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In Astounding Coincidence the "Experts" Cannot Explain, US Oil Production Hits Record Highs as Gasoline Prices, Inexpicably, Fall to Lowest Levels Since the Chinese Engineered Bioweapon
Natural gas production also hit record highs in August before slipping a bit.Unaccountably, and probably due to Something The Democrats Did, gas prices are falling across the nation. Well, not "across the nation." They're falling in red states while they remain high in Democrat-controlled states like California, Washington, and Hawaii. Who can even guess why! Even CNN has to acknowledge that gas prices are falling and so is inflation, therefore. Just like Trump promised.
NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.S. oil production rose to a record high in September, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Friday showed, despite oversupply worries. Oil production in the U.S. has continued to hit record highs this year despite a weak price environment, further weighing on global prices. Benchmark Brent crude was trading just below $64 on Friday, about 14% below the same time last year. U.S. crude oil output rose 44,000 barrels per day during the month to a record 13.84 million bpd, according to EIA data. In 2025, that all changed. Oil output in New Mexico, the second-largest oil-producing state, hit a record 2.351 million bpd, while output from the federal offshore gulf region rose to 1.983 million bpd in September, the highest since February 2020.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! CNN has been FORCED to admit prices are going down in Donald Trump's economy
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 9, 2025
It's getting so good, they can't ignore it anymore.
"The price of gas, look at this! A 3.5 year LOW at $2.95 a gallon as of today!"
"That is MILES away from the all-time [Biden] high set… pic.twitter.com/2IDnkPwlUF
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Vpqw1)
Probably nothing.
It's not like mass deportations is the solution to most of our economic problems, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (1BpWS)
Who can even guess why!
Yay. *sigh*
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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Yeah baby.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (ynpvh)
If NM has so much oil, why is it such a downtrodden shithole of a state?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)
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"All the shale oil producers are going to go bankrupt! Which is...a good thing?"
-The NYT
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Truck Driving Man at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (bC9HI)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (+Oyis)
Chinese + FAUCI engineered...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Truck Driving Man
$2.93 in my AO.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Truck Driving Man at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (bC9HI)
The easier fuel to make and transport, yet it's .50 to .75 cents higher than unleadeded.
Rape.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Enhanced.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Illinois/Louisiana levels of corruption.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (+Oyis)
Calizuela. Soon how the rest of the country will be if the gop doesn’t grow 200 odd pair…
Posted by: The MewTwix at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (/nsax)
Chinese + FAUCI engineered...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 12:32 PM (x0n13)
I see him on the street, I'm taking one for the team. I trust most of you would start the fund to defend me at trial.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Even Greta had to shift from Klimat Katastrophe to shilling for Jew Killers.
Posted by: Winning! at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: huerfano at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (98kQX)
The state government jacked up gas taxes several years ago, and shockingly, astoundingly! New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians no longer come to NJ for cheap fuel.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (n9ltV)
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The difficult part is explaining how all the dead dinosaurs found themselves below geologic plates. Maybe the pancake theorem works?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (rbvCR)
Even Greta had to shift from Klimat Katastrophe to shilling for Jew Killers.
Posted by: Winning! at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (oftw2)
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And deported at least 3 million people, which affects the demand side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
I bought a tenderloin at Costco this morning. It was Choice instead of my usual Prime, and "unpeeled", but fortunately I learned how to properly prepare a tenderloin a few years ago.
The "peeled" Prime tenderloin was $38 a pound.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
Road use diesel cheapest in a decade for me. As to why it's more $/gal, well, it's entirely due to the city on the powtomack...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sponge
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Alterian Pilgrim is a resident IRL I think. She has put out a few tidbits. Another state though where a dysfunctional blue urban center dictates policy for the rest of the state.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (WDjG6)
"For just $5 a day, the price of a cup of coffee, you can help feed one CEO starving for another jet or sidepiece."
I swear the Left will love anything or anyone as long as doing it helps them.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: ish at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (w9Wax)
I've heard that the fact that we still have oil coming out of the ground in quantity means it has nothing to do with dinosaurs but if anyone here's got expertise I'd love to hear the details.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
The Illegals' pressure on rents is a thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
Damn, I'm old. This is in Central WA. Which very briefly admitted to passing out 700 CDL's in the past seven years to illegals. "In Error". I suspect they left a zero off on that number.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (1whRW)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (Bo9Yf)
I've heard that the fact that we still have oil coming out of the ground in quantity means it has nothing to do with dinosaurs but if anyone here's got expertise I'd love to hear the details.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
100's of barrels worth seep through the ocean floor daily.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (n9ltV)
Well, they must have wanted to lose that revenue, right?
They just can never quite get: tax=destroy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
AOP could give you some good info on that.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
The Illegals' pressure on rents is a thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
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Why isn't Trump doing anything about affordability, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
That's a bit hyperbolic.
By September 23, 2025, the Trump administration claimed that 2 million illegal immigrants had left the country through a combination of over 400,000 deportations and an estimated 1,600,000 self-deportations. Individuals or immigrants residing in the U.S. 20 total confirmed: 15 in ICE custody.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)
The national average would indeed be far less if the Leftist Coast were taken out of the equation. I'd wager around under $2.00/gl.
Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:36 PM (Wg6v7)
We might get a truck that is both useful and does not cost as much as a fucking house.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (WPL6O)
That's a bit hyperbolic.
By September 23, 2025, the Trump administration claimed that 2 million illegal immigrants had left the country through a combination of over 400,000 deportations and an estimated 1,600,000 self-deportations. Individuals or immigrants residing in the U.S. 20 total confirmed: 15 in ICE custody.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)
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So, 2 million as of September, huh?
I wonder what another three months did?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
That f*cking midget swung first!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (n9ltV)
The "peeled" Prime tenderloin was $38 a pound.
Posted by: Archimedes
$21.97/lb Choice unpeeled at Sam's.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (SOGBX)
Posted by: Pudinhead
You are beneath contempt!
Posted by: Rachel Corrie Fan Club at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (DRSnL)
Rape.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
It is taxed specifically to keep it on that proportion with gasoline.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (rbvCR)
- Democrats
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (Oy/m2)
What to think....
Posted by: Bernie Brigades at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (4wzy4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (1zOXE)
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The difficult part is explaining how all the dead dinosaurs found themselves below geologic plates. Maybe the pancake theorem works?
Posted by: Pudinhead
AOP mebbe. Carbon cycle is interesting and a prominent critic of fossil fuels monicker was a geologist , Thomas Gold who had an abiotic theory of petroleum production. Twasn't popular.
Gold also had the theory that the moon was buried in dust prior to the Apollo landings which is why the huge pads on the landing gear. They were designed to float above such dust pools upon the LEM landing. Not so right there about his theories.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (WDjG6)
Hold the line, people! Keep those prices up. You'll be richly rewarded once we win the 2026 elections.
Posted by: The Dem "Affordability" Narrative for 2026 at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: yoeman at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (r2U0A)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
The Illegals' pressure on rents is a thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (rbvCR)
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And with food stamps given to illegals there is food price pressure. Pretty much illegals put upward price pressure on everything using money stolen from working American citizens.
Posted by: Jukin the Dplorable and Totally Unserious at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (xvV+O)
As for Cali: those refiners packing up next year will haunt Newsome. To many clips of him bashing oil and the commercial will write itself for a national campaign against him.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (FxH7T)
Yeah, that's what I paid at Costco.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)
So MORE than $20, same as in town?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Kzintis at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (9uL7w)
I wanted to buy some earlier this week and it's like $30.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (ICjqV)
I think we pay 19.99 here for whole Tenderloin.
They will trim and cut it to your preference, too.
Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (TR2dy)
Marxists have no concept of second-order effects. This is known.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (2ocoG)
Well, there seems to be some evidence of liquid hydrocarbons elsewhere in the solar system, so unless dinosaurs were in space...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (XuXeR)
Look for the Russian 'abiotic' theory and how they find oil.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (GL+EM)
Posted by: Ian S."
Hydrocarbons are constantly being recycled by the Earth. Over time everything in all our landfills will be subducted and recycled.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (vFG9F)
It's a lot lower, around $0.50.
I wonder what it is in Polk Country Florida, where Sheriff Grady Judd just arrested some young scholars who ripped off a Dicks Sporting Goods and maybe ruined their lives...like their lives were going to be worth a shit anyway.
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (och2J)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (IQBae)
Posted by: jmel at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (RWHIh)
Remember, for four years we were told it was "merely" 7% or whatever.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (1wjle)
A very appropriate single-frame cartoon:
https://tinyurl.com/vsm48krp
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Jordan61
Another thing the Horde said when it started.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Max Power at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (Hucnr)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (3AwA+)
As for Cali: those refiners packing up next year will haunt Newsome. To many clips of him bashing oil and the commercial will write itself for a national campaign against him.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (FxH7T)
Even the plan for the "obsolescence" of ICE engines only applied to the hoi polloi, not the rich and connected; limos were going to still be allowed ICE engines, for instance. This is the same modus operandi as commies: we are all equal, but some of us are MORE equal that the rest of you.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The Lower Depths at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (Dg7ng)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Florida Bound at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Vacancies are rising in some markets blamed in the media on overproduction of rental housing.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Fox Butterfield at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (whSpP)
$2.24 to $2.30 here on Monday.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (jjoN6)
yep and our tax increases annually, which is fun
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: John Galt at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (mGkIn)
Why don't we go our separate ways?
You could live, laugh, and love your way through your best life, buggering children, smoking drugs and dying from mutagenic flesheating monkeypox, while we are all boring and bourgeois and shit. You could be free from our living hell of cheap gas and bibles and virgin children.
Just sign the papers.
Posted by: We Should Have a Talk... at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (HgadO)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Kzintis at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (9uL7w)
Except in Kali; Gavin, with his oleaginous bearing and devilish smile saying "I Did That!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (GL+EM)
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You must be on the west side. I'm at $3.69 on the east side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (P845J)
Unaccountably, and probably due to Something The Democrats Did, gas prices are falling across the nation.
You'd think the media would make more of an effort to not look ridiculously biased, but you'd be wrong.
I like this guy's stuff. Here, he discusses the recent media blitz condemning Trump for going soft on China in the recent National Security Strategy summary. These are big name pubs like NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and The Atlantic. The only problem is that it's a load of codswallop, as anyone with two synapses to rub together would know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfjhOtD2svQ
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (Bo9Yf)
Just like animals when mosquitos bite them...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)
Who can even guess why!
......
Just under $5 per gallon here in Santa Cruz county.
Because we have a governor with no testicles.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Vacancies are rising in some markets blamed in the media on overproduction of rental housing.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
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Builders have been overbuilding for years, in part to match the sudden explosion in demand that started about 4 years ago.
Now, demand is slipping.
General trend is suddenly...housing prices seeing easing pressure if not outright reversals in certain markets (especially in Texas).
It's amazing how much of the economy you can explain by the supply and demand curve you learn in Micro-economics 101.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: jmel at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (RWHIh)
I’m ready to nominate Trump as emperor for life right now… of course I’m just one voter….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (xT8gx)
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My state tacks on $150 registration per year for EVs. Justification being you’re not paying the gas tax. But you’re still buying electricity which has all sorts of state taxes per kilowatt hour. So it’s a neat trick how the state gets to double dip like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (9iyS+)
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Sam's Club @ $2.33 is the lowest nearby. Probably averages around $2.45/gal. Leftist governor and road taxes keep it from going under $2/gal.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (NwnyJ)
Oklahoma
Posted by: Oh noes ! at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (HcoTw)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
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Absolutely true. Figuring in the costs of private schools into the equation and the relative tax shield for a mortgage, it makes sense to substitute a high performing public school system residence instead of paying private school fees plus a cheaper mortgage in a poorly performing public school district.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb
.......
Kinda like Oak Island.
Posted by: wth at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (jjoN6)
Live ones? If meat, Costco seems to have it all the time where I live (never buy it though; too expensive per pound).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (whSpP)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at
Right after Guam flips over.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (MGB5H)
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Eh. I’d trade no state income tax for $4 gas.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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I read another state is now going to tax EV charging systems individually.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (SOGBX)
I'm not sure where you are, but where I am in western Prince William, I paid $2.61 last night and saw a couple of high $2.50s on the drive home. They've dropped a little in the last week.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: Dyslexic Moron at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (w9Wax)
Who can even guess why!
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Because God doesn't like commie rat bastards any more than I do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)
I hope the middle class "liberals" in blue states (my NY included) are green with envy. Of course they'll never ask to lower gas taxes but you can't expect much
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: NYT at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (pEFY5)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (YwEeS)
Younger was surprised while chatting with old hs and kolledge mates to find that he bought a nice place (near Houston) for half of what most were looking at elsewhere...
Hmmm.
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Mr Wolf at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (SOGBX)
You must be on the wrong NOVA side...Fairfax is cheaper and Prince William is WAY cheaper...
$2.79-$2.87 at most Fairfax City stations and stays that way as you branch out - there are "el cheapos" and there are pricier "we don't want to sell gas" places, but the norm all over is under $3 today...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Probably because electricity taxes don't go towards road upkeep.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:47 PM (+Oyis)
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And even more in KILOMETERS!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (whSpP)
I get all knotted up over these length measures...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)
We're entering the new Golden Age of American Auto Design, baby!
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Hank Johnson (D)umb at
Right after Guam flips over.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (MGB5H)
Is THAT how one flips real estate in Guam?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (ynpvh)
This has always been the case in NoVa. School districts drive everything, which is why the School Board does it's best to destroy everyone's property values by moving the boundaries.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ace at 12:30 PM
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Stuck at $2.799/gallon (Costco) for the past several weeks -- although expectations were that it would fall (across Arizona) another 15 to 30 cents by Christmas.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (whSpP)
I wanted to buy some earlier this week and it's like $30.
Posted by: ace at December 10, 2025 12:41 PM (1wjle)
My niece's husband told me this Spring that the price of a calf was what he could have sold a steer for a couple years prior. And even if you bought the calf there is always the chance of losing it before it gets big enough to butcher.
It takes a while to raise a cow to slaughtering age, and it will be a while before the domestic herds are back up. I hope beef from Argentina and Brazil will be easier to get. Did you know they raise a lot of beef in Venezuela?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)
I'm am confused.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
All bad things are caused by Orange Man bad. All good things that cannot easily be attributed to Democrats are considered like the weather, just there by pure coincidence. So it will be with employment figures, peace, etc.
It is an axiom of reality of for leftists that nothing good in society or the world can ever come from doings of Trump and/or MAGA.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)
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$3.29... Oregon. We consider that cheap around here. We obviously don't us the extra money to fix the roads, so it must go to saving the environment (ie enriching democrats)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (nJthq)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Cow pop problem due to drought, feed & possible screw-worm infestation.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (+Oyis)
Finally, the wise choices of Jennifer Granholm and Pete Butagieg are beginning to be felt in the market.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)
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This actually just happened to my boss a couple of weeks ago. He went in on a cow with his dad, and it died.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:49 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (whSpP)
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$2.59 here at Costco last night.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (WDjG6)
Thus causing the name "fossil fuels".
Given the finding of major oil deposits are extremely deep levels in the ocean, where it's very difficult to explain how the plant/animal remnants could actually occur, has led to more support for the theory.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: rickb223 at December
And the Biden admin disastrous policies.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Czech Chick at December 10, 2025 12:50 PM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:42 PM (GL+EM)
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You must be on the west side. I'm at $3.69 on the east side.
Yes. Near a little town which is left of Leon Trotsky. Port Townsend Wa..
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (GL+EM)
I saw $1.99 a gallon in Corpus Christi late last week (just one place, most were $2.10-$2.15), but Corpus generally has about the cheapest gas in the state due to proximity to refineries and almost zero transport costs.
Posted by: Sloucho at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (Ym0Nd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Corruption. Been described as "Sopranos with a different accent". There are a couple of families that run *everything*. Current governor is an avowed communist, which doesn't help.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (lFFaq)
Not every neighborhood in a bad school district is a bad ‘hood. School district boundaries can be gerrymandered so that nice areas get lumped together with shit areas to get more tax revenue.
But the price of homes in said ‘hoods can be 30% cheaper than a comparable home a few blocks away .
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:51 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Tennessee Jed at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Lo5Xg)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (OTdqV)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)
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This actually just happened to my boss a couple of weeks ago. He went in on a cow with his dad, and it died.
Posted by: Jordan61
We just had three calves dropped in the last three weeks since our cold snap. They always seem to throw a calf when it gets cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (+Oyis)
Given the price of private school tuition, that is almost never true.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:43 PM (WDjG6)
And house prices are so high because of a shortage of housing.
Years of customer service allows me to say that with a straight face.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Stuff democrats say at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (sKqQm)
Hey!
A Shit Tax!
Great idea!
And it'll be 'for the children.'
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (P845J)
$3.80 for regular at Costco in San Diego County.
If something doesn't change here, I expect the depraved CA state government to send it a lot higher.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (azNOR)
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What, Seizing the Industry wasn't available?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (whSpP)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
Funny. Anyone belive road use taxes go to roads?
/bikepaths'r'us
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (XuXeR)
Well let's see, Dems drive up the cost of oil, filling Putin's war chest and he invades his neighbor. Then Trump comes in and unleashes US production driving down costs and Putin quiets down.
Then Biden gets in and we do it all over again. So, kind of due to Democrats inability to learn.
Trump's been driving production here and elsewhere (Saudi, etc.) because they're trying to take Russian oil off the market militarily.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (pIfcn)
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"Won't anybody think of the oil execs?!"
Coming from the NYT, it seems a bit, shall we say, incongruent.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (qBdHI)
Using Olestra to produce "oil"?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (g47mK)
It's always a shock driving into Maryland, New Jersey, and New York (could you get more Blue?) and seeing substantially cheaper gas prices. And they have smooth roads, too!
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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[climbs on bandwagon]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (XeU6L)
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I'm no longer convinced that *anything* goes for anything when it comes to state and federal government. Most of it is just a racket on top of rackets on top of other rackets.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: SMOD
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Elites in Euroland are terrified that fracking starts there (and they do have regions where it is likely to work including the UK). But, I also noticed China's trade surplus hit $1 trillion bucks. US exports though are down 29 percent for the year so far. That means a lot more of Chinese mfg shit is going to Euroland instead--trade deficit estimates are now about $400 billion with China for this year at the very least.
At some point, the balance of trade deficits and suffocation of mfg in Euroland is going to force them to develop their untapped resources in oil and gas.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Jordan61
*takes notes*
Posted by: Carroll Shelby at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (XuXeR)
A Shit Tax!
Great idea!
And it'll be 'for the children.'
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (P845J)
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"That would have a disparate impact on the obese, fat-shaming h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (whSpP)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (oftw2)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
Come to NY, you get to pay sales tax on the excise tax. It's like a Double Stuffed shit sandwich.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 12:55 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:48 PM (rbvCR)"
We buy a heifer or steer every year from my wife's family and have for the last 15 years. Never had one die. They ranch about 20 miles north of Hondo, TX.
We got a black angus steer this year that is the best beef I've ever had. Even the round steak is tender! The sirloins and ribeyes are phenomenal. Love buying beef wholesale, want to get a source for hogs, too. I had one but the guy stopped selling them onesy twosy. If anyone knows a source to purchase whole hogs for butchering I'd appreciate knowing.
Posted by: Sloucho at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (Ym0Nd)
Also it's funny how all the dims can't shut up about affordability now. But they didn't have jackshit to say about it when the vegetable was in office and inflation was at 9%.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (Lo97M)
A Shit Tax!
Great idea!
And it'll be 'for the children.'
Posted by: Diogenes at
Is it on volume, weight, frequency?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
Tuition for a good school in my area is $15kish a year. If you save $1k in mortgage with a cheaper house and lower property tax it works out. For one kid anyway.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Stuff democrats say at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (sKqQm)
IT'LL TAKE 20 YEARS BEFORE THE PRODUCTION COMES ON LINE!
GIVE UP!
GET IN LINE!
SUBMIT!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (6U1c2)
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"Biden policies taking effect!"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy
Not really. The oceans have been constantly changing levels. Further, plate tectonics explains some as well.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (IQBae)
It's possible to fill up in Ohio, drive across Pennsylvania on I-80, and reach Maryland on one tank.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (g47mK)
That said, Target put their shaved beef steak from Demakes Bros on sale for $8/lb today ($7 for 14 oz), so I bought it. Easiest way to get non ground beef (and non total garbage - sorry Steakums) in my diet with a ton of veg. Amazon's cheap bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, and shredded cheese (for the kids) make for 1/2 and 1/2 sandwiches for 6 with a little under 2 lbs of the meat...with ketchup (one of the few things I always use that for)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (tOcjL)
We just had three calves dropped in the last three weeks since our cold snap. They always seem to throw a calf when it gets cold.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (+Oyis)
Are you running a cow/calf operation? How many head?
It's branding time here, calving is in the fall.
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (gpah0)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
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Can I complain about the property taxes? Because those are insane, too.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
You can't swing a dead cat in a grocery store without hitting some type of chicken.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Inogame at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (53oGX)
The state government jacked up gas taxes several years ago, and shockingly, astoundingly! New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians no longer come to NJ for cheap fuel.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 12:35 PM (n9ltV)
Its a lot cheaper in these parts of jersey. I saw it in the $2.60s a few weeks ago. Some stations are whores, but there are stations where its cheaper.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (snZF9)
Didn't Exxon just come up with a way to make fracking 20% more efficient?
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (Y8DZL)
Water is wet too!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (jFNww)
Posted by: man
What do you mean? We caused thousands of accidents and millions of man-hours of lost time and inconvenience.
Posted by: The Breezewood "Interchange" at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (oftw2)
At some point, the balance of trade deficits and suffocation of mfg in Euroland is going to force them to develop their untapped resources in oil and gas.
Macron was just begging Xi to buy more French goods to forestall a collapse of the French economy. I'm not sure how many more escargot China can take, though.
https://is.gd/PXvsOS
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (Riz8t)
Depends on the State and depends on the roads.
In Texas, gasoline excise taxes go mostly to the education cartels, just like a large portion of oil severance royalties.
As for the roads, surface roads are usually paid for out of general revenue so don't throw rocks at EV, hybrids and bicyclists that drive on Texas roads.
Limited Access freeways though do come out of gasoline taxes, bridge and road fees, tolls and occasionally loot from the FedGov.
In fact, over half of Texas state expenditures is wasted on that fraud known as Public Education.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (BvPIe)
Cow pop problem due to drought, feed & possible screw-worm infestation.
Posted by: rickb223
Bird flu replaced by cow flu.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Emmie at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: choices at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (FCWhv)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:57 PM (cYBz/)
We usually have a prime rib for Christmas but the lowest price I've seen so far is $14. 99 a pound...And it's not prime....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (whSpP)
Posted by: The Breezewood "Interchange" at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (oftw2)
The Vine St. Expressway has entered the chat.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (z8ihD)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
And that's AFTER the improvement in costs from consolidation.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (MGB5H)
I await confirmation because I always thought our two rat-bastard Senators were on the take from our enemies
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 01:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
You’re still better off than with an income tax. I’ve lived in states with and without income tax. Even with higher property tax higher gas tax higher whatever tax it was still a good trade off.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:01 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)
Hit it!
Posted by: This message brought to you by Waymo and Waze at December 10, 2025 01:01 PM (Y3swt)
Macron was just begging Xi to buy more French goods to forestall a collapse of the French economy. I'm not sure how many more escargot China can take, though.
I hear China has a mime shortage.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: man
What do you mean? We caused thousands of accidents and millions of man-hours of lost time and inconvenience.
Posted by: The Breezewood "Interchange"
I've heard that they are finally going to correct that abortion of a interchange. Amazing how laws and policies seem to be created to fu what is best for the people.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (cYBz/)
The national average private school tuition is $15,000 per year (2025-26).
The private elementary school average tuition cost is $14,021 per year and the private high school average is $17,986 per year.
Source privateschoolreview dot com and this tracks with similar official although more dated figures.
At 15k per year, it would take about 19k in income before taxes per kid per year. Then also savings for university study. You would have to balance that with a number of other factors, commuting costs, public safety, property taxes (often the saving on crappy housing in blue areas is minimal on property taxes or even negative), and age of housing.
Some states give generous tax breaks of one sort or another on private education; others do not.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
Hey, here in CA we have it all.... High property taxes, high gas prices, high sales tax, high Vehicle registration taxes....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (VE6XX)
I hear China has a mime shortage.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, J
That's a lot of baguettes.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (wzUl9)
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Is there a discount for exact change?
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: marcel marceau at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (NgqoH)
I think, unfortunately, the tariif wars allowed the narrative to build that the reason why things are expensive are because of Trump‘s tariffs
Posted by: Maroon at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (D7ri/)
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: nurse ratched
But the beach!
Posted by: choices at December 10, 2025 12:59 PM (FCWhv)
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I lost my wedding ring around our 20th anniversary after going for a swim (following an Alaskan cruise) in the Pacific with friends on Vashon Island last year.
[I'm surprised I didn't manage to lose it before then -- and had a couple of close calls, one necessitating the purchase of a metal detector to scour our backyard lawn.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (whSpP)
You guys really can’t complain too much about high gas prices. Same with Nevada.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:53 PM (9iyS+)
Go back and ask your handlers for better insults
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (rbvCR)
Rep. Haley Stevens
@RepHaleyStevens
Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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Also the beautiful and charming Rep. Haley Stevens.
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
I lost my wedding ring around our 20th anniversary after going for a swim (following an Alaskan cruise) in the Pacific with friends on Vashon Island last year.
[I'm surprised I didn't manage to lose it before then -- and had a couple of close calls, one necessitating the purchase of a metal detector to scour our backyard lawn.]
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (whSpP)
Increase your salt intake.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: It's me donna
And our roads are still shit.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (z8ihD)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Hamm on 5 at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:37 PM (2ocoG)
Spoiler: there never was a "dinosaur" theory for the formation of oil. Not in the industry. The dinosaurs merely serve as a symbol for the age of the rocks most productive of oil. The presumption is that single celled marine organisms were the major source of the hydrocarbons. I have read suggestions that pollen from land plants, washed into the seas by rivers, might also play a role.
I will note that the "biotic" theory of oil has a track record of success. The abiotic theory, to the extent that is has been tested at all, has yielded dry holes. Hard to get financing to drill a well, if the expectation is that it will be a dry hole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (npFr7)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
She looks like Sloth's (Goonies) daughter.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:58 PM (DRSnL)
You’re still better off than with an income tax. I’ve lived in states with and without income tax. Even with higher property tax higher gas tax higher whatever tax it was still a good trade off.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Highly dependent on locale. Some states have relatively low property but higher sales taxes with no income tax, TN for example. Texas seems to have high sales tax coupled with higher than average property tax rates depending on locale (TX is a big state). Others, like Florida, have no income tax, spiking property values, favorable sales tax, but you spend a lot on insurance for homes.
Some mags track this stuff but always do your own homework and tax planning prior to a move on your individual situation.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (rQwsY)
I think, unfortunately, the tariif wars allowed the narrative to build that the reason why things are expensive are because of Trump‘s tariffs
Posted by: Maroon at December 10, 2025 01:03 PM (D7ri/)
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They haven't.
People are taking elections with 25% turnout and asserting that they reflect elections in a year that will have 80% turnout.
It's just that high propensity voters are now Democrat voters. Those voters that turn out for every bond issue and city council special election, they're Democrat leaners now. In the early 2010s, they were Republicans.
And Democrats kept winning the White House and forcing policy changes through the administrative powers, making winning midterms shockingly meaningless.
No one knows how to turn low propensity voters into high propensity voters. It's just a learned habit. Concentrated and proven effective GOTV efforts can help at the margins, but ultimately, most people in Miami probably had no idea there was even an election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Considering taking up cattle ranching in Ohio. Not for profit. But with my own herd i can at least have access to steak at cost.
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (AoMt0)
Oddly, there will be no "investigations" of the price drops, as has happened half a dozen times in the past when prices rose. This goes back to my yute.
The astonishing power of the ignorance/envy combo was one of the first things I recall making we wonder about public policy and even economics. And of course it was classic. Oil companies explained: 1) only one small pipeline to SD from refineries in LA, thus, supply/transport cost 2) far fewer gas stations in SD than LA, thus, less competition.
Incredible! Like quantum physics or something!!!
Later, I (and others) on the Senate floor marveled, aghast, at the idiotic Dem fulminations about "windfall profits!!" in the oil industry, and industry that is by nature cyclical, and has some of the most capital-intensive operations of any. And let's not forget Congress having "hearings" about gas prices. Economic illiteracy and envy tragically form the basis for many peoples' "worldview".
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Caligirl
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"The long river winds through green years and dry years
Brand them in the spring ship them in the fall..."
Ian & Sylvia, 'Where The Short Grass Grows'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvFVbEuURI
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (XeU6L)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
She's a walking ad for Thorazine.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (DDJSl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 01:02 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: marcel marceau
What he said!
Posted by: Mitch McConnell's aide at December 10, 2025 01:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (pDt9x)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Wow. When Elizabeth Moss is better looking than you are...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (/HDaX)
when was the last time the NYT gave a shit about what happens to the energy industry? they actively cheer its destruction and when the industry lost tens of thousands of jobs in 2015/2016, i don't recall a sob story. i heard 'learn to code'
Posted by: John Galt at December 10, 2025 12:44 PM (mGkIn)
As long as New Yawk has a steady supply of hand-made artisian bagels, made with locally-grown wheat...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I think lander investigations of places like Saturn and Jupiter moons are probably going to shed some light on abiotic theories. Outerspace has quite a bit of carbon floating around apparently.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)
Rep. Haley Stevens
@RepHaleyStevens
Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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Also the beautiful and charming Rep. Haley Stevens.
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
Seems like some dems have been drinking the water...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I think lander investigations of places like Saturn and Jupiter moons are probably going to shed some light on abiotic theories. Outerspace has quite a bit of carbon floating around apparently.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)
Titan.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (ynpvh)
Those fields contain major Exxon holdings including wells that produce for $27/barrel give or take. They are among the cheapest producing wells Exxon has and the most profitable.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (pIfcn)
100% certainty that that's what they'll say as soon as prices tick back up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (3nLb4)
Some mags track this stuff but always do your own homework and tax planning prior to a move on your individual situation.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)
TX at the local level has politicians that very cheerfully raise property taxes for everything a do anything. It is worth remembering that the only thing TX does is write the rules for localities to impose property taxes. And due to people voting for bond issues upon hearing the promise that they won’t raise property taxes (they do, they have to be paid off with interest), the rates rise to pay for the interest.
TX can have lower property taxes but they cheerfully elect local governments that see the taxpayers as nothing more than ATMs.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (rQwsY)
When moving from Texas to Missouri, I was annoyed I now had to pay state income tax, personal property tax (seriously wtf?) and sales tax on some things that were exempted in Texas like groceries.
I wound up coming out ahead. Texas has sky high property taxes even in many rural areas. 6th highest in the country. Plus a pretty darn high sales tax.
Texas has to pay for all those massive freeways and all the illegals in the school somehow.
Posted by: brak at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Crissy Teegan at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (bucPA)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (pDt9x)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
Seems like some dems have been drinking the water...
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Haley looks like she's been drinking the ice cream...
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (TN0g+)
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That’s kind of my point. In the end it all balances out. Which is why I’m saying paying $4.50 an extra gas in Seattle but having no income tax and somewhat higher property taxes vs a place with 2.50 gas, is a wash.
Of course it depends on income and how much you drive but for the typical person it’s a wash.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (9iyS+)
Those fields contain major Exxon holdings including wells that produce for $27/barrel give or take. They are among the cheapest producing wells Exxon has and the most profitable.
I did not know that.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (Riz8t)
100% certainty that that's what they'll say as soon as prices tick back up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:08 PM (3nLb4
Yep. Because the country is full of economic illiterates. Anyone who says “price gouging” confesses to being an economic illiterate.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:09 PM (rQwsY)
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Hmm. Its as if some all knowing, all powerful, benevolent being created a systematic way to sustain humanity. PREPOSTEROUS!!!!!! ITS FERMENTED DINOSAURS I TELL YOU!!!!
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:10 PM (AoMt0)
First time I went through Breezewood almost 30 years ago now, I was like "WTF?"
Over time, I became kind of fond of it. We'd always stop there to have lunch when we were going back to see my family in Michigan. Our son seemed to enjoy it. Good memories.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 01:10 PM (U/Byj)
I wonder who's been paying her off?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (lF28Z)
I don't know why but that name always quacks me up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (3nLb4)
Probably nothing.
It's not like mass deportations is the solution to most of our economic problems, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Mass deportations will cause reductions in:
1 unemployment spending
2 housing prices
3 grocery prices
4 fuel prices
5 auto insurance
6 traffic accidents
7 hospital wait times
8 welfare spending
9 public school overcrowding
10 public school violence
11 murders
12 property crime
13 migrant camps and groups of peasants hanging out in front of Home Depot
Other than that, it will not have too big an effect.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (5yV+P)
It's branding time here, calving is in the fall.
Posted by: Caligirl
I'm not. We lease our land to a neighbor who runs cows on five or six different properties. He has one bull and about twenty cows. These cows will drop all winter long. He scoops up the calves after weaning and puts them on a different property until they ho to market.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (+Oyis)
Also the beautiful and charming Rep. Haley Stevens.
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I don't know whether I believe in science but I definitely believe in witches.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)
She's got big tits, so there's that.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:52 PM (Riz8t)
There are lots of options these days depending on what state you live in. If you aren't fixated on scholastic sports and fine arts, then there are hybrid homeschool-classroom organizations that are relatively cheap.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 10, 2025 01:12 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (5yV+P)
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Yeah, but mass importations increase GDP.
So, import!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
I don't know why but that name always quacks me up.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (3nLb4)
Sauce for the Michigoose.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Dems have a vested interest in maintaining control of state and local government agencies and are willing to fund campaigns for candidates that support their interests (teachers unions, government workers labor unions, environmentalists, etc.). Non-Dems tend to vote with their wallets or their feet. The US presidency is the only office that has a nation-wide constituency, and that means both wallets and feet are on the line- hence, bigger turnout.
Posted by: mrp at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:39 PM (rbvCR)
Also the pricing is now more in line with energy content of the fuel. Diesel packs more BTU's per gallon than gasoline. It used to be cheaper because refineries had to produce a lot of Diesel to get enough gasoline to sell. Because Diesel was cheaper, auto makers started bring Diesel-powered light trucks to market. Prior to the the 1980's, Diesel-powered pickups and passenger cars were a rare thing indeed. Now, they are everywhere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: words to live by at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (CUcQs)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (1zOXE)
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It was 59 cents prior to the voters stupidly asserting "We'd all like to pay more."
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Regular American
If hydrocarbons come from dinosaurs, someone needs to explain the oceans of liquid natural gas on the moon Titan.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (eOfr8)
I hear China has a mime shortage.
And kidneys and other vital organs.
Totally Unrelated Thought: Isn't France awash in illegal aliens?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 01:13 PM (TN0g+)
Some of us didn't
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (VE6XX)
You are, how do you say, telling me!
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (2ocoG)
https://is.gd/M6C63Z
I'm definitely switching to her for advice on my health.
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (0ZmKh)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM (gm9Sb)
If hydrocarbons come from dinosaurs, someone needs to explain the oceans of liquid natural gas on the moon Titan.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 10, 2025 01:14 PM
But they can REALLY predict the future climate patterns, yo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (pDt9x)
I'm not. We lease our land to a neighbor who runs cows on five or six different properties. He has one bull and about twenty cows. These cows will drop all winter long. He scoops up the calves after weaning and puts them on a different property until they ho to market.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 01:11 PM (+Oyis)
Deja vu, you've told me this before. That's cool you get to see everything and have none of the responsibilities.
Cows don't know it's Sunday.
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (gpah0)
Space Dinosaurs. Dibs on this as a two-word movie pitch.
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 01:16 PM (xNHSX)
The Science is settled, scrunt. Michigoose out front should have told you.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:45 PM (9iyS+)
EVs are heavier and thus tear up the roads at a faster rate. Hence higher registration fees. To does this for that reason.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Caligirl at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (gpah0)
That's what cracked me up about when GWB changed 'daylight savings' and the farmers were all pissed off about it.
Uh, cows and plants can't tell time.......WTF do they care?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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You probably dont live in Chicago. Or is ELK code for Hobo?
Posted by: Regular American at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (AoMt0)
Posted by: Bulg
Some people are entertained by watching an ant hill. Doesn't mean it's a good use of your very limited time on earth.
Posted by: The Breezewood H8er! at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Delurker at December
Planet of Dinosaurs and 65 come to mind.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (gKWVE)
Intergalactic spacefaring dinosaurs. They colonized Titan on their way to Earth.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (3nLb4)
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and Colorado
still paying well north of $3
our sodomite governor's bacchanalian lifestyle doesn't come cheap
chicken feathers and gold body paint is at a premium right now
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Remember The Maine! at December 10, 2025 01:17 PM (PRDGu)
Wednesday Morning Rant
Eventually, someone (presumably from the company) came down and got things cleared up, but it exposed an obvious gap in how driverless cars handle fairly routine problems. In this case, the cars (or a car - the company's statement is unclear) got snarled up in a dead-end street and had a collision while one or more of them was trying to do a multi-point turn to get out of it. Per the company:
In a statement, Waymo officials said that while making a multi-point turn on a dead-end street, two Waymos made "minor contact at low speed." "We are looking into this further, and when we encounter situations like this, we are able to learn from them and make improvements," a Waymo representative said.Low points for clarity, but there we have it. A very simple problem left the machinery unable to respond effectively, so they just stopped. And blocked traffic.
A third Waymo, traveling downhill, is unable to get through. Then a man comes out of his garage, dubbing the white cars stuck in the middle of the street as a "Waymo standoff." "I'm just trying to get out of here," the man said ...Yes, it's kinda funny. But it's also a great example of just how far all of this stuff has to go. Both vehicles were driverless and operated by the same company. This should be a "best-case scenario" for a collision. It's akin to you and your wife driving home and hitting each other in the driveway. Everybody knows everybody and can just move on. It's perhaps the simplest possible scenario - if humans are involved. Humans can come up with solutions like, "move the cars." Machines can't. They need to be programmed to make decisions. This was clearly a decision-making condition that hadn't been adequately predicted or handled. There were several weird variables here. Both cars were driverless. There was a dead-end street. At least one of the cars was doing a complex maneuver. There was cross-traffic. Tricky indeed, unless you're a person. If you're a person, you can cut through it and go with, "there's only minor damage. Give me your info and let's move on with our lives." To a person, one minor wreck is much like another. Machines, not so much. It's amazing that this stuff works at all, but incidents like this show just how complex the real world is, and how hard it is to deal with when you have to program ersatz intelligence into a machine with no real knowledge of the world. These are really hard problems to solve, and sometimes tiny little unpredictable problems expose that. They also expose just how far away we are from the dream of autonomous vehicles. We're a long way off from "feel free to take a nap in the back seat while the car takes you home."
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Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc)
Clearly you have never gone to Costco at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)
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Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (jFNww)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
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Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (A62KL)
If this occurred in NYC the waymos would be stripped to the chassis in minutes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (D+mpw)
Weigh up, ho!
A whim Waymo!
A whim Waymo!
A whim Waymo!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (xG4kz)
In the jungle, the concrete jungle, the liars sleep tonight...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:06 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (tgvbd)
'Tis the season of many vocalizations by me of, "If you can't drive it, leave it at home!" whenever I venture into parking lots between now and just after New Year's Day.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (xcxpd)
Also the depression and someone else's IP thing.
But this too.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (cuae1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (WPL6O)
MONKEY!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (cuae1)
Mannix babe >>> Monkey
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (y+G1Q)
Who gave approval for these machines to be on the road anyway? Were we allowed to vote on it?
It's bad enough we have drunk illegals tooling around in SUVs, now we have "autonomous" driverless vehicles.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (1zOXE)
"Asshole!"
"I had right of way!"
"What the F were you thinking?"
*gunfire*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM
Thank you for using Johnny Cab!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (cuae1)
Mannix babe >>> Monkey
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:09 AM (tgvbd)
Fair point
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (xcxpd)
Right now I think that debate is happening with our carriers and the launch systems .
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Sounds Safe To Me at December 10, 2025 11:11 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 11:11 AM (9q3gn)
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (xcxpd)
Hey don't knock Quato, man.
Posted by: Fetterman's Goiter at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:10 AM (bFu5X)
That really has to be Musk’s favorite movie.
Self driving vehicles
Mars colonies
Brain implants
Boring machines
AI
Three titted women
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (KDPiq)
nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48526-4
The upshot is, autonomous is better than human in most conditions... except dawn or dusk. Which of course is rush hour.
Turning can also be bad.
But if you're driving through town for an errand at noonish, Johnny Cab is better at all those ped xing and stopsign opportunities.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 11:12 AM (qSHqn)
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
but can he drive a stick shift?
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (sGtp+)
Palestinian Activist Says Hamas Hid Tons of Baby Formula to Damage Israel With Starvation Claims
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: Sounds Safe To Me at December 10, 2025 11:11 AM (oftw2)
That's so they can hit Waymo kids.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (B43cA)
Who gave approval for these machines to be on the road anyway? Were we allowed to vote on it?
Bill Gates guffaws as he funds dumping lord-knows what into the atmosphere and "so brilliant one wonders why it wasn't done sooner" animalicules into natural creatures on the earth's surface and in its waters.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (xG4kz)
Driverless big rigs are in a word: terrifying
And what the hell happens when there's a glitch and GPS satellites go down -- or there's an electrical or mechanical malfunction in the vehicle?
Additionally, can you imagine the rebirth of essentially train and stagecoach robbers -- placing barriers in front of unmanned vehicles, which will force them to stop, and then looting their contents?
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (eAryO)
And it's always "we never imagined in our wildest dreams that situation would occur."
At the cost of numerous lives. Bravo.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Maybe we should stay a long way off.
I work in manufacturing. Taking your attention away from a machine that can kill you and others is considered a bad idea.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)
This is one example of why I think AI hype is mostly hype. The real world is incredibly complex and humans tend to navigate these things easily yet to program a solution is… not easy at all (to be understated about it)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (YobFY)
And the video was real since it was on the Internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: The Meepzor Precision Discount Driving School at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (z7/Fg)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)
Even if it means Quato starts growing out of your chest?
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (UnA8+)
Quato knows how to party, man.
but can he drive a stick shift?
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (sGtp+)
With Johnny Cab, it never really came up...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
What's the tie-breaker in a high speed merge?
The guard rail.
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (FhXTo)
i'm surprised that the driverless revolution didn't start with trains
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:16 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Common Tater
Except...electric vehicles like to shut down COMPLETELY over seemingly minor incidents. Yet another reason to ban the damn things.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
And the video was real since it was on the Internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (dyewR)
👍🏽
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (z7/Fg)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (MqnoG)
The technology will continue to rapidly improve. Human drivers will not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
And the video was real since it was on the Internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (dyewR)
This is the worst idea ever. Humanity canNOT handle flying cars. More often than not, you'll wind up with some incorrigible douchebag in your living room.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (eAryO)
This makes me think of that scene in Better Call Saul when grizzled old Mike Ehrmentraut anticipates another ambush of one of their drug trucks so he hides in the freezer car and ends up taking out the “bad guys” and getting shot in the ear in the process…. Maybe Waymo can transport drugs for the cartels….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: anachronda
Yeah, but you can't control the plebs with driverless trains...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
What? This is exactly how we would have handled the situation in the slums of Calcutta.
We have re-created human intelligence!
Posted by: H1-b's at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (9q3gn)
It doesn’t help that the push for driverlessness is running parallel to the elimination of all customer service. I dread being in a fender bender with a driverless car, and having to call Waymo’s 800 number phone-tree in India.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (4J/ng)
Posted by: Common Tater
Houston passed an ordinance requiring vehicles must be moved.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: a green dildo at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (qSHqn)
Posted by: Leo Weiser Automobile Club Of America at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Seems they should swap company names.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Raised a lot of teenage boys have you?
Posted by: gKWVE at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (qSHqn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (8gejw)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
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I was literally just about to post this. Had to look up Wham-O's exact spelling first.
Great morons think alike!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (sQBXy)
This morning some Euro's were discussing whether or not there was any way to remove sitting EU Commissioners from office. When they realized it was not, I started to post "Gavrilo Princip has an idea!"
but I figured some Eurofag would complain and I didn't want to go to the trouble of having to start a new account, so I self censored.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)
And what the hell happens when there's a glitch and GPS satellites go down -- or there's an electrical or mechanical malfunction in the vehicle?
It's my guess that we will eventually have roads exclusively for autonomous trucks. Imagine how much better traffic will be when it's just cars on the road.
Additionally, can you imagine the rebirth of essentially train and stagecoach robbers -- placing barriers in front of unmanned vehicles, which will force them to stop, and then looting their contents?
One word: Robocop.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
‘ Palestinian Activist Says Hamas Hid Tons of Baby Formula to Damage Israel With Starvation Claims’
I wish someone would think of the Gazan children for a change.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
Case came up recently, forget which state, but essentially the judge threw out a ticket for a Waymo car because the law did not encompass driverless cars--there was no human to ticket.
Self driving cars/trucks will have to result in changes to tort and traffic laws in general if adopted widely.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
You’ll end up with old evil Biff sneaking into your flying delorean to alter the future into some bleak dystopia….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
Seems they should swap company names.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
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Why? What bad thing did Wham-O ever do to you?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (sQBXy)
Posted by: Leo Weiser Automobile Club Of America at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)
In Finland, they require yutes to basically take a rally driving course before they're issued a license so they're trained on handling a car in most situations, including slides, drifts and icy conditions.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Less Is More at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (oftw2)
but I figured some Eurofag would complain and I didn't want to go to the trouble of having to start a new account, so I self censored.
Kind of makes you appreciate AOSHQ even more, n'est ce pas.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (YobFY)
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They never explained how evil old Biff returned to the same future that he left after delivering the goods to young Biff.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (dyewR)
Why? What bad thing did Wham-O ever do to you?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (sQBXy)
I took a frisbee off the forehead once and it took years of therapy for me to recover.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)
Shedeur Sanders Mom Is Still Calling Out Cleveland Browns Coaches
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
They unintentionally hone in on each other as the largest sources of metal in the asteroid field, collide, and then tear each other part.
The designer of the mining robots is watching all of this unfold. He simply nods his head and says, "Now I know what to fix for next time."
His employer, who bankrolled the robots in expectation of a huge return on investment was FURIOUS.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (RnixX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Wg6v7)
You’ll end up with old evil Biff sneaking into your flying delorean to alter the future into some bleak dystopia….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (YobFY)
Get your damn hands off her........Biff.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Self driving cars/trucks will have to result in changes to tort and traffic laws in general if adopted widely.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)
The human programmer who is covered for liability by his employer for torts arising out of his job. Ticket Waymo.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
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THIS! We're dipping a toe in the water with the wealthy getting their electric powered single passenger flying cars.
Bad idea.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (UeLv+)
Posted by: Sponge
In the Soviet Union (and maybe still in Russia?), you had to be able to make your own repairs on a car to get a license. Because they didn't exactly have a lot of spare parts that you could just order from the factory.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
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This is what happens when you offshore QA to India.
Ask me how I know ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (MqnoG)
Imagine, for example, ordering something for pick up, and having no need for you to go with your car to get it...
But in our ever more low trust society what fool would do that?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
One word: Robocop.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
Even better - Robo Ronin
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM
At least it wasn't a lawn dart.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (bFu5X)
In a world where cars are rented and automatically deliver themselves to the customer and then to the storage location when the customer is done, most of the driving will be without passengers.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:22 AM (Wg6v7)
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At least you'd still be on planet Earth and not orbiting Pluto.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (RnixX)
Already happening, just with boring old trains. Widespread problems of breaking into rail cars and looting them in some areas. Same with parked trailers or hijacking when drivers go in for coffee, food, etc. of high value targets.
Goodfellas even has brief scenes where Jimmy's crew hijack truck cargos, often with the driver's assistance by making a stop convenient to the crew so it could occur. Mob control of Teamsters, trucking, and even air freight operations at key places enabled a lot of theft based on inside men placed or corrupted in place working those jobs.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: anachronda
Yeah, but you can't control the plebs with driverless trains...
but it will improve the reliability and regularity of our soma deliveries.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (sGtp+)
Ask me how I know ...
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No. Ask me how I know!
Posted by: The 737MAX at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (dyewR)
But in our ever more low trust society what fool would do that?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
GO AWAY!!!!!
'BAITIN!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (ahamg)
Like being driven to your own robbery or murder instead of elsewhere. Jumping in one for an emergency trip to the hospital but getting stuck instead.
There are people stupid enough to become totally dependent on this sort of thing. Just like they're dependent on DoorDash or whatever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Allen Jenkins In A Cab at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)
Now I'm in a worse place.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (jjoN6)
At least it wasn't a lawn dart.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (bFu5X)
That was in my right calf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Harrison Ford crashing into your living room at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (sKqQm)
The tech is only a few years old. It’s always improving and it won’t be that long until the backseat scenario is real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: ShainS
Been saying that since they proposed the idea. A mannequin and voila! Stopped vehicle for easy pickings.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (bFu5X)
That was in my right calf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM
Explains why you're not an adventurer, I guess. Or is that knees...?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:27 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Allen Jenkins In A Cab at December 10, 2025 11:25 AM (oftw2)
Now all they say is ALLAH WHAKBAR!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (DQRr+)
Posted by: 18-1
Waymo is better than having joe illegal sample your food before delivery.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (jFNww)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
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I wonder if this also applied to Aeroflot pilots?
/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (MqnoG)
Posted by: the way I see it
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That is one way to do it. Red Light Traffic cameras do it that way, target the car and not the driver.
The problem being of course that drivers running red lights are exactly the ones causing accidents at other intersections--punishing the car is a much less efficient way (except for revenues) than the driver.
Modern society is all about allocating costs, preferably to third parties, while privatizing benefits.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (WDjG6)
The opens up not only the end of taxi/uber driver as a job but opens up an opportunity for people that own a car they don't use a lot - because then you can have your own "AirBnB" for taxi type service where you can monetize your car without any need to spend time on it yourself
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (sKqQm)
The tech is only a few years old. It’s always improving and it won’t be that long until the backseat scenario is real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (9iyS+)
My favorite is the video where the car glitches in a parking lot and goes into a full steering lock and goes in a circle. The dude calls the number and tells them to stop the car or he'll throw up everywhere. The car doesn't respond to remote commands.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
read a short story once. humans come upon a high-technology, but abandoned world. has teleportation booths all over the place, but they occasionally make mistakes with assorted body parts. engineer figures out what's causing the mistakes, but also discovers that the reason the planet is abandoned is that the entire population had entered the teleportation system at the same time following a coronation and became stuck inside the system. fixing the bug causes the planet's population to reappear.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:28 AM (sGtp+)
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The states will eventually adopt a sort of "captain of the ship" doctrine that makes the human responsible for the dick moves of its silicon-brained "crew."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (NqmUn)
That would never happen. We've enacted a regulation forbidding it. -- Bureaucrats on the take from driverless vehicle companies
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (ExV1e)
Explains why you're not an adventurer, I guess. Or is that knees...?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:27 AM (bFu5X)
That was all the frostbite that one time climbing Kilimanjaro with Beau Biden during the War of 1812.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)
I think Bill and Ted covered that base
Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (F061L)
Posted by: Allen Jenkins In A Cab
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We have automated that. Cameras everywhere nowadays, cell phone geofencing, and automated license plate readers are society's narcs.
Nuisance and cost of business to criminals, massive loss of privacy for the rest of us.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
There is at least one YouTube star who would try to make that a reality.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (DQRr+)
hmm.... *scribbles note* robot shoe-shine boy modeled on johnny from police squad.
i wonder if elon will fund me?
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (sGtp+)
18 and life, you got it........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)
I think Bill and Ted covered that base
Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 11:30 AM (F061L)
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Junior went through a Back to the Future cycle over the last week or so. Watched all three just cause he could.
Fandango at Home collection for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Like being driven to your own robbery or murder instead of elsewhere. Jumping in one for an emergency trip to the hospital but getting stuck instead.
Having the internal cameras determine that you are a member of a disfavored group and so you are driven to a 're-education' camp.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (ExV1e)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
IGY - Donald Fagen
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (pkeXY)
There was a multi-tenant office and 4 or 5 restaurants in the same center.
The Waymos would all circle the circle at least twice, sometimes 3 times to get their bearings.
A lady at the bar said the record she counted was 12 times.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:14 AM (xG4kz)
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We're gonna blot out The Sun to save The Earth!
What could go wrong?
/And finally kill off the virus known as "humanity" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (MqnoG)
But a transporter; nope that thing’ll rip your soul into shreds….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (/iXAp)
Having the internal cameras determine that you are a member of a disfavored group and so you are driven to a 're-education' camp.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (ExV1e)
I've seen Fake Taxi.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: whig
Yeah, tell me about it. Maybe someone should take a picture of YOU passed out in a bathroom, sometime, Bob from NSA.
-- Raccoon who broke into a Virginia ABC store
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: InZona at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (C6rN0)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young
IGY - Donald Fagen
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (pkeXY)
I'm just old enough to have dated a woman who named her vibrator Steely Daniel.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (bC9HI)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 11:
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Or there happens to be an insect traveling along with you: "The Fly"
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (B43cA)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)
Every engineer worth his salt knows that Mother Nature will always fuck with you.
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (EMg+d)
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Turns out the Earf is lucky that humankind arrived just when it did. God only knows what would have happened if Bill Gates wasn't around with his hare-brained ideas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (/iXAp)
Star Trek the Movie someone gets blobbed
What got transported didnt live long or something to that effect was the line.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM (DQRr+)
Posted by: JM
Saw that on TCM not too long ago (the original, that is). Really like the pretty ginger wife.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (/iXAp)
But in our ever more low trust society what fool would do that?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:23 AM (sKqQm)
GO AWAY!!!!!
'BAITIN!!!!!
not certain whether typo or ordering automated delivery from an outdoor supply store.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (lF28Z)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
The tech is only a few years old. It’s always improving and it won’t be that long until the backseat scenario is real.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Waymo is careful not to involve cars outside of low speed areas. Physics is an unforgiving bitch and like the railroads made a lot of corporate and trial lawyers rich including one Abraham Lincoln in the 1800's, so will the juxtaposition of human driven cars and automated ones at high speeds. Throw in self driving trucks into the mix and the massive capital structures needed to pull it off, then you have a trial lawyer's dream and likewise permanent employment for corporate legal offices.
Then you have the issue of hacking including state sponsored ones.
Edge cases will end up setting the general rule.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (xcxpd)
She was stealing the name......
His seminal work, Naked Lunch, which he published in 1959, is a connected series of loosely-related vignettes. It was later turned into a movie. In it, the reader follows the narration of drug addict William Lee, who travels from the U.S. to Mexico to Tangier. It’s a fever dream of a book that includes drug use and hallucinations.
Another thing in the novel is a reference to dildos.
One of those dildos was named—you guessed it—Steely Dan.
Fans of the Beat writers, Fagen and Becker named their band after a “revolutionary” steam-powered dildo noted in Naked Lunch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)
that'll be britain in a few years.
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (xcxpd)
F***ing Naked Lunch... *grumbles*
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (UnA8+)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
25 bux
same as downtown
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (gbOdA)
The crew felt the same way (almost). Otherwise they would have used the transporter to solve a whole lot of problems instead of waiting to be captured or sneaking across a gigantic building.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:36 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (sGtp+)
It guarantees the correct pronunciation.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (Zz0t1)
‘ I'm just old enough to have dated a woman who named her vibrator Steely Daniel.’
Did she get rid of it when she started dating you because she didn’t need it anymore?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (DOn9w)
Study Finds One in Four British Teens Using AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Great morons think alike!
Posted by: Biden's Dog
Unfortunately, t-bird beat us both to it at #35.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)
But a transporter; nope that thing’ll rip your soul into shreds….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:32 AM (/iXAp)
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There were a lot of times on that show where people were beamed around against their will. Especially from lower-tech societies that didn't have that tech yet.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (RnixX)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Some of the most recent ones in Japan/China are becoming astonishingly accurate and lifelike if still staying just inside the not quite human side of the uncanny valley.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (WDjG6)
Out: Uber
In: The Bang Bus
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (sKqQm)
But it passed all of our tests! By way of example, a Waymo will never lose a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.
Posted by: H1-b's at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (9q3gn)
We're long past the time when humans took driving seriously and paid attention to the repair of their vehicles and to the road when they're on it. Now, cars are mostly an appliance used out of necessity, and driving isn't fun because of all the retards on the roads.
Do I still long for the days of muscle cars and manual transmissions? Yes. Am I Bitterly Clinging to those days? Nah. Driving has long been not-fun, so let a machine do it for me instead, like mowing the lawn.
Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Nemo at December 10, 2025 11:33 AM (4RPgu)
Same idea for drunks and drugs addicts.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (9iyS+)
As part of their final exam scores my class last night (A Business 300 level course) had to give a briefing on something from the IT venue. (I've been teaching them how to give a briefing...something college kids need to know.) One team chose Machine Learning.
They came up with this exact same comment.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (P845J)
The Amazon, UPS and FedEx drivers all get directions and can navigate to the most remote location to deliver whatever... but could a robot taxi or delivery vehicle do it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (NwnyJ)
‘ I'm just old enough to have dated a woman who named her vibrator Steely Daniel.’
Did she get rid of it when she started dating you because she didn’t need it anymore?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)
This place cracks me up….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (F061L)
Study Finds One in Four British Teens Using AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
The fact that we're no longer able to handle anything mentally and need to get support from an automated computer algorithm saddens me to great lenghts.
Society is f*cked.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (sKqQm)
What got transported didnt live long or something to that effect was the line.
galaxy quest: "and then it exploded"
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (sGtp+)
Waymos with sex dolls. The wife thinks you're going to the grocery store, but you're not.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)
25 bux
same as downtown
Posted by: rhennigantx
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I think somewhere in Germany, there is already a sex doll brothel making bank. Berlin perhaps.
Then again, Germany had, dunno if they finally outlawed it, a bestiality brothel somewhere in N. Germany.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
We did that on our own on a winding sandy road around a lake. We called it Thunder Road.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (g8Ew8)
Fandango at Home collection for the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Oy, another streaming service.
Do they have Otto Preminger movies?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (xcxpd)
I think Hulk explained that in Endgame.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WPL6O)
put me in, coach!
Posted by: chatgpt at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (9iyS+)
Oy, another streaming service.
Do they have Otto Preminger movies?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (xcxpd)
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Digital footlocker, mostly for rentals/ownership. They do have some free, ad-supported stuff, but I never see the Preminger movies listed on it as for free.
I just use it as a digital backup for my physical collection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (cYBz/)
The Amazon, UPS and FedEx drivers all get directions and can navigate to the most remote location to deliver whatever... but could a robot taxi or delivery vehicle do it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer
With access to GPS and dense internal mapping, probably. But probably not profitable yet like Amazon's drone delivery service by air. Densely populated areas will be first.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (P845J)
456 Bags of Human Remains Found Steps From World Cup Venue in Mexico
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM
So, Wednesday in Mexico City?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: whig
Probably only goats there, now, since the muzzies moved in.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (L/fGl)
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Johanny B Gute!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:42 AM (2c/nq)
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:42 AM (sGtp+)
With access to GPS and dense internal mapping, probably. But probably not profitable yet like Amazon's drone delivery service by air. Densely populated areas will be first.
It's a Chinese plot, I tellz ya! We'll all get used to drones overhead, and then they'll invade and send in the drones to take us out. We'll never see it coming!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (Riz8t)
Sounds like a potential franchise. Go on a trip, stop by the local robot brothel. It finds your account and sets up a partner with your preferences pre-loaded.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
She was stealing the name......
His seminal work, Naked Lunch, which he published in 1959, . . . .
"seminal" work. Heh.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (cYBz/)
I think Hulk explained that in Endgame.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM (WPL6O)
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II is weird, and the Bobs should have written an opening where the Delorean vanishes into the sky, we hold on the sky, and then it comes right back.
Marty, Jennifer, and Doc get out. "Wow, what a crazy adventure. Thanks for coming along, Jennifer. Marty and I have to go and do another adventure in another time now."
I mean, the ending of the first was a joke with no intention of follow up. Treating it seriously like they had to actually fill in that gap of the story was a mistake because it robs II of any kind of narrative cohesion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
We did that on our own on a winding sandy road around a lake. We called it Thunder Road.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:40 AM
I did that on the rural roads of North Texas in a 66 Mustang 3-spd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (9iyS+)
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Maybe that's the real reason for the accident--the Waymos were all texting each other.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (RnixX)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (8CIFn)
‘ Then again, Germany had, dunno if they finally outlawed it, a bestiality brothel somewhere in N. Germany.’
How much is that doggie in the window!
Woof!Woof!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: ballistic at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (3BwY
I've always loved driving. Still do - city or country -on any type of road. It's freedom.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (g8Ew8)
Drove the wifes new car the other day and used the cruise control. Apparently it has a feature that keeps your car between the lines of the lane and the steering wheel corrects your steering and stiffens up against my turning it. I hated it. Had to read online how to disengage this function, as new cars don't come with owners manuals anymore just websites that you have to go to. I hate modern technology. In a few years we won't be able to drive the cars ourselves, we'll be Uber passengers in our own cars.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (IifOV)
In: The Bang Bus
the big bus > the bang bus
non-stop from new york to denver!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus
Posted by: anachronda at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (sGtp+)
It certainly could use sensors in different wavelengths - something that humans can't do. In addition, it won't say "nahhh, it'll be fine, I have an AWD SUV", while accelerating into a blizzard.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (Tbj3s)
In theory you can use all sorts of sensors that don't need human light levels.
Though I remember there was one self driving crash years ago because a silver colored truck reflected enough sunlight to blind all of the self driving car's sensors.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:45 AM (sKqQm)
456 Bags of Human Remains Found Steps From World Cup Venue in Mexico
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:34 AM
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"If only there was a large desert around in which to bury them for good."
/La Cosa Nostra, Vegas-style
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (2c/nq)
Marty, Jennifer, and Doc get out. "Wow, what a crazy adventure. Thanks for coming along, Jennifer. Marty and I have to go and do another adventure in another time now."
I mean, the ending of the first was a joke with no intention of follow up. Treating it seriously like they had to actually fill in that gap of the story was a mistake because it robs II of any kind of narrative cohesion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (GBKbO)
The Libyans should have stolen the Delorean and used it to Allahu Akbar throughout time, leaving it up to Marty and Doc to stop them.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (UnA8+)
True story.
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (van9r)
Though I remember there was one self driving crash years ago because a silver colored truck reflected enough sunlight to blind all of the self driving car's sensors.
Variable gain is your friend.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
She was stealing the name......
His seminal work, Naked Lunch, which he published in 1959, . . . .
"seminal" work. Heh.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:43 AM (cYBz/)
I did not know that. I just never could listen to Aja the same way again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (xcxpd)
So do you think I have a problem because I want to go see Kill Bill only to check how it compares to my home cinema experience? I trust your judgment.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 11:44 AM (8CIFn)
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Where we're going, we don't need *eyes* to see...
Posted by: Dr. William Weir at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (RnixX)
True story.
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 10, 2025 11:46 AM (van9r)
Is it bad to giggle at that?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes
Or - have the ability to communicate with other vehicles about location, speed, etc. Could avoid those monster pileups during blizzards.
But - the downsides would be (probably are) immense.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (cYBz/)
‘ I hate modern technology.’
I don’t hate modern technology. I hate the people that insist on it being in places it doesn’t belong.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Long ago, I was involved in summarizing changing legal responses to cellular phones and traffic accidents. Even a long involved conversations via cell, hands free, increased the risk of driver inattention and thus wrecks. Texting by far was the worst of driver distractions equivalent to a very drunk driver if manually manipulating the phone. Still problematic even if voice free.
Short, unemotional hands free texts or conversations demonstrated much less risk.
Often though you get compounded risks, marijuana usage has soared resulting in more wrecks whether driving or via residual effects, eating and drinking in cars, cell phone usage, problematic and ill placed auto controls, passengers, etc. all distract drivers to some degree.
Figure every driver around you is out to kill you on the roads as a principle . Use that fear to figure out how to mentally avoid their fiendish plots--hitting you from behind, sideswiping, stopping abruptly in front of you, idiot pedestrians, tboning at intersections.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (WDjG6)
214 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
So do you think I have a problem because I want to go see Kill Bill only to check how it compares to my home cinema experience? I trust your judgment.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (lF28Z)
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I want to go see The Whole Bloody Affair, bruh.
Why would there be something wrong with you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
The Amazon, UPS and FedEx drivers all get directions and can navigate to the most remote location to deliver whatever... but could a robot taxi or delivery vehicle do it?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 11:39 AM (NwnyJ)
Exactly. In our area, add trees and hills which block GPS signals, and Google Maps which thinks that our private road intersects with the public road about 100 feet west of where it actually does, and the possibility for hilarity/disaster increases exponentially.
Posted by: HTL at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (M88Pg)
Is it really expensive to do the mapping autonomously? That vehicle (or drone), again with no human onboard, could do it slowly the first time, and after that, Waymos can drive at normal speeds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Had a rental care with this feature last February. It did not like merging onto highways, because the disappearing line to the left confused it, and it especially didn’t like giving semis a slightly wider berth when passing them.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (EXyHK)
I did not know that. I just never could listen to Aja the same way again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:47 AM (xcxpd)
I'm proud to have added a wrinkle to your brain.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)
But - the downsides would be (probably are) immense.
Can't wait until a right leaning politician's driving record is released to the public and ohhh wow...he was having an affair obviously he has to resign!
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (sKqQm)
* well, back when they made the packaging properly - now I don't even bother to try and use the designed-in easy-open feature (tear strips) because either the material or the manufacturing in many cases means it doesn't work, just get a scissors to start.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (U/Byj)
I remember riding with my Grandfather and his cruise control was a stick he had cut to the perfect length he wedged against the accelerator pedal and lower part of the bench seat. Kept his old Chevy Caprice at 75 on the long trips so his leg wouldn't cramp up.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (IifOV)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: InZona
>How many times has a Tesla crashed into a cop car because the 'mobile cell tower on 4 wheels' threw off the telemetry of the fucking "autonomous" EV?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Archimedes
Or - have the ability to communicate with other vehicles about location, speed, etc. Could avoid those monster pileups during blizzards.
But - the downsides would be (probably are) immense.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Edge cases. Driverless cars will be a legal paradigm change and coexistence with human drivers is going to be a massive challenge. Human juries have knowledge of human driver frailty--will they give that benefit of the doubt for AI driven cars or punish the corporations producing them harshly in court.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (Tbj3s)
And 3 tits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)
I reckon cruise missile navigation tech will be handy here.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (Riz8t)
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This too is the story of Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign.
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (/iMjX)
Why would there be something wrong with you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
Because I'm not going for the movie itself. I'm good on Kill Bill although it's one of my favorites. I just want to compare it to my setup.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Yes it is expensive and time consuming.
From Waymo:
To create a map for a new location, our team starts by manually driving our sensor equipped vehicles down each street, so our custom lidar can paint a 3D picture of the new environment. This data is then processed to form a map that provides meaningful context for the Waymo Driver, such as speed limits and where lane lines and traffic signals are located. Then finally, before a map gets shared with the rest of the self-driving fleet, we test and verify it so it’s ready to be deployed.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (8CIFn)
Or, here could be a fun one.
The NSA/CIA/FBI/whoever sets up one of those fake cell towers they use regularly.
Some self driving car uses their data which is bad and crashes.
And...the NSA/CIA/FBI/whoever tells them to screw off....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (IifOV)
Dad had a 67 Mustang for a bit that had a choke knob you could pull that worked the throttle as a cruise control as well.
Fun to think back at how sofa king dangerous that was.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Sounds like a potential franchise. Go on a trip, stop by the local robot brothel. It finds your account and sets up a partner with your preferences pre-loaded.
Posted by: NR Pax
Have it your way at McWhores!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:51 AM (lF28Z)
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The screen will be bigger, maybe brighter. The sound will be better, definitely louder.
And, who knows, maybe you'll have a good crowd to watch it along with.
I recommend it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
Edge cases. Driverless cars will be a legal paradigm change and coexistence with human drivers is going to be a massive challenge. Human juries have knowledge of human driver frailty--will they give that benefit of the doubt for AI driven cars or punish the corporations producing them harshly in court.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:50 AM (WDjG6)
"We lose 20 to 25% of the hostages. Tops."
"I can live with that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skier at December 10, 2025 11:53 AM (0Ctrb)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
And yet a poor substitute for when I am away.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (P845J)
Of course. But that’s to keep you safe. You know? Like the internet.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)
👍🏻
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (lF28Z)
Some lefties hire a waymo type service to intentionally cause a traffic jam outside of some conservative's house so they can't leave.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:48 AM (Riz8t)
Yes it is expensive and time consuming.
From Waymo:
To create a map for a new location, our team starts by manually driving our sensor equipped vehicles down each street, so our custom lidar can paint a 3D picture of the new environment.
This is the point I was addressing. Sooner or later, the whole process will be automated, and when that happens, the cost should plummet. Roads and streets change a lot more slowly than computation speeds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (Riz8t)
We need more real-world accidents so we can program them into the system!
Posted by: Waymo Bangalore at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (Y3swt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 11:55 AM (npFr7)
Will this work in the long run? Still TBD.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:55 AM (9iyS+)
It's become much more stressful driving thanks to decline in driving standards, huge high-center-of-gravity vehicles, drugs, crowding, etc. I don't want another problem added.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 11:55 AM (U/Byj)
"I can live with that.
Posted by: Sponge
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks."
-- GEN Buck Turgidson
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 11:56 AM (cYBz/)
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*Ben Stiller Proo Tip: Do not put frank and beans intoo a Zip-Lok™ container.
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:56 AM (/iMjX)
I wish someone would think of the Gazan children for a change.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)
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"BiBi saved the children ...
But not the Gazan children."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (THRXx)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (KDPiq)
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"Tupperware is good to have, especially with the upcoming monsoon months."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (Riz8t)
Sounds like a potential franchise. Go on a trip, stop by the local robot brothel. It finds your account and sets up a partner with your preferences pre-loaded.
Posted by: NR Pax
Have it your way at McWhores!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Given Gen Z documented mating problems with a lot of male incels, I think you will see this go worldwide and probably kill Only Fans as well.
Current extreme models are costing about $125 k or so from Japan which is probably in the lead with such tech and China not far behind them.
Again, I think you are going to get some kind of attempts by the system for new laws as some women are already not happy with males having such alternatives available.
Will have some additional problems with governments concerned about falling fertility but even the old Commie/NotSee dictatorships failed at forcing people to have kids.
I can see why Musk is getting desperate to get humans off the planet for long run survival of the human race.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (Y3swt)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (KDPiq)
Works with Whole Foods or your local organic super market.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (9iyS+)
Ana Walshe's DNA found on hacksaw, hatchet, bloody rug, forensic scientist testifies in husband's trial
Brian, now 50, is accused of killing his wife after learning she was having an affair. Prosecutors say he believed he would have a better chance of avoiding federal prison time for his art fraud conviction if he became the sole caretaker of the pair's three children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
I wish someone would think of the Gazan children for a change.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)
It's just incredibly hard for me to show sorrow for anything but infants in the muslham terrorist world.
https://is.gd/mBrKEU
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
Is this an African-American owned company?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:41 AM (P845J)
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Wifey insists on only owning old more mechanical vehicles as they keep threatening to mandate kill-switches (not to mention tracking your every action) in the newer computerized ones.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (THRXx)
It's been said...but using their money to turn Gaza into the next Dubai, or at least Tel Aviv, instead of building bombs, would do FAR more for Gazan children.
But they have to love their kids more than they love revenge. And so far they don't.
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (fiboQ)
That's ok- I got him with the door...
Posted by: Waymo Door Control Module at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (Y3swt)
That's ok- I got him with the door...
Posted by: Waymo Door Control Module at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (Y3swt)
With more states approving road kill for human consumption, this becomes a higher and higher truth probability.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
That's the sound the vehicles make when they collide. Wayyymo!!!
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (lF28Z)
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If you have a smart phone all your actions anre already tracked. Google and the NSA already know everything you do and everywhere you go.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 12:02 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Bot wars are probably the future of warfare and that in part is also a danger. I think the future of big Navy fleet ships is probably about done just like the time of battleships came and went.
Probably close to being done in military aviation as well. It is simply a cheaper thing to make bunches of kamikaze bots with not much done to make them survivable. Parts of Ukraine are already littered with miles of fiber optic cable used by Russkis for their latest aerial drones. Almost totally impervious to jamming and has miles of fiberoptic cable spooling out for control. So cutting fiber optic cables is the obvious next counterstep and so it goes.
War stimulates a lot of technology development in a very short and forgiving (making mistakes the rectifying them) environment.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:03 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 11:59 AM (/iMjX)
Is this an African-American owned company?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:01 PM (KDPiq)
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I'm old enough to remember Magic Johnson having a brief "color commentor" gig on National TV after he retired early.
It seemed to disappear after he was mocked for frequently saying "Mo' better" ... a great meme before memes were cool.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:04 PM (THRXx)
delightfully retro
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:05 PM (ZciVq)
I'm old enough to remember Magic Johnson having a brief "color commentor" gig on National TV after he retired early.
It seemed to disappear after he was mocked for frequently saying "Mo' better" ... a great meme before memes were cool.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:04 PM (THRXx)
Wasn't "The Magic Show" or some such on the air where they had him in an Arsenio Hall type role?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Tank Abrams at December 10, 2025 12:06 PM (r6f6k)
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Directed Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:06 PM (THRXx)
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we say 'bigly' now
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ZciVq)
Maher is a toolbag and I can only handle him in small doses. But I liked that he hit her on the Israel/ Gaza differences and didn't let up. Asked her of all the countries in the Middle East she could live in if forced to move there, wearing her cute tight dresses and makeup, which one would she live in?
She couldn't say Israel, even though that's the only country she won't be stoned and raped in for
Dressing like a dhimmi western whore. And he wouldn't let her just slide away from the question, even though she clearly kept deflecting.
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (xS7Ad)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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That's Supperware, silly.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (DRSnL)
‘ But they have to love their kids more than they love revenge. And so far they don't.’
You would think that they’re demonstrate contempt for their own children would permanently discredit them with the people that scold on their behalf but you would be wrong.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 11:26 AM (9iyS+)
But no hoverboards...
Posted by: LizLem at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (xS7Ad)
At the same time...do we want machines able to "reprogram" themselves to handle situations like that? At a minimum, the humans doing the programming, if they didn't should have had, some way for the cars to communicate back home saying a problem had occurred that was beyond it's programmed parameters to handle. Sorta the SNAFU/FUBAR protocol...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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That's Supperware, silly.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (DRSnL)
Tuckerware is what trannies use whilst transitioning...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
Ana Walshe's DNA found on hacksaw, hatchet, bloody rug, forensic scientist testifies in husband's trial
Brian, now 50, is accused of killing his wife after learning she was having an affair. Prosecutors say he believed he would have a better chance of avoiding federal prison time for his art fraud conviction if he became the sole caretaker of the pair's three children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
Well, at least he's avoiding divorce drama?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 12:09 PM (xcxpd)
At the same time...do we want machines able to "reprogram" themselves to handle situations like that? At a minimum, the humans doing the programming, if they didn't should have had, some way for the cars to communicate back home saying a problem had occurred that was beyond it's programmed parameters to handle. Sorta the SNAFU/FUBAR protocol...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:08 PM (ynpvh)
A Roomba can get out of those situations. I think there has to have been an issue other than programming.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (KDPiq)
That's Supperware, silly.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (DRSnL)
You got me.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Pretty much, except for transportation. For the price of a 6th gen fighter and pilot costs, one could build a huge fleet (flock?) of remote control drones.
Quantity does have its own quality...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (XuXeR)
Probably close to being done in military aviation as well. It is simply a cheaper thing to make bunches of kamikaze bots with not much done to make them survivable.
Agree with both observations. We're probably in what will be our last generation of fighter aviators - possibly excepting the Loyal Wingman scenario.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
To create a map for a new location, our team starts by manually driving our sensor equipped vehicles down each street, so our custom lidar can paint a 3D picture of the new environment.
This is the point I was addressing. Sooner or later, the whole process will be automated, and when that happens, the cost should plummet. Roads and streets change a lot more slowly than computation speeds.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Now add in potholes, fallen trees, emergency services, wrecks, and weather into the mix. There will always be failures just like with humans. But I doubt juries will be as forgiving with Big Waymo Corp than with Ms. Betty Boop who can cry on cue on the stand.
We accept human fallibility. I don't think we accept machines failing nearly as much. Remember the whole surge in acceleration bit which was probably mostly caused by drivers somehow hitting the accelerator when they meant to hit the brakes. Lots of lawsuits and big payouts from teh suits. Often cheaper to settle than risk a trial as well.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
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A Roomba can get out of those situations. I think there has to have been an issue other than programming.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:10 PM (KDPiq)
Is there a way for the cars to communicate back to the company's centers? There are always cases that fall under the "unknown unknowns", but erring on the side of contacting humans in the communications chain can alleviate some of that.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (ynpvh)
Killing the two children is the height of evil.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Operator Error at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (FYrUD)
Posted by: the way I see it
>Doesn't a Roomba crash its way out of that situation?
Bing! Bang! Pow!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (XuXeR)
When I went searching for a truck to replace the '95 S-10, the problem was finding one with a manual transmission. One person asked me why I wanted a manual transmission, my reply was that I am a 'driver', not an 'operator'.
When someone is visiting town, and we set out for some local spot in their car, their use of GPS drives me nutty, as I point out better routes to the destination. I find myself, out loud, contradicting the 'instructions'. 'No, don't turn left in 600 feet'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (XeU6L)
I suspect they're programmed to just stay there if an accident occurs since fleeing the scene of an accident is a felony in most (all?) states. (Unless you're an illegal and it's a blue state, of course).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Sponge
Tennessee says - way ahead of you there. All you have to do is notify TWRA or any law enforcement officer within 48 hours of taking possession of the deer. They don't last too long around here unless the carcass is absolutely destroyed by the accident.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (cYBz/)
Sort of like the grocery store people who stand in the self check-out area to deal with the inevitable problems.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
Probably close to being done in military aviation as well. It is simply a cheaper thing to make bunches of kamikaze bots with not much done to make them survivable.
Agree with both observations. We're probably in what will be our last generation of fighter aviators - possibly excepting the Loyal Wingman scenario.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
Could the successful bombing of the Iranian nuke site have been done without a pilot?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (KDPiq)
Almost certainly, IMHO.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (Riz8t)
Audi won every lawsuit. But lost in the court of public opinion...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (XuXeR)
Quantity does have its own quality...
Posted by: man
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Training is easier too for warbots, develop it for one, it is now done for the whole fleet. Faster too to retrain. Obviously not true for humans.
In some sense, the battles will shift to rival hackers, and software/hardware developers prior to any conflict and getting inside each other's OODA loops during actual combat.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
A bull seal?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 10, 2025 11:24 AM (EXyHK)
Which is inefficient as Hell. Cars burning all that fuel (or battery juice), and moving ZERO people. Happens all the time with cabs and public transit, too. At least private cars are carrying one person or more, all the time they are using fuel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:07 PM (ZciVq)
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Funny. I watched a Pat McAfee podcast segment recently (about the possibility of Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray playing MLB -- after learning that he's the only individual to have been drafted in the Top 10 in both the NFL and MLB) and have since heard on sports talk radio:
Using the word "ass" to refer to something as awful or derogatory. Ugh.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:16 PM (THRXx)
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We accept human fallibility. I don't think we accept machines failing nearly as much. Remember the whole surge in acceleration bit which was probably mostly caused by drivers somehow hitting the accelerator when they meant to hit the brakes. Lots of lawsuits and big payouts from teh suits. Often cheaper to settle than risk a trial as well.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
A chainsaw that gets and error and can't be turned off and chops off someone's hand is a bad thing. Ultimately, these vehicles are programmed by humans (directly or indirectly via "learning") and the ultimate fault lies with humans. Machines tend to be more robust than humans and are harder to stop, so we expect higher and more stable guardrails.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:16 PM (ynpvh)
Um, never mind.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 12:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: the way I see it
>Doesn't a Roomba crash its way out of that situation?
Bing! Bang! Pow!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:13 PM (1zOXE)
Did Bruce Wayne program them?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
If I were Toyota, I would have gone after the media (at the very least) to get recompense from that sorry episode. It cost them billions to settle, unnecessarily.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (0CU3H)
The hazard there is that the by-far-largest maker of drones, DJI, is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
I saw some reps from a US startup on Fox the other day. They're looking to manufacture drones domestically. CNN would say it's for Pete Hegseth to blow up shipwrecked mariners (he's gonna settle Ginger vs. Mary Ann once and for all).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Waymo Sex Pest at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (bC9HI)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (DY7Xb)
Not here in New Orleans. Someone, perhaps multiple persons, will claim injury and off to court they will go. Tort law is a major industry down here.
Posted by: Javems at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (8I4hW)
Wasn't that Audi? Did Toyota also have such a problem?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (DY7Xb)
Idiocracy?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (ynpvh)
And this was with an off-shelf basic design, a "design risk" move that ..... failed. NAVSEA could eff up even an existing successful design from Europe.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: the way I see it
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If not, I am sure DARPA is probably planning on just that. Mainly bots don't have command of the large premier bomb delivery platforms (and fighters fwiw) yet in the Air Force probably due substantially to the organization being run by pilots.
Same as the Navy resistance to bot or nearly bot ships with few if any humans aboard--it is run by ship wranglers.
The issue though like before WWII with aviation or tanks, a military has to consider the new technology fully in order to employ it or risk losing a war because the peer enemy is now ahead of you.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (WDjG6)
Johanny B Gute!
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
Blue Suede Schubert
https://youtu.be/mnjlbbWWxO4
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (pkeXY)
Did she get rid of it when she started dating you because she didn’t need it anymore?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Embrace the power of AND
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (EyfuW)
https://tinyurl.com/567834ad
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (Nx5jP)
The hazard there is that the by-far-largest maker of drones, DJI, is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.
That doesn't solve the problem that if large drone fleets are more capable, it doesn't matter if we can still build manned planes.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Proably. But the issue as I see it is that machine (really, in this case, software) is not capable of reasoning...it just isn't. If 'progress' is made on that point, then the machine will become sentient, and there will be no way of constraining its actions.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (XeU6L)
Ana Walshe's DNA found on hacksaw, hatchet, bloody rug, forensic scientist testifies in husband's trial
Brian, now 50, is accused of killing his wife after learning she was having an affair. Prosecutors say he believed he would have a better chance of avoiding federal prison time for his art fraud conviction if he became the sole caretaker of the pair's three children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)
And, ironically enough, he was correct.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: British Roboshrink at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (BI5O2)
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Sports, especially football, are always coming up with new jargon
football has 'explosives' now
and the booth guys are talking in acronyms
YAC
DPI
TFL
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ZciVq)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:21 PM (RHGPo)
Not here in New Orleans. Someone, perhaps multiple persons, will claim injury and off to court they will go. Tort law is a major industry down here.
Posted by: Javems at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (8I4hW)
There are whole scams out there of people driving in front of other cars and hitting the brakes just to get rear-ended. Unless you have a dash cam to record the entire thing (or witnesses--but who'll have witnesses from other vehicles?), the presumption is that YOU rear-ended the other guy due to YOUR lack of attention driving...of course the perps will demand large settlements for "injuries" using "doctors" involved in the scam...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
Blue Suede Schubert
https://youtu.be/mnjlbbWWxO4
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (pkeXY)
Blue Rondo à la Turk
https://youtu.be/vKNZqM0d-xo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)
**********
You know who else liked a nice tight seal?
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
this is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Pete B. at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (rZCVI)
No, not that Batman.
Dr. Shellac Batman
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 12:19 PM (EyfuW)
I knew a man with the last name of Jetson...I never got to ask if he had a son named George...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
this is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Pete B. "
I thought it was Penguin Pete.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (DY7Xb)
Idiocracy?
Posted by: jim
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1984, sprinkled with technology that Orwell could not imagine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:22 PM (rZCVI)
Dems want car-less drivers in Kalifornia...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Waymo Sex Pest
>This is the future. Imagine getting into the passenger seat only to find a dozen loads clinging to the console. Will the "autonomous" EV notice that somebody is blowing his wad? Who cleans it?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (1zOXE)
and the booth guys are talking in acronyms
YAC
DPI
TFL
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 12:20 PM (ZciVq)
Little do they know how many of the 'swifties' they're turning away from the sport with this......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Waymo Sex Pest
>This is the future. Imagine getting into the passenger seat only to find a dozen loads clinging to the console. Will the "autonomous" EV notice that somebody is blowing his wad? Who cleans it?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (1zOXE)
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (ynpvh)
Packs of illegals carrying sedan chair with prominent Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:24 PM (2ocoG)
I knew a man with the last name of Jetson...I never got to ask if he had a son named George...
Posted by: jim
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I knew a fellow in Raleigh named Joseph Blow.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (XeU6L)
Um, never mind.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Ever read Killdozer by Ted Sturgeon and later made into a bad tv movie? Short story is better, includes ancient aliens.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Sorry .Do Dems want anything positive in the state of California or anywhere else?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 12:14 PM (/iMjX)
That fag who was getting pranged by that smelly Euro on the desk of some congress critter?
Posted by: Yes Harder Please at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (bC9HI)
My fake brake gets a work out with some of the ladies I’ve rode with.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (/+P99)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Is that like the sport of curling?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:26 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
The easy, short and correct answer is 'no'. Whatever is good, moral or decent they want nothing to do with.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (snZF9)
Sorry .Do Dems want anything positive in the state of California or anywhere else?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 12:25 PM (rZCVI)
Not really.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (ynpvh)
I knew a man with the last name of Jetson...I never got to ask if he had a son named George...
Posted by: jim
His boy Elroy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (lF28Z)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Sponge
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ACE AI model is programmed for late starts. Unpredictably predictable on posting times was the goal. Plus the random busty lesbian post.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (lF28Z)
Like a safe in a Loony Tunes cartoon...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)
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"Speedrunning" in video games has just taken on a whole new context...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (RnixX)
Posted by: jim
His boy Elroy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2025 12:27 PM (pkeXY)
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In the future all-black-and-gay-lisping Broadway play, the dog will be named "Afro."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (THRXx)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 12:29 PM (+Oyis)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
No, not that one. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (cYBz/)
She is very pretty but with that strong jaw line , I always thought she could pass for a tranny. A very pretty tranny but still.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge
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ACE AI model is programmed for late starts. Unpredictably predictable on posting times was the goal. Plus the random busty lesbian post.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:28 PM (WDjG6)
It identifies as a furry Endorian moon dweller.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (ynpvh)
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They have a hard time parallel parking but they are really good at backing up. Two thumbs up!
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 12:30 PM (Wg6v7)
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It's times like these where I always hope he's got a new girlfriend instead of insomnia.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (THRXx)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Consider Orson Card's Ender's Game as a guide to future training for warriors in cyberspace. And yes, gaming has all sorts of implications about future wars and preparing for them.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:31 PM (WDjG6)
The easy, short and correct answer is 'no'. Whatever is good, moral or decent they want nothing to do with.
Posted by: Tonypete
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It's worse than that, they 'want' those things (see Morning Report comments re “toxic empathy,”
and the only way to address (in their psyches) the issues is by seizing control of society, by any means.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: jim
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Well, apparently from script leaks of teh original, the Emperor wanted to destroy Endor in Revenge of the Jedi to enrage Luke so as to facilitate his Dark side of the Force progression.
Ace would be hardest hit along with ACE AI.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 12:33 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:54 PM (RHGPo)
They never explained how evil old Biff returned to the same future that he left after delivering the goods to young Biff.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:21 AM (dyewR)
The guys on The Big Theory attempted to blackboard that entire "problem" and ended up even more confused. LOL! That was a funny episode.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 10, 2025 01:15 PM (5xuJ/)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Dora Carrington
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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Maybe he should switch to a Kindle...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ESVrU)
Everybody's favorite proctologist.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Title: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.
Date: 1916 Medium/Technique: oil on panel
Dimensions: 20 in. x 24 in. (508 mm x 609 mm)
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025
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So I've discovered!
Posted by: Lytton Strachey at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (wzUl9)
I see no NOODity here
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (xG4kz)
Which is always the case, unless you want to wind up in the barrel, until the next thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Art Aficionado at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (oftw2)
Better than a sominex, I'm sure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (uWKK8)
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Everyone's a critic.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
lol @ Nosferatu's hand
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ASZ8O)
Which I guess means he injected his own opinion of the biographical subject into every page.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
The Bloomsbury Group were brilliant, but ridiculously sexually dysfunctional.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (0CU3H)
What a freakin' gay name.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Not so fast, my friend.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge
Facilitates the spontaneous human combustion.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Piss-Poor Art at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)
Title: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.
Date: 1916 Medium/Technique: oil on panel
Dimensions: 20 in. x 24 in. (508 mm x 609 mm)
Location: National Portrait Gallery, London
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Strachey died first. Carrington committed suicide after his death.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (pP43i)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Crap Art at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (bC9HI)
bro's fingers can clean pipes
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied reason, while he—openly gay and devoted to his own emotional freedoms—loved her in return, though not in the way she might have wished. They were inseparable, bound not by passion but by an understanding so rare that it overrode convention.
This portrait, painted with the kind of tenderness only deep familiarity allows, speaks of that love. Strachey isn’t framed as the acerbic critic or the celebrated writer; he is simply himself, as Carrington saw him—an irreplaceable presence in her life, captured with quiet reverence.
On the day she agreed to marry Ralph Partridge she wrote to Strachey, who was in Italy, what has been described as one of the most moving love letters in the English language.
She wrote:
“I cried last night Lytton, whilst he slept by my side sleeping happily — I cried to think of a savage cynical fate which had made it impossible for my love ever to be used by you.”
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)
As for the painting, yes, the hands seem abnormally long and creepy because of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)
Lytton Strachey was the Most Popular Member of the Bloomsbury Group due to his ability to jerk off five men all at the same time.
Oscar Wilde called this "holding a Bloomsbury Parliament".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)
The Bloomsbury Group were brilliant, but ridiculously sexually dysfunctional.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:34 AM (0CU3H)
just skimmed his bio. How unusual that a man with a domineering mother who controlled his entire life would turn out that way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
What happened to Kris?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (IvPcr)
What happened to Kris?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
It's been asked several times why she's not been around but no answer that I've seen has been provided.
One can only pray that she's fine and just taking a long hiatus.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
I keep meaning to read his Eminent Victorians, but have yet to get around to it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)
The Lebron James effect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: redridinghood
I don't think we know. She just hasn't shown up here for awhile.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)
Or, the artist needed more skill and a finer brush.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (zYpTz)
Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)
And that beard was long enough to conceal jellybeans in it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: davidt at December 10, 2025 09:40 AM (Q+gd/)
Several days older and deeper in debt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:42 AM (bocmW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:42 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg
I miss her occasional in depth analysis of a particular painting.
Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2025 09:43 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: redridinghood
That's a ton of words to say "she was his fag hag."
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 09:43 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 09:44 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (4I7QN)
Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied reason, while he—openly gay and devoted to his own emotional freedoms—loved her in return, though not in the way she might have wished. They were inseparable, bound not by passion but by an understanding so rare that it overrode convention.
The advantage of being upper-class is that the same behavior we'd scorn in trailer trash becomes liberating and ennobling and we're supposed to admire them for it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (tgvbd)
Was the artist making fun of the hands problem for drawing?
Meh.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (4I7QN)
Phone home.
Posted by: ET at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:45 AM (VCgbV)
What'd they get for it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)
Who here has ever been to a Handel's Messiah concert?
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM (ASZ8O)
I did once. William Smith conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Might be all right done in a church, otherwise you can get 95% of the experience listening to a recording.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vq1pX)
I wonder if they ever offer to engage in butt stuff in the hopes of appealing, somewhat, to their preferences only to be turned down because the dude hates the wimmins.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
Kathy Griffin will be cursing our TV screens in a couple weeks.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025
***
Current? No. There was Lee Radziwill (nee Bouvier), Jackie Kennedy's sister, who was a friend and hanger-on of Truman Capote.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (wzUl9)
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
I went to one in Ann Arbor, December 1984. It's worth doing once. But it's not for the faint-hearted.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
"After Causing Several Deaths Due to Punctured Colons the BMA Revoked Lytton Strachey's Proctologist License, and He Was Forced To Study Poetry Fora Living"
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:49 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)
Perhaps they'd reached their sodomy quota.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ExV1e)
Strachey was not too old for WW1 conscription, but somehow seems to have escaped induction. Probably the government drafted men from the lower classes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (W6oRy)
Put down as a conscientious objector so that some dumb Cockney could get blown to pieces instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (4I7QN)
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The Do-It-Yourself Messiah's are an absolute blast. Sister finds one every year. Pricey sometimes, but a lot of fun. She's kinda snooty and picky, but doing it really brings her back to the fun person I remember.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:51 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:50 AM (ExV1e
All England is based on a sort of fagdom
Posted by: Things Archie Bunker said at December 10, 2025 09:51 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: tankdemon
Strachey had a bright future as a proctologist.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (w9Wax)
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
It's fine but I think you get more bang for your listening buck with a-
Fully Armed and Operational Live Performance of Beethoven's Ninth.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Since I turned 29, it kills my back. I am not sure why. Might be the head/body orientation, I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)
I like Carrington's paintings.
All the Bloomsburians were odd ducks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
The Do-It-Yourself Messiah's are an absolute blast.
Posted by: mustbequantum
Que?
What is this (in 20 words or less)?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
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Ah, Ludwig van...
The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: mustbequantum
Does she do the whole thing, or just the Hallelujah Chorus?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
But nicely done
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (DQRr+)
Worth it? Or overrated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:46 AM
Attended one at the Cadet Chapel at West Point. With that organ, it's an impressive experience. Elsewhere? Probably still worth it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:54 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)
I only read my phone in bed with my head propped up. That doesn't really mess with my back as much as sleeping on my stomach or too soft a mattress. Those make my day miserable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (kpS4V)
As do I!
This one is an interesting portrait...it is accurate, and it also conveys a bit of personality, which is of course the point!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (n9ltV)
An early attempt, "proto" if you will, at creating a bird hand
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (xG4kz)
@nypost
·
23h
Today on NY POSTcast: Bullets wrapped in “wet” underwear were found in Luigi Mangione’s backpack following his arrest, a Pennsylvania cop testified Monday —
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have fun with that- imma go do the crossword
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (IvPcr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Says the guy who loves the dreaded "Prometheus."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
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That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)
Do not click
I cued it up...
All these broads singing [Handel's] "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" barely add up to a 10
https://is.gd/v6G8iu
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Didn't know you were in the Army.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
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Ah, Ludwig van...
The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)
I always found that it made me want to gather me droogs together and go hunting for a bit of the old ultra violence.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: night lifted at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (/YboP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
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There's nothing wrong with a bit of the old in-out, in-out. But first, I viddied a horrorshow house filled with goodies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:53 AM (GBKbO)
Interesting film.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (w9Wax)
He's the only proctologist in the world who could check your uvula.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (4I7QN)
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All of it. Audience is the chorus.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (lL6v/)
Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks,, under threat of a "winter storm". As usual, media is orgasmic at the thought--which may be the eventual outcome, merely a thought. Our area tends to shrug off a lot of crap weather by it's physical configuration. How ever, after a short eyeballing, the currently falling snow is very fine and straight down which tends toward longevity.
We shall see. Meanwhile, may all effort from you result in maximum benefit at all times, with congruent major heartburn for the leftwit fungi.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (vFbHf)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ExV1e)
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I read the book!
The book has an extra chapter at the end. It's a stupid chapter and the movie is better without it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: The Grand Poofter at December 10, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)
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I read yesterday that it was Anna Wintour who introduced Cory Booker to his new bride.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (+Oyis)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Oh, I see. TJM was quoting a movie line. Imagine that!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
https://is.gd/qWGNY7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)
Pilot couldn't keep that shit in the air just a bit longer? I mean, I see the flaps were down, but geez.....pull up and slow down a bit more.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
Technically, it was said by Alex DeLarge.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (ExV1e)
Hakeem Jeffries Exposed: Anna Paulina Luna Says He’s Blocking Insider Trading Ban
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Oh, I see. TJM was quoting a movie line. Imagine that!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
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It was the book that came to mind, actually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (GBKbO)
Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
Jonathan Price plays a former head of MI5 and the grandfather of one of the main characters in the Apple series, "Slow Horses". He's an excellent actor.
Posted by: Tuna at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)
That's what she said.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
If I am going tonsee a fully armed orchestra, it will probably be to hear the 1812 Overture.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (4I7QN)
Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
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And those who use it as emotional background for brainwashing the youth into no longer loving the ultra-violence? What of them?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (GBKbO)
Do you know anything about Kris, CBD? She hasn't been here in a while.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)
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We have a bed with an adjustable base. It has a "read" setting. It's also a split top, so husband can sleep flat while I can sit up and read.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (r+pQK)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Dare I hope?
Amazon Shares First Look Images for Guy Ritchie’s “Young Sherlock” Series
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
I do find it funny that TJM usually isn't the one that brings up Prometheus and really does what he can to keep threads Prometheus free.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Dare I hope?
Amazon Shares First Look Images for Guy Ritchie’s “Young Sherlock” Series
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (L/fGl)
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I imagine if one like The Gentlemen series, one will like his Sherlock Holmes series as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)
That's what she said.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)
I'm married. That is, in fact, NOT what she said.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)
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I hadn't considered that...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
I hadn't considered that...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
Because you're an asshole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (ExV1e)
The OTHER she......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Worth it? Or overrated?
I live close enough to Boston that I could go and listen to the Handel & Haydn Society's annual performance, but I never have. I've also wanted to attend a "Messiah Sing" concert (when I want to, I have a decent first tenor), but that, too, I have never done.
https://tinyurl.com/2uymbvhs
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (ufSfZ)
*kicks dirt*
-- Epimetheus
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
Should've had more busty lesbians.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (ExV1e)
The condition ranges from quite mild to very extreme. I once knew a child that I first met the day he was born, whose hands (proportionately speaking) looked very similar to the man in the painting. He had severe cardiac involvement from the get-go and survived multiple heart surgeries. He developed into a very inspirational young man.
Posted by: muldoon at December 10, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)
With the engine kaput, when you're out of speed and out of altitude, you're pretty much out of options.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)
BREAKING @J_Insider via @HaleyCohen19: "Columbia antisemitism task force report finds all its Middle East faculty is anti-Zionist"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (L/fGl)
But nicely done
Posted by: Skip
Too bad he was born a (gay) man. He'd have been an amazingly well-hung lesbian.
Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: muldoon
All that, and no code?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 10, 2025 10:00 AM (r+pQK)
We have a mattress like that, however, didn't splurge for the base and it rests flat in the California King waterbed frame. The wife uses a substantial amount of pillows to achieve her comfort zone.
I'm told when we move, my beloved waterbed frame will NOT be coming with us.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (W7XSX)
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There are a few in my age bracket.
Mannix is my age, and I think YD is just a bit older. I think BruceWayne is roughly my age as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)
My brother has that.
They offered a surgery for it where they saw part of his sternum off, but he declined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge
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Store credit, not sure how much but $5 was mention a few times. Taxidermy isn't cheap but it looked like an older piece.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (VCgbV)
But still like Dora's works. It's like Grant Wood licked a toad.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (kpS4V)
"If I were a Democrat political operative I would just fund and operate anonymous right-wing accounts that post cope so that Republicans would think everything is fine as Democrats flip seat after seat:
https://tinyurl.com/3e7kzp96"
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Case at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (G1OIb)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
I actually prefer the Third.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
With the engine kaput, when you're out of speed and out of altitude, you're pretty much out of options.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)
Valid, however it didn't appear he made any evasive actions whatsoever to avoid the car.
I think it was a hit. Just a really creative one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)
155 Anyone who doesn't like the 9th Symphony deserves a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
I actually prefer the Third.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
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The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
My fingers didn't fit in the trigger guards.
Posted by: zombie Lytton Strachey at December 10, 2025 10:09 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jordan61
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Next bed we're getting!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (VCgbV)
I am firmly in the Not A Fan Of Public Flash Mob Performances.
There's a very powerful "LOOK AT MEEEE!" vibe to the whole thing.
As our band leader in junior high paraphrased it, "Loud and lousy cannot hold a candle to accomplished and practiced."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Fun Time at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (oftw2)
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Give him something to fall back on if this politician thing doesn't work out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (RV1wf)
Posted by: Jordan61
But does it have a setting for watching Los Doyers ?
Posted by: alpine_beer at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (van9r)
I could have saved them the $250k spent on a task force and told them for free.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 10, 2025 09:59 AM (n9ltV)
I actually prefer the Third.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
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The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
The Ninth is my fave, but-
a very close second is Beethovan's Sixth.
Lovely stuff.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
What ? Something I agree with ? ....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)
Store credit, not sure how much but $5 was mention a few times. Taxidermy isn't cheap but it looked like an older piece.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:06 AM (VCgbV)
Wonder if they're reselling what they get. That'd be one interesting auction, I'm betting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
The 7th is my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Yeah, the 7th is very nice.
Posted by: Bulg
Difference splitter here: I enjoy the 8th most of all his symphonies, with the 3rd running a close second.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:12 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Fun Time
Since my parents-in-law lived in Virginia Beach, we'd often go to the Thanksgiving/Christmas buffets at Regents when they were still alive. Very nice. Great decorations and amazing amounts of food. Wonderful experience.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Read Isaac Asimov. That should bore you to almost death.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)
I can't play any instrument, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (2HALl)
Home / Explore our Collection / Portrait - NPG 6662; Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey
This portrait -
"In the First World War, when this portrait was made, he was a conscientious objector. He wrote for various journals and magazines while his Eminent Victorians (191
, with essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, made his name and set standards for literary biography for the twentieth century."
"What long fingers!" my 1st thought. I'd pass hanging today's art selection but 'tis another interesting lesson. Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
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I can't read.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
Da fuq outta here with your communist bullshit!!!
- US Defense Industry
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
I do find it funny that TJM usually isn't the one that brings up Prometheus and really does what he can to keep threads Prometheus free.
Posted by: Sponge
Considers mentioning Prometheus.
Does his part to keep the thread Prometheus free.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (+Oyis)
TASS: Republican Congressman Massie Introduces Bill for US to Exit NATO
Posted by: SMOD
Go big or go home -- tack on expel the United Nations from New York City with the one, two punch of U.S. out of U.N.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (xG4kz)
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great. next step is to excuse them. because "Zionism = Racism", one man's terrorist (and suicided bomber) another man's freedom fighter. You are transparent, Columbia. Your report is bullshit and an excuse to keep systemic antisemitism, and (foreign sponsored) antisemites on the payroll.
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (g47mK)
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he'll have plenty of help
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (IvPcr)
Posted by: ShainS
"Be patient. I'm not done with the painting yet. You can put on a slip when I'm done. I'll turn up the heat until then. Now get back on that ottoman."
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (VCgbV)
We got the air / inflatable "sleep number" style mattress. It really did wonders for my back in the beginning. I guess I'm just too used to it now and it's not as effective as it once was, but it's still pretty comfortable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)
I can't play any instrument, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (ufSfZ)
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Junior learned how to read music at about 7/8, and he learns by ear as well, and he memorizes his pieces.
He had his piano recital on Friday. He played two pieces: Fur Elise and the Ghostbusters theme song.
He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)
This will go nowhere and I am immensely saddened by that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (ExV1e)
My favorite Messiah performance was a full baroque performance, with baroque instruments and only 16 singers, 4 per part.
16 high quality singers (some were true professionals) can blow away a 100 part choir of decent amateurs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:16 AM (uWKK8)
I call bullshit on that. I'm betting he's considering 'changing oil' or the air filter as "fixing a truck."
I'd like to see the prissy fag change a tire with a 4-way lug wrench.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Ah cain't breave!
Posted by: Saint George Floyd at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (oftw2)
Deep down, in places he'd never admit exist, what entertains THM about the Promethium abomination is that the two chickies failed the survival skills' test of taking a flying fook at a rolling doughnut.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (xG4kz)
I can't play any instrument, either.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Nothing wrong with doing music by ear.
Neither Irving Berlin nor Lionel Bart could read music, either. I don't think McCartney could either until relatively recently.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)
In other news, water is wet and, get this, bears DO sh#t in the woods!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 10:17 AM (Nx5jP)
TJM
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: One of many lone wolves at December 10, 2025 10:18 AM (OVaMN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)
You asked for it:
https://tinyurl.com/3st77r77
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Van Cliburn has entered the chat.
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (Oy/m2)
Oh, wow : two hunnert!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (y+G1Q)
You find the digital version impressive?!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (KDPiq)
He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
We learned that our daughter memorized her favorite books we read to her as a youngin. Switching it up did wonders for her reading ability.
She also played music, flute/piccolo, not a piano, but learned to read music at a reasonably high level.
It's a shame her HS music director ruined everything for her and she hasn't played a note since graduation. She was damn good.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)
Same here. After a year or so, we added a 3-inch thick foam pad to hours, cut at the top to accommodate the split mattress feature. Never had a bad night's sleep due to lack of comfort after that.
(The foam top makes it a tight fit for the fitted sheet, but it's doable if you work at it).
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:19 AM (y+G1Q)
It comes from outer space. Long delivery time.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sponge
How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: SMOD
Go big or go home -- tack on expel the United Nations from New York City with the one, two punch of U.S. out of U.N.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (xG4kz)
If we add a requirement to bomb Brussels, we could get all the defense industry owned members of Congress to go along.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ZARDOZ HAS DECREED at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (uWKK8)
Not the thumbs!
Posted by: Tom Robbins at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (NuV6c)
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The same way a bad baseball coach can ruin a good player.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 10, 2025 10:22 AM (3QiDE)
Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (KDPiq)
How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
He was really good at tearing people down, not so good at building them up and she was on his shit list. Now, she didn't help herself much in that regard, but he wasn't one to complement or encourage as much as he would insult and demean.
She hates him with a passion to this day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:20 AM (kpS4V)
Pablo Casals, the Bach cello suites.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (ufSfZ)
I saw Render the Cyrillic open for Instantiate the Counterfactual at the Great Phlebotomists' Coagulation at Branson, MO in ought two or ought three.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:24 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: the way I see it
A saxophone is an ill wind that nobody blows good!
Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (VCgbV)
She hates him with a passion to this day.
Posted by: Sponge
That's too bad, Sponge. I hope she takes it up again someday. It's a shame to squander musical talent.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
He had his piano recital on Friday. He played two pieces: Fur Elise and the Ghostbusters theme song.
He stared at his fingers the whole time. You're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the music to keep track. But, nope. Completely memorized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
Genetics for the win!
Both you and Dolly are Computer/Math types, right?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (ufSfZ)
Supreme Court Vacates Ruling That Upheld New York School Vaccine Mandate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)
Still important because there will be another “pandemic” in the future. This is a good precedent.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Dvorak's Cello Concerto. Greatest cello piece ever.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Like, a lot. A whole bunch.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Aaaaah, Bach.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge
How did the music director do that?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)
It was that one time at band camp.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 10:26 AM (iJfKG)
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She is for sure. I may be, I just never cared enough to pursue it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)
🤣🤣🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (9iyS+)
Here's the story:
https://tinyurl.com/rc66acbr
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (VCgbV)
What, no live animals? They missed out on a breeding pair of cassowaries!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Are you innumerate as well as illiterate?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Are you innumerate as well as illiterate?
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
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I don't know how to respond to this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
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They also needed a study to tell them locking up criminals - get this - reduces crime.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (9iyS+)
Little known music fact -- Modest Mussorgsky had a younger sister named Immodest Mussorgsky.
Her life of dissolution and debauchery was a deep and enduring source of shame for her family.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Dvorak's Cello Concerto. Greatest cello piece ever.
Posted by: Bulg
There's always room for cello.
Posted by: Yo-Yo Crosby at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (w9Wax)
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination
Posted by: Lytton Strachey with Brass In Pocket at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Yet another overrated 'composer'. -- Antonio Salieri
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (ExV1e)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I'd better get busy reading the comments.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 10:30 AM (2WIwB)
Had a lot of teachers like that. May they all burn in hell. Yeah, this was in band practice. I went to a tough school.
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)
The Ninth, like the Fifth, gets overplayed and loses its impact thereby. Listen to them only occasionally and you'll appreciate them more.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:32 AM (tgvbd)
Not the thumbs!
Posted by: Tom Robbins at December 10, 2025 10:21 AM (NuV6c)
And certainly not the nose-picking finger.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (g8Ew8)
He made his fame by mocking and pissing on British values and tradition. He was at the vanguard of the civilization destroying left.
In addition to being a degenerate.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (jbnUc)
That's too bad, Sponge. I hope she takes it up again someday. It's a shame to squander musical talent.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
We sold her flute to an incoming freshman, so that will live on, but she took her piccolo with her to college. She hasn't played it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)
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My preferred method of freaking people out is typing while having a conversation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (9ipOP)
Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)
I don't know how to respond to this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
It would help if you could read it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)
He threatened a friend and me because we weren't doing the marching routine correctly. LOL.
Later on, he found out that I was friends with a hot girl that he wanted to date, so he turned nice to me.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl) /i]
The official leftwing take on the various clot shot mandates is:
1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot
And
2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (sKqQm)
I noticed elementary school kids or orchestras tend to play sharp, relative to standard pitch. I wondered if this is something inherent to children’s instruments themselves that lend itself to this? Or do child virtuosos “hear” better?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (y+G1Q)
It was listening to a recording of the Beethoven Ninth that started my 50+ years of listening to and learning from classical music. Specifically, this recording:
https://tinyurl.com/3vta4sby
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
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I thought my school was tough but band practice was the one place you were sure to be safe.
I was not in the band.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)
I'm so much worst.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (EyfuW)
I asked an innocuous question once, I thought, and got jumped on for being insensitive, naturally, by leftists. Maybe I wasn’t specific enough.
*rolls eyes*
One of those perfect pitch elitists.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (tgvbd)
Worth it? Or overrated?
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We performed it in high school choir! To this day I still admire that work.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:56 AM (iJfKG)
After a round at the Korova Milkbar. With some Moloko with the knives in it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Delurker at December 10, 2025 10:31 AM (xNHSX)
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I thought my school was tough but band practice was the one place you were sure to be safe.
I was not in the band.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:35 AM (9ipOP)
Chess Club was were the real thugs hung out. Unbelievable brutality given for an ill-considered move.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (wVcYX)
The official leftwing take on the various clot shot mandates is:
1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot
And
2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted rby: 18-1
You neglected to include
3) One can only shudder in horror at how sick one might have gotten had one NOT received a clot shot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (xG4kz)
Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)
NOOO!!!!! Dammit. He had such a great voice. One of my favorites for Christmas songs.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)
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It gives you a real horrorshow boohoo for bitva in the nochy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)
Not a cigar?
Posted by: William Jefferson Greatthings Clinton at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY)
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:39 AM (sKqQm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIf3IfHCoiE
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (lL6v/)
Posted by: Alyson Hannigan at December 10, 2025 10:36 AM (sKqQm)
Not a cigar?
Posted by: William Jefferson Greatthings Clinton at December 10, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY)
I suspect the script writer for American Pie might have had that in mind considering the time frame...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (sKqQm)
I noticed elementary school kids or orchestras tend to play sharp, relative to standard pitch. I wondered if this is something inherent to children’s instruments themselves that lend itself to this? Or do child virtuosos “hear” better?
Posted by: Common Tater
Might it have something to do with younger folks being capable of hearing sound over a wider range of frequencies, particularly at the higher pitches?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:41 AM (xG4kz)
Still think it’s cool to be able to sit at an empty piano at a bar or restaurant and crank out a piece of music.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (KDPiq)
I suspect the script writer for American Pie might have had that in mind considering the time frame...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:40 AM (sKqQm)
He should've wrote Jason Biggs off a cliff.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1
"dead-dead" has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)
??
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (9ipOP)
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I believe most of Natsec is derived from Russian, and yeah, the context of its use, especially in the novel, leans towards common usage being "good".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)
The most-reliable human reverse-barometer, Jim Cramer, is also LONG "AI."
/The Real Danger is the Employment Bust ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (kEIvm)
which was the source more than any other of my complete rejection and disgust for him and anyone allied with him.
And I note that he embarked on this immediately after his nice week long vacation in Qatar; guess he picked up new orders along with his paycheck. Tucker lies when he says he is "America First" - he is now clearly "Qatar First".
Posted by: ZARDOZ HAS DECREED at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (uWKK8)
I still can't read music.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (2J/Lj)
I have a lot of trouble believing that. I live in a blue area and we *maybe* hit 60%. But...Wyoming or SC or the like? I have a hard time believing they were hitting 60%+
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (sKqQm)
It still boggles my mind knowing some people spent 2+ years in their apartments in NYC or San Francisco and when they dared venture out they were triple masked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
A girl I knew in college pronounced "ochen' khorosho" as "ocean carshow." She hadn't studied Russian; she got that from a mutual friend of ours who had.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)
3) One can only shudder in horror at how sick one might have gotten had one NOT received a clot shot.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Yeah. Right. I always chuckle about that one...
I actually had the coof, about a month ago. Was tired for a few days and sense of smell was absent. No big deal. "Pureblood" me, had it very easy.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:45 AM (sKqQm)
Plenty of idiots in every state, red or blue.
Lynne Cheney represented Wyoming after all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
The most-reliable human reverse-barometer, Jim Cramer, is also LONG "AI." /i]
I ran across a reverse Cramer ETF.
Too be honest its results weren't great. Though given the credence he is given in the FNM it is amusing that the results weren't horrible.
And...if you want a named ETF the Nancy Pelosi one is still one of the best...but we'll see how much longer she still gets insider info...and is above ground...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (sKqQm)
1) They never existed, no one ever tried to make dissenters take the clot shot
And
2) Its good the mandates existed because that's what the science said (uh at the time) and you people are just science hating racists
Posted by: 18-1
The new take on closing the schools.
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Randi Weingarten is blaming Trump for schools not reopening during COVID.
Yes… the same woman who fought to keep schools closed.
Unreal.
They’re trying to rewrite history
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Damn Trump keeping Randi from opening the schools!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
In several cases I've seen stories about people dying from COVID after being clot shotted and the response is STILL, "Think about how much worse it would have been if he didn't get the vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1
"dead-dead" has entered the chat
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (xG4kz)
I tried to have that discussion with an older relative once. I tried to ask "Can you imagine a polio vaccine, for example, where the doctor would say "okay so you still got polio, but it wasn't quite as bad a case of polio as you could have gotten!"
but I don't think they could understand the logic. Or any logic, for that matter. Like far too many, they just wanted to believe what they were told.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (uWKK8)
Jason Biggs is the Ross Gellar of American Pie...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:43 AM (sKqQm)
you're not wrong
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xcxpd)
Raul Malo, lead singer and songwriter for the Mavericks, has just died. 60 years old, and had colon cancer.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 10:34 AM (ufSfZ)
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This is not helping my escalating survivor's guilt.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (kEIvm)
Tucker cemented his place on my "don't bother" list when he cackled in smart girl girlish glee because Ted Cruz could not tell him what was the population of Iran prior to their nuke works getting bombed.
A regular L. L. Bean fly fisherman that poser is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xG4kz)
Us: Hey, Taffy Hands, you readin' another book?
Taffy Hands: Yes.
Us: Well, okay then.
He liked books. That Ol' Taffy Hands.
Posted by: Tomorrow's Comments Today at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (H/w5W)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Other members of my family were pressuring me to get it. Then my grandfather had a heart attack and my father got a blood clot in his leg.
Then I got a call, "Never mind."
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (UnA8+)
I am not necessarily anti-vac. I did get the shingles vaccine.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (9iyS+)
Locking down in a mansion is one thing. Hell, "Locking down" when you live in a rural area and can still just go where you want is similiar.
But people locked in micro apartments in the big blue shitties? Masked basically all the time?
Ugh.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:49 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Tuning is an art and it depends on the ear of the person and I suspect slightly sharp is a 'happier' tone to most people's ears than slightly flat (sadder). Few people have perfect pitch (I used to have it prior to tinnitus started in as a result of psoriatic arthritis), and that also makes a difference in getting it pitch perfect.
Old chromatic scales of ancient music often sound 'melancholic' for a reason to our modern ears.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (WDjG6)
(Not you, this time, TJM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (xcxpd)
The shingles vax has pretty good numbers in reducing shingles out breaks. And a measurable reduction in severity for those that get it.
The clot shot went from "you can't get COVID if you get the two shots" to "it will lesson the symptoms, honest, err, maybe, if you get a booster every 3 months and don't die from heart damage"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:51 AM (9iyS+)
Both of us had covid both of us recovered. I refused to wear the masks.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 10, 2025 10:52 AM (2J/Lj)
(Not you, this time, TJM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:50 AM (xcxpd)
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Bolshy sammy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Howard Stern. Lol. That cuck didn’t leave his house for 3 years I think. Something like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 10, 2025 10:53 AM (9iyS+)
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Trump hates fishermen! Particularly Columbian fishermen.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 10, 2025 10:54 AM (w9Wax)
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You can't study, like, music, man. Music is about emotion, man. It's about vibes and good times, man.
Ain't no studying that, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
It’s criminal judo.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:57 AM (KDPiq)
Howard Stern. Lol. That cuck didn’t leave his house for 3 years I think. Something like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Just as it takes time for a caterpillar to metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly, so it is for a past his prime radio shock jock to metamorphose into a bedraggled and gibbering old lesbian.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 10:57 AM (xG4kz)
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 10:58 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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This is from memory when I last studied it and discussed the matter with an infectious disease doctor (autoimmune combined with covid is the devil btw)
The Covid Vaxx is a prophylactic--aka genetic medicine. The vaxx was designed to use the body's immune system to teach it that the spike was harmless and thus avoid the massive inflammatory response killing people when the body is exposed to a novel virus without any learned or genetic immunity.
IIRC, it targeted the IGG-4 subtype related to allergies to tell the immune system that the spike was a harmless irritant. Same as allergy shots. What is a problem is that the spike itself caused body damage by adhering to various receptors whether it was real Covid or the vaxx facsimile.
True vaccines are sterilizing targeting the other types of IGG (depending on bacterial versus viral) in that they teach the immune system to recognize and attack suspect bacteria or viruses.
Feel free to correct me if you know better as this is from memory of discussions circa 2021-22.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 10:59 AM (WDjG6)
Ain't no studying that, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
Wow. Like that's heavy, man.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (g8Ew8)
nood
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)
you're not wrong
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:48 AM (xcxpd)
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Never saw any of those films, primarily because I thought it was sacrilege using the name of my second favorite song (after Hotel California) ... and love the great (and conservative Trump supporter) Don McLean.
Damn, I remember singing that song like during 4th grade chorus in the early '70s. I studied the meaning of all the great lyrics in college, and wrote a parody when carpethagger Hillary ran for Senate in 2000:
lyrics.com/sublyric/192755/
Don+McLean/American+Lie
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (eAryO)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (xG4kz)
Thus the mRNA being the hope for cancer treatment. It shouldn’t have been used to treat or prevent a viral infection.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
Probably 20 years ago, I read a book on temperament, micro tunings used to create different scales in hopes of finding the perfect scale for western music. The author had to write an appendix explaining why he didn't include African and Eastern scales. I then realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 11:02 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 10, 2025 11:04 AM (OUMaO)
Thus the mRNA being the hope for cancer treatment. It shouldn’t have been used to treat or prevent a viral infection.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:01 AM (KDPiq)
It wast. FJB promised to cure cancer and mRNA was the intended tool. The clot shot was just the massive non-consensual human trial of mRNA.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 11:07 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 11:08 AM (dK+Kv)
From wiki,
"Given the opposing properties of the IgG subclasses (fixing and failing to fix complement; binding and failing to bind FcR), and the fact that the immune response to most antigens includes a mix of all four subclasses, it has been difficult to understand how IgG subclasses can work together to provide protective immunity. In 2013, the Temporal Model of human IgE and IgG function was proposed. This model suggests that IgG3 (and IgE) appear early in a response. The IgG3, though of relatively low affinity, allows IgG-mediated defences to join IgM-mediated defences in clearing foreign antigens. Subsequently, higher affinity IgG1 and IgG2 are produced. The relative balance of these subclasses, in any immune complexes that form, helps determine the strength of the inflammatory processes that follow. Finally, if antigen persists, high affinity IgG4 is produced, which dampens down inflammation by helping to curtail FcR-mediated processes."
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 11:13 AM (WDjG6)
I'm so much worst.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 10, 2025 10:37 AM (EyfuW)
Say, this gives me a song idea.
Posted by: Kenny Rogers at December 10, 2025 11:15 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 10, 2025 12:18 PM (ayRl+)
The Morning Report — 12/10/25
Pritzker’s signing of the bill comes after Illinois lawmakers passed the bill during the government shutdown, according to the New York Times. Under the bill, places like hospitals and daycare centers are restricted from sharing certain information with ICE agents. While the legislation has been praised by Democrat lawmakers in the state, Republicans in the state, such as Illinois state Sen. John Curran (R), have taken “issue with the law’s ban on civil immigration enforcement at state courthouses or within 1,000 feet of those courthouses,” according to the outlet. “We’re pushing this more and more, with these prohibitions, into uncontrolled settings,” Curran said. “And with uncontrolled settings, there are heightened risks.” During a press conference on Tuesday for the signing of the bill, Pritzker claimed that “the Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign of cruelty and intimidation and abuse at the hands of ICE” under the Trump administration.Well the fat sleazy bastard needs to be ejected and imprisoned. But he is correct when he declared “the Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign of cruelty and intimidation and abuse..." But not by ICE nor our President.
Chicago could lose federal funding after a 26-year-old woman was set on fire on the city’s train system in what the Trump administration described as a “preventable attack.” Federal Transit Administration Administrator Marc Molinaro sent letters on Monday to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Democrat Governor JB Pritzker, directing them to immediately enhance safety on public transportation. Molinaro said that officials had failed to take the necessary steps to keep the public safe.It's a waste of time, energy and paper, gentlemen. Just cut off the funds until they cry uncle. Seriously, Jonson and Pritzker should be sharing a cell in a federal lockup for criminal malfeasance, endangering the public welfare and the fomenting of insurrection in openly calling for law enforcement to be resisted and issuing edicts to interfere with the lawful enforcement of our federal laws. An interesting angle on all of this can be found in this essay about the smear campaign against our fantastic Secretary of war Pete Hegseth. First and foremost now because he represents the tip of the spear in President Trump's war on drugs on the high seas via the obliteration and sinking of drug-smuggling boats with cargoes of enough poison to kill every man woman and child in the US, citizen and illegal alien alike perhaps 10 times over.
The modern expression of what psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff calls “toxic empathy,” is found in political terms, in order to express policy positions and actions that are suicidal in their effect. For example, “toxic empathy” includes protests and interference against officers tracking down criminal illegal aliens, and fabrications of charges and distortions of the law by the Dems, including military brass, attacking Trump and Hegseth. In other words, a partisan political weapon––one as narcissistic as virtue-signaling. . . This fantasy pretends that war can be something other than what Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defined it: “War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” And what Abraham Lincoln called the “terrible arithmetic.”The other reason to attack Hegseth at least in my view is that his is seen as a future MAGA leader who, in my estimation if he continues to burnish his credentials might have a real shot in the near-ish term for a Veep slot and then potentially a real shot to be POTUS and then continue the path charted by President Trump and please God whoever his successors may be, Vance, Huckabee Sanders, as both CBD and I would like to see as we have mused on recent podcasts, though YMMV or whomever. This of course notwithstanding the usual Democrat/Leftist criminality and election meshugas as well as the alarming trend towards socialism of the younger generations. And speaking of podcasts, a new episode should be posting sometime around midday today so be on the lookout for that in the sidebar and the outlets listed below. We'll just have to wait and see, as President Trump might say. Much rides on an improving economy that will be a crucial boost for the upcoming midterms and then two years from now to cap off the second half of Trump 2.0 Have a good day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- How the Hegseth smear exposes a civilization that cries for killers and handcuffs its defenders.
Tears for Injun Joe
- Victor Davis Hanson: It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden junta allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated.
Citizens are fed up with Dem-invited migrants that have disdain for US law and culture
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- Johnson first became a household name when he suggested that the Pacific island of Guam might "tip over." (Jibbering braindead fekete sleaze; meh, he is what he is and who/what he represents - jjs)
Georgia Democrat Refers To United States As ‘World’s Number One Bully,’ ‘The Great Satan’ - Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores, both American citizens, were arrested in Absecon, New Jersey, after the pair allegedly threatened to kill McLaughlin and said they would “shoot ICE on sight” in social media posts.
New Jersey Twin Brothers Charged with Threatening to Kill DHS Spokeswoman
- Robert Spencer: And her threats are to be taken seriously.
BRO-FO Omar Has Ominous Words for Those Who Are ‘Collaborating with the Authoritarian Regime’ J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, - “It sure looks like it might have when you compare our pipe bomb report to Cole’s affidavit.”
House J6 Subcommittee: ‘Did Biden’s FBI Identify Brian Cole Jr. in April 2021?’ "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - While the legislation has been praised by Democrat lawmakers in the state, Republicans in the state, such as Illinois state Sen. John Curran (R), have taken “issue with the law’s ban on civil immigration enforcement at state courthouses or within 1,000 feet of those courthouses,” according to the outlet.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Signs Bill Preventing ICE from Arresting Illegal Aliens near Courthouses (How is this legal? It isn't. Trump should immediately station ICE agents at every Illinois courthouse - jjs -
- Biden’s border surge left hundreds of thousands of migrant children unaccounted for—and a $23 billion network of contractors and nonprofits with no answers.
Out of Sight: Following the Money Trail of Missing Child Border Crossers
- In March 2008, after some 36,000 mostly Africans had entered the U.S. as P-3 refugees — the majority of whom resettled in Minnesota — the program was halted by then-President George W. Bush after the State Department unveiled mass fraud.
Former ICE Official: Somali Migration to U.S. Marked ‘Greatest Refugee Fraud Crisis in Modern Times’ DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - ‘[T]here is no such thing in our constitutional order as a fourth branch of government that’s quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative,’ said Justice Gorsuch.
Justice Gorsuch Exposes Attorney’s Illogical Defense Of Unchecked Bureaucracy - The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority, including three Trump appointees, remains a significant factor in shaping U.S. policies.
Trump Addresses Thomas, Alito Retirement Speculation. - Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to end homeless-encampment sweeps may thrill the activist Left, but it flouts New Yorkers’ preferences and threatens a showdown with President Trump.
Tent City, Here We Come
- Sen. Chuck Grassley says CFTC risk analyst Malcolm Alexander-Neal must return 'every dollar he stole' from taxpayers.
Federal Union Leader Collected Six-Figure US Government Salary From Mexico City, Where He Hardly Worked, Records Show - California’s endless tangle of petty rules shows a state so obsessed with control that even simple daily tasks have become exercises in regulated misery.
The Million Petty Annoyances of California’s Regulatory State THE ECONOMY, STUPID - “After just ten months in office, I’m pleased to report that America is winning again. Pennsylvania is prospering again, and I will not rest until this Commonwealth is wealthier and stronger than ever before,” the president told supporters.
Trump Touts Creating Nearly 60K Jobs, $100 Billion in Investment for Pennsylvania Since Inauguration
- “To introduce permanent renting is to take away political freedom. . . We can never be free from necessity when our place in the world is insecure.”
A Nation of Subscribers CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - A woman was lit on fire in a random attack on a Chicago train.
Trump Admin Issues Ultimatum To Chicago After Latest ‘Preventable’ Train Attack (nullification of city charter and declare a federal territory? - jjs)
- A fake airline heiress has landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after allegedly scamming multiple banks out of nearly $30 million by falsely posing as a family member of a multibillion-dollar aerospace empire. (Idea: shmear myself in rancid goulash wearing a swastika armband and traipse into JPM Chase as J.J. SOROS, talking like Zsa Zsa Gabor... Vinning my dahlink? - jjs)
Fake aerospace empire heiress, 74, lands on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for defrauding millions from banks - “Our rejection of this theory will restore true equality under the law."
BIG: DOJ Kills the ‘Nuclear Weapon’ of ‘Systemic Racism’
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Texas already slapped the label on the two groups last month.
Florida Designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
- A barbaric practice that maims and degrades women throughout the Islamic world.
Nightmares of Female Genital Mutilation
- The two animals (the violent corsairs, not the donkeys) broke into the church, pulled down their pants, and dropped a couple of crab cakes on the floor. Then they destroyed the restroom they should have used, but hey, Islam gonna Islam.
Dominate the Christmas Donkeys: The 'Religion of Peace' Trashed a Live Nativity Scene — Then It Got Worse OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - Speaking in recent days to Canadian, American, and Israeli media outlets, the 33-year-old Slovakian-Canadian model and Jewish activist described how a late-night ride home turned into a stark reminder of how quickly open hatred can surface — and how slowly a global corporation can respond when it does.
Jewish Ex-Miss Slovakia: Toronto Uber Driver Told Me ‘I Don’t Drive Jews’ — Antisemitism ‘Must Have Consequences’ FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - CNN recently launched a Qatar-funded operation in Doha and sponsored the regime-backed Doha Forum
Former CNN Producer Now Works As Qatar Foundation Foreign Agent Working To ‘Elevate and Promote’ Regime ‘Within US Media,’ Records Show
- Potential changes at CNN and a significant shift in the media landscape.
Billionaire Eyes CNN Overhaul in Bid to Win Trump’s Favor Amid Mega Merger Battle.
- Democrats did what they did with the border on purpose, and their only real regret, if they’re honest, is that it was unpopular.
This New York Times Story Gets Everything Hilariously Wrong About Democrats And Immigration* * * * * - Consumers face varying grocery costs, with potential annual cost swings of about $1,200 for a typical family of four.
AI-Powered Algorithmic Pricing Contributes to Higher Grocery Costs, Research Finds.
- Three former Biden junta officials discuss the future of artificial intelligence regulation during a Brookings event:"The future of the internet in the age of AI."
Biden Junta Lackeys Plot Regime Change to Censor the Internet RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - 'If you're serious about better energizing the world, you also should be all in on natural gas and nuclear,' Energy Sec. Chris Wright tells Free Beacon
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Energy Department To Finance Up to 10 Nuclear Reactors in Bid To Kickstart Nuclear Energy 'Renaissance'
- Like the other thirty-odd copycat climate lawsuits filed by states and localities from Honolulu to my hometown of Charleston, Boulder’s suit weaponizes tort law to try to transform state courts into vehicles for deploying sweeping climate mandates. If Boulder gets its way, the casualties won’t be confined to the energy companies it endeavors to bankrupt; American consumers and the U.S. economy writ large will be caught in the crossfire.
SCOTUS Can Stop Blue Cities From Forcing Energy Diktats On The Rest Of The Country
- Any time someone tells you renewable energy saves money, reach for your wallet.
The Hidden Subsidy for Renewable Energy
- Right now it's hazardous to our health.
Stop Recycling Plastic EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Fansly, described as a subscription-based platform where creators share exclusive content with fans, is a competitor to OnlyFans and allows creators to post content that is described as being “from mild to spicy.” The 24-hour video, uploaded on Friday to Twitch by internet personality Paymoney Wubby, was labeled “24 HOUR TAG PRESENTED BY Fansly,” showing four men playing a tag-style game while participating in game show activities, eating segments and other small tasks.
California High School Hosted Adult Livestream With Drag Queens, Foot-Licking And A Mock Crucifixion
- Christopher F. Rufo: The University of Iowa’s new Center for Intellectual Freedom promises an end to left-wing ideological domination.
Conservatives in Iowa Will Finally Have a Voice on Campus
- Blue state leaders and teacher union bosses are outraged by the minor changes being made to the U.S. Department of Education.
The Hyperventilating Over the DOE Restructuring Is Ongoing - I think you guys can guess which schools received that F grade.
Jewish Org Gives 14 Colleges an F on Antisemitism Report Card ABORTION - "FDA needs to stop dithering & reinstate the mifepristone safety guardrails," said Senator Josh Hawley. "Nothing less is acceptable."
White House Stands By FDA’s Makary After Accusations He Slow-Walked Vital Review Of Abortion Drugs THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - With states unable to verify citizenship under the current system, the Trump administration is trying to help states ensure clean voter rolls.
While Congress Sits On Election Integrity Bill, Trump Admin Takes Action On Noncitizen Voting DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - The egomania of this twisted cvnt is off the charts.
Kamala Harris: ‘There Will Be a Marble Bust of Me In Congress… I Am a Historic Figure’ (Ahistoric for sure. An historic no way - jjs) POLITICS - “A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that both the governor, a likely presidential candidate, and the heavily Democrat Legislature surged to majority support in the final months of this year,” reports the far-left Politico. “The approval jump comes after Newsom and fellow Democrats championed a gerrymandered new House map explicitly to counter Trump in next year’s midterm elections.”
Gerrymander Scheme Boosts Gavin Newsom’s Favorability Rating in California
- But what makes this resurfaced exchange even funnier is the timing. Months after recording that conversation, Gavin Newsom’s own “manhood” became a punchline following a widely circulated clip from the New York Times DealBook Summit. He is sitting awkwardly on stage, legs crossed in an odd, testicle-crushing pose. And then you have Tim Walz crying to the media about how Donald Trump called him “retarded.”
This Viral Clip of Walz and Newsom Talking About 'Masculinity' is Comedy Gold - Crockett’s announcement came just hours after former Democratic Texas Rep. Colin Allred suspended his campaign to unseat Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Monday, saying he wanted to avoid a divisive primary that could weaken the eventual Democrat nominee. (RELATED: Failed Democrat Candidate Calls It Quits Hours Before Jasmine Crockett Makes Senate Announcement)
Jasmine Crock(O'sh)ett’s Vain Senate Run Already Tearing Democrats Apart
- Frederick Haynes, who calls Crockett ‘the baddest sister out there,’ announced campaign for Texas’ 30th district
Jasmine Crockett’s Farrakhan-Praising Pastor Launches Bid To Replace Crockett in Congress - A decision could reshape campaign finance laws and is expected by mid-2026.
Supreme Court Considers Striking Down Campaign Finance Limits in Republican-Led Case.
- But the Democrat’s victory wasn’t much of a nail-biter. Higgins had led Gonzalez 36% to 19% during the first round of voting amid a crowded field in November, and was the favorite to win this time. Still, her triumph in a city with a considerable Cuban population — a group that’s often swung right in the past — will be perceived as another ding in the GOP’s armor going into the 2026 midterms. Far left-wing reptilian-Muslim Zohran Mamdani’s ascension to New York City’s mayorship has also been perceived as a voter answer to Trump, as has a Tennessee US congressional special election that went Republican by far closer margins than had been expected.
Democrat wins Miami mayoral race for first time in nearly 30 years, marking major GOP loss ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - The IDF: Radwan Force’s training camp was being used “for planning and carrying out terror plots against IDF forces and Israeli civilians.”
Israel Hits Hezbollah-Radwan Force’s Terrorist Training Camp, Other Targets in South Lebanon THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - I think it’s an important time to hold an election,” Trump said. “They’re using war not to hold an election, but, I would think the Ukrainian people would–should have that choice.” “And maybe Zelensky would win. I don’t know who would win, but they haven’t had an election in a long time. You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore,” he added.
Trump Believes ‘It’s Time’ for Ukraine to Hold Presidential Election FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - Machado, who has been in hiding in Venezuela since August 2024, is expected to attend if she can safely and successfully leave the country. It will mark her first public appearance since January.
This Week’s Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony Reveals More Than Meets the Eye
- The European Commission defended its leaders, claiming Europeans are “proud” of them.
Trump Slams ‘Decaying’ Europe’s ‘Weak’ Leaders Over Censorship and Mass Migration.
- There are ways to box in China. The question is whether the United States will actually do it. (should've nuked them back in '51 when we had the chance - jjs)
What Do We Do About China?
- Not merely an invitee, but given pride of place.
Tucker Carlson at the Doha Forum DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - The case is in the hands of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Court Allows Military Transgender Ban to Continue Pending Appeal
- What are the ethical concerns behind autonomous systems making their own decisions to take human life? Conversely, what are the benefits of being able to send unmanned systems into warzones in order to save the lives of American troops?
Hegseth: AI Autonomous Warfighting Systems Are The Future, And They’ll Be Made In America (Meh, this too will ultimately be ooutsourced to the Chi-Coms like every other damned thing - jjs) HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - On Friday, Trump directed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jim O’Neill to conduct a review of vaccine schedules of peer nations like Japan and Denmark, which have fewer childhood vaccines on their schedules than the United States. If other developed countries’ childhood vaccine schedules are found to be superior, Kennedy and O’Neil are directed to align the United States’ schedule with them.
Exclusive–Dr. Oz: ‘We’re Going to Kick the Tires’ on Childhood Vaccine Schedule
- Stop throwing good money after bad policy.
Time To End Biden’s Medicare Part D-estruction
- The chamber will vote on both the Crapo-Cassidy plan and the Democrats’ plan on Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said that the Senate will vote Thursday on a healthcare reform package led by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID). (I thought Crappo was the least popularMarx brother IYKWIM- jjs) ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - Even more important, the study doesn’t assume the future missions will be unmanned, as all previous NASA reports have done. In fact, it does the opposite, proposing multiple 30-day manned missions, as shown in the graphic. One set of three missions would go to three different locations, while another set of three missions would focus on one place in particular.
Academia makes its first comprehensive attempt to plan science missions to Mars using Starship
- In the hunt for other elements, the team used the Resolve instrument aboard XRISM to look at the remnant twice in December 2023. The researchers were able to pick out the signatures for chlorine and potassium, determining that the remnant contains ratios much higher than expected. Resolve also detected a possible indication of phosphorous, which was previously discovered in Cas A by infrared missions.
New data detects potassium and chlorine in Cassiopeia supernova remnant
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - The Court announced it will not intervene in a case challenging a public library’s removal of LGBTQ Smut/Porn and other controversial books.
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Overturn Texas “Book Bans,” Library May Remove LGBTQ Books - The organizations replaced "truth with political activism."
Florida Brings Down The Hammer On Medical Groups That Pushed Trans Procedures On Children CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - The stabilization could influence social, cultural, and political life, potentially slowing the pace of religious and civic transformation in the U.S.
Religious Decline in America Shows Signs of Stabilizing.
- Men are being emasculated by attention-seeking women bragging to their friends about going to see Christmas lights with a dude whose name they will not remember come next summer.
Young men must stay frosty and avoid 'cuffing season'
- By age four, most children, 58 percent, have their own video tablet, according to Common Sense Media. But the shows aimed at children can’t be trusted with your child’s brain.
Nearly Half Of Netflix Kids’ Shows Expose Children To LGBT Propaganda: Report
- Christian Toto: Phelim McAleer's most provocative work set for D.C venue in January
This Play Would Never Grace Kennedy Center Stage (Pre-Trump)
- Spike Lee reportedly received up to $3 million to preside over the festival's jury last year
Anti-Israel Celebrities Accept Major Saudi Payday To Attend Jeddah Film Festival
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:18 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (HZtKc)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (jjoN6)
Or maybe venomous empathy would work, too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)
Getting really tired of these demon worshippers.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:23 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:23 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:24 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:25 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (Vq1pX)
Trump Addresses Thomas, Alito Retirement Speculation.
He should be working with Congress on buyout packages. Worked for FDR.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (2GVsD)
Rub their faces in it. It works for dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:26 AM (2GVsD)
The only place for Spock on TV is Star Trek!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (x0n13)
Kids shows could never be trusted since psychologists got involved
Kids shows should be the the olden days: idiots, explosions and anvils dropped on heads.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: A polymorphicly perverse penguin at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vHKB5)
Provider records show that the COLE CELLPHONE connected with Provider cell phone towers consistent with the COLE CELLPHONE being in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021.
The FBI faced issues with "corrupted data" from major cell carriers during the investigation into the January 6, 2021, pipe bombs, which may have hindered their ability to identify the suspect. However, the cell carriers later confirmed that they did not provide corrupted data to the FBI.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)
Kids shows could never be trusted since psychologists got involved
Kids shows should be the the olden days: idiots, explosions and anvils dropped on heads.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:28 AM (tgvbd)
I had a mad crush on Shari Lewis.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (sDNVV)
We joke about some Democrats, like Hank Johnson and Jasmine Crockett, but others are not funny at all. Omar Nur is one of those, and AOC is another. These crazy women will follow through on their threats.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vHKB5)
"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles."
- Hilaire Belloc
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (tgvbd)
What the headline says...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) signed a bill that prevents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting illegal aliens outside of or near courthouses in the state.
What the article says...
Pritzker’s signing of the bill comes after Illinois lawmakers passed the bill during the government shutdown, according to the New York Times. Under the bill, places like hospitals and daycare centers are restricted from sharing certain information with ICE agents.
These are not the same. Do not allow your emotions to be manipulated, even by people "on our side".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)
And to think that 50% of Somalia is inbred brofos.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (sDNVV)
Well that's why I did not specify any particular election he might be a veep candidate. But his credentials are getting more burnished day by day IMHO.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (Cjt/F)
- Hilaire Belloc
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (tgvbd)
We are the Barbarian.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (Gq9/0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 10, 2025 07:36 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)
Manipulated emotions is 90% of this war.
Don't sit there in your trench with a pointy stick and a dream because you think guns are icky. And don't come into my trench and try to take my gun, either.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:37 AM (Vq1pX)
Dog Bites Man story now. Let's see a woman set a random dude with face tats and spider hair on fire.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)
"How dare you!"
"Have you no shame!"
"What of the children!"
ad nauseum. *barf*
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:38 AM (2GVsD)
NO ONE WILLOWS MY BON MOTS!
Trying to change the direction of a super tanker is a slow process,
"Tell us about it"
-- the crew that got its vessel -- the MV "Whoopsie" -- lodged sideways in the esophagus of the Suez Canal
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:38 AM (xG4kz)
The time for Ukraine to hold a presidential election was a few hundred thousand Ukrainians ago.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)
I'll take that bet.
Pritzker is in the same category as Kelly. Nothing is going to happen to him.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 07:39 AM (ufSfZ)
The victory is an upset for GOP lawmakers across the country, who rallied behind Gonzalez as the election became seen as a test of voter reaction to President Trump’s first year of his second White House term.
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Well, that's depressing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:40 AM (/z8e7)
I assume Cyberdyne Systems is working on it feverishly since they missed their anticipated initial roll-out date.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)
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Aint nuttin' a ball peen hammer can't fix!
Posted by: Larry, Curly, and Moe at December 10, 2025 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)
99% of (D) voters would let Lawrence out within 30 days.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:41 AM (jjoN6)
We have had the most amazing US government, that advances a great people. The Constitution is the mission statement for an advanced nation. Had the most amazing nation. Is it a flawed oligarchy now?
A country ruled by Leftist Courts and Leftists in general is mission killed. With the GOPe being useless, I ponder. What to do? What to do?
I have talked directly to the senior federal Senator in Kansas. He blew me off.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:42 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Minefields everywhere at December 10, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at December 10, 2025 07:43 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: Louis Winthorpe III at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (bC9HI)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:41 AM (jjoN6)
Let all these fake ass "church" groups who brought them here foot their room and board. And if there's even a hint the kids are being mistreated, prosecute them to the max extent possible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (Vq1pX)
This is a f*cking war. Act like it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (WHfpM)
Let's think out of the box, here.
Both Pritzker and Kim Jong-un need to be supplied lots of Kerry Gold butter and premium donuts.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
We can accept that others will be controlled while remaining free ourselves.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
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Welcome to California, where "the seriousness of the matter" trumps common sense.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 07:47 AM (uSFzu)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 07:47 AM (W7XSX)
If I had the time, I'd take one in but odds are good that the child would need a LOT of therapy. And the child would be raised to be American instead of hyphenated.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:48 AM (jjoN6)
Toxic empathy = emotional manipulation
"How dare you!"
"Have you no shame!"
"What of the children!"
The people who resort to this don't actually care about children, or minorities, or the poor. They're just convenient props to be shielded behind so they can sinister with their sinister goals.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:48 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Just the punchline at December 10, 2025 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Out of 175,692 registered voters, 37,496 cast ballots on Tuesday, a turnout of 21.3%, according to official records.
37/175=21%. Only 1 out of 5 people bothered to show up.
It means nothing.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)
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Another disturbing sign. But what will be, will be. If the mid-terms are a shellacking for the R's, it will be because they want it to be. I'm wholly, totally convinced they want to lose. Most especially on the federal level.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)
Memo to self: read before hitting "Post"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:50 AM (tgvbd)
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Those "church" groups are/were part of various NGO's getting billions of our dollars.
They likely still are. Maybe not as much, but they're still funded by us.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:51 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Pizza Box Hoarder at December 10, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Minefields everywhere at December 10, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)
We were always at war with Windows 11.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:52 AM (gbOdA)
Which is not, at all, irritating.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)
"Don't slice into someone's chest" is a very noble maxim to live by. Unless you're a thoracic surgeon.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Karen McAwfl at December 10, 2025 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)
May you in cold climes experience a heat wave of temps in the 40s. Even if only for an hour in the afternoon.
The rest can bask in warmth under a cloud-dappled sky.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:54 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 07:51 AM (NwnyJ)
So they can afford it, then?
Awesome!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 07:54 AM (Vq1pX)
And 50% of this country will continue voting for their own demise.
Sad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)
And 50% of this country will continue voting for their own demise.
Sad.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)
A Demoncrat Voter's primary motivation is to punish whoever (s)he doesn't like.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 07:56 AM (UnA8+)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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I love all your posts, OA. They always hit the mark with me. I really don't know the answer here. The "media" is waning in influence, to be sure. But we whistle past the graveyard in thinking they still don't have enormous sway. The constant drum beat of lies, lies, lies affects the viewers, whether they recognize the brainwashing or not. I simply don't know if there's a way to destroy them. Any X-level dissemination of their lies, or any other means to address their lies already happens. Only a fraction of people see it, notice it or care about it. Nothing but a cataclysmic event will get enough people to pay attention to what's been peddled and who's responsible for their absolutely manifest dereliction of duty. They're scum; pure scum. And they're going to stay that way.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)
This will get everyone’s attention very, very quickly. When the more passive disinterested “liberal” sees his property tax go from $2500 to $13,000, he’ll start asking questions about all those illegal aliens living in luxury condos on his dime.
Removal of the federal confetti-buck cannon pipeline mainlining these corrupt cities and goons like Pritzker and Whitmer and the other clowns. They can afford to be generous with notional one’s and zeroes connured out of thin air. Things will be different once they have to directly confiscate it from their constituents. They’ll very quickly end up getting torched out of their mansions, or decorating lamp posts. It’s always been this way, they just crafted a very elaborate scam that has only recently been revealed to the wider public.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 07:58 AM (PIUjZ)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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The problem is that one person is going to get a beatdown not only from the mob, but from his own government.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 07:58 AM (ESVrU)
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Another disturbing sign. But what will be, will be. If the mid-terms are a shellacking for the R's, it will be because they want it to be. I'm wholly, totally convinced they want to lose. Most especially on the federal level.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 10, 2025 07:49 AM (qBdHI)
I’ve become a bit pessimistic about next year. We conservatives don’t naturally want to exist in perpetual campaign mode; we have real lives to lead. After Trump’s huge win last year, I started to feel complacent. We may just be headed to an inevitable drubbing next year… because 1. We have lived and aren’t constantly obsessed with politics, 2. The GOPe wants to lose (as you point out)
I have some hope that Trump will get into blitz campaign mode next summer and we’ll pull it out due to his massive energy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 07:59 AM (/iXAp)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
And then you get arrested for being a public nuisance.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 07:59 AM (ExV1e)
Bob never eats a second credit card at home.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 07:59 AM (gbOdA)
I think this is backwards. Trump is a reaction to the continued leftward drift of the corrupt uniparty. The left was well down the socialist slide thanks to 8 years of Obama "fundamentally changing America".
We need more Trump's not fewer.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:00 AM (viF8m)
Isaiah 30:18
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 08:00 AM (xn33A)
Why won't you protect ME? The American Citizen!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)
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The problem is that one person is going to get a beatdown not only from the mob, but from his own government.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"
Our side never has rent-a-mobs to do that kind of propaganda. It's another reason the GOP are LOSERS.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)
I said this a while back: Liberals basically view the world as a Great Machine and everyone in it with the exception of Our Moral Betters™ are interchangeable cogs. When one cog breaks, you just grab another because it will fit perfectly.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)
Burning plastics in coal or gas energy plants would be their best use. With the current scrubbers they would change the air quality at 0.5% and return around 50% of their original petroleum use.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)
A good start would be to eliminate the office of press secretary entirely and kick the bastards out. Inform them that if they so much as cast a shadow on the White House lawn, they will be airlifted to Gitmo and waterboarded until their brains leak out of their ears. Inform your cabinet and party that anyone who so much as smiles at a MFM traitor without POTUS authorization will be - if a fed employee- fired, and if GOP stooge, will no longer have any access to the Oval Office.
The constitution provides for a free press. It does not require that any administration give access, aid or comfort to a publicly-declared enemy of the country.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: jwest at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (lnMN4)
Let's think out of the box, here.
Both Pritzker and Kim Jong-un need to be supplied lots of Kerry Gold butter and premium donuts.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 10, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
You forget my candy gram drive for Sotomayor when she was confirmed?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (xn33A)
My commitment is to man the local R office and invite discussion. The lazy fucks around here don't bother.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (sDNVV)
America has been very vocal about what our demands are. The GOP has been very vocal that it doesn't give a damn.
They no longer get to demand votes, especially mid term and off year votes, on the pure brute force of the letter next to their name or one cable news hit two days before election day.
Don't blame the voter. Don't blame the candidate. Blame the party.
Convince America you are finally done with being the Other Crooked Party, fight the retard left as hard as you fight us, and you won't have any problems getting our votes.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (Vq1pX)
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For a certain demographic of voters, yea.
But the media's spin is something totally different.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 08:02 AM (jjoN6)
No. Not because it will fit perfectly.
Because they will beat it into shape.
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Madge at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:05 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:07 AM (Vq1pX)
Plastic people
You gotta go-UH
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at December 10, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: XTC at December 10, 2025 08:04 AM (UnA8+)
They don't care if it works as a machine, it's just an art installation. Smash away.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:07 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 08:08 AM (/iXAp)
All I got was aa 1963 film on cast iron.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (gbOdA)
A few months before retirement, we were told about the 'passwordless' experience our security was going to bestow on us. They required us to download an authenticator app to our work cellphones. When we used the app to access our regular network, we were re-directed to a page where we had to enter a PIN - minimum 14 characters, required at least 1 numeral, 1 upper case letter, 1 lower case letter, & 1 special character. 'Passwordless'.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (ze+Ke)
Posted by: The U.S. Navy at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)
I'll miss never seeing Yosemite or Joshua Tree National Parks, simply because they are in California. How do you visit a state where your every move is subject to regulation?
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (ZxPkt)
Another screed that is 100% about how the author feels entitled to a cheap mini-mansion with low interest and be paid off in a few years.
Zero gratitude for his parents who were, no doubt, not thrilled with his bedroom being the living room sofa. No thought whatsoever about taking in one bird back after another into the nest from which they once flown.
We imported the third world. Everything is more expensive for all of us not just whiny ungrateful generation that demands everything handed to them. Mom & Dad suffer with rotten, failed kids because of the housing issue.
Strange though, that the slaves are mad at other slaves, not the slavemasters for putting them into this position and as we speak are rioting out in the streets to protect the corrupt system that is wrecking their lives.
The fatigue is real.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:10 AM (pUU4E)
Bet they all got mucho $$$$ from Qatar and CCP.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Grocery store clerks, back in the day at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)
Beware anything Cassidy sponsors. Read the text of the bill. It has to be Democrat-Lite.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (XJzAV)
Because they will beat it into shape.
Posted by: XTC
It's why they obsess over DEI and related nonsense. You don't need a cog to meet certain specs! Just put in the dark colored one and everything will continue to work.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: The U.S. Navy
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U.S. Navy allows Meta engineers to view its schematics.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)
Supremacy Claus never gets invited to Christmas dinner at his brother Santa's house. They don't talk much.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (Vq1pX)
............................
I don't know what one of those words means and I don't want to.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (ze+Ke)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
Oh, I have to use the app also.
Connect to the network - enter password, use app.
Connect to the server - enter password... wait 30 seconds... enter password on new pop-up window.
It's only a matter of time until we have to guess a number between 1 - 100.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)
Council for the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
Lara Logan interview of Dr Timothy Shindelar
On utube (w/tons of ads) and I guess on X.
Why no IG investigations ever go anywhere,,, unless "they" want them to.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (jMlHD)
Ohare airport is the core of Chicago's economy.
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Supremacy Claus at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Unless you are an illegal alien and you can just go out and steal a window from a job-site, and modify the structure to accommodate the misfit addition with whatever tar paper, fencing material or crumb wood is at hand.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (rgGn5)
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We saw this back in 2010 and started making plans to flee. By 2013 we'd relocated to KY.
It wasn't 'only' the state getting all up in our biz. It was the woke neighbors too. After half a dozen run-ins with them we were outa' there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 08:15 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Supremacy Claus at December 10, 2025 08:14 AM (2Ez/1)
Smothered . . . in the cradle!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (x0n13)
Cassidy voted to impeach Trump. Enough said
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 10, 2025 08:13 AM (ze+Ke)
I took one for the team...
WHOMEGALUL
Twitch chat phrase when a relatively obscure person is mentioned on the stream.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: The U.S. Navy
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U.S. Navy allows Meta engineers to view its schematics.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:12 AM (UdrFj)
I wrote a letter to W about 25 years ago to make a common SMR that could be built on Army and Navy bases and leased back to cities and states. And we have thousands of people trained to run them.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)
Listen! It's getting louder every day
Listen! It's like a bolt out of the blue
Listen! It could be calling out for you
Plastic people, walk on by
Plastic people, don't you cry
It's not too late, No
It's not too late...
Listen! It's like a Mozart symphony
Listen! It's something just for you and me
Listen to what the plastic people say
Listen! It's getting truer every day
Aaah
Posted by: Spinal Tap Revival at December 10, 2025 08:17 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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There's an election coming up and 20 solid seats are retiring.
Trump will be stumping for Trumper candidates.
Our money and X promotion will help.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (UdrFj)
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Exactly. Mr. Trump is the symptom not the cause.
“Reactionary” is Marxist theory pejorative term (you know, if you constantly throw shit on people, eventually they … will react).
NBC famously showed Chicago’s finest beating up hippies at the 1968 DNC festivities. Right at 5PM. Why, it’s a Police Riot! Tsk tsk. The cameras in those days only showed what they wanted you to see.
“Reactionary”. You misspelled “Righteous Indignation” MFers.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (PIUjZ)
The goal is MAGA, not to give the entire Congress a reason to oppose Trump further.
We already lost most of the GOP to the Dark Side because Trump is doing the Unpardonable Sin of holding politicians accountable for their corruption, malfeasance and destruction.
Want to make sure that no appointments for judge or attorney get made again? Threaten the companies that need O'Hare that heavily
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (rgGn5)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:19 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
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You sound less than enthusiastic about my new idea to improve productivity around here.
-Nazdar's boss
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 08:21 AM (vFG9F)
Right beside the bust of John Nance Garner.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:22 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Michael Angelo at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
This is no different then in the early 40s if the governor of Alaska ordered his state resources to protect the "Japanese Undocumented Immigrants" that had just entered his state...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (sKqQm)
The two Democratic governors sat down for an episode of This Is Gavin Newsom back in March, and during their 50-minute conversation, they briefly shared their thoughts on masculinity. Yes, masculinity.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Willie Brown at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Heh. Wasn't completely sure who my boss even was, the last few months. Different people handled different aspects of my work and none of them were involved in that fiasco. Just thought making a big deal of something that wound up effectively downgrading access management was ill-considered
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (NcvvS)
Michael Goodwin's take on Hochul in today's NY Post is great. A less than useless lump. Stefanik is on Bartiromo's show dumping all over Hochul about reversals in positions on taxes, congestion pricing and now giving in to Mandani. If I didn't live in NYS I'd say 'more popcorn "
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:09 AM (NcvvS)
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You sound less than enthusiastic about my new idea to improve productivity around here.
-Nazdar's boss
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Based on the first five words in Nazdar's statement, I doubt their boss communicates with them often.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)
No. “We” absolutely did no such thing. Not even a little bit. Get it in your head, this is enemy action.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (PIUjZ)
Posted by: Michael Angelo at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
Just knock off everything that does not look like Cammy.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (ix8EF)
TO use your analogy, if a random Republican office holder hits one of those buzzer beater shots, he'll almost certainly face lawsuits, prosecution, and assassination attempts.
And perhaps most importantly in our current moment, they'll see their own graft go away...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:26 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 08:26 AM (ijWOO)
He pointed out that the shooting of Kirk was the most successful assassination in history.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (jgmnb)
https://tinyurl.com/bnzz9t8d
Read the whole thing, folks. Head on a swivel. Keep up your situational awareness especially in public places and church. There is a lot of chatter about this coming from credible sources.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (XJzAV)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: YellowBird at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:18 AM (rgGn5)
They are the problem. Force their hands. Make them very visibly the reason we can't have nice things. Don't want to play ball? Want to ignore the electorate? Want to sandbag our efforts because you won't risk your precious slop trough? Go away, then. Lose. A traitor in office demanding fealty to Our Friends Across The Aisle so they can keep making the rent payments on their office and make a buck on the side on top is worse than an avowed enemy. All their dollars are impotent if they become sufficiently hated by the base that they themselves already hate.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (ix8EF)
Check out OANN.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:28 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
100% of men tested had microplastics in their semen.
Welcome to my cumfetti!
Posted by: Skeletor at December 10, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
Of course not. That doesn't feed the DOOM narrative.
Trump was in vintage form last night to a wildly enthusiastic reception. He's getting the band back together and hitting the road and next year a whole lot of stuff will start to hit the economy and people's pockets in a positive way.
And it seems to get forgotten some Republican states are redistricting which will add more Republican seats. It's way too early too be dooming about elections 12 months away.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:28 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (WHfpM)
No one remembers history. -- Gavrilo Princip
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"
Go ask the YouTubes for Right Side Broadcasting. They usually cover everything he does.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Tranny, noony, toony and that crap is slang for homosexuals and medical mutilations. Technical words exist for these deviant personalities and acts. Trivializing them is counter productive to the English language and our perception of reality.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (UdrFj)
1: Make it harder for bad actors to access your system. But generally these methods also make it harder for your employees/customers to access your system as well and we are entering the period where most of these security increases are well below any positive return on investment.
2: Get serious about prosecuting internet crime. Someone steals $1000 but forces companies to spend $100M protecting from what they did? Hang them on national TV. But...the powers that be don't want to go down this route...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (sKqQm)
Yeah. It took two parts - the FedGov willing to shovel our cash, and declining groups with ever decreasing budgets.
A match made in... Minneapolis.
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)
We did not give them command our own divisions and then claim they were irreplaceable.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (Vq1pX)
Dick: That's because you were always a nasty little shit.
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:19 AM (W7XSX)
Very true. Tom was an extreme leftist, same as Johnny Carson. They both kept it relatively quiet, but they weren't known as conservative type. One reason I think that Carson thought Tom's impression of him was funny and Rich Little's was not after a while was because of their shared ideology.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: fd
I burn all my paper, cardboard, cellophane-type waste. I need to burn a couple hundred pounds of pine straw and cones that drop on my driveway, garage yearly from my neighbor's trees, anyway. You get a good fire going in the fire pit, the waste goes up in flames in seconds. One of the benefits of living rural.
Posted by: Sweet Rural Shade at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 08:29 AM (rJ48h)
The Republican candidate just wasn't what I was looking for, so I stayed home.
Posted by: Average Republican Voter at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Michael Angelo at December 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
Just knock off everything that does not look like Cammy.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)
Those bewbs are as hard as marble columns!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 08:30 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (W7XSX)
Amen.
Posted by: Monks from long ago at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)
-Nazdar's boss
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Based on the first five words in Nazdar's statement, I doubt their boss communicates with them often.
My last boss was a decent guy and good at his job. He didn't have to communicate with me a lot because he had only a loose understanding of what I did (he was a resource manager, not a technical one) and I had been doing that specific job for more than 20 years.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:32 AM (YCxFk)
To paraphrase Heinlein, violence works. Especially if only one side is willing to engage in it.
Bondi and co had an opportunity to use that assassination to roll up every antifa associate of the shooter. Instead it appears they aren't even going to bother with Squirrel Boy.
And yes the left will trade a few years in jail for a street activist/thug for a conservative leader any day.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 08:32 AM (sKqQm)
Very painful to watch Ana fail to grasp that demonstration.
"I'm a proud Armenian who works on a show named for the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (OPUTs)
"Cactus Jack" Garner, famous for saying that the Veep slot was worth as much as a bucket of warm piss.
I think it was Veep Alben Barkley who uttered the immortal phrase, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
Some years ago I started transitioning all of my food storage containers to glass. There's still a plastic lid but it interacts with the food less and isn't present if I reheat in the microwave.
I suspect that disposable water bottles are big issue but that's a harder nut to crack for an emergency supply.
Generally, I don't worry about it. I've done what I can and I shan't live in fear over what I cannot control.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (+odZa)
Pizza boxes make great shotgun targets. Keep the spread on the box.
Posted by: Shotgun Willie at December 10, 2025 08:34 AM (bC9HI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:34 AM (D+mpw)
Lots of Brinksmanship down at City Hall these days. Totally possible that the histrionics will spin out of control.
Posted by: YellowBird at December 10, 2025 08:35 AM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: Dollywood employees at December 10, 2025 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)
"I Think She's a Fed and I Think She Killed Charlie"
https://tinyurl.com/4he497s9
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)
>>@mplpodcast305
>>On Republicans losing the City of Miami tonight — and why this is a much bigger loss for DeSantis and the GOP establishment than for Trump and MAGA. (And yes, I live here.)
https://tinyurl.com/cwv5sebb
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:36 AM (viF8m)
Fake data. Ridiculous interpretations. Garbage metrology. I can't say that all that stuff is going on.... but I'm assuming it as loud as i can.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:36 AM (Vq1pX)
After rescue and settling her debts, she flaked again.
I did not feel bad about doing what needed to be done. Hammer was dropped.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 10, 2025 08:37 AM (cS1cw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:37 AM (A0sqA)
I said, after the initial wave of worldwide memorials to Kirk, that I was afraid it was all a nine-days wonder and that his movement would be swamped and silenced by the implicit threat of "Shut up and stop making us kill you!"
It seems I was right.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 08:38 AM (ufSfZ)
https://tinyurl.com/cwv5sebb
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:36 AM (viF8m)
In other words: Republicans really don't care about the hostile takeover by Democrats and the NWO that will destroy America because it just hasn't effected THEM PERSONALLY.
We're f*cked......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
The other half is pedophilia, goat fucking, and fart noises.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)
We're so totally f*cked.
This is why we'll never have nice things again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 10, 2025 08:40 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: jmel at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (RWHIh)
Posted by: Jonah at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (YCxFk)
that is the point
21% turnout
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: She Dumb at December 10, 2025 08:41 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (OPUTs)
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Kinda sounds like Poso.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 10, 2025 08:40 AM (Hpgos)
Could be a sliver of an idea in there.
Get used to effing up with that garbage now while we're still at relative peace, rather than later in a panic when some jerkoff MIC types can sell it as a mid-panic panacaea.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (D+mpw)
A disturbing thought I had:
• Lots of influential people and "ethicists" claiming that AI will be NAFTA 2.0 and put a lot of people out of work
• They also say that AI's disruption is a humanity crisis that can only be solved through regulation
• or those who profit from AI fully underwrite UBI with the trillions that they make.
• WEF has been destroying public grid capacity for decades now.
• WEF is pushing AI and UBI and all of the pathologies
Now the public is demanding that data centers stay off the public grid and feed themselves. With nukes.
Think about it, we are demanding that those who will take our jobs and laugh at our UBI demands be in well defended islands and prevent any attempt to shut them down by being completely self contained.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (WCaCG)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: N
I needed to make a no-effort dinner when I was working in the evening, so I roasted yukon gold potatoes drenched in kerrygold, and then topped them with prosciutto and chives.
I think I'll call this kitchen creation "The Pritzker Special." Even a little is dangerously fattening, it's very easy to access a lot of it quickly, and it's extremely delicious. It's a real "Mr. 5x5" kind of meal.
Posted by: lurker at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:31 AM (NcvvS)
While I've only been doing my current role for about a dozen years, this describes my current manager to a tee. She still insists on weekly meetings, though, so she can impress upon me how very much she CARES about me no matter how many times I mention that I'd prefer otherwise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Slow on the Uptake at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: But you already knew that at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)
10/7 The Musical is feature film.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:16 AM "
Found out something a few days ago and I'm surprised so few know about it - well, there are no real reporters anymore, just stenographers for The Message.
But anyway, there are currently 3 SMR's under construction in Texas, 5 more in the permitting process and which should begin construction next year. Permitting should not be a problem, both the State and Fed agencies support the effort.
The idea is that once a standard design is settled on (that's what is being worked out now) then many more can be built without much trouble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (+Dm7G)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (D+mpw)
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I am usually very critical of Maher but he did not let her get off the hook simply repeating liberal dogmas, slogans, cliches, and falsehoods. And that was all she offered.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 08:33 AM (OPUTs)
Based on the shit I see online, most young men don't have to deny women anything. The gals are too busy taking their turn with Chad.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: 18-1
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USPS and railroads used to offer severe PENALTIES for abusing their service.
We don't do penalties very well any more.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (UdrFj)
I would rather have JD take over in 2029 than earlier.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (/TiS1)
Posted by: But you already knew that at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)
You asked for it........
https://youtu.be/zQ41hqlV0Kk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (YobFY)
My family bitches at me about my Romulan Ale consumption.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: El Rushbo at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (tmGxn)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)
Who names their washing machine Chad. That's silly.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 08:46 AM (Vq1pX)
Municipalities which want to ensure that the correct person gets elected. Ditto city council and school board elections.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)
While I've only been doing my current role for about a dozen years, this describes my current manager to a tee. She still insists on weekly meetings, though, so she can impress upon me how very much she CARES about me no matter how many times I mention that I'd prefer otherwise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)
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You morons have done a very thorough job sh*tting all over my original lameass joke.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:44 AM (A0sqA)
To be fair, that's all 90% of the talking heads on the left have. There are no free thinkers on that side, for the most part.
Maher pointing it out shows that he gets it and he's trying to get them to open their mind to different views of communism and why it's good.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Frog Bezos is building 5 in WA.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (UdrFj)
-- Adolf Hitler
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 08:43 AM (pDt9x)
******
Well, they haven't had a Democrat mayor for 30 years.
There is a lot of fracturing in the Republican Party right now with the likes of Tucker Carlson, MTG, Candace Owens leading the charge in convincing people not to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
He was taken by ambience to the nearest horse piddle.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (+Oyis)
Posted by: 18-1
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USPS and railroads used to offer severe PENALTIES for abusing their service.
We don't do penalties very well any more.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:45 AM (UdrFj)
Visa charge 3% to retailers. So that mean 3% is fake, fraud, and bad to cover the 97% good.
Medicare is 10% fraud.
Medicaid is around 12%.
So in your lifetime of work about 1 year to 4 years just goes to pay for criminals, scamps, scallywags, and ne'er do wells.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)
A common theme that crops up in Scripture is that cities are a bad thing.
its like reading text and encountering the word "birds" or "dogs", something bad is about to follow.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (pawvM)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Yeah, what's up with that?
-- Chick on the Liberty Mutual ad who named her car "Brad"
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
I just don't see the doom some do right now. If you listen to Scott Bessent, possibly Trump's best cabinet choice, he is very confident we are going to see a boom in the economy next year thanks to the BBB and other steps taken by Trump's team this year. Those old enough to remember when Reagan took over also remember it took some time for the economy to recover and then it took off like a rocket.
Redistricting is happening. USAID is largely done. Election roles are being cleaned. Illegals are going home and there will be a surge of new ICE people next year thanks to all the hiring. And we've got Trump campaigning all across the country for MAGA candidates.
Midterms are always a challenge for the party in the WH but all things considered we are in pretty good shape at the moment.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (UdrFj)
-- Chick on the Liberty Mutual ad who named her car "Brad"
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
She totaled him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:42 AM (WCaCG)
The public, generally, lacks the capacity for critical thought. They are misinformed, at best, and overly emotional. They are sheep, easily controlled, and just as easily lead to the abattoir.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Criminals, scamps, scallywags, and ne'er do wells at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)
It takes a lot computing resources and skilled labor to keep the lights on at Visa. 3% is cheap.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (pawvM)
Gavin Newsom’s California gave a driver’s license to an illegal alien and MS-13 LEADER wanted for a QUADRUPLE HOMICIDE in Honduras.
Gerson Emir Cuadra Soto, 33, was an MS-13 leader and part of a professional assassination squad for the gang. He came into the U.S. illegally under the Biden administration. After being charged in Honduras in 2022 with firearms offenses tied to a quadruple homicide, Cuadra Soto and two co-defendants allegedly bribed their way out of jail.
He crossed from Mexico into Texas and later obtained a California driver’s license using his real identity.
He has now been arrested in Grand Island and is facing federal charges.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 08:51 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 08:50 AM (viF8m)
illegals birthing new forever permanent public charges are down about 12 to 15%.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:52 AM (D+mpw)
Thanks. Scott Bessent is my favorite cabinet pick. I also like Pete Hegseth but only because he looks good without a shirt. JK
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (IvPcr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:52 AM (D+mpw)
Chunk Yogurt is a bloated obnoxious idiot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Well, they haven't had a Democrat mayor for 30 years.
There is a lot of fracturing in the Republican Party right now with the likes of Tucker Carlson, MTG, Candace Owens leading the charge in convincing people not to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 08:48 AM (NpAcC)
I am not implying that it is a good thing that a Democrat scum has taken office, merely that “ cities” are the focal points of all that is wrong in the country. Socialism concentrates there, because cities are run by councils, soviets, and the resources are managed by them. It’s a terrible problem, and I honestly don’t know what can be done about it.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x)
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And elimination of regulation. It's 40 gone to every 1 new one.
They are trashing regulations all over the place. The effect won't be immediate but when business and industry adjusts it will be like the tide coming in.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Naughty Fen is the best Fen.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)
The voting demographic was largely Latinos hungry for some leftist love.
YMMV
"Imported." Florida has their own illegal problems and they're not necessarily from Mexico. But they do reside in Miami.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (NwnyJ)
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Now describe Mrs. Clinton. I had great fun with that, on my leftist friends. They were mortified. “Why … but . She was a Senator! Secretary of State!”
No no no I said. Those are job titles. What did she do. What are her accomplishments? Can you describe some of the great legislation she passed? I think she was instrumental in getting a post office renamed. Is that what you mean by “the most qualified person to ever run for president”?
Sorry, I’m just not that easily impressed. The “First Vagina-American” is not the persuasive argument we are led to believe it is.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (Y4gci)
Posted by: Just like YouTube channels at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (D+mpw)
Approximately 17% of Miami-Dade County's residents live in the City of Miami.
Posted by: mr tmz at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (UdrFj)
And yet we've gotten curb stomped in the last few elections.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Just like YouTube channels at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)
TJM hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)
There are a stunning number of management-level people who believe, 'I meet, therefore I am.'
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (NcvvS)
Got our letter today telling us that The Big Dummy has gotten into Westminster.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
He is Church of England now?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:54 AM
Ditto his douchecanoe nephew, Hassan. OK, maybe not bloated, but obnoxious and idiotic? Yeah.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:57 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Does that mean that he has to wear a monocle?
Seriously, congratulations!
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:57 AM (bFu5X)
Is that the dude that electrocutes his dog on screen?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)
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They need to make space on Mount Rushmore.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
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Tell Lamont we said "Good Boy!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM
How much for the tripod and pintel accessories?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 08:58 AM
That's the one.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: Mr. Monopoly at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
The font wars begun they have.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)
Whoa! Are you comfortable with joining the Anglican Communion?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (D+mpw)
That's the one.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (bFu5X)
Agreed.
I was hoping the Chinese would've caned him while he was being a douche in China.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM
Nice! Will he have an ascot, striped trousers, and little spats?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (bFu5X)
Now describe Mrs. Clinton. I had great fun with that, on my leftist friends. They were mortified. “Why … but . She was a Senator! Secretary of State!”
No no no I said. Those are job titles. What did she do. What are her accomplishments? Can you describe some of the great legislation she passed?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 08:55 AM
I can think of some things she didn't do
Posted by: Zombie Ambassador Chris Stevens at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (tljrc)
It's the old-fashioned, sadder but wiser gal for me.
Posted by: Count Music Man de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Does that mean that he has to wear a monocle?
Seriously, congratulations!
Posted by: Bulg
Spats.
And carry a cane.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (+Oyis)
Well, they haven't had a Democrat mayor for 30 years.
There is a lot of fracturing in the Republican Party right now with the likes of Tucker Carlson, MTG, Candace Owens leading the charge in convincing people not to vote for Republicans.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Communicate to the middlings interested in conservatism that Carlson, Owens, MTG, Fuentes and their fellow travelers are antagonists to conservatism. How?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)
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They need to make space on Mount Rushmore.
A Glory Hole?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (BvPIe)
Put in in there with a sign: The biggest f'in dummy ever to hold high office.
That's historic, ain't it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM
Give him time. Lots of streamers are getting themselves arrested in Asia lately.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (bFu5X)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (pDt9x)
Really? For weeks all we heard was the AOC of the midwest was going to take a MAGA scalp in Tennessee. It was going to be a nail biter!
It wasn't a nail biter. She lost by 9 in an R+10 district. I'm not surprised at all about races in VA or NJ of NYC. All of them were long shots other than NYC which was impossible. And special elections are always unique animals and don't reflect midterms. We hear this during every special election season and then quickly forget it.
What exactly are Democrats going to run on next year if the economy continues to improve? Fighting for illegals? Defunding police? I'd rather be in our position right now than theirs.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Zombie Ambassador Chris Stevens
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Dead men tell no tales.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)
"It's not that I don't want to. I simply can’t."
"It's only reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You make one mistake and you're dead, and it only takes one."
"One mistake."
This is the world that Progressives have dreamed of since the W election in 2000.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (D+mpw)
Good morons wouldn't have it any other way *Stan Laurel nod*.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
I have all the faith in the world that we will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, like we usually do because our team sucks balls, has no killer instinct and just can't have nice things.
But I appreciate your optimism.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Avenge me!
Posted by: Century Schoolbook at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Until The Big Dummy wins Westminster.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)
The font wars begun they have.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM
What the hell does that even mean? How is one font more accessible than another? Unless we're talking about how easy a machine reader can handle it, for blind people. Otherwise, this is pretentious twaddle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:04 AM (bFu5X)
Anyone remember PEPSI A.M.?
1989, the idiots at Pepsi launched a new Pepsi to compete with, get this, coffee. The new cola had +25% caffeine than regular Pepsi.
Reviews said it tasted "like flat Pepsi."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Congrats on the early entry.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (viF8m)
It's about turnout. If they have it and we don't it won't matter.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (RHGPo)
Reviews said it tasted "like flat Pepsi."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:05 AM (ASZ8O)
That would be one big own dick step.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Wait…. Did she actually say this??!!
If so that is unbelievably out of touch ignorant and stupid. What??!!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: redridinghood
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I dunno about the "not voting Republican" part. More like "the Republicans don't listen to us and we're mad at them so you should be too."
The common thread with them is mental illness. IMO.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (NwnyJ)
Anyone remember KODAK "Disc" cameras?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (GPa4z)
The number of entries to Westminster is limited to 2500. The top 5 dogs of every breed get an automatic invitation. Everyone else has to put in an entry and hope they get chosen under that quota.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:03 AM (D+mpw)
Oh, I'm sure a lot of failed-life women really idolized and supported her, and still do. They've achieved nothing and are bitter about it because they were supposed to be princesses who would get everything handed to her and found out differently. You can usually identify them by their rolls of fat, or boney bodies with either shaved heads or hair of non-natural colors. Oh, and they're ugly, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (uQesX)
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agree- she's historic, alright
but not in the way she thinks she is
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (IvPcr)
Pretty much always is. That's why I love the idea of Trump hitting the campaign trail and turning this into a national election.
When Trump is on the ballot turnout surges. Don't run from it, use it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)
Who was born...
"Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
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Such a nice Angleish girl.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM (RHGPo)
Because the 'consensus' was wrong. REALLY wrong.
Not one prediction they've made since the 70's has come to fruition. Not. One.
They all should be shunned and living under a bridge.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)
You would think with nearly all politicians and their weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over the VZ drug boats (which they are 100% convinced are transporting either cocaine or fish) that there would be a regulatory acceptable market for a revival of cocaine laced cola.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (BvPIe)
Bust of Sydney Sweeney >>> Bust of Kamala Harris
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (tgvbd)
It's a nudge wink way of saying that Trump Hates The Disabled, I'm guessing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 08:59 AM (uQesX)
I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice: “Harry, I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a french tickler, for I am a Protestant”.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (gbOdA)
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It's the political equivalent of a participation trophy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (D+mpw)
We use Times New Roman at work as our official font.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Comic Sans at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)
But not for anything she's actually done.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
@EricLDaugh
JUST IN: CNBC is NUKING the Democrats right now for lying about Donald Trump's economy
"The affordability issue is from the 22% increase in prices under Biden - FULL STOP!"
FACT 💯💯
https://tinyurl.com/bdewdbhy
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM (NcvvS)
I'm wondering if I should inform my wife, who's been retired for a bit over three years, that starting next week we'll be having a weekly sitting 'stand up' to discuss our ongoing relaxation projects.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)
Perhaps not a marble bust in Congress, but to be fair...
Golf Courses across the country have started installing the-
New Kamala Harris Ball-Washer!
which includes a very classy plastic bust of the former VP and is said to take wonderful care of your balls!
I think as Americans we can all be proud of this tribute to Kamala Harris and the importance of clean balls.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (iJfKG)
Pretty much always is. That's why I love the idea of Trump hitting the campaign trail and turning this into a national election.
When Trump is on the ballot turnout surges. Don't run from it, use it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (viF8m)
Absolutely true. What gains we have made are Trump-Driven. He can pull the 50 plus % that is essential. The strong horse. I just pray that Vance can carry on.
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (pDt9x)
"Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Eleanor G I think you're swell... you're my pride and joy et certera....
Posted by: The Turtles at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: dantesed at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (Oy/m2)
Remember in 1981 LIFE SAVERS candy made Soda pop?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (D+mpw)
Hmmm. Sounds like a plan...
/immigration
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (IvPcr)
JUST IN: CNBC is NUKING the Democrats right now for lying about Donald Trump's economy
BREAKING: CNBC is expected to announce mass layoffs in a cost cutting move. More info to come as the day progresses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)
Eleanor Rigby
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (xG4kz)
Doesn't matter, when TikTok tells you that the world is unfair, and you will lead a life of slavery and debt unless you vote for Communism, then it really doesn't matter if unemployment is under 2% and real wages has increased and crime has dropped.
People vote vibes, not reality.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Eleanor at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:02 AM (pDt9x)
They're not looking for security. They have a list of shit that they want and number one on that list is "someone else to pay for it".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)
I just read your post. So be happy. At least one person cares.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (NzX/y)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:12 AM (VCgbV)
I thought it was in the UK.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)
And in other news, CNBC was found dead...
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: SMOD
Wiping? Like with a cloth?
- Hillzabub
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jaimo at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (BCuCF)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:06 AM
*raises hand*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (bFu5X)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
It's a crust thing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Turtles at December 10, 2025 09:10 AM (uQesX)
According to the band, they wrote "Eleanor" as a joke, because the label had been pushing them for another hit like "Happy Together."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM
Nice! Will he have an ascot, striped trousers, and little spats?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (bFu5X)
No. He'll be wearing doggie Crocs and riding a Mini-Vespa.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (pP43i)
LOL. A big reason I retired about 16 months before originally planned was that I was stuck on a project where the sociopathic customer PM demanded daily 1-hour meetings of the whole team. So, ~17 people sitting on a Zoom call for an hour every day. I certainly was not the only one who found other things to do during the sessions.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
You monster. What kind of communist eats the heel first? It's there to protect the other slices as you go through the loaf. Eat it at the end if you want to.
We're trying to have a civilization here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (ufSfZ)
The first time et cetera was used in a song lyric, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (uQesX)
*raises hand*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (bFu5X)
I do as well.
Whomever thought combining the kid's viewer thing with a camera was, well.......interesting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM
So you're saying he's a gaynine?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (bFu5X)
Well?
Who was born "Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (ASZ8O)
Eleanor Roosevelt???
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (pDt9x)
Westminster
Area of the City of Westminster in the London Region in England • westminster.gov.uk
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 09:01 AM (UdrFj)
*******
They're all frauds and grifters. They are trying to destroy everything that Charlie Kirk works so hard for and they're even trying to destroy his widow, it makes me so sick. It's like they take great joy in being able to manipulate people into thinking the most bizarre idiotic thoughts.
I believe they've done great damage and they're only helping the Democrats. They find a lot of pleasure in that which is sick.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
Heels keep the next slice from drying out. They're the last two slices left in the wrapper bag. As Dad, it was my duty to make my sandwich or toast using them. I hope my kids, in the fullness of time, come to appreciate my sacrifice.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:17 AM (wVcYX)
Kamala Harris: ‘There Will Be a Marble Bust of Me In Congress… I Am a Historic Figure’
As a second level "find" in the race to pick a running mate dumber than yourself, you broke through to Kola Peninsula bore hole depths when you continued the chain by selecting Tampon Timmy. Well done, Venn Diagram Master!
We'll install your bust in the Drinkers' Corner, Old Lady Emhoff.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:17 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM
Thank you. You have restored my faith in Moron commentary.
Also, how could you tell the difference?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:17 AM (bFu5X)
Then how did we end up with Trump as POTUS and both houses of Congress? And that was before some of the election cleanups started.
Trump didn't vibe himself into winning every swing state and the popular vote. He worked for it and offered policies that people wanted. Imagine that.
Long way to go but accepting we are doomed right now when there is no indication that is true is not my favorite strategy.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (viF8m)
The 150th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is set for January 31, February 2, and February 3, 2026, returning to NYC with events at the Javits Center (breed judging) and Madison Square
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 08:56 AM
Nice! Will he have an ascot, striped trousers, and little spats?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:00 AM (bFu5X)
No. He'll be wearing doggie Crocs and riding a Mini-Vespa.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:14 AM (0CU3H)
******
That's fantastic Hadrian.
Evidently, The Big Dummy is no dummy.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC)
We all know where this goes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (pP43i)
Who was born "Eleanor Geisman" in 1917?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM
Sorry...had to look that one up.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (bFu5X)
you scoop out the insides and put olive oil parm and some roasted broccoli rabe in there
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (emBoF)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
Eh, I don't mind the heel.
I think the reluctance to eating the loaf of bread heel is the result of-
all the weak sisters and lame bros of the human race, who as children demand that the bread crust be cut off their sandwiches to get rid o0f the "tough part".
Don't be a weenie! Eat the crust, lame-os!
#FirstWorldProblems
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)
Estimated 40 UK citizens have died so far but this is first disclosed troop death.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (emBoF)
Steve Herman
@W7VOA
The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font because it was “too Jewish.”
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One step from Auschwitz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bronx Is Up, Battery Down at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (ASZ8O)
But the biggest dog show in England is Crufts.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)
It is a higher bar than most here can obtain, present company included.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:15 AM (Dv3i1)
That is like saying you saw a Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines concert.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (Dv3i1)
·
3m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD VANCE will travel to Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA next week to talk about affordability and the economy
>>BOTH President Trump and Vance will be deployed for the 2026 midterms nationwide.
>>Amazing news! 🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)
·
2h
CDC is reporting the death of an organ recipient who received a kidney from a donor with rabies.
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this is a really bad case of 'someone skipped a step'
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (IvPcr)
That is like saying you saw a Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines concert.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
One would be puttin up a white flag in surrender.
https://youtu.be/iqLLRH9tMSQ
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Seeing as how U2 is recognized by the U.N. as the single World Heritage Site set aside for Pretentious Twaddle, they are striving mightily to upgrade the enterprise into a Galactic Black Hole of Pretentious Twaddle.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:08 AM (tgvbd)
Sadly, Sweeney has, reportedly, bent the knee.
https://youtu.be/YVXfjRaOgXg -- Asmongold clip talking about it... short.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)
It's like taking a bite from the middle of a hot dog. Or cutting an apple pie into squares. If all you're trying to do is signal to the world that you need medication and probably some kind of restraint system, fine, but.....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:18 AM (emBoF)
Break it up, throw it in soup. You are so extra, Orchid.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (wVcYX)
her last movie bombed
so she wants to keep going now, she hasta
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:22 AM (emBoF)
·
3m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD VANCE will travel to Allentown, PENNSYLVANIA next week to talk about affordability and the economy
>>BOTH President Trump and Vance will be deployed for the 2026 midterms nationwide.
>>Amazing news! 🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)
Doing the job the RNC refuses to do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
You just know office folks over the yewrs have had a LOT of fun changing the fonts on the network computers and/or printers.
probably resulted in some sort of disciplinary action, or worse, a Lecture
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (y+G1Q)
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* but never in the same place
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (lF28Z)
https://youtu.be/32qHDs3n-Sg
Posted by: Don Black at December 10, 2025 09:11 AM (IvPcr)
"Best in Show" is an exaggeration. But not much of an exaggeration.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (tgvbd)
lol that is also nice!
I don't even eat bread anymore. it's crazy.
when I taste any, it just tastes like dust
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ASZ8O)
My commitment is to man the local R office and invite discussion. The lazy fucks around here don't bother.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (sDNVV)
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
Trump is a once in a century political talent. We've never seen anything like him before, and we may not again for quite a while. It is beyond shameful that there's even talk of Republican congressmen retiring ahead of the 2026 midterms - especially after what we experienced after Paul Ryan shivved him in 2018.
It is up to US to reform the party. Join your local GOP. Yes, they're largely crap, but if decent people join there is a chance to reform from the inside. I made the decision to join my town RTC four years ago, and now I chair it. It's tough to turn the ship around, but it absolutely can be done. We need to do this. We can't wait for a savior. We're it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (0CU3H)
The decision, announced through an internal cable, cited a need to uphold decorum and professionalism by employing a font viewed as more traditional. Calibri, adopted in early 2023 under Secretary Antony Blinken, was intended to enhance accessibility for individuals with disabilities, according to the retired directive.
This shift emerges amid broader Republican efforts, spearheaded by figures like Trump, to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across federal agencies and sectors. Critics argue these policies oppose merit-based ideals and disproportionately disadvantage certain groups.
.. I gave up using "Swiss" for "Helvetica" for the same reason
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)
lol is it?
well it wasn't when I was handling
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (emBoF)
Cheap Steak = Midterms Victory
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ASZ8O)
She was bread in old Kentucky, but she's just a crumb down here.
Posted by: Strong Bodies-12 Ways! at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ASZ8O)
My Catholic elementary school served that for lunch once a week for a few months.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)
To be fair, most of my posts aren't up to the quality of Deep Thought's by Jack Handey.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Aren't you supposed to be working to give Mooslims the old heave-ho in Europe?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:25 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:23 AM (emBoF)
Even the real homemade stuff? I make a lot of bread. I don't eat most of it but I make a lot.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:25 AM (lF28Z)
Dammit, it's not that much smaller than the other slices. Just eat it and get it out of the way of the other slices.
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:13 AM (77rzZ)
We feed the heels to the backyard bird. We don't consume them like a poor. /shudder
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 09:25 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)
lol is it?
well it wasn't when I was handling
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:24 AM (emBoF)
==================
Baron Haden-Guest made a great movie when he made this one.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (pP43i)
yes. even good stuff.
even crackers
I don't have any carbs and haven't for a few years now. well, other than beer lol! a small beer once a week.
no sugar no simple carbs
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (emBoF)
He literally did vibe a victory. Why else do you think he is making a national campaign once again?
Trump set the vibe of MAGA. Good grief, you think playing "YMCA" and "God Bless The USA" is policy briefings or CPI reports?
All this crapping on Tucker, et al is all about vibes. He is "discouraging" voters. Discouraging is not a term applied to objective policy goals. It is a subjective opinion made against any policy by those who don't like it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (+4Cf6)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM}
It doesn't make it any easier when even Pope Leo says there is nothing to fear from them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (Dv3i1)
——-
Yabut “attention to detail” is one of those “white supremacist” sorts of things.
Just die quietly, don’t ask so many questions. It’s just one of those things that happen.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
which is saying something
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (D+mpw)
.. I gave up using "Swiss" for "Helvetica" for the same reason
Posted by: SMOD
Oh, one of those Emmental snobs, are ya?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (xG4kz)
@atalovesyou
Imagine flying 20 hours to renew your visa.
Then getting an email: "appointment cancelled."
No refund on flights. No alternative locations. No answers.
Just wait 6 months.
That's H-1B life right now.
Herefortheshitshow
@hereforthething
Imagine being an American told to get into tech, spending thousands on a degree for a tech job, in which that job is outsourced via H1B visa recipients.
There are no refunds
No way to feed your family
No way to pay your rent
No sympathy
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:28 AM (emBoF)
——-
Juan McCain famously claimed Obie would be OK as prezdent, too. Great Moments in total fucktardness.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (y+G1Q)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (iJfKG)
@atalovesyou
Imagine flying 20 hours to renew your visa.
Then getting an email: "appointment cancelled."
No refund on flights. No alternative locations. No answers.
Just wait 6 months.
That's H-1B life right now.
Go home. Ask your home government why they're not doing more to create industry and jobs in your own country. Enjoy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:26 AM (emBoF)
I always feel best when I give those up. Lose weight too, not that I need to. I keep telling myself to stop buying them but I do love them. And I never give them up completely, just mostly.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: tubal at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ufSfZ)
In a hijab, no one can tell that you're sporting a twig and berries.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (xG4kz)
Anyone else receive a CALLIGRAPHY Kit for Christmas when they were a kid and never use it?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ASZ8O)
Posted by: birds at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (Q+gd/)
@atalovesyou
Imagine flying 20 hours to renew your visa.
Then getting an email: "appointment cancelled."
No refund on flights. No alternative locations. No answers.
Just wait 6 months.
That's H-1B life right now.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:27 AM (RHGPo)
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I was told nothing about H1-Bs had changed, that Trump had expanded it, made it easier, and Trump was going to lose the midterms because he wasn't shooting Indian techies in the streets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
——-
The only thing to fear from islham is your life. They will end it when given the chance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Bar >>> Sans (a) Bar
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (xG4kz)
Anyone remember that? The Calligraphy craze in the late, late 70's and early 80's?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (ASZ8O)
NOOD Art
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (77rzZ)
Jasmine Crockett: "It is literally time to take our country back. It is time for us to own our flag. It is time for us to prove what patriotism is."
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Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (L/fGl)
in my case it's to reduce my post-mRNA inflammatory disease. it works so well I don't stop. if I slip up, it hurts, physically. so, that's motivational.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 10, 2025 09:30 AM (emBoF)
Anyone else receive a CALLIGRAPHY Kit for Christmas when they were a kid and never use it?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ASZ8O)
*raises hand*
*slinks away to change my computer font to a serif one*
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: JB Pritzger at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (Dv3i1)
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This statement presumes she knows what those principles are and is said without evidence. Show your work, buster; I don't believe she has a clue.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (pP43i)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (VCgbV)
Imagine running state-wide in Texas literally 2 minutes after you called ALL white people "racists" who were committing crimes on blacks.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (ASZ8O)
That's not vibing. That's developing a platform of policies that appeal to a wide swath of voters and working to earn their votes.
Trump is not campaigning now on vibes. He's campaigning on the results of the policies he championed and how they are helping the American people. It's good old fashion politics done the right way.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (viF8m)
More crispy crackly crust, tender innards, and was admirably suited to holding even more dairy butter.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 09:32 AM (y+G1Q)
Don't show me spreadsheets and chromatography graphs about your beer. Don't tell me who your head brewer's secretary's son in law is. Don't sit there desperately trying to convince me that your beer is actually objectively good with Facts and Logic. Just show me two half naked chicks mud wrestling over it.
But then... make sure the beer is at least good enough that if I do buy it, because I think everyone else is and i don't want to think about it too hard, I keep buying it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 10, 2025 09:33 AM (Vq1pX)
==
who does not even live in the US and needs to fly 20hrs to "renew the visa" ?
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)
who does not even live in the US and needs to fly 20hrs to "renew the visa" ?
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)
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H1-Bs have to go back home and renew at the consulate in their home country now.
New policy as of a couple of months ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 10, 2025 09:35 AM (GBKbO)
OMG I forgot all about that. I'm sorry you're still suffering over that. Bastards. It does make my Crohns better so I should really motivate myself....
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (W7XSX)
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Sounds very national. National Socialism. Could work.
Posted by: ... at December 10, 2025 09:38 AM (lF28Z)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (RHGPo)
From above, "Chicago could lose federal funding after a 26-year-old woman was set on fire on the city’s train system in what the Trump administration described as a “preventable attack.”
Sure, it definitely should, but it won't. The progressive game is break the backs & minds of the "working class" however broad that may be.
They push beyond reasonable limits, the administration pushes them back, the Courts intervien. In the meantime, they sue, they 'report' to the 'public' that the administration is 'bad,' funding won't be available to sustain current lifestyles, prices are unsustainable, and so on.
There's almost no negotiations but there are intentional reductions of services (slowdowns), strikes, threats of strikes (weekly), and public pummeling via the msm.
Those coordinated efforts with cronies helps paint a big picture to frighten &, at times, inconvenience the low infos., of which there are now by far more than imaginable out here, educational levels & achievements be damned. (C19, the great teacher of the civilized, the creator of puppets and puppeteers.)
All politics is local.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 10, 2025 09:41 AM (NFX2v)
“Instead of using the power of the presidency to bring our country together, President Trump chose to attack an American immigrant community, the overwhelming majority of whom are law-abiding and have made many positive contributions to the United States,” they said in a joint statement, labeling Trump's rhetoric as “xenophobic and unacceptable.”
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That is how, in part, you can tell who still watches or reads outrage merchants. There is also the large influx of Debbie Downer comment on conservative websites on places like Instapundit, NY Post comments, etc.
Difficult to determine the signal from the chaff but if all comment systems forced reveals of country where a person lived and/or signed up for the comments, it would cause a shift in the force. Used to be, often grammar and spelling indicated that a commenter was foreign (eg grey from gray, labour for labor) or unusual sentence structures. AI has removed that indicator via polish.
Second, automated bots are getting really good even at responses instead of a dump and run.
We swim in a polluted sea of information ops by everyone under the sun--Democrats, globohomo, foreigners out to do us ill, etc.
Posted by: whig at December 10, 2025 09:55 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: JackStraw
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He is working to overcome the Billions $$$ of advertising lies sent over the media.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:01 AM (UdrFj)
Now days after the most recent light rail stabbing, the city is continuing efforts to improve public perception and encourage people to use public transit.
“It is outrageous that rather than fixing the problem of violent crime that is literally killing people, the Charlotte City Council wants to spend $3.4 million on public relations consultants,” said South Carolina congressman and gubernatorial candidate Ralph Norman following the decision. “What a slap in the face to law enforcement and the taxpayers of Charlotte. I have already called on the mayor to resign, and it might be time for the city council to follow suit.”
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 10:02 AM (RHGPo)
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Sounds like the NY Yankees are moving to SC.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:14 AM (UdrFj)
We agree.
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 10, 2025 10:41 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 09:39 AM (RHGPo)
She’s not wrong for once. The police exist to investigate crime, not to prevent it. Yeah, there are things you can do to prevent it (like ICE kicking out illegal aliens) but by and large, cops do not intervene in crimes in progress except through blind, dumb luck.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 10, 2025 10:44 AM (rQwsY)
Will Trump find anyone as good as these two? And even if he did, will the Senate allow such people to pass through its halls without doing its best to stop them? GOPe are a bunch of traitorous assholes (yes, I saw Traitorous Assholes front for Butthole Surfers at the Tidy Bowl back in '02)...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:54 AM (ynpvh)
Historic for her Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy for all her years working it as a politician...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 12:00 PM (ynpvh)
Daily Tech News 10 December 2025
Top Story
- Australia is joining a wave of fascist dictatorships around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. (The Verge) (archive site)
I may have changed a word or two there.On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a "reasonable" age verification method there - while critics argue kids will get around it anyway.
The critics are, of course, correct. The age restrictions are about as robust as The Verge's paywall.
And VPN providers are having a field day.
Maybe they put the idiots in Canberra up to it.
Tech News
- RAM is ruining everything. (The Verge) (archive site)
Useful tidbit: SK Hynix - one of the big three memory makers - is investing $500 billion dollars in new factories, with the first set to go into operation in 2027.
Half a trillion dollars. That's a lot of money. Whether it will be enough is an open question, but I'm not sure we can criticise them for not expanding faster.
- Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is here for December and fuck me that's a lot of security holes. (Bleeping Computer)
Ugh.
- AMD has announced its new Epyc 2005 processor range for embedded servers. (Serve the Home)
They're Ryzen 9000 desktop chips, just packaged differently and with lower power budgets.
- Boom Supersonic - which demonstrated a supersonic jet back in January - has found funding and customers, but not for its supersonic jet. (Tech Crunch)
It's selling a derivative of its jet turbine engine for power generation for datacenters.
- The war on disinformation is a losing battle. (The Verge)
Which is good, because The Verge is squarely on the side of disinformation. They only get through two paragraphs here before they start actively lying.
Disclaimer: Go or go not, there is no good.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (ajk4p)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Signed, Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.'s Mother at December 10, 2025 04:13 AM (ajk4p)
That's a very long CVE list at the bottom of that article.
CoPilot should be finding and fixing these vulnerabilities for Microsoft, actually give it something useful to do.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (6ydKt)
401 04:01 hr
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:01 AM (1zOXE)
Nice numerical patterning.
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 04:15 AM (ufSfZ)
Looks like a solid 3 hours of work left over from last night, so must get going.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 04:17 AM (ufSfZ)
a search for
my ding-a-ling
yields:
People also search for
Warm My Weiner
Bo Carter
My Girl's Pussy
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Please Warm My Weiner
Bo Carter
Big Ten Inch Record
Bull Moose Jack
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 04:21 AM (sAmhv)
"Why Nobody Lives On This HUGE Stretch Of Australian Coast"
https://youtu.be/f6gVTfmNKGc
(Geography by Geoff)
It's all about the Great Australian Bight and the Nullarbor Plain, and why nobody lives on this thousand km section of Oz's southern coast.
It's quite interesting if you're into geography or want to learn more about Australia.
I'd seen this part of the continent on a few episodes of Outback Truckers years ago when a few unfortunate drivers had to haul loads from Perth to Adelaide. Always wondered what the deal was with this oddity, and now I know.
It's one desolate place, that's for sure.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 04:22 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 04:24 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:28 AM (1zOXE)
Haha!
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS)
Haha!
Posted by: m
>What are you saying? Stage diving into the mosh pit ain't cool any more?
youtube.com/watch?v=2zxoGFjFJlk&list =RD2zxoGFjFJlk&start_radio=1
(one space, because I'm lazy)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:41 AM (1zOXE)
Haha!
Posted by: m
>What are you saying? Stage diving into the mosh pit ain't cool any more?
youtube.com/watch?v=2zxoGFjFJlk&list =RD2zxoGFjFJlk&start_radio=1
(one space, because I'm lazy)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:41 AM (1zOXE)
"They're the same video."
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 10, 2025 05:07 AM (i02lT)
Same story, BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy54q80gy9t
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:07 AM (RuTUS)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 10, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)
Where there is no parking
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2025 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)
[Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner,] said there may be "blatant non-compliance" from tech companies, "but we've got plans for that". ... But she added: "I'm trying to contain my excitement".
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:16 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 10, 2025 05:21 AM (ph+d0)
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)
Lady, before you get too excited, I suggest you do some research on 4chan. They will make your life fun and exciting without anyone in the government telling them to do it.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 05:33 AM (jjoN6)
Maybe this weekend I can safely stop bringing in the bird feeders in the evening.
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)
I've kinda wanted to visit the land down under, but the form of government the Aussies wound up with makes me believe that I'd end up in jail versus being deported if I said the wrong thing whilst visiting.
I recognize that my belief of what might happen may very well be disconnected from would happen. And, hey, I subscribe to the DrainAddict YouTube channel (he's an Australian plumber and I've learned more about Australian sewer systems than any sane non-Australian human would want to know); individual Aussies seem great.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 10, 2025 05:34 AM (3k5hk)
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
https://archive.is/wBpNl
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:34 AM (RuTUS)
Strange dream last night, that I was seduced by a older, but attractive enough, redhead with a rather sharp foxy face -- at *a pipe shop* of all places. She had no objection to the fact other men were there, and in fact wanted to, uh, get busy right there in public. I was not especially attracted to her -- but it was as if I were hypnotized, like a rabbit mesmerized by a snake.
Now that I think about it, I realize I did not take any melatonin last night. So I can still have vivid and somewhat disturbing dreams even without it!
Whassup with all o' you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:35 AM (wzUl9)
Or when they search your device at the airport and see this site in the history, they'll boot you out.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 05:37 AM (jjoN6)
It has showed up in my feed. Based on your recommendation I shall give it a gander.
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 05:38 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I had my procedure yesterday morning. Came home groggy and tired. Started to feel uncomfortable after a few hours so started taking the tramadol that was prescribed. It's been so long that I forget opiates make me sleepless and slightly itchy. So, I feel like I've been up all night. I'm sure I've dozed off here and there but I don't feel like it. And I feel the urge to urinate all the time because of the stent.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 05:41 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:42 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:43 AM (W7XSX)
Many diplomats are unhappy with changes Mr. Rubio has made to the department’s structure and leadership, and have reported badly damaged morale within their ranks.
*blink*
But the Biden administration’s move to Calibri prompted some grumbling from some traditionalists who preferred Times New Roman. Mr. Blinken also changed the standard font size, from 14-point to 15-point, requiring extra keystrokes that some diplomats found annoying.
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:45 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:47 AM (W7XSX)
1) changes Mr. Rubio has made to the department’s structure and leadership
2) the Biden administration’s move to Calibri ... Mr. Blinken also changed the standard font size
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:48 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025
***
Hullo, lin-duh,
I too had tramadol prescribed after my deal this last July. At first I thought it wasn't doing much for my pain, and asked for something stronger. My surgeon obliged . . . but it had acetaminophen, Tylenol, in it, which sends me to the bathroom every two hours. So I went back to the tramadol and found it worked well enough. At least it let me sleep. Before long I could do without it and took some ibuprofen as needed. Your discomfort will pass.
If it doesn't, though, tell the doctor right away!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 05:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:47 AM (W7XSX)
Using a keyboard, you *could* "select all" and have a keystroke shortcut set up to insert a particular font size.
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 05:50 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 05:52 AM (W7XSX)
Well, the videos that I've seen about the Australian customs folks, they'd throw my ass out for having a strain of the jock itch fungi that doesn't exist in Australia.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 10, 2025 05:53 AM (3k5hk)
I still have hydrocodone/acetaminophen left over from my knee surgery. I'm not big into the opioids because of the side effects but will take the bare minimum needed.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 05:54 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 05:56 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 05:58 AM (sDNVV)
https://tinyurl.com/bdhe9tf2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 05:58 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS)
Will keep you on prayer, Linda.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:00 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:01 AM (sDNVV)
Sorry, Lin-duh. I misspelled your handle .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:03 AM (PFs9e)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9jd6aj
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:08 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Fenderbender at December 10, 2025 06:08 AM (1FEc1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 10, 2025 06:09 AM (FHh4j)
Glad you've given Babylon 5 a shot. As you've been advised, the first season's a little rough but it does have its good moments. Also, the music for the first season is a little repetitive because Christopher Franke (the composer) hadn't been given time to expand, that changes with season 2 onward, and there's some amazing music.
After you've watched each episode, I encourage you to read its entry at:
http://midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
And yes, that's http NOT https. This is an OLD site.
A majority of the episodes are part of the 5 year story arc, though there are a few stand-alone episodes that don't contribute to the arc. Those will stand out. A couple of them are stinkers. No series is perfect.
Bruce Boxleitner (plays Captain Sheridan) takes over the role of station commander in Season 2. The change was jarring originally, but he cements himself as a central player in the story (and does it very well).
(continues)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 06:09 AM (O7YUW)
Part of the magic of those 1950s recordings is, of course, Chuck Berry's compositions. The other part of the magic is the core musicians that played on those 1950s recordings; all of them went on to to be recognized as legends over their careers. If you have the time, it's worth looking up the biographies of these guys.
The core members consisted of:
Chuck Berry - composer, vocals, guitar
Johnnie Johnson / Lafayette Leake - piano
Willie Dixon - upright bass
Fred Below - drums
The precise looseness of the band against Chuck Berry's driving preciseness on guitar creates a sublime tension that gets translated into raw musical energy. It all adds up to some of the greatest recordings of all time.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:09 AM (uv8gn)
Commander Sinclair (played by Michael O'Hare) passed away in 2012. Brilliant man. For the religious ceremonies episode in season one, just know that he did that "down the line" introductions walk in one take. JMS said that there was much more filmed, but they didn't have time to show it.
O'Hare, while troubled psychologically, was a brilliant man with a fantastic memory.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:10 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: no one at December 10, 2025 06:12 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:12 AM (uv8gn)
Yes, he got home around 12:30am. We talked a bit then I can to bed to toss and turn for several hours.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 06:13 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 06:14 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:15 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Is That Weird? at December 10, 2025 06:15 AM (BEC0D)
Fun fact (after viewing the harvesting article in the ONT for the family in North Dakota whose father had died) -- when you search for and find a named North Dakota location with a map application, its appearance on the map likely will be a named dot surrounded on all sides by nothing but green empty space. The very definition of sparsely populated, it is.
I only bother to look because my maternal grandmother and her family bounced around that geographical Pong game board a great deal prior to her getting married.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:18 AM (xG4kz)
If it's any consolation , I really don't think you're the Antichrist..😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:18 AM (IeCgc)
The war on disinformation is a losing battle. (The Verge)
Which is good, because The Verge is squarely on the side of disinformation. They only get through two paragraphs here before they start actively lying.
Always on the verge of lying, as it were, eh?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:20 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"
Whew, what a relief. I don't need the responsibility.
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/2s3hwcx5
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:21 AM (IeCgc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (9ipOP)
Tried resetting the breaker but it wasn't having it. For now I've got an extension lead running from my bedroom to the fridge, which is humming away happily so at least that's not the problem.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:23 AM (vFG9F)
Don't be so closed minded.
Posted by: fluffy at December 10, 2025 06:26 AM (AN2gy)
I watched this YT video last night before bed.
"Why Nobody Lives On This HUGE Stretch Of Australian Coast"
https://youtu.be/f6gVTfmNKGc
(Geography by Geoff)
This Geoff characters has made a goodly number of such videos: "Why Nobody Lives in This Large Portion of [ fill in this blank ]".
Ones that I recently had viewed were the U.S.' Atlantic Coastal Plain from southern Va to the GA / FL border - and - a broad band that runs from SW to NE through the center of France.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:27 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Fenderbender
>When I order a dirty martini, this is what I'm striving for, but dry.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 06:27 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:23 AM (vFG9F)
That's odd, we actually use them instead of ID cards.
Posted by: Tren de Aragua Home Office at December 10, 2025 06:28 AM (CjRYq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:32 AM (9ipOP)
This is in contrast to the store (another chain) in the next town where some cashier is wearing a grinch hat but is still smiling along with an
tall older black guy who says "How are you today?" And when I say "Blessed " he responds "Well you' have another day on earth. Good for you" He was quite patience with my problems .
I wished I lived closer so that I could go there more frequently.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:32 AM (Nx5jP)
Good morning, Hordians.
Day 3 of no water at Schloss Hadrian. Had the well guy out yesterday, who said that the problem with the wiring from the breaker panel to the well head. An electrician will be out this morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:32 AM (tgvbd)
Any problems with the x86 to ARM translation layer for applications? - Posted by: SpeakingOf
For me, zero. One old utilities I use requires .net framework 2.0; both installed perfectly in our work and fine. There are a few other x86 applications I use and all of them installed and work just fine.
Probably the biggest test was the x86 version of Office 365 I use because it includes the now known as "Classic" Outlook instead of The dumbed down new Outlook which replaces it. The suite installed perfectly and I can't tell the difference between how it performs on my x86 boxes or the Qualcomm box.
My understanding of Prism, the x86 translation layer, is that it is greatly improved from where it was a couple years ago and that a significant number of games, an initial major problem area, are now running ok. At what performance level is another question that I can't answer.
Another challenge in answering this question is most of the applications I use are now natively compiled for the ARM platform. My dependence on Prism is remarkably limited. Real progress is being made here.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:33 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 06:20 AM (vFG9F)
Lazy antichrist is so 2025.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 10, 2025 06:33 AM (dK+Kv)
So, are these mainly Win 11 issues, or are they folding in any Win 10 stuff?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (sDNVV)
Just a reminder, neck tats are a sign of antisocial behavior.
With "makes poor life choices" not even trying to lurk in that person's background.
"'WTF? Wot put you off my application for this job, eh?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (BCvbq)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (2Ez/1)
But. There’s something always a little weird about digital creations, there’s no there there, a certain anonymous wall of digital sound even when they clearly really try to recreate the “air” and excitement around a genuine band recording, It tastes good at first for a second or two, but it’s calorie free.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (BEC0D)
I think Johnny B Goode is the quintessential 50's rock'n roll song.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (9ipOP)
Ch. Soyara's Johnny B. Goode. Gentleman John, like The Big Dummy a stupid but sweet and well-mannered boy.
https://soyaraborzoi.com/Johnny.htm
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 06:37 AM (tgvbd)
Hope that the electrician can get it repaired quickly.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:37 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 10, 2025 06:38 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at December 10, 2025 06:38 AM (EcHpA)
Ran into a tp-link Deco-X60, three pack for $139.00, with no sales tax at the Navy Exchange.
I know it's not the latest golly gee-whizz fastest product, but neither is out 3,000 SF house.
Using the home ethernet for backhaul, will this meet general needs?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 10, 2025 06:40 AM (a1415)
Im going to try to sleep again
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
It is said that the first cut is the deepest.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:41 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 06:35 AM (/HDaX)
Unless you obtained the extended service plan, any vulnerabilities in your copy of Win10 still exist and shall do so until the end of time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 06:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:43 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 10, 2025 06:22 AM (BLOW1)
uh-oh
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM (RuTUS)
So you're saying I shouldn't have done that? Because at the last place I worked. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM (sDNVV)
Unless you obtained the extended service plan, any vulnerabilities in your copy of Win10 still exist and shall do so until the end of time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
A brother in arms of the Voyager spacecraft heading ever outward from our Solar System.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:45 AM (RuTUS)
###
He took. It out.
Posted by: Elaine Benes at December 10, 2025 06:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Was m on task, or no?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:46 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 10, 2025 06:42 AM (ExV1e)
I did sign up. But I'm not seeing any indication of a Tuesday update in this case.
Thus, the question.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 06:46 AM (/HDaX)
He drove to gigs with his guitar and little else. Cash up front (which did apparently eventually invite some unwanted scrutiny by federal revenue authorities) before the show. If he didn’t like the way the show was going, he would just leave. Keith Richards idolized him naturally, but ole Chuck clocked him a time or two for being difficult, once for getting a little too familiar, picking up his guitar.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 06:47 AM (BEC0D)
m was!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:47 AM (xG4kz)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
https://tinyurl.com/3z3jbjcj
Posted by: It begins at December 10, 2025 06:48 AM (KWbVO)
Not that you have to lose weight , but the story of this woman amazes me. This 86 year old woman lost tons of weight by walking around her small apartment:
https://tinyurl.com/bdzx6syt
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:49 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 10, 2025 06:49 AM (3rxgK)
That is a pretty fair description of these weird AI tracks. AI has the ability to imitate what has already occurred and utterly lacks the ability at this time to create what has not been done yet. It lacks the spark of originality. Further AI has no ability to create musical performance poetry; that again is the realm of what it means to be human and is something AI will never be able to touch.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:50 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 10, 2025 06:50 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 10, 2025 06:44 AM
It has to fail because President Trump put so much effort into it. The left and their fellow travelers worldwide want it to fail.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (jgmnb)
And now he has a 'Christmas' short on Disney+ that may finally retire The Star Wars Christmas Special as the worst Christmas show ever.
A little girl's doodle on her letter to Santa comes to life and it kinda reminds me of the invisible monster with the paint splatter from Johnny Quest except it has no mouth but still makes muffled screams.
Yeesh. Kill it with fire now!
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (2GVsD)
Drove past my old elementary school yesterday and saw kids out playing in the falling snow at recess. AND they had a fenced in area for snowball fights.
Nice to see that Mitten moppets are still made of sterner stuff.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (kpS4V)
You got to love those early lip sync music videos. There is usually moments in every one of them where everything goes off the rails.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:51 AM (uv8gn)
Yessh. Put the fork down.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 06:52 AM (BEC0D)
; )
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:52 AM (RuTUS)
Dangerous to admit, but I was guilty of doing that more than once.
In the olden time we used to say fixing a car was "a great way to pick up chicks," and we were pretty literal-minded about that.
Today's outsiders-looking-in would no doubt expect her to file a consumer protection lawsuit if anything on it quit working.
AOP has some stories you can only tell at the International Meet.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 10, 2025 06:53 AM (zdLoL)
Serif fonts, like Times New Roman, are much easier on the eyes to read as the serifs (the little dangly-bits off the edges of letters) help to guide the eye to the next letter in the word.
Sans-serifs are fine for headlines and other short lines of text as well as decorative copy in designs.
At least that's what I was taught in Typography classes.
So, Rubio made the right decision switching from Calibri, just from a standard design and readability standpoint.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)
I think she did that as well. She became a vegan.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 06:55 AM (Nx5jP)
As an adult, Slaughter covered her mirrors with bedspreads because she couldn't stand looking at her reflection.
"I was so embarrassed," she says. "I didn’t want to see myself."
Man, do I know how she feels.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 10, 2025 06:55 AM (ufSfZ)
The wind... it be howling this morning. Temperatures are supposed to crash this week with potentially accumulating snow tomorrow - Friday.
Been a harsh start to winter here. And it's not even the 21st yet.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (NwnyJ)
I'm guessing you're not a fan of Comic Sans.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (uv8gn)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
The team members of Egypt and Iran could always make a point to wear large and very legible "Come Fly With Us!" buttons.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (xG4kz)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
https://tinyurl.com/3z3jbjcj
Posted by: It begins at December 10, 2025 06:48 AM (KWbVO)
archived link
https://archive.is/61D30
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (jjoN6)
>>>Fifa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ya think?
Posted by: m at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (RuTUS)
O'Hare, while troubled psychologically, was a brilliant man with a fantastic memory.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 10, 2025 06:10 AM (O7YUW)
I've gotten through seven episodes so far.
I like it. While it's similar to DS9, it has a lot of differences (one being B5 is huge compared to DS9).
Earth Force as opposed to Starfleet is also quite cool.
My fav episode so far is the Rogue Psychic one.
And my favorite scene so far is the one you mentioned, where Sinclair is introducing the Alien delegation to an amabassdar representing Earth's different religious, racial, and ethnic groups. I really thought that was well-done even though it was a small part of the episode.
I'll be watching more later, and thanks for the Lurker's Guide, I'll check it out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (A0sqA)
You're talking about car warranties right?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:02 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
The Lurker's Guide is an absolutely wonderful resource.
My favorite first season episode remains TKO even though it was pretty polarizing with some folks.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:02 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:03 AM (2GVsD)
Gazans are artists of great international repute whose vastly preferred medium is rubble.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:04 AM (xG4kz)
Question answered.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (/HDaX)
My wife's anniversary statue from Greece, which I did not expect until after Christmas, got here last night. They must have chartered a special plane just for me. Shipping was expensive, but they all are right now, and it takes a lot to impress me. Wow.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (zdLoL)
Don't do this to yourself . When you start to feel bad about your appearance. think of least one feature that you find attractive such as "I have nice eyes" or something else . My son was going through a bad batch of depression several months ago and I encouraged him to look at how he talked to himself. I realize that this is not the entire answer and maybe you need meds adjusted but positive self talk helps .
The other thing that helps (and it's easier for women to do this than men because you don't want women to think you're trying to pick them up
Is to give a genuine compliment to at least one person everyday even if it's "I like the color of your coat." It makes others feel better and the giver of compliments as well because you made a positive difference in someone's day. I have been conscious about trying this because I am affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder and this has helped me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:33 AM (uv8gn)
Cool deal.
Microsoft will need it to work.
ARM is the future and Windows needs to work.
If they can ever get more developers to port to ARM we might get past 250W - 400W TDPs for CPUs someday.
Just the savings on battery life alone is worth it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:06 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 10, 2025 07:02 AM (jjoN6)
Seven episodes away from that one.
I'll have to remember to watch it more closely since you're so impressed by it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)
A big European institution is finally being put the question: "to whom will you flaccid, degenerate post-Christian cucks bow more deeply? Your precious rumpranging turd burglars, or your precious goat raping turd-worlders? Because it can't be both."
The modern European mindset (coming to the US, if not already here) seems to be, "Everyone will be so impressed by our big brains and degrees from elite institutions that they'll just fall into line with us." Then they're astonished when the stronger and more ruthless mow them down. Am I wrong?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:08 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:08 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 06:56 AM (uv8gn)
It's an old fun font with very few legitimate uses beyond... comic book speech bubbles.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:09 AM (Nx5jP)
I caught President Trump's speech in Pennsylvania last night. It's nice to see that he's running for congress while being president. It's going to be a good year now that he's on the campaign trail again. I'm looking forward to the time when he debates Jasmine Crockett.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:06 AM (uv8gn)
I'm happy that PDJT is out talking to people. But, given either the incompetence or malevolence of the USSS, I worry for him as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:10 AM (tgvbd)
Keeping kids away from phones is a good idea.
How to properly do it is another thing.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (2GVsD)
Serif fonts, like Times New Roman, are much easier on the eyes to read as the serifs (the little dangly-bits off the edges of letters) help to guide the eye to the next letter in the word.
When I was doing our website, I spent quite a bit of time picking what I thought was the right font. I finally chose Garamond.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 10, 2025 07:13 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:13 AM (rZCVI)
My Dad was great at chatting up checkout clerks with small talk. I try to emulate him in that respect despite my natural introversion.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)
It's a classy font.
Quite nice for a lot of designs and easy to read.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)
The WEF eschews "sans" fonts. Surely you recall "You will own nothing, and you will be happy, serifs."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:16 AM (xG4kz)
https://tinyurl.com/bdzbffxv
"Guys! Come quick! I found the sonofabitch who invented Comic Sans!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2025 07:16 AM (kpS4V)
I've had it with this "prove you are human" crap. That is cause for me to leave immediately. It's like the "Press 1 for English" prompts. FU.
Posted by: fd
It sounds as thoughyou are an angry elf.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:17 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 07:18 AM (2GVsD)
Now it's downloading Win 11.
No wonder a lot of folks hope Microsoft dies in a fire.
I guess I get to push my box over to Linux sooner than I'd planned.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (/HDaX)
Microsoft gets nothing but criticism over the state of ARM on Windows. I think this is misguided.
Trying to change the direction of a super tanker is a slow process, getting Windows running properly on ARM Is a software version of that. I've always viewed the tepid SQ chip in the Surface Pro. X as nothing more than a start point; Microsoft knew fully that was a shit show and a stopgap moment. Getting ARM working as a full-on first nation platform, so to speak, was always a decade-long process given the complexity of Microsoft's support matrix. We are now at about year five in that process and we have viable machines. The next generation of Qualcomm CPUs are going to be extremely performant and will slot in at the upper tier Apple M4s and the lower tier M5s. Given my experience with my new Surface Pro, I'm all in on ARM chips; this is something I would never have said 5 years ago.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:09 AM (Nx5jP)
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Excellent advice.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (A0sqA)
My Dad was great at chatting up checkout clerks with small talk. I try to emulate him in that respect despite my natural introversion.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:14 AM (xG4kz)
When I buy my coffee and kolaches after Mass, I always say first off in my rolling voice to the girl behind the counter, "How are you today?" They always brighten up. Not surprising, given the number of shitheads they have to deal with every day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:19 AM (tgvbd)
I'm happy that PDJT is out talking to people. But, given either the incompetence or malevolence of the USSS, I worry for him as well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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We get X fun bits. It will be fun enjoying his speechafying again.
May God keep his hand of protection upon him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:20 AM (UdrFj)
JJS
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 07:21 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:21 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: Pony Tail at December 10, 2025 07:24 AM (HcbZb)
Posted by: Braenyard
Amen!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2025 07:22 AM
Amen and Amen.
Posted by: Eromero at December 10, 2025 07:27 AM (jgmnb)
You'd think it has IOS plants among them.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (UdrFj)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 10, 2025 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)
Is there a "lolcats for Dummies" book? There ought to be, because we're drowning in dummies these days.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:31 AM (xG4kz)
What we really need is a coffee pot that refuses to operate in the morning, until you “prove you are human”. “Click all the boxes that show a bicycle”.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (PIUjZ)
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Texas, now Florida, chipping away at the Islamists.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:32 AM (UdrFj)
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Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Helvetica
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You're not on Libre's list, sweetheart.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (UdrFj)
Trying to change the direction of a super tanker is a slow process,
"Tell us about it"
-- the crew that got its vessel -- the MV "Whoopsie" -- lodged sideways in the esophagus of the Suez Canal
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 10, 2025 07:35 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Helvetica at December 10, 2025 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)
1.21 Gigawatts!
Posted by: Doc Brown at December 10, 2025 11:49 AM (ynpvh)
The filings claim the companies’ components were found in Iranian-made drones tied to Intel and AMD, as well as Russian Iskander and KH-101 missiles.
Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2025 12:46 PM (RHGPo)
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 9, 2025 [Doof]
Feel Good Stories 75 Farmers Show Up To Finish Fallen Friend’s Final Harvest
In rural North Dakota, where neighbors are more like family, an incredible act of kindness unfolded after a beloved farmer’s sudden passing. Near the small town of Antler, dozens of farmers came together to make sure their friend’s final harvest was completed. Randy Fyllesvold, a well-known farmer in the area, tragically lost his life in a crash near Maxbass back in September. Wanting to ease the burden on his family, friends and neighbors quickly stepped in. Led by Wyatt Thompson and Andy Gates, the group organized a large-scale harvest to gather Randy’s remaining crops — including soybeans, canola, and more than 1,000 acres of corn. Earlier this month, roughly 75 volunteers, 12 combines, and help from more than 10 communities worked together to harvest about 1,400 acres of corn in just a matter of days. The effort required careful coordination and teamwork, including working with local grain elevators to handle the massive amount of crops coming in all at once. It was truly a “divide and conquer” operation — and it worked beautifully. Randy’s widow, Kharra Fyllesvold, shared a deeply emotional message thanking everyone who showed up. She described the scene as “nothing short of breathtaking,” saying the sight of so many people harvesting her husband’s final crop was both heartbreaking and beautiful. Through their grief, she and her two sons felt overwhelmingly blessed by the love and support surrounding them. "Thank you to each and every person that had a part of today. Special thanks to Andy Gates, Kevin Tyler, and Wyatt Thompson for organizing something I will never forget," she shared on Facebook.Lotsa good folks in the upper midwest, don't ya know! Video clip at the link. ----- This 9-Year-Old Is Making The Holidays Brighter For Hundreds Of Sick Children ----- Lowe’s Staff Refuse To Give Up On Missing Cat, Find Her 85 Miles Away ----- Some feel good vids
You sit on the floor for movie night, and just when you think your role is done, your toddler shuffles over and cuddles up next to you… so wholesome 🥹 pic.twitter.com/FolLesQ3UA
— Wholesome Side of 𝕏 (@itsme_urstruly) December 7, 2025
Father of the year 🏆 pic.twitter.com/QP6AgW0F6w
— 🎼🌺Music Love♥️ (@ThoNg676733) December 4, 2025
A Florida man faces multiple charges after he told police he had a “dirty bomb” in his truck following a crash, according to a news release. *** According to the release, officers made contact with the driver, identified as 43-year-old Benjamin Donald Johnson, who refused multiple commands to exit the vehicle. Officers physically removed Johnson from the truck, where multiple firearms were seen in plain view. *** “Through investigation with the assistance of representatives from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, ATF, and an FBI bomb technician, it was advised that the device inside of the yellow container was a Moisture Density Gauge, which is commonly used for soil testing and contained less radioactivity than a medical x-ray,” the release said in part. *** In addition, a search of Johnson’s truck a led to police finding a “multitude of firearms and ammunition,” firearm magazine speed loaders, thermal scopes, knives, a battering ram, night-vision goggles, cannabis, and gummies that tested positive for THC.
Everybody farts, and we are okay with that, even when they smell a little off. But a 1998 study concluded that, on average, women’s gas smelt worse than men's for a pretty simple reason. Dr Michael Levit, a gastroenterologist, conducted the study way back then and managed to get a reputation as the ‘king of farts’ for his work. So how did the study work? Well, the doctor recruited 16 healthy adults with no history of gastrointestinal issues and had each of them strap on a ‘flatus collection system’, which is basically a rectal tube connected to a bag. While it is estimated that people fart up to 23 times a day, the doctor didn’t fancy waiting around for those moments. Instead, participants chowed down on pinto beans and took a laxative, with researchers collecting their farts. These farts were then analyzed as researchers ran a gas chromatographic–mass spectroscopic test to figure out what was essentially inside those bags."Flatus collection system"?? A vanvera?!? After pinto beans and a laxative?? How much would you have to be paid to be a sniffer / judge in this experiment? ----- OK - one more related item, then hopefully I won't have any more of this type of content. At least for this year. Impressive. Most impressive!
A new world record! pic.twitter.com/fDtIHVrRjk
— Joe G (@EastEndJoe) December 1, 2025
What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 10:00 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:06 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (QGRvm)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:02 PM (c35xG)
It's part of my rookie contract which I'm still in.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:08 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Leave Out Fart Content at December 09, 2025 10:09 PM (oftw2)
lol. amateurs.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (0MjtC)
Rookie numbers ...
Posted by: zombie William J. LePetomane at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (B47sF)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm)
Very nice of you, JQ - thanks! But in the spirit of the season, go ahead and give the people what they want. All lights matter!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (EWlvz)
I already carry a bag, so I'd have been perfect for this study...well, until next week (hopefully) at any rate.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Roderick Macleod, 70, was a member of the band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received a Grammy nomination for his work with them.
The alleged driver was identified by police as as Shannon Godbout. She is 41, CBS Boston reported, and was driving recklessly.
Godbout was allegedly "in possession of numerous illegal narcotics and packaging materials commonly associated with drug distribution," police said. She was arrested at the scene and taken to an area hospital. She has been charged with driving as to endanger, resulting in death, and possession of narcotics with intent to distribute. She may face additional charges, police said, and remained in custody at the hospital of Monday.
Police did not detail Godbout's previous arrests, but said eight were from the Hopkinton Police Department. Eighty-two court warrants have been issued for her, police said, and she has received 40 traffic citations. She may face more charges as the investigation into the crash continues, police said.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (KDPiq)
Not bad. My car has him beat but closer than average.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2025 10:11 PM (EWlvz)
Hey there, my numeric friend! Hope you are doing well.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Doof
Black lights matter! But only if JQ has put up those cool posters.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Would be a great name for a Star Trek themed drink...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (ynpvh)
Also, use the Calibri font for all content, or you’re ableist.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)
Sabres vs Oilers
1-0 in the 2nd
As long as we're not getting run out the rink, I'm here tonight ...
Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)
"Flatus collection system"?? A vanvera?!? After pinto beans and a laxative?? How much would you have to be paid to be a sniffer / judge in this experiment?
That's absolutely awful. I can only say that young Sgt Bif would preload beans for 48 hours prior to a multi day NWTI. Knowing I would get partnered with the commander and the COM4ATAF Colonel for the unit certification to release the warheads. I would literraly fart my brains out for 18 solid hours in a tiny little scif maybe 3 feet by 9 feet, me, the commander, the radio operator, and the NWTI Colonel. We'd be in MOPP1 for most of the message processing so none of us smelled my malfesance. The Col on the other hand was dry heaving for most of the inspection.
The last time I did it, he "killed" the commander and brought in our warrant officer. Chief Forman, masked up and came on in. Smacked me on the back of my head, and finished it all up.
Continued
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv)
Also, use the Calibri font for all content, or you’re ableist.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
So a titular braille font...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)
Black and green olives have their place...black on pizza, green in tamales.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (TfUTr)
OUT!
2-bounce rule
Zero-zero-two
Want more?
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:17 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)"
Bono?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 09, 2025 10:18 PM (/HDaX)
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Does "Twilight Zone" qualify as a deep cut? Because that was my favorite track on side 2 of 2112.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (Cjcf6)
Sabres vs Oilers
1-0 in the 2nd
As long as we're not getting run out the rink, I'm here tonight ...
Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:14 PM (3sXRv)
Hey there, brother! I'll be going to the Panthers vs Avs game on Thursday night. Wearing my Ovi sweater, of course!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (p6ZQj)
Man, I'm so old I remember when the left was telling us about the dangers of an officer calling the president a pot smoke draft dodger, which, for the record, was true, because we have a civilian chain of command and we can't have officers having their own ideas about the quality of their presidents.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:20 PM (sKqQm)
Next year, the Col "killed" me first. So I got to do the closed book warhead demate from the missile. In Chief's domain. I paid for that. Dearly. But he's the one that put me in for war head custodian warrant so it all worked out.
The Col told me years later that it became a punishment assignment to inspect our unit because of me. My response, if I gotta be in Mopp1 and uncomfortable, so do you. No one says the soviets will gas us right out of the bag, you guys were sadistic cunts so I fought nbc warfare with nbc warfare. I of course was a civiy by then so it was safe.
He larfed, and said the nwti duties were onorus, but sometimes the unit's personality made it worth it.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (Cjcf6)
Yes it does. I'll have to look and see if I used that one last year. I think I used "Tears", so TZ might make an appearance this year.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (p6ZQj)
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My favorite pizza is thin crust, sausage, canadian bacon, and black olives. The meats provide the seriousness, the sweet from the black olives balance it masterfully.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)
Well, good thing those northeastern states have abolished the carceral state right?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (QGRvm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:16 PM (sAmhv)
*fist bump*
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (KDPiq)
And into Liam Neeson's cock socket.
She had a good run.
And Hepatis.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (VY2EQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA4lPSfzMV8
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX)
A very under appreciated talent..
http://tiny.cc/218w001
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (nbLIj)
That Romantics tune played endlessly at every fraternity party.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (A0sqA)
I guess they're not too happy about our F-18 'exercises' off the Venezuelan coast recently either.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Doof
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Wooot! Awesome!
Hear that, Piper? We can haz white lights!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)
Any guesses on the theme of the 3 songs??
Don't you dare touch those colored lights!!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Take Off! at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
Got to see one of those up close, and also flying, at an airshow at the Air Force base in Cold Lake, Alberta, 1980-something. That thing is huge. When it flies over, the sky goes dark.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Some Rat
+++
I saw an old guy in town the other day wearing a t-shirt with
There's no crying in pickleball.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at December 09, 2025 10:25 PM (Lo97M)
I'm calling bullshit. I don't fart 23 times a day. What the hell are you people eating?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (viF8m)
Oh, no! No need for that.. too much trouble to take them down.. that's why I left them ALL up to begin with.
Just plug/unplug whichever, to suit needs. Simple!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Take Off! at December 09, 2025 10:24 PM (oftw2)
Ten bucks is ten bucks
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (VY2EQ)
You should take a look at the 50 something year old Jewell bikini photos on Fox News site. ( same place I saw photo of Anderson.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:26 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh)
Go Paul Boomer!!
https://youtu.be/uPplyQWf-u4?si=I2dpIdAG1B_xuH3W
Posted by: Baron Munchausen at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 10:21 PM (dIske)
I have it on good authority that a 40 second fart is a challenge to battle to the death among some of the more warlike star-faring species.
Posted by: Guy wearing a Star Fleet t-shirt at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (4vy8h)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: 18-1
Green olives in tacos? Have you ever seen a taco? I will be gone for a couple minutes while I go brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out with gasoline simply from the thought of finding green olives on a taco. Have you no decency?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:28 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:27 PM (VY2EQ)
You are what you eat; you smell of what you eat. Had an asian person say that Americans tend to smell like babies from all the milk they drink. LOL.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)
Women have inherited the thrones of great powers - Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Victoria - and presided over massed ranks of courtiers drawn from the "pale, male and stale".
But America and its client states are the first in history in which every significant venue aside from ladies' sport is now dominated by women. The west is closer than any society should be to the end of men -
At the same time, the principal source of immigration to the west is from a patriarchal culture even more severe (if you can believe it) than 1950s sitcom dads.
https://tinyurl.com/musm779e
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (c35xG)
*calls-in for tomorrow night, just in case*
If I've got to drive out to BIL tomorrow, won't be back until Thursday night. Friday if things don't go right...
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
A bit redundant, wouldn't you say...
Posted by: man
................................
Bismarck is a city, technically. One of those out of the way places I'd like to wander around in someday. The western part anyway. Theodore Roosevelt NP is there.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: 18-1
Green olives in tacos? Have you ever seen a taco? I will be gone for a couple minutes while I go brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out with gasoline simply from the thought of finding green olives on a taco. Have you no decency?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:28 PM (uv8gn)
all sorts of food can go in tacos and burritos. I mean it CAN, but doesn't mean it should. I remember my wife giving me the strangest look as I stripped the meat off KFC and put it in tortillas with some salsa...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (QGRvm)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (XuXeR)
I'm calling bullshit. I don't fart 23 times a day. What the hell are you people eating?
Posted by: JackStraw
"it is estimated" -- by whom?
"up to" -- "never" or "once" is "up to 23 times". Precision??
Posted by: your probability-and-stats prof at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:23 PM (KDPiq)
Question: would an A-10 Warthog really mess up one of those drug boats, and if so, why not use them? Too far away from an airfield? I don't expect they can operate from a carrier...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:30 PM (QGRvm)
Maybe he could anally inhalate, Like Le Petomane.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (9iyS+)
Folks also fart whilst asleep...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
Order… Arms!! Salute!
At that exact moment I let go of a tremendous fart, really spectacular. I mean, it was probably uncalled for, but it was an amazing confluence of synchronicity and I felt compelled to share it with everyone. Everyone else just died laughing while holding their salutes at attention. I played it straight, naturally, with a look of mild disgust on my face, it weren’t me that would sully such an important aspect of drill and ceremony, no sir. The platoon sergeant just waved his arm and walked away, realizing the futility of trying to restore any sort of order to a bunch of miscreants.
Posted by: Ya Had To Be There at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (5MnqL)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (VY2EQ)
I thought Bismarck was a herring...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR)
I thought Bismark was German...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
What you described is not a taco. It may keep you alive in an emergency but calling it a taco - My god man, you are flirting with demons there!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (uv8gn)
*calls-in for tomorrow night, just in case*
If I've got to drive out to BIL tomorrow, won't be back until Thursday night. Friday if things don't go right...
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
Just leave your recipes, we got you!
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:19 PM (p6ZQj)
Enjoy ...
Not at all sad that Florida is down on it's luck this year.
(3-0 Sabres mid-way 2nd)
Posted by: browndog clearing the zone at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (3sXRv)
----
They treated her like a freak because she was beautiful. Women, generally speaking, won't stand up for other women that are prettier than they are. And weak men are more than willing to pile on with denigrating beautiful women.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (VY2EQ)
...
and in your chili too, probably.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cast Iron Stomach at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 10:29 PM (sAmhv)
Minot is a city. Not huge, but respectable in size. Comparable to Spokane, maybe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (QGRvm)
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I used to work with an entire crew of guys, what could seemingly *fart at will*
Boss man walked into a Green Cloud and Colorful Metaphors one time, made an awful face.. turned to me (the only female on the team) and shouted "How can you stand it?!"
JQ replied: "Cram my earplugs in a little deeper, and not breathe through my nose."
Boss man stormed off. But I know he was desperately holding back a hearty laugh!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:33 PM (XuXeR)
I thought it was a donut
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)
White knighting for a sex tape queen ?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
Cheescake, or pie?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (npFr7)
A bit redundant, wouldn't you say...
Posted by: man
................................
Bismarck is a city, technically.
Posted by: Puddleglum
NoDak's only 6-figure city is Fargo. 126K humans in the 2020 census. Bismarck is 2nd at 74K.
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (nhCoE)
When my boys were little, one of the things I would do at bedtime is I would put son 1 in a blanket and haul him in like Santa Claus and dump him in bed, then do the same for son 2. We called it Bag o' Boy. We also did something we called "The Stanley Cup" because at the time they both weighed about 34 pounds. They would take a running start and leap at me and I would hoist them above my head. this kept up until they were both way more than 34 pounds.
They are now men. I love them fiercely. But I miss those little guys.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: JFK at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
If there's soil and water it can be done. There's a desert to the east of San Diego, and entire valley, known for it's agriculture, and it's in the desert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Oh, wait, you wrote dessert...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Cast Iron Stomach at December 09, 2025
You may need to reset your gut biome!
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:35 PM (QGRvm)
And Stripperella...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (VY2EQ)
Yes, and too many asses too, me being one of them. LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo
This is the cutest thing.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:39 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (8cPKb)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (ynpvh)
For a beer
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (JkO4W)
Michelle Malkin@michellemalkin . 19 Apr 2022
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She's baaack _ _ _ COMING SOON. The return of Michelle Malkin and a new podcast series.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 09, 2025 10:40 PM (8cPKb)
"How many fingers am I holding up?"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (vefQN)
Posted by: President Emeritus at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Exactly! Just because you can put something in a tortilla, it doesn't make it a taco... sheesh 🙄!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (XuXeR)
When my boys were little, one of the things I would do at bedtime is I would put son 1 in a blanket and haul him in like Santa Claus and dump him in bed, then do the same for son 2. We called it Bag o' Boy. We also did something we called "The Stanley Cup" because at the time they both weighed about 34 pounds. They would take a running start and leap at me and I would hoist them above my head. this kept up until they were both way more than 34 pounds.
They are now men. I love them fiercely. But I miss those little guys.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)
Great stuff! I did similar things with my boys. My favorite was letting them jump up and down on a bed and body slamming them onto the mattress.
Now they're both in their 20s and strong enough to body slam me standing still.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09
And all she did was stop wearing makeup. If she throws some cc cream on, a little blush, and mascara she looks very, very different. Add a full face of makeup up and she is very much looking like an older version of the earlier on screen Pamela.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
What you described is not a taco. It may keep you alive in an emergency but calling it a taco - My god man, you are flirting with demons there!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (uv8gn)
Fried breaded crispy meat, a folded tortilla, salsa. Behold, a taco!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Tons of farming in the Yuma area.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)
There’s a pretty girl behind every tree in Minot.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I)
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
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Ask him something about metallurgy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (ynpvh)
Tons of farming in the Yuma area.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (9iyS+)
And along I-8 east of Yuma too. Irrigation is a wonderful invention.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
Go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors.
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (4786I)
One of the most impressive Mao quotes I've read: "When you eat a lot, you sh!t alot". Very deep.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:45 PM (ynpvh)
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Ask him something about metallurgy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W)
He doesn't return my calls anymore.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
She also got an old lady hairdo . Why so defensive about a Hollywood sex tape,, liberal B celebrity all the sudden?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Doof a
Yes please!
Posted by: Some Rat
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I asked Doof about a shot called the "erne" forgot how he explained it - something about flamboyant. Maybe.
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W)
You can also go to Xinjiang Province and fix tractors too.
Posted by: Mao at December 09, 2025 10:47 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)
Note to self: wear camo, next trip through Minot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:36 PM (VY2EQ)
Cheescake, or pie?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:38 PM (npFr7)
Out-of-work Cobblers
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Doof a
Yes please!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)
I feel like you're trolling me but I'll play along...
Stay out of the kitchen
I got it -- switch!
Cross-court dink
Whose serve is it?
ATP (around the post)
Erne
Stacking
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (p6ZQj)
They lied. Their explanation is that women's fart have more stink in them. They don't say why.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 09, 2025 10:48 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (uv8gn)
Made a catchy tune, too
/Johnny Horton
----
He made a niche by recording songs about historical events. To this day I love this one--the battle of New Orleans:
"In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."
He locked in to that niche.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
BUT not a complete protein. I believe beans and corn do together.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Arizona has pretty sane water management policies, unlike California.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Pervy Grin at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (M1f92)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (VY2EQ)
Good for you, sir!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Sumerians at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
In the Operation Black Buck, UK Vulcan Bombers flew non-stop, refueling in flight, from Ascension Island to bomb the Port Stanley airfield and radar complex, then held by Argentine forces.
Though the one hit on the airstrip made it not suitable for jet operations, the damage done by the air raid was considered "minimal"
The damage may have forced the Argentine Air Force to fly their Mirages out from the mainland, which restricted their time over the Falklands.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Was fascinated as a kid looking out the window in the back seat at how they could grow crops - the drive down 395 from Spokane to the Tri-Cities.
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I)
Fly by Night...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Arizona has pretty sane water management policies, unlike California.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)
Well, Kali is good at pissing away water for a tiny fish, and great at destroying dams to return things back to a more "natural" condition (except when it comes to dams that supply water to the Dem areas--can't touch those even though they caused terrible environmental damage).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (4786I)
It's there. Did you find it?
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (p6ZQj)
Was this during the oil boom? They were paying McDonald's employees over $25 an hour at one time. That was around 2012-13.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Was fascinated as a kid looking out the window in the back seat at how they could grow crops - the drive down 395 from Spokane to the Tri-Cities.
Posted by: scampydog at December 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)
Flying in a plane, a kid saw the round fields in the midwest and his dad goes, "You see those round ones? Aliens did that!"...LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (ynpvh)
Stay out of the kitchen
I got it -- switch!
Cross-court dink
Whose serve is it?
ATP (around the post)
Erne
Stacking
Posted by: Doof
Nope, not trolling. However, without letting the cat out of the bag....you will not see a penny of the commission! (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Just Axin' at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
It's a magical fruit!
Also good with beef.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Pervy Grin at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (M1f92)
Correct. No need for the duh.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
Yes, an A-10 would mess up a boat, but they are not designed to land on a carrier. They also need a nearby friendly airbase to operate out of, something that is in short supply in that area.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (4vy8h)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Complete proteins cannot be obtained from vegetables.
To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included.
NY Strip is acceptable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (TfUTr)
Alrighty then. I guess this will make sense to me some day.
*heads to the Club to make EVERY table wobbly*
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Just Axin'
Pedestrian. The witch that hit him had a bunch of drugs in her car and a has police that includes something like 80 arrests.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 09, 2025 10:54 PM (4vy8h)
Gitmo?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (npFr7)
Good for you, sir!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)
He looks like Rachel Maddow
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (KDPiq)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
I've made tacos with the nopales I've made (1/3 cactus, 1/3 tomatoes, 1/3 onions, various spices). I add other stuff to it. I make tacos out of the Chicharrones en Salsa Verde I would make. When I'm really lazy, I've taken meat loaf and shoved it into a taco with extra sauce to make a burrito. Easier to eat that way than with a knife and fork.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yeah, the doctrine of prior appropriation. AZ water issue gets adventurous with the CAP / Colorado River allotment.
Posted by: scampydog - used to deal with some of that at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)
144 Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:42 PM (p4NUW)
She also got an old lady hairdo . Why so defensive about a Hollywood sex tape,, liberal B celebrity all the sudden?
Posted by: the way I see it at December
Her tape was stolen, plus she is an actress and not a paragon of virtue. But she did raise 2 boys and got them out of LA so they could be normal growing up. They are well spoken and successful, they speak highly of her as a mom. She is genetically gifted, old lady haircut or not.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (uv8gn)
Grateful Dead had a woman singer named Godbout. I wonder if the perp is a relative? Not exactly a common surname.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M)
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans . . ."
He locked in to that niche.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
***
Indeed he did. I grew up playing on that property, the national monument. In 1965, the 150th anniversary, they added a long breastwork with replica cannon and a visitor center (which had originally been housed in the old plantation house about a hundred yards away). Sometime in the last twenty years they turned the battlefield, the cemetery, and the land between (which had been a neighborhood called Fazendeville), into a big park with a drive-through road featuring huge plaques with details about the battle.
I miss my old playground, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:56 PM (KDPiq)
I smugly rest my case.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Complete proteins cannot be obtained from vegetables.
To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included.
NY Strip is acceptable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (c35xG)
Complete proteins do not mean complete nutrition. Vegans often struggle to get enough vitamin B12, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and omega-3 fatty acids in their diet.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:53 PM (VY2EQ)
They saw what China does to countries that owe them money.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Doof
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Rat, I'll distract him. He keeps shims in his travel trailer - put the sneak on.
Posted by: scampydog - used to deal with some of that at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (41CYW)
Every abuela in Las Cruces, NM just stroked out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
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You know that you are arguing with tio Jim?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:00 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 10:57 PM (c35xG)
The Warthog has the GAU-8 (?) rotary cannon. Massive rate of fire; intended to destroy tanks. It ought to turn those drug boats into wood chips.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:00 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 10:52 PM (uv8gn)
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This is very funny
Ai! Los gringos locos!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 11:01 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Thought it was about complete proteins.
Only thing I know about nutrition is that nitrites, nitrates, and sulfides give me a headache.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+)
Where it's ILLEGAL for Coloradans to capture rainwater in a rain barrel or cistern...that water is already allocated!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (npFr7)
===
She was Donna Jean Godcheaux
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M)
Well, since everyone who took Leqembi I, II, and III are dead, sound like a reasonable precaution to take, doesn't it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (npFr7)
To obtain complete proteins dairy products must be included.
NY Strip is acceptable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends
If you are eating a varied diet, you don’t need to get hung up on complete or not. Foods will even out any missing amino acids we can’t make on our own. Unless you are vegan, then you need to protein compliment.
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
My famous Chicken Livers fried in butter with cheddar and cottage cheese burritos.
My famous Rice, Beans, Corned Beef and Chutney burritos
My famous Rice, Beans, Kimchi, and Asian BBQ pork burritos
My favorite Beans, Rice and Gochujang burritos.
Fusion, man. THAT is how my heartburn feels.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pervy Grin
Correct. No need for the duh.
Posted by: Doof
Singing drummer chicks > Singing drummer dudes
https://youtu.be/3_Vys58zvTk
https://youtu.be/74LVRkcQwBQ?t=68
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:03 PM (A0sqA)
You are right. Faulty Peon memory!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wouldn't play well on home videos.
...er, except for select audiences.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG)
...er, except for select audiences.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG)
Like here.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq)
My, my. Prudishness on a Tuesday?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
My famous Chicken Livers fried in butter with cheddar and cottage cheese burritos.
My famous Rice, Beans, Corned Beef and Chutney burritos
My famous Rice, Beans, Kimchi, and Asian BBQ pork burritos
My favorite Beans, Rice and Gochujang burritos.
Fusion, man. THAT is how my heartburn feels.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR)
YES. I've put Vietnamese chicken in a tortilla. Korean bulgogi. Peking duck leftovers (although it kinda comes with a rice tortilla to begin with). Beef, pork, chicken, fish...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:06 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Keyboardist Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (VY2EQ)
I thought Bismarck was a herring...
I thought Bismark was German...
Huh. I just watched a vid about the discovery of a mysterious sealed chamber on the wreck of the Bismarck. (19m)
https://youtu.be/yko53DEzkMw
I have nothing to contribute about flatulence tonight. Didn't even read the parts of the post about that. Dining.
Posted by: mindful webworker - vladimeer pootin? at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (yqA/D)
The fact that we are even making comparisons shows how off the rails we are. If you go back and look at his record, Obama bombed and droned the crap out the Middle East and northern Africa and nobody cared. Certainly nobody on the left. He even blew up a wedding and our betters yawned.
But when Trump takes out terrorists who have killed more Americans that have died in all our wars combined we have to get out the rule book to make sure we are killing them the right way.
Bomb them, machine gun them, fart them to death, I do not care. Just end them.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Texas and New Mexico just wrapped up a years long, maybe even decades long, legal fight over if New Mexico was or was not screwing Texas out of its Rio Grande allocation coming out of the Elephant Butte reservoir near Truth or Consequences, NM. I am of the opinion that Texas paid off the judge that made the final decision.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq)
My favorite dish. The plum sauce is what makes it for me.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:09 PM (KDPiq)
I made duck fried rice once using Chinese duck with the sauce it came with. Was really good...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
I lived on lentils and rice for about a year. We had other things with it, but mostly lentils and rice. It was a complete protein, but I never eat lentils any more.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
Fry bread is orders of magnitude better.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 10:49 PM (VY2EQ)
When they are fresh they burn my toes, and when they cool off they make my socks all sticky. I will stick to eating them with ice cream, thank you.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at December 09, 2025 10:58 PM (C4H5M)
Well, since everyone who took Leqembi I, II, and III are dead, sound like a reasonable precaution to take, doesn't it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Is Trump taking Leqembi?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:12 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:13 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Pete B. at December 09, 2025 11:13 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:12 PM (c35xG)
Leqembi sounds like Cheetah's understudy in an old Tarzan movie.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions
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OUTRAGEOUS!!! You know that no one from Texas would ever do a thing like that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home.
Posted by: Berserker
65 rounds per second, where each round is the size of your forearm and throws a depleted-uranium tank-armor-piercing projectile, is a bit much for a flimsy speedboat.
Or we could break out the B52s and 2000-pound bombs, too. There's no kill like overkill.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:16 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:17 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
It would totally shred the boats. The problem is the pilot having to deal with that carpenter 158 steel 4 hour atomic erection he would have getting in the way on the flight home.
Posted by: Berserker
65 rounds per second, where each round is the size of your forearm and throws a depleted-uranium tank-armor-piercing projectile, is a bit much for a flimsy speedboat.
Or we could break out the B52s and 2000-pound bombs, too. There's no kill like overkill.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:16 PM (nhCoE)
Do not forget that A-10s can be air refueled. Problem is, due to basing issues it would be tricky to get them exactly where they are needed at exactly the right time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (4786I)
Wouldn't play well on home videos.
...er, except for select audiences.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:05 PM (c35xG)
Did you notice that in the Gulf the USN is taking out the boats by missile, and in the Pacific the Coast Guard and USN are shooting the engines and boarding?
The Pacific boats are from Colombia and Ecuador, not Venezuela.
That means something, but I am waiting to find out just what it means.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
Unfortunately, it was a Wet FART while talking to the Prime Minister of Rwanda.
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Or a weird drum, or maybe a stringed instrument, played by some world-music band.
https://youtu.be/nD1f1Ian0kA
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Crusader
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You've never had mom's peach cobbler.
Do you like milk with your pie? mmmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:17 PM (VY2EQ)
I expect a fast-moving speedboat would be a hard target to hit with any torpedo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:19 PM (npFr7)
Unfortunately, it was a Wet FART while talking to the Prime Minister of Rwanda.
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 11:18 PM (J9q9v)
totally ruined the drapes behind him...
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (2WIwB)
Bomb them, machine gun them, fart them to death, I do not care. Just end them.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)
You didn't mention that Obama liked to "double-tap" his hits, so he could kill the first responders too.
Very Chinese way of fighting.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:20 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: scampydog
*********
? Tri-Cities....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)
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Mrs. F.'s blueberry crumble with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, melting all over.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (A0sqA)
Did you notice that in the Gulf the USN is taking out the boats by missile, and in the Pacific the Coast Guard and USN are shooting the engines and boarding?
The Pacific boats are from Colombia and Ecuador, not Venezuela.
That means something, but I am waiting to find out just what it means.
Posted by: Kindltot
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One could posit several theories. Very interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:02 PM (9iyS+)
How about international treaties? There’s one I know of between the U.S. and Mexico in regards to Rio Grande water.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (4786I)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:08 PM (ynpvh).
Well, no. At some point, if you push it too far, they become gyros.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at December 09, 2025 11:23 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:21 PM (IQ6Gq)
Richland, Pasco, Kennewick WA.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I *think* the strikes were carried out by the Navy, no A10's.
Posted by: Barky's two-pound curls at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (VY2EQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)
Or doner kebab.
Mmm. me hungry now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, slowly shuts notebook at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland
https://is.gd/WEsFzv
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)
Thanks Pug...now to go look them up on google maps...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 09, 2025 11:25 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 11:22 PM (4786I)
Canada/USA regarding Columbia and Kootenay rivers, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)
youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:29 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Crusader
Me neither.
Hate 'em in fact.
Posted by: guy who also does not like cobs at December 09, 2025 11:30 PM (wL+h0)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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'Running straight, warm, and mostly normal'
Posted by: Weapons Officer at December 09, 2025 11:31 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)
Would be the tree in the park? The one with an iron fence around it. That one, cause there aren't any others?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania
What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1)
Mrs. F.'s blueberry crumble with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, melting all over.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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What cruelty with sugary words he visits upon us.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 11:34 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 11:24 PM (VY2EQ)
My lab partner in college biology was from Kennewick.
Redhead...smart...and funny.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:36 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (rbvCR)
European leaders: ‘I think they’re weak.’” They’re weak on the international stage, but they are thugs at home. Trump observes: “They talk, but they don’t produce.”
Minnesota: “I don’t want to see Somalia. I don’t want to see a woman that, you know, marries her brother to get in and then becomes a congressman and does nothing but complain. All she does is complain, complain, complain, and yet her country’s a mess. You know, it’s, uh, one of the worst in the world. Uh, let her go back, fix up her own country.”
https://tinyurl.com/akmu7hy7
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 09, 2025 11:42 PM (4I7QN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iuhHAQBPM8
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tankdemon
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Haha, hold yer cup out... what would you like added to it?
*ready at the bar*
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 11:43 PM (snZF9)
Brandon Herrera is not exactly Ian McCollum, is he?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 11:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (JkO4W)
It would.. Probably, without aerial refueling...couldn't land on a carrier. I would guess they use missiles cause they don't even want to take a chance somebody gets lucky with a shoulder fired AA missile and gives the media a chance to say "Trump is killing our troops!!!"
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 09, 2025 11:51 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:52 PM (1zOXE)
This Board of Supervisors meeting comes close.
https://tinyurl.com/worstofSF
Posted by: Worst of San Francisco at December 09, 2025 11:53 PM (jrb8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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LOL! When Dad was ill, I stopped by every day to make sure he ate & took his meds, did his housework & stuff... Rarely got a break and the laundry was always a mess.
ONE TIME, my older bro filled in for me. Dad thought he'd be cute & do "the ol' one-cheek sneak" LMAO, he sharted *big time* and bro had to clean it up!!!!
Hahahaha, served bro right.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 11:53 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)
I have a question from the 'No Shock: Tech Company Offers $60/Hour' thread.
Has anyone determined the citizenship status and/or work authorization status of the owners/executives of LanceSoft?
I suspect that they they are, at best, Green Card holders.
I recall a lawsuit against Intellitron, a placement service, IIRC, in Plano TX, in the 2007-2011 era. It seems that Intellitron was, indeed, placing US Citizens in tech jobs in the US.
But for everyone placed, it was alleged that 19 H1-Bs (Indian) were placed. The suit was settled out of court.
To some degree, this is old news, actually very old news, as we saw this with the Chinese H1-Bs in the 1980's. Once a section had 2 or 3 Chinese H1-Bs, the rest of the rest of the section followed, and eventually the company. I experienced a failed attempt in 2000. I and a Chinese H1-Bs were hired. He then hired 5 Chinese H1-Bs (in Santa Clara CA). He was let go 1 year later, due to sub-performance, and some of the employees followed him.
Posted by: Arbalest at December 09, 2025 11:59 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (c35xG)
Doesn't matter that California was a Free State and outlawed chattel slavery when they entered the Union in 1850 to these brainiacs.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Philip at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (EZ8Gq)
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (xRKBa)
and the current temperature on Mars!
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:05 AM (xRKBa)
EPIC City, recently rebranded as The Meadow, is a proposed Islamic housing development in North Texas that has drawn controversy throughout the year.
According to the lawsuit, CCP—formed by EPIC as a vehicle to purchase and develop more than 400 acres in Hunt and Collin counties—engaged in fraudulent practices while soliciting investments for the EPIC City project. Promotional materials allegedly described the development as the “epicenter of Islam in North America” and implied it would be reserved for Muslims, despite assurances to the contrary.
- - > Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC),
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:06 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:03 AM (c35xG)
It didn't look like they were sure it wouldn't explode. If it did, a rare 1 of a kind is lost forever, not to mention what he paid for it, which if I heard it right was around 90K. Ouch.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:07 AM (snZF9)
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania
What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1)
A for effort
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 12:07 AM (p6ZQj)
Of course I probably have no clue,Morons. I am neither in despair or in a one sided love.
I am,however, enraged at the USPS for having a package disappear this week that held birthday and Christmas gifts for my elderly mother (some of you think, hey, Christy is elderly!That would be correct. My mother is uber elderly but still with it and uses her computer). So there's that despair which equates to mostly irritation.
There's something in the redneck water in that both of my grandmothers lived into their 90's and she is as well. I sort of don't think I will and that's fine because I live and laugh hard and unrestrained.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:08 AM (WONhk)
We don't deserve him...
President answers dumb questions from Fake News whilst flying on Air Force-1.
1. Notice Karoline cute little sweet face in the background, keeping an eye out for The Boss.
2. President tells a Fake News idiot to not break things on Air Force One.
https://is.gd/UumW2K
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:11 AM (xRKBa)
My grannies both made it to 79. Mom made it to 64. I may or may not have much time left.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
The big deal for the Vulcan, and also its swan song, was the Falklands War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck
Posted by: Vulcan Enthusiast at December 10, 2025 12:14 AM (jrb8m)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:14 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (c35xG)
Ol' Publius is the middle of a moderate RA flare, and ain't feeling so hot. Swelling in the wrist, and typing. This is due to not taking the last dose of the TNF blocker they've got me on due to shingles bout. :sigh: I'll be okay, just a bitch for now.
If you want to know the pressure anywhere, got to ventusky.com. For temperature on Mars, nothing rings a bell, but I'm sure there's some rover and orbiter data available somewhere. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:12 AM (rdVOm)
You're too ornery to go anywhere any time soon. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (snZF9)
Oooh, some mild turbulence on Air Force-1
In clip above, President answers Fake News' questions AND stays quite steady during bumpy ride.
biden would've been rolling over the floor...if he was awake.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
Most recent weather in Gale Crater from Curiosity:
https://is.gd/tzFKpj
Latest is Sol 4737 (Dec. 3). High of 27F, low of -99F.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:20 AM (w6EFb)
I would like to thank you, sir, for your music on the ONT. Without music (ok, and nature and art and food and mountains and snow and wine and my husband and babies and sons and grands, etc) life would be very bland.
I don't want a bland life and have never been bored. Seriously. Life has always been good to me and always will. Find blessings, Morons and 'ettes...even in bad times. Look up! Always look up!
This is a song dedicated to my eldest son who is a professional saxophone musician. Who tried music for awhile and teaching. Then became an engineer to support his wife and life. But he will always be the Sax Man to me, our boy. We remain thankful he never had to busk in the subway in NYC.We learned a lot about jazz and big bands from him and his trumpet playing brother over very loud years.
https://tinyurl.com/356xbccc
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:20 AM (WONhk)
Rest your paws, Publius.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:22 AM (xRKBa)
In clip above, President answers Fake News' questions AND stays quite steady during bumpy ride.
biden would've been rolling over the floor...if he was awake.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa)
Biden would have been throwing his shit on the wall like a zoo ape.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 12:22 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at December 10, 2025 12:23 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:24 AM (w6EFb)
_Newsmax
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:25 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:15 AM (c35xG)
Talkin' to me? If so, thanks for asking! I have no idea but I ripped that off and FedEx'd it to, no doubt, an AI place. I have no idea when I will know the results. As a RN I did take my pulse now and then when I was wearing it and noted occasional skipped beats or pauses, but never for more than 1 Mississippi (second). No symptoms and certainly no more fainting to indicate this is abnormal or the reason I passed out like a loon.
Regardless, and I reckon it will be 2026 before I see a cardiologist, I feel fine. No matter what comes at us we'll deal with it. Sure, sometimes I think,"Oh, no!" then I tell myself to knock it off as I am blessed and all will be well.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (sAmhv)
And finally for context, it's early spring for Mar's southern hemisphere (early fall for the North).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)
299 Theme of the three songs: Pennsylvania
Squonk: a mythical creature in Pennsylvania
What I Like About You: featured in The Office, which is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Weight: set in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Posted by: WAG at December 09, 2025 11:33 PM (LAJY1)
A for effort
Posted by: Can't figure it out at December 10, 2025 12:31 AM (jrb8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 12:16 AM (xRKBa)
Turbulence has not fazed us since we had a newborn on a flight leaving MS for the West. Flew near a tornado on the ground in LA. The plane did a Dutch roll deal, leveled out, and dropped straight down thousands of feet.
This was during the Civil War times where everyone was fed. We were in bulkhead behind first class and there was no food or anything left on trays. Everything was on the floor. Bins opened and stuff flew out. It happened in seconds and there was collective ooooh vocals like on a carnival ride but no screaming lunatics. I reached for our baby on my husband's shoulder to (I guess) help hold him. All the 8wk old did was burp, so he was fine and we laughed.
A flight attendent ran by for a first aid kit and had giant hives on her neck, which I noted and told my husband. We all applauded on landing and got on another flight.
Once, flying to Orlando when I used to fly every month, I was in the loo doing my bidness when turbulence hit. I surprised the flight attendents coming out and going to my seat, unfazed.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (WONhk)
Only one sibling is in touch (of 3) same deal, mostly...
I am *alone in the world* but for lil bro and The Horde. Oh, and the BIL-- when he needs help.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
When you reach 29 years old never trust a fart.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:47 PM (1zOXE)
In desperate times, one employs the 'Doug Pinch' while standing. Cross your legs and lean back
Posted by: a dude in MI at December 10, 2025 12:39 AM (+I6Y/)
The waning gibbous moon drifts through cosmic currents
It's silver light waning like entropy's quiet decay
Gravity's unseen dance pulling tides and thoughts toward
the void's infinite whisper.
Posted by: Miklos got learnt by Publius and J. Gordon Coogler at December 10, 2025 12:40 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (Vvh2V)
Hey, would you please run the bar tomorrow night? I may need to go out of town & offline. Fambly in trouble...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:43 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)
I'm glad you are doing well. Second opinions exist for a reason.
Being a nurse you know yourself and your body so don't take yourself from the HQ. OK?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (c35xG)
I see a cardiologist yearly. My next appointment is next week. I was having a procedure done today and the outpatient surgery center said I didn't need a cardiologist clearance. Then the doctor's scheduler called me around 2:30 yesterday to cancel because the anesthesiologist wanted one. Then my doctor called be directly to ask some questions and decided that I didn't need one so he called the anesthesiologist to clear it with him. What a mess. After all that back and forth, they did proceed and I got my procedure done. Now I'm on drugs waiting for my son to get home so I can go. To sleep.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (VCgbV)
Thank goodness he got refunded!
In every supply chain, at least one wacko lurks.
Posted by: gp at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (GHIyr)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:52 AM (VCgbV)
Also, I noted Linda McMahon in a close up photo today and had to look up her age. I realize this is petty as she is doing good things...but, man. I have some supermodel tips for her that don't involve botox or injections. Lay off the eyeliner, honey!Granted, I don't need it, but wow. Also the pancake make up.
A decade ago I worked with a lady maybe a decade younger than me. She wore eyeliner under her lower lid, but not the top. I really wanted to tell her not to do this but refrained. I have to refrain myself a lot.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:54 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:56 AM (c35xG)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (VCgbV)
Sleep well, sweet lady. And may all this be worked out for the best.
I am the worst patient of all time. My father believed in not going to the doctor unless he had to. I did not agree with him at the time but now I do and I am sure he's laughing from heaven.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 12:57 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: JQ
Time and and half
*checks*
Double the hourly
And tell the miscreants to keep their mitts out the tip jar
Posted by: Unionized Miklos Teamster at December 10, 2025 12:58 AM (N7hqt)
I have become that whack-a-mole machine. Every time I trying to fix a health issue, another one or two pops up. Then I have to fix that one and something else pops up. I have about 3 issues on my back burner I need to get looked at... getting old is not for the weak!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:01 AM (VCgbV)
I bartended for over 10 years in case that Mikalos is trying to rip you off....
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:03 AM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 12:26 AM (sAmhv)
On my father side my grandfather went to 95, grandmother went to 93. Mom's side my grandmother went to 85, granfather went to 76. Mom's side was a train wreck health wise, all over the map, but a couple of them reached very early 90's. Father's side seems to live forever, he's 87, his brother is 92, his sister is 90. All sharp as a tack. None of my grandparents smoked, my father's father drank 2 glasses of wine every day, died at 95, had all his teeth, and didn't take any meds, not even aspirin.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:04 AM (snZF9)
I have become that whack-a-mole machine. Every time I trying to fix a health issue, another one or two pops up. Then I have to fix that one and something else pops up. I have about 3 issues on my back burner I need to get looked at... getting old is not for the weak!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:01 AM (VCgbV)
I hope 2026 will be much better for you. I've felt this way at times this year as well. Then I remember what others go through and slap myself and go on.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:09 AM (WONhk)
JQ, what's going on with you, can I help in any way?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:09 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended
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Had an in office consultation with the electrophyologist about my pacemaker installation and it was agreed upon a general anesthesiology.
We're in the OR and an assistant is tying my hand to the rail. Why are you tying my hand. He explains that I might move - exposing that we're not having a general but a local.
NO. we're having a general - shorten the story - after a 30 minute argument between me and the surgeon it was agreed that he (it's against the rule for him to put me under) he will sedate me to the closest to unconscious as possible.
1. I have an unusual capacity for sedatives (hilarity in the OR otherwise called harassing the surgeon)
2. He is no longer my Doc.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 01:11 AM (c35xG)
I did not order that
Maybe Darleen is trying to lose some weight so she can get in the door without the side-wise hustle.
Or who knows what the hell else
Posted by: Milkos has Questions at December 10, 2025 01:12 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: pawn at December 10, 2025 01:13 AM (EMg+d)
I did not order that
Maybe Darleen is trying to lose some weight so she can get in the door without the side-wise hustle.
Or who knows what the hell else
Posted by: Milkos has Questions
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That damned accidental philanthropy.
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (41CYW)
That would freak me out!
Of course I was awake when they placed a cardiac stent after my heart attack 10 years ago. I didn't feel a thing except relief when they cleared the blockage. I didn't even know what they were doing to be honest. Every thing happened so fast once they finally figured out I was having a heart attack.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (VCgbV)
Being a nurse you know yourself and your body so don't take yourself from the HQ. OK?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 12:51 AM (c35xG
Thanks. The next time I feel hot I will lie down wherever I am and elevate my legs over my heart and tense my muscles (this puts blood back into your brain). In wearing a dress it causes excitement for others, too.
An ED doc told me to do this the first time after I was tested for everything 4yrs ago. This time, being in church, I thought, nah vs walking out with the "Hey, here comes syncope! warning." Pride doth goeth before a faint (in this case, I did not hit the floor). So if I am deep in conversation with President Trump or Mel Gibson and I feel it coming on I will excuse myself and lie down. Ha!
So, twice I have not had enough water and rushed like a loon and !hello! If it IS my heart I will consider it a blessing, or try to, that it could have gotten worse without the excitement.
If it isn't it is still a good thing to lose 30lbs since covid and get my act together. A win win is how I am looking at the ordeal.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I plan to live as long as I can, so that my Golden Years will be spent fucking with people who seriously need some Old School lessons.
Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: lin-duh
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Hahaha, thanks. Step in if you like!
Not sure whether I need to make the drive yet, but planning on it just in case.
Miklos: *This ain't no union shop!* Talk to 3D's about pay! Not my call, there.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 10, 2025 01:22 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (VCgbV)
You think that was relief, try a quad bypass. I felt like I was in a twilight zone episode where they stuck my brain into a 20 year old body. For the first few weeks I kept saying this body isn't mine. I would sit in a chair and feel absolutely nothing, I was just a consciousness, like disembodied . It was unreal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:24 AM (snZF9)
My brothers also lit farts and I remain unsure how they explained scortch marks in their whitey tidies to our mother. It was not my problem when they told me.
I do have a class act on the subject: I am very good with hand farts since junior high. Different pitches and can set it to the beat of music. Our grandson thinks it is magic. I am such a weird grandmother compared to my own refined Southern ladies. Whatever!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:25 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: scampydog
Sir
I have paid for more soup kitchen meals than I have eaten.
I go sometimes, to see if they are getting my money's worth.
Less grifty
https://www.olivergospel.org/
Still trying to help the org that mikehammer recommended
Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:25 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 01:26 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:27 AM (0nHVk)
*pours drinks for both of us*
BIL was driving from somewhere West Coast (likely WA state) and headed for Tucson.
A wheel flew off of his 5th wheel, somewhere in S. Idaho. He's at a rest area, trying to get a replacement. (can't find the one that came off). Called an outfit, but refuses to let them tow his trailer to their shop. (I don't know if they were trying to take advantage?)
He's deaf. 70-71 y/o, widowed, no kids, on SS/has been on disability all his life. Not the sharpest in the drawer. Hubby and I are the only family he has left.
Waiting to hear from him again, and may end up driving there to help him get back on the road. I don't want him to stay here... his trailer would get impounded if he leaves it too long, and I'm not sure he understands that.
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
I plan to live as long as I can, so that my Golden Years will be spent fucking with people who seriously need some Old School lessons.
Posted by: Miklos has land mines under his lawn at December 10, 2025 01:17 AM (N7hqt
I'm 71yrs going on 23yrs and still rocking. I alarmed my husband and sons last year telling them I consider the 70's to be my eccentric decade. My husband asked what does that mean and was relieved to hear I intend to wear more hats vs further horror to them. They never know what I will do in public, altho I try to behave.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:29 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:28 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, wow. Hope it all works out.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:31 AM (WONhk)
I have paid for more soup kitchen meals than I have eaten.
I go sometimes, to see if they are getting my money's worth.
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Meant no offense. Tip of the cap to you for doing such things. Much respect.
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:33 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: JQ
I am on the Dental Plan
No complaints
But these dentures are not good for bottled beer opening.
Which oughta be there
Posted by: Miklos stands with All Noble Peoples and Against the Nations of Whiners and Complainers at December 10, 2025 01:33 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: scampydog
No offense meant, no offense taken
This whole
I am Offended!
Is bullshit.
I give no one the power to offend me or myself
Sit and be offended, Buttercup
Posted by: Mainly Kindly Miklos at December 10, 2025 01:40 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: JQ
It was 14,900 Comment Points
I think they raised it to 90,009
And canceled the VIP Lounge access too
Posted by: Miklos has the scars to prove it at December 10, 2025 01:43 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 01:29 AM (WONhk)
My eccentric decades started when I was 20. I'm not sure what I'll be like in my 70s. Probably a super villain, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:44 AM (snZF9)
BIL has limited funds, no doubt. I need to see for myself, what I'll be paying for, ya know? This isn't due to mistrust of BIL, but mistrust of *certain business entities* over long distance. BIL is roughly 200 miles away. If he'd just tell me WHICH TF rest area....
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos knows that Mistakes must be Made at December 10, 2025 01:46 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I wanna party with that dude!
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:51 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: DaveA at December 10, 2025 01:51 AM (FhXTo)
Miklos, I missed Mike Hammer's recommendation for a charity donation, yours that you linked to looks very worthwhile indeed.
Hey scampy, I hope that you are ready for the party on Saturday.
Bers, you will have to drop in here after your party has ended.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:52 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos thinks nitro is a good idea anyway at December 10, 2025 01:53 AM (N7hqt)
Dental isn't important-- I gots good teeth.
Regular medical would be great, though. Zerocare is ridiculously expensive and I don't qualify for (likely non-existent now anyway) subsidy due to all the IRA withdrawals for hubby's nursing home...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)
Bers, you will have to drop in here after your party has ended.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Hi DDS, put some 'drafty' stuff together this evening. We'll get it whipped into shape for a fun Saturday Club Christmas Party!
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 01:56 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: scampydog
Scampydog is now registered as Canus Scampiensis, a distinct species in the family Moronensis
Posted by: Miklos sui generis at December 10, 2025 01:59 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 01:52 AM (0nHVk)
Your not coming??
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 01:59 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 10, 2025 02:00 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:02 AM (0nHVk)
I think this is what Mike Hammer was involved with, not 100% sure, because there are similarly named orgs
https://tinyurl.com/bdff47we
Posted by: Miklos does what he can at December 10, 2025 02:07 AM (N7hqt)
Posted by: Miklos was taught actual head banging technique by US Marines at December 10, 2025 02:09 AM (N7hqt)
I just got an email that the missing pkg to my mother made it into the correct state!…
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Yay.
There were three paintings done, of me and my two older brothers as kids. Never thought they were very good likenesses. Mom had them hanging in the hallway for fifty years. After her death, oldest brother's widow got his picture. We got the one of me, which gathers dust in the catacombs with a 1000 other things to sort through.
Middle brother's younger daughter wanted his portrait, so we shipped it off to her up in Oregon. It disappeared en route, and UPS disavowed any knowledge of its existence. This was years ago; it never turned up. That was about the time there was news of train cars being looted, pictures of abandoned goods along the tracks. I wondered if maybe that was its destiny.
I often wonder, when ships go down with containers, when planes crash, trucks burn up, along with ordinary lost items like tvs or cars, what about all the precious and irreplaceable and important things entrusted to shippers that just don't make it! /random ramble
https://youtu.be/OQ4kZOg1poE
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - methane miser at December 10, 2025 02:11 AM (yqA/D)
Bers, every year I swear that I will get contact info from you and Mrs. B., just to stay in touch.
Maybe next October!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos was taught actual head banging technique by US Marines at December 10, 2025 02:09 AM (N7hqt)
If I'm awake. I'm going to have a house full of a metal musicians. We don't have parties after the parties, we do one long party until people pass out. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:16 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 02:17 AM (41CYW)
https://tinyurl.com/4usw78c6
Posted by: Miklos notes that Lawrence Welk and Ilhad Omar are both fron North Dakota, officially at December 10, 2025 02:18 AM (N7hqt)
Maybe next October!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:12 AM (0nHVk)
I thought Mrs B had yours, or else I would have gotten it at the MoMe. Doof and some of the ettes have mine if you needed it fast.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:20 AM (snZF9)
My youngest had an unusual request when he went to college. About two weeks in he asked me to ship him the oil painting of my great uncle Ken. Ken was an interesting character but that is a whole other story, anyway, there was an official portrait of Ken in his judicial robes that I inherited from my parents (he was my Dad's uncle). That painting really creeped my kids out when they were little, they said that the eyes followed them everywhere. So I ship him the painting and it hung proudly in his residence for the 4 1/2 years that he went to school. I came to find out that it was a pre-game college ritual for the boys to raise a glass to Ken before a major football game. Upon graduation he informed me that Ken had gone out with the trash but he was claimed shortly thereafter.
I drinkorated the tree tonight, lots of memories.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 02:23 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I wanna party with that dude!
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe.
And as for eccentric, I do whatever the hell I want to. People do that in Alaska, so I'm not sure if it's eccentric or just Alaska normal. I dress as I please, say what I please, and eat what I please. If you have issues with that, get over them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc88)
Thanks, Debby. It's been stolen more than you know...
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
I should have drinkorated the tree, but it takes 3 days to do as it is. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:45 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc8
yeah, and thats an order. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:46 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 02:51 AM (rdVOm)
tcn, a trip to a MoMe will cure whatever ails you for sure. I am so glad that I got a chance to meet you there.
Sweet dreams Horde, I am off to the scrap pile.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 03:00 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at December 10, 2025 03:08 AM (MRSZC)
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OUT: Atlas Shrugged.
IN: Atlas Plowed.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:12 AM (l/bhe)
Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos with a kick-ass nitro mobility scooter at December 10, 2025 01:49 AM (N7hqt)
Then show the hell up at the TXMoMe.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 10, 2025 02:43 AM (6Bc8
yeah, and thats an order. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 02:46 AM (snZF9)
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You haven't partied until you've partied at a TX MoMe with Berserker!
Ask me how I know?
Good times, good times ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 10, 2025 03:16 AM (l/bhe)
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This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
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This Better Not Be AI Cafe
Kristin_Mae photography
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (LjSYW)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:40 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (tgvbd)
I think the presence of Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent in the foreground is a give away.
Hah! Made you look!
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:43 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:44 PM (T+5zb)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)
It's probably an actual Samoyed puppy in at least a couple scenes, and the rest is fake.
Posted by: Gundo at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (3VsfT)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)
I hope Hadrian fetched em
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
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Cool kids don't need a nood.
*lights cigarette*
*puts on shades*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (vFG9F)
We'll fix it in the next beta.
Posted by: The Hampsters at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:47 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (DoBxX)
So if someone shows up here calling us no-nooding bastages, they'll have to answer to BH.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM (zYpTz)
The Big Dummy walked at today's Space City KC of Palm Bay show, breaking a string of 23 consecutive Best of Breed wins. Apparently it was an ugly day. Spent not a few minutes trying to calm Her Majesty down when she called in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:49 PM (tgvbd)
We did mange to teach him to only bite to draw blood, so that is an improvement
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:51 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 07:52 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 07:52 PM (pkeXY)
It's kind of Dickensian, in a South American sort of way.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (xblT4)
Lol. A video thumbnail on ewetub. 'Noem confesses to Judge Boasberg that she is personally responsible for sending immigrants to torture prisons in El Salvador and he is considering throwing her in Jail for it! Hit 'like' if you want her in jail!'
Fucking lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (zZu0s)
Needs more surf.
Or maybe it's a paddleboarding beaver. Or a kayaking beaver. Or a canoeing beaver.
In which cases, it lost its paddle. Which is funny, since it's a beaver, and making trees into sticks is its entire life. Does it even know how to beave?
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (nhCoE)
One of my kittens went through the velociraptor stage. He calmed down when the other one showed up.
_________
Our last litter out of Delilah can be mouthy. I attribute it to them having lost their mother when they were very young and thus losing someone to teach them manners..
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 07:55 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TUJoG2CsMI8
Bad news? The Human race goes extinct.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:56 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
So if someone shows up here calling us no-nooding bastages, they'll have to answer to BH.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 07:48 PM
* rubs hands in anticipation *
Posted by: BH's Kitchen Table at December 09, 2025 07:59 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:01 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 08:02 PM (nhCoE)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 08:02 PM (Ia/+0)
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
Wtf?! I'd ask if thats real but suttee was a thing. The abduction adds a certain horror.
All cultures are equal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (3uBP9)
Are you the Kraken? Is your wife Sir Laurence Olivier?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)
All cultures are equal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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Except America's. Which is worse than any other.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (tgvbd)
Hadrian, i haven't been here all day and missed it if you posted earlier.
How did the Big Dummy do today? Did the Mrs. make it the rest of the way to Orlando safely?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
Wtf?! I'd ask if thats real but suttee was a thing. The abduction adds a certain horror.
All cultures are equal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
I thought the marriages were all made posthumously...no murder to make the marriage involved. Just match-making between parents of the dead.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)
This one I got from my sister, and I think she got it too young. She claimed he bit her all the time, but I played with him with a stuffed sock with a rattle in it, and he would chew on that to get his aggression out. He would attack the big tom who pretty much just accepted the abuse. Having an age-matched sparring partner helped a lot when the second kitten showed up, though he is getting to be aloof. I think that is mix of his adultish personality and getting to be a teen.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM
As do I.
Posted by: null pointer at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:08 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip
3 Good evening everyone
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4 Good evening everyone
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5 Good evening everyone
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6 Good evening everyone
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7 Good evening everyone
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8 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
If you show up on Sunday's Wall of Shame I'm putting an asterisk next to it!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (p6ZQj)
Bif, see # 27
Posted by: Ben Had
Thank you! {{Hug}}
He'll do better, sorry he didn't make it 24. Boss lady gonna be okay?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (48yvf)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I guess if your culture does arranged marriages anyway, then the timing doesn't matter?
Though you gotta get it exactly right if you want the marriage consummated.
Posted by: rigor mortis at December 09, 2025 08:12 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:13 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:15 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh)
How did the Big Dummy do today? Did the Mrs. make it the rest of the way to Orlando safely?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 09, 2025 08:07 PM (48yvf)
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Thank you for asking. She made it safely. The Big Dummy walked today. HM is fit to be tied about some incidents with respect to that. I had to settle her down when she called in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (tgvbd)
The clues are the inconsistency with the woman's voice, the pup's ears changing shape, the pup looks considerably older with the baby on the floor scene, and something uncanny about the crystal clear windows with nicely lighted snowflakes.
I could be wrong but it all seems to be a bit too perfect.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt)
If China hadn't been busily killing its women for the last several centuries... They managed to solve to problem of men having harems (thus depriving other men of potential wives) by castrating the other men.
I guess this is the modern way of castrating the extra men.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (a+4eV)
- The door handle is all wrong. It is wrong style for the inside, and it appears truncated.
- The fire is all wrong. It is up high in the flu.
- The staircase seems to have a second railing flying above the first.
- That house must have 4 different rugs. One for every scene.
But other than that, I mean, look at it.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (mPytV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (2GVsD)
Yeah, there are always people who are willing to go to that extreme. Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh)
ISWYDT
I move that we adopt this into the vernacular.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz)
Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh)
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Like under government healthcare.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd)
If China hadn't been busily killing its women for the last several centuries... They managed to solve to problem of men having harems (thus depriving other men of potential wives) by castrating the other men.
I guess this is the modern way of castrating the extra men.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (a+4eV)
They import women from other countries. The one child policy had many consequences the PRC either didn't foresee or didn't care about. Maybe it was both, the power of AND and all...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 08:17 PM (mPytV)
I said that last in the coal miners sketch from Monty python. Lol.
'Go'on, what wrong with me?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: bbrown at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (bptYL)
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
I think one could cure that practice by insisting that the parents be buried along with the son, as well.
Probably lead to a lot of nice private simple ceremonies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (MG/ac)
Just like organ donors; some people are willing to kill others to sell their organs.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:20 PM (ynpvh)
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Like under government healthcare.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd)
The PRC has been knows to harvest organs from dissidents...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (tgvbd)
Canada boasting of euthanizing what 16k or 60k? Of its own citizens.
People are fucked up. The devil is real.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
Still better than the Chinese tradition of ghost brides. Son dies unmarried, family goes and buys a girl to kill her and bury with their son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 08:03 PM (2GVsD)
I think one could cure that practice by insisting that the parents be buried along with the son, as well.
Probably lead to a lot of nice private simple ceremonies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 PM (MG/ac)
There are solutions indeed.
Posted by: Zombie Charles James Napier at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (tWxgu)
Canada boasting of euthanizing what 16k or 60k? Of its own citizens.
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I think it's 16K. But the total population of Canada is something like 50K anyway.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
AI!! all of them.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:24 PM (g47mK)
The other thing that I noticed is it has similar "scenes" from other random reels I've seen on IG. The one of the baby doing the finger gun thing is something I've seen on several reels. Also the white dog doing the "aroooo" howl is common on other reels.
AI is asshoe.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:25 PM (p6ZQj)
But, reality
What does it mean?
Kamala Harris to the New York Times:
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
-
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Kamala Harris
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip
3 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
4 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
5 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
6 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
7 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
8 Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip
If you show up on Sunday's Wall of Shame I'm putting an asterisk next to it!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:11 PM (p6ZQj)
***
It's AI Skip.
If this were really Skip, they would be every other entry: 2, 4, 6, etc.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (7stnK)
In a statement shared on X, the Imo State Police Command said their investigation was launched after reports of a worrying spate of kidnappings near a hotel and mortuary in Ngor Okpala.
According to police, intelligence-led investigations went on to identify a man called High Chief Stanley Oparaugo, also known as "Morocco," as the suspected leader of the criminal network and who is now on the run and wanted, per reports."
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
It's gotten progressively better and harder to detect. They have lots of vids on EweToob with female robots are are pretty realistic, but all are AI. Robots don't look that good and are somewhat clumsy...
Contrast and compare:
https://youtu.be/0-MYK_i6gl8
vs
https://youtube.com/shorts/qPPwfoDVGuM
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:27 PM (ynpvh)
Nigeria is doing organ harvesting. "Hundreds of mutilated bodies found in suspected Nigerian organ-harvesting ring....An extensive organ-harvesting ring has been uncovered in Nigeria after weeks of covert surveillance, local officials have said.
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Charming world we live in.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:27 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Mike Porter at December 09, 2025 08:16 PM (I55Xh)
ISWYDT
I move that we adopt this into the vernacular.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 09, 2025 08:21 PM (zYpTz)
Yeah, that's good!
This stuff is fAIke and gAI.
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:23 PM (7stnK)
Case in point: I just saw a thumbnail on ewetub of what looked like the same dog carrying a baby deer home in its mouth.
Fake as fuck. *confirmed*
Book 'em Danno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (zZu0s)
Man, Trump is back in rally mode. And he's on fire. These things energize him like nothing else. He gets on the top of his game at these things. He needs to do this every so often for the rest of his term.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:31 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (sDNVV)
But there is also no way to care for the elderly the traditional way with one couple having to care for 8 grandparents and 4 parents. This was the driver of the real estate investment scam that is blowing up these days.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:31 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 08:28 PM (w6EFb)
Miami had to aggravate him. Miami is stuck on stupid.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:32 PM (KDPiq)
The last several cafes have had some great pics, including this one which is really good at showing an impossible camera shot without HDR and Photoshop available.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:33 PM (6ydKt)
If this were really Skip, they would be every other entry: 2, 4, 6, etc.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 08:26 PM (7stnK)
As long as one of those permits us to have lunch
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 08:33 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)
The Hill
@thehill
"The Marine Corps just had its 250th birthday — now let’s abolish it"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (g47mK)
Oklahoma or Florida?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)
Like a lot of things in internet history, porn will lead the way in advancing cheap, fast, 100% realistic generative AI video.
Them and somebody like a James Cameron who isn't afraid to push technological boundaries in film.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh)
what happened in Oklahoma ?
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (g47mK)
Democrats flip Miami mayor’s office, winning control for first time in nearly 30 years"
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)
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Miami, OH?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:36 PM (ynpvh)
You mean Ohio?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:39 PM (g47mK)
You've got to turn people up to vote to win.
Democrats have all the motivation right now.
I bet turnout was 60% single female.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:35 PM (g47mK)
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Miami, OH?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 PM (tgvbd)
Party ID was not on the ballot in that race. Calling it a flip is a bit shaky.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
Miami most important? On what basis?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
NYC has been Democrat for a long time, dude. Go have a beer.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: dam fine at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (TbWk/)
Miami most important? On what basis?
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (KDPiq)
__________
Hot Latina babes?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (tgvbd)
---
Recently turned on 'current news' to come up with the browser.
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that.
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:42 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: dam fine at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (TbWk/)
I'm afraid to do a web search for surfing beavers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (ynpvh)
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that.
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:42 PM (c35xG)
News has been sourced by tweets for about 15 years now.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+)
That Trump’s big endorsement for Gonzales didn’t help is the biggest concern.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (KDPiq)
Democrat Mark Kelly - U.S. Senator for a state President Trump won in 2024 - calls 1.7 MILLION Arizonians crazy for supporting President Trump:
KELLY: "He has supporters. A lot of those supporters...are crazy."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner
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This was news in 1954.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 09, 2025 08:43 PM (2NHgQ)
I am convinced, most people are detached, entitled fools.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (g47mK)
_________
Cutting a little close there, boyo.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 08:41 PM (8avO+)
I don't like beer.
Democrat Socialist, and Jihadi sponsored - NY
Qatar bought - Miami
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (JL0Wh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)
Hu.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxntmxf
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (ynpvh)
It's Fox and NYP and a couple of others. They must be Ai they are so stupid. First one up today was a killing at a high school. No, who, what, why, where or when. The only name mentioned was the sheriff. Many different articles are like that.
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
I know. I know, it's hard to believe but journalism has gotten worse.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (g47mK)
https://tinyurl.com/mrxntmxf
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:45 PM (ynpvh)
Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 08:44 PM (3uBP9)
I guess judge never heard about the prohibition of legislating from the bench...was he a fed judge or a state judge?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (c35xG)
How many have a University named Miami?😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq)
I'm rooting for injuries
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:48 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:49 PM (viF8m)
How many have a University named Miami?😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq)
Oxford, Ohio has one, or rather it's called Miami University...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:49 PM (ynpvh)
News has been sourced by tweets for about 15 years now.
Posted by: Oldcat
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It's worse than tweets. Usually, the stupidest tweets have a discernible purpose. These articles are vacuous. They suck your brain out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 08:51 PM (c35xG)
:puts up feet:
:pours a coffee:
:camps out here until midnight eastern time when the ONT might show up:
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)
Detroit IS the city of the future if you're filthy rich.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 08:54 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 08:55 PM (g47mK)
That would be a huge platform for the GOP because it's what's got people scared to death.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 09, 2025 08:56 PM (JL0Wh)
So fake. The press hates him so much.
Can you imagine our success as a country if the press was merely neutral?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:01 PM (loRx9)
The old Michelle: Book title, INVASION
October 28, 2002
In 1996, before the election, there was a huge push to naturalize new American citizens. And many procedural safeguards were trampled over in the rush to do that. In fact, at least 6,300 criminal aliens, convicted of felonies, were granted this precious birthright of American citizenship in that rush to essentially beef up the Democrat voter rolls.
Clinton-Gore administration official, Bob Bratt, … [was, in Russia] meeting women in hotels (one of whom he engaged in a sexual relationship, and then later tried to get visas to bring them over to this country).
He was divulging sensitive information, putting himself at risk for blackmail in Moscow. … [while trying to obtain, for the women,]… entry into this country and residence in this country, and ultimately, citizenship in this country [which ] continued
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (GITLP)
[which ] is an absolute privilege, and it ought not to be treated as some sort of natural right or entitlement.
But over the years, our immigration system has abandoned that principle. ...
That`s how al Qaeda operatives over the past decade, nearly 50 of them... have been able to, entrench themselves in the American mainstream, [October 28, 2002]
https://tinyurl.com/3h6zfmfp
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (c35xG)
Candace Owens has accused TPUSA of financial fraud, and that caused some people to demand refunds, I was just reading. Treasury has sent Erika a letter saying no fraud or investigation, which hopefully will help.
Candance Owens is one crazy bitch. TPUSA needs to take off the gloves and sue the hell out of her.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:03 PM (D+mpw)
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You and what army twinkletoes? LOL
Posted by: Chesty Puller at December 09, 2025 09:04 PM (2Ra0c)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:05 PM (c35xG)
How many have a University named Miami?😀
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 08:47 PM (KDPiq)
Miami of Ohio.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 09:07 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 09:02 PM (w6EFb)
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Not 20 minutes ago I watched Tim Pool on the most unhinged rant I've ever seen from him on how evil and crazy she is.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:07 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove a
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Thought Trump shut the door on all import.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (g47mK)
'Governor Mills of Maine gave a no bid contract to an NGO to import 75k more. The left can't suffer enough'
Put all their leaders to the sword.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 09:09 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (fd80v)
Exile Mills to Mogadishu
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 09:10 PM (rzkMR)
:puts up feet:
:pours a coffee:
:camps out here until midnight eastern time when the ONT might show up:
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)
Yeah - it better be on time tonight!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 09:13 PM (p6ZQj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 08:46 PM (ynpvh)
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:13 PM (3uBP9)
Trying to read them, you can feel your brains being sucked out.
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I read my old hometown rag, just because. One or the board of supervisors is a huge flamer, made a big production of “marrying” his butt buddy a few years back. Then his “husband” killed himself, and the supe was arrested for drugging and sodomizing a youth. He refuses to step down.
The stories that they have to report on, at least once in a while (like arraignment, pleading “not guilty” public record stuff, they don’t even have his picture, the still picture they put up is actually another supervisor who was being interviewed about the debacle. I’d be pissed off, because a casual reader would conclude I’m the subject of the story here.
The really bad stuff never even gets reported. At all. Like it never happened. The top headlines are sports, sports, and more sports, and then “Library hours to be adjusted for Thanksgiving” and other nonsense like that. Weather - “February to be cold, Experts Predict” and gems like that.
Posted by: Chesty Puller at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (2Ra0c)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (viF8m)
Howdy, horde..
BIL hasn't gotten to AZ and "needs help" (eyeroll)
There may be a road trip tomorrow, ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (rdVOm)
There may be a road trip tomorrow, ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:14 PM (rdVOm)
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Doesn't sound like an invitation to a picnic
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:16 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:17 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 09:19 PM (hhkIi)
I'm moving. The house is completely empty except for one thing: a Verizon FiOS router.
Tomorrow it won't be mine anymore. So after I hit "post" in a minute I'll disconnect the router and return it to Verizon later this week. I'll be living with a friend and using his WiFi, so farewell good old (XQo4F). I will miss you.
Time to move on.
Time for the next chapter.
~Quarter Twenty
(XQo4F) out.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 09:26 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Correct. It's a sh!tshow, that's what it is. Dude isn't the brightest bulb, and lives a lifestyle he cannot afford.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Blue Boy at December 09, 2025 09:29 PM (oftw2)
Those two put the 'men' in 'menstruation'.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 09:34 PM (0CU3H)
Has unhooked his truck and wants to come here [[[NO, not an option!]]] but I have offered to help (read: pay $$$ to get it fixed) so he can get back to AZ.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Credit Where Due at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:08 PM (g47mK)
Good comparison, it's more than fair to say she's the Jasmine C. Of the right. Both are nasty bitches running ops to see how many millions they can sucker out of fools before the game falls apart. Both of already pushed their game farther along than anyone thought they could.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:36 PM (VG28W)
Long story short: California Democrats have regulated themselves into a gasoline import-dependent state, importing gasoline from India & Korea.
newscum & brown closed so many refineries and "specialized" the gasoline so much with dumb requirements, "legal" gas for CA must be imported from India & Korea.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:36 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:37 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:40 PM (VG28W)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:41 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 09:43 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:45 PM (VG28W)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:47 PM (rdVOm)
Yeah, can't let BIL stay with you -- he'll never leave.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:48 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:47 PM (rdVOm)
Down by the river?
Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
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BINGO!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 09:49 PM (rdVOm)
Golden Globe Awards added "best podcast" category to their stupid, unwatched show.
Guess who didn't get nominated?
Guess who got nominated?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:53 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Credit Where Due at December 09, 2025 09:35 PM (oftw2)
My peccadilloes are average sized, thank you very much!
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 09:54 PM (p6ZQj)
Hint: all the podcasts that are popular, e.g. Joe Rogan, did not get nominated.
Hint: NPR's podcast got nominated.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:54 PM (xRKBa)
oh, and that dumb "call her daddy" podcast was nominated
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:56 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 09:58 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 10:00 PM (1zOXE)
David Spade, who, incidentally, also has a podcast, calls out mall Christmas tree lighting for not mentioning the word "Christmas."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 10:01 PM (xRKBa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 10:05 PM (zZu0s)
close, no dice
Posted by: notHuMan at December 10, 2025 12:37 AM (Zlxio)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (NxtE8)
Gavin Newsom and Tim Walz Discuss the Fine Points of Being High-T Super-Masculine Mish-Slayers
That video below the fold, from a great post about the radiating masculine energy of the Democrat Party by Beege Wellborn.
As you know, Gavin Newsom sits in an extremely "cover your mish" way that makes people doubt the physical existence of his testicles. Andrew Stiles has expert reaction to Newsom's "Crotch Clutch" manner of sitting.Newsom baffled experts who assessed that his posture appeared to defy the conventional scientific understanding of the human form. Gender scholars were just as perplexed. Several noted that Newsom, despite being born a male, was exhibiting a form of self-compressed emasculation or "crotch clench," while conveying an unmistakably female-coded body language. Political historians argued that Newsom's unusual posture was characteristic of failed candidates and sniveling cowards. It was, these experts contended, the seated equivalent of former President Obama's obsequious bow. That is why American voters could never trust Newsom to stand up to "wide-stance" authoritarian rivals such as Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.Did you hear the news? Super-masculine and Fiercely Heterosexual lisping theater kid Cory Booker got "married" to a "woman" he just happened to meet and fall madly, heterosexually in love with a couple of weeks after he decided to run for president again. Must just be Fiercely Heterosexual Cupid timing things perfectly! Andrew Stiles again breaks it down:He is certainly no match for Donald Trump, and no amount of snarky tweets is going to change that.
Cory Booker Obtains Female Wife in Boost to 2028 White House BidRead the whole thing. Stiles is obviously impressed by the sheer force of Cory Booker's fiercely heterosexual desire for this rando woman supplied to him by a gay icon. Again thanks to Tree Hugging Sister, gay magazine The Advocate reports on Democrat Senator Reuben Gallego accidentally telling the truth about Democrats' gender fluidity.
Notorious bachelor ties the knot in 'private' ceremony shared exclusively with the New York Times
Cory Booker married a female woman over the weekend, closing the book on idle speculation about a man often described as "the Leonardo DiCaprio of American politics." The Democratic senator from New Jersey wed his recently acquired fiancée, Alexis Lewis, at an intimate ceremony in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. The move satisfies a major public relations need for Booker and arrives with exquisite timing as he prepares to launch his 2028 presidential campaign. The happy couple shared exclusive details about their relationship and "private" wedding ceremony with the New York Times. Booker, 56, and Lewis, 38, reportedly met in May 2024, several weeks after the senator pre-launched his White House bid with a record-breaking (and utterly pointless) filibuster that went viral on Bluesky. Most Democrats celebrated Booker's stunt even though they denounced the filibuster as a "Jim Crow relic" that should be abolished. Booker, who has described himself as "Spartacus," met his future bride through a "mutual friend known for matchmaking." Knowledgeable sources tell the Washington Free Beacon that the mutual friend is Anna Wintour, the fashion maven and Democratic megadonor who orchestrated the brief "romance" between Bradley Cooper, the Hollywood beefcake, and Huma Abedin, the longtime personal servant of Hillary Clinton. Wintour also hosted an engagement party for Abedin and Democratic billionaire Alex Soros in 2024. After their first meeting, the couple enjoyed a second date that Booker, a normal adult male, described as "magical."
First-year U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is facing intensified scrutiny after leaked text messages showed the Democrat deriding the appearance of women and men in his own party. The comments mirror far-right rhetoric about gender and deepen concerns about his recent repositioning on LGBTQ+ issues. In the messages, first circulated by a conservative outlet and reported by People last week Gallego, who started his first term in the U.S. Senate in January after previously serving in the House, complained that Democrats are "not allowing men to be men" or "women to be hot," and wrote, "Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women." He also lamented that Democrats had become "the not fun party" and no longer embodied "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."No lies detected. Below, two Men's Men talk about manly things like fixin' trucks and coachin' football and, of course, what men always talk about -- our gender identities.
Tim Walz: "I think I scare them a little bit [on masculinity]... My identity is not hunting, my identity is not football coaching, my identity is not a beard and a truck."pic.twitter.com/EmquLbhHQ1
— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) December 9, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (XMwZJ)
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Shimmy, shimmy bop (ahh)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (v0R5T)
So, gravitas? Remember that blast from the past? Pepperidge Farms does.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (hR7Y3)
Posted by: The Grand Poof at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (oftw2)
Usually it's the "I may seem crazy, or a colossal dumbass, or retard, or pussy, but I SCARE the right."
It is a universal truth - we are never scared of people who say this. Not even a tiny bit. "Bemused" is the word they are looking for.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (C3IAS)
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Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Tbj3s)
Walz often looks like he's about to burst into tears.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (azNOR)
So, gravitas? Remember that blast from the past? Pepperidge Farms does.
Posted by: Stu Podaso
Rush had a gravitas song sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (pkeXY)
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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Done by White Comedian Paul Shanklin, right?
Posted by: EIB Network at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
You know what people say, "December romances yield Super Tuesday divorces."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: tubal
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That was before his bottom surgery.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (v0R5T)
Booker, on the other hand, is in favor of the near-slavery of illegal immigrants and H-1Bs, and the actual slavery of socialism.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (bPgnP)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I remember it well, Paul Shanklin if memory serves.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:36 PM (hR7Y3)
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Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (Tbj3s)
"The Trump administration’s ban on transgender service members has just been UPHELD by a US Appeals Court"
https://tinyurl.com/2t59wz4j
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (2L+MU)
Booker, on the other hand, is in favor of the near-slavery of illegal immigrants and H-1Bs, and the actual slavery of socialism.
Posted by: Rob Crawford
/s - try it sometimes. It is a lot fun.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
I thought faggots were British...
https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)
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Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (2L+MU)
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Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
I thought faggots were British...
https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)
And also this:
https://youtu.be/pVHbWHGVYaU
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (ynpvh)
https://youtu.be/gt8IAJZTc-w
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (ynpvh)
Now I want a cigarette. Its weird, been happening a lot lately. Have not had a cigarette in 14 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: tubal
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That was before his bottom surgery.
Posted by: wth
You mean Gavin, right?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (8mulE)
This is what I do....
hmm. maybe gavin'll start an onlyfans when he loses the white house.
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
Didn't work.
I already lost count of how many "scandals" have failed
The TACO outrage (oops Iran)
The Tearing down the White House Outrage.
The killing poor fishermen outrage.
The mean words and calling some pig piggy outrage.
The Epstein Outrage.
I know there's a lot more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: tankascribe
I was taught to drink heavily first.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (uv8gn)
Now I want a cigarette. Its weird, been happening a lot lately. Have not had a cigarette in 14 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (zZu0s)
Are you under a lot of stress? That tends to increase cravings for cigarettes. I was not even a smoker, and with our last seven months with one of our kids, I would pay 104 bucks for a carton of Camels and smoke every damn one right now.
Posted by: moki at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (Tbj3s)
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Mega dittoes. It's not been the same since Neil Peart died.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (mG8BQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (2GVsD)
"Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga
I know you can't control yourself any longer"
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (XuXeR)
x.com/CivilRights/status/
1998417698263285954
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
Try all of that, and being Italian.
Might as well try to stop the tide.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
Gavin simply is a super weirdo and useless user of oxygen as he destroys California.
Walz I have never heard speak due to the emesis projection like The Exorcist. He has a pedo mouth that causes me to swiftly look away to protect my retinas. He's busy destroying MN.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF)
Even when he wasn't in blackface...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
This is rather common. 17 years on from quitting and that craving for a cigarette still shows up like a bolt of lightening every few years.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (s0JqF)
I know, why do all of those gaylords sit that way? I still haven't met one person that like Newsom. He's repellent.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik)
He also pegs the Gaydar at around 98.9.
Posted by: Ventilate All Chomos at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (R/m4+)
"reflecting the Far RIGHT..." followed by the most middle of the road normal comment that 80% of the populace will agree with right now, not to mention the 95% that would agree with it a mere 10 years ago.
Really makes things easy.
Posted by: Croaker at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (AUB4U)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (mG8BQ)
And tits are there twice because they customarily come in pairs...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (cS1cw)
What did you do with Sarah? If you hurt her in any way, you suffer. capice?
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (pcnhy)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 06:46 PM (wBaIH)
What did you do with Sarah? If you hurt her in any way, you suffer. capice?
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (pcnhy)
$20, same as in town.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (2GVsD)
Funniest live college radio moment was listening to my friend recite the highschool football scores. Fairfield High's team was called the Stags. Well, my friend was speaking a bit too quickly and ended up referring to them as the Stairfield Fags. Consummate non-professional that he was, he excused himself and corrected his error by calling the team...
...the Fags of Stairfield...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:47 PM (2GVsD)
Might as well try to stop the tide.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
LOL! I feel for ya! Actually, it was one of the harder things to learn. That, and not using "filler" words. To this day, the excessive use of "and" and "uh" makes me flinch.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old
Walks like a sissy and talks like Kermit the Frog.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik)
I think he is too. But also I think some people are kind of sensitive to psychopaths. I think I am. Deep down repelled. So I underestimate his appeal.
On the left, many just see him as the left's answer to Trump. With the reasoning being, "well I super hate Trump, so to combat that we just need to pick someone that is super hated by our opponents". Therein lies all his popularity.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:45 PM (npFr7)
Wep! Same cunt at #4 here. Sheesh.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: tubal
His current wife was an active side piece for Harvey Weinstein. Figure that.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGr
That reeks of a real Ransom of Red Chief situation.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk)
There is a "Ransom of Red Chief" reference here.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
Lucky. All we got was burned bread.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
Dear Mittens, you are obviously mistaking us for people who give a damn for your lily-livered opinion.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
—————
Fag
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (cxFcK)
Since weinstein jerked off in potted plants, does that mean they didnt do it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (vFG9F)
Anna do you ever generate your pics locally of is it all in the "cloud". Just curious because if you have decent video card you can experiment yourself.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:51 PM (E0p3T)
Wasn't that the ending to Nine to Five? Or was it Ruthless People?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:52 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:52 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at
She looks oddly like his previous beard, Rosario Dawson.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (MGB5H)
There you go. If the GOP wonders why it has hard times in the mid-term elections, ask those wankers why they tolerated Mitt Romney. Mittens made it his personal mission to destroy Trump for the last 10 years, and the GOP did exactly *nothing* to deter Romney.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (TN0g+)
You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
Leonardo da Vinci invented the Ornithopter after observing his fellow Italians giving speeches in public.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Aunt Ralph at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (qMeWG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at December 09, 2025 06:53 PM (R/m4+)
I'm not in the closet.
Posted by: Tom Cruise at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Pierre Delecto at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (PiwSw)
For the Somalis to continue to hang on to him? You betcha.
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (77rzZ)
"Sweet 'Lil Lies"
Official Music Video
She plays a Telecaster like a girl. This is a compliment
https://youtu.be/1uFHX2UotIU
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Aunt Ralph at December 09, 2025 06:54 PM (qMeWG)
I am intrigued, Auntie. Is that like the saying, "Big hat, no cattle"?
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old
Walks like a sissy and talks like Kermit the Frog.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (MGB5H)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_aom1IgqI&t=333s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Tom Cruise
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Strangely enough, Nicole Kidman still says the occasional nice thing about him and to my knowledge has never gone on a tirade or truth-telling mission.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (hR7Y3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (2GVsD)
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Speaking as a black lesbian I am comfortable with my masculinity.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:55 PM (2GVsD)
Like Jabba sitting on that weird little thing who cackled all the time in that one Star War flick.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Its Mittels Rombley, the boneless port rectum.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:50 PM (2GVsD)
inverted or non-inverted?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (ynpvh)
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Kermit the Frog doing the "Taken" speech (from Liam Nelson) is pretty dang funny.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (TN0g+)
In-between two genders (now more?), relaxed & unconcerned, professory.
Barack and Michelle Obama, Chicago
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Description
Date May 26, 1996
"Portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama seated on a couch in their home in Hyde Park, Chicago. Barack Obama, wearing a dark shirt and khaki pants, is sitting casually, his legs crossed with his right arm draped across the couch back, and his left arm around Michelle Obama."
And it only became more pronounced as time goes on.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (hR7Y3)
——————
The one with a dick.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 06:57 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:58 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)
Show me the money!
Posted by: Nicole Kidman, Not Stupid at December 09, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Tom Cruise
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Strangely enough, Nicole Kidman still says the occasional nice thing about him and to my knowledge has never gone on a tirade or truth-telling mission.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:56 PM (TN0g+)
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That was more a South Park reference. I don't think Tom is gay. kind of weird, but damn he's done some really fun movies over the years.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (MGB5H)
You don't realize how much you use your hands until you have to keep them at your sides while trying to make a point solely with your eloquent use of language.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 06:40 PM (NtoJk)
__________
Read out loud something in Italian. Your hands will uncontrollably move on their own. You cannot prevent this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:01 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Not Keith Urban.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (MGB5H)
She seems to like short men. Brad Williams, you're next.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, changing socks like a mo-fo at December 09, 2025 07:01 PM (0aYVJ)
Make of that what you will.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:02 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
......
"She sounds like perfect First Lady material." - DOCTOR Jill
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (v0R5T)
I said it wasn't easy, Hadrian! LOL
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Totally OT, but the NZ guy that made What We Do In The Shadows and Jo Jo Rabbit is making a new Dredd movie.
With Karl Urban!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (2L+MU)
Gavin is trying to show off his manly thighs with his patented testicle crush seating position.
_________
TWEEEEET!
*throws flag*
Assumes testicles are present.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:03 PM (tgvbd)
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He's a gelding? Explains a lot....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (3uBP9)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sjHTTTtx-nM
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Making Lindsey Graham look butch at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: wth
DOCTOR Jill was Brandon's babysitter before he started a relationship with her while he was married. The more you know...
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (cxFcK)
Geez, you're right! It's trying to keep your eyes open when you sneeze.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:06 PM (2L+MU)
FYI, read anything aloud in Russian and people will think you're cursing.
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (NtoJk)
_________
How to say "Hello" in foreign languages
French: Bon jour
Italian: Buon giorno
German: Guten tag
Russian: Yob tvoyu mat
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:07 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Drinker has a fun episode on his career self-immolation.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:07 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:08 PM (NtoJk)
The guy who gave us the live action Cats.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (NtoJk)
The guy who gave us the live action Cats.
Posted by: Anna Puma at
Tom Hooper. Good episode on him too. Hahah.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 06:59 PM
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Posted by: zombie Sigmoid Freud at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (0sNs1)
Adjusting for inflation the US GDP in 1964 was actually higher than it is today. Remember, the population was smaller then, 192.8 million compared to 343 million today. Fewer people were producing 20% more than than today in constant dollars. That means the productivity per person today is only 67% of what it was then.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (Da7Vv)
The Mavericks
All You Do is Bring Me Down
https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn)
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Or the simpler твою мать
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (2L+MU)
Some bright side.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:05 PM (2GVsD)
Especially not Dredd.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (NtoJk)
* grunts *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (0sNs1)
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Well Newsom's wife went down on Harvey Weinstein so she's used to the small stuff
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 07:13 PM (MGB5H)
I'm sorry to hear that news. Back in the day, I used to listen to the Mavericks quite a lot. God rest Raul Malo's soul.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)
Boxers, briefs, or thongs?
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (zZu0s)
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ELO
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at December 09, 2025 07:14 PM (UJMvS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM
I can think of some people I wish he would.
Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (9ipOP)
The guy who gave us the live action Cats.
_________
The musical was the biggest load of unrefined crap ever to defile my eardrums.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:16 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (2GVsD)
Newsomes hand genstures looks like Elaine from Seinfeld trying to dance.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 07:17 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
(Bows down in awed respect.) Lucky! I had to study and Soviet "literature" is the most snooze-inducing stuff on earth!
Posted by: tankascribe at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (A0sqA)
Maybe Mahomes himself is secretly based. It's long been whispered that Josh Allen is a rightie. Aaron Rodgers is certainly not a lefty. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of secret conservatives of all races in the NFL.
Posted by: Delurker at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (xNHSX)
All You Do is Bring Me Down
https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn)
Excellent choice! Band has a big sound. Reminds me a little of the Texas Tornadoes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:11 PM
I can think of some people I wish he would.
Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at December 09, 2025 07:15 PM (0sNs1)
Me too.
Posted by: Chickens Against Chik-Fil-A at December 09, 2025 07:18 PM (ynpvh)
Like I said, Taylor Swift was in the movie musical.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 07:20 PM (Ia/+0)
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ????
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v)
I can do two 50 lb bags of potatoes. Tomorrow I'll start adding a potato to each bag...
Posted by: Tim Ball-lezz Walz at December 09, 2025 07:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (A0sqA)
I'm sorry to hear that news. Back in the day, I used to listen to the Mavericks quite a lot. God rest Raul Malo's soul.
Posted by: Paco
Over last 7 or 8 years if they were playing anywhere close to me, meaning 500 miles, I was in the car to see them. One of the greatest two nights was seeing them at Gruene Hall in New Braunfauls, TX over a New Year's weekend, they were on fire. Tucson during covid was off the charts. My all time favorite show as at the Sandia Casino Amphitheatre in Albuquerque, NM - that show was a peak night - 4K people dancing the night way all night long through a thunder storm at times. Another time he showed up at the Las Cruces 4th of July show and did a solo set; it was there I came to understand why that band was beyond great. The last show I was to see was at the Santa Fe Opera house this September, at the last minute it was canceled; then I found out why and I have say part of my heart broke when I heard why.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (uv8gn)
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ????
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome
......
Did your testes drop?
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 07:21 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (XuXeR)
All You Do is Bring Me Down
https://youtu.be/2nPLXVL8hKI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:10 PM (uv8gn)
Excellent choice! Band has a big sound. Reminds me a little of the Texas Tornadoes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
This was one of their standard show closers or the encore. They dragged out it and played it the max - after 8 bars, without fail the audience went wild. That bounce beat was wicked and it all came right out of Raul's soul.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (uv8gn)
Prometheus?
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 07:23 PM (XuXeR)
Прометей
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 07:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 07:24 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2GVsD)
And Russian opera is the only opera I enjoy.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2L+MU)
I don't think I've ever seen a more on the money description of anything than that.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:26 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:26 PM (A0sqA)
And Russian opera is the only opera I enjoy.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:25 PM (2L+MU)
As long as it's not like Klingon opera...
https://youtu.be/rYY17RarRVc
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 07:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:27 PM (2GVsD)
Then you have some great memories to cherish. I regret that I never had the opportunity to see them live.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:28 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Worf, son of Mogh at December 09, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)
https://youtu.be/rYY17RarRVc - jim (in Kalifornia)
No, No! Think the coronation scene from Boris Godunov, as an example.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (2L+MU)
You can't really discuss that without including me.
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at December 09, 2025 07:31 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:32 PM (uv8gn)
Troubling Clouds…
Read the whole thing. Be vigilant my friends.
https://tinyurl.com/v2dp3428
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 07:33 PM (gb3qv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 07:34 PM (22tYi)
Former UN weapons inspector Matt Bryden and now freelance in Nairobi believes the Minnesota fraud by Somali immigrants helped fund Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:36 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (jYRYu)
Former UN weapons inspector Matt Bryden and now freelance in Nairobi believes the Minnesota fraud by Somali immigrants helped fund Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Posted by: Anna Puma
I would wager it also help fund Tim Walz's feather boa and stiletto heels collection.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (uv8gn)
Think the coronation scene from Boris Godunov, as an example.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (2L+MU)
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Original version or Rimsky-Korsakov edition?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:38 PM (tgvbd)
Assume this is a virtual life-affirming hug.
NotSoThoreau told me this morning she has woodpeckers. FWIW.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:39 PM (u82oZ)
Troubling Clouds…
Read the whole thing. Be vigilant my friends.
https://tinyurl.com/v2dp3428
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 07:33 PM (gb3qv)
I'm intrigued but I don't click random links at work.
Posted by: Max Power at December 09, 2025 07:39 PM (SwyyQ)
‘ Newsome sits like a girl...a really stupid, ugly girl.’
It must be a lot harder than I think to not sit like a fag.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome
As I remember my best ever day was 3 sets of 7 reps with 225. However that was 20 years ago. The last time I tried it was a struggle to get one rep with 135. That used to be my easy warm up weight. Sigh. Old age tears us all down.
Today I watched my boarder, with potential heart problems, loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher . He needed help walking to the stretcher. He used to be able to power clean 265, and do Kip Ups. 4th degree black belt in BJJ - former Texas heavyweight Judo champion.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:43 PM (Da7Vv)
Did you see the Royal Navy found a new way to be inept and vermin.
The Type 23 frigate HMS Lancelot has pulled into Bahrain to be decommissioned. And the ship will not be scrapped in the UK but probably in Turkey.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 07:44 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 07:46 PM (2L+MU)
they think its cool
Posted by: cherries in season at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (0XI+v)
Y'know, upon first reading I though it said "Obama, wearing a dark skirt"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (a+4eV)
Fucking lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 07:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Mitt Romney at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (PiwSw)
You hear that? He says your name calling is rookie-level!
Break out the Shakespearean Insult Book!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 09, 2025 07:54 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 08:05 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (WONhk)
I'm sure there are a few Somolia men in need of a girlfriend. If the price is right.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 08:09 PM (E66lT)
Raul Malo was a rare talent. News of his cancer saddened me and this, well...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 09, 2025 08:30 PM (nbLIj)
But now that I’ve turned 29 and matured, I no longer say that.
Now, I identify as a Columbia-class boomer, because they’re badass.
Posted by: MarkW at December 09, 2025 08:55 PM (qxVUf)
Womanhood? (spoiler alert). pacifist wife guns down evil man to save her husband.
Pretty much what life is like for most married couples, amped up a little.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 09, 2025 09:19 PM (TFeiv)
However, I recall a photo of.. I forget who, one of the fat, bearded, glasses-wearing NeverTrumpers, who all look the same.. with his hands similar to Trump's, but with a wider gap, and resting on his rotund belly. That is a feminine power pose commonly used by women, as if to say, "Behold: My Womb." So, depending on someone's apparent sex and precise positioning, the affect and effect can range anywhere from vital to grotesque.
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 09:39 PM (Sy6m/)
What can you Girly-Guys Bench Press ????
Posted by: Gav "The Monster Bod" Newsome at December 09, 2025 07:19 PM (J9q9v)
I can do two 50 lb bags of potatoes. Tomorrow I'll start adding a potato to each bag...
Posted by: Tim Ball-lezz Walz
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Pfft.
Posted by: Barky's two-pound curls at December 09, 2025 09:42 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 06:44 PM (hs4ik)
I think he is too. But also I think some people are kind of sensitive to psychopaths. I think I am. Deep down repelled. So I underestimate his appeal.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:49 PM (3uBP9)
I hope the nested quote is apparent. Anyway, just like there is an entire class of memes in the form of Venn diagrams, there is another in the form of rock/paper/scissors, and my favorite is normie/autiste/sociopath.
That is speaking of channer-style "weaponizable" autism, not the severe disability. Or, you could think of it as the geek/nerd/techie personality. But just as normies are their exhausting confusing kryptonite, they see right through the artifice of psychos like Newsom. I think that's because those high-functioning sociopaths are exploiting automatic click/whirr heuristics that form the basis of normies' social ease, and that spergs tragically lack, so their natural prey's prey is their natural predator.
Or maybe it's just a funny meme.
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 11:04 PM (Sy6m/)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (NxtE8)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 10, 2025 04:12 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 10, 2025 06:31 AM (YF28b)
Posted by: AFFA at December 10, 2025 09:31 AM (NMz5T)
Trump Chief of Staff Suzie Wiles Promises That Trump Will Campaign In 2026 Like It's His Name on the Ballot
Which it effectively is. Trump's impeachment begins one minute after a new Democrat House is installed.
President Trump is gearing up to storm the 2026 midterm map, with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles saying Monday that the president is preparing to hit the trail with the same force and stamina he brought to his 2024 comeback run. Appearing on "The Mom View," a YouTube show from Moms for America, Wiles said Trump is already laying the groundwork to help Republicans hold the House and expand their Senate edge -- and that he plans to do it the only way he knows how: by showing up everywhere. "I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh, describing a president who remains the GOP's most powerful turnout magnet. "All these people that he helps -- he doesn't help everybody -- but for those he does, he's a difference maker, and he's certainly a turnout machine." Wiles, who managed Trump's victorious 2024 bid, said the White House is deliberately rejecting the old playbook that urged presidents to stay out of midterms and let local candidates dominate the spotlight. Instead, she said, Trump will insert himself directly into the fight -- a sharp pivot meant to energize the voters who showed up for him last November. "Typically in the midterms, it's not about who's sitting at the White House. You localize the election, and you keep the federal officials out of it," she said. "We're actually going to turn that on its head, and put him on the ballot, because so many of those low-propensity voters are Trump voters." She pointed to recent Democrat wins -- capped by the shock election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor -- as a warning of what happens when Trump isn't out front driving Republican enthusiasm. "We saw what happens when he's not on the ballot and not active," she said.Hopefully he'll deploy a "Morning Again in America" campaign of good news.
The national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline slipped below the $3 mark this week, continuing a months-long trend that's easing pressure on drivers heading into the Christmas season. New data from GasBuddy shows the average price falling to just under $3, fueled by what analysts describe as broad declines across most regions of the country. The update notes the national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and 7.3 cents from this time last year, based on more than 12 million price reports pulled from over 150,000 stations nationwide. Diesel prices also dipped, dropping another 5.1 cents to $3.671. Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, said Monday that the country is "now at multi-year lows heading into Christmas" and predicted prices will hold steady through the early weeks of the new year. AAA's latest survey reached the same conclusion, pegging the national average at roughly $2.952 on Monday -- down from $3.001 a week ago and $3.073 a month ago. Drivers across the South and Midwest are seeing some of the steepest savings. Oklahoma's statewide average sits around $2.36, Texas is hovering near $2.50, and Missouri is clocking in at roughly $2.61. Florida, Alabama, both Carolinas, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and Montana have all fallen below the $3 line as well. But coastal blue states continue to stand out on the other end of the spectrum. California's statewide average remains an eye-popping $4.46 -- about $1.57 higher than the national price -- with New York, Washington, Hawaii, and Nevada all posting averages above $3.
🚨NEW: Susie Wiles says Trump will "CAMPAIGN LIKE IT'S 2024 AGAIN" for Midterms🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) December 8, 2025
"He'll work very hard to keep the majority ... Nobody can outwork him. So there's every reason to be confident — but we have to actually get it done."@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/C4GevJYCxH
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM
Agreed!
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz)
She is better by far than any of the traitors he had in the job during the first four years. Good reason that *none* of them are associated with this administration.
The biggest traitors were the three generals he hired.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (looXz)
I know, that's crazy talk.
Posted by: Veeshir at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (n3a/S)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ)
Trump is going to party like it's 2028.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (krQz2)
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I can't imagine it will be that slow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (azrRX)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ)
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It's an empty threat. They won't get 67 votes in the Senate, but Trump will unleash prosecutorial hell on the Dems since he will have nothing to lose.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (ZOv7s)
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Trump is quite good at that. He like to boast, and has quite a bit to boast about.
Unless the AI bubble pops between now and then. If that happens, there *will* be a rout and we'll be lucky to avoid a full-on conversion to outright fascism.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (azrRX)
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I can't imagine it will be that slow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:31 PM (azrRX)
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"Sentence first!" cried Nancy.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (krQz2)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
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Yeah, unless Dims in the House want to vote to cut off spending (and ICE is funded through 2028 iirc), there isn't much they can actually do. Impeachment theater is just for yet more fundraising, like 99% of what Congress Critters do.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (UdiE9)
He's giving one tonight in PA.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (viF8m)
That's going to be the main issue in 2026 IMO. And, food distributors as well as manufacturers and retailers are still trying to get back what was lost over the last 5 years.
But, I'm heartened to know that the White House recognizes this very volatile and relevant issue.
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (dIske)
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And every other Republican will fold and vote with Dems, you know - the will of the people.
The least that needs to be done is to at least hold the seats Republicans hold now, anything else will simply empower the RINOs.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (1RAfh)
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How long before lefty forums are starting of a chorus of impeaching Trump for using taxpayer money (AF1 and associated operations) for political purposes?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (azrRX)
Laura Trump was really effective in 2024 when she ran the DNC, she needs to be there again.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (azrRX)
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Or before Boasberg declares that the president campaigning during the midterms is illegal?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (azrRX)
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you "Socialism"!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (TN0g+)
We don't need to. Watch...
Posted by: GOPe at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (IYMzU)
Yep. I think it is actually worse than that. I see all the allegations, such as committing war crimes, as predicates for Democrat compliant kangaroo court felony investigations, trials, and convictions once he is out of office.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (uv8gn)
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How long before lefty forums are starting of a chorus of impeaching Trump for using taxpayer money (AF1 and associated operations) for political purposes?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!
Trump should be in the White House running the country, not playing partisan politics.
-legacy media in 3 2 1...
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:32 PM (ZOv7s)
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That's when the Dems launch into an attack against Republicans that won't "do their duty" and have "failed their country" and hope that, with the media carrying their water, it works.
The House vote was meant to be a check on the Senate. The Senate has no obligation to try to convict based on a House vote.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (TN0g+)
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Nah. If it were socialism, there'd be no fuel.
This is good old-fashioned regulatory burden, rent-seeking, corruption and theft.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (azrRX)
Then keep democrats from power. Costs are trending down, largely due to reduced transportation costs...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2)
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ok, but we need good candidates too!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (g47mK)
All we have to do is hold the line on prices. Stay strong, gentlemen! Well, I guess it's mostly women now...
Posted by: Big Food (Gas, Whatever, etc.) at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (IYMzU)
What? Historic and not Herstoric?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn)
I haven't paid these prices for gas and road use diesel in a decade. It's fantastic.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (XuXeR)
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Get him to do what he likes to do and he really likes to campaign. What's not to like?
Will he choose another another 70s song to populize?
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (1RAfh)
Then keep democrats from power. Costs are trending down, largely due to reduced transportation costs...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:36 PM (XuXeR)
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I'm weakly hoping that people can remember the period where most of the increase happened, while the administration was orchestrated telling you "inflation is not happening".
I don't have a whole lot of trust in my fellow American right now.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:39 PM (krQz2)
The economy doesn't turn on a dime. It takes a while for new policies to take hold. But as you noted the trend is heading in the right direction.
Where we are today is not where we will be next November.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (u73oe)
What? Historic and not Herstoric?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn)
Everybody is a historic figure. What you are looking for is the right adjectives to be applied to you.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (GPa4z)
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Up to a point. Trump must drive it hard that whatever people have or have regained will disappear in a puff of smoke if Dems get back in.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (vFG9F)
I guarantee you, if Trump thinks you're stupid, that's just peanuts to how stupid the Democrats take you to be.
Ya gotta think of what vote gives you a net gain in what you object to.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (uv8gn)
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ok, but we need good candidates too!
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For what? You don't think we're actually going to *do* anything while we're in office, do you?
Posted by: The GOPe at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (TN0g+)
You mean "take to #1"?
"In 2024, 46 years after its release, "Y.M.C.A." spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales chart"
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (1RAfh)
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He's also good at that. He's boastful *and* vicious!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (azrRX)
What we need are verifiable elections, not this "preponderance of mood" stuff that the MFM is starting to concoct.
"I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like it's 2024 again," Wiles said with a laugh,
As far as I can throw her...
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (klxjG)
That doesn't mean I'm any less committed to making as republic work as much as it can, though.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
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I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (zZu0s)
I know, that's crazy talk.
VOTE GOP - WE ARE LESS LIKELY TO IMPEACH TRUMP THAN THE DEMOCRATS !
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (rgGn5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY)
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Oh, they would. And fast. Like a falling brick.
This bubble scares me. We're seeing a lot of very familiar stuff, if you were paying attention in the 1998-2002 period. That didn't end well and this is much bigger.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:42 PM (pkeXY)
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Back to 20 bucks in town?
Posted by: That Guy at December 09, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (klxjG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (klxjG)
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There's a hole with no bottom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:46 PM (azrRX)
While, at the same time, the down-ticket Republicans have opposed their President more than any party in history.
This is amazing--by winning he destroys the anti-Republican Republicans.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
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Well, they tried that game twice. I don't think third time is the charm.
I also think this is way too early. Next year the Dems will be working full-time to hate on American, desecrate the flag and basically take a dump on all things patriotic.
They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Remember a cell phone is not a phone and wire tap laws don't apply to it. Anyone with a proper receiver can legally eavesdrop on any cell phone conversation because they are actually radios, not phones. So can a law enforcement agency likely talk to a cell phone and ask it where it is without any sort of court involvement? Almost certainly, yes.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (PiwSw)
Ed has been trying to get a taste of the furry cock for about a decade now.
Don't tell Garrett.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh.
Andy? Yeah.
Mick? OK,
Alright, fellas, let's Gooooooooo.
I may have listened to that song a time or two....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
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Perhaps. The smart people in the Party know that this is a bad approach. Next year will reveal how much central control there still is. The Party is not monolithic and there is much potential for fracture over core strategy.
TIme will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Kamala at December 09, 2025 05:49 PM (klxjG)
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I'm sorry who the hell was "shocked" that New Tard City elected an islamunist plant? Certainly not me, I said he would be mayor the day I heard he was running. Might be the least shocking thing that happened all year.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (viF8m)
TIme will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (azrRX)
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Sure. NYC will be model of good governance, a model for the whole nation. And Dems will put aside Trump hatred to celebrate the Founding Fathers. And flaming monkeys will fly out of Ace's ass. All equally likely.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
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I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
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I love Ballroom Blitz but they are British and I think half of them are dead. It needs to be an American band or artists who are alive and able to take advantage of it.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (1RAfh)
PT: The cause of death for Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law was revealed on Tuesday: Carrie Elizabeth died by suicide, the LA County Medical Examiner said.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (abIsI)
Democrats will be bleating about "affordability" from now until the midterms.
What does the government to about affordability?
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
The arsonists complaining about the fire.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (9Hs2w)
TIme will tell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Pre-arranged stock market crash? Mebbe just a small one, big enough to use for propaganda purposes, but not the big one coming in 2028.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
Oh, so you think YOU'RE the passionate one?
Posted by: Doof at December 09, 2025 05:52 PM (VSgUG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)
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There is pretty big space between "don't go fully insane anti-America and anti-Normality with riots and terrorism" and "put aside Trump hatred to celebrate the Founding Fathers."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:52 PM (azrRX)
Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh.
Andy? Yeah.
Mick? OK,
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
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No, You Don't
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (krQz2)
I also think this is way too early. Next year the Dems will be working full-time to hate on American, desecrate the flag and basically take a dump on all things patriotic.
They will riot and tear down flags. Not a great way to sway swing voters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
I think the current Dems are too incoherent to have a constant message. You have neocons, leftists, antisemites and the woke brigade all pulling in different directions. Look at the Crockett thing - if she's such a star why waste her on losing in the Primary or General in Texas?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (GPa4z)
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
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It can lower interest rates, which is why Powell won't do it. If he doesn't lower them, Trump should fire him, relying on SCOTUS, which is going to find the executive has that power and will put a stay on him working until their other opinion comes out.
I think Trump has been planning on this for a while.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (mlg/3)
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Don't bet on it. Nobody has enough power for that, and it's unlikely that anyone who *did* would be stupid enough to use it. The capital markets are really, really big and screwing with them is exceedingly dangerous - especially when everything is on a precipice anyway. Stocks in particular are primed for a major downturn. There's no way to engineer a "small" downturn when there's this much overhang.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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I loved it when Mitsubishi used it for their TV commercials. Mitsu always seemed to have pretty savvy marketing.
Unfortunately, on the channels I watch now over-the-air, everything is about Medicare Advantage plans, Hurry-Canes, phones with closed captioning, and incontinence products. Do car companies still have ads? Any good ones?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (pkeXY)
What does the government to about affordability?
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
Well Trump could roll back tariffs on Argentine Beef or something in an instant
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)
What? Historic and not Herstoric?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:38 PM (uv8gn)
Everybody is a historic figure. What you are looking for is the right adjectives to be applied to you.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)
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Maybe marble dildo of Willie Brown's schlonge because she's his fault.
Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (1pB37)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (wBaIH)
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
So they import tens of millions more Takers which dramatically increases demand on housing, food, transportation, medical, education, municipal services, utilities.
Then confiscates through taxation and inflation the spending money of the Producers who now pay much higher prices with less money on the things being gifted to the Parasites.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
I liked when Tia Carrere sang it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 05:55 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (krQz2)
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Never. Not possible. Far more likely to be 1990s Yugoslavia.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)
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I mean ...
If that's on X it's a simple click to tell.
But, recall there were even here, prior to the last election, that were swearing, they just could not vote for Trump because he refused to support a nationwide ban on abortion.
Or, to clarify:
100% of the "people" claiming now--especially after 4 years of Biden--that they no longer support Trump, are Fuentes Bots sucking Donkey Dick.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
No, at best they are drone flights at the most boring angle of some big boxxy thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)
Its an obscenity that slabs of untrimmed brisket are running $5/lb
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (9Hs2w)
Make sure the customer has more spending money and/or make sure the goods are cheaper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 05:51 PM (pkeXY)
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It can lower interest rates, which is why Powell won't do it.
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Lowering interest rates doesn't make anything more affordable, it just makes it mildly less painful to go into debt in order to have the things you can't afford.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:43 PM (TN0g+)
Brian: Ready Steve? Uh huh.
Andy? Yeah.
Mick? OK,
Alright, fellas, let's Gooooooooo.
I may have listened to that song a time or two....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2025 05:48 PM (PiwSw)
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Its such an epic song, and the start you quoted is as creative as anything in pop/rock history. Even the drum line that was playing under that banter was just perfect.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (looXz)
The major criticism I have heard of her is that she is trying to run the national campaign like it was a Florida campaign.
I was listening to a critique of pres Milei's campaign in Argentina this year, how the early loss in Buenos Aires province had Milei dump his staid campaign staff and get a younger cadre and blew the Kirchnerites out of the water. I am hoping Trump can get his crew to think on their feet.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (rbvCR)
Put yourself in their shoes a moment.
You're trying to dilate your suppurating wound so your surgically maimed "genitals" don't "heal" and close your beautiful artificial boypussy forever. And inflation has made your mangina very expensive to maintain. It's almost unaffordable to maintain the thin charade that you've become a woman. That clerk at GameStop won't even call you ma'am.
You know this is Drumpf's fault, right?
Posted by: Right? at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (neVb2)
Do House Reps in races that they won by single digits in 2024 really want that ?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (KLQUC)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
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Artificially lowering interest rates worsens affordability. It may briefly increase "payability," but it's fleeting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (azrRX)
Pretty sure he doesn't care.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0N4FZ)
So why is he campaigning?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
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What, like a car or house?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Decaf
I nominate "Dancing Queen."
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I nominate "Ballroom Blitz".
Posted by: Crusader
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I love Ballroom Blitz but they are British and I think half of them are dead. It needs to be an American band or artists who are alive and able to take advantage of it.
Posted by: Decaf
"We Are Family" Sister Sledge
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (uv8gn)
Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans..
I think that ad buys are in the form of paying influencers and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)
Need to keep black women fully on the plantation, especially with muzzies, trannies and probably some white men being so high on the stack for now.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (TR2dy)
Ayn Rand was right.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (zqeQL)
Its an obscenity that slabs of untrimmed brisket are running $5/lb
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (9Hs2w)
But tariffs are harmless and wonderful!!!
Posted by: Anti-freedom AoS posters at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (rQwsY)
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Another GREAT song from the same album. That one didn't get the airplay it should have, but Pat Benatar liked enough to record a cover of it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (9Hs2w)
You know this is Drumpf's fault, right?
Posted by: Right? at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (neVb2)
You are behind the times. It's gonna be the Jews' fault. Most of the factions can agree on that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (rQwsY)
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Gosh, because maybe a GOP majority might actually pass bills he wants. Lots of reasons to do it. Impeachment fears are way down the list.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (GPa4z)
What do Republicans offer?
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (E0p3T)
>>@RapidResponse47
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1m
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>>@SecScottBessent in Pennsylvania: "This is a formula for prosperity: lowering prices, raising incomes... The benefits of [President Trump's] agenda are now rippling through the economy — and those ripples will become waves as his agenda gathers force in 2026."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)[/io]
Lowering the interest rates increases inflation. If you want to see .25 cent candy bars ever again, then low interest rates are not your friend.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:54 PM (wzUl9)
No, at best they are drone flights at the most boring angle of some big boxxy thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)
Sometimes I worry that the ads on the HQ, the ones about cleaning all your rain gutters, and alternatives to "the little blue pill" both have the same solution. But what really keeps me up at night is that this is a secret message being delivered to me, and humanity's last greatest hope, might actually be my very own penis. It's a terrible burden.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
Everything the Democrats do is Bull Shit - thus their party stinks, and the smell is bad enough that even low info voters are starting to smell it.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (9Hs2w)
Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans..
I think that ad buys are in the form of paying (fake word) and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:00 PM (9Hs2w)
Once again I see Subaru is not a car manufacturer but is instead the United Way.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)
I mean, my local taco shop had posted multiple news articles all in the vein of "why the price of eggs will never come down."
Dems were in front of every microphone they could find.
They were winning the airways!
They were going to something something, and Trump resigns!
How'd that work out?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vSvIl)
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What, like a car or house?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Yes. Among other things, since we foolishly allow 'credit' for pretty much everything.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (vSvIl)
The demons in Hell have selected her for some reason.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:04 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (9Hs2w)
It is your patriotic duty to pay higher prices for everyday things. Now pay up, or do you want to be a traitor to your country?
Posted by: Principled Anti-freedom AoS posters at December 09, 2025 06:04 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (vSvIl)
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So...no buying a house until you save up for it? Cash only transactions or loans with high interest rates? Is this your path for prosperity and assuring GOP victory?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:03 PM (wzUl9)
It's not?
Posted by: Chinese Karaoke Singers singing Barroom Britz at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (3uBP9)
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Chevrolet had a nice four minute pro-family Christmas advertisement on their Suburbans..
I think that ad buys are in the form of paying influencers and video reviewers to gush about how great the XYZ model is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025
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Come to think of it, I have seen ones for Buick -- their latest all-SUV lineup. If it hadn't been for the triple-shield badge on the front of the vehicle in the ad, I wouldn't have recognized the brand until they said it. Their SUVs look just like GMCs or Cadillac SUVs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (E0p3T)
Supposedly closed borders with mass deportations, no wars, more responsible spending, a sensible energy policy...
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (rbvCR)
Depends on the situation.
To truly see 25 cent candy bars again…pay down the debt. Which reduces the amount of dollars in circulation, which makes the dollar more precious, and so on.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (rQwsY)
I don't know where some of you live but prices on virtually everything including groceries around here are down.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m)
Supposedly closed borders with mass deportations, no wars, more responsible spending, a sensible energy policy...
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (GPa4z)
No wars, huh?
The Enemy Gets A Vote.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
I don't want to add to your cares, but I sometimes have the same worry:
Is Banana Dream's banana are last best hope?
Posted by: guy who banana dream should take out a restraining order against at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (neVb2)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED FROM BRUTALITY TO KILL THE BURTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END ZARDOZ YOUR GOD GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN. THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)
But manufacturers borrow money in order to make contracts and purchase materials, labor, equipment and real-estate.
Also high interest rates attract bond and treasury investors away from stocks with mild returns.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (9Hs2w)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s)
The Enemy Gets A Vote.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY)
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Given that even when we were attacked, we decided to go kick off a bunch of other unrelated wars, I'd say we've met the enemy and he is us in that respect.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (Da7Vv)
Yet they stay afloat because they get to run against Republicans who only we seem to think are better, and that's on odd days only when we're not complaining about what bullshitting lying traitorous cocksuckers they are.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
This also is what keeps the Paolo up at night, but in a different way...
Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025
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I've seen $2.19 in Da Swamp in one or two places. Most seem to hover around $2.49, with some Chevrons and Sunocos at $2.79.
The suburban convenience store where I get my $2.99 ethanol-free gas has $2.19 for E10 regular. I may do a 50/50 split fillup tomorrow or this weekend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (wzUl9)
The Enemy Gets A Vote.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rQwsY)
The key to peace is not having any enemies. Let's kill them.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (wzUl9)
I don't know where some of you live but prices on virtually everything including groceries around here are down.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m)
Depends on what you buy.
The beef is still high but other things are…not bad. I buy lots of store brands anyway as a hedge against all this. No need to buy Minute Brand Instant Rice when I can get a store brand from HEB or Wally World cheaper.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s)
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Anyone remember that Very Conservative Army Guy who thought Trump was losing the military and needed to back off but who vanished when Joe glorified trannies and used unlawful vaccine requirements to kick 40,000 GIs out? Yeah, the military *loved* that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:07 PM (rbvCR)
Arthur, what did we ever do to you?
Posted by: Ron and Emily Burtal at December 09, 2025 06:10 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)
If we're serious about making homes affordable, banning mortgages is the only way to really do it. You have to end the excess money that is artificially available for purchases and let supply and demand run their course.
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (E0p3T)
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Cheating. They stay afloat by cheating. Rampant, massive cheating. Why are so many blue states fighting federal lawsuits demanding the voter rolls? Because they have to hide the cheating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (GPa4z)
Not that either.
I’m not a naive hippie dippy, who thinks we can just have “no wars”, BUT the can be avoided by:
1) Peace Through Strength
2) Deterrence. Si desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum.
3) DIME
We don’t need to kill all our enemies. Just make sure they live in fear that if they fuck up, they might end up dead.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (rQwsY)
@michellemalkin 43s
COMING SOON. The return of Michelle Malkin and a new podcast series. #wrongfulconvictions #freedanielholtzclaw #freeraymullins #CORRUPTAHOMA
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (mlg/3)
It blew my mind during the campaign last year when I found out Suzie Wiles was Pat Summerall's daughter.
Just hearing old recordings of his voice, and I'm instantly back in the '80s, Thanksgiving or other holiday, and there's a game on, and All is Well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
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Thanks for playing. God bless you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
I guess people rent for eternity then.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (rQwsY)
The most successful person to enter politics and the most successful politician needing my advice.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:14 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (w6EFb)
Hearing old recordings of Pat Summerall’s voice would be coma inducing. His monotone could make the biggest moments in football sound dull.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)
If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come out of conservatorship, then the rules Congress imposed on the process will become much easier, and the demands for paperwork compliance will not be under Dodd-Frank, which will simplify things for small business owners. If loans can be sourced locally instead of at JPMorganChase level then there will be much easier loan agreements since the loans are being handled at local banks for local conditions, not at the big bank level. If the illegals get asked to go home their illegally started FHA loans can be sold to Americans.
If all you do is make rates cheaper, but leave all the barriers to compliance in place, the money goes to the Private Equity and real estate companies who have better credit, lower rates, simpler compliance procedures due to volume, and want houses to rent out to families who can't qualify for loans because of the barriers
"cantillon effect" sucks
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR)
It isn't that things are so expensive, its that the dollar isn't worth squat. A dollar and 40 cents worth of 1964 dimes and quarters has an ounce of silver in it, and an ounce of silver sells for more than $61 in today's money. That means the dollar has been inflated by more than a factor of about 42 times since 1964.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
20 dollarsh, schame as in town
Posted by: Sean Connery at December 09, 2025 06:16 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: I gotta ask
A fish in the wrasse family. First cousin to a tautog, or blackfish.
Posted by: Slow-Growers, But Taste Good. at December 09, 2025 06:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (KhyP1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Do you not understand that the availability of mortgages forces house prices higher?
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 09, 2025 06:17 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv)
And?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rQwsY)
To truly see 25 cent candy bars again…pay down the debt. Which reduces the amount of dollars in circulation, which makes the dollar more precious, and so on.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (rQwsY)
Inflation is based on money availability, in our system money is created through debt. So we are arguing the same side of the debate. Stopping money creation stops the bleeding, paying down the debt reduces the "money supply"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rbvCR)
And that's why it was so good. You had Madden there next to him to get all excited. Those two were the Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon of NFL play coverage.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (w6EFb)
COMING SOON. The return of Michelle Malkin and a new podcast series. #wrongfulconvictions #freedanielholtzclaw #freeraymullins #CORRUPTAHOMA
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Early this century I followed her closely. She was intense. Got rich. FOX burned her. She got fed up and retreated somewhat.
Quite understandable.
Michelle Malkin, glad you're making a comeback.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (uv8gn)
How do you ban borrowing money from relatives?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (9s47C)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:19 PM (c35xG)
So far they are mostly just sitting on their fat asses.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
I guess people rent for eternity then.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (rQwsY)
You are a renter if you have a mortgage, except you're stuck doing the paperwork and maintenance.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (vSvIl)
I get that people are accustomed to the way things are currently done, financing everything, but that isn't mathematically sustainable.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (vSvIl)
If you want to jump right back to a 1933 economy, that's a great way to do it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Emmie at December 09, 2025 06:20 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s)
The only time I ever watched FNC was when she used to fill in for Dummy O'Reilly on Friday nights in like 2002. Back then I actually believed FNC seemed somewhat conservative because they employed her. Once they got rid of her they showed what they were.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 06:21 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:15 PM (Da7Vv)
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Equilibrium?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (c35xG)
Yes, they are drafting an abortion ban as usual. Look for it about a month out from the election. That and retirements.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (cS1cw)
As always. There is always some product or group of products that have individual issues like beef right now but its not indicative of the entire economy.
The vast majority of things at the market are down.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (viF8m)
Inflation is based on money availability, in our system money is created through debt. So we are arguing the same side of the debate. Stopping money creation stops the bleeding, paying down the debt reduces the "money supply"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:18 PM (rbvCR)
Working quadruple overtime to make something simple EXTREMELY complicated, I see.
You kill inflation by spending money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither. So spend as little on government as you can get away with.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (rQwsY)
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All loans to individuals, yes.
Loans to businesses, actual capitalism, is fine, but to individuals, they just create economic inefficiency and financial instability (Every single one has a risk of becoming unpayable, and that adds up the more of them you allow).
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (vSvIl)
Also high interest rates attract bond and treasury investors away from stocks with mild returns.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:08 PM (9Hs2w)
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Not labor, unless the enterprise is in a doom loop. If you're borrowing to make payroll, your business is probably failing.
Artificially low interest rates are bad for labor, not good for it. Everything produced has two fundamental inputs: capital and labor. Stuff and work. Artificially suppressing the price of capital (that is, synthetically low interest rates) creates an incentive to change your input mix as much toward capital preference as possible for the business.
Artificially lowering interest rates has similar effects as would artificially raising the minimum wage: it makes labor comparatively more expensive. Artificially raising interest rates has the opposite effect, and disincentivizes capital investment. Nobody knows where the equilibrium point is, but nobody also cares. Government finance must be shored up, so down the rates must go and damn the consequences.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (azrRX)
Are renters building equity?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
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Retire and spend more time with the family of lobbyists.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (Dv3i1)
I don’t remember if it is on YouTube or television but there is one that is basically America, Fuck Yeah that would make me pay more attention to it if I were in the market for a new vehicle. Jeep, maybe? Ram?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (0aYVJ)
Or you are ramping up for Excessmass Season shopping.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
There is this other thing... they call them "start ups".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (9s47C)
Made the list.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 06:26 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU. EVEN ZARDOZ HAS TROUBLE WITH TYPOS WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES. GO FORTH MY CHOSE ONES AND COPY-EDIT
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (rbvCR)
Loans to businesses, actual capitalism, is fine, but to individuals, they just create economic inefficiency and financial instability (Every single one has a risk of becoming unpayable, and that adds up the more of them you allow).
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:23 PM (vSvIl)
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Hard disagree. Capital goods are capital goods. Houses, cars, etc. are capital goods.
The real problem, in my opinion, is treating *all* debt as self-canceling. It isn't. Only collateralized debt is self-clearing. If the debtor doesn't pay, sell the collateral and get made whole. Consumption debt is *not* self-clearing, and capital debt ceases to be if asset value falls.
That is fixable with reserve requirements and marking to market at the close of business every day. If the debt isn't self-clearing (is consumer debt), or if the collateral can no longer clear it, the bank has to reserve it at 100% of the difference. That is, no leverage permitted for consumer debt and reserve requirements go up as asset prices decline.
There will still be a market for consumer debt in that environment, but it will be fairly rare and quite expensive. Like a payday loan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: I gotta ask at December 09, 2025 06:09 PM (XQo4F)
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU. EVEN ZARDOZ HAS TROUBLE WITH TYPOS WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES. GO FORTH MY CHOSE ONES AND COPY-EDIT
Posted by: ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU
typo good edit evil
*spews a deluge of punctuation from mouth*
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (sGtp+)
Apparently you haven't gotten invoices from attorneys, payroll management, land lords, product licensing or cloud services.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (9s47C)
Posted by: DanMan at December 09, 2025
I just paid 3.64 at the Arco station. Thanks Governor Kotex!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (rbvCR)
that's it, that's their entire Navy now. Italy's Navy is bigger.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:29 PM (6ydKt)
Quite understandable.
Michelle Malkin, glad you're making a comeback.
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Hope you like her comeback--I read that she's entered into the "just asking questions" phase.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (8jVAy)
Or sell the IP and patents.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
There is this other thing... they call them "start ups".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:25 PM (9s47C)
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Moreso the latter than the former, but the former can happen. Both require a big capital investment. Both a form of expansion, and both also happen at the margins. The needs of startups to make payroll do not drive policymaking decisions at any level.
I am not anti-capital by any means. Our capital markets made the various industrial revolutions possible. I am opposed to bureaucrats dictating the *price* of capital for the benefit of major financial houses and government finances.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:30 PM (azrRX)
Ask the people in the Weimar republic or in Zimbabwe what the effects of runaway inflation are, because we are right on the ragged edge of that happening. There are likely going to be serious bank failures next year, because the commercial building loan crises comes due then.
Everybody raised such a stink over bail outs of banks in the 2008 housing loan crises, that they changed the law to bail ins. A bail in is where the bank, when it gets into trouble financially, gets to steal the depositors money to get out of trouble. Don't worry, they'll give you a pocket full of mumbles that puts the depositors at the end of the bankruptcy line as unsecured creditors. That puts you behind the guy who mows the bank's lawn in terms of ever getting your money back.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Yurtul the burtul at December 09, 2025 06:31 PM (XQo4F)
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100% is un-necessary. Proper accounting already requires banks to establish an offset account roughly resembling "Allowance for Loan Losses". The regulators are supposed to evaluate the sufficiency of that number and request all documentation that went into the determination of that offset account.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 06:33 PM (8jVAy)
There are a lot of institutional buyers like insurance and pension plans. Banks don't like to play landlord unless the bank has their HQ or operations in the same building.
For defined benefit plans, YOU the taxpayer make up for the under performing real estate portfolio. For the insurance companies, they just jack up premiums and tighten the screws on claims.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 06:11 PM (uQzkA)
I did the math on this one from 1965 (first Boomer gets to 20) to today
for Oregon
21,700 cost of house 1965 (average)
Mortgage 5.5-6.0%
Minimum wage 1.25 (Oregon) 1.15 (federal)
you would have to work ~8.5 years to pay for the house if you had no other expenses like cars, gas, or food
484.000 cost of house 2025 (average)
Minimum wage $15.05 federal 7.25 Oregon (not Portland)
You would have to work about 15.5 years to pay for the house if you had no other expenses like cars, gas, or food.
The average age of a new home buyer is around 45. Average age of a home buyer in general is 50.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (3uBP9)
Are renters building equity?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:24 PM (9s47C)
I don't know that "building equity" is particularly meaningful in a system where between that and the stock market, you're just trying to catch a share of the excess money that banks cause by lending and the federal government causes by deficit spending, rather than doing anything of value.
Renters of the non mortgage sort might be saving money under the mattress or somewhere relatively safe, or, maybe, making thoughtful investments in something useful if they're seeking a return.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:34 PM (vSvIl)
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We need an easy to hit eye-roll emoji. FDIC insured deposits haven't changed, other than the limit of insured funds going up over the years.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at December 09, 2025 06:35 PM (TN0g+)
Individuals start businesses, sometimes with capital from loans. In my case, I didn't have a business loan, but I did have a mortgage and auto loans that allowed me to invest my own meager capital into a business.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)
So naturally, the EU is telling the US to F-Off we are a bunch of losers and they don't need us.
I would like to test that theory by dropping out of NATO.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:37 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 06:38 PM (raK6f)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (c35xG)
There were a lot more rentals in 1933 than there are today, that wasn't because young couples liked it
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:39 PM (rbvCR)
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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (azrRX)
That would work in theory, if you were starting from scratch. You still have to accept that mistakes will get made and banks will go under (and some deposits lost as a result) from time to time, which folks have generally been unwilling to do.
Posted by: Methos at December 09, 2025 06:42 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 06:22 PM (rQwsY)
Inflation is caused by increasing the money supply, either by printing more money than there are assets to back it, or by loaning it out on the promise that it will be repaid.
Your bank does not have the value of the amount they loaned you tucked away in the bank in gold specie, they hold treasuries and loan out on the value on that. They get the treasuries from the Fed, who were forced to take them from the Treasury per the agreement.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 06:43 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:00 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:04 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 07:08 PM (Da7Vv)
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This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:04 AM (NxtE8)
Posted by: Kathy in FL at December 10, 2025 09:07 AM (v+oos)
"Intentional Negligence"? FBI Had J6 Bomber's Cell Phone Putting Him at the Scene of the Crime... Five Years Ago
If the FBI had cell phone records of 10,000 people's cell phones sending signals from near the RNC and DNC on the night the bombs were planted, I could understand not finding the suspect. With a suspect list of 10,000 people, I guess I could understand the claim, "We just didn't have the manpower to run down every phone."
Guess how many cell phones they actually had records of in the vicinity of the RNC and DNC at the time when the bombs were being planted? Fewer than 200. No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th. So was this a case of "intentional negligence"? Miranda Divine:Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence." 'Corrupted' cell data This, after all, was the FBI that managed to round up and charge 1,500 supporters of President Trump who set foot anywhere vaguely near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tracking them down through cellphone pings and video footage. Yet with all its technical ability, Wray's FBI somehow missed the phone used by the suspect in the vicinity of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on the evening of Jan. 5 when the pipe bombs were planted. Surveillance footage shows the suspect, wearing a gray hoodie and COVID-style white mask, seemingly talking on the phone while walking around that night less than half a mile from the Capitol. According to an FBI document presented to the DC District Court during his arraignment Friday, Cole's cellphone "engaged in approximately seven data session transactions with [his cellphone provider's] towers between 7:39 p.m. and 8:24 p.m. ... in the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021," locating him in the right place at the right time. That information was obtained by the FBI within weeks of the discovery of the pipe bombs the next day. Investigators found 186 cellphone numbers "of interest" and 130 "devices of interest," according to the congressional report released this January by the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary subcommittees, Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).They only bothered looking into 36 of the 186 phone numbers? Let me guess - the 36 they looked into were Trump supporting Republicans, right?
By early February 2021, according to the subcommittees, FBI agents had been assigned to interview people associated with 36 of the 186 phone numbers; 98 still "required additional investigative steps." A further 51 phone numbers were identified as "not needing further action" because, curiously enough, the phones "belong[ed] to law enforcement officers or persons on the exclusion list." The FBI never told Congress what came of those leads.
Then there is the curious tale of the "corrupted" cellphone data that turned out not to be corrupted at all. The story came from Steve D'Antuono, head of the FBI's Washington field office until his retirement in December 2022, who was in charge of the crucial first year of the pipe bomb case as well as the Capitol riot investigation, which has been described as the biggest in FBI history. He was assigned to Washington one month before the 2020 election from his previous role in Detroit, when he ran the disastrous Gretchen Whitmer "fednapping" case that resulted in multiple mistrials and acquittals, amid claims of FBI entrapment of patsies. D'Antuono, who has since found a job at KPMG, also led the controversial FBI raid on Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago, in August 2022. He claims he opposed the raid but was overruled by then-Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate. In any case, in June 2023, D'Antuono testified before Congress, claiming that the FBI had received "corrupted data" in the pipe bomb case from one of the three major cellphone carriers and that may have been the reason it couldn't find the culprit.It gets worse. The FBI didn't release any pictures of the suspect that could identify him -- and one investigator claims that the FBI deliberately blurred out the one part of his face that was clearly visible in the surveillance footage, his eyes. Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity? I don't know if I'm ready to believe that. It's a claim made by someone looking at the video and determining that he sees "pixelation" added to the video to obscure Brian Cole, Jr.'s eyes. I remember other claims about "chromatic aberrations" not turning out to be true. But I would like this investigated further.
"We did a complete geofence. [But] there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them," he said. "It just [was an] unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers ... I can't remember right now which one. But for that day, which is awful because we don't have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation it probably was, right." Yet all three of the cellphone carriers contacted by Loudermilk's subcommittee confirmed that they "did not provide corrupted data to the FBI and that the FBI never notified them of any issues with accessing the cellular data."
... But by the end of February 2021, according to Loudermilk and Massie's report, the bureau actively began diverting resources away from the pipe bomb investigation. At the same time, Wray and Abbate were ramping up resources to track down and aggressively prosecute trespassing J6 grandmothers.Miranda Divine concludes that the political operators of the FBI didn't want to taint their Trump Did the J6 Insurrection narrative with any information that might undermine it, and started winding down the investigation when it looked like the main suspect was not a MAGA grandma.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (TR2dy)
Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (8CIFn)
Did they even bother to look.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (mPytV)
NOTHING WILL HAPPEN to them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (bNf8H)
>Why would they do that, if not to conceal his identity?
>>I don't know if I'm ready to believe that.
There's a Mike Benz video that will cure you of that, Ace.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)
That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
Fecklessness. Betrayal. Insurrection.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zZu0s)
Says Wray and Pelosi and others who promoted the J6 myth.
Jussie Smollette is proud (I always say his name like Chappelle).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (WONhk)
Strongly worded letters will be written and sleaves will be rolled up.
That's about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (npFr7)
If we are to believe some of the stuff we are hearing about this guy, he was easily manipulated. So then the question becomes, who put him up to it?
Maybe that's the question they didn't want asked/answered.
Posted by: No Name Today at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (8mulE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)
That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x)
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How is that different from a "coverup" or a "conspiracy" or "corruption?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"
Gee, we never thought of that.
Posted by: the FBI at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (vFG9F)
That's my line!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:30 PM (zjgNU)
So, you're saying I was in before the nothing will happen guy?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)
yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (YwEeS)
yeah, the fact they faked the "corrupted cell data" is more evidence they had prior knowledge of the bomber, and sought an excuse ("data no good") to cover it up.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:32 PM (vbXSk)
Eh, apparently the perp is rather autistic, according to Granma, and black, but mostly black.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:34 PM (pDt9x)
They'd have torn down Alcatraz to the foundations and rebuilt it atop Mauna Loa.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: gov'theretohelp at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (VOPsA)
1. That they would protect a guilty person because he is not MAGA, and it just too difficult to spin him as a recent convert who was working under MAGA influence
or
2. They were pulling the strings and were concerned that their plotting would eventually get exposed, and so it was easier to protect the guy from being ID'd in order to protect the conspiracy.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (mPytV)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
This was their Reichstag moment.
And they got away with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Fine, as far as it goes. But it implies that somebody knew. Obviously not a "MAGA Grandma," but not at *all* obviously not someone affiliated. A dude is a dude until context is added.
So if they suppressed this - and it looks like they did, any questions about doctoring the footage notwithstanding - then they had a reason. The only reason for suppressing it is either because they're not sure who it is (which would call for publicity - a "have you seen this man" kind of thing) or because they *are* pretty sure who it is. The latter is more likely, so the only real question is *how* they knew.
Either he was one of their boys, or they found out who he was. So they either had a patsy they set up, or they actually did their jobs and investigated but then buried it. I don't see another reasonable conclusion, but am open to hearing other arguments.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (azrRX)
Of course the FBI will try and protect their agents.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (D+mpw)
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Patsy.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
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It did work, at least in part of society. That was the part predisposed to believe the worst of Republicans anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Mannix solves the case of the J6 bomber who is of course not to be confused with a cop.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (WDjG6)
As part of a treasonous conspiracy.
Let's stop with these limited hangouts. Like the NYT admitting that "maybe open borders was a mistake."
No, it was not a mistake, and this is not negligence. It was a planned takeover of our current system and the people. A coup. A treasonous dirty coup by filthy commies.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (mPytV)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:33 PM (viF8m)
And the 'Bomb' portion of the Plot was conveniently in place, as a last resort, to stop Congress from actually acting to review the election results.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (IifOV)
Did someone throw in the Joos?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: wodun at December 09, 2025 04:39 PM (eG1Ca)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (r5gBF)
That part of society also includes Republican politicians in DC.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (npFr7)
If the bomber had been caught criticizing Israel, both parties would have called for the full force of the USMIC to descend on D.C. for door to door searches.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FAUIX)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (2L+MU)
So what ties this guy to the bombing is a pair of rare shoes and a cell phone? Can't both of these be used by someone else? As conspiracy theories go......
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Deep State Gonna Deep State at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FGMmt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (r5gBF)
The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today).
But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)
He was one of their wind-up toys.
Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (PlXYd)
I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?
Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (IifOV)
And sales of the bomb components on his credit cards, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Good to see you here. Glad you made it. Everything OK?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (c35xG)
Me too.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)
Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (3uBP9)
just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)
...
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)
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Hol' up....
Imma gonna let you finish, but first I want to say that they were always an incompetent grifting bunch of assholes.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (mPytV)
They have his receipts for components purchased going back a little over a year, I believe.
Not that he can't be a carve-out. But, they have more than you implied.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (TR2dy)
Surely there's more to it than that. Director Kash Patel hinted Friday at a reason the FBI under Biden administration Director Christopher Wray may not have wanted to solve the case: "intentional negligence."
This is the same Miranda Divine who played the NY Post patsy, publishing an article where 'insiders' at the FBI tried to frag Patel and Bongino as people leading a 'rudderless' FBI and were only in it for 'resume padding'. That article came out just a few days before the FBI actually caught Cole for the J5 pipe bomb plantings.
I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H)
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)
Oddly it turned out to be that one guy they saw on video plant a bomb, mill around a bit, then make a call.... at that exact time in that spot.
Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (PlXYd)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (7JIc2)
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Because he's black at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (9ZILp)
Posted by: Frank Barone
_________
He's ugly, but he ain't stupid.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XvL8K)
The fact that the DOJ under various presidents during that time period wouldn’t take action on their investigations wasn’t their fault, and even “conservative” Democrats like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Stu Symington would make sure Senate investigations turned on the whistleblowers instead of the perps (just like today).
But clearly at some fairly defined point in time the F.B.I. lost their mojo and started doing dirty. By the time Janet “Butch” Reno was large and in charge, certainly, but long before then, too. Sometime after the Church committee hearings? Arguably they played a role in ousting Nixon? So it’s been 50 years easy. Very sad.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (wJccJ)
Most organizations lose their focus within a generation of founding. The Armed Forces work around that to an extent by getting shot at.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (8avO+)
just get astigmatism. Every day is like Christmas at night.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (8avO+)
Get Fuchs Dystrophy. Every light is like a torture test for a large portion of the day. But, you do get rainbows all the time. I'm just waiting for the pot of gold to fall from out of nowhere and crush my skull.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)
I'd like to know who protected Ray Epps.
Who set up the 'gallows' and who ordered him to be left alone while he did it.
Who opened the magnetic locked doors to the Capitol.
Who was the handcuffed protestor who was then on camera later getting uncuffed and high fived by (someone, Capitol Police?)
Sigh.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: And you damn well know it. at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (XQo4F)
Me too.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (mPytV)
Oh, but he's a kook that no one should ever listen to ever........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0N4FZ)
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)
For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: bob
Hey! Democrats take responsibility for their actions and move on!
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:46 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (2GVsD)
I can't wait to hear the motive. What would drive an autistic guy whose family said he was extremely introverted to make bombs and plant them at the RNC and DNC on the very day an insurrection happened?
Probably have to dig for it because the media sure as hell isn't interested in this story.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 04:41 PM (viF8m)
His motive was to put a bomb in DC. It gets pretty simple when you do that.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)
I'm not a Glenn Beck fan. At all. I still remember his temporary NeverTrump insanity period.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)
He did yeoman's work on the whole Ukraine / Burisma shit back in the day, which everyone ignored. He was spot on and now look where that shithole is.
Hell, 1/2 of the 'conservative' media sphere was NeverTrump........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:45 PM (0CU3H)
Hey, remember a million years ago when Glenn Beck, ... super detective, basically batman, if batman was cool and had a chalkboard, ... solved the pipe bomb mystery for us?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9)
His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
We are on their radar it seems. Still, better than BB, or Insty. Those places are Overrun. Add in the gazillion dollars a week schemes - what a mess!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:37 PM (pDt9x)
related story in the NY Post today - the great majority of the posts backing Fuentes and his pals like Tucker on X and other online outlets are sourced from bot farms in India and Nigeria.
so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK8)
Trebuchet?
Posted by: Anna Puma"
Kiln.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (vFG9F)
Fewer than 200.
No, i do not believe the FBI "just didn't have the resources" to look into 186 suspects -- not when they showed they could mobilize every agent to track down every grandma within ten blocks of the Capitol on January 6th.
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I am sure they could have, but I have a different question.
What if he had left his phone at home? This framing of the problem - accurate as it may be - makes it sound as if cell phone data is they key to whole thing. I don't know if it is, but if it is then it sounds like leaving your phone at home is a "do whatever you want" pass. I can't imagine that's true, but maybe it's also like this:
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)
He got a tip when he was handing out Teddy Bears at the Border.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F)
I was gonna say his FBI handler, but that's probably the same person.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
She tried to retain election data that should have been retained per federal law, but that powerful people on Colorado don't want exposed. Political prisoner Tina Peters. A big lie is that Nazi is 'right-wing'. Nope.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Fire everyone even remotely connected to the bomber's investigation.
Any FBI investigator who believes his job is to protect Democrat political chicanery instead of catching criminals needs to be fired and any pension revoked.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Zombie Fawn Liebowitz at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)
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It “worked”, but …. Donald Trump is President. Oops
My view is they are stupid. They are selfish, which is worse.
Even the appearance or perception, rightly or wrongly, that elections are not legitimate is absolute poison for the system and anyone who cares about their country and its inhabitants would do anything to avoid this. One would want to dispel such ideas. With sunlight and transparency.
“Oh, you want to look under the hood of our election system? By all means!”
Did they do that? Fuck no. Not even a little bit. They just said “Fuck You” and decided to arrest anyone that complained. Not a prescription for confidence going forward.
Ask them, what WOULD be the acceptable response by America if it were proven a presidential election were stolen by Democrats?
What would they expect people to do? What is the remedy for that? “Vote Harder” is not a remedy.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:50 PM (wJccJ)
Then they should know who or what was on the other end of the line, right? That might be useful information."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I'm thinking he was not talking, those "transactions" are just the phone seeking a tower? And somehow it also transmits a location, or maybe they are just going by which tower it connected to.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK
Yeah, I love how the Left is trying to make an antisemitic equivalence between Ds and Rs, now that Fuentes et al are on the scene. The institutional antisemitism on the Left - domestically and internationally - puts anything we purportedly have on our side of the ledger in the dust.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (0CU3H)
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)
Well, everyone knows that burner phones are untraceable, so just use those.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9)
If by "solved" you mean forced the FBI to come up with a patsy, to keep the heat off of them, then yes. Yes he did.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Federal Investigations Bureau (FIB) at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x)
Bet he is still getting a retirement check.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)
Roll the security footage.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (2L+MU)
Who were his handlers? _ That's the real story.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (c35xG)
For me, the question is why did J6 even take place if there were bombs planted on Capitol grounds on J5?
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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It's a Dirty Dime Novel, the bombs are part of the J6 Insurrection story that they (Pelosi & Co) intended to pull off against Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (t/2Uw)
so much for that "organic support".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (uWKK
Yeah, those bot farms also watched Tucker every evening on Fox News, too.
Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+)
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (2Nfh9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)
Obstruction is only a thing on TV Fed Cop shows, silly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)
I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy)
Kinda cool. Very anime.
I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Old Man Adams at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (oftw2)
Blue Cheer.
Well played, sir. Well played.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
Towers "ping" cellphones all the time. I think these were either phone calls and texts, or him using an app, like maybe Gurgle Maps.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
I'm a fan of Divine, but that was not her best moment. This is probably her play at penance for that dumb move.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:43 PM (0CU3H)
Or... maybe they released the info on their patsy, after they realized they were getting heat from whoever sources her articles.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)
Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H)
I think you mean, 'in defense of The System'.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (TR2dy)
I could mean that.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (pDt9x)
Yes and yes. Because most of DC was all in on the plot to begin with because they all hated Trump.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)
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I have not made this claim, however, I remember from the Rittenhouse fiasco that security cameras these days usually have stunning quality. And that getting this kind of graininess often takes interference.
The graininess in these pics seems to me to be under that capability of current security cameras. I don't put it past them to grainify another video, as I seem to recall it wasn't only with Rittenhouse that they went out of their way to reduce the resolution on a security camera.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:52 PM (pDt9x)
Or...
J6 was an attack BY the system!
Because yes, the system must be protected at all costs, and that Trump guy was making noise about contesting the election.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 04:57 PM (dGCAG)
https://youtu.be/zgsQNNYurWo
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (azrRX)
To peeps today not having your phone on you and live is worse than being struck by lightning.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (8avO+)
I really want a good term for the cutesy little girl anime stuff that is not the sexual connotation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
kawaii?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (3uBP9)
The terrorists?
Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (OXcnO)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (vbXSk)
++++
They actively communicate all the time. I am not sure what a "data transaction" is, but they also probably happen more or less constantly. Get an email and you receive a push notification? Get a notification
Whether location is involved would depend on the applications involved, but it also isn't needed. The tower *must* know who is connected to it. The nearby towers probably also do, if the phone connects to multiple towers (which it will during handoff, if not earlier). Triangulation works and no device location is needed because the tower locations are known.
Even a connection to a single tower gets you a likely radius. Pick the closest tower to the target, and see who was connected. Even without greater precision than that, it's a highly-effective filter for narrowing down the list. The tower knows what is connected at any given time, and can infer how far away the device is (signal strength).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You must eliminate intent to do that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG)
His handler was VERY specific about the Day and Locations he was to plant those inert bombs.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 04:48 PM (TR2dy)
If you watch the video, it sure looks like he is being directed by someone. The wandering. The looking around. He even gets up on tippy toes at one point looking for someone, then wanders off for another lap around the area...
Then... plants the 'bombs.
Add in the Hoody and mask... which could easily cover earphones... or buds..
If'n he knew where he wanted to plant the bombs, then why the wandering around? Makes no sense... just gets him into more camera footage.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (mP0Kj)
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames
*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)
The terrorists?
Yes, they were threatening our Democracy and deserved to be shot by the brave heroes in Washington D.C.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 09, 2025 04:58 PM (K+su+)
Yeah, that guy. It would have been better if Cruz had kept is trap shut. Like at least 20 other Republican Senators did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:53 PM (c35xG)
Exactly. A security service worth its salt would have announced that bombs were discovered in the vicinity and the whole grounds declared off-limits to the public. Either J6 should never have happened, or it was all an Op.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 04:56 PM (0CU3H)
Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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you mean chibi?
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You must eliminate intent to do that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (c35xG
If you ever feel the need to be appalled, remove safe search for anime, hentai, and manga. What they allow is really disturbing.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:00 PM (pDt9x)
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You can say that, but I know better, from my reading of history. They did excellent work at what they were tasked to do.
As so often the case, it was congress who caused the problems to persist. It was Harry Truman who absconded with all the State Department personnel background check and loyalty files. He wouldn’t let congressman look at them. The FBI had files on all sorts of scurvy fuckheads.
It’s like the cops in Seattle or Portland. If your bosses are leftist dickheads, you ain’t gonna bust your ass to do arrest bad guys. It isn’t worth the risk. And eventually you’ll get pushed out, and they’ll hire left wing goons anyhow, to hassle and arrest the law abiding.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (wJccJ)
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Pain, Democrats, Pain.
Trump Silvers would sell like hotcakes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (c35xG)
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames
*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel
LOL!
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU)
That was how they supposedly proved Michael Cohen was in Vienna working with Russia on behalf of Trump.
Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:59 PM (8avO+)
Yes, he should've been a Russo-Iranian Qatari national with a Chinese passport.
Posted by: MIC Fiction Committee at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (K+su+)
German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames
*whistles innocently*
-Frenchman with suspiciously full pockets - Chuck Martel
LOL!
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2L+MU)
No business being there anyway. Stay on the other side of the Channel!! Go bother France!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl)
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Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more.
Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC?
The FIB is hype.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (ULPxl)
The same place where it says that the Administrative State is the Fourth Branch of Government.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn)
I need a “ line”, a signature comment. Everyone should coin one.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (pDt9x)
tubal - I need a line!
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (8avO+)
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Day by day, I doubt that it ever was more and more.
Was it when Hoover was tapping the phone of every prominent person in DC?
The FIB is hype.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)
Once a domestic terror group, always a domestic terror group. Burn it down, figuratively.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (dK+Kv)
I'd like to see a coin featuring Donald Trump in the pose of St. Michael, his foot on the neck of Chuck Schumer, brandishing a spear over his head.
Posted by: Paco - If the problem's a no-brainer, I'm your man at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)
I suppose it would be possible to spoof a cellphone's IMEI number, which is a unique identifier of the device itself. Dummy up another phone to play-act as Cohen's phone, ship it in a Faraday bag to Vienna, and take it out for a walk.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (3uBP9)
Really? Cross-dressing JE Hoover with his blackmail files begs to differ.
Rotten to the core from day one.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT)
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (xcxpd)
Roll the security footage.
Posted by: Anna Puma
And they used a credit card.....
And they went home and turned it on...
And they called their friends after....
Criminals usually are not that smart. Even Kohlberger got caught, and he turned his phone off (or Faraday bagged it, not sure.) But he was in area casing the house in the weeks before, and his phone was noticeably off during the murders.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mPytV)
Modern phones are constantly tracking their own location... and it's been shown that I phones are sending the info off periodically... even if you are in Airplane mode... it waits to connect then sends off the data.
And as Phone companies seem quite willing to give that info to the Feds, even without any warrant?
My phone right now knows down to a few feet, exactly where it is, and shows the location of my truck 30 feet away, even though it is not even connected to my truck.
They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Say, one of those excluded law enforcement phones wouldn't be a female Capitol City police officer with a soccer injury would it?
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Da7Vv)
Michael Cohen was never in Vienna.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:01 PM (viF8m)
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The method isn't actually bad, but it depends on two things:
1. Understanding that "the device is there" does *not* necessarily mean "the person who owns the device is there." It requires other corroboration.
2. Knowing that the device that's there is the device you're looking for.
Neither was the case with the "Cohen in Vienna" thing. It was either the wrong device (a device belonging to a different Michael Cohen, for example), or an outright fabrication.
"The device pinged the tower" is not itself meaningless, but it depends both on knowing what the device is *and* knowing that the person who owns the device was with it at the time. It ain't magic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:04 PM (uv8gn)
Good to see you here! Some people were wondering about your apparent absence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)
That counts for a lot in my book. The fact that it appears to be run by leftists in recent decades follows a certain pattern we’ve seen.
I liked it better when the F.B.I. was hated by leftists. Not run by leftists, as their personal clean up crew for crooked politicians and the rest of it. Going after parents at PTA meetings who object to their children being groomed by kiddie fuckers in public schools.
See where I’m going with that? There was a pretty dramatic change in focus and direction. When did that happen? Under Reagan? Bush? Clinton?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (wJccJ)
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The No Kings clause, duh.
Posted by: Kentajni Jackson Brown at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (Dv3i1)
And yet we have a Supreme Court Justice that seem to believe that's exactly what the Constitution says. In invisible ink I guess.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (viF8m)
Shouldn't they have had a more credible patsy set up than this dude?
Posted by: Oldcat
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Credible in what way? He did what he was told to do. His father is a felon, his sister and him too. He was as good or better than other set ups we've discovered on the FBI.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (c35xG)
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)
50? Hmmph.
Posted by: see eye ay at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 05:08 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Now you know who the Feds are on this website.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K)
Rotten to the core from day one.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:05 PM (E66lT)
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Hoover was never a TV. That's just the typical counter-op.
I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Roosevelt
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: huerfano
When I was vetting auditors, they were the first name crossed off of the list.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (b16/K)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)
I’d buy that for a dollar
Posted by: The guy who says, Id buy that for a dollar in robocop movies and the HQ at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ShainS
Have to say, that's a pretty solid option. I am down for Trump working the drive-thru window at McDonald's.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (uv8gn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (azrRX)
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Just what a cop would say!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)
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They probably are, because it's a hell of a first-pass filter. The device needs to be connected to function.
So you can look through gigantic databases from numerous service providers for a geographic range (hard) or narrow it down fast by just looking at what was connected to likely towers during the interesting period. If desired, you can then pull records for those devices. It's probably much easier and faster to start with a subset of the data first. I dunno. I've never done it. But I'd hate to have to start with "all global location data for that day." That's a lot of data and virtually all of it is just noise anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX)
But the fact that the FBI hid his identity for 5 years because revealing it would help Trump somehow...
These 2 facts don't seem to fit together.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:12 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I voted for him in the 16 primary. I now realize it would have been Bush Lite.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:09 PM (XvL8K)
Same here, Biff. Same here.
Looking back, what I thought was a badge of honor by having the Bushes mad at Cruz by bucking the political machine as a Tea Partier was actually them being mad at Cruz because he wouldn't wait for his turn.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Common Tater
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I used to have a list in my head, but so so many cases where they claim "success" were failure. On top of that,
- The hair and fiber lab
- The bit mark evidence.
I used to be a big fan of the FBI files TV show, but I noticed that most cases (a) the local PD actually solved it, or (b) They finally got around to looking at the most obvious suspect, or (c) the guy confessed or was ratted on. Very few were a result of their investigations.
Mostly what the did was promote themselves. That, they were good at. But look at so many big cases, Atlanta bombing, anthrax, unabomber,.... so many of them were nothing short of a display of incompetence. Maybe some time long ago they were good, but not the past 50 years.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (mPytV)
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
There was some great dirt in the Jefferson vs Adams campaign in 1796.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)
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Almost no one who thinks they're clever is as clever as they think they are.
There is still a lot of smoke around the actual bombs and whether they could have detonated at all.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (krQz2)
The vids I've seen has him circling all around the locations. Maybe he had Google maps open?
Posted by: barbarausa at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)
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4h
>>President Trump says that over the next couple of months, there will be evidence coming out proving that the 2020 election was stolen 👀
>>“It was a rigged election. Now everyone knows it. It’s going to come out over the next couple of months, too, loud and clear because WE HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION.”
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)
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Sure, but they aren't playing the same game...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:15 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:11 PM (azrRX)
When you think about it, it's pretty amazing that cellphones work at all. Somewhere, there must be a record kept of all the ping transactions of all phones, so that if I call 555-555-1212, the system knows to route my call to the last tower pinged by that phone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (npFr7)
Take a 30 year old black guy with autism and grill him for four hours and any competent police interrogator would be able to get him to confess to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, even though that happened 60 years before he was born. So I don't know how good his confession actually is. Remember all of the actual evidence against him comes from the professional liars in Wray's FBI.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
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Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls.
Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 05:07 PM (nXmou)
Most would. Call it a challenge coin. Challenge yourself not to look at it every hour.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (snZF9)
Consider the fact that the J6 Committee (Lynching party) destroyed a significant amount of their documentation (illegally). There was, obviously, a selfish reason for that. They likely were communicating directly with the FBI, and some of those communications could easily have been instructing the FBI to back off of the J5 bomber once it was established that he, not only, didn't fit the narrative or their purpose, but diametrically was opposite of what they were trying to do.
NOW, consider the wealth of undestroyed documentation that was sitting down the FBI burn room. You have to assume that some of that information included communication documentation. And, while the J6 Committee brazenly destroyed evidence, the FBI might not have been so thorough.
I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually.
Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)
At least one person is dead after an "active aggressor" opened fire on a US university campus"
a couple others injured.
https://tinyurl.com/2eyr5k72
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: ShainS
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I'd buy it even without the bikini.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (XeU6L)
Preach it brother.
Posted by: Qtardo at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 05:14 PM (abIsI)
Two Beavers?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)
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Right. TJ is commonly known as the the guy who slept with a female slave. But it very likely was not TJ but his brother. And IIRC correctly it was a long relationship, not just getting some from the slave girls.
Also it's not the case that Adams was a hermaphrodite.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:16 PM (krQz2)
But James Madison was really really tiny, yes??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
I wouldn't care for him more if he was or wasn't. I've been led to believe that all that Hoover TV stuff is character assassination.
Do you know how common it was to insinuate that Joe McCarthy was queer for his brother?
This is mid-20th century Democrat destruction politics.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:10 PM (krQz2)
I don't care one way or another about the cross-dressing, other than to point out that the persistent stories about him doing so *in his office* strongly implicate his character. And susceptibility to blackmail.
Speaking of blackmail, I note you didn't address his unwarranted (see what I did there) collection of personal information for his giant enemies file.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
everyone was tiny in that era, aside from Washington and Lincoln.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)
If they saw who the defendant would be and said "nope, don't want it" and then just left the case open, I'm not sure that's illegal.
You'd need them lying on record in some official way to probably make any charges.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
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The Real James Madison was diminutive, yes.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (krQz2)
I think the fall out from this is going to outweigh the incident by 10 fold....eventually.
Posted by: Capt. Conspiracy at December 09, 2025 05:17 PM (dIske)
I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (0CU3H)
Well, a sponge doesn't have the thrusting power of a blade ,and anyway I think it's funnier when you're actually # 200 or something and still claim first .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (7RYym)
Sour grapes?
Yay Sponge gets a solid first!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (QGaXH)
I wonder how much taxpayer money was spent paying the networks for good PR.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Not just networks. They did a lot of work with Hollywood. The grift was that they would act as "consultants" (and I presume agents got paid from that also) and the studio would make stories about their cases portraying them as superheros.
There were a lot of them. A couple off the top of my head are the Jimmy Stewart film Call Northside 777" and another about counterfeiting (well, secret service, but similar) called Mr. 880
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (mPytV)
This is good information to know. There are unofficial ways to get on the Exclusion List. Everyone has their price.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (c3sdc)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
That's what Dolley said.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 05:18 PM (pDt9x)
That's what Dolley said.
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That's quite the Zinger!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (TN0g+)
"Applebloom's eyes snapped open as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red mane […] The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their decaying bodies, rotting flesh sliding off from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently at the horrible images that inhabited her mind"
https://is.gd/R2Tdw0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4)
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Then there's that part about him taking her to France.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:19 PM (E66lT)
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I don't think that was in dispute. I mentioned him phone-tapping everybody of note in DC.
I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)
https://is.gd/R2Tdw0
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 05:22 PM (L/fGl)
A horse, even a cartoon one, sitting up in bed is an interesting problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)
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You're messing with their narrative.
After all, Butterjug has stated that Jefferson on Mt. Rushmore is 'problematic'. They use that word as an unverifiable assertion.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (XeU6L)
Just because we're the nation's premier law enforcement agency doesn't mean we're going to go against The Narrative. "White Coal", here, he would not have helped.
Posted by: FBI at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (IYMzU)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant
Sensible comments like this is why we need uptwinkles on this site.
Posted by: LGF Veteran at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (oftw2)
They are not tracking via cell tower... but they don't want to tell you HOW they are actually getting that data.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)
I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu)
Top. Men.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)
Given his enemies, being a TV would have lost him his job at a minimum after which it would be too late for the blackmail files. You have to deploy that first and be cleaner than the guy you are blackmailing.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Jewish Gaslighting Farm at December 09, 2025 04:54 PM (K+su+)
He was on MOSSAD payroll then. So it was Kosher.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK)
http://tiny.cc/pr7w001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (azrRX)
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (IYMzU)
I'll bet you it's in the TOS fine print for your phone that govt JBTs can pull your location via GPS without a warrant because GPS is govt built infrastructure.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:25 PM (y9nCu)
Sadly I bet you're correct here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (jPh2t)
Posted by: Zek
Which is funny, as we now know that Mark Felt faked all of that as revenge for not getting the director job at the FBI, and a CIA plant pretended to be a reporter.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 05:26 PM (b16/K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It's hierarchical, like the old AT&T system. They don't need a master list, they just have to Id who is keeping track of that particular phone number.
Then they look that up, and find the latest ping and route it to that tower.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at December 09, 2025 05:27 PM (mPytV)
There is a fair amount of "this is all fake Trump is blaming an innocent man!" but the more common response is that this black leftwing anarchist guy is rightwing because he believes there was fraud in the 2020 election.
And this is funny because everyone knows there was fraud, and on a significant scale, so by this logic pretty much everyone is a MAGA/rightwinger
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)
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That's quite the Zinger!
Posted by: Crusader
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A Ho-Ho about his Twinkie Ding-Dong.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Zek at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (5FPX4)
Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (jPh2t)
I do believe that there was at least one good Ham 'N Egger who turned Patel and Bongino onto those burn bags.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Yes. It's improbable that everyone of them is corrupt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (8avO+)
'Buried her 'face' in her hooves.'
Can horses do that? Muzzle, not face?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 05:28 PM (XeU6L)
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Now, Hoover did have a Smithers-like assistant....
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Macedonian Content Farmer Alliance at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (oftw2)
Now I think Watergate was a total op against Nixon by TPTB.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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If he was a Dem they would have turned a blind eye toward him protecting his crew.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:30 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)
Horse legs are pretty optimized for "just run damn fast in the forward direction" so I'd be a bit surprised if one could rotate the hoof to face up. Farriers I've seen have to curl the hoof to behind the 'knee' to be up, not twist it.
Cats can twist the front paw to face the face to clean the paws.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Jolo at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (QZdNa)
I'm not here to defend him, just wanted to mention that some of the most common scuttlebutt are likely slanders. I got that from a professor who was no fan of JEH either.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)
OK, I came into that with a way-too-shut mind. Thanks for the response.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 09, 2025 05:33 PM (E66lT)
- Pulled agents off of child sex trafficking cases to work J6 cases
- Pulled agents off of the J6 pipe bomber case to work other J6 cases
- which agents later found time to investigate whether napkins Trump kept from a random state dinner were really secretly the nuclear launch codes
While
- no agents were assigned to investigate Ray Epps
- no agents were assigned to investigate who built--and dismantled--the gallows
- no agents were assigned to investigate who released the bomb-proof magnetic locks and "breached" the Capital doors
- no agents were assigned to investigate the Antifa-affiliated persons--despite multiple black-clad, face-masked Antifa--in the crowd and the Capital
I'm beginning to think the FBI is rather political in who and what it investigates ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (HXT0k)
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That was because Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers were queers. That’s how the urbane, sophisticated Hiss got to “know” such a clod in the first place, after all.
Read Whitewashed By History about Sen. McCarthy. They use the exact same playbook then as now.
My point is the F.B.I. wasn’t classifying Americans as subversives and “White Supremacists” in those days. They rightly considered Communism as a threat to our system of government.
All that changed at some point, and dramatically so. To try and equate the 1940s F.B.I. with the 1990s F.B.I. is retarded. Maybe they were SOBs then, too, but they were our SOBs.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:34 PM (Lqx3s)
Posted by: TheShadowsPawn at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (lqLYa)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 05:37 PM (D+mpw)
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It would be helpful if you read what I wrote. That is exactly what I’m saying. They went bad, long after Roosevelt, Hoover hated FDR and with good reason, probably. At some point there was an institutional focus change. They were going after student radicals and anarchists in the 1960s, maybe not as effectively as they should have, but they were playing for the right team, so to speak.
By the 1990s, there was a distinct shift. I would suggest during the Clinton years, but I don’t know for sure.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 05:41 PM (Lqx3s)
Then there's that part about him taking her to France.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 05:23 PM (c35xG)
Then there's the Democrat Party Tammany Hall brother and Democrat Congressman Daniel Sickles who murdered his wife's lover (US Attorney for DC Barton Key, Francis Scott Key's son) in front of hundreds of witnesses in Lafayette Square, a stone's throw from the White House. A few years earlier, he was essentially a pimp for Fanny White, one of New Yawk's most successful courtesans. Among their many indiscretions, he took her to England in lieu of his wife when he was on James Buchanan's staff while he was Ambassador. Sickles introduced White around London society (and to Queen Victoria herself) as Miss Bennett, implying that she was the daughter of Sickles' great enemy, James Bennett editor of the NY Herald. Sickles thought this was hilarious, at least until someone ratted him out, causing a scandal.
Unlike most Democrat assholes, Sickles had a sense of humor.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 05:44 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:35 PM (Da7Vv)
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Ah, yeah, that's right. That's what it was.
Posted by: Axeman at December 09, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)
They have the cell phone records, which means they have the names. they can go on-line and start to eliminate many of these people just by searching social media, etc. For example, the bomber was not obese, the bomber was right-handed, the height of the bomber can be pretty accurately estimated. etc. That should have narrowed the list to a couple of dozen people. They had FOUR YEARS to get this done. 2-3 agents were more than sufficient to solve the case. Most of the work being done on-line.
Reminds me of that Kevin Costner movie, no way out. They have a picture of the killer, who may be Kevin Costner. A computer is slowly enhancing the photo. Costner then gives the order to "re-process" it, delaying his revelation as the potential killer.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (cS1cw)
This lack of resources stuff is just bullshit. If the job is crunching a lot of data they have all the resources they need.
It took under a year for the current FBI to solve the cold case - and they did so starting with 5-year-old data that they already had in the files.
The case didn't get solved because the FBI and Biden didn't want it to be solved. That is the only possible conclusion.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:01 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:06 PM (C3IAS)
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (+3dnj)
Ho Ho HO! It's Christmas time! Did you earn it $20, same as in town?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 06:48 PM (ynpvh)
FBI likely using corrupted/defective flash thumb drive picked up off a street corner .. there are utilities to check those, report their TRUE size as well as write speeds (important for video recording use). I found one or two in the past sized at 8GB but was more like only (tested at) 2GB ... all I've purchased from reputable retail vendors the last few years were good.
Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:42 PM (ln8yW)
There is, its called an HLR - Home Location Register, a database of (specific, money-paying) customers AND where their last Registration Attempt (System/ cell site/ sector) was made SO if you get a call they do NOT have to 'page' the entire cell phone system in the whole wide world, just where you/your phone said "I am here" ...
Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:50 PM (ln8yW)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8)
ABC Bows to Woke Mob and Grants Jimmy Kimmel Another Year to Lose the Network Money and Prestige
When ABC took Kimmel off the air for five minutes, woke leftists announced a boycott of the company. He was back within days.
So of course ABC can't just let him go now. The woke mob has spoken. They've renewed his unfunny fat show (yes, his whole show is fat, it needs Atkins in its life) for "at least" a year.Oh, the agreement was reached during the woke freak-out? Not surprising at all.
ABC has extended Jimmy Kimmel's show for at least one year after the late-night comedian was suspended in September for his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk's assassin, The Post has learned. "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will continue to air on the Disney-owned network until at least May 2027 under the new deal, a source told The Post. Kimmel, 58 -- whose current contract expires in May 2026 -- told his staff on Monday that the show was renewed, according to Bloomberg, which earlier reported the news. The agreement was reached months ago, but Kimmel and Disney held off making the announcement out of respect for late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to the report.
CBS in May announced Colbert's show would end in May 2026, and Kimmel did not want to leave at the same time as Colbert, the report said. ...As I said at the time: Carr does in fact have the right to threaten that. There is a category of show called a "bona fide news program" which is allowed to be partisan without any "equal time" requirements. Any show that is not a "bona fide news program" cannot openly propagandize for a party without invoking the still-existing "equal time" rules. Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves. Speaking of unearned privilege:
His suspension came just a few hours after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned the network and Disney that "we can do this the easy or the hard way."
Kamala Harris to the New York Times:
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 9, 2025
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was." 🤣 pic.twitter.com/EQWLjgnlQO
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day…”
— GOP (@GOP) July 21, 2024
-Kamala Harrispic.twitter.com/XqcRa17Fow
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Wg6v7)
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (TR2dy)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
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Kimmel's ratings are now lower than before the controversy.
Disney and Kimmel deserve each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
Oh well. We don't get to win all the time. Frankly before Trump, I wasn't used to winning at all....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Our Betters™ ladies and gents at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
Besides being "First Woman VP", her only interesting feature is her terrible grammar and lack of speaking ability.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (vbXSk)
Obviously Jimmy Kimmel (and The View) are emphatically not "bona fide news programs" so they either have to be balanced and avoid outright lying or else the GOP is entitled to run their own "equal time" propaganda shows on ABC's airwaves.
This will never happen.
They will run a show where they invite Alec Baldwin to do his Trump impression and call that equal.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
She certainly is dumb as a post.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
RIP.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Octochicken at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (oCS0o)
Bullshit. They didn't announce it at the time because they were waiting for the controversy to blow over. Now that people are back to thinking "Jimmy who?" and we're heading into the holidays when normal people have things to do, ABC drops this turd in the punchbowl.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
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Kimmel's ratings are now lower than before the controversy.
Disney and Kimmel deserve each other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, ABC can pay whoever they want whatever they want. If they want to lose money on this fat jerkjuice faggot, then so be it. I do wish Carr would go after these cocksuckers more seriously, though.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
He's ALREADY irrelevant. He gets worse ratings than reruns of American Pickers on The History Channel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (rQwsY)
Wouldn't that be whitewashing?
Posted by: ERASING PEOPLE OF COLOR OMG at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (mEYGy)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (8CIFn)
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If anyone knows about busting marbles it's her.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD)
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Only good for the purchase of coconuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
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That's hot.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:30 PM (2GVsD)
Swear to God I thought that said "penises" and had to do a double-take.
Posted by: Would be on brand though at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (hhkIi)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
*shrugs*
Some people have more money than common sense.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (NwnyJ)
That's hot.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL)
I had no idea your standards were so LOOOOOWWW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
The vice presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
Posted by: John Nance Garner at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (rQwsY)
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That sculptor better set her up for historical success.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (7Ctz/)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv)
My favorite part of the "save the drug traffickers!" crusade was the 5 minutes when the DNC blalst fax had everyone saying Hegseth was deliberately killing "shipwreck victims". Someone on X was riffing on "Gilligan's Island, if they were narco-traffickers" and it got pretty funny.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (2ocoG)
As the saying goes, must be nice... must be nice...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv)
$20 same as in town
Posted by: Had to be done at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: John Nance Garner at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (rQwsY)
And you got a middle school named after you in NE San Antonio.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (rQwsY)
Jean Francois Cary, "reporting for dooty!!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (2GVsD)
You're all just embarrassed that Kamala is so deep that you don't understand her.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (Vq1pX)
As the saying goes, must be nice... must be nice...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Seriously, I will happily be irrelevant if I get 100 million dollars as well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (HXT0k)
Good Lord. Kamala Harris makes Jack Handey look like Goethe.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (0CU3H)
RIP.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
In memorium.
https://youtu.be/J4CRcrhZJI8
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
She certainly is dumb as a post.
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Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:33 PM (U6Usv)
"$20, ..."
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (pDt9x)
You don't say.
Posted by: Disney Stockholders at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
She certainly is dumb as a post.
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Oh come on guys, she has a LAW DEGREE and attended a prestigious COLLEGE! That PROVES she's a mighty intellect! That's what you all were saying just a few hours ago, remember?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
Credentialed, she is.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (pDt9x)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
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Remember George Washington's Vice President? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
Indifference. Apathy.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 03:34 PM (TR2dy)
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Even the iron lung is cheaper!
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (GPa4z)
You're not supposed to actively choose "Bust" on purpose.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (2GVsD)
That just serves to make me respect lawyers and colleges less.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
John Adams
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)
You know how in The Poltergeist people found out their subdivision was built on a cemetery.
Well, I just got a letter today from the Army. Turns out, our house was built on an old artillery training munition dump site. They just wanted us to know that when we see unexploded ordinance to not, and honestly this would be my first instinct, to hit it with a giant mallet to see what happens. No, I'm being advised to:
Recognize Retreat Report
Thanks for spoiling my fun ARMY
Posted by: banana BOOOM! Dream at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (3uBP9)
RIP.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (xcxpd)
In memorium.
https://youtu.be/J4CRcrhZJI8
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
What they took from us...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
John Adams
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (rQwsY)
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I remember he signed the Sedition Act.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)
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Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable.
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (eEIbO)
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IF YOU GO through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance.
--Jack Handey
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm sure that show was much better than Kimmel ever did on his "show"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (vbXSk)
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Hold it, I thought it was time for us to be unburdened by what has been.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (sbsMc)
--Jack Handey
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (eEIbO)
30 years ago, if I was able to ask you, "who was on the Tonight Show or Late Show last night?"
There would have been a good chance you'd know at least one person.
Not that you'd have watched, but at least from the promos run during the evening shows.
Now?
I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (HXT0k)
Fire them all, let God separate them.
Which reminds me of a movie, From Beyond.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (EyfuW)
Their parks and cruise line are both very profitable.
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
Didn’t they try the Star Wars Hotel? Or was that some other company?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM (azNOR)
John Adams
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 03:36 PM
Seriously people, how did we go from John Adams to Vice President word salad? Sad.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (vZUXb)
I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (HXT0k)
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On Colbert, it's reportedly mostly Democrat Congressmen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
"Gee Brain, what is that?" - Pinky
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Nowadays, institutional owners mean diffused responsibility and even there, it is not really the owners voting the stocks but fund managers of index accounts like Vanguard, State Street, and Black Rock.
We have made our finance industry into a black hole corporate bureaucracy where accountability, maximizing corporate value, and fiduciary responsibilities are things for the managerial class to laugh about.
Dimon riffing about debanking people the other day comes to mind. He was annoyed a mere peasant CNBC host asked him questions about his bank's actions.
This is our corporate class--something like the feudal nobles wielding CEO seats of Corporations like a title attached to a piece of land in feudal days.
But without noblisse oblige and the oversight influence of the Catholic Church on their actions.
Our corporate class is easily as vile as our politicians.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (XeU6L)
Busts. Busts.... Busts. A bust is something that preserves the top of someone. The top of someone. And the top is where things happen. The top. The top.... The top. The top is where the brain is. Where thinking happens. Where important decisions are made. Every day. Just like the vice presidency.
And when you are vice president, things are different every day. And things happen every day. Because every day is important. Because life is important. Because life is important.
Without life, what do you really have? You have death. Cackle cackle. And destruction. Cackle cackle. And terrible things. Cackle cackle. Terrible things. Cackle cackle. Terrible things. But not with marble. Not with life. Not with things that are important. Those are the things that are important because they matter. And it matters because you matter. I'm Kamala Harris. Thank you.
Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (eEIbO)
Do they die on the trail?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (pDt9x)
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Yeah, the Starliner was a giant boondoggle and money loser that's an embarrassment on the company.
Lost them $2 billion or so.
But the 3 new cruise ships that set sail over the last couple of years are always full.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ABC at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (IYMzU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:38 PM (pDt9x)
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I liked Hercules. James Woods was funny.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Hey...pigeons gotta crap somewhere.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (2WIwB)
One site had artillery practice range and that's a superfund. My house on the mountain was the target and the other superfund site.
On my list of things that weren't disclosed before closing. (kind of cool tho)
HA HA HA HA HA!
Posted by: banana BOOOM! Dream at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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Public education. It is probable that functional literacy rates have actually declined from the Revolutionary era in the US.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:41 PM (zZu0s)
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I believe the correct spelling is KWEEN.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:42 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: tubal
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'Song of the South'
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I saw it in the theatre as a kid--it was awesome. I'd love to own a copy of that one.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (2GVsD)
He's ALREADY irrelevant. He gets worse ratings than reruns of American Pickers on The History Channel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: angry, aroused chimp at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (9foje)
I suspect they are about as fun as a vegan Thanksgiving.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
Brutal Juice wasn't bad.
https://youtu.be/uEIbTCVSkXo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Credentialed, she is.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025
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Credentials on a level with a Huckleberry Hound Fan Club badge, that is. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (wzUl9)
They've renewed his unfunny fat show (yes, his whole show is fat, it needs Atkins in its life) for "at least" a year.
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When I was a kid, the couple of fat kids around were always the funniest.
I figured it was a coping mechanism and a way to be liked even if teased about their weight ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (PaahW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Unpossible. I don't like it and thus nobody else can like it. I hate Disney so everyone must too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: tubal
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'Song of the South'
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I saw it in the theatre as a kid--it was awesome. I'd love to own a copy of that one.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (TN0g+)
Ever see the original Fantasia?? Incredibly good.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Well, we seem to be working on a redux of Babylon, so...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Unpossible. I don't like it and thus nobody else can like it. I hate Disney so everyone must too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
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There is no arguing with this logic. It's ironclad!
Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (MZ+PY)
Not that you'd have watched, but at least from the promos run during the evening shows.
Now?
I bet no one here knows even one guest that's been on in the last week.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
If I guessed an asshole, I'd probably be correct.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (C9G7m)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:35 PM (TN0g+)
Credentialed, she is.
Posted by: tubal"
As far as I can determine he has never actually tried a case, by which I mean talking t a judge and jury. I have read a few people that claim she handles many case hat is not true but I am sure if she had underlings do all all the work and speaking. There is no evidence I can find of her actually trying to convince the judge /jury of something. There is a reason for that.
Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (PTDkx)
There is no arguing with this logic. It's ironclad!
Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
Poster child for post fetal alcohol syndrome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Won't need much marble. Her bust puts one in mind of a failed dairy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (vyvuF)
That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
There CAN'T be any island left.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
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Taylor Swift?
More like Taylor Slow, amiright?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Lot of ruin in corporations until suddenly. Indications from visits indicate Disney World is getting stale compared with competition Universal and declines in foreign visits due to new restrictions on travel visas and money is also hitting Vegas. Vegas is now turning hard to adult whale gamblers and Disney, by all accounts, is too with its pricing.
Reliance on a narrow set of consumers is a sure recipe for unexpected reversals like stock and asset plunges for the upper class. I think pro sports and soon college football are also pricing themselves out of the entertainment market.
All of them are chasing a very narrow class of individuals upper middle and upper classes as the truly rich seldom visit places like Disneyland or common cruise ships.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (WDjG6)
Besides being "First Woman VP", her only interesting feature is her terrible grammar and lack of speaking ability.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (vbXSk)
And the chrome from that Cadillac bumper on her upper lip.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (g8Ew8)
Taylor Swift??? She’s so last month.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
I saw a car with a window sticker that said "Currently listening to Taylor Swift."
I was disappointed in them, significantly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (looXz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (vyvuF)
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The only real power the Senate has anymore on an individual level is over appointments.
Blue slips give them says on the executive that would otherwise not exist at all, just getting party line votes on everything.
The blue slip process is never going away. It's almost all the Senators have left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)
The Moonspinners.
Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM
I've never even heard of that one. I thought I'd seen all of the Disney movies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (vZUXb)
More like Taylor Slow, amiright?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
Or Generic Swift
Posted by: Kamala Harris at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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That is our whole ruling class whether in an NGO, colleges, corporations, or law practice/courts.
Some of that class are resisting Trump on everything, some are picking their battles, and some are just trying to wait him out of office.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (WDjG6)
I was disappointed in them, significantly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)
A) That was her fiance's car.
B) He meant it ironically.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (Vq1pX)
The Moonspinners.
Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025
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Sister Juliet made her look less than stunning, though
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:46 PM (pDt9x)
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Taylor Swift?
More like Taylor Slow, amiright?
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I'd prefer listening to Andy Taylor's first solo album rather than anything by Taylor Swift. Andy's song "I might lie..." was pretty awesome, and the video had some play on MTV.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)
The Moonspinners.
Early Haley Mills was the hawt!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM
I've never even heard of that one. I thought I'd seen all of the Disney movies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (vZUXb)
So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (looXz)
Because of the corollary. That being white is easy and dumb.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
Elderly Orcas, in Sea World.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (pDt9x)
So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x)
I liked that movie, it was very cute.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (vZUXb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (3uBP9)
I'm sorry. What is an "adult whale gambler"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
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Very rich big-time gambler, the kind that can lose millions at a casino and just say "shit."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)
Well, sure, and Katy Perry is a historic astronaut. ...just not in the way you guys think.
Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (IYMzU)
So, “ Enchanted”. Good, Bad, or Meh ?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (pDt9x)
I liked that movie, it was very cute.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 09, 2025 03:50 PM (vZUXb)
Wife loves it. Pretty wel done, IMO.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (pDt9x)
A) That was her fiance's car.
B) He meant it ironically.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 03:48 PM (Vq1pX)
She was by herself and was likely qualified for the Booster Seat requirement in the state of Texas. She could barely see over the wheel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (looXz)
Whales are big investors or gamblers
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (U6Usv)
How about a hollow ceramic bust, with a head you just lift off? You can fill it with cookies or jelly beans.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU)
As for Warner Brothers, it deserves saving if only to preserve Looney Tunes for future generations.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (1RAfh)
That reminds me, Oak Island is on tonight.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)
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I fell asleep on last weeks OI so Imma guessing I can get that one watched before I fall asleep on this weeks breaking news. I would like to do naughty things to Emma Culligen.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (PNQAX)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU)
Why reinvent the wheel
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025
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Huh? What?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a)
Kimmel sold his soul for fame and fortune. He will come to regret his decision.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (15Ksv)
I figured whales were not really gambling. although I admit not cognizant of their off hours recreational pursuits😉 I wasn't sure if it meant a big person gambling or they spent lots of money?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (looXz)
Kimmel staying on is a win-win.
1) His show continues but nobody watches
2) ABC loses colossal sums of money continuing a show nobody watches
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at December 09, 2025 03:52 PM (ssz2a)
One might infer from this that Jimmy Kimmel is Ron Burgundyish.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (tgvbd)
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I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (TN0g+)
The blue slip process is never going away. It's almost all the Senators have left.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Not sure on that one. Senators have plenty of power under our system but they just hate to be held accountable. That is what is at stake. Blue slip originated in the seg era for Dem senators to block desegregationist inclined GOP judges and DAs in the South. So you got patronage parties in the South that never did anything to get votes but relied solely on doling out patronage when GOP was in the presidency. Even in the 80's, was unevenly applied like only requiring one slip, not two or allowing senior House member to dole out patronage when no GOP senator was from that state.
The truth is that the Senate, by and large, oppose Trump and it is the core of the uniparty on Capitol Hill. Morris Fiorina called Congress the Keystone of the Washington Establishment and in truth it is the fount of much of our government paralysis and dysfunction. Our elites want it that way because reform required now is so drastic as to affect their privilege.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (WDjG6)
Willie filled her head with something else.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (kHd4y)
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (15Ksv)
You are just straight up fetal alcohol syndrome. Kumswala is definitely POST fetal.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:49 PM (TN0g+)
I liked Bill Cosby's, She Couldn't Say No, So I Did It.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (g8Ew8)
I figured whales were not really gambling. although I admit not cognizant of their off hours recreational pursuits😉 I wasn't sure if it meant a big person gambling or they spent lots of money?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 03:53 PM (looXz)
No, it is a known fact that Orcas play for high stakes tuna.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Sponge
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And possibly sold his soul to get kids. Reportedly a friend of Epstein.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (g47mK)
And possibly sold his soul to get kids. Reportedly a friend of Epstein.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:55 PM (WDjG6)
He did threaten to sue anyone who spread that around, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Until recently Heroes & Icons was running it on weekday mornings. Awesome theme song -- it reminds me of "Telstar" by the Tornados.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (wzUl9)
@shepmjs
Turning: New Trump Approval polling
Harvard Harris +5
Daily Mail +2
Rasmussen +1
Economist YouGov +1
RCP Aggregate +1.4 Disapproval drops 3
For those who think polling is bullshit:
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
👏👏👏
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Honestly, rewatching it will disappoint your memories of it. Trust me on this.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: sven at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Regular American at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (/wYAD)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (eEIbO)
👏👏👏
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)
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It was revealed recently that the third Mummy movie was only made because the Olympics were in China and Universal wanted to take advantage of the access.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
--Jack Handey
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (TN0g+)
He's writing for a kid's active workbook:
explodeyworld.com
It's pretty good for ages 8-12. Reading age and up to teen really. Lots of other established writers and cartoonists.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
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Honestly, rewatching it will disappoint your memories of it. Trust me on this.
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I appreciate the insight. I always liked the characters of Buck and Manulito--they were the ones that seemed to bring the life to the episodes.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (TN0g+)
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Oh, man. What an opportunity. The Marble Bust should be her being held up by a bunch of men like the Atlas statue....(positioned for success). The reference would go right over her head, and she'd assume it was complimentary.
Posted by: Orson at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (dIske)
They are a vacation company that does entertainment on the side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:37 PM
Yep and their cruise ships are heavily booked 12-18 months out. They make a fortune from those seven cruise ships alone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
yes, in the same Variety interview !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
People will not watch Kimmel but they will watch Gutfeld make fun of him.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (1RAfh)
Posted by: Pudinhead
......
She will analyze your rocks.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
yes, in the same Variety interview !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
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I bought the nice 4K set of the trilogy. Saw the third one for the first time in forever.
Still not sure if it's as bad as The Mummy Returns. I mean...they both suck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Getting bombed is better than bombing!
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
In terms of gambling, Whales are wealthy clients that spend a lot of money at your facility and lose consistently at gambling often very large sums.
In terms of finance, brokers at least used to refer to wealthy clients with lots to spend as whales and the term has also come down to any situation where an agent is trying to land a client who is wealthy and can pay big amounts in commissions, etc. Like now in politics with whale donors. Campaign consultants and pols like them both because less hassle to raise funds and fewer people to beg money from for pols and candidates. Ideal for campaign consultants are wealthy self funded candidates as they know the checks will clear.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (g47mK)
I heard Joe Kenda is retired in Suffolk now.
Posted by: logprof at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (jo6FO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:29 PM (D+mpw)
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Nixon was quite historical and he was a vice president to Ike.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (1RAfh)
Well her Vice presidency was a bust....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:00 PM (g47mK)
Yes, please. She was truly great in 1&2. Whole cast was good.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x)
Congratulations to the new addition to your family! Is it a mutt or purebred?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK)
I would say that Trump might already have one in his private bathroom, but Melania wouldn't put up with that shit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK)
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Great?
I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
Not in the Capitol. Maybe just outside the Lover's Package store in Oakland.
Posted by: UNPROGRESSIVE at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (IUmF8)
Posted by: jb at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (sITE8)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (68TeV)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
The first "Who? I don't recognize that name" Vice President is Daniel Tompkins (6th VP) (VP under James Monroe (5th P)
The first five are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, and Elbridge Gerry
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x)
right?! John Hannah too. I hope he is also in Mummy 4.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (eEIbO)
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Angel Studios will fill the void and becoming the dominant studio of the 21st century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
Congratulations to the new addition to your family! Is it a mutt or purebred?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (lQ+/f)
Purebred little standard poodle twerp. He is too smart. Plays on his cute factor.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Newsweak when it was a print mag, Trump gets an up arrow for the week and that is about all you can say about it.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (D0HYP)
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That bastard gerrymandered Texas!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Newsweak when it was a print mag, Trump gets an up arrow for the week and that is about all you can say about it.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (WDjG6)
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Pretty much.
If the 2028 election were held today...Trump's approval wouldn't matter because he's not going to be on the ticket.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
I was entertained ! I was not offended! I loved all the funny bits! Are you upset about the CGI Scorpion King ? It was silly , but fun!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)
If you ever get the chance to draft along with one to the ya gotta know somebody restaurant, take it.
There is such a thing as 200$ veal chops and they're worth it.
Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:01 PM (pDt9x)
right?! John Hannah too. I hope he is also in Mummy 4.
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
When movies were good. There was a “sweet spot” back then. Lots of good movies made.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (pDt9x)
omg how cute!
congrats Tubal!!!!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (emBoF)
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (uWKK8)
Thanks, but now I can't get out of my mind the image of a large cartoon whale lumbering into some crooked politicians office and giving him big money.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 03:51 PM (2L+MU)
Why reinvent the wheel ...
Ok, how about this: two hollow ceramic busts filled with dirt, and geraniums growing out of the holes in her head. Put 'em right there on the front porch of the White House.
Or, a Kamala Harris yard gnome in the garden.
No, wait, wait, even better: a metal bust that hooks up to a garden hose, and her head spins around sprinkling the lawn.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025
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The "Gerry" of "gerrymandering"? (I haven't looked it up, so I dunno)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)
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It's kind of...stupid. The CGI doesn't offend me (technical limitations I try not to hold against movies). Sommers lucked out mightily with the first movie, and he just went bigger and dumber for the sequel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:02 PM (g47mK)
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Great?
I mean...I can understand getting on its goofy wavelength, but it's...great?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)
You think about movies, A LOT, don’t you?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (pDt9x)
Sounds adorable!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:06 PM (pDt9x)
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What gave you that idea?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG)
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 04:05 PM
The late night talkers are dead and have been for a while. They don't have any ideas or imagination that would allow them to put new content in those timeslots.
I mean, there's a boatload of bloggers out there that pull more views on YT than the late night tools combined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at December 09, 2025 04:08 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Kingsman at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (ehY6c)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (Da7Vv)
One year a d he goes away. His salary a d the production cost loss is vig to keep the woke mob from coming after ABC.
Its their money. Let them flush it down the toilet, Kimmel's rating continue to tank and he goes even more bonkers with his old lady.
At the end of the day: win/win/win
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (c35xG)
Threads are a Journey, not a Destination.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: tubal
Clearly Beauty and the Beast.
The moral was quite poignant:
"Looks are not important so long as you lock her up long enough."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)
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Making Rachel Weisz a reincarnation of Nerftiti and going all melodramatic because she dies but she doesn't die and then a super serious face off with Anck-su-namun...
I just roll my eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:09 PM (2GVsD)
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I hadn't considered it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal
Clearly Beauty and the Beast.
The moral was quite poignant:
"Looks are not important so long as you lock her up long enough."
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (zjgNU)
Heh. That made me laugh.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (g47mK)
Six (Tricia Helfer) was hotter when she was dressed down and imitating Starbuck with sweats and a pony tail.
Xena was white hot in her first appearance on the show.
Jane Seymour from the 70s was hotter than all of them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (eEIbO)
I guess as long as no blood is drawn, and she always has someplace to retreat to where he can't get at her, there's no serious problem. It's just disturbing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (wzUl9)
"There will be a marble bust of me in Congress.’
It will the only one with an interactive mouth.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (jbnUc)
Saying a list of obviously true things is not what "hot take" means.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (Vq1pX)
but actually if they brought back something like robot wars they could kill it in that time slot.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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All that, I mean ALL that brain power and they can't think of one thing to fill the time slot. Come to think of it, it's systemic; TV sucks, Movies suck, with few exception Net Flix and Prime sucks.
Yep, the whole industry sucks. Total lack of independent thought or creative intelligence.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (c35xG)
That was a fine girl fight. So there... then Kelly Hu in the follow up...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:11 PM (eEIbO)
I have watched it. I’ve seen things, man.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (pDt9x)
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Maybe I'm delusional, but I don't think the late night variety show *HAS* to be dead. It was just *programmed* to be dead. If a new show had a host that wasn't a partisan idiot, and he told a few jokes that had zero political connection, that part would be fine. And then he could have an actor or actress on and they could tell stories about what it was like working on their latest film or tv show. And then a current or historical musical act could come on and perform live. And in between some of that they could do a skit or a bit or two, but the one rule would have to be "We're entertainers, not politicians."
Or would that still suck?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (TN0g+)
I just roll my eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 04:10 PM (GBKbO)
but the prince kissing some dead girl and bringing her to life is a-ok ??? it's a klassik ??? fine!
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 04:12 PM (Vq1pX)
I don't say you cowards saying them!
*strips off glove, flings in threads' face*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:13 PM (zZu0s)
The media isn't influenced by the "woke mob". The media is the progenitor, propagator, legitimizer, and enforcer of the "woke mob".
The king does not bow to his subjects, the god does not pray to its creation. Neither does the Hollywood Jew take his orders from the sheep he propagandizes.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (Nl83e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:15 PM (zZu0s)
Are we talking about TV or the ONT?
Posted by: Sad! at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (wgcRL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Fatcat was the older term.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (eEIbO)
The term "gerrymander" was coined when he was Governor of Massachusetts, not VP
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (D0HYP)
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Dear Dave:
What's the deal with the donuts?
---viewer mail bit
Letterman was a comedic genius back before he became a bitter partisan crack-head.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Barbara Stanwyck too?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
We can access it via Philo (the streaming service).
I never saw it as a kid, but, in my old age, I'm discovering (in some case rediscovering) old TV series.
The show is formulaic, and the acting uneven, but I enjoy Cameron Mitchell as Buck, and Frank Silvera's performance as Don Sebastian is highly entertaining.
Sad fact: Frank Silvera died before the series ended as a result of being electrocuted while working on a kitchen garbage disposal.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (eEIbO)
Black Irish though. Cause they was kangs.
Posted by: thedarkness at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (Mtf/+)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (eEIbO)
"High Chaparral"
It's on INSP at 1:00pm
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 04:17 PM (pkeXY)
280 199 I wish someone had saved "High Chaparral". I loved that western series as a kid, but to my knowledge its never been available on DVD.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025
We can access it via Philo (the streaming service).
I never saw it as a kid, but, in my old age, I'm discovering (in some case rediscovering) old TV series.
The show is formulaic, and the acting uneven, but I enjoy Cameron Mitchell as Buck, and Frank Silvera's performance as Don Sebastian is highly entertaining.
Sad fact: Frank Silvera died before the series ended as a result of being electrocuted while working on a kitchen garbage disposal.
Posted by: Paco
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Thanks guys!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:18 PM (9iyS+)
The media isn't influenced by the "woke mob". The media is the progenitor, propagator, legitimizer, and enforcer of the "woke mob".
The king does not bow to his subjects, the god does not pray to its creation. Neither does the Hollywood Jew take his orders from the sheep he propagandizes.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:14 PM (Nl83e)
I was about to take you seriously until "Everything I don't like is a Jewish conspiracy" popped up.
I'll just suggest to you that "the media" isn't a monolith and can be both the progenitor and enforcer of wokeness AND a thrall of wokeness because it's made up of many different individuals.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (eEIbO)
People who dont like Kirk kill people they dont like.
Simple
Posted by: Operator Error at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (PlXYd)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:19 PM (mlg/3)
Also, I can't believe Taylor Swift is still a thing. I've never bought her album.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
If the cruise ships were ironclad, and went off sinking pirates, that would be cool.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Zombie Jack Parr at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (FGMmt)
Yep, the whole industry sucks. Total lack of independent thought or creative intelligence.
Posted by: Braenyard
Gresham's Law of money as applied to art. Bad drives out good.
I think though the coming era in the near future is ai agent computers able to actually generate movies including actors, dialogue and eyepopping special effects from a series of command prompts.
3d Printing is also going to change things a lot.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:20 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Who was not funny at all.
Craig Ferguson was. His flirting with hot starlets should be required watching for geeky 13 year old boys who are unsure how to connect with girls.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (2GVsD)
@libsoftiktok 4m
BREAKING: Georgia State Rep. Sharon Henderson (D) has been INDICTED on unemployment fraud after allegedly illegally collecting over $17,000 in benefits during the COVID pandemic.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: banana Dream
Have you heard of a Venn Diagram?
Posted by: Kamala at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (mlg/3)
You’re not gonna believe this. Sharon is a black wymyn.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:23 PM (9iyS+)
Johnny Somlai ain't much better
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD)
Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Is it conclusively ruled out that wasn't her plan?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x)
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1967 to 1971.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (nXmou)
1967-1971. Most of the show was filmed in Old Tucson and surrounding area.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (2L+MU)
I mean, there's a boatload of bloggers out there that pull more views on YT than the late night tools combined.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)
There's no writing talent. They've trained a generation to be wokescolds and trained seals that laugh at wokescolds. It's a black hole of angry, talentless, entitled children. There will be nothing compelling coming to that time slot.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 04:22 PM (2GVsD)
Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Johnny Human Torch >>> Johnny Bravo >>> Johnny Somali
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (pDt9x)
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1967 to 1971.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (nXmou)
Ah. Thanks Shain. Might take a look some day.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (eEIbO)
But you go girl! Historic! Stunning! Brave! And those fucking pantsuits! My god, what courage.
Where do we find such women??
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (wJccJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 04:16 PM (eEIbO)
Only because no one has paid her yet. She's taken so much cash from big Pharma that her campaign ads now end with a list of side effects.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Definitely Candace Owens does.
Probably Tucker Carlson, as well.
Posted by: Good Grief at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (Nl83e)
Absolutely hilarious and his music guests were awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (Y8DZL)
Step 1: Be a powerful and influential boy with a television talk show.
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: PROFIT
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025
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Just going on memory, I'd say late Sixties to start, and it ran for several years.
*Checks*
Yeah, 1967 to '71.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:27 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:21 PM (zZu0s)
Go to a head chopper muzzy country and thrown in jail is the least of her concerns.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (3uBP9)
However, I am quite sure he is busy doing whatever he does in his current Scotland castle.
Kimmel has never been funny, in the very few shots I have seen him. Plus he's ugly.
I pride myself in never watching his show much less his gargle of words that are silly.
I have a very refined taste in humor. Which is why I read Moron and Ace.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 04:25 PM (OUMaO)
I don't think this was intentional shock jock shit, but rather her personal kink/damage shit. She evidently (somehow this has come up on streams i have watched, Kirsche I think) has a thing of doing very close to age of consent dudes. Like trolling high school kids shit. She got banned from, Australia i think for trying a barely legal gangbang there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (wJccJ)
But you go girl! Historic! Stunning! Brave! And those fucking pantsuits! My god, what courage.
Where do we find such women??
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025
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Unfortunately, nowadays, everywhere.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 04:28 PM (wzUl9)
@Breaking911
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BREAKING: 2 injured in shooting by "active aggressor" at Kentucky State University; suspect in custody - Police
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (mlg/3)
We have Roku. Tried one or two network comedies (the new Night Court, and Tim Allen's latest series) and found them...pretty bad, actually. Just a matter of personal taste, of course.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (2L+MU)
Not to mention the sassy, all knowing loud mouth negress and the lady cops who are all hot and 110 pounds of sexiness.
Posted by: Gimme A Break at December 09, 2025 04:29 PM (FGMmt)
Fox news story of a Killing at N Forsyth High school gives no names and does not describe the incident. However the information is public knowledge.
AI: at North Forsyth High School, the deceased has been identified as 19-year-old Jaylen Pharaoh. The suspect involved in the shooting is 21-year-old Kanye Delvin Tisdale, who has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
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You may infer any other technicals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (c35xG)
I've only seen short video clips on YouTube, but he was obviously head and shoulders above the likes of Kimmel; actually, there's just no comparison at all.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 04:31 PM (2L+MU)
Following the certs given by AI that info was not the school shooting but an incident at a VapeShop in Kingstree, South Carolina.
So much for AI accuracy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 04:34 PM (c35xG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 04:36 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: sven at December 09, 2025 04:38 PM (MUJd1)
"Kamala, modern day feminism hero!"
Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 04:40 PM (2Nfh9)
No argument there. I hope she kept a print of that fantastic photo of her in Somewhere in Time.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:51 PM (Da7Vv)
@LeadingReport 6m
BREAKING: Illegal immigrants would face a $5,000 “apprehension fee” under a new Trump administration policy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (mlg/3)
The only laughs I ever got from Kimmel were when Sara Silverman broke up with him on air by bringing her new boyfriend along with her appearance on the show.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 04:55 PM (Da7Vv)
There are reasons that Gutfeld, streaming on Fox News, beats the ratings of all the network late night shows.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 05:02 PM (Da7Vv)
I’ll be contacting them of y displeasure and bozos even though I’m sure I already do boycott these corps.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 05:21 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 05:24 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 05:53 PM (ciYHQ)
Wrong. Spit is the nice version. John Nance Garner said the VP position was not worth a bucket of warm PISS.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 05:58 PM (rQwsY)
Exactly.
Kamala will have a bust right next to Alben W. Barkley.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:12 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 06:13 PM (C3IAS)
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:27 PM (+3dnj)
Molly McNearney is an American television writer and producer. She is the co-head writer and the executive producer of the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live![1] and the wife of host Jimmy Kimmel.[2][3]
In November 2022, before the 2022 United States midterm elections, McNearney spoke during the show's monologue "urging people to vote for candidates that support abortion rights."[14][15] (Roe v. Wade)
In 2025, McNearney won a Gracie Award for her work on Jimmy Kimmel Live![16]
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BTW, The Gracie Awards recognize exemplary programming created by women, for women and about women in all facets of media and entertainment. They also acknowledge the individuals who have made inspirational contributions to the industry.
>Page 2 of 11 pages of winners for 2025, or almost every woman in the industry.
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It's all about Molly, her pleasing other women and being with the semi-In crowd. Jimmy! seems sorta like her little b*tch on leash.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 06:41 PM (NFX2v)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8)
Paramount/Skydance Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros.
For those just joining the story in progress:
David Ellison -- son of the Oracle founder and multibillionaire Larry Ellison, and himself worth millions -- owned Skydance, and then used that company to purchase one of the smaller major studios, Paramount. Then he made a bid to buy Warner Bros. studios from Warner Discovery. That offer was rejected. Then Warner Bros. advertised that it was for sale and would entertain other offers. Netflix made a bid to buy it, and this bid was accepted. By management, I mean. David Ellison still wants Warner Bros. So he's making a hostile takeoever bid. That just means that unlike the Netflix bid which was arranged with the current management of Warner Discovery and has their blessing, this bid is made against current mangement's wishes and so is "hostile" to their intentions. But it's the shareholders who get to decide. Ellison is offering shareholders a competing bid. Ellison's bid is $30 per share, in cash. Neflix's bid is for less cash per sale -- $27 -- but shareholders would also get shares in whatever spin-off corporation they create out of the the parts of Warner Discovery they don't want. Which is I think the "Discovery" part, all the cable channels like The Murder Channel (aka Investigative Discovery or ID). Which is more valuable? I have no idea. Both suitors will make the pitch to shareholders and await the shareholder vote.Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a monthslong bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday. Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30 per share offer. That's the same bid WBD rejected last week and equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion. The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private equity firm RedBird Capital as well as $54 billion in debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management, Paramount said in a news release. A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. Those partners have agreed to "forgo any governance rights," including board seats, as part of their non-voting equity investment, according to a Paramount filing. The modifications allow the deal to be outside of the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS. Shares of Paramount gained 9% Monday. Warner Bros. Discovery's shares rose about 4% while Netflix was down 3%. "We're really here to finish what we started," Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Monday. "We put the company in play."There are antitrust questions about any mergers between tech giants, of course. I think the Netflix bid will face more scrutiny, because while Netflix makes movies, it makes movies for streaming, not for exhibition in physical theaters. Yes, sometimes it exhibits a movie in theaters but only in a small number of theaters and only for a weekend or two before it puts it on Netflix exclusively. (They chiefly show movies in theaters just to meet the minimum requirements for theatrical exhibition to qualify them for the Oscars and such.) So what antitrust lawyers in the government will be looking at is not just the diminution in competition that will occur if one media company swallows up another one, but the real possibility that if Netflix buys Warner Bros. it will use Warner Bros. movie production to make movies for its streaming service, not for theaters. And antitrust lawyers do not like it when a reduction of competition in one industry causes disruptions in another industry. And yes, movie production is a separate industry form movie exhibition. In fact, it was antitrust action by the government that forced this separation -- movie studios used to own their own movie theaters and play their movies in their own theaters. But the government considered this illegal vertical integration and forced the movie companies to sell their theaters to independent owners. I don't think Netflix will be necessarily blocked from buying Warner Bros. A common result in these cases is that the government approves the merger but extracts a promise from the merged company that it will not take certain steps. Like Netflix would agree that it would continue showing Warner Bros. movies in physical theaters. (Though that's hard to police -- Netflix could just move a lot of Warner Bros. production to the Netflix production side of things and just produce few official "Warner Bros."-branded movies.) I think the NFL's monopoly on professional football was allowed only because the NFL agreed to never schedule games on Saturday when college teams were playing, to avoid using the professional football monopoly to damage the college football market. This is a very perilous time for theatrical exhibitors. Hollywood is producing crap movies and consequently exhibitors don't have much product to show that the public is willing to pay for. Any reduction in the number of movies going to physical theaters could, possibly, kill the industry, or cull half of all movie theaters. I don't know what the government will decide. David Ellison is reportedly trying to induce Trump to block the Netflix buyout by promising that if he gets hold of Warner Bros. -- and its failing "news" channel CNN -- he'll remake CNN into a fair and balanced network.
Is that true? No idea. I do know that if you really were making this offer you would want to do it privately, not publicly, with the Wall Street Journal notified. Because the president isn't supposed to approve or nix mergers based on his personal or political self-interest. By making this supposed offer so public, it basically stops Trump from even considering taking the alleged "deal." It could be that Netflix, not Ellison, is pushing this story out there to pressure Trump to approve their own bid. Leftwing movie review Grace Randolf claimed that Warner Discovery shareholders are faced with two repellent options -- accept Netlix's deal and "kill the theater business," or accept Ellison's deal and (horrors!) put two movie studios under the control of a "conservative" man friendly to Trump. The fact that she sees each of these possibilities as equally calamitous is what makes me think it's plausible that members of the left will just lie to stop Ellison from acquiring Warner Bros., and push Fake News stories about Ellison offering to fire Kaitlin Collins if Trump blocks Netflix's bid and approves his own. The left was horrified that Paramount was bought by (horror!) a conservative. It is offended and horrified that the much-bigger Warner Bros. might be purchased by the same conservative man. Any thoughts? Do you buy this very-public offer of bribery to Trump from David Ellison? I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly. Through a trusted intermediary. Such as... well, as the article noted, Jared Kushner is part of the group putting up billions to back Ellison's bid. So instead of just quietly telling Kushner to carry that message to his father-in-law, everyone blabs about it to the Wall Street Journal? Seems unlikely to me. Sounds more like political partisans or Netflix executives trying to poison Parmount's pill so that Warner Discovery can't swallow it.
Paramount CEO David Ellison assured Trump officials that if the government OKs his company's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) he would overhaul the president's media arch nemesis -- CNN. Netflix announced last Friday it reached a deal to acquire Warner and HBO properties for $72 billion - but Paramount immediately launched a hostile counterbid, taking its case directly to shareholders. The Netflix-WBD merger is facing a stiff challenge from Paramount, whose majority shareholder is the billionaire Donald Trump ally, Oracle founder Larry Ellison. On Monday, Paramount made its move, offering $77.9 billion in all-cash and urging Warner shareholders to reject the Netflix deal. On a recent visit to Washington, DC, Ellison's son David told Trump's team he would impose sweeping changes at CNN if he purchased its parent company WBD, sources told the Wall Street Journal. David's father Larry discussed firing hosts like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar - figures Trump dislikes - with White House officials during takeover bid talks last month, the Guardian reported.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
I don't know about you, but if I were bribing the president, I would probably do it quietly.
If Trump was bribed he wouldn't be able to keep quiet about it. I like the guy but he couldn't keep anything hush hush.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (vFG9F)
Intellectual property that should have LONG gone into the public domain.
Government corruption, bought by Disney, is what makes these bloated dinosaurs retain any amount of value.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (eEIbO)
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig a
Here's the link to apply
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (MGB5H)
yeah we pretty much just let big donors, I mean big corporations, do whatever the F@#$ they want these days
Posted by: Department of Justice - Antitrust Division at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Sharkman at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (BRvvM)
These companies are all zombie companies, they just don't know it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Or the Pet Shop Boys
Posted by: fabulous at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (looXz)
Is that even possible? It would have to be like the old Headline News channel that only read headline news and nothing else.
MSNOW would probably absorb all the CNN "talent" that would leave butt hurt and demanding "freedom of speech".
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (IifOV)
A portion of the equity financing comes from outside Middle Eastern financing partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's L'imad Holding Company PJSC, and the Qatar Investment Authority. Another portion derives from Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. Kushner is U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
Honestly this concerns me more than the antitrust issues. Private equity is bad enough, foreign private equity is even worse.
Posted by: Oligarchy! Oligarchy everywhere! at December 09, 2025 02:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (TN0g+)
Make copyright return to its maximum of 56 years.
Not the century it has become.
Make Hollywood subject to competition and open up their intellectual property to ACTUAL creative people.
Imagine, for example, a Star Wars movie by someone who loves it AND is creative.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:30 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (uWKK8)
right but the offer says that the foreigners will not have any presence on the board. They'll be stock owners only (supposedly).
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 02:31 PM (D+mpw)
If everything before 1980 were public domain, the value of streaming would drop precipitously. (And drop more every year as the last of the good movies become public domain...)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (zjgNU)
Which is more valuable? I have no idea.
Take the $27 + shares.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Or the Pet Shop Boys
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Time for a St. Elmo's Fire remake. No, not the middling movie. Instead, the never should have been a thing *song* St. Elmo's Fire. What an abomination. You can feel St. Elmo's Fire burning in you? I'd suggest you see a doctor immediately.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (snZF9)
Some forms of capitalism are more capitalist than others.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (eEIbO)
The question is when is Warner Bros going to let their wonderful cartoon library be available again. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. When's the last time you've seen the crown jewels on air?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:33 PM (pIfcn)
Myspace Tom.
He gets it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (dGCAG)
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Is that even possible? Yes, unfortunately I think it is. And more racist as well (racist against, uh, let's just say Europeans)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
sigh...not again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (snZF9)
wink wink
Posted by: Chairman Xi at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (jGJov)
He gets it.
Posted by: BurtTC
Tom gave us everything. And we turned our backs on him.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (bvUs5)
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig a
Here's the link to apply
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (MGB5H)
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I know little about immigration law, but that only means I'd be good at the job. I'm looking to retire early in a few years, so a few years tossing out illegals could be good. LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)
You'll get a gay tranny Scarlett O'Hara in the GWTW remake, and you'll like it!
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (s0JqF)
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable.
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle)
Bugs Bunny? And...?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu!
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:36 PM (bvUs5)
More than once I was blocked by some chick I managed to piss off (who, me?), and whenever I went back to check, Tom was still there. On the friend list.
Eff Tom.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (eEIbO)
Not possible. We saw this play out in another (?) where staff went into full revolt. MSM venues can't be reformed and I wish the Right would stop falling for that. You've got to nuke the site from orbit and start over from scratchm
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
If I could have seen the future, I would have gotten a law degree after undergrad. This would be my plan now too. Maybe I'll look to see what an older guy can do to help in administration for border patrol or ICE.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (s0JqF)
Did you check the book shelf?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (dGCAG)
They're a pretty successful movie company overall. They made the most profit last year, and had the most big hits.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (FGMmt)
Ellison wins, it'll be......well......I've no idea.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Bugs Bunny? And...?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:38 PM (oraVG)
HBO and the WB old movie catalog, I think.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (eEIbO)
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The Paramount Accords.
Which, actually, are no longer in effect. The first Trump admin got rid of them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't think you can "split off debt" in that scenario. Debt is a legal contract between two parties, and the one owed the debt has safeguards that prevent the debt from being "tossed over" to some other entity with no ability to pay.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (abIsI)
but by "own them" I mean "own the movie rights, for now."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (3tZV2)
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM
"There's a ... something ... born every minute."
"A ... something ... and his money are soon parted."
-- Venture Capital firms everywhere
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (0sNs1)
i want to say that that's right but I don't think it is...
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (1wjle)
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable.
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle)
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Depends what kind of debt, whether the lenders agree, and you need to find shareholders in the new company to get the debt who agree to take it on.
I did a detailed review of this transaction some time back, and I recall that the company getting the debt is also getting some valuable IP and income-producing assets -- supposedly enough to service the debt.
Historically, these kinds of deals rarely work.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:41 PM (iFTx/)
They're a pretty successful movie company overall. They made the most profit last year, and had the most big hits.
Posted by: ace
HBO and the WB old movie catalog, I think.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls
And DC Comics is...Superman? Batman? And...?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv)
Regardless, this isn't a choice between streaming services and movie theaters.
It's a choice between WHICH bazillionaire oligarch is going to control which streaming service you get.
Movie theaters are dinosaurs. The meteor hit a five years ago, they're already dead, they just don't know it yet.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (gYnrv)
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I think it's overstated.
If anything was going to kill movie theaters, it was covid, and movie theaters came back to, like, 80% strength after a couple of years.
Theatrical going has been declining since the 1930s, the height of the practice, with concentrated hits in the 50s (TV) and 70s/80s (home exhibition).
There will always be room for theatrical distribution, but it's just going to be increasingly focused on spectacle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu!
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For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I need a pretty good cause...
Posted by: Geoff Tate at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM
A year??? Heck, it just takes us minutes.
Posted by: High school guys in the back seat at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (0sNs1)
This is a no-brainer. Ellison's 9% higher vs. guaranteed future Netflix failure.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Y8DZL)
batman superman wonder woman flash green lantern, etc.
Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (1wjle)
Heh. "Queensrÿche is a killing word".
Don't know why but I love that quote.
From someone here.
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (ciYHQ)
but by "own them" I mean "own the movie rights, for now."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:40 PM (1wjle)
Two franchises I can afford no f*cks to spare for. My small jar is still full, so I feel it would not be worth giving any for this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (GPa4z)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3uBP9)
batman superman wonder woman flash green lantern, etc.
Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (1wjle)
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I'm just glad the superhero bubble has deflated.
I mostly can't wait for Avengers Doomsday to not nearly make back the money it needs. That will entertain me.
Instead, Super Mario Galaxy will make all the money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace
Control is done through 'localization.' The shareholder gets favored execs to be planted throughout the company by insisting that they need to have representation. This is happening in the game industry where Chinese shareholders are salting companies with CCP apparat.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (mlg/3)
Heh. "Queensrÿche is a killing word".
Don't know why but I love that quote.
From someone here.
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (ciYHQ)
*cowers into corner*
*assumes fetal position*
*shudders*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
See, I think the debt will be pawned off on this spinoff company. So I don't know if the shares in this company are actually going to be very valuable.
I've never understood this aspect of corporate finance. It seems wrong that you can split off the debt from the productive parts of a company.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (1wjle)
I think your assessment about the spinoff is correct, they just have to attach enough assets to make some dumb buyer pull the trigger. Discovery and whatever IP you need to sweeten the pot.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (oraVG)
Wonderwoman, Flash, Green Lantern. And that's basically it. DC is top heavy on IP. Marvel has a deeper bench.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3tZV2)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Revolution calling..... revolution calling youuuuuuuu!
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For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I need a pretty good cause...
Posted by: Geoff Tate at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (TN0g+)
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The entire record is prophetic and still relevant today. Except ... they spend an awful lot of time bitching about shady preachers. As if that was gonna be a big problem in the future ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (IVZwn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
i'm a huge LOTR fan now
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two.
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: zombie The Bob Dole at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (0sNs1)
Superman becomes public domain in something like five or six years, batman the year after, etc.
Posted by: ace
So, basically, what this dispute comes down to is: Will future Batman and Superman universe movies be woke? Or Based?
Posted by: zombie at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (3tZV2)
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Well, Iron Man was nobody, a C-rated comic until it suddenly wasn't with his first movie.
Marvel's A-game was Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, all of which Marvel had sold the movie rights to years before they tried to start their own movie studio. And all they had was their shit tier properties.
Until they weren't shit-tier properties all of a sudden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (FGMmt)
Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition #10- Greed is eternal
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (snZF9)
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)
Which basically is the biggest problem in Hollywood. They keep making agenda driven garbage, and not movies for the average person to enjoy.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (3tZV2)
at some point they'll do a remake. Which isn't as cash-grabby as it sounds, because presumably the remake will be more book-accurate, with maybe each of the three LOTR films split into two.
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
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WB doing a 15 hour limited series, or something.
Eh.
I have the books. I love them. I have the movies. I love them. I'm tapped out on remining the same properties for ANOTHER take on the material.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv)
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They also didn't get the memo about the $20 either, or they lived in a high cost area.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (TN0g+)
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
Valid.
I will anticipate not seeing it just like I did the last go around.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
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And it will end up being boring as fuck, especially in the later seasons, because Hermione fighting for House Elf rights was always just extra fodder Rowling put into the books because she knew it would never get adapted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)
*assumes fetal position*
*shudders*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Of all the jacked up bans ...
Ace is an excitable fellow.
He hits us because he loves us.
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:47 PM (IVZwn)
Obviously this would be part of the auditing and governance process to fully execute the merger, and would have to get government approval and oversight.
The funny thing is that AOL Debt will probably just be tossed around like this forever until the heat death of the universe.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (XV/Pl)
well I guess that's totally cash-grabby but whatever, it's going to happen so we'll all just have to deal with it
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (1wjle)
And Tom Bombadil still won't be in it.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (3tZV2)
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Why is no one axing who is behind Netflix bid ? Obama funders and supporters maybe....
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv)
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Netflix's CEO has a long history of saying that the theatrical model is outmoded and against his vision for Netflix.
But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (WPL6O)
But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
Critical Drinker begs to differ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (WPL6O)
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Disney bought Fox's movie assets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:49 PM (3uBP9)
Pre-Ordered immediately, of course.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (TR2dy)
When does the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle rom-com air on the Netflix Christmas rotation this year?
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (Y8DZL)
It was a spin-off from somebody - GE maybe or T?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)
When does the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle rom-com air on the Netflix Christmas rotation this year?
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Doug and Wendy Whiner were more tolerable........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (0sNs1)
I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
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Amazon Prime KILLED Lord of the Rings for the foreseeable future.
I can't imagine anyone producing a successful version that tops Peter Jackson's films, either on the small or large screen.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)
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It's too bad they never made a Bugs Bunny cartoon after 1946. Well, except for his cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but that can hardly count.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rickb223
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That is why Netflix's offer is deceptive, it is 23.25 in cash, 4.50 in Netflix stock, and bluesky value of CNN et al. compared with 30 bucks straight up from paramount. Figuring out the value of teh cable properties requires a lot of homework and it depends on how much of the debt is loaded on those properties at spinoff which is tbd later. Pig in a poke offer compared with Paramount.
Netflix stock owners are not happy and stock is down because of possible stock dilution. Every WB shareholder gets 4.50 in Netflix stock from the deal, see above.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (WDjG6)
It was a spin-off from somebody - GE maybe or T?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 09, 2025 02:50 PM (QGaXH)
(T)
I held it for a decade for the dividend and capitulated when Xander fell apart.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (gYnrv)
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Netflix's CEO has a long history of saying that the theatrical model is outmoded and against his vision for Netflix.
But, suddenly, he's saying that theaters are super important, guys.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
When Reed Hastings (CEO) was catching a lot of flak for shutting down the DVD division of the business because that is what the company was founded on, he had one ready answer for that: Look at the name of this company: Netflix. We were always going to go to the web.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)
Didn't they retire Bugs after "The King of All Voices" died?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
>>they're remaking Harry Potter as an eight-season tv series, supposedly including all the book material that was chopped out of the films. I imagine they'll be doing that for LOTR within ten years.
Most series can only maintain their focus and discipline for 3-4 seasons at most.
Then the creatives tend to get bored and want to do other things but they can't do those other things because they are under contract so their personal bullsh*t starts to get infused.
Except Smallville, Smallville was great it's entire run.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip
Exactly. I've been spending more & more time on YouTube watching things.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (bvUs5)
Marvel's A-game was Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, all of which Marvel had sold the movie rights to years before they tried to start their own movie studio. And all they had was their shit tier properties.
Until they weren't shit-tier properties all of a sudden.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)
Sure Iron man was "C-list" at Marvel which is kind of my point. I think people have underestimated something from the 90s. Capcom. You had all these lower tier Marvel characters but they were plastered everywhere on kids growing up in the 90s when there were still arcades. Capcom had a Marvel arcade game and then Marvel vs. Capcom, and then even on home consoles eventually. I do think a lot of people underestimate that influence leading to people having that underlying understanding of a lot of Marvel characters and seeing them as cool that was ready for exploitation when they came to theaters finally.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (3tZV2)
Posted by: Dan and Dave, showrunners of Game of Thrones at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (1wjle)
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I could see where, if they took all the money Bezos blew on the Rings of Power and instead made three seasons of 10-12 episodes each that was about as reasonably close to the books as you can get in a visual adaptation, that would probably be the best to hope for.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (Dv3i1)
Did you ever watch the Meme Copium 'Rangs of Power' reaction series on YouTube?
Hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (0CU3H)
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I was a subscriber to the mail in service until the end (you can see my final two Netflix envelopes in my newest video! like and subscribe), but the service was down to something like less than a million subscribers, hadn't seriously reupped its inventory in years, and was really just fraying to nothing.
Pulling the plug was a mercy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:46 PM (1wjle)
If they're smart they'll leave Tom Bombadil out of the new one, too.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Close The Fed at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (lZILf)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
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The Richard Donner Superman is not a good movie.
*that guy standing at a meeting meme*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (mlg/3)
Failing a hostile takeover I'd like to see a consorted effort to drive them into bankruptcy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (NwnyJ)
And based on what Netflix puts out and tolerates, I'm not hopeful.
Best we can hope for there is benign neglect, Netflix just tossing money at creative directors and leaving them alone. But that is a best case fairy tale.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Guardians of the Galaxy, okay, I guess. Ant-Man... um, sort of.
but no one is really able to turn marvel c-listers into A-listers any more.
I think Marvel collapsed precisely because it got greedy about trying to turn its backbenchers into stars.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (1wjle)
Then the creatives tend to get bored and want to do other things but they can't do those other things because they are under contract so their personal bullsh*t starts to get infused.
Except Smallville, Smallville was great it's entire run.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)
My wife is a huge Smallville fan.
I'd argue that Firefly was also great for its entire run. (/twists the knife)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Or, we could burn it all down at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (IVZwn)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:48 PM (3tZV2)
I never could figure that one out why he was omitted. It's been awhile since I read the book, so I'm probably all mixed up, but wasn't he the dude that kinda saved the hobbits the first time they ran across the Ring Wraiths? I kind of thought that was somewhat of an important event that wasn't in the movie.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I liken PJ's films to a Lamborghini with all the bolts loosened on the wheels. The further along it went the wheels started wobbling, then falling off in the end.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (Dv3i1)
I must be getting old because all of this is a big fat don't care.
The only thing I watch on the idiot screen is free youtube with the majority of it being educational and history (espeically WW2).
In general I'm pretty sure that I'd prefer all the companies mentioned in the post to go bankrupt. Something tells me that would make my life and society to improve.
Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (2Nfh9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
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Well, they do do that.
Who cares if $120 million will turn a profit when handing it to Guillermo del Toro? Just give him the money, make his Frankenstein, and hope its good enough to buy an Oscar with (that Netflix hasn't won a Best Picture Oscar yet entertains me, but Apple did with freaking CODA).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
Because Hollywood is full of narcissists. I mean just look at how often they're encouraged to not read comic source material or play the video game that the movie is based on.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3tZV2)
Also, and, I know, I'm setting myself up for disappointment, yep, but I'm really hoping Space Balls 2 doesn't suck. Really holding out hope it might be slightly enjoyable. Not a clap-back affirmation of The Message. Could it be funny instead? I'm asking for so little really. I'll be disappointed.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3uBP9)
>>The Richard Donner Superman is not a good movie.
Ok Zoomer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl)
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The middle third is tonal whiplash. The final third makes no sense.
The first third is great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Read: Fox News
Or in other words, leftarded.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (eEIbO)
...Bugs Bunny?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (zjgNU)
How come Dick Donner figured out the perfect tone for these movies in 1976-1977 and everyone just kind of ignores that and tries to establish their own tone?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:52 PM (1wjle)
That's fair. The opening of Superman tells you what kind of movie this is going to be. If you can't tolerate (or love) a super powered terrier, you're not going to vibe with The Justice Gang or Mister Terriffic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (3uBP9)
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You will. Sorry.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (DRSnL)
because of Lex Luthor?
>>>The final third makes no sense.
Huh? I mean, I don't buy the travel in time thing but it "makes sense."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (MCtb9)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd)
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If I had my channel up and running at the time, I would have done another way too drunk thing about it.
And it would have made just as much sense as the one I did for Train Dreams.
My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
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Well, they do do that.
Who cares if $120 million will turn a profit when handing it to Guillermo del Toro? Just give him the money, make his Frankenstein, and hope its good enough to buy an Oscar with (that Netflix hasn't won a Best Picture Oscar yet entertains me, but Apple did with freaking CODA).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
That is where my optimism comes from. My pessimism comes from 'Cuties'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 02:55 PM (snZF9)
Barrow Wight, not ring wraiths.
Older evil creatures. Tom is there to note that the whole of middle earth is MUCH older than the rings and the ring is not all powerful.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (zjgNU)
Mel Blanc's son took over some of the character voice work.
Did a good Bugs Bunny but nobody can do Porky Pig anymore.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (Y8DZL)
I'd like to see Ellison win just to see if news and entertainment improves, but I don't see how you do that without crazy, massive purges at every level. Would that happen? Anyone see a difference yet with Bari Weiss's CBS News?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (flA4V)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (U6Usv)
I was down to see Krypto. With all of the Superman Robots and the kaiju and Lex Luthor chewing the scenery, it was just too cartoony for me.
that's why I mentioned Donner. His watchword was "verisimilitude." Gunn didn't bother trying that. He went full 1950s cartoony.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (xcxpd)
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If I had my channel up and running at the time, I would have done another way too drunk thing about it.
And it would have made just as much sense as the one I did for Train Dreams.
My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
Ouch. Well, she's your mom. She can get away with that. I'm still temped by Train Dreams, Eggars is a real filmmaker.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (xcxpd)
You will. Sorry.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (DRSnL)
But Brooks PROMISED it would be good!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
because of Lex Luthor?
>>>The final third makes no sense.
Huh? I mean, I don't buy the travel in time thing but it "makes sense."
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (1wjle)
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Because of Luthor's henchmen. It shifts from John Ford-esque Americana to silly comedy, and I kind of hate it.
The final third's entire emotional connection is based on a New York City reporter going to the American southwest to investigate a story no one thinks is a story, plus, you know, Superman turning back time *hand wave* Lois is fine now.
I'm sorry, but Superman is just...not good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
And people keep pointing out...then why are people moving OUT of those states to the ones rated lower?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (gYnrv)
My mother came to visit and she insulted me pretty deeply for that video.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
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Whatever, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (DRSnL)
and giant monsters too
but... all at once? All in ten minutes?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (1wjle)
However, I know Netflix:
-made Cuties (this should have them publicly executed, let alone buying companies)
-have also made, completely coincidently a lot of woke and race swapped shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 02:57 PM (MCtb9)
100 years ago there were consequences to being rude in public.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (zjgNU)
the Dark Phoenix saga. That's when I lost faith.
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (eEIbO)
You'll need to make sure there's no special characters and it's not over the character limit, for one.....two. I've had to replace commas and apostrophes in the past.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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It will be redone using AI. No actors.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (xcxpd)
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It was good. I remember it pretty clearly.
I still don't know what I was trying to say, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 03:00 PM (mEYGy)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
i heard that but I think it's an unconfirmed rumor
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
oh right I have to post about that. what crap.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
Good. They'll keep losing millions for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
I was down to see Krypto. With all of the Superman Robots and the kaiju and Lex Luthor chewing the scenery, it was just too cartoony for me.
that's why I mentioned Donner. His watchword was "verisimilitude." Gunn didn't bother trying that. He went full 1950s cartoony.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 02:59 PM (1wjle)
And I was ok with that. More so than when Donner had Superman rewind time by...flying around the Earth to reverse it's rotation...that was more jarring because up until then, things were 'super hero grounded'.
I actually like Nick Hoult's version of Lex quite a bit. He treats people better than previous Lex incarnations (mostly....he can be a dick).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
Well, donna, they are dumbasses, and a diversity nonprofit.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Tbj3s)
i heard that but I think it's an unconfirmed rumor
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (1wjle)
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I would hope there's no upscaling.
Just negative scanning at 8K, output to 4K should do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Isn't that what the Sri Lankan houseboys are for?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd)
>>The middle third is tonal whiplash. The final third makes no sense. The first third is great.
The film is 100 pct coherent within it's own narrative structure and within the confines of a 1950's comic book come to life.
It's also the best superhero film, or second best, I'm torn between that and TDK.
I also saw KB: TWBA this weekend.
Kill Bill is my favorite Tarantino film, but there is something off-putting about directors chicken f**king their creations.
Sometimes two halves are better than a whole.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (eEIbO)
Gotta keep Pedro Pascal happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Isn't that what the Sri Lankan houseboys are for?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (xcxpd)
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So...you're saying that Pedro Pascal is Arthur C. Clarke?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
Next Warner Bros.
Posted by: Counter reformation at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (/wYAD)
We need to get rid of the law than banned distributers and movie production houses form owning movie theaters. And most content producers need to ditch their on-line businesses. Get back to a system where Netflix PAYS YOU to show your content. Where customers PAY YOU to watch content. Studios can never compete with Netflix and Amazon. It just isn't possible. Make content, own content, rent content. Hopefully rent the same content over and over to a variety of on-line platforms and consumers.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS)
Older evil creatures. Tom is there to note that the whole of middle earth is MUCH older than the rings and the ring is not all powerful.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 02:58 PM (zjgNU)
Ah ok. I think I'm starting to remember. Didn't they end up with some cool swords after that? Barrow blades maybe? I seem to remembering that. I just remember when I saw the movie I was shocked that the whole thing wasn't shown.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS)
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1. There was no law. It was a DOJ Decree. It was the Paramount Accords.
2. The DOJ struck them out under Trump's first term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (C3IAS)
Make Blockbuster Great Again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 02:54 PM (xcxpd)
Netflix keeps going WAY out of its way to make everything gay and tranny. Take their recent release "Wayward" which could have been an interesting mix of Shiny Happy People meets Disturbing Behavior. BUT the lead just HAD to be a post-op women with her tits chopped off trying to be a man, married to a pregnant lesbian woman, and playing this off like it's a totally routine everyday thing. What the actual fuck?
Posted by: Don't show me that shit like it's normal at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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One of my coworkers the other day told me she can see the resemblance and I wanted to sock her.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: ace
Doubt it. Lucas 'burned' as many prints as he could, and I have a deep suspicion one of the points of the Diz-knee contract was that it could never be released in any format.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: banana Dream
Gotta pay for money losing Kimmel's show and salary for another year. Disney is going the be last at dumping devalued cable/broadcast because Iger is incapable of cutting off limbs of the conglomerate he made. So it is simply treading water. Disney should dump Iger and get someone in to up shareholder value (dumping toxic assets and putting a muzzle on Kathleen and her assorted alphabet crew.
But those same alphabet crew are embedded into Disney at a low level to the extent a newcomer trying to change corporate culture and divest dying assets is a longshot.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 03:04 PM (snZF9)
Yep. Ancient swords made by the people of Numenor. (Frodo lost his in the battle on Weathertop.) It's part of why Merry's sword was able to harm the Witch King of Angmar.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
And the movies suck
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
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I went to the theaters a couple of weeks ago.
Had a good time.
Except the movie. Wicked for Good. It was bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
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One of my coworkers the other day told me she can see the resemblance and I wanted to sock her.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (DRSnL)
You look like Jimmy Kimmel?
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
That's when you need a hotkey for the "Gaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!" meme.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (2ocoG)
You look like Jimmy Kimmel?
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
Not by ANY stretch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Uma's Feet Are Nightmarish at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (C24tU)
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Sticky floors, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:08 PM (Wg6v7)
So, if one print exists, others probably do.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (2GVsD)
More good than bad for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (Tbj3s)
Theaters get zero money from ticket sales, therefore, the only way for them to stay afloat is to overcharge for everything else.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (SzhuW)
I remember reading the testimony of someone that had been a British boy living next to Clarke's estate in Sri Lanka.
His father had banned Clarke from their property but one day while the father was out the boy was left with another relative. An uncle maybe?
Clarke came over and charmed the uncle then got him drunk and proceeded to convince the boy to let Clarke paint him. Naked of course.
And then, fortunately, the father returned home early and put a stop to the whole thing
So Clarke's pedophilia was known about the British overseas community certainly...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie.
Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (eEIbO)
They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie.
Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Damn internet lied to me AGAIN!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d)
Jah, Pax Americaus (if it ever existed) is long gone. We're going back to the old ways, which is frequent border conflicts.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
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I don't think so. I don't resemble anyone on that side of the family. I take after my dad's side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (EyfuW)
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Sticky floors, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead
That's the adult theaters.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (H4k+z)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ)
They get roughly 40% of ticket sales over the life of a movie.
Early weeks are more advantageous for the studios.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Damn internet lied to me AGAIN!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)
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Contracts are written per movie, so it depends, but the most advantageous I've heard is Star Wars Episode I getting 90% of first week sales.
I imagine Marvel was getting something like that through 2020 or so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
yes. that's the sequence I'm most bothered to see cut. They had to cut it because Tom Bombadil saves them, and they didn't want Tom Bombadil.
It causes some plot problems because Merry uses the blade he got from that tomb to stab the Witch King. In the movie, they have Galadriel present Merry and Pippin with (presumably blessed) blades that wind up being used.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (1wjle)
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Sticky floors, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead
That's the adult theaters.
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Its both. Soft drinks and cream.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (eEIbO)
I'm justified in never going to the theater, the bastards.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don't show me that shit like it's normal at December 09, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)
You have reminded me why I cancelled Netflix.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Seems...unlikely at December 09, 2025 03:07 PM (TbWk/)
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I don't think so. I don't resemble anyone on that side of the family. I take after my dad's side.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (DRSnL)
Pipe down, Jimmy!
Posted by: I Don't Understand What's Happening at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (xnXsP)
The Left crafts alternate realities by assertion. Think of it as maintenance. They know blue states suck, hence the extra effort they spend fluffing them up. All those fake stats are for them not you. It's like a spell. To convince themselves m
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (ciYHQ)
Maybe Trump can be enlisted to help de-shitify Star Wars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 03:12 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (gYnrv)
We don't go to theaters for movies and do have Netflix and (briefly) others for streaming. The one exemtion may be Mel Gibson's new movies, but we'll probably wait for those as well. We did see the Passion of Christ in the theater.
That said, it seems since the second or 100th writer's strike in Hollyweird there has been a void in good movies. It is very rare to see one for us. Is it this generation of writers? Drug addled brains? Always with the need for racism and ghey insertions? Stars spewing politics and gheyness? No imaginaition due to all of these questions?
Interesting twist that they are involving Trump in the negotiations. Reeks of desperation.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ)
I am not altogether on anybody's side, as nobody is altogether on my side.
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (F061L)
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
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You sound just like CS Lewis.
Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cray Cray
Put me down for "Sam is now both black *and* gay and has an on-camera fling with the Russian bartender who kisses Rick after he lets that refugee win at roulette" for $100
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (2GVsD)
they show a lot of older movies like the LOTR movies. I'm going to have to get back there!
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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Is that so? Then things have changed, as it used to generally be a 50-50 split between the theater company and the studio/distribution company. Disney did it differently, where on their big releases the theatre got the first 15%, then had to give up 85% of the take thereafter.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (SzhuW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
You're always first when no one is on your side.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Not treebeard, just quoting him at December 09, 2025 03:13 PM (TbWk/)
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You sound just like CS Lewis.
Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)
It's the Longbottom Leaf
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)
More good than bad for me.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of eye-candy chicks in that one that never really entered the plot, which was...ok I guess, it just left me wondering why they were there.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (3uBP9)
Ok. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)
they show a lot of older movies like the LOTR movies. I'm going to have to get back there!
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (1wjle)
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My mom (Catholic writer) went and saw it in Atlanta on the way here late last week.
She liked how the younger priest had a moment where he had to refocus on faith (I haven't seen it), though she hated the first 30 minutes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:06 PM (EMg+d)
well the 5 banana trees they're fighting over are really, really GOOD banana trees!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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If you want to read a horrific true story of scifi community and its casual ignoring of pedos among them in the 50s to 70s, read Moira Greyland's account.
She is the daughter of author Marion Zimmer Bradley and has published a book titled The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon.
Too many of the Golden Age of sci fi/fantasy types thought society was too uptight about morals, sexuality was natural (aided by what we know now as faked Margaret Meade studies and the criminal class subjects used in the Kinsey Report), etc.
So they did not protect the kids from predators among them and sexual harassment and worse were frequent at early cons. E.g. from the Forry Ackerman collection of letters, etc, this note: "In recent years, public allegations made online have described Ackerman's behavior toward women as predatory and at least one online account describes Ackerman engaging in an act of sexual assault. . . . several pieces of correspondence do allude to Ackerman sending sexually explicit communications to women.[that were unsolicited and non consensual].
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (xcxpd)
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"Great name for the secret hero of the whole saga..."
-JK Rowling
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (2GVsD)
I kinda hate that I get that reference.
WB was already Patient Zero for the furry community.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (gYnrv)
Get out of this bullshit system where an actor makes $20 million a movie. No living actor today is worth that.
Make writers write, and directors direct, and actors act.
Back in the day, Dalton Trumbo. F Scott Fitzgerald. Raymond Chandler. John Irving. William Faulkner. Dashiell Hammet. All wrote for Hollywood. Some pretty amazing authors have worked on polishing Hollywood scripts over the years.
The other thing is - produce movies for less money.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS)
Yeah, the fact that drones can project power has every cheap ass military commander wanting to see what he can do to settle old scores.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck C at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (D0HYP)
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find ghey buttsex going on at this bathhouse!
Posted by: Louis, this is the beginning of a case of monkeypox at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (TbWk/)
it's the most anti-Christian and anti-Trump/GOP movie I've ever seen.
and the plot is one part Monk and one part Remington Steele. It's on the level of a TV mystery plot, I mean.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (1wjle)
I just don't care. I doubt I'll ever set foot in a movie theater again.
Yawns.
Nap time.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
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Chariot races and bear baiting in the lobby!
There's still a place for movies that are communal experiences, like big epics, musicals, and video game flicks (the Minecraft Movie and Five Nights franchise packed 'em in).
The current thing of giving older and niche movies a short run is a good development.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS)
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Can't just go outside and film a scene anymore.
Gotta get the exact right color space, composition, and background elements.
Instead of filming outside for $10,000, we'll film in a constructed studio space for $1 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
Ok. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)
hey it's worth it to have the shareholders lose millions just so their friends won't say Mean Things.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 03:11 PM (gDlxJ)
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Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (SzhuW)
Ok. Sounds about right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)
Those 6 people protesting outside the studios when he was suspended were VERY convincing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
i thought i could hack a Silver Age type movie but it turns out I can't.
at some point I guess I'll finish watching it. then again, I never finished No Time To Die. I'm getting crabbier as I move past age 29.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (1wjle)
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Woke AI generated shlock has negative appeal. I have negative interest in prime projects relating to LotR.
Posted by: Regular American at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (/wYAD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
it's the most anti-Christian and anti-Trump/GOP movie I've ever seen.
and the plot is one part Monk and one part Remington Steele. It's on the level of a TV mystery plot, I mean.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:17 PM (1wjle)
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I just bring it up because she had a moderately positive outlook on the film that seemed divorced from the early part which, according to her, seemed to be the concentration of antagonism towards things like religion.
I'll probably watch it on Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
More good than bad for me.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of eye-candy chicks in that one that never really entered the plot, which was...ok I guess, it just left me wondering why they were there.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 03:14 PM (TN0g+)
Yeah, and it wasn't woke or feminist and I actually didn't hate Lois Lane for once.
James Gunn does like attractive females, unlike most of his peers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (1wjle)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
WB was already Patient Zero for the furry community.
try going to an anime con and seeing someone cosplaying Minerva and thinking, 'there's probably a guy in there.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD)
CGI and AI, motherfuckers! Learn to code.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (gYnrv)
James Gunn does like attractive females, unlike most of his peers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (xcxpd)
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Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (4PEtT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
Her face is meeting the wall before the rest of her, but that body is woah.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD)
*bulge detector goes off*
Posted by: uWu yuuuuuuuck at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
Judges would've accepted 'tits' as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 03:18 PM (eEIbO)
Judges would've accepted 'tits' as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
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She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
I liked it as a lad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (zZu0s)
try going to an anime con and seeing someone cosplaying Minerva and thinking, 'there's probably a guy in there.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (2GVsD)
I rather pride myself in not knowing what any of this means.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)
My wife and I laughed because the protagonist was so horribly miscast. A trans person, who looks like they are 15, playing a cop that is too mentally unstable and violent. It was like watching Howdy Doody: Serial Killer.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (C3IAS)
She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Tits. Boobs. Whatever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Get out of this bullshit system where an actor makes $20 million a movie. No living actor today is worth that.
Make writers write, and directors direct, and actors act.
Back in the day, Dalton Trumbo. F Scott Fitzgerald. Raymond Chandler. John Irving. William Faulkner. Dashiell Hammet. All wrote for Hollywood. Some pretty amazing authors have worked on polishing Hollywood scripts over the years.
The other thing is - produce movies for less money.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 03:16 PM (C3IAS)
Blame CAA and the rise of the superagent. The studio system worked for years and years until it just didn't. CAA was able to convince the help that they had more power than they realized, and used it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (0CU3H)
There were a bunch of #metoo accusations against classic SF authors that didn't get full media attention because they died before the ball got rolling.
Asimov for example, was supposedly handsy and tried to get female fans alone with him and so on.
And its almost comical because this kind of metoo stuff were things that people knew about before 3rd generation feminism - "be careful about being alone with a man you don't know" but then 3rd generation feminism was shocked...shocked...! That powerful men might try to use their power to get sexual attention from women.
They were so shocked of course they all universally defended Bill Clinton but here I'm digressing.
Obviously this isn't in the same ballpark a the Bradley/Clarke stuff...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (sKqQm)
She enjoys collecting birds? Does she also some boobies?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Tits. Boobs. Whatever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Just as we planned.
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (TbWk/)
Oh you poor innocent childe. Ya gotta make sanity rolls like the rest of us.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (2GVsD)
Oh, Anna. I checked my concordance. It is the 'Special Book Club Edition' from 1976. First edition.
I'd never sell it until I was past selling plasma.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (zZu0s)
More good than bad for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:09 PM (xcxpd)
How many times did you watch it? Seems like a lot of people that liked it in theater soured on it when watching it a second time at home.
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (3tZV2)
>>Rachel Brosnahan is...weird lookin'.
She was obviously chosen for her Margot Kidder aesthetic.
She's also not bad looking, she's also not a babe like Miss Tesmachar, but she's not supposed to be.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (gYnrv)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:22 PM (0CU3H)
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Marvel did it with all of its talent except Downey Jr.
Chris Hemsworth was making $100,000 per movie (9 movies total) under his original contract.
And then he'd go off and make $10 million for starring in Rush (which never justified his paycheck and proved that he wasn't actually a movie star).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Said as Obama walks past, I'm sure.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (2ocoG)
We are on the American side.
They are on the wrong side of the law.
They are on the wrong side of the bed.
They operated on the wrong side of the patient.
They are on the wrong side of hell.
Hope nobody goes to hell.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd)
fun fact: Rachel Brosnahan's aunt was...Kate Spade.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
She looked just fine in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: 18-1
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The News of the World spiked an exclusive story exposing the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke as a paedophile, according to a new book about life inside the newspaper whose closure was announced a year ago today.
In Hack, an account of his nerve-shredding days as a reporter on the News of the World and then the Sunday Mirror, Graham Johnson claims that although the NOTW prided itself on outing pederasts, editors made an exception for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch.. . .
Tipped off about the story, the Sunday Mirror sent Mr Johnson to Colombo, where he extracted an confession from the author that he paid boys for sex. "I have never had the slightest the slightest interest in children – boys or girls. They should be treated in the same way. But once they have reached the age of puberty, then it is OK," Mr Clarke was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "If the kids enjoy it and don't mind it doesn't do any harm … there is a hysteria about the whole thing in the West."
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: buzzion at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (3tZV2)
Twice, so far. Both in theaters.
I'm letting it 'rest' in my memory before digging it out to see it again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (gYnrv)
It’s better for the industry if Netflix doesn’t get WB. But considering the idiotic strikes right on the heels of Covid, I’m not surprised that the people in Hollywood would choose a suicidal move over a deal that would keep the cinemas open (albeit at a smaller level) and residuals flowing just because of a Trump connection.
Posted by: AnnInEu at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (8/Yb4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
She's had work done, sadly. Or HGH. But she's more good than bad also.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:21 PM (xcxpd)
fun fact: Rachel Brosnahan's aunt was...Kate Spade.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2025 03:23 PM (0CU3H)
I did not know that. I do see the resemblance. Well...so she's not acting because she needs the money...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:25 PM (2GVsD)
Yeah, still works fine. Spun it just to check.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 03:27 PM (2GVsD)
The Fox theater in Detroit, Majestic in Grand Rapids, Opera House in Calumet.
If the movie was bad you could just spend the time admiring the architecture.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 03:28 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Samuel Delany wrote about his experiences (favorably btw), Heinlein had the obvious open marriage as described openly in his official bio from his letters to Ginny and had a creepy predilection in some stories of grooming (Door into Summer), his protagonist having a relationship with his grandniece in another book Time for teh Stars, Lazarus Long and his grandmother in Time Enough For Love, and so on. There's more to it. Asimov's son was busted for child pron and Asimov himself was notorious for grabbing female ass at cons without asking, Randall Garrett was known for his vulgar come ons to con attending females, etc. etc.
This was the casual attitude of the era and creative scene that morality was for squares and Bible thumpers, kids were fine having sex even with adults, and anything went for adults.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 03:39 PM (zZu0s)
I mostly can't wait for Avengers Doomsday to not nearly make back the money it needs. That will entertain me.
Instead, Super Mario Galaxy will make all the money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
And do a remake of Prometheus. That would be fun. Wouldn't it? Well, WOULDN'T IT?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 03:40 PM (g8Ew8)
The Donner Superman only had three redeeming qualities, five if you include Valerie Perrine's tits.
1. Reeve's performance as Superdood
2. Hackman feasting on the scenery
3. The Reeve/Kidder Sky Dance
Of the three (or five), the Sky Dance is the only absolutely essential element of the flick
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 03:45 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 03:01 PM (VE6XX)
Good. They'll keep losing millions for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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That's one way to declare your hatred of middle America. It's their money and the sooner they go broke the better.
Posted by: Decaf at December 09, 2025 03:47 PM (1RAfh)
I just don't care either way. It's all going to be garbage.
Posted by: Nelly at December 09, 2025 05:15 PM (iCpnn)
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj)
Posted by: Bubba at December 09, 2025 08:51 PM (R4kLd)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8)
David's father Larry discussed firing hosts like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar - figures Trump dislikes - with White House officials during takeover bid talks last month, the Guardian reported."
Absolute bullshit, there is no reason to research it at all. As you said, there are pathways to trump that don't include public disclosure of direct collusion to define a pathway (the real definition of collusion, not what the left thinks it is) But most obviously it's to say that Trump is affraid of Kaitlin Collins, who makes a couple mil, or the other two who are nobodies, who combined make a couple mil, so he called his son in law and his friends son and said, "Hey! I hate these petty bitches talking about me all the time to 20 thousand people with lies, can you come up with 75 billion dollars to get them fired? Because you know, I really don't like those nasty people. Can we do that?"
And then BOOM, they cough up about 75 billion because he hates CNN!?!?
Absolute bullshit, and anyone
Posted by: wickedpinto at December 10, 2025 07:01 AM (2a0yj)
What _I_ think, is that Paramount was pissed off because WB CLEARLY made a political statement in denying that they were up for sale when Paramount/whatever, made an initial offer to negotiate terms, only to have WB go running to Netflix.
ALSO, I believe that there are people in the corner offices who really believe in what made paramount great, this is the company that Robert Evans rebuilt, this company has god knows how much acclaim in their catalogue and truly want to make the art of film great again. (that wasn't deliberate, it was literally my Stream of Conc phrase) and to promote movie going.
WB has one of the greatest libraries still available, since MGM is pretty much lost, so I think Paramount IS dedicated to promoting the filmmaking business as a lost revenue source (yes, it is, a LOT, because of the fucked up system as it is) and trying to bring it back, through making movies. BIG movies, Fun Movies, TRASH, R Rated Movies, make Movies, Put them out and let people watch them.
Netflix wants to do a Disney and Vault everything and create events that renew subscriptions ever 3 months.
I don't just think Paramount has the better offer, I think
Posted by: wickedpinto at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (2a0yj)
Posted by: wickedpinto at December 10, 2025 07:07 AM (2a0yj)
No Shock: Tech Company Offers $60/Hour Coding Job with Proviso: "No US Citizens" May Apply
Immigrants are doing the jobs that Americans just won't do are illegally blacklisted from.
Read the whole thing. Trump needs to put together a squad of employment-discrimination Untouchables and begin suing these companies into bankruptcy.
The job post for LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm committed to "diversity, equality, and inclusivity," began innocently enough. The $60-per-hour role would be based in Santa Clara, Calif., focus on "technical support," and entail a 3--10 p.m. shift. Posted on Nvoids, an IT jobs aggregator, the ad described LanceSoft as an equal opportunity employer and said that the firm, one of the largest staffing agencies in the country, strives "to be as diverse as the clients and employees we partner with." "We embrace people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation," the Nov. 25 post read. This particular job, however, would not be open to a very large group of people: citizens of the United States. In a section titled "Visa requirement," LanceSoft recruiter Riyaz Ansari wrote that "candidates must hold an active H1B visa"--and stated explicitly that American citizens need not apply. "No USC/GC for this role," Ansari wrote, using the acronyms for U.S. citizens and green card holders. He added that "LanceSoft is a certified Minority Business Enterprise"--a status the firm has used to secure public contracts--and touted the company's "diversified team environment." Federal law bars employers from discriminating based on citizenship status. But in the industries most reliant on the H-1B program, which provides visas to more than 700,000 immigrants, advertisements like LanceSoft's litter online recruiting boards. The Washington Free Beacon identified over two dozen job postings since 2024 that appear to bar applications from U.S. citizens. The posts were made on a variety of platforms, including Glassdoor and LinkedIn, and typically indicate a preference for H-1B visas, though some allow for other visa types as well. Several of the firms are minority-owned businesses, meaning they receive preferential access to government contracts even as they exclude U.S. workers. The posts illustrate what Trump administration officials say is a common form of hiring discrimination that has long been underpoliced. They come as conservatives are debating the merits of the H-1B visa program, which some argue has been abused by employers to hire foreign workers--especially Indian outsourcers--at the expense of American ones. "A shocking number of covered entities, especially recruiters, continue to express explicit preferences for visa guest workers," said Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). "In the shadows of under-enforcement, this type of discrimination has festered."
It is.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) December 9, 2025
Below: The owner of a small construction company in Louisiana says that his phone is ringing off the hook now that illegal alien construction workers aren't showing up for work due to fears of being deported. With the illegals being deported, actual US citizens are getting hired again.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (eEIbO)
-coal miner
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)
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"No American is willing to work manual labor. Everyone wants to be part of the laptop class."
-member of the laptop class, filled with empathy for the downtrodden who aren't American
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
Yes I know Microsoft. And I stand by that statement.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (U6Usv)
- Netflix transexual coal miner
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (2P232)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (eEIbO)
Again, HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS LEGAL?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (eEIbO)
They put one of yours in prison, you put one of their in the bathhouse. THAT'S the San Francisco way!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (ycI94)
Make me. Gotta go back to work.
Besides, to get a job in this country, you have to know people, make strategic friends, and “network”. Which only shows how deeply corrupt this country has become. And Americans love it that way.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (rQwsY)
I guess we should applaud the rich for being so smart and productive as most here suggest.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
The Paolo never has, how you say, occasion to use that word "soft" when advertising his services.
-- The Paolo
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (ybICy)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Tbj3s)
For the billionth time, enforcement against employers is by far the most powerful leveraged tool DHS has. And there are cooperative (coerced) models of enforcement that would minimize economic impact. These have been on desks since 2017.
Time is short, and time is wasting.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (SpIHn)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: tubal
You can’t STOP them! It's unconstitutional! Against international law!
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (ycI94)
It's another Trumpmas miracle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (mKuBN)
Most of them don’t outright say no US citizens. But when they say “open to H1B sponsorship” it’s essentially the same thing.
Trump however, when asked about this by Laura Ingraham said there is no talent in America and we need foreign workers. Don’t look to Trump for any fixes on this. He’ll deport a few illegals in Chicago or Charlotte, for show. But he’s not getting rid of cheap H1Bs. Elon and his new BFF tech bros won’t allow that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM
See AtC, above. It isn't.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bulg
It's not. It says so right up there in the Content.
But like all the laws to protect the Protected Classes, they're written to cover both cases (No Irish! vs. Irish Only!) but only enforced in one direction.
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (nhCoE)
It's another Trumpmas miracle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (mKuBN)
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Repeat, but I'm gonna do it anyway:
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (2qmMz)
Most of them don’t outright say no US citizens. But when they say “open to H1B sponsorship” it’s essentially the same thing.
Trump however, when asked about this by Laura Ingraham said there is no talent in America and we need foreign workers. Don’t look to Trump for any fixes on this. He’ll deport a few illegals in Chicago or Charlotte, for show. But he’s not getting rid of cheap H1Bs. Elon and his new BFF tech bros won’t allow that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:32 PM (9iyS+)
Well, Americans don't communicate well with the other workers... (okay, they don't speak their language so CAN'T communicate...)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Tbj3s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (2qmMz)
Has Amber Heard of these jobs?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (ynpvh)
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
I blame Anime
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
"under-enforcement" is still a real gaslighty term; let's try "non-enforcement"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (eEIbO)
I thought they wanted virgins...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (uQzkA)
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)
I blame Anime
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (xcxpd)
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I blame Trump for deporting all the people who would have been giving birth but had no legal basis for being in America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
lol
$60 per hour will get you a bottom bunk in a house with 25 illegals living in it.
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM
Read the Content?
That's sus. Are you new here?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (Tbj3s)
"under-enforcement" is still a real gaslighty term; let's try "non-enforcement"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 01:35 PM (Cjt/F)
Yeah. Reminds me of the time we were using a company in China for testing. I called and asked if the device had passed testing; response I got was "It hasn't failed". Well, wouldn't you know that if a device isn't tested, it hasn't failed yet?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 09, 2025 01:36 PM (bNf8H)
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Imagine you artificially increased the demand for everything in a country by importing the equivalent of the nation of Haiti and spreading them across the entire nation in a 4 year period?
How would that affect...every aspect of daily life?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
Who is Texan
And MAGA
And extremely talented
But we racist yall
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (ynpvh)
The only viable option is to stop issuing / renewing these visas.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (XqFM2)
Who is Texan
And MAGA
And extremely talented
But we racist yall
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz)
Feather, or Dot?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (Tbj3s)
Along with a liberal application of tire irons and baseball bats.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (snZF9)
well now they're taking over large tech firms, the kinds with room to hide in and not do too much.
unfortunately those "too big to fail" firms are the ones the US government won't "let" fail so, smart move by them. a few get into management and then the only Whites hired are gonna be young girls, here and there.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: resist_we_much at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (cpys8)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HYKHz)
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So the same clown judges that sit by their phone 24/7 to answer (if it's a lefty group calling), move heaven and earth, clearing their entire docket, in order to rule against Trump ...
Will drag their feet, chase down every rabbit hole, and inevitably dismiss for lack of standing in 2038.
The Judiciary is no longer American. Or for Americans.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HXT0k)
LOLUK:
Queer Stormer literally ends democracy in UK and essentially declares himself dictator. So what does Madame Nigel Farage do?
He holds an "emergency" press conference!
Wow. That"ll be effective.
(The "conservatives" didn't do anything)
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (Uztr4)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T)
Who is Texan
And MAGA
And extremely talented
But we racist yall
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:38 PM (HYKHz)
Feather, or Dot?
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:39 PM (Tbj3s)
Yes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:41 PM (ynpvh)
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Technically dot but she doesn’t have any, I’m guessing she’s Catholic
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (HYKHz)
Ah. The Portuguese Effect.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 01:41 PM (pDt9x)
I guess we should applaud the rich for being so smart and productive as most here suggest.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 09, 2025 01:31 PM (Vh9CX)
Don't know about most. There might be a handful still clinging to that myth and/or who mistake corporatism, cronyism, regulatory capture and rent-seeking for a free market. I try to look at it on a case specific basis and distinguish between those who actually built a successful enterprise with a vision, competence and hard work, rather that those who just get to parachute in because they are have the right connections, fuck the place up, then golden parachute out.
Posted by: Shit products + poor wages + no American workers == C-Suite bonuses at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (2ap+5)
How’s that going? lol
It was all nonsense, a bone thrown to the base to shut them up. But $100k for a visa is nothing when employers save 2-3 times that vs hiring an American over the duration of the 6 year visa it’s a 3 year visa but renewable so total 6 years).
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: steevy
QUACK
Posted by: Ducks for Trump at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
A mostly-peaceful shooting...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (ynpvh)
it doesn't apply yet, and it's pretty limited to boot. sop for us I think.
73 Tim Pool has a post up on twitter that someone shot at his house.
Tim has had a bunch of threats and now this. he's thinking of hanging it up podcast-wise
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:43 PM (emBoF)
The thing that amazes me is how many of them are literally not Americans.
We should have a natural born requirement for judges as well as the president...there is no need to fill these roles with people from overseas.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
It’s not happening.
It rarely happens so not to worry.
It’s happening and this is why it’s a good thing.
This needs to happen or you’re a bigot.
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (mEYGy)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (uQzkA)
"apágalo y luego vuelve a encenderlo."
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (v0R5T)
¿Puedo incinderlo?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Relieve the People at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (oftw2)
What's really bold of queer stormer is he cancelled elections *before* they implemented the next fake "pandemic" hoax.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:44 PM (HJpvS)
That is the goal of this stuff.
Threaten, and then even kill, right leaning speakers to shut them up.
If you have a few of your line level street thugs end up getting a few years in prison it costs you nothing really. They'll even be able to vote when a future Dem president lets them out
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:45 PM (sKqQm)
Fuck that. It’s all the same. Jobs stolen from Americans. End it all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:45 PM (9iyS+)
Instead of bloviatibg here here perhaps you should write to President Trump directly He probably isn't reading this site:
https://tinyurl.com/3xaej65a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (rZCVI)
Not guilty by reason of sanity, your honor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (mKuBN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (eEIbO)
“In California and New York, immigrants have accounted for 100% of all rental growth and over one-half of all growth in owner-occupied housing in recent years, the report found – while nationally, the foreign-born population accounted for more than 60% of the growth in rental demand.
But illegal immigration totally has nothing to do with housing costs, rental costs, availability or inflation.
At some point we also need to staple the owners of businesses who hire illegal immigrants to a telephone pole. Even in places like NY where they give these people a permit to work while they’re evading deportation.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (Y3swt)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (emBoF)
I think he probably should have stated; “No Juan knows how bad it has gotten”.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (Y3swt)
When they overturn Humphrey's, that means Trump will fire the all of the labor boards and such.
All of those lefties allowing all of this will be gone.
Now thing of an Americans-first EEOC and NLRB ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (HXT0k)
At some point we also need to staple the owners of businesses who hire illegal immigrants to a telephone pole. Even in places like NY where they give these people a permit to work while they’re evading deportation.
Posted by: Vengeance at December 09, 2025 01:46 PM (Y3swt)
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What if I told you that most of the inflation we've seen over the last few years was actually related to immigration directly more than anything else?
What if I told you that mass deportations have deflationary effects?
What if I wrote that in an bill called the American Deflationary Act and passed it through Congress?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
The iron laws of supply and demand.
And its interesting, when I mention this to left leaning younger people that complain about this stuff you see their brain trying to understand.
Immigration is a right!
And well obviously those immigrants have to live somewhere
So that means they are competing for housing against me raising costs
Therefore I voted for the problem I am complaining about.
Unfortunately their brains usually misfire after point 2 (though not yet have started yelling "DOES NOT COMPUTE")
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)
I guarantee if the investigators are motivated enough, they will uncover criminal acts as well that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent and beyond.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
The estimated number of comp sci and related workers we need per year is a little over 300k.
So if we are not producing enough tech workers, it's in the order of a couple of thousand at the most.
No the reason H1B's are preferred is that they can be paid less, will do more work for less and can be threatened or pressured to churn out the code.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (XV/Pl)
Harmeet Dhillon is already on it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Wg6v7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Nr4sE)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
We've had enough immigration in the last two decades to last us the next century.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (TR2dy)
Queer Stormer literally ends democracy in UK and essentially declares himself dictator. So what does Madame Nigel Farage do?
He holds an "emergency" press conference!
Wow. That"ll be effective.
(The "conservatives" didn't do anything)
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:40 PM (Uztr4)
I need to trademark this phrase...
Precisely WHAT would you have them do?
Labour controls the government. Labour doesn't have to call an election for, what, 4 more years? What should Farage do?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (v0R5T)
Sorry, you f*cked up. You should pay the price for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)
H1B as well. Pause it and think it over.
Young people are graduating in STEM and not finding jobs while we import entire villages.
It's ENOUGH.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (emBoF)
Precisely WHAT would you have them do?
Labour controls the government. Labour doesn't have to call an election for, what, 4 more years? What should Farage do?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:50 PM (ExV1e)
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That's what people are freaking out about?
The majority refusing to call early elections?
I mean...come on, people. Engagement isn't worth that much, is it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM
She got legs, she know how to use them. And a couple other assets too.
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (eEIbO)
H1B as well. Pause it and think it over.
Young people are graduating in STEM and not finding jobs while we import entire villages.
It's ENOUGH.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 01:51 PM (emBoF)
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Rule writing in alignment with the Administrative Procedures Act requires time, but it is being done. OPT is being targeted by an upcoming rule that will decrease it heavily or possibly end it completely.
https://is.gd/mcUX8N
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
Maybe being shot at by a leftard will be the thing that finally turns him conservative. Just kidding.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (U6Usv)
Not guilty by reason of sanity, your honor.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Aim for #4.
Posted by: zombie Ambrose Bierce at December 09, 2025 01:52 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)
A conservative leaning person posted a thread nothing the left wanted to throw pure bloods in prison and take their kids away and noted she would never forget.
There were three types of lefty responses:
1) Posting the effectiveness of NON-COVID vaccines
2) Denying that any lefty anywhere wanted to imprison pure bloods or take their kids away
3) Endorsing the notion that taking pure bloods kids away and putting them in prison...because...it was an emergency dontachaknow
And the funny thing is the posts from #2 and #3 types were right next to each other though...not the same people at least I guess.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1
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Why, he made them do it...they had no choice.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)
He's blaming Candace Owens and her rhetoric for the shooting and is contemplating ending his podcast because it's costing him more in security now than he makes doing it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:53 PM (eEIbO)
Going on 35 years now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (Nr4sE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (rZCVI)
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This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (U6Usv)
This was the original intent of an H1B visa. Need a specific mathematician or linguist who is the only person that knows something? Bring them over on this visa.
The intent was never bringing in millions of people will common skills like software development...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (sKqQm)
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That PLUS the graft that comes with the H1B holders being essentially indentured servants and the allure of H1B holders hiring OTHER H1B holders from the same family/caste/area.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (TN0g+)
Would love to follow this company and see how long a $4800 a CB pay period non coding derka derka lasts.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (bvUs5)
Prometheus is actually Oscar worthy
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (U6Usv)
I would say.......
https://youtu.be/l60MnDJklnM
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L)
Those boots!!!!
*sigh*
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (KQmzo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (eEIbO)
Excellent...
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Wow. Tim Pool is a little cowardly bitch? Makes sense. Fits the grifter read on him i always had.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (Nr4sE)
The fact that they can't code never enters into it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (XeU6L)
Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (HJpvS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (eEIbO)
Then the hispanics started showing up and would intimidate all the local regulars and pretty much chased us all off. Their whole families would show up and jump berry rows and pick ahead of you so you wouldn't get any berries. It didn't help that the new field manager was a hispanic as well. They monopolized the berry fields. They would often cheat by putting dirt into the bottom of their flats so the weight could be more. The scale guy was hispanic so wink-wink it didn't get caught.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (IifOV)
His claim to fame was being part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, no?
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 01:58 PM (TR2dy)
The fact that they can't code never enters into it.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5)
Oh, and most of them really suck at it. The term "spaghetti code" came from the impossible task of troubleshooting the nonsensical shit they release.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (bvUs5)
Chat GPT got me through college, Chat GPT will code for me. I'll get it reviewed by Sandeep. -- Prajeet
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 01:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 09, 2025 01:56 PM (Nr4sE)
His wife and kid were present, so that might factor into his decision-making.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting outsmarted by a one-year-old at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM (HJpvS)
- Trump got shot.
- Kirk got shot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)
And they largely suck as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hal9k at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
The UK has this stupid kabuki thing called a 'shadow cabinet' where the minority coalition has party members pretending to be opposition ministers and councilors. What Farage et al need is a Shadow Civil Service that can be parachuted into the ministries when the conservatives win an election. The UK is ruled by a formal, codified Deep State. It has to be erased if the UK is to pull out of their terminal dive into hell.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (mlg/3)
If the left is allowed to shoot right leaning celebrities/media figures/pols with the only consequence being the occasional gunman/thug dies or goes to prison this will continue.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)
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This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived.
Posted by: ...
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Old news, but cheering, "A Father's Justice"
https://shorturl.at/dVrph
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 02:01 PM (XeU6L)
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LOL
Posted by: blue state juries at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (eEIbO)
I am sure you will find that, ultimately, Political Donations are the 'Upside'.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TR2dy)
They hate us. They really, really, really hate us. Its to the point now that if all they're going to do is keep staffing Federation Starships with female captains and cuck first officers that I'm ready to cheer for the Romulans. Blow the Enterprise from the sky!
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: John Cocksucker McCain at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TbWk/)
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This is a sad story. It sounds like the guy lived.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:55 PM (U6Usv)
Sad in what way? That he didn't get to 20?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (N39Ws)
You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham.
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
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You'd think you'd be able to find local U.S. citizens that could do the work at a fraction of that salary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (ESVrU)
I guess the pigeons need a new place to crap.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (KQmzo)
Posted by: coba at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (IuIym)
You should All thank Ace for not posting a recent image of lena dunham.
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
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Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (uQzkA)
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They are cheaper, in the short run. H1B is also basically indentured servitude so the company pretty much never has to worry about Sandeep negotiating a better salary or jumping to another company for more pay.
The entire program should be shitcanned in short order, but it won't be, because there are billions of Tech dollars behind it and plenty of filthy Congressshitheads to grift it all up.
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (5aZAZ)
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
This is how you call Admiral Akbar without actually calling Admiral Akbar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety
>Bring back leeches and blood-letting! Can't be any worse than COVID vaccines and boosters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (1zOXE)
You wouldn't believe she could get worse...much worse.
Posted by: Shalom, Soothsayer at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (HJpvS)
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Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
She won't stop eating chocolate cake with gravy until the trasngenocide is stopped once and for all.
Posted by: It's possible anyway at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 09, 2025 01:57 PM
The story of field hands going back at least to the 1950s.
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (LHPAg)
Is she refusing Ozempic because it's racism, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
Or, it could be the massive muscle and bone density loss leading to osteoporosis.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (XuXeR)
This looks like an odd case.
The father and the victim met at a post office. Supposedly the victim made "comments" about the daughter.
Then a few days later the victim shows up at the father's house - supposedly to go for a walk with him - and the father responded by stabbing the victim.
Unsaid are what the comments were, how old the daughter is, or whether the victim was invited over.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (W7XSX)
The entire program should be shitcanned in short order, but it won't be, because there are billions of Tech dollars behind it and plenty of filthy Congressshitheads to grift it all up.
Posted by: ballistic
In the end, it's always about control, isn't it?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (OUMaO)
https://is.gd/mcUX8N
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Details on policy are something not as conducive as bitch fests. Underneath all the blather, TPS is being revoked right and left, Duffy is making sure that CDL licences end when the visa does plus shutting down CDL mills, the new rules require 100k fee for H1Bs and other provisions making it more difficult to hire them, the rulemaking above narrows the student worker visa loophole for STEM, etc.
That being said, when UC San Diego has a big percentage of students that cannot do middle school math yet graduate high school, we got a massive supply problem from destructive K12 education in much of this country.
Essentially, Trump is trying to redo the transmission of the US economy while going down the road with substantial changes--tariffs, immigration clampdown, changing provisions. Watch what the man actually does, not what the dumbass media types get as pablum. He uses words, not policies like Clinton, to triangulate to tack back and forth. Shiny toy for media and rage merchants.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (WDjG6)
Short term gains. Nothing more.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 02:05 PM (XuXeR)
Any short term gains are wiped away bigly once the failures are realized and the time required to fix their mistakes is put on the books.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF)
I have several other talents that allowed me to earn a living, on top of those trades.
At NO point have I ever ascended to making anywhere near $60 per hour.
Not as an Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter or Mason.
Not as a Hunting or Fishing Guide.
Not as a Mechanic or a Laborer or even as a Consultant.
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:02 PM (TN0g+)
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I was on Joint Base Lewis McChord yesterday (I will neither confirm or deny i was at the Class VI store) and saw an airman wearing a Space Force MMXIX patch. Pretty cool looking and yeah, right out of the Romulan Style book. All black and silver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (KQmzo)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
I assume Ace's security is top notch; you never hear about him having to shoot his way out of the gym to get to his car.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (emBoF)
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For some reason, people in political media don't trumpet upcoming rule changes all that often.
Instead, they like to chase shiny squirrels that don't mean much.
Trump ending OPT, deporting millions of people, and ending CDLs for foreign drivers will do more for the American people than any legislation Congress could come up with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (eEIbO)
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days./i]
Partly this is determined by where you live - cost of living is much higher in say SF then in WV.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (U6Usv)
>Bring back leeches and blood-letting! Can't be any worse than COVID vaccines and boosters.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:04 PM (1zOXE)
Reftore balance to mine humours wythe a moft generoufs applickation of leechesf.
Posted by: Feeling too sanguine. Also bilious. at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TbWk/)
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM (TR2dy)
Lady across the street took her Honda Accord in to a brake shop and they quoted her over $700 + parts.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
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Did you actually apply?
Like, for real reals?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)
I can guarantee you what sort of minority they are, too - South Asian. And the H1Bs they want will all be from their sort of minority. I've seen it.
Posted by: GWB at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (hlpxB)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
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And are national socialists to boot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)
same here
my time was being billed to customers at that price 40+ years ago ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (Cjt/F)
Why can't he work out a deal with the neighborhood drug dealer and war lord to protect his place? They don't concern themselves with filing reports but favor direct action.
Might also cut down on his receiving numerous SWAT raids since the local government is not likely to deal with gang crime.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (nCgQz)
Posted by: garrett
Yet, oddly, it's still $20, same as in town.
Posted by: Entremanure at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (oftw2)
The Sprinkler Installation guys out here are charging $75-80/ Hour.
They don't have a skillset that demands even 1/4 of that.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (TR2dy)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Considering the IRA trained and is training with assorted jihadis, that sounds like utter bullshit. Their fucking allies with Hamas, FFS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:10 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (EMg+d)
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
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And are national socialists to boot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:09 PM (GBKbO)
On the other hand, they haven't had a really good fight for quite a few years now. and they ARE Irish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: garrett
>I blew away my millions in the 90s on wine, women and song. And horses.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK
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I'd sooner believe that they'd start bombing white owned farms in Buckinghamshire than they'd say anything remotely bad about Starmer's efforts at expanding governmental control over the populace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
Say a U.S. coder cost $150k. I hire someone from out of the country for $80k. That person lives...poorly, saves his money, and sends it home to a poor country, where the money is sufficient to build a 5-bedroom home for his family.
The cost differential is the same. Both parties have the same goals. But he U.S coder wants to build his house here, while the H1B wants to build it his home country, which is cheaper, so he'll take a much lower pay.
To me the easy solution is to tax remittances. 15%.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: LanceSoft staffing at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: 18-1
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Drugs also are involved from the original report. I am always careful on any initial crime news story like the missing football coach turned into a probable suicide due to impending child pron and pursuit of underage kids.
You can tell the bad stories for narratives as they disappear quickly while those that support leftist narratives are blasted coast to coast for weeks--like Trayvon.
Thug accosts armed person violently and gets shot then dies. This would seem a local story but because of the outrage machine and Obama admin, it became a national story for months incuding the trial. I also bet Community Relations at the DoJ thought they had Whitey shooting a dindu nuffin yute that could have been Obama's son narrative going on. Anti gun, anti Whitey, perhaps even anti Jew as Zimmerman is often a common Jewish name. So they and their ngo flying monkeys, and Ben Crump, made it into a circus.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (ciYHQ)
IRA, IRS, what's the difference?
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (EMg+d)
Take a spin around LinkedIn job postings sometime. There is no shortage of insanely stupid shit. It's Terry Gilliam meets Franz Kafka.
Posted by: Everything is fake gay and corpotard at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Sy6m/)
They don't have a skillset that demands even 1/4 of that. "
ah, but they've got Licenses, and the all-important Certification ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (Cjt/F)
I made that in San Diego in 2004.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (W7XSX)
The Corporate Sector needs to do on the job training.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:06 PM
yeah they don't do that anymore.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM
no, they post job openings what require 20+ years of experience, then freak out when you show up at the interview with grey hair..."we just don't think you'd fit with our 'culture'"
why? because I'm 30 years older that the group manager?
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (tljrc)
>>Lady across the street took her Honda Accord in to a brake shop and they quoted her over $700 + parts.
Depends on what they are doing, if it's a full front, back, parking brake job, then that's a good price, it's to replace pads and cut the rotors, then not so good.
She obviously can't do it herself as most people can't do their own brake jobs, if she could do it herself, it would probably run her around 500 bucks for parts, materials and tools to do the job.
YMMV.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (XV/Pl)
"Polk County deputies responded to Dick’s Sporting Goods after a store manager reported a retail theft in progress. Deputies arrived within minutes and detained eight teens, identified as members of a Philadelphia youth football team in town for a national tournament. All eight were charged with retail theft over $750 and conspiracy to commit retail theft. Because of the arrests, the teens were unable to participate in their scheduled championship game, and their team lost the game."
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
would it make a difference if they drank a lot?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK8)
Why didn't Trump just ignore the lower courts and shoot the district judges instead?
It's not like the new policy stayed in effect through the whole litigation and he won on merits in the end, anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
@LeadingReport
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25s
BREAKING: Federal court upholds transgender military ban.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)
would it make a difference if they drank a lot?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:15 PM (uWKK
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Yes.
They might actually take out a Muslim brother in the cause to impose the universal union upon England.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)
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what an uplifting story !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (emBoF)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2025 02:08 PM (TR2dy)
Any possibility of them being red-pilled? Or maybe (more likely) they're seeing a possibility to distinguish themselves from political rivals?
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (2L+MU)
And then they will sing the Horst Wessel song.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (W7XSX)
why? because I'm 30 years older that the group manager?
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 02:14 PM (tljrc)
Yes. And because it violates federal law to discriminate based on age, so they trot out the "we don't think you're a good cultural fit" or "we think we're going in different direction" to cover for the real reason they want to have nothing to do with you.
Posted by: Entry-level position, 15 years exp required at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (TbWk/)
You all understand that when quoted an hourly rate by a car or appliance dealership it's about 5 times what they're actually paying the guy who does the work.
Or girl. Or trans gender. Or monkey.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (Y8DZL)
The IRA. Who have been in bed with the Militant Muslims for decades...
Yeah. Not buying it.
Posted by: garrett
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I think this is a new group with an old name for PR purposes just as the Provisional IRA was not the same organization and leadership as the old IRA during the Easter Rebellion and aftermath.
Different generations involved in each of those.
Basically from reports I gathered, these are apparently youngsters whose gramps, etc. might have been involved in the prior Time of Troubles in N. Ireland on either side. I think even Catholics and Prots can find unity in detesting Islamic infiltration as they make the differences between the Christian sects minor compared with the canyon between Christian and Islam.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)
Anti-DEI and sports ban provisions for the military still exist in the bill, but the removal of a health care provision is a major victory for transgender people in congressional legislation." that was 12/5
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (2L+MU)
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The IRA is a socialist organization and has been for more than a century.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (eEIbO)
Aren't they IT security, not physical security?
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Diogenes
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FWIW, Chief Master Sergeant:
https://tinyurl.com/3mecrndz
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (XeU6L)
Between the pictures of "little trayvon", pretending Zimmerman was an old Jew and then finally a "white" "Hispanic,,and the lies on NBC "he looks suspicious he looks black"... that is how they managed to turn an otherwise completely race unbothered nation into their Race War Utopia.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: SciVo at December 09, 2025 02:13 PM (Sy6m/)
The other half of this equation is we need to remove ourselves from foreign intrigue and wars.
That too has to stop. I know some people are addicted to these wars, and will lash out at anyone who suggests the U.S. of A. has no reason to be in Asia, in Southwest Asia, in Europe, or any other third world shitholes.
"American First" should mean American first. Not when we get done with all the rest of the world's problems.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ya but they can help your biker gun run firearms.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H)
My next inspection was coming up and they told me as well I needed to replace it and I found a place that had more reasonable rates.
So...the first place wasn't lying about the need to replace it but they really jacked up the price. I assume they have plenty of people that agree to it and don't shop around.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (sKqQm)
https://tinyurl.com/4bu6d7u6
McDonald’s Netherlands has managed to do the impossible: release a Christmas advertisement so bleak that even the Grinch might send them a sympathy card. Instead of delivering the feel-good warmth Americans once expected from holiday ads—yes, even from giant corporations—McDonald’s dropped a cold, AI-generated oddity described by viewers as nothing short of “terrible” and “joyless.”
This bizarre commercial, stitched together by a cocktail of algorithms and sleepless creatives, proudly reimagines the classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as—brace yourself—“the most terrible time of the year.” Because apparently, somewhere in the boardroom, someone decided that what families really crave during the holidays is a cynical rewrite of a beloved Christmas song.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (bvUs5)
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25s
BREAKING: Federal court upholds transgender military ban.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:16 PM (mlg/3)
Thinking that God put you in the wrong body should be immediate failure of any psychological evaluation and not even be allowed to own a gun.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Ya but they can help your biker gun run firearms.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (MGB5H)
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"Yeah...for MONEY!"
-socialist revolutionaries
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Cut those corners, the hell with patient health and safety at December 09, 2025 02:00 PM (TbWk/)
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Well there is a doctor shortage because the ACA chased a bunch of docs out, and there are only so many training seats available, just as the boomers start to really need doctors. So it is manufactured in that there is only so much clinical space available and its maxed out.
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Laying the predicate is an important step in executing. Every new CEO knows they, with rare exception, that he can't just go hogwild on day one. It's easier to identify the easy problems, build a consensus, and build momentum that give the organization the trust to allow wild changes.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)
Why didn't Trump just ignore the lower courts and shoot the district judges instead?
It's not like the new policy stayed in effect through the whole litigation and he won on merits in the end, anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Trump is moving faster than any other president aside from FDR who had overwhelming margins in Congress to aid him.
Reagan administration looks like a piker compared to Trump especially the pace of a second term.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (WDjG6)
You all understand that when quoted an hourly rate by a car or appliance dealership it's about 5 times what they're actually paying the guy who does the work.
Or girl. Or trans gender. Or monkey.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 02:17 PM (Y8DZL)
Never get work done at a dealership, they will charge you 2-3 times what an independent shop will charge. Find a reputable mechanic who owns his own operation, or you'll repeatedly get fucked over.
Posted by: Dealership is the WORST option at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (TbWk/)
>>Maybe this will sound crazy, but I think Tim Poo's paid security isnt doing a good job.
Uhmm, but for a 10 degree tilt of the head, we are in a far different timeline.
Body Security ain't what it used to be.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (bvUs5)
Wow........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)
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All true.
And there's a lot (A LOT) less bullshit from circuit and appellate courts now than there were 8 months ago.
SCOTUS has smacked down enough to quiet most of the lower courts. All that's really left is district court judges who are playing for promotions in a future Democrat administration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)
I was on Joint Base Lewis McChord yesterday (I will neither confirm or deny i was at the Class VI store) and saw an airman wearing a Space Force MMXIX patch. Pretty cool looking and yeah, right out of the Romulan Style book. All black and silver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (KQmzo)
Hugo Boss?
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
Dude, what you need to do is wear a powdered wig, and whenever you deport some alien - which I assume will be most of the time - you place a square of black silk on your head before pronouncing, "You are hereby sentenced to suffer deportation to Liberia, and may God have mercy on your soul".
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (2L+MU)
This bizarre commercial, stitched together by a cocktail of algorithms and sleepless creatives, proudly reimagines the classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year as—brace yourself—“the most terrible time of the year.” Because apparently, somewhere in the boardroom, someone decided that what families really crave during the holidays is a cynical rewrite of a beloved Christmas song.
Posted by: rickb223
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Know any famous Dutch comedians? No wonder that a Dutch ad firm botched the humor.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:22 PM (eEIbO)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (Dv3i1)
>>Never get work done at a dealership, they will charge you 2-3 times what an independent shop will charge. Find a reputable mechanic who owns his own operation, or you'll repeatedly get fucked over.
I do all of my own work on my cars, my wife will not let me work on her cars and her cars go to the Honda dealer for work, by and large, Honda does not gauge for service.
Is it more expensive for what I can do it for?
Yes, but it's not exorbitant.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)
Would be nice to see the GOP return the favor but they won't....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:24 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 02:11 PM (uWKK
*shifty eyes*
There's no way we'd love Flogging Molly's "Irish Drinking Song."
Posted by: pookysgirl of the Cathcart clan at December 09, 2025 02:24 PM (Wt5PA)
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Yes, and they still think its 1990-something where they can make these stupid "oh, what the heck--let the taxpayers pay for transgender surgery" backroom deals and that there is ZERO chance that us rubes will ever find out about it. They need to be blasted every single time they do these sellouts until the lesson is learned.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (TN0g+)
Is it more expensive for what I can do it for?
Yes, but it's not exorbitant.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Auto companies are moving to the John Deere model where the software and even tools are proprietary and expensive. Being sued for it as well under right to repair laws.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (eEIbO)
Is it because the people that go straight to the dealer are less likely to price shop vs people that find a local repairshop instead?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (sKqQm)
Like ICA, Irish Citizen Army?
Someone posted their manifesto video the other day here.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (uQzkA)
Things will change when The Blade starts as an immigration judge!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Trump admin just fired a bunch of judges the other day. Problem is that the local office's job ad for filling those judgeships probably has No US Citizens need apply just like above.
Posted by: whig a
Here's the link to apply
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Black JEM at December 09, 2025 02:20 PM (GZYu7)
The ACA has made it worse by accelerating a lot of physicians' retirements, but the physician shortage trend was predicted and noted by a number of reputable studies starting around the late 90s. This isn't a surprise by any stretch, and yet nothing was done to seriously address the issue.
Posted by: Another fuckup in a long list of fuckups at December 09, 2025 02:26 PM (TbWk/)
Like ICA, Irish Citizen Army?
Someone posted their manifesto video the other day here.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 02:25 PM (HXT0k)
I'm old enough to remember when U2 weren't such preening assholes, and actually made punkish music, singing the praises of the IRA.
If we can get back to that, I don't care what else they do.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:27 PM (dGCAG)
I expect 8-10 million over 4 years. With no replacement in-migration.
That makes, somewhere around 2-3 million rental units available in major cities over 4 years. About 500,000 per year. In 2025, an estimated 506,353 rental units are expected to be built nationwide in the U.S.
Hence, assuming we keep building, this will double the number of available rental units in major cities. DOUBLE.
Hence rnust rates must fall.
Step 2 is to get rid of short-term rentals - Ban air B&B and VRBO.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (C3IAS)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (EMg+d)
Lucky guess - they were hijacked by Marxists, as usual?
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (ciYHQ)
I am blown away by the Hourly Rates people are pulling these days.
In fact we did everything backwards.
More paperwork? Doctors love paperwork!
Make it impossible to run a local office by yourself or with a couple of your colleagues? Yes! Doctors love to work for globo-megacorps
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 02:28 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Black JEM
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Many states have certificate of need for key medical facility approval that keep competition down. Then, doctors often face debilitating corporate culture where they answer to corporate bosses (even if ngo) on measures like generating revenue by seeing the maximum number of patients, referrrals in system, drugs prescribed, etc.
And the tedious unpaid electronic medical records required by Obamacare that are driving docs batshit crazy in paperwork.
Whole health care system needs massive revision but the risk is the left and corporations wanting to shuck costs turn it into NHS USA. There you will die from neglect, malpractice, and delays in basic care. Plus have to pay out of pocket to see the moonlighting NHS docs at night privately because long delays to see them as NHS docs in daytime.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6)
That lifts a huge fraction of the liability costs from doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. It allows more lower trained people to supervise simple medical procedures. And nobody getting a free ride can turn around and sue anyone for poor care.
My daughter is a nurse and takes care of a lot of homeless people. She has been assaulted 1-2 times a year. Each time the perp - nothing happens. And if she fights back, they tell her she'll be fired, loose her license, and the hospital will be sued. How many docs are signing up for that bullshit?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 02:35 PM (C3IAS)
Lucky guess - they were hijacked by Marxists, as usual?
Posted by: Fen
IRA was different depending on which era--the original IRA, not commie, the provisional IRA revived during the N. Ireland Time of Troubles and definitely commie as is their Sinn Fein above ground party, and perhaps this new organization calling itself an old name made up of fed up Irishmen fighting a different enemy--Globohomo. So far, just some videos released, nothing more and speculation is going to be rife on who they are.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:37 PM (WDjG6)
Terrorism works.
Posted by: pawn
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Unless your enemy is Oliver Cromwell or William Tecumseh Sherman. Not so much then.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 02:39 PM (WDjG6)
Midterms are gonna be lit.
Posted by: GigantorX at December 09, 2025 03:15 PM (qEAvu)
That too has to stop. I know some people are addicted to these wars, and will lash out at anyone who suggests the U.S. of A. has no reason to be in Asia, in Southwest Asia, in Europe, or any other third world shitholes.
"American First" should mean American first. Not when we get done with all the rest of the world's problems.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 09, 2025 02:19 PM (dGCAG)
Agreed. But I just read the other day how the Dept. of War was looking at drawing down forces in Europe and S. Korea, maybe even letting some other NATO country have the Supreme Commander gig in Europe, and the new Defense bill nipped that all in the bud. Legislatively codified mandatory World Empire force structure.
It isn't enough to pick the right President. It's necessary, but we also need to get more involved in Congressional races. It is actually perfectly legal to support principled challengers looking to replace hacks in other parts of the country; in fact, that's a big part of how lefty activists use ActBlue in practice, albeit using their power for evil. We could do it too (but for good).
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Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8)
Jasmine Ratchet Makes It Official: She's Running to Win the Primary to Lose the Election for Texas Senator
Remember the Atlantic's profile of her, revealing her to be an absolutely self-obsessed narcissist? That the lock screen of her phone shows a glamor shot of her smiling chubby face?
Her video announcement for her candidacy also focuses on her self-believed beauty. Oh, and Trump knocking her as "low IQ," which she says proves the GOP is terrified of her charisma and power. It's a variation of the Rush Limbaugh chestnut "They'll tell you who they fear," which I never believed, and I sure don't believe it as regards Jasmine Ratchet.Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough pic.twitter.com/VthTb93kur
— Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) December 8, 2025
JUST IN: Jasmine Crockett starts crying during her announcement that she is running for the United States Senate.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 8, 2025
"I just want to be clear that this was never my intention. This was never about me. I never put myself into any of the polls."
"Listen, my question was, which… pic.twitter.com/lizXT3EKpK
Jasmine Crockett kicks off TX Senate bid: “There are those that say ain’t no way, we done tried it 50 times already. Let me be clear, y’all ain’t never tried it the JC way!" pic.twitter.com/XADIiCuVCW
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 9, 2025
"Charlie Kirk continuously put out, there was rhetoric that specifically targeted people of color." Even after Charlie Kirk's assassination, she told her fellow lunatic Democrats and antifa furries: "Pick up a weapon, we're at war!" "Just because someone has committed a crime, doesn't make them a criminal." "Folks who also took money from someone named Jeffrey Epstein..." Jasmine Ratchet read an article that she says was "so funny" that whites are dying out due to not having babies at or above the replacement rate. White people are an obsession for this race-baiter. Here, she shares the non-fact that whites commit 80% of the violent crime in America. Flashback: It turns out this low-IQ narcissist is nasty to her staff. "The insiders say that Crockett cares about being an influencer than working for her constituents."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 09, 2025 12:17 PM (Vpqw1)
Posted by: doug at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Hy+R4)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)
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Is it 2012 again, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
It's all performance art for the left.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (1wjle)
When she was asked about quantum mechanics, she didn't understand why enumerating auto service personnel would be more difficult than any other kind of person.
OK, it's a reach.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (iFTx/)
My 2d time this week! It's not only technique, it's tenacity! How bad do you want to be First (interrobang)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (Vpqw1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (L/fGl)
Tangential:
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
In TX, it's more than 10% decline.
I'm sure this will help Democrats somehow because all is lost all the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: EveR at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Wxfe5)
Posted by: pookysgirl is not sure about the deja vu at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: ace
I don't think she's unattractive at all, once she ditches the false eyelashes.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (77rzZ)
Since when does that stop us?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (1wjle)
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I was just thinking my face is getting itchy just looking at her.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Captain Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (qUkBO)
Crockett cries when she gets in, Pat Schroeder cried when she didn't. Stable folks
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (D+mpw)
Like tears in rain...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (Riz8t)
I love you, Texas 30."
Welp, there you go, Ol' Crocky is, at least, smart enough to say she hates Texas and country music and BBQ and Buckies and the Cowboys, etc.
So, she's already got a leg up on Hateful Blonde Kamala over on the East Coast.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:21 PM (1wjle)
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"Fuck you, racist. She's forced to do this because of white supremacy!"
-- Moochelle Obama
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:23 PM (iFTx/)
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Posted by: EveR at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (Wxfe5)
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I bet she'll win as much of a percentage of the vote as Allred did in 2024.
Less than 45%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: That guy who thinks people seem nice at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (n1JwJ)
Since when does that stop us?
Posted by: Archimedes
If a thing is worth saying, it's worth beating like a dead horse.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)
It *is* true a fair amount of the time, but never in the case where someone claims it about themselves. All the Democrats shrieking that they're Trump's biggest enemy are self-disqualifying.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (2ocoG)
She's going to make a ton grifting off of this and otherwise, she's being gerrymandered out of her safe district.
She's not really low IQ. She's a grifter pretending to be low IQ because that's how to play to Democrat voters.
She went to a private school and does not talk like her public persona. It's all an act.
That's why she's latching onto Trump's attack. She knows it helps her grifting her intended victims. (ACTUAL low IQ leftists.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (5yDGQ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (1zOXE)
Welp, there you go, Ol' Crocky is, at least, smart enough NOT to say she hates Texas and country music and BBQ and Buckies and the Cowboys, etc.
Stupid brain.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (8h04I)
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (Da7Vv)
Of $hit.
Posted by: Czech Chick at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (8CIFn)
In it for the fame and grift. But mostly the grift.
Posted by: Speedy Gonzales at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (FGMmt)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
Of the 8th Circle of Hell LeVeys?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)
It is really really cold here. Trying to find excuses to stay indoors so hee I am.
Colin Allred dropped out the day before to run for a newly redistricted area. Democrats knowing they will not win the Senste seat and hoping to hold onto the Rep seat that Jasmine would have certainly lost. Although Crockett loses, hr candidacy complicates the Republican primary.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (XFXIk)
You gotta realize that up until now her constituents have been primarily ho's, pimps, dealers, and welfare queens.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Ace at 12:18 PM
Right. Because it's all a grift.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM
Rule #1, gentlemen...Rule #1.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (kgE5c)
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1jqCC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (bss/y)
Is that what you were saying?
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Dave at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (kgE5c)
Her 'What Would Jasmine Do' bracelets will be all the rage when they hit her merch store.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (WIhZk)
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)
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And yet...Crockett is going to raise $50 million, at least, because she's a star who fights, or whatever.
All while Roy Cooper, who could use that money a lot more, gets squeezed out of private donations because he's boring, old, white, and male.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
She's an actress just like AOC. She's just there to scoop up dollars.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM
Rule #1, gentlemen...Rule #1.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (kgE5c)
Really? She's a strip mall 2.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Commander Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (qUkBO)
Her "NO TAXES, REPARATIONS" platform guarantees a Democrat primary win, unless a "Kill the White People" candidate emerges.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (Y8DZL)
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I actually think she's legit low IQ. Like if you tested her, it would be clear
The way has been paved as a DEI baby and that breeds intellectual laziness when everything is handed to you.
Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (eIzlH)
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It's why Jazzy can't swim?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)
Only the Bush family and their instate allies want to stick with Cornyn. Everyone else in Texas is sick to death of him.
I like Paxton, but from what I've seen I could be happy with Hunt. He's just a bit of an unknown; army veteran with good record, black, 44 years old.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Lex at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (l5xX+)
Posted by: Bosk at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: Commander Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (qUkBO)
Heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (1PnA+)
Performative bullshit to manipulate the sheep-stupid audience. And since when does "stronk independent boss bitch" include struggling to hold back tears and fanning yourself like a Miss America pageant winner?
Posted by: From absurd to ludicrous to plaid at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM
Rule #1, gentlemen...Rule #1.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:27 PM (kgE5c)
Really? She's a strip mall 2.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM
Another reason that Rule #1 is important.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Henrietta Houston at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Sassy Qween at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (GD2xa)
I like Paxton but the left keeps calling him a "homewrecker." I guess they're saying he has an infidelity problem. I never looked into it.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Henrietta Houston at December 09, 2025 12:31 PM (qUkBO)
*types* *deletes*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: ace
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sad!
I get GOP voters going with a squish if they think the Democrats can win the general election, but if TX keeps sending Ted Cruz back, I'd feel pretty comfortable kicking out a repeated John McCain type Republican.
Didn't Cornyn spearhead the juneteenth federal holiday?
Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (eIzlH)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (XFXIk)
I covered a bit of that yesterday but I guess she made more news. I'll look for it. Thanks.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (1wjle)
Less than 45%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
Jazzy is in, Allred dropped out. In polling so far, Cornyn is losing the primary convincingly to Paxton. Allred polled behind Cornyn but even with Paxton. I don’t believe Jasmine can do as well as Allred. For all that he’s a leftist democrat, Allred is at least a serious candidate. Crockett is a clown show on wheels. I cannot imagine her on a debate stage for US Senate.
Posted by: Advo at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (77rzZ)
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IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE SHE’S WEARING SPIDERS ON HER EYES!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (XFXIk)
Can they outvote the Democrats crossing over to support Cornyn?
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Lex
She's Crockett and Tubbs.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (WIhZk)
You might want to wait until the SC gets done roasting Marc Elias. It does not appear to be going well for Mr. Steele dossier.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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I think it is going to be proven soon that most of those low IQ leftists are actually Smurfed foreign and whale donor money that is attributed to individuals. ACT Blue is a scam. Some in the GOP may not have much enthusiasm investigating because WinRed platform may not be immune to smurfing either.
Dems, however, have been enthusiastically seeking illegal foreign donations since the Obama era turned off checking for country of the donor for credit card or gift card donations.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: David French at December 09, 2025 12:34 PM (R+nQW)
Jazzy is in, Allred dropped out. In polling so far, Cornyn is losing the primary convincingly to Paxton. Allred polled behind Cornyn but even with Paxton. I don’t believe Jasmine can do as well as Allred. For all that he’s a leftist democrat, Allred is at least a serious candidate. Crockett is a clown show on wheels. I cannot imagine her on a debate stage for US Senate.
Posted by: Advo at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (jO4mz)
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I was, just for clarity, talking about the general election result.
And yeah...except...she'll probably just end up performing like a generic Democrat.
It'll be some balance between engaged black voters and hardening of Hispanics into Republicans that just leaves her at recent historical levels.
It will be a very expensive way to get the status quo.
But, hey, not my money. I just need to file to start a Super PAC called TX Progressives for Black Justice, or something, to scoop up a few hundred thousand dollars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)
Just like that retard, Timmah Walz.
https://youtu.be/b-Sgzx7CAj8
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (1wjle)
His wife is a state Judge. Big ugly break up this year because she was too busy to do the nasty anymore so Paxton moved in with this good looking 57 year old widow woman with 7 kids. She apparently worships the ground he walks on, unlike the State Judge he was married to.
Probably the bad part was that he wanted to stay married to the Judge and get her to say it was ok if he just lived with his girlfriend.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (uWKK8)
yes... I heard Halperin saying that. He still thinks the GOP would rather stick with Cornyn.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)
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And yet...Crockett is going to raise $50 million, at least, because she's a star who fights, or whatever.
All while Roy Cooper, who could use that money a lot more, gets squeezed out of private donations because he's boring, old, white, and male.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
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She will raise a ton of money because Democraps are idiots, and certainly a lot of Hollywood-type money will flow in (as they would to any notable Democrap).
But putting aside her intelligence and political savvy -- I think she's smarter and more savvy than most people here give her credit for -- her pathologically narcissistic shtick and abrasive attitude will turn off most people outside her district.
Which is why -- TADA! -- she launched that "low IQ" ad which I think is the beginning of a major remake. We'll see if it works.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
The way has been paved as a DEI baby and that breeds intellectual laziness when everything is handed to you.
Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:30 P
She is not stupid that is an act for her constituents in the hood. She completed law school at the university of houston and passed the bar on her first try and became a public defender in Houston.
You ain't a dummy passing the bar exam on your first try. Less than 50% pass on their first go around.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)
Smurf those smurfing smurfersmurfers right up their smurfing smurfs!
Posted by: Smurf you, you smurfing smurfer at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (TbWk/)
The way has been paved as a DEI baby and that breeds intellectual laziness when everything is handed to you.
Posted by: Leupold at December 09, 2025 12:30 PM (eIzlH)
She might actually be low-IQ, but her actions suggest she's at least capable enough to understand she'll lose her next election for representative, so she needs to swing for the fences to get the deep pockets like Beto O'Rourke did running for Senate.
It's possible that it all is just coincidence, but her choices suggest she's pretty shrewd.
A terrible person and immoral of course, but that's what happens when you have degraded the shared culture and do everything you can to destroy the influence of Christianity on Western morals.
It's of a type with the Somali grifters. She's just smart enough to do it legally. The musselmen don't really care about legality. (Being the rules of infidels have no bearing on one of the true believers of Mohammed, piss be upon him.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)
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So, the whole result is that a Democrat leaning district ends up Democrat?
Wow. So savvy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
ah. Spousal abandonment.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rJ48h)
Well, yes.
It's a low bar, but I think AOC is more of a True Believer.
Hell, David Hogg might be more courageous and less of a grifter.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (bss/y)
Ignoring the people with a government retirement count playing as white supremacists their are not enough white supremacists to cause 80% of the crime in the US...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Rick Wilson and other pedophile enablers at the Lincoln Project at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (1wjle)
Close, but there's a nuance. According to former classmates, she's pretending to be a ghetto black when she actually speaks the Queen's English. No word either way on her IQ - she honestly gives us nothing to actually judge that on given she's "in character" all the time.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (2ocoG)
2026 Senate Campaign Grift: Just started.
2028 Presidential Campaign Grift: On deck.
Posted by: The JC Way! at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (qUkBO)
ah. Spousal abandonment.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle)
By whom though? Arguably cutting off the snizz supply should be considered abandonment.
Posted by: Not in the Somali way at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (TbWk/)
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)
Probably the bad part was that he wanted to stay married to the Judge and get her to say it was ok if he just lived with his girlfriend.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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She is a state senator District 8, not judge. Remembered that because she was not allowed by TX Senate leaders to vote on her husband's impeachment.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Not in the Somali way at December 09, 2025 12:38 PM (TbWk/)
Yeah. Renewal of physical intimacy is important or else all you are anymore is roommates.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: D. Crockett at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rJ48h)
Just like that brotherf**ker from Somalia...she started out with a net worth of a few $100K, now is worth tens of millions...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (g47mK)
That's what I meant. Women don't want to hear this but wives have the right to demand their husbands remain sexually faithful, but they don't have the right to demand they remain celibate. The contract for faithfulness imposes burdens on the husband but also upon the wife. If either party renegs on the contract, well.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Yeah, that is like a reverse French. Hard to see why that didn't work. /s
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Excuse Me!!! at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (oftw2)
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)
Shift just a bit and you can pray to Jerusalem, Big Potato...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (5imIC)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (3uBP9)
Knowing that it exists is not necessarily a good thing.
But here I shall remain because, well....
I love this place!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: David French at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (t/2Uw)
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)
Shift just a bit and you can pray to Jerusalem, Big Potato...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Let's not qibla about it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM (5rh/l)
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Her losing next year is going to supercharge the effort to short circuit Kamala's campaign.
Newsom is going to raise just so much money.
And he's still going to lose to her by 30, at least, in SC.
The Democrat primary could be both very ugly and over very quickly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
I try to look at the front page (ace.mu.nu) and after I refresh, suddenly the whole thing is an ad, with no actual Ace of Spades content visible.
I absolutely hate when things take over like that. Please fix this. Whatever income you get from having your site completely taken over isn't worth it.
I usually browse with a full-screen window so my entire computer screen is taken over with an ad. I really, really hate this.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (LNPSJ)
i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)
Talarico is great: a democrat doing proper Christian messaging is very powerful. It’s desperately necessary because 65% of the country is Christian, and ignoring them is how we’ve gotten four decades of conservatives owning a monopoly on religious thought and influence.
I think of Talarico as Texas's Warnock. Texas is too racist and sexist to allow a black woman to win a statewide race, which is why she's who the NRSC wants to run against. Talarico's General Election favorables are at +30 while Crockett's are at -8.
the DNC's job is to cripple the campaign of any grassroots candidate who is outside the status quo. Even if it means losing the seat. Talarico was easily the best chance to win in Texas in 30 years and they fucking blew it
This is a good thing. Contrary to popular opinion, dems need robust primaries.
She has no chance of winning a Senate seat and will only damage support for the better candidate, Talarico. She's literally only doing this to raise her profile for a Presidential run.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94)
Close, but there's a nuance. According to former classmates, she's pretending to be a ghetto black when she actually speaks the Queen's English. No word either way on her IQ - she honestly gives us nothing to actually judge that on given she's "in character" all the time.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Without regard for her motives, self-awareness, or intellect the product is the same. Vapid, and vacuous.
Two words come to mind , 'vapid', and, 'vacuous'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (77rzZ)
Is it possible that your computer is infected?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (1wjle)
i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:43 PM (1wjle)
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All he has is name recognition, and it's not very high name recognition.
Also, the name is a joke to like 95% of the populace.
I suspect it'll flame out faster than Walz.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (WDjG6)
That's right. I been reading mainstream news too much. There's an even more tawdry angle, in that they have both long been heavily involved with a couple of Texas Baptist Megachurches, and both are graduates of Baylor University.
Looked it up, Angela Paxton was the Texas Senate Majority leader this last session. So it's a very public, very high profile breakup.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (MGB5H)
Two words come to mind , 'vapid', and, 'vacuous'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Great , now I'm repeating myself.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (XeU6L)
That's what I meant. Women don't want to hear this but wives have the right to demand their husbands remain sexually faithful, but they don't have the right to demand they remain celibate. The contract for faithfulness imposes burdens on the husband but also upon the wife. If either party renegs on the contract, well.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle)
Ah, OK thanks for clarifying. I agree and I think that's a very good way to articulate it. The first five verses of I Corinthians 7 address this very issue, but it goes blithely ignored by the modern church.
Posted by: Paul had some good ideas at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94)
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"Yes, Mary could have aborted Jesus."
-proper Christianity to the left
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (U6Usv)
The overall pass rate for the July 2025 Texas Bar Exam is 75%, with a first-time taker pass rate of 84% and a repeater pass rate of 36%.
Passage is more related to whether a) your law school prepared you properly (often that means attending a school in state rather than national law school) and b) whether you spend the moolah for the expensive post law school Barbri review (or its competitors like Themis, Kaplan, etc.) courses for the bar and the off time to absorb the lessons.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)
doesn't he follow a lot of porn stars and OnlyFans e-whores?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace
And Walz DOES have charisma???
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: mr tmz
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donating fools and their money are soon parted
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T)
> Is it possible that your computer is infected?
No, it is not. I'm running Linux, and it's only Ace of Spades HQ that has this problem.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (LNPSJ)
And I’m a sap for paying up when illegals drive around without tabs, or insurance or a license.
Enraging.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (W2Pud)
doesn't he follow a lot of porn stars and OnlyFans e-whores?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle)
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On the Joe Rogan show he said that Mary could have aborted Jesus.
I'm sure he would have done great with Hispanics in Texas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
Looked it up, Angela Paxton was the Texas Senate Majority leader this last session. So it's a very public, very high profile breakup.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Easy enough nowadays to be misinformed by the media by its shoddy stories even when they are not deliberately trying to lie to readers/viewers.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (WDjG6)
The overall pass rate for the July 2025 Texas Bar Exam is 75%, with a first-time taker pass rate of 84% and a repeater pass rate of 36%.
Passage is more related to whether a) your law school prepared you properly (often that means attending a school in state rather than national law school) and b) whether you spend the moolah for the expensive post law school Barbri review (or its competitors like Themis, Kaplan, etc.) courses for the bar and the off time to absorb the lessons.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (WDjG6)
Mostly the BarBri or similar courses. Law school generally doesn't prepare you for taking the exam. Or for practicing law really, for that matter.
Posted by: Another grift in academe at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (5imIC)
Posted by: mr_jack
What browser are you even using? Brave doesn't have that. Firefox with moderate addons doesn't either.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:42 PM
Doing cable tv hits from the resort's luxury suite via Zoom.
Posted by: Indy at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December
Allred is black.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (MGB5H)
IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE SHE’S WEARING SPIDERS ON HER EYES!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER
Jazzy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: ace
And Walz DOES have charisma???
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)
Like Michael Jackson with boys?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (ynpvh)
That's what I meant. Women don't want to hear this but wives have the right to demand their husbands remain sexually faithful, but they don't have the right to demand they remain celibate. The contract for faithfulness imposes burdens on the husband but also upon the wife. If either party renegs on the contract, well.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:40 PM (1wjle)
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"Loss of carnal knowledge" was once a legitimate legal ground for divorce before no-fault took over. It was quite common too. So if a wife (or less commonly, a husband) withheld sex, that was legal grounds for divorce.
Even now, the no-fault standard of "irreconcilable differences" usually includes a component of "my wife [or husband] doesn't fuck me any more."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/)
i heard that he had decided to but I don't think he'll be a strong candidate. He's got the charisma of a brussel sprout.
Posted by: ace
.......
don't forget to use your promo code
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (v0R5T)
No sane person in Texas would vote for that.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (XFXIk)
Posted by: It's been going on a while too at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (TbWk/)
@MarioNawfal
VIRGINIA TECH UNVEILS BREAKTHROUGH CHIP THAT LETS SOUND MOVE MATTER
Scientists at Virginia Tech have created something straight out of science fiction... a chip that uses sound waves to move and shape objects as if they had invisible hands.
The new acoustic metamaterial chip can bend, twist, and overlap sound waves to grab and control tiny particles with stunning precision.....
[video]
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Video looks like all marketing, no details, but the subject is interesting.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: p-squared at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (0prFs)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jay in Pa at December 09, 2025 12:48 PM
Colin Allred is one of the darker white guys, like Brian Cole Jr.
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (D+mpw)
The big fake eyelash thing goes well with the big clunky eyeglasses and nose ring for today's stylish pronouners.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: NCKate
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You say that as if the Church should rely on Scripture, rather than warm, fuzzy feelings.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (XeU6L)
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Even now, the no-fault standard of "irreconcilable differences" usually includes a component of "my wife [or husband] doesn't fuck me any more."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/)
Except in the courtroom...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh)
This is a good thing. Contrary to popular opinion, dems need robust primaries.
She has no chance of winning a Senate seat and will only damage support for the better candidate, Talarico. She's literally only doing this to raise her profile for a Presidential run.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94)
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Hell hath frozen over! I agree with DU on this.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:46 PM (1wjle)
Yep. Not to mention that the Texas Dem Primary, unlike the general election, will be majority Black and Hispanic voters, and not a single one of them will vote for Talarico.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (uWKK8)
> What browser are you even using?
Firefox with out-of-the-box defaults. I'm not running an ad blocker because I figured the site should get the ad revenue.
Full-screen Viagra ads will change that right quick. If this doesn't get fixed, I'll definitely block all the ads.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (LNPSJ)
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You know who else liked Brussels and had charisma.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: mr_jack
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Use Brave browser. No problems there. Since browers are 'free', I download multiple ones and use the ones that work best on individual websites.
YMMV
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM
We do have our democrats, mostly city folk.
Posted by: huerfano at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (98kQX)
And I’m a sap for paying up when illegals drive around without tabs, or insurance or a license.
Enraging.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (W2Pud)
If you get pulled over without them you go to jail. Jose is let go.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (1PnA+)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (uQzkA)
I'd say it's more like watching a clown at the circus and commenting "boy that clown is sure acting stupid." They get a lot of attention, but for all the wrong reasons.
She's a complete clown.
And what is with these black women, who have such elevated opinions of themselves? Like juiced white Karens. They don't want to speak to the manager, they think they ARE the manager.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (C3IAS)
And I’m a sap for paying up when illegals drive around without tabs, or insurance or a license.
Enraging.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:47 PM (W2Pud)
If you get pulled over without them you go to jail. Jose is let go.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:52 PM (9iyS+)
An anarchotyranny, if you can keep it.
Posted by: Things Franklin never said at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (TbWk/)
This just tells me that the cheat is going to be BIG in Texas next go-round in November if she's convinced she needs to leave the House for the Senate.
Makes me nervous.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (5bGGs)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:50 PM (XFXIk)
which means he's got the University professors, the gays, and the trannies locked down. But that's all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94)
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Hell hath frozen over! I agree with DU on this.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)
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Well, Reddit.
Reddit allows apostates to leftism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald "
She is faking authenticity very convincingly.
Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (GUOwU)
> What browser are you even using?
Firefox with out-of-the-box defaults. I'm not running an ad blocker because I figured the site should get the ad revenue.
Full-screen Viagra ads will change that right quick. If this doesn't get fixed, I'll definitely block all the ads.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 09, 2025 12:51 PM (LNPSJ)
I've never tried this, but istr some other Moron having recommended it:
https://adnauseam.io/
"clicking ads so you don't have to"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:54 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Miley
As long as your last name's not "McWinemom," you're good.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:54 PM (77rzZ)
VIRGINIA TECH UNVEILS BREAKTHROUGH CHIP THAT LETS SOUND MOVE MATTER
Scientists at Virginia Tech have created something straight out of science fiction... a chip that uses sound waves to move and shape objects as if they had invisible hands.
The new acoustic metamaterial chip can bend, twist, and overlap sound waves to grab and control tiny particles with stunning precision.....
.......
finally we can build more pyramids
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 12:55 PM (v0R5T)
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (MGB5H)
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The Blade applied!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:55 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:54 PM (D+mpw)
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In order for fake Christians to gain followings, they have to say vaguely Christian things.
If it always amounts to, "You have to let in all illegals, all abortions, and pay for all the welfare, and who the fuck is Jesus?" then it's not really gonna work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:55 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM (Vq1pX)
https://tinyurl.com/4rwpvhpk
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:45 PM (MGB5H)
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The Blade applied!
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Nice. I'll bet you could throw out 1000 a day.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM (MGB5H)
This just tells me that the cheat is going to be BIG in Texas next go-round in November if she's convinced she needs to leave the House for the Senate.
Makes me nervous.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (5bGGs)
She's getting redistricted out of her house seat. Allred I believe is going to run for a new Dallas area district in exchange for dropping out of the Senate race, and he's from there and is fairly popular locally. So he's got a good chance of winning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM (uWKK8)
Pope Now Recommending Christians Pray The Rosary While Facing Mecca
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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)
I'll do one better. I pee towards mecca. Its actually a running joke around here. If I have friends over and we're in the garage they just run outside because it dark and actually closer than the bathroom. At first they would ask, "Hey I can just pee outside right"? I would say yeah, and I'll point and say "that way, towards mecca." lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (snZF9)
She also went to some high end prep school.
It’s all an act. But it plays well for the left.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Can't keep an incarnated deity down for long! at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Smart man. Dunno what it is costing nowadays but former students of mine mentioned something like an arm and a leg.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Nice. I'll bet you could throw out 1000 a day.
Posted by: BruceWayne
Just the guys and the ugly chicks, though.
Those of weather-babe caliber, however...
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (XFXIk)
Your Grace, you make have that unfortunate first name, but not all the baggage that comes with Karen.
I shan't believe you act like a Karen.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
Nice. I'll bet you could throw out 1000 a day.
Posted by: BruceWayne
Just the guys and the ugly chicks, though.
Those of weather-babe caliber, however...
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (77rzZ)
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[Insert side-eye monkey meme]
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (vbXSk)
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Her only competition in the primary is a 4 foot tall, white, male, preacher.
People keep thinking that black women and AWFLs don't control the primary process in the Democrat Party, for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
She's getting redistricted out of her house seat. Allred I believe is going to run for a new Dallas area district in exchange for dropping out of the Senate race, and he's from there and is fairly popular locally. So he's got a good chance of winning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:56 PM
She could run for the House seat that replaced hers, of course, but since Allred dropped out and she thinks she's got a shot, there's going to be a real effort to steal the seat. A REAL effort.
Makes me nervous.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (5bGGs)
She also went to some high end prep school.
It’s all an act. But it plays well for the left.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 12:57 PM (9iyS+)
For being so progressive and enlightened the left sure does love its vulgar racist stereotypes.
Posted by: Democrats. What can you do. at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:59 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (ZxPkt)
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Beto losing to "unpopular" Cruz in 2018, what will definitely be a more Democrat leaning year than 2026, and that's not even considering the fact that TX has moved hard right, mostly because of Biden's border policies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 12:58 PM (ZxPkt)
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Beto losing to "unpopular" Cruz in 2018, what will definitely be a more Democrat leaning year than 2026, and that's not even considering the fact that TX has moved hard right, mostly because of Biden's border policies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
How has Texas' cleaning the rolls and verifying voters going?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (ZxPkt)
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They likely don't. Its probably a white guy with an actual understanding of effective grifting that controls these processes. You don't actually believe Kamala knew how to raise and blow through all of that money do you?
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+)
Holy shit - Jasmine Fetchit
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (U6Usv)
Menstrual Show?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (wBaIH)
Where have you gone
Robert Francis O'Rourke?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Woo woo woo!
Posted by: The three rational Democrats left in the United States at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (ynpvh)
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Trump won TX by 14 last year?
More than how much he won Ohio?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+)
With the other intellectual giants...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+)
I think Kamala is quite good at raising and blowing things.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+)
Gonna have to reinforce that stage.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (8CIFn)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (wBaIH)
Her "NO TAXES, REPARATIONS" platform guarantees a Democrat primary win, unless a "Kill the White People" candidate emerges.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 12:29 PM (Y8DZL)
The movie Black Sheep was ahead of it’s time, eh?
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (mEYGy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (0N4FZ)
My father in law was a Louisiana bar examiner who said any law school grad could pass if they could write in complete sentences.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (GD2xa)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at December 09, 2025 01:01 PM (1PnA+)
With the other intellectual giants...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (ynpvh)
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Crockett as VP to Kamala, bruh.
Prepare to see the true power of this fully armed and operational black woman ticket.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:00 PM (ynpvh)
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Trump won TX by 14 last year?
More than how much he won Ohio?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO)
Yeah, but Dallas and Houston are hives of scum and villainy, and being so close to Me-hi-co, you gotta know tons of "unqualified" voters are still voting. Dems tend to win the zombie vote.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 01:04 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December
I got dibs on top bunk!
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:04 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 01:05 PM (Vq1pX)
Oh, right, you have to be AUTHENTICALLY black, which means to Democrats you speak ebonics and have an abortion every six months.
Posted by: The_Hoser at December 09, 2025 01:05 PM (H4qGm)
Reddit allows apostates to leftism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Yes, Reddit has more extreme Lefties willing to shit on the moderately insane Lefties for being insufficiently insane.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 09, 2025 01:05 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 09, 2025 01:06 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (5aZAZ)
She would fail the pencil skirt test and fail miserably. Pass, pass, pass.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:06 PM (rQwsY)
wow ... (and I meant in the general)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 01:07 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Hmmm. It is the future you see.
Posted by: Yoda at December 09, 2025 01:07 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2025 12:28 PM (1wjle)
Establishment GOP, yes.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (rQwsY)
wow ... (and I meant in the general)
Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2025 01:07 PM (vbXSk)
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Maybe he can barnstorm churches in Texas, begging them to vote in the Democrat primary instead of the Republican primary because while Paxton has sex with a woman who's not his wife, Talasco just follows them on OnlyFans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: imp at December 09, 2025 01:08 PM (g6TN6)
Posted by: ..."
"How did you overcome so much racism and hate to become such an incredibly successful and beloved public servant"
isn't a difficult question?
Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 01:09 PM (GUOwU)
But Jasmine has been studying those black preacher moves since the day she was born, and she's good at it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:09 PM (uWKK8)
DJ Jazzy is 48% to win the primary with Talarico at 52%.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (9iyS+)
She would fail the pencil skirt test and fail miserably. Pass, pass, pass.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:06 PM (rQwsY)
Oh that is so white, you don't get it at all! It's all about that Boo-TAY!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 09, 2025 12:33 PM (GD2xa)
People are sick of Cornyn. I say yes.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: MJ at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (XOmY9)
Posted by: fd
>Al Sharpton was a sex machine. Are you telling me Crockett is a cockbot like Kamala Harris?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: MJ at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (XOmY9)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Ea at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (GFstI)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM
Who's The Daddy now?
Posted by: Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (TN0g+)
DJ Jazzy is 48% to win the primary with Talarico at 52%.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 01:10 PM (9iyS+)
Talarico at 52% ROFL! What did he do, poll the membership of the local Gay Pride rally?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: The_Hoser
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Plus, keep a bottle of hot sauce in your purse.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (XeU6L)
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Gotta keep reality out of the classroom!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (L/fGl)
Why does a woman who graduated from Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School speak like she's a streetcorner ho?
Oh, right, you have to be AUTHENTICALLY black, which means to Democrats you speak ebonics and have an abortion every six months.
Posted by: The_Hoser
"Black" is the opposite of every traditional sociocultural value in the Western World, doncha know? Prompt, clean, articulate, responsible, competent, attractive, rational, logical, perfectionist, intelligent--black is the opposite. At least that's what the Smithsonian tells us!
Posted by: imp at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 01:03 PM (wBaIH)
Whoa.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (U6Usv)
Probably the bad part was that he wanted to stay married to the Judge and get her to say it was ok if he just lived with his girlfriend.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:35 PM (uWKK
Angela Paxton is a State Senator.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM (uWKK
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People who bet on political races this far out are heavily overrepresented with white, male, progressives who think Bashear has a real shot at winning the 2028 nomination.
They bet their preferences, at best. It's either that, or they're just...really bad at reading their own party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 09, 2025 01:13 PM (Kt19C)
For his own good, I wish he'd stop
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1)
...we done tried it 50 times already. Let me be clear, y’all ain’t never tried it the JC way!"
How about you try doing it in a manner in which you do not sound like an ignorant and low born piece of ghetto trash ... rich girl
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Ea at December 09, 2025 01:11 PM (GFstI)
Sure that's the same Hunt? Wes Hunt is from Houston and has been a North Houston Congressman since 2022.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM
Doesn't everyone do that?
Posted by: Hillary at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (kgE5c)
Plus, keep a bottle of hot sauce in your purse.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
I'm authentically black, not because of the hot sauce in my purse, but because of my big beautiful boooo-taaayyy!!!
Cacklecacklecacklecakcle!
Posted by: Hillary! at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (Dv3i1)
If people are turned off by personal attacks why aren't they turned off by Democrats? I mean the only thing Democrats do these days is insult and degrade people.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (YlWIZ)
I had a SIL named Karen who we were out to dinner with 10 years ago when she went off on the 16 year old hostess of the restaurant about their use of plastic straws. It was before the "Karen" term but you can't convince me she wasn't the reason it started.
Posted by: Auspex at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: The_Hoser
N-n-now hold on a cotton pickin' minute, Jack, 'cause that ain't true at all. Look at the Barak Obrama fellow...he's articulate, bright, and doesn't have any negro dialect!
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: imp at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (g6TN6)
For his own good, I wish he'd stop
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1)
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AT this rate, he'll never become president.
Also, you'd be surprised how little congressional investigations actually stop. Like...they stop nothing.
"Oh criminal activity. Refer to the DOJ!" The DOJ that reports to Trump.
It's the same hope that people had for 2010 and the GOP stopping Obama. It didn't stop Obama. In fact, it just emboldened Obama to go more brazen with his abuse of power because Congress would never actually use their power of the purse to stop spending.
And no, Democrats are not going to vote to stop spending in any real terms. Besides, ICE is funded through 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (GvesS)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:15 PM (U6Usv)
Because that's always been a lie. People love personal attacks, unless they're the one being attacked.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:17 PM (uWKK8)
I bet Crockashit believes she shits gold bars.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:17 PM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (ZxPkt)
-totally was gonna vote for Republicans
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (uQzkA)
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Being a Republican. Not much else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2025 01:16 PM (GvesS)
What's happened in previous Texas elections when there's a loud and proud Black Candidate in the Dem Primary, all the Black Dems show up and vote for them, and all the Hispanic Dem voters stay home in both the primary and the general.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (zPdQ1)
What's happened in previous Texas elections when there's a loud and proud Black Candidate in the Dem Primary, all the Black Dems show up and vote for them, and all the Hispanic Dem voters stay home in both the primary and the general.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (uWKK
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A few cycles of this, and you've got learned behavior.
GOP leaning Hispanics keep voting. Dem leaning Hispanics learn to stay home.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
Not if they don't bring it to the floor. Which is what Schumer did with that goblin Mayorkas.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Tom Servo
The guy he's talking about sounds like a douche. Probably Mike Hunt.
Posted by: Confused Moron at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (zPdQ1)
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They tie up the Senate for a week as Thune quickly goes through the motions and then calls for an up or down vote that goes party line, falling at least 15 votes shy of conviction.
At which point the Senate can go back to doing whatever it is that they do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
This is why so many red state seats have Dem challengers.
Want to see conservatives run in blue areas? Then you've got to implement something for those candidates when they lose as well...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 01:20 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Ea at December 09, 2025 01:21 PM (GFstI)
Posted by: NCKate
Not advocating for the total annihilation of Israel?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 09, 2025 01:21 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (rZCVI)
·
1h
The RNC and DNC pipe bomb suspect allegedly had an online obsession with My Little Pony, a series also popular with many adult trans people.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (pkeXY)
Firefox with out-of-the-box defaults. I'm not running an ad blocker because I figured the site should get the ad revenue.
I mean, I get it. But I realized more than a decade ago that ad servers don't vet what they put out. At all. We're just lucky fewer ads serve up malware these days. So I block it all, because I have to. I don't have a better solution. Capitalism covers economics, not morality, after all.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: NCKate"
Civility and calm, persuasive arguments. Ask Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: Ripley at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (GUOwU)
Makes me nervous.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 09, 2025 12:53 PM (5bGGs)
The cheat is not impossible in TX but it IS harder. Voter ID is a thing here.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (rQwsY)
For his own good, I wish he'd stop
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1)
I think it amuses as many as it turns off. Trump is polarizing, no doubt. He's not Regan. He is who is his. I bought the ticket and am enjoying the ride. And the revenge.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (Da7Vv)
This is about me isn’t it?!
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (ZTJjv)
And no, Democrats are not going to vote to stop spending in any real terms.
Are Republicans?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (pkeXY)
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They slowed the growth materially with the OBBB, but growth does continue.
Best Congress has done in literally decades.
Maybe a Congress under President Vance will take it seriously. Maybe. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (U6Usv)
I wonder if that will come into play here
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 01:23 PM (ciYHQ)
·
1h
The RNC and DNC pipe bomb suspect allegedly had an online obsession with My Little Pony, a series also popular with many adult trans people.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Oh no I was worried about that! REVENGE OF THE BRONIES!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:24 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Agreed. It's not like the libs are ever paragons of restraint. Let 'em have it, Donny Two-Scoops!
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: wth at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: NCKate at December 09, 2025 01:18 PM (uQzkA)
America.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
God.
They're cool with Allah, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:25 PM (77rzZ)
For his own good, I wish he'd stop
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1)
Sad that Jeb! didn’t win in ‘16?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (rQwsY)
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She is NOTHING but a brand.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (ybICy)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (BNA0v)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (SpIHn)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:22 PM (g8Ew
No one has stopped campaigning, have they?
Concern yourself with making OK less fucked up. Like ditching the income tax.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (rQwsY)
For his own good, I wish he'd stop
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:14 PM (zPdQ1)
Your concern is noted. I'm just glad you and your friends in Ghana can't vote here.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (g8Ew8)
1) can Trump get out the vote when he's not on the ballot?
2) will Dems be fatigued by all the nonstop TDS?
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 01:29 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 01:28 PM (rQwsY)
Love living here. One of the least fucked up states in the US, income tax or not.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:12 PM
Doesn't everyone do that?
Posted by: Hillary
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It keeps you from getting tarred.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 01:34 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Baldy at December 09, 2025 01:48 PM (4/qdm)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 09, 2025 02:18 PM (xvV+O)
She's going to make a ton grifting off of this and otherwise, she's being gerrymandered out of her safe district.
She's not really low IQ. She's a grifter pretending to be low IQ because that's how to play to Democrat voters.
She went to a private school and does not talk like her public persona. It's all an act.
That's why she's latching onto Trump's attack. She knows it helps her grifting her intended victims. (ACTUAL low IQ leftists.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 12:25 PM (zjgNU)
She's aiming, like AOC, to get lots of out of state contributions and become a fundraiser. They'll find a safe seat for her somewhere.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 09, 2025 03:32 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: gov'theretohelp at December 09, 2025 04:49 PM (VOPsA)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 12:37 PM (XFXIk)
Is it now? My last primary was when Ted Cruz first ran for senate, and I had to declare which party’s ballot I wanted.
Posted by: Advo at December 09, 2025 05:59 PM (jO4mz)
Have they fixed the 'ear bleeding' problem yet?
Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:09 PM (ln8yW)
Bumped into her during spring primary voting in 2024 ... guy in front of me knew her; we were in line near poll closing time ... she's a short, but cute little thing ...
Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:30 PM (ln8yW)
1) Install an adblocker. 2) Unblock ace's site ... 3) then block only the offending element on the page that is a problem / offensive by doing a mouse right-click and choose "Block element" from the bottom of the drop-down list ...
Posted by: _Jim at December 09, 2025 07:36 PM (ln8yW)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 01:33 PM (g8Ew
I’ll visit. Paying state income tax is something you might love. I don’t.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:55 PM (4786I)
Posted by: AnnaS at December 09, 2025 11:34 PM (9U6Wl)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:05 AM (NxtE8)
The Morning Rant
President Trump had tapped Habba, who previously served as his personal attorney and later a White House advisor, for the role in an acting capacity in March. Trump blamed the Senate tradition of blue slips for Habba’s inability to be confirmed to a permanent post, given the power of home state senators — in this case, New Jersey — to object to nominees before the Judiciary Committee. He urged Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to no longer honor the practice. “It’s a very sad situation. We’re losing … a lot of great people,” Trump said of Democrats’ objections. “We have about seven US attorneys who are not going to be able to keep their jobs much longer because of the blue slip.”
Oh yes! The "Blue Slip!" Is it a law? No. It is tradition, nothing more. You know, the same tradition that allows congressmen to pull fire alarms, and suggest that violence against ICE personnel is appropriate, and molest congressional pages, and enrich themselves with insider trading, and allow pimps to operate out of their homes, and to sexually harass at will, and molest and rape and who knows what else...all without penalty. President Trump needs to make this a priority, and push the Senate to ignore the blue slips and go full steam ahead with every single one of his nominations for every position available. Thom Tillis, the consummate GOPe apparatchik, supports this tradition, and has considerable clout. Until the Senate is cleansed of him and others like him (backstabbing corporate shills), this will be a constant issue. To avoid the blue slip in committee, the Senate requires a "discharge petition," whatever that is, and that is a 60 vote hurdle that will never happen. This is a constant reminder that it isn't just a majority that is important in the Senate...getting rid of pathetic RINO senators is far more important than simply electing any Republican without a live boy or a dead girl in the back seat. That's how we get Tillis and Collins and Cornyn and Murkowski and.... [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (VkY89)
ESPONJA!!1!1!1!1
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (VkY89)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (bvUs5)
Since the FNM has told us repeatedly that things like mortgage fraud don't matter if you are an elite...couldn't Habba buy a rental property in a sane state and just claim it as another primary residence?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (zjgNU)
Posted by: It is Congress after all at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (TbWk/)
Buh bye Cornyn. Hello Senator Wesley Hunt.
I want Paxton to stay in Texas.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (sDNVV)
I checked, and much to my surprise, Cornyn supports getting rid of blue slips. He still needs to go, but that's one criticism (among innumerable others) I can't make.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (Riz8t)
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:05 AM (g47mK)
I thought that might be it. And I get it, up to a point. But, being a naturally impatient person, I would reach a point where I'd just say to the gal, "Forget it," and head off to my bunk with a Playboy.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
Well, of course, no-one interested in seduction should look to me for advice, but I have found, in my very limited experiences, that a slow undressing of a lady, interspersed with soft words and caressing of her and her raiment, to be greatly appreciated.
And that's it for me today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (vFG9F)
This. To the tenth power and with bells on.
Posted by: Paco at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (2L+MU)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (NR6c1)
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1)
And Rand Paul is out there on the enemy media saying Trump is illegally blowing up narco boats and it's murder...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX)
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/)
Because....?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Public service announcement
26.1?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1)
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Tillis is gone soon. Collins actually just votes with us almost all the time, just making lots of noises for her shitty constituents in Maine. Cornyn will most likely lose the primary.
Murkowski is a cheat and should be cast out to sea.
Anyway, I suspect that blue slip policy won't die because Republicans don't want a future Democrat senator to ignore them completely. Senators have eroded their own power down to little more than appointment oversight. Getting rid of that is making them completely irrelevant in government instead of mostly irrelevant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (bvUs5)
Understood, but what kind of a senator will Hunt turn out to be?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (n9ltV)
https://is.gd/1zB2U5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
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Oh, wow. I didn't realize she was low IQ.
I'm glad she let me know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
Everyone...EVERYONE...has something to hide, including every one of the members of the senate and house. If only the GOP had a rich person who could afford to hire PI's to dig into each background. Remember when the dems sent s shitload of them to.dig into.Sarah Palin's garbage?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:08 AM (2WIwB)
The war where we and our "opponents" just disagree about how best to move American forward.
Today's democrats are not opponents. The are domestic enemies who are intent on the destruction of our culture, economy, nation, and people.
There can be and should be no "collegiality" with mortal enemies, which is what they are.
They want us DEAD. They don't have the power for that yet, but if they did, we'd be on cattle cars tomorrow.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 09, 2025 11:08 AM (zjgNU)
Someone should tell her caterpillars are taking up residence on her eyelids.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (MGB5H)
Tax cuts and open borders is all they care about.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/)
THIS!!!!
X 1000
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Public service announcement
26.1?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (bvUs5)
I chose to remain on 18 because I don't use my phone for much. Calls, vehicle navigation, the myriad apps which my employer has required (and which will be removed come Saturday), and the 1 - 2 apps I might actually, on occasion, use myself.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
And we will probably get Cooper.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (wBaIH)
HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 frigate, and the Royal Navy's only deployed 'major combatant' to the Middle East has pulled into Bahrain where it will be decommissioned. And the ship will not be scrapped in the UK but overseas.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (1zOXE)
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When she loses her next primary, she'll get the Alaskan Republican Party to pass a law making it illegal for anyone not named Murkowski to run for Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
Hopefully Cornyn will be primaried next year.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (0sNs1)
And Rand Paul is out there on the enemy media saying Trump is illegally blowing up narco boats and it's murder...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX)
Wait, wasn't there a "war on drugs" declared? Besides, at this point, the drug cartels have all been warned to stop. This is nothing but the culmination of the "Find Out" phase of FAFO. How many more friends/family do Americans need to bury due to the scourge of drugs?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Public service announcement
26.1?
just wait for 27b/6.
Posted by: harry tuttle at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Public service announcement
I've just stayed on 18
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/)
THIS!!!!
X 1000
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB)
Tech Radar says it is full of Awesomeness.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
It's a crap shoot. What kind of Senator will Paxton turn out to be? I'll take my chances with Hunt. I know what Paxton will do in Texas.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (bvUs5)
And, yea... the GOP should have put the pressure on the Democrats. But... GOP and their lack of spine.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (NwnyJ)
it very much is
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF)
It’s always this pattern.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (9iyS+)
Right? What's the point of keeping a privilege around if you refuse to use it?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (Da7Vv)
https://is.gd/1zB2U5
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
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Oh, wow. I didn't realize she was low IQ.
I'm glad she let me know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
I don't even know what to say?
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen.
So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG)
It’s always this pattern.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December
And now Curtis. The asshat who replaced mittens. Be better Utah.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: David Beatty at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (GAhX+)
One of them yesterday stopped Trump's EO on ending new wind turbines...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (VE6XX)
it very much is
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF)
But but but it gives your phone so much more functionalaity!!!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
And we will probably get Cooper.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:10 AM (n9ltV)
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I'm...doubtful.
Governors tend to do poorly in senate races when the parties don't match up to overall partisan makeup of the state. Think Hogan last year in MD.
Republicans have 110,000 more active voters in NC than Democrats. Overall, I think the GOP is almost a majority now, first time ever (it's down to 1,800 Democrat majority when last week the GOP got 1,200 more net).
And, Cooper's probably going to have trouble raising money in line with people like Crockett and Planter in ME scooping up all the major dollars.
I wouldn't call it an easy win for Whatley. NC is probably Dem's best chance for a pickup. But, it's more of an uphill climb for Cooper than I think people want to admit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/)
Because....?
because they can get away with it
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (Da7Vv)
I’m Rich!!!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (pDt9x)
He suggested to a deranged liberal caller at the end of their discussion that leftists would be putting people on trains at the first opportunity and she naturally went apoplectic, he wasn’t wrong, just prescient.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:14 AM (CmJfJ)
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen.
So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad.
Eh. Think about it. The Dem's entire platform now is resentment and hatred of Donald Trump. That's what the ad sells, and it will be effective with the people to whom she appeals. Unfortunately for her, that is not a majority of Texans.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV)
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen.
So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG)
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She will raise at least $50 million for her race, mostly from Hollywood.
She may beat Beto's numbers and raise more than $100 million.
She will lost by at least 9.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
It's not about tradition. It's about ceding power to Democraps. The GOP gets off on it, because it means they have less power and thus are off the hook for failing to do things that their voters want. "Sorry, my voters. I'd love to help you but I just can't."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (wBaIH)
One of them yesterday stopped Trump's EO on ending new wind turbines...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (VE6XX)
See, it’s Easy Peasey to nullify an election!
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (pDt9x)
Okay, so Apples' new iOS sucks, and yet no one seems to be able to say why.
Uhm....alright.
Whatevs.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG)
https://is.gd/grhKqI
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Very nice.
Don't forget Liz Taylor in the opening scene of Butterfield 8.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
Okay, so Apples' new iOS sucks, and yet no one seems to be able to say why.
Uhm....alright.
Whatevs.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG)
The subtext is Apple sux, go buy an Android.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11
They always just need 1 or 2 more seats. They could have 98 senators and still claims they can't do anything. But donate today to stop the democrat agenda. 5x match.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
FML.
When I can actually afford it, it goes from $23 to $60.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (bvUs5)
MUNKEY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (y9nCu)
Dolphins like coke.
Trumps fault.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (EyfuW)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
FML.
When I can actually afford it, it goes from $23 to $60.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:17 AM (bvUs5)
Well, there’s always Iridium.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (CmJfJ)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:18 AM (CmJfJ)
Yep.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11
They always just need 1 or 2 more seats. They could have 98 senators and still claims they can't do anything. But donate today to stop the democrat agenda. 5x match.
Posted by: BruceWayne
KATIO
Kick All The Incumbents Out
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt)
Nope
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (VE6XX)
Tax cuts and open borders is all they care about.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Pretty much along with using their office to get generational wealth. GOP is King Log in the Aesop's Fable about the frogs.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt)
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They put out a Spanish version!
https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/
1998156423683789110
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)
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And we can't have that! Damn Islamophobic racist crackers!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (2GVsD)
https://is.gd/grhKqI
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV)
You, sir, are a great American.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (5xuJ/)
>>Since the FNM has told us repeatedly that things like mortgage fraud don't matter if you are an elite...couldn't Habba buy a rental property in a sane state and just claim it as another primary residence?
She would be prosecuted to within an inch of her life.
This crap only goes one way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (2GVsD)
Bougie black girl playing hood rat.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:20 AM (pDt9x)
https://is.gd/grhKqI
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV)
You, sir, are a great American!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (ufSfZ)
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen.
So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:13 AM (iJfKG)
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She will raise at least $50 million for her race, mostly from Hollywood.
She may beat Beto's numbers and raise more than $100 million.
She will lost by at least 9.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
I agree she's only in it for the money.
Sanders and Beta have shown there is a lot of cash to be made being a perennial loser in the Democrat Party.
But, you'd think she'd put in a little effort. Or, hell, maybe she did. Maybe Trump saying she's Low IQ is going to get her voters all fired up to send her lots and lots of sucker cash. In which case...Well played Crocky!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (pkeXY)
On the other side we have Cornyn, Tillis, the cuck from Utah, Paul, Colins, Murkie. The list is long. And it never shrinks. It just changes names but the Dems can always count on 3-5 Republican traitors.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
That has to be the worst political ad I've ever seen.
So, yes! Ol' Crocky is Low IQ if that's her idea of a brilliant ad.
Eh. Think about it. The Dem's entire platform now is resentment and hatred of Donald Trump. That's what the ad sells, and it will be effective with the people to whom she appeals. Unfortunately for her, that is not a majority of Texans.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)
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Yes, it's a very clever ad. We think it's cringe, but we aren't the audience. The audience is rabid TDS drones, and to them anyone that Trump shits on is (i) important and (ii) a strong member of The Resistance.
Also note that she doesn't rant and rave in Ghetto Jive like she usually does. Instead, it's just her looking made-up and presentable.
This is the beginning of a remake where she tries to widen her appeal by dropping the fake Hood Rat persona. It will be comical to see her forthcoming ads aimed at AWFuLs where she speaks perfect English.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/)
THIS!!!!
X 1000
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB)
Tech Radar says it is full of Awesomeness.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (pDt9x)
***
That's because none of them assholes are over 29.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (VqCOT)
Sanders and Beta have shown there is a lot of cash to be made being a perennial loser in the Democrat Party.
But, you'd think she'd put in a little effort. Or, hell, maybe she did. Maybe Trump saying she's Low IQ is going to get her voters all fired up to send her lots and lots of sucker cash. In which case...Well played Crocky!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (iJfKG)
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Crockett knows what the Democrat Party of today is.
She knows better than most prognosticators even on the Democrat side.
It's aggrieved women who demand respect for being aggrieved women.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)
https://is.gd/grhKqI
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV)
You, sir, are a great American!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:21 AM (ufSfZ)
Great Moron minds think alike. See 85.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:23 AM (5xuJ/)
PS: send $100 ASAP so we can advance the ultra conservative agenda.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:24 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
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Momentum trading based in part on the rumor that the big players in metals don't have the physical silver to meet their contracts.
Demand for silver for industrial purposes has been declining for years (digital photography killed its largest use which was photographic film).
Gold is getting pressured a bit apparently from the rumor that Russia is having to liquidate some of its reserves in gold on the intl market.
Neither are markets for the faint hearted or those not willing to take losses.
Personally, I think, watch the copper markets as that has substantial industrial demand across the globe with constrained supply at the moment.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:24 AM (WDjG6)
@IngrahamAngle
EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader.
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Let he who has not married a sibling cast the first stone.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Also note that she doesn't rant and rave in Ghetto Jive like she usually does. Instead, it's just her looking made-up and presentable.
This is the beginning of a remake where she tries to widen her appeal by dropping the fake Hood Rat persona. It will be comical to see her forthcoming ads aimed at AWFuLs where she speaks perfect English.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
She'll start at about 40 percent and either be a few percentage points up or down in general election results.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)
The GOPe in a lot of red states controls the mechanisms of power and they ain't letting go without a fight. They don't understand that their "good friends across the aisle" are losing power or dying and the Dems are being overrun by Marxist/socialist lunatics who don't care about "traditions"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (D+mpw)
@IngrahamAngle
EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader.
Immigration fraud.. Outta here...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)
Uhm....alright.
Whatevs.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG)
***
What I used to do with just three clicks now takes five or six.
Opening multiple windows is now annoying.
closing them even worse.
The clock changed.
The transparent crap is crap.
And they need to stay off my lawn!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (VqCOT)
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)
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He, don't forget Marquette or someone deciding to poll TX randomly, finding Crockett at at least 48%, and people shitting their pants.
That's definitely going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
Immigration fraud.. Outta here...
Posted by: It's me donna at
Nah!
-District Court Judge
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (MGB5H)
What's their greatest achievement? They put the country on hold for thirty years.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (1zOXE)
PS: send $100 ASAP so we can advance the ultra conservative agenda.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
House, despite its very slim majority is performing okay. It is the Senate where the GOP is refusing to use its majority while it can--on appointments, funding, etc. They can actually do more reconciliation bills on spending which sidestep the filibuster and make a Senate rule change on the blue slip policy overriding the Judiciary Committee.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (WDjG6)
As Eric said, you’re not the target. AWFL in Dallas and Houston suburbs are. And they love this shit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)
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He, don't forget Marquette or someone deciding to poll TX randomly, finding Crockett at at least 48%, and people shitting their pants.
That's definitely going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
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There will be a few at 50 or more
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (iFTx/)
What's their greatest achievement? They put the country on hold for thirty years.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:27 AM (1zOXE)
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1. Mitch is now a backbencher. He can't even do interviews. No one cares.
2. Schumer was front page for weeks during the shutdown, now all the action is on the committee level.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
*blinks*
Posted by: Mitch at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (D+mpw)
What I used to do with just three clicks now takes five or six.
Opening multiple windows is now annoying.
closing them even worse.
The clock changed.
The transparent crap is crap.
And they need to stay off my lawn!!!
Posted by: Diogenes
What a limerick!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (pkeXY)
There will be a few at 50 or more
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (iFTx/)
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Definitely.
And she will get roughly 43% of the actual vote.
But we'll have to take the polls saying she's gonna win because the aggregate of polls in some year were pretty good, even if that one polling firm is actually total shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)
The Royal Navy is third behind France and Italy in number of ships. Your First Sea Lord is a General.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (2GVsD)
What's their greatest achievement? They put the country on hold for thirty years.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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My guess is that out of leadership, McConnell is declining fast and his staff is running his office and comms.
Schumer is fearing his left flank in a NY primary and being chucked as Majority Leader by his own colleagues.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (WDjG6)
The newest Apple iOS update is total ass by the way. Just wanted you to know.
Posted by: Public service announcement at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (TbWk/)
THIS!!!!
X 1000
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB)
Microsoft: we improved Windows! Do you know how hard it is to deliberately rearrange the menus so you can't find anything??
Heckler and Koch: Because you suck, and we hate you.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (y9nCu)
@IngrahamAngle
EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.', reveals Somali community leader.
-
Let he who has not married a sibling cast the first stone.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Crickets from Kentucky and Alabama.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 09, 2025 11:28 AM (f0sNM)
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Cooper in NC is going to suffer, I think.
He's their best chance at a pickup, but he's a boring old white man.
He'll raise half as much as he would in a more sane environment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
James Patterson has just released a book saying that she was murdered:
https://tinyurl.com/ym6h3cfp
Poor Marilyn.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)
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3 of "our" Senators voted for a Supreme who admitted under oath that she was too *stupid* to know what a woman is.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)
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Not even Lindsay Graham brought himself to do that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
And but no for the races.
Pay white men reparations for all the wars and paying too much for taxes.
Reparations for perverting English language to couch your particular follies.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (EyfuW)
https://is.gd/grhKqI
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:15 AM (n9ltV)
Now THAT's a voluptuous woman.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 11:30 AM (g8Ew8)
‘ AWFL in Dallas and Houston suburbs are. And they love this shit.’
They ought to be deprived of the right to vote.
And neutered.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:31 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:31 AM (D+mpw)
https://tinyurl.com/ym6h3cfp
My opinion of Jane Russell. A horrible actress with a killer body.
But at least she could sing (better than Marilyn could).
Posted by: Mitch at December 09, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)
I don't think I've ever seen Jane Russell in a movie, or if I have her performance was forgettable.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:33 AM (PFs9e)
Along with about half-a-dozen other writers, at least.
I do note this titbit in the story: The book bills itself as a "true crime thriller," but includes a disclaimer saying it's "a work of fiction."
I'll pass.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:33 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)
A doctor from Chicago was brutally beaten by a man who has been arrested over a dozen times this year alone.
According to court filings, the 42-year-old cardiologist entered an elevator at Northwestern, where he was allegedly followed by Sean Popps. Popps then is alleged to have repeatedly punched the victim in the head until she stumbled backward, covering her face with her hands.
Chicago police note that Popps has been arrested a dozen times this year in the area of the campus. He was arrested seven times in 2024 and six additional times between 2020 and 2023.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (n9ltV)
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"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" starred both Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:33 AM (PFs9e)
Try either The Paleface or Son of Paleface, where she goes comic toe-to-toe with Bob Hope.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
She was utterly forgettable as an actress. No range at all.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
Well, who knows. Maybe it was not a good idea to sleep with one of more Kennedys and Frank Sinatra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:36 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)
That's definitely going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Polling is on par with media stories like Trump and Hegseth are giving kill orders for survivors. Basically the industry whored itself out to the media for fame and fortune and now are facing the problem that like the media, almost 50 percent of the population refuses to respond to them and ignores them.
I find them increasingly irrelevant and if you want to study elections, I suggest going to different measures--employment, inflation, per capita income, normal vote in districts, etc. Media, polls are now a ordinal measure instead of interval.
Eg.
At best we get, Trump up (by how much we don't know but probably more than we want to admit), Trump is down (by how little we don't want to admit so we make more than it probably is.). That is about the only use for media polls nowadays.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:19 AM (ZxPkt)
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They put out a Spanish version!
https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/
1998156423683789110
can't check from work, so i'm'a just assume it's an a.i. sombrero and mustache applied to the ad.
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (sGtp+)
https://is.gd/K9NvYd
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Jayne Mansfield kinda gets a bad rap for being a dumb blonde. But she was actually quite intelligent and a been a virtuoso violinist as a girl.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
A doctor from Chicago was brutally beaten by a man who has been arrested over a dozen times this year alone.
According to court filings, the 42-year-old cardiologist entered an elevator at Northwestern, where he was allegedly followed by Sean Popps. Popps then is alleged to have repeatedly punched the victim in the head until she stumbled backward, covering her face with her hands.
Chicago police note that Popps has been arrested a dozen times this year in the area of the campus. He was arrested seven times in 2024 and six additional times between 2020 and 2023.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:34 AM (TN0g+)
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Middle aged woman...professional...college educated...working at an academic institution (presumably in a medical capacity)...in Chicago...
Nope. I won't guess as to her voting preferences. That would be mean.
I shall hope she has a swift recovery, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
https://is.gd/K9NvYd
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (n9ltV)
IIRC, the story behind that picture was that the two were not sitting together, but Mansfield, a noted publicity hound, made her way to the table and plopped down for a photo op, which was captured in that iconic image.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:38 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (n9ltV)
But Hey! Trump talked about me! Trump hates me! I hate Trump, and if you hate Trump you have gotta love me!!!"
that's it, that's her entire campaign right there.
And if you didn't notice, the guy was supposed to be the #1 nominee for the Democrats, Colin Allred, has already dropped out of the race and endorsed Jasmine.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (uWKK8)
What about Philadelphia?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (viF8m)
https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/
1998156423683789110
can't check from work, so i'm'a just assume it's an a.i. sombrero and mustache applied to the ad.
No, they played it straight, but the interesting thing is that the Spanish voice-over is done with Trump's voice. Obviously AI.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders?
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I've been told she was an innovator in public safety.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
I've never seen Russell in a comedy. Maybe she's better in those.
Stinks as a dramatic actress, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)
And if you didn't notice, the guy was supposed to be the #1 nominee for the Democrats, Colin Allred, has already dropped out of the race and endorsed Jasmine.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:39 AM (uWKK
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His announcement was to say that he's running for the seat that Crockett was going to run for in the House.
He cleared the deck for her.
Now, all she has as competition in the primary is the twink pastor who said that Mary could have aborted Jesus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
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Problem is the ones that are gone are replaced with an equally odious one. The new Utah senator said he gets up every morning thinking what can he do to welcome immigrants. Rand Paul caught a bad case of TDS.
It’s playing wack a mole. RINO gets primaried out or quits or dies, there’s always a new one that pops up to take his or her place.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (9iyS+)
I've always thought her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was extremely attractive.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
https://tinyurl.com/2v22cdkc
Before they put their hands in the cement, Monroe quipped to Russell, "We should do your tits and my ass."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Archimedes
Did not take after her mother in the mammary department, however.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
Are you saying she had a good head on her shoulders?
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I've been told she was an innovator in public safety.
Posted by: Crusader
Air bags?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:43 AM (bvUs5)
Not a great actress IMO, but then she didn't need to be.
https://tinyurl.com/ym6h3cfp
I disagree. She could make things move under that slip on command, like in the train party car scene in Some Like It Hot. That's great acting.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:43 AM (y9nCu)
DC is awash in special interest money. Follow the money and you will see why they act like they do in Congress.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Archimedes
Did not take after her mother in the mammary department, however.
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Nonetheless Mariska seems to have kept her head about herself.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (TN0g+)
I'll pass.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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Patterson is a now brand name for mystery like Chef Boyardi was for facsimile Italian food. In many cases, I would not be surprised that ghostwriters (sometimes acknowledged) fill in the blanks for Patterson's outline of a book.
People picking up a can of Spaghetti O's did not expect Chef Boyardi to have personally slaved over the stove himself to produce it. Yet Patterson is treated as such by his adoring fans.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
>I could never get much past her magnificent, pink torpedos.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (1zOXE)
DC is awash in special interest money. Follow the money and you will see why they act like they do in Congress.
Posted by: JackStraw
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DC needs the Pied Piper of Hamlin to remove its elected rats.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (g47mK)
Yes, I denounce myself for asking
Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)
Hmmm. Maybe to an another woman. She probably has a great personality though.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: whig
You'll be hearing from our attorneys.
-- Zombie Rats of Hamlin.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)
US travel secretary Sean Duffy has annoyed American travellers once again – this time by suggesting that they might work out in the airport before a flight.
“Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull-ups or some step-ups in the airport,” he suggested as one request to improve the airport experience.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (Da7Vv)
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She was dabbling with Satanism toward the end with Anton La Vey. Her boyfriend, who died with her in the car crash later, took askance at La Vey and supposedly in turn was cursed.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (WDjG6)
You'll get dog shit and like it.
Posted by: Abolish The Federal Government at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (FGMmt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 11:45 AM (D+mpw)
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Another example of Howard Hawks just walking into a genre, making it work, and walking out again, never to make another one.
Hawks was great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
No; I think the vast majority of politicians are sell outs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:47 AM (PFs9e)
Well somebody sent some research to Axios (so you know it was the Left who did this) and got them to run a story about how this highly Moral Preacher is Bestest Friends with a number of hookers on Only Fans, which is where he apparently spends much of his "personal time".
Trying earnestly to save their souls, no doubt.
Dem Primaries are like a State Championship Game for most loathsome politician in the State - but I have no doubt Jasmine will win this one easily.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 11:48 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at
This assumes they had principles to begin with. Press 'x' to doubt.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 09, 2025 11:48 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)
John McCain, perhaps the dimmest bulb in the Senate during his time, had his own institute. One of the largest funders of the institute was none other than George Soros.
McCain was up to his eyeballs in Ukraine regime change and corruption. He was also a big part of the Russia collusion scam. He was no more a Republican Senator than my dog.
For many of these scumbags their part time day job in Congress is nothing more than a sitcom. The real action (and money) is in the shadows.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (viF8m)
Trying earnestly to save their souls, no doubt.
There is precedent.
Posted by: William Ewart Gladstone at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
‘I have proof that she’s less retarded than you claim!’
All right. Sure. That’s a huge improvement.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
I've been screaming that since Day 1. She's never tried to hide her Wiki page.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: whig
Yes, I remember you've posted about this before. Too bad she went in that direction.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner
Seems to be the opposite with Russia as it is reportedly selling gold in order to meet its forex needs. China and Indian citizens hoard gold as a shield against uncertain future. And the gold standard itself was rife with all kinds of disruptions economically--panics were actually depressions and often based on a nation's frantic need to shore up its reserves from trade imbalances.
It ain't a panacea and the problem that gold supplies do not grow with economies but are on a separate track based on availability of mines makes it worse. Often you got severe deflation out of it which benefitted lenders but not the more numerous borrowers.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (ZxPkt)
Loren and Mansfield...
https://is.gd/K9NvYd
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2025 11:35 AM (n9ltV)
Better yet, Bogart and Monroe. Bogie was a total pimp Chad. Good thing that Bacall was the love of his life...
https://tinyurl.com/5n7r5tdy
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 11:51 AM (y9nCu)
‘I have proof that she’s less retarded than you claim!’
All right. Sure. That’s a huge improvement.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)
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The white men of the party are having it out with the rest of the party online right now.
"Crockett has no chance. This is Texas. You have to appeal to Texans to win. It can't always be about race."
And yet, Obama made the party all about race 17 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
Mariska was in the car when her mother was killed
sez wiki 🧂
Posted by: Don Black
So was her brother. Jayne died shielding him with her body.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)
Bad, bad idea to hang out with Satanists even if they Satanists do it as a big performance act and to rub it in the faces of Christians. I doubt whether Satan cares if you think it's a big joke.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (PFs9e)
See her in Leaving Las Vegas for confirmation that she was hot. She played the Hooker who stole Nicolas Cage from Elisabeth Shue.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Da7Vv)
See her in Leaving Las Vegas for confirmation that she was hot. She played the Hooker who stole Nicolas Cage from Elisabeth Shue.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Da7Vv)
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Shue's best performance was as Elizabeth Shue in Hamlet 2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
>I could never get much past her magnificent, pink torpedos.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 11:44 AM (1zOXE)
_________
"Homo!"
-- Spinal Tap
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
She was the perfect HS girlfriend in The Karate Kid.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)
Crockett was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Rev. Joseph and Gwen Crockett. She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain Academy, a private all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis.
Attending Rhodes College, she was advised by a professor that she had too much personality to settle for her plan to become a certified public accountant. The school's handling of a series of hate crimes on campus inspired her to become a lawyer. When she got racist hate mail and her Black friends' cars were keyed she explained, "My school didn't know what to do, and they brought in The Cochran Firm, and the lawyer that helped me became my instant 'shero'. ... While we never figured out what happened, it was empowering to have her there. I saw how much help a lawyer could be to somebody at a very confusing time." She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration.
She began law school at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University before graduating from the University of Houston Law Center in 2006 with a Juris Doctor and soon passed the bar examination.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:49 AM (77rzZ)
Easy for them, they didn't have to get Cut.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (uWKK8)
And the show is now a lot of leftist ideology, imho.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (ufSfZ)
‘I have proof that she’s less retarded than you claim!’
All right. Sure. That’s a huge improvement.
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She is one of the *stupidest* women not named Kenjami I've ever heard. I don't care what school(s) she attended or what degrees she was handed, that woman is an idiot.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (TN0g+)
"Building its reserves is just one part of China’s gold strategy which is part of a campaign to reduce exposure to the U.S. dollar.
Other features of the Chinese gold rush include the creation of a world-class gold trading hub centered on the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) and the relaxation of rules governing investment in gold by Chinese insurance companies.
Jeff Currie, chief strategy officer of energy pathways at fund manager Carlyle, told the Financial Times newspaper that “China is buying gold as part of a de-dollarization strategy."
ANZ, in its Vault research report, said China had been increasing its activity in the gold market by “accumulating reserves, enhancing trading infrastructure and promoting domestic and international participation”."
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)
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Say His Name: Grammy-Nominated Musician Roderick Macleod Killed by Driver with Over 100 Prior Arrests
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A white chick and apparently citizen.
https://is.gd/c6g8wh
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)
Who wants to lay odds on her having been the one who went around keying cars?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:55 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
Have a good day, MPPP. Your contributions are valued here .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (PFs9e)
See her in Leaving Las Vegas for confirmation that she was hot. She played the Hooker who stole Nicolas Cage from Elisabeth Shue.
The first time I remember her was in a short-lived cop show, Tequila and Bonetti, in 1992. She was memorable.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg
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About the same as a lot of other celebutards. For the most part, the more we dig into their stories, most get less and less impressive.
Funny how we as a society remember them more than people that actually did something to improve our lives materially. We don't swap around stories much about someone like Norman Borlaug or Alexander Fleming. Even Thomas Crapper who we give his due every day.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:56 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK)
Oh, I think we all know what happened.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 11:58 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (TN0g+)
In just a few months she's going to be an idiot who idiotically figured out how to get a stupid $50 or $60 million deposited into her personal Swiss bank accounts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 11:58 AM (uWKK8)
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I agree. A friend's dad asserted (some 50 years ago) that some acts "open the doorway"...and that doorways like that need to remain closed. I think quija boards are horrible ideas, and that sessions with AI can turn bad rather quickly.
Posted by: Crusader at December 09, 2025 11:58 AM (TN0g+)
‘ And yet, Obama made the party all about race 17 years ago.’
Yeah. But like him she’s just an indication of how low the country has fallen. She’s not some mastermind.
The log on top tells me that my toilet is still stopped up. So , I know I need to plunge some more. I don’t imagine that I’m in a battle of wits with the turd.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 11:59 AM (jbnUc)
Ghetto comes from within.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 12:00 PM (U6Usv)
We aren't on a FIAT system either. The FED was created to favor the big banks and transfer wealth from the middle class to the ultra wealthy through boom and bust cycles. When the stock market crashes, if you look back on it, the big money guys have all sold out just before the crash. The middle class can't afford to ride out the crash and wind up selling their stocks and bonds for a pittance at the bottom of the crash, while the big money guys buy the stock then.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:00 PM (Da7Vv)
Last night, saw "Rio Bravo" again after several years.
Just a great, very entertaining movie. Pure fun to watch.
After seeing Hawk's movie kinda clumped together time wise, it looks like his greatest gift was to create a friendly, chummy, relaxed set that allowed the actors to more or less have fun and be more of themselves in their roles.
And then translate that mood to the audience.
Yeah, yeah, he made serious movies but man, they are always fun to watch and seem "real" in a way few movies do now.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:01 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: ...
Have no idea. Often on my internet meanderings, I see celebutard news but try to ignore it unless useful. The La Vey stuff popped up when I was trying to comprehend the released JFK materials by Trump. JFK related searches brought forth Marilyn story links regarding their affair and thence to Mansfield stories.
Easy to get lost in whirlpools of the internet and get sucked under to useless information about people not that relevant in the scheme of things.
Like Frank Sinatra having a giant Schwanzstucker (Young Frankenstein) that Ava Gardner boasted about.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (NFX2v)
"Unexpectedly".
They really don't see the booming economy expanding under their feet. It's a great time to make money as most people believe the doomers in the media and aren't prepared for what is happening and what will happen. The smart ones are hiring now before they are forced to hire the bottom of the barrel talent next year.
https://is.gd/8QTN50
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 12:03 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: L
Boobs are serious.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 12:03 PM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ)
Martin University, Indiana’s only Predominantly Black Institution (PBI) of higher education, announced that it will pause all university operations at the conclusion of the current semester.
The decision, voted on by the Martin University Board of Trustees, marks a critical turning point for the historic institution as it navigates significant financial challenges and shifting enrollment trends.
Founded in 1977, Martin University has long stood as a pillar of service and education in Indianapolis. As a PBI, its mission has been focused on educating and developing diverse, workforce-ready students within an inclusive and supportive environment.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (pkeXY)
Shue's best performance was as Elizabeth Shue in Hamlet 2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
She was the perfect HS girlfriend in The Karate Kid.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)
Meaning, she dumped him for a football player Chad after everyone forgets that he won the big fight. Perfect HS girlfriend
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 12:05 PM (y9nCu)
Well there's your problem. Perhaps you should focus on, you know, actual job skills, and not DEI nonsense.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:04 PM (D+mpw)
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There's disagreement about whether Hawks actually directed The Thing or not.
He...might have. Credited director, Christian Nyby, never directed anything like it again, and it feels much more like a Hawks film. Hawks did produce it, and he was recorded as being on set a lot.
I lean more towards, Nyby asked a lot of questions and Hawks gave a lot of answers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (g47mK)
Yahoo Finance, GO Banking Rates
How Rich Is Marjorie Taylor Greene?, Oct 2025
Astounding
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (NFX2v)
"Unexpectedly".
They really don't see the booming economy expanding under their feet. It's a great time to make money as most people believe the doomers in the media and aren't prepared for what is happening and what will happen. The smart ones are hiring now before they are forced to hire the bottom of the barrel talent next year.
https://is.gd/8QTN50
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
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I suspect a good portion of this isn't "new" jobs, but rather jobs that previously would have gone straight to an illegal or swarthy H1B holder that are now open to Americans. So the job is "new" in the sense an American can now get it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:07 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 12:07 PM (D+mpw)
‘ I won't even watch horror movies about Satanism. Or Rosemary's Baby, the Exorcist, etc.’
I won’t even eat deviled eggs.
Unless it’s with angel food cake.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 12:08 PM (jbnUc)
Yahoo Finance, GO Banking Rates
How Rich Is Marjorie Taylor Greene?, Oct 2025
Astounding
Posted by: L - No nic
If I were king, you'd need nine years to get a pension.
But term limits are 8 years. In any accumulation.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 12:08 PM (bvUs5)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump
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If I had to base a currency, it would be on energy as energy production is key to a nation's wealth. And harder to devalue something like a kwh or BTU.
Not sure what you mean but in definitional terms a fiat currency is in effect backed only by a government making it the legal currency to pay debts.
Gold or silver backed currency as the US used it issued paper that theoretically could call on US gold reserves payable upon demand for a quantity of gold or silver at a given state set price. Actual exchanges of gold and/or silver en masse for large debts became rapidly impractical as the sums increased so you exchanged paper over it.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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We see what you say in employment data for the last several months.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)
Op-ed: London's Muslim mayor was just reminded that Christmas is the most "intolerant" time of the year, and that's a good thing
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 12:11 PM (L/fGl)
We aren't on a FIAT system either.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump
Only a fool would base their monetary system on supplies of Italian economy cars.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 12:12 PM (y9nCu)
Last night the lovely and perceptive Mrs naturalfake and i got into a brief discussion of what was the Scariest Movie we'd ever seen.
Pretty much it boiled down to-
"The Exorcist" when it first came out.
and
"The Ring" (Japanese version) when it first came out
Both of those were great. Just kept piling on the tension and creepiness until a dynamite climax.
Great stuff.
]
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
The YUGO currency really sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)
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I tend to agree.
There's a marked difference in the number and quality of candidates for jobs in my sector (instructional design) just in the last 6-9 months. Back then, there were a ton of international applicants looking for an academic job to get their foot in the door. Now, there's hardly any. Lots of Americans applying for the job, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 12:14 PM (ESVrU)
Last night the lovely and perceptive Mrs naturalfake and i got into a brief discussion of what was the Scariest Movie we'd ever seen.
Pretty much it boiled down to-
"The Exorcist" when it first came out.
and
"The Ring" (Japanese version) when it first came out
Both of those were great. Just kept piling on the tension and creepiness until a dynamite climax.
Great stuff.
]
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (iJfKG)
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Baba-ba-dook-dook-dook.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)
There's a marked difference in the number and quality of candidates for jobs in my sector (instructional design) just in the last 6-9 months. Back then, there were a ton of international applicants looking for an academic job to get their foot in the door. Now, there's hardly any. Lots of Americans applying for the job, though.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 12:14 PM (ESVrU)
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Tangential:
Foreign births down in 41 states:
https://x.com/RyanGirdusky/status/
1998428790570246211
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK)
And that is what happens when Obama and then Biden weaponize the SWIFT network against "enemy states" like Switzerland and show it is not a neutral co-op of participant banks.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 12:15 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 09, 2025 12:15 PM (f1kZG)
Blair Witch Project here. It's also depressing as hell once you realize that the three kids are doomed.
Also, when we saw it in the theater I almost puked due to the jerky camera movements.
So, scary, depressing, and nauseating. Hate to top those.
I think Night of the Living Dead is right up there, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: DaveA at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Da7Vv)
‘ Blair Witch Project here. It's also depressing as hell once you realize that the three kids are doomed.’
Doesn’t ‘depressing’ depend on whether you wanted them to survive?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2025 12:18 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
The YUGO currency really sucked.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)
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The Yugo is much maligned and rightly so. But it would have matured into a much better car had the unrest in Yugoslavia killed civilian exports. The same plants still make popular Stellantis/Fiat models, and neighboring Romania builds the very popular (in Euro) Dacia brand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ...
>As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man
Face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 12:19 PM (1zOXE)
'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need
It is another hungry mouth to feed
Since they cut off EBT
In the ghetto
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 12:20 PM (bvUs5)
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I suspect a good portion of this isn't "new" jobs, but rather jobs that previously would have gone straight to an illegal or swarthy H1B holder that are now open to Americans. So the job is "new" in the sense an American can now get it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 09, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)
Elric The Blade Johnson is right!
...and I'm sure there are *still* asshoes trying to continue their shenanigans; eg I saw a tweet the other day claiming some job listings specified "NO U.S. citizens" even though they were receiving feralgov funding under some program which made that provision illegal.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (ULPxl)
I think Night of the Living Dead is right up there, too.
Posted by: Bulg
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Watch World at War, the episode covering the Not See death camps. That is true horror beyond whatever paltry crap that Hollywood serves up.
Same for documentary coverage of the Cambodian killing fields, and Japanese POW camps that were involved in BW, and other such horrors.
Once saw in an interview of a priest, he did not discount demons as a cause for evil actions but mentioned the great majority of evils he saw were men choosing to do it, not from possession or coercion.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 12:22 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump
Our system is based on debt, and the value of the debt is based on both the likelihood of repayment and the likelihood that inflation will make repayment meaningless.
Inflation is driven by the expansion of the money supply, which in our system is driven by availability of credit AND the interest rate making it less or more advantageous to take loans.
SO, Treasuries are the base of availability (outside of investments and savings), and the interest rate moderates the willingness for taking out loans, and then there are terms outside of the interest that the banks use to close up availability.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2025 12:24 PM (rbvCR)
That really is quite a list, isn't it‽‽
Posted by: mindful webworker - dead kid aside at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (yqA/D)
Posted by: tubal
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Same here, thus I held my nose and voted for Tillis.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
That would be:
Adventures in Babysitting
Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (3sXRv)
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I've always wondered if Arness, through the whole thing was thinking, 'I feel like an idiot in the getup'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 12:41 PM (raK6f)
It's always "we can't, we don't have a majority"
Then its "what?! And risk our majority?"
Posted by: Fen at December 09, 2025 01:19 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 01:27 PM (3k5hk)
Or, as is sometimes said, Nood Ace.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 09, 2025 01:30 PM (2Insx)
I've always wondered if Arness, through the whole thing was thinking, 'I feel like an idiot in the getup'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 09, 2025 12:32 PM (XeU6L)
Actually, I'm pretty sure he was thinking "who cares if I look foolish, the check cleared"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 03:02 PM (y9nCu)
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj)
This is what I do...................... https://urlr.me/E3tz6Y
Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:06 AM (NxtE8)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Peter Paul Rubens
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (kgE5c)
That woman made brazen overtures
With a gilt-edged guarantee
She had a golden glint in her eye
And a silver voice with a counterfeit ring
Just melt her down and you'll reveal
A lump of lead as cold as steel
Here, where a woman's heart should be
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (osKUJ)
Posted by: GWB at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (Bjfbw)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: PabloD at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (GALGA)
Posted by: Arts and Farces at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Indy at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (98kQX)
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM
I wouldn't exactly hang this in the library. If I had a library, that is.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Arts and Farces at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM
That's not all paint.
Posted by: Pee Wee at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (VE6XX)
Biblical Context-
"The painting depicts a scene from the Old Testament, specifically Numbers 21:6-9. In this narrative, God sends a plague of venomous snakes to punish the Israelites for their lack of faith. Moses is instructed to create a bronze serpent and raise it on a pole. Those who look at it after being bitten are healed."
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)
Would hang though, like the color scheme
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:36 AM
That is, how you say, what she said.
Posted by: Paolo at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Buster Brown (and Tige) at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)
Put some clothes on while you're around snakes.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)
Cowboy boots
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (tgvbd)
With a gilt-edged guarantee
She had a golden glint in her eye
And a silver voice with a counterfeit ring
Just melt her down and you'll reveal
A lump of lead as cold as steel
Here, where a woman's heart should be
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Love that show. Thanks for quoting from it. Always makes me smile.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 09, 2025 09:38 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (6qf1m)
"The painting depicts a scene from the Old Testament, specifically Numbers 21:6-9. In this narrative, God sends a plague of venomous snakes to punish the Israelites for their lack of faith. Moses is instructed to create a bronze serpent and raise it on a pole. Those who look at it after being bitten are healed."
Ah, thanks.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (NuV6c)
Peter Paul Rubens
***********
Group Portrait - a limerick
There are people in supplicating poses
And some of them are rather short of clothes-es
All that writhing and pleading!
The title is misleading
It's clear the painting isn't wholly Moses!
Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: redridinghood
My niece used to work for some agency of the State Department, and spent some months in Liberia. She said she learned never to wear open-toed shoes in the jungle --because there are snakes in the jungle.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Manny Moejack at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (84Uz9)
Posted by: Fashion Plate at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (W7XSX)
snake: no!!!!!!
Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 09:42 AM (XvL8K)
"The painting depicts a scene from the Old Testament, specifically Numbers 21:6-9. In this narrative, God sends a plague of venomous snakes to punish the Israelites for their lack of faith. Moses is instructed to create a bronze serpent and raise it on a pole. Those who look at it after being bitten are healed."
Posted by: redridinghood
The bronze serpent was later installed in the Temple in Jerusalem, and became an item of popular veneration, until a religious-reformed-minded king, Josiah, I think, ordered it removed. It was called "Nehushtan."
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: A Snek at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Fashion Plate
What you wanted were aspless chaps.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)
******
She needed protective armor.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: muldoon at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (dE3DB)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one
Still is, as far as I'm concerned. "Voluptuous" = "big-boobed."
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
Snakes on a stick > snakes on a plane
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM (XuXeR)
Snake on a stick was a favorite treat at the Sinai County Fair
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (osKUJ)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (XuXeR)
Talk about your bungle in the jungle. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: redridinghood
My niece used to work for some agency of the State Department, and spent some months in Liberia. She said she learned never to wear open-toed shoes in the jungle --because there are snakes in the jungle.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)
and cowboys.
Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Buffett at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Yakkov Smiroff at December 09, 2025 09:45 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (BHrzb)
Posted by: Yakkov Smiroff at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Yeah, God tells the people not to make idols and worship them, then He tells Moses to make an idol and have people gaze on it.
Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
--
Starving peasants are skinny and sunburnt.
Being chubby and pale signals wealth.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:47 AM (dE3DB)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:47 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)
*****
Or he had ophiophobia, fear of snakes.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:47 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: ZZ Top at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (FGMmt)
I never heard that. I do know a very high forehead was considered to be beautiful then, which is why noble women plucked their hairlines.
I've always considered 'voluptuous' to be more of an Edwardian appellation.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (W7XSX)
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Starving peasants are skinny and sunburnt.
Being chubby and pale signals wealth.
Posted by: vmom
I'M RICH!!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: no one
Still is, as far as I'm concerned. "Voluptuous" = "big-boobed."
Posted by: Bulg
You all wanna know what I think?
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (Dv3i1)
Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
This interpretation is as accurate as your interpretation of Catholic saints.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:49 AM (gDlxJ)
Posted by: Navin Johnsonstein at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (84Uz9)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)
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If I ever make it to Paradise, it won't be in the first 1000 questions I have, but it is on the list - why circumcision?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (SpIHn)
Posted by: the way I see it
I'm not gonna take that bait. I've sworn off antagonizing my Catholic friends on this blog.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:52 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:52 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (XuXeR)
Just look at them purty clouds!
G'morn, gang.😁
Posted by: mindful webworker - wholly moses! at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (yqA/D)
Posted by: Count de Mone
I think it's from the staff of Asclepius, commonly confused with the caduceus.
Either way, snakes were associated with healing in the ancient world.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (6U1c2)
I was always taught the cadeuces was the symbol of the Greek healer Aesclepius.*
*insert obligatory "Greek homos!" Al Sharpton rant here.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
I always thought that it made sex that much more pleasant for men, thereby encouraging them to be fruitful and multiply.
The Hebrews and Jews weren't the only ones to practice it, by the way. I believe the ancient Egyptians did, too. As, of course, do the Muslims.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Fashion Plate
What you wanted were aspless chaps.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:43 AM
*golf clap*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (kgE5c)
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If I ever make it to Paradise, it won't be in the first 1000 questions I have, but it is on the list - why circumcision?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1)
It's to consecrate the bonds of obedience.
You must snip it.
Snip it good!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (wVcYX)
Please be kind to yourself. I care whether you live or die. And this place is richer when you are here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (XuXeR)
Can anyone name the other?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM
You're in good form today, Bulg!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:56 AM (RHGPo)
You must snip it.
Snip it good!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:55 AM (wVcYX)
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The Rabbi, He'll always shlep on down for a wedding or a briss
They say he's got a lot of chutzpah, he's really quite hip
The parents pay the moyl and he gets to keep the tip!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:56 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:56 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (XuXeR)
How’s Beantown? It’s DARK here. Sun won’t rise for another 45 minutes or so. Sunset at 4:17. And it’s precipitating. And windy.
Embrace the suck!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (lJ0H4)
Flemish painter and diplomat
Born: June 28, 1577
Birthplace: Siegen, Westphalia (now in Germany)
Died: May 30, 1640
Place of death: Antwerp, Brabant, Spanish Netherlands (now in Belgium)
One of the most successful artists of his time, with a huge workshop of artists who completed many of his commissions, Rubens is regarded as the most important creator of Baroque art. Also, as a distinguished diplomat, he used his cheerful personality and broad human interests to work for the cause of peace.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
I always thought that it made sex that much more pleasant for men, thereby encouraging them to be fruitful and multiply.
The Hebrews and Jews weren't the only ones to practice it, by the way. I believe the ancient Egyptians did, too. As, of course, do the Muslims.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)
If ancient men were anything like modern men, 'pleasant' is not the first word that comes to mind when sex is on the table.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM (ufSfZ)
I would love for SCOTUS to rule that Trump can place tariffs in response to the drug emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved.
Because that would mean that Trump can place tariffs in response to the ANY emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved. And I'm betting he could discover a lot of emergencies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)
How’s Beantown? It’s DARK here. Sun won’t rise for another 45 minutes or so. Sunset at 4:17. And it’s precipitating. And windy.
Embrace the suck!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:57 AM
{{{nurse}}}
Sun's up, but it's a bit brisk and windy.
*checks weather*
How nice, it's back into the double digits.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (RHGPo)
Thank you, dear lady.
Your CDs are going out in the mail today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 09, 2025 10:00 AM (LHPAg)
- Then why not design it that way in the first place?
It's to consecrate the bonds of obedience.
- Yes, but why in this way, aren't there other ways to do this?
Nevermind.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 10:00 AM (Dv3i1)
... the end of the Low-Fire, Low-Hire economy?
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 10:00 AM (RHGPo)
I mean that’s how you maximize the all you can drink package.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:58 AM
Of course not. The table's not very comfortable.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (XuXeR)
[ five minutes later ]
Hey, I know, let’s wrap snakes around our nethers again!
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2025 10:02 AM (SpIHn)
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Talk about doth protesting too much. Or is that the guilty fleeing where the righteous pursueth not.
Who the hell ever said you weren't free, boy?? But now you come to mention it.......
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:03 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 10:03 AM (eh7Q3)
prioritize affordability for working-poor consumers, and move forward with a workforce restructuring as part of a broader cost-cutting push.
... plant closures are to working-poor what ...
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (RHGPo)
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR)
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR)
===
Well, he is dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (oftw2)
-- Emir of Qatar
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)
This is the kind of shit history teachers are always coming up with, to cover for the fact they all end up with fat chicks.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (zdLoL)
Really strange episode in the Bible. I wish O understood it better.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
Yeah, God tells the people not to make idols and worship them, then He tells Moses to make an idol and have people gaze on it.
Not quite as strange as the story in Exodus where God seeks to kill Moses for being uncircumcised, but still odd.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
Old Testament: Let's throw shit at the wall and see what works.
New Testament: Dammit Dad, may I suggest you follow my lead?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2025 10:05 AM (y9nCu)
Norm Eisen, Lawfare Ninja Supreme Western Civ is choking itself to death with lawfare in the name of “democracy.” If you think just a little bit past the sale, you will realize that few will say what they mean by “democracy,” including the most ardent “democracy” cultists.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (yfFl/)
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR)
===
Well, he is dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
Nah, just pining for the fjords.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
Not getting the monthly boost from soda and junk food sales hurts, huh?
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (XuXeR)
I would love for SCOTUS to rule that Trump can place tariffs in response to the drug emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved.
Because that would mean that Trump can place tariffs in response to the ANY emergency but that it can only affect those countries which are involved. And I'm betting he could discover a lot of emergencies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Court is perfectly capable of delaying the matter as well. The case presented possibly has some standing problems, there is an issue of practicality making repaying tariffs difficult in the sense of billions of bucks we do not have, whether the agreements with nations over the tariffs suddenly are now deemed executive agreements (aka treaty like), etc.
Most legal beagle commentators on the air or on youtube/etc are not actually constitutional law experts and even then, the whole field of tariff law has been so quiet for nearly 80-90 years that few today have any practical experience or knowledge of it.
Birthright citizenship and Wong Ark Kim precedent is more more poorly understood.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)
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Fjords are overrated.
The real action is in plateaus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
Dunno
Posted by: man
One of the four celestial creatures our something like that?
If so, not really animals, but divine beings that look like animals.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:08 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:07 AM (WDjG6)
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I read Kim a few months back. Well, skimmed it. It's like 300 pages long.
Seemed pretty clear to me: Legal residents who have kids...their kids are citizens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Common Tater
That's my understanding, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (ufSfZ)
Saw that story. Dude looks to be slightly...unhealthy.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (XuXeR)
If only he'd made it to 34 drinks.
At drink 34, you totally sober up, and can continue drinking until drink 68!
It's a scientific fact.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: The Isle of Malta at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: banana miracle max Dream at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (SpIHn)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (9iyS+)
Who the hell ever said you weren't free, boy?? But now you come to mention it.......
Posted by: ...
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Tucker may be coming to the realization that he has no 'friends' anymore on the right or left due to his antics.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (yfFl/)
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They talk like fags, and their shit's all retarded.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Did you see the ladies in yesterday's art? They looked like they might have appealed to you, even though they were not noticeably voluptuous.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
What we always wondered about was how it became the trademark of the Sun Oil Company.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (zdLoL)
I gave up on caring about that a while ago, but I think his central end game is just "make lots of money".
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Rum Dum With DTs at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (oftw2)
Notice I chose not to use "scale". Too punny.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
He's resting.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (2ocoG)
He’s already got fuck you money.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (9iyS+)
In a day? A week? A ten day cruise?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (9n4pb)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (yfFl/)
The British comedy, "Yes, Minister" is not an instruction video. Nor is "Yes, Prime Minister".
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (ZxPkt)
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
_________
Oh, Lili Lili Lili
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (XvL8K)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Sneks. I hate sneks. This would require a ton of faith.
*shudders*
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (8DR9B)
Posted by: The Isle of Malta at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)
The spirit of the honey badger resides in Paul.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1)
Why not?
Posted by: God at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (FGMmt)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Didn't see that, but it is right up my alley.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Rum Dum
When I was in my real heavy-drinking days in the Navy, I would always reach a point where I thought, "If I have another sip of alcohol, I'm going to be sick." And then I would stop.
Nowadays, I usually fall asleep long before I even come close to that point.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (Dv3i1)
Why not?
Posted by: God at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (FGMmt)
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"Job, I have another one who has questions of their creator. Please, do come and help inform him."
-God
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:06 AM
Alaskan cruise?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:10 AM (WDjG6)
That's a thought. It reads more to me like he's justifying theft the way thieves always do. "F you, I have been wronged."
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:15 AM (U6Usv)
Notice I chose not to use "scale". Too punny."
Well, if light bends around it...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:15 AM (XuXeR)
——
I like the folks that believe the Egyptian depiction of half humans with bird heads weren’t artistic license, they really looked like that. Which would be weird.
The elongated skulls are a bit weird, they are not due to infant-binding or cultural practices, as oft-cited although some more primitive societies did do this. Not the Flathead Indian nation, strangely enough.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (yfFl/)
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
_________
Oh, Lili Lili Lili
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 10:13 AM (XvL8K)
Ditto:
https://tinyurl.com/3ce97k3e
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (wVcYX)
Seemed pretty clear to me: Legal residents who have kids...their kids are citizens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Part of it is a confused history of jus soli in the opinion, the role of sojourners in British law, and Justice Gray's ignoring the constitutional principle that later amendments alter the original document.
His discussion of the 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' part of the 14th Amendment and refusal to deal with the smelly skunk in the room--the 14th was adopted to overturn the Dred Scott decision wrought by Scotus itself (as were the 13th and 15th).
Part of that horrendous Dred Scott decision was that blacks could never be citizens of the US as they were not included in the Declaration as part of all men are created equal. Thus, blacks, free or slave, could not be citizens of the US and by corollary citizens of states (thus could be expelled at will, etc.).
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (9iyS+)
It's never enough for some.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)
Like Nicole Sullivan when she appeared on Mom? I liked that.
https://tinyurl.com/295nkpd9
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (ufSfZ)
There are those for whom nothing is enough, dating back to Eve in Genesis.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (XuXeR)
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Drink one, spill one, give one away, it’s time for beddy-bye
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (yfFl/)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (W7XSX)
And sadly she has a ton of people lapping this nonsense up.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (9iyS+)
I mean that’s how you maximize the all you can drink package.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (9iyS+)
Well, he didn't fall overboard. So there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)
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I saw one of the many celeries who demand Israel release a terror mastermind they have imprisoned was Paul Simon. I'm sure the Islamic crocodile will eat him last. Should've stayed with his old friend silence.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)
Mostly because my wife waits until the last minute, spazzes out of finding stuff, orders things to be delivered... probably... while we're not at home, and cries, sighs, and mutters the whole time.
Because things have a way of working out.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:16 AM (yfFl/)
Wanna swap genetic legacies?
Posted by: The Elongated Beaver Teeth Nation at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (iJfKG)
https://tinyurl.com/3ce97k3e
Posted by: Count de Monet
Mae West?
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)
When she was good, she was very, very good. When she was bad, she was better!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 10:20 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (9iyS+)
***
*looks in wallet*
F U money? Nope
Piss off money? Nope.
Get bent money? Nope.
Sit back, ignore the world, sip scotch, and smoke cigars money?
Check!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 10:20 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 10:21 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: The Isle of Malta at December 09, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)
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Heh. My pastor talked about this very incident this past Sunday. We're slowly moving through the Book of Acts (it's taken us a year and a half). We're almost done.
Paul was basically in charge of his own mission to get to Rome at this point. Everyone else was simply tagging along.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 10:21 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:21 AM (9iyS+)
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Sounds like a plot for a book. Get a ghost writer on board with it, push out about 350 pages of conspiracy nonsense and make bank.
Worse musings have been published. See "107 Days" by Kamala Harris for example.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 10:22 AM (NwnyJ)
Based on the pics... he'd float. Very, very well.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:22 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
__________
What about the other half of "we"? Does she buy for herself?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (XvL8K)
I may be rich but I still gots to get paid. I'll sling whatever shit somebody wants long as the check clears. -- Tucker Carlson (and pretty much every other pundit)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Case at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (G1OIb)
Like Nicole Sullivan when she appeared on Mom? I liked that.
https://tinyurl.com/295nkpd9
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (ufSfZ)
Lagniappe!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (wVcYX)
And sadly she has a ton of people lapping this nonsense up.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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The problem with outrage merchants is to keep the rubes in line, you have to keep the outrage going. So they double down. It is not enough anymore to allege Brigette has a twig and berries. Brigette has to have multiple twigs and berries in the bush. Or Brigette is a tripod man.
Only the lucky con artists can make the swing to the next rope when a new controversy arises to let the rubes forget about how worthless your previous pronouncements were of a different controversy.
I also suspect, like Fuentes, a lot of the supposed views, etc. are fake manufactured and from content mills in the Third World.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (WDjG6)
Not drinking more than 7 drinks daily. Then after the first drink I bought which was ridiculously watered down, I realized why the drink package is a good deal after all.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (jc0TO)
Like a lot of things in the Old Testament it's a "do this and magically avoid negative consequences" thing that wasn't necessary once other ways of avoiding the negatives were understood. Like the pork prohibition stopped people from getting trichinosis until safe handling and cooking practices were a thing.
Also it really pisses off the gays.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (2ocoG)
It’s just retarded to assert that a baby born of an illegal alien is now a citizen. That was never the intent nor passes the common sense test. The author of the amendment itself pointed this out as well. This is just legal twaddle pulled out of their ass. They should have been impeached for such a ruling. Same with the “you American citizen taxpayers are on the hook for illegal aliens in public schools, too!”
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (yfFl/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
He's resting.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:12 AM (U6Usv)
Was it a Norwegian cruise? If so, I have a theory.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (EMg+d)
https://tinyurl.com/bdz4b2fa
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Nope. She's just fat.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Ian S.
Yes. I remember Andrew Sullivan going on about it back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (EMg+d)
I think you'll find you're about six years late.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (U6Usv)
Twitch might be on the hook for some massive fraud by allegedly using 'bots to boost the view counts and then charging higher rates to advertisers to advertise.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:27 AM (wVcYX)
But Japan in WWII and Comfort Women is a war crime.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:27 AM (2GVsD)
I especially enjoyed the bit that such education would make them "productive".
For whom?
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (2GVsD)
Does she, though? The recent discovery by DataRepublican that the Groypers are largely bots certainly casts doubt on a lot of the things we're supposed to be deeply concerned about.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
This year, my wife and I both bought the things to give each other.
I don't really care for that, but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
They go back home but the kid will always have the option to come back and have all the benefits of being “American”.
And same thing with student visas.
It’s simple one parent has to be a citizen or a green card holder for the baby to be a citizen. Just like pretty much every other country on the planet.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (9iyS+)
Twitch might be on the hook for some massive fraud by allegedly using 'bots to boost the view counts and then charging higher rates to advertisers to advertise.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:26 AM (2GVsD)
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YouTubers have been complaining for a couple of months that things have suddenly gotten a lot harder.
Dolley's favorite channel, TheTimTracker (they do theme parks and cruise videos), is seeing half the viewership they used to (they're doing a lot more endorsements now to make up for it).
My first thought was that YT was killing bot views.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (Wg6v7)
You got married when you were 2?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (2GVsD)
GOD: WTF??? *Puts the snakes on them*
Israelites: AAAIIII!!! MOSES HALP!
Moses: Oi vey. Lord, please what with the snaking and the biting!
GOD: Fine. Put up the snake sign.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (V362x)
Peter Paul Rubens
Moses teaching a path to G*d's goodness & mercy. (The Old Testament, with "cause and effect" throughout, didn't mess around. A principle often referred to as retributive justice or the Deuteronomic formula.)
Moses led the Israelites for about 40 years in the wilderness, but he did not enter the Promised Land himself, dying on Mount Nebo after seeing it from afar, due to a specific act of disobedience where he struck a rock for water instead of speaking to it as God commanded. This 40-year period was a punishment for the entire generation's disbelief after the spies' negative report, ensuring only the faithful (Joshua & Caleb) and the new generation entered Canaan. (AI Overview)
Good lesson & Reubens was a Master of painting. However, I'd pass hanging today's selection. Thanks.
PS - No one wrote, "Boobs!"
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (NFX2v)
I placed an order.
Didn't say it's carved in Greece. It may arrive by Epiphany.
Anniversary is day after tomorrow.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Case at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (G1OIb)
""Honey, wait! Your hair's a mess!
How many time have I told you...Comb your pubes before you go out!"
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (iJfKG)
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They held their conspiracy planning meeting at the Superdome. All other venues were too small.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
youtu.be/0wQrVlfmQto
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (9iyS+)
The verb “to pine” derives from the Old English pinian, which meant to torment, cause to suffer, afflict, etc.
Pinian in turn comes from German and Old Norse words referring to pain and punishment ― which most believe trace back to the Latin poena, meaning punishment or penalty. In Roman mythology, Poena was the spirit of punishment, known as Poine in Greek.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (2GVsD)
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*hint...hint...*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)
Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (mT+6a)
METAL!!!
Would hang. Next to my SLAYER collection.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:34 AM (rQwsY)
I don't really care for that, but after 27 years of marriage, you kinda run out of ideas as to what to get your spouse.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
We have your gift of love!
-----Spatula City
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:34 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 10:34 AM (6qf1m)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (9iyS+)
How is your hero doing?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:33 AM (rQwsY)
Heh. I am actually.
I just don’t buy into the Christmas everyone buy everyone something for the sake of buying something, game. I really don’t need anything. I’m good.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
My wife and I, theoretically, tell the other one what we'd like. She says she can't think of anything which means "get me something without my input" and I say that I literally want nothing which means that I literally want nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ExV1e)
Fuentes is probably an op, given the footage of him in the crowd on J6 saying the same things as Ray Epps and the FBI subsequently pretending he wasn't there.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (2ocoG)
You know who else dialed back his rhetoric when he was making an attempt for more mainstream respectability?
Posted by: painting happy trees in Bavaria at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (gKWVE)
--Posted by: Anna Puma
True, but it can also mean that she could be the means
of surviving one.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:36 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)
My 2026 astronomy themed calendar is waiting in the wings.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (rQwsY)
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Hashem also intended that no Israelite who had been accustomed to life as a slave in Egypt entered the Land.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (2GVsD)
Macron is apparently refusing a DNA test and saying nude pictures should be sufficient. That's... suspicious.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (2ocoG)
I placed an order.
Didn't say it's carved in Greece. It may arrive by Epiphany.
Anniversary is day after tomorrow.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:30 AM (zdLoL)
Hmmmm... my 30th is coming up but the wife already has pearls, white and black.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:25 AM (g8Ew
How about this?
https://tinyurl.com/yc2ez6e2
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Amen brother!!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (9iyS+)
So far, I am getting nothing.
I never figured their cops would turn into nannies on steroids.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:35 AM (9iyS+)
See above; I shoot for practicality. I have found people still use wall calendars. Cheap, practical. I constantly buy them as gifts or make my own for people.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (2ocoG)
of surviving one.
That's Sally Struthers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:39 AM (yfFl/)
https://tinyurl.com/yc2ez6e2
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
She's better than the last one.
I don't get why you like all the clothes, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ian S.
Nude pictures?!!! O, the humanity!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:01 AM (9iyS+)
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Another tragic case of death by spreadsheet
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (JkO4W)
I would argue it's a sign of the way that many ideas and symbols from foreign cultures slipped into the ancient beliefs of the Israelites.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (uWKK8)
Dolley's favorite channel, TheTimTracker (they do theme parks and cruise videos), is seeing half the viewership they used to (they're doing a lot more endorsements now to make up for it).
My first thought was that YT was killing bot views.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)
My YT gripes:
Ads every five minutes. The worst aspect is presentation. Here I am, really into a video, then out of nowhere come two ads. Again, every five minutes. It’s jarring.
And many of them are clickbait scam ads.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (rQwsY)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:39 AM (yfFl/)
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Our last minute Christmas purchasing is on the cheap side because, you know, I lost my job (fingers crossed on two potentials soon, though, still...YT making money is preferred).
Anyway, Dolley decided that our mutual Christmas/anniversary present (anniversary is the 17th) shall be...
a breadmaker.
Completely unrelated, I finished my first loaf of sourdough yesterday. Really good. Shocked at how good it turned out. Didn't use the breadmaker at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ian S.
And pretty kinky.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)
Get her a vacuum cleaner. That'll spice things up...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (XuXeR)
Not really appreciate any of the presents individually.
Luckily as my kids got older they’ve stopped this and now it’s 2-3 presents per kid.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:41 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:39 AM (yfFl/)
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Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (9ipOP)
I would argue it's a sign of the way that many ideas and symbols from foreign cultures slipped into the ancient beliefs of the Israelites.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (uWKK
The cadaceus was the first thing I thought of here TBH. Like this is the mother of all things cadaceus.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (rQwsY)
https://tinyurl.com/yc2ez6e2
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ufSfZ)
LOL. Better. I would have hated the era of the bustle. Just like I hated the era of the girdle.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (g8Ew8)
Current year ones or ones when she was still Mr. Macron's teacher?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Ian S.
Who Malaria says she might marry.
https://is.gd/3gDeew
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)
Hey, this lighter is going to be banned by the government. Get yours today!
/Utube advert
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ian S.
Extremely sus.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (bvUs5)
Several years ago the 'ettes here took me to task for buying Mrs. F. a new bathroom scale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM (9ipOP)
You survived to tell the tale ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (VE6XX)
So far, I am getting nothing.
I never figured their cops would turn into nannies on steroids.
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:38 AM (EMg+d)
If malicious foreigners entering Britain to steal from the taxpayers and rape their women didn't get them to revolt, nothing will.
Since they've accepted their lives as tax-cattle and rape-dolls, nothing will get them to revolt.
Farewell, Old Blighty! We hardly knew ye!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (iJfKG)
I mean... it's the reason they're doing it. To get paid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
"Honey, you've been looking a little emaciated lately. I want you to keep track of your weight to avoid losing too much."
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
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I want to party with you!! LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (yfFl/)
Ads every five minutes. The worst aspect is presentation. Here I am, really into a video, then out of nowhere come two ads. Again, every five minutes. It’s jarring.
I gave in and got YouTube Premium. I hate giving them money, but not having to spend all my time messing with ad blockers and whatnot made it worthwhile.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (2ocoG)
-God
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)
Oh, yeah. Ahem..."fuck you, worm! Who the fuck do you think you are to ask God questions?!"
Posted by: Job at December 09, 2025 10:44 AM (TbWk/)
Since they've accepted their lives as tax-cattle and rape-dolls, nothing will get them to revolt.
Farewell, Old Blighty! We hardly knew ye!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (iJfKG)
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They still have hope in the ballot box. That may be misplaced, but Labour got its majority with only about 30% of the vote. The people are against Labour, and I don't think it's a secret people whisper to each other.
If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM
As well they should have. Dude.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1)
Ads every five minutes. The worst aspect is presentation. Here I am, really into a video, then out of nowhere come two ads. Again, every five minutes. It’s jarring.
Brave browser. It's been said a million times. No YT ads.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (2GVsD)
How long should I take for recovery after trying that?
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM
Well, they don't have the cartridge box as Plan C anymore.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (NwnyJ)
No different than anyone else in media. Rush didn’t do it for free right?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:46 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (0sNs1)
You probably won't make any new friends among Jews by suggesting that the dietary commandments are just iron-age nutritional science, but they won't go as ape-shit as telling a catholic that some saints used to be local forest gods.
It's like wishing them a festive Saturnalia.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (2GVsD)
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Just checked. The wheel is there but is not attached to the spindle anymore.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (A0sqA)
Once your guns are taken away there's no point in trying to resist. That's why the Democrats keep trying here.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (EMg+d)
Her Majesty asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her I was well beyond the age of wanting things and that she could get me anything that it would make her happy to give me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (tgvbd)
I always have wondered what is so important about the foreskin to some faiths
seems
weird
how about a pinky swear or something
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Yeah, but Rush was his own master, not some toady.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
Yeah, but Rush was his own master, not some toady.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
End of the day it was still about selling ads.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
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He was a pawn of Big Identity Protection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (EMg+d)
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Easier than a new mop.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (JkO4W)
If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)
The US is quickly approaching the same situation.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM (OjHyA)
No kidding!
Posted by: Brett Favre at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM
As well they should have. Dude.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1)
Wife shouldn't be turning into a fatty. Nothing wrong with helping her not turn into a fatty.
Posted by: Healthy at any size ain't true at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2025 10:43 AM (2GVsD)
Reubens didn't have to come up with much on his own.
From Numbers 2:
8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:49 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:50 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 10:50 AM (yfFl/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)
Honestly?
It's because, despite my life and experiences, I do adore women, especially the ones who glory in their femininity. To me, all those clothes, in addition to their beauty, are like the packaging of a delicious box of candy, where each layer of silk, satin, cotton and bengaline is another layer to remove and savor before reaching the luscious treat within.
As I say, I was born at least a hundred years too late.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: pawn at December 09, 2025 10:47 AM
It's the thing that goes up that is always a wrapping challenge.
Posted by: Carolyn McCarthy at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (XuXeR)
youtu.be/0wQrVlfmQto
Posted by: gKWVE at December 09, 2025 10:31 AM (gKWVE)
Maybe the UK government can hire her to give the rape gangs something to work with so they leave the girls alone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM
Remember that weird Peloton ad many years ago where the guy gets his already petitie wife a Peloton bike for Christmas, and she obsessively filmed every session, so that she could play it for him the following Christmas? That was a really strange ad.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)
If Reform gains power and doesn't do anything about it, they could finally snap as a nation, but I think they still think the ballot box is a potential fix.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)
You're probably right.
Unless, they start smuggling munitions like the IRA. Revolution would be a very tough fight.
What're they going to do?
Storm the barricades with plastic spatulas and gravy ladles?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)
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see, this confuses me
why would an omnipotent god make his people jump thru hoops
just miracle the snake away from people
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
End of the day it was still about selling ads.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (9iyS+)
He admitted to it often. He was first a businessman.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (g8Ew8)
Someone throw a bucket of cold water. Dude needs it...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (XuXeR)
Unless, they start smuggling munitions like the IRA. Revolution would be a very tough fight.
What're they going to do?
Storm the barricades with plastic spatulas and gravy ladles?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:52 AM (iJfKG)
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Unarmed peasants overran armed guards at the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg.
Numbers account for a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)
Which is almost certainly why Reubens shows the bronze snake not just on a pole, but on a cross.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
If Filter Queen made one, it would come in a nice box.
With the attachments in a holster that snapped on.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:54 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:54 AM (XuXeR)
At that moment, many miles away, a certain order of several new rolls of expensive wrapping paper was fulfilled...
Synchronicity
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (6qf1m)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
I thought that might be it. And I get it, up to a point. But, being a naturally impatient person, I would reach a point where I'd just say to the gal, "Forget it," and head off to my bunk with a Playboy.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
We saw "Fackham Hall" yesterday, which has been reviewed as "Downton Abbey" getting the "Naked Gun" treatment.
Yeah...well, nah.
There's a few good jokes but it's no where close in the laughs department to the worst of the "Naked Gun" series.
Save your money and see it for "free" on streaming. Should you wish to see it.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (iJfKG)
So, revolting?
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (XuXeR)
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They stink on ice!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)
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42m
LEGAL BLOWBACK: A federal judge strikes down President Trump’s freeze on new wind energy permits, ruling the administration’s “Wind Order” violated federal law.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (ZxPkt)
Numbers account for a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
A lot also depends on where the military and/or other security forces land. If they back the regime, it goes nowhere. If they back the insurgency, it's a whole new ball game. Which is why they've been working our military so hard lately.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (OUMaO)
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Yeah, but what military does Britain have?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 09, 2025 10:56 AM (zdLoL)
Numbers account for a lot.
They sacrificed hundreds, just to draw us out in the open. And then they came, and they came. We drained four of our phasers, and they still came. We killed thousands and they still came.
Posted by: Captain Tracey at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (FGMmt)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (9iyS+)
He admitted to it often. He was first a businessman.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
The only time I remember him backing down due to pressure from advertisers was when he apologized for the Sandra Fluke thing. His take on her was spot on, though.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
Nah.
/AR 15 sales...
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 10:51 AM (XuXeR)
So many guns. But without the will and purpose to use them.......I hope I'm wrong. But if the Covid shutdown was any indication, all bets are off.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Depending where they fall? Enough to make things quick, or ugly.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner
Those that already know the answer.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 10:58 AM (bvUs5)
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Well, it's no put the lime in the coconut.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2025 10:58 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
Depending where they fall? Enough to make things quick, or ugly.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 10:57 AM (OUMaO)
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Also depending on where they are.
Britain having the largest navy in the world didn't help nearly as much with colonial revolution as one would imagine.
If most of Britain's forces are on bases throughout the country, they won't have that many in London to beat back tens or even hundreds of thousands of pissed people.
Still...I'm not predicting it. I'm just saying, if the British people snap, the powers that be in England probably won't have the numbers to fight back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 11:00 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger
You're probably right. It's more a question of whether they're fighting a losing struggle against their own people, or watching Parliament get rounded up at bayonet point. The latter is probably the less painful result. The former may not end well for anyone.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:17 AM (77rzZ)
When she was good, she was very, very good. When she was bad, she was better!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 10:19 AM (wVcYX)
All 5 feet of her. She was a tiny thing with a 38D's.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: B. Hussein Soetoro at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)
Well, of course, no-one interested in seduction should look to me for advice, but I have found, in my very limited experiences, that a slow undressing of a lady, interspersed with soft words and caressing of her and her raiment, to be greatly appreciated.
I suppose I'd better hit my bunk now. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
I want to untie one knot and have all of her clothes fall off. I figure if I've seduced her to that point, more clothes would be just unnecessary drama.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (g8Ew8)
That's been my take for years.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
Try after 53 years. We have "hallway sex". Heh.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:04 AM (5xuJ/)
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This too, was the big selling point for Cable TV. “No Commercials!”
That arrangement didn’t last very long.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 09, 2025 11:05 AM (CmJfJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM
As well they should have. Dude.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1)
Should have gotten her the matching vacuum and Mixmaster to go along with the scale. She'd be much happier.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 11:06 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 10:42 AM
As well they should have. Dude.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1)
Should have gotten her the matching vacuum and Mixmaster to go along with the scale. She'd be much happier.
where's walter e. williams when you need him?
Posted by: anachronda at December 09, 2025 11:08 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 10:45 AM
Well, they don't have the cartridge box as Plan C anymore.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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That is kind of a distortion. Britain still has quite a few long arms aka shotguns, Enfields, etc. 2.2 million as of 2023 (legal). When you consider Dewats and illegals (well over 1m), even more. Handguns, not so much. These are mainly concentrated in rural areas where there is still hunting, varmint removal, etc. In the last twenty years or so, quite a few illegal handguns have been imported into the UK from across Euroland and some old unregistered handguns still reside in drawers and other places as remnants of WWI and WWII officers.
Ammunition for these cached and legal arms is more of the issue.
Australia is often mentioned as another gun ban paradise but in reality, the number of legal registered arms has recovered to above the numbers reported before the Australian government tried to obliterate long arms.
Posted by: whig at December 09, 2025 11:11 AM (WDjG6)
Several years later, she started buying herself annual membership to the gym and pool at YMCA. It's different that way, you see.
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Posted by: Anonymous at December 10, 2025 04:08 AM (NxtE8)
The Morning Report — 12/9/25
Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”Stories like this remind me of that line from Apocalypse Now that charging someone for murder out here is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500
The underlying rationale of this vile tract and its purveyors, ipso facto turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds, and 1-100 year-olds. Still, the act of abortion itself along with the concomitant devaluing of human life and the reduction of the individual to insignificance, and merely as part of some mass that is to be shaped and molded at the whim of who or whatever sits at the top of that mass, is the sine qua non of the Left as well as its current partner in the Axis of Evil, ISLAM. We are dealing with people in our midst, be they imported foreigners or worse native born citizens, who see themselves as on a mission from God, or Karl Marx, and given the SUPER DUPER POWER of moral superiority to Lord over and therefore weed out all of us who do not submit to their will to perfect Humanity in their image. Because they are Super Duper Supermen as the late great Spike Jones once crooned (about "Der Furher's Face")
Moving right along to what is a very significant story out of the Supreme Court yesterday, which Ace covered yesterday afternoon and could have far-reaching implications for both President Trump and please God future chief executives of the America-as-founded bent.
Trump v. Slaughter, about the removal of an FCC commissioner with the unfortunate ‘slaughter’ name, looks set to roll back more of the bureaucratic state. “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that the government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained. Well yes. Destroying the structure of a gargantuan government with unlimited powers and no constitutional basis is an essentially conservative project. Independence from elected officials also means independent of the electorate. That’s the realm of philosopher kings. And these days the philosopher kings are all lefties. That’s not to say that there shouldn’t be more limitations on executive power. There should. And Congress should exercise more oversight over the monstrous size and power of the government. But the solution isn’t a fake independence, it’s direct engagement, and the ability of the public to also litigate when its interests are legitimately threatened.Bingo to the estimable Daniel Greenfield. While the wide-ass Wiseass Latina was at least accidentally honest in proclaiming the existence of "independent agencies" that essentially form an unelected and virtually unaccountable fourth branch of govvernment that via its abilities to issue regulations that carry with them the force of law if they are disobeyed, completely contrary to the founding of this nation and the reason why this nation declared its independence in the first place by breaking away from a totalitarian overbearing tyrannical monarchy. We go from her idiocy to that of this inept DEI hire Kentanji Brown-25 Jackson whose knee-jerk remonstrations were predictable.
During an exchange with U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer, Jackson expressed confusion about the Trump administration’s argument that, as she summarized, these independent agencies “aren’t answering to Congress.” Under the current constitutional framework, she reasoned, “Congress established them and can eliminate them. Congress funds them and can stop.”She's not only a clueless, rude imbecile, but utterly ignorant of the Constitution that she allegedly studied, which forms or is supposed to form the basis of our entire legal and governmental system. Or is she really clueless? No, it's more nefarious. To the extent that Leftists study American law and our traditions and precedents, they do so to more effectively use them as weapons to enslave us and wrest absolute power.
. . .“So,” Jackson continued, “having a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the Ph.D.s, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States. This is what I think Congress’s policy decision is when it says that ‘these certain agencies we’re not going to make directly accountable to the president.’ So, I think there’s a pretty significant danger that Congress has actually identified and cares about when it determines that these issues should not be in presidential control.”
It's why Adolph Eichmann learned Hebrew, So as to better be able to ultimately destroy Europe's and ultimately the world's Jews. Psaki-Psircling back to my remarks on that abortion story. Sotomayor and Jackson are part of that group that view themselves as intellectually, morally and perhaps evolutionarily superior to the rest of us, and therefore do what they do with a smugness reflected in the slogan on the belt buckles of the SS troops "Gott Mit Uns" God is with us, or more likely in the case of the Left, We Are God. And one way or another, God has a way of dealing with apostates. Soon enough we are all going to find out which one is which.
Of course there's this bit of cheery news to buck you up. Or Buck with an "F" — —
In the handful of establishment media stories that bothered to cover the arrest of Luqmaan Khan at all, most make no mention at all regarding Khan’s immigration status. Only WHYY, which operates in Philadelphia and its environs, including Delaware, bothers to note that Khan was born in Pakistan, and is now a citizen of the United States. In other words, he is another indication that Trump, for all the abuse he is getting for terming some migrants “garbage,” was entirely correct. NBC Philadelphia reportedTuesday that the drama began at 11:47 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, when “police initiated a traffic stop after Khan was, allegedly found operating a white Toyota Tacoma in Canby Park West after hours.” When the cops stopped him, Khan was “visibly nervous.” Police ordered Khan to step out of his car, but he refused and resisted arrest.
Once police searched his car, they could see why Khan was so uncooperative: “In an investigation into the vehicle, police said, officers discovered a loaded .357 Glock handgun with 27 rounds of ammunition, along with three additional fully loaded 27-round magazines. Police also found ammunition for a 9mm handgun along with an armored ballistic plate in the vehicle.”
Along with that, the cops found “a notebook in the vehicle that included handwritten details of additional weapons and ammunition and how they could be used in an attack.” This notebook was filled with “information on how someone could hide from law enforcement following such an attack.” It also “referenced a member of the University of Delaware Police Department by name and included a layout of a building with entry and exit points marked.” That map bore the label “UD Police Station.”
As Captain Kirk might say KHAAAAAAN!!!!"
We're at the point of a Khan almost every other day of the week now. Have a good day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
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- Daniel Greenfield: There are no such things as 'independent' agencies.
“You’re Asking Us to Destroy the Structure of Government”: Justice Sotomayor
- But you’ll hear nothing about it.
Delaware Undergrad Had Machine Gun and Manifesto Targeting Cops
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- In essence, Chauvin – sacrificed on the altar of economic and racial “justice” to appease BLM-inflamed mobs – will remain the victim not of a heckler’s but a hooligans’ veto.
Read Derek Chauvin’s New Petition … And Weep For American Justice
- The attacks on Pete Hegseth are not just the usual insanity, but a progression of the left’s color revolution.
The Ops Against Pete Hegseth Are Designed To Further A Color Revolution (So long as it runs RED with the blood of the traitors among us - jjs) "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - The news comes after a campaign in which the New York City mayor-elect vowed to prevent ICE from carrying out deportations
Mamdani Transition Adviser’s Nonprofit Under Congressional Investigation for Allegedly Teaching Illegal Aliens How To Evade ICE
- If successful, the lawsuit could see ICEBlock, used to evade and potentially ambush ICE agents, returned to Apple’s app store. (Arrest the owners of the site and imprison them - jjs)
ICEBlock App Files Lawsuit Against Trump Admin for ‘Censorship.’
- America must defend its borders, culture, and citizens—mass immigration isn’t charity; it’s a threat we can no longer ignore.
Ending Illegal and Mass Immigration Is Trump’s Signature Issue
- “Some of these children are in sex trafficking. We found some were in forced labor. Some were being mistreated.”
Homan: 62,000 Migrant Kids Rescued Under Trump Admin
- The deleterious effects of excessive immigration are painfully apparent in our own history.
America should REJECT immigrants from many countries
- In the history of American governance, few chapters will stain the pages as darkly as the utter failure of the Biden-Harris junta to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children.
They Called It ‘Compassion’ -- But it was Child Trafficking
- While Americans back deportation of illegal aliens, they also support citizenship for illegals' children born here? (this makes zero sense; I smell a crock of shit from TIPP - jjs)
Voters Back Birthright Citizenship, But Will The U.S. Supreme Court Do The Same? I&I/TIPP Poll - The deportations align with the Trump administration’s intensified focus on enforcing immigration laws and reversing illegal immigration. They come despite heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with President Donald J. Trump having ordered strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in June.
Trump Increases Deportations of Iranians.
- For Catholics who like their Christianity with a strong dose of Marxism.
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - If Monday’s Supreme Court argument is any indication, the days of “independent” agencies acting as a fourth branch of government are numbered. In Trump v. Slaughter, a solid majority of the justices seemed ready to confirm what the Constitution already implies: If an official is exercising executive power, the elected president has to be able to say, “You’re fired.”
Supreme Court win for Trump in FTC case would restore the Founders’ design - “The vulnerable Americans who depend on these programs — and the taxpayers who fund them — deserve the truth.”
Dr. Oz to Walz: Address Alleged Somali Medicaid Fraud or Lose Funding (Fuck that noise, just cut the funding and twist his arm! - jjs)
- Christopher Bernardini, a former “billing guru” at Gateway Community Services, said that the company falsified documents to obtain payment from Maine’s Medicaid program for services to low-income and disabled clients, NewsNation reported. Abdullahi Ali, the owner of the company, reportedly ran for office in Jubaland, a region of Somalia, and boasted about funding a militia there, according to The Maine Wire. (RELATED: Minnesota Democrats Attempted To Derail GOP Lawmaker Discussing Somali Scandal Months Before Story Blew Up)
Whistleblower Claims Somalians Committed Mass Medicaid Fraud In Maine
- Where in the Constitution do you find the idea of independent regulators? It does not exist.
Supreme Court Poised To Rein In ‘Fourth Branch,’ Restore Unitary Executive - Jackson also fearmongered about ‘having a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the Ph.D.s, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything.’ (like her, an inept zombie fekete - jjs)
Justice (Brown-25) Jackson Downplays Unelected ‘Experts’ Running The Executive Without Presidential Oversight - "But do not mistake compliance for surrender."
Alina Habba Steps Down From Role After Heated Legal Battle: ‘Politicized Judges’ THE ECONOMY, STUPID - “The national average is down 17.6 cents from a month ago and is 7.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 5.1 cents in the last week and stands at $3.671 per gallon,” according to the update, which noted that it gleaned its data from “12 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.”
Winning: U.S. Average Gas Price Dips Again, Under $3 a Gallon
- Mean unemployment expectations—the average probability that the U.S. unemployment rate will be higher one year from now—improved slightly, decreasing 0.4 percentage points to 42.1 percent.
Consumer Inflation Expectations Hold Steady as Job Security Improves CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Many members of the mayor-elect’s Committee on Community Safety have long histories of anti-law-enforcement radicalism.
Meet the Anti-Cop Activists Who Will Advise Mamdani on Criminal Justice - Multnomah County prosecutors charged Gary Edwards, 43, with second-degree assault for the July 7 knife attack on Gregory Howard Jr. near the Union Station MAX stop, according to Oregon Live. Edwards faced five years and 10 months in state prison under Oregon’s Measure 11 sentencing law. Edwards testified he acted in self-defense after Howard yelled the slur at him. Howard denied using the word before the stabbing.
Portland Jury Decides Stabbing White People Is Okay If They Use A Racial Slur WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - A probe from two watchdog groups says the group may be guilty of 'wire fraud,' 'deceptive solicitation,' and 'false statements to the IRS'
CAIR's Political Arm Has Operated Without Legal Authority Across US, Watchdog Report Finds
- An historic global phenomenon - and baneful influence. . . The one aspect of the story that is getting no attention anywhere is the fact that the perpetrator in this case is a Muslim.
NYPD Recruit Gets Arrested, Shining Light on an Evil No One Dares to Discuss - One more Muslim migrant brings mayhem and murder to Europe.
Saudi Terror Suspect Rants at Victims in Court FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH - Carlson’s comments draw attention to his relationship with Qatar and sparked discussion on U.S. perceptions of the Islamic emirate.
Tucker Carlson Says He Will Buy a Home in Qatar to Prove ‘I’m an American and a Free Man.’
- MSNSDAP's ousted DEI host, Joy Reid has the audacity to call America's founding fathers "leeches" after bragging that she got into every Ivy league, because of their race-based Affirmative Action quotas.
Joyless Reid Calls America’s Founders Leeches RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - The end of the technocratic illusion and its eco-socialist command system arrives the moment the first domino in the debt chain falls.
The Eco-Socialist Dream Is Going to End Ugly
- Christians at COP30 risk preaching climate panic over the gospel, confusing God’s providence with manmade weather salvation.
Religious COP Out 2025 EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - A woke Vermont school district hoisted a Somali flag on Friday, as Democrats around the country defend Somali migrants amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing fraud scandal in Minnesota’s Somali community.
Left-Wing Vermont School District Raises Somali Flag Next to American Flag
- Elite schools like Columbia and Yale maintain joint institutes, dual-degrees, and exchange programs with Shanghai Jiao Tong University
University of Michigan’s Partnership With CCP-Linked Shanghai School Brought Chinese Spies to Campus—And Dozens of US Universities Have Similar Arrangements ABORTION - Shout Your Abortion has been promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” which will begin shipping to purchasers in January 2026. A description on the organization’s website says the book tells children “about what abortion is, how it might feel, and why people have abortions.”
Book Aimed at 5-Year-Olds Claims Abortion Is ‘Superpower’ (Logic that turns Josef Mengele into an Olympian Deity, nein? He helped abort hundreds of thousands of 5-8 year olds - jjs) SECOND AMENDMENT - Jay Jones, the man who fantasized about shooting a conservative lawmaker and his family, isn’t even sworn-in yet, but he’s already on a crusade against the citizenry and their right to firearm ownership.
A question for Virginia AG-elect Jay Jones
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - Communists don’t solve problems, they create them.
GOPers Who Praise Mamdani Don’t Understand Communism or Affordability POLITICS - “This is such a great time for him to be in office,” Wiles said. “He’s such a patriot. He loves it so much. He’s going to have a fun next year, but, we’re going to put him on the campaign trail, too. Typically — just a little bit of campaign speak, if I may.”
Susie Wiles: Trump Will Campaign for 2026 Midterms ‘Like It’s 2024 Again’ - LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. I wonder if she even makes it out of the Democrat primary.
Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crock (o'sh-)ett Files to Run for Senate From Texas
- An exceptionally worthy politician.
Rep. Jasmine Crock(o'sh)ett Wins 2025 Turkey of the Year Award
- Politics ought to be done by politicians who are elected because of their policies, not by unelected judges.
Partisan Gerrymandering? Not a Problem
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - The official Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has relied on the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations' work
Soros, Ford Foundation Fund European Nonprofit Targeting US Companies for Doing Business in Israel (Dear Mossad, you better start looking beyond Iranian nuclear scientists- JJS)
- Credit where credit is due.
Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts Fellow Celebs for Terrorist Support THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - While radiation levels have not increased, the site requires comprehensive restoration to ensure long-term nuclear safety, the IAEA stated.
IAEA: Chernobyl Shield Loses Ability to Contain Radiation After Drone Strike. FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - President Trump had formalized an agreement between the two nations this fall, after weeks of conflict that threatened to lead to war this summer.
Trump’s Peace Deal in Peril as Thailand Bombards Cambodian Border Targets
- Maduro’s announcement on Friday came hours before one of Maduro’s political prisoners, former Nueva Esparta governor Alfredo Díaz, died of a heart attack while unjustly imprisoned at the Helicoide.
Venezuela’s Maduro Launches ‘Maternity’ Clinic Inside Infamous Torture Complex
- "Europe is going in some bad directions."
‘Europe Has To Be Very Careful’: Trump Issues Stern Warning After EU Fines Elon Musk’s X
- In a recent October meeting, Trump and Xi held a high-stakes talk on, among other things, the export of rare earth metals, all without Europeans in the room. The United States agreed to lower some tariffs on Chinese products, and in return, China committed to removing its export limits on rare earth minerals and restarting its importation of American soybeans. (RELATED: China Brushes Off Trump Tariffs With Jaw-Dropping $1 Trillion Surplus)
Trump Proves How Feckless Europe Is As Continent Caught In Limbo, World Leader Cries For Help - . . after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel. (How do you say "Mother What Have You Done?!" in Bantu? Axing for a fiend named Bates - jjs)
Nigeria Investigates Organ-Harvesting Ring After Discovering Mutilated Corpses
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS - The mission highlights China’s growing influence in the Caribbean as the U.S. also strengthens its military posture in the region.
Chinese Navy Ship Docks Near U.S., Raising Strategic Concerns. - "Killing two people who are shipwrecked at sea is also morally repugnant," he said. (Of all people to use the phrase "morally repugnant" RUFKM?! - jjs)
Adam Schiff-for-brains Defends Narcoterrorists, Claims They Were ‘Shipwrecked Survivors HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - NYC Health + Hospital’s new kidney-function formula will yield worse outcomes for all patients.
Medical Reparations Come to New York City ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - Meanwhile, a racoon drinks its way through a Virginia liquor store and passes out in the bathroom.
New Study Suggests Racoons are Showing First Signs of Domestication
- SpaceX. . . sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry
SpaceX launches 29 more Starlink satellites, sets new record for Falcon 9 reuse, dominates the world in rocketry
- The GRB’s long length means that none of the known theories for its origin work. . .What is known is that this GRB was unique in all ways, defying all theoretical expectations.
Astronomers detect a seven-hour-long gamma ray burst, the longest many times over CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - While it sounds like you can't say the C-word, here's what you can do: celebrate "Transgender Awareness Week." I'm dead serious.
Schools Can't Say Christmas, But They Can Celebrate This? - In Iran, as in many Islamic nations, homosexuality is illegal and can be punishable by death. A ton of LGBTQ+ Iranians have fled persecution, seeking asylum in countries such as the U.S. or elsewhere in the Middle East. Although Egypt does not explicitly criminalize homosexuality, LGBTQ+ individuals routinely face violence, harassment and discrimination under morality laws.
Two Muslim Nations Forced To Play In World Cup ‘Pride’ Game, And Boy Oh Boy, This Couldn’t Be More Hilarious
- Christian Toto: Far-Left propagandist, Disney know late-night future is cloudy at best
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Extension Ultimate Sign of No Confidence - No doubt, if the miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania were to start claiming they were women, leftists would regard them more favorably. If America is unfortunate and unwise enough to elect another Democrat president, coal miners would be well advised to start wearing dresses. Then they will not only avoid losing their livelihoods; they’ll be celebrated as heroes in the next Netflix blockbuster. Yet again, the heroic and much-lauded Carla Antonella Rodríguez demonstrates that he is a hero indeed, the veritable King of Coal.
Netflix’s New Movie Is Its Wokest and Craziest Yet HITHER & YON - A team of Chinese scientists has used CRISPR gene-editing tools to modify a species of fungus that can supposedly replace the protein provided by chicken, and purportedly even tastes like meat. (I like CRISPIER Chicken, or Soylent HOP SING!!!! - jjs)
Chinese Genetics Lab Modifies Fungus Protein to Replace Chicken - Robert Zimmerman: "This is the nature of almost all wars. They are started by power-hungry political leaders for their own gain, with a remarkably detached and disinterested view of the harm that ambition imposes on innocent third parties. On one side the cry was “I want to unify England and Scotland! Destroy those who oppose me!” while on the other side the chant was “I want a free and independent Scotland! Destroy those who oppose me!” In neither case is this effort productive for either nation, in any way. Instead, it caused death and destruction in both Scotland and England, for decades."
The war-mongers are always those in power
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (pd4dZ)
AKA Your asking us to return to a 3 powers system.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 07:31 AM (NwnyJ)
Legislate create laws
Magistrate decide if laws are legal
Execute enforce create, legal laws
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
It's about the graft.
Posted by: davidt at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (Q+gd/)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (tljrc)
People are retarded.
Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (FGMmt)
Praise the Lord, my soul.
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”
Psalm 146:1-2
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:36 AM (XFXIk)
Otherwise the executive is executive in name only.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)
#3
Coopt crucial officers in its military, so that they refuse legitimate orders of the civilian government.
Paging Sen Kelly
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)
aka District Judge
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (a4flb)
Or, alternatively, the slogan on SS daggers, My Honor Is Loyalty (to the Democrat Party).
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:38 AM (ufSfZ)
Otherwise the executive is executive in name only.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)
"You got that right!!!"
- - HRH King Otto Penn
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:40 AM (W7XSX)
People are retarded.
Posted by: Tim Walz, Retard at December 09, 2025 07:35 AM (FGMmt)
Nah, they are the "In Name Only" supporters...The issue matters to them as much as the score of the Australian rugby team...in a "that's nice/not good" way. But they actually support their gimmedats.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (tOcjL)
Aborticomaniacs hide behind a 13-year-old who got raped to promote the Tish Jameses who get abortions because a baby will interfere with their girlboss ambitions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (tgvbd)
Them Here
There Here
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)
In Massachusetts, of course.
And the Archdiocese isn't going to do jack shit about it, unless they see empty offertory envelopes.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (ufSfZ)
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE
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It's not a great idea to use Robert Spencer as a source on the Catholic Church. He is very hostile.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (s0JqF)
Ay Carumba.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 09, 2025 07:43 AM (1BpWS)
And this is exactly the kind of kayfabe bullshit I mentioned in the previous thread. Fucking snake-oil POS.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:43 AM (ufSfZ)
Praise the Lord, my soul.
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.”
Psalm 146:1-2
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:36 AM (XFXIk)
Bears repeating.
Good morning!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 07:44 AM (wVcYX)
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Rapaport has been sane for some time. IIRC, he was converted after hearing the Charlottesville speech in context and in full. Realized he'd been lied to.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 09, 2025 07:44 AM (s0JqF)
I have been doing some reading on drone warfare and how $800 is all you need to wipe out multimillion dollar weapons.
Also noted that the US wants to gift the MIC with nearly a trillion dollar budget to mostly squander, but to build half billion dollar things that can be totally destroyed for $800s
Then we read of the millions of "garbage" people in this country who can easily deploy any number of drones targeted at people, places and things.
But lets build another air craft carrier.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: A jernalist at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (XV/Pl)
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I'm truly curious, knowing how shockingly uninformed most Americans are, if they know just how abused this claim of birthright citizenship is. When there are boutique industries worldwide to get your pregnant self here on vacation just to spit your baby out on American soil and claim citizenship, there's a problem. It's been a free, unearned ticket and has been abused to the nth degree. Just how many people know that? And as few as that number likely is, even fewer know the actual intention of, and language of, the 14th amendment.
I'd love to see this ended by SCOTUS, because it needs to be, but I don't have a lot of faith in them doing so. Here's to hoping.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (XFXIk)
Glock 31
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)
The Soros prosecutors are a deflection.
The corrupt judiciary works hand-in-glove with them to be sure protected classes remain protected.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (A0sqA)
Jasmine Crockett is the perfect avatar for the Dem party today. She is what they all aspire to be.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (ASmqz)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 09, 2025 07:49 AM (gm9Sb)
The Wrath of Khan was the best of the ST movies but I also liked the one with the whales
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 07:51 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 07:52 AM (Cjt/F)
The enemy continues to run full speed ahead.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 07:54 AM (MXrgX)
Posted by: Seen on a Chinese restaurant menu at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)
How long until the Dems start pushing for raccoon voting rights?
Trash Panda Liberation Front !
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 07:55 AM (YobFY)
What do you expect a loyal Uniparty Member to do?
I wish the non GOP-e faction of the Republican Party had the loyalty and the desire to support their own.
(we can forget totally about any Congress Critter representing anything other than monied interests and foreign benefactors)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM
I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenshipquestion, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.
President and Congress together, I believe, absolutely have the power to do this, and I do not believe it would take an amendment. But the President on his own is a bridge too far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (ASmqz)
I remember it from one of those foiled-by-an-armed-churchgoer attempted mass murders a few years ago. guy made a really impressive shot.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (Cjt/F)
The enemy continues to run full speed ahead.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 07:54 AM (MXrgX)
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Without being cliche or hysterical, I'm surprised more conspirators have not already been arrested. It does not inspire confidence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (A0sqA)
I believe you may be underestimating today's voting populace.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)
In Israel it is legal and paid for by the free health care.
Should anti abortionists demand no foreign aid to countries where governments offer free abortion ?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (cqWXI)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:59 AM (qBdHI)
We're really up against it, aren't we? Nothing short of total existential war. They want us dead and our children dead. I don't think they want to even mess with enslavement.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 07:59 AM (WHfpM)
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The only guy in the capitol city who's not 'on the take' is also the only guy in the capitol city who wants to clean it up.
Trump's staff is only motivated if they're spared recriminations once he's gone. That is not going to happen with the Democrats hanging around. And the GOP is fully compromised as well. They're all crooks. Everyone's got the goods on everyone else. It's a form of self preservation.
This is why nothing will happen. We will have to be satisfied with the knowledge that we were right all along. Because that's about all I expect.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (NwnyJ)
Postnatal live burying of female offspring is just fine though.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:00 AM (bvUs5)
In Israel it is legal and paid for by the free health care.
Should anti abortionists demand no foreign aid to countries where governments offer free abortion ?
Fine with me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:01 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:01 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (vFG9F)
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My eyes opened Grand Canyon wide to that fact when Barky the Marxist Dog Eater was elected, then reelected. It was a sobering moment. Just directing one's eyes to NYC is proof enough.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (qBdHI)
or the phrase "...subject to the jurisdiction thereof..."
As I recall, not a single illegal alien has registered for the draft. Has the new mayor of NYC filed his paperwork?
Tell me about the mRNA clot shots that were mandated to all of the forty or fifty million people brought in by the Biden junta. They were not under mandate because they were not subject to the jurisdiction?
Illegal aliens seem not to be subject to any citizenship laws, insurance requirements, any regulation that American citizens are subject to. In fact, children of illegals get preferential treatment in our schools by getting in-state tuition!
The empirical evidence screams that those whose parents came here illegally and pumped out an anchor baby or dragged in as a child are not subject to the same laws citizens are under.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)
Without being cliche or hysterical, I'm surprised more conspirators have not already been arrested. It does not inspire confidence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 07:57 AM (A0sqA)
Look at how successful the Judges have been at stopping Trump from appointing Prosecutors. And the Senate Republicans are part of that game as well.
Bukele said a harsh truth that we're not ready to face yet; if you truly wish to reform a country, the first thing you have to do is throw out every sitting judge, and then replace all of them with your own people. Otherwise they'll wreck everything you try to do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:04 AM (ASmqz)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (Cjt/F)
RTFM!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (wVcYX)
Owning slaves is expensive, time consuming and they need this or that constantly while trying to get them to work and behave. I don't need none of that.
Posted by: democrat former slave owner at December 09, 2025 08:05 AM (FGMmt)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 07:46 AM
I hate to say this, but I think there is little chance that the SCOTUS will side with Trump on the birthright citizenshipquestion, because there's no good argument that the President can decide to make such a change on his own.
President and Congress together, I believe, absolutely have the power to do this, and I do not believe it would take an amendment. But the President on his own is a bridge too far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:56 AM (ASmqz)
Is there a signed presidential law that allowed it or just EOs or admin regs from the past? I'd agree with you if the former...but if the latter, why does the age of the EO or admin reg matter if it's wrong?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM (tOcjL)
Unfortunately. A lot of compensation with tough talk. Ruthlessness has always been in short supply on our side, despite the popular mythology of the "heartless conservative."
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:07 AM (WHfpM)
Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (A0sqA)
Yummy.
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She epitomized the beautiful girl next door, imo. I remember her in this movie with Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) and Paul LeMat. Some slasher movie that wasn't too bad.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (qBdHI)
(loosely) related: Kurt Schlichter's new Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red, dropped today; about 1/3 through ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (Cjt/F)
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (DDJSl)
Articles of impeachment were filed against Boasberg and I have heard nothing about it since.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:08 AM (A0sqA)
B/c Johnson has 218 votes tops (with MTG and Massie against Trump)...it's amazing he can get 218 to vote for anything R as is...since 100 of them are Uniparty but don't want us to know...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)
The problem is that you are taking a common sense and rational view of the problem, not a legal one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:10 AM (ASmqz)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
__________
Boasberg probably issued an injunction against proceeding.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (XvL8K)
I have a GE electric range that's at least 40 years old and proud that I was able to replace both the broiler ad main heating elements. And that the OEM parts were still available.
GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:12 AM (77rzZ)
Im assuming Rand reallllllly likes coke
he's shown his true face, like most libertarians, he just really likes drugs
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:12 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (emBoF)
The Big Dummy is getting a bath this morning before he goes into the ring this afternoon to start the Orlando show week. He's currently the #7 Borzoi and he's going up against the #1, #2, #4 and #6 Borzoi. But you never know.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (WPL6O)
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA)
Luap Nor...good times, good times.
Posted by: Ron Paul Is A Fraud at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (FGMmt)
WHAT WAS THAT?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)
Tippi Hedren and Angela Cartwright agrees
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:13 AM (D+mpw)
WHAT WAS THAT?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)
That was why we've played high school offense all year. When it gets more complicated, it becomes that.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (qBdHI)
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Step one is to make your life so miserable that you leave.
Step two is the other thing.
We're at step one. The administration's trying to "walk it back" so we don't leave. Figuratively or literally. Because if they fail it's highly unlikely we will want to, or be permitted to remain here on anything like our own terms.
Then that other thing nobody likes to talk about is in play.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (NwnyJ)
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM (A0sqA)
Is it my imagination or has he been even more useless since his neighbor attacked him and beat him up? Traumatized?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (YobFY)
Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd)
good luck out there today!
92 @87 Eagles fan?
well, yes
back when I was living. now I'm a zombie, I think. they done kilt me!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (emBoF)
Investigate Rand Paul and see how much in kick-backs he is receiving from the narcotics trade.
Ask Rand Paul if the boats were hauling in VX or mustard gas to deploy if it would be OK then to attack drug boats.
Also, I want to know the Legal Authority he is citing for these claims that drug traffickers are off limits to intervention.
Then disband the military, because clearly targeting people, places and things that are killing Americans real-time is "unlawful". So what is the point of a kinetic miltiary?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:15 AM (D+mpw)
Finally! She understands what the people want!
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (EES2L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (emBoF)
There is something in the KY water supply, those hill scoggin are crazy.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (emBoF)
Jalen Hurts turnover machine. He was so good last year… why does it always look like he doesn’t care? Is he too calm?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (W7XSX)
Finally! She understands what the people want!"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (Cjt/F)
he is usually stone faced
last night, he seemed scared. also he seemed like he didn't even want to go out there. he's a mess.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (emBoF)
(sadly looks down, hands in pockets, kicks a rock)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (EES2L)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (YobFY)
Don't forget, he was also almost killed at a softball game and attacked on the street. He just doesn't get it. Some people never do.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (WHfpM)
there's a Monsters Inc version of this horror that is pretty funny in retrospect (it was the Monsters Inc MNF game)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:18 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM
Judicial Precedent and current US Code, mainly. We can argue all day about Wong Kim Ark, the last time the SCOTUS addressed the question. But since then a dozen lower courts have said it means full birthright citizenship, and they've never been overruled. So it's really a Judicial law, not a legislative one. (There are a lot more of those than you realize)
Now I believe Congress and the President together can override this; but I also believe that SCOTUS will rule that the President on his own has not the power to do it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (ASmqz)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (emBoF)
although you guys can probably beat us rn
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:16 AM (emBoF)
Oh, I'm an Eagles fan through and through...grew up in NJ, remember.
And my kid is a Ravens fan, b/c even he knew, no one cheers for the Commanders.
Without Jayden probably for the rest of the year, they'll be horrid. And Eagles do play the Raiders and then them, so if they don't win twice, pack the year in.
Lane Johnson is the league MVP, b/c Eagles now 0-3 without him in this stretch. The man must be the "keep everyone's heads in the game" guy...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: p-squared at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (0prFs)
But they are unified in killing Christians and stomping out all the advances that Christians brought.†
† in terms of what a high trust society brought to the planet.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:17 AM (W7XSX)
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Pick a day any day.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (YobFY)
WHAT WAS THAT?!?!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025
***
Were you a New Kid in Town?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 08:20 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:21 AM (77rzZ)
so yeah an OL needs a leader, and Lane was a little hesitant to step into Kelce's shoes, he's a very quiet guy.
so MAILATA did instead. and he's a hippy flake - he's like my younger son, loads of fun and very popular with everybody! but not really an OL leader type.
sigh.
OL is a mess Lane or no. Lane does help tho.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:21 AM (emBoF)
they can try all they want
no freaking way
I think my squirrels are trying. they seems more suited. we shall see.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (emBoF)
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Well, it's apparent where some of his money is coming from. Someone should make him deny it with proof. Or tell him to shut the fuck up.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (NwnyJ)
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Strange. We blow Somali pirates to hell and no one complains. We blow Venezuelan drug boats to hell and suddenly it's a war crime.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd)
Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
Thanks, JJ. I'll look it up.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
He married a Roman Catholic, attended a Big Box evangelical "Church" and was discipled by a hodge podge of American Religion influencers.
Who knows what settled in?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:24 AM (a4flb)
Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on this date 60 years ago.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
Yes, I'm a minority of one, but I've never liked any of the animated Peanuts features.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (D+mpw)
Nothing new... after all, there was this flick w/a Penna welder/dancer chick.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (XuXeR)
Great. Let's teach them that the only reason they are here is because mom didn't think they were inconvenient.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (NR6c1)
no one's found a play like that as of yet
wonderful stat for Jalen's career
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (emBoF)
The video even even tells the kids what to do if someone calls them the wrong pronouns and teaches "trans" females how to bind their breasts. At the end of the slide show, kids are encouraged to join Westland’s LGBTQ+ and/or Sexuality and Gender Acceptance (SAGA) clubs.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (gbOdA)
I would guess that the poll is accurate because the people polled are ignorant.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)
Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz)
Yup. I'm sure if we were to look at how many congresscritters and senators went from stony broke to wealthy while in office, we'd find out some very interesting things.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:27 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:06 AM
Judicial Precedent and current US Code, mainly. We can argue all day about Wong Kim Ark, the last time the SCOTUS addressed the question. But since then a dozen lower courts have said it means full birthright citizenship, and they've never been overruled. So it's really a Judicial law, not a legislative one. (There are a lot more of those than you realize)
Now I believe Congress and the President together can override this; but I also believe that SCOTUS will rule that the President on his own has not the power to do it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:19 AM (ASmqz)
So, then like Dred Scott, totally overturnable. Okay, if this is all it is, I can see the Court reversing it. Right now, there are probably 3 definite votes to do that and 3 definite against. So read the middle 3.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 08:28 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:28 AM (D+mpw)
It is. For quite a few. It's odd, and I have no idea about from where it comes, but it's there, and it's a vote getting issue.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 08:26 AM (D+mpw)
It’d be funny to show the replay with yakkity sax playing in the background…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (YobFY)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)
Fox- "Voters in Miami, Florida, cast ballots Tuesday in a runoff election for mayor in a race that's grabbed plenty of national attention in recent weeks as Democrats aim to end a decades-long losing streak in red-leaning Florida."
"Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, is facing off against Republican Emilio Gonzalez, a former city manager backed by President Donald Trump"
So far the Democrat is up by a few thousand votes in early voting.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers. at December 09, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
Yes, I'm a minority of one, but I've never liked any of the animated Peanuts features.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd)
I'm with you. I can take or leave Christmas, but none of the others appeal to me in the least. I also think Peanuts should have stopped after the first 10 years.
I get that people love the whole "Snoopy and the Red Baron" bit, but IMO, the day Snoopy started walking on two legs was the day the strip jumped the shark.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:31 AM (ufSfZ)
*
they can try all they want
no freaking way
I think my squirrels are trying. they seems more suited. we shall see.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025
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The raccoons can *seem* domesticated. Then they go rogue or criminal. Like the Somalis.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (wzUl9)
my dad was super into it so I still have all these old books I should just get rid of. but his little drawings in them are cute.
he also loved Pogo. Pogo was great!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (emBoF)
This is yet another attempt to get the US military to become involved in the conflict.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:14 AM (tgvbd)
Tells you a lot about where the money in Washington comes from, doesn't it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 08:22 AM (ASmqz)
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It's not just money. DataRepublican a few weeks ago:
https://tinyurl.com/zw33434u
To search DataRepublican's X posts containing the word "Venezuela", type "from:datarepublican venezuela" in the X search box. There's lots more.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (Yz4gh)
exactly!
or a Bengal cat lol
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF)
correct
should be ignored
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF)
Look at Pelosi, McStain, Grahamesty, et al for a perfect living description of this.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (XuXeR)
Seems unlikely to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)
correct
should be ignored
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:33 AM (emBoF)
See my comment above. It is the #3 tactic to start a revolution.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Junkyard Dog at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2025 08:35 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:36 AM (YCxFk)
Thanks for NOTHING Rand Paul. So useless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:09 AM
I don't recall him saying anything about attacking peaceful somali pirate boats and sinking them in international waters.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (0N4FZ)
Legislate create laws
Magistrate decide if laws are legal
Execute enforce create, legal laws
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)
If'n the execution of some government function should not be under the control of the current President, then it should neither be controlled, nor funded, by the federal government.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)
lol
I heard this morning that if Jalen had just spiked the ball every play he'd have had a better rating
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (emBoF)
I get that people love the whole "Snoopy and the Red Baron" bit, but IMO, the day Snoopy started walking on two legs was the day the strip jumped the shark.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:31 AM (ufSfZ)
I'd put it at when Woodstock, Peppermint Patty and Marcie became regular characters. And Snoopy's siblings.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)
Well, considering Leo is American, I suspect he was marinated heavily in the whole "Buddy Jesus" crap, where the worst thing any Christian can be is 'intoloerant.'
As well, it wouldn't surprise me that, to paraphrase Ann Barnhardt, he thinks there are 'many roads to God' or, more likely, doesn't actually believe at all.
The days of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus are long gone.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (ufSfZ)
He single-handedly robbed me of a scoring title and a first-round bye in my fantasy league playoffs.
I felt like Kramer getting slo-mo hit with a barrage of tennis balls.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (6qf1m)
just think of him as a midwestern college sociology professor and everything becomes clear.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:38 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)
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Like many others, he's a WEF in sheep's clothing.
At a minimum, birds of a feather.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (Yz4gh)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)
We have Judges with Administrations with Agencies.
Congress funds an Admin, it creates agencies under that umbrella, and then TA FUCKN DA they need their own courts system.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (gbOdA)
It's not worth arguing with them.
In fact the only rational answer is to fight for the same thing but for our own side. But unfortunately muh principuhls so we have to stay consistent while they walk all over us.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:39 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jonah at December 09, 2025 08:34 AM (YCxFk)
Bella Dodd, a teacher and one-time Communist, was witness to this, and relates the history in her book "School of Darkness."
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 09, 2025 08:40 AM (ESVrU)
his wife is a nasty Karen and wouldn't let him
she may be part of the problems this year
she claimed her "wedding celebration" was why he couldn't go to the WH (but it wasn't their actual wedding??)
she's a problem. he's a mensch.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (e45L/)
Posted by: Bulg
Yeah - the younger brother of Lucy and Linus.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2025 08:41 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (pDt9x)
Me a few years later, standing before Saint Peter:
"OK, yes; I bought the millstones and started applying justice to these people. I admit it."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (NR6c1)
Word on the street is, that Chinese lab ain't trying to make better protein, they was trying to develop a fungus that will destroy chicken production and hamstring US food production. Just like dat crop fungus those bastards got caught trying to smuggle in a little while back.
Posted by: Johnny the Shoeshine Guy at December 09, 2025 08:42 AM (84Uz9)
Posted by: Lady in Black
He's either ignorant or dishonest. I can't believe he doesn't know about Islam's goals and satanic methods to achieve those goals. So I have to go with dishonest.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 08:32 AM (emBoF)
Pogo is another strip that I think went on too long, though Kelly did sabotage the strip whenever he brought in animal versions of people like Castro, Khruschev, Agnew, Hoover, &c. I think the whole 'bravery' accolades concerning his Joe McCarthy character (a wildcat named "Simple J Malarkey") went to his head.
And that jejune "we have met the enemy and he is us" crap always annoyed the hell out of me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (ufSfZ)
Great. Let's teach them that the only reason they are here is because mom didn't think they were inconvenient.
Posted by: NR Pax
Notice how those in favor of abortion already won the Birth Canal Bingo?
And that they would never volunteer to off themselves in solidarity to those they killed?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (bvUs5)
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (oftw2)
Word on the street is, that Chinese lab ain't trying to make better protein, they was trying to develop a fungus that will destroy chicken production and hamstring US food production. Just like dat crop fungus those bastards got caught trying to smuggle in a little while back.
Posted by: Johnny the Shoeshine Guy
*hands dollar to Johnny*
Any chance US tax dollars are funding this research?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:44 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:44 AM (IEV/x)
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Wait. That sounds like you enjoy spending time with your spouse.
Subversive.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA)
Correct. And I think - though I can't be bothered to look - Rerun was the only 'baby' character who never grew up. Schroeder, Lucy, Linus and Sally all started out as babies, but grew up in 'comic time' so that the first three, within about five years, could appear to be Charlie Brown's contemporaries.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (ufSfZ)
He's not ignorant. His entire life is wrapped around the history of his religion. And even if he was he has an organization as big as any government on earth to remind him.
The easiest answer is sometimes the correct one.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (viF8m)
And even regular employees.
And, at first, I took it as saying, "we must keep the status quo unless we can craft a perfect rule that covers all potential cases."
But now I realize that's not what she was saying:
She was revealing the left's biggest fear.
Because, if Senate-approved officers can be removed without cause--even those dressed up in all the academic finery of credentials, qualifications and expertise, with the holy blessings of protections from Congress--what is the basis for civil service protections?
And that is the end of the Deep state right there:
Whatever justification is offered for overruling Humphrey's, it goes 10 times more for employees.
The federal government is about to become an at-will employer.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 09, 2025 08:47 AM (5MZNC)
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 09, 2025 08:29 AM (qBdHI)
He's just taking the position that the majority of Catholics have. Catholicism is mostly leftism.
Unfortunately, many protestant religions are following the catholics down that shithole.
It's why I'm not religious.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (g8Ew8)
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Wait. That sounds like you enjoy spending time with your spouse.
Subversive.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:46 AM (A0sqA)
Yeeeeahh, you got me, San Fran. I actually like her, weird huh??
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (pDt9x)
And that they would never volunteer to off themselves in solidarity to those they killed?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 08:43 AM (bvUs5)
>>>
I believe in the concept of retroactive abortion. . . and I know who should be on the list
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (e45L/)
In fact, the capitalist system, where a product must compete in a voluntary transaction is far better than a system where a political appointee makes the decision based on whatever floats their boat, or more likely, defers to the people who put them there. The left claims that they are for the people, but they don't trust them to make decisions.
Leftists just can't believe that common people will make the best decisions available independently of an appointed expert.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (0U5gm)
He's not ignorant. His entire life is wrapped around the history of his religion. And even if he was he has an organization as big as any government on earth to remind him.
The easiest answer is sometimes the correct one.
Posted by: JackStraw
Hey, that was my conclusion too!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (pd4dZ)
Posted by: Wokking Your Dog at December 09, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been legislation instituting birthright citizenship, it's just been treated as though that's the thing.
Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:48 AM (pDt9x)
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My advice: start drinking heavily.
-Senator John Blutarskey
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (WHfpM)
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The Lutheran Church is a literal slow motion death crash.
Bring back the Missouri Synod.
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (e45L/)
@ImMeme0
Elon Musk sharply criticizes SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson after she claimed President Trump should not have the authority to remove “experts” from executive agencies.
MUSK: “She is openly advocating for the destruction of democracy.”
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)
Indeed. Islam is completely incompatible and anathema to Christianity.
Rape and murder are their sacraments.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (W7XSX)
https://youtu.be/brFAmCjGvso
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (R86kT)
>>>
The Lutheran Church is a literal slow motion death crash.
Bring back the Missouri Synod.
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 08:51 AM (e45L/)
Still going strong here. Have family who are Lutheran, Missouri Synod. Kids go to Lutheran school, they have a K-12.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (WHfpM)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (53oGX)
Assuming that's the case, Trump's argument could be that the 14th does not require it, Congress has never legislated it, and prior Administrations have been granting citizenship in, effectively, an illegal manner by not following the regulations laid down by law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 08:50 AM (ExV1e)
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Precedent requires legal residency first. That's what Wong Kim Ark actually said.
If SCOTUS just keeps to precedent, Trump has every right to deny birthright citizenship to people here illegally.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)
With accessible, inclusive language, Abortion is Everything frames abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower: our capacity to imagine the future and make choices that lead us towards the life we envision. Abortion is a tool that allows human beings to shape our destinies, and which has shaped the entire world around us. Parents, caregivers, and educators who work with children have long been searching for a tool to talk with kids about abortion, especially given the volume of political noise currently surrounding the issue.
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Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (Dv3i1)
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And of Wong Kim Ark.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Bulg
We all start out as babies, except for Charles Lane and Burt Mustin.
Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (oftw2)
Wolf, sheep's clothing, some assembly required
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (pd4dZ)
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Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv)
Five year olds ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (VE6XX)
TBF, the American Religion (which has bled on to Rome) when reading Galatians 5, they tend to conflate "long suffering" with "kind".
And kind means supportive, so therefore we are supposed to be kind and supportive to drug boat operators, fraudsters, terrorists, abortionists and assassins.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (WCaCG)
Frame 2: The two are seated at a curb and Linus says "Pretty good hot dogs, huh, Charlie Brown?
Frame 3: Charlie Brown says "Fair, I guess."
Frame 4: Charlie Brown closes the strip with "A hot dog just doesn't taste right without a baseball game in front of it."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)
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Abstinence is a superpower.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (Dv3i1)
A moment later, she follows his advice and she and Snoopy are shaking hands. And not one word of dialogue at all.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)
The original characters were Charlie Brown, Shermy and Patty. Snoopy came in within the first two weeks, IIRC, and then in a few months Violet and Schroeder. I believe Lucy, Linus and Pig-Pen didn't come along until the second or third year.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:56 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)
And yet SCOTUS is likely to side with Trump on his ability to fire political appointees in the Executive Branch, a decision Trump made on his own.
Anyone who actually reads the 14th Amendment, and I'll go way out on a limb and assume members of the Supreme Court actually read it at some point, knows that it was never intended to grant citizenship to anyone who managed to be born here. That is a decision that was reached by subversives on their own with no basis in constitutional law.
The Roberts court may not have the balls to reach the obvious conclusion but it will have nothing to do with the constitution or how Trump forced them to consider it. It will have to do with a lack of balls.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (WHfpM)
I have always loved Andy Capp. I have so many of the small paperback collections of the strip that you can see where Smythe repeats jokes, just with different characters.
The modern ghost strip version is an abomination and ought to be put out of its misery.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (ufSfZ)
https://tinyurl.com/4pmj6u6z
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 08:53 AM (R86kT)
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Some of the most articulate righties today are red-pilled liberals
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (O5TZR)
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Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (U6Usv)
I have been shielding my kids from such horrors. Who are these people that get off on terrifying kids?
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 08:59 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09
Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)
Happy to supply some Christmas gifts to help further that interest.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)
*
exactly!
or a Bengal cat lol
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025
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Reasons Cats Are Better Than Somalis
* Cats are better looking (subjective, I admit, but a popular view) and certainly cuter
* Cats will not give fast food workers a hard time, take video of the incident, and then complain they are victims of anti-catism
* Cats do not immigrate, then complain about their new environment being anti-cat while living on the bounty of their benefactors (arguable). At least they look cute while doing it; see Point One
* Cats may actually earn their keep by hunting vermin
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 08:54 AM (pDt9x)
Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.
Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (Oy/m2)
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We differ on this one Fen.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (O5TZR)
I've heard more than enough from him.
Leftist professor. That's it. That's the thing.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)
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Which would mean that another president could undo those regulations since they're not required by Congress and statute.
I wouldn't put money on this, but I suspect that we could end up with, "Trump has the authority to do it, and if Congress doesn't like it, they should pass a law."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09
Unfortunately If you look at regulations laid down by law - current US code - they DO call for birthright citizenship. Of course they were written by the bureaucracy, not the legislature, but that's what is there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)
Admin regs are what each presidency can change pretty much at will...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m)
I only worry about the tariff ruling. I've always felt that Roberts keeps a scorecard and doesn't want to give Trump too many wins. He may see ruling against Trump's tariff authority as the great equalizer. At this point he also must realize the terrible blow it would be to Trump's vision and his economic grand strategy -- not to mention the country.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025
***
Ian Wolfe was there when Charles and Burt were born
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (wzUl9)
Mostly women without kids...
(See former Nashville candidate)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg
Kinda. Clem Burke died this year and Debbie Harry turned 80, though.
Posted by: Pretty Baby at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Baby Leroy at December 09, 2025
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Ian Wolfe was there when Charles and Burt were born
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025
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Let us not forget John Hoyt, either
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (O5TZR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (A0sqA)
No Disney...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (pDt9x)
Happy to supply some Christmas gifts to help further that interest.
Excellent idea. We must teach the younger generation about the good stuff!
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Baby Leroy
And Keith Richards.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (wzUl9)
Would that be the same bureaucracy the SC is finally about to decide works for the president?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (D+mpw)
Actually, it will have everything to do with that. Reinterpreting the meaning of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is the Supreme Court's job. The executive order is overstepping executive authority. It hurts the case. He should have found a way to frame the case in the context of judicial review.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (R86kT)
Posted by: dantesed at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 08:58 AM (viF8m)
I think you're correct; mainly because they're not going to decide based on the right or wrong of the issue. They're going to make this a Separation of Powers / Executive Branch Authority case. I wouldn't be surprised if Roberts used it to say "Sure, we gave him Humphries Executor, but we didn't go all the way; we didn't give him this."
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (moK1X)
I see your point, but leftist professors-are generally not Religious or rather their religion is leftism. Even though he speaks English I wouldn't know what his actual complete views are on
all kinds of subjects.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Dagwood at December 09, 2025 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (XuXeR)
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Tariffs do look like a loser, at least in the present case, but Bessent seems very confident they have the powers the administration needs vis other laws. Hope so, because unwinding them will be tough.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (O5TZR)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (pDt9x)
all kinds of subjects.
ah ok well you probably don't know many professors of phillosophy, history, and theology.
because they are all Leftists.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (4Nzwq)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR)
The other Peanuts specials are meh.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (1Au9i)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2025 09:08 AM (bvUs5)
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Tariffs do look like a loser, at least in the present case, but Bessent seems very confident they have the powers the administration needs vis other laws. Hope so, because unwinding them will be tough.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:06 AM (O5TZR)
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It's much more likely that the court tells the lower courts to treat each tariff individually instead of as a group, remanding for further review, than striking anything down.
The lower court did err when it came to how it reviewed the tariffs.
And yes, most of the tariffs can be reimplemented without interruption under different authorities, though I think 50% is the ceiling of the tariff on that.
And no, SCOTUS is not going to demand the admin pay back the tariffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)
She's that stupid but somehow got a good job? We're screwed.
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:04 AM
They might even get around to doing it after JD Vance's reelection in '32.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (moK1X)
In an ideal world this would be the announcement: "X is an American company that is based in America. It is not obliged to cater to lesser countries making unreasonable demands."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (NR6c1)
Not Catholic ones- no. But I would think there are conservative ones at places like Francisian University of Steubenville
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (PFs9e)
but she's so EXOTIC looking! of course you hire her
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (moK1X)
In which case, arguably, the correct ruling from SCOTUS would be that anyone already born (in the US) has citizenship but anyone yet to be born (to visitors or illegals) would not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)
(See former Nashville candidate)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR)
I have been an aunt since I was 12. I have five nephews that I've helped raise, two children that are my own, and one in utero.
To say that I fundamentally don't understand these people is an understatement.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (Wt5PA)
Nonsense. You could make the same case about Trump overstepping his executive authority and firing a member of the FTC. And you'd be wrong.
This is how cases get to the Supreme Court. When someone finally has the stones to challenge the actual meaning of the Constitution and not "settled law" created by some bureaucrat or politician.
Th 14th Amendment was created to protect the rights of slaves in America. The writer even specifically said it had nothing to do with immigrants. Trump is fully within his rights to force the court to decide if the Constitution means what it says or it up to interpretation by every whack job politician with an agenda.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV)
They HAVE to use the language of God and the Bible even in their deranged sickness.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (U6Usv)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (wVcYX)
hmm is that where he taught tho?
regardless, facts on the ground are thin supporting your point. even the most "right" Catholic schools employ mostly leftie teachers and professors.
and priests are not right-leaning, not anymore (unless they're from Africa or Asia)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV)
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Beto raised $100 million and still lost to Cruz in what was most likely a more Democrat environment than 2026 will be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Accomack
You don't understand Texas.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (0U5gm)
Is there gonna be another Pooky offspring ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)
Yes, and written by creator Chic Young's son or grandson, I believe. Like most strips from that era, it started off as a continuity (as did Nancy), but later turned into its current incarnation as a gag-a-day strip.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (ufSfZ)
GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
We have a GE electric range with double oven that we installed in 1976. A couple of years ago I replaced all the controls, burner elements and associated sockets. All still available. And, yes, it IS Harvest Gold. I even saved the original ad for the stove. My cost, as a dealer, was $775.00, $980,00 list price. Big bucks back then for a new home owner, 1974, but it's lasted all these years. And, I can keep it running.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (5xuJ/)
In which case, arguably, the correct ruling from SCOTUS would be that anyone already born (in the US) has citizenship but anyone yet to be born (to visitors or illegals) would not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)
That makes an awful lot of sense to be considered.
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (pDt9x)
But my favorite comic "episode" was in Sherman's Lagoon, when a fish "couldn't tell a joke to save his life" as he was served to Sherman and his wife when at a restaurant. Dad and I related to that strip very well.
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (EES2L)
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What positives does Europe bring to America?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (Xle0l)
If your gamma ray burst last longer than 7 hours, contact your astronomer.
Posted by: muldoon at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (/iMjX)
regardless, facts on the ground are thin supporting your point. even the most "right" Catholic schools employ mostly leftie teachers and professors.
and priests are not right-leaning, not anymore (unless they're from Africa or Asia)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2025 09:11 AM (emBoF)
Not in Mid Atlantic dioceses...come south or west...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Accomack
You don't understand Texas.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (0U5gm)
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Hispanic men seem to be majority Republican now. Joe Biden did that.
And sassy black woman who plays well to AWFLs in Houston probably won't play well outside of that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:13 AM (e45L/)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV)
And taxpayer funded benefits. Fine when they go to people temporarily down on their luck or incapable of work through no fault of their own. Bad when they go to actual citizens who're just too lazy to get off their ass. Worse when they go to people who shouldn't even be here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bil Keane at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (e45L/)
I have no idea who will win, but I note that the Bush "machine" no longer seems to have much influence (which is also a hopeful thing for Houston/ Harris county)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:14 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (pDt9x)
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SCOTUS since about late 2021 has made a lot of sense.
Roberts' promise that everything would return to normal if they didn't take up TX v PA seems to have soured the conservative majority on the whole, "friends across the aisle" mentality.
And then Biden put Kentaji on the court, and accelerated things rightward.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (GBKbO)
Mommies, be sure to tell the little ones how many of their siblings you've aborted after reading them this book!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NuV6c)
********
Mad props!
Posted by: The Paolo at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (/iMjX)
A favorite from that was a guy walking down the street puffing on a pipe. An Indian walks past him, looks at the smoke and says "Same to you, pal!"
Just can't make jokes like that any more.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NR6c1)
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl
Brother’s Food Mart in Kenner, Louisiana, refused to serve Border Patrol Chief Bovino and his patriots on Saturday.
The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes.
Investigate them.
https://tinyurl.com/zk73apzk
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:12 AM (VE6XX)
IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA)
GE actually has a Youtube channel that likely has a video on how to maintain and replace parts for whatever model appliance you have.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
I have a similarly aged washer and dryer, and replaced the dryer heating element last weekend. If you have a 1990s or earlier appliance, don't replace it, repair it. You are not going to get a lifetime appliance anymore.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (ufSfZ)
>>@rich_goldberg
·
55m
>>“New report documents foreign engagement driving online antisemitic activity”
>>“The Network Contagion Research Institute found that engagement with Nick Fuentes’ posts in the first 30 minutes came largely from anonymous foreign users”
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (viF8m)
IVF transfer two weeks ago, positive pregnancy test yesterday, confirmation test tomorrow. It's a girl, and I can't decide between calling her Lil Pookette or Wee Pookette.
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA)
Congrats...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX)
I need my Irish butter! And chocolate!
/white women with rosé
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (XuXeR)
It's like she's incapable of *not* revealing how stupid progressive logic is, and here it leads, that they must clearly reject it or look like just a fool as she is.
Justice Kinsley Gaffe!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:17 AM (NuV6c)
I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: Bloom County at December 09, 2025 09:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 09:07 AM (4Nzwq)
The GOPe hated Paxton when he was last elected. They hated him when the three judges who ruled against him were up for re-election. Thus far, the GOPe has not been successful in stopping him.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:09 AM (GBKbO)
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I agree no refunds will be made, but I was referring to unwinding the statecraft involved, not the money. Trump uses tariffs as a key negotiation tool, and forcing the unwinding the foreign agreements would be a massively difficult thing for our country and foreign policy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (N51yZ)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM
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You're lucky to get 10 years out of today's crap appliances. By design.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (1Au9i)
Isn't it nice to see long-held suspicions be proven true?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: The Obama brats have 2 daddies at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (e45L/)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: tubal at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (pDt9x)
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I think her presence destroyed all effort Kagan was making in softening ACB, though that was always a bit oversold.
Kentaji is so antagonistic in the open, actively stupid, and grating that she just turns off those not tuned to her arguments.
Hell, Sotomayor wrote her own dissent to tell Kentaji that, no, that's not how this works. And Kentaji still published her dissent that Sotomayor said was stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (0U5gm)
1988 Amana refrigerator?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:20 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:16 AM (VE6XX)
Congratulations, pookysgirl,!!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c)
Awww, thank you! It doesn't quite feel real yet, but I'm sure it will once we get that first ultrasound!
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:21 AM (Wt5PA)
You can go with Pookette II, with the elder Pookette being Pookette I. Like the way the ancient Romans named their daughters.
Posted by: Bulg at December 09, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: pookysgirl, Mama Bear Extraordinaire at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (Wt5PA)
Congrats! Many blessings.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (wVcYX)
I remember being told that Nick Fuentes was the voice of young men in America and Trump has lost everything by not bowing down to him. And Tucker. And that crazy lady.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m)
The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes.
Bet they got a sweet small business loan from our government, and use food stamps to stock their shelves.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: George Foreman at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (NuV6c)
******
Ditto!!
Posted by: redridinghood at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (NpAcC)
The owners are reportedly Imad Hamdan and Ziad Mousa who were previously charged with immigration and financial crimes.
Seems dumb to call attention to yourselves...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (VE6XX)
I remember being told that Nick Fuentes was the voice of young men in America and Trump has lost everything by not bowing down to him. And Tucker. And that crazy lady.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m)
======
"Sure, he proved he was powerless last September when he said he was going to Michigan to ensure Trump lost and then Trump won Michigan, but everything has changed since. I only have podcast numbers, but it's obvious that he drives the younger generations. I mean...you saw was majority Democrat NYC did in its mayoral race, right?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (D+mpw)
Posted by: mr tmz
ME!!! Fortunately, I also had Devanta Smith who garnered a whopping 7 points, but it was enough to overcome much of Hurts' generosity. Im' in the playoffs!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 09, 2025 09:23 AM (cxFcK)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (N51yZ)
I guess we'll either have to threaten to bomb people or let the American citizens go back to being fucked in the ass by the rest of the world. -- Congress, rubbing their hands together in anticipation
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Bloom County
One of the many things I liked about the strip was that Breathed is a liberal but he skewered both sides.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 09:24 AM (NR6c1)
They can easily distinguish the little prcedent there is, without needing to overrule prior rulings. Then punt to Congress. Weasely, but it's a step forward.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2025 09:25 AM (dtajH)
Mommies, be sure to tell the little ones how many of their siblings you've aborted after reading them this book!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:15 AM (NuV6c)
"See, Little Priscilla? I came thiiiiissss close to throwing you outta my womb and into the garbage can.
But, I didn't. Sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice!"
Posted by: Aborto-Mom 2025 at December 09, 2025 09:25 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Count de Monet
1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (pd4dZ)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:27 AM (W7XSX)
1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm)
We have a Viking refrigerator we purchased in 2006....
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:27 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:28 AM (PFs9e)
Posted by: Count de Monet
1990s Kitchen Aid, and replaced the ice maker and the solenoid so far.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2025 09:26 AM (0U5gm)
About 2 years ago I looked for replacement door seals. Not available then. The failing seals are causing problems with maintaining temps and with frost buildup.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (wVcYX)
Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (W7XSX)
There's been video online of him outside the Capitol on J6, yelling to people to break into it, 'it's ours!' etc.. yet he was never arrested. Now THAT's the tell.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (NuV6c)
"X is an American company that is based in America. It is not obliged to cater to
Fix'd
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo).
And rich.. That's some expensive real estate...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (PFs9e)
Zelensky is "going to have to get on the ball & start accepting things."
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (RHGPo)
*slaps forehead*
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 09, 2025 09:31 AM (dtajH)
One of the unsung heroes of the Trump administration is Solicitor General John Sauer. He's brilliant and tough.
Trump's team has a great record at the SC. Who knows what they will do about birthright citizenship, few predicted they would gut the idiotic rule that presidents don't control the bureaucracy. But they lose it won't be because they weren't prepared.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (XuXeR)
Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)
But other than that, he ain't nothing but a good old boy.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX)
I still like the episode where Trump is crushed by a falling girder and his brain is put into the body of Bill the Cat., who tries to convince Ivana that it's really him.
"Who's my little Miss Goldiknockers?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ufSfZ)
It's like she's incapable of *not* revealing how stupid progressive logic is
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like so many progressives, she is completely certain of her brilliance
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get Christy Love! at December 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ZxPkt)
A bit of trivia: the Totenkopf belt buckles say this. The regular Waffen SS belt buckles say, "Meine Ehre Heisst Treue". "My Honor is Loyalty".
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (wVcYX)
. . . and apparently, will not shut up.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 09, 2025 09:18 AM (1Au9i)
On the other hand, if they made appliances that lasted more than a few years in service, you'd need a 30-year mortgage on them to be able to afford it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2025 09:33 AM (Vq1pX)
Posted by: man at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:28 AM (PFs9e)
JP2 entered a mosque, put on their pagan slippers and prayed. Catholics would be better off asking Urban II to give Leo a dope slap.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 09:34 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (wVcYX)
I'm sure this is already willowed, but there's a collection of Saturday Evening Post cartoons from the late '40s that include 2 Schultz single-panel cartoons, with proto-Peanuts characters, including Snoopy.
Posted by: Nazdar at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (NcvvS)
____
I thought the emergency was that we're $32 trillion in debt. My bad, carry on.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 09:39 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 09:41 AM (1pB37)
Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (1pB37)
European leaders pushing forward maximalist counter-demands...
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:49 AM (RHGPo)
China To Limit Nvidia's H200 Chip Access After Trump Greenlights Exports
"Buyers would probably be required to go through an approval process, the people said, submitting requests..."
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:50 AM (RHGPo)
The most common gas price seen by drivers was $2.79 per gallon nationwide
... not in Pennsylvania where they have the 3rd highest gas tax
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:52 AM (RHGPo)
Elon Musk escalated his confrontation with Brussels... seeing “record-breaking downloads in many countries in Europe”
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2025 09:53 AM (RHGPo)
Is Urban a Saint?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (DsbQ3)
Geez. What a genuinely awful book "for children."
Last evening, watched a generally good show with one subplot where a teen was either a day under or or a day over the limit of weeks of her pregnancy (via ultrasound testing & 'skill' of the operator) in order to obtain "abortion pills." It also dealt with parental & non-parental involvement in such matters.
Looking forwarded to the ruling on "independent agencies." While some agencies do have hybrid models, they are distinct from genuinely private sector entities.
Locally reported, Luqmaan Khan was an Afghan national who immigrated to the US years prior and later became a US citizen. "Pakistan's Foreign Office explicitly stated that Luqmaan Khan is an Afghan national, not Pakistani, who lived as a refugee in Pakistan for a few years before moving to the US with his family." He didn't come to the US in 2021 as part of the US evacuation from Afghanistan.
OTOH, I don't think his name is uncommon among Afghans.
How can someone attack police (authority) in a country that welcomed him & his family? Why such failings of immigrant assimilation? (F those intersectionality excuses.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 09:59 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Inogame at December 09, 2025 10:23 AM (53oGX)
Nigeria Investigates Organ-Harvesting Ring After Discovering Mutilated Corpses"
When you think it can't get much worse. So very sad and, apparently, OK by "civil society" as it debates issues of national sovereignty, the complexity of the conflicts, and a lack of consensus on the nature of the crisis.
"Follow the money." Always. (And to think that's simply a line from a screenplay.)
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Al Jazeera, 31 Oct 2025, 'Trump places Nigeria on watch list over claims of anti-Christian violence'
Allegation that Nigerian Christians face ‘existential threat’ seems to mirror contested claims by right-wing lawmakers.
NYTimes, Nov. 21, 2025, 'Trump Says Violence Against Christians in Nigeria Is ‘Genocide.’ It’s Not So Simple.'
There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)
No, it's an Emperor-like power of life and death, like in the Roman Colosseum; Mum gives the thumbs up or down.
Also, "Shout Your Abortion" is not possible for the babies that were aborted...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:02 AM (ynpvh)
...
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Al Jazeera, 31 Oct 2025, 'Trump places Nigeria on watch list over claims of anti-Christian violence'
Allegation that Nigerian Christians face ‘existential threat’ seems to mirror contested claims by right-wing lawmakers.
NYTimes, Nov. 21, 2025, 'Trump Says Violence Against Christians in Nigeria Is ‘Genocide.’ It’s Not So Simple.'
There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)
Ignore the piles of Christian bodies and all the Christian girls raped by the Muzzies like you always do, MSM; I guess you don't feel like it's murder-murder and rape-rape.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 09, 2025 11:03 AM (ynpvh)
Medicare (Parts A and B) is administered directly by the federal government.
Medicare pays a fixed amount for care every month to the companies offering Medicare Advantage Plans & those companies are to follow rules set by Medicare. However, Medicare Advantage Plans can charge different out-of-pocket costs & have different rules for how to get services (referrals to specialists; see only doctors, facilities, or suppliers that belong to the plan for non‑emergency or non-urgent care, etc.). The rules can change annually.
Private healthcare systems are also involved in Medicaid, primarily through Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). States contract with private insurers to manage care, sometimes through supplemental coverage where private plans cover gaps or specific benefits, with Medicaid paying for the rest or offering premium assistance.
So, Medicare/Medicaid is basically a shell corporation operating as public-private partnership w/ a good amount of administration & coverage decisions handled by private companies under "government oversight?"
The ACA is a sham! No more time!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 09, 2025 11:42 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 09, 2025 05:20 PM (wGqjj)
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj)
Daily Tech News 9 December 2025
Top Story
- Grab a 32GB DDR5 memory kit from Crucial for just $273.99. (Tom's Hardware)
In March, I paid less than that for a Crucial 128GB kit.
- Samsung is switching production from high-margin HBM3E memory used on AI accelerator cards to regular DDR5 used on everything else. (WCCFTech)
You still can't have any.
Also, Samsung a 75% gross margin on server memory. So at least someone is making hay from all that AI investor money.
Tech News
- Hyper-scalers - that is, companies running millions of servers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook - are turning to their huge stockpile of DDR4 RAM to weather the crunch. (Serve the Home)
The Marvell Structera X 2404 lets system builders connect twelve DDR4 DIMMs - up to 1.5TB of RAM - to a PCIe 5.0 slot.
What this means is that the usually reliable stream of used memory from retired servers is going to dry up too.
- This Nvidia-powered single-board computer makes the Raspberry Pi 5 look cheap. (Notebook Check)
Literally. With 8GB of RAM on board it's priced at $499.
Disclaimer: Ow.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (MXrgX)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (MXrgX)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 04:03 AM (Cjt/F)
I think I'll buy two kits just in case... not.
You'd think Crucial would cut the price since they're going out of business in a few months anyhow.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:07 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:09 AM (RuTUS)
One of the few - perhaps only - good things about this time of year is that it's so cold I don't want to get dressed and go anywhere, which keeps me from spending money. Especially at the local pub.
Not a full 3 hours' worth of work ahead, but enough that I'm longing for retirement, a warm bed and sleep.
Work on the new novel is at a standstill, food doesn't taste good, I've got a house full of books and no interest in any of them and even a hot cup of tea isn't satisfying. Just another episode of my usual anhedonia.
It's been three weeks since Pete Hegseth belched out that Mark Kelly could be brought back to active duty and prosecuted. Kelly continues to walk around free as a bird. Which is exactly what I said would happen and, IMO, why the GOP deserves to lose the midterms.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (ufSfZ)
Will be along shortly. Maybe. Hum among yourselves.
3 /shakes fist
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (MXrgX)
Would you like a maraca, so as to perform a musical interlude?
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)
https://tinyurl.com/3muk6v82
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:20 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (ufSfZ)
He said another awful thing yesterday. I quickly scrolled by and erased it from my memory.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:23 AM (RuTUS)
https://tinyurl.com/3muk6v82
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:20 AM (ufSfZ)
She's got some pipes on her!
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:27 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:28 AM (BLOW1)
https://tinyurl.com/2s3ah3jf
He arrested her 10 years ago. Every year since she sends him a thank you card. From
"Sunny Skyz" site.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 04:11 AM (ufSfZ)
I had to look up anhedonia.
Maybe you're just bored with your old pleasures and need some new ones?
I find I have to switch interests every now and then just to avoid the same ol' same ol'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:31 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Accomack at December 09, 2025 04:32 AM (8jVAy)
know whatcha mean; that response is deeply hardwired into the CNS.
hope you get a good night's sleep by way of recovery!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 04:32 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (BLOW1)
By my guesstimated count, you've got about 10 PCs around the house, and quite a few laptops.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:34 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:35 AM (looXz)
13 degrees
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:41 AM (looXz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
One serious system, three (now four) pretty decent systems, and five smaller/older ones. Including laptops though.
If it wasn't for the memory shortage I wouldn't have bought this new one. But right now memory is so expensive that with this configuration (64GB RAM, 1TB SSD for $600) they're effectively giving the computer away.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:28 AM (BLOW1)
Alarms with, like, siren sorts of noise? Or visual pop-ups all over the place?
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (RuTUS)
That does sound stressful. I am sorry.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (looXz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
One serious system, three (now four) pretty decent systems, and five smaller/older ones.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:44 AM (BLOW1)
Score!
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:46 AM (RuTUS)
They were out of smaller ones so they upgraded me to an 11lb bird at no extra charge. That's a lot of leftovers...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:46 AM (BLOW1)
The Mac Mini, a computing appliance it seems, is another good value at $600 provided you prefer the Apple ecosystem. You can even swap out the internal SSD and there are multiple docks that match the style and size of the Mac Mini and can host additional storage in some cases up to as much as 16 GB of SSDs.
I have a device like these on my purchase list over the next 12 months to see if they can meet my current computing needs.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 04:48 AM (uv8gn)
Posted by: m
I have a dedicated phone set to maximum volume, and connected to my laptop via Bluetooth so that plays the alarm as well.
It is loud because I have a big house now that I've moved out into the country and I don't want to miss it. But when it goes off while I'm sitting right next to it I jump out of my skin.
The maintenance today was because one of the database servers had a memory leak and was triggering random alerts at random times before going back to working perfectly again just seconds later. People got tired of that pretty quickly!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:50 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 09, 2025 04:51 AM (MXrgX)
The Mac Mini, a computing appliance it seems, is another good value at $600 provided you prefer the Apple ecosystem. You can even swap out the internal SSD
Yeah. There's one big catch there.
You can indeed swap out the internal SSD at a pretty reasonable price. But you can't reinstall from a USB drive. You need to boot it from another Mac.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:53 AM (BLOW1)
(1981)
MC Hammer sampled the riff of this track in his "U Can't Touch This" in 1990. So as did the Black Eyed Peas in 2020, and Nicki Minaj in 2022 ("Super Freaky Girl"). (azlyrics.com)
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:53 AM (RuTUS)
It is loud because I have a big house now
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 04:50 AM (BLOW1)
Tech Lair!
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:56 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 04:48 AM (uv8gn)
The base model Mini is a good deal if that's all you need, but if you upgrade RAM and storage be prepared to pay up.
Technically you can replace the SSD module in the newer Minis. Apple doesn't sell the modules, and third party suppliers are few and far between. And due to the way Apple locks their stuff down, you need another Mac to install the OS and initialize the firmware on the new SSD in the Mini.
They are good quality products for the money, and if you don't mind your computer being so locked down and almost impossible to upgrade.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:58 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2025 04:59 AM (4/BuS)
Born James Ambrose Johnson Jr.
February 1, 1948
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Died August 6, 2004 (aged 56)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 05:00 AM (RuTUS)
Thanks for the prayers. Please continue them if you can.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:04 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 09, 2025 05:05 AM (+mUZM)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 05:07 AM (tljrc)
I've only got 7 PCs running (8 if you count a RaspberryPi 4). I might have a strategic PC gap.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 05:07 AM (3k5hk)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 09, 2025 05:08 AM (bQ4nt)
https://expandmacmini.com/
2TB expansion will set you back $320.
It seems to be a popular choice for that upgrade.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:08 AM (6ydKt)
Mark Dice's take on the Cinnabon worker incident (and on Harry Sisson) seems right.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 05:09 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2025 05:14 AM (O7YUW)
'Tis cool this morning, 47 w/ wind chill of 43, not much wind. I should go work out, and I may decide to. (May.) Meanwhile, I'll have coffee and watch the Killer Kittenz gallop around in their own pre-breakfast workouts.
Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:18 AM (wzUl9)
Stay warm and have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 05:20 AM (Ia/+0)
Mark Dice's take on the Cinnabon worker incident (and on Harry Sisson) seems right.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 05:09 AM (RuTUS)
If you put yourself in her place, working that job, dealing with that crowd in a mall all day, for 5 or 6 days a week, I can certainly understand her frustration.
If she's been dealing with that kind of crap for her customers for a long time, it's no wonder she finally had all she could take and snapped back.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:20 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 09, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)
https://tinyurl.com/23nyj497
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025
***
For years I thought the 1966 airing was the first -- since it was the first I saw. I wonder how I missed the previous year's edition; I was a big (and getting to be critical) TV watcher then.
'Net research says it was a Thursday night. I have no memory of what was on the three main channels on that weeknight then either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 05:24 AM (wzUl9)
Good morning, Hordians.
When I open AoSHQ on my phone, I always get what looks like the desktop site, even though the desktop site box in settings isn't checked. It happened in Chrome and now it's happening in Brave. Can I do anything to fix this or is it a site problem?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 05:35 AM (tgvbd)
As for Charlie Brown's Christmas, I love the trivia that came out about it. Such as how the studio tried to remove the scene with Linus quoting Luke. Schulz told the studio the deal was off if they were going to demand that.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 05:36 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 09, 2025 05:38 AM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 09, 2025 05:41 AM (2Ez/1)
Good morning, Hordians.
When I open AoSHQ on my phone, I always get what looks like the desktop site, even though the desktop site box in settings isn't checked. It happened in Chrome and now it's happening in Brave. Can I do anything to fix this or is it a site problem?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
A couple of people have reported this. I'm pretty sure the site layout hasn't changed, but it seems like its time to put my boots on and go wading through some CSS.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 05:41 AM (BLOW1)
Thanks, NR Pax. I had heard that story about Charles Schultz and ACBC. I am glad he took that stand.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 05:43 AM (ZeH0U)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 05:46 AM (sAmhv)
A couple of people have reported this. I'm pretty sure the site layout hasn't changed, but it seems like its time to put my boots on and go wading through some CSS.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 09, 2025 05:41 AM (BLOW1)
Thanks. I took a look at what I could do and concluded that it was a site problem.
(nice hash, BTW)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 05:47 AM (tgvbd)
Unexpectedly a hinge on my Surface Pro 8 snapped and because Microsoft wants $500 to replace it, the SP8 instantly became scrap. I was able to replace it during the Black Friday sales with a identically spec'd Qualcomm based Surface Pro 11 for $750. So far everything is working flawlessly with battery life that is ridiculously excellent.
With that in mind, a hockey puck style PC with a Qualcomm mid-range V2 chip would seem to be a viable desktop PC. These computing appliances seem to have their place these days, especially if you're one that doesn't upgrade PCs once they're purchased.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 05:50 AM (uv8gn)
I'd seen some of it over the years, but never watched the entire series. I didn't have enough time to watch it in the 90s, if I watched any TV series it was ST: NG, or DS9, then Voyager.
It's on Amazon Prime to buy, but I'm not paying $2.99 an episode or $24.99 a season.
Tubi has the entire series via video on demand, though, with commercials. So I'll check it out there and see what all the fuss is about.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:51 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 09, 2025 05:50 AM (uv8gn)
Any problems with the x86 to ARM translation layer for applications?
I've heard the battery life is excellent on these ARM chips.
The only problems I've heard about is the x86 to ARM translation layer not always working for some apps.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 05:56 AM (6ydKt)
I certainly sympathize with you MP4. After my husband died I took little pleasure from the two activities I enjoyed most, knitting and reading. I still am afflicted. I order books I think I'll read but they sit on my bedside chest staring me accusingly in the face. Knitting is a complete no go. I did force myself to go see the movie "Hamnet" yesterday. Glad I did. It was truly excellent.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 05:57 AM (lJ0H4)
Went to 6:30 Mass yesterday morning, as it was a holy day of obligation. Left the house around 5:00, which would have gotten me to church a bit before 6:00, giving me half an hour to say my Rosary.
Hit a traffic jam caused by an accident. Could not get off the freeway. Had to sit through it for over an hour. Arrived closer to 7:00. They'd gotten to the Offertory, so at least I got there for the important part.
On returning home, I later got a message that the client was dissatisfied with a project I'd done. Now I have to sit through a phone call today. And the water well went out and won't refill. A really great day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2025 05:59 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 09, 2025 05:59 AM (ExV1e)
Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn
6 recorded lectures on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
I listened to the first one and loved it.
https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanGwyn
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: fluffy at December 09, 2025 06:00 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (looXz)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I'll be honest with you: The first season is a bit rough. The acting is a bit bad and the effects are somewhat cheesy (Although I liked the episode "TKO). By the second season, it really hits its stride.
Mind you, the fact that one of the lead actors was dealing with severe mental issues might have contributed a bit to the problems.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (WPL6O)
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: **drops blanket**
Posted by: TeeJ at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (jMlHD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Seems some of us are having one of those "blah" days today. Hope yours gets better Hadrian.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:02 AM (lJ0H4)
My son is a huge Cormac McCarthy fan. I will have to tell him about the lectures.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:03 AM (looXz)
It's playing near us now. I will have to go see it for my birthday.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:04 AM (looXz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Early happy birthday Fen.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:07 AM (lJ0H4)
Mind you, the fact that one of the lead actors was dealing with severe mental issues might have contributed a bit to the problems.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (NR6c1)
The first episode is on in the background now.
I've seen it before, and a few after it, I believe.
That may be my problem, it's a slow show at first, as you say, so I usually gave up after a few episodes when I tried to watch it before.
I'll give it a shot for the entire series, since the old Western TV shows are getting repetitive, because I've seen so many by now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:07 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:01 AM (NR6c1)
And which character is that?
I think the blonde and brunette gals are both cute, but the brunette is cuter.
What it the security guy actor (Garibaldi?) who had mental issues?
I think I heard about that at one time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:09 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:09 AM (looXz)
https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanGwyn
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS)
Toward the end of the first episode (last ten minutes of a one-hour lecture) there's a lot about weaponry: Comanche arrows, Kentucky long rifles, Colt revolvers.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:10 AM (RuTUS)
I look forward to hearing your thoughts. And yes, I know that "It starts off sucking" is not exactly a ringing endorsement but I do believe in full disclosure. -:-)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:10 AM (NR6c1)
I think I heard about that at one time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
No, it was the lead. He was replaced in the second season.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:11 AM (lJ0H4)
Sorry, Hadrian. Will pray that rough places are made smooth for you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:12 AM (looXz)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2025 06:12 AM (0cOaq)
It was Michael O'Hare (Sinclair). He agreed to be written out and did a couple of cameos. Straczynski kept it a secret until Michael had passed away. No one else on the cast or crew knew about it.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:13 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:11 AM (lJ0H4) 0
Oh, I see.
I always wondered why the guy from Stargate wasn't in the first season.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:14 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9)
Maybe you're just bored with your old pleasures and need some new ones?
I find I have to switch interests every now and then just to avoid the same ol' same ol'.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 04:30 AM (6ydKt)
True. Instead of always using one's right hand, try the left hand. Try a different lotion fragrance.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (g8Ew8)
Joyce Carol Oates
@JoyceCarolOates
Dec 3
you're seriously thinking that McCarthy owned guns like that? he was a person obsessed with books--specific subjects--he delighted in reading arcane subjects & (evidently) replicating them in his prose.
many writers do this, so skillfully that readers think they "know" these subjects intimately.
as I'd once told John Updike how impressed I was with his knowledge of gardening & his wife Martha interrupted to say, "Oh, John gets it all out of books."
Aelfred The Great retweeted
Aaron Gwyn
@AmericanGwyn
Dec 3
Cormac McCarthy owned over a hundred rifles and pistols—so many, in fact, that he loaned several period firearms to a production company during filming of 2004’s THE ALAMO. In addition, he built his own big game rifles. Here’s a schematic he drew for a rifle barrel:
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Which reminds me. I have to do my annual screening of "Holiday Inn" with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:13 AM (NR6c1)
It's not obvious in his acting.
I can forgive a bad first season.
Heck, ST: NG and Seinfeld (as examples) both had some growing pains their first couple of seasons and then turned out great after they hit their strides.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (6ydKt)
Waiting for my Arduino Uno Q, which is also an SBC which could be the real RPI killer as RPI have become prohibitively expensive.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:17 AM (g8Ew
It kinda feels like cheating at that point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 05:57 AM (lJ0H4)
I'm so sorry for your loss, Tuna. I will say that I find being here on the non-political threads helps a bit. I've mentioned before that I really don't have anyone in my life I can be completely open with, so being able to vent here (even if it actively irritates some people) goes a way towards easing the depression.
I honestly don't know how Ace, JJ, CBD and the others cope with the constant vomitus of politics. I suppose they have better coping skills.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (ufSfZ)
Is Cinnabon mostly in malls, or do they have standalone stores?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)
Joyce Carol Oates
@JoyceCarolOates
Dec 3
as I recall from the novel "No Country for Old Men," which may differ from the movie, it is stated that things began to go wrong in the US culminating with the senseless serial killings so lovingly detailed in the novel, when women began to live independently of men, no longer subservient to husband & family; when "feminists" appeared in our midst.
when I reached that part of the novel I probably dropped the book in shock, then picked it up again & gamely continued to the end.
feminists certainly need to have a sense of humor & it's better to laugh than to cry.
Aelfred The Great retweeted
Aaron Gwyn
@AmericanGwyn
Dec 3
There’s nothing in Cormac McCarthy’s novel [No Country for Old Men] about feminism. There’s no mention of things going bad when “women began to live independently from men.” I’ve been teaching the novel for twenty years and the passage you’re referencing doesn’t exist.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:20 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Google Maps at December 09, 2025 06:21 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2025 06:21 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:22 AM (wzUl9)
One thing I should do in the new year is begin reading Shakespeare. I have a collection of all the plays, but somehow have never been able to get into the proper mindset.
I think I will go make some tea before working a bit more.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 06:23 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:24 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:26 AM (Uk86A)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:26 AM (Uk86A)
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I was on that one, too.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2025 06:27 AM (0cOaq)
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Many are in airports.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:27 AM (g8Ew8)
How do you know it irritates people unless they tell you that?
But I do think not going on politics threads helps me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (ELdpA)
One thing I should do in the new year is begin reading Shakespeare. I have a collection of all the plays, but somehow have never been able to get into the proper mindset.
I think I will go make some tea before working a bit more.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025
***
The tragedies are -- in my experience and opinion -- easier reading than the comedies. The comedies are full of wordplay, but they depend on words that have changed meaning or gone obsolete in the centuries since. And TV sitcoms have used the same kinds of comic situations, mistaken identities and misunderstandings, for decades.
The histories, well, I guess it helps if you are familiar with the actual history. (Richard III is a good read.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (wzUl9)
1. She should have gotten security over or her manager should have stepped in before she invoked the Wakandan Holy Word.
2. While I understand her getting fired, no one should be subjected to abuse. Especially not from people who want to be a victim on camera.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (NR6c1)
I was undecided too but I didn't have anything else to do yesterday so I thought " what the heck" and went. Glad I did. The actress who plays Will Shakespeare's wife gives a marvelous performance. The rest of the cast is excellent. Beautifully filmed and directed.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:28 AM (lJ0H4)
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Many are in airports.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025
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Oh, joy. To paraphrase that great philosopher, Xander Harris: "Get your own pack of sugar-hyped little runts for the flight."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:29 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 09, 2025 06:30 AM (Cjt/F)
1. She should have gotten security over or her manager should have stepped in before she invoked the Wakandan Holy Word.
2. While I understand her getting fired, no one should be subjected to abuse. Especially not from people who want to be a victim on camera.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025
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And who have the effin' nerve to start a funding program for themselves, for the "harassment" they've endured. Give me a break.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:31 AM (wzUl9)
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I think "Midsummer" is the most accessible of the comedies to modern audiences. I'd venture to say I've never seen a bad production of it. (I also had the pleasure of playing Bottom the Weaver, but that does not affect my bias.)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2025 06:32 AM (0cOaq)
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Many are in airports.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:27 AM (g8Ew
Many [parts of the Cinnabon] are edible.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:32 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:34 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:35 AM (RuTUS)
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This is about me isn't it?
Posted by: The Starbucks in the restroom at December 09, 2025 06:39 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:34 AM (vFG9F)
The way you worded this is *chef's kiss* and nearly resulted in spewed tea hereabouts.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)
Perhaps, but the rest of us don't deserve the Commies to regain the House.
Yeah, we see a lot of perps and the lack of swift Justice. When Ilhan Omar gets deported, and Mark Kelly gets court-martialed, etc., if that and other things like that happen, it will be a good time to rejoice. But in the meantime, keep your head down (and on a swivel if that is possible) and live a life of integrity, charity, and faith. If you lost your faith, pray to have it restored.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:43 AM (W7XSX)
++++++
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who is always says that at December 09, 2025 06:45 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:46 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 09, 2025 06:46 AM (lQ+/f)
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:20 AM (RuTUS)
If she had been a Real Woman, she should have either had to choose between vomiting or blacking out.
Posted by: That MIT Professor that got hysterical about Larry Summers' comment at December 09, 2025 06:46 AM (PiwSw)
Ono had a rather large rack for her size (28H, see https://tinyurl.com/yokoonotits), so killing her would have been a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 06:47 AM (3k5hk)
Posted by: That MIT Professor that got hysterical about Larry Summers' comment at December 09, 2025 06:47 AM (PiwSw)
Thinking about limiting it to a DDR4 system as its more affordable.
Posted by: Politcal McGuffin at December 09, 2025 06:48 AM (nGP9S)
The Big Three™ memory makers, in the case of Samsung, 75% gross margin, won't add capacity because, as "journalists" "report" the manufactures are afraid of the business cycle.
Appears a whole lot similar to an OPEC for memory. Here we have the usual claim "PEAK
Then the blame: "
Then the illogical Supply & Demand response: "the market will later crash". which is the lame excuse to strangle supply until....
The usual government action to grift and regulate an emerging market that is making piles of money.
What will be the memory equivalent of Climate Change™ and Carbon Credits®?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (a4flb)
Today I shall attempt to string Christmas lights outside. Hopefully without too much cussing or physical injury.
*crosses fingers*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (a4flb)
>> Thinking about limiting it to a DDR4 system as its more affordable.
You can still put together a solid system for under 3k.
But if computer components keep on inflating, computers might approach the prices we paid in the 80s to put together our rigs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 06:51 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Politcal McGuffin at December 09, 2025 06:48 AM (nGP9S)
I'm still on an AM4 platform, Ryzen 5900X, with DDR4 on this PC.
Working great for me, although I'd probably notice the difference if I went up to AM5 and a 9900X, for sure.
If you can still find the motherboards, B550s are probably pretty cheap, along with the processors.
I still have the 5600X I originally put in this system.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
4h
I'm going to end up bashing my head against a wall over this and ending up like Nicolas Cage Longlegs.
Carlson/Owens etc don't care about the hypocrisy. All they care about is everyone talking about their hypocrisy. That's it,
All they care about is being the main character on this platform and others day after day, and it is a choice to continue to make them the main character on this platform day after day.
As I've said a lot of smart people I respect continue to fall for it day after day.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)
So picking that 64GB/2TB laptop (that I asked you about on twitter and purchased used/like new for ~$150US off) last month turned out to be a serendipitously good idea. Amazon now wants that much for the 16GB/1TB model and you can't even get 64GB anymore.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 09, 2025 06:53 AM (gUs21)
Yeah, we see a lot of perps and the lack of swift Justice. When Ilhan Omar gets deported, and Mark Kelly gets court-martialed, etc., if that and other things like that happen, it will be a good time to rejoice. But in the meantime, keep your head down (and on a swivel if that is possible) and live a life of integrity, charity, and faith. If you lost your faith, pray to have it restored.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:43 AM (W7XSX)
Right now, we only have one person representing this country's majority in DC. And that's Donald Trump. The rest are greasy tongued grifters looking only for more money and self-aggrandizement.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:54 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: fd
Deep thoughts.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:55 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 06:56 AM (W7XSX)
Pentium III 550 MHz, 64Mb RAM, 10 gb HD, 8 Mb video adapter, 17" crt. Win 98SE. $1600.
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 06:58 AM (wzUl9)
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
19h
Liverpool, England — Former professional soccer player Joey Barton was given a suspended six month prison sentence, over £20,000 in fines and 200 hours of community service after being convicted of “grossly offensive” posts on social media.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (1Er30)
Posted by: fd at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)
Very festive it is.
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:00 AM (W7XSX)
Ono had a rather large rack for her size (28H, see https://tinyurl.com/yokoonotits), so killing her would have been a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 06:47 AM
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You know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at December 09, 2025 07:00 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fd
Deep thoughts.
Posted by: Tuna at December 09, 2025 06:55 AM (lJ0H4)
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Indeed.
Posted by: Jack Handey at December 09, 2025 07:00 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025
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I don't need to know how much a roll at a Cinnabon costs. I have a vivid and dark imagination and it serves me quite well for stuff like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 07:01 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: no one at December 09, 2025 07:01 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 09, 2025 07:01 AM (D+mpw)
Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Kyle Beckley
@Kyle_Beckley
12h
Every soccer game is a pride match is it not?
___
Awkward: FIFA 'Pride Match' Will Feature Two
Countries That Ban Homosexuality
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:02 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 06:59 AM (1Er30)
Kudos to him. Also Piers Morgan.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:02 AM (RuTUS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yks5qhYt8eI
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 07:05 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 09, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)
(had to go back and scroll through the comments)
No... I was out in the garage, where it's currently 28 degrees, looking for those Christmas lights I'm going to abuse myself with later today.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2025 07:06 AM (NwnyJ)
Ow, that kind of thinking hurts.
I'll just go back to my in-depth research of Yoko Ono's bustline.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 07:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 09, 2025 06:54 AM (g8Ew
I agree.
The problem I have is with Trump's sounding off and the useless bloviation from everyone in his circle. Don't say Ilhan should be investigated and deported for immigration fraud, DO IT! Don't say Mark Kelly might be recalled to active duty and face a military court, DO IT! Don't say the Clintons are in violation of a subpoena and should be arrested, DO IT!
Stop 'threatening' and 'blasting' and 'firing back' and actually put these treasonous bastards behind bars, or admit that you just exist to provide kayfabe soundbites.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:11 AM (ufSfZ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yks5qhYt8eI
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2025 07:05 AM (NR6c1)
Oh, he looks like a great find. New to me.
@sircalebhammer
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 09, 2025 07:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Because he's well-spoken.
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (RuTUS)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
For a morning sashay around the kitchen:
https://youtu.be/R9T2H8QJjlw
Reveillez-Vous
Peter White
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)
>I'm still on an AM4 platform, Ryzen 5900X, with DDR4 on this PC.
I'm on AMD FX 6300 - 8GB DDR3 ram - Radeon R7 260X (as I said, 10 years old)
I think a bump to a Ryzen 7 with DDR 4 would be noticeable for me too.
I only play older games but do some Java programming so I can make use of the additional power.
Is the DDR5 price spike expected to last?
Posted by: Political Mcguffin at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (3FTs8)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:11 AM (ufSfZ)
Trump likes to fire several warning shots hoping bluster will get attention.
Omar, especially, needs to be investigated.
Not for marrying her brother which is probably past the statute of limitations, but for the obvious corruption going on around her and her district and the fact that her net work went from 6 to multiple seven figures in the space of two years.
She's a con-artist crook, along with her entire family, and I've been saying that since 2017.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 07:16 AM (6ydKt)
Vey nice library picture. you got a lot of good reading on your shelf.
Agree with you. Don't threaten. Act.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)
This obsession with "magic words" that everyone is supposed to gasp about has gone beyond ridiculous.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:18 AM (ASmqz)
Posted by: Political Mcguffin at December 09, 2025 07:14 AM (3FTs
They are predicting the shortage will last for at least a year or two, maybe more unless the AI bubble pops.
DDR4 ain't getting any cheaper either, since a lot of people are thinking the same thing you are and buying up the supply which is small anyhow because DDR4 is almost at end-of-life production.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 07:20 AM (RuTUS)
She is the definition of a traitor.
Trump does not have an inch of Cromwell in him.
But I bring to mind Cromwell's actions to end the Long Parliament more and more. He was eloquent in his distain for the Members of Parliament.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: The person who likes to say that Nothing Will Happen at December 09, 2025 07:21 AM (2Ez/1)
If you had been able to gamble on the basis of your nic, you would be wealthy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 09, 2025 07:22 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:11 AM (ufSfZ)
Trump's always had a good bit of PT Barnum in him. That's why we've long said to take Trump seriously, but don't take him literally. He throws out a lot of stream of consciousness stuff that he's never actually thought through.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 07:25 AM (ASmqz)
Stares at his giant stack of hitherto obsolete DDR4 with renewed delight...
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (1Nv0l)
JJS
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)
And as noted, you can put together a pretty good system for under 3k today.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 07:28 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 07:30 AM (3k5hk)
Razer Kishi V3 Gaming Controller for iPhone 15, 16, 17 Series & Android:
Posted by: sidney at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (rzwGB)
Thanks, Salty. I wish I could leave it all to the Horde when I die. Sadly, it will all end up in a rubbish tip.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 09, 2025 07:33 AM (ufSfZ)
Razer Kishi V3 Gaming Controller for iPhone 15, 16, 17 Series & Android:
Posted by: sidney at December 09, 2025 07:32 AM (rzwGB)
Razer makes some decent products (I've got a webcam from them that's pretty nice). They are known for being a little over-priced, but they're a big & popular name brand in gaming, so people will pay.
There are lots of those smartphone game controllers out there though, especially on Amazon, if you want to save a few bucks.
$99 doesn't sound ridiculous for a high-quality device like that.
I can't give you an appraisal of any as I don't game on my phone.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: sidney at December 09, 2025 07:58 AM (rzwGB)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 09, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj)
Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/8/25)
“Perhaps, we should be a little less fearful and look for ways to promote authentic dialogue and respect. I know that, in practice, this has not always been the case. I know that fears persist in Europe.” Pope Leo XIV
New York City’s Democratic Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is telling illegal immigrants in his area how to “stand up” to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (ICE) agents. The news comes as President Donald Trump’s administration has been working to safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime and as federal officials have been arresting the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens.
Have you ever met anyone who attended and/or graduated from Notre Dame? Oh you know it when you have. What a bunch of whiners. Pull up your big boy jock straps and play football. Wouldn't your hero Knute Rockne say, "Suck it up buttercups!!
Notre Dame withdrew from the bowl selection process after it missed out on the College Football Playoff, the Fighting Irish announced. Notre Dame landed at No. 11 in the final set of playoff rankings, which made it the first team out of the 12-team bracket. The selection committee's decision to exclude Notre Dame in favor of Miami, which ranked 10th and snagged the last at-large bid, came after weeks of ranking the Fighting Irish ahead of the Hurricanes. Notre Dame and Miami were both idle during conference championship weekend.
The "Science" is never settled.
Scientists find a startling discovery in a national park's hot waters
New creatures found in Lassen Volcanic National Park defy expectations
How about some humor Norm style!
Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. Jeez no wonder why they lost taxpayer funding........
HHS changed the name oftransgendermentally ill health leader onherhis official portrait. As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
Bear attacks trainer in front of audience after being forced to ride hoverboard
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: HR Manager at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 08, 2025 11:05 PM (6U1c2)
@unseen1_unseen
Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Cjcf6)
Those with long memories know; those with short memories also know. Is this guy better than the last one?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (3ek7K)
@unseen1_unseen
Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Cjcf6)
There are three lights!
Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Kindltot
If he's that droopy in that situation, we know which team Waldo bats for.
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 08, 2025 11:05 PM (6U1c2)
I guess Dora's gonna be an explora. The older version, of course.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (//dg8)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (krQz2)
https://tinyurl.com/y7h42k8x
https://tinyurl.com/2z7ehdpf
https://tinyurl.com/5scx42t4
https://tinyurl.com/2rcwa8ss
557 and obligatory
https://tinyurl.com/5n6rpnvt
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Bilwis - why waste them? at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)
I'm actually surprised that Doof hasn't posted an ONT. Maybe he's getting one ready. With Rush clip.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (uQesX)
I was THIS close to doing that!
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:09 PM (XnlIn)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW)
https://tinyurl.com/5n99yth9
Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (uQesX)
Look out Florida Man, here comes China Man.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (G1OIb)
*plugs in (only!!!) colored lights*
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm)
That is an Employee of the Month move right there!
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (XnlIn)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (uQesX)
I was THIS close to doing that!
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:09 PM (XnlIn)
Now you've made posters unsure of being happy or sad....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:10 PM (uQesX)
Have a Ballpark frank...
Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:12 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 11:12 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
Don't look at me...I shaved off my beard last year...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 11:13 PM (89Sog)
I know Steve Vai played with him.
And I *still* don't like anything he recorded other than "Valley Girl" and "No Not Now", which both featured Steve Vai.
Oh, your name is Bobby Brown? Why should I care? So much *nothingness* in the name of..."hey, I'm not a sellout". Great, you're also not really...interesting.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:13 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM
***
But why would you want to?
Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (zcHq9)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I saw Woody Herman and His Young Thundering Herd open for Sinatra at Nick Meliti's Coliseum in Richfield as it's first show.
I really did. It was fantastic!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:13 PM (Cjcf6)
Never been a fan of Frankie...I know, I'm a heretic.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM
***
But why would you want to?
Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino
*********
Actually, I was wondering the same thing...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM
Tell him the long arm of the law will catch up to him?
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 11:15 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
Bar S, or nothing.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM
***
But why would you want to?
Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino
*********
Actually, I was wondering the same thing...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:15 PM (IQ6Gq)
At any rate, since they're extinct, it shouldn't matter short of Jurassic Park happening in real life.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JQ
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Sounds like Disco and I are going to have the "Tastes Great...
Less Filling" wars over the lights.
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM (uQesX)
Off brand hot dogs are like off brand mayonnaise: I'll pass.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:16 PM
***
I...am...sitting...right...here.
Posted by: TRex - invisible dino? at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (zcHq9)
Posted by: You Are What You Is at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (oftw2)
I think they'll meet your approval:
https://tinyurl.com/36xe9h36
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: TRex - invisible dino? at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (zcHq9)
But, your like the Toy Story T.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: JQ
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Sounds like Disco and I are going to have the "Tastes Great...
Less Filling" wars over the lights.
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (41CYW)
Dogs are colorblind, or so I've heard. You won't know the difference. Boom!
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (XnlIn)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (t/66j)
Ended up watching American Madness, which I think someone mentioned on the movie thread.* Frank Capra we hadn't ever seen before. Always satisfying work.
[* Apparently not,¹ but something on AOS led me to it]
[¹ Gotta gripe once again how hard Pixy makes it to get to comments on threads in the archive.]
YooToob offers it to rent or buy, but someone put it up for free hahaha greedy yootoob:
https://youtu.be/PHe4AMjkozs
Okay, now to go and savor the post content.
Posted by: mindful webworker - bitter latte then nerver at December 08, 2025 11:19 PM (yqA/D)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: TRex - coney island dino at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (zcHq9)
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2)
All you need is Farmer John
Posted by: Zombie Vin Scully at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (XnlIn)
Less Filling" wars over the lights.
Posted by: scamoydog
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No worries, Doggo! I installed *both* white and multi-color lights. Got to keep all our customers happy...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rdVOm)
I think they'll meet your approval:
https://tinyurl.com/36xe9h36
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:18 PM (rdVOm)
Yup!!
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (XnlIn)
Posted by: Doof
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*Checks calendar* Somebody never got over the disco lights.
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM
***
But why would you want to?
Posted by: TRex - puzzled dino at December 08, 2025 11:14 PM (zcHq9)
Your life is too boring, and needs something to start an adrenaline rush.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:21 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: 496 at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (4MR3n)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: TRex
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Lights over and along the bar do not blink, the ones on our tree and over the fireplace *do*
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: scamoydog at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: mindful webworker - everybody has a blind spot at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (yqA/D)
Texas vs Notre Dame would be a good one.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:24 PM (IQ6Gq)
("greater than")
(I think)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:20 PM (MVEnt)
Frank had the hood image that Dean didn't, so that's certainly something in his favor, but Frank was the Chairman, so....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:24 PM (uQesX)
I'm your huckleberry.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:24 PM (viF8m)
Make your deck out of real wood?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM
***
Don't make me turn this car around.
Posted by: TRex at December 08, 2025 11:25 PM (zcHq9)
Bookmark this also for Christmas Eve:
K-MART 1974 in-store Christmas music soundtrack:
https://is.gd/2vpcEI
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:25 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: scamoydog
***********
Wow, 3 D's and all we can hope for is that someone will get the courage? It's a Christmas party, and Piper is prepared to cover the Santa fashion aspect of it...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 11:26 PM (IQ6Gq)
Dean Martin Christmas songs...on a loop:
https://is.gd/if8YTQ
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (MVEnt)
Nice choice. Gotta keep that vile Lennon fake Christmas song out of rotation along with that over-hyped, sappy, insipid Mariah Carey song. What a grating piece of crap. Most popular Christmas song my backside.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:26 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
Not me, I'm going as Yukon Cornelius.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (TfUTr)
They're not settling for chump change, even if it ends their season.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (1zOXE)
Make your deck out of real wood?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:22 PM (uQesX)
It took me a minute, but I got it.
Golf clap.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (znQHQ)
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2)
Separation in twelve minutes.
Posted by: Braenyard
Are you on the toilet?
Not good to sit on the throne too long.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:29 PM (MVEnt)
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I spent hours in a local Italian restaurant as a customer during the 2000's. Dean was a far better singer. Frank spent too much time telling stories about being Frank.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:30 PM (Cjcf6)
1980
1980 has been my personal "benchmark" for the beginning of the "modern era" for me.
As this year ends, we are now 1 year further away from 1980.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:30 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (TfUTr)
The last time I grew my hair and beard out, I found I had a disturbing resemblance to Bumble, the Abominable Snowman.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (znQHQ)
So no bowl revenue since they believe they are entitled to get a share of the playoff pot.
If they don’t like it they can join a conference.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Louis XVI at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (TfUTr)
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Would have been the perfect time for Homan to put him in a headlock.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:31 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2)
I was on my way to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport when the news came on the radio.
Disappointing game as Southern Miss beat my Cowboys 16 -14 . We were leading 14-10 mid 4th quarter.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:32 PM (KDPiq)
I think he would've made a fine Moron, too:
He told the best bawdy jokes, enjoyed a fine bourbon, and got into plenty trouble as a young 'un but grew up to become an honorable family man.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq)
Did that already ...
***buffs nails ***
Posted by: Joe Montana at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2)
Huh. And it was a Monday, too. Cosell broke the news during the game.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Hey, ya got a couple weeks to pull the outfit together!
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 08, 2025 11:33 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 11:34 PM (1zOXE)
womp womp
Internet is telling me Hair Fuentes "destroyed" Pierssss Morgan in debate over [black] crime stats.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:34 PM (MVEnt)
So what if they decided that they're bowing out of all bowl games if they are not selected for the playoffs?
Do you want Notre Dame in the bowl games?
It's always funny to me that people don't think they're whining when their subject is somebody else is whining.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:37 PM (krQz2)
3 minutes to module separation. They've had some problems a time or two with this, some explosive bolts not firing correctly, causing a mess up and ballistic reentry (>8g).
That's all fixed, supposedly. Unless Sergei forget something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:37 PM (Ow52c)
Their 3 losses were all away games and two were to current #2 and #3 and they just crushed #7 who were #4 at the time.
They were screwed more than Notre Dame.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:38 PM (KDPiq)
Separation good, slick as owl shit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Some Rat
Cornmeal
Guitar strings
Gunpowder
Ham hocks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 11:40 PM (mT+6a)
He's really not serious about being taken as a woman.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:40 PM (krQz2)
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I'll care when "they" stop saying the supposedly forbidden word too.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:42 PM (Cjcf6)
They are lighting up over the Caspian Sea, looks like.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:43 PM (w6EFb)
This, after recently reneging on their contract to play BYU in a home and home where BYU went to their place first and then Notre Dame refused to hold up their end of the deal.
I think they are just chicken and afraid of playing BYU because they know they will get exposed.
Posted by: SimoHayek at December 08, 2025 11:43 PM (0Aoc4)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (TfUTr)
Call it a tie at the end of the 4th quarter (so we call all boo the decision) or let both teams fight until a team wins.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (Cjcf6)
I'll care when "they" stop saying the supposedly forbidden word too.
Posted by: Crusader
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Yup.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 11:44 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:45 PM (Ow52c)
Second one (Nanook) ended abruptly, forcing me to look up St Alphonso's,
https://youtu.be/6XCByyFKklA
which also ended abruptly. Where's the whole uninterrupted album suite? I am unsatisfied.
Posted by: mindful webworker - zip zap zup at December 08, 2025 11:46 PM (yqA/D)
Posted by: the way I see it
--
Thought it was, inbreds.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:47 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:47 PM (viF8m)
Max g's now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:48 PM (w6EFb)
Musk has ships landing pinpoint on barges.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:48 PM (Ow52c)
I remember some people "resisted" the clot shot mandates by printing out fake clot shot cards.
They went to jail.
Odd that people enabling all these illegals to get inherently illegal IDs are not also drawing prison time
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 11:50 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2)
I remember hearing Ted Koppel saying "You've all heard the terrible news today." Well, I hadn't, having been away from any news all day. Remember when it was easy to do that? But I digress.
Tensions had been running high with the USSR, and my first thought was war was breaking out, and I was in a situation where I would be one of the first ones to go.
I was greatly relieved when I found out what he was talking about.
Sorry, John. They gave Peace a Chance.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:50 PM (znQHQ)
Two fake FNM figures.
I wonder if they had a few cocktails and a roll in the hay together afterwards just like Fuentes and Destiny...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 11:51 PM (sKqQm)
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Cambodians attacking Thailand looking to conquer trannyboys and be head of greater communist Indo-China. Asshoe's.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:52 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2)
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Tragic as it was, it marked the launch of Yoko's brilliant career.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:53 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Imagine That!
Yoko singing (not screaming) hard times are over, before the murder. Sad irony.
https://youtu.be/aBSU4Yx4L1k
Posted by: mindful webworker - harder times again at December 08, 2025 11:55 PM (yqA/D)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:55 PM (MVEnt)
They should be getting live video of the Soyuz touchdown soon. If you've never seen one of those land landings, you'll enjoy it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:56 PM (MVEnt)
Are you shitting me?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:56 PM (MVEnt)
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That would be the Ty-D-Bowl
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:57 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 08, 2025 11:50 PM (znQHQ)
Chapman gave his piece a chance, but he missed her and hit John instead.
Too soon? Sorry, Sean.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:57 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Imagine That!
>It is unfortunate that we have lunatics in society willing to murder an entertainer. But consider, John also murdered my eardrums for over a decade.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 11:58 PM (1zOXE)
Cambodia is back to having a monarch? I thought mr. pot took care of that problem?
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 11:58 PM (pcnhy)
https://youtu.be/aBSU4Yx4L1k
Posted by: mindful webworker - harder times again
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Epitome of a delicate Asian flower.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:00 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2025 12:00 AM (JkO4W)
I also must offer a suggestion that those snowflake lights be displayed in the Men's Room, I am not a fan. I saw those and got a mental picture of an angry white female guidance counselor posting on TikTok about inclusive holidays with those lights blinking on and off in the background.
I am looking forward to the party.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 12:00 AM (0nHVk)
Are you shitting me?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Anyone eating pop-tarts out of a bowl spends a night in the box.
Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2025 12:01 AM (nhCoE)
One of the cosmonauts ears needed popping due to big pressure changes. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ol Ma Skynynrd at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (r6f6k)
I'm almost positive I first learned that Lennon was killed driving to the Bowl but that would be 5 days later. I have to be misremembering and maybe they were just doing a tribute all day on the radio.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (KDPiq)
So they found a bug that can live in 145 degree water, up from the previous record of 140 degrees? Stop the presses!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:57 PM (JkO4W)
That should be in Boise.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 09, 2025 12:02 AM (S/Y4j)
I am looking forward to the party.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Doof likes them. Wonder if he'd be willing to hang them up in the men's room?
Good to see you, Debby!
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (rdVOm)
Blow it out your ass popey. Take a cruise through taliban central with your silly little pope mobile and see what authentic dialog they're interested in. Hope its up armored.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:04 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:27 PM (Ow52c)
Oh fuck! I didn't set up the net.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:06 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:07 AM (vd6bO)
Bummer, no landing footage. It's fun. Right at the last second, they fire some landing rockets to slow down to keep from hitting the ground too hard.
And there were 2500 watching the NASA feed, it says.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2025 12:08 AM (2WIwB)
While watching Father Knows Best I observed 1) 52-yr old Robert Young looks 62 (in Today years), and 2) 49 yr old Jane Wyatt looks 49, which is great for that era; her contemporaries looked much older.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (MVEnt)
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (KDPiq)
Thanks for saving me the time and money I would've spent on ordering some of that, um, *stuff* to try for myself.
Sounds suboptimal.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)
Put something he wants just out of reach
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (KDPiq)
The he has to ask Mooch to grab the box of Kaboom off the top shelf at WalMart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:13 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:10 AM (MVEnt)
When my grandparents were 49 they looked ready to be packed in Natron.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 12:14 AM (0nHVk)
I know there are Lennon haters on here, folks who joke darkly that it was Ono who should have been shot, but, dammit, man, that great musician and songwriter who gave us so much, as a Beatle and after, had finally come home, kicked the drugs, won the struggle against indulgence and fame, settled down with his wife, and tried to be a better father than he had been with his first boy. And good lord have some sympathy with Yoko standing right there to see it. What John could have become, we'll never know. When I first heard "Watching the Wheels" on the radio, it was like a bright light. His killer should have been executed.
It was really moving to see old John in the movie Yesterday. It's almost like the whole reason for the film.
https://youtu.be/lgC-fvyD3_8
Posted by: mindful webworker - I just had to let it go at December 09, 2025 12:14 AM (yqA/D)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:14 AM (npFr7)
_-_
Very strong flavor, but it's growing on me. Kinda wondering if it would tase good in ice cream. Will have to try that.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:15 AM (vd6bO)
I haven't even had a drink yet.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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LOL, yes. Need to fix ya up!
*sends drink to Debby*
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:16 AM (rdVOm)
F-16A Fighting Falcons with the Royal Thai Air Force have carried out several strikes on the Chong Arn Ma Casino, across from the Nam Yuen District, Ubon Ratchathani Province of Southern Thailand.
[The] abandoned casino near the border between Thailand and Cambodia which reportedly has been converted into a command-and-control center as well as munitions depot for the Cambodian Army.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:17 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 11:58 PM (pcnhy)
When I was in high school mr. pot took care of a lot of things. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:18 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Wha? ??
Interesting. Yeasty taste?
I'm not a beer drinker, but *do* like raised breads & pastries. Still, think I'll wait until there's an opportunity to taste the stuff without any outlay of cash on my part.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm)
And finally live footage of the capsule. We'll get to seem them fish 'em out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:19 AM (w6EFb)
The presenting organization, Alberta Prosperity Project, says they seek Alberta independence, and not annexation into the USA, and say their understanding is the President Trump would deal fairly with an independent Alberta. (Peon: one would certainly hope so, since the rump of Canada would likely be a little hostile.)
The crowd tended older, but a good number of young people, and folks in their prime working years, too.
There were cookies!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Heh. I knew that guy, too!
When I got the factory (random drg testing required) job, it seemed my name was on the list EVERY time for about the first year of employment.. Wondered if somebody, somewhere knew me in HS.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (npFr7)
Reminded me of the movie City of Ghosts with Matt Dillion and James Caan. Just average reviews but I thought it was 4 out of 5 stars.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 09, 2025 12:23 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:25 AM (3hpq0)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 09, 2025 12:27 AM (vd6bO)
Ontario just passed a "controversial" "housing bill." I don't know the deets, just the headline.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:28 AM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Same here, except there was no snow. It's warmer now than it was at noon! Windy as hell.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: _.-=* The More You Know at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (TWsPO)
Out comes Sergey, commander. It's 21F out there at the landing site.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:29 AM (w6EFb)
About what it was this morning here; continually got warmer during the day, hitting 38 this evening. 21F is tolerable if you have a warm jacket, and its not windy, but 38 feels downright balmy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:31 AM (npFr7)
I think that's Sergey's wife right next to him. She seems very happy to see him.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:25 AM (3hpq0)
The first few years I did the sturgis rally we stayed in camp grounds and met a group from Alberta who came to the same camp ground every year. Damn those dudes were a riot, funny bastards they were. Getting shitfaced around a camp fire with those dudes was the best time we ever had camping. Only lasted a few years though, the women in our group eventually revolted and wanted to stay in hotels.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9)
Window in my bedroom open. Smells divine. Not particularly cold, still on the low 50s. Wind hooting. Rain pounding the western facing windows.
Damn it’s awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 09, 2025 12:35 AM (yyEWD)
I remember it today because as a piece of writing, it was masterful. The writer did not do anything to excuse him; remember the magazines audience hated him more than anyone else in the world. Yet, as the tale was told I ended up feeling some pity for him in spite of my feelings; it was a day by day story of a man who had so totally lost touch with reality that his conversations with the imaginary people who inhabited his world were far more real to him than any flesh and blood.
Some perps claim they are insane to excuse doing what they lust after; but some are so far gone that it is difficult for us to even imagine the things they see and hear. And no, no one that far gone ever comes back. Killing him (which should have been done) would have been a mercy, not a punishment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:36 AM (3hpq0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:21 AM (npFr7)
Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies!
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to bake them yet at December 09, 2025 12:37 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:37 AM (Ow52c)
Bers, I remember having Christmas parties in a car with my co-workers, mr. pot and plenty of package store stops, car stereo cranking out the tunes. Good times indeed.
My tree is illuminated now, tomorrow I will get to ornamentation. Boy does the house smell good right now, all piney.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 12:38 AM (0nHVk)
Cambodia states that their athletic delegation to the Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games, ... will still attend the competition despite escalating clashes along the border between Thailand and Cambodia
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Going to be a good competition. Should be televised.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:39 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Debby
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*remembers childhood*
Mmmm, fresh-cut Christmas tree smell.... ahhhhh.
Posted by: JQ at December 09, 2025 12:41 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Jackson at December 09, 2025 12:41 AM (J9q9v)
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Didn't see that coming. Hope Trump and his daughter-in-law are on this.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:42 AM (Ow52c)
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Can't, can't we all get along?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 12:44 AM (Ow52c)
And our guy, Jonny Kim, comes out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:45 AM (w6EFb)
They didn't show the other guy coming out, and they took him directly to the medical tent. He may be puking his guts out, which happens with some.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 09, 2025 12:46 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:46 AM (3hpq0)
I thought President Trump ended all Swamp Creatures from becoming Lobbyists? Or said he would.
Because that will curb a lot of the Republican Shits from bailing out -- a lot of them turn into lobbyists (major grifters).
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:49 AM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:46 AM (3hpq0)
Make sure the replacements are MAGA people!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:50 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:50 AM (MVEnt)
Or....make Lobbying illegal within 100 miles of Washington D.C.
And make all lobbying 100% transparent, with open books, updated daily.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 12:51 AM (MVEnt)
I thought President Trump ended all Swamp Creatures from becoming Lobbyists? Or said he would.”
President doesn’t have the authority to do that, Congress would have to pass a bill to change the law.
Imagine Congress passing a law that would limit their future earnings at the feed trough. HA!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:53 AM (3hpq0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 12:53 AM (3hpq0)
Find a way to put Congress in a bind: pass that law, or something vastly worse happens to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:55 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 12:55 AM (npFr7)
That’s the rub; who could pass such a law except they themselves?
Well I do know the answer, and it’s a bit depressing. This is why all large democracies eventually devolve into some type of imperial model of government. That’s who ends up making the laws when the elected “representatives” quit doing it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2025 01:00 AM (3hpq0)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 12:18 AM (snZF9)
I'm surprised that there is anyone left in cambodia that can read. When you exterminate about one third of your population and another hard core commie country invades you to stop the excesses, any kulak that survived is one lucky SOB.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 09, 2025 01:04 AM (pcnhy)
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This would certainly change a few minds…
_James Woods
Some would say that this is a feel good clip.
https://tinyurl.com/jn3zshra
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:04 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2025 01:06 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at December 09, 2025 01:07 AM (A/tlT)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Most refreshing thing of the ... maybe this century, is SCOTUS returning the right to hire and fire bureaucrats back to the president.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:09 AM (Ow52c)
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This would certainly change a few minds…
_James Woods
Some would say that this is a feel good clip.
https://tinyurl.com/jn3zshra
Posted by: Braenyard
That's awful in the sense that I watched that several times with a smile on my face. I denounce myself. Now, back to watching that video again...
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 01:09 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:13 AM (Ow52c)
Alice Cooper is in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, the grossest, most visually sickening movie ever made.
Alice Cooper is also in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 09, 2025 01:15 AM (MVEnt)
https://tinyurl.com/jn3zshra
Posted by: Braenyard
That's awful in the sense that I watched that several times with a smile on my face. I denounce myself. Now, back to watching that video again...
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 01:09 AM (sAmhv)
Definitely worth a few watches.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 09, 2025 01:17 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 09, 2025 01:17 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Skip at December 09, 2025 01:22 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
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Hope you are putting away a lot of loot.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:32 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:38 AM (RR89A)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 09, 2025 01:40 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:40 AM (RR89A)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2025 01:41 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 09, 2025 01:44 AM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 11:11 PM
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Ask him to play catch.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:55 AM (DwYwN)
Posted by: Tranq Crappa at December 09, 2025 01:58 AM (6YPjt)
Posted by: Tranq Crappa at December 09, 2025 02:01 AM (6YPjt)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 09, 2025 02:08 AM (sAmhv)
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And there's Nidal Hasan, murdered thirteen people on an army base in 2009, and still on death row.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 02:13 AM (v3gtd)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 09, 2025 01:40 AM (RR89A)
To end inflation, spend money on 1) a good or 2) a service to the greatest extent possible.
Government is neither 1) nor 2).
Also, pay down the debt.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 02:14 AM (4786I)
Posted by: Imagine That! at December 08, 2025 11:28 PM (oftw2)
Assassination.
24 years later. Dimebag Darrell was assassinated in Cleveland.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 02:21 AM (4786I)
Is your mother available for hire?
Posted by: just doing my part to end inflation at December 09, 2025 02:22 AM (AqM0I)
Posted by: H. Young Man at December 09, 2025 03:13 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: m at December 09, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)
Ono had a rather large rack for her size (28H, see https://tinyurl.com/yokoonotits), so killing her would have been a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 09, 2025 05:58 AM (3k5hk)
Posted by: bradc at December 09, 2025 07:42 AM (FZ+y0)
Posted by: Roger DePoy at December 09, 2025 08:02 AM (wLtJD)
Posted by: Gorthanc at December 09, 2025 10:48 AM (8Q86n)
This is what I do................ https://p0stpr0m0ney88.blogspot.com/
Posted by: HOME PROFIT at December 09, 2025 06:28 PM (+3dnj)
Monday Cafe
by Guido Krüttgen
Cat IT. This cat exemplifies the phenomenon of "fur children." Kids today, they just learn from the TV. Jealous dog. Dog wants more shiatsu massage. A dog sled in bizzaro world. Thwarting a chaos agent. More fun than popping bubble wrap. Must... destroy... Christmas...
Incredible Auroras 🦌 pic.twitter.com/31nBdsxrHn
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) December 7, 2025
They couldn’t figure out why the tree kept falling until they checked the camera.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/AbGSjrEFdp
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 8, 2025
The smiles.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/eUAaslg3FB
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 6, 2025
When dad's in the charge of the kids for the day..🐶🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/JvHuIFjLEX
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 8, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 08, 2025 07:22 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:23 PM (npFr7)
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Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:24 PM (2GVsD)
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"I WILL CLIMB THAT!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (2GVsD)
https://youtu.be/qZWCNVLd44Y
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2GVsD)
Pollock? Yum. Codfish OK, too.
Posted by: Kitties, everywhere at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:30 PM (2GVsD)
Tis a mystery wrapped in an enigma swaddled by a puzzle.
Oh, it loaded!
That's a nice winter landscape.
I can't help but being ever so slight disappointed because when I read the title of the broken link I though it said "Guido Kitten" and I was looking forward to seeing what that was.
But it's a very nice picture anyway.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt)
Fabulous contrast and the fog looks amazing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)
https://youtu.be/qZWCNVLd44Y
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (PiwSw)
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Meh. Other than the obvious attractions, not much substance to fuel a conversation on the Book Thread...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (zBC00)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt)
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Yeah, you really don't need Nancy Drew or Encyclopedia Brown to crack this case.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:36 PM (ESVrU)
Russian space program: Too much vodka or not enough?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)
Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:38 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (w6EFb)
Okay, why is YouTube giving me ads for men's underwear with fucking boner pockets?
I keep trying to block the ads but I still get bulging packages in my feed. What the fuck?!?
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (xt2dn)
I like the final look at the end where the dog on the floor looks to its owner and says (with its eyes), you see how the other dog is loved by its owner and held lovingly in their lap while here I sit on the cold, dirty floor.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (w6EFb)
Kosmodrome blew up on the last launch and the Russians are wondering what to do about it. The only working orbital programs now are SpaceX and the Chinese, and the Chinese use non-standard docking equipment and apparently are unwilling to share the dimensions and specs with SpaceX. This could be a problem as the Chinese astronauts may not have a functioning return craft right now.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (rbvCR)
but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY)
Yes.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 08, 2025 07:31 PM (Kkaqr)
Listen to me! It’s important!
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (Kkaqr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD)
Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)
Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans.
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Fix It Again, Totenkopf
Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (zBC00)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)
Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans.
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Fix It Again, Totenkopf
Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (zBC00)
And yeah the PRC thinks stranding a crew aboard their station is just okay.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:42 PM (2GVsD)
My parent's farm in Vermont was many miles on a dirt road up the side of a mountain. It wasn't quite that narrow but I can relate.
They would shop for needs weeks at a time in winter cause running out for a last minute need was going to happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Kindltot
That sounds like China's problem.
Are they refusing to share the dimension hoping that SpaceX will guess, be wrong, and kill everyone on the return craft and space station?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:43 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:42 PM (2GVsD)
Well, if SpaceX sends up a craft to rescue them, they will simply have to do a space wok.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (rbvCR)
Who'd have thought 20 years ago that Elon Musk would be the only guy competent enough to get to space reliably?
And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD)
Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7)
I had a Grenada but not a Ghia. I think mine was a Rufus.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (2GVsD)
I saw that. Sergei didn't secure something and it got blasted in the flame trench. Did Sergei have too much vodka or not enough, I wonder.
There's going to be a problem with keeping the ISS boosted due to drag. The Soyuz does that. They can use some of their own thrusters on one of the modules, but that takes fuel, which has to come from a Soyuz. Also something about attitude control, and de-saturating the momentum gyros or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (viF8m)
The experimental stuff. Dragon and Falcon are all reliable old hat now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb)
Among them are inflatable penguins.
Resist this attempt by Big Penguin to normalize their polymorphically-perverse and mephitic presence amongst us, particularly in the Christmas season.
If these symbols of perversity are to be displayed at all, it should be during June.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7)
I had a Grenada but not a Ghia. I think mine was a Rufus.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (LHPAg)
My father bought a Granada in '76. In the shop twice for transmission shift cable issues, and then trouble-free for years. The seats held up real well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (npFr7)
To 42 kts! Boat ride home is gonna be LIT!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (VDe78)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:48 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (2GVsD)
Just reading. SpaceX and Dragon can do the reboosting, but it's the gyro desaturating for attitude control that is entirely dependent on the Rooskie Soyuz.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb)
There were a lot of rapid unscheduled disasemblies for those before they got old and reliable.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (w6EFb)
I quipped to someone that will be covered in the 29th point of the Russia - Ukraine peace agreement
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
That's part of the fun.
Posted by: some kid at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (v0R5T)
Among them are inflatable penguins.
Resist this attempt by Big Penguin to normalize their polymorphically-perverse and mephitic presence amongst us, particularly in the Christmas season.
If these symbols of perversity are to be displayed at all, it should be during June.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)
The Cohen Bros wanted were strong armed by big penguin during the making of Fargo....so the one penguin in the movie was chummed through the chipper.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)
That was a train.
"Since when can you cake your dog on a train?" is probably still a valid question.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (R256O)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)
Black and White photos always make them more artistic but a black and white painting is boring and seems unfinished.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (+mUZM)
Did you get hit by that cold snap that went through last week?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt)
I've had to anchor Christmas trees to the wall with string to prevent inexplicable midnight crashes. I wasn't sure if the problem was the cat or the Jameson I put in the tree stand.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (R256O)
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)
Soyuz undocking in 22 minutes, and reentry in 2:30. The Soyuz returns pretty quickly after undocking.
There's always the possible Soyuz reentry can get sporty, if Sergei forgot something. There have been a couple of wild, 8g "ballistic reentries", including one where Don Pettit took quite a ride.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)
Lecture bottle of hydrogen. Flaming arrow. Some assembly required.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM)
You're gonna give your love to me
https://tinyurl.com/b3zcekwv
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:56 PM (viF8m)
One of my favorites was a when the Roscosmos people blamed "women drivers" for some Soyuz mishap.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM)
After one nice mild day, we have a Winter storm warning for southern Alberta. Maybe all the moisture that Nurse R is seeing will find its way over the rocks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (npFr7)
Okay, why is YouTube giving me ads for men's underwear with fucking boner pockets?
I keep trying to block the ads but I still get bulging packages in my feed. What the fuck?!?
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (xt2dn)
Sometimes the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.
Or it's your NSA monitor messing with your head.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (R256O)
Black and White photos always make them more artistic but a black and white painting is boring and seems unfinished.
Posted by: the way I see it
My photography professor in college counseled:
"Print in B&W. If it's no good, print it bigger. If it's still no good, print in color."
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Archie Bunker at December 08, 2025 07:59 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD)
Ryan Hall was showing another cold front up next, but they are blowing through. Somaliland seems to be getting most of the snow. Good chance to see the auroras coming up too
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:48 PM
I'd love to drive on that road for a short while, then I'd want to arrive home to a warm supper and some good bourbon, with Mrs. E and our two cats.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (LHPAg)
Or it's your NSA monitor messing with your head.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (R256O)
Fucking NSA, maaaaan!
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (xt2dn)
That can cause kidney issues. Let your dog out when he needs it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (viF8m)
Russia’s Soyuz rockets and capsules have proven highly reliable for more than half a century. But they rely on antiquated technologies and procedures. The service platform, which rolls from its position beneath the rocket into the shelter about an hour before launch, may have been dislodged because someone forgot to put in a stopper to prevent it from rolling back out.
“They were supposed to have brakes on those rails,” Mr. Zak said. Technicians install those brakes manually, Mr. Zak said, a step that has been routinely performed for more than 1,600 Soyuz launches. It is also possible that a mechanical failure caused the mishap, he said.
You had one job!
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)
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Who knew that Mrs. Claus was a voyeuristic freak?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:02 PM (gm9Sb)
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Chiller Theater at December 08, 2025 08:02 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (R256O)
I'd think drunk trees are extremely flammable.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:03 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 08, 2025 08:04 PM (vTTFR)
My dogs aren't well trained enough. I recognize that and would never consider taking them where they would annoy/slobber upon/hump strangers or other dogs or merchandise.
Unfortunately, lots of people also have dogs who aren't well trained, but they think their precious can accompany them everywhere all the same.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 08, 2025 08:04 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)
Posted by: publius
Yes, quite. That's what I was thinking also.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (+mUZM)
The tree crash video: Did I miss the perp? Their cat, I guess, but I couldn't see it. And what were those lights zipping across the screen near the end?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:08 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025
***
I had a similar car as my first, a '75 four-door Ford Maverick. It was an auto, but with the 250 CID six. Loved it after years and years of riding buses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD)
Minnesota has a Warming our Way program that pays out enough for coats & blankets for 1,000,000,000 people.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (6ydKt)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)
Our recently departed black kitty Scout LOVED to be carried around. She was like a regal queen in a sedan.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)
I'll answer in a slightly different way -- worst song played during the Christmas season. "My Favorite Things" -- because it's not a Christmas song!!!
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (XnlIn)
Water well has gone out. Cleaned the contacts but it didn't help. Looked at the other wiring and didn't see any ants or corrosion
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:12 PM (77rzZ)
We are going to DIE before Christmas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 08, 2025 08:12 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: GigantorX at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (x8k2o)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Jackson Whites at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)
Little Drummer Boy. Not only contra-Biblical, but the lyrics are so damned twee and childish.
I will say I heard a jazz combo do an instrumental version that was quite fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (R256O)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)
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I'm going with something about Santa.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb)
Dvorak’s 5th Symphony is a great listen during the holiday season.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: lin-duh at December 08, 2025 08:16 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)
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Just not Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 08:16 PM (krQz2)
Removes gold snuff-box from pocket of white-silk waistcoat, takes a pinch, sneezes violently (causing powdered wig to fall on the floor; picks up and restores same to its original position), grasps lapels of bottle-green swallowtail coat and eyes fd benevolently
My dear fellow! I pray that I do not give you offense - for I would not, for all this vile world, do harm to your amour propre - but a lifelong devotion to truth and reason compels me to correct your fraudulent observations with respect to penguins, inflatable or otherwise. You are not – I plead with you, sir! – to take this as a hot-tempered animadversion upon your cognitive ability, but rather as a gentle admonition designed to spare you the rough usage of my fellows, more boisterous than myself, who would not quibble to make sport of those raving asseverations with which, in the zeal of your irrational Spheniscidaphobia, you have blotted your copybook. Therefore, confident in your capacity to accept the truth when you are clouted with a clue-by-four, I tell you, sir – and I mean this in the kindliest possible sense – that you are talking through the back of your neck.
Posted by: Paco at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (2L+MU)
I will say I heard a jazz combo do an instrumental version that was quite fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (npFr7)
I would like to hear a version featuring Dave Lombardo (Slayer).
Jesus wept.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (0aYVJ)
Diana to the doggie chiropractor today. Her weight is up to 63 pounds and she needed very little adjusting.
We get a session report after every visit. It will include something like, "Diana is very sweet and loves attention." But our guys are trained to stand still while being examined. I bet they get some real winners. "Fluffy is dangerously psychotic."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
Mavericks were decent cars for their time. Kind of a Son-of-Falcon. Tried and true. Rust was an issue as it was with almost all cars of the time.
Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb)
What goes well with flipper pie?
Canadian Club.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (bfwj/)
Our recently departed black kitty Scout LOVED to be carried around. She was like a regal queen in a sedan.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Our black Madison loves being carried around with back and front legs draped over my arm and her face in my hand. She started as a kitten when both her back legs were broken.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (LHPAg)
I grew up with "The Chipmunk Christmas Song" ("Please, Christmas, Don't Be Late"), so I really can't hate it. Alvin is such a juvenile delinquent; he's funny.
I like The Carpenters' 'Merry Christmas, Darling" and their version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" more for Karen's voice than anything particular about the songs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (wzUl9)
Mary gives birth to the son of God and is exhausted.
A kid comes along and says "what this woman needs is a drum solo"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:22 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Excelsior! On To Greenland! at December 08, 2025 08:22 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (wzUl9)
I think "Do You Hear What InHear" is a beautiful song and there are many fine renditions, it just loses me at the end.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (R256O)
I hope that she’s rightfully singing with the angels now.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea at December 08, 2025
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I didn't have it long enough for rust to crop up. It was not strongly powered, and while it had power steering, it did not have power brakes. Came with only an AM radio, too. I'd probably find it tinny and ridiculous now, but at the time I loved it, and it served me well. And I learned a lot about how to maintain cars on it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)
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Believe it or not, back in the day I did a Christmas song, but no one would play it. In the flavor of a Dickens style Christmas, I kidnapped nearly 60 orphans and lined them up in stocks in my basement. I then hit them in the kneecaps with a wooden mallet so they would scream. Each had a distinctive call of distress. It took a while, but I placed them to create a three octave scale. But, I have to tell you, it wasn't perfect. No matter how hard I tried, I never found a C-sharp. So, I had to alter the music little.
The Radio stations refused to play it. Which is horse manure since they used to play that dog barking Jingle Bells nonsense all the time. Anyone can do that.
Oh, wait, you meant the song itself. I thought you were asked what was the worst Christmas song referring to the performers.
Never mind.
Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 08:24 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:24 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Jackson Whites
And yet, Toyota has some of it's assembly plants in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky.
It's magic I tell you!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:25 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:25 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025
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C'mon, guys, it's funny.
"We're all so proud of Grandpa;
He's been taking this so well.
See him in there watching football,
Drinking beer and playing cards with Cousin Mel."
"And we just can't help but wonder . . .
Should we open up her gifts or send them back?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:26 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (npFr7)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Ummmm. That’s a dude.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:28 PM (2GVsD)
Just stick with the religious carols and the secular ones based on the traditional celebration of the season (e.g., “Deck the Halls”
.Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: No UAW at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 08:31 PM (MVEnt)
I hope that she’s rightfully singing with the angels now.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025
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In an SF story of mine, I have a close-knit Finnish family traveling out to the stars in the 2900s. They celebrate Christmas in Finnish style, but they love the ancient "carols" such as one by "a singer whose name was also a word in English, 'Carpenter.' "
Originally I had them listening to "Merry Christmas, Darling." But it didn't fit the worshipful tone of the scene; so I quoted the verse from DYHWIH about the shepherd boy telling the king of the Child shivering in the cold.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:31 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: JackStraw"
It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:32 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 08:01 PM
Another conquest for Big Penguin.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (0sNs1)
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Posted by: Yikes! Stripes! at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: JackStraw"
It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous.
Posted by: fd
And that one is it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (cYBz/)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Ummmm. That’s a dude.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025
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A very feminine dude, then, or a very masculine woman.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (wzUl9)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Ummmm. That’s a dude.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (mT+6a)
Cat lady, its how they look. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Slayer at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (4786I)
Christmas carols
Like:
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (because Mendelssohn)
O Holy Night
Don't like:
Everything else
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (gm9Sb)
https://tinyurl.com/43xtaten
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (g47mK)
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All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)
Shop at my store and hear five million covers of it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (4786I)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (vFG9F)
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All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)
Nadine, I just want you for my own more than you will ever know
How I love to love Nadine
Posted by: Randall Flagg at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (4786I)
I cued it up, but Do Not Watch It.
Ace will probably post it tomorrow, or eventually. But that idiot racist Democrat shithead fake "lawyer" jizzmine ratchet made some sort of amateur-ish terrible overly-dramatic silly-cutsie-disgusting video of her black-nouncing* her candidacy for US Senate in Texas.
https://is.gd/u0r55j
*black-nounce, or blacknounce, is a term I just coined that means a black ratchet makes an announcement of something stupid they're about to do in embarrassing fasion.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 08:36 PM (MVEnt)
I like a lot of music many of you don't. Personal taste.
It takes a very special song to piss me off. This one literally makes me angry.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)
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All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)
Mr. O’Brien Is Coming To Town
He knows when you’ve been ungood or good
So be doubleplusgood for goodness sakes
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:37 PM (4786I)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025
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That must be a Finnish word; the twin "U" letters are kind of a giveaway. No idea what it means. I researched certain things about Finnish culture, and even corresponded with a Finnish lady who has a blog about life in Helsinki.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (wzUl9)
121 AOP, I HATE Little Drummer Boy, and the stupid Rsnkin-Bass special they did to go with it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM
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Was that claymation, and the Little Drummer Boy looked like the Tums mascot?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:40 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:40 PM (4786I)
How I love to love Nadine
Posted by: Randall Flagg at December 08, 2025
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"Movin' through the traffic like a mounted Cavalier,
Leanin' out the taxi window, tryin' to make her hear,
Nadine!!!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:41 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:41 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025
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"Walkin' 'round in women's underwear . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:41 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: fd
But you like my other Christmas hit "Pepino the Italian Mouse", right?
Posted by: Lou Monte at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (6p0Jv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (2GVsD)
"Later on, we'll perspire --
'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!'
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Lou Monte at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (oftw2)
Oh God. No.
Now I have that in my head. You fuck.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (7XNVR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM)
it has been raining and blowing all day long, it has been fabulous. Not cold, just wet.
I got my walk in today rain and all. There is a flood watch of some sort going on, but it will be more than a couple of days before it gets serious. Just another glorious rain storm that lasts a week!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Not Going Outside at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (oftw2)
At the moment?
Listening to great music.
https://tinyurl.com/43d5z2n5
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m)
If you want Finnish/Suomi folklore, find a copy of Tales of a Finnish Tupa
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025
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I'll look, Anna. I'm thinking of expanding the short story into a novel. There is plenty of space for adventure and for exploring a culture many Westerners think is "Scandinavian," if they think about it at all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:46 PM (wzUl9)
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Sleighride. I know, it's not a Christmas song, and that's the point.
When Christmas was being turned into "winter holiday" so as not to offend anyone, overt Christmas carols disappeared, and instead the "Holiday Concert" had to find blander fare.
"Sleighride" was perfect. Instrumental, everyone vaguely knew it, and so we played it every year. Tortured it to death. It's a shitty piece of music to play, especially on French Horn, which is all upbeats. I switched to Tuba my senior year and got to play the downbeats.
The family knows: Don't play that tune, or Dad will not shut up about it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025
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Good casting, though, with Barry Atwater (the vampire in the The Night Stalker) and Lee Bergere as Lincoln.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (wzUl9)
The latter is intentionally bad so in a way, you're giving it what it wants. The former is unironically, pretentiously, arrogantly holier-than-thou which is what makes it so very very bad indeed.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
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The Pile of Shame is a thing. Gateway to hoarding.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=V57hP7Ipjw4&list=RDV57hP7Ipjw4&sta
rt_radio=1&pp=ygUibG91IG1vbnRlIHBlcG
lubyB0aGUgaXRhbGlhbiBtb3VzZaAHAQ%
3D%3D
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (2GVsD)
See. This is the problem with anime sometimes: makes you feel creepy just looking at it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (zZu0s)
He has talked about that - it is semi intentional - they are testing the limits of the design to see what the failure points are under stress.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (3nLb4)
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Yeah, it was a novelty song that caught on in a big way. Reminds me of Da Yoopers and "Second Week of Deer Camp."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)
@RichSementa 5m
DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. has secret online life obsessing over ‘My Little Pony’
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Oh my. Between him and every Louis Prima album known to man, my Nonna's house could be unbearable at times.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:52 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SpeakingOf"
You go to war with the army you have.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:53 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (bfwj/)
@RichSementa 5m
DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. has secret online life obsessing over ‘My Little Pony’
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (mlg/3)
Bronies are totally a thing.
I don't know who Rich Sementa is, but the way that sentence reads, I'm thinking he's one.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (C2bxa)
"Not many languages have double a's in their words."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (6ydKt)
This did not sell me on the virtues of Star Trek at all.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (4786I)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:55 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:55 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (vFG9F)
That is different from the NASA safety testing methodology: "Whirrrr Click." OK its safe.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (Da7Vv)
It now appears he’s at least a gay Brony.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (wzUl9)
Was she serving the Puusuppas with Cuurtido?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (rbvCR)
Finland is by far my favorite place in northern Europe. Dark and spooky in the winter but still beautiful. And the people know what's up living next Russia.
And they've made some of the most beautiful sailboats ever to sail. Just don't forget they all carry knives for a reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:58 PM (wzUl9)
And they've made some of the most beautiful sailboats ever to sail. Just don't forget they all carry knives for a reason.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m)
Good metal bands too.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 08:59 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: No UAW at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (oftw2)
We don’t make anything in this country anymore.
Posted by: Everyone else on AoS at December 08, 2025 08:59 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (zZu0s)
'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!'
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
It pains me to constantly hear how much you hate where you live, Wolfus.
It rains here. And it’s dark a lot in the late
Fall/winter. And I’m surrounded by leftist retards. But I LOVE where I live. Really.
How do you do it? I could not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt)
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The correct term is "right-wing MAGA gay Brony."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)
Failed Loser Democrat fag, all-red colon, says he's not running for Senate.
So, in Texas, it comes down to 2 Democrats: jizz ratchet, and a little scrawny faggot named talarico, who really hates "israel," i.e. jews. Well, he's "anti-zionist," which means he hates jews, but says "israel" instead of "jew."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025
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This was late in their less-SF-oriented third season, where the cast and crew were pretty sure they'd be canceled soon and were going through the motions. Never less than professional about it, but not with the enthusiasm of the first two years.
Plus, the story for this ep was done by Roddenberry himself. GR was not that good a writer. He was a good idea man, a solid producer, and a great rewrite guy. But a lot of his episodes, even those for Have Gun -- Will Travel, are missing something, and I've never been able to pin it down.
The best original Treks, and some of the best concepts like the Klingons, were from his line producer, Gene L. Coon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:03 PM (7XNVR)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt)
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The correct term is "right-wing MAGA gay Brony."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Don't forget: White.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 09:03 PM (nOjBC)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (AcsX0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (7XNVR)
It rains here. And it’s dark a lot in the late Fall/winter. And I’m surrounded by leftist retards. But I LOVE where I live. Really.
How do you do it? I could not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025
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I'm just trying to be funny about it to keep myself, and I hope all of you, entertained. After the first of the year I'm going to move The Move into gear. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9)
Don't forget DC Fontana. She had some good ones.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (gm9Sb)
I’ve seen a lot of them, but I don’t remember this one with Lincoln.
I saw this funny parody of DS9 earlier:
https://youtu.be/w3LTQVirrSY
It’s called Deep Space 90210 and anybody who’s seen enough of the show will get it.
AI obviously did the most of the work but I still chuckled several times.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (7XNVR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (7XNVR)
White Hispanic gay brony autistic African-American.
You know, just like you and me.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (nOjBC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025
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Don't forget DC Fontana. She had some good ones.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025
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True. She developed Spock and his family relationships more than anyone else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:07 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025
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If the communications officer looks like the young Shannen Doherty, I'm there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:08 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:08 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (2GVsD)
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All the usual critics are getting ready to hate watch it so we don't have to...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (rbvCR)
Nope, we get a body positive black Jemhadarr grrl plus a Klingon 'male' with a pierced eyebrow.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:10 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025
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I heard it at Vul-Con in the summer of '73, and the Animated Series mentioned it at least once.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:11 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (ESVrU)
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They are doing the Lord's work. I hear that "All's Fair" got another season because of all the epic hate-watching.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:11 PM (ZOv7s)
The way Christopher Plummer sneers at that name cements it. Here's someone Plummer can treat as a second-rate Octavian. A generation of Shakespearean acting blasted into Shatner at that moment.
We were in the presence of greatness.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:10 PM (2GVsD)
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She/they/xir are also a fitness instructor! Doctor, heal thyself!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (gm9Sb)
Ahhh....
The Ritchie Boys.
Some good stuff done back then. And some silly too, but they didn't know it at the time. Making a lot of stuff up as they went along to develop a pretty good operation.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (2WIwB)
I’ve seen a lot of them, but I don’t remember this one with Lincoln.
I saw that on reruns in Germany on AFN. I was nine and was “WTF is THIS?” and not in a good way.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (7XNVR)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:14 PM (gm9Sb)
My dad was the original "What could go wrong?" guy. He married a crazy person who was worse.
I had the best parents any kid could ask for.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM
Dude, I'm right here.
Posted by: George Zimmerman at December 08, 2025 09:15 PM (Wnv9h)
Comments about the next US Senator for Texas, jizz ratchet, from Youtube:
"Her running for Senate is like a cashier getting fired and reapplying for the management position"
The Angel Reese of Congress….
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:15 PM (MVEnt)
AI obviously did the most of the work but I still chuckled several times.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (6ydKt)
At least Dax was a babe in both versions.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (YwEeS)
btw, did Ace show you the clip of that fag "mayor" in Minneapolis, jakob fray (D-Somalia) pandering to his Salamis and eating their disgusting food?
He almost puked!
The video went viral because he started to gag!
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (YwEeS)
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Disappeared like Ritchie Cunningham's older brother.
He was gay, which is why no one ever talked about him.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:19 PM (9aoE1)
oh dear...
Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (9ipOP)
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Season 3 was famously on a tight budget, and was living on borrowed time. "Spock's Brain" and all that.
I resisted buying it, but I'm a completionist, so I had to get it.
Same reason I had to get the 5th season of "Babylon 5," even though I will never watch it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (7XNVR)
Did Ace cover the Cinnabon story?
Apparently a criminal walked free because someone at Cinnabon *supposedly* used the forbidden word.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)
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One has to talk about the old stuff because the new stuff sucks ass.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)
"Where No Man's Gone Before"
Production #6149-02. Story #2
Air date - 9/22/66.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025
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The one with Lincoln and Surak? Oh, yes. The second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is very strong on suspense and action, though.
It was the second pilot -- NBC had ordered it after they liked the first one with Jeffrey Hunter, but thought it was too cerebral for TV in 1964. When the show premiered, they ran "Where No Man" third, and it must have confused viewers that the uniforms and set designs were different from the first two. But it was a *good* story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)
What!!! You can't say that!
"By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"
Oh...
Wait...
Never mind.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (2WIwB)
The ONLY reason Cinnabon stays in business:
the aroma of cinnamon & dough
It's, like, one of the best smells God ever created.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt)
Sizzling Bacon vs Cinnamon Buns in the oven?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (wzUl9)
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And of course, the original pilot was recut for use as a flashback episode, which gave us the iconic "immobile guy in black motorized box who beeps to communicate."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (7XNVR)
How do you suppose that will go?
I really like winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: davidt at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (Q+gd/)
oh dear...
Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)
Live Long and a Prosperous New Year
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (gbOdA)
Check out The Ritchie Boys by Bruce Henderson. A good book on some of what they did.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (wzUl9)
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Clear and 7 degrees here. Should get up to 36 on Wednesday, and then will hit single digits again by Saturday.
This is unusually cold for December.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Two actors; after the second one, they wrote him out to an extreme degree. Mostly because the writers couldn't figure out what to do with the older sibling.
It did look bad in context that the Cunningham family decided he didn't exist. I expect when HD goes out of public domain we'll find out he was barbecuing the local Laotian kids or selling bath salts or something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:29 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: davidt at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (Q+gd/)
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Also promoted to Mrs. Roddenberry.
A bunch of Trek actors popped up in "Babylon 5," including her. Walter Koenig was an outstanding villain. Guy had some chops.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025
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The classic technique of a clip show to save money. In ST's case, they were falling behind because the special effects -- cutting edge for those days -- were coming in later and later from the optical shop, and the show was getting close to missing air dates. Creating a two-parter, half of which had already been shot, gave them an extra week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (wzUl9)
That was last week.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (viF8m)
Written by David Gerrold.
Production #22018, episode #18
Air date: 9/14/74.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:31 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (9aoE1)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Yeah, there's a story that a Muslim confronted Gene and he outright told him to his face "this show is set in the future".
The Orville has a lot of the same DNA. Except more blatant against Islam - and astrology. Some antiChristian stuff but that's #3.
DS9 is more respectful, interestingly. Helps that the gods actually exist, in that wormhole.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (gKWVE)
It did look bad in context that the Cunningham family decided he didn't exist. I expect when HD goes out of public domain we'll find out he was barbecuing the local Laotian kids or selling bath salts or something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (gKWVE)
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In the bad old days, shows would be tweaked to try to find the right formula, and continuity errors were common. By the time they hit their stride, the vast majority of the audience had never seen the early episodes (how would they?) so no one really noticed.
Being able to buy them on DVD has opened some eyes. I loved "Happy Days," a mainstay of our TV watching, and of course everyone tried to be as cool as The Fonz.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (2GVsD)
Mom bought it, I suspect when it came out. She is/was a huge trek fan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (zZu0s)
Yup, Royal Dano was a great Lincoln. I think Disney used his voice for the animatronic exhibit at one of their parks.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (wzUl9)
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One could also do a "remember when?" episode to recap audience favorite moments and also basically give the cast some in-season vacation time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt)
Coffee
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:35 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Coffee
Posted by: Cow Demon
Incense during a Catholic Mass.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 09:36 PM (cYBz/)
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Yup, Royal Dano was a great Lincoln. I think Disney used his voice for the animatronic exhibit at one of their parks.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025
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I'd read that! He played Lincoln at least once or twice on TV, aside from the Rifleman episode where he plays a deluded old man who *believes* he is Lincoln.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (2GVsD)
When I grew up, I wanted to be Kirk so I could get with Dr. Helen Noel at the ship's Christmas party.
Posted by: PabloD at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (GALGA)
MWC was... something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (gKWVE)
What's that song that goes incest & peppermints?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s)
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In the early days of the internet there were forums where fights were common, and I was amused by one that claimed Babylon 5 was superior to Star Trek based on the crossover actors.
Walter Koenig in Trek did a bad Russian accent and was supposed to get the girls into it, but in B5 he was a sardonic evil genius.
Majel Barrett in Trek couldn't get Spock to make time even when he was in a mating frenzy, but in B5 was a seeress whose every utterance was written down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (R86kT)
What's that song that goes incest & peppermints?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt)
Blueberry Alarm Clock
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:39 PM (4786I)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025
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Did TV shows, at least dramatic ones, do that in the Sixties? The Fugitive had one early on, where we found out more about the night Kimble found his wife murdered. But it wasn't a clip show -- new footage was shot amplifying what had been in the pilot. I don't think U.N.C.L.E., for example, ever did a recap or clip show. In fact it used flashbacks very little.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:40 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025
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Not with that title, huh?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (wzUl9)
Wind is freaking HOWLING. Rain blasting the windows.
Whoofreakinghoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (mT+6a)
I got my generator ready in case it gets down here.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:40 PM (wzUl9)
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Before my time. I mean, I picked up stuff like Star Trek and the Lone Ranger in reruns, Leave it to Beaver, the Addams Family, etc., but those were pretty lean productions.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (gm9Sb)
MWC was... something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025
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Brilliant, laugh-out-loud comedy that pulled out all the stops.
Feminist mother, outraged that Al objects to her breast-feeding) "It's natural!"
Al: "So is peeing, but I don't do *that* in public!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (bfwj/)
Andrew J. McCarthy continues to blow me away with his astrophotography. Here's a video he took of an ISS overflight from his yard in AZ:
https://is.gd/BPGSV4
That was with an 11" scope. Now, tracking that requires a fancy mount because the angular speed is quite high, and he used a 10 Micron (brand name). I looked up the price. Those things start around $10K.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: PabloD at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (GALGA)
The NFL is the only thing keeping broadcast television alive.
Gambling is the only thing keeping the NFL alive.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (Y8DZL)
My kids loved it, but of course they couldn't appreciate that the cast was culled from every show on the network.
Trek fans will appreciate "Wussy Riker" in the form of Stanley Hazard. Big boost to Patrick Swayze's career.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)
What's that song that goes incest & peppermints?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt)
Blueberry Alarm Clock
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:39 PM (4786I)
Ahhhh....
While I love blueberries, its Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:45 PM (2WIwB)
Wind is freaking HOWLING. Rain blasting the windows.
Whoofreakinghoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Oh, boy.. hope it blows itself out somewhat, before arriving here! We're under a high-wind warning until tomorrow morning and it is *very* breezy out already.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (bfwj/)
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You don't need to tell me that. I watched it when it was being broadcast an "Severed Dreams" damn near caused a riot when my friend group watched it.
"Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Gambling is the only thing keeping the NFL alive.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (Y8DZL)
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College football as well, and it's now owned by the networks.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (bfwj/)
If anyone needs a funny TV show to watch, all the Drew Carey Show episodes (over 200) are on Youtube (free).
Still a funny show.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:49 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Mayfield's Finest at December 08, 2025 09:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (2GVsD)
She is. She's awesome.
OCD as hell. So is dad, but about different things. She will look up anything and everything in the days before the internet (hence the concordance, encyclopedias, etc.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025
Too many of the audience would.think Jihad was a command, not a title.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (2WIwB)
Here's one he got of Ganymede in front of Jupiter:
https://is.gd/VgcmTg
His photos are so good a lot of people think he fakes them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (w6EFb)
Blueberries kinda suck, if you think about it.
Blueberry Pie is nice *idea,* in theory, but kinda grotesque when you start eating it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt)
Fruit Pie the Magician just called and told me to STFU.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt)
I like it. Sue me.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
I always liked it, have seen every episode and think both Jane Wyatt and Elinor Donahue are lovely and talented.
Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at December 08, 2025 09:52 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Mayfield's Finest at December 08, 2025
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The Dick Van Dyke Show explained its own existence -- that it had all been the memoirs of Rob Petrie as a soldier, DJ, and then comedy writer for TV. In the last episode we're told that Rob's book has sold, and "they" want to make a TV series out of it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:52 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (2GVsD)
A woman started a campaign to get advertisers to boycott the show. It worked she got a bunch to drop out. But the media attention she got, made people check out the show and ratings shot up. All the advertisers came back and then some .
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (9iyS+)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (A0sqA)
Blueberry Pie is nice *idea,* in theory, but kinda grotesque when you start eating it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt)
What sorcery is this??? What evil stalks these pages???
You probably like okra too.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:54 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at December 08, 2025
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Indeed they were. And Elinor had a pretty long career -- that show, a stint on Andy of Mayberry, a guest role on Trek, and I think at one point she was Felix's girlfriend on the Odd Couple in the '70s. Not sure about that last.
Jane had been in the film of Lost Horizon way back in '39 (?).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (2GVsD)
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The show got lucky in a lot of ways, and as is often the case, the original vision was thwarted and became better. The Sinclair/Sheridan swap was totally unplanned, but came off brilliantly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: TV Facts at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (oftw2)
I liked Sinclair.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (MVEnt)
I liked the stand-alone episodes of B5 instead of the Arc.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (MVEnt)
I hate him. Sue me.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (MVEnt)
Concur.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (MVEnt)
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I did, too, but the actor was having problems and I think Boxleitner really brought more energy to the show and a little type because of "Tron." He's just a more charismatic actor.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 09:59 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:00 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (MVEnt)
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You say that, but the flashback/payoff sequences are great.
Vir waving at Morden all those seasons later was gold.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 10:00 PM (ZOv7s)
All three Anderson children are still not-mort, which is nice.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:01 PM (MVEnt)
And when Vir gazed at Morden's head on a pike, yeah that was all of us.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:02 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Al Bundy at December 08, 2025 10:02 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:03 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:04 PM (2GVsD)
Not the Racist Presdent we be has now ? We wants Presdent Obamar backs now to saves this country!!!
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 08, 2025 10:04 PM (0IwHf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (wzUl9)
Earliest president photographed was John Quincy Adams. Earliest sitting president was later than that, may have been Polk?
Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 10:05 PM (y171U)
Sinclair returning was great.
Writers wrote him into the arc quite well.
With his sidekick Zathras.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:06 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 10:07 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:07 PM (MVEnt)
Not the Racist Presdent we be has now ? We wants Presdent Obamar backs now to saves this country!!!
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt
Amen, Mary! We need FART Tube funding restored now for the children of coler.
Posted by: Voice of Reason at December 08, 2025 10:08 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:09 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 10:10 PM (pkeXY)
MWC was... something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025
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Brilliant, laugh-out-loud comedy that pulled out all the stops.
Feminist mother, outraged that Al objects to her breast-feeding) "It's natural!"
Al: "So is peeing, but I don't do *that* in public!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (wzUl9)
the genius of Married with Children was that Al would actually say, what a lot of us Men wouldn't... even though we were thinkin it...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:12 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:12 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 10:10 PM (pkeXY)
No no.... not the ONT...
Posted by: Zathras at December 08, 2025 10:13 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:14 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025
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NO MA'AM: National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood
To me, the funniest episode was a late one in which Kelly is about to star in a production of "Phantom of the Opera" at the Larry Storch School of Acting, and Al has to dress as a wolf for a "moonlight" sale at the shoe store. He realizes it's not going to work. "Nobody is going to buy shoes from us. We're wolves!"
Larry is knocked out, and Al has to go on stage as the Phantom to support Kelly. He doesn't know the lines, so he mutters, "I'll just sit here and play with my organ --!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)
Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville.
Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL)
Roscosmos - Soyuz MS-27
Deorbit Burn & Landing in Kazakhstan - Space Affairs Live
Re-entry scheduled for 11:10 p.m EST
Landing scheduled for 12:04 a.m. EST
https://youtu.be/EX2HlEDjTnA
Posted by: Joyenz at December 08, 2025 10:18 PM (2F0/Y)
Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL)
I might start watching if they use those long hooks to take players off the field!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)
I have embraced my inner Al...
Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)
I have embraced my inner Al...
Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)
Why not Al Michaels, and call out the play-by-play of idiots in your vicinity?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 10:20 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (zBC00)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rdVOm)
Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville.
Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL)
Some of the latest games, stands are pretty much empty.
But the old time Loyal Football fan? a thing of the past because the Teams are not Loyal to the cities... and the players are nothing but Mercenaries.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (mP0Kj)
Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025
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When you wake from a nap, do you say "Let's rock"? Or when you hear Madonna's "Like a Virgin," do you automatically sing "Like a surgeon . . . cuttin' for the very first time . . ." instead of her lyrics?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:22 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (QGaXH)
The ONT is late.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)
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But they don't eat dogs there.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (QGaXH)
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Release the hounds!
"What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at 15 miles! Our fugitive's name is ONT... Go get it!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (VCgbV)
Right?
Or did somebody forget to check the schedule?
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)
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Just what Britain needs. Another muslim.
Coals to Newcastle, and all that rot.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)
Don't we have extradition treaties with Olde Bighty
Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)
Ahhh....
So he has the inside dope on the new cultural overseers coming to England.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Since when don't we have an extradition treaty with the UK?
Besides, I'm reliably told nothing is happening.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (3sXRv)
That's the old gov't. Muzzies, and their paid enablers, now rule.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)
Unfortunately for them, but fortunately for us, they did so in Polk County, and Grady Judd had a press conference (it's up on YouTube now).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (ciXcx)
Posted by: browndog moving slowly
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Think Jolly Ole would honor them?
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 10:28 PM (4I7QN)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:28 PM (JkO4W)
OPEN BAR!
ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (mP0Kj)
Same as it ever was then?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (4786I)
Did Ellen get a good price from Big Mike?
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (Y8DZL)
How's the bareboat qualification going?
You are going sailing, right?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)
OPEN BAR!
ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: no one at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (W7XSX)
ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
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Has the taco truck showed up yet? I ordered a taco truck.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025
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Surgery, Lin-duh? Or blood work?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (wzUl9)
OPEN BAR!
ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
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Woohoo!!!
We're not leavin' till we're heavin'!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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AWESOME! We need it! Heh.
*Maker's Mark for Bers*
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker
You can't coordinate mayhem! It would just be shenanigans, at the craziest!
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (nhCoE)
Minor surgery.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE)
I hate him. Sue me.
The good die young.
Posted by: no one at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (W7XSX)
gotta say, he may have reason.... that Damn Mary Poppins was a Tease.... poor Burt...
Shit, she even kissed a PENGUIN!!! But Burt? nada...
She ruined him!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Piper
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Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)
You are going sailing, right?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)
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I'm starting a new class in January. Getting those stickers for my official log book.
I earned the marine head operation merit badge last month.
And yes, I've been sailing, mostly in the 5 knot gale conditions that are standard for this part of the coast.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (VCgbV)
OPEN BAR!
ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9)
***
All 'ettes report to the trampoline!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE)
Off looking for Bathmorda with Mad Mardigan?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (mP0Kj)
Also, is the Canadian Navy like a bass boat with an outboard motor or something?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (ciXcx)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025
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When do we ever have "adult" supervision?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)
Art Thread - 100 comment rule
Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (3sXRv)
Yeah, Cherry Pie is gross. Worse than blueberry.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)
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We don't hang the colored ones no more.
Posted by: The Democratic Party at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Berserker
You can't coordinate mayhem! It would just be shenanigans, at the craziest!
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (nhCoE)
Yeah, but you have to start it right. Showing up with a game of yahtzee isn't going to cut it, and no good story ever began with drinking tea.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (snZF9)
Minor surgery.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025
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Ask for the good drugs.
In all seriousness, I wish that everything works out well for you.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (MVEnt)
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper
Is this part of a list of demands?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
Yes, starting small and working my way up to the Burberry coat.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (QGaXH)
I have never once seen "cherry pie" at a diner. And nobody would order it, anyway.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
It's relative.
In the land of the grade-schoolers, the middle-schooler is king.
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (nhCoE)
Yeah, Cherry Pie is gross. Worse than blueberry.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (MVEnt)
***Spock eyebrow***
Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)
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We don't hang the colored ones no more.
Posted by: The Democratic Party at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (krQz2)
/golf clap
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Perhaps I may be of some assistance?
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (gKWVE)
https://youtu.be/hFjoOOPU6Xo
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM
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That will liven things up a bit!!
Posted by: TRex - headbanger dino at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (zcHq9)
Why would Obama run to a place it would take two snaps to have him deported?
Obama isn't going to run and he likely won't be indicted. Neither will Hillary.
The goal is to get your country back.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (viF8m)
Where's that inflatable pool?
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)
Thats one big ass jello shot. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Well...there goes somebody's pants!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB)
Franklin Fakes An Injury To Get Percocet was not
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (9ipOP)
"That would have worked, too, if you hadn't stopped me."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)
https://youtu.be/hFjoOOPU6Xo
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM
Ah, so we have learned. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:40 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a)
Didn't Drake's make their own version of Hostess Fruit Pies?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (9ipOP)
And blueberry pie is the cornerstone!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB)
Kept me sane during those long school years, lemme tell ya.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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If there are enough sign-ups for jello wrestling, I will make the gelatin...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Piper
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Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)
You 2 might get uninvited from the Club ONT Christmas party
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (XnlIn)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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If there are enough sign-ups for jello wrestling, I will make the gelatin...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:43
Well look at the time! It was great seeing y’all! Dang it, Where are my shoes?
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (pZEOD)
Shirley it 'tis. Shirley, a cherry is of the berry family. Right?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (1zOXE)
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025
***
The nice thing about the show was that both Rob and Laura were capable of doing or saying foolish things on occasion. When people compare that execrable anti-male fest Everybody Loves Raymond to DVD, I want to laugh at the idea. Ray's wife did everything she could to knock him down and treated him like a doormat. Now that was truly insufferable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (zBC00)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (XeU6L)
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Those Lamborghini loans don't pay for themselves.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (QGaXH)
I never thought of this before.
Is a Cherry a berry?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
It's a fruit, but I don't judge.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)
>>I earned the marine head operation merit badge last month.
>>And yes, I've been sailing, mostly in the 5 knot gale conditions that are standard for this part of the coast.
Fantastic.
Keep going. You can do more than you think you can.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)
But that wasn't her selling point, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a)
Nurse, do you make it to Leavenworth very often?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (uQesX)
I never thought of this before.
Is a Cherry a berry?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (MVEnt)
***
You mean Sharon Berry's?
Well, not anymore.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB)
Kept me sane during those long school years, lemme tell ya.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (wzUl9)
When my parents would do overnight trips down the shore and leave me in my brother home resulted in some intense episodes. We were late teens, but still. My asshole brother brought a chick home and railed her in my parents bed. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (g47mK)
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In the spirit of full disclosure, there is no marine head merit badge. I just made that part up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (JkO4W)
I never thought of this before.
Is a Cherry a berry?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Stone fruits are 'drupes.' I think that covers cherries. Which I only know because so many culinary "nuts" aren't nuts, they're also drupes.
* DDGs *
Yup, cherries are drupes. Berries have multiple seeds in them, while drupes have only one.
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)
I never thought of this before.
Is a Cherry a berry?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History
It's a fruit, but I don't judge.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)
I think it's considered a drupe...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (QGaXH)
WAIT!!!!!
Yer Fauci? shit!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mP0Kj)
Geeze...just saw a beg commercial for the SPLC. But, you get a t-shirt!
Posted by: Mike Hammerp
fake org Amnesty Int'l is also resorting to begging on TV
That USAID money-funnel was capped, I suspect.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Every few years or so. Cute town. Good beer and schnitzel.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (rdVOm)
Amsterdam used to do his act in a Speakeasy in Chicago as a headliner.
Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
Imagine if you will...an Ace of Spades site...where there was no Overnight Thread. Oh sure...your first thought is "I've got this."
But...do you? Are you...sure? And how would you know whether what you experienced was *real*....or something that we might call...The Twilight Zone?
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025
***
Oh, if I'd had a car and some money in my later school years and college, I'd have gotten myself into some trouble. But we were broke and I didn't even know how to drive (my father refused to teach me and Mom didn't know how either). So I lived a rather dull life until I left home.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
Seriously, fellas?
That's the best you can do?
Posted by: Soothsayer
I'm not a biologist, and I haven't stayed in a Holiday Inn in decades. Take it as you will.
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (g47mK)
Okay, I'll play along...
So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt)
Yes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh)
https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Now we're getting serious.
Posted by: TRex - du hast dino at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (zcHq9)
Imagine if you will...an Ace of Spades site...where there was no Overnight Thread. Oh sure...your first thought is "I've got this."
But...do you? Are you...sure? And how would you know whether what you experienced was *real*....or something that we might call...The Twilight Zone?
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)
It's happened before...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (ynpvh)
Pull the other one.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (MVEnt)
It's wrong. Strictly by the rules, it's Moops.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (uQesX)
My relative with a boat in your marina is getting some level of captain's license, not sure which. Will ask her at Christmas - actually weather permitting (ha!) we'll start that day with a short sail off DP.
Do you do the Christmas light thing on the boat? Need to check - there are two boat light parades down here, one in the harbor, one in Mission Bay. They can be amusing.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
I can send you some fashion content
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (XnlIn)
Contrary to my AoS persona, I am quite learned and have the knowledge of an expansive lexicon. I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK)
513 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
I can send you some fashion content
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10
Oh boy….
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
I can send you some fashion content
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (XnlIn)
The local Medical Examiner club had an open Mike night...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Yes. Even if they're not droopy.
Bananas are berries, though, no matter how droopy.
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mT+6a)
Expensive during the winter?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX)
Stawberries...I believe are not technically berries. Peanuts aren't nuts, but legumes...confusing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Alright. The joke's over.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (MVEnt)
Soyuz deorbit and reentry coverage has begun:
https://is.gd/QgMJBw
It will likely go smooth, but with the Rooskies, there's a chance something could go sideways.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
Okay, I'll play along...
So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt)
It covers all stone fruits ...
Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (3sXRv)
Contrary to my AoS persona, I am quite learned and have the knowledge of an expansive lexicon. I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (MVEnt)
drupe /droo͞p/
noun
A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed. A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut. A stone fruit.
(from the InterTubes )
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Piper
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Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)
You 2 might get uninvited from the Club ONT Christmas party
Posted by: Doof
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*Invited*? Thought I had to work?
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This is Ace's thread right now, not the ONT. I believe you're out of your jurisdiction at the moment...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (rdVOm)
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This weekend is the big event at Dana Point. Our slip is spectacularly situated for viewing, being right on the main channel. Got the whole family coming out for the festivities.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (JkO4W)
I wuz a party animal, baby.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (wzUl9)
Full disclosure. I know.
Go sailing.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (viF8m)
https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Now we're getting serious.
Posted by: TRex - du hast dino
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Who would have ever though that they would sit while Saracens raped their women.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (Ow52c)
So "drupes" is the new AoS "type of weasel" meme? Very funny, fellas.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (MVEnt)
Posted by: Piper
Is it a Christmas-themed not-ONT? This could be a mystery click:
https://youtu.be/EAsLEYWtIkY
Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (rdVOm)
Damn. You got me there.
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (XnlIn)
Posted by: runner
As long as we have our Saturday Club ONT, I will survive. Sure I'll have the shakes, but morning will come eventually.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (TfUTr)
pome /pōm/
noun
1. A fleshy fruit, such as an apple, pear, or quince, having several seed chambers and an outer fleshy part largely derived from the hypanthium.
2. A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
3. A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025
***
It does sound like something out of Lewis Carroll.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (wzUl9)
It will likely go smooth, but with the Rooskies, there's a chance something could go sideways.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)
Oopski, it hit Kiev.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (uQesX)
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Dogwood trees produce *drupes* also. I saved some, before the birds ate them all, and hope to start another tree or two.
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (rdVOm)
It’s blowing stink out here. Come on up
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a)
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Yeah, but it's cold up there. And rain.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Always expansive. Check out The Sleeping Lady
b and B.
Beautiful
Avoid the Nutcracker Museum. Creepy
Af.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj)
Without the least vestige of land;
And the crew were all pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Drupey Dog at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Some Rat
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Send vodka slider through USB.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (mT+6a)
It’s blowing stink out here. Come on up
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a)
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Yeah, but it's cold up there. And rain.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W)
It's gonna be so HOT tomorrow; high of 83°F. Must be Climate Change...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh)
Play nice, now, and if you can't, well, just don't get caught.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (Ow52c)
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Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)
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Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025
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Yes, Mondays are rough. But remember:
"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (Ow52c)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (TfUTr)
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The sea lions are ever present. There are usually six or eight lounging about on my dock. They stink, but if they refrain from blasting shit all over my boat I'm grateful.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (JkO4W)
Always have wondered how the farmers out in the Imperial Valley do it. It's a billion degrees half the year, but they turn out 3 crops of lettuce with no apparent bolting problem.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)
@unseen1_unseen
Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)
Democrat Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered a letter today to President Donald J. Trump urging greater support, including sanctions relief, for the United States’ close ally Japan in light of an escalating campaign of economic and military coercion in the Indo-Pacific by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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If they can't have a war with Russia they'll settle for one with China.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Ow52c)
Wish the weather would get better. Do we still have a sun?
Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (G1OIb)
Democrat Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered a letter today to President Donald J. Trump urging greater support, including sanctions relief, for the United States’ close ally Japan in light of an escalating campaign of economic and military coercion in the Indo-Pacific by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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If they can't have a war with Russia they'll settle for one with China.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Ow52c)
Quite a leap there.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 02:05 AM (4786I)
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