white" or "black," and that's fine, but they cannot be called "Caucasian" -- and blacks, of course, are just categorized as "white."





Our Gangbang, Our Choice: A text from "Jane Doe."

"None of the sexual stuff was illegal."

Oh?

ourgangbangourchoice.jpg

Wokal Distance
@wokal_distance

I don't think people quite understand the psychology of why this woman went from saying everything was consensual to saying it was rape.

For her, giving sex to all those men is an enormous risk to her health (sti's, pregnancy) and her reputation (she doesn't want to be the subject of gossip) in order to do something for them. This is why you see her focus so hard on making sure the men don't tell anyone. In her head, if she is going to take all that risk for those men and give them her body, she expects them to protect her reputation by keeping quiet and the reward her by making sure she gets to be "one of the guys" - a sort of friend of the frat who gets special privileges. After the night of sex when the men told others what happened and then uninvited her from their party, she felt like they did not hold up their end of the implicit bargain. in her head, she played the role of the cool girl for them, and then they threw her away. She went from feeling like "the cool chick," to feeling like a dupe who got used and tossed aside.

She sees her consent as contingent on their silence and a place in their group; "I never would have agreed to do those things had I known you would destroy my reputation, and kick me out of the group." In her head, since consent was contingent on being give a place in their group and their social protection, when they broke their end of the agreement her consent was (in her mind) contingent upon, her consent no longer holds.

That is the dynamic you are seeing play out here. I am not defending the behavior of anyone here, I am only explaining the mindset.

Wokal Distance
@wokal_distance

Bullies always look for people who it is socially acceptable to target.

Female bullies target low status and socially awkward white men so they can punch down at people who lack the social ability to defend themselves, while pretending they're punching up at those with power.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:10 PM




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1 Wow boxy and grey.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (I43vL)

2 Never mind.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (I43vL)

3 Sounds like a long movie.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (nEUC6)

4 I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.

Also hunted zombies, spherical Texan cows, and liked to talk on the phone while on the shitter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (6ydKt)

5 Hey Elric,
How was Comicon?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 02:54 PM (W2Pud)
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Was fun, but a madhouse. Thursday is the least-crowded day, and it was still packed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

6 It's a hotbed for illegal drug activity and homelessness. But she didn't realize that sex offenders live so close to her daycare--or that taxpayers fund their housing./i]

No doubt we're funding the daycare, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (6ydKt)

7 Oh look, new and shiny.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (Q/FnY)

8 I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.

Wow, I did not know that. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (p3pWU)

9 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

It's been suggested elsewhere that the website this is from is a satire site. I can neither confirm nor deny but it is an excellent satire if true.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (6ydKt)

10 There's a very subversive channel on Youtube using Warhammer 40k tropes to make some stinging points.

It's called Space King.

This is basically France, Germany, England, Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWu3UTITOA

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (ZOv7s)

11 The video describes a lush, verdant world that is suddenly invaded by aliens, who immediately begin to oppress women and children, take over the institutions, vandalize ancient monuments and even desecrate the churches. Hmmm, where else is that happening?

Worst of all, they have never bothered to learn the local language. The narrator concludes: "What choice are we left with then, but to speak to them in a language they do understand. Not because we seek their understanding, but because it is time we were understood. We will speak to them in the language that ceases all tongues, except those who speak it best - WAR!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (ZOv7s)

12 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

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Why not call it "Clovis Man Day"? Those they claim to be indigenous...are not.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (dIske)

13 Contrary to these brands promoting themselves as "family friendly [...] the FCC's record is now replete with all sorts of examples of Hollywood and New York programmers going around parents to promote their gender ideologies," he said.

Hollywood and NYC have been doing this for about 75 years.

Better late than never?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (6ydKt)

14 "A black webzine claims that black immigrants' rape of native whites is actually a good thing as it increases diversity."

Odd that the "webzine" only focuses on white women in supposedly consensual relationships with these barbaric savages. What about white men with lady savages?

The article is pure rubbish and wishcasting because the only kind of white women who pretends to care about these barbaric savages are AWFuL types who wouldn't be caught dead with an illegal in their house, let alone willingly date one.

Normal white women -- and normal black and all normal women -- will avoid these barbaric savages like the plague. The only sex these savages are having with any American women are rapes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

15 @EndWokeness
End Wokeness

Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"

How about denaturalize and deport?


We know how this ends.
Let's be more like London and trade guns for knives and machetes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (6ydKt)

16 Wow, I did not know that. Thanks, Ace.
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (p3pWU)
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Francisco Franco got his start as a cook in the Spanish Army, and as a side gig, started imported canned food into the US. That's the origin of Franco-American.

Posted by: True Ace Historical Facts at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (ZOv7s)

17 Savion Douglas is listed in the second mugshot as a "Race: White, Ethnicity: African"

Elon's brother from another mother?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:21 PM (6ydKt)

18 "Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname."

Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?

Bueller? Bueller?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)

19 Normal white women -- and normal black and all normal women -- will avoid these barbaric savages like the plague. The only sex these savages are having with any American women are rapes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)
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"Normal" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ZOv7s)

20 North Carolina is deliberately and systematically falsifying arrest records to make arrests seem more Racially Diverse, falsely claiming that Hispanics are "Caucasian" -- Yes, Hispanics are categorized as "white" or "black," and that's fine, but they cannot be called "Caucasian" -- and blacks, of course, are just categorized as "white."


I did mention this before but I was a computer consultant with a company that had a system to track government childcare dollars.

There were race codes in the system - white, black, asian, and a few others. I talked to my clients and the issue of hispanics came up. The counselors would ask them what race they were. And the people would say "I'm Latino" instead of white or black.

To avoid arguments, the counselors were basically told to look at them and decide.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (Sco7b)

21 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN ??

That picture of her with the big glasses tells me everything I need to know about her.

Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (p3pWU)

22 Charlotte also is having problems finding $14M more to complete and open up a new home for 2 river otters. Plus the FBI is investigating our school board. We are dorked.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (enNUy)

23 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?

Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Category error. They are not looking for Prince Charming, they are looking for a sexual servant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (ZOv7s)

24

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (Cqx++)

25 The weekend is here
To early to start drinking?

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (Ia/+0)

26 Here's my counterpoint article: "Shooting Immigrant Rapists Right Between the Eyes Is a Great Way to Promote Justice"

Posted by: Wally at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (65cLN)

27 A quiet revolution is taking shape across Europe and North America, and it's being led by white Western women. They're not performing acts of charity, nor engaging in fetishism or exoticism.

And here I thought all mixed-race sexual encounters were automatically categorized as fetishism and exoticism.

Maybe that's only the case when people who are not leftist white women are doing it.

Obviously it can't be the case that the "immigrants" are engaging in fetishism or exoticism toward white women, because everyone knows that black and brown "immigrants" aren't fully realized human beings with their own cultures, desires, and goals.

/sarc

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (vJrRc)

28 The weekend is here
To early to start drinking?
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (Ia/+0)
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Happy Hour starts at 3.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (ZOv7s)

29 Your average American Indian raped and killed 10 times more people than Columbus ever did.

Why are we celebrating those rapists and murderers?
Who deserved to lose their land because all they did was rape, pillage and kill their neighbors and had no interest in animal husbandry, agriculture or any other hallmarks of civilization.

But for the white man saving a remnant, they'd be completely forgotten by all of history.
They should be thanking us.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (3cUTc)

30 23 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?

Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Category error. They are not looking for Prince Charming, they are looking for a sexual servant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (ZOv7s)

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"bobs and vagin?"
-Saar!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (1kJuV)

31
It's Tuesday morning at Little Learners Daycare in downtown San Francisco.

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You misspelled "Learers."

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (D3x2Y)

32
Charlotte also is having problems finding $14M more to complete and open up a new home for 2 river otters.

Take them to the river.
Drop them in the water.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (Cqx++)

33 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."
_____

She was screaming no, but her infidel exposed hair and grade school outfit was saying yes.
- Ahmed the Invader

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (Dv3i1)

34 Female bullies target low status and socially awkward white men so they can punch down at people who lack the social ability to defend themselves, while pretending they're punching up at those with power.
__________________________

I have a cousin who is a socially awkward white man. No one ever messes with him because he is a nuclear physicist and could likely build something very dangerous in his home basement if he so desired. Plus the crafty bastard makes the best homemade fireworks.

One of my favorite relatives...and not just because he has a hobby of brewing craft beers....but that's part of it.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (dIske)

35 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

And I suggest changing February 14th to Aztec "Hold your Sweet Heart" Day...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)

36 Are active-duty military counted as "government employees," or only civilians?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (77rzZ)

37 Weeping Department of Agriculture employee: 'My farmer died.'

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (4NO2D)

38

Bud Light real men of indigenous.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (Cqx++)

39 ... more than 25 percent of sex offenders in San Francisco with addresses in the Megan's Law database live in taxpayer-subsidized buildings.

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And that's just the membership of The San Fransicko Gay Men's Pedophile Choir.

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (D3x2Y)

40 Wow, justifying rape for diversity. Crazy.

So I guess white men raping in Africa would be a-ok then?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (n5tGW)

41 12 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

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Why not call it "Clovis Man Day"? Those they claim to be indigenous...are not.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (dIske)

St. Patrick's Day...Four-Leaf Clovis.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (l3cgK)

42 The problem with listing Hispanics as white is that they also list Asians, Indians, natives, Arabs, etc as white too. Anyone not listed as black, counts as white. So when people ask about crime stats you get black or white. White Caucasian crime stats aren't singled out without a whole lot of others thrown into the mix. By design?

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (enNUy)

43 Happy Hour starts at 3.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hey, A. H. How are you and your wife doing?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

44 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

And I suggest changing February 14th to Aztec "Hold your Sweet Heart" Day...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)
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The plus side is that half of those colleges will be gone in five years, and the cultural influence of higher ed will collapse. The trades are coming back, baby!

The down side is that there are going to be even more crazy, downwardly mobile women in the world. The only way through is forward.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (ZOv7s)

45 Incredible: A black webzine claims that black immigrants' rape of native whites is actually a good thing as it increases diversity.

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"CONQUEST & REPARATIONS by any other name, Infidels!"

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (D3x2Y)

46 Alright, someone from NC tell me how most elected officials in your state are R's, yet the Governor keeps turning up a D*?

(D = Democrat, will also accept Douchebag)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (Dv3i1)

47 8 I know that not all of you are history buffs like I am, so I'll explain, Lyndon Johnson was an Indian Hunter and Abraham Lincoln's vice president.

Wow, I did not know that. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (p3pWU)

Which makes sense, as Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (l3cgK)

48 21 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN ??

That picture of her with the big glasses tells me everything I need to know about her.
Posted by: dantesed at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (p3pWU)

________________________

Someone on here yesterday noted that a certain faction has a head shaped like a light bulb. I never really noticed that before....but, it's hard to ignore with that woman.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (dIske)

49 Call me old fashion but I don't think a black man raping a white woman is going to increase her feelings about ebony and ivory.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (viF8m)

50 With all the jets doing laps above my house right now you would think I live in Tehran.

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (Wt1Rs)

51 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (0sNs1)

52 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

Please let in more Aspiring Doctors and Engineers who quasi-consensually rape the native population.



Yeah, I can't read this thread anymore......FFS.......

Society is so f*cked.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (ccf/V)

53 r/FedEmployees

He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy. These people cheering have no idea how anything works. If the statement “run the country like a business” makes sense to you, I know you don’t understand business or how countries work.

republicans think feds are lazy and stupid, not only did Musk fire every1 Fox ensures federal employees have a hard time finding work with their constant smear campaign. There really needs to be a project 2029.

If they are getting paid 2-3x as much in the private sector then firing them is a huge loss to the government because they were employing way over qualified workers for cheap!

The rich and powerful have convinced the majority of Americans to fight an imaginary culture war and ignore the class war being waged against them

He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

54 If I was a parent in SF, I sure as hell wouldn't send my kid to any school in the Tenderloin no matter how good it was.

Posted by: keena at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (fpXAP)

55 Are there any indigenous people anywhere in the world? Maybe somewhere in the Amazon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (n5tGW)

56 I wasn't paying attention and posted this in the wrong thread by a mile.

This was for the previous thread for anyone curious:

From Goggle AI:

Saraland, Alabama, got its name in 1895 when C.J. DeWitt—a retired minister and editor who opened the town's first post office along the Southern Railroad—named the community after his wife, Sara

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (QGaXH)

57 Yeah, I can't read this thread anymore......FFS.......

Society is so f*cked.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Nah, it's just standard academic grievance studies bafflegab.

No need to despair of society.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (vJrRc)

58
Someone on here yesterday noted that a certain faction has a head shaped like a light bulb. I never really noticed that before....but, it's hard to ignore with that woman.
Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (dIske)



Inbred.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (ccf/V)

59 53 He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy. These people cheering have no idea how anything works. If the statement “run the country like a business” makes sense to you, I know you don’t understand business or how countries work.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaiso

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"Conservatives loved fed workers before Trump," is a take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (1kJuV)

60 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

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So are murders and genocides -- the old Satanic One-Party Consent Decree.

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (D3x2Y)

61 55 Are there any indigenous people anywhere in the world? Maybe somewhere in the Amazon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (n5tGW)

Andaman Islands?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (l3cgK)

62 Hey, A. H. How are you and your wife doing?
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)
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Hi! It's a bit mixed. The third round of chemo leveled her and she had a reaction for which she got steroids and that THAT make her Mrs. Fun Happy Person. Sheesh.

She met with her oncologist yesterday who decided to postpone this weeks treatment and perhaps change the kind of chemo. She will have to make it up, so that stretches this fun deeper into December, but we do get a weekend off, which is nice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (ZOv7s)

63 Thom Tillis, Super Rebublican

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (enNUy)

64 "Mayor Nadia Mohamed"

I watched that video.

Surprisingly, Nadia isn't hideous or obese or look like vomit. She's a Banana Girl 7.

But she has the same nervous, fidgeting, gyrating, eye-roaming, exaggerated, unfocused, epileptic-ish mannerisms and gestures that every single one of these people have.

It's like they all roll off the same defective assembly line.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

65 53 If they are getting paid 2-3x as much in the private sector then firing them is a huge loss to the government because they were employing way over qualified workers for cheap!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

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So...their opinion of the rich? Because apparently pay is directly related to worth as a human being.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (1kJuV)

66 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)


Every word they type only reinforces the opinion they believe that those beneath them have of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

67 With all the jets doing laps above my house right now you would think I live in Tehran.
Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM


Try living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Posted by: The Sharks at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (0sNs1)

68 53 I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

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So...still a government employee, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (1kJuV)

69 A group of scholars has released another report arguing that efforts to promote constructive dialogue and similar concepts are actually targeting progressive activism. Those named in the report take issue with its assertions.

Because they want to act like Nazis while calling those they attack Nazis, and being a Nazi also means wanting to discuss with the other side, which, like true Nazis, they cannot abide.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)

70 Why a 'rise in sexual assaults' by migrants is a price worth paying to end racism

Quasi-consensual encounters between refugees and white Western women may help with assimilation. Increasingly they result in a shared apartment and a new surname.


I have a suspicion that the sexual aspect of this IS important to Karens, look at someone like Jamey Carney who had a very personal reason for bringing in young male invaders to the country and her vajajay.



Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

71 Indigestion Day!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

72 He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy.

If I thought they would listen and comprehend, I'd tell them that the money to employ all those federal employees comes directly out of their pockets, via taxes.

That tax money may get spent in the economy, but first it must be taken out of the economy.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (vJrRc)

73 "Conservatives loved fed workers before Trump," is a take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:31 PM (1kJuV)

It's good when your workers are fed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:33 PM (l3cgK)

74 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)
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The funny thing is that they can't point to any bottlenecks in service performance. if they could, they would.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (ZOv7s)

75 66 Every word they type only reinforces the opinion they believe that those beneath them have of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM (6ydKt)

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"I was doing important work looking into how to impose more regulation on companies that do work near wetlands. Every paper I put out, cost those companies $100,000 in lawyer fees just to figure out what the fuck I was saying. I was contributing to the economy, and now that's gone, never to come back."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (1kJuV)

76 I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

85K is substantially more then the median in the US.

So I guess he does not in fact want equality?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

77 Civil discourse? Nah, I'm good.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (wVcYX)

78 Hi! It's a bit mixed. The third round of chemo leveled her and she had a reaction for which she got steroids and that THAT make her Mrs. Fun Happy Person. Sheesh.

She met with her oncologist yesterday who decided to postpone this weeks treatment and perhaps change the kind of chemo. She will have to make it up, so that stretches this fun deeper into December, but we do get a weekend off, which is nice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Hang in there, both of you. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

79 Colleges are using taxpayer funds to rebrand Columbus Day as "Indigenous People's Day."

Corporate America's been that way since 2020.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (2ocoG)

80 "I was doing important work looking into how to impose more regulation on companies that do work near wetlands. Every paper I put out, cost those companies $100,000 in lawyer fees just to figure out what the fuck I was saying. I was contributing to the economy, and now that's gone, never to come back."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (1kJuV)

The nation weeps at this momentous loss.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (6ydKt)

81 Looks like Trump has another hottie for press secretary. Katie Zacharia.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (viF8m)

82 FCC head Brendan Carr scolds leftists for opposing ratings for TV show including warnings about transgender content.

Also add gay content to that...I don't wanna see trannies and gays doing "stuff" on my TV or computer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (l3cgK)

83 I would joke that murder is quasi-consensual suicide but with the AWFLs, it's not that untrue.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (4NO2D)

84 Hang in there, both of you. Prayer up.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)
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Thank you. God be with you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (ZOv7s)

85 Most of these stories make-a me lose-a my temperature!!! And it's-a Columbus Day Weekend!

Posted by: Mr. Bacciagalupe at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (EdP2u)

86 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"

No, it's to ban muzzie Somalis from the country.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:36 PM (l3cgK)

87 He is making his followers hate federal employees, creating the narrative that government workers are a drain on the economy. These people cheering have no idea how anything works. If the statement “run the country like a business” makes sense to you, I know you don’t understand business or how countries work.

Back in the early 2000s a guy was found dead in the woods with "fed" scratched into him. He'd been a part time census worker but...that's it for being a fed.

The FNM went bonkers claiming Shrub was demanding his voters murder federal employees and this was the result. The police investigated and pointed out the guy had killed himself and the story slowly dissipated.

But the notion that right leaning voters loved government workers before Trump is...comical.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (sKqQm)

88 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages?
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Remember:
The real lesson of "Not Without My Daughter" is that men, western men, need to do more to protect women from their choices.

It was not her fault that she fell in love with Mr. Abdul Mohammed and let him move her and her child to Goatrapeistan.

Nope. All the modern liberal woman sees is a love story where her father and brother(s) didn't save her in time.
See, they should have given him a job, a career, a house, counseling, anything, something, everything so he would not have moved them.
That way, she could have lived out her love story.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (3cUTc)

89 I have a suspicion that the sexual aspect of this IS important to Karens, look at someone like Jamey Carney who had a very personal reason for bringing in young male invaders to the country and her vajajay.

I've said before, that's the one true job Americans won't do.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)

90 Which makes sense, as Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

A former co-worker of mine saw that movie and said that it was pretty good. I guess they did a good job of combining actual Civil-War history and the vampire stuff in the plot.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

91 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

>>>

Damn straight!

Posted by: EPA Hallway Shitter at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (wVcYX)

92 So I guess he does not in fact want equality?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)
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They never do. They expect to be members of the Nomenklatura while you toil in the mines.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (ZOv7s)

93
85K is substantially more then the median in the US.

So I guess he does not in fact want equality?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)


No, he wants to make $85k a year with platinum benefits to work from 8 to 3 for nine months out the year.

and then bitch about it while expecting you to kiss his bent over ass in appreciation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (6ydKt)

94 Also add gay content to that...I don't wanna see trannies and gays doing "stuff" on my TV or computer.

Its been a big thing for hollywood to stick dudes making out in movies for no reason.

Might be part of the reason hollywood is dying.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

95 I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)

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So...still a government employee, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:32 PM


The state tit is smaller, they whined.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (4NO2D)

96 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"

How about denaturalize and deport? https://t.co/CPyiMyAqEz

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 6, 2026



That woman is a twat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (ccf/V)

97 God be with you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Thank you. He is, even though I can't always feel his presence. But I know he's there.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

98 GatewayPundit...

New WH Press Secretary.

Sit down people. She's a smoking hot blonde.

The House has reportedly found a new press secretary to succeed Karoline Leavitt, who was the youngest Press Secretary in history.

Katie Zacharia, a lawyer, conservative media personality, and former DHS spokeswoman, has been offered the position. It is unclear whether she has accepted or when she would begin.

The New York Times reported on Friday,

Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who briefly worked at the Department of Homeland Security, has been chosen as the next White House press secretary, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (Sco7b)

99 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have.
____

We know all about dedication and passion of the federal workers.

Posted by: Child Ghosts of Waco at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

100 She met with her oncologist yesterday who decided to postpone this weeks treatment and perhaps change the kind of chemo. She will have to make it up, so that stretches this fun deeper into December, but we do get a weekend off, which is nice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd



Been there, done that. Godspeed, sir. Prayers to both of you. It is a tough road, but if they get it figured out, when they get it figured out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (ccf/V)

101 Can anyone give me one example of any western white woman finding her Prince Charming among these filthy degenerate savages? /i]

While Jamey Carney did...until Prince Charming murdered her.

Or how about Elizabeth Jane Ross? Oh wait her boytoy killed her as well.

I'm sure this is just a coincidence...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

102 99 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have.
____

We know all about dedication and passion of the federal workers.

Posted by: Child Ghosts of Waco at October 09, 2026 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

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"We dedicated ourselves to undermining the will of the body politic as they chose through the electoral college by making sure his policies did not come to pass. We should be celebrated."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (1kJuV)

103 90 Which makes sense, as Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

A former co-worker of mine saw that movie and said that it was pretty good. I guess they did a good job of combining actual Civil-War history and the vampire stuff in the plot.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)

104
I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Would you want this person to "teach" your children?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Cqx++)

105 I've said before, that's the one true job Americans won't do.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)
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Women so toxic that the only men who will shag them are the ones who can't understand a word they say and whose only alternative sexual outlet has four legs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (ZOv7s)

106 No, he wants to make $85k a year with platinum benefits to work from 8 to 3 for nine months out the year.

and then bitch about it while expecting you to kiss his bent over ass in appreciation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Ding ding ding.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 03:41 PM (GZ3K7)

107 As long as Italians aren't listed as white, I'm OK with it.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at October 09, 2026 03:41 PM (EdP2u)

108 107 As long as Italians aren't listed as white, I'm OK with it.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at October 09, 2026 03:41 PM (EdP2u)

Does "swarthy white" count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

109 All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM


IIRC, it has Rufus Sewell as the Confederate Vampire.

Sewell has got smug down pat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

110 Have the Sammies brought their RPGs here as well?

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (Ia/+0)

111 Does "swarthy white" count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

It's a tough call when it comes to Greeks and Spaniards.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (6ydKt)

112 "New dispatch on the Cornell case from the NYT is pretty extraordinary"

1. The Blade nailed the motive a week ago: pure revenge for getting "dissed" by the frat for disinviting her to the halloween party. She was livid and wanted revenge. Everything changed after that.

2. Of all the insanely stupid and comically bad decisions made in this whole sordid mess, the most insanely stupid and comically bad was ...

..the frat kicking her off the party invite list. All they had to do was let her come to the party, and none of this would have happened. None of it.

Plus, even if she later did scream "rape" that would be much harder to do if they had proof she went back to her alleged Rape House and partied with her alleged rapists.

Kicking her off the list was an incandescently stupid decision.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

113 109 All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM

IIRC, it has Rufus Sewell as the Confederate Vampire.

Sewell has got smug down pat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

======

Confused and superpowered in Dark City Rufus Sewell better than haughty asshole in A Knight's Tale Rufus Sewell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (1kJuV)

114 Lightbulb-person gun-grabbing birdhands mayor.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (lfNXu)

115 As long as Italians aren't listed as white, I'm OK with it.

Speaking of which... https://tinyurl.com/ymc8ez23

/link goes to youtube
//not really SFW anyway
///they could not make this scene today

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

116 Women so toxic that the only men who will shag them are the ones who can't understand a word they say and whose only alternative sexual outlet has four legs.

My favorite are the videos by 600 pound women saying they refuse to date white men.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (2ocoG)

117 Confused and superpowered in Dark City Rufus Sewell better than haughty asshole in A Knight's Tale Rufus Sewell.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM


He played Reichsfuhrer Smith pretty well.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (4NO2D)

118 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?


Create your own. Stop destroying things other people built.

Marriage, institutions, holidays, rainbows, girls sports…..

Be a creator of what you want celebrated and leave my stuff alone.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (W2Pud)

119 109 All I remember is I found the movie entertaining. Good $1.50 spent at RedBox...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM

IIRC, it has Rufus Sewell as the Confederate Vampire.

Sewell has got smug down pat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

sadly, RedBox got defunct, got defunct, got defunct...

https://youtu.be/m0zWHGwu17g

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (l3cgK)

120 One thing about putting all the pedos into group homes in close proximity is that it puts them at risk from motivated arsonists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (quk5M)

121 Kicking her off the list was an incandescently stupid decision.

I'm gonna disagree. Given her antics the first time, do you really want whatever she does to top it to happen in your legal jurisdiction?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (2ocoG)

122 I've said before, that's the one true job Americans won't do.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:37 PM (2ocoG)
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Women so toxic that the only men who will shag them are the ones who can't understand a word they say and whose only alternative sexual outlet has four legs.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (ZOv7s)

Free Civil Intercourse!

Posted by: Rallying Cry of the Masses at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (wVcYX)

123 Kicking her off the list was an incandescently stupid decision.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)


Oh, I think the stupid decisions started well before the Halloween party.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (6ydKt)

124 Sewell was in some show where he was building a cathedral that I thought was pretty good.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:45 PM (4NO2D)

125 My favorite are the videos by 600 pound women saying they refuse to date white men.
Posted by: Ian S.

Well, black men tend to prefer fat white chicks for some reason.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:46 PM (77rzZ)

126 114 Lightbulb-person gun-grabbing birdhands mayor.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts

Surprisingly, I know what this sentence means.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:46 PM (Dv3i1)

127 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?

Create your own.


Evil cannot create, only destroy.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

128 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have. That can’t be found in the private sector.

I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 03:30 PM (+fIyw)
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The funny thing is that they can't point to any bottlenecks in service performance. if they could, they would.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2026 03:34 PM


Just like they can't point to a single person who lost their obama care insurance when Trump finally ended the temporary "emergency" covid subsidies for obama care after they ran for 5 years.


Nor can they find a single woman with three kids not being able to feed her kids after Trump ended the snap fraud by kicking millions of people off of it.


It's a mystery.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (I43vL)

129 127 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?

Create your own.

Evil cannot create, only destroy.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

======

One word:

Gramsci.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (1kJuV)

130
I went from over 120K as a fed to 85K at my new job teaching high school. I hate this dirtbag and all his minions. Everything he says is a lie.

Would you want this person to "teach" your children?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:40 PM (Cqx++)
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"Listen up, future child predator sex slaves. THESE are the Seven Cardinal Virtues: Pride, Greed, Lust, envy, Gluttony, Wrath, & Sloth!

Or as the late, great Paul Lynde observed on Hollyweird Squares: The Bill of Rights ..."

Posted by: ShainS at October 09, 2026 03:47 PM (D3x2Y)

131 Well, black men tend to prefer fat white chicks for some reason.

While that's true, most of those videos' comments tend to look like that skit where a man from every race says "nah, bro".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (2ocoG)

132 Ah, as the eponymous Tom Builder in The Pillars of the Earth.

Thanks IMDB.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (4NO2D)

133 Gramsci.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The worst thing Mussolini did was not offing the f**ker. That was worse than his conquest of Ethiopia.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

134 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

🔴 Hitler Mussolini Simeon: 34.5%
🔵 Gaspar Benilde: 30.8%
🟡 Itala Yovana: 28.2%

I think we should bomb Queropalca, just to be sure.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (AKptf)

135 118 Why do leftists insist on taking over and rebranding things?


Create your own. Stop destroying things other people built.

Marriage, institutions, holidays, rainbows, girls sports…..

Be a creator of what you want celebrated and leave my stuff alone.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Leftists are oblivious to what it takes to create anything. They are no better than the underpants gnomes.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)

136 Be a creator of what you want celebrated and leave my stuff alone.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 03:44 PM (W2Pud)

But your stuff is toxic, racist, ablelist, white supremacist, homophobic, and oppressive.

and they deserve it.
and they want it.

for free.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:49 PM (6ydKt)

137 133 Gramsci.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The worst thing Mussolini did was not offing the f**ker. That was worse than his conquest of Ethiopia.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

=======

Absolutely should have put a bullet in his head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:49 PM (1kJuV)

138 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

139 .... quite the history buff.

But he could only remember their names.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:51 PM (6ydKt)

140 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM


Goebbels?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:51 PM (4NO2D)

141 Leftists are oblivious to what it takes to create anything.
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Those assholes who keep invoking Satan at city council meetings don't believe for a moment that they're "building" or "creating" anything--they only wish to desecrate and destroy society and the norms that maintain it.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

142 140 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM

Goebbels?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:51 PM (4NO2D)

I was on a typing without looking roll in that post then I started screwing up and hit the tab key and the enter key and dropped half my sentence on all of you.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (6ydKt)

143 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (B1+sW)

144 "Sexual assaults" are "quasi-consensual encounters."

White women are asking for it for being white and wealthy and living in a first world country.

/sarc

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:54 PM (vJrRc)

145 Francisco Franco got his start as a cook in the Spanish Army, and as a side gig, started imported canned food into the US. That's the origin of Franco-American.
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And Francisco Franco is still dead.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 03:54 PM (TN0g+)

146 143 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (B1+sW)


Have you had her checked under the concussion protocol just to make sure nothing has happened to her head?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:55 PM (6ydKt)

147 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour
Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (B1+sW)

she might be cheating on you

Posted by: first time commenter at October 09, 2026 03:55 PM (AKptf)

148 Things the left tells me are literal rape: Looking at a woman in the gym, asking your wife for sex if she isn't in the mood, not calling back a one night stand the next day

Things the left tells me are not rape: Rape by a Democrat office holder, rape by an immigrant, rape by a homosexual

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

149 Wife just gave me a beer must be happy hour
Posted by: doug

What a good wife you got!

When we were first dating, my wife demonstrated her beer-pouring skills, by which she produced the perfect head of foam.

And she never even worked as a bartender. Maybe she learned it in an MRS Degree program.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

150 No, he wants to make $85k a year with platinum benefits to work from 8 to 3 for nine months out the year.

and then bitch about it while expecting you to kiss his bent over ass in appreciation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf


Point of order: grading stuff and making lesson plans means the job takes longer than 8-3

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (vJrRc)

151 He has no clue about the dedication and passion that many federal workers have.
------

...uh..really?

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (TN0g+)

152 ya all funny salute

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (B1+sW)

153 The day is coming soon where the concept of rape is only countenanced when the rapist is a white male.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (0U5gm)

154 Awesome news on the suppressor, SBR, and SBS front...

https://www.atf.gov/media/30961/download

Posted by: lin-duh at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (9U6Wl)

155 Mayor Nadia Mohamed (D-MN): The way to end Somali gang shootings is to "ban guns"
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Get this mouthy burka-covered bitch out of my country.

Posted by: Crusader, Former Federal Bank Examiner at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (TN0g+)

156 Hitler Mussolini Simeon wins the mayoralty of Queropalca, Peru

Apparently the new mayor's father was
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:50 PM

Goebbels?
Posted by: toby
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I had an older neighbor with a thick German accent. He would often assert, without being asked, that he was Argentinian. I suppse the intent was to disassocate himself from the Reichstag. For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

157 Point of order: grading stuff and making lesson plans means the job takes longer than 8-3

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 03:57 PM (vJrRc)


$85k with fully paid dental and eye-care should make that much more bearable.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 03:59 PM (6ydKt)

158 Overview of Gun Laws in Somalia

Gun laws in Somalia are characterized by strict regulations, which include a total ban on the import, sale, and possession of firearms by civilians.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

159 Take them to the river.
Drop them in the water.
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Go on--I'm taking notes.

Posted by: David Byrne at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (TN0g+)

160 Leftists are oblivious to what it takes to create anything.
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Ah. But they have a 'vision'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:01 PM (XeU6L)

161 The Taylor Street Center is one of San Francisco's most heavily populated sex-offender residences. Located in the Tenderloin, Taylor Street houses at least 31 registered sex offenders. The taxpayer-funded California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the federal Bureau of Prisons contract the private GEO Group to run the facility.
=====

Each of them will vote for Weiner. He thinks of them as his core constituency.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 04:01 PM (RIvkX)

162 Gun laws in Somalia are characterized by strict regulations, which include a total ban on the import, sale, and possession of firearms by civilians.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)


It's one thing to have laws but an entirely different thing to have the means to enforce them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:02 PM (6ydKt)

163 Mayor Nadia has a basal cell carcinoma smack dab on her Mo forehead. Don't tell her.

Jane Doe should be Jane Ho, the train conductress of Chi Phi. Because this type of sex is the thing now (paraphrased from her texts) and nothing to feel shame about!

Unless someone talks about you and you want their names so you can beat them to a pulp.

The tip of her iceberg was not getting invited to a party. This is so Title IX. Similar to cases I read about of drunken sex, initiated by the girl, and screaming rape to Title IX the next morning when they guy says, "See ya" vs a marriage proposal or being a boyfriend. I would really like to know the % of these revenge cases vs true rape.

She waits, wut?, two weeks to get a rape kit. By then who knows who she's been with since the hodown?

Granted, many rape kits in ED's are after the girl has showered...which would be a normal response but it can impact DNA results.

The girls I saw, and they were very few because there is a chain of evidence and only 1 RN working with them...were traumatized. I was called in to comfort a few girls by the RN. She is specially trained for this and not any regular ED RN can assist.

Jane Ho waited 2wks or so.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 04:02 PM (hzuYO)

164 So when the white slave owners were banging the black slaves, that was helping to increase diversity right?

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (mseD3)

165 164 So when the white slave owners were banging the black slaves, that was helping to increase diversity right?

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (mseD3)

"Quasi-consensual" so it checks out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

166 So when the white slave owners were banging the black slaves, that was helping to increase diversity right?
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I felt so, yes.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson at October 09, 2026 04:05 PM (TN0g+)

167 I had an older neighbor with a thick German accent. He would often assert, without being asked, that he was Argentinian. I suppse the intent was to disassocate himself from the Reichstag. For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

you could have asked him what he did between 1940-1945...

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:05 PM (AKptf)

168 As someone noted, the woman at Cornell was anonymous and only the local area knew about the allegations. No prosecution occurred.
Now over a billion people know who she is and what she did.
Great plan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:06 PM (t9883)

169 Ryan Hall is live with Hurricane Isaias.

https://www.youtube.com/live/naxJDOglaNs

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:06 PM (6ydKt)

170 Those assholes who keep invoking Satan at city council meetings don't believe for a moment that they're "building" or "creating" anything--they only wish to desecrate and destroy society and the norms that maintain it.
Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 03:53 PM (TN0g+)

Who worships the creature when you can worship the Creator?

People be cray cray.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (BYJyI)

171 I felt so, yes.
Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

172 I thought a bottle of tequila, A Xanax, and a pair of handcuffs was a Rape Kit, or a Cosby Friday night.

Posted by: Naive Ned at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (EdP2u)

173 168 As someone noted, the woman at Cornell was anonymous and only the local area knew about the allegations. No prosecution occurred.
Now over a billion people know who she is and what she did.
Great plan
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:06 PM (t9883)

You didn't really expect that a woman who would consent to a gang bang and snort K off someone's dick would show good judgment going forward, did you?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:08 PM (BYJyI)

174 I gotta say YallBot's female voice has gotten better since the last time I watched Ryan's livestream.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:08 PM (6ydKt)

175 A group of scholars called Uncivil is doubling down on its argument that the push for civil discourse and viewpoint diversity is part of a conservative and pro-Israel agenda...


Fine.
I'll play along.
My next encounter will incorporate their methods.
This is gonna be fun!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:09 PM (2WIwB)

176 The left really idolizes the crazy, don't they? I can't explain it... it's just so weird how they cozy up to the most vile, insane and violent people.

And society as it is today is the result. Obviously not everywhere.... but it's widespread.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 04:09 PM (RORbl)

177 I should go clean gutters because getting har rain Sunday

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

178 Fine.
I'll play along.
My next encounter will incorporate their methods.
This is gonna be fun!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:09 PM (2WIwB)

Can I call them Ignorant Sluts? Because I really want to call them all Ignorant Sluts.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:11 PM (BYJyI)

179 I had an older neighbor with a thick German accent. He would often assert, without being asked, that he was Argentinian. I suppse the intent was to disassocate himself from the Reichstag. For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

you could have asked him what he did between 1940-1945...
Posted by: runner

Or showed him a box of paper clips and see how he reacted.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

180
Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.
Posted by: Bulg
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So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

181 Overview of Gun Laws in Somalia

Gun laws in Somalia are characterized by strict regulations, which include a total ban on the import, sale, and possession of firearms by civilians.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 04:00 PM (sKqQm)

***

Bwahahahaha!!!!
One of the ways we knew ahead of time that a fight was coming in Mogadishu was the price of ammo being sold in the market square started going up. Everyone started buying.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (2WIwB)

182 171 I felt so, yes.
Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson

Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

Have an ancestor who, when his wife died, married his wife's sister...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (l3cgK)

183 "by making sure she gets to be "one of the guys" - a sort of friend of the frat who gets special privileges"

This is what I've been talking about from the beginning. This was a popular "jock" frat that held a lot of prestige and leverage.

The kind of place where it's hard to score an invite to the halloween party. Only the cook kids and hot girls get invited. If you are not invited, it means you ain't worthy.

There were frats like that in my college.

I'm sure this girl wasn't the first to consent to sex in exchange for invites and access.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

184 Looks like Pensacola is going to get the eye of the storm.
Some storm surge in Pensacola bay.

The western side of the storm is not doing as well due to wind shear, which should help people in Alabama out as they won't get hit as hard as the eastern part of the storm.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (6ydKt)

185 Old and busted: "Free Candy" van

New hotness: Quasi-Consensual Encounter van

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (VHUov)

186 Mayor Nadia has a basal cell carcinoma smack dab on her Mo forehead.

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is where I knew I was reading a ChristyBlinky comment!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (RIvkX)

187 any of Hennings' children.
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Oops.'Hemmins'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (XeU6L)

188 *Here

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (RIvkX)

189 "Quasi-consensual" so it checks out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:04 PM (6ydKt)

Wait, didn't the leftists just establish that any sexual move during any encounter requires positive, out loud, consent by the woman?

Now "quasi" consensual is enough?

I think we are going to need a written manual on the terms and timing here if we are going to move forward in a constructive manner.

Or, they can all just go straight to hell.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (BYJyI)

190 180 So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

=======

Hemming''s line shares Randolph DNA. Jefferson's mother was a Randolph.

But, Jefferson's brother spent more time with the slaves and liked to party with them.

It essentially comes down to one of Jane Randolph's children, which might be Jefferson, and it's my understanding that a lot of the timelines of her birth don't line up with his time in France all that well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (1kJuV)

191 Dammit

'Hemmings'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (XeU6L)

192 For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)


Don't mention the war.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (xg/DD)

193 So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

From what I heard way back when, it's likely that it was Tom's brother.

All I'm saying is that, if it was Tom, Hemming's blood relationship with Martha could explain it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

194 Mass deportations? Excusing migrant rape is how you get a wave of vigilante murders

Posted by: UGAdawg at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (LCCkb)

195 New hotness: Quasi-Consensual Encounter van
Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (VHUov)

Obligatory: https://youtu.be/C-ceX3-yW4c

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (BYJyI)

196 Gun law in Somalia
Have RPG, will travel

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

197 Now "quasi" consensual is enough?

I think we are going to need a written manual on the terms and timing here if we are going to move forward in a constructive manner.

Or, they can all just go straight to hell.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:13 PM (BYJyI)


I think that is a parody/satire site but can't be sure.

At any rate, 95% of white women are not going to go with quasi-consensual as an excuse for being raped by a BIPOC.

The other 5% go to Cornell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (6ydKt)

198 Can I call them Ignorant Sluts? Because I really want to call them all Ignorant Sluts.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:11 PM (BYJyI)

Absolutely!
You can also use my fav: wanton libidinous trollops.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:15 PM (2WIwB)

199 Sally Hemings was a half-sister of Jefferson's late wife, Martha. She probably looked something like Martha. So it's understandable that he may have been drawn to her.

Not condoning it, mind you. But it does seem like a logical explanation as to why he did it.
Posted by: Bulg
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So far as I know, there is no definitive DNA evidence that Thomas Jefferson was the father of any of Hennings' children.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (XeU6L)
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This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this. It's total bullshit. Ann Coulter, for all her flaws, has some excellent columns on this.

Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

200 192 For better or worse, it only piqued my suspicion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

Don't mention the war.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 09, 2026 04:14 PM (xg/DD)

https://youtube.com/shorts/ggmMGCXKYJs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (l3cgK)

201 Hemmings, Hennings, Henings

One of those...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (XeU6L)

202 199 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this. It's total bullshit. Ann Coulter, for all her flaws, has some excellent columns on this.

Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Adams' people were flinging the accusation during the 1800 campaign. It wasn't just manufactured in the last few decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (1kJuV)

203 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this. It's total bullshit. Ann Coulter, for all her flaws, has some excellent columns on this.

Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Adams' people were flinging the accusation during the 1800 campaign. It wasn't just manufactured in the last few decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (1kJuV)
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I meant by scholars

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

204 Have an ancestor who, when his wife died, married his wife's sister...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

And then realized they didn't get it quite right, so both pairs divorced, and remarried the other way around, so each one was marrying their sibling's ex.

Not enough banjos for those wedding parties, eh?

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (VHUov)

205 Adams' people were flinging the accusation during the 1800 campaign. It wasn't just manufactured in the last few decades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I remember the ep of The Jeffersons where George dressed up in colonial garb to boost his dry-cleaning business by claiming that he was descended from Tom.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

206 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

These people would be shocked if they knew the depravity the Romans and Arabs forced on their slaves.


If they actually believe anybody but American southerners had slaves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)

207 Of course Thomas Jefferson bones his slaves. How else did George Jefferson get his name?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (t9883)

208 I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

And then realized they didn't get it quite right, so both pairs divorced, and remarried the other way around, so each one was marrying their sibling's ex.
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That's unbelievable!

Posted by: Zombie Fritz Peterson at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (TN0g+)

209 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this.
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I recall that Pete Butterjug called Jefferson's visage on Mt. Rushmore 'Problematic'. He didn't say anything about the $2 bill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (XeU6L)

210 Quasi-consensual means that only one party needs to consent to the "encounter."

Known in some quarters as the Bill Cosby Green Light.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (guGkK)

211 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

And you were there and have first-hand knowledge?

Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

212 Not enough banjos for those wedding parties, eh?

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (VHUov)

Saves money on Christmas when everybody has the same in-laws, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (6ydKt)

213 207 Of course Thomas Jefferson bones his slaves. How else did George Jefferson get his name?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (t9883)


Wut?

Posted by: George Clinton at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (xg/DD)

214 I recall that Pete Butterjug called Jefferson's visage on Mt. Rushmore 'Problematic'. He didn't say anything about the $2 bill.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (XeU6L)

Petey prefers the three dollar bill. Much queerer.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (BYJyI)

215 204 Have an ancestor who, when his wife died, married his wife's sister...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

And then realized they didn't get it quite right, so both pairs divorced, and remarried the other way around, so each one was marrying their sibling's ex.

Not enough banjos for those wedding parties, eh?

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (VHUov)

My Great-Grandmother (Mom's maternal grandma) had three sisters that married three brothers..It may explain her fixation with the movie "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (l3cgK)

216 Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.

That's actually pretty funny. Not sure if that is secretly snarky.

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (SwyyQ)

217 you could have asked him what he did between 1940-1945...
Posted by: runner

Or showed him a box of paper clips and see how he reacted.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)


Or checked out his lam shades...

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (2WIwB)

218 Obama belongs on the three-dollar bill.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (guGkK)

219 I knew--sort of, friends-of-a-friend--a pair of brothers who married a pair of sisters.

Two of my Dad's brothers married sisters. Unfortunately, the sisters did not particularly get along, which made family gatherings somewhat awkward.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (77rzZ)

220 Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

Oh FFS. He was a product of his time. Anachronisms don't really enlighten anyone.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (BYJyI)

221 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not. It is highly likely that his cousin (?) did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

These people would be shocked if they knew the depravity the Romans and Arabs forced on their slaves.


If they actually believe anybody but American southerners had slaves.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)
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Even the slaves of the same era who were sent to Brazil were far worse off than American slaves. The Portuguese were far more brutal than Americans were.

Plus, the work was much harder and more dangerous. You think picking cotton is bad? Imagine having to clear a Brazilian rainforest with 17-century tools to make way for plantations and estates. I'm sure the life expectancy was much worse for them than the American slaves.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (iFTx/)

222 Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

Not really, he was surrounded by millions of people around the world who had no problems with slavery whatsoever.

At least Jefferson wrestled with the moral question a bit in his life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)

223
Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)

224 209 This. Nobody ever suggested Jefferson did until a few decades ago when it became convenient to smear him like this.
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I recall that Pete Butterjug called Jefferson's visage on Mt. Rushmore 'Problematic'. He didn't say anything about the $2 bill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:19 PM (XeU6L)

He was just unhappy there weren't any assholes up there for him to gawk at.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (l3cgK)

225 That's unbelievable!
Posted by: Zombie Fritz Peterson
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Pfft.

Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:23 PM (XeU6L)

226 Each white womb decorated with a Brown or Black baby make racial purism increasingly not just odious but logistically impossible.

That's actually pretty funny. Not sure if that is secretly snarky.
Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 04:21 PM (SwyyQ)


It's the kind of Big Thinking that will get you published in some obscure academic journal with a pompous-sounding name like the International Racial Dialectic Review.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:23 PM (guGkK)

227 223
Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)

Cuz he was a white honky...okay, swarthy white honky...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (l3cgK)

228 Many slave owners fuck their slaves. Thomas Jefferson did not.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

And you were there and have first-hand knowledge?

Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)
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Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

229 225 That's unbelievable!
Posted by: Zombie Fritz Peterson
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Pfft.

Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:23 PM (XeU6L)

I think at minimum, a three-some was unavoidable...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (l3cgK)

230 Oh FFS. He was a product of his time. Anachronisms don't really enlighten anyone.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (BYJyI)


Especially me. I hate spiders!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (2WIwB)

231 At least Jefferson wrestled with the moral question a bit in his life.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (6ydKt)


The trick is, you just refuse to wrestle with it.

Posted by: Jean-Jacques Rousseau at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (guGkK)

232 Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children
Posted by: Mike Hammer

The comment in the Guiness Book of World Records when I was a kid was something like "Thoughts regarding the methodology employed are best left to the reader."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

233 Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

But she never argues he wouldn't!--some leftist

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (l3cgK)

234 Jefferson, for all his brilliance, was a deeply flawed character when it came to the slavery issue.
Posted by: Bulg
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As far as I know, Jefferson only owned slaves that came with his wedding to his wife. He didn't like it, as it just meant more mouths to feed. Law precluded manumission.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:25 PM (XeU6L)

235 Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)
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Wait until they find out he could have been a Jew ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

236 Two of my Dad's brothers married sisters. Unfortunately, the sisters did not particularly get along, which made family gatherings somewhat awkward.
Posted by: Bulg


That's also how you wind up with "double cousins." My dad has some, since grandpa's brother married grandma's sister.

If "dad's brother's kid" and "mom's sister's kid" are the same kid, they're you're double (first) cousin.

More genetic similarity than normal cousins, but not as close as half-siblings. North Carolina is the only state where that matters; they allow first-cousin marriages, but not between double-cousins.

Posted by: mikeski at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (VHUov)

237 235 Why are they after poor Columbus ? He never stepped foot in what would become America...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (+gK6I)
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Wait until they find out he could have been a Jew ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

Some circumstantial evidence of it too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (l3cgK)

238 Plus, the work was much harder and more dangerous. You think picking cotton is bad? Imagine having to clear a Brazilian rainforest with 17-century tools to make way for plantations and estates. I'm sure the life expectancy was much worse for them than the American slaves.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:22 PM (iFTx/)


They did a lot of work in sugar cane fields and coffee plantations in Brazil. Eventually there was cotton and other crops but those two were the main cash crops during the 19th century.


And Brazil brought in a lot more slaves than the States.
U.S. ~ 400,000 imported
Brazil - ~ 5 million

They went through slaves and instead of letting them have children, like we did here, they just imported more.
They also freed more slaves so had a lot more freedman than we did before slavery ended there in the 1880s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (6ydKt)

239 Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

"If you've got no plans, I'd like to borrow the dick tonight, Chang."

Posted by: Eng at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (guGkK)

240 My Grandmother was a first and second cousin to the man I was named after...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (l3cgK)

241 BREAKING!

"Katie Zacharia, a former spokeswoman at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a senior communications adviser at Truth Social, has been offered the position of White House press secretary."

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (AKptf)

242 I know, I know, y'all are wondering "WHO??". Same. No clue who the blonde is.

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (AKptf)

243 I think at minimum, a three-some was unavoidable...
Posted by: jim
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I refuse to ponder their arrangement

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (XeU6L)

244 239 Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, married sisters Frances and Sarah Baugus in the 1830s. They fathered 21 children

"If you've got no plans, I'd like to borrow the dick tonight, Chang."

Posted by: Eng at October 09, 2026 04:27 PM (guGkK)

As funny as that is, they weren't joined like that...if you've seen the pictures.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (l3cgK)

245 Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)


Say what you will about Coulter, she knows how to do research. I've read a couple of her books. She does her homework.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (2WIwB)

246 243 I think at minimum, a three-some was unavoidable...
Posted by: jim
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I refuse to ponder their arrangement

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:28 PM (XeU6L)

Imagine a spherical...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (l3cgK)

247 Read the Ann Coulter columns I mentioned. She cites lengthy and compelling evidence from scholars that Jefferson didn't.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I don't care one way or the other. Jefferson was a great statesman, and a great American. But I don't dismiss out of hand the idea that he did the nasty with Hemmings, even if he did not actually father her children.

Heck, even Lincoln, as a young lawyer in Illinois, represented a slaveowner who was attempting to recover an escaped slave.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

248 As funny as that is, they weren't joined like that...if you've seen the pictures.

I sometimes take some literary license for the sake of a good joke.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (guGkK)

249 North Carolina is the only state where that matters; they allow first-cousin marriages,
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Would explain Cooper...and Tillis.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:30 PM (XeU6L)

250 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
38m
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump OFFICIALLY appoints MAGA patriot Katie Zacharia as the next White House Press Secretary, filling the shoes of Karoline Leavitt

CONGRATULATIONS, @Katie Zacharia! 🇺🇸

TRUMP: "It is my Great Honor to have just appointed, as Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia."

"She was previously involved in my Campaigns, assisting in key Swing States, where we won 7 out of 7. She has an unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning."

"She is, likewise, a devoted fan and member of MAGA! I am confident that Katie will deliver strong results for our Country as the next White House Press Secretary, as she has the respect of, and will work fantastically with, the Media, the American People, and my Administration. Katie is replacing the fabulous @Karoline Leavitt, who did a fantastic job as Press Secretary. Good luck Katie! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (AKptf)

251 During the time around the battle of Mogadishu the Bakara and Irtogte markets were selling everything. Shit I could get a nice type 56-1 for $150. RPG-7’s about $500 and I could get a discount if I bought two. If I threw in a goat I could probably get a PKM.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (+qfnT)

252 >>>Please let in more Aspiring Doctors and Engineers who quasi-consensually rape the native population.
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This article hits on an unpleasant truth. (Or happy fun time if you are a conquering nation, historically). Women are genetically bound to survival and the continuation of her genes, it's not a conscious thing. At this point in time we mostly see white women who would not be a high selection but now on a preferred list, it's primarily survival and continuation of her genetic genes. The new arrivals are the most dominant, have the most survival potential of her mating options.

Basically, that's how we survive as a species. If we were an ancient conquering nation taking Africa we would take their women and they would give themselves to us because we are the dominant and the genetic drive to continue the species reins.

Today, if we want to continue as a dominant western culture, as in ancient times, we must be dominate and drive out the invader otherwise our culture will perish.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 04:31 PM (Cq/ve)

253 Say what you will about Coulter, she knows how to do research. I've read a couple of her books. She does her homework.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Noted 'How To Speak To A Liberal, If You Must' on my bookshelf the other day. May re-read.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 04:32 PM (XeU6L)

254 Heck, even Lincoln, as a young lawyer in Illinois, represented a slaveowner who was attempting to recover an escaped slave.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

Lincoln, to say the least, had a complicated view about slavery and blacks.

He disliked the institution of slavery mainly because it was tearing the nation apart, and he felt the entire concept incompatible with the American experiment itself.

But as for black people in general he was just as racist as any other men of his time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 04:33 PM (6ydKt)

255 The Bunker brothers, from what I've read, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century. But I guess the checks from Barnum were just too big.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

256 Gutters cleaned out

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:34 PM (Ia/+0)

257 The Bunker brothers, from what I've read, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century.

Today, not only could they be separated, they could both be turned onto hot women.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 04:35 PM (guGkK)

258 255 The Bunker brothers, from what I've read, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century. But I guess the checks from Barnum were just too big.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

Their livers were connected...I don't know if they would've survived the lack of sterility of medical equipment, or the lack of surgical skill of the mid-1800's. BTW, they died in 1874 at the age of 62.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (l3cgK)

259 But as for black people in general he was just as racist as any other men of his time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Agreed. He once even considered sending all American blacks back to Africa.

Basically, most whites in pre-Civil-War America were compromised by slavery, whether they wanted to be or not, or whether they knew it or not.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

260 Take them to the river.
Drop them in the water.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (Cqx++)

Imma copy this down quick.

Posted by: David Byrne at October 09, 2026 04:37 PM (zafwz)

261 Katie looks nice

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

262 From Wiki:
Most physicians who met the twins recommended against surgery for separation, as with medical technology at the time it would have been a fatal procedure. Contemporary medical literature strongly suggests that the twins could have been easily separated today.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:38 PM (l3cgK)

263 From Wiki:
Most physicians who met the twins recommended against surgery for separation, as with medical technology at the time it would have been a fatal procedure. Contemporary medical literature strongly suggests that the twins could have been easily separated today.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

264 The people who smeared Jefferson are the same people who destroyed Monticello and turned it into a liberal mess of lies. There are many credible scholarly and peer reviewed works that disapprove almost all of it. Jefferson was a learned and complex man. Subject to the same impulses, biases and curiosity we all have. But he also was able to change an adapt precisely because he was all of those things and more. That’s how men become great. They don’t blindly follow the cadence and beliefs or their time. He was also a tough man, and would probably gut like a fish anyone who sullied his name.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 04:39 PM (+qfnT)

265 Mark Ruffalo warns that Democrats need to be watchful for voting machine manipulation and suggests Elon Musk could be involved:

Oh please, lets have LOTS of oversight and LOTS of cameras on what's going on during the collection and tallying of ballots!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 04:41 PM (l3cgK)

266 The people who smeared Jefferson are the same people who destroyed Monticello and turned it into a liberal mess of lies. There are many credible scholarly and peer reviewed works that disapprove almost all of it. Jefferson was a learned and complex man. Subject to the same impulses, biases and curiosity we all have. But he also was able to change an adapt precisely because he was all of those things and more. That’s how men become great. They don’t blindly follow the cadence and beliefs or their time. He was also a tough man, and would probably gut like a fish anyone who sullied his name.
Posted by: Marcus T

I recognize his complexity, as I do that of any other human being. But that recognition comes with the knowledge that he had flaws as well as virtues. It is not a fault to note those flaws, while at the same time celebrating those virtues.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (77rzZ)

267 Oh please, lets have LOTS of oversight and LOTS of cameras on what's going on during the collection and tallying of ballots!
Posted by: jim
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And robust plumbing.

Posted by: Fulton County leaky toilet at October 09, 2026 04:45 PM (XeU6L)

268
I don't care one way or the other. Jefferson was a great statesman, and a great American. But I don't dismiss out of hand the idea that he did the nasty with Hemmings, even if he did not actually father her children.
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Is it significant to anything?
NO

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 04:46 PM (Cq/ve)

269 Is it significant to anything?
NO
Posted by: Braenyard

We're talking history, not current events. No, it is not significant to anything today. But it is still history.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

270 History is its own thing.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

271 Of all the things Jefferson did, getting laid is a pretty low threshold for an historical conversation. How much talk is there
of Franklin getting laid or Washington? Jefferson's sex life is a
liberal misdirection.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 04:52 PM (Cq/ve)

272 You can’t judge the sense and sensibilities of people 100+ years ago by the “standards” we have today. That’s unfair.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (W2Pud)

273 272 You can’t judge the sense and sensibilities of people 100+ years ago by the “standards” we have today. That’s unfair.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 05:01 PM (W2Pud)
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That's the left's whole shtick though. Hell they judge people's actions three days ago by the sensibilities they "discovered" when they woke up this morning.

Posted by: ballistic at October 09, 2026 05:20 PM (oqH4h)

274 I didn't think San Fran had so many children as to need day-care centers for them.

Posted by: Weak Geek at October 09, 2026 07:03 PM (yRCXf)

Three "Students" Arrested for Threatening to Murder the President

CNN won't cover this.

But I do remember CNN hyperventilating that a meme showing Trump beating up a wrestler with "CNN" superimposed upon his head was an unbearable threat to kill a reporter, and that a Trump crowd chanting "CNN Sucks!" was a direct threat against noted tough-guy mike-grabbing-woman-harasser Jim Acosta.


Three University of South Alabama students accused of threatening President Donald Trump on social media were allowed to return home Monday as their federal cases moved toward possible grand jury review.

Cameron Lewis, Kayla Smith and Amare Woods had been arrested Friday, the same day Trump traveled to the university's Mitchell Center for a political rally in Mobile.

All three waived their preliminary hearings Monday, WKRG reported. They were released from custody and must report to a probation officer while the cases remain pending.


The arrests followed an FBI review of social media activity surrounding Trump's planned visit. The FBI's Mobile Division said agents arrested three people for threatening communications directed at the president in coordination with the Secret Service and several local agencies.


The cases involve separate posts attributed to the students in the days before Trump's Oct. 2 appearance.

Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's upcoming visit with the comment, "he gotta die bro."

Lewis, a resident assistant studying biology, is accused of making two posts on X. Court records described by WKRG included one encouraging Trump's killing and another suggesting the University of South Alabama would be remembered in the same way as Utah Valley University, where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Smith, an elementary education student from Birmingham, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's visit with, "we only got one chance, let's take it," accompanied by an image of a person holding a gun.

Another "student" said that their school would soon be like Utah Valley University, where Charlie Kirk was murdered by another deranged left-wing terrorist.


Woods' attorney, Jason Darley, has challenged whether his client's comment amounts to a criminal threat.

Darley told FOX10 there would be a genuine question over whether Woods' statement was merely a comment or legally constituted a threat.

Hey remember when a rodeo clown lost his job because he wore an Obama mask and this was claimed to be a threat against the SCOAMF's life?

He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone.

Another Innocent Baby Angel Who Didn't Do Nuffin'.


"When you're a student at the school where the president is coming to visit, the timing was horrible," Darley said.

If you're interested in killing a president, it's the right sort of timing, isn't it?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM




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1 18 years old with no criminal history and you decide to start your criminal career with a bang.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:11 PM (mkw2N)

2 First?

Posted by: Buck at October 09, 2026 02:11 PM (fiwzq)

3 Oh well.

Posted by: Buck at October 09, 2026 02:12 PM (fiwzq)

4 Geronimo!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 02:12 PM (wxsGM)

5 the kid 'misspoke'

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 02:13 PM (ZxPkt)

6 wait is this an HBC?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:13 PM (j+aD2)

7 So many types of social contagion.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 09, 2026 02:14 PM (Dps4z)

8 Wow, first I've heard of this and it's just across the bay from me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:14 PM (4NO2D)

9 Behold the nostril/uterus matrix.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 02:14 PM (wxsGM)

10 Ah, just silly children!


Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:15 PM (4KUe5)

11 Ah, just silly children!


Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:15 PM


Seemingly. Perhaps expulsion is the answer rather than prison.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (4NO2D)

12 Nothing compared to that kid who smiled at the Indian that once time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (1kJuV)

13 "Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of ...."

Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.

This is Alabama. One of the reddest of red states.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

14 Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 02:17 PM (8S7CD)

15 Some people said something about trying to injure the POTUS.

If this had been a threat against President Soetoro it would the Top story for months.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (qDw3H)

16 G$dd&mbed f@!?ing pussy m’f$:-ers!!!!

Posted by: 6 year old who shot his teacher at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (4KUe5)

17 Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.


lol that's why I asked if it was a historically black college up above!

no way that kid would be in aerospace engineering - which isn't even typically an undergraduate degree as it has a lot of ptereq's - in a normal university

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (j+aD2)

18 For students studying aerospace engineering and biology, they don't seem like the brightest bulbs in the box. I figure the one studying elementary education is pretty typical of most leftist teachers. Do these people think they become invisible except to their friends when they post on social media?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (JrHfD)

19 An aerospace engineer major, a biology major an an education major. And not a lick of common sense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (t9883)

20 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (ccf/V)

21 Whenever I go on lefty forums or even nominal neutral places like facebook there are many, many direct calls to murder the president.

Now as I recall when one old coot posted something similiar about Biden they sent an assault squad and straight up killed him in his house.

We should be arresting thousands of people here...but this is a start...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

22 The left is winning because they own education. You indoctrinate the young, you are playing the long game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (ccf/V)

23 sorry pre-req's

you can be sort of "on a path" to aero at certain feeder schools like CU Boulder but it takes more than 4 years I think?

I don't remember deets but it's a tough tough major normally (one son was interested early on)

that doofus does not look like he would be up to it

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (j+aD2)

24 They were in a public education facility? Where indoctrination is the only form of "education" they get?

I be shocked they're the only ones discussing this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (RORbl)

25 >>>Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's upcoming visit with the comment, "he gotta die bro."

How will SpaceX possibly be able to continue its mission?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)

26 I have only found photos of two of the students

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (Dps4z)

27 A textbook example of the FO.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (n5tGW)

28 19 An aerospace engineer major, a biology major an an education major. And not a lick of common sense


well the second two make sense - they are joke majors/fake majors

but the first one doesn't make sense lol

unless it's a school that feeds straight into a DEI situation!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (j+aD2)

29 I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (mkw2N)

30
Lee Harvey Oswald didn't have a criminal record either.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (eRlcH)

31 When kids took civics instead of gender fluid studies, they were taught that freedom of speech does not include encouraging violence against another person. Especially a sitting President.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (W2Pud)

32 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

33 Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's upcoming visit with the comment, "he gotta die bro."

Huh. Those U of South Alabama scholars have quite an impressive command of rhetoric.

Right up there on a par with "*grunt* fire bad."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (guGkK)

34 I'm so old I remember when Rush said he opened Obarky failed at changing the country it was beyond the pale and the Dems and the GOPe argued he shouldn't be allowed to say things like that...

Now the same people tell be direct threats of violence are just...free speech

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (sKqQm)

35 I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (mkw2N)

Yo wife so fat . . . .

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (dK+Kv)

36 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (j+aD2)

Why is a biology major a fake major?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (JrHfD)

37 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (2ap+5)

38
13 "Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of ...."

Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.

This is Alabama. One of the reddest of red states.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM

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Maybe the plan was to get DEI-hired at Boeing.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (VWtfl)

39 anyway it is sickening and yes I hear/see such threats to the President DAILY

it burns me right up

had two companies come out to quote for a job here and both reps said something really and truly nasty about PDJT and they are def out. like it's nothing.

(they are big mad about the illegals getting kicked out lol)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (j+aD2)

40 Wiki: As of 2011, USA ranks as the 22nd best public university in the southern United States, and 52nd overall in the South. It has an acceptance rate of 86.5%
If you rank "52nd best college in Dixie!" you may as well admit you're a daycare.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (sDWtc)

41 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

Quick. Someone get her some whelm.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (dK+Kv)

42 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM


I can't believe it's better than A&M.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (4NO2D)

43 r/minority_strength

Three Black University of South Alabama students were arrested and charged with making threats on social media towards President Trump. Ahead of Trump’s visit to Alabama on October 2 to the Mitchell Center.

These charges can potentially derail their future, and these Crackas know that. Had it been Little Johnny and not Lil Amare, they would’ve dismissed those posts as a young kid just talking and would have taken his ENTIRE privileged future into consideration, before pressing charges.

That hoe Justice, ain’t never been blind. And she’ll sell herself to the highest and whitest bidder. Smh

Really weird that the party of free speech is taking such a hard line stance on free speech.

The president literally just threatened LA in San Diego with annihilation. Fuck that dude.

we can't afford to play into these jokers' hands, law enforcement and the justice system have always been weaponized against us and folks that don't hate and mistreat us. Fight smart y'all. Our grandparents and parents went through some stuff, now after this is all over, we'll have some stories of our own.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (EGAVS)

44 He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone.

A good caning will keep it that way.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (l50B5)

45 Yea, "aerospace engineer." Right. Sure. Pull this testicle and it plays jingle bells.


lol that's why I asked if it was a historically black college up above!

no way that kid would be in aerospace engineering - which isn't even typically an undergraduate degree as it has a lot of ptereq's - in a normal university
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM (j+aD2)
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University of South Alabama is far from a top school, but it's a real school.

I suspect these three retards are pure DEI students who will pass their classes no matter how badly they fail, will graduate knowing nothing more than when they started, and then go on to fulfilling careers as welfare cheats and parasites.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

46 Why is a biology major a fake major?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (JrHfD)

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Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (2ap+5)

47 (they are big mad about the illegals getting kicked out lol)

The people that tell you it is unconscionable that companies don't page a living wage get way, way more upset if their company is forced to pay an American salary

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)

48 Mistakes were made.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (GZ3K7)

49 Is CNN still going wall to wall about Loosie the victim?

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (d3OcL)

50 13 "Woods, an aerospace engineering student from Saraland, is accused of ...."

Paying $100K a year to learn how to make paper airplanes and most courses also include why he should hate America.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (qDw3H)

51
I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 02:20 PM (mkw2N)

_________

"Ach! We invaded Saraland, not the Saarland. Dummkopf! You gave me the wrong directions!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:24 PM (eRlcH)

52
we can't afford to play into these jokers' hands,


Somehow I made it through the Biden and Obama years without publicly calling for violence against pols I didn't like.

Perhaps lefties might want to try the same?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:25 PM (sKqQm)

53 Why is a biology major a fake major?


well it's like a default major.

you need a grad degree to do anything with it. it's very "popular" but it isn't getting you anywhere.

even if you're pre-med, they often recommend majoring in chem bc it's more rigorous and gives you a better chance at med school

bio is not in the college of science / you don't get a BS you get a BA and it's in the normal/college of arts

Im a very bad person who insisted my kids all attend the engineering/science college at their schools for BS not BA. picky that way. also paid a lot of $$

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:25 PM (j+aD2)

54 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM


Fourth best is the Aerospace Engineering program at the Decatur Community College and Cosmetology School.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM (guGkK)

55 Lee Harvey Oswald didn't have a criminal record either.

Hillary still doesn't.

Posted by: The Trail of Bodies at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM (l50B5)

56 I would think the aerospace engineer classes have to do with the NASA facility in Huntsville. Of course I wouldn't want the arrested student to design a paper airplane.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM (t9883)

57 I think the style guide says "dint do nuffins."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (ccf/V)

58
18
Do these people think they become invisible except to their friends when they post on social media?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 02:18 PM

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Yes, that's what they think. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (VWtfl)

59 56 I would think the aerospace engineer classes have to do with the NASA facility in Huntsville. Of course I wouldn't want the arrested student to design a paper airplane.


yeah that makes sense

he was in the DEI to NASA pipeline one would expect

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (j+aD2)

60 Another FAFO story.

Stupid doesn't win when you broadcast your wishes, children of the corn.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (hzuYO)

61 Fourth best is the Aerospace Engineering program at the Decatur Community College and Cosmetology School.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:26 PM


Are you dissing Calhoun Community College?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (4NO2D)

62 It would be kind of surprising for "South" Alabama to be in the Huntsville area.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (2ap+5)

63 This does hit at the core of the left's anti-Trump strategy in an interesting way.

Though Trump is a fairly moderate politician by pre-2016 standards, the left argues he's literally Hitler. And of course calling for violence against Hitler isn't just ok its a good thing.

But now there is actually a cost to calling for that violence, because of course Trump isn't Hitler and the American system bans assassination of its pols.

So the left has to choose - continue the Hitler line and go to jail, or acknowledge Trump isn't an OrangeHitler clone...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

64
Woods' attorney, Jason Darley, has challenged whether his client's comment amounts to a criminal threat.
Darley told FOX10 there would be a genuine question over whether Woods' statement was merely a comment or legally constituted a threat.



Whitey just don't understand ebonics, you know.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (ccf/V)

65 Im a very bad person who insisted my kids all attend the engineering/science college at their schools for BS not BA. picky that way. also paid a lot of $$

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:25 PM (j+aD2)

Many more doors opened for BS than BA, too.

It is a filter of sorts. Can't do the math? Get a BA.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)

66 43 we can't afford to play into these jokers' hands, law enforcement and the justice system have always been weaponized against us and folks that don't hate and mistreat us. Fight smart y'all. Our grandparents and parents went through some stuff, now after this is all over, we'll have some stories of our own.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (EGAVS)

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America is a fascist, oligarchal, capitalistic, tyrannical shithole that lets police shoot brown people for fun without consequence.

Flee. Renounce your citizenship for $450.

Move to China and forget all about America forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:28 PM (1kJuV)

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37 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM

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How many programs are there -- five?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:28 PM (VWtfl)

68 Alabama A&M or UAH would make more sense for NASA but, Saraland is the next town up from South Alabama so I assume this guy is a commuter student to save money.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:29 PM (4NO2D)

69 Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math.
Posted by: Oglebay

Theodore "Vox Day" Beale (I know) has pointed that out. He's got a few papers and books out, including Probability Zero, which attempt to bring math to evolutionary biology.
I'm trying to decide if his own math(s) is/are bafflegab. Beale has a long record of weaselly statements.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:29 PM (sDWtc)

70 Of course aerospace engineering could involve throwing a ball

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 02:29 PM (t9883)

71 41 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

Quick. Someone get her some whelm.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM (dK+Kv)

She ain’t feeling it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

72 Damn, I bet Donquarious was just about to get a full ride scholarship sponsored by Lockheed Martin Skunkworks because they saw so much potential in him that they were grooming him to be the lead designer of the successor to the SR-71.

Posted by: ballistic at October 09, 2026 02:30 PM (oqH4h)

73 If only they were having gangbangs instead of posting on TikTok, they wouldn't be going through all of this.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (Sco7b)

74 I think the South Alabama football coach is former University of Texas QB Major Applewhite.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (ccf/V)

75 >>>If you're interested in killing a president, it's the right sort of timing, isn't it?

It is that someone, or some system has indicated that it is perfectly OK, or even moral and righteous to make threats, accusations and overt plans like this.
It is part of the mob mentality that goes with dehumanization necessary to discriminate or cancel.
Discrimination and cancelling give gutless, useless idiots power that they would not have otherwise, and give status within the mob.
They can make up cutesy insults, and assign intent, and say the world would be better without that particular point of view that says theirs is wrong.

But hey, for that group, it is just the socially binding thing to do, make accusations and find the smallest evidence that making violent threats is justified.
Punch a nazi. Punch a denier. After all, they justify genocide, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (rbvCR)

76 "Ach! We invaded Saraland, not the Saarland. Dummkopf! You gave me the wrong directions!"

"SAAR! Please saar, show bobs and vagene and DO NOT REDEEM!"

(As someone noted on X recently, nothing's been worse for the average person's opinion of Indians than H1B).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (2ocoG)

77 I gots a degree in Nuklear Fistics from Univeristy of Hooterville on the internet.

I be tooks me 8 weaks to cumpletes the corses.

I be cannot finds a job yet and has to work at Berger King fllipering Bergers.

Still be thinks the $100K fee was be cheep cumpared to otter colligenes in the areana.

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (qDw3H)

78 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.

The 142nd fastest gun
...in The West

Posted by: The Ballad of Irving at October 09, 2026 02:32 PM (l50B5)

79 Kinda surprised neither of the “students” are named Ahmed Al Abdul bin-Mohammed or some such.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:32 PM (zJe6s)

80 you can be sort of "on a path" to aero at certain feeder schools like CU Boulder but it takes more than 4 years I think?

I don't remember deets but it's a tough tough major normally (one son was interested early on)

that doofus does not look like he would be up to it
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (j+aD2)
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It's a pretty standard 4-5 year program at the university where I work. Usually the only reason it takes longer than 4 years is because students will get a co-op or internship for a semester or two. Gives them practical, real-world experience, but does extend their degree a bit. (Though many students take a class or two during their co-op.)

It's not easy, but it can be done in 4 years.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (FZ29D)

81
46
Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:23 PM

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A biology degree has some math in it. Enzyme kinetics, statistics...

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (iTNuP)

82 Hopefully, these three will have learned a valuable lesson about life and will get raped in prison.

Posted by: Warden Samuel Norton at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (9zGZf)

83 I love the name Saraland. I imagine the town founder looking at his wife, Sara and telling her, "I hereby name this town, Saraland!" and his wife beaming at him.
Posted by: bonhomme


As long as we are talking about astronomy (which absolutely does use math), Charon is pronounced "Sharon" if a ?moon and "Kharon" if Mitch McConnell's upcoming chauffeur. That's because the guy named it after Charlene "Char" his wife.
[Pluto-Charon is a double planet such that "moon" is doing some work here.]

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (sDWtc)

84 The 142nd fastest gun
...in The West
Posted by: The Ballad of Irving at October 09, 2026 02:32 PM (l50B5)


The 5th best cooking school in the UK.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (2ap+5)

85 Hey, don't blame us! We're quoting, at length and with loving exactitude, what the guy said. Y'all deserve to know what he said!

Posted by: The Media at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (l50B5)

86 I gots a degree in Nuklear Fistics from Univeristy of Hooterville on the internet.

Does Sydney Sweeney teach there?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (2ocoG)

87 Hopefully, these three will have learned a valuable lesson about life and will get raped in prison.
Posted by: Warden Samuel Norton at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (9zGZf)



Won't happen........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (ccf/V)

88 I hope my next airplane trip is one designed by Southern Alabama grads.

Wait, is Boeing hiring?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (bX16E)

89 These charges can potentially derail their future, and these Crackas know that. Had it been Little Johnny and not Lil Amare, they would’ve dismissed those posts as a young kid just talking and would have taken his ENTIRE privileged future into consideration, before pressing charges.

Funny how threatening to kill the President can narrow your career options.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (guGkK)

90 Why is Trump holding a rally in Alabama of all places? That’s the more worrisome part of this story than some gang bangers posting shit online.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:35 PM (zJe6s)

91
BTB, the same people who were rubbing one out watching Charlie Kirk assassinated are fainting at Hasan's live execution.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (eRlcH)

92 The Ballad of Buckehead > The Ballad of Irving.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (ccf/V)

93 "He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history..."

Every criminal that has ever existed was, before they committed their first offense, a non-criminal. WTF kind of defense is that? You'd have to be an idiot lawyer to think like that.

Everyone gets their first felony free?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oji8u)

94 "He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone."

Maybe, but every criminal doesn't initially have a criminal history...until they start, that is.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oPFtC)

95 How difficult is it to just...not willy-nilly throw out assassination references, even if you super-duper don't really mean it and it's just for funsies?

Like why would you even be tiptoeing around that line?

Posted by: ballistic at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oqH4h)

96 Surprisingly, there wasn't any sense of outrage when the rodeo clown wore a Michelle Obama mask. The bulls were lining up i the back stall.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (SMG8K)

97 BTB, the same people who were rubbing one out watching Charlie Kirk assassinated are fainting at Hasan's live execution.

Yeah, I mentioned that on the previous thread. Mostly women, too.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (2ocoG)

98 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (/C5Rl)

99 Criminal record != never commited a crime necessarily.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (zJe6s)

100 32 Kayla looks decidedly nonplussed in her mugshot,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

____________________

Understandable. She's just learned that there are no hair extensions in prison. BTW, elementary education major.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (dIske)

101 Trump might be down on the Gulf because there's a hurricane bearing down on already-sodden FL panhandle. Catturd2 is expecting his ranch to be a lake.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (sDWtc)

102 Funny how threatening to kill the President can narrow your career options.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:34 PM (guGkK)

They're down to journalism, academia, Hollywood, non-profits, the WNBA.

Probably a few others. I'm distracted.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (Sco7b)

103 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (/C5Rl)




*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (ccf/V)

104 Trump might be down on the Gulf because there's a hurricane bearing down on already-sodden FL panhandle. Catturd2 is expecting his ranch to be a lake.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (sDWtc)

The article says he’s there for a rally.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (zJe6s)

105 Criminal record != never commited a crime necessarily.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (zJe6s)
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A Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London humorously described the Good Conduct Medal as a reward for "thirty years of undiscovered crime."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (amcLV)

106 Just another tragic example of the Aerospace Engineering College-to-Prison Pipeline.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (guGkK)

107 "He described Woods as an 18-year-old with no criminal history and said the student never intended to harm anyone."

Maybe, but every criminal doesn't initially have a criminal history...until they start, that is.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 02:36 PM (oPFtC)

You know who else didn't have a criminal history?

Thomas Crooks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (dK+Kv)

108 86 I gots a degree in Nuklear Fistics from Univeristy of Hooterville on the internet.

Does Sydney Sweeney teach there?

Sydney Sweeney has a FAT Eiglottis which turns me off sexually ............

Posted by: Mike Hunt at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (qDw3H)

109 104 Trump might be down on the Gulf because there's a hurricane bearing down on already-sodden FL panhandle. Catturd2 is expecting his ranch to be a lake.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (sDWtc)

The article says he’s there for a rally.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:38 PM (zJe6s)

========

A favor to Tuberville who's been loyal in the Senate and is running for governor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:39 PM (1kJuV)

110 A biology degree has some math in it. Enzyme kinetics, statistics...
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 02:33 PM (iTNuP)
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I just looked up the degree requirements for a BS in Biology at the university where I work.

The only math required is a Calculus I course and an introduction to biostatistics course. Which is weird because you also have to take two semesters of Physics, which requires a little bit more math...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (FZ29D)

111 How long until Georgia uses the Hurricane (which is likely to plaster them) to switch back to their previous election rules used during COVID. Over under?

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (dIske)

112 90 Why is Trump holding a rally in Alabama of all places? That’s the more worrisome part of this story than some gang bangers posting shit online.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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House race in AL. They redistricted and while the new district is pink, this is to ensure turnout.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)

113 111 How long until Georgia uses the Hurricane (which is likely to plaster them) to switch back to their previous election rules used during COVID. Over under?
Posted by: Orson

Not going to happen. This is a fast moving system that will be gone by Sunday.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (E4rtv)

114 112 90 Why is Trump holding a rally in Alabama of all places? That’s the more worrisome part of this story than some gang bangers posting shit online.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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House race in AL. They redistricted and while the new district is pink, this is to ensure turnout.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:40 PM (E4rtv)

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Nah, whig.

It means that in an environment where NH and MN are close senate races, where NY governor is going to be within 5 points, Alabama is going to flip.

Panic. Burn hair. Flee and fear for your lives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (1kJuV)

115 There is something just as important being decided in Alabama at the moment.

Can we okay the Georgia-Alabama game tomorrow in Tuscaloosa in the middle of a hurricane?

I believe they can get it done.
Roll Tide
(watch out for storm surge, though)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (6ydKt)

116 Statistics courses can differ. I would say, in general, a statistics course that does not focus on moment generating functions is not a math course.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (2ap+5)

117 116 Statistics courses can differ. I would say, in general on average, a statistics course that does not focus on moment generating functions is not a math course.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (2ap+5)

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Suggested edit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (1kJuV)

118 okay = play

Yes, the iPad is taking all of that blame.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (6ydKt)

119 How long until Georgia uses the Hurricane (which is likely to plaster them) to switch back to their previous election rules used during COVID. Over under?
Posted by: Orson

Not going to happen. This is a fast moving system that will be gone by Sunday.
Posted by: whig

I’m always on standby.
- Broken Water Main on election night

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (zJe6s)

120 Great move to enhance your resume. Try getting a job now fuckwads.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (nxLtX)

121 Woods' attorney, Jason Darley, has challenged whether his client's comment amounts to a criminal threat.

Remember, lefties, speech is literally violence. We'll hold you to your own standard. Pretty sure one of your heroes had a rule about that...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 02:43 PM (GfgtS)

122 Suggested edit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:42 PM (1kJuV)

“In the mean” might work there also.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:43 PM (6ydKt)

123 For Silicon Valley, this is a resume booster.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (zJe6s)

124
Yeah, I mentioned that on the previous thread. Mostly women, too.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (2ocoG)

____________

I was out mowing the back acreage. So you did. Nihil novum sub sole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (eRlcH)

125 Oglebay: "Biology isn't considered on the same level as physics or chemistry. Perhaps it's the total absence of math."

Say what? Biology requires semesters in calculus, physics, and chemistry with their associated math. What program are you referencing?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (oji8u)

126 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye. But I hear Iran is hiring.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (06nk1)

127 I am losing interest already. Three stupid kids do stupid things at a 2nd tier Alabama university.

I hope it scares them straight but I'm not out for their blood when there are so many other candidates.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)

128 Kayla Smith looks like a WNBA fan ... IYKWIM.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

129
These midterm elections are the least important of our lives - because Trump is President.

A Democrat Congress won't pass a single thing the GOP Congress refused to pass. They won't have a Senate that will convict the President. And, he has a veto for their legislation.

If the GOP wins, we get less Sturm und Drang. That's it. No agenda items pass, besides routine carveouts for special interests.

I couldn't care any less about these elections, at least at the federal level.

An assassin is the only wild card, going forward. It's a constant worry. Just gotta get him through til January of '28.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

130 116 Statistics courses can differ. I would say, in general, a statistics course that does not focus on moment generating functions is not a math course.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:41 PM (2ap+5)


I would honestly be fine with introductory statistics being more of a philosophy course, and teaching things like why p-hacking shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept and invalidates the entire premise.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (ke3zm)

131 Panic. Burn hair. Flee and fear for your lives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=====
I shan't. I shan't. I shall not take that black pill. Take enough med pills anyway.

In reality, got to travel so will be unplugged for a couple of days. Have to see mother in memory care and deal with some financials which are difficult to do from another state.

Have fun storming the castle though.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)

132 lol stats

they all were shocked that their stats classes in HS were tougher than the base-required stat class in college. three different colleges!

your run-of-the-mill check-the-box stat class in college is easy

it sucks honestly BUT they all had AP credits to use to skip over those basic classes which was nice. one thing the AP test is very useful for! it's like a substitute for doing a year or two at CC to save money (if you can do well on them)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (j+aD2)

133 I grieve for all the hypersonic aircraft that might never be designed because of this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 02:46 PM (guGkK)

134 An assassin is the only wild card, going forward.

A vengeful President Vance may not be all smiles and sunshine for them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:46 PM (4NO2D)

135 129
These midterm elections are the least important of our lives - because Trump is President.

A Democrat Congress won't pass a single thing the GOP Congress refused to pass. They won't have a Senate that will convict the President. And, he has a veto for their legislation.

If the GOP wins, we get less Sturm und Drang. That's it. No agenda items pass, besides routine carveouts for special interests.

I couldn't care any less about these elections, at least at the federal level.

An assassin is the only wild card, going forward. It's a constant worry. Just gotta get him through til January of '28.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (BI5O2)

=======

If the GOP keeps the House, there's a chance of legislation, especially with the cleanup of some of the dregs of the Senate GOP.

But otherwise, yeah. Trump uses the presidency like a Democrat. He exercises power. That's the real prize in American politics now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:46 PM (1kJuV)

136 131
In reality, got to travel so will be unplugged for a couple of days. Have to see mother in memory care and deal with some financials which are difficult to do from another state.

Have fun storming the castle though.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)

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Have a good holiday weekend.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (1kJuV)

137 126 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye. But I hear Iran is hiring.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Too bad, that guy seems like a space cadet already.
Course, he probably gets high enough to reach orbit anyway.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

138 There was that guy that tried to fly his airplane into the White House and crashed on the lawn.

That's pretty suspicious.

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (Wt1Rs)

139 Have a good holiday weekend.


????

what holiday?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (j+aD2)

140 139 Have a good holiday weekend.


????

what holiday?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (j+aD2)

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Columbus Day is Monday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (1kJuV)

141 what holiday?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM


Alabama Georgia Weekend.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (4NO2D)

142 I am losing interest already. Three stupid kids do stupid things at a 2nd tier Alabama university.

I hope it scares them straight but I'm not out for their blood when there are so many other candidates.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)
_____

Agree and disagree. Agree that these three DEI mopes are very small potatoes. I wouldn't let that girl snort K off my cock.

But we need the blood of mopes as a warning to others. It was insane what Biden's FBI/DOJ let their political allies get away with in terms of threatening to kill Trump. They were clearly hoping someone would kill him.

We need to bring the hammer down on these scumbags, even if in this case it's three minor fucknuggets.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

143
Alabama Georgia Weekend.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (4NO2D)



That'll be a messy one. The run game is going to be big.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (ccf/V)

144 what holiday?
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (j+aD2)

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Indigenous Peoples Day. I still have to work.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 02:49 PM (DRSnL)

145 ====

Columbus Day is Monday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:48 PM (1kJuV)



I'm on vacation the next 2 weeks. Moving. Hopefully anyway.

Around the MoMe, that is......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:49 PM (ccf/V)

146 14
Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.
Posted by: ...
.......

All by his "wife".

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM (UjdFS)

147 An assassin is the only wild card, going forward.

A vengeful President Vance may not be all smiles and sunshine for them.


I am surprised at how lenient Trump is being with the assassination plots against him.

If there had been three serious plots against Biden/Obama involving the CIA and some rightwing equivalent of reddit (freerepublic?, us?) you, I and everyone else that posts here would have sit down chats with the FBI with them looking for ANYTHING to put us in jail for.

I suspect if the left got their wish and did shoot the president that Vance would roll up all the leftwing networks in any way involved...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

148 I'm trying to decide if his own math(s) is/are bafflegab. Beale has a long record of weaselly statements.
Posted by: 88C+u

Yeah. He thinks the moon landings were staged and that that we didn't need to nuke Japan because they were on the verge of surrendering to us.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

149 Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.
Posted by: ...
.......

All by his "wife".
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM


Death by SnooSnoo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (4NO2D)

150 Line 'em up right there next to nidal, picture's worth a thousand words. Bro.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (LHPAg)

151 146 14
Obama survived 16,384 assassination attempts.
Posted by: ...
.......

All by his "wife".
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM (UjdFS)

Hillary & Bill negotiated a truce after she tried to take his head of with a White House owned Ming Dynasty vase, with the flowers still in it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:52 PM (6ydKt)

152
All by his "wife".
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 02:50 PM

Death by SnooSnoo.


12 inches of lil Mike is a dangerous weapon...

Posted by: Barky Obama at October 09, 2026 02:52 PM (sKqQm)

153 In reality, got to travel so will be unplugged for a couple of days. Have to see mother in memory care and deal with some financials which are difficult to do from another state.
Posted by: whig

Safe travels, Sir.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

154 I'm trying to decide if his own math(s) is/are bafflegab. Beale has a long record of weaselly statements.
Posted by: 88C+u

Yeah. He thinks the moon landings were staged and that that we didn't need to nuke Japan because they were on the verge of surrendering to us.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:51 PM (77rzZ)
______

Yea, Japan was so on the verge of surrendering that they didn't do it after we dropped the first big one. It took two nukes to get them to surrender. But they were totally ready to surrender the whole time!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

155 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye.

He'll need to bring a defense lawyer to every interview.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (epmXU)

156 Hey Elric,
How was Comicon?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 02:54 PM (W2Pud)

157 I shan't. I shan't. I shall not take that black pill. Take enough med pills anyway.

Style guide note: "I shannot" is perfectly cromulent in this situation. Especially if you're Southern.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:55 PM (2ocoG)

158 126 That guy can probably kiss his aerospace career goodbye. But I hear Iran is hiring.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Too bad, that guy seems like a space cadet already.
Course, he probably gets high enough to reach orbit anyway.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (E4rtv)

He can definitely kiss goodbye any internships requiring any level of security clearance.

He might be offered summer jobs washing planes. Might.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 02:55 PM (wVcYX)

159 > We need to bring the hammer down on these scumbags, even if in this case it's three minor fucknuggets.
--------
Sadly, the majority of the judiciary is squarely aligned with the left. Better than even odds they get a wrist slap. And told to use secure comms and practice OPSEC for their next attempt.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 02:55 PM (RORbl)

160
Yea, Japan was so on the verge of surrendering that they didn't do it after we dropped the first big one. It took two nukes to get them to surrender. But they were totally ready to surrender the whole time!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

___________

Sure, we noticed how much easier it got going from Saipan to Iwo Jima to Okinawa. Kyushu was going to be a walkover!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (eRlcH)

161 Sara so fat Saraland.

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (SwyyQ)

162 If the GOP wins, we get less Sturm und Drang. That's it. No agenda items pass, besides routine carveouts for special interests.

I couldn't care any less about these elections, at least at the federal level.


—

Judges. Including a scotus appointment which is not out of the realm of possibility give the ages of Alito and Thomas.

And cabinet appointments. There will be some who leave and need replacing, there always are.

Plus it’s not just the next 2 years. If a Dem gets in they’re in for 6. And incumbents are always harder to defeat.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (qoHuP)

163 Did they name Sugarland, Texas the same way?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

164
Kayla Smith looks like a WNBA fan ... IYKWIM.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)


She's also got dead, angry eyes.

I'd think she's guilty given that alone if I were on the jury. You don't see someone who looks like that normally.

The dude in the picture next to her looks like a knucklehead, soooo that could swing either way.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (YSUhf)

165 It's hard to hear, but biology is not a mathematically rigorous major. Certainly it's infinitely better than psychology, but that doesn't make it a good field for mathematicians.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:58 PM (2ap+5)

166 None of these mooks had a Cousin Vinny to defend them?

Pity.

He has a great track record in Alabama.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 02:59 PM (wVcYX)

167 One of the subjects I follow is the discovery of new species. I have read a lot of scholarly articles about the description of new species. There seems to be a lot of hard science in most of them, including math. I can't follow those parts and just skip to the stuff a layman like me can understand.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

168 162
Judges. Including a scotus appointment which is not out of the realm of possibility give the ages of Alito and Thomas.

And cabinet appointments. There will be some who leave and need replacing, there always are.

Plus it’s not just the next 2 years. If a Dem gets in they’re in for 6. And incumbents are always harder to defeat.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (qoHuP)

=======

Yeah, well, we were never going to lose the Senate.

Democrats would have to do the impossible, flip several seats in states that went double digits for the other party in the last presidential election.

It's happened once in the past 20 years. Tester in Montana in 2006. Didn't happen in 2010, 2014, 2018, or 2022 at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:00 PM (1kJuV)

169 It's almost a sine qua non of math that there are no numbers.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:02 PM (2ap+5)

170 142 I am losing interest already. Three stupid kids do stupid things at a 2nd tier Alabama university.

I hope it scares them straight but I'm not out for their blood when there are so many other candidates.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)
_______________________

Back in 2016 I would have agreed with you. BUT, the primary failing of the first term of President Donald J. Trump was NOT putting "heads on spikes at the castle gates" to send a message to the peers of the offenders. As a result it was business as usual for the left (actually escalated).

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 03:02 PM (dIske)

171 Did they name Sugarland, Texas the same way?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

Please to be using the correct spelling: Sugar Land, Texas.

Posted by: George "Gunga Din" Singh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (wVcYX)

172
Did they name Sugarland, Texas the same way?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 02:57 PM (6ydKt)

__________

*polite cough*

Sugar Land. It was a company town of Imperial Sugar.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (eRlcH)

173 Yeah, I mentioned that on the previous thread. Mostly women, too.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:37 PM (2ocoG)

Hopefully I will be in AZ on that date, and can get an invite to a watch party.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (quk5M)

174 Hillary & Bill negotiated a truce after she tried to take his head of with a White House owned Ming Dynasty vase, with the flowers still in it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
......

Too bad there was no cast iron frying pan handy.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (UjdFS)

175 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

I'm told the article was "published prematurely." More to come, because that is obviously not a sufficient explanation.
brianstelter/status/2108569761655427500

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (sDWtc)

176 175 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

I'm told the article was "published prematurely." More to come, because that is obviously not a sufficient explanation.
brianstelter/status/2108569761655427500

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (sDWtc)

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It's about Susie Wiles's son, not Trump's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:05 PM (1kJuV)

177 brianstelter



Sex machine........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:05 PM (ccf/V)

178 I think Anduril practically owns Ohio Stadium given how ubiquitous that company name is non all the signs and scoreboards.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:06 PM (2ap+5)

179 Or a handgun.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 03:07 PM (UjdFS)

180 177 brianstelter



Sex machine........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:05 PM (ccf/V)
Brainstelter. Sounds like a evil gnome in a board game.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:07 PM (LHPAg)

181 oops Columbus Day snuck up on me

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (j+aD2)

182 Off topic, but Michael Dell and his wife donated several billion dollars to every child under the age of ten, and all the left wants to do is post garbage about how the wife looks.

Pathetic.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (0U5gm)

183 The aerospace engineering program at South Alabama is fifth best in the state.

According to 'edurank.org', that's good for 241st best in the country. Average SAT 1080.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (epmXU)

184 Mellows have been significantly more harshed here with mean comments about shelving, J. Crew Messenger Bags, and Vespas than these words from an innocent child harshed.

#BeBetter

Posted by: AFWL who switched all her hair from blue to green last week at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (0sNs1)

185 Hillary & Bill negotiated a truce after she tried to take his head of with a White House owned Ming Dynasty vase, with the flowers still in it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
......

Too bad there was no cast iron frying pan handy.
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 03:04 PM (UjdFS)

Am empty square bottle handle of vodka is more likely.

Hillary never had the makings of the little woman in the kitchen.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (wVcYX)

186 Sara so fat Saraland.
Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (SwyyQ)

Chances are possibly not. It was named by a retired minister and editor who moved South. And established the first post office there Now, while there were fat women in 1895, probably not as many as now.

I think it's quite nice he named the area after his beloved wife.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (JrHfD)

187 Sara so fat Saraland.

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2026 02:56 PM (SwyyQ)

Does this acreage make my butt look big?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (dK+Kv)

188 Columbus Day is Monday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I'm gonna have a pinta to celebrate.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

189 Off topic, but Michael Dell and his wife donated several billion dollars to every child under the age of ten, and all the left wants to do is post garbage about how the wife looks.

Pathetic.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 09, 2026 03:08 PM (0U5gm)



My dad met Dell way way back in the day. Said he was a pompous dickhead.


Oddly enough, I don't know anything about his political beliefs. As it should be. Maybe I've missed something, but......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (ccf/V)

190 189 Oddly enough, I don't know anything about his political beliefs. As it should be. Maybe I've missed something, but......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (ccf/V)

=======

He seems to believe in the future. Which is nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (1kJuV)

191 I was watching some Steven Bell videos - he makes videos on warhammer and history often starting with his wife asking him to explain something.

Very apolitical.

But today he took on some Karen arguing that the idea the Athenians invented democracy is rayciss and Eurocentric.

I guess if you want to cover real history you can only stay a-political for so long with how crazy the left has gotten...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

192 Please to be using the correct spelling: Sugar Land, Texas.
Posted by: George "Gunga Din" Singh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (wVcYX)


I knew a girl in college from there. She pronounced it something like Shugalan'.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (ke3zm)

193 172 *polite cough*

Sugar Land. It was a company town of Imperial Sugar.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 03:03 PM (eRlcH)

Thank you. You beat me to it.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (itAg7)

194 I think it's quite nice he named the area after his beloved wife.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The two guys who founded Ann Arbor, MI, both had wives named "Ann."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

195 The last time a President was murdered we ended up in Vietnam.

Posted by: torabora at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (Wt1Rs)

196 I think Anduril practically owns Ohio Stadium given how ubiquitous that company name is non all the signs and scoreboards.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:06 PM


Is that the stadium that THE Ohio State plays sportsball in?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (0sNs1)

197
Is that the stadium that THE Ohio State plays sportsball in?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (0sNs1)




Cult.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (ccf/V)

198 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

You mean the people that told me that Hunter's crimes have nothing to do with Joe Biden are now interested in supposed Trump kid crimes to get Trump?

That's so...par for the course honestly.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

199 X has got jokes.

Pericles
@PerryALPHA
I just talked to James Talarico and I could tell that he was Healthy, Improving, and Vigorous

Overall, he sounded Positive

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (2ocoG)

200 I think it's quite nice he named the area after his beloved wife.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 03:09 PM (JrHfD)
Mother of nations.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (LHPAg)

201 Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (77rzZ

Thanks. I did not know that .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (JrHfD)

202 The Republicans are good, as long as they show up
Professor Allan Lichtman has predicted the Dems will take 52 seats in the Senate.
Probably as good as his 2024 prediction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (t9883)

203 Is that the stadium that THE Ohio State plays sportsball in?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:11 PM (0sNs1)



Cult.......
Posted by: Sponge

I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

204 bThe Republicans are good, as long as they show up
Professor Allan Lichtman has predicted the Dems will take 52 seats in the Senate.
Probably as good as his 2024 prediction
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (t9883)



Republicans that don't show up might as well be Democrats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (ccf/V)

205 202 The Republicans are good, as long as they show up
Professor Allan Lichtman has predicted the Dems will take 52 seats in the Senate.
Probably as good as his 2024 prediction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (t9883)

=======

He proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Democrats had the seven keys to winning 2024.

That Trump won doesn't mean he was wrong. In fact, it's just further proof of him being right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (1kJuV)

206 So there was a big scoop about TRUMP SONS' CORRUPTION with Anduril, which ABC News published and then buhleeted.

You mean the people that told me that Hunter's crimes have nothing to do with Joe Biden are now interested in supposed Trump kid crimes to get Trump?


Yup. Palmer Luckey said everything in the story was a lie and it disappeared minutes later, but not before MeidasTouch was blast-faxing it to every left-leaning person on the planet.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (2ocoG)

207 Smith, an elementary education student from Birmingham, is accused of responding to a TikTok post about Trump's visit with, "we only got one chance, let's take it," accompanied by an image of a person holding a gun.

Certainly seems serious...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (l3cgK)

208 One thing I do find fascinating is how much Trump learned from his last go around.

In 2018 I don't remember Trump's people pushing ground game, getting serious about fraud, or pushing friendly narratives that the FNM has to talk about...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

209 Along with the Dells, the All in Podcast team is "all in" on Trump accounts. My "kids" are adults, and I have no grandkids (yet?), but they seem to believe this program is a game changer.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (2ap+5)

210 I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM (77rzZ)



A company I worked for in the past was HQ'd in Columbus. Ohio State is as big a cult as any of the cult universities. It was frightening at times.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (ccf/V)

211 208 One thing I do find fascinating is how much Trump learned from his last go around.

In 2018 I don't remember Trump's people pushing ground game, getting serious about fraud, or pushing friendly narratives that the FNM has to talk about...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

=======

He was also pre-occupied with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell constantly going on TV saying, "Maybe the leader of our party is a Russian asset? Who could really say?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:14 PM (1kJuV)

212 He proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Democrats had the seven keys to winning 2024.

Unfortunately they needed nine keys to win.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (2ocoG)

213 Monday is Columbus Day, also Bull Elk Day. I made up that last part.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (LHPAg)

214 A company I worked for in the past was HQ'd in Columbus. Ohio State is as big a cult as any of the cult universities. It was frightening at times.
Posted by: Sponge

And then there are the Penn State folks...

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (77rzZ)

215 I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM



*shifty eyes*

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (4NO2D)

216 While someone who posted, "Vote for Hillary on Election Wednesday", an obvious spoof of the many fake "vote on Wednesday" memes that have abounded for decades was arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison in 2023...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (l3cgK)

217 And then there are the Penn State folks...
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (77rzZ)



Should'a been razed........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (ccf/V)

218 I am not an Ohio State fan!

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:16 PM (2ap+5)

219 My dad met Dell way way back in the day. Said he was a pompous dickhead.


Oddly enough, I don't know anything about his political beliefs. As it should be. Maybe I've missed something, but......


I've heard him on some podcasts. He seems pretty normal for someone in his position, and he's very much against the left's "there is no future so just let us run everything" garbage.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

220 Overall, he sounded Positive
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 03:12 PM (2ocoG)

Haha! ISWHDT.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (quk5M)

221 215 I know Michigan fans take a lot of abuse on this site, but Ohio State fans are much worse.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:13 PM


*shifty eyes*

Posted by: toby928(c) Native Texan and Alabama Alumnus, Twice as Smug as You at October 09, 2026 03:15 PM (4NO2D)

Ohio State fans charge a buck an eye...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (l3cgK)

222 Should'a been razed........
Posted by: Sponge

Yep. I read the Freeh Report, and what was going on there was satanic.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (77rzZ)

223 Try being in a meeting with a lot of Alabama alum, and when mentioning Alabama, listen to the utter, sotto voce, "Roll Tide" in near unison.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)

224 Try being in a meeting with a lot of Alabama alum, and when mentioning Alabama, listen to the utter, sotto voce, "Roll Tide" in near unison.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)



High tide!!!


But yes, another cult.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:18 PM (ccf/V)

225 I found Lichtmann's keys (which he developed with a RUSSIAN guy no less and the count for 2024 would have been 3 "true" results:

There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
There is no significant third party or independent campaign. The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.

The other 10 were all false. Now most of his points are not actually objective meaning his theory is weak, but according to his own theory you need about 8 items to be true to win not...3.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

226 223 Try being in a meeting with a lot of Alabama alum, and when mentioning Alabama, listen to the utter, sotto voce, "Roll Tide" in near unison.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:17 PM (0sNs1)

I think the Uni I went to had a tradition of drunken parties more than chants about their sports teams...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (l3cgK)

227 But yes, another cult.
Posted by: Sponge

Just curious, but where'd you go to college, Sponge?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (77rzZ)

228 Huffing whip-its in Athens is my tradition.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (2ap+5)

229 We originally wrote the song as, "Green Grass and Roll Tide."

Posted by: The Outlaws at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (wVcYX)

230 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (0sNs1)

231 This is funny because it's true.

Roll Tide

https://youtu.be/rTdXQyhjifY

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (4NO2D)

232 230 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (0sNs1)

Is their mascot a pair of Great Tits?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:21 PM (l3cgK)

233 225 I found Lichtmann's keys (which he developed with a RUSSIAN guy no less and the count for 2024 would have been 3 "true" results:

There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
There is no significant third party or independent campaign. The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.

The other 10 were all false. Now most of his points are not actually objective meaning his theory is weak, but according to his own theory you need about 8 items to be true to win not...3.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

=======

He mostly just hand-waved away the Democrat issues (yeah, there was no serious incumbency fight for Democrats....just the backroom dealing to force him out and replace him which is totes normal).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 03:21 PM (1kJuV)

234 Oh and looking at Lichtmann's keys in 2020, Trump had 10...remember you need about 8 to win...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

235 Hook 'Em, Gig 'Em, Guns Up!

Posted by: Because Texas! at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (wVcYX)

236 230 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:20 PM (0sNs1)
May it truly be. Can I sign up next week?

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (LHPAg)

237
Just curious, but where'd you go to college, Sponge?
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:19 PM (77rzZ)



I went to a myriad of places......most prominent places were Texas Tech and University of North Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (ccf/V)

238 235 Hook 'Em, Gig 'Em, Guns Up!

Posted by: Because Texas! at October 09, 2026 03:22 PM (wVcYX)

You can't make a steer without castration...

Posted by: NOT a College Call in Texas at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (l3cgK)

239 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Sydney Sweeney can teach a course on the physics of bra design.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

240 225 I found Lichtmann's keys (which he developed with a RUSSIAN guy no less and the count for 2024 would have been 3 "true" results:

Were there duplicate keys to the icebox?

Posted by: Captain Queeg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM (wVcYX)

241 GO TITS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (ccf/V)

242 That nasty Putin has agreed to 'immediately supply US with 300,000 tons of diesel'.

We've tried and tried to tell you Trump is Putin's Puppet, but did you listen??? Noooooooooooooooooo!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (0sNs1)

243 Ooh, heard my first wind gust. We've been getting a light but steady rain to day but it hasn't really been windy yet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (4NO2D)

244 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

245 241 GO TITS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 03:24 PM (ccf/V)

Go Big! Go TITS!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 03:25 PM (l3cgK)

246 I can only look forward to the cult that will develop around the Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Posted by: Duncanthrax


I'd certainly love to take some senior adult education courses there. You know, to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (wVcYX)

247 Katie Zacharia is the new Caroline Leavitt. Good looking lady, hope she's as good as Leavitt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (t9883)

248 Sydney Sweeney can teach a course on the physics of bra design.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM


That's an interdisciplinary course. You would also need to bring in mechanical engineering and materials science at a minimum.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (0sNs1)

249 Sydney Sweeney can teach a course on the physics of bra design.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 03:23 PM

That's an interdisciplinary course. You would also need to bring in mechanical engineering and materials science at a minimum.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 03:27 PM (0sNs1)

Something like a crossover course? One that lifts and separates the student body achievments?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 03:29 PM (wVcYX)

Trump Announces That Almost 500 Criminal Fraudsters Have Been Arrested While Living in Taxpayer-Funded Public Housing

Outstanding.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General (HUD OIG) today announced the results of Operation Clean House, a multi-agency, multi-month law enforcement initiative targeting fugitives living in HUD-assisted housing.

...

Persons arrested included those wanted on outstanding felony warrants for serious offenses, including drug trafficking, weapons offenses, aggravated assault, fraud, rape, second-degree murder, sex offenses against children, and possession or manufacture of an incendiary device. In addition, 10 firearms were also seized during the operations.

"This year, we have made one thing unmistakably clear: HUD OIG has zero tolerance for individuals who threaten the safety of people residing in HUD-assisted housing, jeopardize the families who live there, or exploit the programs designed to serve them," said Acting Inspector General Brian D. Harrison. "We have taken an aggressive approach to identifying and removing fugitives from these communities, and neighborhoods are safer because of it."

"These arrests are only one part of our strategy," Harrison continued. "Our investigators, auditors, evaluators, and analysts are attacking threats to HUD programs from every direction. Whether it is violent criminals hiding in HUD-assisted housing, fraudsters stealing taxpayer dollars, or weaknesses that leave federal housing programs vulnerable to abuse, we will use every authority and every tool available to protect these programs and the people they serve."

"Operation Clean House should also send a clear message. HUD-assisted housing will not be treated as a haven for fugitives. Working with our federal, state, and local partners, HUD OIG will continue to pursue those who threaten these communities and undermine the integrity of HUD programs. The extraordinary results of this operation would not have been possible without the dedication and professionalism of our law enforcement partners."

Obviously this all could have been done decades ago. It doesn't require hiring more federal officials, or pouring billions more into the government.

It just requires a president willing to actually arrest criminal fugitives.

Something we haven't had for decades.

And speaking of something that just required a drop of will: Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

Hegseth told Human Events' Jack Posobiec that deciding the circumstances of the execution was a "no brainer. Execution by firing squad. An Army major betrays his country, [he's a] radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course, we're gonna do [the execution] at Fort Hood. Gonna do it on a Thursday, we're gonna do it at 1:00, which is when he did it, and it's gonna be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad."


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM




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1 THE BLADE CUTS DEEP AND FIRST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (iFTx/)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 09, 2026 01:10 PM (hG5L0)

3 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 01:10 PM (GZ3K7)

4 I don't remember voting for this.

Just kidding.

I voted for this.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)

5 "OK, you caught me, can I just go home now?"

many thugs, especially the female criminals

Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 01:12 PM (vbXSk)

6 500 would be a drop in the bucket

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (enNUy)

7 It just requires a president willing to actually arrest criminal fugitives.

========

Our problem hasn't been Congress for a long time.

It's been the presidency.

There are hosts of laws that people are breaking to make our nation worse, and the executive branch has, at best, picked at the edges of it.

Getting the executive to actually enforce this stuff for the first time in decades is really game changing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (1kJuV)

8 just fyi the people in Philly were CHEERING the agents! so we're not all bad

but those guys were BAD

the people who lived in the projects were super happy to see them go

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (j+aD2)

9 I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (+gK6I)

10 "All of them living off HUD assistance. That housing is meant for struggling American families!"

There should be no such thing as HUD assistance. Not for anyone. I'm sick and tired of paying for someone else's failures, bad life choices, degeneracy, and sloth and ignorance.

How much blood from my veins do these people want? They get direct welfare payments, free food, free medical, free school, free housing, free drugs, and probably free sex.

All paid for by productive taxpayers.

Why the fuck am I -- or anyone else -- funding any of this?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

11 >>>And speaking of something that just required a drop of will: Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

I know this is more show than the 500 HUD criminals arrested, but this is a grand show of strength and a direct threat to the Islamic cult that only respects strong men.

Well played.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (dK+Kv)

12 the problem is the large cities/areas that act outside the state and federal law, and hide behind "racism" to stop anyone from doing anything about it

we WILL get to the point where the feds or states will have to step in and take over these cities

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (j+aD2)

13 Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

I put the odds at 1 in 3. Some judge will stop this regardless of jurisdiction.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (4NO2D)

14 But I thought a Public House was a place you went to get drunk...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (l3cgK)

15 9 I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics

it will look good

string him up first

put him in a bunny suit

I don't GAF

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (j+aD2)

16 In addition, 10 firearms were also seized during the operations.

Only 10? Huh.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (DRSnL)

17 Just shoot the cripple in the face so he feels it

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (enNUy)

18 Bet there's a whole bunch more.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (GZ3K7)

19 Getting the executive to actually enforce this stuff for the first time in decades is really game changing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse


And the best part is, if the laws are genuinely terrible and being strictly enforced, it might convince Congress to repeal some of them.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (vJrRc)

20 Firing squad will have to be trained to avoid M1 thumb.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (XeU6L)

21 I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (+gK6I)

Strap him upright to a post.

Good optics.

Posted by: Ready, Aim, Fire! at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (9zGZf)

22 17 Just shoot the cripple in the face so he feels it


I like the way you think, nckate

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (j+aD2)

23 How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics

Put him in the comfy chair.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (4NO2D)

24 From the same interview with Hegseth -

Q: "Has Major Hasan made any final requests, reached out to the President, anything like that, to your knowledge?"

A: "Don't care. We'll see him on December 3."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (gLYp7)

25 In addition, 10 firearms were also seized during the operations.

Only 10 among 500 criminals? Wow, so gun control in HUD housing must work, right?

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (kU0PQ)

26 Put Christa Pike up against the same wall, why waste ammo...

Posted by: steevy at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (YwEeS)

27 11 I know this is more show than the 500 HUD criminals arrested, but this is a grand show of strength and a direct threat to the Islamic cult that only respects strong men.

Well played.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (dK+Kv)

========

Part of the idea of executions is to make example of the executed to others who might follow in his path.

They should have never been made private affairs.

Executions are tools of the state, it's tool of exclusivity on violence, and used by the state as the governing body as chosen by the body politic to enforce moral codes.

The body politic must be a part of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (1kJuV)

28 The latest lefty attack on Hegseth amuses me

"He's not quite as fast as the 20 yo Marines he is running with"

These people have NO idea about physical fitness at all do they?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm)

29 And speaking of something that just required a drop of will: Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

Hegseth told Human Events' Jack Posobiec that deciding the circumstances of the execution was a "no brainer. Execution by firing squad. An Army major betrays his country, [he's a] radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course, we're gonna do [the execution] at Fort Hood. Gonna do it on a Thursday, we're gonna do it at 1:00, which is when he did it, and it's gonna be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad."


Still say they should wait until halftime at the Army/Navy game on the 12th.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (nPfAi)

30 19 Getting the executive to actually enforce this stuff for the first time in decades is really game changing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse

And the best part is, if the laws are genuinely terrible and being strictly enforced, it might convince Congress to repeal some of them.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (vJrRc)

========

There's a Lincoln quote about that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (1kJuV)

31 put him in a bunny suit

I don't GAF
Posted by: Black Orchid

Pig skin suit. Allah will send him to hell.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (GZ3K7)

32 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (ccf/V)

33 Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

I put the odds at 1 in 3. Some judge will stop this regardless of jurisdiction.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (4NO2D)

Military member, military installation, military venue. Military jurisdiction. It will be interesting to see, for sure. I have no doubt that the Trump admin has already anticipated such a move.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (dK+Kv)

34 I don't know how I feel about televised State executions.

I know how I feel about THIS one.

But we give these bastards too much power as it is.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (8S7CD)

35 In addition, 10 firearms were also seized during the operations.

Only 10? Huh.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (DRSnL)

Heh. I saw this as I hit post.

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (kU0PQ)

36 Put Christa Pike up against the same wall, why waste ammo...
Posted by: steevy at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM


She can sit in Hasan's lap.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (4NO2D)

37
I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics
Posted by: It's me donna


Wheel for your life! Zig zag!

That's called a spirting chance.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:18 PM (trSL4)

38 Democrats think the American taxpayer is their blank check to import, house and care for anyone that wants to come here, kill off Americans and enjoy free shit in exchange for their D vote.

I hate them and all they stand for.

And hate is a strong word.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:18 PM (ccf/V)

39 sporting

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:18 PM (trSL4)

40 Heh. I saw this as I hit post.
Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (kU0PQ)

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Great minds and all.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 01:19 PM (DRSnL)

41 >> And speaking of something that just required a drop of will: Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

As it should be. He murdered 13 soldiers in the DFAC, one of whom was pregnant. Read the witness transcripts, they are heartbreaking. The pregnant soldier cried out about her baby before passing.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 01:19 PM (J2Jn3)

42 These people have NO idea about physical fitness at all do they?
Posted by: 18-1

They're mental defectives. They can't wipe their ass without an app or picture directions.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 01:20 PM (GZ3K7)

43 ill: Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.
=
I figure X will carry it, but will anyone else? Youtube? Twitch?

Thinking about it a bit, Twitch might allow it so that the other Hassan can bitch about it.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 01:20 PM (vSvIl)

44 29 And speaking of something that just required a drop of will: Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

Hegseth told Human Events' Jack Posobiec that deciding the circumstances of the execution was a "no brainer. Execution by firing squad. An Army major betrays his country, [he's a] radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course, we're gonna do [the execution] at Fort Hood. Gonna do it on a Thursday, we're gonna do it at 1:00, which is when he did it, and it's gonna be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad."


Still say they should wait until halftime at the Army/Navy game on the 12th.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM (nPfAi)

Not gonna want little kids watching it...

If it's livestreamed, it should come with a content warning so no parent can complain afterwards...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 01:20 PM (tOcjL)

45 Well played.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (dK+Kv)

========

Part of the idea of executions is to make example of the executed to others who might follow in his path.

They should have never been made private affairs.

Executions are tools of the state, it's tool of exclusivity on violence, and used by the state as the governing body as chosen by the body politic to enforce moral codes.

The body politic must be a part of that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (1kJuV)
________

Executions were also designed to be as gruesome and stomach-churning as possible.

Again: as a warning to others. "Do bad stuff and this is what happens to you."

I don't care a wit how much violence and pain the state inflicts on inhuman demons like those on death row.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 01:20 PM (iFTx/)

46 6 500 would be a drop in the bucket
Posted by: nckate

Given the average rap sheet, I would suspect incarcerating these thugs will prevent additional multiple crimes from being committed. That is the broken windows thesis which Rudy and the NYPD proved correct. Even prosecuting fare jumpers while seemingly trivial ended up reducing violent crime because roughly 2 percent of the population are hard core criminals 24/7 365 days per year.

Societies either have to lock them up to incapacitate them from committing more crimes or kill them.

Research on the effects of the Bloody Code in UK history corroborate this effect btw. In the UK case, they chose to execute them.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

47 I put the odds at 1 in 3. Some judge will stop this regardless of jurisdiction.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Then MPs should arrest the judge for plotting a coup against the Constitutional order and throw him against the same wall.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (sDWtc)

48 37
I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics
Posted by: It's me donna

Wheel for your life! Zig zag!

That's called a spirting chance.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:18 PM (trSL4)

In "Death Race 2000" those in wheelchairs were worth 100 points, I believe...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (l3cgK)

49 You may want to ask why illegal immigrants are in public housing and how they got there. And why they were taking limited spaces meant for American citizens.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (J2Jn3)

50 I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics

it will look good

string him up first

put him in a bunny suit

I don't GAF

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (j+aD2)

Not nearly as bad as setting prisoners in a cage on fire.

Our society will survive it and might perhaps thrive as a result of it. It's long passed the time to show these backwards-assed, third-world, death cultists that you don't fuck with America and Americans.

More, please.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (dK+Kv)

51 >>I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM

They have a chair specifically for this. No wheels, but it has straps for head and limbs of the prisoner.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (2Xqig)

52 Only a cruel man would force people from subsidized housing with winter coming on.

--- the old, white lefties who protest down by the stoplight in town

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (rbvCR)

53 @9 -- Lindsay Clancy is in a wheelchair. Both are in wheelchairs due to their own evil actions. They should both be put up against the wall.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (XMwZJ)

54 Firing squad is too good for him.

Posted by: steevy at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (YwEeS)

55 I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics
Posted by: It's me donna
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It's a tough call. Hasan deserves it, but that doesn't mean that publicizing the actual execution act is apositive thing.

One thing is certain, the media will focus on his execution, and *not* on the innocent people that he executed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

56 Hey, anyone know how to get a video rec. to Ace? (watch?v=E0PHoy_4Wi4) It is a lot of chaff, but there is a section where interviewee talks about Trump's work with WWF and Celebrity Apprentice, and he makes a really good point which it right in Ace's wheelhouse.

Hulk Hogan made a switch to heel in order to revive the brand, and it worked - the public loved to hate him and attendance exploded. His thesis is that Trump is often "playing the heel" in what he says and does. It is just to make himself a lovable villain, knowing that it is best way to get attention to whatever it is he is working to promote at the time.

This line of thinking is very Scott Addams-esque -- identify a subject you want the public to discuss, play the heel and do outrageous things, keeping aligned with the goal but going against what all the right people think is proper.

It's all kayfabe. I think a good example is the firing line execution -- it's a great opportunity to grab the headline. It's like throwing a folding chair at the ref.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (FonrE)

57 How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics

You're right. Round up some wild pigs. Starve them for a couple weeks. Put him in a pen with them. Don't shoot anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

58 >>How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ?

You just have to aim a little lower.

Posted by: smartass at October 09, 2026 01:22 PM (uqnAZ)

59 While we are at it, grab all the other assholes sentenced to death by the military and shoot them too. The grenade in the tent Muslim convert soldier is still on death row I believe.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:22 PM (enNUy)

60 Read the witness transcripts, they are heartbreaking. The pregnant soldier cried out about her baby before passing.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 01:19 PM (J2Jn3)

Kill him twice and boil him in lard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)

61 53 @9 -- Lindsay Clancy is in a wheelchair. Both are in wheelchairs due to their own evil actions. They should both be put up against the wall.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (XMwZJ)

200 points!

Posted by: Death Race 2000 at October 09, 2026 01:22 PM (l3cgK)

62 put him in a bunny suit

I don't GAF
Posted by: Black Orchid

Pig skin suit. Allah will send him to hell.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 01:17 PM


Carve a Star of David on his forehead. The 72 virgins will *really* love him then.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (62au8)

63 They have a chair specifically for this. No wheels, but it has straps for head and limbs of the prisoner.
Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (2Xqig)


They can strap him in it in the back room, and then drag it out to the wall, making that "chair dragging noise" on the tile floor for maximum humiliation

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (rbvCR)

64
But seeing Charlie Kirk shot live, in real time, and bleeding out was the most enjoyable and righteous thing ever...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (trSL4)

65 >>How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ?

You just have to aim a little lower.

Posted by: smartass at October 09, 2026 01:22 PM (uqnAZ)

"You just don't lead him as much."

"War is hell."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (dK+Kv)

66 64
But seeing Charlie Kirk shot live, in real time, and bleeding out was the most enjoyable and righteous thing ever...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (trSL4)

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I can't wait to wear my Dead Hasan costume for Halloween next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (1kJuV)

67 I'm not worried about complaints of a barbaric process from the same people who are still laughing and celebrating Charlie Kirk's very public assassination for the crime of thinking differently from them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (viF8m)

68 The biggest question as of late from junior enlisted? How can I get in the firing squad.

The media runs all kinds of crap blurred out when it suits their purpose. Be serious.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 01:24 PM (J2Jn3)

69 55 I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics
Posted by: It's me donna


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see my comment #56 -- it will look outrageous and that is the goal.
They are playing the heel. The bad guy. They want the Left to boo and complain.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 01:24 PM (FonrE)

70
I don't know about live streaming it.. How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics



Oops, forgot to set the wheel locks. Jihadi pig went rolling back and down the stairs.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 01:24 PM (y9nCu)

71 @9 -- May I suggest a wood chipper then?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 09, 2026 01:24 PM (XMwZJ)

72 All the people that were applauding Lindsey Clancy strangling her kids are outraged we're going to shoot a guy in a wheel chair; i'd be happy to man the pulley rope to stand him up if it bothers them that much.
This one is way overdue. The fact that they used that bullsh*t 'workplace violence' classification always p**sed me off about this.

Posted by: Nelly at October 09, 2026 01:24 PM (6+ehB)

73 As the MPs that shot him the first time available?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (4NO2D)

74 Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.

I can't believe he is making this colossal mistake.


It should be pay-per-view.

Posted by: Chuck C at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (0GLZr)

75 Liberal heads will explode with the livestream. That'll be great! And the memes will be fantastic.

Out of curiosity, how does the firing squad work. I imagine everyone aims for the heart and fires.

Or could the go a bit off script, shoot off his balls first, each limb, then a head shot? Yeah, he'd have to be tied up for that though.


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I just went to Kos to see if I could find a reaction article to the firing squad.

Two main articles. Dems blew away Republicans in the debates, including Abdul.

And Blue Wave!! Republicans worried. Dems up everywhere.

Our Venn diagrams don't even overlap.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (Sco7b)

76 Looks like I'm in the minority here....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (+gK6I)

77 The fact that they used that bullsh*t 'workplace violence' classification always p**sed me off about this.

Posted by: Nelly at October 09, 2026 01:24 PM (6+ehB)

The US military is about to subject him to some of our very own workplace violence.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (gLYp7)

78 It's a tough call. Hasan deserves it, but that doesn't mean that publicizing the actual execution act is apositive thing.

One thing is certain, the media will focus on his execution, and *not* on the innocent people that he executed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

Read off the witness statements such as the dying lady's pleas for her unborn child. Then conduct execution.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (dK+Kv)

79 Two main articles. Dems blew away Republicans in the debates, including Abdul.


Not what I heard...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:26 PM (+gK6I)

80 Looks like I'm in the minority here....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (+gK6I)

And that's OK. We're not close-minded leftists. Mostly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:26 PM (dK+Kv)

81 Putting Clancy up against the wall is a bit cruel. I say no wall, just stairs.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:26 PM (8S7CD)

82 It's a tough call. Hasan deserves it, but that doesn't mean that publicizing the actual execution act is apositive thing.
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It is an unquestionably good thing that every muslim and leftist see him die like a dog and consider that they might be next.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 01:26 PM (vSvIl)

83 Another member of Trump's Cabinet 2.0 does a good job.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 01:26 PM (t9883)

84 >>How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ? Bad optics

Try our optics. Very clear presentation

Posted by: Aimpoint, USA at October 09, 2026 01:26 PM (uqnAZ)

85 @74 -- Exactly. I'm the biggest cheapskate on the planet, but I would pay good money to see this.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 09, 2026 01:27 PM (XMwZJ)

86 By the way, the pregnant soldiers baby did not live.

There was also another soldier who was shot that was nine months pregnant. She lived as did her child.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 01:27 PM (J2Jn3)

87 Do an In Memoriam before the execution. Then let it rip.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 01:28 PM (GZ3K7)

88 67 I'm not worried about complaints of a barbaric process from the same people who are still laughing and celebrating Charlie Kirk's very public assassination for the crime of thinking differently from them.
Posted by: JackStraw

----------------

I know, this is too much. These monsters are giddy over that death, and the fact that it was all over the internet. They mime out the blood spurting from his neck on college campuses.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (FonrE)

89 If this happens, I might have to go to Killeen and eat BBQ. Maybe there will be a parade.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (enNUy)

90 Like my new look?

Posted by: AFWL who switched all her hair from blue to green last week at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (0sNs1)

91 >>Looks like I'm in the minority here....

I understand your concern. I'm not a ghoul who enjoys seeing people die.

But Hasan is a jihadist, one of many who have either already murdered Americans or who are planning on it. They only way to stop them is to make it clear we can be every bit as vengeful as they are and we won't back down.

We're in a war for our civilization and that is not an exaggeration. We didn't ask for this fight but we sure as hell can't back down from it and they need to know there is a new sheriff in town and the gloves are off.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (viF8m)

92 One of the lunatic leaders in North Korea had some of his generals executed. The method: he lined them up and had them shot with an anti-aircraft gun.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (t9883)

93 Man, the Thursday December 3rd 1PM execution thread will be lit.

I'll have to set a calendar reminder.... and have snacks and booze ready.

And they can tie that fucker to a pole instead of shooting him in a wheelchair.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (RORbl)

94 Our side mostly lost the execution debate when we allowed the bleeding-heart commie softcocks to dictate the terms of the debate. Sound familiar?

To me, the main reason and purpose behind capital punishment has little to do with deterrence. I think it does deter future misconduct, but that opened the door to fraudulent debate and fake statistics that the commies used to undermine the deterrence justification.

The main reason for capital punishment has always been retribution. If you commit heinous crimes, you have forfeited your status as a human being, and society has every right -- indeed, a duty -- to kill you dead.

Capital punishment is right, it's moral, it's reasonable, and every society from the beginning of mankind up until about 50 years ago -- when the west got limp dicks and saggy balls -- understood this.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

95 Looks like I'm in the minority here....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (+gK6I)

If the only thing you're looking at is the US military shooting a man in a wheelchair, yes, the optics are horrendous.

If, though, you're looking at the US military lawfully executing a traitorous terrorist who gunned down 13 people and was paralyzed by someone shooting back, it doesn't look quite so bad.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (gLYp7)

96
It pays to remember that, prior to even mentioning Hasan's massacre in San Antonio, Preznint Bumblefuck just had to spend several minutes yammering on and on to the press about the great ideas session he had just left and how Chief Endeavor to Persevere had been such an inspiration for the whole exercise.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (trSL4)

97 90 Like my new look?
Posted by: AFWL who switched all her hair from blue to green last week at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (0sNs1)


You're still fat, go away.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (sDWtc)

98 Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (viF8m)

I definitely want him executed... It was the wheel chair aspect I was concerned about

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (+gK6I)

99 "OK, you caught me, can I just go home now?"

many thugs, especially the female criminals


A fair number of criminals, especially blacks, think that if they're in a police chase and they make it to their home, the police have to let them go. I see it occasionally in the Arkansas State Police videos.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (2ocoG)

100 What I want to know is, where do the pig entrails come in?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 01:31 PM (guGkK)

101 Gary Gilmore was shot while in a chair.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 09, 2026 01:31 PM (CwhoI)

102 A fair number of criminals, especially blacks, think that if they're in a police chase and they make it to their home, the police have to let them go. I see it occasionally in the Arkansas State Police videos.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (2ocoG)
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I guess running from the cops is the equivalent of children playing "tag."

If you make it to home base before you get caught you are safe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:32 PM (FZ29D)

103 It would be a bit of cosmic justice to use Hasan's own pistol to effect the execution. I don't think it would be a problem to find a voluteer to pull the trigger.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:32 PM (XeU6L)

104 Don't even give any leftist judge a chance to stop it. Just wheel his sorry ass around behind the barracks and put a bullet in his head. This afternoon.

Posted by: USMCMGB at October 09, 2026 01:32 PM (hWvIW)

105 A fair number of criminals, especially blacks, think that if they're in a police chase and they make it to their home, the police have to let them go. I see it occasionally in the Arkansas State Police videos.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (2ocoG)

That's hilarious.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:32 PM (dK+Kv)

106
I am 100% for this.

Though I admit, I'd prefer it if he were hanged by the neck until dead.

That would take any possibility of Jihadist glory out of the equation.

By the by, this may be one of those opinions split by sexes dealios. The beautiful and empathetic Mrs naturalfake, while totally in favor of this a-hole getting the firing squad send off, she thinks televising it, may be too cruel for his family in an embarrassing kind of way.

We disagreed on that. With him being a muslim, and thus a shame culture guy, that is an extra benefit to show other muslim families that jihad assholery is their shame as well.

It may discourage similar murders.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 01:32 PM (YSUhf)

107 I'm not a ghoul who enjoys seeing people die.

I have no intention of watching it myself but I won't look down on anyone who does.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 01:32 PM (ExV1e)

108 *tosses Nidal out of chair*

"You won't be needing this anymore."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 01:33 PM (guGkK)

109
Gary Gilmore was shot while in a chair.
Posted by: Citizen Cake


Saturday Night Live had a skit about it in which they sang a song, "Let's Kill Gary Gilmore for Christmas".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:33 PM (trSL4)

110 >>I definitely want him executed... It was the wheel chair aspect I was concerned about

Remind anyone who complains that he's in a wheelchair that he is only in one because of an injury he sustained from American soldiers fighting back after he murdered a bunch of unarmed American soldiers.

I have no sympathy for his condition.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 01:33 PM (viF8m)

111 It may discourage similar murders.
Posted by: naturalfake
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Again, thus my favor of a Gibbet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

112 May God, the God he doesn’t believe in, have mercy on his soul.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (J2Jn3)

113
One of the lunatic leaders in North Korea had some of his generals executed. The method: he lined them up and had them shot with an anti-aircraft gun.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 01:29 PM (t9883)



Back before the Limeys lost their balls, during the Indian Mutiny they tied convicted mutineers to the muzzles of cannons...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (y9nCu)

114 Random: isn't it typical with firing squads for one member to be given a rifle with blanks, so no one knows for sure if they personally fired a fatal shot? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (62au8)

115 108 *tosses Nidal out of chair*
"You won't be needing this anymore."
Posted by: Cicero

Take him to Glacier National Park, spray him with honey and cheez whiz before you do that.

Posted by: he won't be there for the huntin' at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (sDWtc)

116 >>Gary Gilmore was shot while in a chair.

It's not called an Electric Chair for nothing.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (viF8m)

117 A fair number of criminals, especially blacks, think that if they're in a police chase and they make it to their home, the police have to let them go. I see it occasionally in the Arkansas State Police videos.
Posted by: Ian S.

That's kind of how it works in GTA. Just have yo get far enough away that they give up.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (ftFVW)

118 76 Looks like I'm in the minority here....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:25 PM (+gK6I)

It happens

Posted by: Death Race 2000 at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (l3cgK)

119 Zero tolerance for thug life renters works like a charm - when it's allowed to happen.

Back in the 90s in my hometown (Syracuse) an elderly retired (and well off) native was appalled by the state of the infrastructure - and crime rates - he saw in his family's old apartment complex. It was several dozen brick 1-story bldgs dating back to when it was a mostly Italian-American neighborhood, nor it was very very majority minority - and kinda of a hellhole for normal non-criminal renters.

So..... he bought it - spent to renovate it up to snuff (one building at a time so current residents could still be residents) - hired PT roving security from among the residents - and instituted new :stay safe" policies renter had to agree to to rent.

(1) Zero tolerance for any drug activity - no using - no selling. Eviction if witnessed or police documents document it.
(2) No guns allowed. Same same.
(3) The above applies for ANY resident OR "guest" - if your (say) grandson or just "friend" is dealing or armed on site - you get evicted. No "but I had no idea my grandson who's parents threw him out for drug use but I let stay with me so he wouldn't be homeless was dealing / doing drugs" exception

Posted by: BobM at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (6tmKi)

120 Remind anyone who complains that he's in a wheelchair that he is only in one because of an injury he sustained from American soldiers fighting back after he murdered a bunch of unarmed American soldiers.

I have no sympathy for his condition.


Also he walked up to a pregnant woman who begged him that she was pregnant and he shot her several times to make sure the baby died too.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (2ocoG)

121 If it's livestreamed, it should come with a content warning so no parent can complain afterwards...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 01:20 PM (tOcjL)

Honestly, though, if you need a content warning beyond "Execution of Nidal Hassan" you probably shouldn't be allowed to have children.

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (kU0PQ)

122 They should have a priest bless him and sprinkle him with holy water just before just to piss off the muzzies.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (FonrE)

123 I'm not a ghoul who enjoys seeing people die.
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I'm guessing that you're not Islamic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (XeU6L)

124 Though I admit, I'd prefer it if he were hanged by the neck until dead.

That would take any possibility of Jihadist glory out of the equation.

By the by, this may be one of those opinions split by sexes dealios. The beautiful and empathetic Mrs naturalfake, while totally in favor of this a-hole getting the firing squad send off, she thinks televising it, may be too cruel for his family in an embarrassing kind of way.

We disagreed on that. With him being a muslim, and thus a shame culture guy, that is an extra benefit to show other muslim families that jihad assholery is their shame as well.

It may discourage similar murders.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 01:32 PM (YSUhf)
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I also prefer hanging. For mostly the same reasons. In Islamic culture, hanging is a deeply shameful death. Which is why they do it to the gays. Beheading is more honorable. Not sure where a firing squad fits into their ideology, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (FZ29D)

125 111 It may discourage similar murders.
Posted by: naturalfake
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Again, thus my favor of a Gibbet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

When crows are useful...

Posted by: Death Race 2000 at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (l3cgK)

126 Random: isn't it typical with firing squads for one member to be given a rifle with blanks, so no one knows for sure if they personally fired a fatal shot? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
Posted by: Dr. T at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM



I was lead to believe there were 3 shooters, yet only one had a live round. While the one that makes the kill shot knows they did it, no one outside the firing range knows who it was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (ccf/V)

127 They should have a priest bless him and sprinkle him with holy water just before just to piss off the muzzies.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (FonrE)
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And to keep him from coming back as a vengeful vampire...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (FZ29D)

128 Giving corrupt governments the power over life and death of citizens is not definitely "right". If our government was even remotely trustworthy, sure. But is it?

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (8S7CD)

129 I want full exclusive right to the popcorn concessions. We'll also be serving cocktails mixed nuts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (SMG8K)

130 126
I was lead to believe there were 3 shooters, yet only one had a live round. While the one that makes the kill shot knows they did it, no one outside the firing range knows who it was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:35 PM (ccf/V)

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Would you know if you were firing a blank instead of a live round?

I suspect most people who regularly fire would tell the difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (1kJuV)

131 10/7 was livestreamed, and the Left cheered along with our enemies. Their opinion is therefore of no importance to me.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (CwhoI)

132 off movie sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (l3cgK)

133 May God, the God he doesn’t believe in, have mercy on his soul.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 09, 2026 01:34 PM (J2Jn3)



Agreed.

I still have no ill feelings about him meeting my maker nor watching the event.


Inshala to him.........the f*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (ccf/V)

134 I'm going to assume that we will see some brand new never before seen attempts at lawfare, so that will be interesting.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (enNUy)

135 Only 4,999,500 more to go.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (zJe6s)

136 By the by, this may be one of those opinions split by sexes dealios. The beautiful and empathetic Mrs naturalfake, while totally in favor of this a-hole getting the firing squad send off, she thinks televising it, may be too cruel for his family in an embarrassing kind of way.


On X the vast majority of people opposed are (or claim to be) women.

One of them is responsible for the theologically dubious "Jesus wouldn't livestream a public execution". (Someone replied "when I find a time machine I'll hand Him an iPhone and find out").

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG)

137 Watch if you want, don't watch if you don't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (l3cgK)

138 I predict that some leftist, scumbag, dog fellating, lawyer is going to attempt to bring murder charges against the firing squad members. That or Judge Boasburg-Asshole will attempt to put a stay on the execution.

Posted by: A real heel at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (JNTt1)

139 He didn't raise rents, he kept it affordable, and it became an oasis of safe affordable housing. Until a grandmother let her grandson stay and.... he violated all of the above.

All the usual suspects took him to court for evicting the innocent"'I had no idea" grandmother and he lost. 1 year later it's back to hellhokevstatus because the thugs took over. Nice going guys.

Posted by: BobM at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (6tmKi)

140 Would you know if you were firing a blank instead of a live round?

I suspect most people who regularly fire would tell the difference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (1kJuV)



I would need to defer to others as I've never shot a blank before.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (ccf/V)

141 >>How will it look shooting someone in a wheel chair ?

You just have to aim a little lower.
Posted by: smartass at October 09, 2026 01:22 PM (uqnAZ)

Classic movie quote (well, a paraphrase of the quote):
"How can you shoot women and children?"
"Easy. Lead 'em a little less."

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (kU0PQ)

142 I want full exclusive right to the popcorn concessions. We'll also be serving cocktails mixed nuts.

Spare ribs and chicharrones would be appropriate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (guGkK)

143 Never forget the "shout out" to Joe Medicine Crow by Ofuckhead while the victims were still shrieking in pain.

That motherfucking faggot fucker.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (8S7CD)

144 500?
Hell, that's bigger than the population of the small town I lived in as a kid.
Well done!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (2WIwB)

145 From Cornbread thread:

188 I got 90 bucks from my best friend Trump...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM (+gK6I)

I saw that too. From SSA. Where/why did we get it*?

*I already spent it on beer and lottery tix but mostly beer....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 01:38 PM (QGaXH)

146 126 My late FiL was an MP in WW2 and participated in a firing squad (SS man). I asked him about that deal with blanks in one rifle, and he said no way, they all wanted in on the action.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 01:39 PM (gm9Sb)

147 Watch if you want, don't watch if you don't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (l3cgK)



But, aren't we supposed to argue, accuse and assault those that don't agree?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:39 PM (ccf/V)

148 >>I'm guessing that you're not Islamic.

I don't look good in a dress.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 01:39 PM (viF8m)

149 Livestream, pay per view -- I want it piped into the schools and made mandatory viewing in an assembly.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 01:39 PM (FonrE)

150 But, aren't we supposed to argue, accuse and assault those that don't agree?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:39 PM


This is the way.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)

151 I think shooting him out of the wheelchair would be the funner game.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:40 PM (8S7CD)

152 Would you know if you were firing a blank instead of a live round?

I suspect most people who regularly fire would tell the difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (1kJuV)

100% you would know.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:40 PM (gLYp7)

153
"Jesus wouldn't livestream a public execution"


And yet Jesus' very own execution was "livestreamed" as was consistent with the practices of that age.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:40 PM (trSL4)

154 If he is not gagged, I will guarantee you he will yell 'aloha snackbar' before the shot is fired.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:40 PM (ccf/V)

155 Also from Cornbread thread:

37 Why do we call this fabulist "Madison Cornbread"?
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (sDWtc)

I was wondering this too. Anybody remember why?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (QGaXH)

156 Good.

Do MORE

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (4KUe5)

157 But seeing Charlie Kirk shot live, in real time, and bleeding out was the most enjoyable and righteous thing ever...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:23 PM (trSL4)

One Hundred Per Cent

THIS!!!!

I understand everyone likes knowing how their sausage gets made. Here's the good news - you don't have to watch.

Before you grab that megaphone to signal your virtue though, I just want to remind you of your silence in the face of those animals who celebrated and continue to post celebrations over Kirk's assassination. The Rubicon that you think we're crossing with this execution? That was twenty miles back. Moose at the riverbank should have told you...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (08OqX)

158 One of them is responsible for the theologically dubious "Jesus wouldn't livestream a public execution". (Someone replied "when I find a time machine I'll hand Him an iPhone and find out").
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:37 PM (2ocoG)
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If the Romans could have livestreamed Jesus' crucifixion, they probably would have.

His cruel death was meant to be warning to all about what happens when you contend with the power of Rome.

Of course, it would have backfired spectacularly...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (FZ29D)

159 Giving corrupt governments the power over life and death of citizens is not definitely "right". If our government was even remotely trustworthy, sure. But is it?

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (8S7CD)

Most definitely not, especially coming off the plandemic deaths and associated fear mongering and profiteering, as well as the J6 Fedsurrection and political imprisonments. But they might just happen to redeem themselves here a bit.

And AFAIK, he's exhausted all legal avenues available and is dead to rights guilty. So I have no moral reservations in this instance, whether or not the U.S. government is corrupt.

Otherwise, I consider it a military matter, not a civilian matter.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (dK+Kv)

160 If he is not gagged, I will guarantee you he will yell 'aloha snackbar' before the shot is fired.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:40 PM (ccf/V)

Totally fine. He can yell whatever he wants. Then, Inshallah, he'll survive or he won't.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (gLYp7)

161 Why do we call this fabulist "Madison Cornbread"?
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (sDWtc)

I was wondering this too. Anybody remember why?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (QGaXH)



Ace.

No more questions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (ccf/V)

162 Spare ribs and chicharrones would be appropriate.

There's a video going around of a woman in a burqa complaining that Japan is a hellhole because they love pork there.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (2ocoG)

163 Carried over:

51 For Ellison to make the merger work, a lot of jobs are going to get canned for cost savings. And I bet Tapper does not want to be the next Jim Acosta howling in the darkness of social media.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)


I honestly thought he already was.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (ke3zm)

164 Why do we call this fabulist "Madison Cornbread"?
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (sDWtc)

I was wondering this too. Anybody remember why?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (QGaXH)

That is all Ace. Being Ace. It's one of my favorite snark names ever.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (PSEDc)

165 I want full exclusive right to the popcorn concessions. We'll also be serving cocktails mixed nuts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (SMG8K)

Dibs on bacon-flavored sodas and deep-fried bacon on a stick.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (dK+Kv)

166 @EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.

Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)

167 Paths Of Glory, Colonel Dax briefing the asshoe Lieutenant on how to conduct a firing squad. "And then you draw your pistol and shoot him in the head, just to make sure".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (gm9Sb)

168 More people will watch the execution of this fuckrat than last year's Superbowl

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (iFTx/)

169 That is all Ace. Being Ace. It's one of my favorite snark names ever.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (PSEDc)

I think Honeycum Esq was the best.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (gLYp7)

170 A fair number of criminals, especially blacks, think that if they're in a police chase and they make it to their home, the police have to let them go. I see it occasionally in the Arkansas State Police videos.
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That's hilarious.


"Base!"

"Wait, what do you mean 'The rules are different now?'"

Posted by: Oddbob at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (vTZFs)

171 How about: Hamas and ISIS live streamed executions. It’s their normal.

Alinsky #4 - they understand strength and ruthlessness

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (4KUe5)

172 Otherwise, I consider it a military matter, not a civilian matter.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (dK+Kv)

True and true.

I would cover him in the bacon grease myself. I'm just not excited about State power. Kind of had my fill of it for one lifetime.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (8S7CD)

173 166 @EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.

Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)

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Then they can blow up other Muslims in far away nations, because we're not bringing any more here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (1kJuV)

174 @EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.


Everyone knows that fighting terrorism only makes more terrorists, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (guGkK)

175 @EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.
Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)



Just tell him to enjoy his exploding fag diarrhea and shut the f*ck up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (ccf/V)

176 @EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.

Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)

No, this is totally correct. They absolutely didn't hate us enough to kill us until we started killing them back.

What the actual fuck is wrong with him?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (gLYp7)

177 117 A fair number of criminals, especially blacks, think that if they're in a police chase and they make it to their home, the police have to let them go. I see it occasionally in the Arkansas State Police videos.
Posted by: Ian S.


"Olly olly oxen free"

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (Sco7b)

178 I was lead to believe there were 3 shooters, yet only one had a live round. While the one that makes the kill shot knows they did it, no one outside the firing range knows who it was.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


I would think they'd give all the squad full magazines and instruct them to continue firing until their mags are empty.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (vJrRc)

179 176
No, this is totally correct. They absolutely didn't hate us enough to kill us until we started killing them back.

What the actual fuck is wrong with him?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (gLYp7)

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He is both stupid and a Democrat who uses the label of "super conservative Republican" as a front to advance Democrat goals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:44 PM (1kJuV)

180 Random: isn't it typical with firing squads for one member to be given a rifle with blanks, so no one knows for sure if they personally fired a fatal shot? I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
Posted by: Dr. T
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The reg:
"g. Cause eight rifles to be loaded in his presence. At least one · but no more than three will be loaded with blank ammunition. He will place the rifles at random in the rack provided for that pur­pose. h. Provide a black hood to cover the head of the prisoner. AGO 11167B 1

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:44 PM (XeU6L)

181 155 Also from Cornbread thread:

37 Why do we call this fabulist "Madison Cornbread"?
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (sDWtc)

I was wondering this too. Anybody remember why?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (QGaXH)

Don't remember...but I found this:
https://tinyurl.com/2s3v6k4c

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:44 PM (l3cgK)

182 I would think they'd give all the squad full magazines and instruct them to continue firing until their mags are empty.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM


Giggle switch to on.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:44 PM (4NO2D)

183 One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.
Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)

Oh just get your prayer mat out already you fucking pussy faggot.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:44 PM (8S7CD)

184 @EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.
Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)
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Another reason to make Hasan's death as shameful as possible within the Islamic worldview.

Deny their martyrs "paradise."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (FZ29D)

185 I hope they give him a last cigarette with a firecracker in it.
Just to get him warmed up.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (UjdFS)

186
I would think they'd give all the squad full magazines and instruct them to continue firing until their mags are empty.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (vJrRc)



This would be an upgrade I would be fine with.

Leave. No. Doubt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (ccf/V)

187 @EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.


In the Middle East they will, to quote Osama bin Laden, see who is the strong horse and not want to be the weak horse.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (2ocoG)

188 >>>it's gonna be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad.

You're doing it wrong.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (8mulE)

189 And RIP fellow Beaver Countian Iron Mike Ditka.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (GZ3K7)

190 I'm seeing the usual pearl clutching out of the limp-wristed crowd in Seattle about the execution, but the blowback on them has been loud and effective. A lot of military active and retired in Washington State.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (2WIwB)

191 >>How about: Hamas and ISIS live streamed executions. It’s their normal.

Daniel Pearl

I also remember when ISIS put a bunch of Kurdish women who refused to convert to Islam in a cage and burned them alive. And streamed it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (viF8m)

192 Erick Erickson talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (ccf/V)

193 Livestream, pay per view -- I want it piped into the schools and made mandatory viewing in an assembly.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 09, 2026 01:39 PM (FonrE)

Especially in Dearbornistan.

Posted by: pookysgirl wants to send a message at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (Wt5PA)

194 Don't fight terrorism or there will be more terrorism is the take of dipshit assholes who should be shunned into oblivion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:46 PM (ccf/V)

195 Hassan is in a wheelchair because of his unimaginable, inhuman crime. Dump him out of his wheelchair and shoot him as he writhes in the mud.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 01:46 PM (2ap+5)

196 We almost saw Trump killed on livestream. The one Trump rally CNN decided to cover live.

Hegseth and Trump know what they’re doing.
To those leftists who are demoralized by this, mission accomplished. It’s meant to upset America’s enemies.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 01:46 PM (4KUe5)

197 "Madison Cornbread" is such an all-timer Ace nickname I've seen people use it outside the blog. Hit the tip jar for more great nicknames. Or another accidental post of busty lesbian p0rn. One of the two.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

198 It will be a recruiting bonanza.

Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)

Always has been.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (dK+Kv)

199 Maybe in the tradition of Islam people on the street will celebrate martyrdom for Hassan and begin passing out candy to one and all. Candy provided by Schlomo's Sweet Treats and Phone Pager Sales.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (gm9Sb)

200 "Jesus wouldn't livestream a public execution"

And yet Jesus' very own execution was "livestreamed" as was consistent with the practices of that age.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:40 PM (trSL4)

One might think he would have made a case to Pilate about the wrongness of public execution if He felt strongly about the matter.

Instead, the only commentary we have is from one of the thieves, who said that justice was being done on them.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (vSvIl)

201 Don't fight terrorists. Don't go to music festivals. What are the other rules to stay safe

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (8S7CD)

202 "And they can tie that fucker to a pole instead of shooting him in a wheelchair."

This. Isn't it traditional to tie the prisoner to a pole anyway? They can tie him under his arms.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (GMWTj)

203 But if you check X you'll see a few "HONEST POLLSTERS" tell you that you need to listen to Nick Fuentes and this admin is serving the Joooooz and MAGA needs to embrace Dearborn and Communism before it's too late.

I saw a clip of Fuentes saying that Tucker and Candace are retards, so he's not completely wrong. Just mostly.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (2ocoG)

204 203 I saw a clip of Fuentes saying that Tucker and Candace are retards, so he's not completely wrong. Just mostly.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (2ocoG)

========

They took his market share, so he's shifted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:48 PM (1kJuV)

205 I would think they'd give all the squad full magazines and instruct them to continue firing until their mags are empty.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM

Giggle switch to on.
Posted by: toby928(c)


Give new meaning to the phrase "mag-dump into trash"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:48 PM (vJrRc)

206 162 Spare ribs and chicharrones would be appropriate.

There's a video going around of a woman in a burqa complaining that Japan is a hellhole because they love pork there.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (2ocoG)

Noodles in Tonkastu broth...mmmm...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:48 PM (l3cgK)

207 I always thought it was not one live execution round and a number of blanks, but the other way around: one blank and the rest live.

Gary Gilmore (see above) for sure was executing by five guys in a fire squad, only one of whom had a blank. And even then, it was reported there were five bullet holes in his body.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

208 We almost saw Trump killed on livestream. The one Trump rally CNN decided to cover live.


Lefties to this day watch Charlie Kirk being shot in ultra slow motion while masturbating.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:48 PM (2ocoG)

209 >>>I was lead to believe there were 3 shooters, yet only one had a live round. While the one that makes the kill shot knows they did it, no one outside the firing range knows who it was.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I would think they'd give all the squad full magazines and instruct them to continue firing until their mags are empty.

Posted by: FeatherBlade

>What silliness is this? Is this the lottery? Give them all full mags and make no mistakes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 01:48 PM (SMG8K)

210 I hope they give him a last cigarette with a firecracker in it.
Just to get him warmed up.
Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 01:45 PM (UjdFS)



https://shorturl.fm/R0OK3

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:49 PM (ccf/V)

211 Exactly, Jack Straw.
They knew it would cause terror for the infidels and reveled in it. They knew the video would be shared, posted on social media, inspire many.

Trump understands spectacle.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 01:49 PM (4KUe5)

212 Erick Erickson talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

He deserves a guest spot on "Ow, My Balls!"

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2026 01:49 PM (ftFVW)

213 Erick Erickson could take his fat ass to the Middle East and apologize. Of course he'd be treated like Ned Beatty in Deliverance

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 01:49 PM (t9883)

214 Provide a black hood to cover the head of the prisoner. AGO 11167B 1

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:44 PM (XeU6L)

Crap. I wanted to see him beg and cry like a bitch.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:49 PM (dK+Kv)

215 I saw a clip of Fuentes saying that Tucker and Candace are retards, so he's not completely wrong. Just mostly.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (2ocoG)



He shapeshifted again?

Good lord........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:50 PM (ccf/V)

216 162 "Spare ribs and chicharrones would be appropriate."

There's a video going around of a woman in a burqa complaining that Japan is a hellhole because they love pork there.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:41 PM (2ocoG)


They should deport her and her entire family line, just for disrespecting her hosts. And then charge them for the flight. And surcharge for the constables' time escorting them.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 01:50 PM (ke3zm)

217
EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.
Posted by: the throne is made of dildoes at October 09, 2026 01:42 PM (sDWtc)



I always liked Tom Clancy's take on martyrs. "Martyrs all have one thing in common. They're dead."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 01:50 PM (y9nCu)

218 Dhimmi Dhimmickson

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:50 PM (8S7CD)

219 always liked Tom Clancy's take on martyrs. "Martyrs all have one thing in common. They're dead."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 01:50 PM (y9nCu)

Any relation to Lindsay?

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:51 PM (8S7CD)

220 There's a video going around of a woman in a burqa complaining that Japan is a hellhole because they love pork there.

Posted by: Ian S.


Perhaps she should go home, where no one eats pork.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:51 PM (vJrRc)

221 197 "Madison Cornbread" is such an all-timer Ace nickname I've seen people use it outside the blog. Hit the tip jar for more great nicknames. Or another accidental post of busty lesbian p0rn. One of the two.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

the power of AND?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:51 PM (l3cgK)

222 Leave. No. Doubt.
Posted by: Sponge
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That is accounted for inthe 'Coup de grace' clause:

The officer charged with carrying out the execution will join the medical officer who will examine the prisoner and, if necessary, direct that the "coup de grace" be administered. Should the med­'ical officer so decide, the sergeant of the execution party will ad­minister the "coup de grace," with a hand weapon, holding the muzzle just above the ear and one foot from the head.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)

223 Don't fight terrorists. Don't go to music festivals. What are the other rules to stay safe

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (8S7CD)

Don't be Christian. Don't be Jewish. To name a few.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:52 PM (dK+Kv)

224 220 There's a video going around of a woman in a burqa complaining that Japan is a hellhole because they love pork there.

Posted by: Ian S.

Perhaps she should go home, where no one eats pork.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:51 PM (vJrRc)

=======

"I hate this country, and I'm never leaving it."

"Nah, dog."
-Japanese immigration services, soon

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:52 PM (1kJuV)

225 Crap. I wanted to see him beg and cry like a bitch.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:49 PM (dK+Kv)
----
Exactly.

He's not an enemy POW who served honorably on the wrong side of a war.

He's a coward and a traitor to everything good and decent about humanity.

MAKE HIM GROVEL FOR HIS LIFE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

Then hang him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:52 PM (FZ29D)

226 No, this is totally correct. They absolutely didn't hate us enough to kill us until we started killing them back.

What the actual fuck is wrong with him?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:43 PM (gLYp7)

Wasn't Erick the same guy who wanted all the J6 "terrorists" executed or at least imprisoned for the rest of their natural lives?

Fuck that GoPe piece of shit. In the way that doesn't give you the STD-diarrhea, that is.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 09, 2026 01:52 PM (oPFtC)

227 We need the KSM case finished and KSM executed next.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 01:53 PM (4KUe5)

228 MAKE HIM GROVEL FOR HIS LIFE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

Then hang him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Why give him the opportunity to make a "heroic" speech?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:53 PM (vJrRc)

229 223 Don't fight terrorists. Don't go to music festivals. What are the other rules to stay safe

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:47 PM (8S7CD)

Don't be Christian. Don't be Jewish. To name a few.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 01:52 PM (dK+Kv)

"Be a smarty, join the Islamo-nazi party!"

Posted by: The Producers at October 09, 2026 01:53 PM (l3cgK)

230 This story is a lie:

Cato has proven with geometric certainty that immigrants commit less crimes than citizens.

That means all of these """"alleged""""" crime are made-up lies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (3cUTc)

231 I was lead to believe there were 3 shooters, yet only one had a live round. While the one that makes the kill shot knows they did it, no one outside the firing range knows who it was.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Physics. Equal & opposite reaction.

There's a reason they have to use blank firing adapters on rifles. There's little to no recoil without it. Rifle won't cycle.

Guy with the live round, his rifle will cycle.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (nPfAi)

232 The death of Mike Ditka hits hard. I loved da coach and that Bears team back in the day. What personalities… Super Bowl Shuffle FTW…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (sVR3r)

233 Capital punishment is right, it's moral, it's reasonable, and every society from the beginning of mankind up until about 50 years ago -- when the west got limp dicks and saggy balls -- understood this.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (iFTx/)

^^THIS^^
It's about JUSTICE first.
"And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind."
Genesis 9:5-6
That's literally one of the first things God said to Noah after wiping out everyone else for their abominable sins.

And this:
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
(Justice comes before mercy.)

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (kU0PQ)

234 230 This story is a lie:

Cato has proven with geometric certainty that immigrants commit less crimes than citizens.

That means all of these """"alleged""""" crime are made-up lies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (3cUTc)

=======

"It's a lie that you can decrease crime by deporting criminals because criminals, on average, commit fewer crimes than white men."
-CATO

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (1kJuV)

235 230 This story is a lie:

Cato has proven with geometric certainty that immigrants commit less crimes than citizens.

That means all of these """"alleged""""" crime are made-up lies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (3cUTc)

Not all immigrants are legal immigrants...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:55 PM (l3cgK)

236 they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.

That's great. Without USAID and the Dems, how are they going to get here, live here, and work here, all expenses paid?

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 01:55 PM (l50B5)

237 A wheelchair?
Haul his ass out to a wooden chair then instead of a pole. Sit him down and tie him there. But first put a big tack on the chair.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 01:56 PM (2WIwB)

238 MAKE HIM GROVEL FOR HIS LIFE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

Then hang him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Other way around is more entertaining

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:56 PM (8S7CD)

239 232 Mike Ditka was considering a run for Senate. Had he gone ahead, he would have been a shoe in and BHO would continue as a back bencher, sucking Bill Ayers dick.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 01:56 PM (gm9Sb)

240 MAKE HIM GROVEL FOR HIS LIFE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

Then hang him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Why give him the opportunity to make a "heroic" speech?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:53 PM (vJrRc)
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We've got almost two months to break his spirit first. Plenty of time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM (FZ29D)

241 Here is the complete Reg for military execution:

https://shorturl.at/XamEj

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM (XeU6L)

242 they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.


Thanks to AI, they can make up stories & martyrs. They don't need real goatfuckers to die to whip up the inbreds.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM (nPfAi)

243 Why the fuck am I -- or anyone else -- funding any of this?
---
As a commentator who flounced (iirc) used to say:

I'm being told I have to fund the lives of a thousand bastards when I didn't even get the dubious pleasure of fucking their mothers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM (3cUTc)

244 These islamists think they're hardcore. They aren't close to our level. Bring it.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM (2ap+5)

245 240 MAKE HIM GROVEL FOR HIS LIFE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

Then hang him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Why give him the opportunity to make a "heroic" speech?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:53 PM (vJrRc)
----
We've got almost two months to break his spirit first. Plenty of time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM (FZ29D)

======

Maybe we could botch the first attempt and then kill him a second time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (1kJuV)

246 Used to have to travel down to Atlanta for corporate training many years ago. They used to put us all up in this very nice hotel in Roswell. However, right next door literally on the other side of a wooden fence was HUD housing.

Every night...every single one, there were gunshots, lots of fights right out in their parking lot area, visible drug deals at selected lamp posts in that same lot, and some of the loudest and most obese women I've ever seen yelling at anyone and everyone who looked their direction. I can't imagine why criminals would find such an area a good place to hide. Hell, those with a warrant on their ass were likely the most civilized of the group.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (dIske)

247 The lineup for Hasan's firing squad should look something like this: Sgt. Goldfarb, SSgt. Rosenberg, 1Sgt. Finkelstein...

Posted by: PabloD at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (/INwe)

248 Make it a sport, Hasan has roll around the room trying to dodge bullets while the guards take pot shots at him

Posted by: Beartooth at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (oH5Tk)

249
There's a reason they have to use blank firing adapters on rifles. There's little to no recoil without it. Rifle won't cycle.
--------

It isn't the recoil, it's the gas pressure in the bore.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (XeU6L)

250 "It's a lie that you can decrease crime by deporting criminals because criminals, on average, commit fewer crimes than white men."
-CATO


We're about a month from CATO saying there's no such thing as per capita and we just made it up to oppress minorities. (I have seen actual black activists say that).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (2ocoG)

251 We've got almost two months to break his spirit first. Plenty of time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


I'm not sure the kind of things that would break a westerner would work on a Muslim. And it's not like they believe in confession and forgiveness.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:59 PM (vJrRc)

252 ...a good start.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 01:59 PM (wxsGM)

253 Invite all that lost loved ones to participate in the public stoning of Nidal Hassan. After all, it's in his twisted beliefs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 01:59 PM (gm9Sb)

254 This story is a lie:

Cato has proven with geometric certainty that immigrants commit less crimes than citizens.

That means all of these """"alleged""""" crime are made-up lies.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 01:54 PM (3cUTc)

****

Wait! Whut???

Posted by: Millions of victims at October 09, 2026 01:59 PM (2WIwB)

255 250 "It's a lie that you can decrease crime by deporting criminals because criminals, on average, commit fewer crimes than white men."
-CATO

We're about a month from CATO saying there's no such thing as per capita and we just made it up to oppress minorities. (I have seen actual black activists say that).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (2ocoG)

=======

"The only way to have libertarian utopia is to have open borders. It's a first principles thing because people are widgets."
-horseshoe theory is totally wrong, guys. totally

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:00 PM (1kJuV)

256 If all property is private property, WTF does "open borders" even mean?

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:01 PM (2ap+5)

257 I definitely want him executed... It was the wheel chair aspect I was concerned about
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:30 PM (+gK6I)

And without quite saying it, Washington Nearsider nails it: those who will be crying about those optics and making a big deal of it are the ones who would be crying about it in some fashion, anyway. Because they simply don't want any enemy of America to ever suffer consequences.

The ones who are concerned with justice or vengeance will not care one whit about the wheelchair, except to possibly be concerned (as you are) about how it will make some supposed fence-sitters feel.

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 02:01 PM (kU0PQ)

258 And speaking of something that just required a drop of will: Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hassan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed.
--
The same people that cheered Charlie Kirk's livestreamed death are condemning this.

And the same Super Christians that never find a social issue worth fighting for are bemoaning our failure to live up to Christianity.

Other cucks, like the Jr. Double E Cheeseburger of Cucks, whine we will just create more terrorists as the mulims will celebrate another martyr.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 02:01 PM (3cUTc)

259 People are concerned this will make Muslims angry?!


[insert Christopher Hitchens’ Muslim Rage Boy column here]

It’s their default setting. Be nice to inspire it legitimately for once.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:01 PM (4KUe5)

260 It just requires a president willing to actually arrest criminal fugitives.

Something we haven't had for decades.


This is key but it raises the question: why? Why were they not willing to do anything about it? Why did they not want to enforce the law?

I think the bulk of it comes down to money. Even if these fraudsters are not donating heavily to the Democrats (which many of them are), all the money that goes to them goes through the hands of bureaucrats who get a piece of every dollar.

I bet some of you are unaware that every dollar that goes to child support after a divorce goes through the government and they skim off a piece of it like a mob boss. Its a pretty good revenue generator for the government.

Every dollar that goes to fraudsters comes from the feds, and the feds only give that money if there's a demand for it, and the states get a piece of that money for "costs".

And then there's the racial aspect where leftists think that the poor childlike minority really doesn't know right from wrong so we can't hold them accountable, and after all they've been oppressed by white people so hard for so long that its only justice to let them bilk us.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 09, 2026 02:02 PM (nIKjK)

261 Make it a sport, Hasan has roll around the room trying to dodge bullets while the guards take pot shots at him

Hasan Piker? Oh, right. But #justiceforkaya anyway.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:02 PM (2ocoG)

262 Cato has proven with geometric certainty that immigrants commit less crimes than citizens.
----------

Counting illegals is a neat trick

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 02:03 PM (8S7CD)

263 Thanks to AI, they can make up stories & martyrs. They don't need real goatfuckers to die to whip up the inbreds.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM


Hasan will leap to his feet shouting defiance and praising Allah as it takes a hundred shots to put him down, whereupon he will ascend bodily into Paradise holding hands with Gabriel.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)

264 259 People are concerned this will make Muslims angry?!


[insert Christopher Hitchens’ Muslim Rage Boy column here]

It’s their default setting. Be nice to inspire it legitimately for once.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:01 PM (4KUe5)

The muzzies shout joyfully, ululating and throwing candy when their jihadis murder innocent civilians and slit throats of captives. Nothing changes that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 02:03 PM (l3cgK)

265 250 "It's a lie that you can decrease crime by deporting criminals because criminals, on average, commit fewer crimes than white men."
-CATO

We're about a month from CATO saying there's no such thing as per capita and we just made it up to oppress minorities. (I have seen actual black activists say that).
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 01:58 PM (2ocoG)
___________________________

Of course, that's hogwash. In addition, a lot of the statistics use "incarceration" as a bench mark in conviction. And, as we've seen, the current judiciary sure likes to apply those second chance, third chance....fortieth chance. No bail or minimal bail...out there stabbing blonde chicks on the train statistics.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 02:04 PM (dIske)

266 The ones who are concerned with justice or vengeance will not care one whit about the wheelchair, except to possibly be concerned (as you are) about how it will make some supposed fence-sitters feel.
---
A person once told me in their genealogy research they came across a man hung for bestiality.

They also hung the horse.

I don't know where I was going with this ....

Oh yeah:
Nail his legs to 2X4s and stand him to the post.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 02:04 PM (3cUTc)

267 263 Thanks to AI, they can make up stories & martyrs. They don't need real goatfuckers to die to whip up the inbreds.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM

Hasan will leap to his feet shouting defiance and praising Allah as it takes a hundred shots to put him down, whereupon he will ascend bodily into Paradise holding hands with Gabriel.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)

That...sounds so gay...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 02:04 PM (l3cgK)

268 These islamists think they're hardcore. They aren't close to our level. Bring it.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 01:57 PM (2ap+5)


Correct.
A few can be. Most are generally pussies.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 02:04 PM (2WIwB)

269 People are concerned this will make Muslims angry?!


[insert Christopher Hitchens’ Muslim Rage Boy column here]

It’s their default setting. Be nice to inspire it legitimately for once.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:01 PM


I don't care if they hate us, as long as they fear us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 02:05 PM (/C5Rl)

270
@EWErickson has ascended the Cuck Throne and issued his decree:

One thing is for sure, in the Middle East, they'll be passing out .mp4 files of the Nidal Hassan execution to celebrate his martyrdom and recruit new terrorists. It will be a recruiting bonanza.

In the Middle East they will, to quote Osama bin Laden, see who is the strong horse and not want to be the weak horse.
Posted by: Ian S.


Erick is part of a horse.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 02:05 PM (Cqx++)

271 BTW, great new British anti-immigration music video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWqABFhG-c

The audio is a real original song sung by the goth dude you see in the video. The video is mostly AI because you'd be arrested even filming half of what it shows in the modern UK.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:06 PM (2ocoG)

272 "The only way to have libertarian utopia is to have open borders. It's a first principles thing because people are widgets."
-horseshoe theory is totally wrong, guys. totally
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 02:00 PM (1kJuV)


When organizations switched from a Personnel Dept. to Human Resources, then the free movement of capital required the free movement of people; because there was once again no distinction, as under serfdom.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 02:06 PM (ke3zm)

273 I'm not sure the kind of things that would break a westerner would work on a Muslim. And it's not like they believe in confession and forgiveness.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:59 PM (vJrRc)
----
Anyone can be broken. It just takes the right leverage. Muslims are psychologically fragile. It's why they fly off the handle at every perceived slight.

Mock his sense of manhood. Claim he's the impotent spawn of a goat. Sooner or later he'll break.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 02:06 PM (FZ29D)

274 just out of curiosity, does anybody know if the firing squad is volunteer or if it's just an order to follow?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 09, 2026 02:06 PM (n5tGW)

275 The hurricane track is shifting a bit east, so I am not likely to be in the eye of the storm.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:07 PM (4NO2D)

276 271 BTW, great new British anti-immigration music video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWqABFhG-c

The audio is a real original song sung by the goth dude you see in the video. The video is mostly AI because you'd be arrested even filming half of what it shows in the modern UK.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:06 PM (2ocoG)

I don't understand a single word he's shouting...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 02:07 PM (l3cgK)

277 Kurt Schlichter posted on X the regs regarding a military firing squad. I read through some of it. If I remember correctly, the Sgt. prepares 8 rifles, one for each member of the firing squad. The Sgt. "may" put blanks in from one to three of the rifles, at their discretion. So, as some have asked, yes, there may be blanks on one or more of the rifles, or they may all have real rounds in them.

Posted by: Freshy at October 09, 2026 02:07 PM (G8EKr)

278 People are concerned this will make Muslims angry?!



Good. Makes it easier to identify the enemy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 02:07 PM (2WIwB)

279 Why the fuck am I -- or anyone else -- funding any of this?

Because there is a percentage of Americans who are too retarded, lame or emotionally incapable of any marketable activity.

The military came up with an IQ test to determine the floor intelligence where those under it were incapable of any service for being literally too stupid and untrainable.

There does need to be a policy to handle those people. OTOH, for foreigners there already exists policy—Get The Hell Out of Here.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 02:07 PM (a3CJ+)

280 I'll take Erickson up on it.

How about we piss them off then close the border.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 02:08 PM (8S7CD)

281 Giving corrupt governments the power over life and death of citizens is not definitely "right". If our government was even remotely trustworthy, sure. But is it?
Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (8S7CD)

Then you have to throw the whole gov't out, right? Because that's true of EVERY power you give it.

And, if you insist on a perfect gov't before you enact justice, then you will never enact justice and I guarantee you will never grow any people who could constitute your perfect gov't.

Posted by: GWB at October 09, 2026 02:08 PM (kU0PQ)

282 It’s their default setting. Be nice to inspire it legitimately for once.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:01 PM

I don't care if they hate us, as long as they fear us.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


They already hate us...

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 02:08 PM (nPfAi)

283 IIRC, KSM broke almost immediately once they started water boarding him. He gave the interrogators all sorts of details.

Why else do you think the MSM/Dems went nuts over that particular method?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:08 PM (4KUe5)

284 Executions are tools of the state, it's tool of exclusivity on violence, and used by the state as the governing body as chosen by the body politic to enforce moral codes.
--
Modern tellings try to make it out like is was a fair with vendors and games on the periphery while folks gathered to enjoy the spectacle.

Reality was, you were kinda obligated to be there.
And it was somber and not a lot of fun.
As a tacit acknowledgement of the punishment for breaking the rules would also apply to all in attendance.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 02:09 PM (3cUTc)

285 Anyone can be broken. It just takes the right leverage. Muslims are psychologically fragile. It's why they fly off the handle at every perceived slight.

Mock his sense of manhood. Claim he's the impotent spawn of a goat. Sooner or later he'll break.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 02:06 PM (FZ29D)


I hope he enjoys roast penis. Especially if it's his own.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 02:09 PM (2ap+5)

286 269 People are concerned this will make Muslims angry?!

Here let me draw you a few cartoons of the prophet mohammad to ease your angry souls.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 02:10 PM (Sco7b)

287 Erick is part of a horse.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The road apple.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 02:10 PM (GZ3K7)

288 It may make Muslims angry?

As opposed to what?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 02:10 PM (t9883)

289 Anyone can be broken. It just takes the right leverage. Muslims are psychologically fragile. It's why they fly off the handle at every perceived slight.

Mock his sense of manhood. Claim he's the impotent spawn of a goat. Sooner or later he'll break.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 02:06 PM (FZ29D)


And point out how he is a complete failure as a man, a husband and a father. Failing to care for his family. Allah will spit him from his mouth.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 02:10 PM (2WIwB)

290 Yes, they hate us no matter what. Hitchens wrote about how performative the rage was. Like activists, anger = passion, so all they do is rage to prove how passionate they are.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 02:10 PM (4KUe5)

291 In the Middle East they will, to quote Osama bin Laden, see who is the strong horse and not want to be the weak horse.

Yeah Erick, totally someone dying on camera is the strong horse LOL.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 09, 2026 02:10 PM (nIKjK)

292 ALL illegal immigrants have committed crimes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:11 PM (ccf/V)

293 I don't understand a single word he's shouting...

It's a challenging listen for sure. Lyrics are in the video description.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 02:11 PM (4ObTi)

294 I think he should be jacked with. As I mentioned before, first rounds are all misses so he can hear the bullets hitting behind him. That will bring the shit in his pants response.
Next fire blanks while he wallows in his own shit.

The last volley will have a late live shot...five seconds or so.

Posted by: DanMan at October 09, 2026 02:12 PM (8uzBS)

295 I see someone else read the tweet from the Jr. Double E Cheeseburger of Cucks

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 09, 2026 02:12 PM (3cUTc)

296 In the Middle East they will, to quote Osama bin Laden, see who is the strong horse and not want to be the weak horse.

Yeah Erick, totally someone dying on camera is the strong horse LOL.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 09, 2026 02:10 PM (nIKjK)



Well then. It seems we need to take the Metallica stance on things........


https://youtu.be/aAITxlCsj4Y

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 02:12 PM (ccf/V)

297 I love the precise phrasing by Hegseth.

Sentences are executed.

Prisoners are killed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 02:14 PM (aKiSo)

298 FML. December 3rd is a Thursday. I'll bet work blocks the execution.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 02:15 PM (nPfAi)

299 Kurt Schlichter posted on X the regs regarding a military firing squad. I read through some of it. If I remember correctly, the Sgt. prepares 8 rifles, one for each member of the firing squad. The Sgt. "may" put blanks in from one to three of the rifles, at their discretion. So, as some have asked, yes, there may be blanks on one or more of the rifles, or they may all have real rounds in them.
Posted by: Freshy at October 09, 2026 02:07 PM (G8EKr)
-----------
He also said that in case the squad doesn't kill him, then the Sgt. puts a bullet in his head.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 09, 2026 02:15 PM (s0qmn)

300 Nudity.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (4NO2D)

301 52 Only a cruel man would force people from subsidized housing with winter coming on.

--- the old, white lefties who protest down by the stoplight in town
Posted by: Kindltot


Mexico is warm this time of year

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 02:16 PM (W2Pud)

302 People are concerned this will make Muslims angry?!
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I'm concerned about anti-firing squad backlash.

/S

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 02:19 PM (XeU6L)

303 The one thing sadly missing from these 'we got them' reports is whether they got any of the money back. If I cheated America out of a few million dollars, I could take a prison sentence and when I got out be filthy rich.

Posted by: tjpruett at October 09, 2026 02:22 PM (WI9yY)

304 This is the October surprise. Dems will be defending a mass murdering jihadists.

Then again they’ve done that since October 7th, 2023 so maybe not so much of a surprise.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 02:28 PM (zJe6s)

305 Tip of the iceberg arrests.

However, maybe many (especially illegals) will flee. Take the money and run home!

A girl can dream...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 09, 2026 02:31 PM (hzuYO)

306 Just as the Biden White House and mainstream media called the massacre at Fort Hood as "workplace violence", I will call Nidal Hassan's execution as simply "workplace discipline".

Posted by: Sgt BAZZ at October 09, 2026 02:47 PM (liCEv)

307 According to Goggle AI:

Saraland, Alabama, got its name in 1895 when C.J. DeWitt—a retired minister and editor who opened the town's first post office along the Southern Railroad—named the community after his wife, Sara

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 09, 2026 03:26 PM (QGaXH)

308 Strap him upright to a post.

Good optics.

Posted by: Ready, Aim, Fire! at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (9zGZf)

Like they did on Bar Beach in Lagos Nigeria. Put it on TV as well

Posted by: javems at October 09, 2026 05:34 PM (T/sqw)

Oh, No! DOJ Seeks Perjury Indictment Against January 6th Fabulist Madison Cornbread

Not Madison Cornbread!

Madison Cornbread, no!

Noooooo!


Federal prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson may have lied to Congress in her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News....

In a series of depositions and public committee testimony, she said that Mr. Trump and Meadows had been warned on Jan. 6 that some of his supporters were carrying weapons to the Capitol, but that Mr. Trump said he didn't care and tried to order officials to remove the magnetometers.

LOL, sure.

She also relayed a story she said was told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, in which Mr. Trump grew incensed after his lead Secret Service agent declined to drive him to the Capitol after the president had delivered a speech to supporters.

Her actual claim was that Trump reached over from the back seat to wrest the steering wheel of the limousine while shouting some comic book villain dialogue like "Curse your insolence, knave! I shall have vengeance this day!" or some bullshit.

Her account was later contradicted by Mr. Trump's driver, who in sworn testimony claimed that the president never tried to grab the steering wheel.

...

In an unusual move, the Civil Rights Division -- and not the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. -- is handling the Hutchinson investigation, sources said. It was not immediately clear why that office was assigned the case.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:10 PM




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1 Oh No! Anyway...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:11 PM (l3cgK)

2 I NOODed

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:12 PM (l3cgK)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 09, 2026 12:12 PM (hG5L0)

4 Did they cook up the indictment in a cast-iron skillet?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 09, 2026 12:13 PM (qspge)

5 Trump better watch his ass, is all I can say. Jake Tapper is going to hold him to his word, just like he's going to make sure Ellison doesn't step out of line.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:13 PM (Riz8t)

6 It is rare to see anyone get charged, much less convicted, of perjury...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:13 PM (l3cgK)

7 I prefer buttermilk cornbread...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:13 PM (l3cgK)

8 Afternoon, Ace.

Got any big weekend plans?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

9 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (YwEeS)

10 What about Liz Cheney, who suborned her perjury?

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (2Xqig)

11 8 Afternoon, Ace.

Got any big weekend plans?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

You mean other than trying to entice crows like pedos for children using vans with promises of puppies and candy?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:15 PM (l3cgK)

12 Remember when she testified that Trump changed into a ninja costume in the back of the beast and killed the driver with a shuriken before crashing into the Capitol and killing all of Congress and declaring himself God-King.

Good times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 12:15 PM (ExV1e)

13 Plea deal to get Liz?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:15 PM (gLYp7)

14 Cornbread's cooked?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 12:15 PM (06nk1)

15 10 What about Liz Cheney, who suborned her perjury?

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (2Xqig)

I was accused by a perjurer of suborning testimony.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:16 PM (l3cgK)

16 Cornbread's cooked?

Well, she's still at least fairly hot.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

17 This "look at me" whore was power-snorting crank off fratbro dicks in college, wasn't she?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

18 One wonders how Liz Cheney spends her days now. Probably sticking pins in her many Trump dolls. Then the drinking starts.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

19 Oh no. Trump reached for the steering wheel of justice.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (dK+Kv)

20 >>In an unusual move, the Civil Rights Division -- and not the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. -- is handling the Hutchinson investigation, sources said. It was not immediately clear why that office was assigned the case.

It's almost like there has been a conspiracy to deny Trump of his civil rights.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (viF8m)

21 All members of the illegal Jan 6 committee ought to be tried , convicted, and hanged for treason.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (NnhvP)

22 Trump must have the longest arms in history or
else he's a robot and they're retractable, because how else could someone reach from the back seat to grab the steering wheel.?

Unfortunately, if they locked up everyone who lied to Congress there would be no room for the violent criminals. . Oh, that's right, I forgot , the Soros funded no bail/ no jail DA's let the violent criminals out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (JrHfD)

23 i could see Hutchinson dropping the dime on Liz Cheney in exchange for a fine and community service.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (6ydKt)

24 >>Hey Jake, remember when you thought that Cassidy Hutchinson's ridiculous testimony might put Trump in prison? That was awesome.

It would be great if Chris Farley were still alive and he could do a whole series of these.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 09, 2026 12:18 PM (XV/Pl)

25 There are too many crazy bitches to keep straight

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 12:18 PM (enNUy)

26 How Trump can help republicans win the midterms: go heavy on law enforcement and accountability to the criminals, fraudsters and terrorists in media and government. The one way to improve this process having Hasan's day to occur before the election.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 09, 2026 12:19 PM (eag3e)

27 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who says, prophetically, "Nothing will happen." at October 09, 2026 12:19 PM (0sNs1)

28 Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, drew the ire of President Trump's base when she testified in 2022 before the House committee tasked with investigating the 2021 Capitol attack. (CBS News)
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Wouldn't it be ironic if M. Cornbread's defense team argued that the charges should be dismissed since the Jan. 6 subcommittee was illegitimately created according to House rules?

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 12:20 PM (rj6Yv)

29 5 Trump better watch his ass, is all I can say. Jake Tapper is going to hold him to his word, just like he's going to make sure Ellison doesn't step out of line.
Posted by: Archimedes

Tapper is a moral and physical coward who won't do shit now that his high paid job is on the line. The whole news readers era of getting sky high pay because people supposedly give a damn who is reading the news or commenting nowadays is ending due to brutal reality. TV is a dying industry and costs have to be rightsized. And that means the 'talent' are on the chopping block just like the backroom people if their costs are out of line.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:20 PM (E4rtv)

30
Trump must have the longest arms in history or
else he's a robot and they're retractable


Go go gadget arms.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2026 12:20 PM (Cqx++)

31 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 09, 2026 12:20 PM (amcLV)

32 Wouldn't it be ironic if M. Cornbread's defense team argued that the charges should be dismissed since the Jan. 6 subcommittee was illegitimately created according to House rules?
Posted by: mrp
======
Twould be most amusing.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:21 PM (E4rtv)

33 I bet a nickel you won't see the Sisterhood flipping shit all over TikTok about this one - even though Orangemanbad is the villain of the story. Their bemusing well of misplaced sympathies will be pretty dry this time.

I'll give you one guess as to why. It's a simple reason.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 12:21 PM (BI5O2)

34 Probably sticking pins in her many Trump dolls. Then the drinking starts.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM


One can do both at the same time.

Posted by: Hillary! at October 09, 2026 12:21 PM (0sNs1)

35
That Madison Cornbread's built quite a mental maize for herself.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (YSUhf)

36 Elon connects the dots. Talerico has the gay diarrhea.

http://tiny.cc/swtb101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (mkw2N)

37 Why do we call this fabulist "Madison Cornbread"?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (sDWtc)

38 Who's Madison Cornbread employed by now?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (JrHfD)

39 Finally, a sensible tactic to counter the Islamic invasion of Europe.

German police tell women to vomit in self-defense during rape attacks

-
Ah, Kung flu.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 12:22 PM (ndZc7)

40 Tapper is a moral and physical coward who won't do shit now that his high paid job is on the line. The whole news readers era of getting sky high pay because people supposedly give a damn who is reading the news or commenting nowadays is ending due to brutal reality. TV is a dying industry and costs have to be rightsized. And that means the 'talent' are on the chopping block just like the backroom people if their costs are out of line.

And yet, he did say exactly that ("We'll hold him (Ellison) to his word".)

The guy's arrogance and self-importance cannot be measured with scientific instruments.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

41 I hope this is step one to taking down the Cheneys.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 12:23 PM (mkw2N)

42 didn't the autopen pardon cheney or wasn't she on the right list?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 09, 2026 12:23 PM (CWTWj)

43 26 How Trump can help republicans win the midterms: go heavy on law enforcement and accountability to the criminals, fraudsters and terrorists in media and government. The one way to improve this process having Hasan's day to occur before the election.
Posted by: Cray Cray

I think that you are correct but I also think that Trump is planning unpleasant October surprises for the Dems each week before the election. This week H1B/OPT evisceration which affects white males in the tech industry, next week chief rat Brennan goes before the grand jury and I would not be surprised of Trump going medieval on Somali fraud (see Minnesota and Ohio races that would affect), and so on.

Expect more illegals being deported, charged with illegal voting, etc. as well.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)

44 Whoa! Cassidy Hutchinson’s double-bird hands was a dead giveaway

Posted by: Chunk at October 09, 2026 12:24 PM (e3bqA)

45 "In an unusual move, the Civil Rights Division -- and not the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. -- is handling the Hutchinson investigation, sources said. It was not immediately clear why that office was assigned the case."

I don't know why it's so unusual. I think this is commie spin to try to make it look like Trump is pulling a fast one to punish a political enemy. Don't fall for it.

The Civil Rights Division has a criminal division and is headed by the very capable Harmeet Dhillon. We all like her, right? CRD has prosecuted "false claims" kinds of cases before.

It's all part of the DOJ anyway.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

46 Why did the administration wait nearly a half decade to pursue this? I get that there's a 4 year gap when *biden was installed, but... still, they couldn't muster anything during those 4 years? Nothing? No civil case?

*shrugs* Seems to me like too little, too late. But I do hope they can pin something on that bitch.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (RORbl)

47 Trump must have the longest arms in history or
else he's a robot and they're retractable, because how else could someone reach from the back seat to grab the steering wheel.?
--------

Through a partition.

It's all mindfuck imagery. So much of what we read and hear is intentional mindfuck imagery.

Visual imagery is super compelling which is why Democrats use it constantly in their lies.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (8S7CD)

48 A bit of a drive-by but part of a post I just made on X:

We have incomplete data nationwide, but this is due to different state policies regarding what data is published.

There are no indications that the trends we are seeing are not occuring everywhere. There is no reason to think the effects are local to individual states.

Those trends are:
1) Early vote in Dem strongholds are way down for both mail and IPEV
2) The youth vote has cratered
3) 65+ is by far the largest share of the vote
4) Rural Trump+ counties are seeing strong returns, in many cases matching 2022 final numbers with 22 days left

These are trends that make it impossible to flip a red state. Any thought that AK, KS, IA, FL, or OH can flip is wishcasting.

I personally think this also applies to NC, but there is disagreement on that race

Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (EMg+d)

49 Her actual claim was that Trump reached over from the back seat to wrest the steering wheel of the limousine while shouting some comic book villain dialogue like "Curse your insolence, knave! I shall have vengeance this day!" or some bullshit.

I would like him even more if he had.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (4NO2D)

50 The Civil Rights Division has a criminal division and is headed by the very capable Harmeet Dhillon. We all like her, right? CRD has prosecuted "false claims" kinds of cases before.

It's all part of the DOJ anyway.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

Harmeet has been a great pick

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (+gK6I)

51 And yet, he did say exactly that ("We'll hold him (Ellison) to his word".)

The guy's arrogance and self-importance cannot be measured with scientific instruments.
Posted by: Archimedes
======
That was before Ellison was his boss. Now Ellison is and a likely merger with CBS News is probably coming with Bari Weiss as executioner.

Anderson Pooper is keeping his big mouth shut for example despite quitting 60 minutes in a huff previously.

For Ellison to make the merger work, a lot of jobs are going to get canned for cost savings. And I bet Tapper does not want to be the next Jim Acosta howling in the darkness of social media.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

52
10 What about Liz Cheney, who suborned her perjury?
Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM

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She's fat.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (azNOR)

53 And that means the 'talent' are on the chopping block just like the backroom people if their costs are out of line.

Honestly, the 'face' talents should be considered *more* replaceable, in any sane world. Backroom folks keep it going, anyone can get drunk enough to not care that the whole world is watching.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (aJQbY)

54 Trump must have the longest arms in history
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


A friend of mine from my old church told a funny story about his dad, a WII vet.

His dad said that he had personally killed Hitler.

My friend, asked him "But how? Hitler was in Europe and you were in North Africa."

His father responded, "I had very long arms."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

55 Speaking of big vehicles, have y'all seen the video of Yemei soldiers running over surrendering Houthis with their MRAP?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (4NO2D)

56 ha ha, in the video she forgets what she was talking about. 25th amendment time

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (CWTWj)

57 This "look at me" whore was power-snorting crank off fratbro dicks in college, wasn't she?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)


She attended Christopher Newport University, not Cornell. I'm sure they have a different signature degeneracy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

58 48 These are trends that make it impossible to flip a red state. Any thought that AK, KS, IA, FL, or OH can flip is wishcasting.

I personally think this also applies to NC, but there is disagreement on that race

Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (EMg+d)

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I've felt for a long time that Cooper should be considered the underdog because of the end of his governorship being so bad and the registration changes since he last won statewide.

That should heavily blunt his name recognition advantages and provide support to generic Republican opponent, and Whatley has no scandals so he's effectively generic Republican.

Trump won by 3 just 2 years ago in NC. The idea that Cooper was going to flip that to a 10 point win was always ridiculous. The race will be close, and I think Whatley could have the edge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:27 PM (1kJuV)

59 Oh yeah, I forgot, Biden did pardon Liz Cheney.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 12:27 PM (6ydKt)

60 Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (EMg+d)

Great to see you.... Hope the Boomers are not the "no Kings" "protestors."

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:28 PM (+gK6I)

61 > German police tell women to vomit in self-defense during rape attacks

They've been pushing this basic tactic for a while now.

Just piss yourself!
Just take a big crap!
Just vomit!

Seems to me the first two are a lot easier to do under stress and pressure than the last one. Of course, giving women the option to use a gun against their attacker is the best option, and the one they'll never allow.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 12:28 PM (mkw2N)

62 51
For Ellison to make the merger work, a lot of jobs are going to get canned for cost savings. And I bet Tapper does not want to be the next Jim Acosta howling in the darkness of social media.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

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Narrator, 5 minutes into the future:

Jake Tapper was the next Jim Acosta howling in the darkness of social media.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:28 PM (1kJuV)

63 Speaking of big vehicles, have y'all seen the video of Yemei soldiers running over surrendering Houthis with their MRAP?
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM (4NO2D)
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No. Sounds like they're kinda fed up with the Houthis, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM (amcLV)

64 48 A bit of a drive-by but part of a post I just made on X:

We have incomplete data nationwide, but this is due to different state policies regarding what data is published.

There are no indications that the trends we are seeing are not occuring everywhere. There is no reason to think the effects are local to individual states.

Those trends are:
1) Early vote in Dem strongholds are way down for both mail and IPEV
2) The youth vote has cratered
3) 65+ is by far the largest share of the vote
4) Rural Trump+ counties are seeing strong returns, in many cases matching 2022 final numbers with 22 days left

These are trends that make it impossible to flip a red state. Any thought that AK, KS, IA, FL, or OH can flip is wishcasting.

I personally think this also applies to NC, but there is disagreement on that race
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla
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Seeing the same thing fwiw. We are seeing perhaps 2002 election where the Democrats after their fit about 2000 election went too far and became toxic. That resulted in a rare midterm gain for the incumbent GOP.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM (E4rtv)

65 "Curse your insolence, knave! I shall have vengeance this day!"

__________________

That's exactly what I say when they mess up my McDonald's order. Then I pile drive the soft ice cream maker. That's why they never work, btw.

Posted by: Orson at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM (dIske)

66 >>I don't know why it's so unusual. I think this is commie spin to try to make it look like Trump is pulling a fast one to punish a political enemy. Don't fall for it.

I don't.

The conspiracy case against Trump that at least one grand jury in Florida is hearing testimony about is about denying Trump of his civil rights. I don't think it's a coincidence this case is also being heard by the Civil Right Division.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM (viF8m)

67 Meadows had been warned on Jan. 6 that some of his supporters were carrying weapons to the Capitol/i]

The only person shot was a protestor. And the only people bludgeoned were protestors.

So...more lies.

And for the record, if the J6 protestors had wanted to pull off a coup they would have come armed AND they would have succeeded.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

68 Terrible news!
Just terrible.




Aaaaanyway….

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 12:30 PM (4KUe5)

69 10 What about Liz Cheney, who suborned her perjury?
Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM

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She's fat.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 12:26 PM


Too big to jail.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (2Xqig)

70 64 Seeing the same thing fwiw. We are seeing perhaps 2002 election where the Democrats after their fit about 2000 election went too far and became toxic. That resulted in a rare midterm gain for the incumbent GOP.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM (E4rtv)

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2002 was also post 9/11, giving a universal sense of goodwill to the party in power.

If 2026 is going to resemble 2002, it won't be because of narrative reasons. It'll be structural, like, say, one party having grown completely accustomed to winning elections through fed grant monies and election fortification that they suddenly can't do anymore and no one in the power structure has the right muscles to pivot effectively to real electioneering.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (1kJuV)

71 48 A bit of a drive-by but part of a post I just made on X:

We have incomplete data nationwide, but this is due to different state policies regarding what data is published.

There are no indications that the trends we are seeing are not occuring everywhere. There is no reason to think the effects are local to individual states.

Those trends are:
1) Early vote in Dem strongholds are way down for both mail and IPEV
2) The youth vote has cratered
3) 65+ is by far the largest share of the vote
4) Rural Trump+ counties are seeing strong returns, in many cases matching 2022 final numbers with 22 days left

These are trends that make it impossible to flip a red state. Any thought that AK, KS, IA, FL, or OH can flip is wishcasting.

I personally think this also applies to NC, but there is disagreement on that race
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (EMg+d)

The only worry is the 65+ vote - they went for Biden last time...so, it would be better if 45-64 was the biggest group vs them...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (tOcjL)

72 No. Sounds like they're kinda fed up with the Houthis, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM


Grim viewing

https://tinyurl.com/u6446r5a

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (4NO2D)

73 If 2026 is going to resemble 2002, it won't be because of narrative reasons. It'll be structural, like, say, one party having grown completely accustomed to winning elections through fed grant monies and election fortification that they suddenly can't do anymore and no one in the power structure has the right muscles to pivot effectively to real electioneering.

And, you know, the whole bats*** crazy thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:32 PM (Riz8t)

74 The whole judicial aspect of the 2020 was comically evil.

Before the count: You can't sue you have no proof counting fake votes will harm you - that will only happen after the count

After the count: Well sure, fine, there are probably a bunch of fake votes in the total, but we can't change the totals after they are counted.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)

75 >>The only worry is the 65+ vote - they went for Biden last time...so, it would be better if 45-64 was the biggest group vs them...

Republican registration is also up significantly and so is early Republican voting.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 12:32 PM (viF8m)

76 Great to see you.... Hope the Boomers are not the "no Kings" "protestors."
Posted by: It's me donna

Doesn't appear so in the states where party id is known. The diehard ideologues are probably voting D like the no kings Boomer Dems. But they need much bigger turnout from urban blacks, young voters, and even Millennials than what we are seeing so far. And these were typically vote by mail types. Dems fallback is that Orangemanbad has made mail in voting unsure so they are going to be voting early. Some are so ludicrous as to claim that Election Day voting is going to be Dem.

None of that cope so far is warranted by known actual data. And now the polling is starting to be corrected state by state by reputable pollsters that want to lessen the harm of getting it badly wrong.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:33 PM (E4rtv)

77 75 Republican registration is also up significantly and so is early Republican voting.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 12:32 PM (viF8m)

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The Boomer vote was 50/50 in 2024, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:33 PM (1kJuV)

78 Good afternoon Ace, happy Friday
If her attorney has a brain he will tell her to cooperate and name names. She can keep the money from her book but we want to know who put her up to this (Liz Cheney)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 12:33 PM (t9883)

79 Regarding the 65+ vote. They have flipped back to GOP hard. 18% return in retirement accounts tends to do that.

Posted by: Dave_in_Fla at October 09, 2026 12:33 PM (EMg+d)

80 Before the count: You can't sue you have no proof counting fake votes will harm you - that will only happen after the count

After the count: Well sure, fine, there are probably a bunch of fake votes in the total, but we can't change the totals after they are counted.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)
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Also after the count: Staleness. Shoulda filed before the count.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:34 PM (amcLV)

81 I think that you are correct but I also think that Trump is planning unpleasant October surprises for the Dems each week before the election. This week H1B/OPT evisceration which affects white males in the tech industry, next week chief rat Brennan goes before the grand jury and I would not be surprised of Trump going medieval on Somali fraud (see Minnesota and Ohio races that would affect), and so on.

Expect more illegals being deported, charged with illegal voting, etc. as well.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:23 PM (E4rtv)
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Everyone need to emphasize illegal immigration. Show pictures of the millions that streamed over the border and tell the public every democrat and socialist wants to go back to that.

Posted by: WisRich at October 09, 2026 12:34 PM (G0vdT)

82 Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 09, 2026 12:34 PM (/m4nw)

83 In the 2022 midterms, 56% of voters aged 65 and older supported Republican candidates, while 42% favored Democrats. This age group also had a high voter turnout rate of 68%

The numbers for the next age bracket voted slightly less R.

But I think it is fair to assume the 65+ age group are voting 10-15 points more R then D...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:34 PM (sKqQm)

84 If 2026 is going to resemble 2002, it won't be because of narrative reasons. It'll be structural, like, say, one party having grown completely accustomed to winning elections through fed grant monies and election fortification that they suddenly can't do anymore and no one in the power structure has the right muscles to pivot effectively to real electioneering.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (1kJuV)
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So, the French Army, May 1940.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 12:34 PM (rj6Yv)

85 and Whatley has no scandals so he's effectively generic Republican.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:27 PM


Dude! Just being Republican is a huge scandal, and once we take power, it will be prima facie evidence of criminality!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & The MSM at October 09, 2026 12:35 PM (0sNs1)

86 Lol

John James - R - Michigan is on CNN now.

Dana Bash is shutting up and letting him talk but she looks even more miserable than usual. She is letting him talk. I'm impressed.
.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 12:35 PM (Sco7b)

87 >>If her attorney has a brain he will tell her to cooperate and name names. She can keep the money from her book but we want to know who put her up to this (Liz Cheney)

Who out Liz Cheney up to it?

Who put the entire J6 Committee up to it and why did Biden's autopen give them all a blanket pardon?

Why were they so interested in destroying Trump even after they stole the election?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 12:35 PM (viF8m)

88 85 and Whatley has no scandals so he's effectively generic Republican.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:27 PM

Dude! Just being Republican is a huge scandal, and once we take power, it will be prima facie evidence of criminality!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & The MSM at October 09, 2026 12:35 PM (0sNs1)

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Fair.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:35 PM (1kJuV)

89 It seems that the Dem's Cornell 7 ploy to goose young women isn't working.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

90 She should be sent on an all expense trip to Guantanamo. Sun, beach, waterboarding.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 12:35 PM (NR6c1)

91 Speaking of big vehicles, have y'all seen the video of Yemei soldiers running over surrendering Houthis with their MRAP?
Posted by: toby928(c)


I understand that such practices are the way of war in that part of the world... and probably the only safe course of action; the surrendering terrorists are likely booby trapped... and I was going to say that letting the surrender and killing them later might take more Houthis out of the fight faster, but then I tripped over my own counterpoint to my objection.

Nevermind, as you were, Yemeni drivers.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 12:36 PM (vJrRc)

92 The funny thing is that at the time of her testimony, EVERYONE knew Madison Cornbread was lying.

Cornbread knew she was lying
Cornbread knew that Trump knew that she was lying
The Dems knew Cornbread was lying
The republicans knew
They all knew that Cornbread knew that they knew that she knew that she was lying

What a circus. Well, play stupid games win stupid prizes….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 12:36 PM (sVR3r)

93 75 >>The only worry is the 65+ vote - they went for Biden last time...so, it would be better if 45-64 was the biggest group vs them...

Republican registration is also up significantly and so is early Republican voting.
Posted by: JackStraw

Pretty much. Every swing state has had increased GOP registration since 2026 while states were forced in to purge voters. Oregon had to so much that Drazen now has a chance at flipping the Governor's office in OR. Hilton in CA is also not getting blown out possibly by Becerra.

PA, ground zero for Scott Presley, is where we see his work in raising GOP registrations is paying off in increased absentee ballot requests by GOP voters in PA. Couple of crucial house seats at issue there.

NC and GA are the most problematic for GOP right now but even there, showing signs that the electorate will be older and whiter than even 2022.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:36 PM (E4rtv)

94 Dana Bash is shutting up and letting him talk but she looks even more miserable than usual.

If Eeyore had been a female, her picture would have been used in Winnie the Pooh.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)

95 In 2022:

65+ 28% of voters, R +12
45-64 39% of voters, R +10
30-44 21% of voters, D +4
18-29 12% of voters, D+18

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)

96 It's not a war crime to shoot the wounded when you are advancing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:37 PM (4NO2D)

97 Have a heartwarming video of a young man asking a young lady to a dance.

http://tiny.cc/jxtb101

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 12:37 PM (mkw2N)

98
No. Sounds like they're kinda fed up with the Houthis, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM

Grim viewing

https://tinyurl.com/u6446r5a

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (4NO2D)



Hit and Run Driving as warfare.

That seems to be a muzzle specialty. As we've seen in Germany and France.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 12:37 PM (YSUhf)

99 Grim viewing

https://tinyurl.com/u6446r5a
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (4NO2D)

That's from the video game, Grand Theft Auto: Jihad City

Posted by: smartass at October 09, 2026 12:38 PM (uqnAZ)

100 Sounds like they're kinda fed up with the Houthis, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:29 PM

Grim viewing

https://tinyurl.com/u6446r5a
Posted by: toby928(c)

Death Race 2026.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 12:38 PM (ndZc7)

101 Grim viewing

https://tinyurl.com/u6446r5a
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (4NO2D)

Was it a bad thing for me to want a cigarette afterwards? And I don't even smoke.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 09, 2026 12:38 PM (hmYU4)

102 i could see Hutchinson dropping the dime on Liz Cheney in exchange for a fine and community service.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 12:17 PM (6ydKt)


Why not. Cheney was pardoned by autopen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 12:38 PM (ExV1e)

103 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:38 PM (ccf/V)

104 Maybe not just perjury charges, but slander or some such ... election interference. People (e.g. Jack Smith and company) that lie to prejudice the voters and do it under color of law, deserve extra severe consequences.

Cornbread was pretending to have inside info, which was made up out of whole cloth. Bad girl.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (vbXSk)

105 If Eeyore had been a female, her picture would have been used in Winnie the Pooh.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)
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Eat your heart out, E. H. Shepard!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (amcLV)

106 89 It seems that the Dem's Cornell 7 ploy to goose young women isn't working.
Posted by: Archimedes

I think Holchul may be running scared and this op was more to ensure her reelection in NY rather than caring about damage outside it. One thing about blue states is that if everything is crap because Dems dominate, then the pressure valve is firing the D governor so that a GOP governor can rein them in.

FWIW, Leticia had her ass handed to her in the debate with the GOP AG candidate yesterday as well.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)

107 Yet another stupid whore used by the left and tossed aside like trash.

LULZ!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (ccf/V)

108 > Regarding the 65+ vote. They have flipped back to GOP hard. 18% return in retirement accounts tends to do that.
Posted by: Dave_in_Fla
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People, some here, conflate the 65+ crowd with "Boomers" and assume they (we) are all aging, leftist hippies. Some of us are conservative, some others are wealthy, and would like to remain that way.

Many of that demographic will never vote (D).

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (RORbl)

109 What a circus. Well, play stupid games win stupid prizes….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 12:36 PM (sVR3r)

The best part?

Her lawyers knew she was lying, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (aKiSo)

110 Speaking of big vehicles, have y'all seen the video of Yemei soldiers running over surrendering Houthis with their MRAP?

One of the complaints that the FNM ran with during the WoT was if any or our allies didn't follow the Geneva conventions in regards to prisoners. This was a constant source of news for them.

Now of course the jihadis just murdered and tortured anyone they captured but that was ok because they were "the resistance"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm)

111
Cornbread was pretending to have inside info, which was made up out of whole cloth. Bad girl.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (vbXSk)

I imagine she will claim she was told this and believed it.. No way did she make it up...Riiiight

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:40 PM (+gK6I)

112 Dana Bash is shutting up and letting him talk but she looks even more miserable than usual.

If Eeyore had been a female, her picture would have been used in Winnie the Pooh.
Posted by: Archimedes at

Don't slag eeyore like that! Eeyore was a great donkey!

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 09, 2026 12:40 PM (YZ0Fo)

113 Say what you will, I didn't think Houthi and the Blowfish were that bad.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 12:41 PM (ndZc7)

114 The wheels of justice. I'm here for it.

Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 12:41 PM (odBC9)

115 FWIW, Leticia had her ass handed to her in the debate with the GOP AG candidate yesterday as well.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 12:41 PM (rj6Yv)

116 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (YwEeS)



In the absence of this content, I will admit, it was missed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)

117
Did they cook up the indictment in a cast-iron skillet?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks[/o]

Nah, in one of the ADORABLE cast iron molds that make little corn cobs

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 12:42 PM (trSL4)

118 SPONGE!!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:42 PM (amcLV)

119 86 Lol

John James - R - Michigan is on CNN now.

Dana Bash is shutting up and letting him talk but she looks even more miserable than usual. She is letting him talk. I'm impressed.
.
Posted by: Stateless

James has a pretty good shot at becoming governor, especially since Sayed is screwing up in the marquee Senate race. The AWFL Dem Sec. of State running there has been covered in so many voting scandals that she is as inspiring as a lead brick to urban black voters who feel ignored by Dems in MI for illegals and Muzzies.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:42 PM (E4rtv)

120 hoothies in action:
https://tinyurl.com/2bxdhhy2

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 09, 2026 12:42 PM (CWTWj)

121 On a different note, I was reading some lefty forums on the Cornell thing and it is amazing as there is just about nothing on the actual event.

It is just post after post of "I am Jane Doe" with the woman talking about her own sexual assault experience. Now I have no idea if their claims are true or not, but the left just assumes the Cornell Train Girl's current claims are true and reflective of their own personal experience.

Its the oddest thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

122 FWIW, Leticia had her ass handed to her in the debate with the GOP AG candidate yesterday as well.

I watched a clip of the Abdul/Rogers debate today. Rogers is no Chris Hitchens, but even he made mincemeat out of Abdul. He mocked him for claiming to be a doctor, and even went after Abdul's mother. Abdul was seething, but didn't really have a rebuttal.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

123 > Speaking of big vehicles, have y'all seen the video of Yemei soldiers running over surrendering Houthis with their MRAP?

That sort of thing tends to escalate conflicts. If you know your surrender won't be accepted, you have nothing else to lose. Now you've got to deal with kamikaze soldiers who'll suicide bomb you after they run out of bullets.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 12:43 PM (mkw2N)

124 The administration that accused the Biden administration of "lawfare" adds to its ongoing pattern of going after and indicting people who appear to be enemies of or threats to it, lobbing apparently frivolous indictments and lawsuits. "The process is the punishment" may be the goal as these cases seem to lack substance.

From what I understand, they can't even sue the government in return for bringing these cases even if found to be hollow and tossed out or deemed vindictive prosecution.

The process is the punishment. It's about making people think twice before they speak out about what they witnessed unless they want to find themselves in the same position.

She got herself into all of this by aligning herself with the Trump/Pence clan in the first place, but I do feel bad for her. She had a reasonable expectation that her testimony might be a nail in the coffin on Trump's political career but like many of us she underestimated the public's willingness to scarf down Trump propaganda

Oh yes, we all voted for Trump to prosecute a young woman, whose only apparent crime was to testify. /s Fucking traitors. God damn every person that voted for this.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 12:44 PM (orDeD)

125 SPONGE!!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:42 PM (amcLV)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (ccf/V)

126
That sort of thing tends to escalate conflicts. If you know your surrender won't be accepted, you have nothing else to lose. Now you've got to deal with kamikaze soldiers who'll suicide bomb you after they run out of bullets.


The Arabic world is a bit different. Most people don't actually want to be a martyr*. So better to switch to the winning side...

*In the WoT one under-reported story was how the jihadis would use mentally disabled people that had no idea what they were signing up for...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

127 She got herself into all of this by aligning herself with the Trump/Pence clan


Yes, that makes perfect sense, seeing as how tight Pence and Trump are.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

128 Spencer Pratt says he's been told Talerico has been committed to a mental institution. Not sure how he'd know, but we know whatever happened it's a big effin' deal.

You can tell even the rank and file Dems are losing faith in "Texas will go full trans this year" by how much the screeching about Brandon Herrera has amped up.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (2ocoG)

129 124 Oh yes, we all voted for Trump to prosecute a young woman, whose only apparent crime was to testify. /s Fucking traitors. God damn every person that voted for this.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 12:44 PM (orDeD)

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I'm certain, 100% certain, that this is a 27 time Trump voter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (1kJuV)

130 Don't slag eeyore like that! Eeyore was a great donkey!
Posted by: BruceWayne

He was my favorite Pooh character as a kid. Don't know what that says about me, but there it is.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

131 The AWFL Dem Sec. of State running there has been covered in so many voting scandals that she is as inspiring as a lead brick to urban black voters who feel ignored by Dems in MI for illegals and Muzzies.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:42 PM (E4rtv)

I'm hoping he wins. Abdul is helping alot.

GatewayPundit had an article with a black guy saying although he loves Obama, he's not voting for Abdul. Hopefully he's not alone.

Mike Ditka's dead....by the way.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 12:46 PM (Sco7b)

132 128 You can tell even the rank and file Dems are losing faith in "Texas will go full trans this year" by how much the screeching about Brandon Herrera has amped up.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (2ocoG)

========

When Bo French wins that seat on the Railroad Commission and starts making war on immigration through that, it'll be the funniest thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:46 PM (1kJuV)

133 Oh yes, we all voted for Trump to prosecute a young woman, whose only apparent crime was to testify. /s Fucking traitors. God damn every person that voted for this.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions


*waves*
*smiles*
*dances a jig*

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 09, 2026 12:46 PM (YZ0Fo)

134 Eeyore is a pimp. He could never have outfought Santino.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:46 PM (4NO2D)

135 Spencer Pratt says he's been told Talerico has been committed to a mental institution.

Presumably one of the other personalities/demons is at the controls right now and they don't want the normies to see this one...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:46 PM (sKqQm)

136 Oh yes, we all voted for Trump to prosecute a young woman, whose only apparent crime was to testify.

Then: No one is above the law!

Now: Well, some people should be!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

137 al-Sayed looked like an idiot against Rogers. Jackson looked like an idiot against Collins (again). The R's will win those.
NY AG James looked like a complete moron but it's NY so being a moron usually means you win.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 12:47 PM (t9883)

138
That sort of thing tends to escalate conflicts. If you know your surrender won't be accepted, you have nothing else to lose. Now you've got to deal with kamikaze soldiers who'll suicide bomb you after they run out of bullets.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 12:43 PM (mkw2N)
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They'll suicide you without a bullet being fired. Innocent men, women, and children? No prob.

Western Civilization casts a very small shadow in the boondocks of Yemen. The US-Japan confrontation in WW II comes to mind, also.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)

139 136 Oh yes, we all voted for Trump to prosecute a young woman, whose only apparent crime was to testify.

Then: No one is above the law!

Now: Well, some people should be!

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:47 PM (sKqQm)

=======

"Testifying is legal!"

"Lying while testifying is a crime. It's called perjury."

"That's not a crime when it's against Trump!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:48 PM (1kJuV)

140 NY AG James looked like a complete moron but it's NY so being a moron usually means you win.

Zeldin came close for governor and Hochul is less of a joke then James so I guess we'll see...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

141 Presumably one of the other personalities/demons is at the controls right now and they don't want the normies to see this one...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:46 PM (sKqQm)
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There is no Talarico, only Zuul!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (amcLV)

142 Presumably one of the other personalities/demons is at the controls right now and they don't want the normies to see this one...

Talerico as a sort of mecha suit with a rotating cast of demonic pilots would make a great anime. Just don't let Netflix do it.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

143 137 Jackson looked like an idiot against Collins (again). The R's will win those.
NY AG James looked like a complete moron but it's NY so being a moron usually means you win.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 12:47 PM (t9883)

========

*preps, don't be so dumb Jackson is running for governor and Collins is running for Senate*

*realizes there are way too many Jacksons and Collins running for office this year*

*considers mentioning Prometheus instead*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (1kJuV)

144 When Muhammed took Mecca he committed genocide on the resident Jewish population - this is the Arab way of war and always has been...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (sKqQm)

145 The process is the punishment.
It's about making people think twice before they speak out about what they witnessed unless they want to find themselves in the same position.


Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 09, 2026 12:44 PM (orDeD)

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Maybe it's to make them think twice about straight up lying about shit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (DRSnL)

146 Dem's Cornell 7 ploy

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Didja see this?

TMZ
@TMZ
EXCLUSIVE: Cornell alleged sexual assault, Jane Doe says "gangbang ... our body our choice."

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It's empowering. I bet her dad is so proud.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (ndZc7)

147 #believeallwomen

Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (odBC9)

148 The only worry is the 65+ vote - they went for Biden last time...so, it would be better if 45-64 was the biggest group vs them...



65 yr olds are 67. 67 yr olds are 69. 69 yr olds are probably dead.

6 of one, half dozen of the other.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (nPfAi)

149 Talerico as a sort of mecha suit with a rotating cast of demonic pilots would make a great anime. Just don't let Netflix do it.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (2ocoG)


Why now? He's already gay.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (gLYp7)

150 Talerico as a sort of mecha suit with a rotating cast of demonic pilots would make a great anime. Just don't let Netflix do it.

Netflix will turn him in to a black lesbian with a lisp, which would probably improve his electability in Democrat circles.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

151 Talerico as a sort of mecha suit with a rotating cast of demonic pilots would make a great anime. Just don't let Netflix do it.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

Why not? He's already gay.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (gLYp7)

152 Hit and Run Driving as warfare.

That seems to be a muzzle specialty. As we've seen in Germany and France.

Posted by: naturalfake
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Hmm. Movie 'Deathrace 2000'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (XeU6L)

153 #believeallwomen
Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM


I read that as believe veal women.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 12:50 PM (4NO2D)

154 69 yr olds are probably dead.
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Fuck me. So, I dead, now?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:51 PM (amcLV)

155 Oops. 'Death Race 2000'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 12:51 PM (XeU6L)

156 EXCLUSIVE: Cornell alleged sexual assault, Jane Doe says "gangbang ... our body our choice."

The "roided-up female bodybuilders are horn-beasts" stereotype is not gonna be defeated here.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:51 PM (2ocoG)

157 Didja see this?

TMZ
@TMZ
EXCLUSIVE: Cornell alleged sexual assault, Jane Doe says "gangbang ... our body our choice."

-
It's empowering. I bet her dad is so proud.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



I've see a lot of the shit she said.
There's a reason the po po didn't move forward with charges.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 12:51 PM (nPfAi)

158 Regarding Talarico.. If his absence had anything to do with his Diabetes don't you think his campaign use that for sympathy and not say he has the flu ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:52 PM (+gK6I)

159 69 yr olds are probably dead.
---------
Fuck me. So, I dead, now?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:51 PM


Only mostly dead.

Posted by: Miracle Max at October 09, 2026 12:52 PM (4NO2D)

160 The Cornell thing isn't working because 5 of the 7 guys aren't white

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 12:52 PM (enNUy)

161 157 I've see a lot of the shit she said.
There's a reason the po po didn't move forward with charges.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 12:51 PM (nPfAi)

=======

*nods sagaciously*

Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:52 PM (1kJuV)

162 160 The Cornell thing isn't working because 5 of the 7 guys aren't white

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 12:52 PM (enNUy)

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The main guy is an immigrant from the UAE.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:52 PM (1kJuV)

163 He was my favorite Pooh character as a kid. Don't know what that says about me, but there it is.
Posted by: Bulg at October

Was and is my fav. His voice is the same as Optimus prime.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 09, 2026 12:52 PM (YZ0Fo)

164 In 2022:
65+ 28% of voters, R +12
45-64 39% of voters, R +10
30-44 21% of voters, D +4
18-29 12% of voters, D+18
Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)
~~~~~

Oh, so Boomers are more reliably conservative/republican than Gen Xers who can't stop telling us how wonderful they are and how awful Boomers are.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (3ImbR)

165 I read that as believe veal women.
Posted by: toby9
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There's a pun here about Bossy, but I can't work it out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L)

166 Day 13 Talarico watch.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (UjdFS)

167 11 You mean other than trying to entice crows like pedos for children using vans with promises of puppies and candy?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:15 PM (l3cgK)

You mean other than trying to entice crows (like pedos for children using vans with promises of puppies and candy)?

maybe?

Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 12:54 PM (odBC9)

168 156 EXCLUSIVE: Cornell alleged sexual assault, Jane Doe says "gangbang ... our body our choice."

I imagine gangbangs are amazing.

IF I'm the only guy in the room.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 12:54 PM (Sco7b)

169 considers mentioning Prometheus instead"

*wanders off to watch Blazing Saddles*

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 12:54 PM (pfXMo)

170 69 yr olds are probably dead.........not yet.
......

Posted by: doug at October 09, 2026 12:54 PM (B1+sW)

171 Regarding Talarico.. If his absence had anything to do with his Diabetes don't you think his campaign use that for sympathy and not say he has the flu ?

The most-backed-up rumor is that he's in a mental institution. Elon is trying to troll them into revealing the truth by saying it's because he has explosive monkeypox.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (2ocoG)

172 You need to find a grand jury somewhere other than DC. They will never indict anyone not a conservative.

Posted by: Huxley Orwell at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (j3Fsw)

173
Maybe it's to make them think twice about straight up lying about shit.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 12:49 PM (DRSnL)



Most political ads are lies. Why are there no lawsuits or at minimum, retaliatory ads describing why their lies?


Talarico's PAC's are running an ad where they say Paxton gave an "Epstein style sweetheart deal" to a pedo who spent one day in jail.

The TRUTH is, the guy was tried and the jury deadlocked, leading to a mistrial. They did NOT retry him because the parents of the minor in question, the lead witness for the prosecution, chose not to have the boy relive the pain of that again. No retrial, no conviction.

But Paxton is the MOST CORRUPT EVAR!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (ccf/V)

174 hoothies in action:
https://tinyurl.com/2bxdhhy2
Posted by: gnats local 678

No, dude, those are Sand People.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (ndZc7)

175 Local rag was all hysterical because ICE announced it's coming in big to CA to round up illegals.....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (+gK6I)

176 Talerico is a Furry.

That is what Tommy Tuberville was trying to seed into the conversation for the zeitgeist.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (rbvCR)

177 off topic: this is how you do it: abc news: headline:

Man shot and wounded by ICE officer in New York City

1st two lines:

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in a residential New York City neighborhood Thursday afternoon during what the agency called a "targeted enforcement operation."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling the incident an "outrage," said the man was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child at the time.

paragraph 7: referring to 'Marcos Charles, DHS's executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations':

Charles said Belgal has alleged associations with the Trinitarios gang and has a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny and "multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession."

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 09, 2026 12:56 PM (CWTWj)

178
Cornell alleged sexual assault, Jane Doe says "gangbang ... our body our choice."

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It's empowering. I bet her dad is so proud.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?


Is there something like the Geneva Convention that prevents urinalists from calling this person's behavior sluttish?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 12:56 PM (trSL4)

179 Elon is trying to troll them into revealing the truth by saying it's because he has explosive monkeypox.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (2ocoG)
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Sounds like a Nurgle thing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 09, 2026 12:56 PM (amcLV)

180 The only worry is the 65+ vote - they went for Biden last time...so, it would be better if 45-64 was the biggest group vs them...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 12:31 PM (tOcjL)


Which is why one of the biggest trending topics right now is about how we should instantly end social security and medicare and just let the olds die because they're destroying our future.

These posts are interspersed with - my parents have retired and are spending my inheritance on travel.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

181 considers mentioning Prometheus instead"

*wanders off to watch Blazing Saddles*
Posted by: man


Spaceballs is on Prime.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 12:56 PM (nPfAi)

182 You need to find a grand jury somewhere other than DC. They will never indict anyone not a conservative.
Posted by: Huxley Orwell
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Some politicians are more equal than others.

Posted by: A pig at October 09, 2026 12:56 PM (XeU6L)

183 Oh, so Boomers are more reliably conservative/republican than Gen Xers who can't stop telling us how wonderful they are and how awful Boomers are.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (3ImbR)



Uh, seems you've mistaken GenX for someone else........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)

184 Oh, so Boomers are more reliably conservative/republican than Gen Xers who can't stop telling us how wonderful they are and how awful Boomers are.

For the record I personally have often said the generational political attacks are not helpful.

Most people move right politically as they get older but that could just be because we've moved so far left politically - the political stances of a run of the mill Democrat in 2006 would be called far right extremist now

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

185 175 Local rag was all hysterical because ICE announced it's coming in big to CA to round up illegals.....

Given CA's demographics, I can easily see this turning into a mass insurrection.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 12:57 PM (Riz8t)

186 Netflix will turn him in to a black lesbian with a lisp, which would probably improve his electability in Democrat circles.
Posted by: Archimedes

Trans, neurodivergent lesbian with a lisp and in a wheelchair. Canes, wheelchairs, and other visible signs of disability are the new hotness for mentally ill Leftoids. https://tinyurl.com/msjyvtdk

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM (orDeD)

187 > The "roided-up female bodybuilders are horn-beasts" stereotype is not gonna be defeated here.

It's hilarious that she stopped having sex with those guys to do some bodybuilder poses, then got back to sex.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM (mkw2N)

188 I got 90 bucks from my best friend Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM (+gK6I)

189 Posted by: 18-1
Young and not liberal, you have no heart.
Old and liberal, you have no brain
~paraphrased.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM (NnhvP)

190 Many of that demographic will never vote (D).
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (RORbl)

*raises hand* Never have, never will. First vote, at 21, was for Nixon in '68 while in the army.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM (hmYU4)

191 These posts are interspersed with - my parents have retired and are spending my inheritance on travel..

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

I'm a Gen X'er (born in 80). My parents have retired. And they're spending THEIR OWN FUCKING MONEY on the stuff they want to spend it on.

I've never understood this 'you have an obligation to gimme everything you've worked your entire life to accumulate' idea.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM (gLYp7)

192 I'll be so happy to be wrong about Sayeed. I thought he was the lynchpin in their upcoming plans.

There's no doubt they want to give him a platform and national profile. That is certain.

But running him just to have him lose there is weirdness I haven't quite figured out yet. Whatever it is there is something there.

Good to see Rogers fighting.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 12:59 PM (8S7CD)

193 You can tell even the rank and file Dems are losing faith in "Texas will go full trans this year" by how much the screeching about Brandon Herrera has amped up.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 12:45 PM (2ocoG)
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Herrera is a "special" commander in the World of Warships online video game. He does the voiceover for the ship's orders during a "battle". A lot of fun.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2026 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)

194 I got 90 bucks from my best friend Trump...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:58 PM



I got $51 this week from some kind of FCC vs Amazon suit.

Posted by: Miracle Max at October 09, 2026 12:59 PM (4NO2D)

195 Most people move right politically as they get older but that could just be because we've moved so far left politically - the political stances of a run of the mill Democrat in 2006 would be called far right extremist now
Posted by: 18-1


Because they have numerous lived experiences of life dorking them in the sphincter and they know what does & doesn't work.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 12:59 PM (nPfAi)

196 Elon connects the dots. Talerico has the gay diarrhea.

http://tiny.cc/swtb101

Posted by: bonhomme
......

OK that was hilarious. And not just because they mentioned Talarico.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (UjdFS)

197
Elon is trying to troll them into revealing the truth by saying it's because he has explosive monkeypox.
Posted by: Ian S.


His crotch is popping off like a paper roll of cap gun caps laid out flat and set afire...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (trSL4)

198 Where's Waldo Talarico?
If he is in a mental health facility I can see the Dr saying " this guy thinks he's going to be the Senator from Texas. More thorazine , stat"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (t9883)

199 hoothies in action:
https://tinyurl.com/2bxdhhy2
Posted by: gnats local 678


At least Cookie Monster walked the walk after talking the talk on his revolutionary ideals.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (rbvCR)

200 But running him just to have him lose there is weirdness I haven't quite figured out yet. Whatever it is there is something there.

Good to see Rogers fighting.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 12:59 PM (8S7CD)

I think they want him to be their Next Obama.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (gLYp7)

201 > I got 90 bucks from my best friend Trump...

My son's 11. I need to look into whether he gets a Trump account or not.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (mkw2N)

202 I imagine gangbangs are amazing.

IF I'm the only guy in the room.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 12:54 PM (Sco7b)

We're right here, big boy!!!

Posted by: Lena Dunham, Rosie and Friends at October 09, 2026 01:01 PM (8S7CD)

203 166 Day 13 Talarico watch.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (UjdFS)


Since he is not doing brief livestreams to rallies by now, he's got the worst case of flu in history. I'm amazed the Dems can't find a quack doctor in all of Texas to pump him full of more video performance-boosting drugs than were ever pumped into Biden.

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 01:01 PM (5rh/l)

204 200 But running him just to have him lose there is weirdness I haven't quite figured out yet. Whatever it is there is something there.

Good to see Rogers fighting.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 12:59 PM (8S7CD)

I think they want him to be their Next Obama.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (gLYp7)

=======

Far left male progs failing to get "assured" senate seats on TX and MI is going to have consequences.

Hilarious consequences.

But still, consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:01 PM (1kJuV)

205 My son's 11. I need to look into whether he gets a Trump account or not.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (mkw2N)

Mine are 11 and 10. I registered them both this past tax season and both accounts are open and receiving my deposits.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:02 PM (gLYp7)

206 203 166 Day 13 Talarico watch.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (UjdFS)

Wonder if they believe those polls and he's just gonna coast into that Senate seat ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 01:02 PM (+gK6I)

207 Far left male progs failing to get "assured" senate seats on TX and MI is going to have consequences.

Hilarious consequences.

But still, consequences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:01 PM

I done told all y'all motherfuckers!
- J. Crockett

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:02 PM (gLYp7)

208 10 What about Liz Cheney, who suborned her perjury?
Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (2Xqig)

Unfortunately, she is protected under Article I Section 6.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (Hd1lH)

209 175 Local rag was all hysterical because ICE announced it's coming in big to CA to round up illegals.....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 12:55 PM (+gK6I)
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Someone posted on NextDoor yesterday warning folks that ICE was in San Miguel.

Posted by: beckster at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (kX27y)

210 I'm Gen X. I don't give a flying fuck what anyone else does. As long as it doesn't cost me money. If it costs me money, then I got some opinions.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (enNUy)

211 192 I'll be so happy to be wrong about Sayeed. I thought he was the lynchpin in their upcoming plans.

There's no doubt they want to give him a platform and national profile. That is certain.

But running him just to have him lose there is weirdness I haven't quite figured out yet. Whatever it is there is something there.

Good to see Rogers fighting.
Posted by: ...
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GOP had this problem in 2010 when it took the house but failed to take the Senate because of odd nominees with no experience. Sayed has no experience whatsoever as a pol. Ditto for Acton. Talafreako is another with scant experience other than a backbencher Rep from a very safe district.

And the Dem shitshow in ME with Platner and then Troy whathisname taking on a wily old Senate incumbent who survived previous waves.

Activists are often exciting to the party base but not so much to other voters in a status quo election.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (E4rtv)

212 If he is in a mental health facility I can see the Dr saying " this guy thinks he's going to be the Senator from Texas. More thorazine , stat"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (t9883)



https://youtu.be/-wny5e9_iNY?t=21

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (ccf/V)

213 205 My son's 11. I need to look into whether he gets a Trump account or not.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 01:00 PM (mkw2N)

Mine are 11 and 10. I registered them both this past tax season and both accounts are open and receiving my deposits.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:02 PM (gLYp7)

=======

It's my understand that all 70 million children under 18 had accounts opened for them, if they didn't already have them opened.

https://tinyurl.com/ycx3vtcz

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (1kJuV)

214 Many of that demographic will never vote (D).
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (RORbl)

*raises hand* Never have, never will. First vote, at 21, was for Nixon in '68 while in the army.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy


Missed voting for Reagan 1 by 16 days.
Voted Reagan 2 in 1984 and have never looked back.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (nPfAi)

215 I'm Gen X. I don't give a flying fuck what anyone else does. As long as it doesn't cost me money. If it costs me money, then I got some opinions.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (enNUy)

This. Entirely this.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (gLYp7)

216 Rule no.1: Don't stick your dick in crazy.
Rule no. 2: Don't stick your dick in sphincters.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (UjdFS)

217
I've never understood this 'you have an obligation to gimme everything you've worked your entire life to accumulate' idea.


Such an idea never crossed my mind with my own parents. Had it done so and I expressed it to them, the "gimme" that I would have received would have been the back of their hand across my face.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (trSL4)

218 I regularly see a Talarico ad on the electronic billboard that I drive past on the Gulf Freeway. It says something about he's going to protect Medicare.

That and the endless fundraising texts are my only contact.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at October 09, 2026 01:04 PM (Zst8M)

219 I got $51 this week from some kind of FCC vs Amazon suit.
Posted by: Miracle Max
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Hmm. Wonder where the other $2.5 Billion went?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:04 PM (XeU6L)

220 As an aging Boomer, I always vote democrat. Being a low wage earner my whole life, I count on the extra 3 or 4 grand a month the feds give me for being poor. How else can I fly Spirit Airlines to my Carnival cruise destination?

Have a heart people.

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat scold and busybody at October 09, 2026 01:04 PM (9zGZf)

221 She attended Christopher Newport University, not Cornell. I'm sure they have a different signature degeneracy. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

OK, I had never heard of it and had to look it up. It's a state college in Newport News that was built primarily to "urban renew" a black neighborhood that was next to Bushwoods. Looking at the Wikipedia list of graduates, she may have a claim to being the most accomplished. One NBA player and one NFL player.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 09, 2026 01:04 PM (eStot)

222 I expect my parents to plan to live until they're 100 and then fail to get that far, and for the remainder to be inherited by the children.

I do not expect them to burn through their entire capital before they're 75.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:05 PM (1kJuV)

223 Day 13 Talarico watch.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (UjdFS)


Since he is not doing brief livestreams to rallies by now, he's got the worst case of flu in history. I'm amazed the Dems can't find a quack doctor in all of Texas to pump him full of more video performance-boosting drugs than were ever pumped into Biden.
Posted by: Gref


I can't believe that they aren't filming him in bed all played out and weakly raising a thumbs up and saying, "I'll always fight for Texas!"

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:06 PM (nPfAi)

224 Imagine if we had a honest press, not a Democrat Party Media Division with bag of dick jugglers like Jake.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 01:06 PM (ICjqV)

225 Oh, so Boomers are more reliably conservative/republican than Gen Xers who can't stop telling us how wonderful they are and how awful Boomers are.
Posted by: IrishEi ?!


Only by 2 points. Gen X the is 46-64 cohort, and I bet you feel older than 29 right now.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:06 PM (vJrRc)

226 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2)

227 on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM


He's only mostly dead.

Posted by: Miracle Max at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (4NO2D)

228 I think they want him to be their Next Obama.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider:

There is not a national thirst for Muslims in high office. DSA may get wet dreams for a Red Green alliance but notably people with actual money and property like X and Boomers are not fans of that shit. Prior bad history with Muslims and wanting to keep their property and not be taxed to death for fraudulent and criminal aliens is not a recipe for success.

Obama won by a unique set of circumstances that simply are not present now and probably won't be in 2028. Massive youth vote (which is shrinking now as a percentage of the electorate), people wanting racial salvation/expiation, and Bush screwing the pooch in the Middle East and at home with the housing and banking meltdowns.

I don't see any of those circumstances in 2028.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)

229 Hmm. Wonder where the other $2.5 Billion went?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:04 PM (XeU6L)

Hey! I got bills ya know! It ain't easy having a house in Hawaii and a love nest in France.

For The People!

Posted by: John Morgan, fat democrat lawyer at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (9zGZf)

230 I received nothing from either of my parents. My mother was living off EBT and SS while my dad lived off his retirement and SS.

I'll see none of that as my step-sister is squandering most of it by selling the house WELL below market value and using the rest to pay for her mother's nursing home care.

I certainly hope that there's nothing left before my step-mother passes so at a minimum, my S-S gets nothing and likes it........the c*nt.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)

231 OT:
We have now reached a point in time where the last WW2 veterans of various countries and territories are now known, and some of which have already passed...

https://tinyurl.com/38dxnnnu

I remember this pattern well from the WW1 veterans...They'll all be gone in another 10 or 15 years.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM (l3cgK)

232 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2

LOL press x to doubt

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM (8S7CD)

233 226 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2)

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Holy shit is this going to piss off the black electorate who already feel cheated.

Also, I don't care about the guy. I wish he had succeeded. He's a bad person who was trying to lie to get into the Senate so he could use the power of the state to do bad things to innocents. Fuck him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM (1kJuV)

234 why r u guys talking about CNU?

it's a sports school. literally exists for high school athletes to keep playing in college.

otherwise not of note.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM (j+aD2)

235 226 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide
Posted by: Black Orchid

Not impossible if he does in fact have bipolar disorder as claimed by some on X.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

236
Only by 2 points. Gen X the is 46-64 cohort, and I bet you feel older than 29 right now.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:06 PM (vJrRc)



And GenX'ers did NOT come up with the whole "OK boomer" thing.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM (ccf/V)

237 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide
Posted by: Black Orchid

He wants the pity vote

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

238
What about Liz Cheney, who suborned her perjury?

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (2Xqig)



For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven...

Which kinda seems blasphemous to say, given that I'm thinking in terms of sweet, sweet revenge.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (y9nCu)

239 On topic of Lucy Craig and her legal crack team:
Tish James, who is full of tish, lately made a fool of herself in her debate with Saritha Komatireddy
x.com
/ImMeme0/status/2108364584570532133

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (sDWtc)

240 I certainly hope that there's nothing left before my step-mother passes so at a minimum, my S-S gets nothing and likes it........the c*nt.......
Posted by: Sponge
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Sorry about that Sponge.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)

241 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2)



Oh, this just keeps on getting better and better.


Man of God, hates Christianity, thinks Jesus was non binary and attempts suicide...........


That's rich......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)

242 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide
Posted by: Black Orchid

He wants the pity vote
Posted by: BruceWayne at October 09, 2026 01:08 PM


He needs electro-convulsive therapy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (4NO2D)

243 I was in the "middle family" of my dad and the first family also got nothing

his young blonde most recent bride got every little bit of it and is living large down in Florida

didn't really expect much but thought the grandkids would get a little something, but nope.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 01:10 PM (j+aD2)

244 He needs electro-convulsive therapy.
Posted by: toby928(c) at

Turn it to 11.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 09, 2026 01:10 PM (YZ0Fo)

245 I'm always amused by class action siuits. The class members are lucky if they get lunch money.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2026 01:10 PM (XeU6L)

246 238
What about Liz Cheney, who suborned her perjury?

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (2Xqig)



For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven...

Which kinda seems blasphemous to say, given that I'm thinking in terms of sweet, sweet revenge.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (y9nCu)

She suborned her own perjury, or was she suborned to perjure?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:10 PM (l3cgK)

247 I remember this pattern well from the WW1 veterans...They'll all be gone in another 10 or 15 years.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


A 17 yr old in 1941 is 102 right now. (b 1924)
I don't think we have 10 more years. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (nPfAi)

248 so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide
Posted by: Black Orchid


He couldn't even do that right. Idiot.

Posted by: Talafreako's Dad, Still Ashamed at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (9zGZf)

249 LOL press x to doubt
Posted by: ...

Hey hey hey, what's happenin' people.

Posted by: 24 Hour Rule at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (sDWtc)

250 Talarico is diabetic. He ran an ad in the primaries about how much he had to pay for his insulin. I don't know enough about diabetes, but is there something with the disease that would result in someone being incapacitated for a couple of weeks?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (eStot)

251 > so on x they are saying Talafreako attempted suicide
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Lying constantly about literally everything must have finally broke his pea brain. Dude was deeply weird. Not suited for office, of any kind.

Should have been institutionalized long ago.

He's a symptom of a much larger problem we've got with society and the clinically insane.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (RORbl)

252 239 On topic of Lucy Craig and her legal crack team:
Tish James, who is full of tish, lately made a fool of herself in her debate with Saritha Komatireddy
x.com
/ImMeme0/status/2108364584570532133

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (sDWtc)

"Son, there are two things in this world that smell like Tish, And Tish is one of them."

Posted by: Father to Son at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (l3cgK)

253 223 Day 13 Talarico watch.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 12:53 PM (UjdFS)


Since he is not doing brief livestreams to rallies by now, he's got the worst case of flu in history. I'm amazed the Dems can't find a quack doctor in all of Texas to pump him full of more video performance-boosting drugs than were ever pumped into Biden.
Posted by: Gref


I can't believe that they aren't filming him in bed all played out and weakly raising a thumbs up and saying, "I'll always fight for Texas!"
Posted by: rickb223

Probably the Dems are scared as hell of the effect on downballot races and demoralization across the alphabet yute contigent nationwide. Talafreako was the Dem nod to that group as was Sayed to the Mamdani Red Green types.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv)

254 I don't know enough about diabetes, but is there something with the disease that would result in someone being incapacitated for a couple of weeks?
Posted by: Caesar North


If he mismanaged his glucose and dropped into a diabetic coma, probably.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 01:12 PM (vJrRc)

255 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 09, 2026 01:12 PM (hG5L0)

256 Talarico is diabetic. He ran an ad in the primaries about how much he had to pay for his insulin. I don't know enough about diabetes, but is there something with the disease that would result in someone being incapacitated for a couple of weeks?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

If he didn't take his meds and had to have his foot cut off.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 09, 2026 01:12 PM (YZ0Fo)

257 @250 a diabetic stroke could take you out completely

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 01:12 PM (t9883)

258 250 Talarico is diabetic. He ran an ad in the primaries about how much he had to pay for his insulin. I don't know enough about diabetes, but is there something with the disease that would result in someone being incapacitated for a couple of weeks?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

Reaction with psychoactive drugs can be a bitch I suppose.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

259 Democrats disappearing for weeks and months at a time during campaigns is unfortunately kind of standard at this point. They answer to no one.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (8S7CD)

260 247 I remember this pattern well from the WW1 veterans...They'll all be gone in another 10 or 15 years.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


A 17 yr old in 1941 is 102 right now. (b 1924)
I don't think we have 10 more years. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 01:11 PM (nPfAi)

There were some in their early teens (like in the Philippines) who fought near the end of the war. That being said, there will be some who will live past 110 years, like the WW1 vets. Assuming the world doesn't go to hell before then.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (l3cgK)

261 Komatireddy isn't exactly a model or anything, but unlike Big Tish she actually looks like a woman.

Tish and Big Mike could have made a great starting pair of guards in their college days...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (sKqQm)

262 The media wouldn’t know the truth if it climbed up their collective asses and winked at them through their teeth in the mirror. It’s why they all have butt plugs. The truth is their worst nightmare.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (ICjqV)

263 I received nothing from either of my parents. My mother was living off EBT and SS while my dad lived off his retirement and SS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)

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My mom has some money, not a lot. Crazy sister always needs money from her. If Mom passes before I do, I'll probably just keep my share in the bank and dole it out to sister periodically to make her go away.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 01:13 PM (DRSnL)

264 Talarico: "If the Ayatollah can hide out, well so can I."

Posted by: WisRich at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (G0vdT)

265 ======
Sorry about that Sponge.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)



Absolutely nothing for you to be sorry for. I've lived my adult life knowing that I wouldn't get anything from my family, so I've lived accordingly.

The way the S-S handled things after my dad passed was pathetic and mostly a slap in the face, but I chalked it up to "to the winner goes the spoils" because her mom lived longer.

I could've likely made myself the asshole and contested everything by pusing 'of sound mind' since the S-M has dementia and Alzheimer's......but that would've been horrible on her and not really solve much of anything.

I'm just doing everything I can to make sure when we're all said and done, our daughter has something for her nest egg.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (ccf/V)

266 264 Talarico: "If the Ayatollah can hide out, well so can I."

Posted by: WisRich at October 09, 2026 01:14 PM (G0vdT)

Well...that's a deep subject.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (l3cgK)

267 Unfortunately, she is protected under Article I Section 6.
Posted by: tankdemon

Don't think the speech and debate clause includes suborning perjury from witnesses. The protection is personal to the member of congress and does not extend to witnesses.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:15 PM (E4rtv)

268 I'm just doing everything I can to make sure when we're all said and done, our daughter has something for her nest egg.
Posted by: Sponge
======
Good on ya.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv)

269 215 I'm Gen X. I don't give a flying fuck what anyone else does. As long as it doesn't cost me money. If it costs me money, then I got some opinions.

Posted by: nckate at October 09, 2026 01:03 PM (enNUy)
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I'm technically an elder Millennial ('82) but this is my attitude.

Posted by: ballistic at October 09, 2026 01:19 PM (oqH4h)

270 106 FWIW, Leticia had her ass handed to her in the debate with the GOP AG candidate yesterday as well.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:39 PM (E4rtv)

Oh, yay!

Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 01:36 PM (odBC9)

271 Dad put all six of us kids through college. We then got "some" help in graduate schools. 13 different degrees between us. We told him to spend it all as we had already been taken care of.

Posted by: free tibet at October 09, 2026 02:27 PM (h6yWA)

272 we need to round up the Jan 6th committee bandwagon and haul them all off to GITMO (to rot)

Posted by: gov't here to steal at October 09, 2026 04:12 PM (cqrFc)

MORNING RANT - The Memphis Situation: Tennessee Shouldn't Need Federal Help; “Bake the Cake” Rules Should Apply to Pizza Parlor Denying Service to Guardsmen

National Guard in Memphis.png

There is a story that I somehow missed a few months ago about a Memphis pizzeria that refused to serve National Guard troops. I have some thoughts about that incident, which I’ll get to in a moment, but this also reminds me of something I meant to write about the larger Memphis situation, but never got around to.

Specifically, it is a disgrace to the state of Tennessee that we have a failed city that has sunk to a such a state of lawlessness and anarchy that the federal government had to take control of the streets. To be clear, the National Guard troops in Memphis are from Tennessee, but the greater overall Memphis Safe Task Force (“MSTF” is headed by President Trump, run by the U.S. Marshalls, and has involvement from the FBI, DEA, ATF and other federal agencies.

The MSTF has been a tremendous success. Per a 9/29/2026 press release from the US Marshalls service, in the year since the National Guard moved in, Memphis has seen an overall 38% decrease in serious crimes, including:

• Murders down 37%
• Sexual assaults down 30%
• Robberies down 47%
• Aggravated assault down 29%

I am grateful to President Trump for coming to Memphis’ rescue, but Tennessee shouldn’t have to run to Uncle Sam to police our prominent failed city. If Memphis needs a takeover, the state should do it. I hope Marsha Blackburn will be more assertive as governor when it comes to dealing with Memphis than Governor Bill Lee has been.

If Memphis cannot be rehabilitated, it should be dissolved into smaller municipalities. Those sub-sections of Memphis that are capable of becoming self-governing cities should be given that chance. Any remaining parts of Memphis that are not capable of self-government should become a ward of the state until they can be reconstructed into a functioning municipal entity. The same applies to Shelby County as a whole. Whatever restrictions there might be in Tennessee law that would impede this can easily be fixed by amending the state constitution.

To be fair to Governor Lee, he did sign legislation a few months ago authorizing the state to take over Memphis’ failed schools. In accordance with the new law, the governor appointed an oversight board for Memphis schools, but Federal District Judge Waverly Crenshaw (an Obama appointee, of course) put a temporary restraining order on the new board. Fortunately, that restraining order is about to expire and it looks like the state will start administering Memphis schools. That is a start.

As for the pizza incident involving the National Guard…

“Memphis pizza joint owner under fire for denying service to National Guard troops” [NY Post – 7/16/2026]

A Memphis pizzeria owner is facing fierce backlash after refusing over the weekend to serve members of the National Guard deployed to the city to combat crime.

Miles Tamboli, proprietor of Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza, sparked the controversy by turning away troops stationed in the city since September 2025 — and he declared in a Thursday statement that he would “make the same decision tomorrow.”

Tamboli argued that utilizing soldiers trained for overseas combat in local law enforcement roles has compromised city safety.

I would defend Mr. Tamboli’s right to refuse service to National Guardsmen - no matter how vulgar his actions might seem to me - if conservative business owners had a similar right to refuse service based on conscience, beliefs, and values. But that is not the case. There are two sets of rules based on the politics of the business owner.

Per Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, public accommodations (which includes private businesses) may not deny service based on race, color, religion, or national origin. Tamboli’s Pizza is apparently free to deny service to Americans wearing their country’s military uniform, but Patriot Pizza is prohibited from denying service to gang members, cross-dressing men, or jihadis.

The extent of how one-sided the denial-of-service rules are was evidenced by the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. Jack Phillips, a Christian, was willing to sell a gay couple a wedding cake, but he refused to create a custom cake with two groom toppers on it. The state of Colorado Civil Rights Commission pursued punitive actions, including mandatory re-education for Phillips and his staff for the purpose of making them endorse sex between two men. The case went to the Supreme Court where Justice Roberts and the Supremes effectively punted on the case, allowing the state of Colorado to continue its persecution of Mr. Phillips.

Based on the Masterpiece Cakeshop precedent, it is only fair that Tamboli’s should be forced to make a custom pizza with “Support the National Guard” spelled out in pepperonis.

Again, my original principles would be that both Masterpiece Cakeshop and Tamboli’s Pizza should be able to refuse service to anyone they want, including soldiers or gay men. But that is not to be. My succeeding principle is that the left must abide by the rules they impose on conservatives.

Bake the pizza, bigot.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 11:00 AM (nPfAi)

2 That's two.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 11:00 AM (nPfAi)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (ccf/V)

4 I don't know what state-level solution to red states with blue cities that allow rampant criminality.

But there are probably some.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:02 AM (1kJuV)

5 Isn't Memphis 98% black?

Just a question...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:02 AM (ccf/V)

6
James Talarico is resting comfortably at the Hotel Driskill in a bathtub full of ice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (eRlcH)

7 Howdy !

Posted by: Okjohn at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (yhou+)

8 Agreed, but you're not running for a Senate seat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (eRlcH)

Yeah, the Senate is supposed to be senior care, not a lunatic asylum. The asylums are state legislatures

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (sDWtc)

9 "Bake the Pizza", but I wouldn't trust them to not poison or spit on my pizza, if they are such open border zealots.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (vbXSk)

10 Either you bake the cake and bake the pie for everybody, or you can choose who you do the baking for in your establishment.
If that means you won't serve Repubicans or Democrats, so be it. If that means you won't serve Whites or Black or Muzzies, or Jews, or Gays, so be it.
Either you have one set of rules applicable to everybody, or you don't have rules at all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:04 AM (l3cgK)

11 13,000 arrests in our first year is how you know nothing is happening.

Posted by: Memphis Safe Task Force at October 09, 2026 11:04 AM (qoUKC)

12 James Talarico is resting comfortably at the Hotel Driskill in a bathtub full of ice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (eRlcH)




THEY STOLE HIS KIDNEYS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:04 AM (ccf/V)

13 Trying to think of something clever and insightful to say, but I think Buck's already covered it.

Sauce for the goose must also be sauce for the gander. Period.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

14 Jack Phillips is incredible. He's the only baker in the entire state of Colorado. I'm really surprised that someone from the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community never tried to compete with him.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (NR6c1)

15 9 "Bake the Pizza", but I wouldn't trust them to not poison or spit on my pizza, if they are such open border zealots.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (vbXSk)

Donate the pizza to the local Dem HQ...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (l3cgK)

16 11 13,000 arrests in our first year is how you know nothing is happening.

Posted by: Memphis Safe Task Force at October 09, 2026 11:04 AM (qoUKC)

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I have this suspicion that Cohen was going to lose his House seat without the redistricting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (1kJuV)

17 13 Trying to think of something clever and insightful to say,

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

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Never stops me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (1kJuV)

18 14 Jack Phillips is incredible. He's the only baker in the entire state of Colorado. I'm really surprised that someone from the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community never tried to compete with him.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (NR6c1)

Funny thing, in CO they apparently refuse to go after any Muzzie bakeries...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (l3cgK)

19 I agree in concept to "good for the goose, good for the gander" approach. Bake the pizza, bigot!

But ... I'm at a loss for why anyone would want give their money to some rando pissant cocksucker who hates your guts?

Fuck this pizza place and fuck the owner. Shit be upon him. I hope he gets raped and beaten by the illegal skells he's so fond of.

I think the calculus is different when you're talking about monopolies where there are no other options. But some shitty rando pizza place in Memphis? Fuck this guy. Take your business someplace else.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

20 Harump~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (nEUC6)

21 It's like the shops that have the "No Guns" signs. They're not the legal 30.06 or .07 statute postings. They don't want my business anyway, so I usually don't darken their door.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (ccf/V)

22 " Estimates from various sources indicate that the Black or African American population ranges from approximately 61% to 64.57% of the total residents. The White population makes up a smaller portion, generally reported between 22.4% and 27.9% of the city's inhabitants. Additionally, the Hispanic population is around 8% to 10.4% of the total, with Asian residents constituting about 1.7% to 2%."

that's from Freespoke, not sure what AI engine they use.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (vbXSk)

23 17 13 Trying to think of something clever and insightful to say,

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

======

Never stops me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (1kJuV)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (l3cgK)

24 Funny thing, in CO they apparently refuse to go after any Muzzie bakeries...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Apparently they have an allergic reaction to decapitations.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (NR6c1)

25 If I ever make it to Memphis, to see Graceland and Beale St., I guess?, I know where not to eat, at least.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:07 AM (6ydKt)

26 The asylums are state legislatures
Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM


I see you've been to Beacon Hill.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 11:07 AM (/C5Rl)

27 If the savages in Memphis want to kill each other why should I care. Have at it. Same with Chicago, LA, and every other blue city shithole.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 11:07 AM (zJe6s)

28 I'm really surprised that someone from the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community never tried to compete with him.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (NR6c1)



Because they really don't support anything. They just get their rocks off by making other people's lives miserable like theirs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:07 AM (ccf/V)

29 Because they really don't support anything. They just get their rocks off by making other people's lives miserable like theirs.

Bingo.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

30 Mmmmmm. French toast.

Alan Joseph Bauer: The French Are Toast

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7)

31 Bake the pizza pie, buddy!

Posted by: Don at October 09, 2026 11:09 AM (rOKnE)

32 30 Mmmmmm. French toast.

Alan Joseph Bauer: The French Are Toast

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7)


with maple syrup.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:09 AM (6ydKt)

33 12 James Talarico is resting comfortably at the Hotel Driskill in a bathtub full of ice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (eRlcH)



THEY STOLE HIS KIDNEYS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:04 AM (ccf/V)

Why would they want his kids' knees? I don't even think he has kids...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:09 AM (l3cgK)

34 Tamboli argued that utilizing soldiers trained for overseas combat in local law enforcement roles has compromised city safety.

Be a shame to find those Mob connections...

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 11:09 AM (Zbo05)

35
Trying to think of something clever and insightful to say,

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

___________

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

*crosses out irritably*

"Call me Ishmael."

*tears paper out of typewriter*

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

*storms from room in a rage*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:10 AM (eRlcH)

36 >>Jack Phillips is incredible. He's the only baker in the entire state of Colorado. I'm really surprised that someone from the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community never tried to compete with him.


He is incredible!

Posted by: Don at October 09, 2026 11:10 AM (rOKnE)

37 32 30 Mmmmmm. French toast.

Alan Joseph Bauer: The French Are Toast

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:08 AM (ndZc7)


with maple syrup.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:09 AM (6ydKt)

The Whiskey-aged Maple syrup is pretty darn good...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:10 AM (l3cgK)

38 Maybe someone should shove some pizza up where the baker's sun don't shine.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 09, 2026 11:10 AM (sl73Y)

39 As a former Memphis resident, well actually the city of Bartlett to the NE, the city was going to shit back in the late 90's when I lived there.

Racial strife was big. Having blacks administer the city at the time was a huge mistake. Harold Ford Sr. didn't do himself, or the citizens at the time any favors cooling the animosity between the races.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 11:10 AM (RORbl)

40 If I ever make it to Memphis, to see Graceland and Beale St., I guess?, I know where not to eat, at least.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:07 AM (6ydKt)

The people of Memphis should start wearing WWED (What Would Elvis Do) bracelets.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:10 AM (g8Ew8)

41 As is the Bourbon-Aged Maple Syrup...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:11 AM (l3cgK)

42 I think the Tamboli might be overcooked

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 11:11 AM (06nk1)

43 34 Tamboli argued that utilizing soldiers trained for overseas combat in local law enforcement roles has compromised city safety.

Be a shame to find those Mob connections...

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 11:09 AM (Zbo05)


The Guard compromised the city's safety, the burglaries, carjackings, muggings, assaults, rapes, and murders, not so much.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:11 AM (6ydKt)

44 Mmmmmm. French toast.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Soggy bread made even soggier by the addition of maple syrup. No thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

45 27 If the savages in Memphis want to kill each other why should I care. Have at it. Same with Chicago, LA, and every other blue city shithole.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

We tried that for over 50 years and it's only gotten worse. They never kill enough of themselves to make it stop and a whole lot of innocents get caught up in the violence (Iryna Zarutska and thousands of others). This is America, there should be no "no-go zones". States should bring this under control. A good start would be defenestrating judges and prosecutors who let the scumbags free. Resort to National Guard if necessary.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:12 AM (Dv3i1)

46 should be able to refuse service to anyone they want, including old greek homos.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 09, 2026 11:12 AM (AuD1E)

47 >>"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

*crosses out irritably*

"Call me Ishmael."

*tears paper out of typewriter*

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

*storms from room in a rage*
- - - -

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

Posted by: Don at October 09, 2026 11:12 AM (rOKnE)

48 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:10 AM (eRlcH)


Heh.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

49 44 Mmmmmm. French toast.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Soggy bread made even soggier by the addition of maple syrup. No thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

If it's soggy, you didn't cook it right...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:13 AM (l3cgK)

50
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
Posted by: Don at October 09, 2026 11:12 AM (rOKnE)



Wow. The Art Thread really affected you, man......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:14 AM (ccf/V)

51
If it's soggy, you didn't cook it right...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:13 AM (l3cgK)



You're not supposed to soak the bread in the egg wash for 30 minutes.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:15 AM (ccf/V)

52 >>Wow. The Art Thread really affected you, man......


Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:15 AM (rOKnE)

53 It was a dark and stormy night.

A shot rang out.

And the maid screamed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 11:15 AM (06nk1)

54 If it's soggy, you didn't cook it right...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:13 AM (l3cgK)

Yup.
It might be a little greasy on the plate, but if it's soggy you did something wrong or left it sitting out too long.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:15 AM (6ydKt)

55 *types*
"Indian Summer is like a woman."

That's the ticket!

Posted by: Opening line from Peyton Place at October 09, 2026 11:16 AM (Dv3i1)

56
You know when an anesthesiologist hits you with dope and tells you "count backward from 100?"

And then you get to like 96 and fade the fuck out?

In that 96 moment, you are capable of the exact same aggression level as Tennesssee Governor Bill Lee.

I'm no fan of Blackburn - she is a US Senator, so definitionally bad - but she will definitely be better and more active than him. You could make my lazy old all-bark-and-no-bite Labrador Governor of TN and do better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 11:16 AM (BI5O2)

57 The civil rights act of '64 is unconstitutional.

But race warlords, federal overseers, and grifters of all stripes gotta make bank so be careful out there.

Posted by: The 14th Amendment at October 09, 2026 11:16 AM (9zGZf)

58 You're not supposed to soak the bread in the egg wash for 30 minutes....

The bread?! I've been soaking the toast...

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 11:16 AM (Zbo05)

59 Apropos of nothing, Harold Ford Jr is the whitest black man I have ever seen.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 11:17 AM (4NO2D)

60 53 It was a dark and stormy night.

A shot rang out.

And the maid screamed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 11:15 AM (06nk1)

Scarlet did it, with the candlestick in the library.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:17 AM (6ydKt)

61 You could make my lazy old all-bark-and-no-bite Labrador Governor of TN and do better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 11:16 AM (BI5O2)

I'd take the lab.
At least they appreciate you when you clean up their shit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:18 AM (6ydKt)

62 56
You know when an anesthesiologist hits you with dope and tells you "count backward from 100?"

And then you get to like 96 and fade the fuck out?

In that 96 moment, you are capable of the exact same aggression level as Tennesssee Governor Bill Lee.

I'm no fan of Blackburn - she is a US Senator, so definitionally bad - but she will definitely be better and more active than him. You could make my lazy old all-bark-and-no-bite Labrador Governor of TN and do better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 11:16 AM (BI5O2)

You ONLY remember counting back to 96...you actually counted back much further, then started saying the darndest things before passing out completely. The anesthesia they use? Knocks out about 5 min of your short-term memory...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:19 AM (l3cgK)

63 Bad opening lines -
https://tinyurl.com/awbbtyks

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:19 AM (Dv3i1)

64 The candlestick was never the same after that night.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 11:19 AM (06nk1)

65 We tried that for over 50 years and it's only gotten worse. They never kill enough of themselves to make it stop and a whole lot of innocents get caught up in the violence (Iryna Zarutska and thousands of others). This is America, there should be no "no-go zones". States should bring this under control. A good start would be defenestrating judges and prosecutors who let the scumbags free. Resort to National Guard if necessary.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

But are just going to spend endless billions in every city to have the Feds act as local police? These people want me dead yet my tax dollars going to protect them from each other? No thanks. It’s been a No go zone for 60 years and will never not be a no go zone again.

As for Iryna, she had a BLM poster on her wall. FAFO and all that. We talk all the time about personal responsibility right? Want to not get killed by a thug? Avoid being around thugs, helps a lot.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 11:20 AM (zJe6s)

66 60 53 It was a dark and stormy night.

A shot rang out.

And the maid screamed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 11:15 AM (06nk1)

Scarlet did it, with the candlestick in the library.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:17 AM (6ydKt)

"Anything can be a dildo"--some feminist

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:20 AM (l3cgK)

67 64 The candlestick was never the same after that night.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2026 11:19 AM (06nk1)

OnlyFans wasn't either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:20 AM (6ydKt)

68
The bread?! I've been soaking the toast...
Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 11:16 AM (Zbo05)



I mean, I'm no chef, nor have I looked up a recipe for it, but I dunk the bread in egg wash, then pan fry it to toast the bread and cook the egg at the same time.

seems to work OK for me........but YMMV.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:21 AM (ccf/V)

69 Damn uppity teenagers!

Laura Ingraham
@IngrahamAngle
🚨 British teen ARRESTED over Facebook post.

Fraser: “I had posted a numerous amount of posts criticizing the councillor… And I must have hit his nerve a bit, so he reported me to the police.”

“As an elected official you’re supposed to be there to represent the people, not to be sitting on your phone getting paid to do nothing.”

-
It all started when Fraser noticed that councilman Simon Bennett showed up to a formal meeting in a T-shirt and shorts, which is still a big faux pas in jolly old England.

At the next meeting, Bennett came dressed in a suit. Fraser posted to Facebook that the politician no longer looked "like a rent boy," which is a slang term for gay prostitutes.

-
Check the unique hairstyle at the link.

https://tinyurl.com/2y7e68nz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

70 59 Apropos of nothing, Harold Ford Jr is the whitest black man I have ever seen.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 11:17 AM (4NO2D)
------------------
What yo talkin' 'bout, Willis?

Posted by: Shaun King aka Talcum X at October 09, 2026 11:21 AM (2X2jr)

71
The DA in DeSoto County, MS put up billboards on I-55 facing the TN border:

"MEMPHIS CRIMINALS, TURN BACK NOW, PRISON AWAITS YOU IN DESOTO COUNTY!"

"WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI, WHERE THE FIRING SQUAD IS LEGAL. THINK TWICE!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 11:22 AM (BI5O2)

72 Beale Street is a few jazz bars. It’s kinda cool but wildly overrated as a “must see”. I spent a bit of time working in the Memphis area (far from downtown). The suburbs are quite nice. The city is a shithole among shitholes. Never bothered with Graceland.

One thing I will give Memphis bigly big props for is BBQ. Man they know how to do it right there.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 11:22 AM (zJe6s)

73
“As an elected official you’re supposed to be there to represent the people, not to be sitting on your phone getting paid to do nothing.”

__________

Wait, what?

Posted by: Elected Officials The World Round at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (eRlcH)

74 James Talarico is resting comfortably at the Hotel Driskill in a bathtub full of ice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (eRlcH)

THEY STOLE HIS KIDNEYS!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:04 AM (ccf/V)


He received a Testicular Implant in NYC, but-

the Testicles rejected his body.

Fortunately, they kept Talarico's ovaries and have reimplanted those.

After rejecting Talarico's body, the testicles disappeared. They are thought to have hitched a ride in a feral hog's scrotum.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (YSUhf)

75 13 Trying to think of something clever and insightful to say
---------------
Checks style guide...confirmed. That's never been a prerequisite for commenting.

Posted by: scampydog at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (2bFN5)

76 Apropos of nothing, Harold Ford Jr is the whitest black man I have ever seen.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I'd say that's Obama.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

77 Check the unique hairstyle at the link.

https://tinyurl.com/2y7e68nz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:21 AM (ndZc7)

Lol. He got arrested for saying he *doesn't* look like a 'mo no mo'? Fascinating.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (aKiSo)

78 "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

*storms from room in a rage*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026


***
"We were about to give up and call it a night when someone dropped the girl off the bridge."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (wzUl9)

79 Thx Buck.
Memphis pizza? I think I'd pass on that one

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (t9883)

80 2. Ali Kawashima

As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand – who would take her away from all this – and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had.


Pure poetry.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (6ydKt)

81 Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Posted by: Chuck Martel
======
Chuck is right. Criminals born and bred in big cities also travel to your very community by way of interstates. They go visit Cuz in the country and do their gang banging thing right in Sleepytown USA. The thug diaspora after Katrina had N'Awlins hood rats spread throughout the south spiking crime levels whereever they ended up.

Back when actual research was done, a guy at University of Memphis mapped crime--for a long time, it was confined in Memphis to the projects. Project housing closed, and welfare housing vouchers replaced it. After that, crime exploded across Memphis even in previously safe places due to Section 8 bringing in gang bangers to the magic dirt of safe areas. Became not safe areas in short order.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)

82 The double standard is so blatant on this pizzeria, Ray Charles noticed it. And since he's dead, that's even more impressive.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 11:24 AM (NR6c1)

83 Legendary Bears head coach Mike Ditka dead at 86

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 11:25 AM (gWCxi)

84 6. Jordan Kaderli

Betty had eyes that said come here, lips that said kiss me, arms and torso that said hold me all night long, but the rest of her body said, “Fillet me, cover me in cornmeal, and fry me in peanut oil”; romance wasn’t easy for a mermaid.


Oh, I gotta read this one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:25 AM (6ydKt)

85 78 "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

*storms from room in a rage*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026

***
"We were about to give up and call it a night when someone dropped the girl off the bridge."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (wzUl9)

Wasn't me.

Posted by: Zombie Teddy Kennedy, Lion of the Senate at October 09, 2026 11:25 AM (l3cgK)

86 Fuck this pizza place and fuck the owner. Shit be upon him. I hope he gets raped and beaten by the illegal skells he's so fond of.

I think the calculus is different when you're talking about monopolies where there are no other options. But some shitty rando pizza place in Memphis? Fuck this guy. Take your business someplace else.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

Just broadcast it far and wide that Asshole's Pizza Joint discriminates against the National Guard, so that all good people can boycott it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:26 AM (quk5M)

87 80 2. Ali Kawashima

As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand – who would take her away from all this – and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had.

Pure poetry.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:23 AM (6ydKt)

LOL! A Moron wrote this, no doubt.

Posted by: Zombie Teddy Kennedy, Lion of the Senate at October 09, 2026 11:26 AM (l3cgK)

88 Legendary Bears head coach Mike Ditka dead at 86
Posted by: SMOD

So he's the third, after Jim Bakker and Eva Marie Saint.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

89 You ONLY remember counting back to 96...you actually counted back much further, then started saying the darndest things before passing out completely. The anesthesia they use? Knocks out about 5 min of your short-term memory...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026


***
It must. For my hernia operation last summer, they gave me something orally, then wheeled me into what I supposed was the operating room. I remember commenting on the wall clock, that it was still early that morning . . . but the next thing I knew I was waking up in the recovery room. If they asked me to count down, I've completely forgotten it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:27 AM (wzUl9)

90 Legendary Bears head coach Mike Ditka dead at 86
Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 11:25 AM (gWCxi)



Suck......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:27 AM (ccf/V)

91 I assume locking up criminals instead of letting them go free, requiring only some lame "counseling" that the ruling magistrate ordered (which counseling practice also happens to be owned by the magistrate's lesbian partner), might lead to some small reduction in the criminal activity in the area.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:27 AM (Dv3i1)

92 Amazon makes me sound like a superhero.

"Prepared for an international trip in a single burst."

😂

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 11:27 AM (GfgtS)

93 I'm pretty sure i've never once in my life made a loud honking noise whilst grabbing a boob. Nor grabbed a boob whilst making a loud honking noise.

Like, 99.9% sure.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (aKiSo)

94 Fuck this pizza place and fuck the owner. Shit be upon him. I hope he gets raped and beaten by the illegal skells he's so fond of.

I think the calculus is different when you're talking about monopolies where there are no other options. But some shitty rando pizza place in Memphis? Fuck this guy. Take your business someplace else.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

Just broadcast it far and wide that Asshole's Pizza Joint discriminates against the National Guard, so that all good people can boycott it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:26 AM (quk5M)
________

That too

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

95 Be a shame to find those Mob connections...

Posted by: t-bird
==========
Memphis used to be curiously pretty mobbed up. They ran the nudie bars among other things. IRRC, they were part of New Orleans Mafia territory.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (E4rtv)

96 93 I'm pretty sure i've never once in my life made a loud honking noise whilst grabbing a boob. Nor grabbed a boob whilst making a loud honking noise.

Like, 99.9% sure.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (aKiSo)

=======

I'm going to correct this for myself tonight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (1kJuV)

97 off drunken dead politician sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (l3cgK)

98 Legendary Bears head coach Mike Ditka dead at 86
Posted by: SMOD


Da Bears!

R. I. P. Mike.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (nPfAi)

99 "We were about to give up and call it a night when someone dropped the girl off the bridge."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026
*
Wasn't me.
Posted by: Zombie Teddy Kennedy, Lion of the Senate at October 09, 2026


***
John D. MacDonald published that novel three years before you had your little adventure, Teddy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (wzUl9)

100 Betty had eyes that said come here, lips that said kiss me, arms and torso that said hold me all night long, but the rest of her body said, “Fillet me, cover me in cornmeal, and fry me in peanut oil”; romance wasn’t easy for a mermaid.

Oh, I gotta read this one.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:25 AM (6ydKt)
----
Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)

101 92 Amazon makes me sound like a superhero.

"Prepared for an international trip in a single burst."

😂

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 11:27 AM (GfgtS)


Are you reading your "What we know about you" profile in Amazon?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (6ydKt)

102
Back then, it was Mike Ditka. Now, it's guys who look like they got shoved into a locker in high school.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (eRlcH)

103 93 I'm pretty sure i've never once in my life made a loud honking noise whilst grabbing a boob. Nor grabbed a boob whilst making a loud honking noise.

Like, 99.9% sure.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Can you account for any situations where you were being wheeled into the operating room?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:30 AM (Dv3i1)

104 One thing I will give Memphis bigly big props for is BBQ. Man they know how to do it right there.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
========
Dry rub and time enough to smoke the meat thoroughly. Tops is still doing old style pit bbq for example.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)

105 ----
Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)



Is that from one of Stacy Abrams romance novels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

106
I'm pretty sure i've never once in my life made a loud honking noise whilst grabbing a boob. Nor grabbed a boob whilst making a loud honking noise.

__________

What, never?

Posted by: Gilbert and Sullivan Chorus at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (eRlcH)

107 105 ----
Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)


Is that from one of Stacy Abrams romance novels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

She touted it as "more than a ton of fun"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

108 Can you account for any situations where you were being wheeled into the operating room?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:30 AM (Dv3i1)

Don't think so.

By that point, I would have stopped accounting already.

98...
97....

HAHNK HAHNK!

96...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (aKiSo)

109 Dry rub and time enough to smoke the meat thoroughly. Tops is still doing old style pit bbq for example.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)




Corky's > Rendezvous

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

110 " You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (rOKnE)

111 The Jaguar ad with no cars and lots of freaky looking people was universally mocked, especially here. They've now revealed the new model on which they've staked the company. It will cost 130k pounds (don't know what that is in real money), is all electric, and has no back window, so you have to see behind you via a camera.

It will be built entirely in Britain, but if they sell as many cars as they did last month (6), it won't matter.

Their strategy is the Bud Lite strategy: we hate our current customers and want to drive them away, and bring in all NEW customers.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6WRnkmIm_I

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

112 Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)

The minotaur eats the mermaid I'm guessing.
Then complains she's too bony and kinda salty.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (6ydKt)

113 109 Dry rub and time enough to smoke the meat thoroughly. Tops is still doing old style pit bbq for example.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:30 AM (E4rtv)



Corky's > Rendezvous

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

That's what she said...

Posted by: Ketamine on my Asian Cock at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (l3cgK)

114 My succeeding principle is that the left must abide by the rules they impose on conservatives.

They're so cute when they're young!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & The MSM at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (hOqTc)

115 Was just rumors, now Spencer Pratt is discussing it.
"
Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
·
1h
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico. We should, of course, savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors, by all means...and while yes, of course, this would be disqualifying for Talarico's aspirations to be a Texas Senator, we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis. Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it. You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work.

I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health."
======
Rumors are that Talarico is a manic depressive aka bi-polar. But one step at a time on rumor wrangling.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

116 Mmmmmm. French toast.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Haywood Banks - https://t.ly/FsVw1

Yeah, it's toast!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 11:33 AM (vNWfh)

117 Rumors are that Talarico is a manic depressive aka bi-polar. But one step at a time on rumor wrangling.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

It's a frustrating mess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:34 AM (aKiSo)

118 115 Rumors are that Talarico is a manic depressive aka bi-polar. But one step at a time on rumor wrangling.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)

===

He's a bad person who has tried to steer the Texas state legislature to castrate children and is a heretic who uses the skin of Christianity to advocate for literal heresy like the Gospel of Thomas.

He is an enemy of western civilization, and he deserves suffering.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:34 AM (1kJuV)

119 That Jaguar is $171,940.60 Freedom Bucks after conversion.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:34 AM (6ydKt)

120 116 Mmmmmm. French toast.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Haywood Banks - https://t.ly/FsVw1

Yeah, it's toast!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 11:33 AM (vNWfh)

He's abusing a toaster!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:34 AM (l3cgK)

121 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 11:27 AM (GfgtS)

=====

I will see you next week!

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 11:35 AM (DRSnL)

122 Corky's > Rendezvous

Posted by: Sponge

Depends on the cut. Rendezvous does better ribs than Corky's. Corky's does a bit better pulled pork. Beef at either place is meh compared to Texas brisket. Tops is better than Corky's on pulled pork if you go to the original outlets. Been around for a long time.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:35 AM (E4rtv)

123 That Jaguar is $171,940.60 Freedom Bucks after conversion.

And that's the base model without any options yet. They are shooting to compete with Rolls Royce, Bentley, and top of the line Porsche. Good luck.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

124 "We were about to give up and call it a night when someone dropped the girl off the bridge."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026

I read the first paragraphs of the opening. I'd love to read the rest of the book. (Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald, for those wondering.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 09, 2026 11:37 AM (Wt5PA)

125
If he's really that sick, I hope he recovers. But that's no reason to make him Senator.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:37 AM (eRlcH)

126 >>That Jaguar is $171,940.60 Freedom Bucks after conversion.

Perfect car for the next James Bond, who will no doubt be some multi-faceted DEI freak.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:37 AM (rOKnE)

127
I've never squeezed a boob and said "Honk!"
Nor when squeezing a nice girl's ba-donk
Though it might be just me
I always yell out, "Yipeeeeee!"
When entering a lady's crotch conch.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 11:37 AM (YSUhf)

128 123 That Jaguar is $171,940.60 Freedom Bucks after conversion.

And that's the base model without any options yet. They are shooting to compete with Rolls Royce, Bentley, and top of the line Porsche. Good luck.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

I could see it being popular in West Hollywood, a few areas of San Fransisco and New York.

Not gonna be a big seller anywhere else.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:37 AM (6ydKt)

129 OT: Twitchy is reporting that Talarico may have had a mental breakdown and be in inpatient psychiatric care. And that is why he's missing.

No idea if true, but it comes from Spencer Pratt tweets posted by Twitchy...

Probably also already posted, but if not...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 11:37 AM (tOcjL)

130 Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM


In an upcoming Book Thread we hope?

Posted by: Kareny McKarenface at October 09, 2026 11:38 AM (0sNs1)

131 I am honestly now wondering what Democrats path to a House majority is. Their candidates are nuts and bleat so much crap like this that is antithetical to a majority of Americans it’s really hard to understand how people would vote for that. The only way Republicans lose is if people don’t get to the polls.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 11:38 AM (g/iaZ)

132 Man. I've heard of aggressive campaigning.

But checking in to a nuthouse? Just to demonstrate solidarity with your base?

That's impressive.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:38 AM (aKiSo)

133 Dang, I was writing at the same time everyone was posting b/c my typing skills are slow!

Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 11:38 AM (tOcjL)

134 >>My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.


Classy.

If true, how fortunate for Texas (and the rest of us) that this happened before election day.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:38 AM (rOKnE)

135 It's a frustrating mess.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Not really, Talafreako's only shot for an upset was to spike blue turnout to eleventy and have GOP not turn out for Paxton. That appears to not be the case. More importantly, Talafreako's disappearance is probably affecting down ballot competitive races in Texas for the US House mostly around the Rio Grande IRRC.

The building momentum in Florida for Donalds and Moore is likely going to depress Dem turnout in that state making it easier to turn the House redistricting there also into gains.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)

136 Wow.... Labor Dept pulls Perm labor Certs for foreign workers. H-1B visa companies in India have collapsed the Indian stock market.


Posted by: Pinochet Door Gunner at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (zL/eJ)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (2X2jr)

138 San Francisco.... ^^

Spellchecker didn't even pick the typo up.
Not even spellchecker tales SF seriously anymore.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (6ydKt)

139 The only way Republicans lose is if people don’t get to the polls.
Posted by: Vengeance


The further whackadoodle a candidate seems to be, the more complacent the opposition becomes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (W2Pud)

140 Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)

(heh.... I was just making a lame Hendrix joke)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (aKiSo)

141 I read the first paragraphs of the opening. I'd love to read the rest of the book. (Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald, for those wondering.)
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 09, 2026


***
It's one of his best. A movie was made of it in 1970 with Rod Taylor (of The Time Machine fame) as Travis McGee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (wzUl9)

142 One wonders if Cornyn could have beaten him, even after this revelation (assuming it turns out to be true). I have my doubts. Cornyn is just...the worst.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

143 I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health."
======
Rumors are that Talarico is a manic depressive aka bi-polar. But one step at a time on rumor wrangling.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
________

I'm not as magnanimous as Pratt. I wish nothing but pain and suffering and misery on this perverted creep.

I want to mercilessly crush my enemies until they are sobbing glops of oozing smegma under my boot.

I don't want to wish them well or any sort of recovery from any ailments they suffer from.

Fuck these people, every last one.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

144 +1 on Rendezvous ribs. The place's atmosphere is meh, but the ribs are awesome. Corky's sandwiches are their mainstay. Ate at both many times when I lived there.

And there was this small, mom and pop joint out in the boonies not far from Millington that had the best fried catfish on the planet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (RORbl)

145 If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico. . . . we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis

No.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (zpcJA)

146 He's a bad person who has tried to steer the Texas state legislature to castrate children and is a heretic who uses the skin of Christianity to advocate for literal heresy like the Gospel of Thomas.

He is an enemy of western civilization, and he deserves suffering.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:34 AM (1kJuV)

Indeed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (quk5M)

147 17. Jeanne Villa
She sipped her latte gracefully, unaware of the milk foam droplets building on her mustache, which was not the peachy-fine baby fuzz that Nordic girls might have, but a really dense, dark, hirsute lip-lining row of fur common to southern Mediterranean ladies nearing menopause, and winked at the obviously charmed Spaniard at the next table.

Muy caliente!
-Charmed Spaniard

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)

148 Once again, the alleged Talerico breakdown is a good demonstration of why we need and election *day* not and election season. Have people already started voting for him?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (rOKnE)

149 134 Classy.

If true, how fortunate for Texas (and the rest of us) that this happened before election day.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:38 AM (rOKnE)

========

Talarico was never going to win.

He's too weird and too of the wrong party for a deep red state that has shifted massively to the right in the last decade. In a state where the establishment has actively been on its back heels and getting kicked out of office in favor of people like Ken Paxton, who is effectively the standard bearer of the replacement.

The only thing that convinced people he had a shot was polling that made literally no sense including things like the white vote shifting 30 points in 2 years, which literally never happens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (1kJuV)

150 A lot of people get into a "whoa... dude... there's a FIFTH GOSPEL?!" phase in college. Kind of like experimenting with ketamine and sex. I didn't do the latter two but I did fall for the first one.
I grew out of it in my mid 20s. Also I wasn't running for Senate in a highly Christian state

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 11:41 AM (sDWtc)

151 135 Not really, Talafreako's only shot for an upset was to spike blue turnout to eleventy and have GOP not turn out for Paxton. That appears to not be the case. More importantly, Talafreako's disappearance is probably affecting down ballot competitive races in Texas for the US House mostly around the Rio Grande IRRC.

The building momentum in Florida for Donalds and Moore is likely going to depress Dem turnout in that state making it easier to turn the House redistricting there also into gains.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)

========

How do Democrats spike turnout when blacks have depressed turnout?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:41 AM (1kJuV)

152 Their candidates are nuts and bleat so much crap like this that is antithetical to a majority of Americans it’s really hard to understand how people would vote for that.

It's how the liberal mind works (or doesn't). They'll vote for Dems with no thought at all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 09, 2026 11:41 AM (CHHv1)

153 nobody will read what i write

Posted by: Banned at October 09, 2026 11:41 AM (X+qn0)

154 Dems plotting to replace Taalrico with Jasmine Ratchet in 3.... 2.... 1....

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:41 AM (6ydKt)

155 148 Once again, the alleged Talerico breakdown is a good demonstration of why we need and election *day* not and election season. Have people already started voting for him?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (rOKnE)

=======

Early voting in Texas starts in something like a week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:42 AM (1kJuV)

156 129 OT: Twitchy is reporting that Talarico may have had a mental breakdown and be in inpatient psychiatric care. And that is why he's missing.

No idea if true, but it comes from Spencer Pratt tweets posted by Twitchy...

Probably also already posted, but if not...
Posted by: Nova Local

Rumors were out yesterday on X by small players. Now the bigger accounts are getting involved like Spencer Pratt. Stephen Miller, WH advisor, who probably knows the score, mentioned on X yesterday that "whatever Talarico's story on the vanishing act when it comes out, it is pretty bad. "

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:42 AM (E4rtv)

157 135 It's a frustrating mess.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Not really, Talafreako's only shot for an upset was to spike blue turnout to eleventy and have GOP not turn out for Paxton. That appears to not be the case. More importantly, Talafreako's disappearance is probably affecting down ballot competitive races in Texas for the US House mostly around the Rio Grande IRRC.

The building momentum in Florida for Donalds and Moore is likely going to depress Dem turnout in that state making it easier to turn the House redistricting there also into gains.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:39 AM (E4rtv)

Apparently you are not being stalked today. Does the comment section feel more chipper?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:42 AM (Gqar8)

158 A new book.

The Absolute Minimum Required to Get Into Heaven
By: Mark David

-
Well, they wouldn't call it the minimum if it wasn't good enough.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (ndZc7)

159 I'm not as magnanimous as Pratt. I wish nothing but pain and suffering and misery on this perverted creep.

I want to mercilessly crush my enemies until they are sobbing glops of oozing smegma under my boot.

I don't want to wish them well or any sort of recovery from any ailments they suffer from.

Fuck these people, every last one.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

No, b/c getting a handle on his mental illness may turn his psyche 180 degrees. Nutty people don't realize they are nutty and their positions are nutty until docs and meds help their brains function more normally. He could have been undiagnosed nutty for years and this may be a turning point for him and if just for that, is worth praying for...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (tOcjL)

160 Dems plotting to replace Taalrico with Jasmine Ratchet in 3.... 2.... 1....

You laugh, but I'm sure they're trying to figure out a way to do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)

161 Posted by: Banned at October 09, 2026 11:41 AM (X+qn0)

All the big cities are Democrat controlled.

Everything else you said is retarded and silly because of that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (6ydKt)

162 Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)


Is that from one of Stacy Abrams romance novels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

She touted it as "more than a ton of fun"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

....and the best parts are below the fold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

163 >>Talarico was never going to win.

Biden got 80 million votes despite being a mental vegetable. Numerous GOP winners are magically unseated weeks after election day thanks to "found" and absentee ballots. Never underestimate Democrat vote fraud.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (rOKnE)

164 160 Dems plotting to replace Taalrico with Jasmine Ratchet in 3.... 2.... 1....

You laugh, but I'm sure they're trying to figure out a way to do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)

========

*laughs in Texas judicial system and the Fifth Circuit, not the New Jersey judicial system*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (1kJuV)

165 154 Dems plotting to replace Taalrico with Jasmine Ratchet in 3.... 2.... 1....
Posted by: SpeakingOf
==========
Too late. TX is not New Jersey where you can swap out. It would be more like the Carnahan dead guy running case but Paxton is beginning to pull away even in polling now as pollsters try to bring their results back to being less embarrassing for them.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv)

166 163 >>Talarico was never going to win.

Biden got 80 million votes despite being a mental vegetable. Numerous GOP winners are magically unseated weeks after election day thanks to "found" and absentee ballots. Never underestimate Democrat vote fraud.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (rOKnE)

=======

Biden didn't win Texas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (1kJuV)

167 How do Democrats spike turnout when blacks have depressed turnout?
____

Easy access to legit, but unfilled ballots in districts run by Dem operatives with pens and tireless drive to fight through carpal tunnel pain?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (Dv3i1)

168 162 Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)


Is that from one of Stacy Abrams romance novels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

She touted it as "more than a ton of fun"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

....and the best parts are below the fold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew

I woulda thought "folds", plural...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

169 167 How do Democrats spike turnout when blacks have depressed turnout?
____

Easy access to legit, but unfilled ballots in districts run by Dem operatives with pens and tireless drive to fight through carpal tunnel pain?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (Dv3i1)

========

They should probably have done that in 2024 and won Texas that way, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (1kJuV)

170 Biden "got" 80 million votes despite being a mental vegetable.

FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

171 160 Dems plotting to replace Taalrico with Jasmine Ratchet in 3.... 2.... 1....

You laugh, but I'm sure they're trying to figure out a way to do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (Riz8t)

I know, which is why I'm laughing so hard right now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:45 AM (6ydKt)

172 I'm pretty sure i've never once in my life made a loud honking noise whilst grabbing a boob. Nor grabbed a boob whilst making a loud honking noise.
Like, 99.9% sure.
Posted by: Warai-otoko


So, no aspirations for promotion to Cardboard-Tier Membership or above?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 11:45 AM (0sNs1)

173 No, b/c getting a handle on his mental illness may turn his psyche 180 degrees. Nutty people don't realize they are nutty and their positions are nutty until docs and meds help their brains function more normally. He could have been undiagnosed nutty for years and this may be a turning point for him and if just for that, is worth praying for...
_____

*nods*

Posted by: Fetterman's neck lump at October 09, 2026 11:45 AM (Dv3i1)

174 How do Democrats spike turnout when blacks have depressed turnout?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:41 AM (1kJuV)

Easy - vote for them by forging mail in ballot requests and ballots...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 11:45 AM (tOcjL)

175 Apparently you [whig] are not being stalked today. Does the comment section feel more chipper?
Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:42 AM (Gqar

Last time I yelled at whig about something, it was the last thread WitchDoktor commented in. I've been trying to remind myself to be nicer to people since then esp. whig because his posts are usually cogent here.
Not saying I'm good at it.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 11:45 AM (sDWtc)

176 Nice pizza joint ya got there, Tamboli. Be a shame if sumptin......

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 09, 2026 11:46 AM (hmYU4)

177 Dems plotting to replace Taalrico with Jasmine Ratchet in 3.... 2.... 1....
You laugh, but I'm sure they're trying to figure out a way to do it.
Posted by: Archimedes


Beto: "I'm right here, you fruitcakes~!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 11:46 AM (nEUC6)

178 I'm going to correct this for myself tonight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (1kJuV)

RIP TJM, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 09, 2026 11:46 AM (Wt5PA)

179 ....and the best parts are below the fold.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew

There's a lot of folds...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:46 AM (quk5M)

180 Something about NG and maybe a few F-18s flying over Memphis to help calm things. Hire Jack Phillips to make the pizza owner a cake with the inscription " the flyovers will continue until morale improves!" Signed Pete Hegseth.

Posted by: Rex B at October 09, 2026 11:46 AM (Myt96)

181 "This is bad, boys... do we know where Ann Richards is? We do? Well, go get a shovel and some fishing line and get after it, then!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:47 AM (aKiSo)

182 Twitchy is reporting that Talarico may have had a mental breakdown and be in inpatient psychiatric care. And that is why he's missing.

-
Psychiatrist: Tell us what you see in this Rohrschach inkblot.

Talarico: I see Trump nuking LA and San Diego.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:47 AM (ndZc7)

183 178 I'm going to correct this for myself tonight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:28 AM (1kJuV)

RIP TJM, we hardly knew ye.
Posted by: pookysgirl, wrestling Lil Pooky for the keyboard at October 09, 2026 11:46 AM (Wt5PA)

Did that once to my wife, clowning around. She gave me her classic “ you dumbass” look.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar8)

184 No, b/c getting a handle on his mental illness may turn his psyche 180 degrees. Nutty people don't realize they are nutty and their positions are nutty until docs and meds help their brains function more normally. He could have been undiagnosed nutty for years and this may be a turning point for him and if just for that, is worth praying for...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026


***
Look at Fetterman in PA. No, he's not turned into a conservative, but he sounds so much more sane in his pronouncements than he once did -- and saner than most in the D club.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:48 AM (wzUl9)

185 Apparently you are not being stalked today. Does the comment section feel more chipper?
Posted by: tubal
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Heck the stalker in the ONT that sperged out was calling me TJM and TJM was in fact Dave in Florida. Might have been Talarico got ahold of a smartphone to post that rubbish.

The other was just Scogg being Scogg last afternoon who picks and chooses which target he is going to go after to pick a fight. Way back, he mentioned he found trolling entertaining which is typical of that type of commenter. Same mindset as people planning to start a bar fight even before they get drunk.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

186
I've been trying to remind myself to be nicer to people

___________

"I'd really like to be nicer to people, the stupid bastards." - James Gould Cozzens, By Love Possessed

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:49 AM (eRlcH)

187 185 Heck the stalker in the ONT that sperged out was calling me TJM and TJM was in fact Dave in Florida. Might have been Talarico got ahold of a smartphone to post that rubbish.

The other was just Scogg being Scogg last afternoon who picks and chooses which target he is going to go after to pick a fight. Way back, he mentioned he found trolling entertaining which is typical of that type of commenter. Same mindset as people planning to start a bar fight even before they get drunk.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

========

I am prettier than Dave In Fla!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:49 AM (1kJuV)

188 Did that once to my wife, clowning around. She gave me her classic “ you dumbass” look.

To which the correct response is "you married me, so who's the dumbass?".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

189 Personally, I don't have any sympathy for this Talacifreako whatever. Politicians of all stripes don't honestly care what happens to the "little people" like us so why should I care if one of their mental cases goes down?

All this does is reaffirm his unsuitability for office.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (RORbl)

190 168 162 Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)


Is that from one of Stacy Abrams romance novels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

She touted it as "more than a ton of fun"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

....and the best parts are below the fold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew

I woulda thought "folds", plural...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

There's only one main fold for Stacy. It's the biggest that covers her hidden treasure.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (g8Ew8)

191 Did that once to my wife, clowning around. She gave me her classic “ you dumbass” look.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:48 AM (Gqar

I would have done more than that to make sure the message was received... and Pooky knows it.

Posted by: pookysgirl will not get into specifics at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (Wt5PA)

192 Heck the stalker in the ONT that sperged out was calling me TJM

Which is ridiculous since TJM isn’t VDH.

Posted by: Kratwurst at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (36bTp)

193 188 Did that once to my wife, clowning around. She gave me her classic “ you dumbass” look.

To which the correct response is "you married me, so who's the dumbass?".
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

Like boob honking, that too will not get me laid.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:51 AM (Gqar8)

194 Twitchy is reporting that Talarico may have had a mental breakdown and be in inpatient psychiatric care. And that is why he's missing.

-
Psychiatrist: Tell us what you see in this Rohrschach inkblot.

Talarico: I see Trump nuking LA and San Diego naked trans kids fingering my asshole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 11:47 AM (ndZc7)
_________

FIFY

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

195 188 Did that once to my wife, clowning around. She gave me her classic “ you dumbass” look.

To which the correct response is "you married me, so who's the dumbass?".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

That ranks close to "Don't get yer panties in a bunch"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:51 AM (l3cgK)

196 Hat tip to Muldoon from the Art thread...found the coffee.
Thanxs Bro! It was just the way I like it, hot, sweet, and creamy smooth.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:51 AM (2WIwB)

197 Those aren't folds on Stacey Abrams. Those are *rolls*.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:52 AM (wzUl9)

198 I woulda thought "folds", plural...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

There's only one main fold for Stacy. It's the biggest that covers her hidden treasure.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (g8Ew

At that point you have to break out the flour and rolling pin.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:52 AM (6ydKt)

199 All this does is reaffirm his unsuitability for office.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (RORbl)

To hold the beliefs he professes to hold requires that he be either batshit insane, or actively evil. Or both.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:52 AM (quk5M)

200 190 168 162 Wait until you read the mash-up with the minotaur milk run...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 11:29 AM (FZ29D)


Is that from one of Stacy Abrams romance novels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

She touted it as "more than a ton of fun"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:31 AM (l3cgK)

....and the best parts are below the fold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew

I woulda thought "folds", plural...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

There's only one main fold for Stacy. It's the biggest that covers her hidden treasure.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (g8Ew

A flesh merkin.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at October 09, 2026 11:53 AM (zpcJA)

201 Same mindset as people planning to start a bar fight even before they get drunk.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

How do you think I feel, man?

My legal name is actually "Everyone Here".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 11:53 AM (aKiSo)

202 Last time I yelled at whig about something, it was the last thread WitchDoktor commented in. I've been trying to remind myself to be nicer to people since then esp. whig because his posts are usually cogent here.
Not saying I'm good at it.
Posted by: 88C+u

Eh, I find personal insults from people that don't know me in the slightest amusing but don't have a problem with people going after whatever I post. Disagree, rage, whatever.

I used to be a mod on a 2A website and been around on the net since Usenet groups and flaming wars were just part of the culture back then. Due to my job, I also got scathing remarks at times from peer review submissions, student evaluations, and conference presentations.

Comes with the territory.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)

203 195 188 Did that once to my wife, clowning around. She gave me her classic “ you dumbass” look.

To which the correct response is "you married me, so who's the dumbass?".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

That ranks close to "Don't get yer panties in a bunch"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:51 AM (l3cgK)

Now THAT I would never try. A bridge way way too far.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:53 AM (Gqar8)

204 OT: Mike Ditka died.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 09, 2026 11:53 AM (tOcjL)

205 It was just the way I like it, hot, sweet, and creamy smooth.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 11:51 AM


I'm always here for you!

Posted by: Trigglypuff at October 09, 2026 11:54 AM (0sNs1)

206 Easy - vote for them by forging mail in ballot requests and ballots...
-------------
Dumpster diving outside the projects "finds" a lot of votes

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 09, 2026 11:54 AM (qEO75)

207 How do you think I feel, man?

My legal name is actually "Everyone Here".
Posted by: Warai-otoko
======
Well, I think that name has been stolen by the Cornell Minx. Course she added Cums as a middle name to it.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

208 So, did Mike Ditka go out after a massive bacon cheeseburger beating on his chest trying to get his heart to restart?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:54 AM (6ydKt)

209 204 I think that Georgia Senate candidate looked kinda retarded at times during the debate with Ooooosof.

Georgia be blue for the Senate.

Posted by: SomeGuy at October 09, 2026 11:53 AM (F2sSv)

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Democrat turnout in early voting is down in Georgia:

https://x.com/petebray/status/
2108029258073571515

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:55 AM (1kJuV)

210 71 The DA in DeSoto County, MS put up billboards on I-55 facing the TN border:
"MEMPHIS CRIMINALS, TURN BACK NOW, PRISON AWAITS YOU IN DESOTO COUNTY!"
"WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI, WHERE THE FIRING SQUAD IS LEGAL. THINK TWICE!"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 11:22 AM
==

Nice. Saw an electronic sign before a 4-way stop sign in the Philly suburbs:
"ROLLING STOP COST = $173.50
FULL STOP COST = FREE!"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 09, 2026 11:55 AM (0bjKf)

211 208 So, did Mike Ditka go out after a massive bacon cheeseburger beating on his chest trying to get his heart to restart?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 11:54 AM (6ydKt)

Made me think about a Hardee’s commercial from the wayback time.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:55 AM (Gqar8)

212 I think I saw a troll post go "poof".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:56 AM (quk5M)

213 212 I think I saw a troll post go "poof".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:56 AM (quk5M)

Like the Green Flash at sunset.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:56 AM (Gqar8)

214
Chuck is right. Criminals born and bred in big cities also travel to your very community by way of interstates. They go visit Cuz in the country and do their gang banging thing right in Sleepytown USA. The thug diaspora after Katrina had N'Awlins hood rats spread throughout the south spiking crime levels whereever they ended up.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:24 AM (E4rtv)



Funny how at one time, neighborhoods without freeway exits were called racist, because it prevented the poor, but deserving to have access to jobs and social lives among the rich.

Then, freeway exits were found to actually be racist because it allowed racists to live in the suburbs and still travel to jobs and cultural landmarks in city centers, without having to go through "ethnic" neighborhoods.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 11:57 AM (iqcvy)

215 Does it count if you grab your own and honk?

Posted by: Honkler at October 09, 2026 11:57 AM (7Q0e+)

216 Look at Fetterman in PA. No, he's not turned into a conservative, but he sounds so much more sane in his pronouncements than he once did -- and saner than most in the D club."

But not sane enough to stop voting 100% prog. Fetterman isnt worth any praise,

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 11:57 AM (dCMJG)

217 To which the correct response is "you married me, so who's the dumbass?".
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

=====

My answer to that is, "still you."

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (DRSnL)

218 I am prettier than Dave In Fla!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

They did raise the point that no one has seen TJM at the same time as Dave in Florida. Which was in fact true because of the gray box paradox. We only see in ASCII here--no one sees anyone on this blog. And the sequential nature of threads means that you can be Schrodinger's Gray Box TJM or Dave in Florida. We have to open the Gray box to determine which you are presenting.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)

219 I think I saw a troll post go "poof".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:56 AM (quk5M)

Like the Green Flash at sunset.
Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:56 AM


Like tears in the rain.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (/C5Rl)

220
Never trust a BBQ place where the head chef weighs less than 300 lbs.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (iqcvy)

221 218 They did raise the point that no one has seen TJM at the same time as Dave in Florida. Which was in fact true because of the gray box paradox. We only see in ASCII here--no one sees anyone on this blog. And the sequential nature of threads means that you can be Schrodinger's Gray Box TJM or Dave in Florida. We have to open the Gray box to determine which you are presenting.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)

=======

My wife and Dave's wife have seen us both in person at the same time!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (1kJuV)

222 216 Look at Fetterman in PA. No, he's not turned into a conservative, but he sounds so much more sane in his pronouncements than he once did -- and saner than most in the D club."

But not sane enough to stop voting 100% prog. Fetterman isnt worth any praise,
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 11:57 AM (dCMJG)

He’ll be primaried to extinction.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (Gqar8)

223 Does it count if you grab your own and honk?
Posted by: Honkler at October 09, 2026 11:57 AM (7Q0e+)

If you are Sydney Sweeney, it does.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (quk5M)

224
....and the best parts are below the fold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:43 AM (g8Ew

I woulda thought "folds", plural...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)




Flour manufacturers hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 11:59 AM (ccf/V)

225
My wife and Dave's wife have seen us both in person at the same time!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (1kJuV)



Dave in Fla. made a TxMoMe..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:00 PM (ccf/V)

226 222 He’ll be primaried to extinction.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (Gqar

========

Republicans don't vote in Democrat primaries.

Republicans in PA are the only people in PA who give Fetterman positive marks, even though he votes for every judge Biden put up and against every judge that Trump puts up.

I just hope Fetterman's replacement for the next election is a one-armed trans-Muslim who advocates for the murder of black Americans because they have too much privilege.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:00 PM (1kJuV)

227
Like tears in the rain.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 11:58 AM (/C5Rl)



Laughter looks like crying with no sound.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:00 PM (ccf/V)

228 >214

Just like the meme:
Move out of bad area? White flight!
Move into bad area? Gentrification!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 09, 2026 12:00 PM (0bjKf)

229 Talarico is a malevolent, nasty little devil. If it's even true that he's on the funny farm these days and that's not some cheesy cover story, oh well. Too bad. So sad. Satan breaks his tools. Don't expect any sympathy from me, freak. GFY.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 12:01 PM (BI5O2)

230 My wife and Dave's wife have seen us both in person at the same time!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
Objection, hearsay.

However, if you are in fact the same person though, then it would be that you have the same wife. Unless you are a practicing Muslim I guess.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)

231 Laughter looks like crying with no sound.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:00 PM


Or painful gas.

- Infants

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 12:01 PM (/C5Rl)

232
Republicans in PA are the only people in PA who give Fetterman positive marks, even though he votes for every judge Biden put up and against every judge that Trump puts up.

I just hope Fetterman's replacement for the next election is a one-armed trans-Muslim who advocates for the murder of black Americans because they have too much privilege.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:00 PM (1kJuV)



It's a damn good thing Republicans stayed home and didn't vote for that Dr. Oz guy. Quite the bullet dodged there, I'll tell you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:02 PM (ccf/V)

233 230 Objection, hearsay.

However, if you are in fact the same person though, then it would be that you have the same wife. Unless you are a practicing Muslim I guess.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)

=======

My sister-wives aren't going to be happy to hear this from you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:02 PM (1kJuV)

234 Please remember to umlaut responsibly.

Queensrÿche
Coördinator
Schröedinger

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: AoSHQ Copy Editors at October 09, 2026 12:02 PM (0sNs1)

235 I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health."


I'll take the win.
1. They don't play fair.
2. This isn't a college debate class. This affects real people's lives.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 12:02 PM (nPfAi)

236 232 It's a damn good thing Republicans stayed home and didn't vote for that Dr. Oz guy. Quite the bullet dodged there, I'll tell you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:02 PM (ccf/V)

========

I think Democrats cheated Fetterman into office.

Biden's DOJ wasn't going to stop them. Shapiro's office wasn't going to stop them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM (1kJuV)

237 FWIW, this matters in PA because of contested House races.

"CA ET Nerd
@earlyvotedata
·
50m
Pennsylvania Early Absentee Update 10/9:

Republicans had another big swing their way with returns with a HUGE 1.92% gain over Democrats.

They also gained slightly (+0.22%) with their new requests, which is something they need to keep up. You can see in the 3rd image the share % for each party and in the last few days Rs are really gaining.

Overall, we are trending towards seeing something around 2022 and likely better for the GOP in terms of absentee volume being lower: that means a lower Democrat lead going into election day.

Final returns for 2022 and 2024 are in the 4th image."

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)

238 Whig is to cogent, informed commentary what Muldoon is to limericks -- the master.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

239 I believe the collapse of the inner cities run by minorities is a Cloward Piven strat to gain more funds and power.
Trump destroys this plan by just restoring law and order.
They have no more funds, the disorder that they demanded extra $$$$ for is down, and they have lost power.
Note: They will run the strat again and again.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM (/+uur)

240 Posted by: AoSHQ Copy Editors at October 09, 2026 12:02 PM (0sNs1)

Your second example is diaresis, not umlaut.

Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM (aKiSo)

241 240 Posted by: AoSHQ Copy Editors at October 09, 2026 12:02 PM (0sNs1)

Your second example is diaresis, not umlaut.

Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM (aKiSo)

I had a bad case of diaresis, so bad I had to go to urgent care...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (l3cgK)

242 Just for s&g, I googled Miles Tamboli.

You will shocked, shocked that -- even before the incident with the national guard -- he's just another commie drone regurgitating the usual tired leftwing talking points.

He's also probably doesn't like girls, IYKWIM.

He doesn't even hide any of this. I'm very surprised the national guard went to this place in the first place.

I mean, I don't patronize "Big Gay" ice cream ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

243 My sister-wives aren't going to be happy to hear this from you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
Heh.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)

244 you have the same wife. Unless you are a practicing Muslim I guess.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:01 PM


Ahem.

Posted by: zombie Brigham Young at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (0sNs1)

245 Your second example is diaresis, not umlaut.

Harrumph.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM (aKiSo)

Kaopectate can fix that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (quk5M)

246 I had a bad case of diaresis, so bad I had to go to urgent care...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (l3cgK)

better uml-out than uml-in.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (aKiSo)

247
I had a bad case of diaresis, so bad I had to go to urgent care...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (l3cgK)



Exploding Diarrhea!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:05 PM (ccf/V)

248 I mean, I don't patronize "Big Gay" ice cream ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM


I hear you. Cherry Garcia's good, but I won't go out of my way to buy it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 12:06 PM (/C5Rl)

249 I hear you. Cherry Garcia's good, but I won't go out of my way to buy it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 12:06 PM (/C5Rl)



Blue Bell's Cherry Vanilla FTW.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:06 PM (ccf/V)

250 Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

How was Comic Con?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

251 I mean, I don't patronize "Big Gay" ice cream ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

A Tamboli is the machine used to create the pebbly ice surface on a curling rink.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 12:07 PM (quk5M)

252 Blue Bell's Cherry Vanilla FTW.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 12:06 PM


That sounds tasty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 12:07 PM (/C5Rl)

253 238 Whig is to cogent, informed commentary what Muldoon is to limericks -- the master.
Posted by: Bulg

Eh, depends on the day I suppose. I started posting here years ago basically to reduce writer's block professionally which is a pita if you have a publish or perish job. And by the late Obama era, it got pretty bad in my field even being able to discuss matters with colleagues that were supposedly professional. They went nuts basically on the identity scam.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:07 PM (E4rtv)

254 Your second example is diaresis, not umlaut.

Harrumph.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 09, 2026 12:03 PM


A cogent observation from anyone, and particularly from someone who's never honked.

Posted by: AoSHQ Copy Editor at October 09, 2026 12:08 PM (0sNs1)

255 Been through Memphis a few times or more and one thing I can clearly recommend against doing is patronizing the McD's on the north side of I-40 on Sycamore View Rd.

Holy crap, what an unprofessional jungle.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 09, 2026 12:08 PM (iIyc0)

256 Just for s&g, I googled Miles Tamboli.

You will shocked, shocked that -- even before the incident with the national guard -- he's just another commie drone regurgitating the usual tired leftwing talking points.

He's also probably doesn't like girls, IYKWIM.

He doesn't even hide any of this. I'm very surprised the national guard went to this place in the first place.

I mean, I don't patronize "Big Gay" ice cream ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

Having spent all my life in NJ, 79 years so far, I know of NO self respecting Italian family naming their "male" child "Miles". I mean, really?? REALLY?? WHF? No wonder he's screwed up.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 09, 2026 12:08 PM (hmYU4)

257 244 you have the same wife. Unless you are a practicing Muslim I guess.
Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:01 PM

Ahem.
Posted by: zombie Brigham Young
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Got me.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)

258 From Hot Air:

Last week, Republicans effectively pulled the plug on Michael Whatley, who is running for Senate in North Carolina. Instead, they’re redirecting their funds to Kansas.

That’s right, Kansas.

And to put this into perspective, we’re not talking about a few thousand bucks being shuffled around. We’re talking tens of millions of dollars in canceled ad buys and pulled spending — the whole nine yards.

Now here’s where we run into an issue: if we’re meant to believe that Republicans will hold the Senate, then that would surely mean holding onto North Carolina, right?

While I’m no swampy consultant, I know Kansas is a far cry from a swing state, so if Republicans are cutting their losses in North Carolina to save Kansas, that paints a much, much bleaker picture than Congressional leadership would have us imagine.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:08 PM (gLYp7)

259 I mean, I don't patronize "Big Gay" ice cream ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM

I hear you. Cherry Garcia's good, but I won't go out of my way to buy it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 12:06 PM (/C5Rl)
______

There's an ice cream chain literally called "Big Gay" and it's just as gay as you think. There's sadly one a few blocks from my apartment. God only knows what they make the ice cream with.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

260 258 While I’m no swampy consultant, I know Kansas is a far cry from a swing state, so if Republicans are cutting their losses in North Carolina to save Kansas, that paints a much, much bleaker picture than Congressional leadership would have us imagine.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:08 PM (gLYp7)

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This is false.

There's still $28 million dedicated to NC for Whatley.

A PAC canceled one ad buy, and people have spun this idea that they're cutting off Whatley.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:09 PM (1kJuV)

261 A PAC canceled one ad buy, and people have spun this idea that they're cutting off Whatley.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:09 PM (1kJuV)

Your response is precisely why I posted that blurb - I assumed you'd have a more accurate/complete read.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:10 PM (gLYp7)

262 255 Been through Memphis a few times or more and one thing I can clearly recommend against doing is patronizing the McD's on the north side of I-40 on Sycamore View Rd.

Holy crap, what an unprofessional jungle.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

Family lives on the Arkansas side of the river so I am very familiar with Memphis. Sister went to college there. Used to be safe zones, now the creeping crud is spreading into Germantown and south into Mississippi.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:11 PM (E4rtv)

263 "47. The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation."
--------------------------------------------
Wow. A reference to "Secret History." Super impressed as always with the erudition of Morons.

Posted by: Martin Tell at October 09, 2026 12:11 PM (sFNX2)

264 NOOD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 12:12 PM (l3cgK)

265 261 A PAC canceled one ad buy, and people have spun this idea that they're cutting off Whatley.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:09 PM (1kJuV)

Your response is precisely why I posted that blurb - I assumed you'd have a more accurate/complete read.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:10 PM (gLYp7)

========

And Dems are underperforming early vote numbers in NC compared to 2022.

The GOP just has a shit ton of cash and is throwing it everywhere, including Kansas.

Both parties spent $200 million in 2024 for the Texas senate race which Cruz won by 9.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 12:12 PM (1kJuV)

266 Your response is precisely why I posted that blurb - I assumed you'd have a more accurate/complete read.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 12:10 PM (gLYp7)

Another interpretation: they canceled an ad buy in NC, because they figure they have it in the bag, and the money would do more good elsewhere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2026 12:12 PM (quk5M)

267 Trolling whig is dumb. There are people here I dismiss out of hand, and a few I'll talk some shit at. But if you find yourself disagreeing with that guy, read it over a few times, see if you still disagree, because he's likely at least partially correct, and if you do, keep a civil tongue in your head about it.

It's not hard. Of all people to shit on, he seems like an odd choice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 12:13 PM (BI5O2)

268 There's an ice cream chain literally called "Big Gay" and it's just as gay as you think. There's sadly one a few blocks from my apartment. God only knows what they make the ice cream with.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:09 PM


Good grief.

I'm not going to look, but there must be one here in MA.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 12:13 PM (/C5Rl)

269 Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

How was Comic Con?
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 12:07 PM (77rzZ)
_______

Fun, with lotsa cute cosplay girls. But a madhouse. I go on Thursday when it's least busy. But still packed.

I'm not into video games, but they were showing off new games before they hit the market. So guys could play and then later brag to their friends "I played the "Blast My Ass Zombie Death Whore" before anyone else!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 09, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

270 I hope to honk someday.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 09, 2026 12:14 PM (0sNs1)

271 258 While I’m no swampy consultant, I know Kansas is a far cry from a swing state, so if Republicans are cutting their losses in North Carolina to save Kansas, that paints a much, much bleaker picture than Congressional leadership would have us imagine.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider:

GOP has so much money right now over the Dems that they are looking for places to spend it. CNBC story had it yesterday--GOP has raised about 800 million for the midterm while Democrats about 200. Speaker Johnson just raised another 30 million this past week which means in each competitive House race, that is about one million per race in more funding.

So far, from ev and vote by mail requests, the electorate is much older and whiter than even 2022. Youth turnout is single digits.

Pollsters, because yutes have smart phones and respond to text requests, have yutes as a far bigger part of the likely voter screens they use this year and GOP Gen X and Boomers have gone radio silent in response.

The smart pollsters right now should be recalibrating weighting with real numbers as to the likely electorate.

Posted by: whig at October 09, 2026 12:16 PM (E4rtv)

272 Finally, a sensible tactic to counter the Islamic invasion of Europe.

German police tell women to vomit in self-defense during rape attacks

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Ah, Kung flu.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)

273 Finally, a sensible tactic to counter the Islamic invasion of Europe.

German police tell women to vomit in self-defense during rape attacks

-
Ah, Kung flu.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Those cats were fast as lightning.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 12:21 PM (nPfAi)

274 If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico.

Imprecatory prayers are praying.

God grant that this mean even his own people won't elect him, and he will fade out of the public limelight never to be seen again.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 12:25 PM (vJrRc)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Wyeth Fields1.jpg

Winter Fields
Andrew Wyeth

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




Comments

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 09:30 AM (nPfAi)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s)

3 It's dead Jim.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 09:31 AM (wpRMV)

4 Wtf is it?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 09:31 AM (nPfAi)

5 Is that a black alligator swallowing a bird?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

6 Either that or it's pinin' for the fjords.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 09:31 AM (wpRMV)

7 ca caaack!

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

8 Still life with dead crow.

Posted by: huerfano at October 09, 2026 09:32 AM (2Xqig)

9 Dead bird?

Sad

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:32 AM (rOKnE)

10 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 09, 2026 09:32 AM (PYJZZ)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

12 Nice painting but kind of depressing.

Posted by: Tuna at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

13 Oh, wait. It's a dead crow, or raven.

Either that or a castoff black leather jacket with a bird nesting in it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

14 Bird's nevermore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (RORbl)

15 "'ees restin'!"

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (Bep7s)

16 Nothing to crow about. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (rOKnE)

17 Monkeypox?

Avian Flu?

SARS?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)

18 Nobody's raven about this piece.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (wpRMV)

19 Bleak and raciss for killin' a black bird like that.

Posted by: Una Paloma Blanca at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (EdP2u)

20 not sure what I'm looking at here

can someone explain

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)

21 The common corvid always kips on its side.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (/C5Rl)

22 Don't mess with crows, man.......That's bad juju.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (ccf/V)

23
It's grey.
It's depressing.
It's Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (eRlcH)

24 Was Wyeth raven mad when he painted this?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (rOKnE)

25 Meh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (7xwo6)

26 There's another, tinier bird off to the right, inspecting the body.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

27 Oh

it's a dead bird in closeup

I just had to think it thru

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)

28 not sure what I'm looking at here

can someone explain
Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)



Crow flies into kale fields during harvest.

Crow eats kale.

Painter has his subject.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (ccf/V)

29 Whoever painted this must have been stark raven mad.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (Hd1lH)

30 The cat did it!

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

31 The crow has expired.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (ftFVW)

32 Was the crow murdered?
He's alone, so likely not.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (rOKnE)

33 The grass is grackling in the wind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

34 No hang

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)

35 he lost a feather but it'll crow black.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

36 Reminds me I'm outta chicken.

Posted by: Headed To Food Lion at October 09, 2026 09:35 AM (EdP2u)

37
We are not dead but sleepeth.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 09:35 AM (eRlcH)

38 wait

maybe the bird is just stunned

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:35 AM (ZxPkt)

39 The circle of life.

Posted by: Tuna at October 09, 2026 09:35 AM (lJ0H4)

40 Alternate title: Friday Night in Chicago

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:36 AM (ccf/V)

41 Crows are supposed to be very smart. Guess this fellow was on the low-IQ side of the bell curve for corvids.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

42 that bird is no more
it is an ex-bird

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 09:36 AM (ZxPkt)

43 Crow flies into kale fields during harvest.

Crow eats kale.

Painter has his subject.
Posted by: Sponge

This was shortly after he heard about the price of arugula.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:36 AM (vNWfh)

44 I didn't know there was a Norwegian Blue species of crow...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 09:36 AM (FZ29D)

45
The field represents an environment devastated by Global Warming.

The bird represents the working class ground down by late-state capitalism.

*hands in analysis for Ph.D thesis*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (eRlcH)

46 You were only waiting
For this moment to arrive.

Posted by: P. McCartney at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (wpRMV)

47 There's another, tinier bird off to the right, inspecting the body.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:34 AM (wzUl9)
----
Nothing goes to waste in nature...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (FZ29D)

48 Alternate title: Trump's Fault

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (ccf/V)

49 Wish it would snow to cover the bleak landscape and the dead bird. Here, snowfall is the only time my yard looks as good as the neighbors.

Posted by: I'm THAT Neighbor at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (EdP2u)

50 All seriousness aside, it's a bleak painting, designed to arouse gloom and pity within the viewer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9)

51 50 All seriousness aside, it's a bleak painting, designed to arouse gloom and pity within the viewer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9)

=======

It's hilarious.

For people with a certain sense of humor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 09, 2026 09:38 AM (1kJuV)

52 "Blackbird laying in the dead of the field . . . . "

Hmmmm. . . needs more work.
-- Paul McCartney

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:38 AM (vNWfh)

53 Alternate title: China Strikes Again

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:38 AM (ccf/V)

54 he has entered the state of diacaws.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:39 AM (Bep7s)

55 Christina crawled over it the next day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 09:39 AM (wpRMV)

56 Looks kind of bleak. You keep this one, okay?

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 09:39 AM (dCMJG)

57 Owl be hoping for a happier painting on Monday, CBD

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:40 AM (rOKnE)

58 Ah, very nice. Very peaceful. Nice way to end the week. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

59 I know a guy who's cat died from eating a bird that the guy up the street poisoned because the birds were getting in his barn and shitting on his new tractor.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:40 AM (ccf/V)

60 This reminds me. The TxMoMe is 7 days away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)

61 Wish it would snow to cover the bleak landscape and the dead bird. Here, snowfall is the only time my yard looks as good as the neighbors.
Posted by: I'm THAT Neighbor

I wouldn't mind living next door to you. My neighbor informed me yesterday that my driveway needs power washed.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM (vNWfh)

62 I know a guy who's cat died from eating a bird that the guy up the street poisoned because the birds were getting in his barn and shitting on his new tractor.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

No such thing as a free lunch. Cat shoulda knowed.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (ftFVW)

63 There's a black bird dead on the harvest field
That's my soul out there

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (sDWtc)

64 It's grey.
It's depressing.
It's Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 09:33 AM


"And suddenly...I knew Pittsburgh."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (/C5Rl)

65 peak bleak beak.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (Bep7s)

66 Thought it was a beached whale, not a dead crow.
Ace got his revenge for being dissed??

Posted by: From about That Time at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (sl73Y)

67
I wouldn't mind living next door to you. My neighbor informed me yesterday that my driveway needs power washed.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM (vNWfh)



Time for a Top Gun moment:

"Neighbor? *SNNNNIIIIFFFFFF* You stink."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (ccf/V)

68 wahooart.com

Created during World War II, the painting resonates with the global anxiety of the time.
The crow's lifeless form can be seen as an allusion to the casualties of conflict, paralleling the experiences of soldiers in battle.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

69 You don't have to be lonely,
With Farmersonly.com.

Posted by: Out Behind The Barn at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (EdP2u)

70
No such thing as a free lunch. Cat shoulda knowed.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2026 09:42 AM (ftFVW)




It's a cat, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:43 AM (ccf/V)

71 I don’t think it’s bleak and gloomy.

I rather enjoy it. Natural Death is part of life. It is not gruesome or horrid. There’s no decay or feathers scattered or blood and guts.

Maybe the crow is sleeping. Yeah. That’s it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 09:43 AM (yEz+x)

72 The crow's lifeless form can be seen as an allusion to the casualties of conflict, paralleling the experiences of soldiers in battle.

-----------

Wait. Someone machine-gunned it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 09:44 AM (wpRMV)

73 I don't see even a grain of talent in this picture.

Posted by: Feeling My Oats at October 09, 2026 09:44 AM (EdP2u)

74 Maybe the crow is sleeping. Yeah. That’s it.
Posted by: nurse ratched

'E's shagged out after a long squawk

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 09:44 AM (sDWtc)

75 The crow's lifeless form can be seen as an allusion to the casualties of conflict, paralleling the experiences of soldiers in battle.



Geez....talk about overreading the shit out of something......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:44 AM (ccf/V)

76
Another dreary work from Andrew Wyeth... Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (jQ+TD)

77 Rise up this morning, smile with the rising sun
Three little birds pitched by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Saying, "This is my message to you"

Singing, "Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright" . . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (rOKnE)

78 I doubt ace would be hanging this on his wall.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (NpAcC)

79 Radicalized - a limerick

On closer inspection we found
An old dead crow had been downed
It was labelled "FlyDubai"
Which might explain why
It flew head first into the ground

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (I0N4X)

80 With four and nineteen more you could bake a pie.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (wpRMV)

81 Now THAT'S how I want the crows that attack my nuts to look like!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (l3cgK)

82 I'll be back in a jiff.

Posted by: Randall Flagg, The Dark Man at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (wVcYX)

83 Well, it's preferable, IMO, to the one of the crippled girl looking at the house, which is reproduced too much, although I like Wyeth's other paintings including one of an old stone wall, and I think there's a couple with interiors and much light

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (iGSqB)

84 I wouldn't mind living next door to you. My neighbor informed me yesterday that my driveway needs power washed.
Posted by: Tonypete

Did you thank him and ask when he'd be over to do the job?

Posted by: Tuna at October 09, 2026 09:46 AM (lJ0H4)

85 tomohawk missile on launcer in background.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:46 AM (Bep7s)

86 This reminds me. The TxMoMe is 7 days away.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Is that a warning?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2026 09:46 AM (ftFVW)

87
Now THAT'S how I want the crows that attack my nuts to look like!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:45 AM (l3cgK)


That's gotta hurt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 09:46 AM (eRlcH)

88 He's dead, Jim.
Always liked Wyeth, but this one is a bit depressing. Don't think I'd hang.
Thx CBD, have a great weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 09:46 AM (t9883)

89
Geez....talk about overreading the shit out of something......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts... absolutely.

I owe that to Mrs. D, my English teacher for senior year. A very New Yorker reader thing to have uttered.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:47 AM (jQ+TD)

90 81 Now THAT'S how I want the crows that attack my nuts to look like!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

Or you could don a pair of trousers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 09:47 AM (FoHMn)

91 81 Now THAT'S how I want the crows that attack my nuts to look like!

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Yikes. That sounds HORRIBLE!

Posted by: Tippi Hedren at October 09, 2026 09:47 AM (wpRMV)

92 You don't have to be lonely,
With Farmersonly.com.
Posted by: Out Behind The Barn at October 09, 2026


***
We know a thing or two, because we've seen a thing or two.

Posted by: Farmers Insurance at October 09, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

93 88 He's dead, Jim.
Always liked Wyeth, but this one is a bit depressing. Don't think I'd hang.
Thx CBD, have a great weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 09:46 AM (t9883)

I'd hang...out in my Pecan tree as a lesson to all the other crows...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:48 AM (l3cgK)

94 No, I don't think "Old Dead Crow" will sell as a whiskey label. Find our client another picture to use.

Posted by: Mad Men at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)

95 90 81 Now THAT'S how I want the crows that attack my nuts to look like!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

Or you could don a pair of trousers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 09:47 AM (FoHMn)

It's not the Sunday book thread!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (l3cgK)

96
Yikes. That sounds HORRIBLE!
Posted by: Tippi Hedren


They might equally well have been Ravens, dear.

At least Ray Lewis was not among them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (jQ+TD)

97 If you look close, up behind the shed there, you can see every car, truck, and tractor the aged farmer has ever owned, rusting away, returning to the earth.

Posted by: Beautiful! at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (EdP2u)

98 Andrew Wyeth doesn't often do 'happy' scenes like Norman Rockwell. (Even his "Christina's World" is about a crippled woman facing, literally, an uphill struggle.) Although accurate, he doesn't try for photo-realism. What he does is effective through focus, color and perspective. In this one the focus is on the dead bird that couldn't survive the winter. The colors of the land are drab, the sky is dark and cold, and the trees in the distance are bare and stark. It is unromantic nature.

But it isn't despair. The viewer knows it is a season, not permanent. The plants in the foreground with their seed pods speak of new life to come. Not one of Wyeth's I would hang but it is worth the time to examine.

Posted by: JTB at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (yTvNw)

99 How come crows only live around 8 years, but Macaws can live over 50?

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

100 80 lena horne's first video, early 30s?

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (Bep7s)

101 Alternate Title:

"Denver International Airport as viewed from I-70 Eastbound."

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 09:50 AM (I0N4X)

102 94 No, I don't think "Old Dead Crow" will sell as a whiskey label. Find our client another picture to use.

Posted by: Mad Men at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (wVcYX)

Eating crow, drinking crow...neither sounds appetizing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:50 AM (l3cgK)

103 83 "i'm out here in this meadow..."

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:51 AM (Bep7s)

104 >>Or you could don a pair of trousers.


Leave me out of this!

Posted by: Don at October 09, 2026 09:51 AM (rOKnE)

105 On my phone the shadow looks like a alligator

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 09:51 AM (H7N04)

106 99 How come crows only live around 8 years, but Macaws can live over 50?

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

Because, while in streets, they yell "Car, Car", but can't yell "Truck, Truck"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:51 AM (l3cgK)

107 Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts... absolutely.

I owe that to Mrs. D, my English teacher for senior year. A very New Yorker reader thing to have uttered.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

She just may have been quoting someone else.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 09, 2026 09:52 AM (sl73Y)

108
"Denver International Airport as viewed from I-70 Eastbound."
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026


***
That's true. And in more than just winter, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:52 AM (wzUl9)

109
Don we now our pair of trousers
Fa-la-la! Fa-la-la! La-la-la!
As we 'que those noisy Schnauzers
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la-la!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:52 AM (jQ+TD)

110 Because, while in streets, they yell "Car, Car", but can't yell "Truck, Truck"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:51 AM (l3cgK)
******
lol

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:53 AM (NpAcC)

111 10 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 09, 2026 09:32 AM (PYJZZ)

That's because Wyeth has flipped us the bird.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:53 AM (l3cgK)

112 Wait, look closely, all those derelict cars-they're all Studebakers!

Posted by: Is This Alberta? at October 09, 2026 09:53 AM (EdP2u)

113 99 crows are omnivores while macaws subsist on macawdamias.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:54 AM (Bep7s)

114 if you stand back it looks like an alligator in that field.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 09, 2026 09:54 AM (v1QqC)

115
Eating crow, drinking crow...neither sounds appetizing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026


***
Old Crow was once my standby bourbon purchase. Reasonably priced back then (1970s). And at one point they sold a flattened fifth bottle, a giant flask, with its own cup on top, for travelers to fit into their suitcases.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

116 5 Is that a black alligator swallowing a bird?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

lol I hadn't seen this when I posted!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 09, 2026 09:54 AM (v1QqC)

117
She just may have been quoting someone else.
Posted by: From about That Time


Oh, that I knew. It was just that she mentioned it during discussions of about every other book that we had to read for her class

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:55 AM (jQ+TD)

118 This is the pictorial form of the Tolstoy tome-War! Huh! What Is It Good For?

Posted by: Literary License To Kill at October 09, 2026 09:56 AM (EdP2u)

119 115 my luggage accommodates a handle.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 09:56 AM (Bep7s)

120 A bit depressing. Maybe a good pic for a funeral home.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 09:57 AM (g8Ew8)

121 Winter Fields

♫
Try to remember the days of December
When you were a farmer. A callow fellow.
Try to remember and if you remember, then fallow. Fallow, fallow, fallow, fallow, fallow

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 09:58 AM (I0N4X)

122 120 A bit depressing. Maybe a good pic for a funeral home.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 09:57 AM (g8Ew

Don't fear the Reaper, man.

Posted by: BOC at October 09, 2026 09:59 AM (l3cgK)

123 I believe this painting resides in the Shitney Museum.

Posted by: Eli's Comin' at October 09, 2026 09:59 AM (EdP2u)

124
She just may have been quoting someone else.
Posted by: From about That Time


"Iron fist in the velvet glove", "Man's inhumanity to man", and "Trust everyone, but cut the cards"
were favorites of Mrs. D, too.

Okay, maybe not that last one...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:59 AM (jQ+TD)

125 The farmer was trying to kill one of those damned Sand Cranes that keep eating his seeds, but hit this black bird instead...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:00 AM (l3cgK)

126 Poor ace.😢

Winter Fields, 1942
17 5/16 × 41 in.
Andrew Wyeth

Whitney Museum of American Art

When many American artists were turning toward abstraction, Andrew Wyeth remained a realist, producing precise, evocative paintings of the places he knew best. Winter Fields depicts a dead, frozen crow Wyeth found near his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He took the bird into his studio, sketched it, and then painted it in exquisite detail from a worm’s-eye view, which magnifies the bird relative to its surroundings and thereby suggests the wider significance of its death. Completed during World War II, Winter Fields recalls similarly unflinching photographs of corpses lying on battlefields. Yet Wyeth resented comparisons of his work to photography and said he despised cameras. In fact, despite its apparent precision, Winter Fields subtly distorts reality. The distant trees are as sharply focused as the crow in the foreground—an impossibility for both the human eye and the camera lens. This visual effect compresses the pictorial space toward the surface, and is accentuated by the lacelike, overlapping blades of grass, which create a delicate surface pattern.

A local, I'm biased.💖

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 10:00 AM (NFX2v)

127 123 I believe this painting resides in the Shitney Museum.

Posted by: Eli's Comin' at October 09, 2026 09:59 AM (EdP2u)

I misread that as Shitty Museum...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:00 AM (l3cgK)

128 We're starting to get a bit of rain and wind from Isaias about 200 miles to our south. One of the weather services has it as a Cat3 at this point.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 10:02 AM (4NO2D)

129 124 mom had plates with all of "the lonely ones" drawings.
my fave was, "mother lov4ed me, but she died."

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:02 AM (Bep7s)

130 bit depressing. Maybe a good pic for a funeral home.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 09:57 AM (g8Ew
*****
A funeral home at a pet cemetery.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 10:02 AM (NpAcC)

131 This reminds me - I saw a dead mouse in the yard last night that I need to dispose of before my dog finds it.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 09, 2026 10:02 AM (2ap+5)

132 120 A bit depressing. Maybe a good pic for a funeral home.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Background for the Pennsylvania commonwealth flag.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 10:03 AM (NFX2v)

133
I believe this painting resides in the Shitney Museum.
Posted by: Eli's Comin


True sports facts: teams of the Kingsford, Michigan high school are named "Flivvers". And at (relatively) nearby Bessemer, Michigan, they are named "Speed Boys".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 10:03 AM (jQ+TD)

134 I thought that was a gator but it's a dead bird... I'll pass

Posted by: It's me donna at October 09, 2026 10:04 AM (+gK6I)

135
This reminds me. The TxMoMe is 7 days away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)



Yes! The Dead Crow Throwing Competition is always the best part of any TXMOME!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:04 AM (YSUhf)

136
This reminds me - I saw a dead mouse in the yard last night that I need to dispose of before my dog finds it.
Posted by: Oglebay


Don't look back, you can never look back...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 10:04 AM (jQ+TD)

137 Depressing start to the day, I must say.

Posted by: Ed Grimley, Looking For His Exercise Band at October 09, 2026 10:05 AM (EdP2u)

138 It's no Lucien Freud.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

139 I believe this painting resides in the Shitney Museum.

Posted by: Eli's Comin' at October 09, 2026 09:59 AM (EdP2u)

Every one in the Shitney family was stuffed in a locker in every school they attended.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)

140 128 We're starting to get a bit of rain and wind from Isaias about 200 miles to our south. One of the weather services has it as a Cat3 at this point.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 10:02 AM (4NO2D)

National Hurricane Center shows it as having 110mph sustained winds (high category 2), but a Major Hurricane (cat 3) later today...

https://tinyurl.com/3nz8rd3m

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:05 AM (l3cgK)

141
Every one in the Shitney family was stuffed in a locker in every school they attended.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


And they were Shitney-faced about it for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 10:07 AM (jQ+TD)

142 You know, I didn't realize it was a dead crow until I embiggened it just now. I thought it was an oddly shaped dead log.

Somewhat revises my earlier sentiment about the painting. Doesn't bum me out, but it's definitely not the peaceful work that I thought it was.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

143 A bit depressing. Maybe a good pic for a funeral home.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Don't fear the Reaper, man.
Posted by: BOC

Needs more cowbell.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 10:07 AM (vNWfh)

144 143
Don't fear the Reaper, man.
Posted by: BOC

Needs more cowbell.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 09, 2026 10:07 AM (vNWfh)

=========

"They melvined me."
-Death

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at October 09, 2026 10:07 AM (1kJuV)

145
National Hurricane Center shows it as having 110mph sustained winds (high category 2), but a Major Hurricane (cat 3) later today...

https://tinyurl.com/3nz8rd3m
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:05 AM (l3cgK)

__________

The result of Global Warming. That means YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Republican!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:07 AM (eRlcH)

146
Dead Crow > Sheryl Crow

Eh, could go either way. Both have the same music career now.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:08 AM (YSUhf)

147 True sports facts: teams of the Kingsford, Michigan high school are named "Flivvers". And at (relatively) nearby Bessemer, Michigan, they are named "Speed Boys".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Kingsford Charcoal and Ford Motor Company had a symbiotic relationship. Early Ford Cars and Trucks used much wood.

Posted by: Not A Dirty Joke at October 09, 2026 10:08 AM (EdP2u)

148 Yes! The Dead Crow Throwing Competition is always the best part of any TXMOME!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:04 AM (YSUhf)
---
Just don't look too closely at what goes into the paella....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 10:09 AM (FZ29D)

149 135
This reminds me. The TxMoMe is 7 days away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM (ccf/V)


Yes! The Dead Crow Throwing Competition is always the best part of any TXMOME!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:04 AM (YSUhf)

I saw a rather unhappy EweToob vid regarding feral hogs in North America...in Texas, 1/3rd of feral hogs are killed every year, but they need to kill 2/3rds of all feral hogs EACH YEAR to prevent the population from growing, given the fecundity of hogs...And in Canada, some folks decided to breed pigs with Eurasian wild boar, but when the market for their meat crashed, let 'em loose, and now those hogs have taken over large areas and threaten to cross our border illegally...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:09 AM (l3cgK)

150 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.

https://tinyurl.com/49sj3r4h

Mine is fairly accurate with two exceptions. I don't have an 8 year old child and I do prefer Xbox to Playstation. Both can be explained by my buying gifts for the grandkids who prefer Playstation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

151 145
National Hurricane Center shows it as having 110mph sustained winds (high category 2), but a Major Hurricane (cat 3) later today...

https://tinyurl.com/3nz8rd3m
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:05 AM (l3cgK)

__________

The result of Global Warming. That means YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Republican!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:07 AM (eRlcH)

To Globull Warmening can be blamed for only ONE Atlantic Hurricane this season! God Bless Globull Warmening!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (l3cgK)

152 Late to the morning thread, but more on the Indian tech crap. I recently traveled and when checking in to a hotel, there was no living human at the front desk. Instead there was a remote kiosk with a screen where "Gregory" was there to help check in and issue keys like an ATM. How can a hospitality industry operate with zero hospitality? I wonder how many individual hotels Gregory can manage from India? It was awful.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (J3Cv/)

153 Old Crow was once my standby bourbon purchase. Reasonably priced back then (1970s). And at one point they sold a flattened fifth bottle, a giant flask, with its own cup on top, for travelers to fit into their suitcases.
Posted by: Wolfus


***********

Advice from the Travel Department:
When traveling to your brand new apartment
In order to save face,
Make sure your Dead Crow case
Fits in the overhead carrion compartment

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 10:12 AM (I0N4X)

154 152 Late to the morning thread, but more on the Indian tech crap. I recently traveled and when checking in to a hotel, there was no living human at the front desk. Instead there was a remote kiosk with a screen where "Gregory" was there to help check in and issue keys like an ATM. How can a hospitality industry operate with zero hospitality? I wonder how many individual hotels Gregory can manage from India? It was awful.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (J3Cv/)

Minimum wage laws make it so...the higher the minimum wage, the more likely we are to see tech replace people. In Kali, with it's $20/hr min wage, I can hardly find anyone at the local Home Depot to ask a question...the same in most retail stores.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:12 AM (l3cgK)

155 Looks like the Gulf of America's winning streak is over.

Is Piper so muscular she won't float?
I know lean black guys are like that.

Posted by: Storm-Surging Sidney at October 09, 2026 10:12 AM (EdP2u)

156 1/3rd of feral hogs are killed every year

-
They prefer to be called body positivity feminists.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

157 148 boy's mil is making feijoada for the engagement party. yeah, they speak porch geese.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

158 I saw a rather unhappy EweToob vid regarding feral hogs in North America...in Texas, 1/3rd of feral hogs are killed every year, but they need to kill 2/3rds of all feral hogs EACH YEAR to prevent the population from growing, given the fecundity of hogs...And in Canada, some folks decided to breed pigs with Eurasian wild boar, but when the market for their meat crashed, let 'em loose, and now those hogs have taken over large areas and threaten to cross our border illegally...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

As I understand it, feral hogs are all over the place in North America. But they're really good at staying out of site in the underbrush.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

159 Late to the morning thread, but more on the Indian tech crap. I recently traveled and when checking in to a hotel, there was no living human at the front desk. Instead there was a remote kiosk with a screen where "Gregory" was there to help check in and issue keys like an ATM. How can a hospitality industry operate with zero hospitality? I wonder how many individual hotels Gregory can manage from India? It was awful.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (J3Cv/)


You should know better than staying at Mumbai 6 hotels.

Though the Curry Breakfast is to die for.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:14 AM (YSUhf)

160 *out of sight*

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

161 152 Late to the morning thread, but more on the Indian tech crap. I recently traveled and when checking in to a hotel, there was no living human at the front desk. Instead there was a remote kiosk with a screen where "Gregory" was there to help check in and issue keys like an ATM. How can a hospitality industry operate with zero hospitality? I wonder how many individual hotels Gregory can manage from India? It was awful.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (J3Cv/)

"We are most pleased to make our introduction. Please press the correct buttons to be pressed for getting your key."

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 10:15 AM (g8Ew8)

162 157 148 boy's mil is making feijoada for the engagement party. yeah, they speak porch geese.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

How does one porch a geese?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:15 AM (l3cgK)

163 Scarecrow worked a little too well.

Posted by: red speck at October 09, 2026 10:15 AM (Ve/HL)

164
Dead crow, right.

*scrolls up to read the 1st 100 comments*

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 09, 2026 10:16 AM (QVmho)

165 As I understand it, feral hogs are all over the place in North America. But they're really good at staying out of site in the underbrush.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

High intelligence. In Canada they make "pigloos" out of brush and reeds that get covered by snow and keep the warmth inside, and are hard to see...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:17 AM (l3cgK)

166 Looks like a dead crow laying on the ground.

Isn't art supposed to say something?

Posted by: Case at October 09, 2026 10:17 AM (ROPCF)

167 You should know better than staying at Mumbai 6 hotels.

Though the Curry Breakfast is to die for.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:14 AM (YSUhf)

You get sh**ty biscuits and gravy at most hotels/motels, except those in the deep South.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:18 AM (l3cgK)

168 Try to Remember

*********

Today's Earworm, brought to you by Seamus Muldoon, curiously disappearing since 2008!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 10:18 AM (I0N4X)

169 166 Looks like a dead crow laying on the ground.

Isn't art supposed to say something?

Posted by: Case at October 09, 2026 10:17 AM (ROPCF)

========

The crow is Carthage. The tree in the distance is Rome.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:18 AM (1kJuV)

170 150 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It's a hoot! Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 10:18 AM (NFX2v)

171 Sex. Murder. Art.

Posted by: SLAYER at October 09, 2026 10:19 AM (1UOiF)

172 162 it's like ducking a lentil.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:19 AM (Bep7s)

173 anyone at the local Home Depot to ask a question...the same in most retail stores.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Not only CA, when I went to buy oak flooring at Home Depot, there was no one around. The cartons weighed 80 lbs. a piece, and I needed 10 of them. Loading, maneuvering, nearly half ton aircraft carrier cart through the store, then, nobody in any checkout. Was very tempted to skip a carton or two, but didn't. No customer service stinks. I'm 71, for cryin' out loud!

Posted by: Fit As A Broken Fiddle at October 09, 2026 10:20 AM (EdP2u)

174 Try to Remember

*********

Today's Earworm, brought to you by Seamus Muldoon, curiously disappearing since 2008!
Posted by: muldoon

Another song I fondly remember from elementary-school choir.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

175
"We are most pleased to make our introduction. Please press the correct buttons to be pressed for getting your key."
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 10:15 AM (g8Ew

In the case of India you forgot “kindly”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:20 AM (1UOiF)

176 Looks like a dead crow laying on the ground.

Isn't art supposed to say something?
Posted by: Case at October 09, 2026 10:17 AM (ROPCF)


Nope.

*strums guitar*

*sings*

You got your
Dead Crow layin' on the ground
Dead Crow layin' on the ground
Dead Crow layin' on the ground
and it's stinkin' to high heaven
...

...

Posted by: Zombie Loudon Wainwright III at October 09, 2026 10:21 AM (YSUhf)

177 You should know better than staying at Mumbai 6 hotels.

Though the Curry Breakfast is to die for.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:14 AM (YSUhf)

As long as it is BOMBAY VINDALOO!!!

Posted by: Dream Theater at October 09, 2026 10:22 AM (1UOiF)

178 Late to the morning thread, but more on the Indian tech crap. I recently traveled and when checking in to a hotel, there was no living human at the front desk. Instead there was a remote kiosk with a screen where "Gregory" was there to help check in and issue keys like an ATM. How can a hospitality industry operate with zero hospitality? I wonder how many individual hotels Gregory can manage from India? It was awful.
Posted by: AnchorPoint

What chain was it?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

179 This painting reminds me of the Captain Beefheart song-Ice Cream For Crow. Come to think of it, we've never had a Don Van Vliet painting on the Art Thread.

Posted by: Nor Peter Max, Haring, Warhol, Or R. Crumb at October 09, 2026 10:22 AM (EdP2u)

180 Deer in the headlights. Big Tish James destroyed in debate.

https://tinyurl.com/5fufuy2w

For one thing, she accidentally told the truth.

In one of the biggest Freudian slips, she actually told the truth about how she has operated as Attorney General — she doesn’t look at the facts or the law and pre-judges cases based entirely on politics.

Saritha Komatireddy
@sarithaforny
“You don’t have to look at the facts and the law.”- Letitia James

-
"pre-judges cases based entirely on politics." And race! Don't forget race!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)

181
Nope.

*strums guitar*

*sings*

You got your
Dead Crow layin' on the ground
Dead Crow layin' on the ground
Dead Crow layin' on the ground
and it's stinkin' to high heaven
...

...
Posted by: Zombie Loudon Wainwright III at October 09, 2026 10:21 AM (

Is it a dead crow’s party?

Posted by: Oingo Boingo at October 09, 2026 10:23 AM (1UOiF)

182 150 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.

https://tinyurl.com/49sj3r4h

Mine is fairly accurate with two exceptions. I don't have an 8 year old child and I do prefer Xbox to Playstation. Both can be explained by my buying gifts for the grandkids who prefer Playstation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

"We haven't saved anything yet."

Yeah, last time I used it was last year for poop bags for my stoma...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:23 AM (l3cgK)

183 180 Deer in the headlights. Big Tish James destroyed in debate.

https://tinyurl.com/5fufuy2w

For one thing, she accidentally told the truth.

In one of the biggest Freudian slips, she actually told the truth about how she has operated as Attorney General — she doesn’t look at the facts or the law and pre-judges cases based entirely on politics.

Saritha Komatireddy
@sarithaforny
“You don’t have to look at the facts and the law.”- Letitia James

-
"pre-judges cases based entirely on politics." And race! Don't forget race!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)

======

Dems will win NY.

But Hochul will win by less than Abbott wins in TX.

No lessons will be learned from this by anyone. Democrats will still think Texas is purple, and Republicans will continue to assume that NY is so far out of reach that it's not worth even thinking about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:24 AM (1kJuV)

184 Me and my wife are about to head to the Carolina Classic Fair for the first time in 10-15 years. Looking forward to seeing a water-skiing squirrel and dining on American classics like the "Cap'n Crunch Korean Corn Dog" I saw advertised. Actually, I'll be skipping that and heading straight for the apple cider doughnuts.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 09, 2026 10:24 AM (vV6n9)

185 172 162 it's like ducking a lentil.
Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:19 AM (Bep7s)

ARE THEY SOUTH AFRICAN LENTILS???

Posted by: Rick, one of The Young Ones at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM (1UOiF)

186 @spencerpratt
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

---------

Hilarious, if true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM (1kJuV)

187 179 yeah! on a windowshade!

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM (Bep7s)

188
Her Majesty, who is judging near Nashville today, told me this morning that Southwest said all its flights were scheduled and on time. She's supposed to return tomorrow via Atlanta. I think Southwest is either being optimistic or won't let loose an avalanche of cancelations until the last minute..

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:26 AM (eRlcH)

189 185 172 162 it's like ducking a lentil.
Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:19 AM (Bep7s)

ARE THEY SOUTH AFRICAN LENTILS???

Posted by: Rick, one of The Young Ones at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM (1UOiF)

bobbing for apples > ducking for lentils

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:26 AM (l3cgK)

190 Looks like a 'gator waitin' for food to stumble by …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 09, 2026 10:26 AM (ayRl+)

191 @spencerpratt
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

---------

Hilarious, if true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM (1kJuV)



Awwwww.....Poor fag.


But yes.......hilarious if true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:26 AM (ccf/V)

192 ARE THEY SOUTH AFRICAN LENTILS???

Posted by: Rick, one of The Young Ones at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM


Laden or unladen?

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 09, 2026 10:27 AM (4NO2D)

193 191 Awwwww.....Poor fag.


But yes.......hilarious if true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:26 AM (ccf/V)

=======

Crockett wouldn't have cracked. She's a strong, independent woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:27 AM (1kJuV)

194 185 sustainably harvested red palm oil.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:27 AM (Bep7s)

195 188
Her Majesty, who is judging near Nashville today, told me this morning that Southwest said all its flights were scheduled and on time. She's supposed to return tomorrow via Atlanta. I think Southwest is either being optimistic or won't let loose an avalanche of cancelations until the last minute..

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:26 AM (eRlcH)

We had a tropical storm come near in July of 2023...my wife had scheduled cancer treatments in AZ, but all flights at the airport were canceled, and the expected flooding on the interstate precluded driving...it sucked. In the end, I believe our local airport only saw 20MPH gusts.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:28 AM (l3cgK)

196
Crockett wouldn't have cracked. She's a strong, independent woman.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:27 AM (1kJuV)



And wouldn't have garnished much in the white or hispanic vote, however, would likely have outperformed the freak.

Thank God for small favors.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)

197
Crockett wouldn't have cracked. She's a strong, independent woman.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:27 AM (1kJuV)

_________

Because she's a sociopath, not because she's stronk and independent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:28 AM (eRlcH)

198 197
Crockett wouldn't have cracked. She's a strong, independent woman.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:27 AM (1kJuV)

_________

Because she's a sociopath, not because she's stronk and independent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:28 AM (eRlcH)

Most politicians are.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:29 AM (l3cgK)

199 189 lorena bobbitting --> apple bobbing

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:29 AM (Bep7s)

200 As I understand it, feral hogs are all over the place in North America. But they're really good at staying out of site in the underbrush.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

They read up on and applied the camouflage tactics of elephants.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 10:29 AM (wVcYX)

201 196 And wouldn't have garnished much in the white or hispanic vote, however, would likely have outperformed the freak.

Thank God for small favors.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:28 AM (ccf/V)

=========

She'd have gotten Obama levels of support from blacks in the Texas race.

Obama lost Texas, though, when the state wasn't quite as red as it is now and Biden hadn't dealt a deathblow to Hispanic support of the Democrat Party by ruining the border counties through an open borders policy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:29 AM (1kJuV)

202
The Winter Fields of Kansas - a limerick

As their walk in the fields was near done
Charley said to his Dad. "That was fun!
But what was that thing we found?
That thing over there on the ground?"
Dad replied "Carrion, my wayward son!"

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 10:29 AM (I0N4X)

203 200 As I understand it, feral hogs are all over the place in North America. But they're really good at staying out of site in the underbrush.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

They read up on and applied the camouflage tactics of elephants.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 10:29 AM (wVcYX)

I don't know what they were doing wearing my pajamas...

Posted by: Grouch Marx at October 09, 2026 10:30 AM (l3cgK)

204 150 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

It's a hoot! Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 10:18 AM (NFX2v)
----
Wasn't quite as entertaining as I'd hoped.

For some reason Amazon thinks I likely own a dog, despite never having bought any dog-related products.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 10:30 AM (FZ29D)

205
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

___________

It wasn't the operation for a prolapsed rectum?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:30 AM (eRlcH)

206 @spencerpratt
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

---------

Hilarious, if true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM (1kJuV)



Oh, no...Aw, no! It wasn't a pedo vibe or monkeypox that made Talarico so creepy.

It was insanity.

Oh....aw, man. Now i feel sorry for him.

Let all get together and send him a Fruit Basket to whatever nuthouse he's staying in.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (YSUhf)

207 184. Actually, I'll be skipping that and heading straight for the apple cider doughnuts.
Posted by: Lincolntf

Aldi's.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (NFX2v)

208 Crockett wouldn't have cracked. She's a strong, independent woman.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse

Her eyelashes and wighat protect her from mental illness. That and her skull is 3 inches thick.

Posted by: Bone Idle at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (EdP2u)

209 205
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

___________

It wasn't the operation for a prolapsed rectum?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:30 AM (eRlcH)

Complicated by a foreign object stuck in it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (l3cgK)

210 Once again, it takes an anti-Trump lolbertarian at CATO to get the message out about Trump's success dealing with immigration:

@David_J_Bier
Illegal entries are down under Trump, but he's cut legal immigration even more than illegal immigration. The cuts to immigrants, refugees, parolees, students, H-1B workers, and fiancés were 2.7 times as large as the cut in Border Patrol arrests and evasions.

----

He presents this as a bad thing, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (1kJuV)

211 @spencerpratt
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.
---------
Hilarious, if true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:25 AM (1kJuV)

Awwwww.....Poor fag.

But yes.......hilarious if true.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:26 AM (ccf/V)
----
And this special snowflake wants to be a Senator?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (FZ29D)

212 Posted by: Zombie Loudon Wainwright III

I was driving on a semi-rural road yesterday and there was a dead skunk in the middle of the road and I thought of your song.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (ndZc7)

213 Let all get together and send him a Fruit Basket to whatever nuthouse he's staying in.
Posted by: naturalfake


You said 'fruit.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (nEUC6)

214 205
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

___________

It wasn't the operation for a prolapsed rectum?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 10:30 AM (eRlcH)

Talarico keeps calling it an entrance instead of an exit...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (l3cgK)

215 Would Not Hang!

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (5rh/l)

216 This reminds me. The TxMoMe is 7 days away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM


Flying out tomorrow morning!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (/C5Rl)

217 206 Oh, no...Aw, no! It wasn't a pedo vibe or monkeypox that made Talarico so creepy.

It was insanity.

Oh....aw, man. Now i feel sorry for him.

Let all get together and send him a Fruit Basket to whatever nuthouse he's staying in.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (YSUhf)

=========

His political career until he decided to run for Senate was an unremarkable woke dullard who said woke things in a save Austin state house seat. He never got pushback or had to run a major campaign with any real outside attention.

Suddenly, he's nominally in charge of tens of millions of dollars and having to backtrack on everything he's ever said ever?

Gotta be hard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (1kJuV)

218 215 Would Not Hang!

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (5rh/l)

That's because it's already dead!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (l3cgK)

219 Bulg, it was one of the Wyndham chains. It was for work and our options are sometimes limited. I definitely won't be staying with them again. Getting the folios was a 4 day exercise in testing my patience.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (J3Cv/)

220 210 Once again, it takes an anti-Trump lolbertarian at CATO to get the message out about Trump's success dealing with immigration:

@David_J_Bier
Illegal entries are down under Trump, but he's cut legal immigration even more than illegal immigration. The cuts to immigrants, refugees, parolees, students, H-1B workers, and fiancés were 2.7 times as large as the cut in Border Patrol arrests and evasions.

----

He presents this as a bad thing, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (1kJuV)

I like legal immigration. But it MUST be regulated and MUST have limits.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (1UOiF)

221 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.

https://tinyurl.com/49sj3r4h

Mine is fairly accurate with two exceptions. I don't have an 8 year old child and I do prefer Xbox to Playstation. Both can be explained by my buying gifts for the grandkids who prefer Playstation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026


***
Jeff's little hobby website seems to have little on me. It knows I often buy men's grooming products, and that's it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (wzUl9)

222 If the mental breakdown is long-term, we stand ready to help.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital, Since 1931 at October 09, 2026 10:34 AM (EdP2u)

223 208 just saw a meme of an urban dweller with her wig over her hoodie. it was cold.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:34 AM (Bep7s)

224 202
The Winter Fields of Kansas - a limerick
Posted by: muldoon

👍🏻😊

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 10:34 AM (NFX2v)

225 Meh. I don’t find it hilarious that another human being is having a mental health crises. Anyone paying attention could see that talarico is a lunatic. But he was being used by the DNC. The people encouraging his lunacy and pumping him full of false hope and pushing him further and further left are the real villains.

We have to think, why? The puppet masters had plans for him if he were to get elected. What are the specifics?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 10:34 AM (jc8En)

226
Flying out tomorrow morning!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (/C5Rl)



Doing another Texas tour?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)

227 Minimum-wage laws are sooooooo stupid.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

228 209 yup, he did a brazilian.
"omg how many is that?"

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (Bep7s)

229 Her eyelashes and wighat protect her from mental illness. That and her skull is 3 inches thick.
Posted by: Bone Idle at October 09, 2026


***
How about her high heel sneakers?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (wzUl9)

230 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.

https://tinyurl.com/49sj3r4h

Mine is fairly accurate with two exceptions. I don't have an 8 year old child and I do prefer Xbox to Playstation. Both can be explained by my buying gifts for the grandkids who prefer Playstation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)
=====

And then Amazon informed me that other AI agents have information about me and would I like to import it now?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (RIvkX)

231 @150/Anonosaurus Wrecks: "How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you."

Mine is blank.

Blank Reg would be proud.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (O7YUW)

232 220 I like legal immigration. But it MUST be regulated and MUST have limits.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (1UOiF)

========

"Legal immigration" now includes accepting any asylum claim anyone throws out and giving them work permits while never following up on the asylum claim or any immigration related matter at all.

What the right considers to be "legal immigration" is a remnant of a memory from the 1950s, not the reality of American immigration since Ted Kennedy spewed forth that immigration bill in the 60s.

We can't have "legal immigration" again until Hart-Cellar is repealed or we get a comparable bill to the 1924 Immigration Act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (1kJuV)

233 And this special snowflake wants to be a Senator?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 10:31 AM (FZ29D)

I, um, uh, am a, ah, County Judge in Harris County and um, I needed, um, mental help.

Posted by: Commandante Lina Hidalgo at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (1UOiF)

234 Mine is fairly accurate with two exceptions. I don't have an 8 year old child and I do prefer Xbox to Playstation. Both can be explained by my buying gifts for the grandkids who prefer Playstation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026



Since the First Lady does all the ordering, I bet her profile is quite amusing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM (ccf/V)

235 His political career until he decided to run for Senate was an unremarkable woke dullard who said woke things in a save Austin state house seat. He never got pushback or had to run a major campaign with any real outside attention.

Suddenly, he's nominally in charge of tens of millions of dollars and having to backtrack on everything he's ever said ever?

Gotta be hard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:33 AM (1kJuV)
---
This is what happens when you live your entire life inside a political bubble where nobody you know ever voted for the opposition.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 10:36 AM (FZ29D)

236 216 This reminds me. The TxMoMe is 7 days away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM

Flying out tomorrow morning!

***********

That must be one really slow airplane.

Posted by: smartass at October 09, 2026 10:36 AM (uqnAZ)

237 Just looked at the map for Hurricane Simon...the graphic has it going "MMMMMHSSS"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:36 AM (l3cgK)

238 225 The people encouraging his lunacy and pumping him full of false hope and pushing him further and further left are the real villains.

We have to think, why? The puppet masters had plans for him if he were to get elected. What are the specifics?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 10:34 AM (jc8En)

========

He was a far left loon before the senate campaign.

He's being pushed to the middle, to moderate his message, to appeal to Texas voters.

And he can't take it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:36 AM (1kJuV)

239 232: truth.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:36 AM (1UOiF)

240 235 This is what happens when you live your entire life inside a political bubble where nobody you know ever voted for the opposition.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 10:36 AM (FZ29D)

=======

The story of California Democrats as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:37 AM (1kJuV)

241 The people encouraging his lunacy and pumping him full of false hope and pushing him further and further left are the real villains.

We have to think, why? The puppet masters had plans for him if he were to get elected. What are the specifics?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 10:34 AM (jc8En)



Something something.....dog....something something.....fleas........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:37 AM (ccf/V)

242 I agree with you about Talarico, nurse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 10:37 AM (JrHfD)

243 bobbing for apples > ducking for lentils
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026


***
"What are those people doing?"
"Ducking for apples."
"There but for a typographical error is the story of my life."
(-- Classic Dorothy Parker story)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:37 AM (wzUl9)

244 My purchase history at Amazon is fully populated, it should be able to know my preferences from that, but apparently the data for your "preferences" is stored in local cookies, maybe? (I delete all cookies and cached data every time I close my browser.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 09, 2026 10:37 AM (O7YUW)

245
The story of California Democrats as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:37 AM (1kJuV)



And athletes......and actors.....and.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:38 AM (ccf/V)

246 Dang, Muldoon! Slow clap indeed!

Posted by: AnchorPoint at October 09, 2026 10:38 AM (J3Cv/)

247 245
The story of California Democrats as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:37 AM (1kJuV)


And athletes......and actors.....and.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:38 AM (ccf/V)

========

"I don't get it."
-Pauline Kael

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:38 AM (1kJuV)

248 This reminds me. The TxMoMe is 7 days away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM

Flying out tomorrow morning!

***********

That must be one really slow airplane.
Posted by: smartass

Well, RMBS and RMBS Mom have to land periodically to rest their arms.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

249 Hegseth is a big meanie!

CNN
@CNN
Iranian operatives used OpenAI models and fake personas to help plant news articles critical of the US war against Iran in multiple US media outlets, OpenAI said.

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
And you — @CNN — fall for it over and over.
Because you hate the President more than you love the country (and our troops).

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)

250 Jeff's little hobby website seems to have little on me. It knows I often buy men's grooming products, and that's it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Oh yeah, I see it. Do you really use a case of Wildroot Cream Oil per month?

Posted by: Vitalis Man, Myself at October 09, 2026 10:39 AM (EdP2u)

251 Doing another Texas tour?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:35 AM


Kinda sorta. Seeing family in San Antonio, and spending a couple of days at my buddy's ranch on the way up to Corsicana. He should be joining us at the MoMe on Saturday. Might stop off on the way to his ranch and say hi to the Range Babe. She's getting over a nasty case of flu, so I don't know if she'll be feeling up to the MoMe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (/C5Rl)

252 Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
And you — @CNN — fall for it over and over.
Because you hate the President more than you love the country (and our troops).

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)



Heh.

He is the instructions on a pack of firecrackers.

"Light fuse and get away."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (ccf/V)

253 Yup, those Minecraft squid are always swimming up on land.

You didn't think it was a horse did you?

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (IKpKm)

254
Kinda sorta. Seeing family in San Antonio, and spending a couple of days at my buddy's ranch on the way up to Corsicana. He should be joining us at the MoMe on Saturday. Might stop off on the way to his ranch and say hi to the Range Babe. She's getting over a nasty case of flu, so I don't know if she'll be feeling up to the MoMe.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (/C5Rl)



Excellent!

Texas will welcome you, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (ccf/V)

255 253 Yup, those Minecraft squid are always swimming up on land.

You didn't think it was a horse did you?

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (IKpKm)

https://youtu.be/Lt7JNKrJATk
(NSFW)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:42 AM (l3cgK)

256 Minimum wage laws make it so...the higher the minimum wage, the more likely we are to see tech replace people. In Kali, with it's $20/hr min wage, I can hardly find anyone at the local Home Depot to ask a question...the same in most retail stores.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:12 AM (l3cgK)

Pleasing to be able to find a product for you sir?

Posted by: Jack from Kolkata at October 09, 2026 10:42 AM (zJe6s)

257
"Light fuse and get away."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (ccf/V)

Indeed.

Posted by: Charlie Domenici (RIP) at October 09, 2026 10:42 AM (1UOiF)

258 @spencerpratt
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.


Because they don't need to. Watch how many votes he still gets.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (qoUKC)

259 Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM (IKpKm)

https://youtu.be/Lt7JNKrJATk
(NSFW)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:42 AM (l3cgK)



It is one of history's best nicks........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (ccf/V)

260 234 i wanted a copy of "catching frogs on elston" so i had a friend prime it for me. no amazon ever.
what fleabay thinks of me is another story entirely.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (Bep7s)

261 Every so often, a piece of art comes along that requires me to ask, WTF am I looking at?

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (8mulE)

262 258 @spencerpratt
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

Because they don't need to. Watch how many votes he still gets.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (qoUKC)

========

The Biden basement strategy didn't work for Biden in Texas in 2020 during the covid panic.

Why would it work for Talarico 6 years later?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (1kJuV)

263
Pleasing to be able to find a product for you sir?
Posted by: Jack from Kolkata at October 09, 2026 10:42 AM (zJe6s)

In that part of the world, it’s “kindly”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (1UOiF)

264 236 "i had a truck like that once."

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (Bep7s)

265 @PeteHegseth
And you — @CNN — fall for it over and over.
Because you hate the President more than you love the country (and our troops).


—

To be fair to CNN their love for country and troops is zero. So they can’t hate Trump more than that.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (zJe6s)

266 The people encouraging his lunacy and pumping him full of false hope and pushing him further and further left are the real villains.

-
Meanwhile . . .

Lol: Don Lemon Teases 2028 Presidential Run

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

267 Jeff's little hobby website seems to have little on me. It knows I often buy men's grooming products, and that's it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Oh yeah, I see it. Do you really use a case of Wildroot Cream Oil per month?
Posted by: Vitalis Man, Myself at October 09, 2026


***
Haven't you heard? The Wet Head Is Dead!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)

268 264 236 "i had a truck like that once."

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (Bep7s)

Well, if it was flying, I bet it was only once...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (l3cgK)

269 Clocking out before Diogenes clocks in. I left some coffee on the counter. Tell him he can warm it up in the microwave.

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (I0N4X)

270 Lol: Don Lemon Teases 2028 Presidential Run
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026


***
Don't tease it, Don. It may bite.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)

271 266 The people encouraging his lunacy and pumping him full of false hope and pushing him further and further left are the real villains.

-
Meanwhile . . .

Lol: Don Lemon Teases 2028 Presidential Run

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

He'll run it from his ass.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (l3cgK)

272 I'm not dead yet!!

It's only a flesh wound!

I'll hav yur eyes I will!!!!

Posted by: Crow at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (anL5R)

273 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.

https://tinyurl.com/49sj3r4h

Mine is fairly accurate with two exceptions. I don't have an 8 year old child and I do prefer Xbox to Playstation. Both can be explained by my buying gifts for the grandkids who prefer Playstation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


I love how they give instructions like: "go here, click this, then do xyz" and when you do, it's never like they say and nothing works right.

And it's not just Amazon.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (nPfAi)

274 Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
And you — @CNN — fall for it over and over.
Because you hate the President more than you love the country (and our troops).
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)
=====

Why pretend they do it in error?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (RIvkX)

275 I like legal immigration. But it MUST be regulated and MUST have limits.
Posted by: Cow Demon


The US needs a 10 year moratorium in order to figure out who is here legally and what their legal status actually is. Did they lie on any statement of residency? Have they applied for benefits? Have they aided other illegal acts? All questions should be resolved before we admit a single person claiming to be a worthy immigrant.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (nEUC6)

276
He'll run it from his ass.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (l3cgK)



https://youtu.be/6DrRE1LDY_U

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (ccf/V)

277 The core problem with Talarico's campaign beyond the fact that he's a Democrat running in a deep red state is that his past is full of crazy woke comments about God being non-binary, there being six genders, his hating Christianity, him loving trans-kids, him voting against bills in the state House that banned Chinese ownership of land in the state, and his avowed hatred of white skin.

He was a woke retard in the state house.

He didn't get pushed to the left when he decided to run for US senate. He had to pull himself towards the center.

If that causes him a mental breakdown, he's a bad person and we should mock his infirmities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (1kJuV)

278 I read Amazons lil secret thing on me! it was pretty accurate

I can't fault them trying to get me to buy more tropical plant stuff

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (j+aD2)

279 Meanwhile . . .

Lol: Don Lemon Teases 2028 Presidential Run

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:44 AM (ndZc7)

He'll run it from his ass.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


There's stuff running from his ass. And it isn't his presidential asspirations.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 10:47 AM (nPfAi)

280 Clocking out before Diogenes clocks in. I left some coffee on the counter. Tell him he can warm it up in the microwave.
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 10:45 AM (I0N4X)
=====

Let me just warm up this fish for lunch first thanks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 10:47 AM (RIvkX)

281 Excellent!

Texas will welcome you, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:40 AM


And I'm looking forward to it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:47 AM (/C5Rl)

282 It is one of history's best nicks........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (ccf/V)

Right up there with "Ass Cheeks of Saturn"

Haven't seen that one in a long time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 09, 2026 10:47 AM (PSEDc)

283 253 de- beaked prairie squids.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:47 AM (Bep7s)

284 The US needs a 10 year moratorium in order to figure out who is here legally and what their legal status actually is. Did they lie on any statement of residency? Have they applied for benefits? Have they aided other illegal acts? All questions should be resolved before we admit a single person claiming to be a worthy immigrant.


AGREE AGREE AGREE

yeah we're full up. closed - the moose out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 10:47 AM (j+aD2)

285 275 I like legal immigration. But it MUST be regulated and MUST have limits.
Posted by: Cow Demon

The US needs a 10 year moratorium in order to figure out who is here legally and what their legal status actually is. Did they lie on any statement of residency? Have they applied for benefits? Have they aided other illegal acts? All questions should be resolved before we admit a single person claiming to be a worthy immigrant.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (nEUC6)

========

We had an effective 40 year moratorium after the 1924 bill.

We were getting 5-7% GDP in the 50s. Sure, a lot of that was post-war, Europe destroyed itself stuff.

But it's not like Europe is a vibrant source of commerce now either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (1kJuV)

286 I expect Trump and Hegseth will cancel livestreaming the execution of Hassan. There will be too many complaints from parents and churches that it will hurt the minds of chirrun. I can't see the Pentagon and White House successfully setting-up an age-verification process. I give them credit for trying to show everyone the death of the scumbag.

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (5rh/l)

287 Let me just warm up this fish for lunch first thanks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho


Snort

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (nPfAi)

288 The US needs a 10 50 year moratorium in order to figure out who is here legally and what their legal status actually is. Did they lie on any statement of residency? Have they applied for benefits? Have they aided other illegal acts? All questions should be resolved before we admit a single person claiming to be a worthy immigrant.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026


***
Fixed

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (wzUl9)

289 As I understand it, feral hogs are all over the place in North America. But they're really good at staying out of site in the underbrush.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

They read up on and applied the camouflage tactics of elephants.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 10:29 AM (wVcYX)

The secret to hunting feral hogs if you're doing it on foot is to make sure you kill it on the first shot. If you miss or just wing it, you'll be faced with a very pissed off hog on your hands. Be ready to run.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (g8Ew8)

290

The US needs a 10 year moratorium in order to figure out who is here legally and what their legal status actually is. Did they lie on any statement of residency? Have they applied for benefits? Have they aided other illegal acts? All questions should be resolved before we admit a single person claiming to be a worthy immigrant.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:46 AM (nEUC6)

I am a child of an immigrant and do not disagree with either you or TheJamesMadison.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (1UOiF)

291
There's stuff running from his ass. And it isn't his presidential asspirations.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 10:47 AM (nPfAi)



MONKEYPOX!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (ccf/V)

292 It is one of history's best nicks........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (ccf/V)

Right up there with "Ass Cheeks of Saturn"

Haven't seen that one in a long time.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I like "My Pimp Shot My Dealer."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

293 286 I expect Trump and Hegseth will cancel livestreaming the execution of Hassan. There will be too many complaints from parents and churches that it will hurt the minds of chirrun. I can't see the Pentagon and White House successfully setting-up an age-verification process. I give them credit for trying to show everyone the death of the scumbag.


nooooooo!!!!

oh come on! that would be really foolish

have to stop listening to the weak women (M and F)

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 10:49 AM (j+aD2)

294 Yes! The Dead Crow Throwing Competition is always the best part of any TXMOME!

Posted by: naturalfake at October

Gonna try to make it next year, I'll start practicing. What works best, javelin style or overhand? And fresh crow, or frozen?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 09, 2026 10:49 AM (sl73Y)

295 This picture is portraying the winter's first crowfall.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 09, 2026 10:49 AM (Hd1lH)

296 I expect Trump and Hegseth will cancel livestreaming the execution of Hassan. There will be too many complaints from parents and churches that it will hurt the minds of chirrun. I can't see the Pentagon and White House successfully setting-up an age-verification process. I give them credit for trying to show everyone the death of the scumbag.
Posted by: Gref


Still say it should be the halftime show of the Army/Navy game.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 10:49 AM (nPfAi)

297 Dr. Mohammed makes his move!

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayed
Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:49 AM (ndZc7)

298 265 <

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (Bep7s)

299 297 Dr. Mohammed makes his move!

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayed
Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:49 AM (ndZc7)

=======

He did a fundraiser at Soros' house like last week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (1kJuV)

300 296 I expect Trump and Hegseth will cancel livestreaming the execution of Hassan. There will be too many complaints from parents and churches that it will hurt the minds of chirrun. I can't see the Pentagon and White House successfully setting-up an age-verification process. I give them credit for trying to show everyone the death of the scumbag.
Posted by: Gref


Still say it should be the halftime show of the Army/Navy game.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 10:49 AM (nPfAi)


That is a terrific idea!

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (5rh/l)

301 The secret to hunting feral hogs if you're doing it on foot is to make sure you kill it on the first shot. If you miss or just wing it, you'll be faced with a very pissed off hog on your hands. Be ready to run.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM


We'll probably be shooting a few at friend's ranch next week. Buzzards have to eat, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (/C5Rl)

302 292 It is one of history's best nicks........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:43 AM (ccf/V)

Right up there with "Ass Cheeks of Saturn"

Haven't seen that one in a long time.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I like "My Pimp Shot My Dealer."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

LOL, yeah, that was a good one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (l3cgK)

303 286 I expect Trump and Hegseth will cancel livestreaming the execution of Hassan. There will be too many complaints from parents and churches that it will hurt the minds of chirrun. I can't see the Pentagon and White House successfully setting-up an age-verification process. I give them credit for trying to show everyone the death of the scumbag.
Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (5rh/l)

I want him to get The Chair. Potential music videos for Metallica’s “Ride The Lightning” or Testament’s “Electric Crown”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (1UOiF)

304 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Love the art. And that scene.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (2WIwB)

305
I am a child of an immigrant and do not disagree with either you or TheJamesMadison.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (1UOiF)



Legal or illegal? That makes a HUGE difference.


My grandparents were LEGAL immigrants. I'm 2nd generation American on both sides.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (ccf/V)

306 I had a fat bitch ring my bell yesterday who wanted to talk to me about the Democrat running for our house seat. I didn’t say anything just pointed to the no soliciting sign and slowly closed the door on her.

30% chance my house is firebombed this weekend, I think lol.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (zJe6s)

307 As I understand it, feral hogs are all over the place in North America. But they're really good at staying out of site in the underbrush.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

They read up on and applied the camouflage tactics of elephants.

Posted by: Count de Monet


They're doing a damn good job. I only see the after effects in the pasture.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (nPfAi)

308 268 aw, c'mon. the general lee is still jumpin', right?

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (Bep7s)

309 Talarico missing from the trail is not a strategy. Something is very wrong with him and for some reason they won't say what it is.

Posted by: MJ at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (XOmY9)

310 I’m laughing at the circus in NYC. This isn’t a good look for Democrats and they don’t even realize it. All the foreign flags, Pali chants, and pleas for illegal immigrants ain’t moving the average voter.

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (XD+PD)

311 Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes

Muldoon said upthread that he was leaving you some that you could heat up in the microwave.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

312 Officially rename the terrorist piece of filth to Charlie Kirk then every Democrat will be fine with the live stream.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 10:52 AM (zJe6s)

313
I like "My Pimp Shot My Dealer."

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

LOL, yeah, that was a good one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:50 AM (l3cgK)



Michelle Obama's Landing Pad

Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

SOME ASSHOLE STOLE MY PEN

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:52 AM (ccf/V)

314 Fixed
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Jeez, man. I thought I was the paleo-con here. Woof!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026 10:52 AM (nEUC6)

315 I'm being dragged to another of these luncheon-lectures at my former employer. This one is apparently on the topic of art for a change, rather than dubious and left-skewed political "science" or sociology. And the chow is free. Wonder what the menu will have?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

316
309 Talarico missing from the trail is not a strategy. Something is very wrong with him and for some reason they won't say what it is.

Posted by: MJ at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (XOmY9)

=======

People were scarred by the 2020 campaign and will do the "basement campaign is a winner" thing for a very long time.

Even though it didn't actually work in 2020.

They had to cheat by mail for months, which wasn't enough, so they had to shut down ballot counting in six states at the same time in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (1kJuV)

317 Talarico missing from the trail is not a strategy. Something is very wrong with him and for some reason they won't say what it is.
Posted by: MJ at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (XOmY9)



Duh.

He's simply running the Joe Biden Basement Tour.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (ccf/V)

318 Fixed
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Jeez, man. I thought I was the paleo-con here. Woof!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2026


***
I think I'm slightly to the right of Roger B. Taney.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (wzUl9)

319 She who must be obeyed and I were debating how many votes Talarico would get, even if he stayed absent till the election. She thinks about 25%, I said 35%.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (IKpKm)

320 317 Talarico missing from the trail is not a strategy. Something is very wrong with him and for some reason they won't say what it is.
Posted by: MJ at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (XOmY9)


Duh.

He's simply running the Joe Biden Basement Tour.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (ccf/V)

Basement or Dungeon?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (l3cgK)

321 277 "you and i share a common infirmity" -cletus (tsjy)

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (Bep7s)

322 319 She who must be obeyed and I were debating how many votes Talarico would get, even if he stayed absent till the election. She thinks about 25%, I said 35%.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (IKpKm)

=======

44 or so. Partisanship is a thing, and it's not going away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (1kJuV)

323 Don't make her angry. You wouldn't like her when she's angry.

Report: Christa Pike Walking Around, “Angry” After Surviving Date With Death

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (ndZc7)

324 How to read Amazon's secret dossier on you.

https://tinyurl.com/49sj3r4h

Mine is fairly accurate with two exceptions. I don't have an 8 year old child and I do prefer Xbox to Playstation. Both can be explained by my buying gifts for the grandkids who prefer Playstation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Wow mine is dead nuts accurate with the exception that we have 2 female dogs not just one that is listed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (I43vL)

325 323 Don't make her angry. You wouldn't like her when she's angry.

Report: Christa Pike Walking Around, “Angry” After Surviving Date With Death

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (ndZc7)

Dating Death is not recommended...except in Canada

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (l3cgK)

326 Get out and vote for Hochul and Democrats, illegal immigrants and socialists!!

Whoops. Did I say that?

Posted by: That Guy at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (XD+PD)

327 aw, c'mon. the general lee is still jumpin', right?
Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (Bep7s)



PGA Golfer Bubba Watson bought one that was on set. They shamed him into storing it and saying he'd paint the roof of the car......It hasn't been seen since.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (ccf/V)

328
I wonder if talafreako is dead?

It is very strange.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (/QHx4)

329 225. We have to think, why? The puppet masters had plans for him if he were to get elected. What are the specifics?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Agree. I've often wondered that about Graham Platner and a few other extraordinarily odd & outrageous individuals being put up for political offices well above their capabilities (I hope).

Mockery of voters? IDK.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

330 328
I wonder if talafreako is dead?

It is very strange.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (/QHx4)

His first name maybe...ya know, tranny surgeries...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:55 AM (l3cgK)

331
Basement or Dungeon?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:53 AM (l3cgK)




The dungeon is where he keeps the kids.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:55 AM (ccf/V)

332 Legal or illegal? That makes a HUGE difference.


My grandparents were LEGAL immigrants. I'm 2nd generation American on both sides.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026


***
My grandparents came from Sweden and eastern Europe, prob. Ukraine today, and landed in Canada. Their daughter, my mother, emigrated to America and took the citizenship test only a few years after she got here.

My father was born and grew up in Lousy-ana, but that's technically still America, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:55 AM (wzUl9)

333 289"i'll stay here in the jeep while jim wrestles the alligator."

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:56 AM (Bep7s)

334 Having struggled with mental-health issues of my own, I am not about to mock anybody who legitimately has them.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

335 I don’t think Talarico is playing 4-d chess or anything. But I also don’t think it will have an effect either way. Is there a subset of voters who really hate Trump, love them some socialism but will be oh wait he’s missing from the campaign, fuck it Paxton it is.

No there is not.

I’ve long thought these endless campaigns are a waste of time and money. People vote D or R or toss a coin. Do bazillions of dollars spent change that many minds? I don’t think so.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 10:57 AM (zJe6s)

336 I'm being dragged to another of these luncheon-lectures at my former employer. This one is apparently on the topic of art for a change, rather than dubious and left-skewed political "science" or sociology. And the chow is free. Wonder what the menu will have?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

Crow, of course.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 10:57 AM (g8Ew8)

337 It is very strange.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM


To be fair, so is he.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:57 AM (/C5Rl)

338 My father was born and grew up in Lousy-ana, but that's technically still America, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:55 AM (wzUl9)



Coon-ass!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 10:57 AM (ccf/V)

339 298 "as god is my witness, i thought crows could fly!"

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 10:58 AM (Bep7s)

340 Wow mine is dead nuts accurate with the exception that we have 2 female dogs not just one that is listed.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM (I43vL)

=====

Ours is a mishmash of me, hubs, Mom and son since we all use the same account.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 10:58 AM (DRSnL)

341 Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 10:58 AM

*waves to the Bacon Wench*

You joining us this year?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:59 AM (/C5Rl)

342 I find hard to believe the stories about Talarico being full section-eight, although I tend to agree with nurse that if he had a psych episode, it's not a joking matter.
It does seem strange he's been incommunicado for almost #twoweeks though. That is a long time to be feeding ducks in a retreat, especially in OCTOBER DURING AN ELECTION.
*ahem*.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 10:59 AM (sDWtc)

343 My Mom immigrated from Mexico. Dad's family has been here since before 1860 on all branches...some branches going back to the 1600s...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 10:59 AM (l3cgK)

344 Hmm, so it looks like the bird overshot the runway, ground the nose in, and hit the barricade.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 09, 2026 11:00 AM (vzuC7)

345 My father was born and grew up in Lousy-ana, but that's technically still America, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026
*
Coon-ass!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026


***
Not me!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:00 AM (wzUl9)

346 I wonder if talafreako is dead?

It is very strange.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 10:54 AM


It is bizarre, his campaign is locked up tight with nothing at all scheduled for him. They are being tight lipped as well and are not responding to the taunting from the paxton campaign. No official word on what is happening.


Something is seriously wrong.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 11:00 AM (I43vL)

347 Wonder what the menu will have?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

What's washing up?

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 11:00 AM (NFX2v)

348 Latest arrival I can find from my family is the early 1700s when my maternal grandmother's line came to Canada from France.

Otherwise, 1650s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, taking speed with Bob Fosse at October 09, 2026 11:00 AM (1kJuV)

349 I want money out of politics

And you'll get it!

Posted by: Any Congresscritter at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (qoUKC)

350 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (nPfAi)

351 Noodus throckmortonii

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)

352
Having struggled with mental-health issues of my own, I am not about to mock anybody who legitimately has them.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

_________

Agreed, but you're not running for a Senate seat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (eRlcH)

353 303 fine caliber.
i'm sirprised they aren't revenuing this already, payperview. alot of those guys want to be ended. let them choose from a creative laundry list of methods. that would sell.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (Bep7s)

354 Talarico missing from the trail is not a strategy. Something is very wrong with him and for some reason they won't say what it is.
Posted by: MJ at October 09, 2026 10:51 AM (XOmY9)

Asshole cancer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 09, 2026 11:01 AM (g8Ew8)

355 305 wifey's old man was illegal turk running from mandatory army service. stowaway stuff.

Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (Bep7s)

356 wifey's old man was illegal turk running from mandatory army service. stowaway stuff.
Posted by: cmeat at October 09, 2026 11:03 AM (Bep7s)


I know a Greek guy who did that.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 11:04 AM (zJe6s)

357 You joining us this year?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 10:59 AM (/C5Rl)

=====

Wouldn't miss it!

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 09, 2026 11:07 AM (DRSnL)

358 And you thought Cristina had it bad.

Posted by: Plane Jane at October 09, 2026 01:01 PM (IJKDs)

The Morning Report — 10/9 /26

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Continuing on from my rant in yesterday's editorial about RINO scum and traitors like Tom Tillis, John Thune and all the rest who will gladly allow the Democrat/Left to destroy the country so that they can loot the treasury as their reward, I got a bit hot under the collar on the latest episode of the podcast linked here, and at or near the top of the sidebar and at the popular outlets linked at the bottom of this post. Yes while the GOP establishment must be utterly obliterated and every elected official must be anti-Leftist to the bone and utterly ruthless in combatting them, in every position from local dog-catcher all the way up to President of the United States. I did not mean to imply that you should sit out an election or that allowing a Democrat to win (steal) an election let aloe actively voting for one to punish/purge the GOP is madness in the extreme, and in no way, shape or form do I countenance that at all!

This is all a long way of saying that Republicans don’t always agree. Infighting has always existed, and it is exaggerated by the leftist media, which sees an opportunity to make things worse for us. But I say to hell with them. At least Republicans are still arguing about what they believe. The Democrat Party, meanwhile, seems willing to broaden its coalition to include just about anybody with a grievance and a protest sign: Maoists, radical Islamists, militant feminists, blue-haired lunatics who take over city blocks, anti-civilization Antifa bomb-throwers, and, worst of all, Ivy League graduates.

As CBD and I tried to underscore, with the Democrat/Left in power and controlling all or even part of government would mean none of us would be safe. Frankly that we somehow survived eight years of Obama considering his chief adviser Bill Ayers at one point agreed with one of his acolytes that once he and the Weathermen had overthrown the American government and seized absolute power would have to liquidate at least 25 million of us deadeners who would refuse to be reeducated and submit to their plans for paradise on earth.

Larry Grathwohl is the military veteran who volunteered to infiltrate the Weather Underground as an FBI operative in 1969.  He is probably best-known for his firsthand account of a Weatherman meeting at which the organization's leadership, including the future Professor Ayers, discussed the logistics of how, after the communist revolution they were trying to spearhead, they would murder the ten percent of the American population that would likely remain resistant to the communists' re-education program.  Grathwohl has often been interviewed about that meeting and about his days among the Weather Underground (WU).  The focus of those interviews used to be on the radicals and their terrorist operations.  More recently, interviewers have turned to Grathwohl to help them highlight Barack Obama's own radicalism, by reminding people of the true nature of the "guy in Obama's neighborhood."


Yeah, Tillis, Thune, Collins, Murkowski and all the rest are venal, amoral pigs. But they're not going to engage in the aforementioned. Yeah, we'll be poorer and frustrated when they're in office but we won't be rotting in a mass grave should the Ocasios, Talaricos, El-Sayeds and all the rest win the next election or two which would then be the last ones ever held.

And on a very closely related note, this happened yesterday...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he tried to negotiate with President Trump to release the “criminal illegal alien” and alleged gang member who was shot by ICE Thursday in the Bronx as he called for the abolishment of the federal agency.

“Around 4 p.m. this afternoon, a New Yorker was shot by ICE agents in Marble Hill,” a furious Mamdani told reporters at the late-night press conference near the scene of a rowdy anti-ICE protest in the borough. “For the past two hours, I’ve been on the phone with President Trump and [DHS] Secretary Mullin negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot. Those negotiations were unsuccessful,” Hizzoner said. The migrant, identified by the NYPD as Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot in the neck and hospitalized before he was taken from NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital by unmarked ICE vehicles, according to the mayor. Mamdani — who spoke over protesters’ chants labeling him “complicit” — called Immigration and Customs Enforcement “rotten to its core” and is an “agency that must be abolished” in the fiery speech. “What does Trump have to say about all of this?” he demanded. “Now I made clear to the president, to the secretary, our request [is] that ICE agents leave the scene entirely — as well as the demand that ICE stop its enforcement actions in New York City.” The Department of Homeland Security said ICE had been attempting to arrest Belgal, of the Dominican Republic, who they claimed has ties to the Trinitarios gang when the shooting occurred. . . However, moments before the press conference kicked off around 11:20 p.m., “ICE put the man in an unmarked vehicle and whisked him away,” Hizzoner said. “Let me say this plainly, what happened today was an outrage,” Mamdani fumed. “Today’s shooting is only further devastating confirmation of what we have long known, which is that ICE operates with impunity, that they sow chaos and terror across our country, that they have killed far more of our neighbors than they could ever have claimed to save,” the mayor said. 

in other words, we have Hitler complaining that the Allied armies have killed too many Waffen S.S. before they had the chance to exterminate all the untermenschen and conquer the world!

As if to underscore both these stories, we have this madness:

When pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil appeared on CNN Monday, Kaitlan Collins asked if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question “silly” and “disingenuous.” It isn’t “black and white,” he whined. Even if you oppose Israel’s reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a conscience.
Certainly, it should be for any person who wants to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. But the fact that Khalil can’t condemn Hamas — and anyone paying attention understands that he supports the terrorist army — tells us not only that he deserves to be deported, but that it’s imperative we deport him.
During the 1960s and 1970s, immigration officials grilled newcomers to the US about their affiliations with communist parties.
Why would we import people who want to destroy our system?
Newcomers were, and still are, compelled to disavow associations with illiberal movements, violent groups and ideologies. They were also required to promise not to engage in any subversive or revolutionary activity.

Well, Khalil’s entire job as an “activist” is to engage in subversive or revolutionary activity.
Khalil is an Algerian, incidentally, not a Palestinian — though he is a champion of Palestinianism, one of the most nihilistic, bigoted, violent, anti-Western ideologies of the age.
There’s no anti-American or Marxist protest or riot anywhere in the world these days where Palestinian flags are not prominent.The French, of course, don’t need much impetus to riot.
. . . The red-green alliance between Islamists and communists isn’t new — it’s just more popular than ever.
France has over 5 million Muslims.
What you see happening this week on the streets of Paris is exactly what Khalil hopes to see in the United States.
We saw as much when he was the lead “negotiator” for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which rioted at the school in 2024.
The group’s goal is to fight for the “total eradication of Western civilization,” “global intifada” and the “armed resistance” of Hamas. . Yes, free speech is a universal right.
And while I support Khalil’s natural right to express himself unfettered in his home country of Algeria, or anywhere else he ends up living, there is no unfettered right to be in the United States.
There is certainly no unfettered right to citizenship.
And the only useful adjective to describe the act of knowingly handing it to people who incite unrest and detest us is suicidal.

There's intentionally swallowing rat poison and then there's cancer that comes from within! Aside from those we insanely import, we have our own homegrown fellow citizens IN NAME ONLY, who seek our destruction.
Where have you gone Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, our nation turns its blackened, bruised and bleeding eyes to you!!!!!!
Wow, like so many positive waves, now I bid you all to have a great weekend!


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1 Happy Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

2 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

4 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 07:36 AM (I43vL)

5 Antifa bomb-throwers, and, worst of all, Ivy League graduates

But NO Irish

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 07:36 AM (/+uur)

6 Morning all.

I knew the second I logged on the tech thread, JJ would show up.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 07:36 AM (nPfAi)

7 Not gonna lie... I LOVE watching Vance and Rubio one-upping each other in their quest to be named Heir Apparent to the Golden Scalpweasel.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 07:37 AM (gLYp7)

8 So, saying there's a podcast?

Posted by: This Am A Surprise at October 09, 2026 07:37 AM (EdP2u)

9 the future Professor Ayers, discussed the logistics of how, after the communist revolution they were trying to spearhead, they would murder the ten percent of the American population that would likely remain resistant to the communists' re-education program.

Pol Pot had to murder 1 outta 3.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 07:38 AM (/+uur)

10 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

11 8 So, saying there's a podcast?
Posted by: This Am A Surprise at October 09, 2026 07:37 AM (EdP2u)


For a few years now, as you can see at CJN... linked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 09, 2026 07:40 AM (x0n13)

12 Continuing on from my rant in yesterday's editorial about RINO scum and traitors like Tom Tillis, John Thune and all the rest who will gladly allow the Democrat/Left to destroy the country so that they can loot the treasury as their reward, I got a bit hot under the collar on the latest episode of the podcast linked here

This subject is so rich with content and is such a target rich environment you could keep on writing about it until you've turned out something that would beat out War and Peace in the book thickness department.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:40 AM (6ydKt)

13 Republicans Bad, Democrats Worse. Vote against the greater of two evils.

Posted by: davidt at October 09, 2026 07:41 AM (Q+gd/)

14 Greene-Placentia does not remember what the men looked like or what they were wearing, according to the report.

“She only recalled one of them wearing black boots and having small feet,” the incident report reads.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 07:41 AM (/+uur)

15 Part of the good news is Rosasharn twirled in the Tech Thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

16 “For the past two hours, I’ve been on the phone with President Trump and [DHS] Secretary Mullin negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot. Those negotiations were unsuccessful,” Hizzoner said.

The balls on this guy...

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

17 "WATCH: JD Vance Blocks Visas for Microsoft and Indian Staffing Companies"


When does the media call him a racist for hating on indians? That would be ironic.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 07:42 AM (I43vL)

18 SpeakingOf

Two hours he wasted instead of overseeing the ongoing destruction of NYC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

19 18 SpeakingOf

Two hours he wasted instead of overseeing the ongoing destruction of NYC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

He's always got plenty of time to turn an illegal alien gangbanger into the victim of this story.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:44 AM (6ydKt)

20 One lie and a another, then another, then another......

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 07:44 AM (7xwo6)

21 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 07:44 AM (RORbl)

22 a not-as-awful-as-most tale from 10/7; Times of Israel:

https://short.do/jXB5pd

lest anyone think that IDF cuties are not also tough as nails.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:44 AM (VyBeY)

23 And don't forget if they admit to 25 million the number is a whole lot higher.

Posted by: ... at October 09, 2026 07:45 AM (8S7CD)

24 Those universities are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT, and what we see is that when you employ an American worker as a graduate student, as a researcher, they’re making about $20,000 more than someone brought in under a J-1 visa, and importantly, these universities are employing J-1 visas for federally funded grants at a rate of about 61 percent. The national average is 38 percent.

The National Average should be 0.0%.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 07:45 AM (/+uur)

25 It is Friday. I am undercaffeinated because what was supposed to be a simple hardware fix decided to be a problem.

Good thing I have a coffee pot at my desk.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 07:47 AM (NR6c1)

26 Willow'd:

62 I was watching a YouTube video yesterday about a church running a singles dating event and it was not well attended by the men. A few people were saying that it was creepy to use a church for this.

My thought: Shouldn't a church have events like this to encourage young people to marry and have families? The response to my opinion was a bit negative but I see nothing wrong with it.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 06:12 AM (NR6c1)


Catholics don't generally hold such events in the church proper, which is formally consecrated. Baptists use theirs as a general meeting space, designed to be repurposed throughout the week, maybe even with moveable partitions. It's a fundamentally incompatible sense of the sacred.

Of course Catholics have diocesan groups for young adult singles, some parishes may as well. I visited another parish's group for co-ed volleyball in their parish school's gym. I met up with the diocesan group at a brewpub for an artwalk in the Big City arts district. Things like that, perfectly normal.

I can see different points of view, but one benefit of keeping the chapel sacred is to discourage the players' game of Sunday Morning Nightclub.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 07:47 AM (ke3zm)

27 I believe it is our fellow moron ellipsis... who is fond of:

"It turns out you can just say things."

Which applies to Madmani in no uncertain terms.


(Apologies if I'm remembering the wrong commenter)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:48 AM (6ydKt)

28 UPMC once claimed in court they had no employees. Fuckers run thirty hospitals. Make sense of that shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 07:49 AM (7xwo6)

29 Frustration

Vote —early and often —for frustration versus death.

Posted by: Voter theater. at October 09, 2026 07:50 AM (FCPbW)

30 17 "WATCH: JD Vance Blocks Visas for Microsoft and Indian Staffing Companies"


When does the media call him a racist for hating on indians? That would be ironic.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 07:42 AM (I43vL)

rockhard place

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:52 AM (6ydKt)

31 oops.

rock-> <-hard place

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:52 AM (6ydKt)

32 26 Willow'd:

Hey, SciVo. I was going to answer you and Fen but the thread had closed by the time I got back.

My view was simply that a church should encourage the single men and women to marry and have kids. Apparently, this did not sit well with some folks. I ain't going back to that thread because I have a feeling that nothing I say would make a difference.

Fen, thanks for your perspective as well. I do think that churches should be actively setting things like this up since you would have people of like minds meeting. And now I remember a minister who told his congregation that the unmarried people who were living together had six months to get married or breakup. He even provided counseling and the church for the service.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 07:53 AM (NR6c1)

33 >>rockhard place

Yes?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 07:53 AM (viF8m)

34 Not sure the Blue Angels will fly again today, forecast is bot clear skies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

35 33 >>rockhard place

Yes?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 07:53 AM (viF8m)

\m/ \m/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:54 AM (6ydKt)

36 SpeakingOf

It had to be Vance for that announcement. His wife gives him armor against the usual accusations of racism.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

37 Good morning from Rehoboth Beach! There's a Seasonal Martian Plume-in my pants!

Posted by: Stage Nine Joe! at October 09, 2026 07:55 AM (EdP2u)

38 36 SpeakingOf

It had to be Vance for that announcement. His wife gives him armor against the usual accusations of racism.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)


Usha is white-adjacent so they'll take it out on her.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:55 AM (6ydKt)

39 It had to be Vance for that announcement. His wife gives him armor against the usual accusations of racism.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

hahahaha, nope! She's White-adjacent!
- The Media

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 07:57 AM (s30Ba)

40 So, saying there's a podcast?"

Right next to the content...

/ there's content?

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 07:57 AM (pfXMo)

41 SpeakingOf

They can try. She is not as tough as Melania, but she can deal out punishment. If needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

42 The new (AI animated looks like) Smokey the Bear commercials have been running lately.

The new slogan is:

"If it's too hot to touch, it's too hot to leave."


Funny, that's my motto with women, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

43 Martini's theory on voting;

It's a real chore in certain precincts... by design. In others, not so much because you have multiple avenues to cast your vote, or have someone do it for you.

Leaving this sort of thing up to the states is a bad idea when we're selecting government leadership. IMO

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 07:58 AM (RORbl)

44 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at October 09, 2026 07:58 AM (yhou+)

45 4 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

Once was enough!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie, Saint Pancake! at October 09, 2026 07:58 AM (EdP2u)

46 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

One human race. Divided by Culture and single nucleotide polymorphism.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

47 Rachel Corrie, Saint Pancake!

Patron Saint of bad decisions?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

48 I know an author who is married to a black woman and he's been accused of using her as a shield.

Thankfully, his response is mockery.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 08:00 AM (NR6c1)

49 41 SpeakingOf

They can try. She is not as tough as Melania, but she can deal out punishment. If needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)


She's got four children under the age of 9.
She can handle the media.

I would like to see her take a few over knee and spank them until they cry for Vance to save them.

(the media, I mean, not the kids)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:00 AM (6ydKt)

50 Louisiana Muslims Were on Medicaid While Sending Money to Terrorists
"More than $224,000 in benefits"

Medicare requires you to renew annually.
Medicaid should be wiped annually and require re-qualify and re-enroll.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:01 AM (/+uur)

51 Internet down this morning, and reading, commenting on things on a tiny phone screen is…sub-optimal. I don’t know how people who only use their phones for the internet can stand it. It blows chunks!

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 08:02 AM (g0bYX)

52 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:03 AM (ccf/V)

53 Medicare requires you to renew annually.
Medicaid should be wiped annually and require re-qualify and re-enroll.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:01 AM (/+uur)

I'm not even on Medicare and that sounds horrifying.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:03 AM (6ydKt)

54 Chuckled at the gambling story - even the "gaming" companies realize that the "prediction markets" are just...online gambling.

Who's up for some CaesarsDraftFan...stuff?

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:04 AM (pfXMo)

55 “She only recalled one of them wearing black boots and having small feet,” the incident report reads.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Whew! Leaves me out, I wear size 13. You know what they say about guys with little feet.

Posted by: Ample Andy at October 09, 2026 08:04 AM (EdP2u)

56 Whew! Leaves me out, I wear size 13. You know what they say about guys with little feet.

Posted by: Ample Andy at October 09, 2026 08:04 AM (EdP2u)

They wear little socks?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:05 AM (6ydKt)

57 Leaves me out, I wear size 13"

The Paolo, he knows that big feet means you're a clown...

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:06 AM (pfXMo)

58 Mamdani proving once again he's for illegals and the 3rd worlding of NYC and not for NYCers.

Good job staying home and avoiding a Sliwa administration. I'm sure that would've been MUCH worse. Just like that Dr. Oz. character. Fetterman is such a breath of fresh air. Sure he votes 100% democrat, but he's nice to Israel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:08 AM (ccf/V)

59 Morning Horde thx JJ. Happy Friday and a good weekend to all.
Get blue cities fighting and screaming about ICE shooting an illegal alien criminal. Do it right before the election. While the cities erupt , normal people vote against chaos. Keep it up Mamdani

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:08 AM (t9883)

60 Medicaid should be wiped annually and require re-qualify and re-enroll.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:01 AM (/+uur)
=====

It is, soon to be every 6 months.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

61 For able-bodied adults 18-64

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

62 Dem Candidate Claims She Was Raped by 2 MAGA Men Whom She Can’t Describe

Yeah...I'm going to mock her. She deserves it.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 08:08 AM (NR6c1)

63 She recalled to investigators that one of the men said “democratic b*tch” at some point during the incident, the report states.

On Thursday, she told CNN she could not be certain of what she had heard then. “However, I was repairing signs,” she added. “My picture is on my signs all over the district.”

Greene-Placentia said she “did get the gut feeling that I was recognized.”

She also told the sheriff’s office her assailants may have been white males.



But where was her Subway sandwich during all of this?

I am highly disappointed that these guys forgot to bring along some shoelace sized rope with a noose on the end to hang around her neck.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:09 AM (6ydKt)

64 The Paolo, he knows that big feet means you're a clown...
Posted by: man

Them's stompin' words!

Posted by: Ample Andy And Thom McCan at October 09, 2026 08:09 AM (EdP2u)

65
RUBIO: "It has become fashionable today to believe that enlightened foreign policy means prioritizing the global community over one's own people. Here too, we have much to learn from the men of ancient Greece — because they knew that there was nothing selfish or wrong about loyalty to your nation, nor anything selfish or wrong about fighting to defend its interests above all else."

VANCE: Microsoft's Indian visas are all cancelled, bitches!

I voted for this.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 08:09 AM (gLYp7)

66 Yeh, I know. He doesn't do much. But I love it when Sen. John Kennedy opens his mouth.

"Most Americans don't think that much about color anymore... They understand that to a bear, we all taste like chicken."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:10 AM (yMCWt)

67 I am highly disappointed that these guys forgot to bring along some shoelace sized rope with a noose on the end to hang around her neck.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:09 AM (6ydKt)



And bleach. Remember, they must douse with bleach because skin can't be too white.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

68 NR Pax

So. Bill Clinton and Hunter Biden? That action is on-brand for them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

69 DOJ Seeks To Indict Former White House Aide Over Claims She Lied About January 6

Cornbread was lyin liar and everyone knew that

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:11 AM (/+uur)

70 SpaceX did two remarkable things yesterday, it brought four astronauts home from the space station and it announced it can and will soon take over the cell phone industry. Last week was devoted to robo-taxis and opening a factory making semi trucks. The pace of change in that company is dizzying.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 08:12 AM (3dxnp)

71 You know what they say about guys with little feet."

They can do fantastic stunts?

/Headly Lamarr, Territorial AG.

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:13 AM (pfXMo)

72 It is, soon to be every 6 months.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

gooder

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:13 AM (/+uur)

73 DOJ Seeks To Indict Former White House Aide Over Claims She Lied About January 6

Cornbread was lyin liar and everyone knew that

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:11 AM (/+uur)
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Here's hoping she's toast!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:14 AM (yMCWt)

74 Anyone ask Rubio what's a Grecian Urn?

Posted by: Nick And Stavros At The Diner at October 09, 2026 08:14 AM (EdP2u)

75 You know what they say about guys with little feet."

They can do fantastic stunts?

/Headly Lamarr, Territorial AG.

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:13 AM (pfXMo)
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KINKY!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:14 AM (yMCWt)

76 Dem Candidate Claims She Was Raped by 2 MAGA Men Whom She Can’t Describe


Rapes in America are usually done by illegals brought in during Democrat administrations. Sometimes, it's a citizen. Usually in lower income areas or gang related.

It's NEVER a MAGA man. NEVER.

They want you dead, imprisoned or enslaved. Democrats are NOT for America. They're for communism. Remember, Owebama was jealous of Xi Jinping because he could squash his press if they were negative.

They want total control. NOT a free society.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

77 70 SpaceX did two remarkable things yesterday, it brought four astronauts home from the space station and it announced it can and will soon take over the cell phone industry. Last week was devoted to robo-taxis and opening a factory making semi trucks. The pace of change in that company is dizzying.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 08:12 AM (3dxnp)

Biden spent billions on fibre that SpaceX could have done for millions

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (/+uur)

78 'Morning! Sunrise in 4 minutes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (wVcYX)

79 Didn't know that Talarico is a type-1 diabetic. Seems people care saying that may be the problem, not flu. Others say a nervous breakdown. Whatever it is, disappearing from the campaign trail looks pretty bad

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (t9883)

80 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

81 Anyone ask Rubio what's a Grecian Urn?

Posted by: Nick And Stavros At The Diner at October 09, 2026 08:14 AM (EdP2u)

Everyone knows that, dummy. Grecian's earn minimum wage, which is way too low, MAGATS!
- AOC

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (gLYp7)

82 That's open hand slap.

Posted by: David Schultz at October 09, 2026 08:16 AM (zZxsY)

83 Anyone ask Rubio what's a Grecian Urn?"

20 drachmas. Same as in Athens...

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:16 AM (pfXMo)

84 Seen on Insty: New York State is considering a bill where women get free college if they claim rape.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with that, LO-fucking-L.

"Leftism is a failure to understand second-order consequences" is undefeated.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:16 AM (Cw4E2)

85 > DOJ Seeks To Indict Former White House Aide Over Claims She Lied About January 6
------
Nothing like a DoJ that's on the ball... half a decade later.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 08:16 AM (RORbl)

86 79 Didn't know that Talarico is a type-1 diabetic. Seems people care saying that may be the problem, not flu. Others say a nervous breakdown. Whatever it is, disappearing from the campaign trail looks pretty bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (t9883)

monkeypox

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)

87 Didn't know that Talarico is a type-1 diabetic. Seems people care saying that may be the problem, not flu. Others say a nervous breakdown. Whatever it is, disappearing from the campaign trail looks pretty bad
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (t9883)



I don't care. He's a heretic that should be NOWHERE NEAR public office or governmental power. He should be ostracized.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:16 AM (ccf/V)

88 The Dem candidate alleging she was raped says she was out fixing campaign signs a 2AM. Suuure

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (t9883)

89 “She only recalled one of them wearing black boots and having small feet,” the incident report reads.
Posted by: r hennigantx


Could've been AtC.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (nPfAi)

90 Very glad to see some of those 'staffing companies' get their H1B access revoked along with MS and Adobe. Now for the thousands of others. It's painful seeing a job that was clearly outsourced from an American firm to an Indian 'staffing agency' (to 'save money', of course, so already cheaping out), trying to hire Americans to fulfill the contract, at blatantly peanuts on the dollar.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (aJQbY)

91 Everyone knows that, dummy. Grecian's earn minimum wage, which is way too low, MAGATS!
- AOC
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (gLYp7)



And I saw this as an opportunity to say "$20, same as in town."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

92 I am highly disappointed that these guys forgot to bring along some shoelace sized rope with a noose"

And that they didn't shout "this is MAGA country"

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (pfXMo)

93 Biden spent billions on fibre that SpaceX could have done for millions

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (/+uur)

Yes, obviously, the quickest, most efficient, and cheapest way to bring the internet to remote, rural, communities is through satellite transmission.

Obvious to everybody but the federal government.

Even Dish and DirecTV had this figure out two decades ago with TV.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (6ydKt)

94
Could've been AtC.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (nPfAi)



No mention of big tits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)

95 And I saw this as an opportunity to say "$20, same as in town."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

To be fair, there were multiple right answers on that one.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 08:18 AM (gLYp7)

96 Biden spent billions on fibre that SpaceX could have done for millions
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (/+uur)
=========================
A good example of an old socialist "solution", spend government money and who cares on what, versus actual private company accomplishment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 08:18 AM (3dxnp)

97 We have the most connected world in history. Anyone with an internet connection or a cell phone can speak with anyone else at any time.

But somehow Talarico has been unable to contact anyone in the media or his campaign for 12 days with less than a month until election day because he has the flu?

Pull the other one, it has bells on it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 08:19 AM (viF8m)

98 Even Dish and DirecTV had this figure out two decades ago with TV.

DirecTV/Hughes had satellite internet 30 years ago but it was slow and expensive.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:19 AM (Cw4E2)

99 The Dem candidate alleging she was raped says she was out fixing campaign signs a 2AM. Suuure
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (t9883)
=====

Classic case of Main Character Syndrome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

100
Obvious to everybody but the federal government.

Even Dish and DirecTV had this figure out two decades ago with TV.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:17 AM (6ydKt)



It was internet, but highly priced and low performance.

Biden and the USG simply laundered money and provided nothing, as usual.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:20 AM (ccf/V)

101 New York State is considering a bill where women get free college if they claim rape"

*takes down "ladies night" signs, puts up "free college" signs*

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:21 AM (pfXMo)

102 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:22 AM (77rzZ)

103 New York State is considering a bill where women get free college if they claim rape"


Oh, that'll help........


All this for a whore who loved getting run train.

Democrats are the destruction of society.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

104 and provided nothing, as usual."

Dixie Liquors disagrees...

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:22 AM (pfXMo)

105 What size bedazzled Crocs does garrett wear?

Posted by: Buster Brown Lives In a Shoe at October 09, 2026 08:22 AM (EdP2u)

106 My Republican friends told me that the R candidate for Senate for NJ, , handsome Justin Murphy, ( that's not the reason I'm voting for him- his good looks 😉.) had a very good debate against Cory Booker . Too bad that all Booker can squak about is "awful Trump, " because I expect between voter fraud and people who reflexively vote D Booker will get in. I will have to go and watch the debate.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 08:23 AM (iGSqB)

107 " Christa Pike was declared brain dead on Monday night and was expected to be taken off life support, but woke up and started talking on Tuesday, according to her physicians."

Oh wait! I read that wrong. It says "according to her attorneys

Because attorneys understand the definition of brain death. What a pathetic clown show. This attorney is milking this for all it's worth. Is there nobody in Tennessee willing to set the record straight?

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 08:23 AM (I0N4X)

108 Didn't know that Talarico is a type-1 diabetic. Seems people care saying that may be the problem, not flu. Others say a nervous breakdown. Whatever it is, disappearing from the campaign trail looks pretty bad

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:15 AM (t9883)
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monkeypox

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)
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There's a new kid in town:

https://tinyurl.com/2rfpj8mm

Run! Run away!!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:24 AM (yMCWt)

109
There's a new kid in town:

https://tinyurl.com/2rfpj8mm

Run! Run away!!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:24 AM (yMCWt)



Fauci, laughing, spreads his wings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

110 What size bedazzled Crocs does garrett wear?
Posted by: Buster Brown Lives In a Shoe at October 09, 2026 08:22 AM (EdP2u)



You looking for a gay ol' time?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (ccf/V)

111 "Scott Bessent is doing a helluva good job against Iran", says CBD in the latest podcast. He is also doing a great job financing the deficit. Yesterday, traders started making huge bets (in the options market) that interest rates have finally stopped rising and will decline, at least a bit.

The Trump cabinet has been tons better in this term than the Biden residency. Competence is great.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (3dxnp)

112 I would think Hurricane Helen and what it did to the mountains of NC would immediately bring up some light bulbs in the head of the FCC or whichever government agency in charge of 'rural broadband'.

Elon showed the importance of satellite internet and how quickly it could be deployed and then how reliable it can be for people who can't get online any other way.

It really is stupid to try to bring fiber to every community in the mountains. Bing it to Asheville and the larger towns, sure, but for Billy Bob way up in the mountains in a cabin, the only thing that makes sense is satellite.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (6ydKt)

113 ...brain dead on Monday night...but woke up and started talking Tuesday morning...

**********

It's a Festivus miracle!!!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (I0N4X)

114 Woke up due to a leg cramp (yes, I've tried magnesium, no, it doesn't work). The kittens invaded our room and managed to rope JT The Wonder Dog into their shenanigans by hiding in his fur to avoid ejection. Pooky got all three animals out with the promise of food, and I'm conking back out.

Posted by: pookysgirl never has a dull moment at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (Wt5PA)

115 There's a new kid in town:

https://tinyurl.com/2rfpj8mm

Run! Run away!!!!"

Leave the soap there...

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 08:26 AM (pfXMo)

116 Whew! Leaves me out, I wear size 13. You know what they say about guys with little feet.

Posted by: Ample Andy at October 09, 2026 08:04 AM (EdP2u)

They wear little socks?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:05 AM (6ydKt)

and have little cars that go Beep Beep Beep?

Posted by: Randy Newman at October 09, 2026 08:27 AM (wVcYX)

117 Woke up due to a leg cramp (yes, I've tried magnesium, no, it doesn't work). The kittens invaded our room and managed to rope JT The Wonder Dog into their shenanigans by hiding in his fur to avoid ejection. Pooky got all three animals out with the promise of food, and I'm conking back out.
Posted by: pookysgirl never has a dull moment at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (Wt5PA)



I've been up since 4:30 due to none of this.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:27 AM (ccf/V)

118 Woke up due to a leg cramp (yes, I've tried magnesium, no, it doesn't work).

Posted by: pookysgirl never has a dull moment at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (Wt5PA)
-

Vitamin K2:

https://tinyurl.com/3un3r3kr

Works for Mrs. BD and me for years now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:28 AM (yMCWt)

119 The Fake Rape™ story is everywhere already.

Posted by: MJ at October 09, 2026 08:28 AM (XOmY9)

120
Madman is going to destroy NYC.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 08:28 AM (/QHx4)

121 Today Is National Angel Food Cake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

122 "sexually transmitted diarrhea"

These queers think of everything, don't they?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:29 AM (6ydKt)

123 I watched a short 5 minute snip of the El-Sayed Rogers debate last night. My ( probably worthless) impression: it was just two people shouting insults back and forth. If my 5 minutes were representative, it unfortunately looked like El-Sayed was the more composed shouter. I hope that didn’t represent the whole thing…. El-Sayed really is despicable… Rogers looked old, alas

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (sVR3r)

124 "Madman is going to destroy NYC."

Wouldn't he have to undestroy it first?

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (dCMJG)

125 The Trump cabinet has been tons better in this term than the Biden residency. Competence is great.

Democrats are now screaming that Jesus would never live-stream an execution. That's one hell of a "theology".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (Cw4E2)

126 If EMS is called to Death Row for a medical emergency don't you think they would slow walk the response?

"No Ventilators or Defibrillators Allowed Beyond This Point"

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (I0N4X)

127 There apparently was a funny exchange last night in a break in the debate Justin Murphy came back to say he was fixing his hair and he and Booker had a laugh about the fact that Booker doesn't have any hair.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (iGSqB)

128 Potassium helps with leg cramps , too.

I get them a lot less than I used to.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (6ydKt)

129 Madman is going to destroy NYC.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 08:28 AM (/QHx4)
======================
Maybe not. Suddenly, all you hear is criticism. That evil X post on Oct 7 has really pissed people off.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (3dxnp)

130 The Fake Rape™ story is everywhere already.

Posted by: MJ at October 09, 2026 08:28 AM (XOmY9)



The 7 men accused of this should be finding attorneys that will take the case of suing the f*ck out of AOC and the rest that have been spewing pure fallacies to the world about this situation.

Make them feel pain.....financial pain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:31 AM (ccf/V)

131 Democrats are now screaming that Jesus would never live-stream an execution. That's one hell of a "theology".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (Cw4E2)
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But he would've cross-posted it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:31 AM (yMCWt)

132 redridinghood

Thank You. I notice it's never a science theme. Only food.

I long for the SN2 Reaction Mechanism Day. The gays would love that better than SN1 Reaction Mechanism Day. For reasons.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 08:31 AM (u82oZ)

133 The 7 men accused of this should be finding attorneys that will take the case of suing the f*ck out of AOC and the rest that have been spewing pure fallacies to the world about this situation.

Make them feel pain.....financial pain.


Too late, the Democrats are already offering free college for any girl who claims rape. No proof needed. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:32 AM (Cw4E2)

134 Democrats are now screaming that Jesus would never live-stream an execution. That's one hell of a "theology".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (Cw4E2)

If it were possible at the time, I doubt Jesus would have objected to his crucifixion being broadcast live worldwide.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:32 AM (6ydKt)

135 121 Today Is National Angel Food Cake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Fine, but Debil's Food Cake is more my style.

Posted by: Beelzeboob at October 09, 2026 08:32 AM (EdP2u)

136 Rural Electrification was an interesting historical program of the 1930s. Some places didn’t really get “wired” till the 1950s. Of course it wasn’t cost effective for utilities, and farmers and ranchers couldn’t afford to pay for the “last mile” of poles and wiring.

Most people in the sticks ran on batteries. Banks of them. Wire your house for 32 volt DC Lights and appliances.

Windmills and generators for re-charging. WinChargers are sometimes found in antique shops. Neat items, and kind of rare. One reason, the government required these be destroyed, or rendered inoperable, in exchange for getting mains electrical service. Shooting them was considered acceptable.

32 volt DC “farm radios” are sometimes found. They used the same electrical plug as more modern appliances, but woe to the knick-knack collector who plugs one in to 120 volts AC to “see if it works”. Oops!

Posted by: Common Tater at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (Kux/g)

137 I watched a short 5 minute snip of the El-Sayed Rogers debate last night. My ( probably worthless) impression: it was just two people shouting insults back and forth. If my 5 minutes were representative, it unfortunately looked like El-Sayed was the more composed shouter. I hope that didn’t represent the whole thing…. El-Sayed really is despicable… Rogers looked old, alas
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (sVR3r)



The only things I saw were "He owns a home in Florida." "Sure, but he owns a home in UAE (*or wherever). At least Florida is in the US." and some shit about how moohamhead wants to raise taxes over $20k a year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)

138 Dem Candidate Claims She Was Raped by 2 MAGA Men Whom She Can’t Describe

As she was doing something with campaign signs. At 2am.

She doesn't know where the attack happened and can't describe the men other than to say that they were white Republicans. They were wearing MAGA hats. They told her, "This is MAGA country," as they took her. Over and over.

Then they gave her a Subway sandwich. Which is why she didn't report it for two weeks, as is, apparently, common among women these days.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

139 An innocent man being executed by the Romans and Jews on a cross?

The media would have turned that into the story of the decade.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (6ydKt)

140 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (sVR3r)
=========
I agree. Mike Rogers strikes me as a McVain level politician, and an incompetent campaigner. Despite that, Abdul is so disliked he may hand the election to Rogers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (3dxnp)

141 Too late, the Democrats are already offering free college for any girl who claims rape. No proof needed. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:32 AM (Cw4E2)

Out: Co-ed

In: 304-ed

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (wVcYX)

142 Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:30 AM (Cw4E2

Did they come up with that brilliant theological after they endorsed the theology that Jesus was totally against films too?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (iGSqB)

143
But he would've cross-posted it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:31 AM (yMCWt)



Well played, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (ccf/V)

144 Don't want shigellosis? Don't have rough anal sex. Easy peasy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

145 A Palestinian man from Nazareth at that.

Jesus would have been trending on TikTok for months.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:34 AM (6ydKt)

146 Vitamin K2:

https://tinyurl.com/3un3r3kr

Works for Mrs. BD and me for years now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:28 AM (yMCWt)

Interesting. I'll have to ask my OB about it when I go in next week.

Posted by: pookysgirl, always curious at October 09, 2026 08:34 AM (Wt5PA)

147 Today Is National Angel Food Cake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood


*********

Fortunately, tomorrow is National Sugar Coma Recovery Day

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 08:34 AM (I0N4X)

148 142-Theological "thought"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 09, 2026 08:34 AM (iGSqB)

149 Interesting. Fox is reporting that the riots in France have been taken over by communist/Islamic groups funded by Neville Singham's network.

>>@foxnewspolitics

>The Singham network's reach goes far beyond France. BreakThrough News publishes a dramatic video from the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis showing a far-left mayor "protecting" students from police — it racks up 346,000 likes in one day. From Brazil, teleSUR shared clash footage with a dramatic soundtrack. Self-described Marxist Twitch influencer Hasan Piker, who traveled to Cuba earlier this year and met Singham's wife Jodie Evans of CodePink, likes the content.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 08:35 AM (viF8m)

150 Democrats Revive Nullification With Refusals To Assist Federal Immigration Enforcement

End all transfers of money from DC to the states. Red or blue. DC should only pay for the things that the federal government explicitly demands and the state can pay for whatever it chooses.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

151 Black preachers would make Jimmy Swaggart blush.

Posted by: mr tmz at October 09, 2026 08:35 AM (rJ48h)

152 OK, college is free, but you have to have a mattress strapped to your back all four, what am I saying, six years.

Posted by: Craftmatic Automatic Adjustable Beds, Inc. at October 09, 2026 08:35 AM (EdP2u)

153 Too late, the Democrats are already offering free college for any girl who claims rape. No proof needed. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:32 AM (Cw4E2)



Out: Believe all women

In: Believe all women

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:35 AM (ccf/V)

154 43% of Young Voting Age Adults in America Support Sharia

I don't believe this number. Not even a little bit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

155 154 43% of Young Voting Age Adults in America Support Sharia

I don't believe this number. Not even a little bit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

I doubt 3% of young people could tell you what Sharia is.

They probably think it's named after some girl named Sharia who was shot by cops for driving while black.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:37 AM (6ydKt)

156 Once again, congratulations to JJ Sefton on his fantastic ten year anniversary at Morning Report! Thank you sir!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 08:37 AM (3dxnp)

157 Jaguar Registers Just TWO Cars in Europe After Woke Rebrand.

They and Them

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur)

158
They probably think it's named after some girl named Sharia who was shot by cops for driving while black.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:37 AM (6ydKt)



Cheria. She's already on GLP-1 commercials, I think.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:38 AM (ccf/V)

159 Jaguar Registers Just TWO Cars in Europe After Woke Rebrand.

They and Them
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur)



A strong reminder not to let your company be run by flaming fags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

160 Today is Leif Erickson Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

161 Today is Leif Erickson Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 08:39 AM (NpAcC)



The inventor of the cell phone?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:39 AM (ccf/V)

162 From what I saw and reading about the debate from various sources today, Rogers clobbered Abdul.

Rogers might not be hardcore MAGA or a great campaigner but Abdul is a pro-jihadist fraud whose father works for the Muslim Brotherhood, his mother worked for al Qaeda, owns a home in the UAE and at least one more in Pakistan or some other muslim shit hole.

He's an absolute fraud and is being exposed over and over as one. Barely squeaked by his primary by 1 point after we were told he was going to win by double digits. He hasn't gotten more popular.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 08:40 AM (viF8m)

163 139 An innocent man being executed by the Romans and Jews on a cross?

The media would have turned that into the story of the decade.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:33 AM (6ydKt)


Except the media would have told us that He deserved it and anyone who sides with Christ is evil and stupid and should be shunned.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 09, 2026 08:40 AM (OlzlW)

164 It's a hard week for Microsoft. There's the H1B thing, and there's also the entire Internet mocking them because the new Gears of War game sidelines the two male protagonists of the series in favor of a lesbian who looks and sounds suspiciously like the lesbian in charge of the game.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:40 AM (Cw4E2)

165 Tomorrow is actually Angel Food Cake Day.
Sorry about that. This should give you enough time to prepare.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

166 Like, wasn't there a single by some old black singer, "My Sharia Moor."?

Posted by: Clueless 20 year old at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (iGSqB)

167 164 It's a hard week for Microsoft. There's the H1B thing, and there's also the entire Internet mocking them because the new Gears of War game sidelines the two male protagonists of the series in favor of a lesbian who looks and sounds suspiciously like the lesbian in charge of the game.


I know I'm loving all this. The US Govt is settling my scores! MS and Adobe RUIN MY LIFE

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (j+aD2)

168 Speaking of that, Mark Dice had a video clip where 3 old black people were doing a podcast claiming that whitey stole everything from blacks.......Morse Code, computers, cell phones......because African drums. Everything technology was based on the African drums communication language.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)

169 Interesting. Fox is reporting that the riots in France have been taken over by communist/Islamic groups funded by Neville Singham's network.
=====

Up until now, both Fox and Fox business have been pushing the "muh poor students" b.s.

And pushing it hard for a reason I cannot discern.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

170 Don't want shigellosis? Don't have rough anal sex. Easy peasy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

I don't mind a little shigellosis. After all, I ain't cleaning the motel room.

Posted by: Andrew Gillum, homosexual at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (9zGZf)

171 135 121 Today Is National Angel Food Cake Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Fine, but Debil's Food Cake is more my style.
Posted by: Beelzeboob at October 09, 2026 08:32 AM (EdP2u)

That the angel in your arms this morning
Is gonna be the devil in someone else's arms tonight
Yes, the angel in your arms this morning
Is gonna be the devil in someone else's arms tonight

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (/+uur)

172 88 The Dem candidate alleging she was raped says she was out fixing campaign signs a 2AM. Suuure
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Sneaking home from Chad's house, I'd believe

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 08:42 AM (sDWtc)

173 Everything technology was based on the African drums communication language.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (ccf/V)

The G ds must be crazier

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:43 AM (/+uur)

174 Speaking of that, Mark Dice had a video clip where 3 old black people were doing a podcast claiming that whitey stole everything from blacks.......Morse Code, computers, cell phones......because African drums. Everything technology was based on the African drums communication language.

WE. WUZ. KANGZ.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:43 AM (Cw4E2)

175 Good morning morons!

speaking of, we were worried about our heater not kicking on, my dear husband spent a day with his "girlfriend" ChatGPT trying to figure out why (I was not home) then we had an HVAC company come in.

well in 5 minutes he calls me down. "um... everything is fine but the breaker is off? it's not tripped it's just off"

lol thanks Chat/non-handy husband! while the guy was there he did a normal pre-winter tuneup so all not lost but funny

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 08:44 AM (j+aD2)

176 Everything technology was based on the African drums communication language.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


Amazing how they haven't built a real life Wakanda by now.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 08:44 AM (NR6c1)

177 32 - for the record, I'm in favor of it, too!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 08:44 AM (VyBeY)

178 Tillis is out of office, so he has the freedom to say the quiet part out loud about the GOP plan to return to the status quo ante - but the Party hasn't exactly been shy about it. This GOP Congress has been an exact, line-for-line reproduction of their performance in 2017-2018.

Then and now, the entire plan is to wait out the unwelcome interlude with the orange interloper and then return to our regularly scheduled screening of "(D)racula vs. (R)enfield 48: The Encuckening."

Only this time, there is no chance of Trump turning back up like a bad penny, so that plan will actually work.

And when it does, don't say you weren't warned. The GOP warned you over and over again. For a decade straight.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 09, 2026 08:45 AM (BI5O2)

179 LOL, muldoon!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 08:46 AM (VyBeY)

180 Only this time, there is no chance of Trump turning back up like a bad penny, so that plan will actually work.


ha ha

no it won't

sorry you can't go home again, RINOs

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 08:46 AM (j+aD2)

181 >>Up until now, both Fox and Fox business have been pushing the "muh poor students" b.s.

>>And pushing it hard for a reason I cannot discern.

Fox really isn't much better than any of the other media outlets. It's been obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes and even a bit of smarts that the west has been under attack by the red/green alliance for years and those groups are funded by communists and islamist working together to destroy the west.

BLM is part of it. So is antifa. So are the campus riots by "students" here in the US.

It's war by other means.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 08:46 AM (viF8m)

182 Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com: "Long interview with Jeff Bezos reveals he is become a born-again capitalist".
I think Bezos was a capitalist in the 1990s; he just fell under Obama's spell like everyone else in the Bay.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 08:47 AM (sDWtc)

183 Yudhishthira's Dice

Given the alternative of Democide, I give Reps my vote. But I do not fund the losers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

184 Then and now, the entire plan is to wait out the unwelcome interlude with the orange interloper and then return to our regularly scheduled screening of "(D)racula vs. (R)enfield 48: The Encuckening."

Cuck shack
Cuck shack ba-beeee!

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:47 AM (Cw4E2)

185 For those who aren't familiar with the concept of brain death, here is a short article that gives a succinct description of the condition.

https://tinyurl.com/4sbyhekf

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 08:47 AM (I0N4X)

186 Hearing SecWar Hegseth talk about the hasan execution has got me rock hard. It is so cathartic of having him in this position in government because a) it's having a real adult in charge , b) he doesn't want to use third worlders to kill me, and c) he's is appropriately calling out the cause: Islam.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 09, 2026 08:48 AM (nCTkv)

187 Medicare requires you to renew annually.

What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:48 AM (ExV1e)

188 shigellosis?

Isn't that the thing that Irish Leprechauns play?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:48 AM (ccf/V)

189 Not a red penny to the GOPe. Never.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 08:48 AM (7xwo6)

190 I will occasionally get agonizing foot cramps after a long run. I’ll shower and sit down on the couch with legs elevated and ice packs on muscles to aid recovery. Then out of the blue one foot cramps up in a most painful way. The only way to stop it is to stand up. Ouch!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 08:49 AM (sVR3r)

191 I think Bezos was a capitalist in the 1990s; he just fell under Obama's spell like everyone else in the Bay.

Biden's aggressive moves to effectively seize tech woke a fair number of people up. Not as many as it should have, but it's a lot of the right people.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:49 AM (Cw4E2)

192 TGIF!!

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 08:49 AM (AKptf)

193 It's a Festivus miracle!!!
Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 08:25 AM (I0N4X)

Makes me want to go polish the Pole.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:49 AM (/+uur)

194 NY is completely overrun by illegal immigrants. The state is paying millions to support them and stealing millions more from the federal treasury to illegally let them collect Medicaid, SNAP and every other handout. They are stealing from the people these benefits were meant to help- and they see it. Anybody who can leave is leaving and that includes businesses. You can see a general malaise setting into the suburbs. Formerly vibrant towns full of normal families working to make a better life have been a destroyed by an influx of third world illegals and anyone else looking to raid taxpayer money. Manicured lawns have been replaced by people parking 7 cars on their lawn for all the people now living in a “single family” home. There is no upkeep. Strip malls have emptied or are replaced with dumpy fly traps catering to illegals. That’s who and what the Mamdani and Hochul’s are fighting for. I don’t see how that helps them. It just remind people how far the state has fallen.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 08:50 AM (3s43i)

195 186 Hearing SecWar Hegseth talk about the hasan execution has got me rock hard. It is so cathartic of having him in this position in government because a) it's having a real adult in charge , b) he doesn't want to use third worlders to kill me, and c) he's is appropriately calling out the cause: Islam.


I think this broadcast will be cathartic for most of the public. This is SUCH a good idea. We've been harmed by all the horrible people doing horrible things and nothing happens to them, ever, it seems like (whether that is true or not).

I can't wait for this. So proud to have a man like him in charge of our military!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 08:50 AM (j+aD2)

196 I enjoyed the mostly positive comments about churches sponsoring events for young single parishioners to meet potential marriage partners.
The downside with this is that if a budding relationship goes sour, too many of your fellow parishioners observe it.
Remember the axiom of “Don’t get your p ——y where you get your paycheck.
I did meet my wife at my workplace, although it was a different department, and I could have avoided her if things didn’t work out.

Posted by: Fenderbender at October 09, 2026 08:50 AM (1FEc1)

197 Paul _of_LAA

Starmer's old seat just flipped to a hijab candidate while the crowd behind her looks imported wholesale. They sell it as "progress" when it's just voting yourself into a different country. How many seats left before they admit demographics already closed the deal?

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

198 Devil's Food cake > Sacher Torte > Princess cake

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:50 AM (RIvkX)

199 Hearing SecWar Hegseth talk about the hasan execution has got me rock hard. It is so cathartic of having him in this position in government because a) it's having a real adult in charge , b) he doesn't want to use third worlders to kill me, and c) he's is appropriately calling out the cause: Islam.

You know he's over a lot of targets given that walking penis Mark Kelly has been continuously crying about him.

Same as how we know Scott Bessent is pretty fly for a gay guy because the Wall Street Journal runs an attack on him every week now.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:51 AM (Cw4E2)

200 Regarding the silly and trivial… I’m so glad I’m not a Cowboys fan. I did not stay up to watch last nights game. I assumed they’d win easily. I see the score… their defense got boat raced as usual. They stink. I’m tired of hearing how Dak is so good. No he isn’t… 16 points against a previously winless team??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 08:51 AM (sVR3r)

201 The GOPe still hasn't figure out that after Trump is gone the "good friends across the aisle" will be dead or forced out. They'll be facing Marxists and other leftist lunatics who won't give the GOPe squat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:51 AM (t9883)

202 While all this was going on, the Adhamis were on Medicaid despite having their own stores and plenty of money to send to terrorists.


===

hookah lounges ?

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 08:51 AM (AKptf)

203 Important: Your drug coverage is changing in 2027

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:51 AM (/+uur)

204 Devil's Food cake > Sacher Torte > Princess cake
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:50 AM (RIvkX)



Cake Girl >

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (ccf/V)

205 They probably think it's named after some girl named Sharia who was shot by cops for driving while black.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 08:37 AM (6ydKt)
-

Shaaria!
I've just met a girl named Shaaria,
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (yMCWt)

206 200 Regarding the silly and trivial… I’m so glad I’m not a Cowboys fan. I did not stay up to watch last nights game. I assumed they’d win easily. I see the score… their defense got boat raced as usual. They stink. I’m tired of hearing how Dak is so good. No he isn’t… 16 points against a previously winless team??


I mean I thank Dallas for helping us Eagles fans hold our heads up a few inches today

at least until Sunday lol we are feeling slightly better

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (j+aD2)

207 160 Today is Leif Erickson Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Finally. One of your days I can endorse. I lived within walking distance of Leif Erickson Park in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. There were more than 60,000 Norwegians in Bay Ridge and Sunset Park in 1960. I even have a Leif Erickson Day button. Marched in the May 17 Norwegian Independence Day Parade. I never went to an English language church service until I was 12.Both of my parents came over on the boat, separately, around 1950.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (EdP2u)

208 Black Orchid

I think there is a subset of 'ettes that want to see SecWar Hegseth do PT without a shirt. Like Sharon(willows apprentice) for one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (u82oZ)

209 TGIF all!!

>>But the fact that Khalil can’t condemn Hamas — and anyone paying attention understands that he supports the terrorist army — tells us not only that he deserves to be deported, but that it’s imperative we deport him.

I'm going to make a wild azz guess that he wouldn;t condemn them because he is Hamas.

Hamas planned and coordinated the 10/7 attack so that immediately after the attack, Pali activists throughout the western world started protesting on behalf of Hamas, condemning "genocidal" Israel before the 10/7 victims' bodies were cold. Khalil was a protest leader at Columbia.

Yes, he should not be here - why can we not eject this filth already?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (rOKnE)

210 Today is Leif Erickson Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

*********

You're giving me whiplash! Pick one and stick with it!

Posted by: muldoon, they're my dad's jokes, don't blame me! at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (I0N4X)

211 I think there is a subset of 'ettes that want to see SecWar Hegseth do PT without a shirt. Like Sharon(willows apprentice) for one.


endorsed

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 08:53 AM (j+aD2)

212 I'm thinking a viewing party of Hassan's last day complete with pulled pork and beer needs to happen.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 08:53 AM (NR6c1)

213 Hyll Leiv !

Posted by: runner at October 09, 2026 08:54 AM (AKptf)

214 Regarding the silly and trivial… I’m so glad I’m not a Cowboys fan. I did not stay up to watch last nights game. I assumed they’d win easily. I see the score… their defense got boat raced as usual. They stink. I’m tired of hearing how Dak is so good. No he isn’t… 16 points against a previously winless team??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
_______

I picked them in survivor pool, so now I'm out at week 5, the bastages. They were nine and a half point favorites.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 09, 2026 08:54 AM (JzUSu)

215 BTW NY’s budget deficit has increased every year. Their revenue hinges on large tax bills to a few high income people. They continue to count on Wall Street bonuses as one of their single largest income sources. Those sources have slowly moved out of state but as those companies diversify their locations, it’s only a matter of time before that’s gone.

Democrats have been in complete control of the state for a long time. It’s not Trump. It’s not Republicans. It’s Democrats who have year after year run the state to the ground.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 09, 2026 08:54 AM (3s43i)

216 One could probably use Katy Padilla Stout as a shield.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 08:54 AM (sDWtc)

217 I think there is a subset of 'ettes that want to see SecWar Hegseth do PT without a shirt. Like Sharon(willows apprentice) for one.

Democrats are screeching that he's unqualified because he's not as fast as 18 year old Marines in his latest PT outing. Most of X replied "OK, let's see Lloyd Austin do it then".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:55 AM (Cw4E2)

218 I can't wait for this. So proud to have a man like him in charge of our military!
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 08:50 AM (j+aD2)
=====

There will be no mistaking the message.

I voted for that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

219 >>You know he's over a lot of targets given that walking penis Mark Kelly has been continuously crying about him.



What's really telling is most of the people who have been mocking the public assassination of Charlie Kirk are horrified at the thought of a freaking Islamic mass murderer being executed on film.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 08:55 AM (rOKnE)

220 muh muh muh myyyyyyyyyy Sharia

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (ZxPkt)

221 All this for a whore who loved getting run train.

I'm not up on all the classifications but is three, separate threesomes, with a total of four guys, over the course of seven hours, really a train?

Gross, yes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

222 I'm thinking a viewing party of Hassan's last day complete with pulled pork and beer needs to happen.

I misread that as "Hasan" and thought LMao Zap Dog was finally going to face justice. LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (Cw4E2)

223 The GOPe still hasn't figure out that after Trump is gone the "good friends across the aisle" will be dead or forced out. They'll be facing Marxists and other leftist lunatics who won't give the GOPe squat
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:51 AM (t9883)



I've said it for decades now. I don't want my elected representatives to make 'friends across the aisle.' I want them to lay waste to the opposition and leave no doubt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (ccf/V)

224 What is wrong with people today?!?!?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/4v444aye

I'm referring to the caller - not the father.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (yMCWt)

225 I watched with disgust yesterday the scene of Nick Shirley in New York surrounded and screamed and cursed at by total savages, and finally being extricated/rescued by NYPD. Many were masked in black or covered in Palestinian/Islamic garb. Total madness, right out of some street riot in an Islamic shithole. This is all for exposing Medicare fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere? Or from being a Christian kid with no exploitable vices? Seeing this, can't help wonder how we ever come out of this spiral.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (BdmD3)

226 174 Speaking of that, Mark Dice had a video clip where 3 old black people were doing a podcast claiming that whitey stole everything from blacks.......Morse Code, computers, cell phones......because African drums. Everything technology was based on the African drums communication language.

WE. WUZ. KANGZ.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:43 AM (Cw4E2)


It seems the brilliant Africans that stayed behind in Africa forgot how to grow crops, make tools from copper, bronze, iron, then steel, build pyramids, do astronomy, and more!

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (5rh/l)

227 Unfortunately Bezos married an entitled leftist, and then cheated on her with someone who looked like she did when he met her, so half of his money is going to communism.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (sDWtc)

228 Don Black

*Gasp*

No singing on the blog.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)

229 Only political junkies use the term "Democratic". Most people would just say "Democrat".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (Fv808)

230 I'm not up on all the classifications but is three, separate threesomes, with a total of four guys, over the course of seven hours, really a train?

It's a small train, but it's a train. Light rail?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (Cw4E2)

231 How do you solve a problem like sharia?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

232 Finally. One of your days I can endorse. I lived within walking distance of Leif Erickson Park in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. There were more than 60,000 Norwegians in Bay Ridge and Sunset Park in 1960. I even have a Leif Erickson Day button. Marched in the May 17 Norwegian Independence Day Parade. I never went to an English language church service until I was 12.Both of my parents came over on the boat, separately, around 1950.
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at October 09, 2026 08:52 AM (EdP2u)
=====

Do you celebrate with jello mold salad?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

233 Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (5rh/l)

Ehh, the Niger-Kongo farmers sussed out ironwork pretty early. Bantu Expansions.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 09, 2026 08:58 AM (sDWtc)

234 How do you solve a problem like sharia?

"Guns. Lots of guns." - Neo

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (Cw4E2)

235 The US military better have its bases in Muslim countries on high alert leading up to Hasan's execution. Jihadists aren't going to be happy about one of their heroes being publicly executed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (t9883)

236 Pike must be a (D)
She is brain dead but...
Up and walking and talking

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (/+uur)

237 231 How do you solve a problem like sharia?
Posted by: Bulg

We have the technology.

Posted by: Vlad III at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (sDWtc)

238 The biggest debate on the internet today is:

Tampa Bay should have kicked a FG on 4th and goal
it is being argued with an almost religious fervor by fat armchair wannabes who probably never played the game

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (ZxPkt)

239 I'm not up on all the classifications but is three, separate threesomes, with a total of four guys, over the course of seven hours, really a train?

Gross, yes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)



She would've taken more......She had the desire for a bukkake party. Because she then became labeled a whore weeks later, she was suddenly a victim of rape.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (ccf/V)

240 This is all for exposing Medicare fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere? Or from being a Christian kid with no exploitable vices? Seeing this, can't help wonder how we ever come out of this spiral.
Posted by: Ordinary American

He's not on their side. So he's the enemy and is to be destroyed.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 09:00 AM (7xwo6)

241 I think we hold our majorities after the midterms by the skin of our teeth. Margins would be greater without Iran and stupid narrative about gas. Trump thought Iran would be another Venezuela and we'd be well out and done by now; that having done the right thing, and effectively and efficiently, would be a political boost to boot.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (BdmD3)

242 How do you solve a problem like sharia?

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:58 AM (77rzZ)
-

Sha-ah-ah-aria, baby (Shaaria, Shaaria, baby)
Shaaria, can you come out tonight? (Come, come, come out tonight)
Sha-ah-ah-aria, baby (Shaaria, baby)
Sha-ah-ah-aria, can you come out tonight?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (yMCWt)

243 I'm referring to the caller - not the father.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (yMCWt)
===

I am referring to the mother, for marrying a fool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (RIvkX)

244
Democrats are screeching that he's unqualified because he's not as fast as 18 year old Marines in his latest PT outing. Most of X replied "OK, let's see Lloyd Austin do it then".
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:55 AM (Cw4E2)



"Fat f*ck keyboard warrior in momma's basement says what?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)

245 Do you celebrate with jello mold salad?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yes, we like the lime with shredded carrots. Want some?

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende.. at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (EdP2u)

246 236 “But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
— the Scarecrow

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

247 Africans that speak the click click language tried inventing Morse code but couldn't get the dash right.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 09, 2026 09:02 AM (gm9Sb)

248 How do you solve a problem like sharia?
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 08:58 AM (77rzZ)



Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:02 AM (ccf/V)

249 Illegal Aliens Who Allegedly Stabbed NYPD Detective Found Hiding in Another Sanctuary State

Lynn? Was Lawrence too obvious a choice for them?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 09, 2026 09:02 AM (/C5Rl)

250 - Don't stop with the crucifixion.
Worldwide coverage of the risen Messiah.
The apostles being martyred when they could have avoided it by simply ceasing to preach Jesus crucified and risen from the dead.
Sunday morning news shows with panels of experts digging into the Hebrew Scriptures concerning the prophecies of the coming Messiah.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 09, 2026 09:02 AM (ix5nG)

251 No singing on the blog.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)
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Ono!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 09:02 AM (yMCWt)

252 217 Democrats are screeching-

That's their normal state.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 09, 2026 09:03 AM (NR6c1)

253 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Good one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

254 Yes, we like the lime with shredded carrots. Want some?
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende.. at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (EdP2u)
=====

I'm actually all over it. Love it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

255 How do you solve a problem like sharia?
Posted by: Bulg

It will be messy, I'm afraid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 09:03 AM (7xwo6)

256 I'm referring to the caller - not the father.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (yMCWt)
===

I am referring to the mother, for marrying a fool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (RIvkX)
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Then we disagree.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 09:03 AM (yMCWt)

257 You can see a general malaise setting into the suburbs. Formerly vibrant towns full of normal families working to make a better life have been a destroyed
———

This has been going on, exactly this, for decades now. All over this nation. On purpose by design with malice aforethought. “The worse, the better” is the playbook from the start.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 09, 2026 09:04 AM (rum8d)

258 finished The Pendragon Cycle show - wow!

it was amazing.

I just got the books it came from yesterday!

fingers crossed it gets a Season 2. it started a little slow but by ep 3 was rolling!

ratings on Amazon are really good too, not that the press would ever mention this.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 09:04 AM (j+aD2)

259
Tampa Bay should have kicked a FG on 4th and goal
it is being argued with an almost religious fervor by fat armchair wannabes who probably never played the game
Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (ZxPkt)



I only watched part of the game, and the Cowboys sucked.

That being said, points are at a premium. Take them when you can. Unless it's getting to the end and you need more than 3.

I'm so sick of coaches listening to f*cking ESPN analytics and going for it on 4th and 7 from the 25 yard line in the 1st quarter when your kicker is 8 of 9 from 40+ on the season.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:04 AM (ccf/V)

260 People who demand no singing obviously can’t sing themselves.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

261 Declaring to be a member of a political party is stating which arm of the state owns you. #QuietTime

Posted by: Jim Tressel at October 09, 2026 09:04 AM (2ap+5)

262 I was interviewed by WSJ a few years ago. When a writer for a financial newspaper doesn't grasp the concept of the time value of money, it tells you quite a bit about the level of competence there.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (0U5gm)

263 >>. Jihadists aren't going to be happy about one of their heroes being publicly executed


*Recalls that not only did Hamas actively record all the horrors committed on 10/7, but that ISIS loved streaming their public executions of hostages, etc. and then sharing across social media.

Maybe Hegseth is doing this to trigger them, Alinsky #4?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (rOKnE)

264 Neville Singham.... we know where this fucker lives. It shouldn't be any more difficult to extract him than it was to snatch Maduro from a fortified bunker.

Only don't bring him back for some mickey mouse trial.

Shoot him for "trying to escape."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (RORbl)

265 People who demand no singing obviously can’t sing themselves.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:04 AM (77rzZ)
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Or they simply have text sensitive ears.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (yMCWt)

266
I am referring to the mother, for marrying a fool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (RIvkX)
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Then we disagree.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 09:03 AM (yMCWt)



We should be celebrating the child having thus far survived the 'postpartum years.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)

267 Lynn? Was Lawrence too obvious a choice for them?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin.
Maybe they intended to go to Billerica but kept getting directions to Bill Ricka instead.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (Fv808)

268 Apparently Megan Fox went and got beaten with an ugly stick.
https://pbs.tw___.com/media/HT_dhTsWYAAvqXP.jpg

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:06 AM (cWLG3)

269 Then and now, the entire plan is to wait out the unwelcome interlude with the orange interloper and then return to our regularly scheduled screening of "(D)racula vs. (R)enfield 48: The Encuckening."

Which is why every GOP member of Congress needs to be replaced and Trump needs to be succeeded by someone who will - mostly - follow his path.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

270 Regarding the silly and trivial… I’m so glad I’m not a Cowboys fan.

Help! I've fallen and can't get up...

Posted by: Jerry Jones, old fart at October 09, 2026 09:06 AM (9zGZf)

271 - Yeah, nevermind.
Emmie nailed it at 163.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 09, 2026 09:06 AM (ix5nG)

272 Mr Aspirin Factory

The first part of a bodies to a feral pig infested ranch in Texas system?

Followed by paying customers in Hilux pickups loaded with automatic weapons killing the feral pigs? Then feeding wintering Turkey Vultures?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

273 Maybe Hegseth is doing this to trigger them, Alinsky #4?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (rOKnE)
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Weren't military public executions once a norm?

Come to think of it, how about civilian ones?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (yMCWt)

274 Up until now, both Fox and Fox business have been pushing the "muh poor students" b.s.

And pushing it hard for a reason I cannot discern.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 09, 2026 08:41 AM (RIvkX)
****
I usually record shows and fast forward through them like Outnumbered,
The Faulkner focus, Will Cain, Ingraham, Watters, the Five, Trace Gallagher's show etc. from what I have seen, they are mocking the student angle narrative.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

275 It seems the brilliant Africans that stayed behind in Africa forgot how to grow crops, make tools from copper, bronze, iron, then steel, build pyramids, do astronomy, and more!

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2026 08:57 AM (5rh/l)


They claim Egypt because it's on the African continent.
They truly believe every Egyptian was black as night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (6ydKt)

276 268 Apparently Megan Fox went and got beaten with an ugly stick.
https://pbs.tw___.com/media/HT_dhTsWYAAvqXP.jpg
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:06 AM (cWLG3)

Working link: https://tinyurl.com/4n936cft

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (cWLG3)

277 Jihadists aren't going to be happy about one of their heroes being publicly executed




They will celebrate him finally getting his 72 virgin bloody Mary's and goat ass.

Then declare jihad on all that is America. In other words, a day ending in 'day.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (ccf/V)

278 One estimate found that, since 2015, the nation’s two largest teachers unions — the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — spent $669 million on federal campaigns and another $336 million on state and local campaigns.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)

279
Working link: https://tinyurl.com/4n936cft
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (cWLG3)



Or, if the url isn't too long, replace i m g with IMG and it'll pass muster.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:08 AM (ccf/V)

280 Democrats are screeching that he's unqualified because he's not as fast as 18 year old Marines in his latest PT outing. Most of X replied "OK, let's see Lloyd Austin do it then".
Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 08:55 AM (Cw4E2)


"Fat f*ck keyboard warrior in momma's basement says what?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:01 AM (ccf/V)

I’ve done distance running as a hobby for 25 years now. I’ve run every distance from 5K to full marathon. And you know what? As you get older you naturally get slower. I’d get smoked by 18 year olds; but I’m in better shape than probably 95% of the general population. These people complaining Hegseth is slower than the young bucks… complete ignorant retardation

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 09:08 AM (sVR3r)

281 Bulg

When I drove a school bus I had plaintive requests from the kids "Please Mr [Salty], noooo singing."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 09:08 AM (u82oZ)

282 Apparently Megan Fox went and got beaten with an ugly stick.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:06 AM (cWLG3)



Doesn't she have 8 trans kids?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (ccf/V)

283 >>@chriswithans

>>Early vote data (mostly VBM) shows Republicans by volume turning out much more than in 2022. Republicans voting more by mail means they'll vote more in person, as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (viF8m)

284 275 They think the Carthaginians were black, too.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (77rzZ)

285 Good morning. Well I had the knee replacement. Came home Tuesday around lunch time. Made a major mistake. Come Tuesday night I was delirious and grabbed the blood thinner aspirin instead of the oxy and was up all night crying due to the pain. When I finally noticed. I corrected it of course and feel better now. Stairs are giving me a heart attack. Lifting my leg good or bad is tough right now. I start home therapy this morning too. Yay. Not.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (sOA7y)

286 284 275 They think the Carthaginians were black, too.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (77rzZ)

Yes, apparently, the distinction of Sub-Saharan Africa has not yet penetrated their scholasticism.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 09:11 AM (6ydKt)

287 43% of Young Voting Age Adults in America Support Sharia

I don't believe this number. Not even a little bit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic



Go to a democrat voting location. Walk up to a young woman. Start beating her with a broomstick and screaming at her for being an uncovered piece of meat.

Tell her, "welcome to sharia law".

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 09:11 AM (nPfAi)

288 >>Early vote data (mostly VBM) shows Republicans by volume turning out much more than in 2022. Republicans voting more by mail means they'll vote more in person, as well.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (viF8m)



They f*cking better......."Vote like your life depends on it" isn't just a cute phrase......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:12 AM (ccf/V)

289 Singing can be allowed here, but yodeling is forbidden, out of respect after the passing of Slim Whitman.

Posted by: Indian Love Call at October 09, 2026 09:12 AM (EdP2u)

290 She would've taken more......She had the desire for a bukkake party. Because she then became labeled a whore weeks later, she was suddenly a victim of rape.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 08:59 AM (ccf/V)


I've seen nothing that suggests that. She had the opportunity for more and turned them down - even though she was completely incapacitated, and they accepted her rejection - even though they're evil rapists.

She was annoyed at her reputation taking a hit but it was being uninvited to the Halloween party which caused her to "realize" that she'd been raped.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

291 The Federal government should not give NY a damn dime for illegal immigrants. They are not supposed to be here in the first place. They need to have their asses kicked out of the country.

Posted by: Case at October 09, 2026 09:12 AM (ROPCF)

292 Good morning. Well I had the knee replacement. Came home Tuesday around lunch time. Made a major mistake. Come Tuesday night I was delirious and grabbed the blood thinner aspirin instead of the oxy and was up all night crying due to the pain. When I finally noticed. I corrected it of course and feel better now. Stairs are giving me a heart attack. Lifting my leg good or bad is tough right now. I start home therapy this morning too. Yay. Not.
Posted by: Jaimo at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (sOA7y)

Hang in there. It will get much better. The first week is toughest. Benefits follow very quickly after that as long as PT is done religiously.

I know because I’ve been through it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 09, 2026 09:12 AM (sVR3r)

293 India has accused U.S. Vice President JD Vance of using “terminology that carries painful historical and colonial legacy connotations,” which was “deeply offensive.”

Vance warned companies on Thursday that they “cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)

294 I start home therapy this morning too. Yay. Not.
Posted by: Jaimo at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (sOA7y)



Just make sure you DO the therapy. Pain now means gains next week. The pain will subside and the work will get easier, as long as you do it as required.

Skipping PT hurts only you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:13 AM (ccf/V)

295 We should be celebrating the child having thus far survived the 'postpartum years.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:05 AM (ccf/V)


Based on that north Texas woman, that's at least 22.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

296 >>. . Lifting my leg good or bad is tough right now. I start home therapy this morning too. Yay. Not.

Ouch! May you have a swift recovery, Jaimo!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:14 AM (rOKnE)

297 One estimate found that, since 2015, the nation’s two largest teachers unions — the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — spent $669 million on federal campaigns and another $336 million on state and local campaigns.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)
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Roughly $100 million per YEAR, on average (obviously, they ramp up every two years and big time every four) of taxpayer money to the Democrat party. And that's just the teachers!

No wonder most of their convention delegates are teachers and other public employee union members.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 09:14 AM (OuHuW)

298 India has accused U.S. Vice President JD Vance of using “terminology that carries painful historical and colonial legacy connotations,” which was “deeply offensive.”

Vance warned companies on Thursday that they “cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)




Dear India,


GFY.


Thanks........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:14 AM (ccf/V)

299 Working link: https://tinyurl.com/4n936cft
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:07 AM (cWLG3)


Fun fact: If you capitalize IMG, the IMG will not be replaced by ___.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

300
Based on that north Texas woman, that's at least 22.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)



She only injured, however, Texas. She will not go free.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:15 AM (ccf/V)

301 >>India has accused U.S. Vice President JD Vance of using “terminology that carries painful historical and colonial legacy connotations,” which was “deeply offensive.”

Vance warned companies on Thursday that they “cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.”
- - - -

It was excellent framing.
If he hurt their feelings, too bad. Go home.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:15 AM (rOKnE)

302 right now. I start home therapy this morning too. Yay. Not.
Posted by: Jaimo

Hope your pain subsides soon and you are able to dance a jig shortly. You know who else was a terrific dancer?

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at October 09, 2026 09:16 AM (EdP2u)

303 One estimate found that, since 2015, the nation’s two largest teachers unions — the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers — spent $669 million on federal campaigns and another $336 million on state and local campaigns.
Posted by: r hennigantx


Dues are too damn high if you have that much coin to throw around.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 09:16 AM (nPfAi)

304 It was excellent framing.
If he hurt their feelings, too bad. Go home.


I think we need to hurt these foreign nationals' feelings a WHOLE LOT MORE

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 09:16 AM (j+aD2)

305 The Indian stock market got crushed yesterday after the Vance led fraud team made their announcement about ending H-1B visa fraud. The overwhelming number of companies providing H-1B workers are Indian.

Makes you wonder how much of the Indian economy has been based on ripping us off.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 09:16 AM (viF8m)

306 She only injured, however, Texas. She will not go free.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:15 AM (ccf/V)


I'm referring to the one who shot and killed her 15 and 21 year old sons and then "attempted to slit her wrists".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

307 Newark, New Jersey raised an islhamic flag over City Hall in place of a US flag?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)

308 Makes you wonder how much of the Indian economy has been based on ripping us off.


all of it

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at October 09, 2026 09:18 AM (j+aD2)

309 Posted by: Jaimo at October 09, 2026 09:09 AM (sOA7y)
=================
If you haven't already, go to Amazon and buy an ice therapy machine. Then freeze eight 8 or 12 ounce bottles of water whichever best fits your machine. Fill your new machine with water poured over the frozen bottles, strap it onto your knee and turn it on.

Instant relief. Switch out the bottles every couple hours. It is truly the best.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 09, 2026 09:18 AM (0N43G)

310 I hope to see less foreign tongue-twister names in my email correspondence from my software customers in the US.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 09:19 AM (yMCWt)

311 308. Yes!

The 2026 Newark Islamic flag raising was a ceremony held on January 9, 2026, at Newark City Hall in Newark, New Jersey—the state's largest city, with a population exceeding 300,000—during which an Islamic flag was hoisted amid cheers of "Allahu Akbar" from attendees. Organized as part of New Jersey Muslim Heritage Month by the Newark Muslim Heritage Coalition, the event highlighted the city's diverse demographics but sparked online discussion regarding the display of religious symbols in public spaces, trending via social media with notable engagement

From Grok website

Posted by: Clueless 20 year old at October 09, 2026 09:19 AM (JrHfD)

312 Newark, New Jersey raised an islhamic flag over City Hall in place of a US flag?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:17 AM (ccf/V)

Vichy Newark?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2026 09:19 AM (wVcYX)

313 301 >>India has accused U.S. Vice President JD Vance of using “terminology that carries painful historical and colonial legacy connotations,” which was “deeply offensive.”

Vance warned companies on Thursday that they “cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.”
- - - -

It was excellent framing.
If he hurt their feelings, too bad. Go home.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:15 AM (rOKnE)

---
So, "the guilty dog barks the loudest." Vance didn't even mention India.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:19 AM (cWLG3)

314 Makes you wonder how much of the Indian economy has been based on ripping us off.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 09:16 AM (viF8m)


Considering the scam call centers, probably close to 50%.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 09:19 AM (6ydKt)

315
I'm referring to the one who shot and killed her 15 and 21 year old sons and then "attempted to slit her wrists".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 09, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)



Oh, so NOT the one that stabbed her 2 kids and the husband and was arrested........

The Lindsay Clancy case has launched a wave of pharmaceutically enhanced crazy bitches upon the lands.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:19 AM (ccf/V)

316 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 09, 2026 09:20 AM (53oGX)

317 Islam is just following Khrushchev's plan but doing a better job of it: hanging us with our own rope.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 09, 2026 09:20 AM (BdmD3)

318 Benny Johnson-

Did you know that the organization Abdul El-Sayed’s mother worked at was indicted for funneling money to al-Qaeda?

Not really surprising that he defends terrorists.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 09, 2026 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

319 > If you haven't already, go to Amazon and buy an ice therapy machine.
----------
This

I have one and it really does work. A bit of PITA to setup but, man, it really works to ease the pain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 09:20 AM (RORbl)

320 My working theory is that Leftie-operative Sally Yates got brought into the Cornell 7 case to steer the outcome to a quick payoff to She Who Can't Be Named.

They can't let this go to trial. Can you imagine the cross-examination of the Victim?

If Cornell pays her a few million then the Guilt of the Seven becomes established fact. Lawyer Giuffra makes bank for writing a flawed complaint, And the Sisterhood prevails.

Cornell itself will be a huge loser.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 09, 2026 09:21 AM (dtajH)

321 Best wishes Jaimo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 09:22 AM (t9883)

322 Someone on Facebook just asked if they could do the Hassan execution during halftime at the Army/Navy game. 😂😂😂

Sadly, the game is 9 days after the execution.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 09:22 AM (nPfAi)

323 Money well spent for unions. Teachers make an astronomical amount of money when considering how little they work and how generous the benefits, pensions are.

Next time you meet a teacher ask where she lives and what car she drives. Pretty good chance both are nicer than yours.

Posted by: 90% of govt spending is fraud at October 09, 2026 09:22 AM (GcWo3)

324 Raising an Islamic flag and offering a prayer to Satan are the same thing.


Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)

325 Interview with Hegseth -

Q: "Has Major Hasan made any final requests, reached out to the President, anything like that, to your knowledge?"

A: "Don't care. We'll see him on December 3."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at October 09, 2026 09:23 AM (gLYp7)

326 If you haven't already, go to Amazon and buy an ice therapy machine.
----------
This

I have one and it really does work. A bit of PITA to setup but, man, it really works to ease the pain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 09:20 AM (RORbl)



The Horde, not known for solid medical advise, comes through in the clutch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:23 AM (ccf/V)

327 *Advice.

Damnit......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:24 AM (ccf/V)

328 326 If you haven't already, go to Amazon and buy an ice therapy machine.
----------
This

I have one and it really does work. A bit of PITA to setup but, man, it really works to ease the pain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 09:20 AM (RORbl)


The Horde, not known for solid medical advise, comes through in the clutch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:23 AM (ccf/V)
----
I was about to suggest holding beans between your toes, but ice therapy is sound.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2026 09:25 AM (cWLG3)

329 Sponge

F*ck Cancer!

And put a hot iron in it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 09:26 AM (u82oZ)

330 Raising an Islamic flag and offering a prayer to Satan are the same thing.


Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:22 AM (77rzZ)



This man's words have merit.......


https://youtu.be/uB0VdBmT3Gw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:26 AM (ccf/V)

331 al-Sayed has a bad case of little man's disease. Add that to his islamicist roots and he's a big time ahole. What I saw of the debate proved that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 09:26 AM (t9883)

332
F*ck Cancer!

And put a hot iron in it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 09:26 AM (u82oZ)




*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:26 AM (ccf/V)

333 Dance a jig? That's racist.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 09, 2026 09:26 AM (7sRdt)

334 Hated PT. They tried to make me do stuff that I couldn’t even have done before my leg injury.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2026 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

335 Next time you meet a teacher ask where she lives and what car she drives. Pretty good chance both are nicer than yours.
Posted by: 90% of govt spending is fraud

My gay bro-in-law is "married" to a retired teacher for the benefits. The teacher retired at 50 with a generous pension and both have a Cadillac health plan for life. It's not sustainable in any thinking country.

Posted by: Going Down With The Ship at October 09, 2026 09:27 AM (EdP2u)

336 The left's model works because they are all getting PAID

So they oppose the right because the right sometimes stops them from looting the treasury.

This is why with a weak leftwing leader, like Biden, they doubled the budget - he needed the additional $4T/year to keep the various leftwing groups in line.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 09, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

337 I am not exaggerating when I say that in many large well known us companies, 100% of tech is Indian.

Even with this crackdown I don’t see much change happening. The entire leadership is Indian. Not all are H1Bs many are green card or even citizens. There are also many other visas used to bring them over. Another scam is many of these people aren’t direct employees. They are employees of Tata or Infosys and are contracted out using L1 visas. It’s one giant scam on top of a grift.

Posted by: 90% of govt spending is fraud at October 09, 2026 09:29 AM (GcWo3)

338 >>Makes you wonder how much of the Indian economy has been based on ripping us off.


Yeah, tracks all the way back to Modi.
It is an economic and a national security issue, which Vance et al did a good job explaining yesterday.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2026 09:29 AM (rOKnE)

339 Best comment so far on the execution: "Democrats were all for public executions when it was a Christian who talked to college students".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 09, 2026 09:30 AM (tUj8P)

340 Art Nood.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 09, 2026 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

341 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2026 09:31 AM (nPfAi)

342 I am not exaggerating when I say that in many large well known us companies, 100% of tech is Indian.


I have friends that worked doing IT at various companies, including support at hospitals. An Indian manager is hired, the H1-B's show up, American is asked to train them, then American is fired.

We've been destroying our own corporate infrastructure for decades. They've just been getting more and more bold about it.

The CEO of Microsoft: Satya Narayana Nadella[a] (born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive.


They don't care about America. Only it's currency.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 09, 2026 09:32 AM (ccf/V)

343
Poindexter's math operates...


That asshat should be pointed at and laughed out of town solely on the evidence of his name akine.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:35 AM (jQ+TD)

344 Christa Pike scores legal win as judge reopens her case against execution by lethal injection

Use the Jugular vein this time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:36 AM (l3cgK)

345
They don't care about America. Only it's currency.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


And, as folks at the top of India's caste system, they are the most bigoted persons in this world.

Out with them. All of them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:37 AM (jQ+TD)

346 343
Poindexter's math operates...

That asshat should be pointed at and laughed out of town solely on the evidence of his name akine.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 09, 2026 09:35 AM (jQ+TD)

As a teen we came up with a Spanglish version that mixed Pendejo and Poindexter: Pendexter...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:38 AM (l3cgK)

347 Out of commission become a pillbox

Out of ammo, become a bunker

Out of time, become a hero

Posted by: Kittens! at October 09, 2026 09:39 AM (LOZbR)

348 Prof Praised China for ‘Respect for Minority People’

Ahahahaha, sure, Jan.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:39 AM (l3cgK)

349 Pastor Frederick Haynes described himself as her "spiritual mentor,"
“God Damn Adultery”: Dem Congressional Preacher Candidate in Love Triangle w/Jeremiah Wright


Why does this sound MMF?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:41 AM (l3cgK)

350 “Politics stops at the door in my office,” she [ Letitia James ] added.

That's why she promised to go after Trump! It wasn't politics at all! see!
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 09:44 AM (l3cgK)

351 Good morning. Thank you, J.J.

Watched a bit of News Nation this am and found it's more positive and objective than any other popular cable or msm news network. There were guests that emphasized the positive & reality: Inflation has dropped from 9% down to 3+% in this country, and should drop further. There has been no storming of the U.S. borders by unvetted illegals for over a year and a half. And Iran is NOT a joke; it must be stopped.

What is on the other "new" channels? TDS wrapped into almost every other headline, and mostly as the breaking news.

We have a governor who's entire platform has been & continues to be suing the Trump administration with our taxpayer dollars and installing "politicians" - Socialists - who will fight the 3 "Cs" - chaos, cruelty, and corruption - of the administration. And I think that sounds like the damn pattern for all of the blue (& 'PA purple') lead clowns. After all, how are Hochul, Mikie, Abigail & the rest of the children any different?

From above, "... they would murder the ten percent of the American population that would likely remain resistant to the communists' re-education program."

It's not a joke, nor distant.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 09:48 AM (NFX2v)

352 Prayers for all in the path of Hurricane Isaias.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 09, 2026 09:50 AM (NFX2v)

353 By getting the predictable protests for not being rabid enough, he's trying to position himself as a "moderate."

"Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?"

Posted by: Peter B at October 09, 2026 09:53 AM (IeSZF)

354 I watched with disgust yesterday the scene of Nick Shirley in New York surrounded and screamed and cursed at by total savages, and finally being extricated/rescued by NYPD. Many were masked in black or covered in Palestinian/Islamic garb. Total madness, right out of some street riot in an Islamic shithole. This is all for exposing Medicare fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere? Or from being a Christian kid with no exploitable vices? Seeing this, can't help wonder how we ever come out of this spiral.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 09, 2026 08:56 AM (BdmD3)

A certain banned movie can serve as an instruction manual. It may come to that. Or not.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 09, 2026 09:55 AM (hmYU4)

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