1 Evening everyone

2 “If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
— Thomas A. Edison

3 Yo WD, yo ONT

4 Now that's SOME content!
Guess I will go read it.

5 Always not first, but still present....on to conent....

6 Good evening good people.

7 Had the wrong text in the clipboard. Had to settle for 2nd.

I'll go whistle for the cafe crew.

8 Libs don't get they don't want assimilation, they want obedience

9 Howdy, all. Hope everyone had a decent week. Thanks for the ONT, WD.

10
Good evening, all.

11 Good evening Horde. Thanks WD!

12 When I was a little kid my parents had a trunk like that not haunted one

13 Hatsune Miku knows that if she hides, it doesn't go away
youtu.be/xetSFt4BuFw

14 That 'I'm in France' meme:

I look at it this way. Those Yanks, or Yank lovers, were celebrating in their own space, only bothering people with fireworks. It wasn't like they were holding American flags, taking over the streets of Paris and singing The Star-Spangled Banner while marching under The Arc de Triomphe. We did that once already.

15 Left out the Costco dog: foot long, foot long bun, your choice of yellow mustard.and/or sweet relish. No more chopped white onions. Includes large drink for $1.50.

Love 'em. In terms of nutrition, they are great, except if you're looking a calories per$, in which case it's Little Caesars pizza.

16 WRT the haunted trunk, there was a craigslist advert where a guy was trying to get rid of a haunted futon.

17 Evenin’, All.

18 Took the Highlander in for an oil change today and the tech, a old timer with decades of Toyota experience, asked me - "Who drives this vehicle?"

Turns out that at the next change (115,000 miles) he'll replace the brake pads all the way around - he claims they are the original factory pads. Apparently Momma has a very light foot on those bad boys so that, and mostly highway driving, can do that.

19 I might not know much, but I know a haunted trunk when I see one.

20 o hot dogs !

21 Evening Hordelings. Tonight is a good night. For many reasons.
,

22 I'd like to try some of those hotdogs!

23 Laredo Police also report that someone broke into the station and stole the toilet. So far they have nothing to go on.

24 Welp, one of the illegals fleeing the ICE raid on the marijuana grow in California today fell off a roof while fleeing, broke his neck, and has since died.

The Left now has their martyr - we'll see if they give him the George Floyd treatment.

25
*door creaks open*

*peeks in*

*door creaks closed*

26 Hot dogs.
My jigsaw site had a puzzle from 1978- a Coke ad with ten different ways to serve them on the Fourth.
About half were "Seriously- bean sprouts and soy sauce?"
"Pizza sauce and mozzarella?"

That pales in the light of the above.

27 Blue Velvet on TCM. Yuck.

28 John Solomon reports and DOJ and FBI have been building a case against the Deep State for a long time, and it's about to get spicy!

https://x.com/TheStormRedux/status/1943829298923942200

29 & g'night everyone .. see ya inna mornin'

have fun!

30 DIY leg: I felt sympathetic pain when he cut and drilled the leg while attached. Especially the drill at the end. OW!

31 NO ONE can beat WD WTFs...

Too damn much fun....
Hi Friday Morons🤪!

32 Hi, friends!

33 Evenin'

34 Well, Mariners scored 7 in the top of the 9th and now lead 12-3

They could still lose.

35 It wasn't like they were holding American flags, taking over the streets of Paris and singing The Star-Spangled Banner while marching under The Arc de Triomphe. We did that once already.
Posted by: RickZ at July 11, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)

But who hasn't?

36 For those of you that were discussing demographics as destiny last night, part 2

One of the things that triggered Mark Steyn's interest in demography was sitting with a friend in a cafe in central Vienna around the turn of the century.

There was a maternity clinic across the street, and every person going into the maternity clinic was Muslim.

37 Scene from the Cincinnati Reds locker room tonight
youtu.be/qdFLPn30dvQ

38 To someone who had to listen to New Englanders talk about something called “stuffies” earlier today, those hot dogs look pretty good.

39 27 Blue Velvet on TCM. Yuck.
Posted by: Bulg
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PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!

40 Hot dogs? Are they a sandwich?

I'm pretty plain when it comes to hot dogs. The only ones on the list I'd consider eating if I couldn't change the condiments are the Dodger Dog, maybe - maybe Colombia, Carolina, Michigan, Bagel Dog, Czech, Baltimore, and China. The others have stuff on it I don't eat.

41 DIY leg: I felt sympathetic pain when he cut and drilled the leg while attached. Especially the drill at the end. OW!
Posted by: mindful
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Yeah...felt an uncomfortable twinge here.

42 It wasn't like they were holding American flags, taking over the streets of Paris and singing The Star-Spangled Banner while marching under The Arc de Triomphe. We did that once already.
Posted by: RickZ at July 11, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)

But who hasn't?
Posted by: otto von b at July 11, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

The Chinese, yet. They haven't decided whether it's cheaper to invade France or buy it.

43 I wasn't going to fall off the roof, but then I got high.

44
I'm putting Mildred Pierce on, which I hate-watch because it is so awful and I hear it was Joan Crawford's comeback film.

45 One of the things that triggered Mark Steyn's interest in demography was sitting with a friend in a cafe in central Vienna around the turn of the century.
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Arrrgh. That doesn't mean what it used to.

46 When I was a kid .... I poured concrete. And old people would tell me about their grand-kids that didn't give me the time of day at school.

But it paid cash. That's what I remember about the Good Ol Days.

47 But who hasn't?
Posted by: otto von b at July 11, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

Liechtenstein?

48 Yes, hot dogs are sandwiches.

Meat between bread = sandwich.

49 Just got back from Detroit. The Michigan dog is callled Detroit coney dog. Just saying.

50 So, crew, which of the hot dogs on that chart is not a sandwich?

🎶🎵🪈

51 Yeesh, bad storm came through while I was eating dinner, when I finished and walked out to my car the parking lot was covered in calf-deep water. That's the Southeast in July. Thankfully my SUV sits high enough that I didn't have to worry about the engine flooding but it was close. That was a squishy ride back home. Might as well wash the shoes now.

52 Joan Crawford was a Gorgon.

53 Yay, Collector Car Appreciation Day ONT!

54 The trunk is not haunted.

The dolls inside it would freak the fuck out of Michael Myers, though.

55 Of course a hot dog is a sammy

56 >>> 28 John Solomon reports and DOJ and FBI have been building a case against the Deep State for a long time, and it's about to get spicy!

https://is.gd/v566Fb
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater at July 11, 2025 10:13 PM (H/u99)

#twoweeks

57 Arrrgh. That doesn't mean what it used to.

I was with a college friend in a store a couple of days ago, and the store was playing classic rock.

I observed:

"This song is fifty years old.

Tell me, when we were in college in 1975, were we listing to music from 1925?"

58 Sorry, Korea, but that's no hot dog.

59 Some of those hot dogs are awesome, some are just gross, and Japan’s octo-dog brings up the perennial question; Japan, nuked too much or not enough?

60 My Subaru Forested got new front pads every 60k or so, but the rear drums went to 205k.

61
Joan Crawford was a Gorgon.
Posted by: Bulg

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I believe she was.

62 Evening, all,

Weird day today. Was going to bring big black Stirling to the vet, but the Buick refused to start. Something called "Battery Saver Mode" was in effect, and I even saw a line of what was labeled as Linux (!) code in the entertainment center. Called AAA; it turned out to be the battery was low (maybe I left a light on? The stereo?). Battery is now recharged after a long drive, and I will buy a new and better one in a week or so. So Stirling got a reprieve, or actually a stay.

The Superman movie thread this afternoon revived me, and my interest in going to see an actual movie at an actual theatre.

63 So, crew, which of the hot dogs on that chart is not a sandwich?
Posted by: mindful webworker

Seattle, Argentina, Cleveland, and possibly Vietnam aren't even hot dogs. If the meat is something other than a hot dog, how can it be a hot dog? Is there some Confucius or Plato philosophy thing going on where a kielbasa is a hot dog?

64 I'll take two Argentinas and a Denver.
And a large white milk.

65 Nuns, singing: How do you solve a problem like Ketanji?

Have Congress hire her to review bills that add or change the US Code. If it doesn't change it, or just deletes part of it, she skips those.

She then gets to ask the Representative or Senator who submitted the bill questions. Just those people - no staff. The time she gets to question could be based on the size of the bill. When that's over, she announces whether she understands it or not.

She has to give up being a judge, and no moonlighting. Her pay would be what it is now. The job exists until she retires, or Congress votes to kick her out.

66 Auto cucumber strikes again! Forester, not Forested.

67 Was giving away a creepy trunk like that. Top fell and smashed my fingers three times. Lady said wow, that thing was trying to bite you!

68 Evening Hordelings. Tonight is a good night. For many reasons.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at July 11, 2025 10:10 PM (hftn9)

Light up a cigarette afterwards, Admiral?

(salute)

69 46 When I was a kid .... I poured concrete. And old people would tell me about their grand-kids that didn't give me the time of day at school.

But it paid cash. That's what I remember about the Good Ol Days.
Posted by: Seriously at July 11, 2025 10:18 PM (WfOMS)

I worked on a concrete crew for Del Webb for my summers when I was 17, 18, and 19. Paid a hell of a lot more than any other job I could get at that age.

70 >>> 64 I'll take two Argentinas and a Denver.
And a large white milk.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 10:25 PM (n4GiU)

Since I was willowed...

...have I mentioned that this year's TX MoMee will be the *tenth*?

71 Farquad - What is your location?

72 I'm putting Mildred Pierce on, which I hate-watch because it is so awful and I hear it was Joan Crawford's comeback film.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025

***
Great whacking chunks of it bear no resemblance whatever to the James M. Cain novel. Studios then were often as bad in their way as studios are now: They buy a property they like, thinking it will be a hit, and proceed immediately to change it.

Kate Winslet starred in a TV miniseries adaptation of MP a few years ago. I've never seen it, but I got the impression they were going to try for a more faithful adaptation. And Kate is the right type; Mildred was described, not as a mannish brunette like Crawford, but as a small blonde.

73 Was giving away a creepy trunk like that. Top fell and smashed my fingers three times. Lady said wow, that thing was trying to bite you!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 10:26 PM (OO69L)

I'm tellin' ya, he hated us from the beginning.

74 66 Auto cucumber strikes again! Forester, not Forested.
Posted by: buddhaha at July 11, 2025 10:25 PM (n3kHr)

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Forrest Tucker > Subaru Forester

75 I eat Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissants & Biscuits. Yes, those bowls are horrible.

76 Cobra kicks ass.

"Hey, dirtbag... you're a lousy shot. I don't like lousy shots. You wasted a kid for nothin'. Now I think it's time to waste you."

77 Welp, one of the illegals fleeing the ICE raid on the marijuana grow in California today fell off a roof while fleeing, broke his neck, and has since died.…
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Was it worth it, fellah? Was it worth it?

How high a body count will ICE rack up before they're done? How high a count?

(Betting pool is open; see the bartender.)

78 *door creaks open*

*peeks in*

*door creaks closed*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)


Outback a screen door softly taps in the breeze.

79 Good evening morons y gracias wd por los Friday Night Memes

80
"We welcomed you, we created nonprofits to help feed, clothe, find housing. We did everything we could to make your transition here easier, and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?" said Catrina Stackpool, a lesbian former city council member, after her Muslim successors voted to block the display of Pride flags on city
property this June.

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Yes, it is.

81 Joan Crawford was a Gorgon.
Posted by: Bulg

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I believe she was.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025

***
Medusa was the mortal one. Which means (a) Joan was Medusa (somehow she made a comeback after that contretemps with Perseus), and (b) her two immortal sisters are still out there.

82 On TCM, you're going to miss the redeeming feature of _Blue Velvet_. Isabella Rossellini's boobies.

83 Are they a sandwich?
Used condom?
Used colostomy bag?

84 78 And that’s when the murders started.

85 76 Cobra kicks ass.

"Hey, dirtbag... you're a lousy shot. I don't like lousy shots. You wasted a kid for nothin'. Now I think it's time to waste you."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 10:30 PM (BI5O2)

Agreed...right up there with Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth

86 Have I mentioned that this year's TX MoMee will be the *tenth*?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Yes, and that reminds me to ask Some Rat how the commemorative plates are coming along.....

87 We got Grandma's victrola when i was in high school, about 1980. She liked foxtrots in the 40's but she had one Benny Goodman that I liked, Scatterbrain vocals by Louise Tobin

youtu.be/8QnqNvPaHuo?

88 Was it worth it, fellah? Was it worth it?

¡Viva México! ¡Viva México!

Also, being deported back to México is a fate worse than death!

89 What is your location?

Me? Sitting on the side of the bed.
No pants, too.

90 Hot Dog Styles.

Meh.
*munches hamburger*
*slurps chocolate malt*
*burps*

91 Sorry, Blue Velvet is a sick flick.

92 g'night everyone!

93 why is this thing so big... American sizes are something else

Is she old enough to drink?

I looked at her X account.

1) It's NSFW. And has links to her Patreon, Instagram, and..... OnlyFans pages.

B) She's four-foot-nine-and-a-half. Or 146cm, as she says.

So she's probably old enough to drink, but she's not American-sized.

94 Was it worth it, fellah? Was it worth it?
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¡Viva México! ¡Viva México!

Also, being deported back to México is a fate worse than death!
Posted by: Typical Illegal! at July 11, 2025 10:33 PM (xTIDn)

Well, that guy would now know the veracity of that claim.

95 I’m a dodger dog but replace the ketchup with mayo.

96 In Korea that corn dog was kaegogi.

Actual dog.

97 her two immortal sisters are still out there.

With Prometheus. Eating chili with carrots.

98 innit?

99 lol

100 Sorry, Blue Velvet is a sick flick.
Posted by: Bulg
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No argument. All I was saying was.... bewbs.

101 Some of those hot dogs are awesome, some are just gross, and Japan’s octo-dog brings up the perennial question; Japan, nuked too much or not enough?
Posted by: Tom Servo

Everything in Japan is cute. No exceptions. Not even finely-ground and extruded livestock.

102 Since I was willowed...

...have I mentioned that this year's TX MoMee will be the *tenth*?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

I had heard that, yes. And BACON !!

103 Sorry I’m late, I was at the station filing a police report. I should have known better than to trust valet parking at a McDonalds.

104 37 Scene from the Cincinnati Reds locker room tonight
youtu.be/qdFLPn30dvQ

Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 10:16 PM

That can't be from the Reds locker room.

If it was from the Reds locker room, Niedemeyer would have swung that paddle three times ... and missed Kevin Bacon's a$$ each time!

105 This was a really good ONT content. I enjoyed every item posted.

We have a restaurant that serves a yard of beer. It gets too warm before I can finish it.

106 So she's probably old enough to drink, but she's not American-sized.
Posted by: mikeski at July 11, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

Guess it'd behoove us not to insert American meat into a Japanese bun.

107 Sorry I’m late, I was at the station filing a police report. I should have known better than to trust valet parking at a McDonalds.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 11, 2025 10:40 PM (/BLT9)


The guys across the street at Taco Bell are laughing their asses off.

108 I’m a dodger dog but replace the ketchup with mayo.
Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 10:36 PM (VofaG)

Mayo?

I'll go as far as horseradish sauce; it's white, too.

I'm a mustard chili cheese hot dog guy, and a strip of crisp bacon never hurt. Coney Island franks, long and skinny. Not a foot long, though, just longer than the bun. Love a good foot long but you simply cannot find them where I live. I haven't seen a foot long dog in person in 30 plus years.

109 >>>28 John Solomon reports and DOJ and FBI have been building a case against the Deep State for a long time, and it's about to get spicy!

https://x.com/TheStormRedux/status/1943829298923942200
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater
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Could this family feud we've been watching be a feint?

110 Mayo?

I'll go as far as horseradish sauce; it's white, too.


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White? That gives me an idea!

111 Well, that guy would now know the veracity of that claim.

The Left likes to call "Alligator Alcatraz" - "Alligator Auschwitz".

Because being sent back to Mexico is just like being marched into a gas chamber.

I guess they don't have a high opinion of Mexico.

112 I looked at her X account.

1) It's NSFW. And has links to her Patreon, Instagram, and..... OnlyFans pages.

B) She's four-foot-nine-and-a-half. Or 146cm, as she says.

So she's probably old enough to drink, but she's not American-sized.
Posted by: mikeski at July 11, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

Are you saying Munchkins are not Americans???

Oh... crap... yer right... they had their own government, even their own Military!

113 It was a dark and stormy night... no, really, it's epically storming out there and Pookette is up and journaling.

114 This was a really good ONT content. I enjoyed every item posted.

Posted by: polynikes at July 11, 2025 10:40 PM (VofaG)

Hear, hear!

115 Joan Crawford was a Gorgon.
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 10:21 PM (77rzZ)

Gore-Gone would be a great name for product to clean up murder scenes.

116 When did Sweden start using wraps instead of hot dog buns? You're supposed to eat that shit with a fork.

117 Trump just tweeted that he is instructing Homeland Security and ICE to arrest and incarcerate "slimeballs" throwing rocks (etc) and ICE agents and their vehicles.

118 It was a dark and stormy night... no, really, it's epically storming out there and Pookette is up and journaling.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows that the sea is full of angry monkeys at July 11, 2025 10:44 PM (PPB1b)

It's probably all right, unless she gets on top of the doghouse to fly off in search of the Red Baron!

119 The kitten is the first one reminded me of our senior cat that I buried on June 28. She was taken too early from he r mother and my wife and youngest daughter fed her milk from a baby bottle for a couple of weeks. She had about the same attitude as that one. In her later years, we knew her as The Old Bat. All of our other cats were scared of her. She lived for 16 years.

120 I’m watching The Pope of Greenwich Village right now. I remember it being pretty good when I saw it over 20 years ago. It holds up well.

121 You want to see a Joan Crawford that is so bad that it’s awesome?

Watch “Trog”

122 @ 83, don't get me started about colostomy bags, okay?

it's not as f'in simple as some non-bag-wearers seem to think.

let's just say that the only bag support group that mrs eez signed me up for (prophylactic-ally) had so many "crisis level" posts that i just faded away into the background noys...

123 What’s the deadline for signing up for the Texas MoMe?

124 It's probably all right, unless she gets on top of the doghouse to fly off in search of the Red Baron!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 11, 2025 10:45 PM (S/Y4j)

The cabin has a second story and a balcony.

I'll keep on eye on her.

125 Posted by: Coldstream at July 11, 2025

She'll be waiting for you in the next life with the same attitude! I'm sorry you lost her. They leave such a hole in our hearts.

126 Where shall I begin my hot dog rant...?

127 Just wanted to point out that Pitfall! was an Activision game, not an Atarisoft game, so it shouldn't have that box-art layout.

(Yeah, I'm that fucking guy. But I won't be able to sleep unless I say something.)

128 113 Hey, Pookysgirl!

129 What’s the deadline for signing up for the Texas MoMe?
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 10:47 PM (77rzZ)

I didn't sign up. Just rolled up like a boss.

130 My 20 year old cat died last week. She was a good cat.

131 Are you saying Munchkins are not Americans???

Oh... crap... yer right... they had their own government, even their own Military!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 11, 2025 10:43 PM (mP0Kj)

The Union sucked though.

132 John Solomon reports and DOJ and FBI have been building a case against the Deep State for a long time, and it's about to get spicy!
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I'm less interested in getting hyped about what's "going to happen", and more into "show me the accomplishment."

133 123, wel, delay & FO

134 Hey, San Franpsycho.

135 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 10:49 PM

20 years is.a good long kitty life. Doesn't make saying goodbye any easier. I'm sorry for your loss.

136 innit ?

& now rly gnight !

amirite?

137 I know what happened, I want heads on pikes

138 I'm really really glad that 2025 is the year that America starts to turn around and fly right. Long overdue and I cheer this.

As for me, personally, 2025 is rapidly becoming on of the worst years ever.

I guess I would rather I suffer and America prosper, but, you know, come on. A bit of light wouldn't hurt.

139
Great whacking chunks of it bear no resemblance whatever to the James M. Cain novel. Studios then were often as bad in their way as studios are now: They buy a property they like, thinking it will be a hit, and proceed immediately to change it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

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All the old badness of that era, plus some of the badness that pervades all movie eras. And Joan Crawford was a gorgon and not that great an actress.

140 So I have been working really hard this week getting art done for my next book, did I miss anything?

141 There is a reason the NY dog is first on the chart.

142
130 My 20 year old cat died last week. She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 10:49 PM (BI5O2)

I’m sorry for you. A couple years ago we lost a cat that had been with us 19 years, longest lived pet we’d ever had, or ever will most likely. They become part of you when you’re with them that long.

143 Just a note: that final chart reminded me that national hot dog day is next Wdnesday. Start planning now.

144 My 20 year old cat died last week. She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Sorry to that. Very sorry. I lost Mike Hammer's Cat at 19.

145 Where shall I begin my hot dog rant...?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2025 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

My favorite hotdog is a Hebrew National on a bun with yellow mustard, wrapped in a paper towel and nuked for 30 to 45 seconds. With Tater Tots cooked in the air fryer.

Also, sliced longitudinally and fried in a pan and slapped between two slices of bread.

Poverty chow kept this teenager alive.

146 100 Sorry, Blue Velvet is a sick flick.
Posted by: Bulg
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No argument. All I was saying was.... bewbs.
Posted by: buddhaha a
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It a Tarantino flick. All Tarantino flicks are sick. Tarantino is one sick dude.

147 Has one person throwing rocks at moving police cars been arrested and charged with assault?

148 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 11, 2025 10:47 PM (dKEEs)

My experience with medical support groups is that they are mainly comprised of people who are trying to convince each other that THEY have the most issues, are in the most pain, have the hardest row to hoe.

I have to gone to 3 different groups, 3 separate issues, each time thinking we were going to exchange tips, tricks, encourage each other. Brought a brand new pen and notebook set, to house all the excellent information that would be shared.

Not even close.

149 She'll be waiting for you in the next life with the same attitude! I'm sorry you lost her. They leave such a hole in our hearts.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 11, 2025

***
I've known and loved multiple cats. When I get to the Rainbow Bridge and they greet me, there will be jurisdiction issues. "Back off, black cat! He's *my* human!" "Stuff a codfish in it, Fat Boy, he's *mine*!"

150 YD,
I’m sorry. Lucy the Fink is only 12. I can’t stand the thought of losing her.

How is your little girl? Does she think she’s 16 yet? Attitude? Allthat and a bag of chips?

151 Wassup bulg?

152 Continuing, Tarantino is simply a reflection of today's dark society.
The expression began with Freddie Kruger.

153 Corn dogs >> Hot Dogs any style

154 My 20 year old cat died last week. She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Sorry, buddy. Our cat is also 20. She's been having more off days than on.

Funny how attached you get to these feline divas.

155 140 Bongino and Bondi eloped to the Kerguelens, and Elon became the leader of the Bahais.

Or I could be making all this up…

156 . She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Oh my gosh, YD, I am so very sorry.

157 >>>Not even close.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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That's what a friend told me. She quit quick.

158 I'm less interested in getting hyped about what's "going to happen", and more into "show me the accomplishment."
Posted by: Methos at July 11, 2025 10:50 PM (zLwRl)

I was at that point sometime around three months into the new Administration. I figured by April something would happen, someone -- anyone -- would be arrested for the plethora of crimes that have been committed by multiple people.

159 Hi everyone,

First, I want to thank everyone who has donated to Ciampino's cremation fund so far. Your generosity means so much to us.

[Link to Ciampino's fund: https://t.co/NfEjq7HEkV]

I've also posted an update (#319) to our cat fund.

[Link to cat fund: https://t.co/iS8XTjbmSR]

On a personal note, I finally received my wheelchair today after over a year of trying to get one! I really wish Dad were here to see me no longer limited in where I can go around town.

160 It a Tarantino flick. All Tarantino flicks are sick. Tarantino is one sick dude.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 10:54 PM

Blue Velvet is David Lynch.

161 Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

162 How is your little girl? Does she think she’s 16 yet? Attitude? Allthat and a bag of chips?


Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2025 10:55 PM (mT+6a)

She's sitting up late, watching Cobra with me while her mom is visiting with a girlfriend in Nashville. Good times.

163
#twoweeks
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

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I just set a two-week reminder for myself to set a two-week reminder.

164 "Doesn't make saying goodbye any easier."

never does, never will

in the immortal words ... " la la la la life goes on"

at least for all of us lucky ones ... amirite?

... consider ... the alternative ...

sorry for your (and everyone's) loss.

165 Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 11, 2025 10:58 PM (NH274)
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I just had a cheesy dog earlier this evening.

166 I'm putting Mildred Pierce on, which I hate-watch because it is so awful and I hear it was Joan Crawford's comeback film.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

After you watch it, go to youtube and find Carol Burnetts parody.

167 Blue Velvet was David Lynch

168 Without listing them, I would eat 14 of those dogs.

And no cats.

169 151 Not much, San Fran. Just enjoying Friday night.

170 Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 11, 2025 10:58 PM (NH274)

Who let the commie in?

171 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 10:55 PM (omVj0)

Indeed! I am looking forward to the skirmishes of a several myself! One in particular will come bounding across that bridge to see me, get within 2 feet, then sit down and lick her paws as if she couldn't care less. I miss her so much.

172 “Studios then were often as bad in their way as studios are now: They buy a property they like, thinking it will be a hit, and proceed immediately to change it.”
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

One of the most amusing (at least to me) is the Bogart movie “To have and Have Not”. Howard Hawks and his studio bought the rights to Hemingway’s novel of that name, and the very first thing they did was to toss out everything Hemingway wrote and instead turn it into Casablanca in the Caribbean.

173 My 20 year old cat died last week. She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 10:49 PM (BI5O2)

So sorry to read about the loss of your cat. She reached a good age. You'll see her again.

174 49 Just got back from Detroit. The Michigan dog is callled Detroit coney dog. Just saying.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat

It's supposed to have onions.

175 Gore-Gone would be a great name for product to clean up murder scenes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 10:44 PM

It would also be a great product to get rid of disinformation about "global warming".

176 Hi, Joyenz. Welcome!

177 When I was little, we used to get hot dogs from this guy who had a little stand attached to his house. Pretty much how he spent his retirement. Just sat there selling hot dogs. Damn fine hot dogs, too.

178 My 20 year old cat died last week. She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 10:49 PM (BI5O2)

I’m sorry for you. A couple years ago we lost a cat that had been with us 19 years, longest lived pet we’d ever had, or ever will most likely. They become part of you when you’re with them that long.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025

***
YD, Tom, remember your friends as they were, not some idealized vision of them. That, to remember them without rose-colored glasses, I think is to do them the honor they deserve.

Big red tabby Arizona and I knew from Day Two that he was My Cat and I was His Human, and there was never any question of either. But he was occasionally difficult and distant, gave me hell when it came vet time, disliked other cats, etc. He was what he was.

179 Where we are at:

"We have convicted Ghislaine Maxwell for 5 counts of trafficking underage girls."

"Who did she traffic them to?"

"No one."

180 I'm not eating any Jimmy Dean Bowels, nor Hot dogs from Peruvia.

181 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2025 10:58 PM (BI5O2)

Weird. Just got the Cobra blu-ray yesterday. I was just loading it into the player when I read that.

182 Just wanted to point out that Pitfall! was an Activision game, not an Atarisoft game, so it shouldn't have that box-art layout.

(Yeah, I'm that fucking guy. But I won't be able to sleep unless I say something.)
Posted by: Rusty Nail

Actually, image search shows a box like the one in the meme for the Latin American version of the game, which Atari licensed (or licensed back?) from Activision.

You're correct that the first-world version was a green Activision box, though.

183
I have to gone to 3 different groups, 3 separate issues, each time thinking we were going to exchange tips, tricks, encourage each other. Brought a brand new pen and notebook set, to house all the excellent information that would be shared.

Not even close.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

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That's too bad. What about online support? It's more targeted. My mom got some good tips from fellow sufferers when she had shingles. She even got a kick out of "talking" to people from the UK.

184 It would also be a great product to get rid of disinformation about "global warming".
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 11, 2025 11:01 PM (HlyYF)

Hah! I'll bet some masseuse in Seattle wishes she'd had a barrel of it.

185 She's sitting up late, watching Cobra with me while her mom is visiting with a girlfriend in Nashville. Good times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


So good to hear. I remember how much you worried. Even before she was born. You’re such a good dad. Thank you.

186 Tammy,
Sorry, gotta suck.
Regular buds?

187 Chili dogs are my favorite

188 161 Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 11, 2025 10:58 PM (NH274)

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That's why you have to get the cheese-infused hot dogs.

189 They call them coneys in the Syracuse, NY area.

190 Hi, Joyenz. Welcome!
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 11:01 PM (77rzZ)

Hi Bulg, thanks for the welcome.

191 I like corn relish on a hot dog, but you can't find it round here.

192 Well, I got the three molded clutch pistons I need for my transmission overhaul. Had to got to Calgary to get them, and the price was only a few dollars more than Amazon, and I have them right now.

193 true dat Tammy; I never posted anything; I was kind of embarrassed to have a relatively uneventful stoma, well managed (by Mrs, mostly), that got reversed when everything lower-abdominal settled down.

rly g'night now?

194 172. Fine with me. Hoagie Carmichael improved everything, and made any flick he was in worth watching.

195 Our cats will be waiting for us on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge and they will be hungry.

196 They call them coneys in the Syracuse, NY area.
Posted by: Excelsior! at July 11, 2025 11:04 PM (G5+As)

Syracuse isn't anywhere near Coney Island.

Now, Heid's is a different story. They still call 'em Coney's though.

197 Cheesy dogs give me the squirts.

198 Hah! I'll bet some masseuse in Seattle wishes she'd had a barrel of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 11:03 PM

Well in her case, she could have used the generic version ... a 55 gallon drum of HCl.

199 71 Farquad - What is your location?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 10:27 PM (XeU6L)

Eastern Georgia

200 We did well with cats, with one exception.

Mouse, a Russian Blue died when she was just past 2 years. Feline Leukemia.
Bug, the calico was 17
Mischa, gray tuxedo, was nearly 21
Scout, the black demon kitteh, is 20.

We have decided, though, no more cats. When we get our retirement home, it's gonna be goggies.

201 "Has one person throwing rocks at moving police cars been arrested and charged with assault?"

The guy who was video'd doing that at the Paramount (part of LA area) chapter of the initial festivities over ICE actions in LA was being sought, don't know if they collared him.

Various individuals have been arrested for interference, and I think assault, at some of the small melees involving ICE.

Issue here is same as I noted in connection with Trump's "SLIMEBALLS" post (I hereby give it that title, for posterity) - tactical situation, and numbers. ICE is there to get their illegal targets, that's it. They often don't have the force or set-up to also grab some of the idiots - some times they do. Do it will depend.

202 Not a big hot dog eater. I like smokie dogs, with kraut and hot mustard. A sliver of real cheese, like Cheddar, or Swiss would not be amiss. That orange plastic shite, nope.

203 I'm disappointed they didn't include the Fire Island Dog. It's very popular in my circle.

204 The weird thing about the Asian woman taping the girls phone to her face for having it out at the dinner table is that someone else at the dinner table was recording it on their phone.

205 "So it will depend", that is.

206 Big red tabby Arizona and I knew from Day Two that he was My Cat and I was His Human, and there was never any question of either. But he was occasionally difficult and distant, gave me hell when it came vet time, disliked other cats, etc. He was what he was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 11, 2025 11:02 PM (omVj0)

I had a cat named Feline, a black long haired cat who always held her tail up high like a flag. Had a very hard early life and really hated people, would hiss and spit at almost everyone - but I had been kind to her, and she decided that she loved me and hated everyone else. It was really astounding and strange to me, I’d never before (and probably never will again) have a pet so personally devoted to me, to the exclusion of all others.
There were plenty of stories about her, she passed away a few years ago, but on her terms.

207 I like corn relish on a hot dog, but you can't find it round here.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 11:05 PM (XZ5S6)

I have never heard of corn relish for a hot dog. From what part of this great Land does that hail?

208 She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Sorry to hear that man. 20 years is a good run.
I had a cat live to 21 and the last year was rough.
I hope you find some peace and see your cat again someday.

209 179 Where we are at:

"We have convicted Ghislaine Maxwell for 5 counts of trafficking underage girls."

"Who did she traffic them to?"

"No one."
Posted by: Harsh Truth at July 11, 2025

Epstein. She was convicted for trafficking to him. That is it.

210 One of the most amusing (at least to me) is the Bogart movie “To have and Have Not”. Howard Hawks and his studio bought the rights to Hemingway’s novel of that name, and the very first thing they did was to toss out everything Hemingway wrote and instead turn it into Casablanca in the Caribbean.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025

***
The later film based on THaHN, The Breaking Point w/ John Garfield, was much more Hemingway-esque and a great deal more suspenseful.

211 I have never heard of corn relish for a hot dog. From what part of this great Land does that hail?
Posted by: RickZ at July 11, 2025 11:09 PM (gKDq2)
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Mostly a Midwest thing, I understand.

212 Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Kinda mandatory on a chili dog

213 I have never heard of corn relish for a hot dog. From what part of this great Land does that hail?
Posted by: RickZ at July 11, 2025 11:09 PM (gKDq2)

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In my neck of the woods all the corn gets used for gasoline.

214 15 - Costco dog - add some shredded cheese and it's perfect!
From the chart, Michigan, Baltimore, Idaho, Memphis all sound interesting but are not Correct.

(In case you're wondering, ketchup on hot dog is Wrong if you're over the age of 12. Onions are not something I enjoy on hot dogs usually, but can be okay in small amounts or light flavor.)

Many of the others are either technically incorrect (kolache != hot dog), or look like someone took an existing dish and swapped in a hot dog, or just threw stuff together with no accounting for whether the tastes flow correctly.

215 She was a good cat.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I am so sorry. I love my crazy kitties, it’s so hard losing pets.

216 190 Joyenz, your Dad was a great part of this site. I’m sure that you will be too, as much as you choose to join us.

217 Thanks for the ONT.

218 The weird thing about the Asian woman taping the girls phone to her face for having it out at the dinner table is that someone else at the dinner table was recording it on their phone.
Posted by: Harsh Truth at July 11, 2025 11:09 PM (6BNWj)
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I
Uh
Hrrrmm...

219 One of the most amusing (at least to me) is the Bogart movie “To have and Have Not”. Howard Hawks and his studio bought the rights to Hemingway’s novel of that name, and the very first thing they did was to toss out everything Hemingway wrote and instead turn it into Casablanca in the Caribbean.

I love that movie, such a classic. You're usually better off just taking a basic plot from Hemingway and doing it better.

220 My favorite hotdog is a Hebrew National on a bun with yellow mustard, wrapped in a paper towel and nuked for 30 to 45 seconds.

Pug, your dog is my dog, except I leave the roll outside the microwave.
Naked dog from freezer straight to microwave, 45 seconds. Use the roll to pick it up, its hot, then slather yellow or spicy brown mustard.

221 Many of the others are either technically incorrect (kolache != hot dog), or look like someone took an existing dish and swapped in a hot dog, or just threw stuff together with no accounting for whether the tastes flow correctly.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 11, 2025 11:11 PM (aJQbY)
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Excessive complication.

222 146 It a Tarantino flick. All Tarantino flicks are sick. Tarantino is one sick dude.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 10:54 PM (Ri+6K)

Blue Velvet is David Lynch.

223 187 Chili dogs are my favorite

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 11:04 PM

+1 vote with Skip

Actually +2. Daughter #2 had some pretty severe stomach issues in 2nd and 3rd grade. However, a chili cheese dog would soak up all of her stomach acid.

If she was having a bad day at school, she would run home and I would make her a quick chili dog (and one for dad).

Must have been good comfort food, because if we go out to eat a family dinner at a place that offers chili dogs, she still orders them at age 25!

224
One of the most amusing (at least to me) is the Bogart movie “To have and Have Not”. Howard Hawks and his studio bought the rights to Hemingway’s novel of that name, and the very first thing they did was to toss out everything Hemingway wrote and instead turn it into Casablanca in the Caribbean.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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So many tales like that. I watched The Goldfinch to see just how they were going to cram that book into a single feature, and it's like they had someone write a one-page double-spaced plot summary, randomly subtracted key adjectives and added "not" before some words, and shot that.

No one has ever had the inclination to make Wuthering Heights properly either, which gets my back up because there's a production underway right now. Starring as 18-year-old chestnut-locks in the year 1783 Catherine Earnshaw is... Margot Robbie. A publicity pic has been released of her wedding to Edgar Linton. She's wide (just had a baby irl), looking all of 34, dressed in some gown that's 1983 fashion.

Sometimes I hate Hollywood.

225 I don’t even know the last time I ate a hot dog. It was a very, very long time ago.

226 Issue here is same as I noted in connection with Trump's "SLIMEBALLS" post (I hereby give it that title, for posterity) - tactical situation, and numbers. ICE is there to get their illegal targets, that's it. They often don't have the force or set-up to also grab some of the idiots - some times they do. Do it will depend.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 11:08 PM (1m82a)

Just have a team of snipers work with the ICE team when they are on a raid. Set them up where the have a commanding view of the venue, and have them go to work when the on-site ICE commander radios in, "we are taking fire from the crazies; go ahead and shoot any you see making menacing moves."

That would not have to happen many times before antifa found a new hobby.

227 I used spicy lime pickle on the other hot dog I had this evening.

228 I don't care what anyone puts on a hotdog. Nothing is 'wrong'. Eat what you like, fuck anyone who says otherwise.

*Glares at Chicago*

229 Isn't To Have and Have Not the premier of Lauren Bacall? "Put your lips together, and blow"?

Anyway, whichever movie that was, don't care about the novel or much else. Even with the film quality of the era, she was hotter than the Trinity site early morning of July 16, 1945.

230 All the old badness of that era, plus some of the badness that pervades all movie eras. And Joan Crawford was a gorgon and not that great an actress.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Check out the Crawford movie "Johnny Guitar" (1952). It is a great film and she is very good in it. Brilliant color and cinematography, to boot.

231 *can't even with Wesley*

232 t was a dark and stormy night... no, really, it's epically storming out there and Pookette is up and journaling.
Posted by: pookysgirl knows that the sea is full of angry monkeys at July 11, 2025 10:44 PM (PPB1b)

Send some of that rain my way. I'm at 1.85 inches for the year and the monsoon is supposed to be in full swing.

233 I occasionally have cheese on a hotdog

234 Mostly a Midwest thing, I understand.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 11:10 PM (XZ5S6)

I really like corn dogs (when I can get them), with a stream of yellow mustard on the length, so why not corn relish? Just depends on what they put in it. I can see a red or hot pepper/onion/corn relish. I just don't need no carrots, shaved, grated or otherwise.

235 Hey, Piper.

236 Looking forward to tomorrow. Tear-assing around in Idaho. I kinda like this place.

237 >>>Was it worth it, fellah? Was it worth it?

How high a body count will ICE rack up before they're done? How high a count?

(Betting pool is open; see the bartender.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - you could say he got roofied?
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Speculating: Those of potential value, to the nation, as a resident will self deport, those that are not will hide and try to stay.

238 220 My favorite hotdog is a Hebrew National on a bun with yellow mustard, wrapped in a paper towel and nuked for 30 to 45 seconds.

Pug, your dog is my dog, except I leave the roll outside the microwave.
Naked dog from freezer straight to microwave, 45 seconds. Use the roll to pick it up, its hot, then slather yellow or spicy brown mustard.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 11, 2025 11:12 PM (n4GiU)

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I use Hebrew Nationals, too. I put them in a vegetable steamer basket, and steam them for about 5 minutes or so. In the last 30 seconds, I'll add a bun. Perfection, every time.

239 195 Our cats will be waiting for us on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge and they will be hungry.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2025 11:06 PM

I wonder if they have slow and abundant mice on the other side of that bridge?

I am pretty sure I have seen a few of our cats contemplating that very possibility when they are napping in a sunbeam with their paws twitching.

240 Kinda mandatory on a chili dog
Huh? Carolina dog, AKA Mountaineer dog, has chili but no cheese.

241 I don’t even know the last time I ate a hot dog. It was a very, very long time ago.
Posted by: Piper at July 11, 2025 11:13 PM (pRpzT)
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July 4. Of course.

242 20 years for a cat is a good run, ours ,(sisters) lived 17 and 19

243 Most of my cats have lived to be about thirteen, except for Arizona -- sixteen and a half -- and Tatiana the Wonder Siberian, whose heart gave out on her when she was not quite four years old. She lived that forty-five months intensely, playing hard and learning every day -- almost as if she knew she did not have much time on this Earth and wanted to get in as much living, as much fun and experience, as she could.

Oh, and Chekov D. Siberian, the Ailing Codger Cat as I called him here during his last six months. He got to fourteen and a half.

244 200
We have decided, though, no more cats. When we get our retirement home, it's gonna be goggies.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel at July 11, 2025 11:08 PM (0aYVJ)

You can have both! My cats are training my dog. 😃

245 Hey, Pillage.

246 168 Without listing them, I would eat 14 of those dogs.

And no cats.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2025 10:59 PM (rvwwT)

You have to go to a Chinese restaurant for cat, and most of them don't serve hit dogs.

247 YD, Coldstream, my sympathies. It's always hard to lose them. >^..^<

248 241 I don’t even know the last time I ate a hot dog. It was a very, very long time ago.
Posted by: Piper at July 11, 2025 11:13 PM (pRpzT)
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July 4. Of course.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2025 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

Nope. I did eat a hamburger though! Not even a veggie burger. A real beef one.

249 The weird thing about the Asian woman taping the girls phone to her face for having it out at the dinner table is that someone else at the dinner table was recording it on their phone.
Posted by: Harsh Truth

She's next!

250 In my neck of the woods all the corn gets used for gasoline.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 11, 2025 11:11 PM (dDmld)

What little corn grew in Southwest Virginia went for 'shine.

251 225 I don’t even know the last time I ate a hot dog. It was a very, very long time ago.
Posted by: Piper

I had one last Sunday at the ballpark with my oldest. Sumo Dog. Had some weird stuff on it including seaweed and wasabi Mayo. It was pretty good!

252 Hebrew National Franks are da bomb for this Protestant Christian.

253 I love that movie, such a classic. You're usually better off just taking a basic plot from Hemingway and doing it better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2025 11:12 PM (dfIr7)

You are right, what Howard Hawks filmed was much better than what Hemingway wrote.
And that was the very beginning of Lauren Bacall’s career.

254 Hi, Bulg!

255 I don't care what anyone puts on a hotdog. Nothing is 'wrong'. Eat what you like, fuck anyone who says otherwise.
*Glares at Chicago*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 11, 2025 11:13

Yes indeed MarkAE. I was surprised to find that my preference was matched by a KC dog. You need kraut and swiss but they forgot ketchup, also required.

256 Hey, Pookysgirl!

Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 10:49 PM (77rzZ)

Hey. I meant to axe you something the other day but forgot what it was. Sleep meds are kicking in and I'm hoping Lil Pooky doesn't pull his Dutch act again tonight (he hates change).

I will leave you all with my favorite Dutch joke: How many Dutchmen does it take to change a lightbulb?


Change? CHANGE?!

257 There used to be a great hot dog place in Portland called Good Dog/Bad Dog. I was partial to their Magma Dog (spicy sausage + chili).

258 Blue Velvet is David Lynch.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 11, 2025 11:12 PM (/BLT9)

That was a major favorite amongst the Charlie 102nd MI troops.

I was Alpha. We looked down upon those heathens.

259
Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

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I would have thought so until I said wth I'll try that once in a little stand that is no more. It was a chili dog with parmesan. NOW HANG ON. The chili was like none I've had elsewhere, ground beef chopped verrrrry small, nothing else biteable so it was almost like a sauce. Then finely ground Parmigiano Reggiano dusted across it. It was a revelation that I have not been able to re-create.

260 252 Hebrew National Franks are da bomb for this Protestant Christian.
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 11:19 PM (77rzZ)

Oh yeah that’s all I buy! When my grandson visits he loves to have weenie roasts over our fire pit.

261 Cats should NOT train dogs. It’s contrary to nature and ain’t right.

262 *Glares at Chicago*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 11, 2025 11:13 PM (xcxpd)

Just like 'Cinncinnatuh Chili' isn't chili, neither is a 'Chicago Hot Dog' a hot dog. It's a fancy salad. Bread (croutons), lots of veggies, some meat. Eat it with a knife and fork, kids.

263 'Bout time I wandered off to bed. 'Til the Tech Thread, all. Enjoy your Friday night.

264 I don't care what anyone puts on a hotdog. Nothing is 'wrong'. Eat what you like, fuck anyone who says otherwise.
*Glares at Chicago*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 11, 2025 11:13
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It's this kind of "Anything Goes" liberal hippie attitude that got this country into the mess its in!

265 You can have both! My cats are training my dog. 😃
Posted by: Piper at July 11, 2025 11:17 PM (pRpzT)

I would be fine having feral cats around in our future retirement place. But we love to travel, and there are not a lot of cat-friendly motels out there.

In all honesty, we will likely do without a critter for a few years, because we love to travel. Spur-of-the-moment road trips. Can't do that with a geriatric kitty.

266
The weird thing about the Asian woman taping the girls phone to her face for having it out at the dinner table is that someone else at the dinner table was recording it on their phone.
Posted by: Harsh Truth

She's next!
Posted by: The Bearer of the Tape

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It's like a scary found footage movie. As the mother grabs the tape and advances on camera girl, camera girl passes the phone to another girl...

267 251 I had one last Sunday at the ballpark with my oldest. Sumo Dog. Had some weird stuff on it including seaweed and wasabi Mayo. It was pretty good!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2025 11:19 PM (mT+6a)

I really like nori, it’s just the hotdog part.

268 Have some hotdogs left from earlier this week. Need fast serving or leftovers to have just before I leave for work

269 261 Cats should NOT train dogs. It’s contrary to nature and ain’t right.
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 11:22 PM (77rzZ)

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Our cat raised our dog. When she was younger, our dog would stalk birds. And to this day, she "bathes" herself by licking her paw, and running it down her snout.

270 My wife loved that taping the phone to the face video. She is always supremely pissed off if anyone pulls a phone out and starts paying attention to it while we’re all eating together. So she would be that mom all the way.

271 Cats should NOT train dogs. It’s contrary to nature and ain’t right.
Posted by: Bulg

Our cat raised our dog. When she was younger, our dog would stalk birds. And to this day, she "bathes" herself by licking her paw, and running it down her snout.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

I think I've said this on the ONT before, but I had a friend who had an older cat, and then got a puppy. Who learned how to fight from the cat. He'd roll onto his back and try to grab with all four paws.

Extra-hilarious because it was a dachshund.

272 We have a new cat. Black with a little white chest spt. It arrived the day before Dad passed. He did get to see a picture of the cat.

Luna is also a black cat with a small chest spot. She showed up soon after Mom passed away. She was pregnant with Cole and Ashley. Whether cat or human passes, a new cat either shows up right before or right after.

273 265
In all honesty, we will likely do without a critter for a few years, because we love to travel. Spur-of-the-moment road trips. Can't do that with a geriatric kitty.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,With a Towel

Yeah, that makes sense. We are going on vacation this week, and with the add of the dog, we are just having our pet sitter stay at the house. We haven’t left him alone and I feel like boarding him would be too traumatic at this stage. So overnight pet sitter it is! Not conducive to just up and leaving when you have to arrange all that.

274 I really like corn dogs (when I can get them), with a stream of yellow mustard on the length, so why not corn relish? Just depends on what they put in it. I can see a red or hot pepper/onion/corn relish. I just don't need no carrots, shaved, grated or otherwise.
Posted by: RickZ


Corn dogs are awesome!!!!

There was a corn dog truck at the top of Snoqualmie Pass where we would stop after a day of snow skiing with the boys. She hand dipped the dogs on a stick into her corn bread batter and then into the hot oil.

Pulled them out and handed to you with a paper protector on the bottom of the stick to keep the hot oil from burning your hand. Add mustard or ketchup as needed and burn tf out of your mouth eating them.

So awesome. And great memories.

275 I assume almost every video on YouTube is a set up

276 Huh? Carolina dog, AKA Mountaineer dog, has chili but no cheese.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 11, 2025 11:16 PM (NH274)

When you mention 'Mountaineer', there's apparently a dog people in West Virginia like with coleslaw, maybe mustard and nothing else. Coleslaw has a place (hello pulled pork sandwiches!), but not on a hot dog.

277 I had a cat that raised a kitten that turned out fat, stupid, and drooling. Very sweet but very dumb.

278 256 LOL, Pookysgirl. And I am a Dutchman.

279 @PeterSweden7

Europe in 2025.

▪️ French police raided the party headquarters of the main opposition 🇫🇷
▪️ Britain is arresting over 12.000 people every year for social media posts 🇬🇧
▪️A state in Germany just banned members of the main opposition party AfD from working in civil service 🇩🇪
▪️Norwegian police tried to enter my house for no reason and interrogated me after I exposed how leaders in a religious cult were involved in what many consider to be grooming of young girls 🇳🇴

280 Send some of that rain my way. I'm at 1.85 inches for the year and the monsoon is supposed to be in full swing.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 11, 2025 11:14 PM (VsYDF)

When the monsoon hits southern Arizona, it hits hard. I know from personal experience. And then the high desert greens up until winter. It's a weird sight.

281 261 Cats should NOT train dogs. It’s contrary to nature and ain’t right.
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 11:22 PM (77rzZ)

He is a Shiba Inu, so it’s not like he is a dog dog.

282 I don't care what anyone puts on a hotdog. Nothing is 'wrong'. Eat what you like, fuck anyone who says otherwise.
*Glares at Chicago*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 11, 2025 11:13
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It's this kind of "Anything Goes" liberal hippie attitude that got this country into the mess its in!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2025 11:23 PM (RIvkX)

Love for ketchup on hotdogs is all-American and not hippie nonsense.

283 Stone-ground mustard rules

284 Frigging hotdog talk. Now I'm craving some dirty water dogs.

285
Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Mom used to slice a dog down the middle and stuff it with Velveeta. Then she would take a strip of bacon and wrap it around the dog securing it with toothpicks.

Then into the oven. Don't know the temp or duration.
That was a treat.

286 Extra-hilarious because it was a dachshund.
Posted by: mikeski at July 11, 2025 11:29 PM (DgGvY)

LOL! Having been around dachshunds, that's just a funny image.

287 253 I love that movie, such a classic. You're usually better off just taking a basic plot from Hemingway and doing it better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2025 11:12 PM (dfIr7)

You are right, what Howard Hawks filmed was much better than what Hemingway wrote.
And that was the very beginning of Lauren Bacall’s career.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 11:19 PM (Hlfhp)

And it started the Bogart/Becall romance. Much to Howard Hawk's annoyance. He wanted to tap that but Becall fell hard for Bogart. And vice versa.

288 >>>275 I assume almost every video on YouTube is a set up
Posted by: Skip
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Never seen so many smart cats or creative dogs.

289 Love for ketchup on hotdogs is all-American and not hippie nonsense.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 11, 2025 11:33 PM (xcxpd)
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OK, let's just not get crazy with the ketchup.

290 I assume almost every video on YouTube is a set up
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 11:29 PM (+qU29)

Yeah. seemed kind of a set-up thing.

Still, I agree with the gist of it. Quit walking around with your dumb face looking at your dumb phone as you walk down the trail. It's a beautiful day, the skwerls are frolicking, and they are merry.

I also get the texts: why didn't you answer the phone when I called just now?

Because I am in my truck, driving. Aren't there laws about that and shit?

291 284 Frigging hotdog talk. Now I'm craving some dirty water dogs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

There are Sabrett cart vendors who have been using the same water to boil their dogs since the Lindsay Administration.

292 Air India 171 report highlights as I found them in the actual report:

The flap handle was found to be firmly seated in the 5-degree flap position, consistent with a normal takeoff flap setting.

EAFR data revealed that the thrust levers remained forward (takeoff thrust) until the impact.

Both fuel control switch were found in the “RUN” position.

liftoff at 08:08:39

immediately [after 08:08:42], the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec.

the Engine 1 fuel cutoff switch transitioned from CUTOFF to RUN at about 08:08:52, [and the other at 08:08:56.]

293 I watched Mildred Pierce on TCM with my late mother once, when she was 80 or so.

I think I hurt her feelings a little when I burst out laughing.

We watched a lot of fine classic films together, which we both enjoyed. But Mildred Pierce? I couldn't help myself.

294 My experience with medical support groups… I have to gone to 3 different groups, 3 separate issues, each time thinking we were going to exchange tips, tricks, encourage each other.… Not even close.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

Heh. I can imagine. I've had a colostomy bag for six months, then after more surgery, now an ileostomy for fifteen months and counting.

A while back, I found out about a local ostomy support group. I tried to imagine what kind of support I'd get, what would we discuss? "So, do you prefer the clip, the valve, or the velcro closer?" And… things too yuck to joke about on here.

I get by because I have to. Don't like it but since I was thisclose to dying before the first surgery, I'm quite grateful to be alive, whatever $#!+ I have to deal with. MiladyJo is my support group, and expert nurse, so I am greatly blessed.

Might even get sewn back together one day, God willing. Repairs are… delayed.

And on that oversharing note, I take my leave for the night. At least in my dreams, I don't have that stuff.

G'nite, y'all.

295 I guess I’m gonna hafta call it a night. G’night and sleep well, All.

296 Love for ketchup on hotdogs is all-American and not hippie nonsense.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 11, 2025 11:33 PM (xcxpd)

Ketchup on a dog is okay for kids up to about 8-years-old. After that, they graduate to mustard.

297 253 I love that movie, such a classic. You're usually better off just taking a basic plot from Hemingway and doing it better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2025 11:12 PM (dfIr7)

You are right, what Howard Hawks filmed was much better than what Hemingway wrote.
And that was the very beginning of Lauren Bacall’s career.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I watch that movie more times than any other.

298 Speaking of hotdogs, 2 times have cooked them at work using my halogen lights. Wrapped in foil, open up and stick them in the protective cage. Just like those in rotisserie. A 250 watt light will cook them quick

299 About the DIY leg:
My mother's book club exchanged unusual pink elephant gifts for their Christmas party, and she found and artificial leg (knee length) at a thrift store for her gift one year.

A friend wrote a poem to go with the gift at the Christmas party: "Put your best foot forward"

300 There is a picture on Shirley Booth's wikipedia page of her and Bogart embracing in a Broadway play from 1925. He looks like a yoot.

301 AAFES (military base concessionaires) had a little outlet in one of the barracks at Ft. Lewis, they had chili cheese dogs, but I liked the flourescent cheese sauce topped over and nacho corn chips, trailer trash cuisine, a gustatory tour de force. Arteriosclerotic Nirvana. In those days, Jack in the Box had a killer baconator burger or something like that - and spicy curly fries. Being young-er could eat just about anything (or thought I could). It makes me sad that even our junk food, as bad as it was, was at least addicitvely tasty. I mean, if you’re gonna pork out to 287, it ought to at least taste good.

302 Heading out to see the sunset on the beach.


Take care, morons!!!!

Xoxoxo

303 285
Cheese should never be on a hotdog. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

Mom used to slice a dog down the middle and stuff it with Velveeta. Then she would take a strip of bacon and wrap it around the dog securing it with toothpicks.

Then into the oven. Don't know the temp or duration.
That was a treat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2025 11:34 PM (63Dwl)

My dad did the same thing when I was a kid. Only when mom was out for one reason or another on a weekend, so it wasn't often, but my sister and I loved it. He had to use Kraft singles, though, since my mom was a bit boring when it came to grocery shopping at the commissary. Good memories.

304 Frigging hotdog talk. Now I'm craving some dirty water dogs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

There are Sabrett cart vendors who have been using the same water to boil their dogs since the Lindsay Administration.

Posted by: Big Apple, Rotten To The Core at July 11, 2025 11:37 PM (G5+As)


yeah well, not quite "that" dirty, lol.

305 "Cheese should never be on a hotdog."

Cheez Whiz is fine, and technically does not violate that rule.

306 Interesting... Bill Gates family doctor from the 90's says Bill FORBID his children to get vaccinated...

Whoooppppsie....

307 I am off to bed, good night everyone.

308 305 "Cheese should never be on a hotdog."

Cheez Whiz is fine, and technically does not violate that rule.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 11:44 PM (TwZXH)

We call Queso Cheezeo... does that count? because its good on hotdogs and brats... sometimes...

309
Both fuel control switch were found in the “RUN” position.

liftoff at 08:08:39

immediately [after 08:08:42], the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec.

the Engine 1 fuel cutoff switch transitioned from CUTOFF to RUN at about 08:08:52, [and the other at 08:08:56.]
Posted by: Hacked gp's
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Very, very strange. Obviously human engagement for both On and Off. Wonder if there is cockpit audio recording.

310 Per the last thread: COMM, if you're here, a lot of us don't quite fit in. But it's a good place to be, anyway.

(Thanks,WD!)

311 My dad did the same thing when I was a kid. Only when mom was out for one reason or another on a weekend, so it wasn't often, but my sister and I loved it. He had to use Kraft singles, though, since my mom was a bit boring when it came to grocery shopping at the commissary. Good memories.
Posted by: Farquad at July 11, 2025 11:42 PM (yqgaV)

My Mom liked Velveeta because . . . shelf life. Depression Era mentality.

And it was a big block of better-than-government cheese which melted really well. Sometimes too well.

Now I don't touch the stuff.

312 "Bill Gates family doctor from the 90's says Bill FORBID his children to get vaccinated"

Is a doctor allowed to disclose that?

313 I know they're really "white elephant"gifts, not pink, but these got pretty wild.

314 Speaking of hotdogs, 2 times have cooked them at work using my halogen lights. Wrapped in foil, open up and stick them in the protective cage. Just like those in rotisserie. A 250 watt light will cook them quick

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 11:39 PM (+qU29)

When I was in electronics class we cooked some hot dogs with the push a nail into each end, wrap wire around each end and plug it into the wall method. It was to prove how you can get fried by electricity. The teacher says any questions? I said yeah, can we do burgers tomorrow? lol

315 309 Yes. One pilot asks 'why did you cutoff?' The other says 'I didn't.'

316 If you like weens, there’s a channel called Norman the Weiner Dog on the Tube that is You that is pretty sweet. Mom does the usual dress up costume stuff I don’t care for, but she has about 500 vids put together, and he’s just a sweet little guy. They are great little snuggle buddies for sure. We had a black and tan miniature growing up, they are little characters for sure.

317 When I was in electronics class we cooked some hot dogs with the push a nail into each end, wrap wire around each end and plug it into the wall method. It was to prove how you can get fried by electricity. The teacher says any questions? I said yeah, can we do burgers tomorrow? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)

I tried that when I was in grade school. One, it left a metallic taste where the nails were, and two, the very ends of the dog didn't get cooked, and stayed cold. If you used graphite blocks pressed firmly against the ends of the dog, it might work well.

318 15 309 Yes. One pilot asks 'why did you cutoff?' The other says 'I didn't.'
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird
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Was he a muslim? India is having a problem with a muslim masquerader portraying himself as a mystic seeking to convert Hindu women to islam.

319 Costco dogs cooked in an air fryer for the win! Crispy goodness on the outside of the dog.

320 245 Hey, Pillage.

Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 11:17 PM

Howdy!

Start new job yet?

I am still searching.

321 People who think the goal of life is to convince everyone else they come in contact with that a seemingly outlandish and stupid idea is genius and worth consideration. Secretly, they are laughing at you when you accept their suggestion. This is how they enjoy themselves.

THIS IS HOW MONTREAL STARTED PUTTING CABBAGE ON HOT DOGS.

322 After re-jetting the Honda for elevation, I was mortified that it wasn’t running correctly. Running off ECO mode, at standard RPM for direct battery charging purposes in particular it had a periodic stutter hiccup or hesitation.

Well the t had to be something I did, or didn’t do. Turns out that’s what I get for not wearing my peepers, needed for close in work. A carb gasket fell off and somehow it was installed backwards, and interfered with proper air flow naturally, or covered up an emulsion air bleed or somethin’. Attention to detail rock & rollers!

323 The Next Deplorable Gourmet will have a section on homemade hot dog cookers and other kitchen cooking implements of dubious electrical construction. The gadgets will store perfectly on Ace's shelves.

324 Laredo Police also report that someone broke into the station and stole the toilet. So far they have nothing to go on.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2025 10:11 PM

What a crappy thing too do

325 "Was he a muslim?"

I don't know. Report is here: https://tinyurl.com/4mrm263w
Only 15 pages. I'm actually surprised India released it to the public.

326 Mike H., this is just based on glances at snippets, but in fact the cockpit audio recorded one pilot asking the other why he'd turned off the fuel switches, and the other pilot replied he hadn't. Think that's what was reported.

327 "India is having a problem with a muslim masquerader portraying himself as a mystic seeking to convert Hindu women to islam."

They had a pretty big problem with the barbaric attack at Pahalgam holiday spot a couple months ago. 26 innocents dead. The usual M.O.: they ask people to recite Islamic arglebargle, and when they cannot or will not, they shoot them DRT.

328 So,

If there is nothing to reveal about the Epstein list,

Why did he kill himself? (NOT)

Why is his girlfriend in prison?

BONDI...you have done screwed the pooch Bigley and you are going to pay the price for this.

329 @BRICSinfo . Jul 11

US President Trump to make a 'major statement' regarding Russia on Monday.

330 I vaguely remember my older brother cooking a dog with nails, extension cord, maybe part of a merit badge for Boy Scouts. Supervised by Dad. Mom was mortified, it stunk up the kitchen probably.

I was more impressed with the electric motor constructed from iron pipe, elbows, and a gazillion feet of insulated wire, with copper pennies for armature and the rest of it. Dad made all sorts of cool stuff for us kids, he never quite grew up I don’t believe.

331 Cats should NOT train dogs. It’s contrary to nature and ain’t right.
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 11:22 PM (77rzZ)

He is a Shiba Inu, so it’s not like he is a dog dog.
Posted by: Piper at July 11, 2025 11:32 PM (pRpzT)

Has he started his samurai training yet, or has he decided to become a ninja?

332 I cut Costco Polish Sausage in two so they fit better on standard hot dog buns.

333 THIS IS HOW MONTREAL STARTED PUTTING CABBAGE ON HOT DOGS.

Posted by: Orson at July 11, 2025 11:55 PM (dIske)

Make that cabbage cole slaw and I think that sounds not too bad. Get a few carrots in there too if they didn't all go into the chili already.

334 I tried that when I was in grade school. One, it left a metallic taste where the nails were, and two, the very ends of the dog didn't get cooked, and stayed cold. If you used graphite blocks pressed firmly against the ends of the dog, it might work well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 11:52 PM (xl/qI)

Ours worked pretty good, but we were using the power from our lab stations, so we might have cranked it up a bit. lol

335 SO!!!

Federal Agents taking down CHI-COM Pot Farms in Ventura Ca. no less. Run Gavin...Run!

336 I believe Pam Bondi is gone by next week ......

337 China says it's willing to share military equipment achievements with friendly countries.
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India says, give it to Pakistan.

338 'Make that cabbage cole slaw'

I'm standing right here, you know.

339 When I went to my first Texas MoMe I was intrigued by all of the signs advertising kolaches. I stopped and got one on the way to the airport on Sunday, I have gotten one every year since.

I also have memories of being drunk with a large group of friends leaving Fenway Park and toying with the idea of purchasing the last lonely hot dog floating around in a simmering tank of water and grease. Thankfully I was prevented from doing this.

340 FART Tubing is the Future !!!

341 I don't care what anyone puts on a hotdog. Nothing is 'wrong'. Eat what you like, fuck anyone who says otherwise.
*Glares at Chicago*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 11, 2025 11:13
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It's this kind of "Anything Goes" liberal hippie attitude that got this country into the mess its in!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 11, 2025 11:23

Now I have to nominate San Sycho for a post of the week. This kind of incisive political insight, combined with culinary evaluation of hot dogs...is just what makes AOS such a special place.

342 "I also have memories of being drunk with a large group of friends leaving Fenway Park and toying with the idea of purchasing the last lonely hot dog floating around in a simmering tank of water and grease. Thankfully I was prevented from doing this."

I wanted to jump in the tank and swim with the dog. Why my friends stopped me, I know not.

343 At my local chili dog place, I never get cheese on the chili dog, because I know it's just two slices of American "cheese" for $1.50 (!) extra. But if I go to the hot dog place a few towns over, their chili is lousy, but the cheese is finely grated cheddar, and piled high on an all beef dog it's delicious.

Yes to cheese, chili or no chili, but only GOOD cheese, please.

344 Off topping sock.

345 I think Frank Zappa referenced the old starving musician hot dog once somewhere.

A hot dog, a fork and a gas stove.

Been there, done that.

Also, 101 economic additives to macaroni and cheese.

346 hot dog? tldr

347
I believe Pam Bondi is gone by next week ......
Posted by: Mike Hunt

I never thought that Biden would drop out.

348 Holy Mandela Syndrome Batman.
I just found out that the lead singer from Nena is still alive. I could have sworn years ago, I read that she died. The Breakaway Civilization types are messing with my mind. All these years I thought she had died...

349 Holy Mandela Syndrome Batman.
I just found out that the lead singer from Nena is still alive. I could have sworn years ago, I read that she died. The Breakaway Civilization types are messing with my mind. All these years I thought she had died...
Posted by: Mister Ghost

As a ghost, you really should know these things.

350 Seems growing pains with Trump and his team.

This happens with an administration that is on full afterburners from day one. Some of the team can't keep up.

Is True.

351 Il ministro della Salute Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dice, no mas.
He is rescinding a 1998 interpretation of a law that allowed illegal immigrants to access certain government-funded programs, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on July 10. ...
...
...Head Start is among the programs included in the updated and expanded list of classified “Federal public benefits” under the PRWORA, HHS said on Wednesday.

In addition to Head Start, HHS is including about a dozen other programs that were previously excluded. Among them are the Community Services Block Grant, the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness Grant Program, and the Title X Family Planning Program.
...
HHS said in the notice that it would apply the updated interpretation immediately because “any delay would be contrary to the public interest and fail to address the ongoing emergency at the Southern Border of the United States.”

The Department of Education on Thursday said it was rescinding the 1998 interpretation of the PRWORA that allowed illegal immigrants to access federal education benefits, while the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, part of HHS, previously said it would increase

352 night horde.

353 If your last name is Dewey, don't name your daughter Mildred.

354 Senate Committee Votes To Block FBI Headquarters Relocation
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) crossed party lines to join Democrats in supporting halting the administration’s proposed move.
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355 Despite all the infighting and wishing our leaders would be more aggressive on the low hanging fruit, worldwise we are making great advancement.

>>>Thursday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon spoke at a foreign ministry event in Dublin, blasting the Democratic Party for going off the deep end with DEI, gender politics, and a series of failed policies that he said have harmed the country. "I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they're idiots," Dimon said at the event.

356 Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) crossed party lines to join Democrats in supporting halting the administration’s proposed move.
--
"crossed"

357 If the Democrats could have pulled a rabbit out of tje hat in 2024 a Democrats Bureau of Investigation would be building a new building 4 months ago

358 Not that it's unnecessarily untrue but I dare him to post a similar stereotype about non whites. "Well the blacks were out looting...
Picking on the Irish and other Caucasian types is safe.

Chris Mannix
@SIChrisMannix

So the Irish must have been out drinking because they are now in the building (and loud). Expect another split crowd in a near-packed MSG #TaylorSerrano3

359 349 Holy Mandela Syndrome Batman.
I just found out that the lead singer from Nena is still alive. I could have sworn years ago, I read that she died. The Breakaway Civilization types are messing with my mind. All these years I thought she had died...
Posted by: Mister Ghost

As a ghost, you really should know these things.
Posted by: mikeski at July 12, 2025 12:22 AM (DgGvY)

Sometimes, you don't have a ghost of a chance...

360
youtube.com/watch?v=mXtE2Rku7AE

361 qI)

318 15 309 Yes. One pilot asks 'why did you cutoff?' The other says 'I didn't.'
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird
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Was he a muslim? India is having a problem with a muslim masquerader portraying himself as a mystic seeking to convert Hindu women to islam.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 11:53 PM (Ri+6K)

If both pilots were speaking the truth on that recording (and I think they were) then this brings up the possibility of a very sophisticated level of sabotage.

362 And on that oversharing note, I take my leave for the night. At least in my dreams, I don't have that stuff.
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - still alive and kicking at July 11, 2025 11:38

Dear mr mindworker,
I've read and enjoyed your posts for many yrs. My very best wishes for you to preserve, I know you can.

J and I have faced a lot of medical issues lately. When I look at what we have already dealt with I just know the future will work out. We can make that happen and you can too. Be well.

363 "Cheese should never be on a hotdog."
Cheez Whiz is fine, and technically does not violate that rule.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 11:44

Swiss cheese on sauerkraut is also allowed. There's still a subtle German influence in Midwestern cuisine.

364 Onions have not been mentioned. It is not a hotdog without onions.

365 Fried onions on hot dogs is almost a given for me

366 Dear mr mindworker,
I've read and enjoyed your posts for many yrs. My very best wishes for you to preserve, I know you can.

Seconded.

367 Trying to decide Melatonin again tonight or not

368 The FBI is supposed to be the investigating arm of the DOJ. Wouldn’t they have the supposed client list? Why is Bondi the fall girl? They signed off on the memo.

Also if they are covering up why make a definitive finding so soon. They could have delayed this for as long as necessary for people to forget about it.

369 Where did everyone go?

370 I am here, but don't have much to say regarding the current topics.

371 Where did everyone go?
Posted by: Skip
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I dunno. Suppose they have... "lives"... or sumpthin'?

Meh. Having a life, is overrated.

*shrug*

Hi.

372 Hi, AOP.

Yeah, I have no particular comments re: current topics either

373 I am only trying to stay on my night schedule.

374 Evening everyone.
Just got home from work.
Cracking a beer and off to content.

375 Still on nights, Skip?

Well, it's a living. Did my time there, too.

*cheers*

376 Hmm. Want a snack, but too close to bedtime.

Good thing I sent all of last night's leftovers 'home' with fambly. LOL

Except... dang it, I'd like one of those jalapeno poppers right about now!

377 Yeah, will be probably another month.
Shocked today will get a good co-worker, I hope all week at least.

378
I think tomorrow, Sunday, is the 1 year anniv of the Democrats shooting Our Favorite President(tm) in the head in a failed attempt to prevent him winning the election.

Fake News will not mention it.

379 Skip, I suppose you're in construction of some kind.. nights would be better in summer, I'd guess.

Glad you've got a "good coworker"-- that's a REAL blessing!!!

380
Fearless comic

https://youtu.be/q6hSZDiukyw

381 "If both pilots were speaking the truth on that recording (and I think they were) then this brings up the possibility of a very sophisticated level of sabotage."

Thinking it through a bit, the one second delay between the switch cutoff is consistent with a human action time.

A "computer" could deactivate both controls instantaneously. A smart saboteur could take this into account.

But then...

Why would the switches be restored later if it was sabotage. Only one engine restarted witch is probably why it crashed. Maybe if both had restated it would just be some weird glitch that was lost in the noise.

I don't know much about the specific avionics in the Dreamliner but with the very strong trend these days to make pilots kind of accessories, I would really be looking at what other condition other than the physical switches being manipulated could have caused this to happen.

There were four total glitches, one for each switch and one for each action.

Very strange.

I'm sure the airline pilots are discussing this somewhere.

382 Well that was pretty quick.
The kitten at feeding time remind me of Jojo our, rescued from the mouth of a dog, cat. He had a voracious appetite when we rescued him. Like every hour wanting food. I think he was only about 3 weeks old at the time.

I get a $4/hr shift differential for working swing. They tried to put me on days but I refused. I like swing and day shift is mostly a bunch of tards that I want as little to do with as possible.
I hate waking up to an alarm clock.
I have always been a night owl but circumstances with the kid and such demanded that I do days.

383 Still upset that King Harv did not get a buggy whip to go with his rickshaw.

384 I have always been a night owl but circumstances with the kid and such demanded that I do days.
Posted by: Reforger
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Yup. That's why I went to days. No kids, but... just everything & everybody else in my life, was smoother when I was on days.

Hated the early rising. Hated the corporate company politics. Hated being the scapegoat shift for all the off-shifts' f*ckups...

385 I always could stay up late before, but having to start work at 6am for over 10 years just makes me think I should be up at crack of dawn.

386 Going to hopefully get a decent night.
Good night everyone

387 This happens with an administration that is on full afterburners from day one. Some of the team can't keep up.
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There is another factor that we do not know about (for any President, but particularly Trump) and that is the giant myriad of details associated with the office. Dozens of issues each day, I expect.

388 They tried to put me on days but I refused. I like swing and day shift is mostly a bunch of tards that I want as little to do with as possible.
I hate waking up to an alarm clock.
I have always been a night owl but circumstances with the kid and such demanded that I do days.


Posted by: Reforger at July 12, 2025 02:08 AM (lPvx2)

Same here..Ive worked 3rd for 10 years now..no desire for days as, like you said, alarm clock and dealing with all the higher ups and traffic from hell...They ask when openings happen, but no thanks

389 Can't believe I lasted 25 fking years on Day Shift!

Hated it. Hated it.

But now, I *should* get up early-- there's so much to do outside here, before it gets too hot to breathe...

I'm struggling with it.

390 They made the day shift maintnence lady go to swing for a couple of weeks to train me. I don't really need much training but here I am. She is totally blown away how much nicer and fun work is on swing. Days is a cut throat, nobody gets along, everyone out for themselves kind of gig. Lots of turnover.
We on swing help each other. We truly act like a team. We double days production with 1/2 the people. They try and steal our people in hopes of finding "good workers" not realizing that everyone can be a "good worker" when they are treated with respect and not like some idiot who just fell off a turnip truck out front and stumbled through the door.
We identify and correct issues. Days fires people for stupid shit. Totally unwarranted sometimes. We have lost some good people who were fine for months on swing then get moved and are gone before the end of the week.
They have way to many cheifs and can't keep indians around.
It's a night and day difference.

391 Swing shift is 4 PM to midnight, right?

392 Totally understand, Reforger.

Too many 'big wheels' rolling thru Day Shift, that gotta make a name for themselves.

But also-- night & weekend shifts had the least supervision. They were able to fk-off a lot, and they DID... product quality went to sh*t.. and Days got to hear all about it, almost like accusation, and it built resentment.

"Days" was full of slackers, too. Biding their time for retirement, didn't give a sh*t, buncha tattle-tales-- "trying to clip the wings of others, because they themselves could not fly..."

Yeah. So glad I'm out.

393 Qagg.news@qaggnews

The daughter of a New Jersey police chief shockingly claimed that he and a neighbor raped her and other children in the woods as part of a 'ritualistic' ring of satanists who also burned kids alive.

Courtney Tamagny, 20, filed an explosive lawsuit against her father, Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny, and her neighbor, Keith Slevin, accusing them and other grown men of committing the horrific crimes.

Both men have denied the claims and said the allegations have been investigated and proven unfounded by several authorities. Slevin has also countersued Courtney for defamation.

394 There is another factor that we do not know about (for any President, but particularly Trump) and that is the giant myriad of details associated with the office. Dozens of issues each day, I expect.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2025 02:17

Yes indeed Mike. When I think of all the things that I need to deal with I my life, while over a decade younger, I'm amazed.

Yes he has underlings that deal with it all but how do you even keep track of who is doing what? And he is apparntly well informed when issues are discussed. I need more sleep than he does.

395 391 Swing shift is 4 PM to midnight, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2025 02:32 AM (zPc+3)

2 pm to 10:30 right now. In a few weeks it'll go to 3 to 11:30.
So pretty close to that.

Yeah. So glad I'm out.
Posted by: JQ at July 12, 2025 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

I've got 10 more years at least.

396 I pretty much have my desktop computer sorted out, now. Linux Mint 22.1 is running in the solid state drive, and Win 7 can still be run from old hard drive. I can boot to either, but neither OS can "see" the drive with the other OS on it, so moving files between them needs an intermediary like a thumb drive.

Brave Browser is up and running in Mint (using it right now), and I have managed to import my bookmarks. Thunderbird mail works, and I have a huge swack of old mail imported, too. There are a couple of mail directories yet to import, but I have the procedure learned, now.

397 I miss the paycheck. I don't miss the job.

398 Well, my one beer for the evening is done; time for me to get some shuteye. Night, Horde!

399 'Night, AOP

400 400

401 I need a new computer but I hate 11. I am forced to deal with that dungheap at work. I'd love to get a 7 machine running.
I hate outlook now. I want no predictive text. No attitude check. If I sound pissed in an e-mail it's because I am. Damnit.
I really hate the newest version of excel. So I want the 2004ish version of that back.

402 Bondi's Current Score:

People arrested for Russiagate hoax: 0

People arrested for COVID plandemic: 0

People arrested for Butler assassination plot: 0

People arrested for Mar-a-Lago raid: 0

People arrested for 2020 election coup: 0

People arrested for J6 committee withholding exculpatory evidence and gross denial of civil and constitutional rights: 0

403 JUST IN: Obama Judge Enters New Order Blocking Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Provision Barring Funding For Planned Parenthood

Ok... not so new...
Cripes sakes, they gonna say, Oopsie, we thought Trumps was issuing edicts again. Didn't know it funding llaw and Trump did not just pull it out of his ass...

Something has to be done about "Judges" engaging in sabotage of Government operations.

Maybe a rash of o'dark thirty drug raids on their homes... "Oopsies, wrong address, oh well, immunity." Will do it.

404 I need a new computer but I hate 11. I am forced to deal with that dungheap at work. I'd love to get a 7 machine running.
I hate outlook now. I want no predictive text. No attitude check. If I sound pissed in an e-mail it's because I am. Damnit.
I really hate the newest version of excel. So I want the 2004ish version of that back.

Posted by: Reforger at July 12, 2025 02:53 AM (lPvx2)

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We're running Linux (a Debian version, I think) -- wifey and I are both former software developers and she's handled the difficult setup of the system.

Unfortunately, non-software types likely can't figure out how to setup and use a Linux OS ... but if you (or someone you know) can, you can pretty much replicate all of the popular Windows programs including the Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. we're using an open source freeware "LibreOffice" suite of programs that can use and convert from/to Microsoft Office analogs).

405 Crap, it's after midnight here (and my insomnia has returned) -- so time to update the Nic from Two to One Day Until ...

406 Maybe a rash of o'dark thirty drug raids on their homes... "Oopsies, wrong address, oh well, immunity." Will do it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 12, 2025 03:19 AM (/lPRQ)

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Make SWATting Commies Great Again!

407 My brother is a city/county retired microsoft certifed engineer.
I should call him.

408 *certified..
Sometimes I want to turn autocucumber back on.

409 Posted by: Reforger at July 12, 2025 02:53 AM (lPvx2)

I kept my Office 2007 for exactly these reasons!

410 The FBI is supposed to be the investigating arm of the DOJ. Wouldn’t they have the supposed client list? Why is Bondi the fall girl? They signed off on the memo.
——-

Reading about the cold war and the F.B.I. there were communists infested at the highest levels, and their were voluminous detailed reports. Lots of finger pointing, and pass the buck. The Truman administration didn’t want to go after those guys. So they didn’t. If the President tells the DOJ not to do something, not to prosecute, then they won’t.

Looks like same old same old going on 80 years now. The book is called Blacklisted by History, mainly about Senator Joseph McCarthy. The parallels in recent years sound very familiar, with the exception that the F.B.I. did an excellent job for their first 50 years, I think they’ve been institutionally flipped to some degree in the last 50, somehow.

411
Looks like same old same old going on 80 years now. The book is called Blacklisted by History, mainly about Senator Joseph McCarthy. The parallels in recent years sound very familiar, with the exception that the F.B.I. did an excellent job for their first 50 years, I think they’ve been institutionally flipped to some degree in the last 50, somehow.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Again, I endorse and promote this book.

It is astonishing how many guilty-as-sin 'Red' State Department members were simply moved laterally to other departments/agencies.

Whatever Hoover's personal proclivities were, he cared about America, and hated Reds. The FBI simply could not move without Justice and the WH. The Dems realized that the consequent damage to their party outweighed the well-being of the country and so quashed everything, while launching ad hominem attacks on McCarthy.

412 Mike, was it you who suggested this book here at AOS? I am grateful, whomever it was. It clears a lot of things up. I’m only 200 pages in, of 900. Just really difficult to accept how they messed so many things up. It isn’t the evil doers that bother me as much as the assholes in charge, supposedly the good guys, who neglect to confront them.

“What is it that you would say you do here?” comes to mind. Sheesh.

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The Week in Woke

Zohran Mamdani's mother, a "famous director," lobbied hard to get Gal Gadot disinvited from the Oscars because she's a Jew.

The 2025 Oscars ceremony has drawn renewed attention to New York City mayoral candidate and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, thanks in part to his mother's alleged role in a campaign to have Israeli actress Gal Gadot barred from the Academy Awards.

Mira Nair, Mamdani's mother and acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding, was one of the signatories of a letter demanding that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disinvite Gadot from presenting at the Oscars. The letter, signed by 21 Academy members and more than 75 other filmmakers, condemned Gadot's "vocal and unwavering support" for Israel's military and described her presence as "deeply offensive."

The letter falsely claimed Israel's actions in Gaza were a "genocide," and accused Gadot of using her celebrity to "endorse violence against innocent civilians." It went on to pressure the Academy to remove Gadot from the ceremony -- a move critics say targets her based solely on her Israeli identity. "This is a moment to choose integrity over complicity," the letter stated. "The Oscars should be a space for artists who uplift humanity, not those who justify its destruction."

A source familiar with the matter told Page Six, "They spent a few hours trying to get Gal removed from the Oscars. It was disgusting." This isn't the first time Nair has aligned herself with anti-Israel activism. In 2013, she joined a cultural boycott and refused to attend a film festival in Haifa.

Mamdani's father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a Columbia University professor and chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda. He has also drawn scrutiny for anti-Israel comments. In a 2014 speech at Columbia, Mahmood argued that "the longtime security of a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine requires the dismantling of the Jewish state," and stated that "Jews can have a homeland in historic Palestine, but not a state."

There's a "publishing scene" in LA -- they read books in LA? I thought they only read coverages of scripts -- and apparently it's getting "anti-woke," according to woke propaganda rag Rolling Stone.

Rolling Stone doesn't like this revolt against censorship.

Inside the 'Anti-Woke' Literary Scene Growing in L.A.

They felt excluded by "millennial moral censorship" -- but is their work pushing boundaries, or just pushing buttons?

Matt Pegas neatly arranges stacks of books atop the red tablecloth at the reception table in the front yard of the house party. Surrounding the books is a tableau of candles, rose petals, a tarot deck, and packets of wildflower seeds, which guests are encouraged to take home and plant. Midnight will mark the spring equinox, and the pagan decor is meant to celebrate a rebirth, because, they say, after years of being tacitly driven underground, the "anti-woke" arts scene in Los Angeles is ready to blossom in full view.

"We have been in hibernation. We have been in the cold. We've been hiding. Now we're out in the open," says party organizer and emcee Adem Luz Rienspects, clad in a white linen shirt and pants.

The function, held in a single-family home in L.A.'s Lincoln Heights, is, at a glance, your standard collection of Eastside scenesters -- nebbish guys in glasses; handsome bros in black leather jackets; guys with long Seventies rocker hair; doughy, bearded guys in ball caps, accompanied by women several magnitudes hotter than them; a man in a tweedy three-piece suit; a woman who's a dead ringer for Naomi Watts. Several women wear lacy white dresses and flower crowns, in accordance with the theme. The requisite amounts of woo woo and pretension. Nearly everyone is white.

"Nearly everyone" is white in a majority white country. What a crisis. I'm so sorry this is happening to you.

Say, what's the racial composition of Rolling Stone's editorial staff, I wonder...?

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More generally, the event is an act of defiance against "wokeness," which, these critics say, has for too long stifled free expression, at the expense of creating quality art.

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"There's a massive cultural pushback against millennial moral censorship," Chris Zeisscheig, a former porn performer turned indie novelist, tells me while watching the party crowd with removed awe.

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The backlash in historically liberal cultural circles has been deemed the Vibe Shift, a term coined by Substack writer Sean Monahan in 2021, and later adopted by the mainstream press, to describe the growing number of young people rejecting the "woke" identity-based politics largely embraced by the contemporary Left. Wokeness first rose to prominence during the Obama years and went mainstream after the gender reckoning of #MeToo, the racial awakening of Black Lives Matter, and the anti-Trump Resistance of his first term.

For a while, woke had a positive connotation -- co-opted from Black communities, it had come to mean being awoken to the historical wrongs perpetrated against women and people of color. At first, this was a welcome development, a long overdue correction to the racial and gender inequities in artistic endeavors. But after a while, a backlash started brewing, one that felt wokeness was overly censorious and punitive of anyone who dared challenge identitarian political ideals. To them, woke became synonymous with Cancel Culture, people being publicly shunned for their political views, and in some cases losing their career opportunities and social connections over them. To be woke, they believed, was to be scolding and off-putting. That anti-woke movement exploded into public view in recent years, culminating with Trump's re-election last fall.

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In this way, the alt-lit scene is part of the cyclical nature of pop culture. A school of thought (woke) takes hold, becomes popular among a certain set of creatively-minded young people, becomes so popular that it becomes uncool, only to be replaced by a counter movement (anti-woke), restarting the process. What is transgressive, indie and anti-woke today will one day be normie, derivative, and cringe.

The woke backlash is a manifestation of the horseshoe theory of politics, which posits that the poles of the political spectrum are more alike than different, Pegas says. "The post-Trump Right and the post-Bernie Left merged around creative disaffection somewhere around 2020, 2021," he tells me before his reading. "Culturally, it's about getting rid of woke and the censorship therein."

The left isn't just plotting a fake, Deep-State-organized color revolution for America.

They're also begging foreign countries to intervene in American politics and pursue a policy of regime change, warns Jonathan Turley.

'Hit Us, Please' -- America's Left Issues a 'Broken Arrow' Signal to Europe

"Broken arrow" is arguably the most chilling and desperate order that an American military commander can issue. When faced with an enemy about to overrun a surrounded force, a commander uses it to call in an air or artillery strike on his own position.

This month, many on the American left are issuing their own "broken arrow" signals, including calling on globalist allies to hit the U.S. with sanctions and other measures. They are seeking to achieve through sanctions what they could not achieve through elections.

The most recent such call came from commentator Elie Mystal on "The Joy Reid Show" this week.

"Our country needs to be sanctioned," he said. "We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point, and I'm not even going to say that we've only been a menace for the past three or four months."

Mystal's call was hardly a surprise for those familiar with his writings. A regular commentator on MSNBC, he previously called the Constitution "trash" and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of "all voter registration laws."

Yet, he is not alone in signaling that his position is being overrun by his fellow citizens.

After Elon Musk bought Twitter with a pledge to dismantle its censorship system, former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called upon Europe to use its infamous Digital Services Act to force him to censor fellow Americans.

Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden's infamous Disinformation Governance Board, appeared recently before the European Parliament. She called upon the 27 EU countries to fight against the U.S., which she described as a global threat.

To the delight of globalists, she declared, "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

This year, I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum and was surprised to see many Americans joining European leaders in support of the forum's slogan, "A New World Order with European Values." Attended by figures such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, the conference heralded Europe as key to countering the threat posed by the U.S.

Others denounced America as the world's villain with boycotts and protests during Fourth of July celebrations. One leading influencer declared that "this country is beyond f**ked" and encouraged citizens to "walk away from the illusion that they built" around this country.

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Yet the fact is, this country is not being "overrun." Those are fellow citizens who are calling for these policy changes and rejecting far-left policies. Just as many in Europe are calling on the EU to block far-right democratic victories, many in this country are advocating for the trashing of the Constitution or transnational interventions to reverse political voting trends.

The fact is, the far left is not truly surrounded. They have simply retreated into smaller and smaller echo chambers rather than engage the rest of the country on these issues. Viewed from within the protected spaces of MSNBC or BlueSky, you can feel surrounded, but it remains a type of self-isolation. It is like watching wagons frantically circling on the plains without a hostile in sight. The problem is that most of America has moved on.

In the end, the calls for a globalist intervention are a final desperate call of America's self-isolated left.

CNN's woke, corrupt "medical reporter" Sanjay Gupta pushed masking and social distancing and shutdowns during covid, but now pretends he was skeptical of these measures all along.

Update to the earlier story of Gavin Newsom screaming about Trump's raid on the illegal pot farm that employs illegal aliens and children: Gavin Newsom wasn't just protecting illegals.

He was doing donor service. One of his political donors owns the pot farm.

Of course. We should have seen that coming.

The Bee:

The Austin Fire Department delayed sending swimmers to the areas expecting floods.

The fire chief in Austin, Texas has been accused of not deploying firefighters to help those who were being impacted by flooding that took place in Kerrville County on July 4. Austin Fire Chief Joel G. Baker is accused of issuing a standing order "on June 6 that prevented Austin firefighters from deploying to assist those working to rescue people during the catastrophic 4th of July flooding in Central Texas," per the Austin Monitor.

Baker was accused by the Austin Firefighters Association (AFA) of refusing to deploy the firefighters to Kerr County to aid those impacted by flash floods. The AFA said that it was "absolutely outrageous" and an "egregious dereliction of duty" for him to deny the deployment of the firefighters. The AFA President Bob Nicks has called for his removal and a vote of no confidence will be held online from July 15-17.

Austin's Fire Department chief says DEI, not saving lives or deploying swimmers to save flood victims, is the number-one priority.

London has fallen.

LA residents honored the Spirit of '76 by patriotically conducting Boston Tea Party style raids on jewelry stores. Diversity is very much our strength.

Leftwing women are all ugly hags. Or dudes.

It's hard to believe, but the woke gay dilettante Barack Obama can't build a library. It's one of the many things he's bad at, including keeping his awful wife in line.

This clip is everything.

Sheriff speaks plainly.

JD Vance: The left has no unifying ideology that its Pride Parade Perverts and Jihadist Terror-supporters agree with. All that unites them is hatred of normal Americans.

Pussy femmy Hollywood half-wit Jason Bateman suggests that people need to start going after Trump supporters, and that someone -- maybe the government, it's hard to say who he means -- needs to give Trump supporters a "talking to."

Teaching America's youth.

'I exposed myself to the [...] chapter leader for the local Moms for Liberty'

The Pennsylvania transgender coach who had been canned for inappropriate conduct, was rehired, but ultimately resigned over a porn video showing him smoking meth, recently admitted he was the one who had sent the incriminating video.

David Yates (pictured), who coached tennis at Gettysburg High School and switched to the name "Sasha" in 2022, was not rehired following a pair of incidents which included him allegedly "stripping down to bra and panties" in the girls' locker room.

Note that, as usual, the fetishistic male chooses a "kewl" fake name like the ones you might see in a Young Adult "novel."

Never a Debbie or Bettie or Susan among them.

But Yates later reapplied for the position, and had the backing of many who claimed he'd been let go due to "transphobia." A district solicitor reportedly recommended Yates be rehired so as to avoid a possible lawsuit.

And so, Yates returned as tennis coach after the school board voted 6-2 to (re)hire him.

But months later, Yates resigned after a pornographic video of him smoking meth was emailed to board member Michelle Smyers. Oddly at the time, Smyers also received a text message from Yates' number which said "I have information about Sasha Yates that you need to know."

A subsequent text from Yates informed Smyers that he planned to resign.

The texts appear to make sense now; a recent report by Reduxx notes Yates admitted to emailing the video to Smyers himself in a "'sissy' fetish forum":

"[In] October 2024, I met up with a guy from Grindr and went to his motel room. Was filmed getting spun and being f*cked by raw bbc. The video was sent to a member of the board at the school I worked at. That was my 'coming out' as a meth whore and I was fired," Yates posted on May 22.

"What I've never admitted is that yes, the video was sent from someone else's email address, but I actually wrote the email and hit the send button. I exposed myself to the member of the school board who is the chapter leader for the local Moms for Liberty. She has been trying to fire me for the last 2 year and this gave her everything she needed to legitimately fire me," he added.

"Since this happened I have not been able to find employment. I apply for jobs but don't even get an interview." ...

When asked whether he regretted his decision, Yates said, "There are parts of it that I might do a little differently, but the end result would be the same."

In his "sissy" forum profile, Yates notes his interests are "gangbangs, female domination, rape fantasies," and something called "poz breeding" -- a fetish for possibly contracting HIV from unprotected sex.

Schools aren't for educating students. Schools now exist purely as pervert funhouses for autogynephiles and sex criminals to show off their gender role-play to little kids.

Michelle Obama ($75m worth) and Julia Louis Dreyfus ($250m worth) complain about how difficult life is for American women pic.twitter.com/4WV5BMKgbM

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 10, 2025

Chelsea Clinton took the time to think the grifter organization that keeps her paid and outfitted with a chauffeur and town car for doing so much to help the flood victims in Texas.

I doubt it.

Just endless, fathomless corruption:

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— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) July 9, 2025

Leftists: “These are the hardworking immigrants that keep food on our shelves!”

Reality: this is a weed farm full of illegals. https://t.co/hqlxkEU3i5

— Michael Seifert (@realmichaelseif) July 11, 2025

NEW MEDIA SPIN JUST DROPPED

“ICE forcefully raided a California farm and arrested farmers.”

REALITY: It was a WEED farm exploiting child labor, and ICE agents had rocks thrown and a gun fired at them

You don’t hate the media enough. pic.twitter.com/QwJIXjNQNB

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 11, 2025